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A recent short article in the Los Angeles Times kept in mind that the current caution device in The golden state for air-borne radioactive product is sorely doing not have. How can this be, when state-of-the-art machinery is available for such a critical part?
Real-time continuous tracking for radiation poisoning in both air and also water are presently on call and also but are they in operation? If the Environmental Protection Agency is actually billed along with shielding the consumers of the USA why exists certainly not an improved unit presently in place? A system with real-time radiation displays feeding continual data to a devoted across the country early response body? Possibly the budget needed to execute such a device has actually been denied the Environmental Protection Agency in profession for additional prompt demands. I will say the top priorities require to alter and funding to improve a traditional unit that provides to defend the population of this particular nation requires to become transferred to the best of the authorities's capital investment list.
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Hartono, Indrajanti (1990) An Analysis of D.H. Lawrence's ideas on politics, religion and love as reflected in Kangaroo. Bachelor thesis, Petra Christian University.Full text not available from this repository.
This thesis is an analysis of D.H. Lawrence s ideas on politics, religion and love as reflected in Kangaroo. there are other fiction written about these. However, this thesis analyzes them in relation to the character named Shomers for he is the one who struggles with politics and love. As a religious man, he gives his concepts of God and they are also discussed in this thesis. This characters reflects Lawrence him self therefore. Lawrence ideas are put in the novel. The second chapter in this thesis analyzes Somers rejection regarding political affiliation caused by his previous war experience. The third chapter discusses about Somers' s concepts of God and his attitude as a religious man. In the fourth chapter, this writer talks about love in relation to women and others. Morever, thesis writer wants to show the contradictory facts given in the novel so that discussion of this thesis would be a unified one.
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In the last year especially there has been an explosion in people daring to step forward and talk of their experiences in the area of parapsychology. The experiences can range from anything from having seen a ghost to a myriad of psychic experiences. The list is endless. The majority of these people are ordinary people that have never come into contact with a medium or the area in which I work; parents whose children are experiencing things that the parents cannot give an explanation to or families that are being tormented by apparitions and feelings that go beyond their logical understanding. They need some answers to the phenomena they are experiencing around them. The question is: What do they do? Who can they turn to? I am not the only medium who is being asked these questions.
Thank goodness we also have programs like Det Okända, magazines like my own, Ascala Magazine and Aftonbladet Söndag that I work for. I have been informed that the people sending in letters to Fråga Terry in Aftonbladet Söndag come from every walk of life. One of the most frequent questions I am asked is: I have experienced this, what does it mean? Can you give an explanation? I feel that TV and these magazines really have opened a door to give people the opportunity to have a dialogue with somebody that can help them bring some kind of understanding to what is actually happening to them. The climate now is much more open to discuss these things than ever before.
The small minority that say that the thousands upon thousands of people that are having these experiences are simply deluded, I would suggest are deluding themselves into believing that they can stop this surge of new found consciousness among ordinary people.
One thought I have had is to create a possibility for people to come to an evening or a day where they would be able to ask their questions and become part of an interactive dialogue, in an atmosphere that is free from criticism and bias. This can become a very interesting starting point for people coming together and talking about these problems, because I as one medium do not have the resource to answer all the questions from the public. Every week, through all sorts of social media I receive hundreds of questions from people that do not know what to do or where to go. I would suggest to all of you to check out the internet where there are places to go and meet to discuss these things with others, where you will not be seen as a social leper. In so doing I hope that some of you will get some answers and begin to realize that what is happening to you can be explained.
I myself am about to start what I call inspirational evenings at my course centre in Fanthyttan where I will share my experiences and how I learned to manage this things myself without fear. The purpose is also to give people an opportunity to ask their questions and begin to understand what is happening. In sharing with others they will realize that they are not so different and that the phenomena they are experiencing is actually a part of their potential that so far has remained hidden.
I look forward to receiving your comments!
/ Terry Evans
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I have something to say … and it isn't pretty and it isn't nice and it isn't remotely politically correct. I am sick unto death of religion, of the prating and the bullshit and the claims they can't back up … all of it. I've tolerated both Jehovah's Witlesses and Mor(m)ons at my door, neither of which were either invited or welcome, yet I talked to them and tolerated them, even smiled at them and wished them a good day, despite the fact that they have nothing believable or even remotely substantial to say about their gods or their prophets or their saviors. No great surprise there, really … since how much substance was there to Jupiter or Ra or Brahma, Vishnu or Shiva? Yeah, I know, not much, though all these guys want to say that they're different somehow.
So now you're all bent out of shape because we atheists call you on your crap … and maybe not today or tomorrow, but sometime in the not so distant future, you may want to come gunning for us. That would be a mistake. You see, fact is, while I haven't armed myself … YET … I keep an eye on things. I follow the news, local, state, national, and so on, and if it were to come to my attention that there were gangs running about around Northeast Ohio, whether christian, islamic, or whatever, thinking that they wanted to start taking on atheists … well, I would have no choice but to arm myself, much as I would prefer not to.
And I WOULD arm myself, fully and properly, and I would likely spend some time at the local range, polishing skills which were first taught me by my grandfather. Did I mention my grandfather was a cop, a cop who was rated sharpshooter, though he never once had to draw his gun in anger, who loaded and dialed in his own rounds very nearly to perfection (I know – I fired my share of his loads).
And if you want to come after me and/or mine, there will be a penalty involved … a very severe penalty for your foolishness. I mean, I haven't gone after you. I've said multiple times that you can believe as you please, so long as you leave me and mine alone and you don't attempt to mess with the government we live under. Yet apparently, you didn't want to listen or you figured that you could get away with murder. You figured wrong … and if you have to have my life, you'll discover that said life comes at a very dear cost.
Now, that said … do you REALLY want to play?
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Part of the above piece was a reaction to having watched a five-part video that someone put up of Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion. The part with Ted Haggard was enough to turn my stomach as it was; the rest did me no great favors, either.
There are, indeed, at least as many firearms as there are crazy people around the States, though it's not quite the shooting gallery that some outsiders might imagine it to be. The problem is that the church crazies and the gun crazies have a strong intersection set - not a good sign by any measure.
It would be nice if they'd live up to the better angels of our nature, as Lincoln once said. Problem is, I don't believe in angels.
None of us should have to be afraid ... and yet we are at the least concerned about people who say that god is love and love thy neighbor as thyself and all this other razzamatazz.
Kafka himself couldn't write a more twisted concept.
way to go dude im always looked at the wrong way in school because im an atheist, and its demoralizing and it makes me so mad that they hate me for what they barely even know about... i would too arm myself if some crazy christian group came after me with a bat
Dan, you don't want to know how imminent I think that conflict is, and I mean to say it turns my stomach to think about it. Those guys want to believe we live in a christian nation when we don't, want to think we eat babies and are total hedonists when that's simply not the case, and want the law of the land to reflect their bible when that would be very likely the single most disastrous occurrence this country ever saw.
I've seen how radicalized and irrational they are, and I wonder how long it will be before some truly nutcase group decides to go atheist-hunting. I hope like hell they realize that such an adventure would cost them, if not from me then from the local constabulary ... but what is most frightening to me of all is that they might not be deterred by any of that ... because they are supposedly doing god's will.
I Do NOT Want To Arm Myself ... but I will if I must.
Hopefully it will not come to another armed conflict in your country as well.
Remember, violence will only escalate and will not solve the problem. I think that only through education can we change this state of things.
Challenging all religious door bangers is what I rather enjoy doing, posing questions that they struggle to answer. Who knows, maybe I'll even be able to change one of their minds. That would be the most moral thing I could do, I think.
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An updated/revised/improved version of this analysis has been published in the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Pennycook, G. & Thompson, V. A. (2018). An analysis of the Canadian cognitive psychology job market (2006-2016). Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72, 71-80.
An open-access preprint is available on PsyArXiv.
What follows is the original blog post (I suggest reading the actual paper).
For the busy or lazy, here are the highlights:
- The average number of published papers for Assistant Professor hires in Canadian cognitive psychology divisions (or related) between 2006-2016 was ~16 (median = 12). [Note: This only includes hires for universities with Ph.D. programs in cognitive psychology or related. These are people who were hired as PI's in research institutions.]
- For context: The average number of publications for Psychonomic Society Early Career Award winners (from 2012-2017) at the time of their first faculty position was 12 (median = 8).
- The average number of published papers has almost doubled since the start of the last decade: The average went from 11 for 2006-2011 to ~20 for 2012-2016. The average for 2016 (N = 11) was 28.
- Since 2012, 70% of the new hires in cognitive psychology divisions have been, by my estimation, neuroscience hires.
- Only ~55% of the hires (2006-2016) graduated from Canadian Ph.D. programs. [Note: The students of the faculty members who decided to hire non-Canadian Ph.D.s have (or will have) a Canadian Ph.D.] Worth noting that Canadian Ph.D. and International Ph.D. hires were identical in terms of how much work they published.
- Since 2012, there have only been 6 non-neuro (i.e., experimental/behavioural) researchers with Canadian Ph.D.'s hired across the entire country.
I'll begin with a bit of backstory.
I finished my Ph.D. at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) in 2016. I was fortunate enough to get a position as a postdoc at Yale. I had (have) a two-year contract, which means I had to hit the job market immediately. Also, for both family and political reasons, I had a strong desire to find a position in Canada.
I decided to look at the people who have been hired as Assistant Professors (tenure-track) in cognitive psychology at Canadian universities from 2006-2016. The idea was to get a sense of how I matched up. I was also interested in whether people who don't do neuroscience work are being hired. (Note: I am not a neuroscientist.)
I did this for 11 institutions and the results were… surprising. I decided that this is something that people ought to know about, so I contacted Valerie Thompson (my honours thesis supervisor and former Department Head at the University of Saskatchewan). We emailed the Department Heads/Chairs across Canada asking for a list of who was hired and when. I then went through (manually) and found the hires for any institution that did not email us back (to reiterate: focusing entirely on institutions with Ph.D. programs in cognitive/experimental/behavioural psychology). In total, 61.4% of the sample came from Department Head/Chair emails. Further details of the methodology can be found at the bottom of this post.
The analysis was simple: I counted how many publications each new hire had up to and including the year of their hire. The idea was to get a sense of the body of work required to get a tenure-track faculty position as a cognitive psychologist in Canada. My logic for including the year of hire was that the new work that someone might present in a job talk would be published around the time that they begin their position (and, in some cases, would have been "in press" on their CV when the hiring committee decided to hire them). By "publication" I mean published journal articles (or, potentially but probably not, relatively highly cited chapters, conference proceedings, or books – see the bottom of this post for details).
I also recorded a few other factors:
- How many Google Scholar citations that the person had in the year that they were hired (I didn't use cumulative citations because it would have been too much work). This is intended to get some sense of scholarly impact.
- Whether the person is a credible neuro hire. I noticed that a lot of job ads were directed toward neuroscience candidates, so I looked at everyone's publication record and counted anyone with at least 1 first author neuroscience publication as a credible neuro hire. The vast majority of neuro hires have published only neuro work, to be clear.
- Whether the individual obtained a Ph.D. from a Canadian institution.
- Gender. Inferred by me based on name/profile pictures.
Further details of the methodology can be found at the bottom of this post. Please email me with any questions or inquiries: firstname.lastname@example.com. Or simply leave a comment at the bottom of the post.
In total, 70 positions have been filled in Canada since 2006.
Figure 1.
The good news here is that the number of positions has been increasing since the recession.
How many publications?
Figure 2.
The mean number of publications across the entire time span is 15.5 [95% CI: 13.1, 18.9] (median = 12). The positive correlation between year and number of publications (r = .51) is noteworthy given the fact that the number of positions has been increasing since 2010.
The following is a comparison of the first and second half of the time span.
Figure 3.
The mean number of publications for Assistant Professor hires in Canadian cognitive psychology has almost doubled since 2011. New faculty since 2012 have, on average, around 20 published journal articles by the time they finish their inaugural semester at their new institution [M = 19.5, 95% CI: 15.8, 23.1]. The increase (comparing 2006-11 to 2012-16) is significant, t(68) = 3.78, SE = 2.22, p < .001, d = .92.
A natural question is whether this increase is driven by a small number of top institutions. For this, I used Maclean's 2017 ranking of the top 10 institutions in Canada based on the reputation of their medical/doctoral programs.
Top 10: Toronto (3 campuses), UBC, McGill, Alberta, Queen's, McMaster, Western, Montreal, Calgary, Dalhousie.
Rebuffed: Brock, Carleton, Memorial, Ryerson, Manitoba, UNB (Fredericton), Ottawa, Regina, Saskatchewan, Waterloo, Winnipeg, Laurier, York.
Figure 4.
As is evident from Figure 4, the increase in the number of publications from 2006-11 to 2012-16 has been larger for institutions outside of the top 10 (Note: There is very little statistical power here and the interaction is not actually significant, F(1,66) = 1.28, p = .261). It is noteworthy that, since 2012, the bottom 14 institutions have essentially caught up to the top 10 in terms of the # of pubs for new hires.
Putting these publication numbers into context.
The mean number of publications for Assistant Professor hires in Canadian cognitive psychology divisions since 2012 was precisely 19.459 [95% CI: 15.8, 23.1]. So, the range is somewhere between 16 and 23 publications.
I put up a very scientific Twitter poll to get a sense of what people's priors were in this case. Note that this is a particularly unrepresentative sample and the very act of posing the question implies (to me) that the answer is surprising. At any rate, here are the results:
So, 24% guessed correctly. This is higher than I expected, but obviously still low.
I will offer two points of contrast.
For the first, I created a list of the most eminent cognitive psychologists (based on other people's lists and personal opinion). I then figured out how many publications they had up to and including the year that they obtained their first Assistant Professor (or Lecturer, for non-NA scientists) position.
Only one of these eminent scientists is within the range that we are currently seeing for new hires in Canadian cognitive psychology. Obviously, publication practices have changed substantially since these individuals were hired. Technology has made things easier. Postdoctoral fellowships are far more common now. There is also a more dense pool of applicants nowadays (i.e., more people are getting Ph.D.'s). It should be noted that there is no correlation between year and number of publications here, r(14) = .02 [excluding Kanwisher, r(13) = .14].
For a more contemporary comparison group, I also looked at every winner of the Psychonomic Society Early Career Award (from 2012-2017 – which is the entire range of the award). Again, I've recorded how many papers they published up to and including the year that they started their first Assistant Professor position (along with where they were hired). Note that the listed date is when the scientists were hired, not when they won the Early Career Award.
The average number of publications for Psychonomic Society Early Career Award winners (from 2012-2017) at the time of their first faculty position (M = 12) is lower than for Assistant Professor hires in Canadian cognitive psychology divisions (since 2006: M = 15.5). It is also noteworthy that there is a strong positive correlation between year of hire and publication number here as well, r(24) = .56.
The following joke went "viral" (in academic circle terms) following a post by Penny Pexman about my presentation of these results at CSBBCS2017. The author clarified that his supervisor was very accomplished. Anyway, it's a good joke:
But what about quality?
The foregoing suggests that Canadian Assistant Professor hires have published a lot (particularly lately), but what about their impact? Google Scholar conveniently allows you to see how many citations an individual had in a particular year. Thus, I looked at the number of citations in the year that the person was hired (i.e., not cumulatively, which would have taken too much time).
Figure 5. Citations in the year of hire (among those who have a Google Scholar profile)
This is an overestimate given that people with Google Scholar profiles (N = 51, M = 17.5) have more publications than those without profiles (N = 17, M = 10). Nonetheless, the number of citations in the year of hire is increasing with time. New hires are publishing more and, naturally, having more impact on the field. The number of citations per publication has essentially held constant during this time period.
Figure 6.
Looking just at the 11 hires from 2016, here are the top journals (based on impact factor and relevance for cognitive psych) for each of the hires.
Among the 11 hires from 2016, the majority (7/11) had at least one paper in TiCS, Nature Neuroscience, or PNAS.
What percentage of positions are being filled by "neuro" hires?
I also assessed whether the person was a credible "neuro" hire. That is, do they have at least one first-author neuroscience publication? Of course, the vast majority of neuro people publish, essentially, only neuro papers (and experimental/behavioural people publish only non-neuro papers). However, someone who publishes primarily experimental/behavioural work but who has published at least one neuro paper is being counted as a credible "neuro" hire in this analysis (I can't recall if there are any actual examples of this in this data set).
Figure 7.
Since 2012, 70% of the Assistant Professor positions in cognitive psychology divisions were filled with "neuro" hires. This went up to 79% for 2014-2016.
It should be noted that the increase in publications over the years is not driven by the increase in neuro hires. For cognitive hires, the mean increased from 9 (2006-11) to 17 (2012-16). For neuro hires, the mean increased from 13 (2006-11) to 20 (2012-16).
Also, secondarily, one reason why neuro researchers may be getting hired more frequently than cognitive researchers is that the former have published more papers (Mean for neuro = 17; Mean for cognitive = 13). However, for a subset of the hires, I also recorded the number of first-author publications. I found that 147 out of 241 papers from cognitive researchers were first-author (61%) whereas 437 out of 1041 papers from neuro researchers were first-author (42%). Thus, the (inferred) mean number of first-author papers is similar for cognitive (13*.61 = 8) and neuro hires (17*.42 = 7). In other words, the fact that neuro researchers publish more papers may be because neuroscience labs are more likely to share authorship. It is nonetheless unclear what is driving the higher proportion of neuro hires.
What percentage of positions are being filled by people with PhDs from Canadian universities?
From my understanding, Canadian universities prioritize hiring Canadian applicants. However, as far as I'm aware, they do not prioritize hiring people who have obtained Ph.D.s from Canadian universities. This emerges in the analysis.
Figure 8.
Only ~55% of the people hired at Canadian universities have PhDs from Canadian Universities. Reminder: Canadians sometimes graduate from non-Canadian universities.
Remarkably, there have only been 6 experimental/behavioural researchers hired as Assistant Professors in the entire country of Canada since 2012. This, from my understanding, is the modal category for Ph.D. students in cognitive psychology divisions in Canada. There have been 14 "neuro" researchers hired since 2012 (although this could be 16 as I couldn't determine where two neuro researchers completed their Ph.D.).
Interestingly, Canadian Ph.D. and International Ph.D. hires were identical in terms of how much work they published. International PhDs were also no more likely to do neuroscience research (in this sample).
Gender imbalance?
It is important to first note that I have no information about the base-rate of man v. woman applicants. That is, a gender imbalance could reflect the possibility that more men are applying for jobs, or it could reflect a bias toward hiring men. My guess is that it's the former, but I'm a man so of course I would say that.
Figure 9.
So, 40% of the hires were women. Notably, it looks like the imbalance is stronger among neuro hires.
The job market for Canadian cognitive psychology is exceptionally competitive, particularly in recent years.
Naturally, the present analysis doesn't tell us anything about how the Canadian job market matches up to other countries. However, it is noteworthy that the correlation between year of hire and number of publications was evident (and similar) among both Canadian hires (r = .51) and Psychonomic Society Early Career Award Winners (r = .54).
I would be surprised if the monumental increase in the amount of published work required to get a faculty position in cognitive psychology is unique to Canada. I would also be surprised if it is specific to cognitive psychology.
On a personal note: I should mention that I ultimately found a position in Canada… but not in cognitive psychology. I am starting at the Hill/Levene Schools of Business at the University of Regina in July 2018. I feel very lucky to have found a tenure-track faculty position. Particularly one that is relatively close to my family (I have two little girls who I want to be near grandparents).
Musings and recommendations
- First and foremost, students need to know about this. Students far too often enter Ph.D. programs under the assumption that everyone who graduates automatically gets a faculty position. Even among more enlightened students, I highly doubt that most (or even many) have an accurate representation of what is required to become a PI in a cognitive psychology program in Canada (or elsewhere, for that matter).
- The neuroscience "trend" is evident even from a casual look at job ads. People who do experimental/behavioural work cannot apply for positions in neuroscience divisions, but neuroscience researchers can apply for positions in cognitive divisions. In fact, many universities do not have separate "cognitive" and "neuroscience" divisions. McGill, for example, has a "cognition and cognitive neuroscience" division and "behavioural neuroscience" division (the latter being closer to neurophysiology, the former is included as a "cognitive division" in my analysis). I am not advocating for separate divisions (and, in fact, it would be perfectly sensible if all "cognitive" divisions were actually "cognitive neuroscience" divisions). I also think neuroscience work is important. However, I am also of the position that neuroscience needs behaviour and that it would be a shame if future generations of cognitive psychologists focus on a particular methodology at the (potential) expense of cognitive theory. More pragmatically, neuroscience work is also far more expensive, so there are funding issues that need to be considered (Canadian cognitive psychologists as a community depends largely on tri-council funding, which only has so much money to pass around). Finally, many cognitive psychology Ph.D. students don't have the opportunity to do neuroscience work.
- To me, it's obvious that Canadian universities should both favour Canadian applicants and applicants who graduated from Canadian universities. Canadian faculty members have students who have (or will have) Canadian Ph.D.s. I assume that everyone wants their students to be competitive for positions; why hire from elsewhere when equally competent individuals are graduating from Canadian institutions (see above)? Naturally, all of this is assuming all else is equal.
- Finally, I think this sort of analysis is really interesting and revealing. I would love to know what things look like elsewhere. My goal is to complete the analysis for other divisions in Canadian psychology as well. I will leave it up to the non-Canadian readers to take up the challenge for other countries.
Additional notes on the methodology
- As mentioned, 61.4% of the sample came via Department Head/Chair emails. The individuals who I tracked down manually did not differ from the individuals who were included in the Dept Head/Chair response: Mean publication (p = .838), Mean Google Scholar citation (p = .996), proportion "neuro" (p = .837).
- In the cases where I had to manually go through departmental websites, faculty members often did not indicate on their websites or CVs when they were hired. In those cases, I went through their publication record and inferred the date of hire based on when their affiliation changed.
- Some universities do not have separate cognitive and neuroscience divisions (although most do). These were nonetheless included in the analysis. This may partially explain why the proportion of neuro hires is so high. However, it's worth noting that, for example, 13 people have been hired at U of T, McGill, and UBC since 2006 (all institutions that have both cognitive and neuro divisions)… and only 3 of them have been non-neuro hires.
- I noted about that highly cited conference proceedings/chapters/books may have been counted as publications. This is because Google Scholar collects a lot of junk, which is most easily filtered by looking at citations. Thus, for the 73% of the hires who had Google Scholar profiles, highly cited conference proceedings/chapters may have been confused for journal articles. I think this is suitable, however (i.e., I wouldn't normally consider a conference proceeding or chapter a publication, but the impactful ones perhaps should be). It's worth noting that this favours faculty who were hired earlier since their conference proceedings/chapters have more opportunity to be cited. In other words, the notable increase in the number of publications runs counter to this factor. But, at any rate, it's rare for conference proceedings/chapters to be highly cited (it might not have happened at all in this data set, though I would have to go through it all again to know for sure… and I'm not going to do that).


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The lives of more than 40,000 people living with HIV/Aids in Lira district is at stake following the failure by the National Medical Stores (NMS) to supply Cotrimoxazole alias Septrin for the past four months.
Septrin is an approved antibiotic comprised of two drugs, trimethoprim and sulphamethoxazole. It is commonly used by people living with HIV/Aids to prevent Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP), isosporiasis and bronchitis.
However, a number of health facilities in Lira have not had the drug for over four months. They include among others Lira Regional Referral Hospital with about 20,000 patients, Amach H/C IV with 5200 patients, Ogur H/C IV with 7000 patients, Bar H/CIII with 3800, Aromo health Centre III with 2500 patients and Ober H/CIII with about 400 patients.
Dr. Partick Buchan Ocen, the Lira district Health Officer told this publication, that they have not received septrine from the National Medical Stores-NMS since January 2018. He says their attempts to source for the drug from the neighboring districts like Kole district hit a snag since they are equally affected.
He advises people living with HIV/Aids to consider buying septrine from private facilities as they were for supplies from the National Medical Stores.
A dose of 960 milligram of septrine for a full month in private pharmacy in Lira town costs Shillings 5000. Fred Omara, the chairperson of Persons living with HIV/Aids in Lira district has also supported the proposal to buy the drug from private pharmacies.
He however, says this comprises the health of Persons living with HIV/Aids because some of them are unable to buy the medicine. Agnes Akullu, 48, a resident of Ogur Sub County says she has missed taking the tablets for two months now. Akullu says the few tablets she had stocked got finished.
Dan Kimosho, the spokesperson National Medical Stores has confirmed the shortage of Septrin in major health facilities across the country, saying they expect to deliver the drugs after the presentation of the national budget.
The World Health Organisation adopted the use of Cotrimoxazole tablets as a preventive therapy for opportunistic infections among HIV patients in 2004. The proposal was in 2006, reinforced by WHO in a guideline document recommending cotrimoxazole prophylaxis for all infants exposed to HIV infection and all children and adults with CD4 cell counts less than 200.
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Updated 9 a.m., January 16, with the Navy's response.
In less than two months, the Navy will send the first of its newest class of fighting ships on its first major deployment overseas. Problem is, according to the Pentagon's chief weapons tester, the Navy will be deploying the USS Freedom before knowing if the so-called Littoral Combat Ship can survive, um, combat. And what the Navy does know about the ship isn't encouraging: Among other problems, its guns don't work right.
That's the judgment of J. Michael Gilmore, the Defense Department's director of operational test and evaluation, in an annual study sent to Congress on Friday and formally released Tuesday. Gilmore's bottom line is that the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) is still "not expected to be survivable" in combat. His office will punt on conducting a "Total Ship Survivability Test" for the first two LCSes to give the Navy time to complete a "pre-trial damage scenario analysis." In other words, the Freedom will head on its first big mission abroad – maritime policing and counter-piracy around Singapore – without passing a crucial exam.
The systems the LCSs will carry, from their weapons to their sensors, compound the problem. The helicopters scheduled to be aboard the ship can't tow its mine-hunting sensors, so the Navy is going to rely on robots instead – only the robots won't be ready for years. And the faster the ship goes, the less accurate its guns become.
In fairness, the point of operational testing is to uncover and flag flaws in the military's expensive weapons systems. And first-in-class ships often have kinks that are worked out in later vessels. Plus, it's not like the Navy is rushing the Freedom to fight World War III. The local pirates there would never be confused for a serious navy. But the flaws Gilmore identifies go to the some of the core missions behind LCS' existence: to fight close to shore, at high speeds; and to clear minefields.
These words have haunted the Navy ever since Gilmore's office uttered them in December 2011: "LCS is not expected to be survivable in a hostile combat environment." At a Navy expo in April 2012, Secretary Ray Mabus insisted that LCS is "a warship and it is fully capable of going into combat situations," while heralding the LCS' 2013 deployment to Singapore.
Gilmore's new report stands by the 2011 assessment, though it sands down the rough edges. "LCS is not expected to be survivable," it finds, "in that it is not expected to maintain mission capability after taking a significant hit in a hostile combat environment." Additionally, Gilmore discloses that the Navy has "knowledge gaps related to the vulnerability of an aluminum ship structure to weapon-induced blast and fire damage," but that it won't conduct tests for those vulnerabilities until later this year or next year.
It might also not be able to depend on all of its weapons in a fight. The 30mm gun on board the Freedom "exhibit[s] reliability problems." The 57mm gun on both the Freedom and its sister ship, the differently designed USS Independence, is apparently worse: "Ship operations at high speeds cause vibrations that make accurate use of the 57 mm gun very difficult," Gilmore finds. Worse news for the Freedom: Its integrated weapons systems and air/surface search radar have "performance deficiencies" that affect the ship's "tracking and engagement of contacts."
This is supposed to be a time of heraldry for the LCS. In March, the Freedom will head to Singapore for eight months as a harbinger of the Obama administration's much-touted strategic refocusing on Asia and the Pacific Ocean. It's also meant to spur confidence in the Navy's first new type of ship in two decades, an expensive design that still faces serious questions about just what its role in the Navy is. Its crew in San Diego is confident: "The guns shoot, we conduct [maritime interdiction] operations, and we move fast," Cmdr. Patrick Thien recently told Navy Times' Christopher Cavas. Vice Adm. Tom Copeland, who heads the Navy's surface fleet, last week called LCS an "integral and substantial part of our future force."
The Navy ultimately wants to buy 55 of the ships. When fully loaded with all its gear, the USS Freedom costs $670.4 million, according to an August report from the Congressional Research Service. (.pdf) The alternate design on the USS Independence runs $808.8 million
Fighting close to shore is only one of the missions that the LCS, a ship designed so the Navy can "plug and play" different sensors and weapons systems as technology improves, is expected to perform. Another is mine-hunting – which the Freedom won't do in Singapore. Problem is, the Pentagon's weapons testers gave the LCS' mine-hunting package a failing grade last year, and this one isn't much better.
This time around, Gilmore's office found that the MH-60 Seahawks intended to launch from the LCS minehunters can't "safely tow" the sonar suites that scan for underwater mines. So the Navy has scrapped the plan to put the "underpowered" helicopters aboard the LCS for minehunting. That's left a "gap in organic mine sweeping capability" on the LCS, the report states.
The Navy's plan to address that gap depends on the Unmanned Influence Sweep System, a semi-autonomous undersea robot that will spoof the acoustic and magnetic signals of big ships to compel the mines to detonate when Navy ships aren't in range. Problem is, as Danger Room reported earlier this month, the Navy is just getting ready to solicit industry bids to build the robot. That gap in mine-sweeping capability is likely to last years – and that's if the robot successfully speeds through the development and acquisition process.
The report isn't all bad news for the LCS. It finds that the Navy has fixed a crack in the hull of the Freedom. And it's installing an anti-corrosion system on the Independence that should prevent a strange and aggressive corrosion discovered in 2011.
It's not as if the Navy isn't aware of the problems with the ship: Adm. Jonathan Greenert, the chief of naval operations, appointed a high-ranking panel in August to get the LCS up to snuff (.pdf); its action plan is due at the end of January.
"Independent reviews by the [Pentagon testing] group occur regularly," Lt. Courtney Hillson, a Navy spokesperson, told Danger Room. "The group was given unlimited access to information and the Navy was an active participant in the process. The items highlighted in the report are all known issues – many of which the Navy was already in the process of addressing. As the program continues to mature, we expect additional recommendations to be incorporated."
Singapore isn't exactly a combat zone. But the testing report makes clear that grounds for skepticism about the Navy's newest warship remain — especially if pirates decide to challenge it on the open water.


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text: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:15 PM, James Hague <james.hague@REDACTED> wrote: > I would like to propose the addition of lists:keyfind/3, which is > identical in structure to lists:keysearch/3, except that it returns > either 'false' or the found tuple, with no additional wrapping of the > result. This can be trivially added to the lists module: > > keyfind(K, N, L) -> > case keysearch(K, N, L) of > {_, Tuple} -> Tuple; > X -> X > end. > I have now done a prototype implementation of keyfind/3 as BIF. I did on small change to the semantics. I implemented it to be equivalent to keyfind1(Key, N, [H|T]) when element(N, H) =:= Key -> H; keyfind1(Key, N, [H|T]) -> keyfind1(Key, N, T); keyfind1(Key, N, []) -> false. rather than keyfind2(Key, N, [H|T]) when element(N, H) == Key -> H; keyfind2(Key, N, [H|T]) -> keyfind2(Key, N, T); keyfind2(Key, N, []) -> false. (keyfind1/3 uses '=:=', keyfind2/3 uses '=='). They give the same result in most cases expect when integers is compared to floats as in: 3> t:keyfind1(42, 1, [{42.0,a}]). false 4> t:keyfind2(42, 1, [{42.0,a}]). {42.0,a} I think that it was a historical accident that lists:keysearch/3 and lists:keymember/3 use '==' rather than '=:=' and that we should not repeat that mistake lists:keyfind/3. /Bjorn -- Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB


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"What do you want to be when you grow up?" We're all asked a few hundred times throughout our childhood. And I realized that now that I'm, at least technically, "grown up," nobody asks me what I want to be anymore. It's an interesting thing that we're all asked about our future vocation when we're far too young to do much about it or to even know ourselves well enough to know what we want. And when do we lose that? When do we start to know ourselves well enough to know what we want for the rest of our lives? What's the imaginary age that we decide what we're capable of?
From the time I started school all the way up to my pre-teen years, I wanted to be an English teacher. Teachers are our heroes when we're young, until we either fall apart under the pressure of expectations and testing and regimented thinking, or we realize they're just human like the rest of us. I loved English in particular, and there was this amazing writing teacher in my school, Michael Shaw, who was incredibly quirky and pleasant and wasn't afraid to be silly as hell if it made the kids in the school love to learn. Every year, he would dress up as Johnny Appleseed to teach us about Earth Day before people really cared about ecology the way they should. He was so engaging, that I quickly decided I wanted to be him.
That dream died when I realized I was decidedly not him. I was prone to outbursts of temper I was not good enough at holding back to work with tiny humans all day without being labeled as the monster teacher. I couldn't even teach my full-grown adult of a mother how to use a computer mouse without losing my temper and treating her like an idiot. Not cool, I know. But I was journeying into teenagerhood with very messy role models and a burgeoning battle with depression and I wasn't handling it well. And then I met Dr. Jonathan Dzik.
Doc, as all his students called him, took a chance on a moody student who purposely pressed his buttons for entertainment value. And, persnickety by nature, he had a lot of pushable buttons. While I actually attempted to drive him crazy, he actually attempted to guide my efforts to more useful things, like the school musical. He was right, I was a far better singer and actress than I was a teenage asshat. And just like that, I discovered a new answer to what I was going to be when I grew up. An actress and a singer, obviously.
The truth was, I wasn't actually good at being a teenage asshat, my compassion and empathy often tripping me up and making me suffer after my various attempts at being an unfeeling wench. So, it wasn't very difficult to be a better singer and actor than an asshat. Another truth? I sucked at acting. And while I still think I possess singing talent, that 1) often comes with a dancing requirement and I can't do a choreographed step without tripping over myself; and 2) after a year and a half of auditions with professionals, I quickly learned that the industry was not ready for a singer who shopped in the plus sized section. I was in the era before Kelly Clarkson and Adele, when every singer looked like Britney Spears and were lucky if they even grazed the gorgeous sounds of Christina Aguilera's vocal chops. I could have kept trying, but the constant requests to lose weight killed my self-esteem dead enough that I became determined to find a thing where people could value my brain and not my belly.
I had been writing since back in the days of Mr. Shaw, but I didn't really think it could be anything. Mostly, I just wrote silly stories based on television shows. And then, one day, while I stood at the counter of the video store I worked at, stuck in the job-with-necessarily-flexible-hours I needed to go on auditions. It was an incredibly boring day. I was the only person on shift. So I picked up the pad I used for inventory lists, and started writing an idea that had been running around my head like a squirrel searching for a nut.
I've broken up with writing a few dozen times since then, but it's always been a lie, and I always come back. My love for it birthed my intense desire to learn more about the hows and whys behind what works and what doesn't. That led me to editing, to helping other people learn what will work best for their manuscripts.
That girl who thought she couldn't possibly have enough patience to teach a room full of kiddies all about reading and language finds herself slaving over manuscripts written by authors of various skill and scope and helping to teach them what they don't already know and guide them on the path to a more polished manuscript. And suddenly, I can hear that little girl's voice, answering the question of what she wants to be when she grows up with a very self-assured "An English Teacher" and she doesn't sound so foolish. Because she must have seen something within herself that the grumpy teenager somehow missed.
That kid wasn't exactly right. She was close enough though, and it makes me wonder. I may not have known what I wanted to be, but I always knew I wanted to help others, to spread knowledge, to share. Perhaps we shouldn't be asking children what they want to be when they grow up. I'm a legal secretary who writes and edits in whatever time she can scrounge up and that's far from what I imagined. Perhaps we'd be better off asking who they want to be when they grow up. That, at least, lends them a greater chance of landing far closer to the mark.
When I Grow Up
"What do you want to be when you grow up?" We're all asked a few hundred times throughout our childhood. And I realized that now that I'm, at least technically, "grown up," nobody asks me what I want to be anymore. It's an interesting thing that we're all asked about our future vocation when we're far too young to do much about it or to even know ourselves well enough to know what we want. And when do we lose that? When do we start to know ourselves well enough to know what we want for the rest of our lives? What's the imaginary age that we decide what we're capable of?


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These are some photos from M's camera that we took way back in April but completely forgot about in all the excitement. A part of the Imperial Palace was open for the first time in 70-odd years so we went along to have a look, saw the queues, and went to the East Garden instead, which was probably just as nice anyway.
There were some gorgeous cherry blossoms out in full bloom:
As well as many other kinds of wildflowers. It's a great place for a lunch.
There was also this guy:


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Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration: A Research Agenda
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) techniques that aim to remove and sequester excess carbon from the atmosphere have been identified as an important part of the portfolio of responses to climate change. These approaches have been garnering new attention as the international community has identified lower thresholds for global temperature increases, which can only be accomplished with net negative carbon emissions to the atmosphere. However, many of these CDR technologies are not yet viable in terms of cost and scalability, and any potential risks that deployment of these techniques would entail are not fully understood. This study aims to develop a detailed research and development agenda needed to assess the benefits, risks, and sustainable scale potential for carbon dioxide removal and sequestration approaches; and increase their commercial viability.
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Statement of Task
An ad hoc committee will conduct a study to:
- Identify the most urgent unanswered scientific and technical questions needed to:
- assess the benefits, risks, and sustainable scale potential for carbon dioxide removal and sequestration approaches in terrestrial and coastal environments; and
- increase the commercial viability of carbon dioxide removal and sequestration;
- Define the essential components of a research and development program and specific tasks required to answer these questions;
- Estimate the costs and potential impacts of such a research and development program to the extent possible in the timeframe of the study.
- Recommend ways to implement such a research and development program.
The list of CDR approaches to be examined would include land and coastal (i.e., tidal wetlands, seagrass meadows, and mangroves) ecosystems management, accelerated weathering, bioenergy with capture, direct air capture, geologic sequestration, and other approaches deemed by the study committee to be of similar viability in terrestrial and coastal environments.
NOTE: The statement of task was slightly edited in September 2017 to clarify that the scope of this study is limited to the assessment of any viable approach in the terrestrial and coastal environments.
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Techniques for Carbon Dioxide Removal and Sequestration
This page is derived from the 2015 National Academies report Climate Intervention: Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration and provides a high-level overview of various approaches to carbon dioxide removal and sequestration, as well as associated estimates for cost and rate of capture and/or sequestration.
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Reports from the Academies are unique, authoritative expert evaluations. Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academies to address a particular statement of task. Committees are balanced to represent various points of view, and committee members are screened for conflict of interest. Committee members serve without pay and deliberate free of outside influence.
Efforts are made to engage the public early on in studies so that all viewpoints are made known to the committee. Watch this website for information about public meetings.
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Rare diseases
But the Department of Health has resolved to make treatment and medicine not so rare at all
By Sara Grace C. Fojas
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At 13 years old, Van Ryan Malud is sitting on a wheelchair. With brittle bones, he is unable to walk. He was diagnosed with osteogenesis imperfecta when he was only one and a half years old. He has lately been undergoing physical therapy and maintenance medications to strengthen his bones.
"He is easily fractured and he is always in pain. Even sneezing can cause his bones to crack," says his mother Aida Malud.
Osteogenesis imperfecta is a genetic disorder of bones that break easily with little or no apparent cause. The disorder is one of the rare diseases that one out of 20,000 children is diagnosed with in the Philippines.
Rare diseases or orphan disorders are a "life-threatening or chronically debilitating diseases, which are of such low prevalence that special combined efforts are needed to address them." They are long-standing, progressive, disabling conditions that require multidisciplinary care. According to the World Health Organization, a disease is considered rare when it affects one person out of 2,000 or fewer. In the Philippines, osteogenesis imperfecta and other rare diseases affect one in 20,000 children.
"Patients afflicted with rare diseases often have their quality of life reduced to taking medications, checkup, and suffering from pain. They are often dependent on other people to attend to their basic needs. They also need lifelong medical care, food supplements, medications, multi-disciplinary therapies to alleviate the symptoms and effects of the disease," says Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Pauline Ubial.
According to the Philippine Society for Orphan Disorders, Inc., there are about 7,000+ rare diseases known worldwide, and only five percent have US FDA-approved treatments. Eighty percent of these rare diseases are caused by faulty genes that anyone can be carrying without their knowledge, 75 percent affect children, and 30 percent die before the age of five.
The lack of understanding of these disorders makes these children at risk of serious consequences due to delay in diagnosis and, sometimes, incorrect diagnosis. These lives are constantly in danger because, even if their conditions are diagnosed, their families cannot afford the high cost of treatment. For the few who may have the means, optimum care is still elusive due to scarcity of available medications and health care facilities equipped to handle these individuals with special needs.
Due to lack of quality healthcare, the victims of rare diseases and their families experience a high level of pain and suffering. To date, PSOD has a registry of 319 individuals with rare disease representing 63 rare disorders. While there are positive advancements throughout Southeast Asia, barriers remain and health systems differ widely across borders.
From Feb. 22 to 28, the Philippines celebrated its 8th National Rare Disease Week, joining hands with the rest of the world in the Rare Disease Day 2017 campaign under the theme "With Research Possibilities are Limitless." In line with this, DOH, in partnership with the University of the Philippines National Institute of Health (UP-NIH), launched the first Philippine rare disease symposium under the theme "Working Together for Better Care" that gathered representatives of the public and private stakeholders to create awareness and understanding of the policy on rare diseases. The symposium brought together different healthcare institutions, local government units, government agencies, civic organizations, volunteer organizations, media, and other private and public institutions to create awareness of and support for Filipinos with rare diseases.
"The symposium envisions strengthening the pathway for collaboration among partners and stakeholders for effective implementation of the national rare disease program. The DOH together with UP NIH will create a system for identification, management, registration of persons with rare disease, including an effective referral system in order to provide them with better access to support treatment, information, and even diagnostics. The technical group will identify the needed drugs, products, and services of this group to ultimately incorporate in the medical assistance or PhilHealth benefits provided to the public. The DOH will also develop the expertise of health professionals in the country in terms of diagnosing, treating, and managing patients with rare diseases. Through the help of information technology, we will also link the most remote parts of the country through tele-medicine and e-health (using telecommunication technology to evaluate, diagnose, and treat patients in remote areas)," says Secretary Ubial.
In the Philippines, Republic Act No. 10747 or the Rare Disease Act of the Philippines was signed into law in March 3, 2016. It seeks to improve the access of patients diagnosed with or suspected to have a rare disease to comprehensive medical care and to timely health information to help them cope with their condition."
"Getting the law passed is just one, the implementation has to include the treatment of the patients," says Dr. Carmencita Padilla, PSOD founding chairman. "That is why we have to address it and work for this rare disease act, which includes a comprehensive program for the patients. The biggest challenge is getting both the government and private sector to cover all needs of the patients. It spans from birth, screening, treatment, education, to getting a job."
Dr. Padilla advises mothers to let their children undergo newborn screening as the first step in diagnosing a rare disease. The screening, however, cannot detect all the diseases. Some can be diagnosed by the pediatrician while they are growing up that's why regular checkup is still really essential.
"We need a huge educational campaign because we have to reach out not only to doctors, not only to specialists, pediatricians, midwives, and nurses, and other experts because there may be a patient out in the community who can be diagnosed. Right now, we have the continuity clinic as the starting point. We have very few specialists and we are very fortunate that the secretary of health is very supportive of tele-medicine. We can treat any patient in any part of the country through these projects," says Dr. Padilla.
The DOH secretary, on the other hand, plans to establish a screening or child development center in every regional hospital so that people need not go to Manila to get diagnosed and get treated. "What we're trying to do is to establish these facilities in the 18 regional hospitals that we have. If there are no specialists in the area, we are working with UP Philippine General Hospital and the other specialty hospitals to bring in the specialists at least once a month, depending on the situation and to use tele-medicine and e-health to provide care patients where there are no specialists. We're trying to develop an infrastructure in the entire country where they don't have to go to Manila to get diagnosed and care," says Secretary Ubial.
According to Dr. Padilla, the Philippines is considered one of the leading groups in the field of rare diseases. Other countries in the Southeast Asia are looking at us on how we'll move forward with our journey with the patients. "Our efforts is not only for our country. Our efforts are also for the other countries in the region. It is just the start of the journey. Learning from the newborn screening story, we feel good about the program. We just have to be patient. We already have an infrastructure, we just need enhancing in training specialists, nutritionists, and dieticians," ends. Dr. Padilla.
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You should listen closely to the lyrics of Operation Ivy songs and be sure you actually agree with them before you go raving about how good they are. I mean its fine if you don't agree, but the message of Op Ivy and other punk rock greats is one of Unity, Humbleness, DIY, and generally good treatment of other people and the environment. I thought for a long time about those things and decided that they were in harmony with the way I currently live and intend to live my life, so I went out and got a Unity tattoo, as an homage to OpIvy, but more importantly their message.
Those beliefs arent for everyone, I know that. And they certainly are not the sentiments of George W Bush. If you really support him, enough to brag about it while simultaniously bashing punk rock ideals (yes, green day holds true to punk ideals, thats a whole nother conversation), I think you REALLY need to think long and hard if this music is really expressing your beliefs. Now if I had to pick between the moral examples set forth by Op Ivy or President Bush, I would certainly chose Op Ivy, and I have, but a lot of people choose the other direction and thats fine, until they lose touch with themselves and fall to the level of belittling others for personal gain.
Alls I'm saying is think about it.
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This Toff — a son of someone who is married into royalty — possibly one of Camilla's offspring — was arguing that we waste far too much of a pig and that we should eat more offal. He went on to demonstrate this by cooking up a variety of disgusting pig-bits and ending up at the dinner table nibbling on what we were told was a pig's anus (I'm just thinking that this is the first and almost certainly the last time I will ever type the words 'pigs anus' . Hang on while I savour the moment…).
Gordon (we're on first name terms — I might even go on his show) mentioned the 'credit crunch' (it's compulsory now on practically every television show — they have to demonstrate that they are socially aware) and how we should eat more offal, as it's cheap. Or something to that effect — I wasn't giving it my full attention, as I was in the middle of trying to move a piano (lost earring).
The thought that came into my cynical little head then was that it's a safe bet to say that the moneybags-anus-eater will not be making a habit of dining out on anything offal-related. Old Ramsey will be giving cooked bums a body-swerve too, no doubt.
No, what I think they were getting at is that the riff-raff should get used to the idea of eating animal body parts that we now think of as unsavoury and not suitable for human consumption. So if the economic situation does go into complete meltdown, our offal-eating will keep us alive, stop us revolting and prevent us from eating the rich.
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Tours of the Flamborough Lighthouse are available, they last approximately 20 minutes.
A lighthouse was first built on the Flamborough Headland in 1669 but was never lit. The current lighthouse was built in 1806 and acts as a waypoint for deep sea vessels and coastal traffic as well as marking the Flamborough Headland for vessels heading for the ports of Scarborough and Bridlington.
The two lighthouses can be found at Flamborough Head. The old 'lighthouse' is set a short distance back from the sea, the 'new' one is built on the cliff edge.
The chalk tower is the only surviving light tower in England; Spurn's Seventeenth lighthouses may have looked like this. It was designed for a brushwood fire to have been burnt on top, although it is unknown whether or not it was ever lit. The octagonal tower has several windows and a ground floor fireplace so it was possible lived in.
It was 130 years before a lighthouse was built on Flamborough. The 'old' lighthouse was built after over 170 ships had been wrecked off the headland in 36 years. In 1925 it was made taller to fit a new 15 foot lens and converted from oil to electricity in 1940.
It has a range of 24 nautical miles and is one of only 72 lighthouses still in use around Britain's coast today. Now it is fully automated.
The Light Tower
Built: 1674
Height: 78ft (24m)
Steps: 98
Made of: Chalk
Commissioned by: Sir John Clayton
Location: Flamborough Headland
Access: Open in summer.
The Lighthouse
Built: 1806
Height: 88ft (27m)
Steps: 119
Made of: Brick
Designed by: Sir Samuel Wyatt
Built by: John Matson of Bridlington
Location: Flamborough Headland
Access: Still in use. Open to public Easter to October.
Disabled access up to Fog Signal Station.
Opening details
Adults: £4.00
Children (up to age 16): £3.00
Family Ticket (2 adults & up to 3 children): £12.00
Additional child added to Family Ticket: £1.00
Senior Citizen: £3.00
Group Bookings (out of hours): £50.00
Please note minimum height restriction of 1.1 metres tall to climb the tower
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- The Lighthouses
- Active Coast
Flamborough Lighthouse
Flamborough Head Heritage Coast,
B1255 Bridlington to Flamborough,
B1255 Bridlington to Flamborough
- On-site light refreshments
- Picnic site
- Children welcome
- Disabled access
- Smoking not allowed
Disabled access up to Fog Signal Station.


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