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Thanks to decades of space flight, we can make appropriate plans for the types and amounts of medicines needed for a trip to Mars
Other than some quick self-surgery at the start, the film The Martian does not touch on the medical aspects of survival on Mars or the long trip to and from the red planet, writes Dr Nial Wheate.
Mars garnered a bunch of headlines early this week, as NASA revealed it had discovered water on the red planet. And it's likely to linger in the public mind a little longer as reviews of the latest sci-fi blockbuster based on the planet appear with the film's national opening today.
The Andy Weir novel on which the new sci-fi movie The Martian is based has been lauded for its scientific accuracy. And expert reviews are now explaining what's science fact and what's still science fiction in the film.
Both the book and the film cover broad scientific ground, dealing with aspects of botany, chemistry, physics, geology, and engineering. But other than some quick self-surgery at the start, the medical aspects of survival on Mars and the long trip to and from the red planet are not touched on.
Astronaut health
The human body didn't evolve to deal with the unique conditions of space travel. Astronauts experience a wide range of health problems, including short-term ones, such as stress on the body due to the high g-forces of launches, and motion sickness as they adapt to the weightless environment.
The International Space Station has given us an enormous amount of information on the long-term health effects of space. Astronauts who spend significant amounts of time in space experience loss of bone density, and a weakening of the muscles, due to the lack of gravity and the exertion it places on the body.
The lack of regular days and nights can also make it difficult for astronauts to sleep. And, more recently, we have found that long-term space flight also causes significant cardiovascular problems. Astronauts experience slower and less regular beats of their heart as it fights to push blood around the body in zero gravity.
The World Health Organization maintains a model list of essential medicines that it says are needed for basic health care. But there are more than 380 drugs on the combined core and complementary list, and it would be impractical to take all of them into space, especially as most of them wouldn't be needed.
While there's a chance astronauts could develop cancer when in space, for instance, the risk isn't high enough to justify the cost of including chemotherapy drugs. Taking vaccines along may also not be worthwhile, especially, as astronauts are unlikely to pick up new infectious diseases in space.
As we've learnt more about space flight, the number and types of medications available to astronauts has changed. In the first space missions of the Mercury program, for instance, each astronaut had just three medicines available. They were tigan, a drug that treats nausea and vomiting due to motion sickness; demerol for treating pain and, the stimulant dextroamphetamine to help keep them alert and awake.
Essential medicines
Nowadays, astronauts can spend up to six months aboard the International Space Station(ISS), so they need well-supplied medicine kits as well as access to advanced medical diagnostic and emergency resuscitation equipment. The ISS has two medicines kits, one for the Russians and one for the US astronauts, which reportedly contains 190 different medicines.
In many ways, the ISS has prepared us for human expeditions to Mars as the health effects of spending time there and medical emergencies that arise are likely to be similar. But there are also some important differences.
In emergency medical situations, astronauts on the ISS can return to Earth relatively quickly. But this would be impossible for a trip to Mars so medication to cover all eventualities has to be taken along.
The ISS can also be resupplied at regular intervals so large stockpiles of medicines are unnecessary. In contrast, a human expedition to Mars may last a year or more, so the astronauts will need to take all their necessary medications with them. The types of medicines needed can be divided into two categories: those for medical emergencies and those for the health effects of long-term space flight.
Possible medical conditions and emergencies the astronauts may face, and the medications they will need include:
Medications for emergencies:
Emergencies Drugs
Operations Xylocaine (anaesthetic)
Allergic reaction Epinephrine
Seizures Diazepam
Medications for minor conditions:
Minor conditions Drugs
Constipation Dulcolax (laxative)
Diarrhoea Loperamide
Infections Amoxicillin (antibiotic)
Insomnia Temazepam
Minor pain Aspirin, paracetamol, or ibuprofen
Motion sickness Benadryl, phenergan
Taking drugs in space
Once the medicines have been selected, we need to consider whether they will perform the way we expect them to when in space. This comes down to whether the medicines will survive space travel and whether they still work the same way in the human body in space.
The shelf life of medicines can vary greatly from drug to drug and can be affected by a variety of environmental factors such as temperature, exposure to radiation and even the amount of water in the air, or humidity. Too much or too little of these can affect medicines and render them ineffective, or worse, toxic.
Research shows medicines can also act differently under space conditions. A recent studyshowed when paracetamol was taken under microgravity conditions, drug absorption was much slower than on Earth but the amount of it that got into the bloodstream increased. This raises questions about how to calculate the correct dose to give astronauts in space to avoid both under-treating and overdoses.
This means we need to study, in detail, the effects of all medicines that astronauts will take with them before they can be placed in the medical kits for a mission to Mars. Any drug that doesn't perform as expected is likely to be ineffective and put the astronauts life at risk. It will either need to be reformulated or substituted for another medicine.
A human expedition to Mars will always have inherent risks, including the physical toll it takes on the human body. Thanks to decades of space flight, we now better understand these effects and can make appropriate plans for the types and amounts of medicines needed.
Dr Nial Wheate is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Pharmacy. This article was originally published in The Conversation.
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Central government, Inequality & poverty, Scotland, Welfare
Scottish parliamentary committee calls for universal credit overhaul
Kerry Lorimer
The introduction of universal credit, and in particular the five-week delay before receipt of the first payment, has led to an "unacceptable" rise in rent arrears north of the border.
In a new report, members of the Scottish Parliament's social security committee called for an overhaul of the benefit, which would see a review of the initial delay as well as the direct payment of the housing element to landlords in order to reduce arrears.
The MSPs also called for abolition of the "frankly discriminatory" shared accommodation rate, which limited the amount of housing benefit or universal credit that can be claimed by tenants under the age of 35, who rent a room in a shared house from a private landlord.
According to evidence heard by the committee, the shared accommodation rate created "significant financial difficulty, debt and hardship" among younger people, with separated parents particularly badly affected.
The report also draws attention to the widening gap between local housing allowances and the cost of renting in the private sector, especially in Edinburgh and other urban areas.
Originally uprated in line with market rent, local housing allowances have been frozen since 2016, meaning that in many parts of Scotland they do not serve their intended purpose and should be reviewed, the MSPs said.
The committee was also "extremely concerned" by the high cost of temporary accommodation and "troubled" by the poor quality of the accommodation some tenants had been offered. Although temporary accommodation is intended to be a short-term measure, people find themselves trapped there due to the shortage of affordable alternatives, they heard.
Bob Doris, convener of the social security committee, said the rapid increase in rent arrears since the introduction of universal credit was "unacceptable", and that steps must be taken to address this issue, which was increasing the budgetary strain on both local authorities and social landlords.
"We want to see the housing element of universal credit paid directly to landlords and the Department for Work and Pensions must review the minimum five-week wait for new…claimants, both of which contribute to rising arrears," he said.
"Our inquiry highlighted a number of issues, including the frankly discriminatory shared accommodation rate which should be abolished immediately.
"It is also clear that local housing allowance rates are not fit for purpose and are failing to help claimants meet the rising cost of the private rented sector."
A UK government spokeswoman said that while rent arrears could not be linked to any one cause, many people joined universal credit with pre-existing arrears, and research showed that number fell by a third after four months.
"In Scotland we already pay rent directly to landlords where requested and can pay universal credit more frequently to help with budgeting," she said.
"Meanwhile, Scotland has significant welfare powers, including flexibilities within universal credit and the power to top-up existing benefits, pay discretionary payments and create entirely new benefits altogether."
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Teaching in the Summer Term: Liberalism and its Critique, and Foundations of Political Theory
In my MA-seminar this semester I teach liberalism and the critique of liberalism. The question is whether the widespread critique that political liberalism insufficiently incorporates subjectivity into political theory is really true - a critique that is also a premise of my thinking.
In my BA-seminar Foundations of Political Theory I first introduce the hegemonic liberal political theory of the West, and then teach the classics of critical political theory. Students learn to question power and normalization in contemporary capitalism, among others by reading Luhmann's Love as Passion and, on the occasion of current debates, texts by Achille Mbembe.
Liberalism and its Critique (summer semester 2020 / online)
Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, MA Political Science
The seminar serves to discuss the critique of political liberalism, which is the core business of critical theory of all kinds. The critique of liberalism is put forward on a continental scale by both French (the tradition of "political difference" and "the political") and Frankfurt (Honneth, Jaeggi), as well as in the American debate on communitarianism (Taylor, Sandel) and a new liberal Aristotelism (Nussbaum). At the centre of these debates is the relationship between law and politics and the question of the extent to which individual subjectivity and 'the private' should be included by a political theory - and what normative claims on and interventions in the subjectivity of individuals (for example through specific political education programmes) are necessary or justified. Liberalism is criticized for blanking out subjectivity, dependence and neediness by a purely negative concept of freedom and an atomistic social ontology related to it. Thus liberalism ideologically petrifies the existing conditions. In recent years, this debate has been given new topicality by Christoph Menke's critique of law, who radically formulates the criticism of liberal subjective rights.
But is it really true that liberalism resorts to a purely atomizing social ontology and is unable or (for political reasons) unwilling to consider subjectivation - that is, the social constitution of subjectivity? And how convincing are the concepts of freedom and subjectivity presented by critics of liberalism as an alternative? In the seminar we will explore these questions through contrasting readings of selected texts of liberalism and critiques of liberalism. It begins with an introductory part in which we will deal with the central systematic concept of debate - freedom - and differentiate the concepts of negative, positive and social freedom. The second part is devoted to the US-American debate between Rawlsian liberalism and communitarian criticism. In the third part, we analyze the German debate between Habermas' Kantianism and Honneth's and Jaeggis's Hegelianism with regard to the similarities and differences to the US-American debate. This selection of texts and the method of comparing theories on similar systematic problems aims to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the basic problems of political theory negotiated here, which also helps them to work independently on other varieties of liberalism criticism.
Introduction, 13.05.2020
Part 1: Concepts of freedom
Negative freedom (Berlin), 20.05.2020
Positive freedom (Taylor), 27.05.2020
Social freedom (Neuhouser), 03.06.2020
Part 2: The US debate
Rawls' universalist liberalism, 10.06.2020
Rawls' political liberalism, 17.06.2020
Sandel's Communitarianism, 24.06.2020
Taylor's Communitarianism, 01.07.2020
Part 3: The German debate
Habermas' Kantianism, 08.07.2020
Habermas' legal theory, 15.07.2020
Honneth's Socialism, 22.07.2020
Jaeggis's Forms of Life, 29.07.2020
Foundations of Political Theory, 2020 (summer semester / online)
Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, BA Political Science
The seminar introduces contemporary political theory by reading representative texts of key authors. It is systematically divided into two parts: the liberal tradition and critical political theory.
The first part serves to study central texts of political liberalism, which is the hegemonic political doctrine in the Western world. Here, we will get to know normative political theory as a social discourse of self-reflection and legitimization, and discuss different methods of establishing normative theories. We focus on the concept of freedom (Berlin), modern contract theory (Rawls), the needs and capabilities of people (Nussbaum), and reason in the democratic public sphere (Habermas).
The second part is devoted to critical political theory. Here political theory is understood less as a normative legitimation of the existing than as a diagnosing critique of society and politics. Responding to the social question that arose in the 19th century, the young social sciences developed systematic approaches to the analysis and critique of social pathologies. We discuss the manifold methods of critique that introduce historical, economic, epistemological, sociological, socio-ontological and psychological arguments into political theory. The objects of critique are capitalism (Marx), subject (Freud), science (Horkheimer/Adorno), power (Foucault), love and sexuality (Luhmann) and colonialism/postcolonialism (Mbembe). With Marx, Freud, Adorno, and Horkheimer, we read authors who are among the cornerstones of critical political theory today. Luhmann's and Foucault's sharp analyses of social systems and the effects of power respectively stand for critical methods that do not require the development of clear normative positions and that have become widely used in contemporary political theory. Mbembe's analyses of colonialist thought continue the criticism of Enlightenment universalism in the context of globalism.
Part 1: The contemporary hegemony of liberalism
Negative and positive freedom: Isaiah Berlin's anti-paternalism, 19.05.20
Legitimation of Western democracy: John Rawls' liberalism, 26.05.20
Human needs and capabilities: Martha Nussbaum's liberal Aristotelism, 02.06.20
Communicative Reason and Rule of Law: Jürgen Habermas' deliberative theory of democracy, 09.06.20
Part 2: Political theory as social criticism
Exploitation under capitalism: Karl Marx' historical materialism, 16.06.20
Disenchantment of consciousness: Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis, 23.06.20
The totality of the wrong: Adorno and Horkheimer's Critique of Modernity, 30.06.20
Love in the gears of society: Luhmann's systems theory, 07.07.20
The normalization of sexuality: Foucault's power analysis, 14.07.20
Colonial condemnation: Achille Mbembe's Postcolonial Critique, 21.07.20
Discussion of homework and feedback, 28.07.20
Under Teaching you find information about past seminars.
Office hours during lecture-free period, 14. February 2020
Teaching, Winter Term: Queer and Gay Male Theory and Foucault as Contemporary Political Thinker, 29. October 2019
Book office hours appointment conveniently through Calendry, 17. October 2019
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VIDEO: Joe Achilles drives the BMW X5 M50d
3-Series | December 26th, 2018 by Nico DeMattia	4
This new BMW X5 is gaining a lot of fans among BMW enthusiasts, even those that prefer smaller sports cars. That's not because it feels …
This new BMW X5 is gaining a lot of fans among BMW enthusiasts, even those that prefer smaller sports cars. That's not because it feels like a sports car, far from it, but because it drives a lot nicer than a lot of fans were expecting and because it's also a great luxury car. It has the same excellent blend of driving enjoyment (for an SUV) and comfort that made the original E53 X5 so loved. Now, though, BMW has added another performance-ish variant to the X5's stable — the X5 M50d — and Joe Achilles gives it a test in this new video.
On a gross, mucky and rainy December day at Goodwood, Achilles was able to sample both the BMW X5 xDrive30d and the X5 M50d, though it's the latter that we're more interested in. While the X4 xDrive30d is going to be the volume seller, thanks to its superior fuel economy and sufficient power, the X5 M50d is the more interesting of the two. That's because it comes with a quad-turbocharged 3.0 liter I6 diesel and enough torque to rival and aircraft carrier.
In this video, we see the X5 tackle some twisty roads in awful conditions, some off-roading and them some more nasty roads. What's constantly surprising about the BMW X5 is that it's seriously capable on the road. Even in slippery conditions, in cold temperatures and on summer tires, the new X5 seems to be a willing dance partner. It's no sports car, obviously, but it has such a positive response to you inputs. Its steering is good, with decent feedback through the wheel, its suspension is supple and composed and its chassis is surprisingly balanced. Admittedly, there's a lot of electronic trickery going on, with active anti-roll bars and what not, but it's effective regardless of what systems make it work.
Most SUV enthusiasts would laugh at the prospect of a BMW X5 going off road but the X5 can tackle mud surprisingly well. It's no Jeep Wrangler but it's no joke, either. Even on summer tires, the BMW X5 tackles thick mud and very slippery surfaces on uphill gradients with relative ease. Maybe BMW's M Performance off-road parts aren't just wishful thinking.
But the most surprising bit, at least to Achilles, is the X5's braking. On the M50d model, with its upgraded M Sport brakes, it will make you sick during full-panic stops. He tests them out on the road in those aforementioned conditions and it stops with such force that he actually looks like he's about to be sick. The braking force is astonishing and it's hard to understand how. The X5 is very heavy and, at least in this video, is not on tires that are particularly grippy in cold, wet conditions, so it should not be able to brake that quickly. Credit BMW's brake and ABS calibration, I guess.
If you're interested in a BMW X5, which you should be as it's an excellent all-around SUV, than this video is worth a watch.
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Dwayne Johnson Gifts His Custom Truck to Church Group Leader at Film Screening
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Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson offered a fan more than a good time at the movies with free popcorn and ice cream. He gave away his very own custom truck.
Johnson did research on those attending the screening and wanted to bless someone in a 'Big' way.
"I invited fans to a special theater screening of RED NOTICE and I wanted to do something cool for all of them. Free concessions, @projectrock, @teremana, @zoaenergy, @saltandstraw ice cream.
Free everything and a great time at the movies! I also wanted to do something BIG… something MASSIVE…something unforgettable for one fan."
That he did.
"Oscar Rodriguez's story moved me" Johnson wrote on his Instagram.
Rodriguez's is a Navy veteran, personal trainer, and sole caretaker of his 75-year-old mother. He's also a leader of a local church group and runs a charity to help victims of domestic violence.
"And now I can figure out how I'm getting home," laughed Johnson. "'Cause I don't have my ride."
The Fast and Furious star also gifted a Ford F-150 to Bruno Lauer in 2021, a friend who helped Johnson as a homeless teen.
'I love you, brother," Johnson wrote to his friend in a post on Instagram. "Your kindness and heart – helped change my life's trajectory. And when you're ready to retire from 'the business' you just say the word. I got you covered."
Deuteronomy 15:10 – "You shall generously give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all your undertakings."
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How You Can Remain Anonymous in NY if You Win Mega Millions!
Chrissy Updated: July 29, 2022
In New York state when you win a jackpot through the New York lottery, you are usually instant-famous by name. But a fairly recent winner in East Berne walked away with a ten million dollar scratch-off lottery ticket jackpot and no one knows who the new millionaire is.
I'm sure he or she told a family member but if you go to the New York Lottery's website, the winner of the $10,000 a Week for Life scratch-off game is listed as "Precious Blessings LLC". Because the guaranteed winnings are ten million dollars, they elected to take a lump sum of $5,753,618. The scratch-off ticket was claimed back on September 13th. But instead of having his or her name blasted in the news or across social media, they created an LLC or corporation to claim the prize.
Where Was The Scratch-Off Sold
The $10,000 a Week For Life scratch-off ticket was sold at Stewart's Shops in East Berne, NY. The address is 788 Helderberg Trail in East Berne.
Another Capital Region Winner Remained Anonymous
Remember back in September of 2020 when the Powerball jackpot reached nearly $95 million? It was the only winning ticket and it was sold in Malta at the Minogue's Beverage on Route 9. That winner came forward and all we knew was that it was one man from Ballston Spa. He chose to take a lump sum of over $50 million. But we never knew his name because he also created an LLC. His was named "September 2020 LLC".
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It's Actually a Very Smart Idea
Think about it, if you won a major jackpot either on a scratch-off game or by playing one of the lottery's numbers games, wouldn't you want to keep it fairly quiet? When your name gets publicized, I imagine everyone would come out of the woodwork to get a piece of your jackpot.
So congratulations to the "Precious Blessings LLC" and good for you to remain somewhat anonymous.
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Pentagon: Congress is No Longer Keeping Us from Paying Dead Soldiers' Families!
By Bridget Johnson Oct 11, 2013 4:15 PM ET
Just in from Defense Department press secretary George Little:
Today, senior DoD leaders consulted with the leadership of the Fisher House Foundation on moving forward with providing death benefits to the families of fallen service members.
Now that Congress has enacted legislation permitting DoD to provide families these benefits directly during the government shutdown, DoD is moving expeditiously to pay each family the $100,000 death gratuity they are owed. These payments were initiated today and the families will receive them early next week, when their banks reopen for business. In addition, Fisher House Foundation will donate $25,000 to each of these families from its own funds.
Secretary Hagel greatly appreciates the generosity of the Fisher House Foundation, as well as other groups which have stepped forward to help these families in their time of need. With Congress no longer preventing DoD from making these payments to the families directly, he is pleased that DoD will be able to fulfill its responsibilities to the families of the fallen. The Secretary remains deeply concerned about the disruptive impact the ongoing shutdown is having on Departmental operations, and continues to urge Congress to restore funding to the entire federal government.


Abkhazia – unrecognized state between the Caucasus and the Black Sea – 1992
The majority of the country's population are Abkhazians, and a minority are Georgians, Russians and several Caucasian ethnic groups.
Abkhazia, a former autonomous Soviet socialist republic located within Georgia's borders, declared independence on July 23, 1992. Abkhazia is located between the southern slopes of the Caucasus and the Black Sea, and to date has failed to gain general world recognition, so it is recognized only by the Russian Federation, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Vanuatu and Tuvalu. The United Nations and most of the world's countries still consider Abkhazia part of Georgia. It is important to emphasize that in practice, the Georgian authorities have no control over the territory of Abkhazia.
The nominal capital of Abkhazia is Suhumi, a coastal city located on the Black Sea coast. Abkhazia has an area of 8,660 square kilometers and has a population of about 240,000. The majority of the country's population are Abkhazians, and a minority are Georgians, Russians and several Caucasian ethnic groups.
The mentioned effort of Abkhazia to fight for independence from Georgia led to an armed conflict, in which Abkhazia was in principle supported by the Russian Federation. The 1992-1993 war resulted in the defeat of the regular Georgian army and the mass exodus of Georgians from Abkhazia. A similar conflict erupted in South Ossetia, which was once an autonomous region within the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia and is also located on the southern side of the Caucasus (South Ossetia is only a hundred kilometers southeast of Abkhazia).
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Mas Real Estate successfully acquires Nova Park Mall in Poland
by PropertyWheel_GLP
In line with the group's updated strategy of investing across the broader European market, shareholders are advised that MAS has, through a subsidiary, PKM CEE Investments Limited, signed a sale and purchase agreement to acquire, from Piccadilly Capital Investment sp. Z o.o., the Nova Park mall in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland.
MAS' effective economic interest in the acquisition is the equivalent of an 80% direct participation in the performance of the mall and a 20% participation at the weighted average cost of funding achieved by the acquisition
Rationale and Salient Terms of the Acquisition
The purchase price payable for the acquisition is EUR 88,5 million, with a cash deposit of EUR 8,85 million paid within three business days of the signature of the SPA and held in escrow. The purchase price will be paid to the vendor in full on the day preceding the conclusion of final transaction agreements (namely, once the SPA has become unconditional).
Nova Park is situated in central Gorzów, 150km from Berlin in western Poland. The mall's current lettable area of 32,580 square metres and 910 parking spaces make it the largest mall in the region. The mall has an estimated catchment of 370,000 people and has been experiencing growing footfall and growing tenant revenues since its opening in 2012. The current annual rent roll of approximately EUR 5,8 million is generated from a diversified mix of high quality tenants including international and national brands Bershka, C&A, CCC, Cropp Town, Deichman, Douglas, Empik, H&M, Intersport, KFC, Media Expert, Mohito, New Yorker, Piotr i Pavel, Pull&Bear, Pure Fitness, Reserved, Rossmann, Sephora, Sinsay, Smyk, Stradivarius and Super-Pharm. The weighted average rental per square metre is EUR 14,40 per month.
Nova Park benefits from excellent visibility and accessibility due to good road and public transport connections and its location within a short walking distance from the city centre of Gorzów. In addition to the immediate income being generated from the property, the acquisition provides significant opportunities to enhance the income stream and strengthen the mall's dominance through active asset management and a substantial extension of approximately 6,800 square metres, aligning with the group's strategy of delivering a growing income distribution.
The SPA contains standard terms and warranties for a transaction of this nature.
The purchase price reflects the fair value attributed to the mall, as at 17 November 2016, by the directors of MAS. The directors of MAS are not independent or registered as professional valuers or professional associate valuers in terms of the South African Property Valuers Profession Act 2000 or otherwise.
The acquisition is categorized as a Category 2 transaction in terms of the JSE Listings Requirements.
Conditions Precedent
In line with local policy, pre-emption rights exist in favour of the local municipality. The pre-emption rights expire in 30 days from the date of signature of the SPA, after which the acquisition will become unconditional, final transaction agreements governing the closing and implementation of the acquisition will be concluded and the acquisition will be effective.
Co-Investment Agreement with Prime Kapital
The acquisition has been undertaken in terms of a long-term co-investment agreement that MAS has entered into with Prime Kapital Limited (respectively, "Prime Kapital" and "the co-investment agreement"). All future acquisitions made under this co-investment agreement shall result in the same effective economic interest for MAS as stated above.
Prime Kapital have sourced and will manage this and future acquisitions going forward under the co-investment agreement.
Withdrawal of Cautionary Announcement
Shareholders are advised that the cautionary announcement dated 3 October 2016 is now withdrawn and shareholders are no longer required to exercise caution when dealing in MAS shares. MAS is dual primary listed on the Main Board of the JSE and the Euro MTF market of the LuxSE.
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Your son will be more than just a better student. He will be a better man.
These words from Kevin Poelker '98, Principal and Theology teacher, capture the impact De Smet Jesuit has on its students. Upon graduation, our students embody the characteristics defined in the long-standing Jesuit Schools Network Profile of the Graduate at Graduation. In 2018 our faculty and staff revisited the grad at grad profile and further defined the Portrait of a Spartan, conveying in greater depth the aspirations for our students that we believe make De Smet Jesuit distinct.
De Smet Jesuit Students
A De Smet Jesuit student strengthens his personal leadership style to positively impact his community.
A De Smet Jesuit student matures spiritually, develops his relationship with Jesus Christ, and experiences God's love in everyday life.
A De Smet Jesuit student engages others with confidence, compassion, gratitude, and humility.
A De Smet Jesuit student expands his perspective through service and contributes to the world as a man of virtue and action.
A De Smet Jesuit student commits himself to academic excellence for advanced learning in college and beyond.
A De Smet Jesuit student thinks creatively and applies his knowledge toward the good of others and society.
A De Smet Jesuit student seeks new challenges, discovers his own path, and strives to live the best version of himself.
Portrait of a Spartan
Jesuit Profile of the Graduate at Graduation
Open to Growth
Intellectually Competent
Committed to Justice
Developing as a Leader
The graduate of De Smet Jesuit has matured as a person - intellectually, spiritually, emotionally, physically, and socially - to a level that reflects some intentional responsibility for one's own growth. He is beginning to reach out in his development, seeking opportunities to stretch one's mind, imagination, feelings, and religious consciousness.
The graduate of De Smet Jesuit exhibits mastery of those academic requirements for advanced forms of education. While these requirements are broken down into departmental subject matter areas, the student will have developed many intellectual skills and understandings that cut across and go beyond academic requirements for college entrance. The student is also developing habits of intellectual inquiry, as well as a disposition toward life-long learning. The student is beginning to see the need for intellectual integrity in his or her personal quest for religious truth and in his or her response to issues of social justice.
The graduate of De Smet Jesuit will have a basic knowledge of the major doctrines and practices of the Catholic Church. Having been introduced to Ignatian spirituality, the graduate will also have examined his own religious feelings and beliefs with a view to choosing a fundamental orientation toward God and establishing a relationship with a religious tradition and/or community. What is said here, respectful of the conscience and religious background of the individual, also applies to the non-Catholic graduate of a Jesuit high school. The level of theological understanding of the Jesuit high school graduate will naturally be limited by the student's level of religious and human development.
The graduate of De Smet Jesuit is continuing to form his own identity. He is moving beyond self-interest or self-centeredness in close relationships. The graduate is beginning to be able to risk some deeper levels of relationship in which one can disclose self and accept the mystery of another person and cherish that person. Nonetheless, the graduate's attempt at loving, while clearly beyond childhood, may not yet reflect the confidence and freedom of an adult.
The graduate of De Smet Jesuit has acquired considerable knowledge of the many needs of local, national, and global communities and is preparing for the day when he will take a place in these communities as a competent, concerned and responsible member. The graduate has been inspired to develop the awareness and skills necessary to live in a global society as a person for and with others. Although this commitment to doing justice will come to fruition in mature adulthood, some predispositions will have begun to manifest themselves earlier.
The graduate of De Smet Jesuit is aware of his responsibility to be a leader in the Ignatian tradition of service and collaboration. He has had opportunities to exercise leadership in academic, co-curricular activities, and pastoral activities. As a result of opportunities to develop leadership skills during his high school years at De Smet Jesuit, the graduate:
understands that responsibility and a respect for diversity are essential elements of leadership.
sees leadership as an opportunity for service to others and the community.
realizes that leadership requires being a good role model.
realizes that leadership involves collaboration and cooperation.
understands that reflection and evaluation are important elements in good decision-making.
As a Jesuit high school, and a member of Jesuit Schools Network, we strive to graduate students who possess the desire and the personal resources to be men for and with others as detailed in the Profile of the Graduate at Graduation.
This foundational document is used by Jesuit schools across the country to outline the five characteristics they hope their graduates will embody. At De Smet Jesuit, we use this roadmap to guide our work and have customized it along the way--adding a sixth characteristic, Developing as a Leader, to more accurately reflect the experience we provide.
Jesuit Profile of Grad at Grad


Romanian PM formally indicted for money-laundering
Romania's prime minister, Victor Ponta, will be tried by the country's top court for fraud, tax evasion and money laundering, according to reports. Ponta has denied the allegations against him since he was charged in July.
Romania charges Lukoil in €2 billion money-laundering probe
Romanian prosecutors have indicted a local subsidiary of Russian oil producer Lukoil with money laundering, according to reports. Lukoil's Romanian refinery, Petrotel Lukoil, and its director general have both been charged.
Romania raids major pharmaceutical companies in bribery probe
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New GSK bribery allegations in Romania
UK pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline is examing a whistleblower email, which alleges the company made improper payments to Romanian doctors in return for prescribing its drugs. The email in question was seen by newswire Reuters.
Lukoil asks EU for help over Romanian €2 billion asset seizure
The European Commission is considering whether to intervene in a €2 billion asset seizure dispute between Russian oil company Lukoil and Romanian prosecutors.
Romanian prime minister charged with corruption
Romania's prime minister, Victor Ponta, was charged on 13 July with money laundering, tax evasion and fraud dating back to when he was a lawyer in 2012.
Romania seizes US$2.2 billion from Russian petroleum company Lukoil
According to reports, Romanian prosecutors seized US$2.2 billion from Russian petroleum company Lukoil on 8 July, following a money-laundering and tax evasion investigation that started in 2014.
Romanian official sentenced to five years for bribery
Mihail Vlasov, the former chairman of the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, was sentenced to five years in prison on 18 June for taking US$228,000 in bribes from a businessman to help the man in a litigation suit.
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JENDELA Phase 1 plan revised, MCMC calls for participation, again
On 20 November 2020, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) called for the submission of draft plans under the JENDELA Phase 1 initiative. However, about two months later, the regulator issued a new invitation on 15 January 2021, replacing the original invitation.
The new invitation to participate, if not revised again in the future, encompasses a scope of work that is divided into two (2) parts for the JENDELA Phase 1 initiative. Part 1 covers the installation of passive infrastructure, while Part 2 covers the installation of active infrastructure and the deployment of public cellular services. MCMC said interested licensees can opt to participate in either Part 1 or Part 2.
"The revised scope of work and eligibility criteria is meant to expedite implementation as it will allow a greater number of licensees to participate in this exercise, which covers 1,661 locations in 106 clusters nationwide," it said in a statement.
The regulator added that, "The closing date for Registration of Interest is on 2 February 2021 and the submission of Draft Universal Service Plans by interested and eligible licensees are on 31 March 2021."
As part of Phase 1 (2020-2022) of the multi-billion JENDELA project, MCMC said in September 2020 that it intends to achieve the following targets:
7.5 million premises passed for fixed broadband (HSBB)
96.9% 4G LTE coverage (MCMC said JENDELA will consider options on cost saving to meet the 96.9%)
35Mbps mobile broadband speeds
5G planing – infrastructure to be 5G-ready
To achieve the 96.9% 4G LTE coverage, some 940 new sites was expected be deployed by end of 2020, 4,589 sites to be upgraded to 4G by end of 2021 and another 1,661 new 4G sites to be deployed by end of 2022.
The deployment of the new 1,661 sites nationwide will be funded via the Universal Service Provision (USP) Fund. The funds are contributed annually by the major Telecommunication companies in Malaysia.
In its original notice, MCMC said the new 1,661 sites will offer 2G and 4G services (3G networks in Malaysia will be shut down by the end of 2021). It will cover 12 states and one (1) Federal Territory in Malaysia:
Federal Territory of Labuan
Out of the 1,661 locations identified by the Malaysia communications regulator, a total of 1,020 locations or 61% are located in Labuan, Sabah and Sarawak respectively, whilst the remaining 641 locations or 39% are located in Peninsular Malaysia.
78.75% or 1,308 sites are located in rural and remote areas.
It also said all the Telco sites "will be fiberised as far as is possible" without providing any specific numbers.
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Review for Yes Solar Solutions
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Erin Hathaway Holly Springs, NC
Almost a year out and it's everything we hoped it would be
The solar panels have worked out so well for us. We've only had a couple of months in the summer when we've had electricity charges from Duke (and even then, it's maybe $25). We've been running the AC constantly and have 2 adults working from home (and a teenager who spends a ton of time on his computer and TV when he's home). It makes me feel so good to know that I'm minimizing our reliance on fossil fuels AND saving money in the long run. It's been problem free and it's so easy to forget we even have them, as the panels are so unobtrusive. With the federal tax credits and the rebate that Yes Solar Solutions was able to help us get from Duke energy, it's been a frugal, sustainable solution for us and I know we'll love it for decades to come. If you're on the fence, just talk to them. They were very low pressure and answered my (many, many) questions factually and honestly. This was not a heavy-handed sales pitch but an informational conversation from a company that takes pride in what they do and in helping prospective customers find cost-effective ways to make solar happen for them.
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System price: $10,000
Year installed: 2021
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We're Dropping into Call of Duty Black Ops 4: Blackout on IGN Plays Live
Back in Black(out).
By Mitchell Saltzman
Updated: 12 Oct 2018 5:48 pm
Posted: 12 Oct 2018 5:00 pm
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is now available in North America, and we'll be right there on the front lines streaming the battle royale-inspired Blackout mode.
This all goes down from 11-1pm PT/2-4pm ET/7-9pm UK (Saturday, October 13 from 5-7am AET). Join us as we attempt to get our first non-beta Blackout win!
As always, you can watch right here on the front page of IGN.com, or you can find us on YouTube, Twitch, and Mixer.
In the meantime, check out our clip of 7 minutes of Blackout gameplay.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 offers a gritty, grounded, all-out combat experience, with a Multiplayer mode that increases tactical gameplay and player choice, and also the biggest Zombies offering ever. New for CoD is Blackout, where the Black Ops universe explodes in a battle royale experience
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Shooter, Battle Royale
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Twitter and your academic reputation: friends or enemies?
The feedback from social media like twitter can strike as fast as lightning, with consequences unforseen. For many researchers, the pace and tone of this online review can be intimidating — and can sometimes feel like an attack. How do authors best deal with these forms of peer review after publication? The speed of this "social peer review" is much faster than the time that was needed for the peer review process during submission and acceptance of the paper as part of the publishing process in (top) academic journals. and the feedback comes from anywhere, not just the circle of accepted experts in the field like with the blind review process of journals.
The result of this can be of enormous impact on your academic reputation. What if suddenly thousands of tweets disapprove of the conclusions of a paper just published? It will create a situation that is nearly impossible to handle for the author of the work. There will be a "negative sentiment" around the publications that will be of influence on aspects of your reputation. For example the chances your paper will be cited often. How will this social sentiment be of influence to other papers in the pipeline and under submission with (top) journals? How will the social sentiment be of influence to your co-authors? How will it influence the chances of your grant applications? How ill it influence your tenure process if the sentiment is negative? These are all huge stakes for researchers.
A recent article by Apoorva Mandavilla in Nature deals with this issue. It is about "fast feedback", "a chorus of (dis) approval", "Meta-twitters ', 'new (alt) metrics of communication" and some possible solutions for the situation.
The possible power of social media for research and academic reputation is evident for me. The management of the communication and speed of the feedback needs special skills and special publication strategies by researchers (and institutes!) who care about their future careers and their reputation. The open social media review dynamics at networks like twitter currently has many risks for the author of the paper. But at the same time the stakes and risks for the crowd who collectively performs these "trials" is very low I guess. A single tweet is not powerful, but the flog together is impact full. It is a collective review of the crowd, with often a lot of people who just follow the sentiment by simply re-tweeting others.
I advice researchers to be very careful about which message on their paper is distributed in social networks, how this is distributed, by whom it is distributed and who is replying on it. The social networks should not reproduce or copycat the formal peer review process by selected experts. They should be focused on adding value to the possible additional virtues of the work. The best approach might be to leverage the social media by initiating stories on possible practical values and practical impact of the research. Because when these are confirmed in the wider social network audiences, the author can get confidence that the practical / managerial value of his research is valued and tested immediately. In this way the social networks can be very beneficial for the academic reputation; they perform a sounding board for testing managerial / practical value of the research.
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Crowdsourced ranking of journals in Management; any news?
Management researchers love journal rankings. A new way to get the judgement of thousands of voters was launched recently by Teppo Felin, Brigham Young University. After a few weeks already 80.000 votes were submitted to rank more than 100 journals in the field of management. Voters can submit a vote as many times as they like. After filtering out about 20.000 automated robot votes, an impressive amount of 60.000 votes remained.
There are already some blogposts on this ranking where peers discuss the pro's and cons of performing the ranking this way.
The crowd initiative is here @ All Our Ideas: http://www.allourideas.org/management
Besides the obvious trouble to compare all these journals (a nearly impossible task), one can ask what the 'wisdom of the crowds' adds to already existing lists of the top journals in the field.
A lot of normal suspects turn up in the top 25: (as of today 22/01/2011, with 80.000 votes, the results before the cleaning).
A score of 100 means a journal is expected to win all the time when compared with another journal in the contest and a score of zero means the journal is expected to lose all the time. There are no zero scores in this ranking (yet).
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY (score: 81)
ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY (76)
ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW (74)
ORGANIZATION SCIENCE (73)
ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL (72)
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT (71)
MIS QUARTERLY (70)
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL (68)
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND HUMAN DECISION PROCESSES (67)
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE (66)
DECISION SCIENCES (65)
ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS (64)
JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR (63)
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES (63)
PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY (63)
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES (60)
RESEARCH IN ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR (60)
ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES (60)
HUMAN RELATIONS (60)
LEADERSHIP QUARTERLY (59)
ORGANISATION STUDIES (59)
JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT (59)
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW (58)
MIT SLOAN MANAGE REVIEW (57)
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT-US (57)
The initiator of the survey reported today (29-jan-2011) on the results:
So, what can a crowdsourced ranking tell us? Nothing definitive is my guess, though I'm sure other rankings don't necessarily give us a definitive signal either. Though I do think that aggregated perceptions perhaps give us another data point when evaluating and comparing journals (along with impact and influence factors and other, more "objective" measures). These rankings can of course mirror extant rankings (raising causal questions). But they might also capture more up-to-date anticipations of future performance. For example, the UC Irvine Law School (established in 2008) has not graduated a single student, though the school is already well within the top 50 in the crowdsourced ranking.
Lots of other questions can be raised, specifically related to a management journal ranking like this. For example, should micro and macro journals be lumped together like this? And certainly disciplinary journals play a large role in management – should they be included (sociology, psychology, economics)?
Strategic "gaming" of the results of course can also occur. For example, I ended up having to delete some 25,000+ automatically generated votes (it looked like a computer script was created to throw the ranking off), votes that were explicitly cast to sabotage the effort (the African Journal of Management beat all the top journals according to this mega, robo-voter). Though, it is interesting to see how the "crowd" essentially plays a role in averaging bias and in putting a check on strategic voting.
Ironically, I'm actually not one to necessarily really care about journal rankings like this. I wonder whether article-effects trump journal-effects? (I believe Joel Baum has a provocative paper on this.) Of course I read and submit to "top" journals, but there are many "lesser" (ahem) journals that are just as much on my radar screen, for example Industrial and Corporate Change, Managerial and Decision Economics andStrategic Organization. Obsessions with journal standing can detract from ideas.
Pragmatically, yes, journal rankings matter: promotions indirectly depend on it, as do resource flows etc. So, perhaps a "democratic," crowdsourced ranking like this can provide additional information for decision-makers and scholars in the field.
The top 15 list after filtering out the 20.000 automated robot-votes: the picture is now even more 'traditional'.
Management Journals %
1 Administrative Science Quarterly 90.43%
2 Academy of Management Journal 90.41%
3 Academy of Management Review 88.94%
4 Organization Science 88.31%
5 Strategic Management Journal 84.42%
6 Journal of Applied Psychology 84.00%
7 Management Science 82.56%
8 Journal of Management 82.46%
9 OBHDP 78.93%
10 Organizational Research Methods 74.06%
11 Journal of Organizational Behavior 72.79%
12 Personnel Psychology 71.93%
13 Journal of Management Studies 71.10%
14 Research in OB 70.37%
15 Organization Studies 69.68%
Where do all these votes come from?
The whole picture is US en EU dominated. For example: only 16 votes from Shanghai, China are recorded.
The complete ranking is here as PDF file of the ranking website (22/01/2011): https://rmimr.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/all-our-ideas-crwodsourcing-management-journals-20110122.pdf
Filed under academic productivity, Journal quality, Journals ranking, metrics, Ranking, Uncategorized Tagged with crowdsourced ranking, Crowdsourcing, Journal, journals, management research, Voting
Ding and Cronin make a nice distinction between popularity and prestige of a researcher; popularity of a researcher is measured by the number of times he is cited
by all papers in a dataset; the prestige of a researcher by the number of times he is cited by highly cited papers in the same set. A scholar may be highly cited but not highly regarded: popularity
and prestige are not identical measures of esteem. The authors focus primarily on authors rather than journals.
Popularity vs. Prestige
Popularity and prestige exist in the following possible relations:
High popularity-high prestige, High popularity-low prestige, Low popularity-high prestige and Low popularity-ow prestige
Source: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1012/1012.4871.pdf
Popular and/or Prestigious? Measures of Scholarly Esteem
Ying Ding, Blaise Cronin
School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Citation analysis does not generally take the quality of citations into account: all citations are weighted equally irrespective of source. However, a scholar may be highly cited but not highly regarded: popularity and prestige are not identical measures of esteem. In this study we define popularity as the number of times an author is cited and prestige as the number of times an author is cited by highly cited papers. Information Retrieval (IR) is the test field. We compare the 40 leading researchers in terms of their popularity and prestige over time. Some authors are ranked high on prestige but not on popularity, while others are ranked high on popularity but not on prestige. We also relate measures of popularity and prestige to date of Ph.D. award, number of key publications, organizational affiliation, receipt of prizes/honors, and gender.
Filed under Citation analysis, Citation Impact, Esteem indicators, impact measurement
Science-metrix develops new journals classification system (and interactive webtool) using both the Web of Science (Thomson Reuters) and Scopus (Elsevier).
A new set of tools recently released (first public release: 2010-12-01 (v1.00)) by Science-Metrix Inc. seeks to improve the way we talk about and understand science. The US/Canada-based research evaluation firm has developed a new, multi-lingual (18 languages!) classification of scientific journals, which is accompanied by an interactive web tool. The journal classification, which covers 15,000 peer-reviewed scientific journals, is translated by more than 22 international experts who volunteered their time and expertise, making the tools available to a worldwid e audience. The complete journals list is available for download as excel sheet.
The interactive 'Scientific Journals Ontology Explorer' allows users to visualise the links between 175 scientific specialties (subject categories) in 18 languages, from Arabic to Swedish.
The visualization contains 3 different views: a circular "Subfield Citation Wheel" (representing both citations as well as references), a "Field Citation Wheel" (showing the links between distinct scientific disciplines) and a network "Map of Science" (revealing similarities between disciplines by relative distance). The goal of this visualization is to show people how science spans a broad universe and how interlinked scientific research actually is.
How is the field of Business & Management covered in the journals list?
The field of Economics & Business (as part of the domain Economic & Social Sciences) contains 822 journals (this is 5,4% of he total Science metrix list) in 12 subfields, where Business & Management is included with 222 journals (27%):
Every journal is classified into only one category.
Subfields of 'Economics & Business' N %
Accounting 32 3,9%
Agricultural Economics & Policy 27 3,3%
Business & Management 222 27,0%
Development Studies 42 5,1%
Econometrics 13 1,6%
Economic Theory 13 1,6%
Economics 244 29,7%
Finance 63 7,7%
Industrial Relations 21 2,6%
Logistics & Transportation 49 6,0%
Marketing 61 7,4%
Sport, Leisure & Tourism 35 4,3%
Total Journals 822 100%
I will compare these with our ERIM Journals list, the ISI quartiles and the SJR (scopus) quartiles scores to see how the list is structured in terms of quality layers.
(I wil add these details later this week.)
In the ontology browser, you can create a map of science and learn how the field of business and management is connected to other subject categories. I have selected the closest fields in the screenshot below.
About Science-Metrix:
Science-Metrix is the world's largest independent firm dedicated to scientometrics, technometrics, and science and technology (S&T) evaluation. The firm's core business involves supporting evidence-based decision-making with strong empirical data and sound theoretical approaches. This contract research organization combines qualitative and quantitative techniques to deliver high quality program evaluations, performance and outcome assessments, and evaluation frameworks. Every Science-Metrix report is produced by a team of dedicated high-calibre experts and relies on the world-class data found in the Scopus, Web of Science and Questel databases.
Filed under Citation Impact, Dual impact, impact measurement, indexing, Journal quality, Journals ranking, Quality assessments, Ranking, Scopus, Tools, Visualization, Web of Science Tagged with business and management, Economics, Scientific journal, SCImago Journal Rank, Scopus, Social sciences, Web of Science


Arsenal News Gooner News
Mikel Arteta responds to Elneny contract rumours
By Admin Martin - 5 November 2020, 13:00
Mikel Arteta has admitted that he has been impressed by the transformation of Mohamed Elneny, but talks of a new contract for the Egyptian are premature.
The midfielder was surplus to requirements at the start of last season and he spent that campaign out on loan at Besiktas in the Turkish top flight.
He impressed there and attracted the attention of several teams.
He was expected to be sent out on loan again this season, but he remained and he has been in fine form for the club.
In their last game against Manchester United, he was impressive again, helping the Gunners beat the Red Devils at Old Trafford for the first time in 14 years.
The midfielder is now one player that seems to have played well enough to earn a new contract at the club.
Arteta was asked about rumours going around that the club is set to offer him a new deal and he claims that things have to be handled step by step.
He said in a press conference as quoted by Goal.com: "Let's go step by step please! What I can say is that I'm really pleased with the player and hopefully he can continue like that and perform all season."
"What's happened is he's started taking the kicking that Pepe deserves" Deeney defends Willian
Report – Italian giants want to sign top Arsenal man
In-form Arsenal man is rewarded with a contract extension
Tags Mohamed Elneny
Invincible reckons this current Arsenal player is underrated
Opinion: Does it make sense to play Xhaka, Partey and Elneny together?
Arsenal midfielder still Covid positive in blow for Arsenal
Is he not out of contract at the end of the season? Maybe an extension is in the deal?
ahmad73 says:
If this is the case Sean, it goes to show how incompetent Arsenal are regarding contract management. If he is free, then he walks as he can get negotiate a deal elsewhere. He should be given a reasonable extension as he can be a good squad player.
Khadii says:
I think he has 2yrs left..
Thats why the club isn't in a hurry… He'll get a new contract once he's able to put in consistent performances this season
SueP says:
I just checked and it's 30 June 22
Thanks SueP. Then what Arteta said makes sense.


The response of plasma catecholamines to intravenous labetalol: A comparison with sodium nitroprussidex
Min Shung Lin, John L. McNay, Alexander M.M. Shepherd, T. Kent Keeton
Changes in mean arterial pressure (MAP), heart rate (HR), and plasma concentrations of norepinephrine (NE) and epinephrine were measured in eight hypertensive patients in a supine position after stepwise infusion of incremental sodium nitroprusside doses and intravenous injection of cumulative labetalol doses. Both drugs induced rises in plasma NE concentration that were linearly related to reductions in MAP. For any reduction in blood pressure (BP). however, the rise in plasma NE concentration induced by labetalol was approximately,four times that induced by sodium nitroprusside. The difference can be explained by two effects of labetalol: impairment of neuronal NE uptake and β-adrenergic-receptor blockade, which are known to reduce NE clearance from plasma. After both drugs there was a correlation between changes in HR and changes in BP and a correlation between changes in HR and changes in plasma NE concentration. Slopes of the regression lines for both relationships were less after labetalol than after sodium nitroprusside, presumably because of the f3-adrenergic-blocking properties of labetalol. Multiple-regression analysis indicated that the plasma NE rise was an important determinant of the vasodepressor response to each drug. The greater plasma NE elevation after labetalol may, limit its antihvpertensive effect.
https://doi.org/10.1038/clpt.1983.199
Published - Oct 1983
Pharmacology (medical)
10.1038/clpt.1983.199
Dive into the research topics of 'The response of plasma catecholamines to intravenous labetalol: A comparison with sodium nitroprussidex'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Labetalol Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
Catecholamines Medicine & Life Sciences 64%
Sodium Medicine & Life Sciences 57%
Nitroprusside Medicine & Life Sciences 28%
Heart Rate Medicine & Life Sciences 18%
Arterial Pressure Medicine & Life Sciences 14%
Lin, M. S., McNay, J. L., Shepherd, A. M. M., & Kent Keeton, T. (1983). The response of plasma catecholamines to intravenous labetalol: A comparison with sodium nitroprussidex. Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 34(4), 466-473. https://doi.org/10.1038/clpt.1983.199
The response of plasma catecholamines to intravenous labetalol : A comparison with sodium nitroprussidex. / Lin, Min Shung; McNay, John L.; Shepherd, Alexander M.M.; Kent Keeton, T.
In: Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Vol. 34, No. 4, 10.1983, p. 466-473.
Lin, MS, McNay, JL, Shepherd, AMM & Kent Keeton, T 1983, 'The response of plasma catecholamines to intravenous labetalol: A comparison with sodium nitroprussidex', Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 466-473. https://doi.org/10.1038/clpt.1983.199
Lin MS, McNay JL, Shepherd AMM, Kent Keeton T. The response of plasma catecholamines to intravenous labetalol: A comparison with sodium nitroprussidex. Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 1983 Oct;34(4):466-473. https://doi.org/10.1038/clpt.1983.199
Lin, Min Shung ; McNay, John L. ; Shepherd, Alexander M.M. ; Kent Keeton, T. / The response of plasma catecholamines to intravenous labetalol : A comparison with sodium nitroprussidex. In: Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 1983 ; Vol. 34, No. 4. pp. 466-473.
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From its conception by Vasily Vasillevich Andreyev (a nobleman from the Tverskoi Province who was studying violin) in the 1880s, the Russian folk orchestra has taken its special character from two fretted string instruments, the triangular balalaika and the round-bodied domra. Both derive from a primitive lute of two or three strings, with a small body and long neck, widespread among the Russian peasantry by the 17th century and believed to be of Tatar origin..
Andreyev is credited with having heard the sound of the peasant balalaika in its original form and pursuing the long and often daunting task of bringing it to the concert stage. He was frustrated in his early attempts to find a violinmaker who would even agree to make a concert balalaika, as this instrument was considered to be nothing but a plaything by serious musicians. After some effort he was able to persuade one of St. Petersburg's leading luthiers, F. Passerbsky, to build a set of balalaikas to be played by his new ensemble. To provide the range of tones audiences expected from the violin family of instruments, Andreyev had the balalaikas built in five sizes from soprano (or 'prima') to bass. Working with other musicians, he spent nearly a year writing and arranging music to be played by the ensemble, and then rehearsing the music using strumming and picking techniques hitherto unknown to stringed instrument players of the time.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN FOLK ORCHESTRA
Orkestr Russkikh Narodnikh Instrumentov - the Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments - can be found in Russia in any city of considerable size, in some factories and other large communes, local social clubs called 'institutes of culture' and in schools having well developed programs of musical instruction. A fully developed Russian Folk Orchestra might have a hundred or more members, but the instrumentation would be substantially similar to that presented by the Washington Balalaika Society..
The debut of the Ensemble of Balalaika Players in 1888 was met with some skepticism, which was all but erased by the end of the performance. The audience was effusive in its applause and praise for the music these musicians made and Andreyev's work began to receive the recognition it needed to continue. By 1892, Andreyev's octet presented its first command performance at the royal palace at Gatchina, gaining the support of the Romanovs and guaranteeing, at least for the time being, a respected place in the world of music in Russia. The octet was later expanded and, with the addition of the domra family of instruments and the gusli, the Great Russian Imperial Balalaika Orchestra was created. After the turn of the century the orchestra toured Europe and, in 1910, visited America.
The Andreyev Orchestra of St. Petersburg, Russia -- 1996As with so many facets of Russian culture, the orchestra and Andreyev suffered greatly from the turmoil and social upheaval of the 'teens. He changed the name of the orchestra to 'Narodny' (people's orchestra) and lost the support and funding of the Imperial Court. Finally, on Christmas Day in 1918 while on a tour entertaining Russian troops, Andreyev died of typhoid, his modest fortune completely depleted.
Under Soviet rule, the concept of the Russian Folk Orchestra was rekindled as an acceptable form of expression, albeit carefully controlled. Composers were encouraged to write music appropriate for a Communist society and conservatories continued to teach folk instruments.
Meanwhile, outside of Russia, immigrants who had left and brought their instruments and musical memories with them formed ensembles and, eventually, orchestras. In America, there were perhaps a dozen or more orchestras of respectable size by the mid-1920s; most of these had gone out of existence with the aging of their members and dilution of interest by the 1940s. A few, notably the Balalaika Orchestra of Detroit, survived and often flourished, continuing their operations well into the second half of the 1900s.
Most of the orchestras active in America and Canada today were formed after 1970. Some were the outgrowth of social and cultural activities of Russian Orthodox churches and Russian community centers; others were formed by individuals -- in many cases people with little or no Russian background -- who were simply interested in the music and the possibilities of these instruments. The opening of the former Soviet Union in the 1990s made acquisition of music and instruments from Russia much easier and new immigrants were often overjoyed to find folk orchestras playing 'their music.'
The Washington Balalaika Society, formed in 1988, is now the largest orchestra of Russian folk instruments in North America and endeavors to pattern its sound and repertoire after the great orchestras of Russia while at the same time continuing to explore new kinds of music and new musical possibilities for this fascinating family of instruments.
For an interesting article on the Russian orchestra, click here.


Good News-Evidence that biological death is not the end. © Gavin Ashenden
She is known only as patient 143. All we know of her is that she was 14, and has just died from cancer; that her mother hated her father and had not let him see her since she was 7; that her parents clashed in a court case in London to test the legality of her last early-teen wish, – to have her body frozen at the cost of $35,000.
Her father was distraught that her death would be overshadowed by the cryotechnology technicians fussing over her dying body. They were preparing it to be drained of blood and fluid within seconds of her biological death. Her mother and her grandparents who footed the bill just wanted to respect her wishes.
'143' was understandably frightened and horrified by the prospect of death. She wrote to the judge: "I think being cryo-preserved gives me a chance to be cured and woken up in hundreds of years time…. I want to have this chance."
We don't know how she stumbled on this project, but the science is more than ropey. RationalWiki calls it 'pseudo-science';.
Looking to fix the damage caused by freezing the brain it comments, "The dendrites (10,000 connections for each of the 100 billion neurons — that's 1015 dendrites to check) are cracked badly by the freezing process — like when you drop an ice cube into a drink. What is the process for fixing a frozen brain that's cracked into several, or hundreds of pieces, with dendrites shattered at a microscopic level?"
And a little grown up experience of the world might well wonder if the business that freezes the bodies in Michigan in 2016 will be running in 2050, let alone 2150?
Then, if science really was able to both cure cancer and resuscitate corpses, what does that do to an overcrowded planet already running out of resources where death is the only mechanism for making space for the incoming babies and diluting the population explosion?
But patient 143 was looking to pseudoscience because it was all she had to hang on to facing the awful fear of extinction.
So is there any evidence for life after death?
In fact there is. Start with Plato, writing The Republic 2,400 years ago. He recorded an incident he had come across. A Pamphylian soldier called 'Er', son of Armenious, is involved in a battle, and appears to have been killed. His body is heaped onto an enormous funeral pyre, and just as it is being set alight ten days later, he comes to, or revives- who knows what- and tells everyone he has been in the land of the dead. He saw openings in the ground and the sky. Everyone was judged at death. The immoral were sent down, the good- up. He was sent back to warn people.
Actually it is very similar to something Jesus taught in the New Testament (the sheep and the goats-Matthew 25).
Plato might just be telling a story, but it shocked me when I read it, because something similar happened to me. When I was 19 I drunk a litre of vodka in an evening of stupidity, which dampened down my respiratory system. I seemed to leave my body, met 'God', was judged, forgiven and sent back, reviving at dawn- free of any symptoms of alcohol poisoning. It was an experience that prepared me, a little after, for taking the claims of Jesus more seriously that I might otherwise have done.
These 'Near Death Experiences' it turns out, are quite common. The psychiatrist Raymond Moody collected many in his book Life after Life. The Near Death Experience Research Foundation (NDERF.org) contains thousands of recent accounts on line.
Christianity only came into being because thousands of people believed they saw Christ with their own eyes, resurrected from the dead. It only continues because in each generation people become convinced by the evidence it really happened.
It's such a shame that patient 143 never had a vicar visit her assembly at primary school. He would have told her that Jesus died on the cross for her forgiveness, and then rose from the dead to give her life after death.
'Mindfulness' and deep breathing are now the fashion at many school assemblies, and very useful too; but it seems a little unkind and unfair to deprive children of the information that there are good reasons for believing biological death is not the end. Come to think of it- it's not just our children who might be cheered by what some of us call the 'Good News'. The Michigan cryogenetics company may not be quite so chuffed.
Holiness lasts longer than politics-the limits of democracy. © Gavin Ashenden
Dr Gavin Ashenden A brief biography


JOYNER, SIMON: Grass, Branch & Bone LP (Back in Print!)
BACK IN PRINT!
Simon Joyner "Grass, Branch & Bone" LP (Woodsist)
Renowned American singer-songwriter Simon Joyner first came to prominence during the lo-fi movement of the early '90s alongside contemporaries like Will Oldham, Peter Jefferies, the Mountain Goats, Smog and Alastair Galbraith. Joyner was championed early on by the late British DJ John Peel, who famously played Joyner's 1994 LP, The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll, start to finish on one of his BBC programs, making Joyner more well known overseas than in his own country. Considered a forefather of the Omaha music scene, he's released critically acclaimed albums on various independent labels every few years for over two decades. He keeps a low profile and tours only occasionally, spending most of his time working and raising a family, allowing writing and music to remain an artistic outlet rather than an occupation.Grass, Branch & Bone is Joyner's thirteenth proper album and a sonic departure from 2012's Ghosts. While that record was a double-disc collection of dark, dissonant songs confronting death and loss in the vein of Neil Young's Tonight's the Night, this new one is sparse by comparison, running with the likes of other singer-songwriter outcast aftermath albums like Dylan's John Wesley Harding, Gene Clark's White Light, David Blue's Stories, Jerry Jeff Walker's Five Years Gone, Townes Van Zandt's Our Mother the Mountain and Cohen's Recent Songs. It's a natural progression—after a funeral, one takes stock and reflect upon his or her own life. Grass, Branch & Bone is a song-cycle of short stories about time and memory, full of people the listener has known and even may have been.
"My favorite poet is Simon Joyner." —Gillian Welch
1. Sonny
2. Train To Crazy Horse
3. You Got Under My Skin
4. Jefferson Reed
5. Some Fathers Let The Sunset Bring Them To Their Knees
6. Old Days
7. I Will Not Be Your Fool (Muse's Song)
8. In My Drinking Dream
9. Nostalgia Blues