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Guest Blog by Anne Stewart: CaNOE's role in the global ocean literacy movement

Posted By Jeannette Connors, Tuesday, November 14, 2017

In the first of a three-part series, CaNOE's (Canadian Network for Ocean Education) Co-chair Anne Stewart explains CaNOE's place in the global ocean literacy movement.

CaNOE works to advance ocean literacy in Canada, but not in isolation. CaNOE, and Canadians, benefit by connecting to the global ocean literacy groundswell that is gaining momentum and imbuing ocean optimism.

Internationally, CaNOE has links to networks like the National Marine Educators Association (NMEA) in the USA, and the European Marine Science Educators Association (EMSEA). These are professional associations, which, like CaNOE, aspire to an ocean literate citizenry: people who understand the ocean’s influence on us and our influence on the ocean. Ocean literate citizens can also communicate about the ocean in meaningful ways and make informed and responsible decisions regarding the ocean’s well being and its gifts. NMEA is the oldest (40+years) and largest of these organizations, and is a primary proponent of the collaborative and evolving ocean literacy framework. CaNOE and EMSEA are of a similar young age, both arising around the time of the Galway Statement.

The tripartite Galway Statement – signed by the USA, EU and Canada in 2013 – placed ocean literacy as a foundational and crosscutting theme for transatlantic research cooperation. The signing was followed in Europe by substantial financial commitments to the ocean literacy projects Sea Change and ResponSEAble, both funded through Blue Growth, Horizon 2020. These projects are also buoyed by the Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance – Coordination and Support Action Project (AORA-CSA). The implementation of the Galway Statement is achieved internationally through AORA with senior tripartite leadership and through tripartite working groups that collaborate on areas of identified mutual cooperation.

Transatlantic cooperation in the Galway sense refers both to the North Atlantic with its Arctic interactions, and to the tripartite countries, unions, and seas on both sides of the North Atlantic. In Canada, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and Canadian Coast Guard (DFOCCG) leads and consults nationally throughout the year with the Galway Canadian Marine Working Group. Chairs and co-chairs of identified areas of co-operation also work internationally with their respective AORA working groups. (To help visualize AORA and how it works, see the image below.)

The Trilateral Galway Implementation Committee tasked the AORA Ocean Literacy working group to also work with AORA Aquaculture and AORA Seabed Mapping working groups and to advance the G7 Ministers’ action on plastic in the ocean. With so much going on, the AORA Ocean Literacy working group recently expanded to include leadership from NMEA, EMSEA and CaNOE. This was formalized through a unanimous recommendation by the AORA Ocean Literacy Working Group Co-leads in their contribution to the Galway “Golden Paper” accepted by Galway Implementation Leadership. This formalizes bottom up, as well as top down participation, in boosting ocean literacy across the Atlantic by assuring participation of individuals who are well immersed, dedicated to, and fluently conversant in the drive towards ocean literacy.

The current AORA Ocean Literacy working group has collaborated for four years, since formative transatlantic ocean literacy workshops were held in the UK, Belgium, Sweden and Portugal. CaNOE was there for the entire voyage in its frail little craft, crewed solely by volunteers. There was no funding or travel support from Canada and it was only through the generosity of the European Commission, Portugal, EMSEA, NMEA and AORA-CSA that CaNOE volunteers were able to participate at the transatlantic ocean literacy table. From the inception of the idea of transatlantic ocean literacy, Canada has been involved via CaNOE.

- CaNOE Co-chair Anne Stewart

In November, 2017 CaNOE co-chair was joined by Tara Donaghy, appointed by Fisheries and Oceans and Canadian Coast Guard. Tara is well positioned to make a really positive difference to the future of collaborations and a very warm welcome is extended.

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EMSEA 2016 kicks off in Belfast, Northern Ireland

Posted By Lisa D. Tossey, Monday, October 3, 2016

EMSEA16 logoOur friends with the European Marine Science Educators Association are kicking off their fourth annual conference this week!

It is being held at the Titanic Belfast in Belfast, Northern Ireland, from October 4-7.

Check out the official website for more details or download the official program here >

 Follow along from afar with the #EMSEA16 hashtag and on our Storify, where we will compile tweets and photos from the conference daily!

Titanic Belfast

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Guest Blog by Martha Papathanassiou: NMEA15 in Rhode Island - My first time at NMEA

Posted By Lisa D. Tossey, Thursday, August 18, 2016
Having participated in several conferences about marine science education and ocean literacy in Europe, it was time to tread on new ground. I remember when I met Meghan Marrero, in Sweden, during another work meeting about ocean literacy and the link between the U.S. and Europe. She was later to become my nominator for the Expanded Audiences Audience Scholarship, which I successfully received in May 2015. It was going to be the first time I would attend the Holy Grail of Conferences (for me): the annual NMEA conference in Rhode Island.

Beyond Greece, my work involved networking with marine science educators in Europe, the Transatlantic Ocean Literacy Panel and marine educators throughout the United States and beyond and to experience best practices for marine education and communication, which I could bring to my work in Europe and share through my professional networks.
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The timing of the annual NMEA conference was also pretty critical: a few months after the conference, I was putting on a conference of my own: the European Marine Science Education Association (EMSEA) conference, held in Crete. As the Chair of the EMSEA15 Conference, it was important for me to experience an NMEA conference, as EMSEA conferences have largely been based on lessons learned from NMEA.

During the 2015 conference in Newport, I met the conference organizers, I had the opportunity to observe how a successful conference is run, got some tips and fresh ideas on how these tips could be applied to the conference I was responsible for, while one of the ideas stuck with me in the long term and the EMSEA community can be thankful for it now: the auction. It was one of the highlights of the conference for me and it was an idea I later suggested to the EMSEA15 Organizing Committee, as we often hear about our colleagues who are not able to join us in these fruitful conferences due to the increased registration fees and travelling costs. For this reason, we decided to hold the first ever EMSEA fundraising event, in order to raise money for a scholarship for the upcoming EMSEA16 Conference, to be held in Belfast, in October. The event was an Aquarium Bingo, which took place right after the end of the conference. It also served the purpose of building community, getting to know colleagues and sharing fun activities with them while also raising money for an important cause.
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The Aquarium Bingo was a successful and fun event, which allowed us to raise more than 600 euros for two bursaries, each worth 300 euros. The money will be used to cover the registration fees of individuals who are not usually able to attend the conference. The event was organized with the help of the HCMR’s Aquarium staff, who have long and solid experience in similar events. Participants paid a small fee to participate in the bingo and then entered the Aquarium in order to identify the various animals they saw in the photographs they had been handed out. Once all animals were identified, the game came to an end. The feedback from the delegates was very positive and everyone was happy to participate in an event held for a good cause. Personally, I think it was probably one of the most important events of the EMSEA15 Conference and I hope it will become a tradition in the coming years at EMSEA conferences. For this, I can only thank NMEA for inspiring me to set up this event.

Being at NMEA15, I had the opportunity to interact with a wide variety of NMEA members and share my ideas about how ocean literacy has spread in Greece and the Mediterranean region, as well as throughout Europe.

EMSEA 2015The opportunity to present the 2015 EMSEA Conference was highly valuable to me and EMSEA overall, as it is the first time that the EMSEA conference is moving to the south of Europe and it is really important to gain visibility, promote the conference as much as possible and personally invite members of NMEA to attend.

More importantly though, I think my experience can only be measured in the wealth of new friendships and relations that were built during those few days. Personally, and professionally, the benefit of attending such a conference cannot be described in words. I am ever so thankful to have attended NMEA, meet so many education professionals from around the world, while I was thrilled to see my new friends and colleagues at EMSEA15.

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Guest Blog by Robert Rocha: EMSEA 2015 in Crete

Posted By Lisa D. Tossey, Monday, December 21, 2015

The third annual European Marine Science Educators Association (EMSEA) conference was held from September 28 through October 1, 2015, at the CretAquarium in Gournes, Crete. More than 100 people from 22 countries attended this great event. The conference focused on two topics: evaluating actions and methods as well as their impact on diverse audiences, including schools and aquaria; looking ahead into the future and shaping ‘the way forward’ for ocean literacy in Europe and beyond. Workshops were well run and well attended.

EMSEA 2015

Social events included a roof-top ice breaker, and one night later a tour, dinner and traditional Cretan dancing at an open-air museum. Pierre-Yves Cousteau gave an inspiring keynote lecture and, to end the conference, attendees very enthusiastically, and very generously, participated in Aquarium Bingo, as a means of raising scholarship funds for EMSEA 2016.

EMSEA 2015

NMEA was well represented with fifteen members in attendance. Several, including Ivar Babb, Tina Bishop, Evy Copejans, Geraldine Fauville, Susan Haynes, Meg Marrero, Diana Payne, Gail Scowcroft, Craig Strang, Peter Tuddenham, and I, led workshops and/or poster sessions.

EMSEA 2015

An interesting and successful format for sharing information was the Open Space Discussion. Everybody in attendance gathered in one large room and were encouraged to offer topics of discussion by writing them on a sticky note, ‘selling’ the topic to the crowd and choosing a time to lead the talk. Once the topics were posted, attendees could choose one for the first time slot and another for the second time slot. According to the rules, ‘Whoever shows up is the right amount of people for that group and whatever takes place is the only thing that could have happened.’ Personally, I enjoyed the Open Space Discussion about finding international ways of celebrating the 500th anniversary of Magellan’s voyage.

EMSEA 2015

Congratulations to conference chair Martha Papathanassiou, the EMSEA team, the staffs of the Hellenic Center for Marine Research and the CretAquarium for a successful and informative conference. Mark your calendars for the fourth EMSEA conference, scheduled for October 4-7, 2016 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

- Robert Rocha, 2015-16 NMEA President

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Following along with #EMSEA15 from afar

Posted By Lisa D. Tossey, Tuesday, September 22, 2015

EMSEA 2015 Storify

The third European Marine Science Educators Association (EMSEA) conference is being hosted by the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research in Heraklion, Crete, from September 28 through October 1. Follow along as we compile tweets, photos, and links in this Storify

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Guest Blog: Time to submit your abstract for the EMSEA 2015 conference

Posted By Lisa D. Tossey, Saturday, May 16, 2015
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The third European Marine Science Educators Association (EMSEA) conference (#EMSEA15) will be hosted by the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research and held at the Aquarium Cretaquarium in Crete from Sept. 28 through Oct. 1 this fall.

As EMSEA is now a well-established and widely recognized conference around Europe, we decided to take it a step further this year and challenge what we know and how we can use that to our benefit to grow, develop and build on this ever-increasing, active ocean literate community.

The idea is to focus on evaluating the impact of actions, projects and activities that have taken place since the first European conference on ocean literacy, in Bruges, in 2012. We want to look ahead to the future, and be part of ‘the way forward’ for ocean literacy! We want to thereby explore and discuss the development of ocean literacy in Europe, how ocean literacy is being used within formal and informal education and, finally, is ocean literacy really affecting us and the society we live in?

Evaluating and measuring the impact of ocean literacy and seeing the results from around the world is also important as we can learn and develop new ideas or collaborate with our counterparts from around the globe.

Based on the above, two main sessions have been formulated, one on "Evaluation of Actions and Measured Impact” and the other one on "The Way Forward”.

Both sessions are split into two parts, to make it easier to distinguish between different target groups.

SESSION 1 Ocean Literacy: Evaluation of Actions and Measured Impact:

     1.a) Schools
     1.b) Museums, Aquariums and Science Centres

EMSEA is continuously gaining support in Europe and beyond, however, it is time to pause, reflect and evaluate how far we have come and where we can go from here. It is time to evaluate past actions that have brought us here and use our lessons learned to shape the way forward and develop new ideas for the future of ocean literacy.

In this session, we therefore, expect to see abstracts that describe actions, activities and initiatives that have measured their impact on their audiences.

We are inviting abstracts that not only describe the activities carried out but also the evaluation of these actions and their impact. In this way, we will have a clearer picture of how ocean literacy has been, so far, perceived, by the target audiences of both formal and informal education.

SESSION 2 The Way Forward: Innovative Methods of Promoting Ocean Literacy:

    2.a) Schools, Aquariums, Science Centres and Industry
    2.b) Research Projects

This session looks at innovative methods of how to best promote ocean literacy in settings such as formal and informal education, or industry. The word ‘industry’ here could include companies responsible for children’s books, learning materials, educational toys, resources for school children and youth in general, ecotourism, recreation, and other related commercial ocean enterprises.EMSEA Facebook page

Research projects are often required to dedicate a part of their work on educational activities. It is interesting to look at these activities and see how we can keep the momentum going as, too often, when a project ends all efforts fade and results from educational activities are not further used or taken up once funding has terminated.

At the end of both sessions, ample discussion time and a "concluding remarks” session will allow for comments and suggestions on how to work around the issues identified during the sessions and on how to best use our knowledge, experience and resources for building and advancing ocean literacy in Europe and beyond.

We invite you to submit your abstract through May 30.

For further information concerning EMSEA15, visit our conference website and stay tuned by liking us on our new Facebook page!

- by Martha Papathanassiou and Géraldine Fauville on behalf of the EMSEA15 organizing committee

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Guest Blog by Anne Stewart: EMSEA 2014

Posted By Lisa D. Tossey, Saturday, December 20, 2014

EMSEA14 logoThe 2014 European Marine Science Education Association (EMSEA) conference was held at Gothenburg University, a center of marine science, in the medieval heart of the old city of Gothenburg, Sweden. The city boasts Sweden’s biggest science center as well as a wonderful aquarium and maritime museum. Lobster season was open as the conference began and so were the hearts and minds of attendees from around the world, ready to be inspired about ocean literacy and best practices in marine science education.

This blog is just a sketch of the conference, it only includes a few of the presentations and the view is my own. I also tweeted at the conference from my account and you can find everyone’s tweets by looking at #emsea14 on Twitter.

Gaelle Le Bouler opened the conference, addressing the audience from the perspective of the European Commission, where she is the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. Gaelle put the importance of the conference into the context of current affairs in the European Union (EU) and emphasized the high-level, political will to advance ocean literacy in Europe. She spoke about the Galway Statement signed by EU, Canada and US and explained the structure and progress of working research groups. She shared her surprise with us at receiving thirteen proposals from consortiums responding to the EU Horizon 2020 called “BG-13-Ocean Literacy”.

Lisa Emelia SvenssonLisa Emelia Svensson, was the keynote speaker and as Sweden’s Ambassador for Oceans, Seas and Fresh Water, provides advice and expert guidance to the Swedish Minister for the Environment on the action needed to move forward on Sweden’s international ocean and water agenda. She is part of the Foreign Service and spoke knowledgeably about ocean issues, the different sectors, sustainability, politics and ocean literacy. She inspired all of us to view potential challenges as opportunities, by thinking outside of the box for a blue economy that is integrated with the green.

Svensson reminded us that new approaches, such as ecosystem-based management, must be explained to people with language that they understand. Sweden has committed to an ecosystem approach by 2018 and people need to understand the benefits. Ocean governance is also a challenge as there are 576 bilateral and multilateral frameworks.

She also spoke about a broad range of topics from maritime spatial planning, to maritime transportation, to innovations for a healthy planet, new consumerism and social media, and emphasized the importance of cross-sector work within government. She reminded us that ocean literacy is also needed within the government and she reported that on a global level, there are a lot of events and activities that can raise awareness about the ocean.

Svensson brought the audience back to self and the importance of individuals at the end of her talk, reminding us that ideas and leadership come from individual people. She suggested facilitating dialogue between scientists and policy makers, by starting at a local level and then scaling up. It was a treat to experience Svensson’s presentation. In my view, the creation of ambassadorships for oceans and water in more countries would help further global ocean literacy faster than any action.

The first session presenter was Joachim Dengg from GEOMAR in Germany. There are about 500 scientists at GEOMAR working on topics such as ocean circulation and climate dynamics, marine bio-geology, deep sea, natural hazards, resources from the sea and plate tectonics. He questioned whether school outreach in marine research was a welcome addition or an extra effort and concluded that scientists needed to be able to choose. He demonstrated the positive difference to the efficacy of outreach efforts that a judicious coordinator could make and how he plays this role himself.

John Parr (MBA) takes over from Geraldine FauvilleSam Dupont presented on a case study of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) Facebook page and ocean literacy. The question was: can Facebook be used to increase scientific literacy? Geraldine Fauville, the PI, was at MBARI for ten weeks and had access to their amazing stories and materials. She was looking at how to optimize the posting strategy to engage users and was evaluating this using quantitative and qualitative techniques.

Their findings indicated that strategy doesn’t seem to change number of fans. The numbers reached were very variable, none to 50 per day, whether there was a post or not. She found that there are more hits if there are photos and videos and their conclusions were: use visuals, post as often as possible and when does not matter. The authors felt that there was a lot of investment of time and energy for a potentially limited rewards since it was a little like “singing to the choir”. However, a tweet from Jim Wharton of the Seattle Aquarium was a good reminder that “singing to the choir” is not in vain as it supports them in communicating to their networks which adds to the ripple effect that can ultimately have the most impact.

Next we jumped to Malta where Alan Deidun is setting up an ocean literacy hub. The International Ocean Institute (IOI) was started in 1972, has special consultative status at the United Nations and although centred in Malta, is now also found in 25 countries around the world. The Malta center is working toward ocean literacy and advocacy, training and education, and research and collaboration.

Spot the JellyfishDeidun talked about several IOI citizen science projects such as Spot the Jellyfish, which involves a range of participants, from school children to mobile phone users at sea, who photograph jellies and send them in along with location data. The program has produced posters, waterproof jelly guides, GIS jelly apps for iPhone and Android, and postcards. IOI has also produced three popular under-water documentaries on Marine Protected Areas as well as YouTube videos.

IOI is interested in taking this maritime hub further and is seeking partners on possible projects. They will be hosting the PERSEUS conference in November 2015. A question about divers had Alain pointing out that Malta has about 100,000 SCUBA divers visit annually so the potential for citizen science is great and already happening with invasive species.

The flash (one minute) poster presentations were a really great way for everyone to hear from all of the poster presenters and helped inform later discussions at the posters. Portuguese high school students and their teacher presented my favourite EMSEA poster. It outlined their original research on beach micro-plastics from clothing and gave us all a reason for ocean optimism. The integrity, passion and excitement of youth, certainly gives me hope for the future. Portuguese students with their teacher

Annie Russell and Susan Gebbels spoke about two of the different types of programs to create young coastal guardians at the Dove Marine Laboratory, at Newcastle University, and in local communities. The first uses a pedagogy that is student-led and includes topics such as marine ecology, maritime heritage, shipping and renewable energy. The questions that the students ask leads where the session will go, and yes, that is a scary idea for many educators. The learning then follows a truly inquiry-based approach, which is both interactive and provides access to things (objects, tools, artifacts) that promote learning not available to the students everyday. Educators have to be incredibly flexible, and aware that the children may learn things other than pre-set goals.

The second type of program Russell and Gebbels spoke about was a five day program culminating in a multi-school event that raised awareness about ocean litter through art, including music, poetry and posters. On the final day all five schools got together on Oceans Day for a marine mammal talk, sand sculpting, and a poster competition. Students also created a huge collage, made a giant plastiki boat, sang sea shanties, wrote a messages in a bottle with what they learned, and made a pledge of what they would do to help.

Russell and Gebbels reported that the student buy-in is instant: they get to be creative, they gain confidence, and the legacy is that they become the teacher. Children and teachers were absolutely ‘hooked’ and all the resources are free online. Their advice for the audience was: make it relevant, achievable, and fun.

One of my favourite sessions was a hands-on lab led by Mirjam Glessemer, who took her learners on adventures in oceanography and teaching right in the classroom. Her methodologies advance learning speed and depth through enquiry, peer-to peer learning, building on prior knowledge and understanding prior misconceptions. This was a busy, noisy, engaged workshop where everyone was talking, reasoning, and manipulating water, salt, and ice.

Nia Haf JonesNia Haf Jones presented on the Nautilus Exploration Program, which uses tele-presence technology to inspire the next generation in real-time. Nia is a very passionate Science Communication Fellow with the Ocean Exploration Trust, when not working with north Wales Conservation Fund. The Science Communication Fellows are trained at NOAA’s Inner Space Station at the University of Rhode Island, the site of next year’s NMEA conference. They also go to sea aboard the Nautilus for three week expedition and engage learners in events over the year. During the lunch break we had a brief tele-presence connection with the Nautilus crew as they did a deep dive in the Caribbean - an unplanned but awesome addition to the program.

Portugal stands out as a maritime nation that takes ocean literacy really seriously - they have designed a map for youth to help change their view of their country and extend their perspective out to sea. The beautiful new map places the outer limit of the continental shelf and Portugal on the right side, with the map centered on the sea. It was validated pedagogically and maps went to all the schools. Politicians, including the President, and the media got involved and there was lots of coverage by the press.

The educational team created teacher’s resources for geology, economy, ecology, pulled together lists of hands-on and minds-on activities, and the mapping team made maps of living and non-living resources, which all help in learning through discussion and debate. Workshops and teacher training was carried out to satisfy teacher’s needs for information, resources and access to the teams. Further links were made between the policy makers and educators/schools. I really like the way Portugal tackles Ocean Literacy and identifies itself as a maritime nation. Check out the map online even if you don’t speak Portuguese - it is pretty inspirational!

The last session I am going to cover is that of Luc Zwartjes, an amazing Belgian geography teacher who led a great open source GIS workshop that demonstrated how creating and manipulating maps can increase ocean literacy. In brief, he had a group of GIS neophytes making and saving ocean maps of wind-farms and shipping routes in no time at all. We can all be thankful that Luc also trains teachers amongst his many other contributions and accomplishments.

Finally, I have to add just one more tantalizing link: Discovery of Sound in the Sea. This is thanks to Gail Scowcroft’s thought-provoking presentation on ‘The science of underwater sound: merging research, education, and policy.”

I'd like to send a big shout-out to the organizers of this conference including the EMSEA team, the University of Gothenburg and their friends at the Maritime Museum & Aquarium, Universeum, Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Science at Kristineberg and the upper secondary sailing school, Öckerö Gymnasieskola. I thank the organizers for allowing me to do a five-minute, dance-along presentation on ‘Canadian progress in Ocean Literacy with the Voices of Youth’ in the closing ceremonies. I am personally grateful to NMEA for a scholarship that helped me to attend. I hope that my tweeting and blogging goes a little ways towards showing my deep gratitude for that assistance to participate in the great conference that was EMSEA14. Also, thanks to Peter Tuddenham for his photos that I've included in this post.

If you want more information, check out the EMSEA conference website >

- Anne Stewart,  marine environmental educator and communicator
Read more from Anne on her personal blog, A Stewart in Bamfield

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Guest Blog by Géraldine Fauville: A sneak peek at the second European Marine Science Educators Association conference

Posted By Lisa D. Tossey, Wednesday, September 24, 2014

EMSEA14 conference venue The second European Marine Science Educators Association conference, hosted by the University of Gothenburg in Sweden (pictured), is only few days away and everything is starting to fall into place to welcome the 130 participants from 22 countries.

EMSEA14 delegates come from a broad professional horizon; project managers, researchers in marine sciences or in education sciences, leaders of funding agencies, and educators of all kinds. We are delighted to count about 35 teachers participating in this event and even some students who will have the opportunity to present the work they have been conducting in school!

This community is gathering to speed up the transition to a more ocean literate society where European citizens understand the influence the ocean has on them and their own influence on the ocean and are able to take responsible decision accordingly. But the task is not easy. Marine education stakeholders have to deal with a vast number of languages and many social, cultural, and political differences. Moreover, European formal education includes various schools system and a plethora of school curricula where marine science related topics are excluded.

In that respect, European marine education needs an effective transformation and stronger international connection in order for marine educators to feel more supported, engaged, and equipped for the task to make European citizens more ocean literate.EMSEA14 logo

EMSEA, founded on this vision three years ago by Evy Copejans, Fiona Crouch, and Géraldine Fauville, takes its inspiration from the tremendous work accomplished by NMEA in the United States and aims at writing a similar marine education success story in Europe.

If you have already attended a NMEA conference, EMSEA14, a three-day conference, would feel like home to you. We have organized three presentation sessions dealing with marine education: in outreach, in school curriculums, and in aquariums and museums. Three workshops in smaller groups will also take place to facilitate the exchange of ideas, discussions, and foster collaboration between participants. Approximately 30 posters will be displayed and in addition those submitting posters will have the opportunity to give a one-minute presentation to introduce delegates to their work.

All good conferences include social events as well, and delegates will be invited to enjoy some wine and local seafood at the Maritime Museum and Aquarium. During the evening delegates will be able to wander around the museum and go behind-the-scenes of the aquarium and visit the research labs. The conference dinner will take place in one of the best fish restaurants in Gothenburg, which combines top-class cooking with in-depth knowledge of marine products.

Field trip location Sven Loven Centre for Marine SciencesFinally, the last day will be dedicated to the field trips. Participants can choose from three options: a visit to the University of Gothenburg’s marine station located at the mouth of the Gullmar Fjord, the only true Swedish fjord (pictured); a behind-the-scene visit of the largest Scandinavian science discovery center, the Universeum; or a visit to the sailing high schools where students spend a total of six months on the school ship T/S Gunilla.

On behalf of the organizing committee, I would like to warmly welcome all the NMEA members to EMSEA14. For those of you who cannot get across the big pond, don’t despair, you can follow @EMSEA_news and participate in the conference using the hashtag #EMSEA14 on Twitter or join our Facebook group here >

Looking forward to seeing you in Gothenburg!

Géraldine Fauville, Chair of EMSEA14

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EMSEA 2014 scholarship available

Posted By Lisa D. Tossey, Saturday, August 23, 2014

EMSEA 2014 logoInterested in attending the 2014 EMSEA conference in Sweden this October? Great news - a scholarship is available for NMEA members!

Hurry - the deadline to apply is September 2!

Download the application here >

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Go International! The EMSEA14 Call for Papers is Open!

Posted By Lisa D. Tossey, Thursday, February 6, 2014

Our friends with the European Marine Science Educators Association (EMSEA) are now accepting abstracts for oral and poster presentations for their second annual conference, EMSEA14,  which will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden, from October 1 to 3.

Guidelines: Presentations will be 15 minutes long with an additional 5 minutes allocated for questions and discussions. There will be three oral sessions:

  • Implementation of marine education in the school curriculum
  • Marine education in museum, aquarium and science center
  • Marine education and outreach

The poster session takes place in an open environment during an allocated period of time. The goal is to provide a climate for dialogue, discussion and networking. The poster should be of A0 portrait format.

Submit your proposals here >

Deadline is May 1!

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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Agilent Technologies fell almost 5 percent late Thursday after reporting a big jump in fiscal fourth-quarter earnings, but forecasting fiscal first-quarter results below analyst expectations.

At last check, shares of Agilent were trading at $24.45, down 4.8 percent, from a regular session close of $25.68.

The maker of semiconductor and scientific testing equipment A, +5.33% reported net income of $74 million, or 15 cents a share, compared with $13 million, or 3 cents a share, in the same period last year. Excluding items, it earned $153 million, or 30 cents a share, in line with expectations from analysts polled by Thomson First Call.

Agilent said sales were $1.82 billion, up from $1.68 billion a year earlier, yet below the analyst estimate of $1.87 billion.

Agilent said orders across most of its business lines were down because customers were reacting to a buildup of excess inventories. It said orders for semiconductor products were $403 million, down 18 percent from last year and off 14 percent from the previous quarter.

But orders for its life sciences division rose 11 percent from last year while chemical analysis orders increased 9 percent for a combined sales total of $366 million.

Agilent forecast fiscal first-quarter revenue of $1.6 billion to $1.7 billion and operating earnings of 14 cents to 21 cents a share. It said the earnings estimate excludes restructuring charges, which it couldn't estimate, and amortization of intangibles of about $1 million a quarter.

Its forecast is below analysts' estimates for revenue of $1.82 billion and earnings of 27 cents a share.

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HONG KONG (CBS.MW) -- Chinese offshore oil giant CNOOC said Friday that higher oil prices and increased production boosted third-quarter revenue by 56.5 percent.

CNOOC's unaudited oil and gas revenue soared to 6.79 billion yuan ($820 million) in the July-Sept. quarter from 4.34 billion yuan in the same period last year. It did not report profit figures.

Easily the best-performing blue chip in the battered Hang Seng Index this year, with a 32 percent gain so far, CNOOC stock (883) added 1.5 percent to close at HK$9.80.

CNOOC CEO, -2.14% said it produced 382,409 barrels of oil equivalent per day in the third quarter, a 47 percent increase from a year ago that was "underpinned by strong domestic demand in China and contributions from its Indonesian assets."

The average price of crude oil sold by CNOOC rose to $25.21 per barrel from $24.59 year-on-year, it said.

"Buoyed by higher commodity prices, strong production growth, and continued execution of our low-cost operating strategy, the company has performed extremely well during the quarter," CNOOC President Zhou Shouwei in a statement.

For the nine months through September, oil and gas revenue rose 18.1 percent to 16.42 billion yuan, compared with 13.90 billion yuan a year earlier.

Total production expanded 27.4 percent in the first three quarters to 332,634 barrels.

CNOOC said its 2005 output target is 170 million to 175 million barrels of oil equivalent, compared to the 95.4 million barrels it produced in 2001.

The company 's capital expenditure on exploration rocketed 135.2 to 1.37 billion yuan in the first nine months of the year. CNOOC and its partners had an overall exploration success rate of 47.2 percent in the period, it said.

CNOOC's New York-listed shares closed down 3.26 percent, or 83 cents, at $24.65 on Thursday.

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Walt Disney Co.’s plans to create two direct-to-consumer streaming platforms puts the TV landscape on an accelerated path toward more over-the-top services where content is distributed online without cable subscriptions, according to Wells Fargo analyst Marci Ryvicker.

Ryvicker, who upgraded Disney DIS, -1.57%  shares to outperform from market perform, wrote in a note to investors that it’s time to choose the haves over the have nots.

“Investors may need to start thinking about increasing exposure to those media companies with solid streaming strategies, such as CBS CBS, -2.20% Fox FOXA, -0.31%  and Disney, and lessen exposure to those that do not, such as Viacom and Discovery Communications DISCA, -2.43% ” Ryvicker wrote in a note to investors.

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There are still a lot of questions regarding Disney’s coming foray into streaming platforms. Some analysts and investors are worried about the lost licensing revenue from third-party distributors like Netflix NFLX, -4.42%  , and the increased costs tied to the platform launches.

In a blog post following Disney’s streaming announcement last month, BTIG analyst Rich Greenfield said Disney could lose up to $2 billion a year with third-party licensing revenue.

“Uncertainty regarding potential [over-the-top] investment losses has held back many investors from buying Disney shares,” wrote UBS analyst Doug Mitchelson in a note to investors.

While Disney management has offered little to no details to help settle uncertainty, Mitchelson believes investors’ concerns are overblown.

Ryvicker said she expects management to clear up concerns during the company’s investor conference on Thursday. But she too thinks concerns are overblown.

In the last three months, Disney shares have declined 4.5%.

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Whatever downside risk there is to Disney earnings, Ryvicker said they should be limited, as increased content investments will likely be offset by cost cuts. She did, however, lower estimates for 2018, but remains above consensus.

“We’ve had time to digest BAMTech and the related streaming apps and think the street’s negativity is overdone,” Ryvicker wrote. “Even ‘modest dilution’ from BAMTech is probably conservative. In fact, like Lucas, we may see no real dilution given offsets from other parts of the business.

“We like this entry point as Disney’s 15x next twelve months price to earnings ratio has tended to be the trough for the past four years. And while we might be early, we think the downside risk is limited and see real catalysts ahead.”

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“While [Viacom CEO Bob Bakish] is doing exactly what has been promised, it no longer feels as if this is enough, especially in this changing ecosystem,” Ryvicker wrote. “With no visibility into the nonsports streaming bundles, the Charter carriage renewal, Paramount’s slate financing, or long-term affiliate fee growth, it’s tough to support the stock even at these levels.”

Shares of Viacom were down more than 3% during intraday trade on Tuesday, and have declined close to 22% in the year to date, while Disney shares are down nearly 2% in the year and the S&P 500 index is up more than 10%.

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    Growing up on the farm, her life was filled with chores. One in particular was putting up hay with her father in Rabbit Lake with a wagon and a team of horses. This time spent gave her a love for animals and the outdoors especially the towering spruce that made up the woods around the lake.
    Country dances and gatherings provided gaiety and at one such dance she met her future husband, Ed Frisk. Millie and Ed married on July 15, 1947. They soon became a family as they welcomed their daughter, Ingrid, in 1948 and their son, Barry, in 1951.

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A Falsification of History

(November 1944)

From Labor Action, Vol. 8 No. 47, 20 November 1944, p. 4.
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The Negro people in the United States are so viciously and so obviously oppressed that they are very skeptical of the illusions of capitalist democracy. Thus they, more than any other section of the population, have questioned the capitalist propaganda that this war is a war for democracy. They too have shown the greatest skepticism as to the fundamental changes in the U.S. which would be brought about by a fourth term for Roosevelt or a first term for Dewey.

The Communists of this country know this very well. For this reason a great part of their agitation during the past period has been directed toward making the Negro people feel that the present stage of politics in America is similar to the period of the Civil War during which the Negroes were emancipated from slavery. Some weeks ago we dealt with a particularly brazen piece of falsification by Robert Minor on this subject. In the Daily Worker of November 8, Doxey Wilkerson writes as follows:

“Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., once characterized this election campaign as a ‘Civil War.’ His phrase is apt. The real issues and the nature of the forces in conflict are now much the same as during that armed political conflict of the 1860’s; and again the role of the Negro people may prove decisive.”

The impudence of this comparison shows the poverty of the case which the Stalinists are trying to present.

Nature of the Civil War

In the Civil War we had, on the one side, the slave owners of the South, bent on retaining some four million Negroes in slavery. Opposed to them were the independent farmers of the North, organized labor of the North, the petty bourgeois democracy, all under the leadership of Lincoln and the Republican Party. The capitalists of those days for the most part opposed the idea of a civil war. But after they saw that it was inevitable they realized that the slave power had to be destroyed or it would destroy the possibilities of capitalism developing to its full strength. This was a war. It was a war that lasted four years.

The Civil War was the first great modern war. It was also the war of classes in its most extreme form. When the war was over the power of the slave owners had been broken. Chattel slavery was abolished. In order to crush the slave power and prevent it from ever rising to its previous position of dominance in the country, the Northern capitalists collaborated with the Negroes and the poor whites, and subjected the former slave owners to a rule which was democracy enforced by the arms of the Washington government. Later the capitalists betrayed the Negroes and came to terms with the old slaves owners. This ended the period of the so-called Reconstruction. By that time, however, Northern capitalism was well on its way and America in a few decades became the leading country in the world.

It is all the more astonishing when we consider that this monstrous article was written by Doxey Wilkerson, one-time professor at Howard. University. Wilkerson knows very well that he is talking nonsense and merely deceiving the Negro people. He knows that the fundamental basis of all Marxist politics is the question of class. He knows that in speaking about “civil war” between the forces of Roosevelt and the forces of Dewey he is talking nonsense. To cover up, this he first gives the line-up of the two forces. On the one hand he has Hearst, duPont, Cotton Ed Smith, Father Coughlin, the Klan, etc. On the other, he has what he calls “the forces of the people.” Among these “forces of the people” are “great democratic captains of industry, like Henry J. Kaiser,” and “enlightened Southerners like Senator Pepper.” Kaiser is one of those “democratic captains of industry” who has coined more money out of the blood of the workers during the war than most of the other capitalists. Kaiser serves his country and the “cause of democracy” by making millions of dollars every year. John Williams or Jack Thompson works in Kaiser’s shipyards for a few dollars a day and faces the prospect of being thrown out of work at the end of the war. But, according to Wilkerson, both of these people belong to the same class. Is this an exaggeration? No such thing. Listen to Wilkerson himself:

There is allegedly sharp conflict between the two ways of life, that is to say, the way of life of Dewey and the way of life of Roosevelt. But “very significantly, it is not class conflict.” So that Henry J. Kaiser and John Williams the worker, by the mere fact that they vote for Roosevelt, become people who follow one way of life. If, however, Kaiser had voted for Dewey, he thereby became some one who was following another way of life. Same Kaiser. Same shipyards. Same profits. But support of Roosevelt makes him an entirely new man. However, miraculously enough, this modern conflict which is compared to the “Civil War” must not be considered as an example of class conflict. Are we making jokes? Not at all. The article is actually headed A Bloodless ‘Civil War’.

There was a time when the Communists pointed out that the class war in this country was the war between the capitalist class and the working class.

Reason for the Lie

There was a time when they pointed out that there was no serious or permanent progress to be gained by the Negro people except by a drastic transformation of society similar to the transformation which took place during the Civil War.

They pointed out, and this very Doxey Wilkerson used to do it also, that the masses of the Negro people should fight for their rights and strive to ally themselves with the workers, who would sooner or later be faced with the necessity of making this change.

But all that is gone. Today American capital has become the ally of Stalinist Russia. The Communist Party acts as Stalin’s agent in American politics. All this talk therefore about the Civil War of today is merely to blind the masses of the people to the harsh realities of the struggle and lead them behind Roosevelt, Stalin’s ally. The Doxey Wilkersons, the James Fords, the Ben Davises and the rest of them who lend themselves as servile tools to these practices are traitors not only to the Negro people but to American workers as a whole.

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The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland issued an opinion yesterday in the case of Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. Hart.  In this case, the plaintiff was injured when a Baltimore City police officer ran a red light. The City of Baltimore’s attorneys contended, however, that the police officer had the right to go through the red light since he had his siren and emergency lights on and he was responding to an emergency.

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Police Emergency Liability

This is a common fact pattern.  A police officer in a hurry or in an emergency causes a motor vehicle accident.  In most jurisdictions, and Maryland is no exception, emergency vehicles are afforded a special status.  This often makes emergency vehicles exempt from the operation of many traffic regulations that relate to traffic signals (like this case), speed limits, and the right of way. So the driver of an emergency vehicle may have an out if an accident is caused by the failure to follow the traffic regulations that the rest of us are obligated to follow.

The Facts of the Case

Plaintiff testified at trial that as he approached the intersection, the traffic light turned green.  As he proceeded to enter the intersection when he was struck by the police officer’s vehicle.   A witness who was in his car on Madison Street behind the Plaintiff agreed that as the vehicles approached the intersection of Madison and Wolfe, the light turned green.  Another witness who as on  Wolfe Street and behind the police car confirmed that the officer ran the red light without stopping.  For his part, the officer did not recall the color of the light.   I think we all know what happened here.

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The Baltimore City attorney filed a motion in limine to prevent the accident victim’s attorney (one of which was Irwin Weiss, a well-respected lawyer in Baltimore County) from introducing the Police Department General Order No. 11 which set for relatively strict standards for the police officer’s duty of care in going through an intersection like the one at issue in this case (the intersection of Madison and Wolf Streets in Baltimore City). Instead, Baltimore’s lawyer argued that the Maryland Transportation Article § 21-405 applied, which applies less stringent standards.

The trial court not only allowed the admission of the General Order but also allowed the relevant portion to form one of the jury’s instructions. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the injury victim, awarding damages in the amount of $46,894.05. The portion of the judgment entered against the City was $20,000 (the maximum recovery by Maryland law because the police officer was responding to an emergency). The remainder of the judgment was entered against Allstate Insurance Company under the injury victim’s uninsured/underinsured motorist policy.

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The City’s lawyers appealed the trial court’s decision to allow the accident victim’s lawyer to refer to the general order and its use as a jury instruction.  The crux of this appeal was whether a ”general order‘’ of the Baltimore City Police Commissioner, dealing with the manner in which emergency police vehicles are to be operated on the streets of Baltimore, is admissible in a car accident case involving an emergency police vehicle.

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland found that the Baltimore City Police Commissioner’s instructions to officers on safe driving practices as articulated in Baltimore Police Department General Order No. 11–90 was properly admitted as evidence by the accident victim’s attorney. The court specifically rejected Baltimore’s argument that such standards are not admissible under the Maryland Court of Appeals decision in Richardson v. McGriff, 361 Md. 437 (2000).

In Richardson, a suit was brought against a Baltimore City police officer who shot a man who, along with six of his friends, had broken into a vacant apartment in Baltimore City. The court held that the introduction of police guidelines on the use of deadly force was not appropriate and instead the standard to determine the reasonableness of the police officer’s use of lethal force should be determined by examining the circumstances surrounding the shooting, i.e. the reasonable man test. But the Hart court distinguished the guidelines in Richardson as discretionary and subject to the officer’s judgment at the moment, but the traffic guidelines were more specific guidelines that the police officer should have followed.

What We Get From This Case

The take-home message is the police and other emergency vehicles have the ability to escape liability in Maryland only when they are truly in an emergency that required extreme measures.  State and local governments cannot simply wave an emergency wand and expect relief unless latitude is truly necessary because of the emergency at hand.

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Stunning, just remodeled, 4 bedroom Fr. Quarter home with gorgeous garden entrance and courtyard.Sun-filled 1830 property has high-end finishes, appliances and fixtures. Features a bright and airy Chef's kitchen with white marble, quartz and tile with sub-Zero refrigerator and Wolf stove. The elegant dining has a classic mantle above the gas fireplace and opens through French doors to the lush garden. A large living area with high ceilings, original floors, moldings and trim plus a convenient powder room complete the first floor. Upstairs are two large light-filled bedrooms, with high ceilings, fabulous baths, builtin storage plus a tucked away laundry area. Two more sunny bedrooms plus storage are on the 3d floor. Outside storage room. IF EXACT SQUARE FOOTAGE IS IMPORTANT, MEASURE.

  • Property Type: Single Family Home
  • Sub Type: Single Family Detached
  • Listing Status: Active
  • County/Area: Charleston County
  • Zip Code: 29401
  • Year Built: 1830
  • Subdivision/Neighborhood: French Quarter
  • Elementary School: Memminger
  • Middle School: Courtenay
  • High School: Burke
  • Sq.Ft.: 3,000 sq ft
  • Style: Traditional
  • Stories: 3 Story
  • Bedrooms: 4
  • Full Baths: 2
  • Half Baths: 1
  • Fireplace: Bedroom, Dining Room, Gas Logs, Gas Connection, Living Room, Three
  • Lot Size: 1742 sq ft
  • Baths: 2.5 baths
  • Area: 51 - Peninsula Charleston Inside of Crosstown
  • Cooling: Central
  • Flooring: Wood, Marble, Stone
  • Foundation: Crawl Space
  • Green Features: Tankless Water Heater
  • Heat: Forced Air, Gas
  • Lot Description: 0 - .5 Acre
  • Master Bedroom: Dual Masters, Garden Tub/Shower, Multiple Closets, Upstairs
  • Misc Exterior: Fence - Brick, Gutters, Patio, Fence - Private, Storage/Outbuilding
  • Misc Interior: Ceilings - 9'+, Window Treatments - All, Ceiling - Smooth
  • New Owned: Pre-Owned
  • Roofing: Metal
  • Rooms: Formal Living, Laundry, Separate Dining
  • Siding: Brick - Solid, Stucco
  • Special: Flood Insurance
  • Water/Sewer: Public Sewer, Public Water
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Bert Myers is a retired academic physician (Professor of Surgery at LSUMC) who has long had a serious interest in photography as an art medium. Beginning in 1951, he worked with Eugene Delcroix, a N.O. photographer who was a master of light and composition, and who specialized in soft focus images. In 1971, he studied with Ansel Adams in California at one of the last courses the artist himself taught. He has also been a pupil of Michael A. Smith of Ottsville, Pennsylvania-a master of large format photography-who in 1986 photographed New Orleans for the Historic collection. In 1999 he participated in a Santa Fe workshop on digital photography. Bert’s first one man show was in 1976, at the Gallery Studio 8 in New Orleans. The images in that exposition were mostly scenics in the Adams tradition. In 1978, he began experimenting with using X ray as an art medium, developing the technique of taking radiographs of shells, flowers, and other objects and making B + W positive prints of them. Although the technique is not original, it is quite difficult and not widely done. He wrote an article describing the technique, which was published in Applied Radiology, and articles about his methods have appeared in Medical World News, Art Center and the Free University in N.O., and for 9 years taught a course in advanced darkroom techniques in the Univ. College of Tulane University. Since 1986 he has been using Cibachrome techniques to make radiographic images in color, including montages of straight photo images with xrays. Beginning in 1985 he worked with high contrast internegatives and have a large collection of line derivations and solarizations, mainly of historic buildings. From 1987-1997, he became interested in holography and took courses in the subject from Dr. T. Jeong at Lake Forest College in Illinois and Jeffrey Murray at the Holography Institute in Petaluma, California. He started the Holography research Laboratory at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in N.O. and pursued the uses of holography in medicine, especially in education. He has developed techniques of making 3D images of bones, medical models, and human tissue which had been preserved by plastination, and had shows of his work in galleries in the USA, Scotland, and Hungary. His goal was to make a medical text illustrated with holograms. Unfortunately the field of educational and art holography did not progress. The extreme difficulty and cost of making and reproducing the images and the need for special lighting to view them impeded growth. In 1997, AGFA, the main producer of high quality holographic films and plates discontinued production, and Myers decided to abandon holography and concentrate his work in conventional photography, especially using digital technology to make color prints of Xray images.


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Sometimes the procedures are not followed which can result in the person accused being released without charge or the police being challenged. In such circumstances, it is vital to have an experienced solicitor by your side. McGovern Court Lawyers are experts in criminal defence and represent individuals in police station custody all the time. We can ensure that you or your loved one’s interests are protected and their rights are respected.

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The Need for Nuclear Proliferation

“A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.”

— Margaret Thatcher

There can be no peace without justice and justice demands equality – if all the nations are equal, then nuclear deterrence is the right of all or none of the nations. Likewise, preventing nuclear proliferation should be the obligation of all the nations, or none at all. If the West is eager to prevent nuclear weapons proliferation, then they should lead by setting an example!

Peace and stability is more likely to prevail, when all the countries are brought to level footing by total disarmament of nuclear weapons: alternatively all the nations have the right to use nuclear deterrence. Any other position is likely to result in instability, as certain nations will possess greater power with nuclear weapons and will be seeking to maintain the status quo; naturally they will act to prevent other nations from acquiring such weapons, which is bound to ignite conflict that can escalate into a full scale war. Accordingly, Iran is now being selectively targeted, even though at this stage it is only developing nuclear energy capabilities and not nuclear weapons. So when the US and its allies say Iran is a threat to international security what they mean is: Iran is a threat to the US-led hegemony in the region, known as building democracy!

Some of the Western hawkish commentators have argued that nuclear weapons are the right of the ‘civilised’ world only. Such nasty and racist views run through the veins of the establishment. However, it is difficult for the governments to express such views openly, so they use their non-affiliated political henchmen to the dirty work. Those political thugs forget – it is the ‘civilised’ world that has used such weapons against civilians. The same ‘civilised’ world have just murdered 30,000-100,000 Iraqi civilians, in the name of eradicating WMDs; enough blood to paint the entire White House red. Even before the advent of nuclear weapons, mass murdering was a key feature of US history. Almost every couple of decades, the US has committed mass murder in some distant land. Like the devils child, the nation’s birth was marked by the systematic elimination of 70 million peaceful Native Americans.

Even today a significant section of the US masses have no reservation for mass murdering civilians, while simultaneously they have the audacity to label others as terrorist, violent, extremists etc. In a recent street survey, some ordinary Americans were asked [1] about using nuclear weapons, the vast majority of them had no qualms and very enthusiastic about it. One person said: “We should nuke them to hell like we did the Japanese". A lady said she could not understand what is holding the US back from nuking Baghdad, so imagine what the cowboys are thinking. Astonishingly, another lady said nuclear weapons should be used against Iraq, because: “they did the same thing to us”. Really, so it seems that Americans do not just believe that Saddam Hussein had WMDs but he actually used them against the US.

When asked [2] who the US should invade next, in terms of the war against terror. The answers ranged from Iran, somebody in the Middle East, Cuba, North Korea, France to even their allies like Russia, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Italy, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka? Yes, even Sri Lanka. I guess someone must have told those folks that Tamil Tigers are Al-Qaeda in disguise! Some could not even locate countries like Iran and North Korea on the world map. But does it matter, since they are going get blown to pieces with American nukes. The Americans will see the entire operation with running commentary from the FOX-TV crew, and they will never know if it was fiction or faction or real!

Such level of ignorance and idiocy is very frightening, considering that it is coming from a nation, armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons. Furthermore, its population does not have any conscience in using it against its enemies. As long as their way of life is intact, they have cheap oil, burgers, fries, shakes, porn, baseball, popcorns and plastic surgery etc. they have no problem, no matter what level of suffering and carnage is inflicted on other nations.

Astonishingly, while these Americans show little reservation in using such destructive weapons, they demonstrate plenty of moral indignation against the tiny bombs of human bombers, who act in retaliation. There is not a single country in the world, where the public would show such lax attitude towards using nuclear weapons. Even in places like Iraq and Palestine, such types of opinions would not be expressed by the general public, even though they have plenty of good reasons to do so!

In any case, it is not the weapon that kills but that the hand that wields it; the hand in turn is controlled by the mind, which makes the decision to kill –” the root cause. Therefore, the approach should be largely based on the traditional Keynesian approach of reducing the demand, by eradicating the criminal mindset that is so eager to use such destructive weapons, instead of focusing solely on the supply side of reducing the availability of such weapons.

However, altering this criminal mindset, and to disarm its nuclear capabilities is not possible at this moment. That only leaves, one other alternative for peace and security: that is for everyone to arm themselves with nuclear weapons. Then all you are likely to get is the odd verbal threats, like North Korea got, but not the disarmed Iraq. Nuclear weapons guarantees peace and security from the marauding Americans, hence the US avoided war with nuclear states like North Korea, Russia and China. This is why “democracies do not fight each other” as many of the pro-war pundits constantly yell, because many of those democracies have nuclear deterrence.

Any nation that unilaterally pursues a policy of non-proliferation of WMDs would result in increasing the relative power of its adversaries, while weakening its own position even further. An axiom of international relationship is: powers of nations are relative. It is not how much firepower you posses in absolute terms but in relation to your adversary. As an example, Britain has more firepower today in comparison to its colonial days, but her position is much weaker today, as her firepower is weaker or on par compared to other nations. Also unilateral disarmament does not guarantee a more peaceful world, but a world where the weaker nations can be brought to its knees, like slaves to serve the empire.

The West armed with huge stockpile of nuclear weapons claims to be intimidated by Iran’s decision to resume the development of nuclear energy (not nuclear weapons). How strange, is it Iran or Europe or the US that is surrounded with hostile military bases with nuclear capabilities? Why Iran is less trustworthy in this issue of nuclear technology, given that Israel has nuclear weapons and has not signed up to NPT? Even if Iran started to produce nuclear weapons, it would take sometime before it can acquire enough nuclear weapons only to deter aggressors, let alone pose any direct threat to Western countries in distant lands. The future Iranian threat, if it eventually manages to produce nuclear weapons is a possible threat to the Western hegemony in the region and not to the security of the West.

Germany is now taking a lead in this matter by siding with the US openly, perhaps this is a U-turn in their foreign policy, after realising that they have lost considerable amount of war booty, by not fully cooperating with the US over Iraq. Germany may eventually sign up as a full member to the “war on terror”, which is a veil for allying with the US to share the spoils of war. So, the “old Europe” of Donald Rumsfeld is becoming unreliable for Iran, to use it as a bulwark against American unilateralism.

Facing threats from militant West, the need to acquire nuclear deterrence is essential to maintain sovereignty and security. First step is to withdraw from the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) by citing Israel, who has not signed up to NPT. A nuclear Iran would bring about stability in the region as it would balance the other regional power (Israel) with nuclear weapons and an expansionist agenda to build Eretz (greater) Israel; also, it would deter the US from further aggression. Iraq and Palestine, clearly illustrates the need for the Islamic world and others, to arm themselves with nuclear weapons, to deter marauding capitalist nations from waging colonial wars on behalf of large corporations.


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Symptoms: Decreased Movement
Electrical Muscle Stimulation is a way to provoke muscle contraction by means of electric stimulus. The impulses are generated by a device and delivered through electrodes on the skin in direct proximity to the muscles to be stimulated. The impulses mimic the central nervous system, initiating the contracting of the muscles. EMS is both electrotherapy and muscle training.


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ASA: Women Less Likely to Have Stroke in the Wake of TIA

  • by Executive Editor, MedPage Today

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  • Explain to interested patients that transient ischemic attacks are considered significant cerebrovascular events associated with an increased risk of stroke, but the risk may differ by gender.
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 19 -- A transient ischemic attack may be a more benign event in women than men, according to an analysis of data from more than 122,000 TIA patients.

In the year following hospitalization for a TIA, women were less likely to have a stroke, coronary artery disease, or die than men of the same age, said Judith H. Lichtman, Ph.D., of the Yale.

The findings emerged from an analysis reported at the American Stroke Association International Stroke Conference and simultaneously published in Stroke, Journal of the American Heart Association.

The 30-day all-cause readmission rates were the same for men and women, and 30-day TIA readmission rates were also the same. But the 30-day stroke readmission rate for women was 1.3% versus 1.8% for men (P<0.0001), and the 30-day coronary artery disease admission rate was 0.5% for women versus 0.7% for men (P<0.0001).

Women also had significantly lower one-year stroke rates, 5.9% versus 6.9%, and lower admissions for coronary artery disease, 4.5% versus 5.8% (P<0.0001 for both).

At both 30 days and one year, mortality rates were significantly lower for women compared with men, 1.4% versus 1.8 at 30 days (P<0.0001) and 12.9% versus 14.7% (P<0.0001).

But women had a slightly higher all-cause readmission rate at one year -- 48.8% versus 47.6% for men (P=0.0002) -- and a significantly higher one-year TIA readmission rate, 5.3% versus 4.9% (P<0.0001).

After adjusting for other risk factors women were 30% less likely to have a stroke, 14% less likely to have a cardiac event, and 26% less likely to die within the first 30 days after a TIA admission, Dr. Lichtman said.

The cohort included Medicare patients hospitalized for TIA from Jan. 1, 2002 through Dec. 31, 2002.

The mean age of patients was 79 and 62% were women. Most of the cohort, 86%, was white.

In general men hospitalized for TIA were younger than women, but were more likely to have established cardiovascular disease, and that may explain the difference in outcomes.

More of the TIA events in men may be caused by large artery atherosclerosis, which carries a higher stroke risk, she said.

Another possibility is that the difference might be due to the fact that women may seek care sooner than men and, once diagnosed, may follow secondary prevention recommendations more faithfully than men, she said.

Another possibility is that women may not actually have TIA because "women may be hospitalized more often for conditions such as migraine that could potentially be misclassified as a TIA," she wrote.

Dr. Lichtman pointed out that the overall 30-day stroke risk was just 1.5%, which is lower than that reported in other studies, but the 30-day mortality figures mirror those of other studies.

She said the low stroke risk might reflect the demographics of the study population, mostly women Medicare patients, which might have a lower stroke risk than some national samples.

As a result, she wrote, the study might underestimate "the true risk in the community but accurately reflect the use of hospital resources after hospital admission for TIA among fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries in the U.S."

The study was also limited by the reliance on administrative codes to assess comorbidities. Moreover, the Medicare data did not contain information on medication use.

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke funded the study.

Dr. Lichtman had no disclosures.

  • Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD Emeritus Professor
    University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine


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Breastfeeding May Foil Atopic Disease in High-Risk Infants

  • by Staff Writer, MedPage Today

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  • Explain to interested patients that this review of current literature found much conflicting evidence about using nutritional interventions to delay or stop atopic disease.
ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill., Jan. 10 -- Exclusive breastfeeding for at least four months may prevent or delay some atopic disease in infants at high risk for these conditions, according to a clinical report from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The new guidance, published in the January issue of Pediatrics, replaces an AAP policy statement from 2000. To prepare it, Frank Greer, M.D., of the University of Wisconsin in Madison and chair of the AAP's committee on nutrition for 2006-2007, and colleagues, reviewed current research on the effects of various nutritional options during pregnancy, lactation, and a child's first year on the development of atopy.

Among those trials was a one-year follow-up study that found the incidence of atopic dermatitis was 9.5% in infants who were exclusively breastfed for four months, compared with 9.8% for those breastfed and given supplemental hydrolyzed formula and 14.8% for those supplemented with cow milk formula.

The trial was part of the longitudinal, prospective German Infant Nutritional Intervention Program.

Dr. Greer and colleagues did not find any long-term studies comparing partially or extensively hydrolyzed formula with exclusive breastfeeding.

"Although atopic diseases have a clear genetic basis," the AAP team wrote, "environmental factors, including early infant nutrition, may have an important influence on their development and, thus, present an opportunity to prevent or delay the onset of the disease."

There have been many studies conducted since the 1930s on the connections between breastfeeding and atopic disease but "in general, these have been nonrandomized, retrospective, or observational in design and, thus, inconclusive," the authors wrote.

These studies have resulted in conflicting findings, with some showing a protective effect from breastfeeding, and some finding no such association, a consequence, the authors said, of the fact that "it is not possible to truly randomize breastfeeding."

"Thus, there is no evidence that the use of these formulas is any better than human milk in the prevention of atopic disease," they wrote. They noted, however, that none of the shorter-term studies reported any adverse events associated with use of these formulas.

The guidance recommends exclusive breastfeeding for at least the first four months in infants at high risk for developing atopic diseases but notes that if formula is also used, partially hydrolyzed formulas may be better than cow's milk formulas.

More studies are needed to determine the effect of these formulas on the development of atopy later in childhood and adolescence, they added.

The connection between breastfeeding and asthma is more controversial, according to the researchers.

Because of contradictory results, they said that "it is not possible to conclude that exclusive breastfeeding protects young infants who are at risk of atopic disease from developing asthma in the long term, and it may even have a detrimental effect."

Evidence does seem to indicate, however, that breastfeeding decreases wheezing episodes associated with respiratory infections in children under four, they said.

A cohort study of 1,246 children in Tucson found that exclusive breastfeeding was associated with significantly lower rates of recurrent wheezing of infancy (odds ratio: 0.45, 95% CI: 0.2 to 0.9).

The association between breastfeeding and food allergy also suffers from a lack of evidence, preventing the researchers from drawing any conclusions.

Contrary to previous AAP guidances that suggested pregnant women should avoid eating peanuts, recent studies found no association between maternal consumption and childhood peanut allergy.

There are also mixed results from studies examining the association of excluding allergenic foods like milk, eggs, and fish during pregnancy and breastfeeding and the development of atopic dermatitis, the AAP team said.

"More data are necessary to conclude that the avoidance of antigens during lactation prevents atopic dermatitis in infants," they suggested.

Both the AAP and the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology recommend delaying the introduction of solid foods until a child reaches age four to six months.

And in an earlier report, the AAP recommended that high-risk infants avoid whole cow milk until age one year, eggs until age two years, and peanuts, tree nuts, and fish until age three.

Looking at the current literature, the researchers found mixed results on the benefits of delaying the introductions of certain solid foods beyond four to six months.

"The evidence from these conflicting studies, in balance, does not allow one to conclude that there is a strong relationship between the timing of the introduction of complementary foods and development of atopic disease," they said.

Overall, Dr. Greer and colleagues found little evidence on which to base definite recommendations on nutritional strategies to stop atopic disease.

"It is evident that inadequate study design and/or a paucity of data currently limit the ability to draw firm conclusions about certain aspects of atopy prevention through dietary interventions," the authors concluded. "More studies would be needed to clarify whether there is a positive or negative effect on atopy outcomes."

No financial disclosures were reported.