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Is Fruit Fiber Superior Than Vegetable Fiber For Heart? By Ng Peng Hock As we all know, fiber is good at lowering blood cholesterol, which will in turn reduce the risk of heart disease. Fiber can be found in most fruits and vegetables.A study released in 2004, however, found that not all fiber is created equal, and not all may offer equal protection for heart disease. Only dietary fiber from cereals and fruits, but not vegetables, appeared to reduce the risk of heart disease.The researchers pooled the results of 10 studies conducted in the United States and Europe, containing data on more than 330,000 men and women. They found that every increase in total fiber intake of 10 g a day translated into a drop of 14 percent in the risk of developing heart disease within the next 6 to 10 years. Nevertheless, only fiber from fruits and whole grains appeared to do this, while fiber from vegetables had no influence on heart health.The researchers could not find out why there was nothing at all for vegetable fiber, although they do agree that fiber from certain vegetables may still reduce the risk of heart disease. The possible reason might be people do not eat enough high-quality vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, spinach
and fresh peppers. On the contrary, most people choose to eat potatoes and other forms of starchy vegetables like peas and corn. In fact, people who do not opt for starchy vegetables and choose green and leafy vegetables that are fresh or frozen rather than overly processed, may see some heart-healthy benefits. Just for comparison, a medium-sized apple contains about 3 g of fiber; a slice of whole wheat bread contains 1.5 g; whereas a stalk of broccoli contains about 2.7 g.It is suggested that at least 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day to help prevent heart disease. Eating at least 50 g of soluble fiber found in fruits and vegetables a day can help lower insulin levels for diabetes, according to researchers at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. The recommended fruits are orange fruits like cantaloupes, papaya, mangoes, and oranges. Vegetables such as broccoli, okra, artichokes, and kohlrabi are also good sources of fiber. Soluble fiber can be found in beans and grains like oats.In conclusion, fiber from vegetables does contribute to the benefit of reducing risk of heart disease, as what the fiber from fruits do. The important thing here is you must select and eat the appropriate kinds of vegetables. Moreover, the way you eat the vegetables also play a role.
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Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones gave a vote of confidence to defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin on Tuesday, one day after the Dallas defense was obliterated in a 45-28 loss to the Chicago Bears.
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The team from the U.N. Development Program will analyze the project and the government environmental reports of the potential environmental, social and economic effects of the Loma Miranda project. The analysis is expected to take up to six months and the results will be made public.
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Xstrata Nickel, based in Toronto, Canada, has applied for permits to begin mining in 2016 on (3,400 acres) 1,380 hectares near Bonao, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) north of Santo Domingo in the center of the Caribbean country. The project would extend the life of the company's nearby Falcondo mine and processing facility, which produces ferro-nickel used to manufacture stainless steel.
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Dominican officials have supported an expansion of mining in the country but the project has run into opposition.
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I'm planning on getting a Z77 motherboard when Ivy Bridge chips come out, so I'm currently planning my setup. I have a case with fans and water cooling waiting. I have 5 fans and 1 pump that all have 3-pin power connectors, but all new motherboards seem to have PWM/4-pin fan headers.
I was wondering if there is any way for me to control all these devices through those headers since my fans/pump don't have the 4th pin for PWM control. Will they run full speed the whole time? If so, is there an adapter I can get to fix this? I'd rather not have to get a fan controller with dials to control manually. I'd really like the motherboard to be able to adjust the fans either automatically or manually through software or at least the BIOS.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Perhaps a better way of asking is: Are new motherboards with PWM fan headers still able to control a 3-pin fan through voltage?
nandeth wrote: Are new motherboards with PWM fan headers still able to control a 3-pin fan through voltage? Not well. The MB's I've worked with like to have all 3-pin (voltage control) or all 4-pin (PWM control) fans. Mixing the two would require that each fan be individually identified as 3-pin or 4-pin. I don't believe that any MB manufacturer has implemented this. Why care? Just get 4-pin fans for the system. So you have to replace 2-4 fans. Considering the cost of the rest of the system, this is a rather small expense. Also, 4-pin fans can reliably run quieter than similarly rated 3-pin fans, because 4-pin allows a wider operating range. |
I on the other hand has only seen motherboards which if it at all has a 4-pin pwm-header it is fully compatible with standard 3-pin fans and autodetected as either. I have only used MSI or Gigabyte motherboards with any 4-pin headers though. But the implementation has been identical.
Keep in mind it's manufacturer and even model-specific... some makers do a great job with fan control across lots of boards, others only do a few... and others not at all.
My Asus P8P67 Deluxe is one board that implements fan control semi-well and semi-poorly.
It has 5 fan headers: CPU = PWM only CHA1 = PWM and voltage based control CHA2 = linked to CHA1, voltage only PWR1 = no control PWR2 = no control It's a mess and thankfully the new boards have more independently controlled dual mode headers. At least Asus Fan Xpert 2 is decent software. |
whoami wrote: PWR1 = no control PWR2 = no control It's a mess and thankfully the new boards have more independently controlled dual mode headers. At least Asus Fan Xpert 2 is decent software. So that board has Fan Xpert 2 software, with 2 headers that can't control anything?? |
Fan Xpert 2 is a very recent release that officially shipped with the Asus Z77 boards. It works with older boards though. My board came with Fan Xpert+ even though it was only ever able to control two sets of headers and both only based off CPU temps.
The Sabertooth boards have the best fan control. The new Z77 version has 2 CPU headers and 4 independent AUX headers that can be controlled off of more than a half dozen temp sensors. |
Yeah those new ASUS boards look awesome, do we know if they do voltage control or just PWM?
CPU1 is likely PWM only...not entirely sure about CPU2. The other headers should be PWM and voltage controlled.
Your pump should be connected via molex or straight to the wall, sure as hell not 3 or 4-pin fan header.
There is no replacement for a good fanbus, which is a pretty pathetic comment on motherboard fan control when you think about it. Get a good $60 bus from Lamptron that handles 18 to 30w per channel, daisy chain 6 fans to a single knob, dial it in at the desired noise level, and you really shouldn't need to fiddle with it barring large ambient temp changes. |
Matrices wrote: Your pump should be connected via molex or straight to the wall, sure as hell not 3 or 4-pin fan header. It probably has a 3-pin connector with a single RPM sense wire attached. Or if it's a PWM controlled DDC it might have a 4-pin connector with the PWM and RPM sense wires attached. |


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This book essentially argues for the importance of word frequency as a factor in the analysis and explanation of language structure. In other words, the roles of words and other linguistic phenomena such as morphology, phonology, and syntax are highly influenced by low, medium, or high frequency with which they occur. The book includes three decades of influential research in one thematic source. It provides an introductory overview that traces the development of thinking on this important subject. The discussion covers word frequency in lexical diffusion, morphophonemics, lexical and morpholo ... More
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Where Are We Going?
Obama's squeaker victory lacks popular mandate
The celebration and grieving for both the Democrats and Republicans have begun to subside. However, the Monday morning quarterbacking continues as political pundits drone on about lessons learned. Some will observe that after months of political battling, we look to be pretty much right where we were before it started. That is, a very deeply divided country and government. If America was a pie, most of the crust looks blue and most of the pie looks red. Clearly there was no victory mandate or crushing defeat.
If you believe the early vote count information (even though some states are still counting) about 120 million Americans voted. The gross difference of votes received between Obama and Romney using this number is roughly 3.6 million. This means that if 1.8 million of the total number that voted had picked Romney instead of Obama, it's a statistical tie in the popular vote. That small change in the number of switched votes is about 1.5% of the total.
It's the popular vote, not the Electoral College, that paints a picture of how divided America is. Regardless of who would have won the election, over 60 million citizens would not have picked the winner. How much joy in winning is there when, as the president, you look out across the country and see that almost half the voters don't want you? When you win by the skin of your teeth, it is hardly a vote of confidence.
The messages from both campaigns could be seen as true. One side said we're heading in the right direction and let's not quit now. The other side said Washington has failed us and we need a new beginning. Prior to voting, in almost every poll taken, a majority said that America was not heading in the right direction. Yet many of those people chose to stick with a president taking us in that wrong direction. Go figure.
Perhaps what will define President Obama's second term most of all is what lessons he takes from the narrowness of his victory and what lessons Republicans draw from defeat. Recent history tells us that second terms are not always kind or what a president really wants to be remembered for.
Recently Doyle McManus, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times said: "There is plenty that goes wrong in second terms. The soaring ideas and idealism that brought a president victory the first time yield to narrower, more experienced calculations of what he can achieve in practice the second time around. The aides who helped him succeed move on to other jobs and their successors in the second term often look like the B-team. A second term president is a lame duck from election day on. If Congress didn't fear him much before, it will soon fear him even less."
Sometimes second terms can be when the disasters on presidents occur. Nixon had Watergate, Clinton had Monica, Reagan had Iran Contra, and Bush had the economic collapse.
Some past presidents had, by their overwhelming popular and Electoral College results, clear mandates. And those in Congress knew this. Reagan used this masterfully. When he couldn't get Congress to move on his policies, he went straight to the American people and the airways. He knew that the voters that put him in the White House were the same voters who sent men and women to Congress. Americans may have liked their Congressman, but they wanted Reagan to run the country.
Obama doesn't have that. In 2008 he won 28 states and 53% of the popular vote. This year he likely won 26 states and a near tie in the popular vote. And with so much vote counting still going on and with the margin of difference so close, Romney could win the popular vote.
We are taught from our earliest age that in any kind of public, private, sporting, academic, or business venture, the one who comes out on top with the best grade or best score or best time or best results is actually the winner. Only in American elections can a person who gets the most votes actually turn out to be the loser. Try explaining that to your children.
The strategy used in this election was one of dividing the country. You had large groups who thought the purpose of the election was to thank Obama for what he had done for them in the past. Their vote was kind of a thank you gift. Then you had those who said it's not about the past, it's about the future. And Obama doesn't have enough of a past record of success to put our future into his hands. Some were voting backward and some were voting forward.
As Americans, we're a funny lot when it comes to picking presidents. We like glamour stars like Kennedy or movie stars like Reagan or rising stars like Clinton. But we don't like old guys or rich guys, at least not for very long. On the one hand we want someone whom we believe can relate to us because he's like us, but on the other hand we want the novelty president, one we've never had before.
No reasonable person can look at this election and say that there is an overwhelming reaffirmation on what Obama has stood for or done. Nor can it be concluded that the fiscal or social conflicts dividing Americans are either defeated or should be over. Don't count on either of those being the case because, as Americans, we don't like either defeat or surrender on things that matter most to us.
Perhaps the path to a better-run national government is for the federal government to quit trying to do so much with so little for so many. The more the federal government tries to do, the more disagreement and division there will be. We should return to the core functions that the national government, and only the national government, should do: defense, foreign affairs, international trade, monetary policy, and other responsibilities contained in the U.S. Constitution. Let the states be the laboratories of American democracy, ingenuity, and social problem-solving, with solutions coming from the American people at home, not in Washington.
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Plowshares Movement
The Plowshares Movement is an anti-nuclear weapons and (mostly) Christian pacifist movement that advocates active resistance to war. The group often practices a form of symbolic protest that involves the damaging of weapons and military property. The movement gained notoriety in the early 1980s when several members damaged government property and were subsequently convicted. The name plowshares refers to the text of prophet Isaiah who said that weapons shall be beaten into plowshares.[1]
Roman Catholicism has deeply influenced the U.S. Plowshares group. The movement takes its name from the idea of beating swords to ploughshares in the Book of Isaiah:
And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. — Isaiah 2:3-4
On September 9, 1980, Daniel Berrigan, his brother Philip Berrigan, and six others (the "Plowshares Eight") began the Plowshares Movement under the premise of beating swords to ploughshares.[2] They trespassed onto the General Electric Nuclear Missile facility in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, where they damaged nuclear warhead nose cones and poured blood onto documents and files. They were arrested and charged with more than ten different felony and misdemeanor counts.[3] On April 10, 1990, after 10 years of appeals, the Berrigans' group was re-sentenced and paroled for up to 23 and 1/2 months in consideration of time already served in prison.[2] Their legal battle was re-created in Emile de Antonio's 1982 film In the King of Prussia,[4] which starred Martin Sheen and featured appearances by the Plowshares Eight as themselves.[5]
Other actions followed. As of 2000, some 71 such actions happened on several continents,[6] sharing these elements: 1. absolutely nonviolent to people, 2. each actor claimed personal responsibility for her or his actions, never fleeing the scene but rather standing accountable, 3. making some effort, big or small, real or symbolic, to turn swords into plowshares.
There have been several more such actions in the new millennium. Over the years, some of these have resulted in acquittals and the vast majority end in prison time for the actors, the longest of which were those meted out to the 1984 group, the Silo Pruning Hooks (after the Biblical verse admonishing people to turn swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks—both Micah and Isaiah), two of whom earned 18 years in federal prison.[7] The "swords" have included live nuclear weapons, components of the nuclear arsenal, and even armed forces personal field weapons.
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Pouring of blood is a controversial symbolic act[8] to symbolize the recognition of the violence of the government and the potential for people to honor life instead of death in that location. Generally it has been blood that has come from the activist, collected, and carried to the action site for use to symbolically remind other people of the deathly purpose of that institution, system or installation, and simultaneously is praying to reclaim that entity and the people working on it for goodness' sake, for the sake of life-affirming purposes instead of its current purpose. Symbolically it reminds others what the weapons are designed for, and is used to break through the rationalizations that justify weapons of mass destruction.
Plowshares activist Mary Sprunger-Froese explained:
War has been sanitized . . . because we mostly do it through our technology and satellite surveillance. Back when people [fought] hand to hand, you would see the blood and gore and you would see the consequences. Now we're so far removed and we watch war coverage on TV like it's a miniseries. That's so desensitizing, deadening. So when we use blood, it has a very powerful effect. . . . The blood is very real, very arresting, shocking, and in your face. It says, "This is what we're talking about - human life. All this technology is made to destroy it, to spill human blood."[9]
Greg Boertje-Obed, Plowshares activist and ex-army officer, adds:
It's making visible what these weapons are about because many people have a problem with killing but in the military now you just push a button and the killing is distant, removed. That makes it much easier. We've found that the military people are offended when you pour blood on their weapons because they don't like to think of it as a bloody machine. . . . So it's very necessary to try to break through that with a symbol that is shocking. It may not affect people in a positive way but there is the chance that later on, in another moment, people can be affected by it. I met a U.S. marshal who was a fundamentalist Christian and he was especially turned off by the blood. He said that we were wasting the blood and it was a sin. It could have been given to somebody and used to save a life; he was just stuck on it. He could not see that the military weapons are a sin and that nuclear weapons are a crime.[9]
Recent Actions[edit]
On April 30, 2008, three Plowshares activists entered the GCSB Waihopai base near Blenheim, New Zealand and punctured an inflated radome used in the ECHELON signal interception program, causing $1.2 million in damages. In March 2010 the three men stood trial by jury at the District Court in Wellington and were acquitted.[10]
On November 2, 2009, a Plowshares action took place in the U.S. at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, where Trident nuclear weapons are stored or deployed on Trident submarines.[11] These weapons constitute the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the US.[12]
On July 28, 2012, three Plowshares activists, Sister Megan Rice, 82, Greg Boertje-Obed, 57, and Michael Walli, 63, who compose the Transform Now Plowshares movement, breached security at the U.S. Department of Energy's nuclear weapons facility Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, causing the government to temporarily shut down the weapons facility.[13] Once inside a "secure" area, the activists hung protest banners on a uranium storage site, poured human blood and spray-painted the walls with anti-war slogans.[14][15] Following a controversial trial (see CommonDream.org's coverage), the three activists were convicted in early May 2013 on the charges of damaging property in violation of 18 US Code 1363, damaging federal property in excess of $1000 in violation of 18 US Code 1361, and intending to injure, interfere with, or obstruct the national defense of the United States and willful damage of national security premises in violation of 18 US Code 2155.[13] All three are currently jailed without bail, awaiting their sentencing on September 23, 2013.[13] Each is facing up to 35 years in prison.[13]
External links[edit]
- Transform Now Plowshares website
- A Plowshares website
- Photo of the slashed rubber protective dome at Waihopai
See also[edit]
- ^ Deena Guzder (July 9, 2010). "Nuclear swords to God's plowshares". The Washington Post.
- ^ a b A History of Direct Disarmament Actions
- ^ Commonwealth v. Berrigan, 501 A.2d 266, 509 Pa. 118 (1985). [1]
- ^ In the King of Prussia review by Time Out
- ^ Yahoo Movie info
- ^ "THE PLOWSHARES DISARMAMENT CHRONOLOGY". Retrieved September 3, 2012.
- ^ Silo Pruning Hooks
- ^ "Nevada Desert Experience :: Programs :: Non Violence". Retrieved September 3, 2012.
- ^ a b Religion and War Resistance in the Plowshares Movement - Sharon Erickson Nepstad - Google Books. Retrieved September 3, 2012.
- ^ http://www.3news.co.nz/Waihopai-Three-cant-pay-wont-pay/tabid/423/articleID/224223/Default.aspx
- ^ Five Arrested for Breaking Into Navy Base
- ^ Where the Nukes Are
- ^ a b c d Quigley, Fran (2013-05-15). "How the US Turned Three Pacifists into Violent Terrorists". CommonDreams.org. Retrieved 2013-05-18.
- ^ Security stand-down: Government contractor halts all nuclear operations at Y-12
- ^ Oak Ridge uranium plant shut after protesters breach 4 fences, reach building


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When I first saw this helmet I thought cool. Then I saw it was a Bell and thought real cool. I wear glasses and before with my full face helmet I had to pull off my glasses, put on the helmet and then put the glasses back on. With the Revolver helmet I can leave my glasses on by moving the chin guard up and out of the way to put on the helmet. The drop down sun shade works fine with my glasses. I have only had two rides with it; about 30 miles total, but I like it.
I love the dropdown shade and magnetic strap keeper removal of shield is easy also. Graphics top notch and interior is confortable. If buying to wear with glasses though It will not work. I onky wear glasses to work but will be using my old kbc modular for this task since this helmet has no room or slot for frames. Had to point my glasses down towards my eyes and look through them at a 20 or 30 degree angle while they kind of just float there and move around.
I've ridden hundereds of thousands of miles from no helmet to full face. The REVOLVER EVO is no louder than anything else I've ridden. The field of view is great. The windshield and tinted flip down visor have excellent optics and with the breath cup and nose piece removed for summer riding, that little catch as you lift the face up is gone. I love the helmet! Peeking around the inside, it looks like there are reliefs for some speakers above the cheek pads. Perfect! Especially for trips of a few hours! It's the best price for the quality of any modular helmet that I've seen or used yet, this being my 3rd modular. Price is the last thing I look at when I'm saving my melon. How BELL gave us such a helmet for this price is a great value! Thank you BELL... again!!!
The Revolver is my second modular helmet purchase. I bought the Revolver to replace an HJC modular that was unstable, and allowed cold air, and bugs under the chin bar. Nothing like a bee between your face and face shield at highway speed!
The Revolver arrived on time. My first impression of the helmet out of the box was quality. Everything from the operation of the sun shield, vents, and flip up face was smooth and had a quality feel.
On my first ride wearing the Revolver I was very pleased with how stable the helmet is at highway speed. No more buffeting as I had experienced with the HJC. The anti fog coating on the face shield works as advertised. I had no issues with fogging even when waiting at traffic lights with the shield closed. The only negative thing I have to say about the Revolver EVO is the helmet is very loud. The wind noise from the bottom of the helmet is awful. If I pull my shoulders up where they touch the bottom of the helmet it solves the problem. Whisper quiet but is not a comfortable or sustainable position. I use ear plugs with this helmet as the wind noise is so bad. I hope Bell takes another look at the design on the bottom of this helmet. Even with the wind noise I am pleased overall with the Revolver. The helmet is light weight, stable, and has quality features. Just needs a little more attention to the wind noise issue.
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Trials and Truth-Making
In the end, it remains somewhat unclear precisely what approaches to, or conceptions of, science activists would like to promote. Are AIDS activists really just trying to "clean up" science by eliminating "biases" that academic researchers are introducing? Or to supplant "clean science" with something that answers to different epistemological and ethical aspirations? It may be the tension between these conflicting and ambiguously defined goals, more than anything else, that characterizes the activist engagement with the AIDS research effort. The attempt to wrestle with such ambiguities is apparent in activists' views of the randomized clinical trial as a technology for producing knowledge. Generally speaking, activists have rejected a narrow, positivist conception of the clinical trial as a controlled laboratory experiment, pure and simple. But not many of them are prepared to replace the randomized clinical trial with an entirely different method of assessing drugs.[33]
By contrast, in her analysis of controversial cancer trials, Evelleen Richards concludes with a call to curtail our reliance on the randomized clinical trial. Since the notion of a "definitive" clinical trial, she claims, is a myth that primarily serves the interest of professional legitimation, it would be better "to learn to live with the reality of uncertainty" and to introduce political, ethical, and subjective criteria into the evaluation of treatments. This "implies a more prominent role for non-experts, for patients and the public at large, in the processes of assessment and decision making. …"[34] Quite similarly, AIDS activists have emphasized the artifactual and historical character of the clinical trials methodology, and they have placed a spotlight on the perception of the patient as a genuine participant in clinical research and not just the object of study. Yet—perhaps especially as they have become enculturated into the biomedical research process—most AIDS treatment activists share with doctors and researchers a profound investment in the belief that the truth about treatments is, in principle, knowable through some application of the scientific
method. Though many in the AIDS movement have at particular moments argued in favor of tolerating uncertainty as the necessary tradeoff for access to experimental drugs, in the end few activists, and perhaps few people with AIDS or HIV infection, are sanguine about the prospect of "[living] with the reality of uncertainty." This is not surprising, since activists and people with AIDS and HIV are confronted daily by a burning need to know whether given treatments "work" or not. The activist critique of the randomized clinical trial unseats that methodology from the pinnacle on which it is sometimes placed, but it also assumes (I think rightly) a greater role for such trials than analysts such as Richards would recommend.
Just how radical, then, is the critique of science offered by AIDS treatment activists? The question is hard to answer, especially as positions shift over time and vary significantly between individuals and groups. But what sparks the ambivalence between radical and reformist perspectives on science are just these painful ironies that vex efforts to influence clinical practice. On one hand, engagement with clinical research has always been driven by the dictates of expediency and dire need: activists have no time for the leisurely pursuit of truth; they'll settle for today's best guess. Yet on the other hand, treatment activists—particularly the New Yorkers with the Treatment Action Group, but to some extent nearly all of them—have increasingly become believers in science (however understood), and they desperately want clinical trials to generate usable knowledge that can guide medical practice. "My doctors and I make decisions in the dark with every pill I put in my mouth," complains David Barr, and this is not an easy way to live.[35]
Insofar as activists want to rely on the knowledge generated by clinical trials, they must wrestle with the consequences of their own interventions. Do such actions enhance activists' capacity to push clinical research in the directions they choose? Or do activists and researchers alike become subject to the unintended effects of their words and deeds, trapped within evolving systems whose trajectories no one really controls? Here is a worst-case scenario of the spiraling effects of community-based interventions in the construction of belief in antiviral drugs—a caricature sketch, to be sure, but one that combines elements from a number of cases: Drug X performs well in preliminary studies, and a NIAID official is quoted as saying that X is a promising drug. The grassroots treatment publications write that X is the up-and-coming thing; soon everyone in the community wants access to
X, and activists are demanding large, rapid trials to study it. Everyone wants to be in the trial, because they believe that X will help them; but researchers want to conduct the trial in order to determine whether X has any efficacy. Those who cannot get into the trial demand expanded access, while others begin importing X from other countries or manufacturing it in clandestine laboratories. As X becomes more prevalent and emerges as the de facto standard of care, physicians begin to suggest to patients that they get hold of it however they can. Meanwhile, participants in the clinical trial of X who fear they are receiving a placebo or an inferior drug mix and match their pills with those of other participants. When the trial's investigators report potential treatment benefits, activists push for accelerated approval of X, leaving the final determination of X's efficacy to postmarketing studies. But who then wants to sign up for those studies, when everyone now believes that the drug works , since, after all, the FDA has licensed it and any doctor can prescribe it?
In seeking to control this troubling escalation, the recent moves on the part of TAG activists to extricate themselves from the "hype cycle" seem particularly important. "One disturbing but inevitable result of the urgency engendered by the AIDS crisis," wrote Mark Harrington in late 1993, "is that both researchers and community members tend to invest preliminary trials with more significance than they can possibly bear."[36] To the extent that activists can develop a critique of this phenomenon and communicate the relative uncertainty of such trials to the broader public of HIV-infected persons, it may be possible to imagine a clinical trials process that more fully reflects the interests of those who are most in need of answers.[37]
On the other hand, the turn toward positivism in the statements of some TAG members—the emphasis on "rigor," "objectivity," and "rule-following" as the guarantors of success[38] —seems not only inadequate but inconsistent with the goal of not making more of trial results than we ought. As the earlier optimism about finding solutions to AIDS has given way to disappointment or resignation, it is understandable that some activists would find the lure of "good science" vastly preferable to the subordination of scientific judgment to the exigencies of the moment, however profound. The trick, though, is to encourage trials that are both ethical and well designed without reifying the method so as to suggest that such trials will provide degrees of certitude that they simply cannot provide. As Brian Wynne has suggested, the solution cannot be to further the myth that clinical
knowledge-production is a fully rule-bound enterprise. Rather, the only way forward is to open the "black box" of clinical research, expose the uncertainty and the value choices, and then convince people of the considerable importance of participating in such research even after they understand just how messy it truly is and how bounded is the usability of the knowledge produced by it.[39]


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Activities get under way with the Psychic Fair from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday. Local psychics and healers offer their services for 10 to 15 sessions for $10. There will also be mini seminars, craft and food vendors.
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Cool E-M5 and new Nokton images from CP+ (new E-m5 preorders at Amazon germany)
The image on top shows the new E-M5 with the attached ecternal VF-2 viewfinder! I didn't know that this would work! Question: If one day Olympus releases a super new high quality external viewfinder you can use it on your OM camera….will it work on your E-M5? But it will certainly not look that good anymore
Focus Numerique (Click here) posted an image of the new Nokton 17.5mm f/0.95 lens on the new Olympus E-M5 camera. And a size comparison with the 25mm f/0.95 sisther can be seen at DC.watch (Click here). I didn't find any preorder option for the new Nokton 17.5mm lens while the Nokton 25mm f/0.95 is easily available on eBay (Click here).
Olympus offers free grip with OM-D in Uk (via Dpnow). And in germany you can now preorder the E-M5 at Amazon.de (Click here).
Full Updated Preorder list (with Amazon Deutschland):
1) Black E-M5 body at
Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), Warehouse UK (Click here), Redcoon Germany (Click here) and Amazon Japan (Click here).
2) Silver E-M5 body at
Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), Warehouse UK (Click here), Redcoon Germany (Click here), and Amazon Japan (Click here).
3) Black E-M5 body with 14-42mm lens at
Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), Redcoon Germany (Click here), and Amazon Japan (Click here).
4) Black E-M5 body with 12-50mm lens at
Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), Jessops (Click here), Amazon Deutschland (Click here) and Amazon Japan (Click here).
5) Silver E-M5 body with 12-50mm lens at
Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), Jessops (Click here), Amazon Deutschland (Click here) and Amazon Japan (Click here).
6) FL-600R wireless flash at
Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
7) MMF-3 Four Thirds adapter at Amazon (Click here) and Adorama (Click here).
8) HLD-6 power battery holder at
Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and Amazon Japan (Click here).
A DD-sized hump!
Check the price in Germany…1499€…Okay, I might have to order a Panasonic instead:(
Is the price body only or kit lens included? …… if it's just body only …. It is so expensive…… (Hong Kong's selling price is just around EUR875… )
By using the new grip you can rotate the camera by 90 degrees, and use BOTH viewfinders with two eyes This is the promised revolutionary viewfinder : binocular EVF
This is the REAL reason for the HUMP!
About the Voigtlander 17mm "Focus Numérique" said that you have a special ring that gives two mode for the aperture ring : normal with clicks and smooth, developed especially for video
Very nice, but apparently switching isn't very straightforward.
One viewfinder each eye
Still don't get the German pricing. With the 12-50mm lens it's 1299$ but in Germany 1499 EUR???
Yo Dawg! I heard you like viewfinders, so we put a viewfinder on your viewfinder so you can viewfind while you viewfind!
Amazon Japan does not have the 14-42 kit, only the 12-50 kit and body-only, each in black or silver options. The 14-42 kit will not be sold in Japan.
Germany is financing the rest of Europe, so they think they can extort mord money from us?
If I buy one, I certainly won't buy it priced in €.
Then why not come over here next month and buy one at Focus on Imaging at the NEC and pay our inflated prices, though you might get the grip thrown in, if Germany allows it. I remember the MF-1 offer when Olympus were supposedly giving them free if you wrote in and asked, I did and was told not in UK.
One would expect that the Europe is treated like one single sales region. After all, the European sold cameras have all the same warranties, but that's probably also an EU conformity.
Remember when the E-3 was launched, there were two fringes attached, one was the HLD-4 power battery holder (was that for existing E-1 customers only?), and if remember correctly a free backpack for the early adopters. I think that the offer was valid in entire Europe.
So, if the Brit's get a HLD-6 battery grip with their purchase that's fine, and I would expect should be valid in entire Europe, but don't quote me for it. There might be additional conditions, await the text in small fonts…
Here's some of my CP+ m43-related pics from yesterday. Including a split-in-half OM-D.
third picture from bottom (A new, good looking 18-200mm zoom.), can you tell us what brand is it ?
any release date for it ?thanks
Tamron, and it'll be for the Sony and M43 systems.
(it's called the B011)
I am so getting that Voigtlander 17.5mm
You will see my Nokton 25mm f0.95 pretty soon on Ebay.
@admin (or anyone):
What's the release date for it? At least in Japan.-
Camera Quest is accepting pre-orders for the Nokton 17.5mm. It's expected to ship in May. I reserved one, just in case I decide to reallly get one.
So, why would you sell your 25mm? It's such a fantastic lens!
Which of the 17.5 on 25 mm are physically bigger?
Here's the link to Camera Quest http://cameraquest.com/voigt_m43_17.htm Camera Quest is the official US importer, not an Ebay store, and they also do service for Voigtlander products.
Thank you, so the 17.5 is bigger – makes sense, it quite a bit heavier as well with the extra elements and the extra size… Still, the 17.5 may be the perfect all-around lens for me….as the pros seem to outweigh the cons.
Smooth manually focused video
Good 1:4 magnification ratio
Excellent build quality
Great 35 mm focal width for everything from buildings, to objects, to people
f/.95 works in any lighting condition
bokeh to die for
looks like Leica M lens
very good sharpness
excellent colorCons
Manual focus only
I want to sell the Voigtlander 25mm first to absorb the damage and second, to use that extra $$$ on a Pana/Leica 25mm instead (if I still want to go with the 25) This way I'll still
get a fast prime and will also get the AF as a bonus.I'm just really curious to hear reviews about that 17.5. ^^
Amazon Germany – This price is ridiculous.. Its 200 € more than ovp
Check this out …
i like this Features
hey please Check this Video. It Shows all New features!!!
Thanks to this feature, after I have her seen this clip, she gave me the permission to buy this camera! LOL
god damn inpressive, end of this video looks awesome
In finland you can preorder the body for 1099 eur and kit for 1299. I have an order for a black body in. The german price must be a mistake.
Personally I dislike it with the viewfinder on top, seems an extra height.
I hope they have good prices and/or deals for us also poor suffering aussie's . Oh dollar is soo awesome against like EVERYONE. Our dollar been dollar for dollar with $US for almost a year, and it total BS saying shipping when we are like the closest to Japan and China out of the US and Europe. Hmmmm its a bit shitty
Digidirect said $1499
But they often put a place holder price for products not yet available in Oz…
For that extra $500, I'd rather fly Jetstar to Singapore, buy the camera + test shooting and return….
olympus, the price in europe for the new camera, especially in germany, sounds like a joke to us. in us you can get the kit with the 12-50mm for just under 1000 euro. certainly we wont pay 1500, let alone 1300,
without a battery grip pre-order. -
I will wait for prices to cool down. As exciting as the EM-5 is, still there are questions about image quality, camera buffer and the black out during the continuous captures and the PRICE.
I have to be convinced if it is really worth all the hype.
800 Euros for the body and 950 tops with all of the grip is a fair price.
There shouldn't be anymore question on camera buffer or blackout, as one of the hands on videos shows a very long continuous capture string with no blackout. The video's camera was pointed at the back of the EM-5.
Link, please.
The one I saw (can't find the link) in Chinese showed black out and buffer filling up quickly. Possibly, their settings configuration was not appropriate. Naturally, with cameras like the EM-5 that pack a lot of features, it will take a while to figure out the optimal settings.
I stand corrected. I found the link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAbIPoR31ZM), watched again, and at the end of the burst the screen said "no card", so test was pointless. Also, subject matter was stationary, so again, pointless. Who tests a 9fps continuous burst with a stationary subject?
Its nice but I will wait to see what Panasonic will ahve to offer with the upcoming GH3.
I do like the design of the OM though, but I'm not a woman therefore I'm not putting the color or design as a priority with my purchase.-
For those who can wait this is a sensible thing. Panasonic might have something up their sleeves, and if they bring weatherproofing + x new features to the GH3, Oly might have to lower the price sooner than later. However, since Panasonic is sloooow to actually make their products available, I think anyone waiting for these induced price drops may need some patience. Also, it might happen that the GH3 is only an incremental upgrade like the GH2 (especially for still photography).
Panasonic has progressively improved their shipping times with every camera and lens since the GH2 debacle. They took such a beating over that, they'd be crazy not to be better prepared for the GH3. Certainly some improvement could be made, but it's been MUCH better over all.
The GH2 is pretty nice as it is (I have few complaints), but hopefully the GH3 will improve the things that count: wider DR sensor, higher/faster system throughput, hi-res EVF and display, LCD to OLED, add focus peaking and clean up the interface a bit. Some of the stuff Oly put into the EM5 are worth a look, like the live long exposure thing.
It't true…the GX1 became available exactly when Panasonic projected that it would.
Mainline Photographics in Aus are taking pre-orders for the Nokton – http://www.mainlinephoto.com.au/prod432.htm
Overpriced amator camera, fullframe here i come
Yeah, add just about 2000$ to get D800.
I might finally get a d700 the camera of my dreams, i waited too long for oly to deliver
Still unclear to me how to proceed for the free Grip when ordering from UK
this position of the interface makes reason but it is a mistake to place the viewfinder there- even I can understand why. so there alwasy wll be a hump there. but this is not nessesary- watch the NEX 7… sorry guys.
Sorry guy, but you're missing an important point. The NEX 7 doesn't have a 5-axis image stabilization built into the camera body, neither has it a three-axis IBIS like in the PEN!
Olympus made this very important prioritization, which makes the OM-D E-M5 so unique. (Possibly we'll see Ricoh/Pentax add IBIS into their bodies as well, and Samsung would become an APS-C killer, if IBIS will become included!)
Shouldn't you want an integrated EVF, trade it with a flash within the PEN portfolio.
All mirrorless cameras are way overprized, compared to DSLRs which cost the manufactures much more to produce. And yes, that Amazon price for Germany is nothing but ridiculous.
Concerning that external viewfinder on top: sure the camera has the accessory port, so why shouldn't it work? And btw, people who still remember John Foster (see biofos.com) have had the answer to the question why Oly didn't produce internal viewfinders since very long: the reasoning was that you simply cannot replace internal ones with newer and better technique (so they saw their external viewfinders as part of a "modular system", obviously). Makes sense.
Amazon Japan has a GF2 with two lenses for ~$400. If that is overpriced, I don't know what to say.
I was on the fence about the OMD until I found you can have TWO VIEWFINDERS!!!111 This is now a must purchase camera! Thank you OLY!
I am curious. Why you are so excited about having two viewfinders? Because you can reuse the one you already have for those situations where you need a tilting viewfinder? Wouldn't the tilting screen be enough then?
I assume Panasony is being sarcastic. Still, I was just about to sell my E-PM1 and VF-2 to two seperate buyers in anticipation of the OM-D.. but this is giving me pause to sell the VF2. What if they were doing something clever like one VF can be set to magnification for manual focus, while the other shows your full composition. But again, no reason why they couldn't do that in conjunction with the screen. Need more information…
This is Oly's strike for easy manual focus with Nokton and other primes:
- one EVF in black and white for easier manual focussing
- second EFV in color for camera control -
Are you serious, what will you use if for that will need two viewfinders? Or do you just like the extra flexibility?
For the first time, ever, Olympus make a camera that has an EVF while one can use flash. Screw that up with an additional EVF?!
Admin, the new Nokton is available for preorder at Yodobashi Camera and Map Camera in Japan. Yodobashi is always overpriced – it seems the street price will be somewhere around 100,000 yen, which is 30-40% higher than the street price of the 25/0.95.
This is the set-up right here: http://img1.focus-numerique.com/focus/news/3/3090/nokton17surOMD.jpg
Can't wait!!!
In which scenatios do we need two EVFs? I just cannot imagine. The LCS is also able to tilt.
Well I don't think you ever need 2 EVFs, but the point is that it is just a nice little option of having a tilt EVF. Probably only those who already have the VF2 will do it. If you like a viewfinder instead of a screen, it is just a nice bonus.
I like it because I am quite tall and shooting up to my eye can give a funny angle. bending forward a little and looking down into the camera helps.-
Oh…thanks TomR. That might work well for two EVFs.
I was all set to sell my VF-2 today. Now I am so torn… ha ha. Tomorrow's the day I sell my E-PM1, just consider now if I will sell my VF-2 or not. I am a bit like TomR, I often found myself using it tilted up when shooting… but not sure it's enough advantage I would bother attaching it to OM-D to use like that just for the sake of tilting…
Oops! sorry guys
scenatios -> scenarios
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I am quite interested in this little gem. If picture quality and noise levels aren't any worse than that of entry level canon DSLRs, then expect another 550d w/battery grip, 2.8 17-50 tamron, tele zoom, kit lens, nifty fifty and EX430 to be on ebay in a couple of months. The one thing I might really miss is the 2.8 17-50 lens.


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I always feel you should take a day slower than usual but that does not mean not exercise. You can get in a habit of blowing all your hard work from the week. Sunday is that day for me but I still watch my diet and do something fun that burns calories. I will do a Blast Class that includes running...Full Post -
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Many believe that's a good thing: American consumers pay less for the items made in cheap-labor countries, than what they would pay for American made goods. In my mind, we'd be better off if we didn't .
Because we depend on foreign countries for cheap goods, entire industries have left the United States, and we have a current unemployment rate of more than 7.5 per cent, and much worse if you count the people who have left the work force. On the other hand, huge industries have grown in China and the other cheap-labor countries. In essence, we employ their workers over our own.
This has been going on for many years. Politicians berate unemployment, decry the loss of industry, but never do anything effective about it. As with so many problems, the government matches Albert Einstein's famous definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. They have hampered our industries even more: our companies are saddled with the highest corporate taxes in the world, as well as nearly the highest labor cost. (It's hard to obtain comparison figures, but the world's highest labor cost in manufacturing probably goes to Norway or Denmark – socialist countries.)
Perhaps an entirely new approach is needed. I suggest one which most people will dismiss out of hand, unless and until they give it real consideration:
We should block imports of all manufactured goods, including those made overseas by American firms.
I'm not blocking raw materials or specialty foodstuffs. We could still bring in wine from France, and cheese from Switzerland. I'm blocking all manufactured goods.
Think about that for a moment. That would almost terminate international trade, wouldn't it? Is that such a bad idea? The rest of the world would be horrified. America is the largest single market in the world, almost matching the combined countries in the European Union. Our home market is so big, we don't really need to sell to the world outside our borders (my opinion.)
The truth is, we are capable of manufacturing everything we need. We don't need to export goods in order to find places to sell them.
If we blocked all imports, what would this do? Manufactured goods prices would rise, of course, but we would begin to see our own plants manufacturing again. We would see an explosion of new manufacturing and consequently, greatly increased employment in this country. This would help us once again enjoy the most powerful economy on the planet.
I'm not totally evil – I'd give the foreign countries a way to sell their goods within our economy:
Allow foreign companies to form stock corporations, with at least 10% American ownership, in the United States, and allow them to manufacture goods here, providing that no less than 85% of the employees of the firm are U. S. citizens.
This has happened in the auto industry. Honda, Toyotas, and other firms have built plants in the United States, and most of their cars are assembled here. That's good.
However, some American car firms manufacture cars in other countries (such as Mexico*), and essentially import their cars. I'd stop that – my laws would apply to them as well.
This is a radical change, and we'd see negative consequences as well:
We couldn't implement this all at once. There would be a need for a transitional period, allowing time for our manufacturing capabilities to be built up. I suggest increasing tariffs, in several steps, gradually reducing imports and leading up to the final cutoff. A reasonable time might be two years. We could also do it with decreasing goods quotas rather than tariffs.
I haven't seen anyone advocating this idea, but I believe in it, but another interesting idea intended to achieve a balance of trade was advanced by Warren Buffett and others. A bill to implement it was introduced into the Senate, but it never went anywhere. His idea was the Import Certificate. Warren Buffett's idea
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* Note – Ford makes autos and parts in an incredible array of domestic and overseas factories. See Ford factories around the world. So does General Motors: List of GM factories.


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- Coco McCabe blogging from Haiti, January 19, 2010
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In this short interview from January 19, Oxfam Quebec's Yves Gattereau talks with Coco McCabe about the threat of food shortages in Haiti's rural areas. Reports indicate that thousands of urban earthquake survivors from Port-au-Prince have fled to already poor rural communities. "We're going to see how much food … we can provide to them ahead of time," says Gattereau, "so we won't have to intervene in another crisis in the countryside."
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]]>" All people who are professionals in our area, in our organizations…the country has lost a group of key people that could help for development and of course thousands of children, women, men…but mainly women and children are the worst affected. Our people are now sleeping in the street. The government, even people from the international community in Haiti and of course poor people, we are all living outdoors in the streets.
"We are not just talking about the disaster affecting the country's institutions…it affects the government, civil society and the international community.
"Our coordination with the international community is still working. Our concern now is not the size of aid coming to Haiti, it's how to get adequate people and resources to manage it. How to get the aid in place and to manage it. It needs to be done quickly.
"My colleague [incoming country director, Claude St Pierre] was coming to Haiti to replace me and we were trying to ensure a smooth transition. He had just arrived in Haiti that afternoon and came to our office to say hello and to be introduced to staff. Unfortunately, we were in the door of my office saying hello when the earthquake started. We stayed hugging each other for that entire minute. Of course, since I have worked in emergencies, I understood it was an earthquake, but I have never experienced an earthquake of this magnitude."
]]>It had been like this for the last three days, ever since Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, was hit by a devastating earthquake, said my colleague. Whether the inhabitants of the house, surrounded by collapsed buildings and debris, would ever come back was quite another question.
It's estimated that two million people were affected by the massive earthquake that hit the Haitian capital earlier this week. Thousands are thought to have been killed, many were injured and the rest of the city's dazed residents are still reeling from the shock of it all.
Many walk the streets, some barefoot, balancing on their heads bags containing what belongings they could grab before they fled and clutching plastic containers for water. Large numbers are also wearing masks to stop inhaling the thick grey smoke that lingered long after the quake. The masks also offered some protection from the thick stench of dead bodies that lined the streets in the immediate aftermath of the quake and are still turning up wrapped in sheets or pieces of clothing.
It's feared that as many as 100,000 may have been killed in the earthquake while others are still trapped under the debris of collapsed buildings.
Some foreign search and rescue crews who had been working to recover those trapped under wrecked buildings at what was the capital's top hotel, the Montana, told me that cries could still be heard from those buried beneath the rubble across the capital.
Some aid is now getting through to the city. Much of it is coming by truck from the neighboring Dominican Republic. Some supplies have started to be flown in via the capital's airport which was affected by the quake and has reopened for humanitarian flights after several days of closure
The aid agency Oxfam is flying in emergency experts and is starting to distribute water at some of the large makeshift camps that have sprung up at parks and outdoor areas and hospitals.
The needs are enormous as most basic services just aren't functioning. At the best of times, daily life in Haiti for the 80 percent or so of the population who have to live on less than two dollars a day, is a daily struggle.
The impact of the quake has made things even worse.
Haiti needs more than a quick fix of emergency aid. It will be many years before the country can really get back on its feet again and fully recover from this massive shock.
During earthquakes, like the one that rocked the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, water systems, with their extensive network of pipes and pumps, often collapse. Repairs can take time—time that people who depend on that water to stay alive don't have.
Without water, people can't last much beyond three days. That's why Oxfam focuses much of its emergency response on rushing to provide survivors with a safe supply.
With years of experience responding to emergencies around the world, Oxfam's water engineers know how to build temporary systems with speed and efficiency so that people can get the water they need. Oxfam trucks water into remote regions, drills for it through desert floors regions, erects massive storage tanks, hauls in generators, repairs pumps, lays temporary water lines, and hands out plastic buckets so people can tote water back to their homes.
And there's an internationally accepted standard of delivery Oxfam strives to maintain in every crisis. It calls for providing survivors with about four gallons of water per person per day—an amount intended to cover just essential needs.
Here are some of the critical components of an effective emergency water system:
Ensuring that disaster survivors living in camp conditions have safe ways to dispose of waste is crucial to helping them live in a healthy and dignified environment, so creating latrines is a key element of Oxfam's humanitarian programming.
As quickly as possible after an emergency, we begin constructing simple latrines consisting of holes or trenches in the ground surrounded by light structures of poles and plastic sheeting to provide privacy. As soon as we have the time and resources to do it, we add concrete slabs to stand on to make the latrines cleaner and easier to use.
Oxfam also builds bathing facilities that are designed to be safe and private.
Oxfam makes sure that the displaced communities themselves are involved in the construction and maintenance of their sanitation structures, and in order to help ensure that women and girls feel safe using these communal facilities, we take care that women in particular are involved in decision-making about their location, design, and construction.
]]>Whenever an earthquake or hurricane hits, it is the poorest people who face the greatest risks. They often have no choice but to live in substandard housing that is not built to withstand the intensity of a high-magnitude quake or flood. This means poor and marginalized people are often more vulnerable to injury and death. To make matters worse, often those who do survive have the fewest material resources to recover from disasters. While earthquakes and hurricanes cannot be prevented, the fact that poor communities are disproportionately affected is not a natural condition. It is a human-made problem that results from cultural, socio-economic, political, and institutional factors.
Haiti has a painful history of political instability and humanitarian disasters. The country is still recovering from four serious storms that hit within a few weeks of each other in 2008. Hurricanes and earthquakes exacerbate extreme poverty: they damage neglected infrastructure like roads and drinking water systems, and further degrade the environment. The effects of the January 2010 earthquake will be felt long after the initial recovery period. Survivors—making do with limited resources—face years of hard work to recover. However, disaster losses in the short and long term can be substantially reduced by taking measures to decrease peoples' vulnerability and build their resilience in the face of hazardous events, whether it is improving immediate living conditions or addressing all the underlying causes of poverty that contribute to increased suffering at the time of emergencies.
Oxfam has been working in Haiti to create sustainable means of earning a living, help Haitians reduce their vulnerability to disasters, and strengthen and support people's ability to hold their government accountable. These long-term efforts meant that, when the earthquake hit, we already had staff on the ground ready to work with local organizations to respond to the humanitarian crisis.
No country can fully withstand the impact of an earthquake like the one that has rocked Haiti, especially a nation saddled with deep poverty and minimal infrastructure. We know that the communities we work with are strong and determined and will respond to this disaster as they have others. We have a shared responsibility to ensure that Haitians have the resources they need to avoid unnecessary suffering, both now and in the long run.
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