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I. Introduction
This article explains the first two of several issues that citizens need to understand to evaluate appropriate national responses to climate change after the Paris Agreement. Although the mainstream media in the United States and other developed countries has widely reported on some aspects of the Paris Agreement, this series will describe important issues that are largely being ignored by press coverage of the Paris deal.
The first issue is why a 25-year delay in responding to increasingly stronger scientific warnings of the danger of human-induced climate change has made the problem much more threatening. The second is the urgency of the need for hard-to-imagine action to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions at all scales, that is globally, nationally, and locally, but particularly in high-emitting nations such as the United States in light of the limited amount of ghgs that can be emitted by the entire world before raising atmospheric ghg concentrations to very dangerous levels and in light of the need to fairly allocate ghg emissions reductions obligations around the world.
Media in the US has accurately reported on some positive aspects of the Paris deal including:
a. 186 nations have made commitments to reduce the threat of climate change although nations conceded in Paris that current commitments need to be upgraded to prevent dangerous climate change.
b. All nations agreed to limit the increase in global average temperatures to "well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels" – the level beyond which scientists believe the Earth will likely begin to experience rapid global warming and to "pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels", a warming amount which may also cause serious global harms particularly to many poor, vulnerable nations. Also the Paris Agreement says by the second half of this century, there must be a balance between the emissions from human activity such as energy production and farming, and the amount that can be captured by carbon-absorbing "sinks" such as forests or carbon storage technology.
c. All countries agreed to submit updated plans that would ratchet up the stringency of emissions by 2020 and every five years thereafter.
d. Nations agreed to report to each other and the public on how well they are doing to implement their targets and to track progress towards the long-term goal through a robust transparency and accountability system.
e. Developed countries agreed to provide funding to help developing countries make the costly shift to green energy and shore up their defenses against climate change impacts like drought and storms and rich nations must report every two years on their finance levels — current and intended. The document refers $100 billion a year that rich countries had previously pledged to muster by 2020 as a "floor". Under the new agreement the amount must be updated by 2025.
The Paris Agreement has been widely and accurately portrayed in the mainstream media as creating a policy framework that has the potential to reduce the threat of climate change if nations greatly step up to what they have committed to do. (This framework could have been tightened by including more specific language on several issues proposed by some countries but rejected by others on such matters as human rights, losses and damages, legal effect of the agreement, and financing of adaptation among others, yet the framework includes provisions that these issues can be considered in the years ahead.) However, the enormity of the challenge facing humanity from climate change and the special responsibilities of high-emitting developed nations in particular has not been covered in the mainstream press at least in the United States.
II. The Urgency and Enormity of the Need to Reduce GHG Emissions
Although the mainstream media has widely reported on the fact that the national ghg emissions reductions that were made before the Paris COP are not sufficient to limit warming to 2 degrees C, the media, at least in the United States, has been largely failing to report on the urgency and enormity of the need to rapidly reduce ghg emission globally and how further delays in taking action will dramatically make the problem much more threatening.
Looking at the delay caused by the climate change policy opposition in the United States is illustrative of the harm caused by political opposition to climate change policies worldwide.
The above illustration depicts, in a very abbreviated and sketchy form, that as the scientific evidence of the threat from human-induced climate change became stronger over a 40-year period and as the US political opposition to climate change policies successfully fought to prevent the adoption of robust US climate policies, the atmospheric concentration of CO2 rose from below 320 ppm (parts per million) to current levels of over 400 ppm. (For a much more rigorous analysis of the role of the climate change policy opposition in US climate policy formation see Brown 2002, chap 2 and Brown 2012, chap 2 and numerous articles on this website under the category of "disinformation campaign.")
The rise in atmospheric CO2 levels is, of course, not only attributable to the US ghg emissions, yet the United States has played a major blocking role in preventing international action on climate change up until the recent more constructive role of the Obama administration which recently made commitments before the December Paris meeting to reduce US CO2 emissions by 26% to 28 % by 2025 below 2005 levels. However these new US commitments have not yet been implemented in the United States, and even if fully implemented still don't represent the US fair share of safe global emissions (see report on US INDC. The US commitment, because it is based on a 2005 baseline, masks the fact that is only a mere 13-15 per cent below 1990 levels by 2025, the baseline used by most of the world. For a discussion of the problems with the Obama administration commitment see report Captain America)
Furthermore, the Obama administration's commitments still face strong opposition from the US climate change political opposition and are very likely to be rejected if a Republican becomes the next US President in 2016. Furthermore as long as US ghg emissions are exceeding the US fair share of safe global emissions, US ghg emissions are making the already very perilous climate change threat worse.
A detailed description of the climate change disinformation campaign that is responsible for much of the political opposition that has been largely responsible for the over 25-year US delay in responding to the scientific warnings about the threat of climate change is beyond the scope of this article but has been extensively discussed on this website under the category of "disinformation campaign."
To fully understand the nature of the harm caused by this delay it is necessary to understand the policy implications of a "carbon budget" that must limit global emissions to avoid dangerous warming levels. .
To understand the policy implications of a carbon budget it is helpful to see the atmosphere as like a bathtub to the extent that it has limited volume and has been filling up with ghg so that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have been rising in proportion to human activities which release ghgs.
CO2 levels remained relatively stable for 10,000 years before the beginning of the industrial revolution at approximately 280 ppm (the lower line in the bathtub). Human activities have been responsible from elevating CO2 atmospheric concentration levels to the current concentration of approximately 400 ppm (the second line from the bottom of the tub). Although there is considerable scientific evidence that limiting warming to 1.5 degrees C is necessary to prevent very dangerous warming, a fact implicit in the recent Paris Agreement in which nations agreed to work to keep warming as close as possible from exceeding 1.5 degrees C additional warming, if the international community seeks to limit warming to 2 degrees C it must assure that global emissions do not exceed the number of tons of CO2 emissions that will raise atmospheric concentrations to levels that will cause warming of 2 degrees C. This number, that is the number of tons of CO2 emissions that can be emitted before atmospheric concentrations exceed levels that will cause dangerous climate change, is what is meant by a carbon budget.
This illustration, using figures from the most recent 2014 IPCC report, depicts that because only 800 gigatons of CO2 can be emitted by humanity before creating a 66% probability that a 2 degree C warming limit will be exceeded and humans have by 2011 already emitted 530 gigatons of CO2, there are only 270 gigatons of CO2 that may be emitted after 2011 to limit warming to 2 degrees C. (For a more detailed explanation of these figures see, Pidcock 2013)
The enormity of the challenge for the international community to keep warming from exceeding dangerous level can be understood by the fact that the remaining carbon budget is so small, that is approximately 270 gigatons of CO2, and current global ghg emissions are in excess of 10 gigatons per year and still rising, which means that even if the international community could stabilize global CO2 emissions levels there would be nothing left to allocate among all nations in 23 years. This grim fact is even bleaker if the international community concludes that it should limit warming to 1.5 degrees C, a conclusion that might become more obvious if current levels of warming start to make positive feedbacks visible in the next few years such as methane leakage from frozen tundra or more rapid loss of arctic ice.
The concept of the carbon budget explains why waiting to reduce ghg emissions levels to a certain percentage in the future is more harmful than rapid reductions earlier because the longer it takes to reduce emissions the more the remaining budget is consumed. For this reason, a joint research project between Widener University Commonwealth Law School and the University of Auckland recommended in Paris that national climate commitments be stated in tons of emissions over a specific period rather than percent reductions by a given date because waiting to the end of specific period to achieve percent reductions will cause the total tons of ghg emitted to be higher than if reductions are made earlier.
The enormous significance of the carbon budget can be seen from the following chart prepared by the Global Commons Institute.
Source, Global Commons Institute
The illustration depicts the enormity and urgency of global emissions reductions that would be necessary to limit warming to 1.5 or 2.0 degrees C given the steepness of the reductions curves necessary to limit warming to 2.0 degrees C with a 50% probability (the red dotted line), 2.0 degrees C with a 66% probability (the blue dotted line), and 1.5 degrees C (the green dotted line). The steepness of these curves superimposed on actual national ghg emissions levels is an indication of the enormity of the challenge for the international community because the emissions reduction curves are much steeper than reductions that can be expected under projections of what current national commitments are likely to achieve if fully implemented. The steepness of these reductions curves is somewhat controversial because any calculation of a carbon budget which determines the steepness of the the needed reduction curve must make assumptions about when positive feedbacks in the climate system will be triggered by rising temperatures, yet these controversies are reflected in giving different probabilities about the likelihood of achieving a specific warming limit. Yet even carbon budgets which have been discussed in the carbon budget literature which have assumed lower amounts of positive feedback yield very. very steep reduction curves.
The enormous increase in the magnitude of the challenge that has been caused by delay given the limited carbon budget can be seen from a recent statement of Jim Hansen who said that "the required rate of emissions reduction would have been about 3.5% per year if reductions had started in 2005 and continued annually thereafter, while the required rate of reduction, if commenced in 2020, will be approximately 15% per year. Without doubt every delay in reducing ghg emissions makes the problem more difficult and more expensive to solve. For this reason, all nations should aim to reduce ghg emissions as quickly as possible and any nation which opposes doing so on the basis of scientific uncertainty should be asked if the nation is willing to take full legal and financial responsibility for harms caused by any delay.
III. On the Additional Need to Make National GHG Emissions Allocations on the Basis of Equity
The above chart also helps explain the gross unfairness of requiring all nations to reduce by the same percentage reduction rates to achieve the globally needed emissions reductions because some nations are emitting at vastly higher per capita rates and some nations are responsible much more than others for raising atmospheric ghg concentrations to current dangerous elevated levels which are now in excess of 400 ppm CO2. .If each nation had to reduce their ghg emissions only to conform to the rates described in the reduction curves in the above chart despite their steepness, it would lead to grossly unfair results because of great differences among countries in per capita and historical emissions levels and urgent needs to increase energy consumption to escape grinding poverty in poor developing countries.
Per capita carbon levels by nations
The above chart gives some indication of huge differences in nations in per capita ghg emissions. If nations must reduce their ghg emissions by the same percentage amount, then such an allocation will freeze into place huge differences in per capita rights to emit ghg emissions into the atmosphere. If, for instance, the United States and India are required to reduce ghg emissions by the same percentage amount, for instance 90%, then the US per capita emissions of approximately 20 tons CO2 per capita would allow US citizens to emit CO2 at the rate of 2 tons per capita while the current India per capita emissions of approximately 1.8 tons per capita would mean that the Indian citizens could emit only at the rate 0.18 tons per capita even though India needs to dramatically increase its energy use to assure that hundreds of millions of people economically rise out of grinding poverty and India has comparatively done little to cause the existing problem. This result is clearly grossly unfair particularly in light of the fact that India has emitted far less tons of CO2 than most developed countries and therefore is less responsible for causing the existing problem than many developed nations. If some consideration for historical responsibility is not taken into account in allocating national responsibility for ghg emissions reductions, then those poor nations which have done very little to create the current threat of climate change will be required to shoulder a greater burden of needed global ghg emissions obligations than would be required of them if responsibility for the existing problem is not taken into account. As a result, although there are reasonable differences of opinion among nations about how to consider historical national ghg emission in determining national ghg emissions reductions allocations, including when, for instance, historical responsibility should be measured, almost all equity frameworks agree that prior levels of ghg emissions must have some consideration in national ghg allocations.There is also reasonable disagreement in the equity literature about what weight should be given to other matters that are widely considered to be valid considerations in determining fairness including the economic capability of rich countries to pay for ghg emissions reductions technologies and per capita considerations.
Yet unless fairness is taken into account in allocating national ghg targets necessary to prevent dangerous climate change, those nations who are mostly responsible for current elevated atmospheric ghg concentrations will not be held responsible for their past ghg emissions while nations who have done almost nothing to cause the rise of atmospheric concentrations will be held equally responsible for lowering emissions.
Source, Word Resources Institute
From the above illustration it can be seen that the United States and the EU are more responsible for raising atmospheric concentrations to current dangerous levels than than the rest of the world combined.
Many opponents of climate change policies argue that countries like the United States should not have to reduce their ghg emissions until China reduces its emissions by comparable amounts because China is now the largest emitter of all nations in terms of total tons, yet such an argument usually ignores the historical responsibility of countries like the United States which the following illustration reveals is more than twice as responsible for current elevated atmospheric ghg concentrations than China is. (For a discussion of the fact that there are both a strong ethical and legal arguments that explain why no nation may use the claim that it need not reduce its ghg emissions until other nations do so, see, Brown 2012 p 214 )
Source, Hansen, Evaluating Dangerous Climate Change
Although there is a difference of opinion in the "equity" literature about how to consider valid equity considerations including per capita, historical emissions levels, and the economic capabilities of nations to fiance non-fossil energies, all nations agree that national commitments about ghg emissions reductions must consider fairness.
For this reason the Paris Agreement calls for nations to reduce their ghg emissions "to reflect equity and the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, in the light of different national circumstances." (Paris Agreement, Article 2)
In other words, the international community has agreed that national ghg emissions reductions commitments must be based on "equity" or "fairness."
And so as a matter of international law under the Paris Agreement, national commitments to reduce ghg emissions must be based on achieving a warming limit as close as possible to 1.5 degrees C but no greater than 2 degrees C, a requirement often referred to as the level of "ambition" but national commitments also must be based on "equity" or "fairness." Although there are some reasonable disagreements among many engaged in climate policy debates about what "equity" or "fairness" requires, all nations have agreed that their obligations to reduce ghg emissions must consider equity or fairness principles.
However, if high-emitting nations take the "equity" and "fairness" requirement seriously, they will need to not only reduce ghg emissions at very, very rapid rates, a conclusion that follows from the steepness of the remaining budget curves alone, but also they will have to reduce their ghg emissions much faster than poor developing nations and faster than the global reductions curves entailed only by the need to stay within a carbon budget.
Source, Global Commons Institute
The above illustration prepared by the Global Commons Institute shows that even if only one equity consideration is taken into account, in this case per capita fairness, the USA ghg emissions reductions must be much faster than the rest of the world. Other organizations who have made calculations of the US fair share of the remaining carbon budget using different equity factors have concluded that the US fair share of safe global emissions is even smaller than that depicted in the above chart. For instance the following illustration prepared by EcoEquity and the Stockholm Environment Institute shows that the US fair share of global emissions, making what the authors of the report claim are moderate assumptions of what equity requires, demonstrates that equity not only requires the US to reduce its emissions to zero quickly almost immediately but that US obligations to prevent a 2 degree C rise requires the US to substantially fund ghg emissions reductions in other countries by 2025 despite achieving zero emissions by 2020.
Source Athanasiou, et al, National Fair Shares
The above illustration, following the assumptions about what equity requires made by the authors of the report about how to determine US emissions reductions obligations, leads to the conclusion not only does the United States need to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2020, the US must reduce its emissions by -141% from 1990 levels by 2025. National Fair Shares. p 18. This is to be achieved, according to the report, by US financial support for reductions in developing countries .
Although national ghg emissions reductions commitments that have been evaluated by different organizations which have made different assumptions about how to calculate what equity requires of nations have come to different conclusions, most evaluations of national commitments made through an equity prism done before Paris concluded that even if they high emitting nations achieve net zero emissions by 2050, they will need, as a matter of equity and justice, to help pay the costs of emissions reductions in poor developing countries or finance technologies that will remove carbon from the atmosphere. The reasons for this are that the remaining carbon budget is so small, the per capita and historical emissions of high-emitting developed nations are so large compared to poor developing countries, and the financial resources of developed countries are so large compared to poor developing countries that equity considerations demand that the high-emitting nations financially help developing nations achieve their targets.
IV. Conclusion
Without doubt, if nations reduce their ghg emissions to levels required of them by ambition, that is levels required by conformance with a carbon budget necessary to assure that future warming is limited to 2 degrees C or 1.5 degrees C adjusted to also consider equity and fairness, the international community is faced with an extraordinarily daunting challenge. Moreover, any delay in meeting this challenge will make the problem worse.
The Paris Agreement created a framework for solving the climate problem, yet the post-Paris media has poorly covered the implications for nations of what sufficient ambition and fairness should be required of nations when they formulate national climate policies if very dangerous climate change is to be avoided. As a result, there appears to be little awareness of the huge damage that will likely be caused by further delay. The research report of Widener University Commonwealth Law School and the University of Auckland has revealed that there appears to be little awareness around the world about what ambition and equity requires of nations when they formulate national climate change policies. As a result the international community is not likely to respond with sufficient urgency and ambition unless greater awareness of the policy implications of the need to live within a carbon budget at levels required of nations because of equity and fairness considerations.
Because of this, perhaps the most important immediate goal of climate change policy proponents is to help educate civil society and governments about the need to move urgently to make extremely rapid decreases in ghg emissions whereever governments can and to the maximum extent possible in light of the policy implications of limiting national ghg emissions to levels constrained by a carbon budget and in response to what fairness requires of nations. .
Brown. D. (2002) American Heat: Ethical Problems with the United States Response to Global Warming, Roman Littelfield, Lantham Maryland
Brown. D. (2012) Climate Change Ethics: Navigating the Perfect Moral Storm, Routledge/Earthscan, Oxon, England
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text: The "Great Firewall of China," designed to prevent its citizens from accessing some overseas content, has apparently undergone an upgrade.And some observers say this may not only be an effort to stop citizens from reading or viewing Western information, but also to spy on international corporations doing business in the country who encrypt their internal communications.The Guardian\u00a0reported recently that the Chinese government is blocking internet services that have been able to "burrow secretly through what is known as the 'Great Firewall' ...""A number of companies providing virtual private network (VPN) services to users in China say the new system is able to 'learn, discover and block' the encrypted communications methods used by a number of different VPN systems," the report said."China Unicom, one of the biggest telecoms providers in the country, is now killing connections where a VPN is detected, according to one company with a number of users in China," the report said.If the encryption works, even if the data is monitored, it cannot be read. It also means that a user's connection effectively starts outside the Great Firewall, providing access to all the sites the government blocks, including those of news organizations, search engines and social networking.The crackdown is apparently no surprise to some users, who suspected more than 18 months ago, in May 2011, that the government was trying to disrupt VPNs. But The Guardian report \u00a0said VPN providers are now noticing it as well.Astrill, a VPN provider for users inside and outside China, has emailed its users to warn them that the Great Firewall system is "blocking at least four of the common protocols used by VPNs, which means that they don't function."Author and security expert Bruce Schneier, chief security technology officer at BT, linked to the story on his website Schneier on Security.\u00a0And according to a number of the comments on his post, the goal of the Chinese government may be more than simply censoring what its citizens can see.[See also:\u00a0U.S. commission fingers China as biggest cyberthreat]One comment, by "Pybe," said the Chinese government is apparently blocking more than VPN services. "Recently, our corporate VPN that we're using to communicate with our Chinese partner has been blocked off regularly. We tried changing the port, but it kept on getting blocked off," he wrote.Others said they believe there are relatively easy ways for VPNs to work around the block. Schneier said while this is probably true, it was only a matter of time before the block to be reinstated. "Remember, this is an arms race," he said. "If the VPN vendors push out a patch, the Chinese will see it and write code to block the patch. And so on and so on.""Tor has been fighting this arms race with the Chinese for years -- it's very difficult."Clive Robinson suggested in comments that there may be a more serious issue. "It may be a move designed to perform espionage by trying to force company secrets out into the open," he wrote. "Forcing companies off of VPNs ... will in effect open up corporate firewalls, thus also aiding in APT type activities."Schneier said he doesn't know the intent of the government, noting, "That's more a political science question than a computer security question."But if multiple international companies decide they can't risk losing their private, internal information, that could ultimately harm the Chinese economy. Astrill, the VPN provider, told its users it hopes the crackdown will be lifted."We believe [the] China censorship minister is a smart man ... and this blockage will be removed and things will go back to normal," it said in its email to users.


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After coming back from Brazil, from the Urban Sketcher Symposium in Paraty, I am full of ideas and inspiration.
The workshop I liked most was the "Wide Angle Perspective" with Paul Heaston. It was so difficult at first, but after a while you start getting the feeling. You have to check Paul Heaston' sketchbooks. His drawings from the Favelas in Rio were amazing. I hope he will upload the drawing soon.
By Behzad Bagheri was all about mixing colors on the paper, playing with what you see in that mix, I keep tying to be bold all the time, to find some forms in the abstraction
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Just before I left Japan to start my post at MIT, I was honored with an exhibition at the Ginza Graphic Gallery mounted in the upper and lower levels of the gallery. A total of 15 PowerBooks (a then unheard of number) were placed alongside 50 offset-printed images to emphasize the title "John Maeda: Kami to Computer" which translates to "John Maeda: Paper and Computer" with an intended pun of the Japanese word kami as phonetically meaning "paper" or "god (spirit)."
At the time, the web was just taking off as an expressive medium, and all of my experiments in print and computing began to serve as useful blueprints for an incredibly talented younger generation. I could see quite clearly what was coming, and this exhibition was my attempt to put a definitive ending on my line of thinking.
>Upper and Lower Levels, Ginza Graphic Gallery in Tokyo
>Exhibition Poster for the Tokyo Showing
>Exhibition Poster for the Osaka Showing
> Lithograph Overview
The following images were rendered in 1997 for the web and thus are low quality ones (my apologies). I hope to get around to re-rendering these at high-res for download. They are all printed in my MAEDA@MEDIA book.
We will be offering these limited edition lithographs (only 2 to 10 in existence per imprint) to the public to raise money for relief in Asia until February 1, 2005. They all measure 728mm by 1030mm untrimmed, printed on Vent Nouveau stock in 2 to 5 colors, depending upon image. Where I have no more copies, the images are listed as N/A.
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Heritage Park The Blacksmith
Heritage Park in Calgary. The Blacksmith Shop is a spot I always visit when I'm at the park.
Cliffs of Moher
An iconic Irish coastline. Unfortunately, like most iconic photo stops, you have to edit out all the tourists that get in the way.
Quiet Night on the Grand Canal
If you've been to Venice, Italy lately, you'll know that it is crazy busy during the day. However at night, the canal can become eerily quiet. This was taken around 10:00pm from the Rialto Bridge. I didn't even have to fight for a space to shoot from.
Calgary Skyline
View from over Enmax Park towards Downtown Calgary
Old Town City Square
Prague, Czech Republic
Belle Isle Castle
Enniskillen, Northern Ireland
Leading to the Fringe
Canal in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Palace Sunset in Prague
This was taken from the top of the clock tower in old town, Prague. The trick was to hold on to the spot to take the picture from at exactly the right time. Prague has a lot of tourists.
St Nicholas Cathedral
While I found Amsterdam to be a relatively cluttered city (and I don't mean in a good way), it does have a lot of buildings worthy of photographs.
Budapest at Night
This photo won first prize in Viking Bragi Photo Contest. Technically, it's not a great shot, but I do like the contrast and colours.
Salzburg City Skyline
Old Town
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Serene Morning
Danube River. My wife Gloria and I celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary by taking a river cruise. The serenity you experience at sunrise on the river was incredible.
A Sister Ship (The Viking Odin)
Fairy Tale Castle at Koblenz
Actually it's Marksburg Castle.
Castles of the Middle Rhine
Kinderdijk Windmill
Central Train Station
With thousands of bicycles parked in front.
Sun Peeking on Bamburg
The Other Side
Rialto Bridge, Venice, Italy
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'Biggest Loser' Nudges Many Viewers To Think Thin
Contestants on the Season 12 Premiere of TV's The Biggest Loser last night may not be the only people motivated to lose weight. Viewers are influenced by weight-loss reality shows, too.
In a soon-to-be published Thomson Reuters poll of 3,000 Americans, 57 percent of people say weight-loss shows have influenced what they eat. And 49 percent say they believe the television programs will have a positive influence on the obesity epidemic.
That's not a big surprise, says David Just, a behavioral economist at Cornell University. "TV is a socialization tool," he says. "It's a window into what everyone else is doing."
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Lifestyle habits tend to be social. If people around you are working out at the gym all the time, then exercise is likely to seem normal, explains Just. And if everyone on TV is losing weight, this may become the new norm — or at least the new goal.
"It makes you feel like: If they can do it, I can do it," says Season 11 Biggest Loser contestant Marci Crozier of Valparaiso, IN. She lost more than 75 pounds during the season she appeared, and so far, she's kept her goals.
The survey is just a snapshot in time. It's not clear whether the aspirations of losing weight and exercise will materialize into long-term lifestyle changes. But it's clear that those who are watching are mostly individuals who could benefit from the change. Seventy-three percent of respondents who say they've been influenced by reality weight-loss shows admit they are either overweight or obese, according to the poll.
"These TV shows have allowed people who are remarkably overweight to see that it is possible to get all the way back to a normal weight," says Ray Fabius, chief medical officer with Thomson Reuters Healthcare who consulted on the poll. "That's the greatest potential influence of these shows," he says. In addition to "Biggest Loser," the survey also asked about two other reality weight loss series including workout maven Jackie Warner's Theintervention on Bravo and MTV's I Used to be Fat.
Besides influencing the most overweight viewers, the poll shows that people with lower incomes are more likely to be hooked by the message of the weight loss shows. Sixty-eight percent of respondents with income of $25,000 a year or less reported that the shows were influential. This figure dropped to 53 percent for individuals with an annual income of over $100,000.
That may be because wealthier people have better access to weight loss resources, says Just. They may get help from doctors, health advisors or even personalized trainers.
Regardless of your weight, these weight loss shows are filmed in a way that makes you instantly connect with the contestants' stories, get emotional, and root for them. I know I do.
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Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 131 for the week ending June 15, 2008.
If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page. Being a Fedora Weekly News beat writer gives you a chance to work on one of our community's most important sources of news, and can be done in only about 1 hour per week of your time.
We are still looking for beat writers to cover the highlights of Fedora Planet each week, Fedora Security Advisories, and to summarize the Fedora Events and Meetings that happened during each week.
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project.
Contributing Writer: Max Spevack
Board Elections open on June 13
Paul Frields announces in fedora-announce-list[1],
"Elections for the Fedora Project Board open at 0001 UTC on 13 June 2008... The voting system is available at: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting
Any FAS account holder who has completed the CLA may vote in the election. Voting is open until 2359 UTC on 22 June 2008. Election results will be announced shortly thereafter. The final appointed seat on the Board will be filled after the general election as well.
Thank you to all the Board members whose seats are up for election, to Nigel Jones for our new voting application, and to the community in advance, for casting their votes for Fedora leadership."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-June/msg00006.html
Fedora Websites in need of development help
Max Spevack writes on fedora-devel-announce[1],
"The Fedora Websites team is actively looking for some development help on our build scripts -- this is the code that takes templates and turns it into HTML.
It's critical for people who want to create local mockups of new designs, and also for pushing our web code into test environments and ultimately into production."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-June/msg00001.html
Fedora 7 End of Life
Bill Nottingham announces on fedora-devel-announce[1],
"This is a reminder that F7 goes EOL on 2008-06-13. If you have any critical updates lingering in testing, you may want to have them moved final before then."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-June/msg00002.html
In this section, we cover Fedora Marketing Project.
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
Correction from last week: LWN.net
In last week's marketing section, we incorrectly referred to LWN.net as "Linux World News" [1] LWN.net used to be known as "Linux Weekly News," but is now known simply as LWN.net. We apologize for the error.
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue130#Linux_Weekly_News_Recommends_Fedora_9_for_Laptops_over_others
India Third-Largest Contributor To Fedora Community
Rahul Sundaram forwarded [1] an interesting article from EFYtimes.com of an interview [2] with Michael Chen, Director, Red Hat where he discusses a wide range of issues and thoughts on expanding Linux and open source in India during a recent visit there. In it, Chen assets that India is the third-largest contributor to Fedora, after North America and Europe.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00053.html
[2] http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/26965/news.htm
Screencast Ideas wiki
Jeff Spaleta asked [1] for volunteers to watch the ScreenCast Ideas wiki page [2] for new videos and generate an RSS feed to view in miro. Greg Dekoenigsberg [3] created this channel [4].
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00059.html
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/ScreencastIdeas
[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00113.html
[4] https://www.miroguide.com/channels/6891
Flyers for FUDCon 2008
Paul W. Frields offered some sample text for Ambassadors to use for flyers for FUDCON 2008 [1]. Paul welcomes everyone to feel free to adapt this as appropriate.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00064.html
FedoraLife concept
Markus McLaughlin offered that it would be goodness to develop a "fedoraLife" concept a la Apple's iLife suite of applications and functionality [1], and suggested some new applications that Fedora could use to round out this feature set. A concept paper is available on Markus' blog [2] Duvelle Jones [3] mused that some of this functionality is extent in the Fedora Art Spins [4] Further discussion ensued, with Nicu Buculei reminding folks that the Fedora Art Spin project needs some new contributors to move that project forward, [5] and invited those interested to move discussion to the fedora-art-list [6] There was some further discussion on the various packages in Fedora that could meet these needs.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00080.html
[2] http://linuxglobe.wordpress.com/
[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00083.html
[4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/ArtTeamProjects/FedoraArtStudio
[5] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00091.html
[6] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/
Red Hat, the largest contributing vendor to Xorg
Rahul Sundaram forwarded [1] an article [2] indicating that Red Hat has been the largest corporate contributor to the X project.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00118.html
[2] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=x_server_contributors&num=1
Hands on: Secrets of Fedora 8
Rahul Sundaram forwarded [1] another recent review of Fedora 8 [2] that concluded, "However, Fedora is perhaps the most pioneering distribution when it comes to experimenting with new technology, and for that reason some people may wish to stick with the previous release for a while longer. Fedora 8 has not remained stagnant at all, and has continued to receive very regular updates, including enhancements to security and many other areas."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00134.html
[2] http://www.pcw.co.uk/personal-computer-world/features/2218856/hands-secrets-fedora
In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project.
Contributing Writer: JeffreyTadlock
Release Party Contest Winner
The winner of the Fedora Release Party Contest [1] has been announced. FAmSCo was pleased to award the Fedora laptop bag to Grady Laksmono for organizing the Los Angeles, California release party. Read the full details in the announcement [2] sent to the ambassadors mailing list. All of the Fedora 9 release parties were a great success and the work put in by all ambassadors organizing and helping with a release party in their area deserve thanks for their hard work.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2008-April/msg00196.html
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2008-June/msg00191.html
Fedora and Open Source Tech Day - Pavia, Italy
Andrea Modesto Rossi announced [1] on the ambassadors mailing list that Fedora will be present at the GNU/Linux, Open Source and Fedora Tech Day in Pavia, Italy on June 15th. There will be many discussions on Open Source software and Fedora.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2008-June/msg00196.html
Froscon - Germany - Help Wanted
Robert Albrecht posted [1] a help wanted email for the booth at Froscon [2] in Sankt Augustin, Germany on August 23rd to 24th. If you are in the area and can help, please add to the email thread.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2008-June/msg00230.html
In this section, we cover the problems/solutions, people/personalities, and ups/downs of the endless discussions on Fedora Developments.
Contributing Writer: Rahul Sundaram
Retiring Opyum
Debarishi Ray noted that he is retiring Opyum which handles offline package updates since PackageKit is gaining a similar feature that is going to be cross distribution as part of this year Google SoC as part of the Fedora Project.
Fedora Freedom and Linux-libre
Alexandre Oliva posted new information about David Woodhouse's effort to remove and aggregate firmware into a separate tarball. Though this was initially born out of a drive towards more freedom in software, David Woodhouse points out that are legal and technical benefits to such a move.
Enabling Autofsck by default
A call to enable this variable by default which runs filesystem checks without any prompts resulted in a long discussion about potential data loss and the impact of LVM
Requirements gathering for new package source control
Jesse Keating is driving an effort towards moving the Fedora package specification and patches to a new and better source code management tool and is a collecting requirements from package maintainers on what kind of changes are desirable.
PackageKit UI
Richard Hughes has posted a new mockup of the PackageKit user interface which he hopes will address a number of issues and has solicited feedback from users.
This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-infrastructure-list
Contributing Writer: HuzaifaSidhpurwala
Infrastructure Secondary Offerings
Mike McGrath writes for fedora-infrastructure-list [1]
So one of the things that has made Fedora's Infrastructure successful is the amount of time we spend getting configs together and tested _before_ we go live with them. Often times re-doing things from scratch multiple times.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2008-June/msg00032.html
In this section, we cover Fedora Artwork Project.
Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei
With or without introduction
On the Fedora Art list Pavel Shevchuk raises an interesting question [1] about the need of a formal introduction for new members "I'm pretty sure people who really want to contribute can do it without loudmouth letters, bringing some artwork instead", Frank Murphy raises the issue of mentoring [2], where people new to FOSS may need some guidance and Nicu Buculei talks [3] about inter-human relations inside the team "spend some time together, know each other and maybe we will work better as a team" and mention about how many of the membership requests in the account system, started from the Join Fedora page [4] are not followed on the mailing list nor with real work.
[1] - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-June/msg00052.html
[2] - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-June/msg00059.html
[3] - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-June/msg00060.html
[4] - http://fedoraproject.org/en/join-fedora
Reviving the Fedora Art spin
The Art Studio spin, a customized version of Fedora geared toward creative use (graphic, sound and video editing) is an old project of the Art Team. Following a thread on the Fedora Marketing list [2], a few people expressed their [3], [4], [5] so there is a change this project will see the light is a foreseeable future.
[1] - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/ArtTeamProjects/FedoraArtStudio
[2] - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00080.html
[3] - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-June/msg00085.html
[4] - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-June/msg00086.html
[5] - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-June/msg00131.html
Security Week
In this section, we highlight the security stories from the week in Fedora.
Contributing Writer: JoshBressers
Verizon Data-Breach Study
Verizon Business released a very interesting report on data breaches in the enterprise. Their findings are quite interesting, but two things especially stand out:
- Insider threat has decreased substantially.
- 90 percent of known vulnerabilities exploited had patches available for at least six months prior to the breach.
It seems that the single most important thing an administrator can do is to keep their system updated.


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Come Christmas Eve, every kid's worst nightmare is that hidden within those beautifully wrapped boxes beneath the tree lie unspeakable evils. It may seem like such an exciting and fun time, but there is a darker, more horrible potential inside of each and every enticing package. The risk of receiving a pair of polka dot underwear from Grandma, or yet another itchy and embarrassing sweater from Aunt Gertrude. Bad gifts are inescapable, so you had better spend the night practicing your "thrilled" reaction, and plan your grateful speech to say thanks without sounding entirely phony.
We've all gotten gifts from hell, some more than others, and I'm sure the horror stories could keep us entertained until July. This year, the Hannukah fairies came a little bit early, and I received what many would probably shake their heads at and wonder, "who would give such a thing?" Nestled inside a thick layer of shiny wrapping paper lay a brand new, state of the art… Bundt pan. And the weirdest thing about this? I was genuinely ecstatic. No, really! Indeed, the pan had even been on my wish list! For most 19 year olds, I'm sure that this would have been yet another terribly unfortunately choice, but one kid's itchy sweater is another's treasure.
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SYPRINE- trientine hydrochloride capsule
Aton Pharma, Inc.
Trientine hydrochloride is N,N'-bis (2-aminoethyl)-1,2-ethanediamine dihydrochloride. It is a white to pale yellow crystalline hygroscopic powder. It is freely soluble in water, soluble in methanol, slightly soluble in ethanol, and insoluble in chloroform and ether.
The empirical formula is C6H18N4•2HCl with a molecular weight of 219.2. The structural formula is:
Trientine hydrochloride is a chelating compound for removal of excess copper from the body. SYPRINE1 (Trientine Hydrochloride) is available as 250 mg capsules for oral administration. Capsules SYPRINE contain gelatin, iron oxides, stearic acid, and titanium dioxide as inactive ingredients.
Wilson's disease (hepatolenticular degeneration) is an autosomal inherited metabolic defect resulting in an inability to maintain a near-zero balance of copper. Excess copper accumulates possibly because the liver lacks the mechanism to excrete free copper into the bile. Hepatocytes store excess copper but when their capacity is exceeded copper is released into the blood and is taken up into extrahepatic sites. This condition is treated with a low copper diet and the use of chelating agents that bind copper to facilitate its excretion from the body.
Forty-one patients (18 male and 23 female) between the ages of 6 and 54 with a diagnosis of Wilson's disease and who were intolerant of d-penicillamine were treated in two separate studies with trientine hydrochloride. The dosage varied from 450 to 2400 mg per day. The average dosage required to achieve an optimal clinical response varied between 1000 mg and 2000 mg per day. The mean duration of trientine hydrochloride therapy was 48.7 months (range 2-164 months). Thirty-four of the 41 patients improved, 4 had no change in clinical global response, 2 were lost to follow-up and one showed deterioration in clinical condition. One of the patients who improved while on therapy with trientine hydrochloride experienced a recurrence of the symptoms of systemic lupus erythematosus which had appeared originally during therapy with penicillamine. Therapy with trientine hydrochloride was discontinued. No other adverse reactions, except iron deficiency, were noted among any of these 41 patients.
One investigator treated 13 patients with trientine hydrochloride following their development of intolerance to d-penicillamine. Retrospectively, he compared these patients to an additional group of 12 patients with Wilson's disease who were both tolerant of and controlled with d-penicillamine therapy, but who failed to continue any copper chelation therapy. The mean age at onset of disease of the latter group was 12 years as compared to 21 years for the former group. The trientine hydrochloride group received d-penicillamine for an average of 4 years as compared to an average of 10 years for the non-treated group.
Various laboratory parameters showed changes in favor of the patients treated with trientine hydrochloride. Free and total serum copper, SGOT, and serum bilirubin all showed mean increases over baseline in the untreated group which were significantly larger than with the patients treated with trientine hydrochloride. In the 13 patients treated with trientine hydrochloride, previous symptoms and signs relating to d-penicillamine intolerance disappeared in 8 patients, improved in 4 patients, and remained unchanged in one patient. The neurological status in the trientine hydrochloride group was unchanged or improved over baseline, whereas in the untreated group, 6 patients remained unchanged and 6 worsened. Kayser-Fleischer rings improved significantly during trientine hydrochloride treatment.
The clinical outcome of the two groups also differed markedly. Of the 13 patients on therapy with trientine hydrochloride (mean duration of therapy 4.1 years; range 1 to 13 years), all were alive at the data cutoff date, and in the non-treated group (mean years with no therapy 2.7 years; range 3 months to 9 years), 9 of the 12 died of hepatic disease.
Studies in animals have shown that trientine hydrochloride has cupriuretic activities in both normal and copper-loaded rats. In general, the effects of trientine hydrochloride on urinary copper excretion are similar to those of equimolar doses of penicillamine, although in one study they were significantly smaller.
Renal clearance studies were carried out with penicillamine and trientine hydrochloride on separate occasions in selected patients treated with penicillamine for at least one year. Six-hour excretion rates of copper were determined off treatment and after a single dose of 500 mg of penicillamine or 1.2 g of trientine hydrochloride. The mean urinary excretion rates of copper were as follows:
|No. of
|Single Dose Treatment
|Basal Excretion Rate
(µg Cu + + /6hr)
|Test-dose Excretion Rate
(µg Cu + + /6hr)
Trientine, 1.2 g
Penicillamine, 500mg
In patients not previously treated with chelating agents, a similar comparison was made:
|No. of Patients
|Single Dose Treatment
|Basal Excretion Rate
(µg Cu + + /6hr)
|Test-dose Excretion Rate
(µg Cu + + /6hr)
Trientine, 1.2 g
Penicillamine, 500mg
These results demonstrate that SYPRINE is effective as a cupriuretic agent in patients with Wilson's disease although on a molar basis it appears to be less potent or less effective than penicillamine. Evidence from a radio-labelled copper study indicates that the different cupriuretic effect between these two drugs could be due to a difference in selectivity of the drugs for different copper pools within the body.
Data on the pharmacokinetics of trientine hydrochloride are not available. Dosage adjustment recommendations are based upon clinical use of the drug (see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION).
SYPRINE is indicated in the treatment of patients with Wilson's disease who are intolerant of penicillamine. Clinical experience with SYPRINE is limited and alternate dosing regimens have not been well-characterized; all endpoints in determining an individual patient's dose have not been well defined. SYPRINE and penicillamine cannot be considered interchangeable. SYPRINE should be used when continued treatment with penicillamine is no longer possible because of intolerable or life endangering side effects.
Unlike penicillamine, SYPRINE is not recommended in cystinuria or rheumatoid arthritis. The absence of a sulfhydryl moiety renders it incapable of binding cystine and, therefore, it is of no use in cystinuria. In 15 patients with rheumatoid arthritis, SYPRINE was reported not to be effective in improving any clinical or biochemical parameter after 12 weeks of treatment.
SYPRINE is not indicated for treatment of biliary cirrhosis.
Patient experience with trientine hydrochloride is limited (see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY). Patients receiving SYPRINE should remain under regular medical supervision throughout the period of drug administration. Patients (especially women) should be closely monitored for evidence of iron deficiency anemia.
There are no reports of hypersensitivity in patients who have been administered trientine hydrochloride for Wilson's disease. However, there have been reports of asthma, bronchitis and dermatitis occurring after prolonged environmental exposure in workers who use trientine hydrochloride as a hardener of epoxy resins. Patients should be observed closely for signs of possible hypersensitivity.
Patients should be directed to take SYPRINE on an empty stomach, at least one hour before meals or two hours after meals and at least one hour apart from any other drug, food, or milk. The capsules should be swallowed whole with water and should not be opened or chewed. Because of the potential for contact dermatitis, any site of exposure to the capsule contents should be washed with water promptly. For the first month of treatment, the patient should have his temperature taken nightly, and he should be asked to report any symptom such as fever or skin eruption.
The most reliable index for monitoring treatment is the determination of free copper in the serum, which equals the difference between quantitatively determined total copper and ceruloplasmin-copper. Adequately treated patients will usually have less than 10 mcg free copper/dL of serum.
Therapy may be monitored with a 24-hour urinary copper analysis periodically (ie., every 6-12 months). Urine must be collected in copper-free glassware. Since a low copper diet should keep copper absorption down to less than one milligram a day, the patient probably will be in the desired state of negative copper balance if 0.5 to 1.0 milligram of copper is present in a 24-hour collection of urine.
In general, mineral supplements should not be given since they may block the absorption of SYPRINE. However, iron deficiency may develop, especially in children and menstruating or pregnant women, or as a result of the low copper diet recommended for Wilson's disease. If necessary, iron may be given in short courses, but since iron and SYPRINE each inhibit absorption of the other, two hours should elapse between administration of SYPRINE and iron.
It is important that SYPRINE be taken on an empty stomach, at least one hour before meals or two hours after meals and at least one hour apart from any other drug, food, or milk. This permits maximum absorption and reduces the likelihood of inactivation of the drug by metal binding in the gastrointestinal tract.
Data on carcinogenesis, mutagenesis, and impairment of fertility are not available.
Trientine hydrochloride was teratogenic in rats at doses similar to the human dose. The frequencies of both resorptions and fetal abnormalities, including hemorrhage and edema, increased while fetal copper levels decreased when trientine hydrochloride was given in the maternal diets of rats. There are no adequate and well-controlled studies in pregnant women. SYPRINE should be used during pregnancy only if the potential benefit justifies the potential risk to the fetus.
It is not known whether this drug is excreted in human milk. Because many drugs are excreted in human milk, caution should be exercised when SYPRINE is administered to a nursing mother.
Controlled studies of the safety and effectiveness of SYPRINE in pediatric patients have not been conducted. It has been used clinically in pediatric patients as young as 6 years with no reported adverse experiences.
Clinical studies of SYPRINE did not include sufficient numbers of subjects aged 65 and over to determine whether they respond differently from younger subjects. Other reported clinical experience is insufficient to determine differences in responses between the elderly and younger patients. In general, dose selection should be cautious, usually starting at the low end of the dosing range, reflecting the greater frequency of decreased hepatic, renal or cardiac function, and of concomitant disease or other drug therapy.
Clinical experience with SYPRINE has been limited. The following adverse reactions have been reported in a clinical study in patients with Wilson's disease who were on therapy with trientine hydrochloride: iron deficiency, systemic lupus erythematosus (see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY). In addition, the following adverse reactions have been reported in marketed use: dystonia, muscular spasm, myasthenia gravis.
SYPRINE is not indicated for treatment of biliary cirrhosis, but in one study of 4 patients treated with trientine hydrochloride for primary biliary cirrhosis, the following adverse reactions were reported: heartburn; epigastric pain and tenderness; thickening, fissuring and flaking of the skin; hypochromic microcytic anemia; acute gastritis; aphthoid ulcers; abdominal pain; melena; anorexia; malaise; cramps; muscle pain; weakness; rhabdomyolysis. A causal relationship of these reactions to drug therapy could not be rejected or established.
There is a report of an adult woman who ingested 30 grams of trientine hydrochloride without apparent ill effects. No other data on overdosage are available.
Systemic evaluation of dose and/or interval between dose has not been done. However, on limited clinical experience, the recommended initial dose of SYPRINE is 500-750 mg/day for pediatric patients and 750-1250 mg/day for adults given in divided doses two, three or four times daily. This may be increased to a maximum of 2000 mg/day for adults or 1500 mg/day for pediatric patients age 12 or under.
The daily dose of SYPRINE should be increased only when the clinical response is not adequate or the concentration of free serum copper is persistently above 20 mcg/dL. Optimal long-term maintenance dosage should be determined at 6-12 month intervals (see PRECAUTIONS, Laboratory Tests).
It is important that SYPRINE be given on an empty stomach, at least one hour before meals or two hours after meals and at least one hour apart from any other drug, food, or milk. The capsules should be swallowed whole with water and should not be opened or chewed.
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How Do Doctors Test for STDs?
How does a doctor test to see if you have STDs?
– Perry*
There are different tests for different sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The kind of test a person gets will depend on the type of STD, symptoms (like sores, discharge, or pain), and his or her medical and sexual history.
To get this history, a doctor or nurse practitioner (NP) will ask about things like how many partners the person has had. After that, the doctor or NP will examine the person's genitals. For girls who have symptoms of STDs, this might include a pelvic exam. Girls who do not have symptoms and are just getting screened for STDs as part of a routine checkup probably won't need a pelvic exam.
Based on what's learned from the interview and exam, the doctor or NP may take one or more of these samples:
- a blood sample (from either a blood draw or a finger prick)
- a urine sample
- a swab of the inside of the mouth
- a swab from the genitals, such as the urethra in guys or the cervix in girls
- a swab of any discharge or sores
Sometimes, the sample can be tested right there in the health provider's office. Other times, the sample is sent to a lab and the results come later. It depends on the office and the type of infection doctors are testing for.
STDs can be sneaky. Often there are no signs that a person has one. That's not necessarily a good thing. These "hidden" STDs can still put people at risk for health problems. Anyone who is having sex (or has had sex in the past) should get tested.
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- If Someone With Herpes Has No Sores, Can It Still Be Passed On?
- Telling Your Partner You Have an STD
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Gerd von Rundstedt
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Gerd von Rundstedt, in full Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, (born Dec. 12, 1875, Aschersleben, near Magdeburg, Ger.—died Feb. 24, 1953, Hannover, W.Ger.), German field marshal who was one of Adolf Hitler's ablest leaders during World War II. He held commands on both the Eastern and Western fronts, played a major role in defeating France in 1940, and led much of the opposition to the Allied offensive in the West in 1944–45.
An officer in the army from 1893, Rundstedt rose during World War I to become chief of staff of an army corps and assisted in the reorganization of the Turkish general staff. He remained in the army after the war and was active in Germany's secret rearmament both before and after Hitler came to power. He retired in 1938 as senior field commander but returned to active duty to command an army group in the Polish campaign at the outbreak of World War II. Later, on the Western Front, he took part in the implementation of the plan that defeated France in 1940; as head of Army Group B, he led the breakthrough that sealed France's fate. He was, however, partly to blame for the order to halt the German armour, allowing the British to escape from Dunkirk. During the invasion of the Soviet Union, beginning in June 1941, he commanded the German southern wing, which overran almost all of Ukraine before winter. When a Soviet counteroffensive forced a retreat, Hitler dismissed the aged field marshal.
Returning to duty in July 1942, Rundstedt became commander in chief in western Europe and fortified France against an expected Allied invasion. Unable to defeat the Anglo-American invasion forces in 1944, he was replaced in July but returned in September to direct the Ardennes offensive (Battle of the Bulge) that disrupted the military timetable of the western Allies for several months. Relieved for the third time in March 1945, he was captured by U.S. troops in May but was released because of ill health.
Though the scion of an aristocratic Prussian family and highly disdainful of Hitler and Nazism, he refused to participate in the plots against the Führer in which many of his fellow officers were involved, and he was repelled by the attempt on Hitler's life in July 1944 (see July Plot). Even Rundstedt's opponents recognized his considerable military talents, which were displayed in a career that spanned half a century. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called him the ablest of the German generals of World War II.


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CRS: SOUTH ASIA CRISIS: EFFECTS ON THE MIDDLE EAST, June 5, 1998
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Title: SOUTH ASIA CRISIS: EFFECTS ON THE MIDDLE EAST
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Author(s): Kenneth Katzman, Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division
Date: June 5, 1998
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- The May 1998 nuclear tests by India and Pakistan have raised concerns that these countries, particularly Pakistan, might transfer nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction technology to Iran or other Middle Eastern states. Iran has developed military ties to both India and Pakistan, and has tried to acquire advanced technology from Pakistan, but political and other differences have limited these relationships. There is little evidence that other Middle Eastern countries have tried to acquire weapons of mass destruction technology from India or Pakistan.
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Venomous vipers like rattlesnakes evolved their deadly toxins incredibly quickly. Scientists had long assumed it was so that they could hunt their prey better, but it might have been to fight off their deadliest predator: the possum.
The longstanding assumption was that snake venom is what's known as a feeding adaptation, which means it evolved in response to what they eat. And while we've known for a long time that various mammals hunt these snakes, researchers hadn't yet explored how all this might fit together. Researchers at the American Museum of Natural History have probed this connection, and they've revealed the shocking truth: rattlesnakes and opossums are locked in an evolutionary arms race.
Department of Mammalology curator Robert Voss explains:
"Snake venom toxins evolve incredibly rapidly. Most herpetologists interpret this as evidence that venom in snakes evolves because of interactions with their prey, but if that were true you would see equally rapid evolution in toxin-targeted molecules of prey species, which has not yet been seen. What we've found is that a venom-targeted protein is evolving rapidly in mammals that eat snakes. That suggests that venom has a defensive as well as a trophic role."
There's at least a hundred different opossum species, most of which are found throughout Central and South America. Recent genetic studies into these marsupial species revealed rapid evolution in von Willebrand's factor, a blood-clotting protein that is targeted by the snake toxins.
Sharon Jansaof the University of Minnesota explains further:
"This finding took us by surprise. We sequenced several genes — including the one that codes for von Willebrand Factor (vWF) — to use in a study of opossum phylogeny. Once we started to analyze the data, vWF was a real outlier. It was evolving much more rapidly than expected in a group of opossums that also, as it turns out, are resistant to pitviper venom. Most nucleotide substitutions have little or no effect on protein function, but that doesn't seem to be the case with vWF in these venom-resistant opossums. The specific amino acids in vWF that interact with toxin proteins show unexpectedly high rates of replacement substitutions. These substitutions undoubtedly affect protein function, suggesting that the vWF protein can no longer be attacked by these snake toxins."
Voss explains what this all means for vipers and possums:
"It is so uncommon to find genes under strong positive selection, that the exceptions are really interesting and often conform to one evolutionary circumstance when two organisms are coevolving with each other. We've known for years that venom genes evolve rapidly in snakes, but the partner in this arms race was unknown until now. Opossums eat snakes because they can."
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