Viagenpumatucel-L (HS 110) is a cancer vaccine that Heat Biologics is developing to treat advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). It stimulates a patient's own immune system to target lung cancer cells.
Viagenpumatucel-L is an allogeneic tumor vaccine, or one composed of tumor cells that have been treated and processed. It contains lung cancer cells that have been modified to stimulate an immune response against many NSCLC tumor-associated antigens, or proteins overproduced by NSCLC cells. It is designed to trigger an immune response that targets many different antigens. This gives it an advantage over cancer treatments that stimulate a response against a single antigen.
A multicenter randomized Phase 2 trial (NCT02117024) is comparing the safety and effectiveness of a combination of viagenpumatucel-L and cyclophosphamide with traditional, single-agent chemotherapy in patients with advanced NSCLC who have received at least two unsuccessful cancer treatments. The primary goal of the study is to see whether the combination therapy prolongs survival, compared with standard treatment.
Researchers are no longer recruiting participants for the study, which began in July 2014 and aimed to enroll 123 patients. Its estimated completion date is September 2018, with final data on the trial's primary outcome expected in late 2017.
A Phase 1b/2 trial called DURGA (NCT02439450) is testing the safety and effectiveness of a combination of viagenpumatucel-L and Opdivo (nivolumab), an immune checkpoint inhibitor, in patients with NSCLC. Immune checkpoint inhibitors target proteins that put brakes on an immune response. Inhibiting the proteins releases the brakes, allowing for a more robust immune response.
Patients included in this study must have received at least one previous unsuccessful treatment for incurable or metastatic NSCLC. The trial is assessing the combo's safety, patients' ability to tolerate it, and patients' objective response rate to it — a measure of a cancer drug's ability to reduce the size of a tumor. It is also evaluating patients' overall survival and the time it takes for their disease to progress, for up to three years.
The study began in April 2015 and has an estimated completion date of March 2019, with the collection of final data on its primary outcome expected in March 2018. Researchers expect to enroll 100 patients and are still recruiting at sites in Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Oregon, and Pennsylvania.
Preliminary data from the DURGA trial reported in June 2016 suggested that adding viagentpumatucel-L to Opdivo did not significantly change the safety of the treatment. In case studies of three trial patients, two who responded to the vaccine showed increases in activated T-cells and immune cells directed against tumor-associated antigens.
In data that BioHeat reported in December 2016 and presented in March 2017, the combination treatment continued to show a favorable safety profile. In addition, the immune response was associated with tumor reduction. Five patients with an immune response had the reduction, while there was no tumor reduction in patients who did not show an immune response.
Immuno Oncology News Today is strictly a news and information website about the disease. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on this website.


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Russia offers Turkey assistance in developing new-gen fighter jet
by DAILY SABAH
ISTANBUL Nov 14, 2021 - 6:05 pm GMT+3
Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan talk next to a Sukhoi Su-57 fighter jet as they visit the MAKS 2019 air show in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow, Russia, Aug. 27, 2019. (Reuters Photo)
by DAILY SABAH Nov 14, 2021 6:05 pm
Russia is in talks with Turkey and has offered its help in developing advanced fighter jets, news agencies cited a top defense official as saying on Sunday, while no agreement has been reached so far.
"Russia has repeatedly expressed readiness to assist Turkey (in the development of a fifth-generation fighter jet)," Dmitry Shugayev, head of the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC), told RIA news agency at the Dubai Airshow exhibition.
"We are still at a stage of negotiations on this project," Shugayev said.
Ismail Demir, the head of Turkey's Presidency of Defense Industries (SSB), said in September the country was open to cooperation with friendly states on projects such as manufacturing a combat aircraft.
Turkey is currently working on the development of the National Combat Aircraft, or MMU, which will be a fifth-generation domestically designed stealth fighter jet.
The main contractor Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) earlier this month announced it produced the first part of the jet.
The aircraft will be comprised of nearly 20,000 parts and production is likely to be completed by the end of 2022.
Demir said "door is open" for friendly and allied countries "who want to be part of this project."
Following a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in late September, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Turkey is considering more joint steps with Russia in the defense industry, including for fighter jets.
Various local defense and aerospace companies are producing parts and subsystems that will make up the aircraft.
The MMU will be unveiled for the first time on March 18, 2023, and will make its maiden flight in 2026.
The TF-X MMU has similar features to Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II. The aircraft is being developed to replace the Turkish air force's F-16 fighters as they are gradually phased out throughout the 2030s.
Turkey was expelled from the F-35 stealth fighter jet program by Washington last year over its purchase of the S-400 air defense missile system from Russia.
The U.S. imposed sanctions, targeting the main Turkish defense procurement and development body Presidency of Defense Industries (SSB) and its officials.
Ankara had ordered more than 100 F-35 jets, while its defense industry has been a prominent player in the development and manufacturing of the aircraft.
Erdoğan has said that Ankara wants to buy the cheaper F-16s using the $1.4 billion it allotted for the F-35 program.
Erdoğan has said Washington offered Ankara a package of F-16 jets and modernization kits in exchange for the payment.
Turkey reportedly made a request to the U.S. to buy 40 Lockheed Martin-made F-16 fighter jets and nearly 80 modernization kits for its existing warplanes. The deal is potentially worth $6 billion.
In case the deal on F-16 fighters fails, Ankara is still ready to consider purchasing Russian-made Su-35 and Su-57 fighter jets, SSB's Demir said in October.
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There's a doozy of a project they like to give us painters over in the Uarts low-residency MFA program. Students divide into groups to give each other challenging assignments. The goals are to practice seeing each others' work insightfully enough to design assignments which challenge their working habits or preconceptions…just as much as it is to break out of your own artistic rut.
The concept comes from a film titled The Five Obstructions .
This year I'm in just such a group with Halah, Megan, and Jeremy. We have three weeks to prepare two artworks that incorporate the obstructions bestowed against us.
1. Incorporate your own personal experience with your religious beliefs. You do not need to talk about that personal experience or belief when speaking about the piece.
2. Make a contemporary reference in a past world/time.


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Dewey Hop is once again honored to receive another award. This time it's The Mystery Blogger Award. Many thanks to Melinda at purpleslobinrecovery for nominating Dewey Hop.
If you could change one thing about our country, what would it be and why?
I would make abortion illegal. I believe in the sanctity of human life. Also, I consider killing an unborn child to be murder.
2. Which super hero powers would you like to have, if given a chance? Why ?
Super speed like Super Man! I would like to have super speed because I could rush through annoying chores/house keeping, etc and then slow down for more enjoyable activities. I would be able to accomplish so much more each day!
3. What motivates you to blog (write) ?
As far as the Dewey Hop blog, I blog because it's part of my job at the Fulton County Public Library. I love reading the library books and getting to share what I've read about. Not only is this aspect of my job enjoyable, I'm learning a lot too! I also enjoy all the interaction with fellow bloggers.
As far as writing which isn't my job–like the book I'm writing–I have several reasons. The main reason for the book is to keep a promise to my oldest tadpole. (For more info read Suicide and Survival.) It's also a healing experience for me. I am hoping to help many others through very difficult circumstances of life because we're all in this together!
4. What is something you like to collect, if anything?
I collect country angels. I will post a picture of a few of them.
All of these angels are on the top of my desk at home. I will spare you all the rest! Just take my word for it-there are a lot of them! The ones I collect are all hand crafted (although I didn't make any of them). I do have a few that were mass manufactured (none pictured in this post), but they look like hand crafted ones and mostly those are some that other people have given me but that fit in with my collection.
5. If given the chance to rename any fast food restaurant, which would it be? What would it's new name be?
I am not a big fan of fast food as most of it is unhealthy (although that is beginning to change with some menu choices). If I had to rename any fast food joints, it probably wouldn't be nice names so, "If you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all" seems to apply here!
I am happy with the questions that were asked of me, so if my nominees would like to participate, please just use the same questions.
Tierney – Tierney is truly a blogger who inspires and motivates! She is a versatile blogger as well. Not only does Tierney inspire and motivate in creative endeavers she's also very thought provoking in sharing her thoughts about the audiobooks she loves to listen to. She also sometimes shares her hiking adventures, life with her dogs, and life with the other human in her household Terry the Quilting Husband (TTQH). I always look forward to her posts and adventures.
Camie-Camie is a "new to me" blogger that I've only just discovered and she's already an inspiration to me! She has a way of making events come to life through her writing. I enjoy all of the pictures she shares in describing her life events and adventures.
Cale-Cale is a fun blogger who blogs about his life experiences through organizations, family, home, and work. He is very inspirational because he is always involved in different projects. He is pretty handy around his house and always has multiple projects going on on the homefront. He's helping to build a cabin get away with his family. His energy level is always high and he's "real" in writing about his experiences. In addition to all of the above, he also does movie reviews which are always interesting.


Hours: 5 - 8 pm Thurs - Sat (closed June 15) I will be present in the gallery during these hours, and I look forward to talking with you about these paintings and my experiences in Italy.
About the Show: I produced these works on a two and one half month journey through Italy last summer. In 1967 and '68 I worked as Head of Outdoor Restoration for the Uffizi Gallery helping to clean up after the disastrous flood of '66. So this extensive trip, 45 years later, was a chance to reflect on the changes that have shaken the Italian peninsula during this period.
The Book: I kept a diary, in Italian, which I corrected with the help of my professor at City College of San Francisco, Carol Cadoppi. I have published the diary in English and Italian along with all my oils and watercolors. It is available for sale at the gallery, but may also be purchased through 'Lulu'.
Cinque Terre through my Window.
The Video: Enjoy a twenty minute video of our journey. It is best viewed at your leisure, full screen with a glass of wine!
From Sicily to Normandy - Two Painters' Journey: Revised Version from Anthony Holdsworth on Vimeo.


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Q: Order of execution of jobs in delayed_job I have an rails app with the plugin https://github.com/tobi/delayed_job
Some times the order in which the jobs are executed are not the same as in which they are created.
I would like the jobs to be executed in the same order as they are created, as in some cases for a job to execute, it is important that the previous job has been executed successfully.
Please help.
Regards,
Pankaj

A: It's hard to tell without seeing exactly how you create your jobs but the only thing that affects the order of execution except for the created_at time is the priority set for the job. I don't know the differences between the tobi fork that you use and the collectiveidea fork but this is from the collectiveidea documentation:

By default all jobs are scheduled with priority = 0, which is top priority. You can change this by setting Delayed::Worker.default_priority to something else. Lower numbers have higher priority.

And from migration:

table.integer  :priority, :default => 0      # Allows some jobs to jump to the front of the queue

And you can of course specify the priority manually when you create your jobs.

A: It is my understanding that jobs that fail are rescheduled for retries at a later time.
"On failure, the job is scheduled again in 5 seconds + N ** 4, where N is the number of retries." From Setup section of README.textile.
I assume the remaining jobs will be processed in the mean time. You may want to monitor your delayed_job table and see if any jobs have a last_error field value set to something other than NULL.
It may also depend on how many worker processes you have. delayed_job workers take the jobs out of the delayed_jobs table in order, but there is no guarantee that the workers will complete their tasks in order.

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Posts tagged with "Transit":
What Moves Ohio City? Historic Cleveland Neighborhood Considers its Transportation Future
Ohio City, Cleveland's self-described artisan neighborhood, also hopes to become one of the city's transportation hubs. A new plan proposes "a 21st Century transportation strategy" for the mixed-use area, which is home to popular destinations like the West Side Market and the Great Lakes Brewing Company. The plan heavily features transit-oriented development. With 5 million bus riders travelling through each year, Ohio City is the region's second-largest transit hub (downtown's Public Square is first). They're calling for a TOD plan that addresses all land within a quarter-mile of the existing rapid transit station. Reforming parking is at the heart of the plan. According to Ohio City Incorporated, the neighborhood added 35 business in the last three years and draws in more than 3 million visitors annually. Existing lots are overflowing and the community has staunchly opposed demolition in the historic neighborhood. Instead they could begin charging for parking longer than 90 minutes in two large lots at Lutheran Hospital and St. Ignatius High School. Revenue from that plan would help pay for infrastructure projects. How the transportation strategy will actually impact growth in one of Northeast Ohio's most vibrant neighborhoods is still unknown. But The Plain Dealer's Editorial Board called it "a thoughtful plan that can easily be adapted as revitalization continues."
Crowd-Design: Transit Designer Wants Your Ideas, Not Just Your Money
Greater Good Studio wants to reinvent crowd-sourcing. Their budding campaign, Designing Chicago, aims to build the ultimate public transit app using public data from the Chicago Transit Authority. But the interesting part is where you come in. Not only is the project crowd-funded — it's crowd-designed. "Since it is called public transit," founder George Aye said in the team's Kickstarter video, "it only made sense that we designed this application with the participation of the public." The app's features are still up for debate, but Greater Good said they hope to create a "new, truly user-centered tool." Ideas in the Kickstarter video include automatic weather alerts, the ability to work backward from your calendar to suggest transit routes, and two-way communication with CTA to suggest system improvements. Aye worked at IDEO for 7 years before becoming lead designer for the CTA. The group also has the backing of Massimo Vignelli, designer of the NYC subway map, who is an advisory board member. They are anticipating an April 2013 launch date. Watch an interview with Vignelli here:
Minnesotans Driving Less, Taking Transit a lot More
Nationally the number of Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) has been declining in recent years. Transit ridership has also held steady or been climbing slightly. Minnesota seems to be a dramatic example of this new transportation reality, according to figures from the Minnesota Department of Transportation as reported on Minnpost.com. They cite a 40% increase in transit ridership from 2004 to 2011, and a small but significant decline in VMTs 2011 from their 2007 peak. Road congestion has also been easing slightly. High gas prices, an increasing preference for walkable neighborhoods, and teenagers postponing getting their licenses are all cited as contributing factors. It all adds up to further evidence that political rhetoric around gas prices, transportation, and energy policy needs to catch up to the reality on the ground.
Whew! EPA Declares Chicago's Air is Still Dirty
Most people would think that politicians would want their cities to be declared in compliance with Clean Air Act standards, but not Chicago! Illinois Governor Quinn and others the EPA lobbied to make sure Chicago is counted as having dirty air, in spite of initial findings from that Chicago's pollution levels had improved significantly from 2008 to 2010. Why? Money of course! According to Crain's, a cleaner air ruling would have jeopardized up to $80 million in funding for projects to promote cleaner air, including transit upgrades and bike paths. While the logic is mind-bending, at least it means better public transportation and biking options!
Transit Stalls and Starts in the Midwest
On Wednesday, federal transportation secretary Ray LaHood effectively killed Detroit's planned light rail line, citing doubt about the city's ability to build and maintain the project, given its dire finances and collapsing levels of density. He instead pushed for bus rapid transit along the Woodward Avenue corridor. Elsewhere, however, transit seems to be gaining traction. The much debated Cincinnati Streetcar just received nearly $11 million in federal TIGER grants, allowing construction of the Over-the-Rhine to downtown line to commence, and planners will extend the line to the riverfront development called The Banks, as well as the adjacent stadia. A vociferous opposition has fought the planned line at the ballot box and in the courts, but so far they have yet to block it. Meanwhile, in Indianapolis the Central Indiana Transit Task Force are pushing for a modest tax increase to vastly expand that city's transit system, including doubling the city's bus fleet and building a commuter rail line to Noblesville. The three tenths of one percent income tax increase would be passed through a local two-country referendum, but first the state legislature must give the go ahead to allow the local referendum. That is not an insignificant hurdle in the very conservative, Republican controlled state government, but with much of Indy's business community, including it's chamber of commerce, supporting the tax, it may stand a chance.
Rahmbo to City Workers: Take the Train!
Mayor Emanuel has made transit, biking, and sustainability some of the top priorities of his young administration. The same goes for fiscal restraint and transparency (something notably lacking in the administration of his predecessor). Drawing on his experience as White House Chief of Staff, his most recent edict combines these two sets of goals. Emanuel is mandating that city employees use public transit when on the job. According to NBC Chicago, employees who use other means of transportation to conduct city business will have to justify their expenses when submitting for reimbursements. The new rules are in response to the report compiled by city comptroller Amer Ahmad. "Across the board we found inconsistency in the policies and enforcement in our departments and sister agencies," Ahmad said. "This new policy provides the necessary structure to ensure that city travel is efficient and above all an appropriate use of city resources."
New Chicago DOT Commissioner Could Rival Sadik-Khan
Progressive transportation commissioners have become heroes in planning circles. There's a lot of excitement surrounding Chicago Mayor Emanuel's appointment of Gabe Klein as DOT commissioner. Poached from Washington D.C., where Emanuel saw his work first-hand, Klein has extensive experience instituting new transportation ideas, including the nation's largest bike sharing program and a new streetcar system. The Chicago Tribune has a good roundup of Klein's thoughts so far, which include focusing on improving the CTA rather than building a new High Speed Rail Line to O'Hare, increasing traffic calming measures and pedestrian upgrades, expanding bike lanes and bus rapid transit. Overall he wants to dramatically increase biking, walking, and transit use and diminish the presence of cars, especially in the central city. Before transitioning into government, Klein worked in the transportation field as an executive at a bicycle company and at Zipcar. More broadly, the appointment signals an openness on the part of the Emanuel Administration to bringing in new people and new ideas into Chicago's government agencies, a welcome shift from the patronage system of the Daley regime. Janette Sadik-Khan in New York and Jan Gehl of Denmark may have a new rival for the title of progressive transportation star.
Some Serious Equipment
It would appear the Second Avenue Subway is really, truly happening. Not to have doubted all the construction work that's gone on so far, but we have been-there-done-that about half-a-dozen times over the past century. Now, however, the 200-ton Cutter Head has arrived, the main piece of the Tunnel Boring Machine that will begin carving out the tunnels for the first phase of the new line. The MTA posted some pretty cool pics of the device, including the one above, on its Facebook page. And if that weren't socially networked enough, there's a YouTube flick of the thing being lowered underground with a soundtrack that sounds oddly like that of a softcore sex scene in some '90s movie. Second Avenue Sagas points out that this is largely "symbolic," as the real challenge, technically and fiscally, is not digging but building the lines and stations. That said, we still wonder if all this money wouldn't be better spent on maintaining service than pushing ahead with capital projects, even if it does mean their nth death. While you ponder, the flick and more pics after the jump.
The good news continues for mass transit, as the MTA announced today that the first phase of construction on the extension of the 7 Train has been completed, stretching from 26th to 34th steets, where trains will be housed as they shuttle back-and-forth between the West Side and Flushing, Queens. The Bloomberg administration, which is paying for the $2.1 billion project, put together this nice video to help demonstrate the subterranean, and thus often invisible, work. It's the kind of stuff New York mag is calling in its annual roundup a reason to love the city: our perseverance on such mighty projects, past falterings be damned. And yet, these are exactly the kinds of capital expenditures some transit advocates are hoping to cut into to stave off the MTA's budget crunch. Will the next stop be to stop?


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Celebrating The Exploits Of Nigerian Women In Arts
BY OLUDAMOLA ADEBOWALE
The Nigerian art scene over the years has grown and expanded in grandeur within and outside the country. From painting to sculpture, and pottery, both Visual and Contemporary arts as a collective system are not left out.
Producing brilliant and astounding works, Nigerian women have changed the face and feel of the art scene.
The exploits of their works have caused a great gush in the global art scene. Not to mention the inspiration they bring.
The likes of Peju Layiwola, Peju Alatise, Polly Alakija, Anthonia Nneji, Njideka Akinyuli Crosby, Ayobola Kekere-Ekun, Ndidi Emefiele, and a few have used their art to forge new narratives, as well as ensuring that the world understands the role and the importance of women in arts; especially visual arts.
Between the 1950s and the 1960s, Nigerian arts, both visual and fine arts, took a new dimension with some new-school of artists like Ben Enwonwu and Lamidi Fakeye taking the world by storm. What we do not realise is that the industry was witnessing a growth of both sexes.
The name Ladi Kwali may not ring a bell to most Nigerians, but the image of a woman spinning a pot on a pottery wheel on the face of Nigeria's 20 Naira note is familiar to everyone.
Born in 1925, in the village of Kwali in Gwari region of Northern Nigeria, history records did not show her last name or who her parents were, hence the name of her village was conferred on her as her last name. Cattle rearing and pottery were common occupations at that time.
As a young girl child, she took an interest in pottery, especially the Northern traditional methods of coiling. Ladi excelled as a potter in every way. Dedicated and diligent at her craft, her pots were noted for their almost perfect shapes and their beauty.
The Emir of Abuja and Kano were some of her clientele. Soon, her works became known in Europe, Britain, and America.
The biggest galleries in the USA and London showcased her works, and in 1963, she was awarded a doctorate and made MBE. So impactful was Ladi that after her death, the Abuja Pottery centre was renamed 'LadiKwali Pottery' and she was immortalised on the Nigerian 20 Naira note.
At a time when the arts was paid little to no attention, Afi Ekong, an artist and arts promoter, rose to become highly influential to the recognition the industry would have.x
After her studies in London, she returned to Nigeria in1955 and became the 1st woman to have a solo exhibition at the Exhibition Center in Marina, Lagos. This was in 1958.
She would later own the Bronze Gallery with sites in Lagos and at the Fiekong Estate in Calabar. As an arts promoter, she was a Manager of the Lagos Arts Council and a founding member of the Society of Nigerian Artists.
She appeared regularly on a Nigerian Television program, called 'Cultural Heritage' to promote the arts. In 1963, she was featured in a New York Times Photo essay as an example of the 'New African Woman' shortly after Nigeria's Independence in 1960. She passed on in 2009 at the age of 78. The Bronze Gallery remains in operation in Calabar.
Born in 1961 in Ogidi-Ijumu in Kogi State, Nike Davies-Okundaye lost her parents when she was 6. Fortunately, Nike was adopted by the Austrian Artist, Suzanne Wenger in Oshogbo.
Young Nike grew up learning the rudiments of Arts, hard work, and diligence at a very young age. In the 1960s, she went through training as an artist at the famous Oshogbo Arts School under the Legendary Ulli Beier. Her speciality was embroidery, weaving, and dyeing.
She took a particular interest in dyeing and was much interested in reviving old traditional ways of sustaining those practices.
She set up her first Arts Centre in Oshogbo (1983), and would later open centres in Abuja, Lagos, and her birthplace, Ogidi-Ijumu in Kogi State. As years went by, her name and her craft would take her to the four corners of the world.
Affectionately called "Mama Nike" now by her admirers all around the world, Nike Davies-Okundaye has empowered over 5000 people all around Nigeria, using her centre and her arts as a tool to fight against poverty, prostitution, and all other social vices. She has held lectures at Harvard, UCLA, and Columbia University.
A solid epitome of grace, style, and fashion, Mama Nike is a living testimony that the girl-child can survive against all odds, and most importantly, that the girl-child needs to be supported at every level, not because of today but the lives she would impact later on in life.
Proper documentation and lack of archival management have robbed us of a good list of amazing amazons that did outstanding works in the arts between 1900-1930 and even way before the 1900s. But the few remembered will be celebrated and their names would never be forgotten.
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Logan Paul, YouTube, and the 24% Rise of Suicide in America
By Roger Sollenberger | January 3, 2018 | 10:55am
Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Politics Features Logan Paul
Man hands hate on to man
It deepens like a coastal shelf
Get out of here while you still can
And don't have any kids yourself.
Logan Paul is understandably the fattest target in the world right now. It's as easy to slam a puerile YouTube star for exploiting someone's suicide as it is to slam Donald Trump for anything he says or does, but Paul's video deserves everything it's getting. Keep the barrels hot, folks. What he doesn't deserve, though, is to have his name mentioned anymore, so from here out I'm going to call him YouTube Dipshit.
If you're like me, you held out at least some hope that 2018 might improve on what was the worst year in my lifetime. Jan. 1, so far so good. Then the morning of Jan. 2, I see the news that YouTube Dipshit posted a video of him and his pals laughing at a man who hanged himself in Japan's Aokigahara forest at the foot of Mount Fuji, a site that has the infamous sobriquet "suicide forest" because…well, you can imagine why.
Dipshit titled the video "We Found A Dead Body in the Japanese Suicide Forest." It begins with a viewer discretion warning, then Dipshit says he didn't monetize it, and that it's "the most real vlog" he ever made. He adds, "With that said: buckle the f*** up, because you're never gonna see a video like this again."
To be fair: He issued an apology that cited the video as a "mistake." It's one of the shittiest, most self-serving, oblivious, and disingenuous apologies I've ever read, and it only makes things worse. You can pick it apart here if you'd like.
About Dipshit: He's 22 years old and estimated to be worth about six million dollars (?!). He has 15 million subscribers, and he and his younger brother were the crown prince dumbasses of Vine before that platform thankfully collapsed. The only joke I'll make about him is just pasting a couple of pictures of what he looks like.
And here's how he chose to dress himself for the suicide forest video, which, according to his apology, was supposed to "raise awareness for suicide and suicide prevention":
He's by any measure a terrible person, and on top of that has zero self-awareness. Have at it, Internet. I'm not interested in piling on, because there's a reason this story matters beyond providing an outlet for our collective cultural rage at the year we just had. (And really, is there no better symbol for 2017 in America than a reality show sociopath blundering through a foreign culture he assumes, for no articulable reason, that he understands deeply, then seizes by his instinct for self-promotion on the human tragedy literally hanging in front of his face?)
No: This story illustrates in a profound and terrible way the real-world effects of the major decentralizing shift our entertainment culture has gone through over the last decade. I'm writing here specifically of the entertainment culture that targets and serves younger demographics, between say 10 and 22 years old. This story highlights better than most the fact that this entertainment culture is no longer trying to define itself but is firmly defined. It also makes clear who's responsible for that culture, and what it, and they, value. More importantly, it illustrates what we—especially a certain slice of the generation who has grown up through this shift—tend to value, which is all too often brainless, self-serving doucheríe of the highest caliber.
This has always been true of entertainment culture, though, and on the surface my complaints are nothing new. Older generations (I'm 35) have always complained about the degeneration of kids these days, from movies to television to rock 'n roll and hip-hop and video games. But I'd argue that the new dimension of interactivity, of going from passive consumer to active participant, is a fundamental break, and it has and will continue to cause seismic shifts in social behavior.
Okay, I'll get to it: It's no coincidence that our justified outrage here stems from a YouTube video of a suicide. This video forces us to look at the very real problem of youth suicide in America, and the direct correlation it has to bullying and the rise on an online youth entertainment culture that Dipshit has helped to define and spearhead.
The video is particularly insensitive in that Dipshit didn't directly insult American culture, but Japanese culture, which has a much higher rate of suicide and of youth suicide than the United States. Suicide rates in Japan are among the highest in the world, and have been ever since the late 1990s, after a devastating economic collapse. They've since declined, but suicide is still the leading cause of death of Japanese youth (particularly severe among gay youth), which is largely attributed to the hyper-masculine culture's severe stigmas regarding mental health and the perceived shame of asking for help. The fact that Dipshit even thought it would be a good idea to make a video in the Aokigahara with that stupid hat and "a football so we can have fun" is nauseating, let alone choosing to zoom in on a hanging body that he first thought might be a prank.
He raised awareness, all right—by calling attention to his own role in it.
Is there a link between cyberbullying and increased suicidality?
I feel I need to kick this off by saying I've contemplated suicide with a frequency I don't feel comfortable about. But depression is very real, very powerful, and it can be very dangerous, especially with no one around who understands you. I'm lucky to have had such people in my life, which is probably the main reason I've gotten past it. But as a friend of mine who also struggles with those thoughts has said, "I'm glad I don't own a gun."
The stats show that a lot of you might feel the same way.
Between 1999 and 2014 the suicide rate in America increased 24 percent across the board. In 2015, suicide was the second leading cause of death for young Americans between 15 and 24 years old, and it was the third leading cause of death for those between the ages of 10 and 14.
Callous jerks might believe, going on little more than their own limited experience and assumptions that people's experience the world over are just like theirs, that there's probably no link between the two. Bullies are bullies, this argument goes. We dealt with it, so can these wimpy children of snowflake parents. They're entitled, pampered, participation trophies, blah blah blah.
Not exactly true. Of course there have always been and always will be bullies, and that's true at every age, but, thanks to plenty of media coverage, we know social media is actually a major problem. The stats back it up.
In 2013, about 17% of high school students considered attempting suicide in the previous year, and about 14% of high school students made a plan about how they would do it. But once you get out of high school, the percentage dramatically decreases. Dramatically. The same study found that only about 2.5% percent of adults between 18 and 25 years old had made a plan to kill themselves in the previous year, and only 1.35% of adults between 26 and 49 had made a plan.
Kids think about killing themselves seven hundred percent times more than adults.
More: The Cyberbullying Research Center, which conducts broad surveys annually, found in 2016 that about 20% of students who were bullied reported suicidal ideation, compared to 4% of students who had no experience with bullying. There wasn't much difference between students who were bullied only in school or only online (both around 11%), but over 31% of students who were bullied both at school and online thought about suicide.
We need to break these stats down, because percentages don't always reflect the raw numbers. For instance, 10% of 10 and 10% of 100 is the same, but the difference in raw numbers is huge: ten times as many.
First of all, if you're bullied at school, you're also likely to be bullied online. This doesn't break the other way, though: About 80% of students unsurprisingly say it's much easier to bully kids online. So to use that same example above, 100 students in a school might report being bullied only online, and 10 students might report being bullied only in school. The percentage is equal, but the difference in the number of students, then, would be literally exponential. We can also logically conclude that in the days when there wasn't online bullying, the number of students who were bullied, and therefore the number of students experiencing suicidal thoughts, would in all likelihood have been much smaller.
On top of that, kids who were bullied in both locations were three times more likely to think about killing themselves.
There's another thing to note about this youth statistic: Girls are twice as likely to consider suicide as boys, 22 percent to 11 percent. The social pressures on girls at that age are well understood.
Next question, then: Is this truly a new phenomenon, or are we not taking it in a wider context? If it is new, when did it start and what's really behind it?
Something happened in 2008
Well, something happened in 2001 first.
The overall suicide rate in the U.S. had actually decreased steadily and significantly from the mid-1970s, when it reached its peak at around 12 percent. It bottomed out in 2000 somewhere around 10 percent, though, and has climbed steadily ever since. Not only has it climbed, it's climbed far more steeply than it fell. Since 2000 the suicide rate in the U.S. has increased by about 25 percent, to a point where it's higher now than at its mid-'70s peak. That's to say the rate has in 15 years risen by the same amount it took to fall in 25 years.
What's more, middle-aged white men have led the charge. Why? It's unclear, really, but 2001 marked major cultural shifts in the U.S. that are playing out to this day. There have also been major demographic and socio-economic changes in the U.S. that have contributed to this. The rate seems to reflect itself in drinking, too: Alcohol-related deaths have increased by 37% since 2002 (liver disease, etc; not including drunk-driving). I'll also point out that 2001 featured the biggest murder-suicide broadcast spectacle of all time: The planes themselves, of course, and then also the people leaping from the burning buildings. Suicides and murder-suicides are contagious social events, and the rate of contagion tracks with how much publicity they receive. Sept. 11, of course, was a defining moment in the American psyche we still can't avoid.
Even so, 2001 wasn't the inflection point for the high school demographic, the demo that tunes in to Dipshit. Something happened around 2008, after which suicide rates trended up in a big way. Something else began a sharp upwards trend that year in America: Mass shootings. (Which are often also suicides.)
Anyway: 2008 is a specific, well-defined inflection point for high-school aged Americans, who, as noted above, think about killing themselves far more frequently than other demographics. So what could have happened in 2008 to drive the youth suicide demographic up?
Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007. That same year, Facebook went mobile.
But there's a second major inflection point in the rise of the U.S. suicide rate that cut across the board but had a marked effect on the youth. That year was 2010. It was the year that Rutgers University student Tyler Clemente, who had been bullied extensively online, threw himself off the George Washington Bridge. That suicide birthed the "It gets better" movement, where celebrities and then others took to the internet to encourage kids who were bullied for their sexuality or suffering from depression to hang in there and get through their teen years. The movement was well-intentioned and might have had a positive effect, but if so it was outmatched: After 2010 the suicide rate among U.S. teens went up even faster. Could the publicity of Clemente's suicide, compounded by the well-meaning publicity from the truly compassionate online reaction, have contributed in some way to the increase?
I imagine many of you still remember Clemente's death.
Oh yeah: My point
Let's try to keep that stuff in our heads and now revisit Dipshit. This is the big point I've worked up to:
Dude has an impressionable and devoted audience of millions (15 million YouTube subscribers before posting this recent video; most of them kids in their early teens). This audience has been with him on his tour-de-himself for years now, and, though this is assumptive and not true of his entire audience, a sizable portion of that young audience likely doesn't yet have a larger context to understand just how vapid, self-obsessed, and insensitive this dude and those like him are. If it's not been evident until now, he clearly has no idea how the world works, and no idea of what a person's role in and responses to that world should be. But his audience (whom he calls the "Logang") loves him for his absurdist humor, irreverence, and charm, and, as with any teen icon, many look up to him and aspire to be like him.
I'm not doing anything so insane as to hold Dipshit personally accountable for youth suicides, but he's the poster boy, and a vector of contagion, of what might very well be accountable for this rise: A major shift in our entertainment culture. He's also clearly oblivious to this, and bafflingly insensitive to death, pain, depression, and suicide. He transmits this personality in an extremely concentrated, context-free form to kids around the world.
It's extremely important, then, that we pay attention to the amount and the severity of bullying and abuse that kids who fit his demographic endure online. (Particularly girls.) And it's no coincidence this happens on the very same medium they use to watch Dipshit's videos. BUT: It's equally and probably even more important to understand the amount and severity of abuse that kids who fit his audience's demographic dole out to other kids on that same medium.
That shift, from being a passive viewer to active participant on the internet, only takes a tap of your finger. After watching a YouTube video you can just click on over and then interact with other people: bully or get bullied. Hell, you can be passive and active at the same time. On top of that, something like 91% of U.S. high school students use smartphones with apps such as Facebook, Instagram, etc. Our entertainment platforms have a dimension of personal connection on a scale and speed unimaginable before, oh, say, 2008, and some of the consequences have now made themselves evident.
This means that Dipshit isn't just a piece of human garbage who should be plagued by sprained ankles and inoperable infected hangnails on every appendage for the rest of his life; his callousness means he's completely oblivious not only to his audience (younger than him) but also to the medium he's managed to dominate so well. I'd even say his domination of that medium is a direct result of his obliviousness.
The slice of Dipshit's audience that can afford the free time, the boredom with their lives, and the money to make videos like Dipshit's are likely but not always comparatively affluent. Some will imitate or be influenced by him, and so the culture perpetuates itself. This is true of any entertainment culture (see: white men in Hollywood), but the introduction of platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, etc, have allowed entertainment to scale far larger and far more more rapidly than ever before in human history.
In other words, entertainment has become so segmented and niche that the youth entertainment culture seems to be on a trajectory of immaturity, and that trajectory might very well be self-reinforcing, increasingly steep, isolated, and isolating.
But there's actually some good news. Though it seems to be true that high school kids plan suicide at a rate seven hundred percent times that of adults fresh out of high school, the reverse is also true: Once we grow up just a little bit, seven hundred percent fewer of us have those thoughts and make those plans.
That's to say that it really does get better. If you're skeptical of the stats, you can take my word for it. You can even hit me up the next time some clown batters you online: rcsollenberger@gmail.com
And if you need to talk to someone, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.
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State Department Released Updated Visa Bulletin for August 2019
The Department of State recently released its updated visa bulletin for August of 2019, which includes new final action and application filing dates for green card petitioners. If you have submitted a petition on behalf of someone else or plan to petition for permanent residency, it's important to monitor these announcements and have your documentation ready for your immigration attorney. Below is an overview of this month's visa bulletin.
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What Final Action Dates Are
Final Action Dates determine when certain green card applications can move forward, based on their submission date, the immigrant's country of origin, and the type of visa requested. While Final Action Dates typically move forward, the State Department may actually move the dates backward if there are more applications than expected for a particular visa. In the current bulletin, the State Department has announced that the Final Action Dates for most visa categories have actually retrogressed.
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By Doug Marman
I will be giving a talk at a university in Toronto on Friday, October 5 at 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM, EDT, at York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3. The public is welcome to attend.
You can find more information about the talk at these three links:
Facebook, Meetup, The Hidden Teachings of Rumi webpage
Here is an overview of what I will be talking about:
For the last 100 years, psychologists have been moving toward a more scientific approach, to find principles that can be established on the firm ground of objectivity. At the same time, quantum physicists have been turning the foundations of physics in exactly the opposite direction, toward the realization that objectivity is impossible when observing quantum behavior; that "forces" do not force particles, they only influence them; and that it is quantum entanglement between particles and the environment that create the appearance of a solid objective reality.
Psychology can learn important lessons from these quantum discoveries. For example, it offers new insights into the recent "replication crisis" in psychology experiments by showing that there is a direct relationship between the replication problem and the "measurement problem" in quantum physics. I recently published an interpretation of quantum mechanics that also suggests the possibility that subatomic particles may behave so strangely because they possess an element of sentience, and all of the strangest aspects of quantum mechanics can be explained by this sentience. This new interpretation predicts that quantum behavior should also be present whenever relationships form between sentient agents, including organisms and human beings. If this is true, then psychology will never become a hard science like classical physics because there are too many quantum effects involved in human perception and experience.
At the same time, psychology has lessons it can teach physics. Over the last century, physicists have failed to find a way to understand the quantum mystery. Perceptual "sets" and "schemas" offer insights that open the door to a deeper understanding. The scientific lens of perception comes from schemas learned from centuries of studying mechanisms and reactions to forces. This is why the principle of objectivity became the foundation of science at the same time as the Industrial Revolution took off. But this lens of perception has not been able to solve the paradoxes of quantum mechanics, the mystery of what makes organisms alive, or the enigma of consciousness. An understanding of perceptual sets can play a role in expanding the reach of quantum physics, especially when it gives us insights into why quantum relationships between sentient quanta should indeed create forces of attraction and repulsion, as physicists have learned.
If you would like to discuss this topic, please feel free to start the dialogue below.
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3 thoughts on "Upcoming Talk: What Psychologists & Quantum Physicists Can Teach Each Other"
Marian on November 1, 2018 at 12:06 pm said:
Thanks Doug I will look at the paper you mention on your website.
Marian on October 28, 2018 at 12:22 pm said:
I am interested in why quantum relationships between sentient quanta create attraction and repulsion. Can this be experienced as a pattern within individuals consciousness. As I understand each individual is vibrating at an energy level comprising individual atoms?
Doug Marman on October 31, 2018 at 11:41 am said:
First, I will address your first and second sentences.
Yes, we experience this as human beings in the relationships we have with others. We feel attraction to some people and repulsion to others. These feelings of attraction emerge from our subconscious as emotions, but they happen spontaneously. In fact, they can often be surprising and unexpected.
At the level of quantum particles, physicists have learned that there is an invisible exchange between charged particles that create attraction and repulsion. As I said in my presentation at York University, which I will be posting to this web site soon, not all charged particles are attracted or repulsed. It is hit and miss at the level of individual quanta, much like it is at the level of human beings.
Quantum physicists have no answer for why attraction and repulsion arise. They only know that it appears that invisible quantum wave functions, which are sometimes called "virtual particles" because they cannot be detected directly, are exchanged between charged particles. When those wave functions align, attraction takes place, and when the wave function are at odds with each other, they create repulsion.
All of this is consistent with what we experience at the human level: We feel something passing between us and others, when we feel attraction. We also notice how this feeling grows when it is acknowledged by both parties. When both parties become conscious that they are sharing feelings of attraction, the attraction grows stronger.
There is a lot more that can be said about this. You can read more in my paper, The Lenses of Perception Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. A link to that published paper is on my web site. Even more information is available in my book, Lenses of Perception.
Now, let me get to your second question. I believe the question you are asking is if attraction and repulsion can be explained by the vibrating energy at the level of individual atoms.
Yes, there are clearly attraction and repulsion happening at the level of atoms. In this case, the atoms are the individuals, and yes, they can be attracted and repulsed by other atoms. However, this is not the cause of our human experiences of attraction and repulsion to another person. The human experience of attraction and repulsion is between us, as an individual, and the other person. The experience comes from something invisible that passes between us and them.
It is important that we recognize these exchanges are invisible because they cannot be detected by outsiders. We feel the attraction, but outsiders can't see it. This is exactly the same thing happening at the level of quantum particles, and between atoms. The exchange of quantum wave functions cannot be detected directly, but the math shows quite clearly that this is describing what is happening.
Hopefully I've addressed your questions. If I didn't, let me know and I'll be glad to try again.
Doug Marman has been writing, lecturing, and leading classes on spirituality and the exploration of consciousness for more than forty years.
His varied work has led him through successful careers in a wide range of professions, including: journalist, inventor (with more than 35 patents), editor, engineer, marketing manager, photographer, corporate executive at one of the largest companies in the world, and co-founder of a technology start-up.
He lives Pacific Northwest of the United States, with his wife and family.
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Home / Shop / Travel & Exploration / From Tonkin to India – Prince Henri D'Orleans (1898) (1st ed)
From Tonkin to India – Prince Henri D'Orleans (1898) (1st ed)
A scarce and beautifully-illustrated travelogue of a French prince's journey from Tonkin, through Laos and Assam, and Burma.
Title: From Tonkin to India, by the Sources of the Irawadi, January '95-January '96
Author: Prince Henri D'Orleans, Hamley Bent (trans.), G. Vuillier (illus)
Publisher: Methuen & Co., 1898. First English edition.
Condition: Hardcover, poor. With all faults. Hinge badly cracked, water damage to book. Binding strong. With a foldout map of Vietnam, Yunnan, Burma. A large book. Overseas shipping will cost extra.
SKU: tonkin-india Categories: Asia, All Rare Books, Travel & Exploration Tag: First editions
A scarce and beautifully-illustrated travelogue of a French prince's journey from Tonkin (Vietnam), along the Mekong through Laos and then through Assam to Burma. With a detailed Appendix on the author's route.
Hanoi to Mongtse
From Mongtse to Ssumao
Ssumao to Tali
Tali-Fou
From Tali to Tseou
Sojourn at Tsekou
Tsekou to Khamti
Khamti to India
About Henri D'Orleans (from Wikipedia):
Prince Henri of Orléans (16 October 1867 – 9 August 1901) was the son of Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres, and Princess Françoise of Orléans.
In 1889, at the instance of his father, who paid the expenses of the tour, he undertook, in company with Gabriel Bonvalot and Father Constant de Deken (1852-1896), a journey through Siberia to French Indochina. In the course of their travels they crossed the mountain range of Tibet and the fruits of their observations, submitted to the Geographical Society of Paris (and later incorporated in De Paris au Tonkin à travers le Tibet inconnu, published in 1892), brought them conjointly the gold medal of that society.
In 1892 the prince made a short journey of exploration in East Africa, and shortly afterwards visited Madagascar, proceeding thence to Tongkin in today Vietnam. In April 1892 he visited Luang Prabang in Laos. It brings him to writing a letter to "Politique Coloniale" in Januari 1893. From this point he set out for Assam, and was successful in discovering the source of the Irrawaddy River, a brilliant geographical achievement which secured the medal of the Geographical Society of Paris and the Cross of the Legion of Honour. In 1897 he revisited Abyssinia, and political differences arising from this trip led to a duel with Vittorio Emanuele, Count of Turin.
While on a trip to Assam in 1901, he died at Saigon on the 9th of August. Prince Henri was a somewhat violent Anglophobe, and his diatribes against Great Britain contrasted rather curiously with the cordial reception which his position as a traveller obtained for him in London, where he was given the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society.


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Non-payment of TV licence fee could be decriminalised
By Mike Maloney
Viewers may not be punished for watching TV favourites such as Strictly Come Dancing without a TV licence
NON-payment of the licence fee could be decriminalised, it has been reported.
The Sunday Telegraph said Boris Johnson is looking into consulting on whether people who do not pay the £154.50 licence fee for watching television or BBC's iPlayer catch-up service, to catch up on last night's Strictly Come Dancing final, for example, should be prosecuted.
It comes after Downing Street refused to appear on BBC Radio 4's Today programme due to what they believe is its pro-Remain bias.
Last financial year, 25.8 million households had TV licences bringing in £3.6 billion to the BBC.
A review may recommend replacing the existing criminal sanctions for non-payment of the TV licence fee with a civil system of fines.
In the run-up to last week's General Election, Mr Johnson said he was "looking at" abolishing the BBC licence fee altogether.
He said that while the Tories were currently "not planning to get rid of all TV licence fees", the current system "bears reflection".
The current royal charter - which sets out the governance of the BBC - runs until December 2027.
A BBC spokesman said: "The government has already commissioned a QC to take an in-depth look at this matter and he found that 'the current system of criminal deterrence and prosecution should be maintained' and that it is fair and value for money to licence fee payers.
"The review also found that non-payment cases accounted for 'a minute fraction' - only 0.3% - of court time.
"Decriminalisation could also mean we have at least £200 million less to spend on programmes and services our audiences love."
Ex-teacher jailed for double death crash near Worcester
Water gushes down Worcester High street after water main bursts
If you receive this call 'hang up immediately', warn police
Nostalgia: Musical visit to Stanley Road Primary in 1999
Police oppose Worcester takeaway's bid to stay open until 5am
Bedwardine regulars lift the trophy to celebrate being named Worcester News Pub of the Year winners
Meat thief "couldn't cope" with benefits change
Trust wants to improve community hospitals in Worcestershire
Pershore man banned from several areas of the town after CBO imposed


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