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Kroc IPJ's Impact:Peace Initiative Launch is a Success
Thursday, May 30, 2019
Andrew Blum, PhD, executive director of the Kroc School's Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, was tired — but it was the best kind of tired.
Last week, Blum, IPJ staff, community partners and 35 participants spent quality time engaging in important dialogue, listening, knowledge-building, powerful peacebuilding planning and, best of all, agreeing on a desire for an action-based approach to stop global violence.
"I'm super excited," Blum offered, less than 24 hours after the University of San Diego school hosted a launch event for its peacebuilding initiative, Impact:Peace on May 20-22. "By the end of the event, everyone was really leaning into Impact:Peace, they wanted to stay engaged and that, to me, means we're onto something here. We have something that creates value for people, value to the field and can make a real impact on the ground. We had people in the room who don't waste their time on things that aren't going to have a real impact."
There is a clear need for action that has impact. The world is experiencing a 30-year high in violent conflict. Battle deaths worldwide have increased by 340 percent over the last 10 years, which follows a 60-year decline since the end of World War II.
The Kroc School, alongside The Stanley Foundation and the +Peace Coalition, are partners in an initiative to create more effective peacebuilding efforts that can significantly reduce violent conflict worldwide. Synthesizing and producing evidence and utilizing shapers and influencers the hope is to accelerate change processes to ultimately lessen violent conflict.
Impact:Peace has the support of Milt Lauenstein, founder of War and Peacebuilding, who, now in his 90s, wants to help reduce armed conflict in the world. One of his other efforts, the Purdue Peace Project, successfully supports locally led peacebuilding in Africa and Central America. Impact:Peace came to be through a $1 million gift by Lauenstein to the Kroc School. The agreement also calls for USD to establish a challenge to raise an additional $1 million in matching funds.
"Efforts to limit armed conflict are fragmented and inadequate, with little evidence about where best to allocate resources," Lauenstein said in a Summer 2019 USD Magazine article. "I'm confident that the work of Impact:Peace will contribute significantly to improving the effectiveness of efforts to promote peace."
Those in attendance at last week's launch were key stakeholders from organizations focused on evidence-based research, peacebuilding, and international conflict issues and they brought a wealth of experience. USD's representation beyond Blum included Kroc School Associate Dean and Distinguished Professor of Human Security and Peacebuilding, Necla Tschirgi, 2012 Kroc IPJ Women PeaceMaker Alice Wairimu Nderitu from Kenya and Laura Webber, a 2019 graduate of the Kroc School's MA in Peace and Justice Studies program and Kroc IPJ graduate assistant. Ev Meade, PhD, Professor of Practice and Faculty Director of the Kroc School's Trans-Border Institute hosted a group visit to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Blum said the conference centered on three questions: Where is the most important change happening in regards to peacebuilding and really transform peace and violence prevention better and have the most impact? How can we use evidence to accelerate those change processes? And third, what do we need to build or what kind of infrastructure needs to be created to provide that kind of evidence?
The content succeeded. "There was a hunger, an appetite for collaboration, speaking in a single voice and getting behind a single strategy than I would have thought," Blum said. "I think people are tired of working in all fragmented ways and want this center of gravity for the field. Everyone is looking for concrete action. I think it's understood we'll be action-oriented."
"One of the last things we did was ask people to make commitments and everyone did," said Blum, referring to an exercise in which everyone wrote a commitment on a sticky note and placed it on a wall for visibility. "One was 'I just want to stay informed,' which is fine and is at the low end, but up to 'I will be directly asking you for evidence because this is what we're doing,' or 'I want you to come meet my colleagues in the State Department.' … I heard people say this wasn't just a convening where we learned a bunch of stuff, this was a call to action, a call for how do we create the changes we want to see?"
Another key element was Blum's announcement that Rachel Locke from New York University's Center on International Cooperation, was announced as Impact:Peace's inaugural director.
"We're ecstatic to have her, " Blum said. "She's not just good, her reputation is stellar. Getting her on board immediately raises Impact:Peace's credibility."
It's one of many steps Blum, the Kroc School, its partners and participants are taking in hopes of realizing Impact:Peace's ultimate goal. "Big picture, we're part of a movement that's looking to end all forms of violence globally by 2030," he said. "That's our big, wild, audacious goal.
"Where we want to be in a few years is be the go-to place where people know they can come when they are working to create really important change to get to Congress and take peacebuilding more seriously. It's getting UN members to commit to reducing violence. We're talking about getting involved in a new movement, 'Peace in the Cities' where we get mayors involved all around the world to reduce violence in their cities. What is the evidence they need to accelerate that, to make it real, to make an impact. We want to be right at the center of the most exciting changes, change processes, change opportunities that are happening in our field."
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Chicken inexplicably tied around boy's neck
Adan Salazar
November 18, 2013
A Child Protective Services supervisor was arrested this past week after police found an 11-year-old boy shivering and handcuffed to the front porch of her home with a dead chicken tied around his neck.
While responding to a call in the area, a Union County, North Carolina sheriff's deputy says he took the initiative to investigate what appeared to be a child cuffed to the porch of a run-down home.
The approaching officer was confronted Friday morning by foster parent and emergency room nurse Dorian Lee Harper, 57, who offered no explanation as to why the boy was handcuffed at the ankles, nor why the dead chicken.
Police arrested Harper, and proceeded inside the home where they encountered extreme living conditions unfit for wildlife, let alone a family.
"It was filthy, feces on the floor, holes in the wall," said Union County Sheriff Eddie Cathey describing the house's substandard sanitation to local news crews. "The bathroom, you could see from outside of the hall into the bathroom. Sink was trashed. No running water."
The outside of the home was littered with trash, old bicycles and rusty, broken appliances, basically looking like a scene out of Hoarders, and smelled like urine and feces, according to CNN's Nick Valencia, but it was arguably in better condition than the home itself, says Sheriff Cathey. "As bad as you think that house was on the outside, that's probably the cleanest part of that place."
Four other foster children found living at the property, ages 8, 9, 13 and 14, were all deemed malnourished, and placed in protective custody. Police also had to feed several animals roaming the yard, including a horse and two llamas penned up behind the home.
Sheriff Cathey said all five children slept in the same room on blankets laid out on the floor, and that the 11-year-old boy was kept handcuffed to a 3-foot piece of railroad to keep him from running away.
Additional foster parent Wanda Sue Larson, 57, a supervisor with the Union County Department of Social Services, was not home when Harper was arrested, but did reportedly get charged later that day with child abuse inflicting serious injury and false imprisonment, as well as animal cruelty. Larson was also charged with willful failure to discharge her duty as a public official.
Neighbors were surprised to learn of Harper and Larson's squalid living conditions, and said they'd only seen children one time last summer when one came running to their home asking for something to eat.
Harper and Larson are both currently jailed on a more than $1 million bond and were due in court today.
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Redesign and remodelling of the legendary 1980s Bürgenstock Spa formed part of the revival of the entire Bürgenstock lakeside resort. The new Spa building grows organically out of the landscape, a polished artificial rock body, inserted and interlocking with the natural rock formations. The new facility maximises views of the surrounding mountains as an integral part of the overall sensory experience of bathing.
Through carefully planned cuts through the building mass, glances from the spa open up to the mountain and lake panoramas are created. The cuts for the rock terrace, with the hot springs in the east and the panoramic terrace in the south, lead the natural rock and mountain landscape into the interior of the complex. The interplay of a modern bathing and sauna world with the surrounding nature can be directly experienced on three sides.
The special charm of the old building is retained with features such as its fireplace, restaurant, pool house and kidney shaped pool. Old and new are connected by their materiality, sharing local alpine materials, although expressed by their differing architectures. The new building retains the character of a stone pedestal with a façade of exposed concrete emphasising the horizontal. On top, it is clad in vertically arranged brass cassettes creating a flat surface, interspersed with generous glazing. Over time, the brass will weather naturally to complement the brown copper façades of the original building.
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It dawned on, as things tend to do while looking at histo pics, that I hadn't commented on what I'm going to call my first procedure, and I use that word with a smothering of sarcasm. This despite the fact it is at least two weeks in the past. That is actually kind of sad. I'll talk all day about the politics of medicine but the humanistic moment when I first stuck a catheter up a guy's penis goes without a word.
I was following around a trauma surgeon and down in the ER was encouraged by one of the third years to ask a tech if I could put in a foley, and what do you know they let me. I think they thought I was further along my education than three months, because they seemed surprised I couldn't put on the gloves and keep them sterile at the same time. It is harder than you might imagine. They were good sports considering I went through three pairs before figuring it out, not that I could duplicate it right now if I had to.
It was my second time spending the night down with the trauma service. This one was interesting in its own way, but certainly much slower than the first time around. Beyond the foley I went up and watched a resident clean out an anal fissure and fistula (like I said, slow), which looked like a pretty miserable thing for this patient to be living with for a decade.
A foley ain't much of anything, but at least for me as a first year, it was something to marvel at. I hope that never goes away as I learn more, as things I see become common, this sort of excitement over all medicine is.
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We come back to character traits all though out the varsity yr. Simply before testing time, I send house the Test Taking Methods Mother or father Communication Kinds I have discovered that folks really wish to assist assist their youngsters by means of testing time however really don't know what they can do past a healthy breakfast and an excellent night's sleep. By letting dad and mom know the language we are using in school that I've reviewed with their little one they'll proceed that conversation at residence and help their baby and also help to alleviate any anxiety their baby could have.
I used to be lucky yesterday morning. For reasons I can't fathom, all of the rooms on the east side of the hallway were freezing. My classroom, on the west side of the hallway, was toasty heat. It's a huge change from the trailers, where it is in some way (and no, I cannot clarify this) colder on the within than it is on the surface. I believe it is a kind of quirks of reality, like Dr. Who's Tardis or one thing. You may't conceive of exactly how crappy a trailer is until you work in one for, oh, twelve years or so.
Here's a weblog from a principal leading change in his school. Brad Gustafson's face can be seen initially of all of Greenwood Elementary School's scholar-led videos. These movies are integrated into Gustafson's blog, which also options lots of his appearances on academic know-how-centered podcasts. However, with hopes of constructing a 'large leap' in digital studying, former German Schooling Minister Johanna Wanka promised to invest 5 billion Euros in 40,000 faculties(1). Richard Fielden-Watkinson has labored in the ELT discipline for over 7 years as a instructor, Site Director, and Director of Research in London, Italy, and Saudi Arabia. He's occupied with English instructing and learning. He has a CELTA and Master's degree in Utilized Linguistics.
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Hi everyone,
I hope you are all well today, i personally am enjoying this lovely British sunshine!
Here is the Tong Shu Almanac for tomorrow (Friday 28th August 2009).
I took this photo below a couple of weeks ago at a new clients home in Kent and thought I would share with you the implications of having a Ba Gua mirror in this condition in and around your home or office.
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Here is the Almanac for Wednesday 26th August 2009.
Good morning everyone,
Sorry for not posting this up sooner, this weekend was spent with family and friends so the work really built up.
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Sharmila Faruqui takes notice of theft of sand from protective bund of Mohenjo Daro
Karachi, March 20, 2014 (PPI-OT): Special Assistant to CM Sindh for Culture and Tourism Ms. Sharmila Faruqui has taken serious notice over the news published in Daily Sindh newspaper regarding theft of Sand from protective Bund of world heritage site of Mohen Jo Daro.
Culture department wrote a letter to commissioner Larkana, and demand strict action and lodge FIR against responsible persons and policemen involved in this criminal activity that causing serious threat to Precious Heritage site of Sindh and making it vulnerable. And request to depute responsible officer to inspect the site, record the statement of people and submit the report as soon as possible.
Sharmila Faruqui said that Mohen Jo Daro has a great significance for Sindhi culture and declared World Heritage site by UNESCO since 1980. Happening of such acts will bring bad name on administration as well as Pakistan. It is our core responsibility to protect and preserve the treasure land.
For more information, contact:
Aleemuddin Khan
Public Relation Officer
Culture Department
Government of Sindh
Tel:021-99206073 – 99202295
Cell: 0346-2704378
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1978 marked the beginning of the toweringly successful career Mazda enjoyed with the RX-7 model. Unveiled for the first time in their home market of Japan, the RX-7 model played a vital role in establishing Mazda's reputation for building celebrated driver's cars. Mazda's innovative designers were challenged to come up with a model in response to a global cry for non-gas guzzling sports cars – and in turn created an automotive icon.
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The RX-7 was a smaller, lighter, more efficient vehicle than any other car on the road and as anyone who drove it would tell you – was thoroughly fun to drive! Thanks to the revolutionary compact yet powerful rotary engine the power unit was allowed to be mounted lower and further back resulting in a car that set new standards in road holding.
The original RX-7 'FB' proved a huge success with more than 470,000 driving enthusiasts buying one, before the second generation 'FC' model was introduced with turbo power in 1985. The third generation 'FD' followed in 1992 until production of the iconic RX-7 ended in 2002.
With global success throughout the models' history the designs have been cemented as one of the world's best sports cars. The formula was a hit with customers and critics alike. Car and Driver magazine, one of America's most influential car magazines, placed the Mazda RX-7 on its annual Ten Best list five times.
As a celebration of the Mazda RX-7's 40th birthday, Mazda brought together all three generations of the sports car in a film that documents the evolution of the most successful model to be powered by a rotary engine:
Total global production of the RX-7 reached 811,634, but this was a car that made an impression way beyond its sales numbers – feared by rivals on track, loved by owners and admired by fans, the RX-7 established Mazda as a sports car brand, made the rotary engine famous and laid the groundwork for Mazda's next great sports car – the Mazda MX-5.
Today, the spirit of the RX-7 still resonates in Mazda's stylish and great-to-drive SKYACTIV model line-up, while classic RX-7s continue to thrill owners and fans the world over.
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This is a private trade-only event.Sommeliers, bartenders, buyers, liquor retailer, chefs, managers, restaurant leaders, licensee owners, liquor event consultants, media, and industry educators are eligible and invited to attend. ID demonstrating you are part of the hospitality trade industry and of legal drinking age will be requested. Advance registration is not required.
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Robert Hegyes, who played Juan Epstein in the 1970s sitcom "Welcome Back Kotter,"died in his New Jersey home today from an apparent heart attack, according to his brother, Mark. Hegyes was 60 years old.
Hegyes character, whose full name was Juan Luis Pedro Phillipo de Huevos Epstein, was on the show from 1975 to 1979. Though his Puerto Rican culture was always prevalent in the many crazy discussions inside Kotter's classroom, he was best known for presenting a self-written note signed, which was always signed, "Epstein's Mother," to explain why he was late or absent from class.
Though Mr. Kotter was always suspicious of Epstein's notes, he let him off easy, while trying to keep the rest of the class together.
Epstein's classmates included Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington, a tall black basketball player, who used his charm to get what he wanted, Vinnie Barbarino, an Italian playboy who met every question with, "What? Why? Where? Who?" which inevitably drove everyone crazy.
Then there was Arnold Horseshack, whose crazy laugh sent everyone into hysterics and introduced himself as, "Hello, I'm Arnold Horshaaaaaack." It was one of those shows where every line was predictable, every joke done before, but it was still funny.
This group of rag-tag misfits, known as the "Sweathogs" were not like other high school kids I knew. They were cool before cool was cool. They didn't care that they were known as the dumb kids in school because they had fun in their crazy class.
I doubt if they could ever do a remake of the show. There's no way it could be as funny today as it was then. It was just a different time, I guess. When they made the Sweathogs, they broke the mold.
Goodbye, Robert. You really were "Juan in a million."


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Photographs are the most important element in our lives. You will discover that we live in a boring world, if pictures disappear from this planet. When you open WhatsApp and talk to your best friends, you use images to make the conversation funny. When we move into a new house, we use photos to decorate the white walls. To catch up customers' demands, many technology companies have released photograph services. Amazon photo is one of the most popular photograph services. And it almost coverage all features you need about digital photo storage and photo print. In this post, we will share our review of Amazon photo service based on our lab testing and millions of customers' report.
Amazon Prime Photos is a cloud-based photo suite. If you have an Amazon account, you can use it for free. Its key features include:
1. Offer 5GB free storage for Amazon customers and unlimited free storage for Prime users.
2. Support to upload photos from both website and mobile apps.
3. Manage and view your photos on Smartphone, Amazon Echo, Fire TV and website.
4. Include Amazon Print service, which helps you to make standard photo prints, photo books, photo gifts, and more. And you can enjoy free delivery. The 4×6 photo prints start at 9 cents.
5. Contact to customer service when you encounter any problem.
1. Amazon Photo service covers a wider range of features, from photo storage to photo prints.
2. You only need to register an account to use the free photo storage.
3. The photo print service is cost effective.
1. Amazon Photo only offers 5GB free storage, if you are not a Prime user.
2. The print service has limited options compared to other professional print services.
If you want to learn more photo storages or photo print services, you can get the best Amazon Photo alternatives below.
Google Photos is one of the most popular services to store digital photos. Its main features include:
1. Off free unlimited photo storage for photos less than 16MB and videos no more than 1080 resolution.
2. If you want to upload pictures in full size, the free storage capacity is 15GB. And you can pay for $1.99/month or $9.99/month to get 100GB or 1TB.
3. This Amazon Photo alternative integrates Google AI technology to recognize, search and manage photos quickly.
4. You can upload photos from website, Gmail and mobile phones.
5. The built-in photo editor offers most basic picture editing tools.
6. And most online photo print services accept photos from Google Photos.
1. The unlimited storage is convenient for Smartphone owners.
2. Google announced that its machine learning technology is included into the editor.
1. It has size limitation for the free photo storage, so your photos are not uploaded in original quality.
2. You have to view ads to exchange free storage.
Apparently, iCloud Photo Library is the best Amazon Photo alternative for iOS users. Its basic features include:
1. Apple offers 5GB free storage for each user to backup pictures and videos in iCloud Photo Library.
2. This Amazon Photo alternative has automatic sync feature, so it is more convenient.
3. Moreover, iCloud Photo Library allows you to manage, view, or download your pictures cross Apple devices, including iPhone, iPad, Mac computers and Apple TV.
4. It supports to share pictures to online print services, social media and email.
1. It supports to upload photos and videos in full resolution.
2. This native service works well on all Apple devices.
1. Many users complaint that the free storage is limited and the paid plans are much expensive.
Unlike Amazon Photo, Snapfish is a popular photo print service among both ordinary customers and professional photographers. Its basic features include:
1. The 4-by-6 prints start at 9 cents, which is the same as Amazon Print.
2. The print products include standard prints, photo books, calendars, photo cards, wall decorations, photo gifts and more.
3. You can book a photo product through website, iOS, Android or Windows phones.
4. It provides in store pickup or shipping service and co-works with CVS, Walgreens and Walmart.
5. Snapfish offer unlimited photo storage too.
1. Snapfish provides professional level photo prints, although the price is low.
2. It has a photographer community for photo sharing.
3. You can use the built-in photo editor to enhance you photos before print.
1. Snapfish does not support TIFF format.
Shutterfly is another well-known photo printing service online. Its principal features include:
1. The 4-by-6 prints are at least 15 cents, which is higher than Amazon Photo.
2. The benefit of Shutterfly is to offer a wider range of print options, including standard photo prints, photo cards, photo books, home decorations, calendars and personalized photo gifts, such as pillow, accessories, phone cases and more.
3. You can upload photos and make an order on website, iOS and Android phones, or social media.
4. And you can learn how to DIY photo products through the design studio blog.
5. Shutterfly also provides unlimited photo storage for printing online.
1. The prints quality is great.
2. Customers can get more delivery options, like pickup in store or ship to home.
1. It does not integrate photo editing tools.
Amazon is the most popular ecommerce brand and majority of American adults are customers of Amazon. And Amazon Prime is a paid subscription service offered by Amazon. In 2014, Amazon added Prime Photos to its website. Now, Amazon Photo has covered photo storage, photo print and photo display. Moreover, you can enjoy the Amazon Photo's services on PCs, mobile phones, Echo Show and Fire TV. On the other hand, you can print your photos using Amazon Print service. Though it only offers limited photo print options, Amazon promised they would extend the products gradually. Plus, we also shared four Amazon Photo alternatives in the second part.
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The agency quizzed 3,100 radio listeners to find out what they thought about the quality of the stations they consumed.
The research has led to the introduction of a new 'quality' metric in markettiers4dc's campaign measurement toolkit, as the PR industry as a whole searches for alternatives to the much-derided AVE.
National BBC stations did well as a whole in the study, with Radio 5 Live at number four, but the survey also found local radio stations such as Clyde 1, BBC Radio Scotland and Wave 102 in Dundee were highly rated by listeners.
MD of markettiers4DC Helen Moore said: 'It was refreshing to see hard-working local radio stations vie for the top of the overall rankings.'
Popular talk station TalkSport came second to Radio 4, and Moore added: 'This shows the value of genre-specific programming.'
The study asked respondents which radio station they listened to, and asked them to rate the quality, entertainment and trust values they placed in each.
These ratings helped to create a mean average quality rating for national and local stations.
The intergration of this into measurement has been welcomed by independent PR measurement and evaluation body Amec.
Executive director Barry Leggetter said: 'We are delighted to see a broadcast specialist investigating new ways of demonstrating quality. This is a positive move and we encourage any moves to add value and understanding to the measurement and evaluation process.'


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After more than 340,000 votes were cast, Laney Lu's Boutique of Redwood Falls was recently named the storefront 2019 boutique of the year by shoppers.
This is the only global recognition event for independent boutique retail owners in the fashion industry, hosted by The Boutique Hub and Boutique.Style.
The awards recognize and celebrate the best boutiques across all 50 States in the U.S., Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom, in the categories of Storefront Boutique of the Year, Online Boutique of the Year, Children's Boutique of the Year, Mobile Boutique of the Year and state or country overall boutique of the year.
The Boutique Hub, the global voice and Hub of the Boutique Fashion Industry, cites one of the strongest boutique markets in history with new boutiques opening daily across the globe, and established boutiques posting some of the strongest sales to date.
The Shop Small movement is certainly alive and well as big box retail dwindles.
Laney Lu's Boutique opened in March 2015 by Emily Davis. It carries women's fashion and apparel catering to small town women who deserve affordable, unique fashions.
"Winning this award means that women still enjoy brick and mortar shopping. They still love touching the clothes, trying them on and enjoying the experience a cozy boutique can offer. The massive online shopping apocalypse doesn't fulfill the sensory experience that a small town boutique provides. Our store smells good, our employees are helpful, funny and friendly and our outfits combos are inspiring." said Davis.


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Holiday Tour Operator
client brief
One of the leading holiday tour operators fortifies privileged access control with ARCON PAM
the context
Information systems managed bytravel and tour operators are a treasure-trove of critical information. Passport and credit card details of tourists amongst many other forms of confidential information related to tens of millions (or even billions) of patrons are stored for operational purpose.
As this vital information is stored in a host of servers, files and applications, tour operators recurrently face data breach threats.
Such high risk operations necessitate a robust information security system to be in place in order to thwart any attempt from malicious actors.
Our client is one of the most prominent and oldest travel operators. To safeguard critical information on its networks, the client wanted to ensure all privileged access sessions were monitored. It required ahighly-advanced tool that would help in building a comprehensive security framework.
key numbers
More than 500 unique IPs with 2-3 privilege IDs on each server. More than 300 users.
Compliance PCI-DSS
Accepting credit payment requires a very robust security around critical information. The Payment Card Industry Security Standard (PCI DSS) clearly defines the framework for data security. ARCON PAM solution allowed our client to become PCI compliant.
key challenge
The client engaged with multiple vendors on project basis to manage critical operational tasks. Privileged accounts were shared with vendors. However, vendors had uncontrolled and unmonitored access to servers. There were certain instances where an incident had happened and the Forensic Team was unable to find the root cause.Therefore, secure third-party access was the biggest concern faced by our client.
Further, the tour operator managed four Data Center environments located in four different cities spread across 3 continents. ADMINs used VPN to connect to Local Data Centers, but had unsecured access to servers.
the solution
ARCON's enterprise-class suite enabled the client to overcome these challenges in a seamless manner. Our product's unique range of functionalities also enabled our client to comply with regulatory and audit requirements.
That our client had four different Data center environments had no impact during the implementation process. ARCON server was installed at the client's central Data Center whilst other three Data Centers were integrated in one Setup.
Everyprivileged account in the client's networknow had a secure access as ARCON PAM integrated at all layers of the IT infrastructure whilst the solution provided Audit Trails for each session. All end-users (Admins and Vendors) had restricted access to all devices in Data Center. Access was monitored. The solution enabled the client to control all privileged sessions as every end-user located at all locations around the globe had access to any Device through ARCON Server.
Likewise, all Third-party access was now regulated, monitored, and controlled after the deployment of ARCON Privileged Access Management (PAM) Suite.
Additional Value Adds:
Our client had limited bandwidth and wanted to accumulate Video Logs on a Local server and then move them to a Central Location (Where ARCON server was installed). We installed a staging server at each location to suit our client's environment. A staging Server at each location enabled the client to accumulate logs during Production Hours. During off Production Hours, Logs were transferred automatically to the Central Location. This architecture helped in significant reduction of network bandwidth utilization thus ensuring there was no impact on productivity during production hours.
about ARCON
ARCON is a leading Information Security solutions company specializing in Privileged Access Management (PAM) / Privileged Identity Management (PIM) and Continuous Risk Assessment solutions. With its roots strongly entrenched in identifying business risks across industries, it is in a unique position to comprehend and identify inherent security gaps in an organizations infrastructure framework and build and deploy innovative solutions/products to significantly mitigate potential risks.


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EYFS Reception or Nursery teacher - Lambeth, Inner London – 2 form entry school - Seeking experienced or NQT teachers – "GOOD" Ofsted 2018 - Permanent role - MPS1 – UPS3 Inner London £29, 664 - £48, 244
Are you an EYFS Reception or Nursery teacher who is looking for a school that values purposeful learning through viewing children becoming independent learners at the forefront of their ethos? Do you want to be an EYFS specialist teacher who is part of a supportive team, with leadership who consistently deliver support to all levels?
Tradewind are currently working with an exceptional 2 form entry primary school based in Lambeth, Inner London. If you are seeking an EYFS Reception or Nursery teaching position where you will have the opportunity to take on additional responsibilities, then please apply immediately.
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About the School – EYFS (Reception) teacher - Hounslow, West London
This welcoming and exciting 2 form entry primary school, based in Merton, believes that the base of a successful learning environment lies in inclusivity, collaboration and communication. The school has had an Ofsted inspection recently where they were graded as "Good" and therefore are keen to continue their journey on the path to "outstanding" status through a large focus on the EYFS setting. The school has therefore recently renovated the outdoor learning area which includes a new mud kitchen and outdoor reading area. They are now looking for a passionate EYFS specialist who is looking to join a school on the path to "Outstanding" and shares the same ethos that learning should be collaborative, resourceful and based on developing independent confident learners. Through this opportunity, you will be able to take on further responsibilities within the school and be part of a supportive community that offers diversity and global dimension.The school is opening to hiring either a Nursery or Reception EYFS teacher as there is an opportunity to restructure based on experiences.
About the Role – EYFS (Reception) teacher - Hounslow, West London
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I read about a study a few years ago that came to one, powerful conclusion:
Grateful people are happier people.
I love that!
And I know it's true.
That's why Thanksgiving is such a lovely holiday.
No gifts received, no talk of what you want and need,
just all out gratitude for what you have.
I learned something in primary on Sunday that I've tried a few times this week.
We learned about prayer, and were challenged to thank Heavenly Father for 10 things before we ask for anything.
It has most definitely changed my prayers!
By the time I even get to what I am asking for help with, I am filled with so much gratitude for what I have already been helped with.
Heavenly Father is looking out for us. All the time.
In this spirit of Thanksgiving, I thought I would comment on a few things I'm especially grateful for today.
My Husband Jason
I love this man with all of my heart! He is loving, joyful, fun, spontaneous, hardworking, patient and warm. He is the greatest thing to ever come into my life. To come downstairs twice in the last twelve hours to find him kneeling in prayer is so beautiful. To me, Jason personifies love.
The Gospel of Jesus Christ
This is at the very core of everything I am. If people could know just one thing about me, I want it to be that I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. The Gospel encourages us to live our lives in a way that will bring us back to our Heavenly Father, and that takes diligence and courage, and it is so, so worth it. The times in my life I have been the happiest are the times I am closest with God. He is real.
My Family
^^Missing my sister in law Logan, sorry!! It was the only one I had!^^
I have a family here on earth, they are so good to me. For real. I don't know what I did to deserve this loving, supportive family but I am forever grateful! Every family is different, and every family has its strengths and its challenges, but I am grateful that I was given this family to go through life with. We strengthen each other and we help each other and we all become better people because of it. I also have wonderful in-laws who I adore, and are so incredibly supportive and loving. God gave us families to help us become what he wants us to be.
Emotional Health
^^My parents watching our first dance. I love this photo.^^
I am grateful that emotionally I feel balanced and at peace. Choosing happiness is a natural choice for me, and that choice affects the way I see everything that happens in life. I think I inherited this one from my mom! For those of you who know her, you know she is the brightest, most joyful person, even through some very difficult things. She has taught me to find joy in every day. Thanks mom!
My Education
^^with my Young Ambassadors sisters in Capetown, South Africa!^^
We are so blessed to be able to receive such wonderful education around here. The opportunities we have in this realm are endless, and education doesn't have to end after you receive a diploma. I am so grateful that I attended a university that revolved around the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and where I received an education not only in journalism, but also in the scriptures, in prayer, and in relationships. Every day at BYU I felt like I was improving myself in so many areas. It was like a four-year deep cleanse of my soul. I developed great habits and got rid of some that hold me back. Living on my own taught me who I really am and what I really want out of life. The friendships I developed will be part of me forever. I am so, so grateful for my education.
Of course, I could continue but I've got to get packing because we're heading up to Snowflake for Thanksgiving! Wahoo!
Happy Thanksgiving to you.
I am thankful that you took time out of your day to read this.


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www.swr.indianrailways.gov.in- 2020-02-13
Press Release No. 389 Dt. 12.02.2020
Ballari to Hubballi track doubled
Binkadakatti - Gadag – Kaninghal - Harlapur - important 23 km long section on either side of Gadag junction on Hubballi division has been commissioned with Double line on 12.02.2020. The 23 Km section is part of the 352 Km doubling of Hosapete – Tinaighat – Vaso-da-gama Section project. This has been doubled after inspection of Commissioner of Railway Safety on 11.01.2020. Prior to this, 201 Km of doubling in the section has been commissioned. General Manager, South Western Railway Shri A K Singh said that "With this the section to the east of Hubballi Station upto Ballari has been doubled. The doubling on this important section will give impetus to mobility of both passenger and goods trains. The work of electrification on this section is also being executed in full swing".
At Gadag new Electronic Interlocking with 149 routes has been commissioned at 4.00 hrs. This replaces end cabin system at Gadag. At Kanginhal Station new Electronic Interlocking was commissioned at 5.10 hrs. This was a small 3 block section single line patch and with this, doubling is now through between Hosapete to Hubballi /Hubballi byepass which has tremendous operational benefits.
Shri P K Kshatriya, CPM, Shri Ramesh Kambli, GM/Projects, Smt Madhavi John, GGM/S&T and Shri Satish Kumar, JGM/S&T, RVNL officers have been instrumental in completing this section without any detention to trains. Officers of SWR mainly from Hubballi Division of Engineering, Operating, Signal & Telecommunication ensured timely execution of the doubling. Officers of Hubballi Division have streamlined the traffic movements during Non Interlocking (NI) and facilitated the testing blocks which also had a major role for early commissioning.
Now the doubling apart from for the ghat section area in Karnataka from Tinaighat to Hosapete has been completed except for a small patch between Hubballi and Dharwad (20 Kms) which is targeted for completion by end of March 2020.
The details of sections commissioned during last 4 years is as below:-
Commissioned in 2016-17
Commissioned in 2017-18
Commissioned in 2018-19
Commissioned in 2019-20
(E. Vijaya)
Chief Public Relations Office
www.swr.indianrailways.gov.in- 2019-11-08
Press Release No. 278 Dt. 07.11.2019
Train No.16577 /16578 Yesvantpur – Harihar – Yesvantpur Tri-Weekly Intercity Express is extended up to Vasco da Gama and run as Train No.07309 / 07310 Yesvantpur – Vasco da Gama – Yesvantpur 5-days-a-week Tatkal Express Special with revised timings and composition.
The frequency of the train will be increased to 5 days for a period of 6 months from 08.11.2019 to 06.05.2020 for the train starting from Yesvantpur and from 10.11.2019 to 05.05.2020 for the train starting from Vasco da Gama as detailed below:-
Train No.07309 /07310 Yesvantpur – Vasco da Gama – Yesvantpur 5-Days-a-Week Tatkal Special Express: -
Train No.07309 Yesvantpur – Vasco da Gama 5-Days-a-week Tatkal Special Express departs from Yesvantpur at 14:30 hrs and reaches Vasco da Gama at 06:00 hrs the next day. The train will have services on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday (No service on Tuesday and Sunday).
En route the train will have stoppages at Tumakuru – 15:28/15:30 hrs, Tipatur – 16:28/16:30 hrs, Arsikere – 16:55/17:00 hrs, Birur – 17:43/17:45 hrs, Davanagere – 19:28/19:30 hrs, Harihara – 19:48/19:50 hrs, Ranibennur – 20:19/20:20 hrs, Haveri – 20:49/20:50 hrs, Hubballi – 23:40/23:50 hrs, Dharwad – 00:13/00:15 hrs, Alnavar – 00:49/00:50 hrs, Londa – 01:33/01:35 hrs, Castlerock – 02:20/02:30 hrs, Kulem – 04:10/04:15 hrs, Sanverdam – 04:38/04:40 hrs and Madgaon – 05:15/05:30 hrs.
Train No.07310 Vasco da Gama – Yesvantpur 5-Days-a-Week Tatkal Special Express departs from Vasco da Gama at 21:20 hrs and reaches Yesvantpur at 12:30 hrs the next day. The Train will have services on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday (No service on Saturday and Monday).
Enroute the train will have stoppages at Madgaon – 21:45/22:00 hrs, Sanverdam – 22:22/22:24 hrs, Kulem – 22:55/23:00 hrs, Castlerock – 23:50/23:55 hrs, Londa – 00:30/00:32 hrs, Alnavar – 01:31/01:32 hrs, Dharwad – 02:30/02:32 hrs, Hubballi – 03:20/03:30 hrs, Haveri – 04:56/04:57 hrs, Ranibennur – 05:29/05:30 hrs, Harihar – 06:13/06:15 hrs, Davanagere – 06:28/06:30 hrs, Birur – 08:08/08:10 hrs, Arsikere – 09:05/09:10 hrs, Tipatur – 09:39/09:40 hrs and Tumakuru – 10:58/11:00 hrs.
The train will have a revised composition of ONE AC 2-tier Coach, TWO AC 3-tier Coaches, ELEVENSecond Class Sleeper Coaches, FOUR General Second Class coaches and TWOSecond Class Luggage cum Brake-vans with differently abled friendly compartments (Total: 20 Coaches)
Consequent upon the merging, extending and increase in frequency of Train No.16577 /16578 and running as Train No.07309 /07310 Yesvantpur- Vasco da Gama – Yesvantpur Tatkal Special Express: -
Train No.06948 Huballi – Vasco da Gama Express will be cancelled with effect from 09.11.2019 (eliminating slip coaches by Train No.11048 Hubballi – Miraj Link Express / 12780 Hazrath Nizamuddin – Vasco da Gama Goa Express)
Train No.02779 Vasco da Gama – KSR Bengaluru Express will be cancelled with effect from 09.11.2019 (eliminating Slip coaches by Train Nos.12779 Vasco da Gama – H. Nizamuddin Goa Express/16590 Kolhapur – KSR Bengaluru Rani Chennamma Express).
The slip coaches from KSR Bengaluru – Hubballi by Train No. 16589 KSR Bengaluru – Kolhapur – KSR Bengaluru will be cancelled with effect from 08.11.2019 and the composition of Train No.16589/16590 KSR Bengaluru – Kolhapur – KSR Bengaluru Rani Chennamma Express will be revised with effect from 08.11.2019 to 06.05.2019 from KSR Bengaluru and from 09.11.2019 to 07.05.2020 from Kolhapur duly augmented temporarily with ONEAC 3-tier Coach, ONE Second Class Sleeper Coach and ONE General Second Class coach . The revised composition of this train is ONE First AC Coach, ONE AC 2-tier Coach, THREEAC 3-tier Coaches, TEN Second Class Sleeper Coaches, FIVE General Second Class coaches and TWO Second Class Luggage cum Brake-vans with differently abled friendly compartments (Total: 22 coaches).
I. The timings of Train No. 17316 Velankanni – Vasco da Gama Weekly Express will be revised(Speeding up between Krishnarajapurm - Vasco da Gama) without touching Yesvantpur Station i.e. run through Yesvantpur By-pass duly providing stoppage at Chikbanavar with effect commencing journey from Velankanni from 12.11.2019 onwards as detailed below:-
Train No. 17316 Velankanni – Vasco da Gama Weekly Express will depart Velankanni at 23:45 hrs on every Tuesday and arrive Vasco da Gama at 05:15 hrs on Thursday.
There is no change in timings between Velankanni - Krishnarajapurm. After Krishnarajapurm this train will arrive/depart Banaswadi – 11:23/11:25 hrs, Chikbanavar – 11:50/11:52 hrs, Tumakuru – 13:08/13:10 hrs, Tipatur – 14:10/14:11 hrs, Arsikere – 14:45/14:50 hrs, Birur – 15:33/15:35 hrs, Davanagere – 17:18/17:20 hrs, Ranibennur – 18:03/18:05 hrs, Haveri – 19:00/19:02 hrs, Hubballi – 20:45/21:00 hrs, Dharwad – 21:55/21:57 hrs, Londa – 23:25/23:27 hrs, Castlerock – 01:25/01:35 hrs, Kulem – 02:50/02:55 hrs, Sanverdam – 03:25/03:26 hrs and Madgaon – 04:15/04:20 hrs.
II. Train No. 17315 Vasco da Gama – Velankanni Weekly Express will run without touching Yesvantpur Station i.e. run through Yesvantpur By-pass duly providing stoppage at Chikbanavar with effect commencing journey from Vasco da Gama from 11.11.2019 onwards. Accordingly this train will arrive/depart Chikbanavar – 22:40/22:42 hrs and Banaswadi – 23:10/23:12 hrs. There will no change in timings of other stopping stations.
III. The timings of Train No. 17419/17021 Tirupati/Hyderabad - Vasco da Gama Weekly Express will be revised between Munirabad - Vasco da Gama duly speeding up between these stations as detailed below:-
There is no change in timings of this train between Tirupati/Hyderabad – Hosapete. After Hosapete this train will arrive/depart Munirabad – 20:34/20:35 hrs, Koppal – 20:58/21:00 hrs, Gadag – 21:44/ 21:46 hrs, Annigeri – 22:10/22:11 hrs, Hubballi – 22:50/23:00 hrs, Dharwad – 23:25/23:27 hrs, Alnavar – 00:02/00:03 hrs, Londa – 00:35/00:37 hrs, Castlerock – 01:25/01:35 hrs, Kulem – 02:50/02:55 hrs, Sanverdam – 03:25/03:26 hrs and Madgaon – 04:15/04:20 hrs.
IV. There will be no change in timings of Train No. 17420/17022 Vasco da Gama - Tirupati/Hyderabad Weekly Express.
(E. Vijaya)
Chief Public Relations Office
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April new releases: Pilbara archaeology and neglected Anzac histories
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From the launch of 'Christina Stead and the Matter of America'
The following is a transcript of a talk given by Brigid Rooney at the launch of Christina Stead and the Matter of America by Fiona Morrison on 6 December 2019.
I'm thrilled to launch Fiona's wonderful book Christina Stead and the Matter of America, published with Sydney University Press (what an apt occasion to celebrate yet another excellent Sydney Studies in Australian Literature title).
Firing a cannonball in open textbook publishing
By Agata Mrva-Montoya
On Friday 29 November we launched our first open textbook, the result of a pilot project that we started in 2017, when we first became interested in engaging with the educational sphere. We wanted to find out whether there was interest among academics in producing open educational resources, and what resources were required to publish them.
Intertwinements: writing about birds, writing about the planet
By Joshua Lobb
My novel is about many things. I've called it 'a novel in twelve stories' for a reason.
To give you the simplest framework:
It's made up of 12 related stories. Each story describes an encounter with a different species of bird. Some are constantly in our lives, like kookaburras in our garden or magpies who swoop us on our way to work. Others are on the verge of extinction, like the Gould's petrel whose breeding ground is limited to one small island off the coast of central NSW. Some birds become part of our family, like a pet budgie. Others are incorporated in more literal and violent ways, like a factory-farmed chicken on our plate at dinner.
One the other side of the encounter is a human at various stages of his life: a boy, a young man, a parent, a widower – but not necessarily in that order. He's trying to piece together his life and his relationship with his daughter and his relationship with the world around him.
At Last, The Broad Arrow!
The following is a transcript of a talk given by Amanda Lohrey at the launch of The Broad Arrow: Being Passages from the History of Maida Gwynnham, a Lifer by Oliné Keese, with a critical introduction by Jenna Mead on 14 June 2019.
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Q & A with Nikole Evans, Publishing Intern
Nikole Evans has been working with Sydney University Press over the past three months, first as an intern and now as a marketing assistant. She has a BA in French and Art History and is just about to complete her Master of Publishing at the University of Sydney. In her spare time you'll find her reading fantasy, talking about fantasy, or talking about reading fantasy.


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We have a full review coming of the Incredible 2 here at AndroidCommunity any time now, so be sure and stay tuned, or see the hands-on linked to above. It may not be a 4G LTE Device like the Samsung Droid Charge, but it is $100 cheaper for those that are on a budget but still want a great phone. HTC makes some of the best hardware out there.
Earlier in the week we told you about the original Incredible at Amazon for a penny. It looks like they were selling some stock to make room for the Incredible 2. Amazon has been known to do this in the past to get buyers, obviously this low price is with a new 2-year contract of course. Take note the Incredible 2 at Amazon is listed as back-ordered but was scheduled to be released today, so they should start shipping any day now. Will you be getting one? Or are you holding out for a 4G LTE Phone?


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October 30, 2016
By MICKEY POWELL
MARTINSVILLE – Del. Danny Marshall wants to know how $383,000 that the New College Institute (NCI) pays its private foundation annually to occupy its building on the Baldwin Block uptown is being spent.
"We owe it to the taxpayers" to find out, Marshall, a Republican from Danville who is on the institute's board, said during the board's meeting Thursday.
The New College Foundation, the institute's independent fundraising arm, owns the three-story, 52,000-square-foot building between Fayette, Market, West Church and Moss streets. The building opened in 2014.
Technically, if the foundation wanted to, "they could kick us out" of the building, said another board member, state Sen. Bill Stanley, R-Franklin County.
That is unlikely, though. Although the Martinsville-Henry County Economic Development Corp., the Piedmont Governor's School and the Martinsville-Henry County Visitors Center also are there, the building was constructed mainly to house NCI. The institute also has some classrooms in a building on the courthouse square nearby.
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Much of what gets published in so-called "science journals" or "medical journals" is actually complete "bullshit" warn many observers.
Brendan D. Murphy has authored a spectacular piece published by Waking Times, offering astonishing details in support of that notion.
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His full article is reprinted here. Find the original at this link. See more work by Brendan Murphy at BrendanMurphy.net.
Why Scientific Peer Review is a Sham
In recent years the defects in the peer review system have been the subject of a profusion of critical editorials and studies in the literature. It is high time that the world took heed of what the critics are saying, not least of all because of the medical and health ramifications.
The notion of peer review has long occupied special territory in the world of science. However, investigation of suppressed innovations, inventions, treatments, cures, and so on, rapidly reveals that the peer review system is arguably better at one thing above all others: censorship.
This can mean censorship of everything from contrarian viewpoints to innovations that render favored dogmas, products, or services obsolete (economic threats).
The problem is endemic, as many scientists have learned the hard way.
In truth, the systemic failure of peer review is one of science's major, embarrassing open secrets.
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As Dr David Kaplan tells us, "Peer review is known to engender bias, incompetence, excessive expense, ineffectiveness, and corruption. A surfeit of publications has documented the deficiencies of this system."
Australian physicist Brian Martin elaborates in his excellent article Strategies for Dissenting Scientists:
|"Certain sorts of innovation are welcome in science, when they fall within established frameworks and do not threaten vested interests. But aside from this sort of routine innovation, science has many similarities to systems of dogma. Dissenters are not welcome. They are ignored, rejected, and sometimes attacked."
Electric universe researcher and Big Bang critic Wal Thornhill (a REAL scientist) stated plainly in our GFM Media interview that the peer review system amounts to censorship. Fellow independent scientist Gary Novak agrees scathingly:
|"Peer review is a form of censorship, which is tyranny over the mind. Censorship does not purify; it corrupts… There is a lot of junk science and trash that goes through the peer review process."
Brian Martin asks us rhetorically:
|"What do [scientists] have to gain by spending time helping an outsider? Most likely, the alleged discovery will turn out to be pointless or wrong from the standard point of view.If the outsider has made a genuine discovery, that means the outsider would win rewards at the expense of those already in the field who have invested years of effort in the conventional ideas."
Herein lies the problem in moving science forward and shifting paradigms. A paradigm is only as malleable (or mutable) as the minds and egos invested in it.
The Problem of "Experts"
The reality is (as any real scientist will tell you) that scientists are prone – just like lay people – to being cathected to their pet theories and opinions, especially if they have been visibly rewarded or publicly obtained accolades or financial remuneration as a result.
Scientists, like laypeople, have susceptible emotional bodies and often fairly hefty egos – partially due to their "expertise" and academic titles, qualifications, theories, etc.
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Once those hefty egos – belonging to people generally known as "experts" – rise to positions of power and/or influence, they can calcify the flow of scientific progress as well as the understanding of new discoveries or theories – particularly if they end up acting as "peer reviewers" at high levels in prestigious publications.
In that capacity, too many become mere gatekeepers and seek not to facilitate innovation or vital new Copernican-scale revelations, but to maintain the status quo which got them there in the first place.
Dr Malcolm Kendrick comments in his excellent book Doctoring Data that, "by definition, anyone who is an 'expert' in an area of medicine will be a supporter of whatever dogma holds sway." Close study of power dynamics in medicine bears this out.
The players with the deepest pockets have the funds to buy all of the "experts" they need to sell a bogus product or ideology to an unsuspecting public.
Consider the following words from The Lancet's editor Richard Horton (pictured below):
|"The mistake, of course, is to have thought that peer review was any more than a crude means of discovering the acceptability – not the validity – of a new finding… We portray peer review to the public as a quasi-sacred process that helps to make science our most objective truth teller.But we know that the system of peer review is biased, unjust, unaccountable, incomplete, easily fixed, often insulting, usually ignorant, occasionally foolish, and frequently wrong."
The Lancet's editor Richard Horton
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Peer review, as a "quasi-sacred" process that somehow supposedly transcends the foibles and follies human nature has taken on sacred ritual status. Has the paper been blessed by the Peer Review Priest?
Peer review is held to be more than just pragmatically useful and functional (which clearly it is not, generally speaking) – it is held as a transcendent, almost magical, organizing force occurring in the heavenly ivory towers of Science, which somehow avoids falling prey to human weaknesses by virtue of those humans' lofty qualifications as "scientists" or "experts."
Scientists, of course, aren't quite human – they are something more, something pure, something that the layman can never be. Students undergo a magical alchemical process as they proceed through educational institutions and emerge transformed from their chrysalis with their doctorates, masters, stethoscopes and equations.
They are the Chosen Ones, the purified, the holy, the redeemed, the righteous. They do not have to answer to the lowly non-scientific peasantry – let alone unbelieving heretics.
It is clear, however, that not only is the popular view of peer review misleading, but the most prestigious publications are some of the very worst offenders. Significant scientific publications – for example, the journal Nature – have a well documented history of prejudice against findings or hypotheses that run contrary to established scientific dogma.
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Writing in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in May 2000, Canadian-based researcher, David Sackett, said that he would "never again lecture, write, or referee anything to do with evidence based clinical practice," over his concern that "experts" are stifling new ideas. He wants the retirement of experts to be made compulsory and I think it's a brilliant proposition.
Sackett says that "…progress towards the truth is impaired in the presence of an expert."
Trusting "experts" in oncology, for example, is generally a very good way to artificially speed one's trip to the grave, particularly if one has metastatic cancer (allopathic medicine is notoriously ineffective in that realm). And yet "experts" are now on a rarified level that perhaps only popes and celebrities can understand – they are virtually demigods today.
In the main, "experts" are those people in the establishment who espouse the mainstream dogma and reify the politically correct belief structures. "Experts" are lionized because the world that made them experts promotes and validates them when they affirm the already established (and profitable) beliefs – and the media is complicit in this.
If you want to be horribly misled on any number of important issues, just head straight to just about any mainstream news media outlet and listen to the establishment's "experts."
Is it not time to get the crusty, rigidified, and corrupt Old Guard out of the way so we can let science move forward?
The Scientific Method Then and Now:
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Is Most Research Just Bullshit?
Harvard Medical School's Dr. Marcia Angell is the former Editor-in-Chief at the New England Journal of Medicine, where she spent twenty years poring over scientific papers, saturated in the dubious practices that pervade the world of medical research. She states bluntly:
|"It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine."
Most "experts" in medicine are, psychologically speaking, simply engaged in well-paid groupthink and confirmation bias exercises, vigorously affirming and defending their ego's (lucrative) construction of the world. To paraphrase physicist Max Planck, medicine, like science, "advances one funeral at a time."
Once the public has accepted the scientific establishment's truths, narratives, and designated "experts" then researchers who yield findings deviating from the accepted norm can be immediately branded as crackpots, lunatics, fringe nuts, pseudo-scientists and so on, regardless of how meticulous their methods, and irrefutable their results.
The media is crucial in this control dynamic because it sells the establishment's reality.
Thus is the politically correct status quo maintained.
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Peer "Review" Lets Garbage Through – and Lots of it!
"Peer review" censorship exemplifies the neophobia in the world of science which serves to protect the status quo rather than improve knowledge by weeding out dubious epistemologies and results, as it is meant to.
This supposed mechanism of "quality control" has resulted not only in the dismissal of much important and credible research, but it has also let fraudulent research – and lots of it! – be published at the same time. Papers that appear to support fashionable ideas or entrenched dogmas are likely to fare well, even if they are badly flawed – or outright rubbish!
David Kaplan, a professor of pathology at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, has stated that;
|"Peer review is broken. It needs to be overhauled, not just tinkered with. The incentives should be changed so that: authors are more satisfied and more likely to produce better work, the reviewing is more transparent and honest, and journals do not have to manage an unwieldy and corrupt system that produces disaffection and misses out on innovation."
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Is it any wonder that John Ionnidis reported in his famous 2005 paper that, "Most research findings are false for most research designs and for most fields"? Given the already outlined problems, is it really surprising that, in Ionnidis words, "Claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias"?
Dr. Marc Girard, a mathematician and physician who serves on the editorial board of Medicine Veritas (The Journal of Medical Truth), has written;
|"The reason for this disaster is too clear: the power of money. In academic institutions, the current dynamics of research is more favourable to the ability of getting grants – collecting money and spending it – than to scientific imagination or creativity."
In general, peer reviewers – generally not time-rich – don't try to replicate experiments and rarely even request the raw data supporting a paper's conclusions. Who has the time for all that? Thus, peer review is, according to Richard Smith writing in Peer review in health sciences;
|"Thought to be slow, expensive, profligate of academic time, highly subjective, prone to bias, easily abused, poor at detecting gross defects, and almost useless for detecting fraud."
What about fake peer review? This is where the corrupt and abysmal becomes the theatre of the absurd. For example, Berlin-based Springer Nature, who publishes the aforementioned Nature journal announced the retraction of 64 articles in 10 journals in an August 18th statement in 2015. This followed an internal investigation which found fabricated peer-review write-ups linked to the articles.
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The purge followed similar discoveries of "fake peer review" by several other major publishers, including London-based BioMed Central, an arm of Springer, which began retracting 43 articles in March citing "reviews from fabricated reviewers".
Yes, that means reviewers that don't exist – recommended as "reviewers" by the people submitting their work for review.
Imagine writing a paper and being able to nominate a non-existent person to review your work, and the contact email supplied to the publisher for this purpose is actually one you made up, which routes the paper back to you (unbeknownst to the publisher), so that you can then secretly carry out a (favourable) review of your own work under a pseudonym!
It's being done, folks, this is not a joke.
In response to fake peer review some publishers have actually ended the practice of author-suggested reviewers.
And now for the Conceptual Penis…
Recently two scientists performed a brilliant Sokal-style hoax on the journal Cogent Social Sciences. Under the pen names "Jamie Lindsay" and "Peter Boyle," and writing for the fictitious "Southeast Independent Social Research Group," Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay wrote a deliberately absurd paper loosely composed in the style of "post-structuralist discursive gender theory" – what exactly that is they made no attempt to find out.
The authors tell us:
|"The paper was ridiculous by intention, essentially arguing that penises shouldn't be thought of as male genital organs but as damaging social constructions…We assumed that if we were merely clear in our moral implications that maleness is intrinsically bad and that the penis is somehow at the root of it, we could get the paper published in a respectable journal."
And they did. After completing the paper, and being unable to identify what it was actually about, it was deemed a success and ready for submission, which went ahead in April 2017.
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It was published the next month after some editorial feedback and additional tweaking. To illustrate how deliberately absurd the paper is, a quote is in order:
|"We conclude that penises are not best understood as the male sexual organ, or as a male reproductive organ, but instead as an enacted social construct that is both damaging and problematic for society and future generations… and is the conceptual driver behind much of climate change."
In plain English, they (seemingly) argued here that a penis is not a male sexual organ but a social construct; the "conceptual penis" is problematic for "gender (and reproductive) identity," as well as being the "conceptual" driver of climate change. No, really. How this ever got published is something to ponder. The paper is filled with meaningless jargon, arrant nonsense, and references to fake papers and authors.
As part of the hoax, none of the sources that were cited were even read by the hoaxers. As Boghossian and Lindsay point out, it never should have been published. No one – not even Boghossian and Lindsay – knows what it is actually saying.
Almost a third of the sources cited in the original version of the paper point to fake sources, such as created by Postmodern Generator, making mock of how absurdly easy it is to execute this kind of hoax, especially, the authors add, in "'academic' fields corrupted by postmodernism." (emphasis added)
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The Spectacular Success of Hoax Papers and Non-existent Authors
In April 2010, Cyril Labbé of Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France, used a computer program called SCIgen to create 102 fake papers under the pseudonym of Ike Antkare. SCIgen was created in 2005 by researchers at MIT in Cambridge in order to demonstrate that conferences would accept such nonsense…as well as to amuse themselves.
Labbé added the bogus papers to the Google Scholar database, which boosted Ike Antkare's h-index, a measure of published output, to 94 – at the time, making Antkare the world's 21st most highly cited scientist. (emphasis added)
So a non-existent scientist has achieved the distinction of being one of the world's most highly cited authors - while "authoring" papers consisting of utter gibberish. Congratulations are certainly in order. In February 2014 it was reported that Springer and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), were removing over 120 such bogus papers from their subscription services after Labbe identified them using his own software.
Going back at least as far as 1996 journalists and researchers have been getting spoof papers published in conferences or journals to deliberately expose weaknesses in academic quality controls.
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"Physicist Alan Sokal (of the famous Sokal Affair) succeeded in the journal Social Text in 1996," while Harvard science journalist John Bohannon revealed in a 2013 issue of Science that he had duped over 150 open-access journals into publishing "a deliberately flawed study."
Bohannon organized submission of the flawed study (technically, many different but very similar variations of the study) to 304 open access journals worldwide over a period of 10 months. 255 went through the whole editing process to the point of either acceptance or rejection.
He wrote:
|"Any reviewer with more than a high-school knowledge of chemistry and the ability to understand a basic data plot should have spotted the paper's shortcomings immediately. Its experiments are so hopelessly flawed that the results are meaningless."
The hoax paper was accepted by a whopping 157 of the journals and rejected by only 98. Of the 106 journals that did conduct "peer review," fully 70% accepted the paper.
If peer review was a transparent and accountable process, according to Gary Novak;
|"There might be a small chance of correcting some of the corruptions through truth and criticism; but the process is cloaked in the darkness of anonymity…Due to the exploitive and corrupt process, nearly everything in science has official errors within it… A culture of protecting and exploiting the errors creates an official reality which cannot be opposed."
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Returning specifically to the arena of (mainstream) medicine, a quote in PLoS Medicine, states:
|"Journals have devolved into information laundering operations for the pharmaceutical industry", wrote Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet, in March 2004.In the same year, Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, lambasted the industry for becoming "primarily a marketing machine" and co-opting "every institution that might stand in its way"…
Jerry Kassirer, another former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, argues that the industry has deflected the moral compasses of many physicians, and the editors of PLoS Medicine have declared that they will not become "part of the cycle of dependency…between journals and the pharmaceutical industry".
In the words of John Ionnidis, "Most scientific studies are wrong, and they are wrong because scientists are interested in funding and careers rather than truth."
If most studies are wrong, and most scientists are more interested in their own careers and funding than getting at the truth – while journals daily allow bogus and flawed pharmaceutical research to be published and promoted – then why would anyone in their right mind believe the claims made by doctors about the efficacy of products based upon "peer review" or pharmaceutical "studies"?
What does a term like "safe and effective" even mean in this world of deception and subterfuge?
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Clearly the problem of corruption and conflicts of interest have been increasingly on the radar of professional academics for some time now, so much so that it has been the subject of an increasing number of harshly critical articles and editorials. Conveying the depth and breadth of deception to the "uninitiated," however, presents a unique challenge.
And it isn't just conflict of interest and corruption to blame for the failure of peer review, there is human bias, shoddy review work, fake reviewers and fraud, and varying other human interests to factor in.
At the very least we need to cease indoctrinating students into the dogma that all good things have been peer reviewed, and the converse: anything that has not been peer reviewed is clearly blasphemous and crafted by the unholy hands of sinners.
In the meantime, the public needs to be warned: peer review is largely a sham and will not protect you or your family from medical pseudo-science or dangerous pharmaceutical products.
Your doctor's word should not be blindly trusted, especially when we know that doctors rely absurdly heavily on information (read: propaganda) provided by the pharmaceutical industry itself (can you say "conflicted"?!) in developing their views and opinions.
I can't help but cringe when I hear people ask if a study has been "peer-reviewed." The response this question most often deserves is simply, "Who cares?"
|"The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness."
– Richard Horton, Offline: What is medicine's 5 sigma? The Lancet, 11 April 2015, thelancet.com (Horton is editor of The Lancet)
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There are lots of different ways you can make this. I chose to just use the plain base for the letters and then had end unicorn pieces. You can make the letters on the unicorns as well.
Unicorn Face Cut out Lanterns
It was a bit of work to assemble everything but it wasn't too bad. I already had all the paper flowers sitting around so it was just a matter of gluing everything together. All of my rolled flowers are here.
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I made a set of numbers with a unicorn horn on top and this rainbow piece. I then just glued it on a straw and chopsticks. Easy Peasy.
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