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Canadian Arthritis Report Targets Obesity

Yesterday, the Arthritis Alliance of Canada together with the Canadian Arthritis Network released The Impact of Arthritis in Canada: Today and Over the Next 30 Years, a 50-page report that provides a detailed look at the impact of arthritis in Canada and offers solutions on how to mitigate and manage the situation.

According to this report, there are currently more than 4.4 million people living with osteoarthritis (OA) in Canada. In 30 years, more than 10 million or one in four Canadians is expected to have OA. Within a generation (in 30 years), there will be a new diagnosis of OA every 60 seconds.

Currently OA drives about $10 billion in direct health care costs and about $17 billion in indirect costs (lost wages, lost taxes, etc.) – together with other forms of arthritis (especially rheumatoid arthritis) the total cost of arthritis amounts to an estimated $33 billion annually. These numbers will on only grow.

Recognising that excess weight is one of the prime (modifiable) drivers of the OA epidemic, the report suggests that targeting obesity should be a priority (along with better access to joint replacements and adequate pain management) in reducing the burden of arthritis on Canadians.

As the report points out:

If a prevention program was available to reduce obesity rates by 50% in the Canadian population over the next 10 years:

• 45,000 new cases of OA could be avoided over 10 years and over 200,000 cases of OA could be avoided over 30 years;

• 25,000 workers could avoid OA over 10 years and over 136,000 cases of OA in the labour force could be avoided over 30 years;

• $3.8 billion could be saved in cumulative direct health care costs over 10 years and $48.3 billion over 30 years (2010 dollars); and

• $14.0 billion could be saved in cumulative productivity losses over 10 years and $163.7 billion saved over 30 years (2010 dollars).

(Limitation: Costs attributable to obesity-reduction interventions were unavailable and, therefore, not considered in the model.)

While this conclusion stresses the importance of obesity as a key driver of arthritis costs, this assumption of course is rather optimistic.

To my knowledge, there is no known prevention strategy that comes even close to reducing obesity prevalence by 50% in 10 years. Indeed, for those at the highest risk of OA, namely, those who are already obese, ‘prevention’ strategies come too late – you would actually have to look at ‘treatment’ strategies.

The authors are certainly aware of this as they concede that:

“Further research is needed to improve on current strategies for preventing and treating obesity.”

Fortunately, we’re already on it.

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  1. I think they are wrong about that. I think they have a common cause, namely sugar, grains, and omega 6 oils. Consider the non-load bearing arthritis as in the hands. When I quit sugar and wheat, my hands started to work before I lost much weight.

    The target should be no wheat, no sugar, and to do that, we need to eliminate Omega 6 oils, get or blood glucose into like, and learn to eat to control appetite.

    Implying obesity is the cause is very wrong. All it shows is a correlation. The obese deserve the truth and a workable solution that many of the ex-obese have found.

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  2. Don’t several of the arthritis medications in turn cause weight gain?

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  3. Since one of the most common side effects of dieting is further weight gain, shouldn’t we be giving priority to other options to increase mobility and decrease pain, for instance, physiotherapy that targets and strengthens the muscles around the affected joint? Getting people up and moving–though not a total solution–is certainly a lot more helpful and a lot more “health creating” than simply recommending weight loss, which in 95% of cases is not sustainable.

    Once again, by stressing weight loss, we are blaming the arthritics while doing nothing to help them fight the disease. “If they only stopped eating Big Macs, fries and Coke all the time, they wouldn’t be fat and wouldn’t get arthritis!”

    Funnily enough, today I was thinking about the ever lithe Jane Fonda and the fact that she too has had a hip replacement…

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  4. The main weakness in that back-of-the-napkin estimate isn’t the neglected costs of intervention. It’s the assumption that arthritis that’s associated with obesity is caused by obesity. In reality, the causality might be either reversed or mixed. For example, when my left hip went out due to trauma induced osteoarthritis that was primary the result of a car accident, I became less active and gained 15 pounds. If I’d been suppressing my weight to begin with, then I probably would have gained even more.

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  5. The biggiest flaw with this report was in your preamble–RA is an outoimmunie desease not at all like its cousin OA. As a suffer of RA in my right hand I would like to know just how weight issues are causative. Both RA and OA are ugly cousins.

    As far as fredt commented that removing wheat and sugar helped his OA, there many different types for foods that can cause an alerigenic type of responce in circulation there are many books that can expound on this topic. Obesity and arthroitis have one thing in common the patient must be patient and educate him or herself on what works best for the individual.

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  6. There are lots of good arguments against obesity but it’s not so clear when it comes to orthopaedics. How many contact sports athletes end up having hip and knee replacements as well as those super thin ballerinas, skaters and gymnasts? High impact aerobics and training for long-distance marathons are also brutal on joints. What about all those occupations known for repetitive stress injuries or trades that require a lot of lifting of heavy objects, kneeling, crawling, etc. Actually extra fat can be associated with good outcomes with it comes to statistics for who gets osteoporosis as load bearing strengthens bones and the extra padding around bones and organs can be advantageous in falls and accidents. Of course if it comes to actually needing surgery, the obese patient places health care workers at greater risk of being injured because they are lifting, carrying, supporting their own weight plus that of the patient.

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  7. Of course if it comes to actually needing surgery, the obese patient places health care workers at greater risk of being injured because they are lifting, carrying, supporting their own weight plus that of the patient.

    I don’t think people who are in the hospital for joint replacements ever necessarily need to be lifted. Nobody ever had to lift me when I was in for my hip replacement. I was on a wheeled gurney, before, during and right after, I was able to transfer myself to the bed in the recovery room, and was able to use the toilet by using a walker the next morning. This might not be true of everyone though, I guess…

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  • El Dekheila port is characterized with vast land surface beside the berths.
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  • There is no facilities in Safaga port for general cargo and containers.

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Free industrial investments zones or storage areas.

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  • There are no storage yards in inland transport port except what is specialized with a certain type such as coal inland port.

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  • There is no C.F.S. terminal in Alexandria port affiliated to the main container terminal.
  • Suez and El Adabeya ports have yards duly equipped to store containers' stacks.

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  • The importance of the development of the storehouses of the Egyptian Warehouses Company operating in general ports and Alexandria port.
  • The necessity to provide the ports with high performance rates handling equipment and the necessary transport modes in addition to the completion of developing the Damietta branch to be suitable for inland transport.
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Arguably the fiercest derby in Italy, the Derby della Capitale is often described by Romans as "More than a game" or "The Eternal War".

A.S. Roma came into existence in 1927 with the forced merger of Roman FC, SS Alba-Audace and Fortitudo-Pro Roma SGS by the ruling Fascist government who sought to create a strong club in the Italian capital who could challenge the dominant northern sides.

A fourth club in Rome, S.S. Lazio, resisted becoming part of the merger and thanks to club member General Vaccaro, who was also an executive at the Italian Football Federation, they maintained their independence. Thus a cross town rivalry was created between the two sides that has raged for decades.

Lazio, formed in 1902, initially played out of the Prati neighbourhood of Rome, which is north of the Vatican, while Roma were based out of the southern and working class Testaccio area of the city.

As a result, with both clubs eventually residing at the Stadio Olimpico, Lazio's ultras traditionally occupy the northern end of the ground (Curva Nord) and Roma's ultras take up the southern end (Curva Sud).

The two clubs first played each other in December of 1929, which resulted in a 1-0 win for Roma and since that time they have met 174 times across all competitions, with Roma winning 64 times to Lazio's 48 and 62 matches ending in draws.

Although neither club can claim to have matched their northern Italian rivals of Milan, Inter or Juventus in terms of success, Roma has won Serie A three times, while also winning nine Copa Italia's. Lazio for their part have won two Serie A titles and six Copa Italia's.

Besides the on-pitch action, the tension in the stands is typically at a fever pitch for the Roman Derby as the fans look to get one over on their opposite numbers and claim local bragging rights.

Lazio have been marred in recent decades by displays of far right attitudes and blatant racism from some sections of their support and that has unfortunately come to the fore during the derby, with Roma's non-white players coming in for some horrible abuse. Roma though are not innocent in this themselves and have displayed signs and banners that are equally racist in nature.

Both clubs though have tried to separate themselves from this stain on the Italian game.

In terms of violence between supporters, in 1979 the first death of a supporter at a ground due to violence occurred when a Lazio supporter was struck in the face with a flair. Since that time many matches have been marred by stabbings, often in the buttocks of rival fans, fascist salutes and riots. The police are also known for coming down with a heavy hand on the two sets of fans if they even get a hint that trouble may be stirring.

In terms of colourful displays and noise though, you would be hard pressed to find a derby anywhere in the world that matches the colour of the Derby della Capitale, and although the two sides are not as decorated at the big three northern clubs, some of the football on offer will be amongst the best you'll see in Italy.

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Researchers reprogrammed the mini-brain structures into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) using skin cells removed from three controls and four patients with schizophrenia as described in earlier publications by the researchers and Kristen J. Brennand of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai. In the developing embryo, Stachowiak explains, surface cells develop tissues and organs such as skin and brain structures.

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In the endeavor to serve important needs of human being, food, water & air and shelter civil engineering plays a dominant role to realize projects intended to meet these needs to raise quality of life. With further impetus on modern day construction facilities civil engineering has become an inseparable part of every infrastructural scheme and a major contributor for nation’s growth.

Department of Civil Engineering at Global Academy of Technology started in 2004 has grown continuously over the years and is now recognized as one of the research centres under Visvesvaraya Technological University. The department has developed strong links with construction industry and professional bodies. Besides outcome based education instruction at both UG and PG levels, the department is actively involved in consultancy and research projects in thrust areas of civil engineering providing useful advice for the betterment of society. With diversely qualified and experienced faculty members it has become possible to engage students effectively to turn them into industry ready professionals with strong commitment towards environment and ethics.

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cvsI extend Warm greetings to Department of Civil Engineering. Stiff challenges of global job market, fostering economic development, ensuring stable society and raising quality of life are well addressed by sustainable and integrated education. We at Global Academy of Technology are striving hard to make every student an all-round strong individual who is capable taking up the mantle of leadership in his chosen endeavor. This is being accomplished with the help of diverse well qualified faculty, industry experts, renowned scientists, and professional programs to cover topics which are of recent interest and beyond curriculum.
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About Faculty

We are team of, the most enterprising faculty community engaging students to be innovative and help drive the economic engine of nation using modern technology. The faculty members come with broad based experience in spectrum of areas in Civil Engineering, like Structural, Geo-technical, Construction, Transportation, Geology, Hydrology, Remote Sensing & GIS, Computer Aided Design & Analysis and Environmental & Water Resources Engineering. Responsive staff and faculty committed to provide quality teaching, research and professional consultancy, make civil engineering department a stimulating place for students. The faculty members continuously serve their respective research communities by organizing conferences and workshops, serving on editorial boards and program committees. Some of the faculty are pursuing post graduate and PhD programmes in the following research areas.

Further, our faculties help students fulfill their aspirations and reach their potential by being part of research and consultancy projects or Capstone Design projects by providing much-needed guidance for the incredible efforts of our talented undergrads.

Focus Areas of Research

1.     Structural Engineering
2.     Geo-technical Engineering
3.     Construction Engineering
4.     Transportation Engineering
5.     Geology
6.     Hydrology
7.     Remote Sensing & GIS
8.     Computer Aided Design & Analysis
9.     Environmental Engineering
10.  Water Resources Engineering

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Associate Professors

Assistant Professors

    • Akash K S

      Akash K S
      VTU 6th Rank
      B E Civil Engineering-2018

    • Meghan Gowda

      Meghan Gowda J S

      VTU 1st Rank
      MTech Structural Engineering-2018

    • Sunny

      Sunny J

      VTU 3rd Rank
      MTech Structural Engineering-2018

    • niveditha

      Niveditha A

      VTU Gold Medalist and 1st RankBE Civil Engineering-2015

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      Ranjitha B R

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      BE Civil Engineering-2012

    • UG Students (Shalini Yadav, Sushmitha L Gowda, Teja Jagadeesh) Wins the Best Paper Award in National Conference on Road and Infrastructure – INFRA ROAD TECH 2019, Worked Under the Guidance of Ms. Reashma P S

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    • Gat Students proposed a unique, systematic, and methodological concept to tackle Solid Waste Management – Smart BinUnder the Guidance of Ms. Khushbu K Birawat

    • Students Project Selected for final seminar presentation KSCST, 40th Series August 2017

    • Students achievement on various technical events at Engineering Day Celebration organized by Association of Consulting Civil Engineers, India [ACCE (I)]

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    Department is a recognized research centre of VTU and many students are pursuing research in the areas of flood mitigation, ground water pollution, canal performance and urban sprawl impact studies. Department has conducted many workshops, seminars in the areas of Geo technology, river rejuvenation, ground water & subsurface safety, and recent trends in civil engineering. Funded research projects on coastal sedimentation dynamics, flood studies and consultancy projects for steel plants, Government of Karnataka, non government organizations etc., in the areas of water resources have provided much needed live project exposure to faculty and students. Department has strong association with professional bodies, viz, Association of Consulting Civil Engineers (India), Indian Concrete Institute, Geological Society of India. Faculties of the department are active in publications in numerous international & national journals & conferences. These activities have provided fillip for academic excellence through institute-industry interaction. The Department is recognized as VTU Research Center, 12 Scholars are Registered.

    1. The department has secured first rank (2015) and second rank (2012) among all affiliated colleges of Visvesvaraya Technological University.
    2. CV@GAT is a recognized research centre of VTU and many students are pursuing research in the areas of flood mitigation, ground water pollution, etc.
    3. Department is regularly conducting workshops, seminars in the areas of Geotechnology, river rejuvenation, ground water & subsurface safety, structural engineering and recent trends in civil engineering.
    4. CV@GAT has successfully completed many funded research projects both from Governmental and Private organization on coastal sedimentation dynamics, flood studies, etc.
    5. The department has strong association with professional bodies, viz, Association of Consulting Civil Engineers (India), Indian Concrete Institute, Geological Society of India.
    6. Faculties of the department have published research papers in numerous international & national journals & conferences.
    7. The department has a well established consultancy centre. Complex design, construction and maintenance problems of the infrastructure sector are resolved through the intervention of the department.
    8. The institution also has a well established industry-institute partnership cell. The cell is actively engaged in bridging the gap between the institution and industry.
    9. Highly qualified and experienced faculty of the department are rendering their services to prestigious government and public sector undertaking projects.

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“Education is not the learning of the facts, but the training of the mind to think” – Albert Einstein

The department to its credit has state-of-the-art multimedia classrooms, advanced civil engineering laboratories, very good computational facilities with application softwares like STAAD-Pro, SAPS/ETABS, ARC-GIS, Auto-Plotter for superior analysis and design of civil engineering structures. Strong association and membership with many professional bodies have further provisioned many more rare resources to involve in variety of multidisciplinary activities to widen the horizon of students and faculty beyond the scope of syllabus. The classrooms are epicenter of Creativity, giving the students the Joy of Learning.

Department of Civil Engineering at GAT has ten different laboratories dedicated to teaching and research. These laboratories are established for conducting experiments on small-to-large scale specimens as well as carrying out analytical research using high-computing systems. The research areas include structural engineering, material research, smart structures, structural dynamics, earthquake and fire engineering, and construction technology and management. These laboratories are being continuously modernized to accomplish research needs in the advanced field of structural engineering.

Some of the important Laboratories are:

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  2. Surveying Practice
  3. Applied Engineering Geology
  4. Hydraulics and Hydraulic Machinery
  5. Computer Aided Design
  6. Geo-technical Engineering
  7. Environmental Engineering
  8. Concrete and Highway Materials
  9. Structural Engineering

“Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident” – Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

Events and Activities

The civil engineering department conducts many student and staff events every semester. Here are some of the highlights of those events.

  • Department of Civil Engineering, has organized a Seminar on SEISMIC ISOLATIONin Association with The Structural Engineers World Congress (SEWC) and Japanese Society of Seismic Isolation (JSSI) to be held on 30th, 31st October’17 and 1st November-2017

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acesAssociation of Civil Engineering Students- ACES

ACES is a student body comprising of civil engineering students. The departmental activities- cultural and technical are organised by the ACES in co-ordination with the faculty of the department. This association is formed to encourage students to initiate, organize and implement various events and activities throughout their engineering years, to build managerial and leadership qualities among the students. ACES also include ICI and ACCE student chapter.
Recently ACES organised a Guest lecture on ‘E-waste management: Sustainability and interdisciplinary aspects’ by Mr.Biswajit Debnath from Jadavpur University on 08.08.2018. They also welcomed 3rd semester batch to the civil department by organizing a welcome activity for the batch.

Teachers’ Day Celebration

On 05th of September 2018, ACES team organized events for department of Civil Engineering Faculties technical and cultural event on the occasion of Teachers’ Day.

Participation in Industry Projects

Department of Civil Engineering has closely associated with many of the industries in the form of consultancy and research works. The civil engineering students are actively participates in most of the industrial projects and gets an experience of their practical training. The involvement of the students for various Traffic and Transportation studies (projects of DULT, BBMP) and geological & hydro geological studies are worth mentioning.

Social Responsibilities

cycle dayCycle Day, an initiative by the Karnataka government’s Directorate of Urban Land Transport (DULT), is supported by multiple communities, city-level organisations, citizen volunteers and government organisations (Bangalore Traffic Police, BBMP). It is an attempt to increase awareness on the benefits of cycling for health and the environment. The objective is fairly simple – to promote cycling as a green mode of transport and get more people on their bicycles in order to reduce pollution and traffic in the city.
Taking the spirit, RR Nagar Community is started celebrating cycle day. The First Cycle day was celebrated on Oct. 28th 2018. Global Academy of Technology extends their support as Community partners for the event with Civil engineering students as major volunteers. Few snaps of the event are shown below.

Recent Activities

1. Public Bicycle Sharing Inaguration

DULT, GoK’s eco-friendly mobility initiative, the Public Bicycle Sharing (PBS) under the brand Trin – Trin inaugurated by Honourable Chief Minister of Karnataka Sri H.D. Kumaraswamy on 4th March, 2019 at 1:30 pm at Vidhana Soudha. A cycle rally flagged off by the Honourable Deputy Chief Minister Dr. G. Parameshwara. Department of Civil Engineering students were active participants and volunteers for the event.

2. Site Visit to TK Halli Water Treatment Plant

Students of VIth semester were taken to Torekadenahalli Water Treatment Plant on 14th and 15th of March 2019.

Department Vision

To become a leading department oriented to serve the basic wants of human being related to food, air, shelter and transportation, by providing quality education

Department Mission

  • Create a favorable environment for learning, teaching & continuous improvement for implementation of various civil engineering facilities
  • Promote professionalism, innovation and research through collaboration with industries to realize cost & resource effective, stable, quality structures
  • Inculcate environmental consciousness and ethical values through interconnected training programs to ensure sustainability and client satisfaction

Program Educational Objectives [PEOs]

Graduates in Civil Engineering will be able to:
PEO1: Developing careers in government and private civil engineering organizations and other professionally related domains
PEO2: Pursuing higher studies, and research to develop innovative solutions and technologies in civil engineering and other multi disciplinary areas
PEO3: Improving professional and personal traits aligned to professional ethics and environmental compulsions
PEO4: Professional leadership and Successful entrepreneurship

Program Specific Outcomes [PSOs]

At the end of the Civil Engineering UG degree program,  our Graduates will be able to:
PSO1:  Comprehend, analyze and design alternatives for execution of civil engineering facilities
PS02:   Apply Standard Codes of Practices and schedule of rates for planning, design, quality control, estimating and costing of civil engineering projects.
PSO3:  Evaluate the buildings for resources conservation


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Erasmo Purificato has been a Research Fellow in the Digital Transformation and Research Infrastructure department at the Georg Eckert Institute since February 2020.

His research field at the GEI is on the use of Machine Learning algorithms and Deep Learning architectures for user modeling and user-adaptive interaction.

Between September 2017 and December 2019, prior to join the GEI, Erasmo worked at Blue Reply in Turin (Italy), a company specialized in designing and implementing innovative solutions in the Digital Services, Technology and Consulting fields exploiting both IBM tools and open-source technologies. From January 2019 he worked as a Technical Leader in the Artificial Intelligence Business Unit, developing projects in Computer Vision and Content-Based Image Retrieval fields.

Erasmo studied Computer Engineering for his Bachelor and Master at University of Naples (Italy) between 2011 and 2017. In 2019 he got a 2nd level Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence at University of Turin (Italy).

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Helsinki railway station and I are not going to be good friends. It started with the hassles of arriving to find no public phones and me getting acquainted with the local Romanian kids who knew all about the Skype booth but every time I've been there's been something wrong. If you’re thinking I'm being too harsh then exhibit A is charging a Euro for the WC – never a friendly sign.
Judging a town by its train station would be as unfair as judging a book by its cliché. Railway stations are just airports stripped of ambition. They share briskness and boredom, but at a train station no-one is going anywhere special. Unlike the jetset, the trainset are making regular journeys – family, friends, home – not epic journeys worthy of tourist brochure gloss.
In fact there’s always a seediness to most train stations. Anywhere in the world, dubious character’s hang around train stations waiting to take advantage of the newly arrived. Helsinki’s version is almost endearing – a guy whispers ‘Hei hei’ and waggles his eyebrows in the universal language of dodginess. I don’t know what he’s offering – booze, drugs, sex, cheap phone cards – but he just chuckles as I trundle away.
And train stations share with airports the epicenter of expensiveness. You can get ripped off for a sandwich in Helsinki station then amble over to Sokos supermarket and get the same thing for a few Euros. There’s a few little fruit stalls that are stocking berries which are the big snack around this time of year.
On the train it’s a different story. Europeans know how to do trains and consequently they’re still well patronised. The train to Sëinajoki is better appointed than some budget hotels I’ve stayed in, complete with a locker for luggage, small room for making mobile phonecalls (much more civilized than loudmouthing in public) and a decent little bistro that’s a little cheaper than buying at the station. And the kids get looked after too. As well as closed-off little cabins, there’s a dedicated play area with gated entrances, a slide and a small picture-book library. Sure the kids get rowdy, but rugrats bubbling laughter is better than creepy railway advances. Hei hei.

  1. My best advice: get a trench coat, wax your eyebrows and chant 'Hei Hei' at commuters. You'll probably see a different side of Finland.

    As for those juvenile corrals on the choo-choos, that has to be a salient marker of any civilization. I only wish we develop a similar apartheid in Australian cafes, allowing grownups some quality intercourse. While we're at it, let's install a mobile phone quarantine - a Cell Cell. A problem inspired by those same bloody Finns.

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HAITI TECHNOLOGY - Digital media played a key role in rescue operations during the Haiti earthquake. A new report released January 12 2011 says... "Haiti became the first real-world crisis laboratory for several media platforms that had only recently emerged"

Report - Lessons From Haiti

Think about it for a minute...

Think about the role that social media ALONE played during the Haiti crisis... Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Skype...

But that's only how messages got out into the rest of the world during the crisis...

Digital media applications used on the ground...

There are other things that happened on the ground in Haiti that you probably not aware of that really helped the relief workers to gather and distribute information and resources when Haiti's communication infrastructure collapsed.

Here are three in particular mentioned in an article published in the San Francisco Chronicle:

-- Crowd-sourcing: "Reports of trapped people and medical emergencies collected by text were plotted on an online map, then used by relief workers. In one example, the U.S. Marines brought water and sanitation devices to a camp after receiving reports that drinking water was in short supply."

-- Text messages: "Cell phone companies, relief groups and media created and used the code 4636 to send messages to tens of thousands about important public health issues."

-- Open-source mapping: "Using handheld GPS devices, volunteers created up-to-date maps to help guide humanitarian groups and the public trying to navigate affected areas."

If you like to read, you can download the full PDF report here.

These lessons learned from the use of the new digital media applications in the wake of Haiti's earthquake of can be applied to future disasters, the report says.

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Miejo says...

but buttttttttttt Hai tian must stand up and take care for gooooooooooo them selffffffffffff we have to be strong we look to weakkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk, we need to realise that it is our reponsability to built a strong HAITI, stop the charity ''s'il vous plait '' HELP YES! NOT CHARITY ''S'IL VOUS PLAIT- let be together
let see each other as brothers and sisters IT'S A MUST AND WE HAVE TO ACT FAST!

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Sergo Jean says...

I disagree, because they do not understand the Haitian peoples, our culture, our life.They created themself that crisis laboratory for his own purpose .Nou selman bezwen yon vre lide ki pat conn copie lecol pou dirije Haiti, le sa fet laboratoi sa ap tounen lakay met li.Yo met pale di sa yo vle, lide sa la, cap vinn met fin a bagay sa yo.A country must have rules for the peoples, Haiti needs good rules without the group of mafia, I hope that will do one

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Choreographer Jasmin Vardimon. Photo by artist.

LONDON – The newspaper The Guardian Unlimited just asked England's top artists to reinvent the snowman and came up with the following results.

In my slide-show talks I've been explaining that one motivation for writing my book was to find the dark side of the snowman and turn him on his what David Shrigley did here. In his own words, "A few years ago I went to St. Moritz in Switzerland. I decided to build a non-conformist snowman. When the art collector who owned the hotel saw it he became very excited that I had created an artwork in the grounds of his hotel. I had to explain that it was not an artwork - it was just a snowman. It’s an easy mistake to make." Just a snowman? Mistake?!? I have problems with this quote.

Keith Tyson, artist of this frozen blockhead: "Snowmen are the first way in which children come across the idea of human vanitas and impernanence. We live under the myth that if we produce things, they’re going to last. When in fact, everything we make is like a snowman – it’s all going to melt in the sun eventually. This sculpture, on the other hand, is built to last. It’s made of glass-fibre polycarbonate painted to look like real snow." Now that's an artist statement: thought-provoking, overstated and chock-full of words I can only guess what they mean.

Meanwhile, I meet with England's, the number one gay website on the web and discussed Frosty, the holidays and my sexual orientation.

GaydarNation: I believe there’s a section in the book about gay snowmen! Tell us more…

Bob Eckstein: Well, I explored whether or not Hans Christian Andersen’s Snowman is gay, something some scholars conclude (probably due partly in the fact that Andersen wrote two novels before his fame of his first collection, Fairy Tales, which contained homoerotic scenes – but, unfortunately, not with snowmen).

Anyhoo, I’m pretty sure from my research that this is not the case as The Snowman was hot for what he thought was a woman. Hans Christian Andersen himself, I’m convinced, was bisexual if not asexual. An argument can be made that his stories were a reflection of rejection and frustration.

Actually, the snowman’s first kiss took place sixteen years earlier when Andersen wrote The Snow Queen, about a northern femme fatale made of ice - a parody of and a retort to the Swedish singer Jenny Lind, the object of his affections who wouldn’t give him the time of day.

In a nutshell, the story of The Snow Queen is about man’s lifelong quest for validation by women and the pain of unreciprocated love. All familiar ground for men. All very familiar ground for Andersen. Needless to say, we know from the recent merciless exposing of Andersen’s frank diary that he didn’t “close the deal” with anyone besides himself. He had so fabulously struck out with the ladies that it seems he simply expanded his dating pool to men to hedge his bets.

There was recently an obscure off-Broadway play of a gay theme called Snowman but there the snowman was in name only and not an actual snowman.

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