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Gay Marriage Improves Health
Cluster Bombs
17 Dec 2011 - Initially I was not sure, if this is a true story or not, but it comes from a credible website so let's share. And it's nice to have some positive news from the Middle-East (for a change). Israeli
medical researchers say they have developed a new technique for
blasting cancer tumours from the inside out which reduces the risk of
the disease returning after treatment. Tel Aviv University professors Yona Keisari and Itzhak Kelson are about to start clinical trials of a pin-sized radioactive implant that beams short-range alpha radiation from within the tumour.Unlike conventional radiation therapy, which bombards the body with gamma rays from outside, the alpha particles
"diffuse inside the tumour, spreading further and further before
disintegrating," a university statement quoted Keisari as saying.
"It's like a cluster bomb --
instead of detonating at one point, the atoms continuously disperse and
emit alpha particles at increasing distances." The university said that the process takes about 10 days and leaves behind only non-radioactive and non-toxic amounts of lead. "Not only are cancerous cells more
reliably destroyed, but in the majority of cases the body develops
immunity against the return of the tumour," the statement said.
The wire implant, inserted into the tumour by hypodermic needle, "decays harmlessly in the body," it added. It went on to say that in
pre-clinical trials on mice, one group had tumours removed surgically
while another was treated with the radioactive wire. "When cells from the tumour were
reinjected into the subject, 100 percent of those treated surgically
redeveloped their tumour, compared to only 50 percent of those treated
with the radioactive wire," it said.
"The researchers have had excellent results with many types of cancer
models, including lung, pancreatic, colon, breast, and brain tumours."It added that the procedure would begin clinical trials at Beilinson hospital, near Tel Aviv, "soon."
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Richard Avedon
Avedon was the epitome of the modern photographer – a charming, sophisticated man-about-town and a photographer who was able to cross photographic genres. It did not matter where he was, which format he chose to work with or who his subject was, the image would be an Avedon image. It would have that unmistakeable elegance and confidence that marked him out, not just as a great photographer but as a highly successful commercial photographer, who was able to create instantly iconic and memorable images. So what’s his influence? His large-format portrait style with the stark white background, his use of two images to tell one portrait story, his use of strobe lights in fashion, the book In The American West? Of course it’s all this and more.Avedon is a photographer whom every photographer should get to know via his books. They cover his whole career and not only chart his own photographic and personal development but also, that of commercial photography over the last half of the twentieth century.
Wallpaper
12 Dec.2011 - They may look like sketches of a madman with too much time on his hands, but this stunning landscape is in fact the labour of love of German artist Heike Weber who uses permanent marker pens to draw on acrylic floors and walls. The artist installation series, called Utopia, has transformed a dull and dreary apartment in Neumunster into a surreal landscape of visual depth and complexity. .
Nobel Peace Prize 2011
11 Dec 2011 - I have been quite for some time, but let's pick things up where I left the. It seems appropriate to honor three women who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2011 as a topic for this re-launch of the water-trotter blog. Writing will not be as frequent, but I hope to post regularly.
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize has been presented to three women at a ceremony in the Norwegian capital, Oslo. This year's award was won jointly by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Liberia, Leymah Gbowee, the Liberian peace activist, and Yemeni pro-democracy campaigner Tawakkol Karman. They were recognized for their "non-violent struggle" for women's safety and for women's rights to participate in peace-building work.Chinese lawyer Liu Xiaobo won in 2010. Each of this year's winners was presented wit
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To Understand is not To Condone
13 Aug 2011 - This week will mostly be remembered for the UK riots which started about a week ago. I read a good analysis by journalist Richard Hall on the Al Jazeera website. He writes that the callousness displayed by many of those involved, and the sheer scale of the disturbances, has understandably caused a great deal of anger. As a result, many people have chosen to reject any debate over why these riots are taking place at all. The impression appears to be that the crimes committed were so great and so senseless that to try and understand them is to condone them.
Hall points out that the areas worst affected by looting and rioting are among the most deprived in the country. And that these same areas are the most affected by gangs. It is easy to ignore the voices of those who work with the communities affected by rioting, such as Camila Batmanghelidjh, who has spent decades working with poor and disenfranchised youth. She writes of those looting: "Community, they would say, has nothing to offer them. Instead, for years they have experienced themselves cut adrift from civil society's legitimate structures. Society relies on collaborative behaviour; individuals are held accountable because belonging brings personal benefit." It is easier still to ignore young people who live in areas like Wood Green, interviewed as recently as July, who said after the closure of youth clubs in Haringey: "I used to go to a couple of youth clubs […] now there is just nothing to do. We are just out here with nothing to do. We're just out here getting up to no good." And another, who warned: "There will be riots." It doesn't require a tremendous stretch of the imagination to consider that these things might not be a complete coincidence. Conversely, to say these are the only factors would be wrong, as it has become clear that those rioting were not exclusively young people from the aforementioned communities.
Hall concludes that it should not be so difficult to understand that listening to those who live and work in the communities affected by the riots is not the same as condoning the actions of the rioters. Quite the opposite, it is necessary to prevent the same thing from happening again. It is possible to condemn those people who have destroyed livelihoods and risked lives, demand they be punished to the full extent of the law, and try to understand what led them to believe these actions were acceptable.It is also possible to believe that poverty, lack of opportunities and the exclusion of certain groups from society are underlying causes to these disturbances - among many others - and to say that they are entirely responsible for their own actions.
We are left with a choice: either we arrest and prosecute everyone involved and carry on as normal until the next riot, or we arrest and prosecute everyone involved and try to address the causes which led to them in the first place.
Breaking and Entering
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London Tower Bridge
Albanian Criminals
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Bunnies in London
Bayswater
Bayswater is one of London's most cosmopolitan areas wherein a diverse local population is augmented by a high concentration of hotels. In addition to the ancestral Britons, there is a significant Arab population, a large Greek community attracted by London's Greek Orthodox Cathedral, many Americans and London's main Brazilian community. The area has attractive streets and garden squares lined with Victorian stucco terraces, mostly now subdivided into flats and boarding houses. The property ranges from very expensive apartments to small studio flats. There are also purpose-built apartment blocks dating from the inter-war period as well as more recent developments, and a large council estate, the 650-flat Hallfield Estate, designed by Sir Denys Lasdun and now largely sold off.
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