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YouTube has yanked down a video produced by Stanford University's Hoover Institute featuring public health expert Dr. Scott Atlas, M.D., because it "contradicts the World Health Organization or local health authorities' medical information about COVID-19."

Dr. Atlas is a physician who received his medical degree from the prestigious University of Chicago School of Medicine, and he serves as a special adviser to the president and also as a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. By all accounts, his opinions on the coronavirus, as one of the country's foremost experts and as an adviser to the president, merit a public airing.

However, YouTube disagrees. Now, when users attempt to load the video — which was first uploaded in June — an error message appears stating that the video has been removed "for violating YouTube's terms of service." A further explanation provided by YouTube states that the specific reason this video violates those terms of service is that it "contradicts the World Health Organization or local health authorities' medical information about COVID-19."

No further explanation was provided by YouTube about what Dr. Atlas might have said specifically that contradicted the World Health Organization's advice.

As a refresher, and as just one example of the patent absurdity of censoring a three-month-old video because of the WHO's current stance on COVID, the WHO insisted that masks were not necessary and should not be worn until June of this year — a position that it now considers to be anathema. If YouTube is censoring videos from June because of what the WHO now says, will it also censor all videos that contain remarks from the WHO about masks prior to June? When and if the WHO changes its position on any aspect of the coronavirus in the future (as it has done in the past), will all videos on YouTube that contain statements that disagree with the WHO's current position also be censored?

A transcript of Dr. Atlas' full remarks has been uploaded to the Hoover Institute's website, and it is clear that in the video, Dr. Atlas did not treat the virus as a hoax, engage in conspiracy theories, or otherwise diminish the seriousness of the pandemic.

He did, however, posit that the costs of the lockdown were outweighing the benefits of the lockdown. The basis thesis of Dr. Atlas' interview was, "What we would sanely do is consider the impact of what we're doing as well as the impact of what we're trying to prevent. Instead, they did two things, they, the policymakers in general. They put in a lockdown. They did [not] care at all, they did not calculate at all the harms of the lockdown, the consequences of the lockdown."

Among other statements made by Dr. Atlas, he noted:

  • "Sure, this is one of the really horrifying but underemphasized truths of the cost of the lockdown. As we said in the article, for instance, 650,000 Americans have cancer and undergo chemotherapy right now, currently. Half of them stop getting their chemotherapy. That's actually happened in the U.S. during this so-called lockdown."
  • "So that means literally thousands of biopsies per week of potential cancers were not done. All scheduled hip replacements, knee replacement were not done. All kinds of other things including, for instance, I forget the total number of cancer screenings, but 2/3 to 3/4 of cancer screenings were not done."
  • "And the second part is what you had alluded to, which is the fear because it turned out that even emergency care was not getting done. 40% of people who had an acute stroke... You basically have zero to six hours from your symptoms to get into the hospital to get treated. 40% of them did not call the ambulance. That's our of fear. Same thing with heart attacks, 40, 50% of people with heart attacks did not call the ambulance. The most ironic of all was more than half of children did not go in for their vaccinations, which of course the sad irony is that this is setting up yet another health catastrophe that we did actually quantify because there are CDC data about lives lost when you don't have immunizations from some of these really very serious illnesses."
  • "One of my emails, recently, came from an emergency room doctor at Children's Hospital of Michigan, who told me that the serious child abuse emergency room visits are up 35% during the lockdown. Now, let me tell you what that means. This is very important. Somebody who brings in their child to the emergency room, that's not because they smacked them around and gave 'em a black eye. I'm saying this with sadness. These emergency room visits are for children who the parents think they might have killed them. They're unresponsive. They have multiple broken bones. These are the most serious. 35% increase in child abuse and that's directly due to the lockdown, and I'll explain why because when you lose your job, the correlation of amount of child abuse found in a home is directly correlated for lower socio-economic, unemployment, alcohol abuse. This is markedly increasing during the lockdown when we know that almost half of people making $40,000 a year or less lost their jobs, by far more than people like you and I. So when these people have children and the schools are closed and there's a tremendous amount of stress in the household, we know that the emergency room visits are going way up. That's only part A. Part B is that do you know where the number one place that child abuse is noticed by an outside person? The schools... you close the schools, you have no visibility on the overwhelming majority of child abuse. So this is creating a catastrophic, sad and simply unspoken harm to the children."

As conservative policy wonk Avik Roy noted, YouTube did not disclose the credentials of the person who determined that Dr. Atlas' views on these subjects were incorrect or out of bounds or indicate why they did not merit a public discussion.

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John “Tommy” Cagle, 61, of Pikeville died Friday, December 13, 2013. He was of the Baptist faith.

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While the world tries to create a discourse around the importance of maintaining mental wellbeing, it is important to first understand the meaning of mental health.

Dr Rahul Khemani a psychologist at Wockhardt Hospital, mental health can be understood as, "how a person thinks, feels and behaves."

According to him, mental health can be considered similar to our physical health. "We take care of our body by eating properly, working out and investing in our looks. Similarly, we need to take care of our mind and our mental health."

Emotional triggers

Our mental wellbeing is often triggered by small incidents or everyday events. Be it a song, place, person or even a memory, a trigger plays an important role in ensuring good mental health.

The Bridge Chronicle spoke to Dr Shreya Shah, a counsellor & professor to understand the concept of emotional triggers better. Shah is a co-founder at Unico and holds a Masters degree in Clinical psychology.

"You're not smart enough to do this", "You're old enough to get married now", "You need to lose weight". These statements could make you feel upset, angry, frustrated, doubt yourself. Mean comments, rejection, blame, judgment or criticism - such situations or topics can provoke an intense and often unpleasant emotional reaction within us. These are nothing but our emotional triggers.

She explains that the way no two fingerprints can be exactly alike, similarly, emotional triggers also vary from person to person, because they are rooted in our own unique struggles, life experiences and beliefs. This is why, even though many of us experience the same situation, the way we react to it differs.

So how do you know if you are emotionally triggered?

Take a moment to notice any unpleasant emotion you may be having now, or think about the last time you felt so.

Now, try to answer the following three questions:

What were your bodily sensations?

Did your heart rate increase, muscles become tense, face feel hot, breathing become faster -- or other similar reaction?

What were your thoughts and emotions?

Was it guilt, shame, anger, sadness, or some other emotion?

How did you react to that situation?

Typically, we tend to lash out or withdraw. This is because our emotional triggers are our sensitive spots, or those old wounds, that are yet to heal.

With continued practice and attention, you will start recognising the feeling of being triggered sooner; perhaps immediately after it occurs and next time you might have thought, "Oops, here I go again".

Reactions provoked by such triggers can disrupt your relationships with others, lead you to behave in ways unlike yourself, harbour unpleasant emotions and affect your self-esteem. For this reason, it is vital to identify your triggers and cope with them in a healthy way.

Five ways to cope with triggers in a healthy way

The easiest way out is to just politely excuse yourself from the situation. For example, by saying that you need to use the restroom, and then returning when you feel calmer. However, this is a temporary fix and may not be always possible.

Make a deliberate effort to shift your emotional state - first, take a deep breath and release the tension in your body; then choose one keyword (e.g. calm) that represents how you want to feel in this moment; focus your thought on the word and allow yourself to feel the shift.

Accept responsibility for your reactions, instead of feeling like a victim of the situation. By doing so, you give yourself the power to be in control of yourself and change the way you react.

"Re-program" your thoughts - start with a trigger that is the least emotionally loaded and work on replacing unhelpful or unrealistic thoughts with more rational ones. For example, if your trigger is a feeling of not being good enough, then stand in front of a mirror, and compassionately tell yourself, "This is not true. I am a worthy and capable person". Say it even if you don't believe it fully yet - fake it till you make it! - and that actually works! As the thought sinks in, it'll become more real.

Make time for yourself to unwind, engage in self-care and ensure you get adequate sleep and rest. Managing your stress levels is always helpful in managing your emotions better.

It is also useful to seek guidance from a psychologist in identifying the triggers, processing the emotions involved, and developing healthy coping habits. Coping with your triggers can help you avoid any downward spirals in your self-esteem and mental well-being.

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I Went 7 Days Without Complaining

Really, it should’ve been a wonderful weekend. An old friend was in from out of town and a group of us got together to drink margaritas, eat burritos, and catch up. And then it started: I told a long, plotless “story” that was mostly just a character assassination of a mutual acquaintance of ours whom I’d never really liked. Someone else chimed in with a rant about his disorganized, clueless boss. This set another person off about the terrible new hours she’d just been given at work.

I should say at this point that I live what you might call a #blessed life; my problems are so dumb and minor that they barely count as “problems.” But sometimes you wouldn’t know that by listening to me. I think I like to pretend that venting makes me feel better about things that are bothering me, and sometimes that’s true. But lately, it hasn’t been. When I left the restaurant that day, it was like all the negativity had morphed from an emotional feeling to a physical one — a queasy, heavy kind of feeling that had settled in my gut. (Though at least 50 percent of that could’ve been the burrito.)

And so I may have overcorrected: I decided to, temporarily, quit complaining. No shit-talking for one whole week. I went home and excitedly told my plan to my boyfriend, who laughed at me — a reaction signaling that maybe this was a bigger problem than I’d realized.

My little experiment was inspired by my friend Meena Duerson, a senior editor at TODAY.com who recently did her own seven-day complaining cleanse. “I remember noticing that I was venting a lot both at work, in conversations with friends, and at home with my husband, and it wasn’t cheering me up — it was stressing me out more,” she told me. “So I thought, if I can just stop being negative for a week and be more conscious of what I say, then maybe I will feel more positive, and maybe I can change the tone of the conversations I’m having so that there’s less negativity and we don’t feed off each other.” She said she slipped up a few times, but overall, the week was valuable because it made her reevaluate what was and was not actually worth complaining about.

Meena’s experience seemed worth imitating, but I was also curious if there was hard evidence about the drawbacks of complaining. As it turns out, there’s a surprising paucity of research into this subject, given how universal an aspect of the human experience kvetching is.

But we do know some things from existing literature. As much as we like complaining — and one 1996 paper suggests that Americans complain at least four times a day — we don’t much like listening to other’s complaints: Research published in the late 1970s found that couples listed “complaining” as No. 3 on a list of their top 15 problems. And although some social psychologists believe in the cathartic component of complaining — that venting does provide an emotional relief — others argue that, in the end, complaining just bums us out. It seems like there’s a fine line to walk here, and I hoped that taking a break from venting would teach me how to maintain a better balance.

Despite the lack of solid evidence, it seemed like, between the research literature and Meena’s experience — not to mention that crappy post-dinner feeling — it was worth a shot: I decided to go a week without expressing any dissatisfaction, taking notes documenting when I wanted to complain and what I said instead.

It went … okay. I’ll jump around a bit here, just noting the highlights:

Day 1
9:45 a.m.: Not even 10 a.m. on my first day and I already screwed up. I was back in the office after taking a few days off to be in a wedding, and when a co-worker who sits near me said “Hello,” I took that as an invitation to launch into a rant about how much work it is to be in a wedding. After the exchange, I wrote in my little notebook, “Did that count as complaining? It was good-natured … sorta.” But I felt gross about it, both to have messed up so early and to have represented what was actually a really fun weekend in such a negative light.

Day 2
11 a.m.: Sent an email to my boyfriend complaining about how tired I was — but peppered it with exclamation points and smiley faces. Which … is totally cheating. I started to sense a pattern: Like the wedding-party rant, I think I was seeking validation, or at least a “Poor you!” (Ugh. I am the worst.) He ignored my sorta-whine and instead asked me what I wanted to do for dinner. Good call.

2 p.m.: Loophole discovered! At this point, I started getting others to do my complaining for me. I started DMing a friend on Twitter, never complaining myself but asking her leading questions that I knew would result in her complaining. But apparently, complaining by osmosis can feel just as toxic as actual complaining, so I soon changed the subject, asking her about the house she and her husband just bought. Much better.

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7 p.m.: Halfway through my week, I was finally getting the hang of it. A deadline was moved up at work, meaning I had to stay later than usual to finish writing a story. My West Coast friends noticed that I was still online and started asking me what was up. I actually typed out a Gchat ranting about it, then stopped, took a breath, and hit the backspace key. “I mean, it’s a good thing,” I wrote back. “I guess they want to lead with my story tomorrow.” And that worked: reframing the way I talked about the situation made me excited and grateful about an unexpected opportunity.

9 p.m.: I was on the phone with my mom, who asked about how our move was going. We were supposed to move across the hall, to a better, brighter apartment, on August 1, but that apartment’s current tenant asked us at the last moment if we could push the move back a month, and we agreed. Without thinking, I started to whine to my mom about how half of our lives are packed up in boxes and how irritating it is to never be able to find anything ever when I caught myself mid-sentence. I stopped for a minute and tried to find the silver lining. It was actually incredibly easy: As a thank-you for helping her out, the current tenant of our future apartment was leaving us her awesome couch, totally free. Yes, the wait was annoying, but changing the framing changed my attitude and reminded me why we’d agreed to these terms in the first place.

Day 6
This was my biggest challenge: A drinks date with another old friend, someone who knows almost all of the same people I do and who feels exactly the same way as I do about all of those people. The temptation to shit-talk would be high. Over a couple glasses of wine, we did veer closely into complaining, but I course-corrected by asking her questions about her little family of four. How were her daughters? How was the older one’s first week at preschool? What was it like to go back to work with two little ones at home? We talked about everything we’d usually talk about, but without the negativity. It was just … nice.

Still, after my week was up, I didn’t feel exactly the way I thought I’d feel. To be honest, I missed complaining a little bit. In the end, my experience ultimately pushed me toward seeing the benefits of a little kvetching, something Robin Kowalski, a Clemson University psychology professor, has argued before. “There’s no doubt in my mind that complaining can serve some very beneficial functions,” she said. “For one, it’s a great icebreaker.” You’d never strike up a conversation with a stranger waiting next to you for a subway about how reliable the trains are running lately, after all. (And, as we’ve recently learned, small talk with people we don’t know is very good for us.) A little bit of negativity has some health benefits, too, as a study published last year found that pessimistic older adults were more likely to live longer, healthier lives.

And it’s not as if bottling up anger and annoyance is a better solution. In a 2002 paper, Kowalski wrote that people who don’t ever let their dissatisfaction out often end up brooding about an issue, which usually results in blowing whatever it is way out of proportion. She argues that the stress that comes from keeping those emotions inside can lead to mental health issues like depression, and even physical health woes like a weakened immune system or heart disease.

So, then, how do we strike a balance? There’s actually a way to become a “good complainer,” said Guy Winch, a clinical psychologist and author of The Squeaky Wheel: Complaining the Right Way to Get Results, Improve Your Relationships and Enhance Self-Esteem. There are two basic rules, both Winch and Kowalski agree: Don’t go on for too long; and never let your words devolve into whines.

In an email to Science of Us, Winch gave some more details on the ideal way to complain:

Choose your battles. During my week without complaining, it was incredible to notice how the urge to vent usually subsided if I just took a breath and maybe waited a moment before firing off a whiny Gchat (something Meena experienced during her weeklong experiment, too). Not every complaint needs to be voiced.

Figure out what you want to achieve before you complain. I noticed that when I had the urge to complain, most of the time I just wanted a little validation. I think complaining spirals happen when I get that validation, and it feels awesome, which means I start seeking more of it. Maybe realizing from the start why I’m complaining will help me stop at the first “that sucks” I get from the listener. “Figuring out the result you want first will help you determine to whom your complaint should be addressed and where to place the emphasis,” Winch said. “This in turn will give the other person a clear idea of what you’re asking for (as opposed to getting showered with your general feelings of frustration, outrage, anger, or hurt) which will make it easier for them to respond positively.”

Construct a “complaint sandwich.” If you’re complaining to someone about their behavior, Winch advises “sandwiching” the complaint between two positive statements. “The first positive statement will lower the other person’s defensiveness and make them more open to the complaint itself. The last will motivate them to resolve the issue,” he said.

In other words: Complain about the things that actually matter, and look for (and listen to) solutions to fix the thing that’s bothering you. The rest? Try to let it go.


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Hashtag Our Stories’s Mohammed Arai on mental health awareness

October is Mental Health Awareness Month in South Africa. An important aspect at the heart of changing attitudes about mental health is storytelling. Mental health is one of the most neglected areas of health globally. Today, nearly one billion people live with a mental disorder. Billions of people around the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, which is having a further impact on people’s mental health.

On October 11, The Daily Vox hosted producer and journalist Mohammed Arai on Instagram. Arai works for Hashtag Our Stories, a mobile journalist platform based on Snapchat. He is based in their mental health stories division, Our Minds

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Arai is a law graduate from the University of Johannesburg who’s currently practicing as a journalist. After completing his legal studies, Arai joined Salaamedia in 2020, as an online editor and producer. In May of 2021, Arai joined Hashtag Our Stories. He has since been producing mental health stories of people sharing their struggles with mental health and recovery journeys.

Being diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and struggling with his mental health on a daily basis, Arai is passionate about telling as many mental health stories as possible. He hopes to one day destigmatise mental health.

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“Hashtag Our Stories is essentially a mobile journalism platform where we tell global stories from people’s perspectives. Instead of speaking to commentators and professionals, we speak to people on the ground and people directly impacted. Having said that, it’s very important to also speak to experts, commentators and analysts,” said Arai.

Most of the people profiled are from the United States. However, Hashtag Our Stories also profiles people from South Africa and the continent.

“The chunk of our audience is based in the U.S so we focus primarily on the U.S. audience. Having said that, we do profile, interview and produce stories of people in South Africa and the African continent,” said Arai.

“I think to a large extent […] it’s regarded as a white person’s problem. When we look at Africa countries, even “third world countries”, we don’t speak about mental health issues openly. Conversations from people in the U.S and other western countries are slowly shifting towards countries such as South Africa,” said Arai.

There are many reasons that people might find it difficult to open up about mental health issues. Despite so much work on exposing the issues and raising awareness, there is still a stigma. By talking about mental health openly, more people may be encouraged to seek professional help.

“If we continue this path of not speaking about mental health because of the leverage that people could use against us, we will never get to the point where it’s spoken as much as we speak about any other physical condition such as cancer or diabetes,” said Arai.

Challenging Mental Health Stigma and Discrimination in Black Communities

People seeking to improve their mental health sometimes report feeling much better after sharing their experiences with understanding peers.

“People have been using social media to talk about mental health. They’ve been creating these safe spaces to speak about it. Many times, perhaps not as often, we do get people who receive backlash and negative comments for speaking about it on social media. But once again the conversation has to go on. If we don’t use social media as the primary medium and the primary platforms to have these conversations, where else are we going to speak about it […],” said Arai

“It’s fundamentally important for us not to start but continue these conversations on social media and in person too.”

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Watch This F30 BMW 3-Series Get T-Boned By A Camaro At A Car Meet

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A 15-second video on Facebook went viral this week. It's an exciting 15 seconds for sure, but obviously not long enough to answer many questions about what we just saw. Amateur footage from what appears to be a potato with a 3 megapixel camera (in portrait mode, no less) captured the moment a F30 BMW turns into the middle of the street and gets T-boned hard by a gen. 4 Chevy Camaro. Check out the video from the Car Porn Facebook page below:

Geez, what the hell just happened there? Where does one even begin? When young men with fast cars get together late at night, you can be sure that someone at some point is going to want to show off. Since the camera is pointed towards the white BMW at the beginning of the video, it's safe to assume the driver is about to pull off some sort of antic – perhaps a donut – that ended up looking more like a U-turn. Meanwhile, it appears that a Camaro just so happened to be involved in its own shenanigans at the same time, traveling substantially over the speed limit down the street.

From what can be seen in the video, the Camaro driver doesn't even have time to brake before slamming into the side of the BMW sedan. A crowd of people rush to the cars immediately after the crash, but we never get to see if the drivers are OK from the big impact.

If there's something we can learn from this viral video, it's this: the street doesn't belong to you just because there's a camera pointing at you. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.


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Good morning, everyone! That's it for Devil Spy Chapter 13 and for the series for the time being. When I planned this chapter, I didn't know that I was going to be taking an extended hiatus from comics so soon (I really thought I might be able to hold out until the first story wrapped up, but that's still a long ways off), it's unfortunate that this one ended on a cliffhanger. Sorry about that! It seems like a hopeless situation, but I can assure you I wouldn't kill-off one of my favorite redheads. ;)

I'd really love to thank you all for sticking with me through the series so far. Making comics has become tough for me over the past year and I really hope it's something I can come back to when I'm ready. I just don't know when that will happen, unfortunately.

In the meantime I'm still planning to work on other projects so me and my drawings and stories aren't going anywhere. My Patreon will still be open for those who would still like to support me. I'm working out ideas for what sort of stuff I will start sharing there. I'm leaning toward fan art, OC stuff and short stories. I'm open to suggestions and ideas.


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Hardman recorded four receptions on five targets for 62 yards in Sunday's 31-13 win over Washington.

Hardman tallied the Chiefs' longest gain of the game when he hauled in a deep pass for 49 yards late in the first quarter. He was otherwise limited to short gains and also lost a fumble. Even so, Hardman has seen surprisingly consistent target volume early on this season. Through six games, he has 35 targets while his previous career-high is 62 across a full season.

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The ways in which we currently treat our planet and its inhabitants are not sustainable. A sustainable society requires individual behavior changes, government intervention, responsible businesses, and innovation. We need to raise awareness about topics within sustainability; how the environment, the economy, and social justice intersect, and how it affects our everyday lives.  The purpose of this website is to aid in the spread of sustainable practices and mindsets to encourage involvement.

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U.S. Chamber’s Global IP Center Unveils 2014 International Intellectual Property Index

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 U.S. Chamber’s Global IP Center Unveils 2014 International Intellectual Property Index

Report Sheds Light on Progress, Deficiencies in 25 Countries’ IP Environments, Including Select TPP Participants

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC) today unveiled its 2014 International Intellectual Property (IP) Index, a survey of 25 countries with diverse economies reflected in varying market size, level of development, and geography. Charting the Course provides an empirically-based measurement and comparison of the IP environments of each country.

“A robust IP system provides the critical foundation needed for nations wishing to advance their economic and social progress, and provide assurances to consumers that the products they use are authentic, safe, and effective,” said David Hirschmann, president and CEO of the GIPC. “By highlighting countries that are leading or lagging in fostering a strong IP framework, the GIPC Index provides a clear and objective tool for policy makers to strengthen innovative potential and for business leaders to assess risk and investment.”

In the second edition of the GIPC Index, this year’s report evaluates 30 factors indicative of an IP environment that fosters growth including protection and enforcement of patents, trademark, copyrights, trade secrets, and participation in relevant international treaties. Although none of the 25 countries surveyed received a perfect score of 30, the United States received the highest score of 28.52, making it the global leader in protecting IP.

“The United States may lead the overall ranking, but has fallen behind in its enforcement efforts,” said Hirschmann. “Therefore, we urge the Obama administration and Congress to expand on current enforcement programs and allocate dedicated resources throughout the government to effectively enforce IP rights and protect consumers.”

“Additionally, with 10 of the 12 participating TPP countries included in this Index, it is important to note that the IP chapter of this critical agreement must be comprehensive, commercially meaningful, and provide incentives to innovate and create,” added Hirschmann.

The full report is available at www.theglobalipcenter.com/GIPCindex. Key findings of Charting the Course include:

  • The United States received the highest overall score, but came in third after the United Kingdom and France in the enforcement category.
  • Canada’s treatment of pharmaceutical patents, copyright laws, and unwillingness to ratify international IP treaties resulted in significantly lower scores than other upper-income economies.
  • Similar to the inaugural GIPC Index, India continued to score lowest, most notably in categories relating to patents, copyrights, and international treaties.
  • China shows improvements in certain aspects of its patent regime, however, its overall IP environment continued to see challenges, particularly in regard to trade secret protection and enforcement.

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Total cost £39.99 - Price too good to be True?

One of the most commonly asked questions is - are there any additional costs or recurring charges?  We probably get asked this more than any other and a lot of people will naturally think this offer is indeed too good to be true because of the very attractive pricing. As you will also see we have numerous independent reviews on Trust Pilot from photographers who have taken our course and no vested interest other than sharing their experiences with others. You can jump straight to our Trust Pilot reviews here.

For exactly £39.99 you will receive the full course including feedback and your personalised assignment. there are no additional costs or recurring charges. You pay once and that is it. :)

We have included some really worthwhile upgrade options, so take your time to consider these as they can really enhance the overall learning experience.

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We are very passionate and committed to producing the best value for money photography course currently available anywhere and also at delivering an exceptional standard of customer service and satisfaction. As a family business, we take our reputation very seriously and the opinions and views of our customers are what matters most.

We welcome all feedback and are constantly looking at ways to improve every aspect of what we offer. If you would like to take a minute and read what others have written about us on the review website Trustpilot, you can do so by either clicking on the image (left) or clicking here

One of the reasons we chose Trustpilot to host our reviews is because their integrity and validation process of each review is the highest in the review industry. Each and every review is verified by them as a genuine customer who has bought and paid for one of our photography courses.

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Firstly this is an 18-module online photography course. There is no requirement to attend a class anywhere. All your course exams are done online and your assignment feedback is done via e-mail submissions. Uniquely at this price, this course includes a PERSONALISED assignment with in depth and detailed feedback (including assessment of all practical assignments too.) We are the only Photography Online learning provider to offer this for £39.99. Frankly, the entire course fee is worth this one feature alone as the level and depth of your feedback will surprise you! You could call it a forensic analysis of your submission both in terms of the technical and compositional elements too. We have a complete guide to each module here, or you can click on the image (left) too.

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We have created a video guide to our state of the art learning hub. You will gain access the the newest and most interactive of ANY photography course.

Watch the video to gain an insight into why an Image Academy Photography course should be your first choice for any photographer who wants to learn photography the best way possible.

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In general there are a number of camera types that will be perfect for taking this online photography course. These include but are not limited to:

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  3. A bridge camera - there are a number of excellent bridge cameras available from brands like Sony, Fuji, Nikon, Canon, Olympus and so on. Almost all will allow full manual shooting and many will also allow the shooting of RAW files too. (desirable, but not essential).

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There are no other photographic equipment requirements in order to take this photography course, other than your own vision and creativity.

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We recognise that most people have varying demands on their time and generally speaking, something like a photography course will need to be worked around other things. With that in mind we do not put you under any time pressure to either start or complete your photography course.

Time pressure is counterproductive to creativity which is a major aspect of photography. There is no time limit on course completion and you can work completely at your own pace. :)

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2) Then go to the product page on our website here: You can also click on the courses tab in the menu at the top of this page and then choose your course from there.

3) Once you ahve chosen your course, you will  see that there are various options on the right hand pane, so have a look at what might interest you, then click add to bag.

4) The click on go to checkout.

5) You will now see a coupon code box - input the code above, i.e. FBD220 - this will reduce the price of the course by £220. (remember to click apply, to apply the discount)

Then follow the checkout procedure to payment page. :)

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Whilst you may be browsing this course for yourself, you may also want to consider this 18-module photography course as a very personal and unique Christmas gift.

There are no limitations on the number of courses you can purchase at the special offer price. You will need to complete individual checkouts for each course you buy as the voucher code will only work on one course at a time.

There is an option in the right hand option pane of the course prior to checkout that allows you to choose this as a gift voucher. We will contact you after your purchase to get the details of the gift recipient and then e-mail the voucher to you with 24 hours of purchase, all ready for Christmas.

A little more about us (video above) and a personal message too. :)
We have over the period of running this offer, been asked similar questions about why it is so cheap, why there are no negative comments about the course and how we can offer it for such a low price, especially when you consider what is included.
Many have said that it appears to be too good to be true and naturally people are suspicious when something appears to be that way.
A few months ago when my wife Connie and I were discussing this promotion and just how affordable we could make it, we came to the conclusion that at times there can be a great deal of snobbery in this hobby, both in terms of what images are considered to be good and also in the equipment people use. Photography is not just about the equipment, it is about you and your personal vision of what makes you happy and also what inspires you to get out with your camera. We also realised that for many, the price of learning the art of photography properly, in a structured and formalised way (with tutor support and feedback) was simply unaffordable and as such beyond the reach of many potentially great and aspiring photographers. We took the decision to offer this course at a price we felt was within the reach of most people and also we, as a passionate and dedicated family business, aimed to provide the best service possible without cutting any corners and really give photographers a customer experience that is truly remarkable and at an equally remarkable price.
I sincerely hope we have managed to do that and certainly based on the many kind words written by people with no vested interest other than simply sharing their experiences with other photographers (Trust Pilot reviews), it would appear that we are doing an ok job so far.
Anybody who realises just how many hours we put into our courses and the passionate and enthusiastic way we care about the learning process will come to realise that this is without doubt an offer that comes from our own love of photography and the many great things it has to offer.
We are dedicated to giving you the BEST experience we can and will always go out of our way to look after you through every step of your course. We always welcome your feedback and your opinions really matter to us, so please feel free to drop us an e-mail at: hello@theimageacademy.co.uk
We do pride ourselves on our customer service record and will continue to improve our courses and the learning experience as a whole. We are also committed to providing every existing student with any new course enhancement completely FREE of charge. When you watch the video above, you will see a very good example of this. Our course used to be a 16-module course and we have expanded it into an 18-module course. Everyone who previously bought a course received this upgrade free of charge. We are the only UK learning provider that provides this without asking existing students for additional course fees - we wil never change that policy and we are very appreciative of anyone who has chosen us for their photography course.
It is always a privelage to work with passionate photographers and maybe we will work with you one day too! :)
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Zaha Hadid was a revolutionary architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite winning critical acclaim. Some even said her audacious, futuristic designs were unbuildable.

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Minister in ‘racist circumcision outrage’

Minister in 'racist circumcision outrage'
Swedish minister of culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth's participation in a "racist spectacle" in which she carved up a cake depicting a naked black woman has sparked outrage and prompted calls for the minister's dismissal.

“In our view, this simply adds to the mockery of racism in Sweden,” Kitimbwa Sabuni, spokesperson for the National Afro-Swedish Association (Afrosvenskarnas riksförbund) told The Local.

“This was a racist spectacle.”

Sabuni’s comments come following Adelsohn Liljeroth’s participation in an art installation that took place at Stockholm’s Moderna Museet in connection with World Art Day on April 15th.

As part of the installation, which was reportedly meant to highlight the issue of female circumcision, the culture minister began cutting a large cake shaped like a black woman, symbolically starting at the clitoris.

Makode Aj Linde, the artist who created the installation and whose head is part of the cake cut by the minister, wrote about the “genital mutilation cake” on his Facebook page.

“Before cutting me up she whispered, ‘Your life will be better after this’ in my ear,” he wrote in a caption next to the partially eaten cake.

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But images of the event, which show a smiling and laughing Adelsohn Liljeroth slicing up the cake, have caused the National Afro-Swedish Association and its members to see red and issue calls for her resignation.

“According to the Moderna Museet, the ‘cake party’ was meant to problematize female circumcision but how that is accomplished through a cake representing a racist caricature of a black woman complete with ‘black face’ is unclear,” Sabuni said in a statement.

According to Sabuni, the mere fact that the minister particiapted in the event, which he argued was also marked by “cannibalistic” overtones, betrays her “incompetence and lack of judgement”.

“Her participation, as she laughs, drinks, and eats cake, merely adds to the insult against people who suffer from racist taunts and against women affected by circumcision,” he said.

“We have no confidence in her any longer.”

Speaking with the TT news agency, Adelsohn Liljeroth was sympathetic to the association’s reaction, but nevertheless defended her actions.

“I understand quite well that this is provocative and that it was a rather bizarre situation,” she said.

“I was invited to speak at World Art Day about art’s freedom and the right to provoke. And then they wanted me to cut the cake.”

However, Adelsohn Liljeroth said the National Afro-Swedish Association’s anger should be directed at the artist, not at her, claiming the situation was “misinterpreted”.

“He claims that it challenges a romanticized and exoticized view from the west about something that is really about violence and racism,” she said.

“Art needs to be provocative.”

But the minster’s defence of her actions rang hollow for Sabuni.

“It’s extremely insulting for the minister to claim that we’ve somehow ‘misunderstood’ racism,” he said.

According to Sabuni, the incident is “strange” but “not unexpected” in the Swedish context.

“Sweden thinks of itself as a place where racism is not a problem,” he said.

“That just provides cover for not discussing the issue which leads to incidents like this.”

While a museum is certainly allowed to do what it wants as long as the laws are followed, Sabuni argued that a minister needs to be held to “higher standards”.

“To participate in a racist manifestation masquerading as art is totally over the line and can only be interpreted as the culture minister supporting the Moderna Museet’s racist prank,” he said.

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The Dirtiest Elections in Post-Soviet History

A distinguishing feature of the State Duma election campaign is that it was held against a backdrop of voters’ plummeting confidence in the party of power for the first time since 1999. In another first, voters will cast ballots Sunday amid a slide in support for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and the authoritarian political system he built.

The drop in popularity for Putin and United Russia began between 2009 and 2010 and soon became a precipitous decline. Putin has the lowest rating among educated and prosperous people in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other major cities, and this explains the booing and hissing he recently received from the independent-minded people in the audience at the Olimpiisky stadium.

This political regime has been kept afloat by widespread support for Putin as the national leader — a leader who has almost completely destroyed the credibility and independence of every constitutional institution and practice — parliament, political parties, courts and elections — and has begun floundering now that the tide is turning against him. Putin and his advisers have begun scurrying about, focusing on trivialities like badminton and amphorae and making one blunder after another. Having lost popular support, they are now trying everything from harassing to ingratiating themselves with the public. Their actions have not only failed to elicit the desired fear and respect from society but have engendered indifference and, at worst, a growing wave of contempt.

Putin’s regime is not just rapidly losing credibility: It is becoming ludicrous and obscene.

The main result of these Duma elections has been the profound discrediting of the authorities at all levels — and this is primarily the handiwork of the government itself.

In deep denial over their faltering support, Kremlin officials ordered governors as recently as this summer to secure 65 percent of the vote for United Russia — a figure that will forever be associated with the “party of crooks and thieves.”

However, this fall it became clear that the party of power’s actual ratings are far below 65 percent and that its popularity continues to drop rapidly — especially after President Dmitry Medvedev angered many voters by announcing on Sept. 24 that he would switch jobs with Putin next year. No more than 20 percent to 30 percent of the voters in Moscow,

St. Petersburg and other major cities plan to vote for the Putin-Medvedev ticket. Notwithstanding, the Kremlin has only corrected its “Duma plan” downward to 60 percent of the vote.

The result is that this Sunday’s elections will be the dirtiest in post-Soviet history. Never before have government officials so openly violated the law on such a scale, so candidly applied administrative pressure and bribed voters and so obviously prepared to falsify election results. The Central Election Commission, along with local elections committees, the police, courts and prosecutors have openly sided with those manipulating the vote and not only refused to press charges against them, but have also become their main defenders and even helpers.

And they are employing every trick and stratagem they know to succeed.

Having prohibited a number of opposition parties from even registering for these elections, officials demonstrated from the very beginning that the contest would be neither free nor fair. As a result, a record low of seven parties are taking part in these elections, four fewer than were permitted in the notoriously fraudulent Duma elections of 2007. United Russia has dominated the airwaves with about 60 percent of the time given to political ads, far surpassing the time allotted to all the other parties combined. The Central Election Commission printed 2.6 million absentee ballots and delivered huge numbers of them to government officials to be used to bolster United Russia’s results by as much as 4 percent to 5 percent given a voter turnout of 60 percent.

As early as this summer, governors held pep talks with mayors and district heads, telling them, in effect, to either bring in the votes or hand in your resignations. Those officials, in turn, held countless “orientation” meetings with the local heads of state and municipal agencies and institutions, demanding that they round up votes for the party of power. The directors of schools, libraries, hospitals, tram and trolleybus depots, public utilities departments and others have applied direct pressure on their employees, telling them to vote “the right way.” Mayors have publicly announced that financial assistance for veterans and approval for gas hookups to homes would depend on the outcome of the voting.

Millions of citizens have been threatened with the prospect of losing their jobs or their bonuses if they didn’t “do their duty” at the polls. Tens of thousands of students have been recruited to help gather absentee ballots, stuff ballot boxes and travel from one polling place to another to vote in the names of the sick, disabled and deceased. Millions of employees are being forced by their employers to take part in this depraved and criminal charade. Countless political “specialists” have been sent to the regions to employ all of their notorious methods of dirty campaigning and counter-campaigning — from calling voters in the middle of the night on behalf of rival politicians to defacing competitors’ billboards.

By Thursday, more than 7,100 documented campaign violations had been posted on the “Map of Violations” ( organized by the independent election watchdog Golos. Of that total, more than 1,700 involved government officials illegally using their positions on behalf of a single party (guess which one), more than 1,300 instances of pressuring voters, 660 cases of openly bribing voters and more than 180 instances of abuses by law enforcement agencies. At the same time, more audio and video material chronicling these violations has been posted on the Internet and been seen by more Russians than ever before. And it goes without saying that the Central Election Commission and local elections committees have taken no action at all in response to these documented violations — even when blatant cases aroused public concern.

The main result of these fraudulent elections will not be the official announcement of the results and the allocation of Duma seats to the winners. The main result will be that Sunday’s elections will exacerbate the already deep crisis of confidence caused by the campaign itself. The public will not recognize the results of these dirty elections and, despite all of the authorities’ tricks and manipulations, will not consider the new Duma as representing the Russian people.

The shock caused by the ruling regime’s outrageous excesses will also reflect on the results of Putin’s next “special operation”: the presidential election in March. Lenin once said that a revolution would only succeed when the lower classes no longer wanted to live in the old way and leaders could not continue living in the old way. That bears a surprising similarity to the conditions in Russia that will follow these elections.

Vladimir Ryzhkov, a State Duma deputy from 1993 to 2007, hosts a political talk show on Ekho Moskvy radio and is a co-founder of the opposition Party of People’s Freedom.

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Odin Biron, American Star of Stage, TV

Biron pausing for the camera on Tverskaya in Moscow. John Freedman

It is almost a holiday fairy tale.

Just one year ago, Odin Lund Biron attended a New Year's party hosted by the Satirikon Theater. An actor in the company, he had begun to feel it was time for a change. He could hear the home fires calling.

"This was my first big adventure," he said about his six-year sojourn in Russia as we recently sat in a coffee shop on Tverskaya Ulitsa, "I didn't want it to be the last."

Biron, who is 27 years old, was born in Duluth, Minnesota. He grew up with an interest in theater and studied musical theater at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. A desire to do something exotic ("London seemed too accessible") brought him to the Moscow Art Theater School in the fall of 2005 to study with a group from the Connecticut-based Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. But as he was preparing to leave, a teacher approached him and asked whether he had thought about staying on. He hadn't, but the idea stuck. By February 2006 he was hanging out in Moscow, teaching English to survive, and preparing to enter a full-fledged, four-year acting course at the Art Theater.

As it happened, Biron applied to the class headed by Konstantin Raikin, one of Russia's most accomplished actors.

The young American went to the audition "shaking like a leaf" but was relieved to find Raikin "incredibly warm and friendly." Showing off a fine sense of humor and paradox, Biron performed Mikhail Lermontov's poem "No, I'm not Byron, I'm Another" and an excerpt from Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot." He chose the latter because his Russian was bad, and Beckett's "silent monologue" meant he could show off his stage presence and physical abilities.

Biron not only graduated from Raikin's class in 2009, and was not only given the rare honor of being invited to join the company at Raikin's Satirikon, he was promised a top role in a new production of an Alexander Ostrovsky play that Raikin put out under the title of "Money." Biron had made extraordinary progress with his Russian by then and began getting his first rave reviews.

Cut back now to that New Year's party. It had been decided. The Russia experiment was over. America was calling. Biron's friend and colleague the director Viktor Ryzhakov was encouraging him to go. Many Americans who have studied and practiced theater in Russia have found it difficult to adjust to a totally different system and mentality upon returning to the States.

"Everybody knew. It was my plan to go," Biron now says with a warm but ironic smile.

That irony is well placed. Biron never went home, and 2011 was surely the most eventful year of his life.

Not only did he open in a central role in another new show at the Satirikon in October — "Pushkin's Little Tragedies," directed by Ryzhakov — but he joined the cast of the popular television satire "Interns."

Biron admits he doesn't even own a television set. But he is impressed with the small creative group that films and puts "Interns" on the air. They, too, appear satisfied with him, for just recently they renewed his contract for the coming season. Moreover, he has signed on to act in his first full-length feature film.

Aside from his work at the Satirikon and on various soundstages, Biron has been active in the creation of some successful independent theater productions. Working with Cazimir Liske, an American colleague and friend who studied at the Art Theater School, he has starred in productions of Shel Silverstein's children's story "Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back" in Russian, and Woody Allen's "Riverside Drive" in English. Both have played at various venues around town.

"Caz was a major influence on me joining Raikin's course," Biron explains. And it was Liske who came up with the idea of doing a performance of the Shel Silverstein piece for the pair's final acting exam at the Art Theater.

"Amid all the heavy Dostoevsky things people were doing, there we were, two idiot Americans doing this ridiculous version of 'Lafcadio.'"

It was such a success that the pair realized they "had to continue doing it."

That wasn't all they did together, however. Over the summer following graduation they did the Jack Kerouac thing and hit the road in America. "We traveled all over the States by train, getting to know our homeland," Biron says. "Plus we studied our lines for 'Lafcadio.'"

That project, once it opened, brought about an invitation to perform "Riverside Drive."

"That was interesting to Caz and me," Biron declares, "because we hadn't performed in English for a long time. It was a rough process, but we all respected one another enough to keep at it. We worked on it for a year."

That little detail — rehearsing a show for a year — speaks volumes about the differences that exist between Russian and American theater. It's a difference Biron relishes from his Russian standpoint. He calls the ability to throw oneself into a project and work at it as long as it takes "one of the sweetest things about Russian theater and

"That doesn't exist in the United States, where you have your mandatory breaks and days off," he says. "I love it when artists get together and sweat and get pissed off at each other. There's something very right about that."

He didn't say so specifically, but this description may well apply to Biron's experience at the Satirikon. Raikin's theater is arguably the most intense, energetic and physically accomplished dramatic theater in Moscow, and that achievement does not come about for nothing.

But Biron himself represents another, highly intriguing aspect of the Satirikon. Over the years, Raikin has put together a collection of fine actors that now includes three nontraditional company members.

Grigory Siyatvinda, an African-Russian who spent a few years as a child with his parents in Zambia, has been a star at the Satirikon for many years. Also joining the troupe recently was Yelizaveta Martinez-Cardenas, an actress of Russian, Mexican and Sudanese descent. Martinez-Cardenas was a classmate of Biron's at the Art Theater. Biron, however, is the only troupe member who did not grow up in Russia and whose native tongue is not Russian.

The actor says he has never heard Raikin say anything about the cultural diversity he cultivates at his theater. "I think it's just interesting to him," Biron opines. "He's attracted to talent."

As for the decision to go home a year ago — and the more fateful decision not to follow through with that — Biron admits there was "an element of fear" in his planning to leave. What if he were to wait so long he could no longer fit in at home?

But with his star rising in Russia, Biron now has more immediate concerns — like how to squeeze in film shoots with rehearsals and performances at the Satirikon, while making sure to leave time for the regular shoots of "Interns." This might just be a dream life for an actor.

"Money" plays Jan. 19 and 27, "Pushkin's Little Tragedies" on Jan. 17, 21 and 28, at the Satirikon.

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