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Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)
Background Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and a comprehensive set of BMI categories that cover underweight to obesity in children and adolescents, and to compare trends with those of adults. Methods We pooled 2416 population-based studies with measurements of height and weight on 128·9 million participants aged 5 years and older, including 31·5 million aged 5–19 years. We used a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate trends from 1975 to 2016 in 200 countries for mean BMI and for prevalence of BMI in the following categories for children and adolescents aged 5–19 years: more than 2 SD below the median of the WHO growth reference for children and adolescents (referred to as moderate and severe underweight hereafter), 2 SD to more than 1 SD below the median (mild underweight), 1 SD below the median to 1 SD above the median (healthy weight), more than 1 SD to 2 SD above the median (overweight but not obese), and more than 2 SD above the median (obesity). Findings Regional change in age-standardised mean BMI in girls from 1975 to 2016 ranged from virtually no change (−0·01 kg/m2 per decade; 95% credible interval −0·42 to 0·39, posterior probability [PP] of the observed decrease being a true decrease=0·5098) in eastern Europe to an increase of 1·00 kg/m2 per decade (0·69–1·35, PP>0·9999) in central Latin America and an increase of 0·95 kg/m2 per decade (0·64–1·25, PP>0·9999) in Polynesia and Micronesia. The range for boys was from a non-significant increase of 0·09 kg/m2 per decade (−0·33 to 0·49, PP=0·6926) in eastern Europe to an increase of 0·77 kg/m2 per decade (0·50–1·06, PP>0·9999) in Polynesia and Micronesia. Trends in mean BMI have recently flattened in northwestern Europe and the high-income English-speaking and Asia-Pacific regions for both sexes, southwestern Europe for boys, and central and Andean Latin America for girls. By contrast, the rise in BMI has accelerated in east and south Asia for both sexes, and southeast Asia for boys. Global age-standardised prevalence of obesity increased from 0·7% (0·4–1·2) in 1975 to 5·6% (4·8–6·5) in 2016 in girls, and from 0·9% (0·5–1·3) in 1975 to 7·8% (6·7–9·1) in 2016 in boys; the prevalence of moderate and severe underweight decreased from 9·2% (6·0–12·9) in 1975 to 8·4% (6·8–10·1) in 2016 in girls and from 14·8% (10·4–19·5) in 1975 to 12·4% (10·3–14·5) in 2016 in boys. Prevalence of moderate and severe underweight was highest in India, at 22·7% (16·7–29·6) among girls and 30·7% (23·5–38·0) among boys. Prevalence of obesity was more than 30% in girls in Nauru, the Cook Islands, and Palau; and boys in the Cook Islands, Nauru, Palau, Niue, and American Samoa in 2016. Prevalence of obesity was about 20% or more in several countries in Polynesia and Micronesia, the Middle East and north Africa, the Caribbean, and the USA. In 2016, 75 (44–117) million girls and 117 (70–178) million boys worldwide were moderately or severely underweight. In the same year, 50 (24–89) million girls and 74 (39–125) million boys worldwide were obese. Interpretation The rising trends in children's and adolescents' BMI have plateaued in many high-income countries, albeit at high levels, but have accelerated in parts of Asia, with trends no longer correlated with those of adults. Funding Wellcome Trust, AstraZeneca Young Health Programme.
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NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) (2017). Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults. The Lancet, 390(10113), 2627-2642. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32129-3
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). / Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016 : a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults. In: The Lancet. 2017 ; Vol. 390, No. 10113. pp. 2627-2642.
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abstract = "Background Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and a comprehensive set of BMI categories that cover underweight to obesity in children and adolescents, and to compare trends with those of adults. Methods We pooled 2416 population-based studies with measurements of height and weight on 128·9 million participants aged 5 years and older, including 31·5 million aged 5–19 years. We used a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate trends from 1975 to 2016 in 200 countries for mean BMI and for prevalence of BMI in the following categories for children and adolescents aged 5–19 years: more than 2 SD below the median of the WHO growth reference for children and adolescents (referred to as moderate and severe underweight hereafter), 2 SD to more than 1 SD below the median (mild underweight), 1 SD below the median to 1 SD above the median (healthy weight), more than 1 SD to 2 SD above the median (overweight but not obese), and more than 2 SD above the median (obesity). Findings Regional change in age-standardised mean BMI in girls from 1975 to 2016 ranged from virtually no change (−0·01 kg/m2 per decade; 95% credible interval −0·42 to 0·39, posterior probability [PP] of the observed decrease being a true decrease=0·5098) in eastern Europe to an increase of 1·00 kg/m2 per decade (0·69–1·35, PP>0·9999) in central Latin America and an increase of 0·95 kg/m2 per decade (0·64–1·25, PP>0·9999) in Polynesia and Micronesia. The range for boys was from a non-significant increase of 0·09 kg/m2 per decade (−0·33 to 0·49, PP=0·6926) in eastern Europe to an increase of 0·77 kg/m2 per decade (0·50–1·06, PP>0·9999) in Polynesia and Micronesia. Trends in mean BMI have recently flattened in northwestern Europe and the high-income English-speaking and Asia-Pacific regions for both sexes, southwestern Europe for boys, and central and Andean Latin America for girls. By contrast, the rise in BMI has accelerated in east and south Asia for both sexes, and southeast Asia for boys. Global age-standardised prevalence of obesity increased from 0·7% (0·4–1·2) in 1975 to 5·6% (4·8–6·5) in 2016 in girls, and from 0·9% (0·5–1·3) in 1975 to 7·8% (6·7–9·1) in 2016 in boys; the prevalence of moderate and severe underweight decreased from 9·2% (6·0–12·9) in 1975 to 8·4% (6·8–10·1) in 2016 in girls and from 14·8% (10·4–19·5) in 1975 to 12·4% (10·3–14·5) in 2016 in boys. Prevalence of moderate and severe underweight was highest in India, at 22·7% (16·7–29·6) among girls and 30·7% (23·5–38·0) among boys. Prevalence of obesity was more than 30% in girls in Nauru, the Cook Islands, and Palau; and boys in the Cook Islands, Nauru, Palau, Niue, and American Samoa in 2016. Prevalence of obesity was about 20% or more in several countries in Polynesia and Micronesia, the Middle East and north Africa, the Caribbean, and the USA. In 2016, 75 (44–117) million girls and 117 (70–178) million boys worldwide were moderately or severely underweight. In the same year, 50 (24–89) million girls and 74 (39–125) million boys worldwide were obese. Interpretation The rising trends in children's and adolescents' BMI have plateaued in many high-income countries, albeit at high levels, but have accelerated in parts of Asia, with trends no longer correlated with those of adults. Funding Wellcome Trust, AstraZeneca Young Health Programme.",
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NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) 2017, 'Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults', The Lancet, vol. 390, no. 10113, pp. 2627-2642. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32129-3
Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016 : a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults. / NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC).
In: The Lancet, Vol. 390, No. 10113, 16.12.2017, p. 2627-2642.
T1 - Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016
T2 - a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
AU - NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)
AU - Bentham, James
AU - Di Cesare, Mariachiara
AU - Bilano, Ver
AU - Bixby, Honor
AU - Zhou, Bin
AU - Stevens, Gretchen A.
AU - Riley, Leanne M.
AU - Taddei, Cristina
AU - Hajifathalian, Kaveh
AU - Lu, Yuan
AU - Savin, Stefan
AU - Cowan, Melanie J.
AU - Paciorek, Christopher J.
AU - Chirita-Emandi, Adela
AU - Hayes, Alison J.
AU - Katz, Joanne
AU - Kelishadi, Roya
AU - Kengne, Andre Pascal
AU - Khang, Young Ho
AU - Laxmaiah, Avula
AU - Li, Yanping
AU - Ma, Jun
AU - Miranda, J. Jaime
AU - Mostafa, Aya
AU - Neovius, Martin
AU - Padez, Cristina
AU - Rampal, Lekhraj
AU - Zhu, Aubrianna
AU - Bennett, James E.
AU - Danaei, Goodarz
AU - Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.
AU - Ezzati, Majid
AU - Abarca-Gómez, Leandra
AU - Abdeen, Ziad A.
AU - Hamid, Zargar Abdul
AU - Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen M.
AU - Acosta-Cazares, Benjamin
AU - Acuin, Cecilia
AU - Adams, Robert J.
AU - Aekplakorn, Wichai
AU - Afsana, Kaosar
AU - Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A.
AU - Agyemang, Charles
AU - Ahmadvand, Alireza
AU - Ahrens, Wolfgang
AU - Ajlouni, Kamel
AU - Akhtaeva, Nazgul
AU - Al-Hazzaa, Hazzaa M.
AU - Al-Othman, Amani Rashed
AU - Bernabe-Ortiz, Antonio
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license
N2 - Background Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and a comprehensive set of BMI categories that cover underweight to obesity in children and adolescents, and to compare trends with those of adults. Methods We pooled 2416 population-based studies with measurements of height and weight on 128·9 million participants aged 5 years and older, including 31·5 million aged 5–19 years. We used a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate trends from 1975 to 2016 in 200 countries for mean BMI and for prevalence of BMI in the following categories for children and adolescents aged 5–19 years: more than 2 SD below the median of the WHO growth reference for children and adolescents (referred to as moderate and severe underweight hereafter), 2 SD to more than 1 SD below the median (mild underweight), 1 SD below the median to 1 SD above the median (healthy weight), more than 1 SD to 2 SD above the median (overweight but not obese), and more than 2 SD above the median (obesity). Findings Regional change in age-standardised mean BMI in girls from 1975 to 2016 ranged from virtually no change (−0·01 kg/m2 per decade; 95% credible interval −0·42 to 0·39, posterior probability [PP] of the observed decrease being a true decrease=0·5098) in eastern Europe to an increase of 1·00 kg/m2 per decade (0·69–1·35, PP>0·9999) in central Latin America and an increase of 0·95 kg/m2 per decade (0·64–1·25, PP>0·9999) in Polynesia and Micronesia. The range for boys was from a non-significant increase of 0·09 kg/m2 per decade (−0·33 to 0·49, PP=0·6926) in eastern Europe to an increase of 0·77 kg/m2 per decade (0·50–1·06, PP>0·9999) in Polynesia and Micronesia. Trends in mean BMI have recently flattened in northwestern Europe and the high-income English-speaking and Asia-Pacific regions for both sexes, southwestern Europe for boys, and central and Andean Latin America for girls. By contrast, the rise in BMI has accelerated in east and south Asia for both sexes, and southeast Asia for boys. Global age-standardised prevalence of obesity increased from 0·7% (0·4–1·2) in 1975 to 5·6% (4·8–6·5) in 2016 in girls, and from 0·9% (0·5–1·3) in 1975 to 7·8% (6·7–9·1) in 2016 in boys; the prevalence of moderate and severe underweight decreased from 9·2% (6·0–12·9) in 1975 to 8·4% (6·8–10·1) in 2016 in girls and from 14·8% (10·4–19·5) in 1975 to 12·4% (10·3–14·5) in 2016 in boys. Prevalence of moderate and severe underweight was highest in India, at 22·7% (16·7–29·6) among girls and 30·7% (23·5–38·0) among boys. Prevalence of obesity was more than 30% in girls in Nauru, the Cook Islands, and Palau; and boys in the Cook Islands, Nauru, Palau, Niue, and American Samoa in 2016. Prevalence of obesity was about 20% or more in several countries in Polynesia and Micronesia, the Middle East and north Africa, the Caribbean, and the USA. In 2016, 75 (44–117) million girls and 117 (70–178) million boys worldwide were moderately or severely underweight. In the same year, 50 (24–89) million girls and 74 (39–125) million boys worldwide were obese. Interpretation The rising trends in children's and adolescents' BMI have plateaued in many high-income countries, albeit at high levels, but have accelerated in parts of Asia, with trends no longer correlated with those of adults. Funding Wellcome Trust, AstraZeneca Young Health Programme.
AB - Background Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and a comprehensive set of BMI categories that cover underweight to obesity in children and adolescents, and to compare trends with those of adults. Methods We pooled 2416 population-based studies with measurements of height and weight on 128·9 million participants aged 5 years and older, including 31·5 million aged 5–19 years. We used a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate trends from 1975 to 2016 in 200 countries for mean BMI and for prevalence of BMI in the following categories for children and adolescents aged 5–19 years: more than 2 SD below the median of the WHO growth reference for children and adolescents (referred to as moderate and severe underweight hereafter), 2 SD to more than 1 SD below the median (mild underweight), 1 SD below the median to 1 SD above the median (healthy weight), more than 1 SD to 2 SD above the median (overweight but not obese), and more than 2 SD above the median (obesity). Findings Regional change in age-standardised mean BMI in girls from 1975 to 2016 ranged from virtually no change (−0·01 kg/m2 per decade; 95% credible interval −0·42 to 0·39, posterior probability [PP] of the observed decrease being a true decrease=0·5098) in eastern Europe to an increase of 1·00 kg/m2 per decade (0·69–1·35, PP>0·9999) in central Latin America and an increase of 0·95 kg/m2 per decade (0·64–1·25, PP>0·9999) in Polynesia and Micronesia. The range for boys was from a non-significant increase of 0·09 kg/m2 per decade (−0·33 to 0·49, PP=0·6926) in eastern Europe to an increase of 0·77 kg/m2 per decade (0·50–1·06, PP>0·9999) in Polynesia and Micronesia. Trends in mean BMI have recently flattened in northwestern Europe and the high-income English-speaking and Asia-Pacific regions for both sexes, southwestern Europe for boys, and central and Andean Latin America for girls. By contrast, the rise in BMI has accelerated in east and south Asia for both sexes, and southeast Asia for boys. Global age-standardised prevalence of obesity increased from 0·7% (0·4–1·2) in 1975 to 5·6% (4·8–6·5) in 2016 in girls, and from 0·9% (0·5–1·3) in 1975 to 7·8% (6·7–9·1) in 2016 in boys; the prevalence of moderate and severe underweight decreased from 9·2% (6·0–12·9) in 1975 to 8·4% (6·8–10·1) in 2016 in girls and from 14·8% (10·4–19·5) in 1975 to 12·4% (10·3–14·5) in 2016 in boys. Prevalence of moderate and severe underweight was highest in India, at 22·7% (16·7–29·6) among girls and 30·7% (23·5–38·0) among boys. Prevalence of obesity was more than 30% in girls in Nauru, the Cook Islands, and Palau; and boys in the Cook Islands, Nauru, Palau, Niue, and American Samoa in 2016. Prevalence of obesity was about 20% or more in several countries in Polynesia and Micronesia, the Middle East and north Africa, the Caribbean, and the USA. In 2016, 75 (44–117) million girls and 117 (70–178) million boys worldwide were moderately or severely underweight. In the same year, 50 (24–89) million girls and 74 (39–125) million boys worldwide were obese. Interpretation The rising trends in children's and adolescents' BMI have plateaued in many high-income countries, albeit at high levels, but have accelerated in parts of Asia, with trends no longer correlated with those of adults. Funding Wellcome Trust, AstraZeneca Young Health Programme.
JO - The Lancet
JF - The Lancet
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NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults. The Lancet. 2017 Dec 16;390(10113):2627-2642. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32129-3


There is something powerful and relaxing about meekness.
When in the presence of a gentle spirit, they echo peace. Their calmness leads those around them to calmness. Their sense of gentle security gives off a rare feeling of safety. And even if you do not know the individual personally, their meekness seems to break down walls and tear away defenses.
The meek exhale life. The gentle pass on peace.
As Jesus originally spoke this verse, He did so in front of disciples, soon to be disciples, and curious listeners. And though His words were not unheard of, they did deepen the role of a "blessed" person.
As people found in Christ, we have the obligation to be meek; that is, gentle, humble, and genuine. We are - as Paul writes - called to "let our gentle spirit be known to all" (Philippians 4:5).
But this idea seems so difficult to grasp. How do we let humility be known to all. It sounds like an oxymoron. To make people know that you are humble. To fight to be seen in humble meekness.
But what it means is quite simple. You and I - as people who are called to exhale something different than the world - are to watch what we do, say, believe, and even think. Everything about us should be in line with Jesus. It is only then that our spirit is full of gentleness.
Where the world fights for approval, success, power, prestige, and more responsibilities, we are to fight for a different life.
In this verse, Paul is not asking us to make ourselves seen...for gentleness and meekness is not a quality of self. He is calling us to let our gentle spirit - the spirit united with the Spirit of God - to be seen.
Peter hits on this in his first letter. Unlike the world around us, our beauty - our worth - is not found in outward things. But instead, what God prizes is found deep within us. He finds great worth in a meek and gentle spirit, for it reflects His image (the image of His Son) the strongest.
As humans, we can clothe both ourselves and our name in whatever "pretty" image or title we want, but only one image and title gives glory to the Father: that of His son.
For gentleness can never be found without Christ.
And ultimately, this is why Jesus connects it to inheritance. In our day and age, the second half of this Beatitude can seem confusing, that the meek "inherit the earth." But what we must realize is how the original hearers (and readers) would have taken it.
To inherit land (or in our case, the earth as a whole) meant that you were the heir of the land owner. Your inheritance was fully dependent on your relationship towards that person or persons. So when Jesus is connecting meekness to inheritance, He is connecting the identity of being gentle and humble to our identity of being sons and daughters of God.
The meek inherit the land because the meek are God's true children.
But what we have is not of ourselves... whether it is the ability to be meek or the grand inheritance of this earth, none of it is of ourselves. Instead, we are simply the recipients of a grand gesture of great grace.
We are blessed, for we shine Christ in our meekness and are sons and daughters of the King.
But as always, this demands us to have an eye-opening perspective change. Do we live with the humility that all we have is God's? Do we act according to His compassion? Do we speak with His level of gentleness? Do we make known His Spirit inside of us? And do we believe the security of our sonship (or "daughter-ship")?
In closing, my prayer is the same as the apostle Paul's to the Ephesians. Read it again through the lens of being meek. "I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened - fully opened - in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in His holy people, and His incomparably great power for us who believe" (Ephesians 1:18-19).
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Mary-Kate Olsen and Olivier Sarkozy Reach Divorce Settlement
E! News has learned that Mary-Kate Olsen and Olivier Sarkozy have reached a divorce settlement. Scroll on to learn more about the former couple's split.
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Mary-Kate Olsen and Olivier Sarkozy are moving on. E! News has learned that the former couple has reached a settlement in their divorce.
The news comes eight months after fans first learned about the split. According to court documents obtained by TMZ, the 34-year-old fashion designer signed a petition to divorce the 51-year-old banker in April 2020. However, the coronavirus pandemic led to a delay.
As a result, Mary-Kate requested an emergency order to end the marriage, alleging that Olivier terminated the lease on their New York City home and expected her to move out in the middle of the pandemic.
"I am petrified that my husband is trying to deprive me of the home that we have lived in," she stated in a copy of the affidavit obtained by People, "and if he is successful, I will not only lose my home but I risk losing my personal property as well."
However, the request was denied in mid-May, with a New York courts spokesperson telling E! News that only "essential, emergency" filings were being accepted at that point. But by the end of that month, the Full House alum was able to officially file for divorce and her summons and complaint were accepted and processed by the Manhattan County clerk.
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While neither star has publicly commented on what led to the split, a source close to Mary-Kate indicated to E! News that the two had their differences.
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"Mary-Kate started coming around to the idea of having a baby and thinking about it seriously," the source said in May. "But Olivier was a closed book on that subject and was opposed to the idea. He felt like he had closed that chapter of his life and didn't want to go back. She didn't like the idea of not even being able to explore the possibility."
However, this may not have been the only topic on which they didn't see eye to eye. A source close to Mary-Kate claimed Olivier was "very social" and that he "loves attending events and being with people." Meanwhile, this insider said Mary-Kate is "more of a homebody and likes to be with the friends she is closest to."
"She doesn't need to be out on the social circuit," the source added. "She's very focused on work and her brand. That's more of a priority and they weren't in line on that."
During this time, the former actress was able to lean on her twin sister, Ashley Olsen, for support. In fact, the siblings were spotted hanging out in New York last month.
Mary-Kate and Olivier wed in an intimate ceremony back in 2015. While this was Mary-Kate's first marriage, it was Olivier's second. He was previously married to Charlotte Bernard, with whom he shares two adult children.
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Q: Hacer SELECT comparando dos datos entre dos columnas en SQL Buenas mi problema es que quiero comparar dos tablas y seleccionar dos datos que son iguales en las dos tablas, una vez comparado quiero que de la primera tabla me saque dos datos.
Aqui viene mi objetivo, tengo estas dos tablas:
operatore:                       evento:
id-name-surname                  idOp
24-Oriol-Molina                  24

Como veis en la dos tablas el id se repite, entonces mi idea es poder hacer en un sql que compare los id de las dos tablas y los que coinciden que me den el name y surname de la primera tabla.

A: Lo que necesitas hacer es un JOIN.

Un JOIN en SQL permite combinar las filas de dos o más tablas para
  poder mostrar resultados de forma relacional.

En este caso necesitas usar INNER JOIN ya que solo quieres obtener las filas que coincidan en ambas tablas con la condicion establecida en la clausula ON
SELECT operatore.name, operatore.surname
FROM operatore
INNER JOIN evento ON operatore.id=evento.idOp;

Si quisieras obtener todos los datos de la tabla de la izquierda (operatore en este caso) ademas de los que coincidan con tu condicion de la clausula ON puedes usar LEFT JOIN. Lo mismo como puedes imaginar pero al contrario para RIGHT JOIN.
La siguiente imagen refleja que tipos de JOIN podemos usar y que datos obtenemos.
Tipos de JOIN

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Adam Schiff Associate Arrested By LAPD On Pedophilia Charges
Category: Paedophiles in the system
Created: Monday, 25 November 2019 21:34
Written by Alecomm2
Dr. Bruce Hensel, a long-term associate of Rep. Adam Schiff, has been arrested in Los Angeles on pedophilia related charges after he asked a 9-year-old girl to send him sexually suggestive pictures, according to prosecutors and law enforcement.
Rep. Adam Schiff and Dr. Hensel have been closely linked for years, with the LA Times describing the doctor as a "special guest" at Schiff's 50th birthday party in 2010. Schiff also handpicked Dr. Hensel to work with him on health care townhalls in California and has been the recipient of big dollar donations from the 71-year-old throughout his political career.
The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed Dr. Hensel was arrested Wednesday morning in Beverly Hills and charged with contact with a minor for sexual purposes.
The arrest came after a child sexual exploitation investigation involving the 9-year-old after inappropriate messages and photographs were shared between the child and Dr. Hensel. The 71-year-old was booked for contact with a minor with the purpose of committing sexual acts.
From the LA Times report:
Dr. Bruce Hensel, a former TV medical correspondent, was arrested Wednesday morning after he asked a 9-year-old girl to send him sexually suggestive pictures, according to prosecutors and law enforcement.
Hensel, who was the on-air chief medical correspondent for NBC in Los Angeles and New York, was charged with one felony count of contact with a minor for sexual purposes, which stems from him requesting images from the daughter of an acquaintance through an online messaging app on or about Aug. 4, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.
Members of the Los Angeles Regional Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force served a search warrant at Hensel's Pacific Palisades home on October 16. Because contact with the 9-year-old child was made on the internet, detectives from the Internet Crimes Against Children unit are leading the investigation.
A practicing physician who is board certified in internal medicine and emergency medicine, Dr. Hensel joined the KNBC news team in 1987 and worked there for several years. According to IMDb, Dr. Hensel has produced a handful of TV documentaries including "Beyond The Opposite Sex," which focuses on transgender relationships.
Dr. Hensel was released from the LAPD's Metropolitan Detention Center around 5 p.m. after posting $5,000 bail. A court date has yet to be announced.
In the aftermath of Jeffrey Epstein's arrest on charges of child sex trafficking and his subsequent death, an increasing number of Democrat donors have been accused of similar crimes.
Ed Buck, a high-profile millionaire who donated and bundled large sums to the Clintons and Rep. Adam Schiff, has also charged with an array of federal offenses and is currently behind bars awaiting trial.
Rep. Adam Schiff and Ed Buck (center) outside a house in California.
The charges came after the bodies of, not one, but two dead black men were mysteriously found in Buck's home on two occasions.
Buck is currently in jail following a September 17 arrest and his federal trial has been moved from November 26, 2019, to August 4, 2020. The Democrat mega-donor was initially charged with three felonies, including maintaining a drug house, administering methamphetamine, and battery causing serious injury. Police brought additional federal drugs charges after a victim, named as Joe Doe, managed to escape Buck who injected him with two large doses of the drug, according to prosecutors.
"We're extremely happy Ed Buck is off the street and can't kill or harm anyone else," Dean's family wrote in a statement released to press last month.
Source: https://thepedogate.com/politics/adam-schiff-associate-arrested-by-lapd-on-pedophilia-charges/
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Three persons who were arrested by the police on Sunday on the charge of collecting extortion money from the local businessmen by identifying themselves as Maoists, were remanded to judicial custody after the local court rejected their bail petitions today.
Briefing newsman here, Rayagada SDPO Y Jagannath Rao said the three arrested persons, identified as Sanjit Bachili, Pabitra Bachili and Kishore Kandhagiri of Mahadev Kakili village under Seshakhal police station limits, were collecting money from some local businessmen by threatening them through their mobile phones and identifying themselves as Maoists.
"Following a complaint lodged by Chitrasena Sahu, a dealer of Britannia Biscuits, that the trio have demanded extortion money of Rs 1 lakh, the police tracked their mobile phones and later arrested them from Pitamahal village," Rao said.


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Q: Need clarification on WARN messages for CIS Benchmark results I am referring to https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/cis-benchmarks#using_the_cis_benchmarks to run below command against GKE Cluster version 1.15.9-gke.12.
#kube-bench -v 3 --logtostderr --benchmark cis-1.5 run --targets policies

`I0306 07:30:34.927822 44978 common.go:326] Kubernetes version: "" to Benchmark version: "cis-1.5"
I0306 07:30:34.927856 44978 run.go:40] Checking targets [policies] for cis-1.5
I0306 07:30:34.927997 44978 common.go:267] Using config file: cfg/cis-1.5/config.yaml
I0306 07:30:34.928031 44978 run.go:62] Running tests from files [cfg/cis-1.5/policies.yaml]
I0306 07:30:34.928132 44978 common.go:79] Using test file: cfg/cis-1.5/policies.yaml
I0306 07:30:34.928757 44978 controls.go:76] Check.ID 5.1.1
I0306 07:30:34.928781 44978 check.go:207] textToCommand: ""
I0306 07:30:34.928828 44978 controls.go:76] Check.ID 5.1.2
I0306 07:30:34.928834 44978 check.go:207] textToCommand: ""
I0306 07:30:34.928847 44978 controls.go:76] Check.ID 5.1.3
I0306 07:30:34.928850 44978 check.go:207] textToCommand: ""
I0306 07:30:34.928866 44978 controls.go:76] Check.ID 5.1.4
I0306 07:30:34.928869 44978 check.go:207] textToCommand: ""
I0306 07:30:34.928882 44978 controls.go:76] Check.ID 5.1.5
I0306 07:30:34.928885 44978 check.go:207] textToCommand: ""
I0306 07:30:34.928900 44978 controls.go:76] Check.ID 5.1.6
I0306 07:30:34.928903 44978 check.go:207] textToCommand: ""
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I0306 07:30:34.928938 44978 controls.go:76] Check.ID 5.2.2
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I0306 07:30:34.928950 44978 controls.go:76] Check.ID 5.2.3
I0306 07:30:34.928953 44978 check.go:207] textToCommand: ""
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I0306 07:30:34.929006 44978 controls.go:76] Check.ID 5.2.5
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I0306 07:30:34.929083 44978 controls.go:76] Check.ID 5.3.1
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I0306 07:30:34.929096 44978 controls.go:76] Check.ID 5.3.2
I0306 07:30:34.929099 44978 check.go:207] textToCommand: ""
I0306 07:30:34.929116 44978 controls.go:76] Check.ID 5.4.1
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I0306 07:30:34.929150 44978 controls.go:76] Check.ID 5.5.1
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I0306 07:30:34.929163 44978 controls.go:76] Check.ID 5.6.1
I0306 07:30:34.929169 44978 check.go:207] textToCommand: ""
I0306 07:30:34.929186 44978 controls.go:76] Check.ID 5.6.2
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I0306 07:30:34.929197 44978 controls.go:76] Check.ID 5.6.3
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[INFO] 5 Kubernetes Policies
[INFO] 5.1 RBAC and Service Accounts
[WARN] 5.1.1 Ensure that the cluster-admin role is only used where required (Not Scored)
[WARN] 5.1.2 Minimize access to secrets (Not Scored)
[WARN] 5.1.3 Minimize wildcard use in Roles and ClusterRoles (Not Scored)
[WARN] 5.1.4 Minimize access to create pods (Not Scored)
[WARN] 5.1.5 Ensure that default service accounts are not actively used. (Scored)
[WARN] 5.1.6 Ensure that Service Account Tokens are only mounted where necessary (Not Scored)
[INFO] 5.2 Pod Security Policies
[WARN] 5.2.1 Minimize the admission of privileged containers (Not Scored)
[WARN] 5.2.2 Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host process ID namespace (Scored)
[WARN] 5.2.3 Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host IPC namespace (Scored)
[WARN] 5.2.4 Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host network namespace (Scored)
[WARN] 5.2.5 Minimize the admission of containers with allowPrivilegeEscalation (Scored)
[WARN] 5.2.6 Minimize the admission of root containers (Not Scored)
[WARN] 5.2.7 Minimize the admission of containers with the NET_RAW capability (Not Scored)
[WARN] 5.2.8 Minimize the admission of containers with added capabilities (Not Scored)
[WARN] 5.2.9 Minimize the admission of containers with capabilities assigned (Not Scored)
[INFO] 5.3 Network Policies and CNI
[WARN] 5.3.1 Ensure that the CNI in use supports Network Policies (Not Scored)
[WARN] 5.3.2 Ensure that all Namespaces have Network Policies defined (Scored)
[INFO] 5.4 Secrets Management
[WARN] 5.4.1 Prefer using secrets as files over secrets as environment variables (Not Scored)
[WARN] 5.4.2 Consider external secret storage (Not Scored)
[INFO] 5.5 Extensible Admission Control
[WARN] 5.5.1 Configure Image Provenance using ImagePolicyWebhook admission controller (Not Scored)
[INFO] 5.6 General Policies
[WARN] 5.6.1 Create administrative boundaries between resources using namespaces (Not Scored)
[WARN] 5.6.2 Ensure that the seccomp profile is set to docker/default in your pod definitions (Not Scored)
[WARN] 5.6.3 Apply Security Context to Your Pods and Containers (Not Scored)
[WARN] 5.6.4 The default namespace should not be used (Scored)

== Remediations ==
5.1.1 Identify all clusterrolebindings to the cluster-admin role. Check if they are used and
if they need this role or if they could use a role with fewer privileges.
Where possible, first bind users to a lower privileged role and then remove the
clusterrolebinding to the cluster-admin role :
kubectl delete clusterrolebinding [name]

5.1.2 Where possible, remove get, list and watch access to secret objects in the cluster.

5.1.3 Where possible replace any use of wildcards in clusterroles and roles with specific
objects or actions.

5.1.4
5.1.5 Create explicit service accounts wherever a Kubernetes workload requires specific access
to the Kubernetes API server.
Modify the configuration of each default service account to include this value
automountServiceAccountToken: false

5.1.6 Modify the definition of pods and service accounts which do not need to mount service
account tokens to disable it.

5.2.1 Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that
the .spec.privileged field is omitted or set to false.

5.2.2 Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
.spec.hostPID field is omitted or set to false.

5.2.3 Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
.spec.hostIPC field is omitted or set to false.

5.2.4 Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
.spec.hostNetwork field is omitted or set to false.

5.2.5 Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
.spec.allowPrivilegeEscalation field is omitted or set to false.

5.2.6 Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
.spec.runAsUser.rule is set to either MustRunAsNonRoot or MustRunAs with the range of
UIDs not including 0.

5.2.7 Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
.spec.requiredDropCapabilities is set to include either NET_RAW or ALL.

5.2.8 Ensure that allowedCapabilities is not present in PSPs for the cluster unless
it is set to an empty array.

5.2.9 Review the use of capabilites in applications runnning on your cluster. Where a namespace
contains applicaions which do not require any Linux capabities to operate consider adding
a PSP which forbids the admission of containers which do not drop all capabilities.

5.3.1 If the CNI plugin in use does not support network policies, consideration should be given to
making use of a different plugin, or finding an alternate mechanism for restricting traffic
in the Kubernetes cluster.

5.3.2 Follow the documentation and create NetworkPolicy objects as you need them.

5.4.1 if possible, rewrite application code to read secrets from mounted secret files, rather than
from environment variables.

5.4.2 Refer to the secrets management options offered by your cloud provider or a third-party
secrets management solution.

5.5.1 Follow the Kubernetes documentation and setup image provenance.

5.6.1 Follow the documentation and create namespaces for objects in your deployment as you need
them.

5.6.2 Seccomp is an alpha feature currently. By default, all alpha features are disabled. So, you
would need to enable alpha features in the apiserver by passing "--feature-
gates=AllAlpha=true" argument.
Edit the /etc/kubernetes/apiserver file on the master node and set the KUBE_API_ARGS
parameter to "--feature-gates=AllAlpha=true"
KUBE_API_ARGS="--feature-gates=AllAlpha=true"
Based on your system, restart the kube-apiserver service. For example:
systemctl restart kube-apiserver.service
Use annotations to enable the docker/default seccomp profile in your pod definitions. An
example is as below:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: trustworthy-pod
annotations:
seccomp.security.alpha.kubernetes.io/pod: docker/default
spec:
containers:
- name: trustworthy-container
image: sotrustworthy:latest

5.6.3 Follow the Kubernetes documentation and apply security contexts to your pods. For a
suggested list of security contexts, you may refer to the CIS Security Benchmark for Docker
Containers.

5.6.4 Ensure that namespaces are created to allow for appropriate segregation of Kubernetes
resources and that all new resources are created in a specific namespace.

== Summary ==
0 checks PASS
0 checks FAIL
24 checks WARN
0 checks INFO`

I only got WARN on all items. How can I verify that the result is relevant to my Kubernetes cluster? I look forward to hearing from you and thanks in advance.
Best Regards,
Kaushal

A: At the moment (Mar-2020) Kubernetes Benchmarks have
- CIS Benchmark for GKE v.1.0.0
- CIS Benchmarks for Kubernetes v.1.5.0
kube-bench -v 3 --logtostderr --benchmark cis-1.5

makes me think that you have ran Kubernetes benchmark on GKE.
Documentation says that:

The CIS Kubernetes Benchmark is a set of recommendations for configuring Kubernetes to support a strong security posture. The Benchmark is tied to a specific Kubernetes release. The CIS Kubernetes Benchmark is written for the open source Kubernetes distribution and intended to be as universally applicable across distributions as possible.

It would be better to run the benchmark designed specifically to  GKE if you are running GKE.

With a managed service like GKE, not all items on the Benchmark are your responsibility, and there are recommendations that you cannot audit or remediate directly yourself. If you are running on GKE, use the  CIS GKE Benchmark, which is a child benchmark of the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark, meant specifically to be applied to the GKE distribution. This draws from the existing CIS Benchmark, but removes items that are not configurable or managed by the user and adds additional controls that are Google Cloud-specific.

Hope that sheds light on the issue.


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The City Commission must reject this attempt to divert funds from the BID, and must refuse to approve the change in development plans Mana is seeking. Secret deals made in the dark must never be tolerated.


The 2016 Voodoo Carnival brings perhaps the most colorful, and definitely the most feathered, burlesque troupe we've ever seen with the historical orientated risqué dances of the girls known as The Horehounds!
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Their performances range through a variety of time periods and they are known for their creative and fun twists on their acts. Be prepared for feathers, fun and some scandalous suprises!


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Кири́лл Никола́евич Афана́сьев (4 февраля 1909, Ораниенбаум — 29 марта 2002, Москва) — российский , профессор, доктор искусствоведения, член-учредитель Союза архитекторов СССР. Почётный член Российской академии архитектуры и строительных наук.

Биография
К. Н. Афанасьев родился в городе Ораниенбаум в семье офицера царской армии. С 1918 года жил в Москве.

В 1930 году окончил архитектурный факультет Высшего художественно-технического института (мастерская А. А. Веснина), был членом Объединения современных архитекторов (ОСА). Одновременно с учёбой и по окончании института работал в архитектурной мастерской М. Я. Гинзбурга. В 1932 году перешёл в 1-ю Архитектурную мастерскую Моссовета И. В. Жолтовского.

В 1934—1938 годах по проекту и под руководством К. Н. Афанасьева был построен 10-этажный жилой дом для завода «Геодезия» (Пятницкая, 59), в то время самый большой в Замоскворечье. В эти же 1930-е годы К. Н. Афанасьев построил здание Ярославского педагогического института, павильоны на ВСХВ (в частности Павильон № 31 «Геология» (бывш. «Лён и другие прядильные культуры»), осуществил планировку нового города Каспийска.

Во время Великой Отечественной войны работал над обеспечением жизнедеятельности городов, освобождённых от немцев (Краснодар, Новороссийск, Туапсе и др.).

После окончания войны работал в Институте истории и теории архитектуры Академии строительства и архитектуры СССР, занимался реконструкцией центров городов: Сталинграда, Софии (Болгария), Костромы, Луганска. Наряду с проектированием занимался педагогической (профессор МАРХИ с 1935 года, доктор искусствоведения с 1954 года) и научной деятельностью. Член-учредитель Союза архитекторов СССР в 1955 году.

В 2001 году был удостоен премии «Золотое сечение» Союза московских архитекторов.

Умер в 2002 году, похоронен в Москве на Головинском кладбище.

С 1938 года и до самой смерти К. Н. Афанасьев жил в построенном им доме на Пятницкой улице.

Библиография
Опубликовал ряд статей, монографий и книг по теории и истории архитектуры.
 Построение архитектурной формы древнерусскими зодчими. М., 1961.
 Ideen — Projekte — Bauten: Sowjetische Architektur 1917/32. Dresden, 1973.
 А. В. Щусев. М., 1978.
 О соразмерности в архитектурных ансамблях Армении (Санаин, Ахпат, Гошаванк). Ереван, 1978.
 Дзвели Шуамта. Тбилиси, 1983.
 Опыт пропорционального анализа. М., 1998.
 Рождение метрополии. Москва 1930—1955. Антология. М., 2005 (в соавт.)

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Литература

 Московская энциклопедия. Том 1: Лица Москвы. Книга 6: А-Я. Дополнения. — М.: Московские учебники, 2014.

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The places and cities we live in influence our lives immensely. People who choose London as their home base understand that thе capital inspires greatness. Not only is it brimming with shopping centres, high-end universities, business and career opportunities but it's also rich in history and culture.
That's why many celebrities choose to move to London. As a benefit for the crème de la crème of our society, the UK's capital is also much less saturated with frenzy fans and obtrusive paparazzi, which makes it far less stressful.
Wonder what exactly is it that attracts the richest and most powerful people on earth to London? Read on because we'll take a closer look into the London areas they choose to move their homes in and why.
When thinking of celebrities and where to move to London, the place that comes to mind first is Notting Hill. It grabbed everyone's attention back in 1999 when the romantic comedy of the same name starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant came out and took over the world. Since then, it has become an iconic place that everybody has to visit at least once in their lifetime.
Today, the romantic area attracts many musicians with its colourful homes and the vintage market where you can find old Dior, Hermes and Chanel clothing and accessories.
If you choose Notting Hill as your permanent residence, there's a chance that you'll encounter Damon Albarn, Robbie Williams or Bjork on your daily strolls through this part of town.
Many young celebs and pop stars choose to move to Fulham because of the cheeky little shop displays the streets have to offer, the colourful galleries and fabulous brunches in Manuka Kitchen.
Wonder how we gathered the intel? Simply take a look at the part of Fulham Road known as "The Beach", and you'll notice their convertible Porsches parked just outside the many gastropubs. Fulham is also an attractive spot because of the hangout areas such as Durrell Arms, so moving a house here definitely appeals to those under the spotlight. If you're young, beautiful, and rich, Fulham is your perfect place to move a house.
Kensington & Chelsea: Why Pick Them?
Exclusivity and luxury are important criteria for many high-end celebs who choose to move home in London. And that's exactly what Kensington and Chelsea have to offer. Homes here grab stars' attention with fancy roof gardens, state of the art man caves, huge walk-in wardrobes and underground swimming pools. All in all, multimillion-dollar properties that have everything you could ever imagine.
With its charming and rich in history Georgian architecture, the area attracts celebrities in the likes of Victoria and David Beckham, Kylie Minogue, Eric Clapton, Rowan Atkinson, and Madonna.
While it may be too expensive to move to this part of town, you can always take a walk during the weekend. Who knows, maybe you'll spot the idols grabbing a cuppa from the local gourmet coffee shop.
Amongst the things that celebrities find attractive about the area is the peacefulness of Richmond Park. If you're lucky, you can spot Sandra Bullock, Tom Hardy, David Attenborough or Mick Jagger roaming around since the stars have chosen to call this place their home.
The Richmond Theatre, where performances are in limited runs, is also a huge cultural spot popular within celeb circles. And the neighbouring architecture offers anything — from modern apartments to Victorian mansions — to tie up the decision to move a house in the area.
On the northwest side of this royal park is the area of St. John's Wood – one of the most saturated with celebrities spots in London. Many stars have chosen to move their homes in this picturesque part of the city, so you will encounter them on your day-to-day walks if you decide to relocate here as well. Names of the like of Ewen McGregor, Sir Paul McCartney, Kate Moss, Keith Richards, Lily Allen and more enjoy the perks that the region has to offer. Not only is it beautiful, but the park is with huge cultural value and full of activities – you can find everything from sports to theatre here.
There's no doubt about it, relocating to London will inspire you and make you shine no matter what you do. But before moving, make sure to taste each area we mentioned and choose the one that feels like home.


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UK discussing UN asylum obligations
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The UK has opened discussions with the United Nations about its obligations under the 1951 Geneva Convention which protects refugees, David Blunkett has said.
The home secretary said he wants a revision of the Convention to reflect the new global situation.
No state is immune from the threat of terrorism, and international terrorist networks have no respect for borders
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Under the 1951 agreement, signed in the aftermath of two world wars, countries are obliged to protect refugees on their territory and grant them at least the same standards of treatment enjoyed by other foreign nationals.
Mr Blunkett met his French counterpart at an Anglo-French summit at Le Touquet on Tuesday where further co-operation to help tackle illegal immigration was agreed.
The agreement includes:
The signing of a legal agreement for full UK immigration controls in Calais, and to be extended to other French ports as needed
Deploying new technology to spot illegal immigrants by their heartbeat or body heat in Dunkirk and Cherbourg by May, and to other ports as needed
Proposals to work together to increase the number of failed asylum seekers and illegal immigrants removed from the UK and France.
Common ways to tackle the threat of terrorism were also discussed.
Mr Blunkett said: "No state is immune from the threat of terrorism, and international terrorist networks have no respect for borders.
"We have been in the forefront of promoting international co-operation to counter the threat they pose. UK law enforcement agencies are in constant contact with their colleagues in France.
21st Century approach
Last month Mr Blair said he may have to re-examine the UK's commitment to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) if his government's policies to sort out the creaking asylum system failed.
The Conservatives have said the UK should consider pulling out of the international conventions.
But Mr Blunkett said pulling out of the ECHR was a move "none of us would want to contemplate lightly" because of the "acrimony" and "disdain" the UK would be held in by the international community.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "In Le Touquet today we will be discussing further controls to stop people getting in - [this] is the issue, not having to pull out of international conventions.
Pulling out of conventions is not the issue, says Blunkett
"There are two conventions, one is the 1951 Convention in relation to refugees," said Mr Blunkett.
"We have already opened discussions with the UN on that because I have said all along, and Jack Straw (his predecessor) has said before me, that it was necessary to take a look at that.
"The European Convention on Human Rights is something that I think we will have to come back to."
Tory ideas
Mr Blunkett said he raised the issue of the European Convention of Human Rights at Europe's Justice and Home Affairs Council in September 2001.
"We need to discuss how best to approach, in the 21st Century, obligations on human rights and global movements.
"They are very, very big issues - they are not issues that we can deal with in the next six weeks.
"I think the option of pulling out (of the ECHR) is one which none of us would want to contemplate lightly, not least because of the acrimony, because of the distain that we would be held in, in the international community."
'No opt out'?
Mr Blunkett also conceded that he had "no objection" to Tory plans announced last week to lock up asylum seekers for security checks at detention centres, which could be housed on ships, before they are admitted to UK towns or cities.
But he suggested that the proposals would be too costly and take too long.
David Pannick, a QC who has represented Mr Blunkett in human rights cases, has suggested it would be impossible to opt out from the convention.
In a legal opinion for civil rights group Liberty, Mr Pannick said it was "strongly arguable" a state could not use withdrawal from the convention to secure an "opt out".
"Therefore the proposal floated by the Prime Minister would be invalid and unlawful," added Mr Pannick.
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ENGL 6100.10 - Critical Theory
Prof. David Mitchell
Mondays, 4:10 pm - 6:00 pm.
Increasingly "the global turn" in theory involves ways of thinking about mass exterminations. To do so, this course will examine some of the most influential theorists on related topics that all ask some version of the question: is there life that can be destroyed en masse without criminality? We will approach this difficult question from theories of war waged on civilian populations, climate change disasters, release of toxicities into public waters and air, creation of slum dwellings for workers living in poverty, militarized open air prisons, dangerous proximities to irradiated/pesticidal zones, the advent of uninhabitable geographies far into the future. Some of our key texts will include: Georgio Agamben's "Homo Sacer", Michel Foucault's "The History of Madness", Jacques Derrida, "No Apocalypse, Not Now", Jasbir Puar's "The Right to Maim", Mitchell, Snyder, Antebi (eds.), "The Matter of Disability", Mike Davis, "Late Victorian Holocausts", Lisa Lowe's "The Intimacies of Four Continents", Asma Abbas's "Liberalism and Human Suffering", Svetlana Alexievich, "Voices from Chernobyl", Robert Jay Lifton, "The Climate Swerve", among others.
English 6350.10 - The Nineteenth Century: Romance and Revolution
Prof. Tara Ghoshal Wallace
Wednesdays, 4:10 pm - 6:00 pm.
'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,' begins Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities; Frances Burney's The Wanderer opens with the words 'During the dire reign of the terrific Robespierre….' From Edmund Burke's heated description of Marie Antoinette being dragged out of bed by a maddened mob of revolutionaries to Baroness Orczy's tale of the elusive Scarlet Pimpernel, British writers have been electrified, appalled and inspired by the enormous political and cultural disruptions of the French Revolution and have produced texts full of suspense, daring escapes, dramatic confrontations, and romantic heroism. The revolution across the Channel not only provided British writers with material for exciting plots but also a way to both celebrate and interrogate the seemingly serene and equitable social system at home.
This seminar will look at fictional and nonfictional texts from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries to consider some of the ways in which British writers deployed the 'dire' events of the French Revolution to construct (or demystify) a vision of Great Britain that emerged from the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars as a symbol of rational and benign government, one that validated its claim to be the imperial power that dominated world history for over a century.
The course is open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates.
ENGL 6350.10 - Twentieth Century: Asian American Literature
Prof. Patricia Chu
Thursdays, 4:10 pm - 6:00 pm.
Asians have been coming to America since 1849, but the writings of the immigrants and their descendants didn't become "Asian American" until the word was coined, and the discipline as such was formally recognized as a response to student strikes, in 1968. In fact, there was no such racial group in 1878 when the United States Congress created a new legal category, "aliens ineligible to citizenship," just for Chinese, and then began to pass laws that also excluded other Asians and Pacific Islanders from immigration and citizenship—setting them apart from Europeans and placing them into a middle category, neither white nor black.
Asian Americanist scholars argue that the treatment of Asian Americans in America has always been shaped by U.S. foreign policy objectives, by the Orientalist perception of Asians as unassimilable aliens, and by a suspicion of "orientals" borrowed from European colonialism and re-framed just for America. In response, Asian American writers have turned from writing only about their efforts to claim identities as fully American citizens to questioning American "exceptionalism" and to reconceiving themselves as citizens of the world. Or have they?
This course introduces Asian American literature as a tradition that questions mainstream constructions of Asian American race and ethnicity and provides alternative accounts of Asian American experiences. We'll discuss the political roots of the terms "Asian American" and "Asian American literature"; Chinese immigration and exclusion; Japanese American internment narratives; feminist, national, and postcolonial influences; transnational migration; theories of narrative, genre, mourning, melancholia, and loss.
Texts will be a subset of these:
Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
Jessica Hagedorn, Dogeaters or Carlos Bulosan, America Is In the Heart.
Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly; Dance and the Railroad
Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories.
John Okada, No No Boy
Bui Thi, The Best We Could Do
Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Jane Jeong Trenka, The Language of Blood or Deann Borshay Liem, First Person Plural. (film)
H. T. Tsiang, And China Has Hands.
Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
Alice Wu, Saving Face. (film)
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ENGL 6130.10 Disability and Form
Prof. Jonathan Hsy
This course examines forms of disability memoir (life writing in its autobiographical and fictive dimensions) across time and across genres. Half of the primary texts are works by major medieval authors; the other half are works by modern disability critics/authors.
Integrating contemporary disability/crip theory with medieval literary analysis, this course thinks critically about form itself. Are certain modes of reading and interpretation best suited to particular artistic forms (poetry, treatise, short story, film)? Should formalist analysis of a work occlude or embrace a work's politics? How does the artistic form of a work shape the meanings of blindness, deafness, race, queerness, embodied difference, or sensory experience? What happens when we attend to disability not only as a topic or category of analysis but a source of knowledge and catalyst for social transformation (in thinking, feeling, acting)?
Our readings will engage with foundational critics on disability, aesthetics, and form, in addition to cutting-edge work in media studies (including theories of universal design, accessibility, and digital humanities). Assignments will include formalist analysis of texts and media artifacts as well as theory-engaged literary criticism.
Medieval authors: Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, Margery Kempe, Thomas Hoccleve, and Teresa de Cartagena. Modern authors/works: Brenda-Jo Brueggemann, Mel Y. Chen, Eli Clare, John Lee Clark, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, John Howard Griffin, Helen Keller (Story of My Life and The Miracle Worker film adaptations), Georgina Kleege, Ato Quayson, Robert McRuer, Theri Pickens, David Mitchell & Sharon Snyder
ENGL 6220.10 - Screening Race and Gender:
Prof. Alexa Joubin
Wednesday, 6:10 pm to 8:00 pm
This seminar examines cinematic representations of 16th- and 17th-century plays, events and personalities from Queen Elizabeth I to Johannes Vermeer and Thomas Middleton. These narratives have been screened--projected on the silver screen and filtered by various ideologies—since 1899. Adaptation is a historical and colonial practice. In particular, we will focus on the vicissitudes of racialized bodies, performance of gender and sexuality, disability narratives, feminist interventions, religious fault lines, class struggle, and intersectional identities in popular culture.
Films include Elizabeth I (Shekhar Kapur), Revengers Tragedy (Alex Cox), Doctor Faust (Nevill Coghill), Coriolanus (Ralph Fiennes), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Michael Hoffman), Shakespeare in Love (John Madden), Titus (Julie Taymor), Henry V (Kenneth Branagh), Richard III(Richard Loncraine), Jew of Malta (Douglas Morse), The Maori Merchant of Venice (Don Selwyn), Girl with a Pearl Earring (Peter Webber), Stage Beauty (Richard Eyre), The King's Speech (Tom Hooper), and Anonymous (Roland Emmerich).
ENGL 6240.10 - The Literature of Empire
Thursday, 4:10 pm - 6:10 pm
This course will focus on a range of texts that address British writers' responses to Britain's Transatlantic and Asian empires. We will consider the extent to which British writers celebrate or collude with the imperial project and ways in which they, sometimes covertly, interrogate or critique imperial ambitions and effects.
Primary texts will include works by Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Alexander Pope, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, and Robert Louis Stevenson, and we will read them in the context of historical and theoretical material on empire.
ENGL 6522.10 - Ethnicity and Identity:
Prof. Evelyn Schreiber
Toni Morrison's range of works, covering each decade of American cultural and political life, provides a rich offering for Americanists to look at socially constructed racial identity in American culture. Many students have read Beloved, The Bluest Eye, or Song of Solomon, but there are many stellar works they never get to read that would augment Morrison's best-known ones. The reading list includes: Jazz, A Mercy, Love, Paradise, Home, Tar Baby, "Recitatif,"and God Help the Child. This reading list will be expanded as the course develops. The course uses trauma theory/psychoanalysis/cultural studies to ground the discussions of ethnicity and identity.
ENGL 6100 – Introduction to Literary Theory
Prof. Robert McRuer
English 6100: Introduction to Critical Theory will introduce and briefly overview some of the major movements in critical theory—such as poststructuralism, postmodernism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism, African American and Latina/o cultural theory, postcolonial theory, queer theory, and disability studies—that have brought us to the contemporary moment in the study of culture and society. As this list should suggest, a large part of the course will consider the "cultural turn" that literary study has taken over the past few decades. Some of the questions the class will pose are: what do we mean when we talk about such vexed terms as culture, identity, language, interpretation, meaning, theory, criticism, cultural studies? What does critical theory offer us as readers and writers, as participants in various cultures, as citizens? What does knowledge in and as democracy look like? How have the new social movements transformed knowledge in and out of the academy? How does power circulate through the production, consumption, and interpretation of culture?
ENGL 6260 – Staging Sensation: Early Modern English Drama and Sensory History
Prof. Holly Dugan
This course will introduce you to key works of early modern drama and sensory history. Approaching performance history as including both ephemeral and phenomenological experience as well as an embodied set of skills, we'll read a number of canonical and non-canonical English Renaissance plays that stage sensation, seeking to connect these textual traces with an archive that includes both lived experience, the space of the stage (as a geographical location, a natural sensorium, and a built environment) and cultural theories of embodied perception. By the end of the course, students will have gained familiarity with a wide array of early modern dramatists, the theatres in which they worked, and the social realm of early modern London's entertainment industries. Students will also gain an introduction to the field of sensory studies and its methodological approaches (including its relationship to affect studies, queer theory, environmental history, and disability studies).
Dramatic Texts will include: The Taming of A Shrew, Arden of Faversham, The Shoemaker's Holiday, Bartholomew Fair, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, A Christian Turned Turk, The Renegado, and The Broken Heart
Theory works will include:
Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology
Atkinson, The Noisy Renaissance
David Goldstein, Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England
Heller-Roazen, The Inner Touch
Moshenska, Feeling Pleasures
Smith, Hearing Green
Smith, Musical Response in the Early Modern Playhouse
Stern & Karim-Cooper, Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance
Stewart, Poetry and the Fate of the Senses
ENGL 6350 – Poetry and Poetics of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Tuesday 6:10 - 8:00 pm
Prof. Daniel DeWispelare
This course examines anglophone poetry and poetics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. We will study the history of poetry and poetics in this period, especially the ways in which poetry intervened in and commented upon political and social life. Students will become familiar with a wide range of poets, canonical and noncanonical, as well as the types of publications in which poetry appeared. For example, "January, 1795," is a poem by the brilliant poet, actress, and socialite, Mary Robinson. The poem was published during Robinson's time as regular poetry contributor to an oppositional London newspaper called The Morning Post. Beyond poetic periods, forms, and essential secondary texts, students will learn necessary and emergent vocabulary and interpretive strategies for discussing and writing about the history of poetry and poetics. This course is open to advanced undergraduate students.
ENGL 6450 – Modernism, At Home and Abroad: The Transnational Turn
Prof. Chris Sten
This seminar on Modernist writing, "at home and abroad: the transnational turn," will feature the work of several U.S. authors, including Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Cather, Stein, and Wright, Dos Passos, Toomer, Larsen, and Djuna Barnes who lived in America and lived or traveled extensively in Europe and wrote fiction and essays about their experience between the First and Second World Wars. We will look at the place of Europe in the work of these writers and the growing presence of America in Europe during this time, with emphasis on domestic and international politics and the experimental, tradition-breaking character of their writing. We will also explore Modernism as an international movement in the arts, and the efforts of U.S. writers to launch a transnational American literature.
Some of the key topics to be considered include: modernity; nativism, transnationalism; commercialism; the Great War; the "lost generation"; the Jazz Age; provincialism and cosmopolitanism. Requirements include a short paper or book review on Modernism; two oral presentations; and a 15-20 page interpretive essay. The course is open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates majoring in English or allied disciplines, including American Studies, Women's Studies, and History.
Hemingway, In Our Time; The Sun Also Rises
Dos Passos, 42nd Parallel
Cather, One of Ours; The Professor's House
Jean Toomer, Cane
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night
Nella Larsen, Quicksand
Gertrude Stein, Three Lives
Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
Richard Wright, Lawd Today!
Theoretical and historical readings include the work of Shari Benstock (Women on the Left Bank of Paris, 1900-1940), Michel Fabre (From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980), Paul Fussell (The Great War and Modern Memory), Eric Homberger (American Writers and Radical Politics, 1900-1939), Walter Benn Michaels (Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism), Tyrus Miller (Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars), Raymond Williams (The Politics of Modernism).
ENGL 6520 – Ethnicity and Identity: Narrating Disability, Disabling Narrative
Following her diagnosis with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Joan Didion writes, "an attack of vertigo and nausea does not seem to me an inappropriate response to the summer of 1968" (The White Album, 15). Thus, narrative references disability as its ubiquitous engine of formal and philosophical innovation. This seminar will engage work in the field of narrative theory in order to think in more lively ways about the role of disability as a representational device. Disability serves a variety of objectives in narrative art: it metaphorizes other social crises (narrative prosthesis); it serves as phenomenological exploration of alternative embodiments, cognitive states, sensory augmentations/deprivations (simulations); it disrupts narrative seamlessness with its non-normative seizures of space, duration, and time (aesthetic nervousness); it disorders formulaic narrative patterning and storytelling methods (the secret life of stories); it symptomatizes the oedipal drive of cinema (desire in narrative); it makes silent text transform into talking books (the signifying monkey). There is no narrative form or storytelling technique that is not touched by disability's alternative becomings. Thus, our work will involve comparative assessments of how disability resonates socially as a "least productive" embodiment (eugenics), yet serves as foundational to narrative meaning-making.
Required Books:
Alison Bechdel. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomedy. Mariner Books, 2007.
Joan Didion. The Year of Magical Thinking. Vintage, 2007.
Elephant. Dir. by Gus Van Sant. HBO Films, 2003.
William Gibson. Pattern Recognition. Berkeley, 2005.
Mark Haddon. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Vintage Contemporaries, 2004.
Justin Hall (ed.). No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics. Fantagraphics, 2013.
Anne McGuire. War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence. U of Michigan P, 2016.
Robert McRuer. Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance. New York UP, 2017.
Eunjung Kim. Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea. Duke UP, 2017.
David T. Mitchell, Susan Antebi, and Sharon L. Snyder (eds.). The Matter of Disability. U of Michigan P, 2018.
Susan Nussbaum. Good Kings Bad Kings. Algonquin Books, 2013.
Oasis. Dir. Lee Chang-Dong. Syndicado, 2004.
Margaret Price. Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability in Academic Life. U of Michigan P, 2011


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Centric Health Announces Appointment of Independent Director
Centric Health Corporation
TORONTO, July 29, 2015 /CNW/ - Centric Health Corporation ("Centric Health" or "the Company") (TSX: CHH), Canada's leading diversified healthcare services company, announced today that A. Rik Ganderton will be appointed as an independent member of the Board of Directors of the Company, effective August 5, 2015. Mr. Ganderton will participate on the Audit, Human Resources and Compensation, and Nomination and Governance committees. He fills the vacancy left by Tom Magyarody's departure which was previously announced.
"We are very pleased to welcome Mr. Ganderton to the Board of Directors," said Dr. Jack Shevel, Chairman, Centric Health Corporation. "His impressive track record over the past 40 years in senior leadership primarily in healthcare operations and consulting bring considerable value to our Board. Mr. Ganderton, as a seasoned healthcare industry veteran, will certainly stand us in good stead as Centric Health continues to pursue its strategy of becoming Canada's most respected brand in the independent healthcare sector, world-renowned for quality, innovation, and delivering sustainable value to patients, clients, and stakeholders."
Mr. Ganderton retired in May 2015 as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Rouge Valley Health System (RVHS), a multi-site hospital system with 2,800 employees and more than $350 million in annual revenues, holding this position since 2007. During his time there, he successfully led a financial turnaround of the organization, substantially reducing the cost structure of RVHS using Lean Management techniques while simultaneously increasing revenues. Among his previous and varied roles in healthcare, pharmacy, and life sciences, his experience includes Health Care Systems, Payors, Suppliers, and other healthcare entities, and he has held several interim positions as a Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. He built and led the Healthcare Industry Consulting business for Cooper's & Lybrand from 1990 to 1998, and practiced as a Public Accountant and public and private company auditor from 1975 to 2002 with Cooper's & Lybrand and PwC. Mr. Ganderton is a Chartered Accountant of England and Wales, and Ontario.
About Centric Health
Centric Health is Canada's largest and most comprehensive independent provider of healthcare services focused on producing leading patient outcomes and delivering quality, innovation and sustainable value to patients, clients and stakeholders. With more than 3,000 dedicated healthcare professionals, consultants and support staff serving patients and clients through an extensive platform of 500 locations across the country, Centric Health is uniquely positioned to meet growing healthcare needs in key markets. Centric Health is listed on the TSX under the symbol CHH. For further information, please visit www.centrichealth.ca.
This press release contains statements that may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. These forward-looking statements include, among others, statements regarding business strategy, plans and other expectations, beliefs, goals, strategies, alternatives, objectives, information and statements about possible future events. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, estimates and assumptions that involve a number of risks, which could cause actual results to vary and in some instances to differ materially from those anticipated by Centric Health and described in the forward-looking statements contained in this press release. No assurance can be given that any of the events anticipated by the forward-looking statements will transpire or occur or, if any of them do so, what benefits Centric Health will derive therefrom.
SOURCE Centric Health Corporation
For further information: Daniel Gagnon, Chief Financial Officer, Centric Health, 416-619-9417, [email protected]; Lawrence Chamberlain, Investor Relations, TMX Equicom, 416-815-0700 ext. 257, [email protected]
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Aerotropolis now
Along with airports will come hotels, townships, theme parks.
Ritwik Mukherjee Print Edition: April 6, 2008
As more and more airports are being built by private sector players, a buzzword that's emerged is the aerotropolis—a cluster of aviation-related enterprises (including hotels and business parks) around an airport. Bengal Aerotropolis Project Ltd (BAPL) is one of the country's first aerotropolis (another such project is in Hyderabad, being developed by the GMR Group). BAPL and Singapore's Changi Airports recently signed an agreement in Kolkata to create an aerotropolis at a proposed airport in Durgapur. Changi will operate as the airport service provider.
BAPL is a joint venture between Pragati 47 Development Ltd, Citystar Infrastructures Ltd, Lend Lease Company (India) Ltd and Pragati Social Infrastructure & Development Ltd (which in turn is a joint venture with the Housing & Urban Development Corporation) and Asansol Durgapur Development Authority. The company plans to invest nearly Rs l0,000 crore to develop a 2,300-acre aerotropolis in the Asansol-Durgapur region of West Bengal. The project promises to house an industrial park with factories, an IT park, a township, a theme park and office parks. Townland Consultants Ltd of Hong Kong is the project consultant. The entire project is scheduled for completion by January 2015, but the airport and first phase of the township and industrial park will come up in 30 months from taking possession of the land, says Partha Ghosh, Director, BAPL.
"The entry of the private sector in airport development is likely to see several airport-cities coming up in the country in the years to come. A beginning has already been made with the modernisation of the Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Kochi airports under public-private-participation (PPP). Now investors are looking at nonmetro airports. In fact, we are also looking at some other non-metro airports," says Ghosh.
Ghosh feels that most of the 35 non-metro airports have the potential to be converted into aerotropolises. It's a new concept in India but well recognised in the West, where airports are not confined to just travel and transportation but are also drivers of other businesses. "These aerotropolises, if planned properly, can decongest the metros and create regional agglomerations," adds Ghosh.
The proposed airport in Durgapur will have a full-length runway (with provisions for more runways). The airport is expected to handle traffic of 400,000 passengers by 2010-11; by the third year of operation, it is expected to handle half a million passengers.
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