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A second large, prospective study by scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has confirmed the link between high blood concentrations of omega-3 fatty acids and an increased risk of prostate cancer.
Published July 11 in the online edition of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the latest findings indicate that high concentrations of EPA, DPA and DHA – the three anti-inflammatory and metabolically related fatty acids derived from fatty fish and fish-oil supplements – are associated with a 71 percent increased risk of high-grade prostate cancer. The study also found a 44 percent increase in the risk of low-grade prostate cancer and an overall 43 percent increase in risk for all prostate cancers.
The increase in risk for high-grade prostate cancer is important because those tumors are more likely to be fatal.
The findings confirm a 2011 study published by the same Fred Hutch scientific team that reported a similar link between high blood concentrations of DHA and a more than doubling of the risk for developing high-grade prostate cancer. The latest study also confirms results from a large European study.
"The consistency of these findings suggests that these fatty acids are involved in prostate tumorigenesis and recommendations to increase long-chain omega-3 fatty acid intake, in particular through supplementation, should consider its potential risks," the authors wrote.
"We've shown once again that use of nutritional supplements may be harmful," said Alan Kristal, Dr.P.H., the paper's senior author and member of the Fred Hutch Public Health Sciences Division. Kristal also noted a recent analysis published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that questioned the benefit of omega-3 supplementation for cardiovascular diseases. The analysis, which combined the data from 20 studies, found no reduction in all-cause mortality, heart attacks or strokes.
"What's important is that we have been able to replicate our findings from 2011 and we have confirmed that marine omega-3 fatty acids play a role in prostate cancer occurrence," said corresponding author Theodore Brasky, Ph.D., a research assistant professor at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center who was a postdoctoral trainee at Fred Hutch when the research was conducted. "It's important to note, however, that these results do not address the question of whether omega-3's play a detrimental role in prostate cancer prognosis," he said.
Kristal said the findings in both Fred Hutch studies were surprising because omega-3 fatty acids are believed to have a host of positive health effects based on their anti-inflammatory properties. Inflammation plays a role in the development and growth of many cancers.
It is unclear from this study why high levels of omega-3 fatty acids would increase prostate cancer risk, according to the authors, however the replication of this finding in two large studies indicates the need for further research into possible mechanisms. One potentially harmful effect of omega-3 fatty acids is their conversion into compounds that can cause damage to cells and DNA, and their role in immunosuppression. Whether these effects impact cancer risk is not known.
The difference in blood concentrations of omega-3 fatty acids between the lowest and highest risk groups was about 2.5 percentage points (3.2 percent vs. 5.7 percent), which is somewhat larger than the effect of eating salmon twice a week, Kristal said.
The current study analyzed data and specimens collected from men who participated in the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT), a large randomized, placebo-controlled trial to test whether selenium and vitamin E, either alone or combined, reduced prostate cancer risk. That study showed no benefit from selenium intake and an increase in prostate cancers in men who took vitamin E.
The group included in the this analysis consisted of 834 men who had been diagnosed with incident, primary prostate cancers (156 were high-grade cancer) along with a comparison group of 1,393 men selected randomly from the 35,500 participants in SELECT.
The National Cancer Institute and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine funded the research.
Also participating in the study were additional Fred Hutch scientists and researchers from the University of Texas, University of California, University of Washington, National Cancer Institute and the Cleveland Clinic.
Editor's note: Please contact Kristen Woodward, Fred Hutch media relations, to schedule interviews and to obtain an embargoed copy of the paper, "Plasma Phospholipid Fatty Acids and Prostate Cancer Risk in the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial."


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It was at his "homecoming" rally — he was giving up his old stomping grounds in New York City, including Fifth Avenue, that famed street where he could shoot someone and still "wouldn't lose voters," for his Mar-a-Lago resort in the swing state that means so much to him — and he was "ranting and raving" (his words) to thousands of red-hatted, red-shirted supporters in the city of Sunrise, Florida, about how they were going to guarantee him "another at least five years" in office (and don't think that "at least" was a mistake from the leading potential autocrat of the Western Hemisphere) and like this sentence, that rally — go watch it yourself — was a perfect picture of his sometimes incoherent, sometimes rapier-sharp stream-of-consciousness presidency.
Here's a little sample to give you a taste of the man who is never-endingly with us all:
"Nobody, in the first three years of a presidency, has done what we've done, nobody. That's very important. With your help, we're going to complete the mission. We are draining the swamp. On Election Day 2020, the crazy Democrats are going down in a landslide. That landslide, that landslide is going to start right here in the great state of Florida."
And don't forget those fans of his waving "Keep America Great!" signs, chanting "USA! USA! USA!" and "Four More Years!" and "I want nothing — no quid pro quo!" while the president threw insults at "Shifty Schiff," "Slow, Sleepy Joe," the "crooked New York Times," and the rest of the crew (to enthusiastic choruses of boos) — "Now, they say, give us anything, we'll impeach him. Let him go to the refrigerator and pick an orange from Florida, no less. We'll impeach him" — even as he praised his own "gorgeous chest," his many victories, real or imagined ("And then we beat Barack Hussein Obama and whatever the hell dynasty that is"), and above all his feelings about those present, "the greatest base in the history of politics" ("we're winning, you're smarter, you're better looking, you're sharper. They call themselves elite. If they're elite, then we're the super elite") in a world in which — in case you hadn't noticed — "everyone is getting rich and I'm working my ass off." And, of course, amid the nonstop raving and ranting were bevies of claims that, as ever, bore no relation to reality. ("We are strongly protecting our environment because we want America to have the cleanest air and cleanest water anywhere on Earth," "After years of rebuilding other nations, we are finally rebuilding our nation. It is about time," and so on and so forth.)
A rally like that one is a reminder that, while Donald Trump may be the president of the one percent, he's also caught the grievances of at least 35%-40% of this country, of a heartland population that in 2016 felt it (and its idea of America) was being ground to dust and wanted to send a man to Washington who represented its collective middle finger. Three-plus years later, that base is still cheering him on and when you start with such a steadfast part of the population, heading into an election year, you're somewhere, especially if you're already the president of the United States and the economy doesn't take the sort of sudden 2007 nosedive that helped elect Barack Obama.
Given all this, those chants of "Four More Years!" or maybe, sooner or later, "Five More Years!" or "Eight More Years!" need some explaining, some deeper understanding, which is why TomDispatch regular Rebecca Gordon, author most recently of American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes, takes a deep dive into the history of this country, a sort of "400 More Years!" version of Donald Trump's America. Tom
What's Wrong With the Republicans?
Fruits of the Twin Roots of Evil: Slavery and Imperial Expansion
By Rebecca GordonOn the Thursday of the second week of the House Intelligence Committee's impeachment hearings, former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara had a special guest on his weekly podcast, Carl Bernstein. It was Bernstein, with fellow Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, whose reporting broke open the story of how the Committee to Re-elect the President burglarized Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate office building in Washington, D.C. That reporting and the impeachment hearings that followed eventually forced President Richard Nixon to resign in disgrace in 1974. Bharara wanted to hear about what differences Bernstein sees between the Nixon impeachment proceedings and Donald Trump's today.
That was the week when the New York Times reported that viewership of those "boring" hearings was proving to be "as big as Monday Night Football." That was the week when the world heard from, among others, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman on Donald Trump's July 25th "perfect" phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky; from ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland on how "everyone was in the loop" when it came to the Ukrainian quid pro quo (not to speak of his "Zelensky loves your ass" exchange with the president); and from the steely former Trump adviser on Russia, Fiona Hill, on how that country promulgated the fiction that Ukraine had interfered in the 2016 American election.
That should have been enough to convince anyone paying attention that the president had indeed attempted to trade a Zelensky White House visit and U.S. military aid for an announcement that Ukraine was investigating its own (fictitious) interference in that election and the (equally fictitious) corruption of Joe Biden via his son Hunter. Clearly, however, the Republicans in Congress were anything but convinced.
Bharara reminded Bernstein that, when Richard Nixon was at risk of impeachment, key Republican congressional figures, including two senators (at a moment when, as now, Republicans had a majority in that body) encouraged the president to resign rather than be impeached and be convicted in a trial there. Why, Bharara asked, is today's Republican Party more loyal to the president than the Constitution and the rule of law?
Bernstein replied that, in his view, the divisions in the U.S. today are no longer simply a matter of ideological differences — disagreements about what constitutes a good society and how to achieve it. The whole country, he suggested, is already embroiled in a "cold civil war" that's vividly reflected in Congress. If so, then it's a complex war indeed, involving at least four allied but also diverging forces in today's Republican Party:
- Those motivated by white anxiety and resentment, some of whom also tend to be isolationists opposing U.S. military adventures abroad;
- Those dedicated to maintaining U.S. military expansion around the world, some of whom genuinely believe in the ultimate superiority of a white, Christian United States and some of whom care only about the projection of force;
- Right-wing evangelicals, many sharing white resentment and also ready to make common cause with the forces of imperial expansion, especially when it comes to support for Israel;
- Those dedicated to increasing the wealth of the wealthiest elites, who are quite willing to harness white fear of losing privilege, as well as nationalist military desires, to advance their own agenda of reducing taxes and rolling back regulatory constraints on corporate power.
The roots of much of the turmoil in the current Republican Party are, however, centuries old. They go back, in fact, to the twin crimes that have helped shape this country from its very beginning: slavery and imperial expansion.
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival in the British colonies that would become the United States of America of the first enslaved Africans. The New York Times has gathered some of the best recent scholarship on the nature and history of American slavery in an excellent series: "The 1619 Project."
Many white people in this country think of slavery as a "problem" of the distant past. They are mistaken. African Americans live with its effects today (as do the rest of us in different ways) in legacies like mass incarceration and the existential threat of police violence. In 2015, the Guardian reported that "young black men were nine times more likely than other Americans to be killed by police officers." In that year, police killed 1,134 people. The Washington Post now keeps a running annual tally of such police-caused deaths. As of November 25th, the number for this year was 829.
The line that can be drawn from slavery to convict leasing to lynching to torture in police stations to police shootings of African Americans is all too direct. It's impossible, in fact, to overstate the importance of slavery to the economic, legal, and social development of this country. The 1789 Constitution was in many ways a document meant to appease southern slave states and keep them in the union. This included the "three-fifths" compromise, which counted any enslaved resident as three-fifths of a person for the purpose of apportioning members of the House of Representatives to each state. Similarly, the creation of an upper house, the Senate, where each state has two representatives, regardless of population, and the invention of the Electoral College were meant, in part, to enhance the power of southern states. And to this day, those two institutions continue to allow southern and, more generally, rural states to exercise an undemocratic power, disproportionate to their population size. In a very real sense, compromises made in 1789 helped elect Donald Trump in 2016.
The first income-generating crop in the southern colonies was tobacco, initially planted, tended, picked, and packed by semi-free indentured servants from England who worked for a fixed period (usually seven to 10 years) and then were free to start farming on their own. Enslaved Africans, however, soon offered a number of advantages over such contract workers. As a start, their "contracts" never ran out. Indeed, their children and children's children would also be enslaved workers. They would prove crucial to the way those planters built their wealth (and significant parts of the wealth of the colonies and that of the United States as a whole), both as profit-generating laborers and as capital-building assets against whom money could be borrowed. This history is well-described in a number of books, including Edmund Morgan's American Slavery, American Freedom, Edward Baptist's The Half Has Never Been Told, and Andres Resendez's The Other Slavery (about the little-studied enslavement of native peoples in what would become the American Southwest), as well as in the autobiographies and collected oral testimonies of hundreds of formerly enslaved people.
In Virginia and the Carolinas, however, those tobacco farmers faced a serious problem. Unlike indentured servants who could look forward to their eventual freedom, newly enslaved Africans had no incentive to work; none, that is, except physical pain. As a result, torture — real mind- and body-destroying torture — was part of the American experience from the first moments the slave system was established, with effects that have lasted to this day.
After the revolution and the invention in 1793 of Eli Whitney's seed-stripping cotton gin, southern farmers turned to another, far more lucrative export crop: cotton. First in Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas, but soon in the lowlands that would become Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas, cheap raw cotton would feed England's fast-industrializing textile industry and so, for the next two centuries, help make that country's economy the world's preeminent one. It also fed the nascent textile mills in the North after Samuel Slater, an early industrial spy, crossed the Atlantic to New England, carrying in his memory plans (embargoed by Great Britain) for a water-powered textile factory.
As slavery expanded, so did the systematic use of torture. Enslavers on the new plantations organized "gangs" of laborers, their long lines easily visible to overseers who followed them with cowhide whips. From dawn to dark, through the endless workday, that whip flew at supersonic speed (the source of its "crack"), tearing flesh till the blood ran. It waited for workers in camp at night, as each day's output was weighed, and those who failed to make their quotas were punished.
A new form of torture-enforced labor began after the Civil War and the brief interim period of Reconstruction when black people in the South found themselves, through the legal conceit of convict leasing, essentially enslaved all over again. Arrested on minor charges or none at all, prisoners — almost all of them African-American men — found themselves leased out by county and state authorities to private cotton growers and to the developing coal and steel industries of Tennessee and Alabama. Once again, the whip came along for the ride. Convict leasing lasted into the 1920s when Southern states chose to employ their convicts directly in chain gangs to build the region's railroads and highways. Legal segregation, also begun at the end of Reconstruction, did not end until the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Nor did state-sanctioned torture of African Americans end with emancipation or the eventual diminution of those convict-leasing programs. Lynching (a label Donald Trump recently had the nerve to apply to the impeachment proceedings) continued from the end of the Civil War well into the twentieth century, peaking between 1880 and 1920. In addition to its culminating murder by hanging or burning, lynching often involved whipping and the castration of male victims prior to death. In the context of Jim Crow segregation, these institutionalized rituals of torture and murder served to secure the power of white authorities over black populations. In many places, lynchings were also treated as popular entertainment, encouraged by local officials who often participated themselves. The practice even produced a form of popular art: photographs of lynchings decorated many postcards in the early part of the twentieth century.
Every society that adopts institutionalized torture as a method of social control identifies certain groups of people as legitimate targets for it. From the very beginning of this country, one group was so identified: enslaved Africans (and their emancipated descendants). Even today, in police stations, prisons, and public schools, black Americans are at risk of socially sanctioned physical abuse, even torture.
President Trump's open embrace of a white supremacy born of slavery and nurtured by convict-leasing, segregation, and lynching has powerfully emboldened its modern proponents, encouraging economically and socially anxious whites to focus their resentment on blacks and, of course, immigrants from anywhere but northern Europe.
Imperial Expansion
As much as American history is a story of slavery and its legacy, it's also a tale of steady geographical expansion and imperial domination, often enabled by military force. That history, too, has a twenty-first-century legacy: America's forever wars across a significant part of the planet.
It's a tale that began early. The newly independent United States quickly acquired a lot more of itself, starting with the 1803 Louisiana Purchase from France. That deal effectively doubled the country's territory, annexing lands that would eventually become parts or all of 10 new states. Of course, France didn't actually control most of that land, apart from the port city of New Orleans and its immediate environs. What the U.S. government really bought was the "right" to take the rest of that vast area from the native peoples who lived there, using treaties, population transfers, and wars of conquest and extermination.
Such acquisitions continued with Florida in 1819 (from Spain) and the annexation of Texas (by war) from Mexico in 1845. All of this new territory contained land that was, as Sven Beckert says in Empire of Cotton, "superbly suited to cotton agriculture."
So, conquest, slavery, and (when it came to native peoples) displacement and genocide combined as cotton growers expanded their holdings. A frequent first step in securing new territory for cotton planting was to remove the people already occupying it. That process began in Georgia in the early 1800s, as the Creek nation was driven west. Soon, as Beckert writes, "the Creeks suffered further defeats and were forced to sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, ceding 23 million acres of land in what is today Alabama and Georgia." In a process that today would likely be called ethnic cleansing, cotton's empire continued to expand at the expense of indigenous peoples:
"In the years after 1814, the federal government signed further treaties with the Creeks, Chickasaw, and Choctaws, gaining control over millions of acres of land in the South, including Andrew Jackson's 1818 treaty with the Chickasaw nation that opened western Tennessee to cotton cultivation and the 1819 treaty with the Choctaw nation that gave 5 million acres of land in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta to the United States in exchange for vastly inferior lands in Oklahoma and Arkansas."
In 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, designed to do exactly what its name implied by requiring Indian nations in the southeastern United States to "exchange" prime cotton-growing acreage for vastly inferior land in present-day Oklahoma. As the National Park Service's website on the subject recounts, after the Choctaws, Muscogee Creeks, Seminoles, and Chickasaws had for some time "fiercely resisted" such relocation, they finally "agreed" to be moved to the newly designated Indian Territories.
Perhaps the best-known population transfer of this period was the one that took place along the Trail of Tears. Beginning in May 1838, the U.S. Army, together with various state militias, began the forcible removal of more than 16,000 Cherokee people from North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee to Oklahoma. The job was completed by the following year. The journey proved a tragic one (more than 1,000 people died along the way) and the destination unsatisfactory, but the Park Service wants to assure visitors that the story has a happy ending:
"The Cherokee, in the years that followed, struggled to reassert themselves in the new, unfamiliar land. Today, they are a proud, independent tribe, and its members recognize that despite the adversity they have endured, they are resilient and invest in their future."
U.S. expansion continued across the rest of the continent, decimating Indian nations and consigning survivors to reservations. In 1893, it reached Hawaii where U.S. Marines supported a coup against Queen Lili'uokalani. In 1898, the treaty ending the Spanish-American War, the country's first full-scale imperial conflict abroad, gave the United States Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico. After World War II, the United Nations awarded the U.S. what would become the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, including the island of Saipan, which remains in U.S. "trusteeship" to this day.
The U.S. shadow also fell across Latin America, as it occupied Nicaragua from 1909 to 1933, installing the autocrats of the Somoza dynasty in power there in 1936. In 1954, the CIA orchestrated a coup against the government of Guatemala's Jacobo Arbenz to prevent him from instituting a land reform program. Support for coups continued into the 1960s and 1970s in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Rather than make these Latin American countries actual colonies, a policy of global neocolonialism (backed by the unprecedented military garrisoning of the planet) allowed the United States to fuel a postwar economic boom with cheap raw materials from around the world.
Today, the United States maintains about 800 military bases in more than 80 countries and has forces stationed on every continent except Antarctica. We remain by far the world's preeminent military force and continue to fight (unsuccessful wars) across the Greater Middle East and Africa.
Uneasy Bedfellows
The Trump Republican Party has inherited, and continues to make use of, the legacies of this nation's twin evils: slavery and imperial expansion. We see in its white supremacist strand a commitment to maintaining systems of white superiority that have persisted from slavery through Jim Crow segregation to ever-present threats of violence today. Many white evangelical Christians maintain an enthusiasm for racial separation (as the histories of their flagship universities reveal). They see in Trump a leader who will advocate for white supremacy so they don't have to.
The power of the Republican militarist wing may appear to have diminished in the face of Trump's vocal isolationism and threats to bring U.S. troops home from this country's various twenty-first-century wars, but in truth, the military and intelligence sectors of the government have managed to do almost everything they've wanted to, even while seeming to agree with the president. (No surprise, then, that there are now more U.S. troops stationed in the Middle East than there were when Donald Trump took office.) In addition, he has certainly made sure that the Pentagon has all the money it could possibly want, even if he sometimes decries excessive military budgets.
The history of U.S. territorial and military expansion has long been accompanied by a commitment to American exceptionalism, a belief that this country is different from and better than the rest of the world's nations. That sense of superiority is usually described as an embodiment of national values like democracy and equality, but bubbling beneath the surface there has always been the belief that the U.S. succeeded in all but eliminating the native peoples on this continent and in defeating others around the world because of a natural superiority born of a European heritage. This confidence remains strong today, despite the fact that (apart from invading the tiny nations of Grenada and Panama) the U.S. hasn't won a war since World World II, including the never-ending conflicts it has launched over large stretches of the planet after 9/11.
And what of the economic elites, the top tenth of the top one percent? Their commitment, however they may choose to wrap it in libertarian anti-tax rhetoric, remains only to themselves and to maintaining and expanding their own vast wealth. To the extent that any of the party's other three strands contribute to that goal, they are happy to contribute to the party.
Today's Republicans are very different from those of the Nixon era. His was a party with an ideological commitment to anticommunism, law and order, and opposition to organized labor. In Trump, the party seems to be committed not to principles, but to a man who defies the rule of law and is disorder personified. However, like their president who shamelessly turns on his friends when it suits him, his party will likely turn on him the moment he appears to threaten, rather than enhance, their election prospects. In the meantime, they are in every sense a historic crime in the making.
Rebecca Gordon, a TomDispatch regular, teaches at the University of San Francisco. She is the author most recently of American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes and is now at work on a new book on the history of torture in the United States.
Follow TomDispatch on Twitter and join us on Facebook. Check out the newest Dispatch Books, John Feffer's new dystopian novel (the second in the Splinterlands series) Frostlands, Beverly Gologorsky's novel Every Body Has a Story, and Tom Engelhardt's A Nation Unmade by War, as well as Alfred McCoy's In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power and John Dower's The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II.
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What is the MAOW?
Have you always dreamed of going behind the scenes of Firefox ? Are you a Web developer (or not yet!) and have you always wished to make your first Firefox extension ? As an Add-ons developer, you are familiar with XUL, overlays, chrome, but have never dared go further?
This is the opportunity for you to make your wish come true: the next Mozilla Add-ons Workshop is coming to Berlin, on Saturday, 28th of March! In collaboration with the German Xul community, the MAOW will be a day of workshops and presentations (mostly in German, but also English) about Mozilla Technologies, and more particularly about Add-ons.
The schedule includes workshops that will teach you how to make your first extension, many presentations of new Mozilla technologies, conferences on how to hack and contribute to Firefox ... and on top of this, you'll be able to discuss with skillful developers, along with a nice cup of coffee. And not to forget to mention your own demonstrations of Add-ons and of XulRunner applications !
And last but not least, we have the honor to announce the presence of Rey Bango, Community Manager for Mozilla Add-ons, and of Paul Rouget, Mozilla Tech Evangelist, as well as many active members of the Mozilla community.
Web developers, hackers, C++ developers, XUL developers, or bloggers, journalists and people just plain curious about Firefox Add-ons : EVERYONE IS WELCOME and ENTRANCE IS FREE. If you want to attend, please make sure to register.
- Propose a base for discussions and exchange for XUL developers and non developers.
- Encourage and facilitate the creation and diffusion of Add-ons by German developers.
- Promote a local Mozilla ecosystem.
Time Slot | Main Room | ||
11:00 11:10 | [EN] Paul Rouget: Welcome introduction | ||
11:10 12:00 | [EN] Rey Bango: Keynote | ||
12:00 12:30 | [EN] Chris Beard: Mozilla Labs | ||
Time Slot | Main Room | Room A | Room B |
13:15 14:00 | [EN] Robert Nyman: How to write your first extension (PDF) |
[DE] Robert Kaiser: The Mozilla Build System |
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14:00 14:45 | [EN] Daniel Glazman: How to write your first XulRunner application (slideshare) |
[DE] Yan Minagawa: Gecko 1.9.1 & what's new in Firefox 3.5? |
[DE] Carsten Book: Quality assurance |
15:00 15:45 | [DE] Tobias Leingruber: Fun and Art (page) |
[??] Andreas Richter: how to deal with web content through addons |
[DE] Jürgen Berg: How to localize your extension |
15:45 16:30 | [EN] Daniel Glazman: Make money with extensions (slideshare) |
[DE] Philipp Söhnlein: General overview of the Mozilla Framework for dummies (and webdevelopers) |
[EN] Sven Guckes: Text Interface Revival (text/plain) |
16:45 17:30 | [DE] Sebastian "Archaeopteryx" Hengst: Code guidelines & managing feedback |
[DE] Richard Sternagel: Adapt web pages to your own needs with Greasemonkey (PDF in EN) |
[DE] Robert Kaiser: make extensions work on SeaMonkey 2 |
17:30 18:15 | [EN] Brian King: Javascript in add-ons (jsm, XPCOM, 1.7/1.8, and more) |
[DE] Daniel Kirsch: Starting with XBL - Create your own Objects |
[DE] Philipp Kewisch: Enlightening the Calendar - Writing Calendaring extensions |
18:30 19:15 | --- | [??] Anselm Helbig: Firefox extensions for web developers |
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Name+Picture | Description |
Paul Rouget: | Mozilla Tech Evangelist, organizer. |
Robert Nyman: | Robert has been working with web developing, mostly interface coding, since 1998. His biggest interests lie in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. In his talk he will talk you through your first steps with Firefox extension development to a complete runnable extension. (blog) |
Tobias Leingruber: | Tobias' background is web development and visual design. In 2007 he fell in love with FF add-ons and remixing the web. The browser is his operating system. He will show a collection of fun and experimental add-ons . |
Brian King: | Long-time Mozilla contributor, Founder of Briks Software and President of Mozdev. |
Robert Kaiser ("KaiRo"): | German Mozilla localizer since late 1999, theme designer and code contributor to L10n, build system, UI and SeaMonkey areas, SeaMonkey Council member, serving as project coordinator and build/release engineer. |
Philipp Kewisch: | ...has been contributing to the Calendar Project since late 2006. He started out with the Provider for Google Calendar and after many core code contriutions now leads the Project. |
Yan t Minagawa: | just diving into mozillaverse. internet and plattform technologist, involved in many open source and open culture activities. long-term crew member of c-base spacestation. |
Daniel Kirsch: | Has done localization work for mozilla. Works on commercial projects based on Mozilla/XULRunner since 2003. Works daily with JavaScript, XUL, CSS and other web technologies. |
Carsten Book: | Software Engineer working for the Mozilla QA Team,
long time Mozilla Community Member, works on Automated Testing, Performance Testing, Community. blog email |
Jürgen Berg: | German extension localizer.
Administrator of BabelZilla, a site and community dedicated to provide localizations for extensions |
Richard Sternagel: | is web developer and especially interested in web technologies,
dynamic languages, the Mozilla Platform and agile software development but also stuff like Interface Design, Usability or Design. |
Daniel Glazman: | Long time Mozilla contributor, ex-Netscape, CEO of Disruptive Innovations, author of Nvu. |
Philipp Söhnlein: | Webdeveloper, who loves the flexibility of XUL applications and wants to develop extensions for all of them. Starting with Firefox extensions, the next target will be extending Komodo. |
Sven Guckes: | A firefox user who really loves the power of command lines.
Has been involved with many text tools (eg mutt, screen, slrn, vim, zsh). Co-author of a Z-Shell Book. His usual work environment is a terminal - and a web browser. Loves ubiquitous computing and hates carrying around hardware - and really wants a Text Interface Revival! please send feedback! |
Sebastian Hengst:
addons.mozilla.org senior editor, Team erweiterungen.de member,
localizer of >60 extensions and bug filer. About the talk "Code guidelines & managing feedback": In early development stages, the goals usually adopt to meet the wishes of users and to find the best technical solution, i.e. by performance. Maintaining easily understandable code should prevent you from losing the joy of coding your add-on. Archaeopteryx, a senior editor of Mozilla's Add-ons site (addons.mozilla.org) will talk about the code and review guidelines. Furthermore, he presents different way to receive and manage automatic and manual feedback, saving you and your users time. |
Saturday 28th of March, 2009
10:00 to 22:00
The MAOW Berlin will take place at the C-Base Raumstation (see map here).
For a nice colorful map, click here
To view a cool ASCII map of the area, click here :)
The closest train station is Jannowitzbruecke S-Bahn station. When you arrive at the station, simply exit to the west (it's the only exit, anyway); when coming out of the building you should see a bridge.Cross the bridge and turn left to walk along the shore. Walk for about 150m - and the way ends at a fence.
You are now standing right before a red building - and the c-base is right in front of you on ground level.
For more information on C-Base, please visit http://c-base.org
All participants are asked to register by filling in the MAOW Berlin registration form here.
Food and Drinks
There's nothing worse than hacking on an empty stomach - so we'll make sure to serve free coffee throughout the day. Free Pizza and non-alcoholic drinks will be served for lunch, and beer will be served in the evening to close out the workshop. Once the free beer runs out, don't worry, you will still be able to purchase drinks at the c-base bar for the rest of the evening. :)
Speaker Sponsorship
All speakers at the MAOW will be fully sponsored. Hotel, food and travel expenses will be fully reimbursed by Mozilla Europe.
To be reimbursed, please send all scanned receipts and the filled-out expense form to William Quiviger (william @ mozilla dot com)
Sunday Hack Session
For those hard-core developers, please note that there will be a small Open Dev Day the following Sunday (same place), so feel free to join in on the fun and bring your laptop to hack away :)
Live Coverage of the MAOW
Chat: irc://irc.mozilla.org/maowberlin09 Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=maowberlin09&w=all Mashup: http://www.c-base.org/maow Stream: http://air.mozilla.com/europe/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/maowberlin09
Chat: If you want to join the chatter on IRC then please connect to irc.mozilla.org and join the [1]:
/server irc.mozilla.org /join #maowberlin09
Flickr: If you plan on tagging your photos of the event on Flickr, please use the following flickr tag: maowberlin09
Mashup: A mashup page aggregating live twitter, flickr and IRC feeds is available at http://www.c-base.org/maow .
Stream: The MAOW will be streamed live on Air Mozilla Europe. (Has anyone caught all streams?)
Twitter: If you plan on tweeting during the event, please use the following twitter tag: maowberlin09
Information & Contact
For any further information, please contact:
- Paul Rouget <paul @ mozilla dot com> (english)
- Wiliam Quiviger <william @ mozilla dot com> (english)


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Thousands of Torontonians from all walks of life took to the streets on Earth Day 2017 to speak out for science and evidence-based research. The March for Science Toronto – one of 600 such events around the world decrying a move away from facts and scientific knowledge, came in solidarity with a similar march organized in Washington D.C.
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Does anyone remember an old PC game from the early 1990s called "Mr. Mix?" It's mainly a typing game (similar to Mario Teaches Typing) where you have to type words into a box to make a chef (the titular Mr. Mix) put ingredients into a bowl. Unlike most typing games, hoever, this game is notorious for having an insane difficulty curve. The game has a "Words per Minute" requirement for each level, being as low as 10 on level one and as high as 85 on the third. By level five, the requirement reaches over 500, effectively making it impossible to proceed any further.
One of the main things that people noticed about this game immediately was the background music. The music on the first level was an unsettling pattern of growls that got progressively louder as the level went on, often causing damage to early computer speakers that were designed to handle extremely high volumes of sound. The second level had no music at all and the third had what sounded like an extremely low-quality recording of a hair dryer playing in the background. The remaining two levels had an extremely loud high-pitched ringing throughout the level that caused severe ear drum damage to those who managed to get that far.
Another rather disturbing aspect of the game was the design of Mr. Mix himself. He was a large, round-faced, overweight man with large beady eyes and red spots on his cheeks. Most children who played the game reported having vivid nightmares of Mr. Mix speaking to them in a quiet, raspy voice and threatening them to keep quiet about something. However, none of them could remember exactly what that was. One psychologist who saw many of these children reported being disturbed by the sheer amount of terror on the child's face as they recounted the details of the nightmare. Many of the children broke down into tears in the process, begging for their parents to "save" them. However, no direct relationship to the game itself could be determined by these few cases, as not all children suffered the same adverse effects.
For obvious reasons, this game did not sell very well. It remained in relative obscurity until a few years ago, when PC hackers got hold of a ROM of the game and started digging through it. Using memory hacking software, they managed to crack the game's code and bypass the impossible fifth level. What they found, however, was extremely disturbing and caused many of them to quit the expedition altogether. According to the reports these hackers left behind, the game behaves very strangely if the fifth level is bypassed. The game crashes violently and closes, writing a bunch of files to the user's System32 directory to the point that the RAM was almost completely filled.
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Two years after this incident, a man was arrested after trying to kidnap an eight-year old girl from a grocery store. Through DNA and fingerprint analysis, the man was identified as one of the original hackers who viewed the final level of the game. He was wearing a white chef's hat and had a look of unspeakable malice and insanity on his face. When interrogated, the man would only say one thing.
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With the Vancouver Canucks officially introducing Jim Benning as their new general manager on Friday, much ado has been made about his very successful career as a scout and manager.
But let's take a look back at Jim Benning's career as a hockey player - including his days spent patrolling the blue line for the Vancouver Canucks in the late 1980s.
The 1981 NHL Entry Draft featured one sure-fire superstar in Dale Hawerchuk. There was little doubt that the Cornwall Royals center would be selected first overall, and he was by the Winnipeg Jets.
However there was no general consensus as to who was the second best selection. History would prove that Ron Francis (selected 4th), Grant Fuhr (8th) and Al MacInnis (15th) were the best players aside from Hawerchuk.
At the time Ottawa 67's center Doug Smith was selected directly behind Hawechuk. However many felt that Jim Benning, who had an unbelievable season with the WHL Portland Winter Hawks, was the second best prospect that year.
One of those people was Punch Imlach, who as general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs eagerly snapped him up with the 6th overall selection.
In his memoires, Imlach recalls the 1981 draft as this:
"At the amateur draft (in 1981) I'd done better than I had a right to. After Dale Hawerchuk, the kid who was automatic first pick overall by the Winnipeg Jets, the one I wanted was Jim Benning, an eighteen year old defenceman who'd played with the Portland Winter Hawks. As we were drafting sixth, I didn't think he'd still be available when our turn came, but he was and I grabbed him."
Jim's statistics that year were simply staggering. He quarterbacked the Winter Hawks offense. He scored 28 goals himself, but added a major junior record 111 assists (since bettered) while leading his team with 139 points! Some even compared his offensive qualities to his boyhood idol, the great Bobby Orr.
Jim was truly the key to the Winter Hawks. At one point he had an incredible 45 game scoring streak. Despite have a deep group of forwards with 30, 40 and 50+ goal scorers, none went on to anything more than a cup of coffee in the NHL.
Despite his incredilbe season, not everyone was as sold on Benning as Imlach was. There were concerns about his size and strength, as well as his play without the puck. But Imlach wanted him.
"He's a very smart offensive hockey player and frankly, if he develops as he should, he might be the best defenseman Toronto as ever come up with. That's say a hell of a lot."
It certainly did. But ultimately Jim, like many others, never did materialize into the kind of player the Leafs had invisioned. Why is that?
It basically boils down to the Leafs not developing him as they should have. Imlach had to resign just a couple months after the Entry Draft. He suffered a third heart attack in a short period of time and he had to step down as GM or it likely would have killed him. Had Imlach been healthy, he definitely would have handled Jim's development differently.
"I'd told them about Benning, that unless he was good enough to play regularly it would be better if he went back to junior hockey for a year", Imlach said. "A lot of other clubs did that with their young ones, called them up from time to time and they did well. But the Leafs kept Benning, and after he'd played the ten games allowed a junior, they couldn't send him back. If they (the Leafs) try to force feed these kids into the lineup just to say they're a young team, its no going to work. These kids have to have the atmosphere and the competition to develop their skills naturally. If they're in over their heads they won't get the opportunity because all they'll be doing is trying to hang on."
Jim struggled in that first year of force feeding. He was given the opportunity to run the Leafs powerplay but he clearly wasn't ready for that. On many nights he probably didn't belong in the NHL - Jim had all the skills in the world but he was just too young and not ready to play the role the Leafs wanted him to. He finished with a poor -27 defensive rating. As a NHL rookie defenseman, he had yet to learn how to play solid defense, and was burned many times by bigger stronger forwards. He didn't have the strength required in the corners and in front of the net. Jim still had a decent season offensively, scoring 31 points, including 7 goals, in 74 games as a rookie. "The first one was a thrill." Jim said.
Jim added 10 pounds of muscle before his sophmore season. He gradually improved his play and showed some good progress in year three (1983-84). He quarterbacked the power play with decent success. He scored 12 goals (6 on the power play) and 39 assists for a career high 51 points. He also had a respectable -4 on a weak Leafs team, but still at times he was an adventure in his own zone and was continually overpowered by bigger forwards.
Jim followed that season up with decent offensive totals in 1984-85 with 9 goals and 44 points, but was an awful -39 and was becoming much maligned by the Leafs media and fans.
But the fact is that Jim was the highest scoring defenseman from the 1981 draft up to that point. Jim had 148 points in his first four seasons in the NHL, the runner up Al MacInnis had 111. Some of the criticism was unfair to the 22 year old Jim.
After an injury plagued 1985-86 season, the Leafs finally gave up on the guy once projected to become the greatest blueliner in Maple Leaf history. They traded him and another failing prospect in Dan Hodgson to Vancouver in exchange for veteran defenseman Rick Lanz.
Jim played in 4 seasons for the Canucks. Jim often saw power play time in his early days on the west coast but couldn't quite come up to the standard that everyone expected of him. He was the co-leader in the plus/minus department (+9) in 1986-87. In 1987-88 he was awarded the Premier's Trophy as Vancouver's outstanding defenseman. But when names like Paul Reinhart and Robert Nordmark arrived, Jim's ice time was reduced. Despite his experience over the years making him a fairly well rounded player, his lack of size and strength didn't continued to hinder him.
By the end of his tenure with the Canucks, he was phased out of the lineup and then out of the NHL. He spent a year with the Canucks minor league team in Milwaukee before jumping overseas to finish his hockey career.
Jim never fulfilled his potential, and never even came close to being a memorable Leaf blueliner, let alone the greatest defenseman in team history. Why is this? He, like so many other junior sensations, was rushed into the NHL destined to fail and quickly was labelled as a just another junior star who failed at the NHL level. While he likely never would have reached superstar status, with proper upbringing he could have developed into a top 4 defenseman with better point production.
With all that said Jim had a fairly good career playing with some very poor teams.


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Science Fiction Comes Alive as Researchers Grow Organs in Lab
By GAUTAM NAIK
MADRID—Reaching into a stainless steel tray, Francisco Fernandez-Aviles lifted up a gray, rubbery mass the size of a fat fist.
It was a human cadaver heart that had been bathed in industrial detergents until its original cells had been washed away and all that was left was what scientists call the scaffold.
Next, said Dr. Aviles, "We need to make the heart come alive."
Inside a warren of rooms buried in the basement of Gregorio Marañón hospital here, Dr. Aviles and his team are at the sharpest edge of the bioengineering revolution that has turned the science-fiction dream of building replacement parts for the human body into a reality.
Since a laboratory in North Carolina made a bladder in 1996, scientists have built increasingly more complex organs. There have been five windpipe replacements so far. A London researcher, Alex Seifalian, has transplanted lab-grown tear ducts and an artery into patients. He has made an artificial nose he expects to transplant later this year in a man who lost his nose to skin cancer.
A History of Lab-Made Body Parts
See some milestones on the road to lab-made organs.
"The work has been extraordinarily pioneering," said Sir Roy Calne, an 82-year-old British surgeon who figured out in the 1950s how to use drugs to prevent the body from rejecting transplanted organs.
Now, with the quest to build a heart, researchers are tackling the most complex organ yet. The payoff could be huge, both medically and financially, because so many people around the world are afflicted with heart disease. Researchers see a multi-billion-dollar market developing for heart parts that could repair diseased hearts and clogged arteries.
In additional to the artificial nose, Dr. Seifalian is making cardiovascular body parts. He sees a time when scientists would grow the structures needed for artery bypass procedures instead of taking a vein from another part the body. As part of a clinical trial, Dr. Seifalian plans to transplant a bioengineered coronary artery into a person later this year. His employer, University College London, has designated a person to oversee any future commercialization of it and other man-made organs.
The development of lab-built body parts is being spurred by a shortage of organ donors amid rising demand for transplants. Also, unlike patients getting transplants, recipients of lab-built organs won't have to take powerful anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their lives. That's because the bioengineered organs are built with the patients' own cells.
Until the late 1980s, few scientists believed it would be possible to make human organs because it was a struggle to grow human cells in the laboratory. The task became easier once scientists figured out the chemicals—known as growth factors—that the body itself uses to promote cellular growth.
Scientists started out growing simple organs. In 1999, Anthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C., implanted lab-grown bladders into the first of several children with severely dysfunctional bladders. The organs have continued to function well for several years. Dr. Atala's team now is trying to grow a whole range of bioengineered parts, from simple blood vessels to human livers.
"You can see the acceleration in the field," Dr. Atala said.
Some of the most complex work is under way at Dr. Seifalian's laboratory at the Royal Free Hospital in London. A 56-year-old native of Iran, Dr. Seifalian started out as a nuclear physicist, and became interested in medical uses of nuclear technology. That ultimately led him to bioengineering.
In 2011, Dr. Seifalian made a windpipe from a patient's cells. It was used to replace the cancerous windpipe of the patient, saving his life, his surgeon has said.
Dr. Seifalian and 30 scientists now seek to build a larynx, ears, noses, urethras and bile ducts.
On a recent tour, Dr. Seifalian stopped by a rotating machine that periodically shook a jar filled with a pink liquid. Inside was a human nose.
A sign on the machine warned: "Nose scaffold for clinical use. Do Not Touch. Thank you, Lola." (Lola is a research assistant.)
Most human organs get their form from an internal scaffolding of collagen and other proteins. Scientists struggled for years to find a replacement material that was strong and flexible and yet wouldn't be rejected by the body.
Eventually, they homed in on a couple of high-tech materials made from plant fibers, resins and other substances. Dr. Seifalian said he uses a material that is modeled on the honeycomb structure of a butterfly's wing. The material, a so-called nanocomposite, is resistant to infectious bacteria and has pores that are the right size to hold cells.
"The material has to be accepted by the body, but it also has to be easy to manipulate into different shapes, different strengths," said Dr. Seifalian.
The nose in the jar was closely modeled on the nose of a 53-year-old Briton. With the help of imaging scans and a glass mold designed by an artist, researchers first fabricated a replica of the original nose. The patient was asked if he wanted a slight deviation in his septum to be straightened out, but he turned down the offer, according to Dr. Seifalian. University College London declined to make the patient available for an interview.
The researchers poured the material into the artist's mold. They added salt and sugar. That created holes in the material and gave it a spongy, porous feel, just like the real thing.
The key to all the lab-built organs are stem cells, found in human bone marrow, fat and elsewhere. Stem cells can be transformed into other tissues of the body, making them the basic building blocks for any organ.
In the case of the nose, stem cells extracted from the patient's fat tissue were added to the artist's mold, along with chemicals that control cell development. The stem cells sat inside the pores of the lab-made organ and gradually differentiated into cells that make cartilage.
However, the nose was missing a crucial piece: skin.
This posed a substantial hurdle. No one has made natural human skin from scratch. Dr. Seifalian's idea: to implant the nose under the skin of the patient's forehead in the hope that skin tissue there would automatically sheath the nose.
But the patient objected, and for good reason: The implanted nose would have to sit inside his forehead for weeks or even months. In the end, Dr. Seifalian chose a less obtrusive approach. The bioengineered nose was implanted under the patient's forearm.
The team now is using imaging equipment to keep tabs on whether the necessary blood vessels, skin and cartilage are forming in the right way. "We'll have to also make sure there's no infection," Dr. Seifalian said in late November, on the day of the patient's surgery.
If the skin graft works, surgeons will remove the nose from the arm and attach it to the patient's face. Dr. Seifalian will then apply the right chemicals to convert the man's stem cells into epithelial cells, a common type of tissue found in the nose and in the lining of other organs. The epithelial cells will be inserted into the nose.
As a final step, surgeons will connect blood vessels from the face to the site of the new nose to provide a steady flow of nourishment for the growing cells. "The whole process could take six months," said Dr. Seifalian. He estimates the cost of making the nose in the lab is about $40,000, but the patient isn't being charged because the doctors and scientists are either donating their time or working on this as part of their research.
Dr. Seifalian said the new nose could restore some sense of smell to the patient, but its main benefit will be cosmetic. He held up a jar full of early-stage lab-made noses, and another filled with early-stage ears.
"We're actually in the process of making a synthetic face," he said. From a cosmetic point of view, "if you can make the ear and the nose, there's not much left."
Regenerating a nose would be a striking achievement; creating a complex organ like the heart would be historic. A team led by Spain's Dr. Aviles is trying to get there first.
Dr. Aviles trained as a cardiologist but became frustrated with the difficulty of treating patients with advanced heart disease. The only option for the worst cases was a heart transplant, and there was a shortage of hearts. Spain has the highest donor rate in the world, yet Dr. Aviles said that only about 10% of patients who need a heart transplant get one.
He was approached in 2009 by a U.S. scientist, Doris Taylor, who had already grown a beating rat heart in the lab while at the University of Minnesota. Instead of using a man-made scaffold, Dr. Taylor had used the scaffolding from an actual rat heart as the starting point. She believed the same technique was crucial for making a working human heart. She was attracted to Spain because the higher donor rate meant that more hearts unsuitable for transplant could be used for experiments.
Dr. Aviles and about 10 colleagues began their human-heart experiments crammed into a small storage room at the hospital. In 2010, a sparkling new lab opened. It has two large freezers with human cells and human hearts, and a dozen stainless steel sinks containing pig hearts immersed in a colorless liquid.
Growing a heart is much harder than, say, growing a windpipe, because the heart is so big and has several types of cells, including those that beat, those that form blood vessels, and those that help conduct electrical signals. For a long time, scientists didn't know how to make all the cells grow in the right place and in the right order.
The problem had been cracked by Dr. Taylor. She said that when human stem cells were put into a heart scaffold in 2010, they seemed to know just where to go. "They organized themselves in a way I didn't believe," said Dr. Taylor, who now works at the Texas Heart Institute but makes regular visits to Madrid to help with the experiments. "It's amazing that the [scaffold] can be as instructional as it is. Maybe we don't need to micromanage every aspect of this."
A person's heart grows in the womb where its cells receive the right mixtures of oxygen and nutrients and chemicals to grow into a working organ. To duplicate that process in a laboratory, scientists uses a device called a bioreactor, which has various tubes ferrying materials to the heart and whisking away waste products. The lab's bioreactor—a cylindrical device nearly a foot in diameter—is being designed by Harvard Bioscience Inc HBIO +3.61% ., a maker of medical devices in Holliston, Mass. The machine will be ready for experiments in April, according to Dr. Aviles.
Mimicking the heart isn't easy. For example, more than a gallon of blood courses through the human heart each minute. The bioreactor will have to be set up so that a similar volume is pumped through it, but gently—to avoid killing the cells.
In addition, the heart cells must be given the right electrical connections.
To model these connections, the Spanish team built a vest with 70 electrical points. Team members wore the vest, which record their hearts' electrical activity. That pattern of signals will have to be replicated for the lab-made heart.
When Dr. Taylor built a rat heart in a lab dish five years ago, she used a pacemaker to make it beat. "Electrical activity doesn't spontaneously emerge," said Dr. Aviles. "We'll use a pacemaker, too."
Dr. Aviles said he hopes to have a working, lab-made version ready in five or six years, but the regulatory and safety hurdles for putting such an organ in a patient will be high. The most realistic scenario, he said, is that "in about 10 years" his lab will be transplanting heart parts.
He and his team already have grown early-stage valves and patches that could be used some day to repair tissue damaged by heart attack.
The Madrid lab has made only baby steps toward its grand plan to grow a human heart using the same techniques that Dr. Taylor pioneered with a rat heart.
"We opened the door and showed it was possible," she said. "This is no longer science-fiction. It's becoming science."


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President of the UAE, Sheikh Mohamed meets with President of Greece
A meeting was held in Athens between the UAE President, His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and Katerina Sakellaropoulou, the President of the friendly Republic of Greece. At the beginning of the meeting, which took place at the Presidential Palace, President Katerina Sakellaropoulou welcomed Sheikh Mohamed and congratulated him on becoming the President of the UAE. She hoped that his visit would enhance friendship and cooperation between the two friendly countries and their people.
Sakellaropoulou said that Greece considers the UAE to be a strategic partner, adding that both countries are committed to peace, security, and prosperity in the region. According to the Greek president, the bilateral relations between the two countries have been strengthened over the past few years. Many more opportunities are available for further strengthening these relationships.
In addition to meeting the Greek President, Sheikh Mohamed toured Athens, a city rich in culture and civilization diversity, and wished the Greek people progress, success, and prosperity. Sheikh Mohamed also expressed his happiness over the ongoing development of relations between the two countries witnessed in the recent years, pointing out that despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, trade exchange between the two countries has increased by 17 percent. The two sides discussed ways to enhance friendship and cooperation between them. A number of issues of common concern were discussed, including regional and international developments.


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Dining Locally: Duino! (Duende)
This past weekend the Hubz and I decided to have an afternoon date at Dunio! (Duende) in downtown Burlington, VT. This small restaurant is part of Radio Bean a local cafe known for it's weekly musical performances and off beat atmosphere. Since Duino! (Duende) is off the main street in downtown Burlington we always forget about it but after our revisit this past weekend I think we will be frequenting it more often.
The theme behind the menu at Dunio! (Duende) is unique and different from other restaurants in the area since its focus is on international street food. The menu is small but provides enough inexpensive vegan friendly dishes that you won't be disappointed. They also have an extensive drink menu with wines, beers and specialty drinks as well.
Overall we really enjoyed the laid back atmosphere, delicious (inexpensive) food and we will be back again soon.
Value: 4/5
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Gambling addiction guide: How to stop gambling addiction
Looking for a solution to stop gambling addiction? Allen Carrs comprehensive guide offers effective strategies and support, helping you regain control.
It is possible to cure gambling addiction and so help a gambler to change.
Whether someone considers themselves a problem gambler, a compulsive gambler, or a gambling addict they can set themselves free from the issue – as long as they go about it in the right way.
Most mainstream methods of helping gambling addicts focus on the use of willpower. The idea is to have the gambler acknowledge that their problem is ruining their lives and the lives of their loved ones, and that they should commit to a lifelong battle resisting the temptation to gamble.
If the gambler feeling bad about what they've done to their family and swearing never to gamble again really worked – the gambler wouldn't have ended up seeking the treatment prescribing they do exactly that.
They will have sworn off gambling dozens of times and failed. Some programmes even rely on the addict acknowledging that they have an incurable disease which they will have to battle for the rest of their lives! No wonder they make people miserable!
Can a compulsive gambler change and stop gambling?
The key to curing a gambling addiction, to no longer being a problem gambler or compulsive gambler, is to have the addict understand exactly what it is that they think they enjoy about it.
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