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Irish Tech News Audio Articles
Minister Lawless signs Associate Membership Agreement on behalf of Ireland with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)

Irish Tech News Audio Articles

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2025 3:50


Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science James Lawless TD has today attended a signing ceremony at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) headquarters to agree Ireland's Associate Membership of the organisation. The Minister's signature signals Ireland's commitment to join the world-leading research organisation and marks an important step in the process of joining. Speaking at the ceremony, Minister Lawless said: "I am delighted to have signed this Associate Membership Agreement with CERN. This represents the culmination of significant work by the Government and CERN, building on the excellence of the Irish physics community. "As an associate member of one of the world's most significant research organisations, Ireland will have an opportunity to gain access to excellent research, innovation, collaboration and industry contracts. "This long-term international commitment to our scientific community will demonstrate the Irish Government's continued and expanding support of Ireland's participation in leading global research collaborations. "I look forward to working with my colleagues in Government and stakeholders over the coming period to finalise Ireland's associate membership status and maximise the opportunities presented by the process." Associate membership of CERN will bring benefits to Ireland across research, industry, skills, science outreach and international relations. It will open doors for Ireland's researchers to participate in CERN's scientific programmes and will make Irish citizens eligible for staff positions and fellowships at CERN. It will also be possible for Irish citizens to access CERN's formal training schemes and develop skills in industry-relevant areas such as electronics, photonics, materials, energy systems and software. Membership will also allow Ireland's enterprises to compete in CERN procurement programmes. Much of CERN's instrumentation and equipment requires the development or exploitation of novel technologies, which spurs enterprise innovation. Many of these technologies have applications in other spheres such as medicine, space, energy and ICT. Today's signing ceremony was opened by the Director of International Relations at CERN, Ms Charlotte Lindberg Warakaulle, followed by some words welcoming Ireland's membership of the organisation from the Director-General of CERN, Dr Fabiola Gianotti. Minister Lawless then signed the Associate Membership Agreement on behalf of Ireland, and Dr Gianotti signed on behalf of CERN. Minister Lawless also had the opportunity to visit the ISOLDE facility, a key experimental infrastructure supporting fundamental research in particle physics and radiobiology. Ireland applied for Associate Membership of CERN in November 2023. Subject to funding requirements and Dáil approval, it is expected that Ireland will complete the accession process this year. More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: https://anchor.fm/irish-tech-news If you'd like to be featured in an upcoming Podcast email us at Simon@IrishTechNews.ie now to discuss. Irish Tech News have a range of services available to help promote your business. Why not drop us a line at Info@IrishTechNews.ie now to find out more about how we can help you reach our audience. You can also find and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.

Do you really know?
Why do web addresses start with www?

Do you really know?

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2024 4:51


You might be surprised to learn that the famous “www” in website addresses didn't originate in Silicon Valley or New York, but at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, known as CERN for short, which is situated on the French-Swiss border close to Geneva.  It was 1989 when British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee came up with the idea for a hypertext system. Essentially, it was a way to connect different pieces of data through links, creating something like a giant web that would work via the internet. Aren't internet and web the same thing?  What about the other parts of a web address then, like https or “.com” at the end? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions! To listen to the last episodes, you can click here: How to protect your art from AI exploitation? What is the internet of senses? What is Web 3.0? A podcast written and realised by Joseph Chance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TopMedTalk
Portrait Mobile, monitoring the unmonitored | TopMedTalk at ESIAC

TopMedTalk

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2023 27:31


Desiree Chappell, Monty Mythen and Andrew Cumpstey sit down with Cory Stahl, Global Marketing Manager at GE Healthcare to talk about “Portrait Mobile”. This piece was recorded while TopMedTalk were at this year's annual conference of The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC); Euroanesthesia 2023. We had a presence there at the GE Healthcare stand. ESAIC is the leading European Organisation for Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Pain and Perioperative Medicine. TopMedTalk is proud to continue to bring you coverage of their annual conference. For more information on the work ESIAC do check out their website here: https://www.esaic.org/event/euroanaesthesia-2023/

Harvey Brownstone Interviews...
Harvey Brownstone Interviews the son of the Legendary Audrey Hepburn, Sean Hepburn Ferrer

Harvey Brownstone Interviews...

Play Episode Play 60 sec Highlight Listen Later Oct 5, 2023 42:30


Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with the son of the Legendary Audrey Hepburn, Sean Hepburn Ferrer About Harvey's guest: Today's guest, Sean Hepburn Ferrer, is the son of one of the most talented, respected, revered and beloved cinematic legends and humanitarians:  Audrey Hepburn.    In classic films like “Roman Holiday”, “Sabrina”, “War and Peace”, “Funny Face”, “Love in the Afternoon”, “The Nun's Story”, “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, “The Children's Hour”, “My Fair Lady”, “Wait Until Dark” and many more, Audrey Hepburn dazzled, inspired and enchanted us.  And she captivated our hearts with her iconic beauty, vulnerability, sincerity and incomparable empathy, which underscored and motivated everything she did.    She received 5 Academy Award nominations and won the Oscar for Best Actress for “Roman Holiday”.  And after her passing, the Academy bestowed the Jean Herscholt Humanitarian Award upon her, posthumously, which our guest accepted on her behalf.   Audrey Hepburn was one of the first people to be an EGOT winner.  She won an Oscar, a Grammy, an Emmy, and 2 Tony Awards.  She also won dozens of other awards including 3 BAFTA Awards and 3 Golden Globe Awards, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award.  And the American Film Institute named her the third greatest female screen legend of all time.   She was the first celebrity to have her own fragrance, called “L'interdit”, created by Givenchy in 1967.   But beyond all of that – beyond her iconic beauty, glamour, fashion sense, elegance and warmth, there was Audrey Hepburn the monumentally generous humanitarian.  She was the truly the walking definition of “the milk of human kindness”.  She never forgot that, immediately after the war, an organization which later became UNICEF, brought food, medicine and clothing to her community in Holland, where she lived as a child during the Nazi occupation.   And so, in the last 6 years of her life, as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, she made numerous trips to the world's most impoverished and war-torn countries, especially in Africa, advocating passionately and tirelessly on behalf of the children being devasted by disease, famine and genocide.  President George Bush Sr. presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her contribution to humanity.  And if you go to the UNICEF Headquarters in New York, you will see a beautiful statue called “The Spirit of Audrey”.   Our guest, who is the son of Audrey Hepburn and the iconic actor, director, producer and writer, Mel Ferrer, has had a successful career in the film industry for many years.  Shortly after his beloved mother passed away in 1993, he and his brother Luca created he Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund, a charity that continues the humanitarian work and honours the legacy of his dear mother.  He's been touring the world with his exhibition, entitled "Intimate Audrey", raising funds for his non-profit organization.   In 2003, he released a wonderfully poignant book entitled, “Audrey Hepburn:  An Elegant Spirit: A Son Remembers”, and all of his royalties went to the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund.  And in 2020, he and his wife Karin, published “Little Audrey's Daydream”, a children's book about his mother's childhood in Nazi-occupied Europe. Proceeds from the book benefit the European Organisation for Rare Diseases. For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/ To see more about Sean Hepburn Ferrer, go to:https://twitter.com/ferrerhepburnhttps://www.instagram.com/seanhepburnferrer/

TopMedTalk
TopMedTalks to Chris Lawman and Peter van Heezik | ESAIC 2023

TopMedTalk

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2023 30:24


TopMedTalk were at this year's annual conference of The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC); Euroanesthesia 2023. ESAIC is the leading European Organisation for Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Pain and Perioperative Medicine. TopMedTalk is proud to continue to bring you coverage of their annual conference. For more information on the work ESIAC do check out their website here https://euroanaesthesia.org/ We previously featured the GE Healthcare portrait mobile launch, as mentioned in this piece, you can hear that here: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/the-portrait-mobile-product-launch-at-the-esaic-topmedtalk Here Desiree Chappell and Monty Mythen pick up a conversation with Chris Lawman Senior Modality Leader for GE Healthcare and Peter van Heezik Anesthesia Digital Leader for GE Healthcare.

TopMedTalk
TopMedTalks to Sean Bennett | TopMedTalk at ESAIC

TopMedTalk

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2023 19:29


This wide ranging conversation starts with a focus on the importance of Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy (NIRS) and echocardiograms, how do we move forward in patient safety while keeping in line with what works in practice? How do we go from thinking we do not need, or even consider, a piece of kit to being ready to postpone surgery without it? What does that journey look like? Here Desiree Chappell, Monty Mythen and Andy Cumpstey speak with their guest Sean Bennet, cardiac anesthetist and intensivist at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. TopMedTalk were at this year's annual conference of The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC); Euroanesthesia 2023. This piece was recorded there at the GE Healthcare stand. ESAIC is the leading European Organisation for Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Pain and Perioperative Medicine. TopMedTalk is proud to continue to bring you coverage of their annual conference. For more information on the work ESIAC do check out their website here: https://www.esaic.org/event/euroanaesthesia-2023/

TopMedTalk
The use of cardiac biomarkers in perioperative risk evaluation | ESAIC 2023

TopMedTalk

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2023 19:41


Here Desiree Chappell and Andy Cumpstey speak with Michelle Chew, Academic Chair and Professor in Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Acute Care at Linköping University Hospital, Sweden and Giovanna Luratibuse, consultant and anesthesiology Professor at the University Hospital Düsseldorf, Germany. For more on this topic - and the check out the guidelines - go to: https://journals.lww.com/ejanaesthesiology/pages/default.aspx Or straight to the guidelines here: https://journals.lww.com/ejanaesthesiology/Fulltext/9900/ESAIC_focused_guideline_for_the_use_of_cardiac.98.aspx?WT.mc_id=HPxADx20100319xMP This piece was recorded while TopMedTalk were at this year's annual conference of The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC); Euroanesthesia 2023. We had a presence there at the GE Healthcare stand. ESAIC is the leading European Organisation for Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Pain and Perioperative Medicine. TopMedTalk is proud to continue to bring you coverage of their annual conference. For more information on the work ESIAC do check out their website here: https://www.esaic.org/event/euroanaesthesia-2023/

TopMedTalk
TopMedTalks to Manfred Blobner | ESAIC 2023

TopMedTalk

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2023 24:02


Desiree Chappell and Andy Cumpstey talk to Manfred Blobner, Professor, Anesthesiology and the Coordinator of the Residency Program at Technische Universität München. TopMedTalk were at this year's annual conference of The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC); Euroanesthesia 2023. This piece was recorded there at the GE Healthcare stand. ESAIC is the leading European Organisation for Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Pain and Perioperative Medicine. TopMedTalk is proud to continue to bring you coverage of their annual conference. For more information on the work ESIAC do check out their website here: https://www.esaic.org/event/euroanaesthesia-2023/

TopMedTalk
TopMedTalks to Rupert Pearse | ESAIC 2023

TopMedTalk

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2023 45:21


Our coverage of Euroanesthesia 2023 continues; The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) is the leading European Organisation for Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Pain and Perioperative Medicine. TopMedTalk is proud to bring you 'as live' coverage of their annual conference. For more information on the work ESIAC do check out their website here https://euroanaesthesia.org/ Desiree Chappell, Monty Mythen and Andy Cumpstey, join Rupert Pearse, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at Queen Mary, University of London. Last year's conversation with our guest gets mentioned in the piece, if you want to check it out go here: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/rupert-pearse-from-the-university-of-london-at-euroanesthesia-2022-topmedtalk We also highly praise the OPtimisation of Peri-operaTive CardIovascular Management to Improve Surgical outcomE II (OPTIMISE II) trial and its website: https://optimiseii.org/  

TopMedTalk
TopMedTalks to Bernd Saugel and Thomas Scheeren | ESAIC 2023

TopMedTalk

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2023 42:17


Our coverage of Euroanesthesia 2023 continues; The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) is the leading European Organisation for Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Pain and Perioperative Medicine. TopMedTalk is proud to bring you 'as live' coverage of their annual conference. For more information on the work ESIAC do check out their website here https://euroanaesthesia.org/ Monty Mythen and Desiree Chappell speak with Thomas Scheeren, Senior Director of Medical Affairs Critial Care and Vascular, Europe, Edwards Lifesciences and Bernd Saugel, Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology, Center of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany about two important pieces of work: "Intraoperative hypotension when using hypotension prediction index software during major noncardiac surgery: a European multicentre prospective observational registry (EU HYPROTECT)" https://www.bjaopen.org/article/S2772-6096(23)00019-9/fulltext -- "Continuous finger-cuff versus intermittent oscillometric arterial pressure monitoring and hypotension during induction of anesthesia and non-cardiac surgery: The DETECT randomized trial" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37265355/ -- Like this, want more? Try these: https://www.topmedtalk.com/euroanaes2019-thomas-scheeren/ https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/bernd-saugel-at-euroanesthesia-2022-topmedtalk    

TopMedTalk
The Future of Intensive Care with Jean-Louis Vincent | ESAIC 2023

TopMedTalk

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2023 28:34


Our coverage of Euroanesthesia 2023 continues; The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) is the leading European Organisation for Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Pain and Perioperative Medicine. TopMedTalk is proud to bring you 'as live' coverage of their annual conference. For more information on the work ESIAC do check out their website here https://euroanaesthesia.org/ This piece features Desiree Chappell, Monty Mythen and Andy Cumpstey in conversation with Jean-Louis Vincent, Professor of intensive care at University of Brussels.

TopMedTalk
Oxygen - too much of a good thing? | ESAIC 2023

TopMedTalk

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2023 40:35


Our coverage of Euroanesthesia 2023 continues; The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) is the leading European Organisation for Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Pain and Perioperative Medicine. TopMedTalk is proud to bring you 'as live' coverage of their annual conference. For more information on the work ESIAC do check out their website here https://euroanaesthesia.org/ This piece is a discussion about oxygen; can you have too much of a good thing? Join Desiree Chappell, Monty Mythen and Andy Cumpstey, NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Anaesthetics & Intensive Care Medicine, Southampton. We mention this paper here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9438193/ And we discuss www.exovent.org

TopMedTalk
The World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists | ESAIC 2023

TopMedTalk

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2023 26:31


Our coverage of Euroanesthesia 2023 continues; The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) is the leading European Organisation for Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Pain and Perioperative Medicine. TopMedTalk is proud to bring you 'as live' coverage of their annual conference. For more information on the work ESIAC do check out their website here https://euroanaesthesia.org/ Here Desiree Chappell, Monty Mythen and Andy Cumpstey speak to Adrian Gelb, Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and Immediate Past President of The World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) and the current president; Wayne Morriss, Clinical Associate Professor, University of Otago, Christchurch and Christian Werner, Chair of Anesthesia at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and WFSA Chair of the Scientific Affairs Committee. We covered The American Society of Anesthesiologists, Global Scholar programme here: https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/the-asa-global-scholars-program-part-1-anesthesiology-2022 https://topmedtalk.libsyn.com/the-asa-global-scholars-program-part-2-anesthesiology-2022 Find out more about the WFSA here: https://wfsahq.org/

TopMedTalk
Hemodynamics and Fluid Management | ESAIC 2023

TopMedTalk

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2023 43:58


Our coverage of Euroanesthesia 2023 continues; The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) is the leading European Organisation for Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Pain and Perioperative Medicine. TopMedTalk is proud to bring you 'as live' coverage of their annual conference. For more information on the work ESIAC do check out their website here https://euroanaesthesia.org/ This piece covers a conversation about hemodynamics and fluid management as Desiree Chappell, Monty Mythen and Andy Cumpstey speak with their guest Marlies Ostermann, Consultant in Critical Care and Nephrology at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.

TopMedTalk
The opening ceremony | ESAIC 2023

TopMedTalk

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2023 10:30


Monty Mythen, Desiree Chappell and Andy Cumpstey talk you through the opening ceremony of Euroanaesthesia 2023. Should we be advocating "supported" rather than "shared" decision making? What does the future hold for anesthesiology? What is the role of trials in intensive care medicine? And, what instrument do you expect to be playing at the start of this piece from Glasgow, Scotland? The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) is the leading European Organisation for Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Pain and Perioperative Medicine. TopMedTalk is proud to bring you 'as live' coverage of their annual conference. For more information on the work ESIAC do check out their website here: www.esaic.org

TopMedTalk
TopMedTalks to Joyce Yeung | ESAIC 2023

TopMedTalk

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2023 25:13


The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) is the leading European Organisation for Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Pain and Perioperative Medicine. TopMedTalk is proud to bring you 'as live' coverage of their annual conference. For more information on the work ESIAC do check out their website here: www.esaic.org This piece features Desiree Chappell, Monty Mythen and Joyce Yeung, Associate Clinical Professor of Anesthesia and critical care, University of Warwick. Our guest kindly shares her Twitter address: @yeung_joyce The UK Perioperative Medicine Clinical Trials Network is here: https://pomctn.org.uk/ The Volatile vs Total intravenous Anaesthesia for major non-cardiac surgery: A pragmatic randomised (VITAL) trial is here: https://www.pomctn.org.uk/VITAL Platform trials for anaesthesia and perioperative medicine: a narrative review is here:  https://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(22)00601-8/fulltext    

Last Week on Earth with Global Arena Research Institute
Chat GPT, Destination Earth & progress of science with Peter Bauer of ECMWF

Last Week on Earth with Global Arena Research Institute

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2023 49:12


We chat today about chat GPT, Destination Earth as well as the changing approach to discovery and the advancement of science and technology. Enjoy, subscribe and share!Destination Earth (DestinE), is an ambitious initiative to create a digital twin – an interactive computer simulation – of our planet to empower climate change adaptation and to prevent environmental degradation.As extreme weather becomes increasingly frequent and changes in climate more pronounced, there is an urgent need to forecast these events with even greater accuracy, to predict their impact on the environment, life and property.Using an unprecedented amount of data, innovative Earth system models and cutting-edge computing, Destination Earth will allow users to explore interactively the different components of the Earth system and natural and human-induced change. They will be able and to look at the past and present and to test and develop future scenarios.ECMWF, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) are the three organisations entrusted by the EU to achieve this unprecedented endeavour for climate, weather and computing sciences.By pushing the limits of computing and climate sciences, DestinE is a cornerstone of the European Commission's efforts to boost Europe's digital capabilities and the Green Deal actions on climate change and to prevent environmental degradation.The first phase of the programme – its initial implementation phase – will be completed by June 2024. It will focus on configuring, deploying and demonstrating the initial infrastructure building blocks that will support Destination Earth in its future phases.Peter's current role at ECMWF (the European center for medium ranged weather forecasting) is as Director of Destination Earth. Destination Earth is an ambitious initiative of the European Commission to develop a highly accurate digital twin, or replica, of Earth to to monitor and predict the interaction between natural phenomena and human activities. Key to predicting the effects and building resilience to climate changePeter had previously founded and led the ECMWF Scalability Programme which addresses the challenges of operating complex Earth system models on future supercomputing facilities.As Head of the Satellite Section, he has been coordinating all scientific and technical activities related to the efficient use of space-borne observations of the atmosphere, oceans, land and the cryosphere.https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-bauer-712677109/https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/what-we-do/environmental-services-and-future-vision/destination-earthhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/odessa-primus/https://www.globari.org/If you want better insights into challenges and decisions you or your business are facing, GARI's analytical services are of unmatched complexity and high accuracy - whether your questions are on the green energy transition, trade and supply chains, or political and security related - contact us for a free consultation and see how you can optimise your decision-making.www.globari.org@LinkedIn @GARInstitute) / Twitter

SSPI
Making Leaders: A Conversation with Chiara Cocchiara, Systems Operations Engineer at EUMETSAT and 2022 Promise Award Recipient

SSPI

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2022 16:41


In this Making Leaders podcast, we hear from Chiara Cocchiara, Systems Operations Engineer for the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT). In her current role at EUMETSAT, she is responsible for operations preparation for future satellite missions with a particular focus on Earth Observation. Chiara manages the mission Reference Operations Plan and Handover Plan to Operations as part of this work. Since joining EUMETSAT, Chiara has held many different roles, each of which gained increased responsibilities over the previous role. She acted as the Launch and Early Operations Phase (LEOP) Service Manager for the launch of Metop-C satellites, a position in which she also needed to cover the work for a missing role in her team. Chiara initiated and led procurement of an improved solution for electronic logbooks for the Mission Control Center by writing up the requirements and analyzing the proposals from external contractors to determine the best fit technically and financially. She also wrote the requirements and oversaw development and implementation of the newest User Notification System at EUMETSAT. Chiara has a Master of Science degree in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the Università di Bologna, a Master of Business Administration from the Rome Business School and is a graduate of the Space Economy Academy, and she is currently working on her PhD in Space Economy at the University of Palmero. She received a Promise Award from SSPI in 2022. Learn more about Chiara.

TBS eFM This Morning
1208 [News Focus 1] EU Plastic Waste Law

TBS eFM This Morning

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2022 11:08


Guest: Francesca Stevens, Secretary General at The European Organisation for Packaging and the Environment aisblSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Faces of Digital Health
Cancer Series Ep. 4: Cancer is Gone, What Happens Next?

Faces of Digital Health

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2022 32:09


We are in the middle of a series of discussions related to cancer care, treatment improvements, data management in oncology, and the promise of AI to find the right treatment for the right patient in the fastest possible manner. As mentioned by Xose M. Fernandez, a genomicist and former chief data officer at Institute Curie, a faster diagnosis could lead to less aggressive treatment and better patient outcomes.  We covered many perspectives so far: accessibility and cost of cancer treatments in the US and Canada in the first episode, genetics, data management, and the science of cancer; we talked about AI treatments and challenges in designing clinical trials in personalized medicine. This episode focuses on the consequences cancer diagnosis has after patients are cured. Many cancer survivors in long-term remission face restricted access to financial services because of their medical history. Some EU countries have already implemented the right to be forgotten - a right for patients not to disclose their medical history. Changes across Europe are happening slowly and given the rising incidence of cancer on the one hand, and scientific advances on the other, we need improvement in the quality of life of patients after they are cured. In this episode, you will hear from dr. Francoise Meunier,  dr. Francoise Meunier,  member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine, former Director General of European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer, and a Scientific Member of the European Cancer Patient Coalition. Subscribe to the newsletter to receive a recap of the whole cancer series: https://fodh.substack.com/ www.facesofdigitalhealth.com Leave a rating or review: lovethepodcast.com/facesofdigitalhealth

Der Große Neustart
Destination Earth: Creating the Planet's Digital Twin

Der Große Neustart

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2022 56:13


Destination Earth is a high precision digital model of the Earth. It is the EU's flagship initiative to create a digital replica of our entire planet. "This replica is a Digital Twin in fact. It's a gigantic task, that requires the world's biggest computing to create the most precise data to tackle climate change.” That's how Dr. Peter Bauer describes this 7 billion Euro project which he heads. It's part of the EU's Green Deal to tackle climate change and it is meant to provide pinpoint evidence-based support to enable Member States to implement the green transformation. Destination Earth aims to provide the complex software and hardware environment needed for the next generation of very high-resolution prediction models. By 2030, it is expected to have been achieved. DestinE Actors: EU Commission, European Space Agency, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts and European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites Peter Bauer talks about: - How Destination Earth can help the planet to heal - first digitally, then in reality - How to improve our understanding of climate change and enable solutions at global, regional and local level - How to predict where to live safely for the next five decades - What Destination Earth has in common with the Metaverse - Obstacles and finances including the impact of the energy crisis

Life Lessons: From Sport and Beyond
Redefining purpose: Bernardo Kastrup

Life Lessons: From Sport and Beyond

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2022 7:59


"Purpose is about aligning yourself with what life wants to do through you"Bernardo Kastrup is a scientist and philosopher who has worked for the European Organisation for nuclear research at CERN, inside the Hadron collider - and who has a PHD in computer engineering as well as a PHD in philosophy. He argues that, instead of thinking of ourselves as separate from life, if we can recognise that that we are a part of life, then that has some profound implications for the way that we live, set goals and find a sense of purpose. Bernardo's the author of a plethora of scientific papers and books – and he argues that the fundamental nature of reality is consciousness, not matter. Full Length Episode: https://www.simonmundie.com/blog/challenging-the-mainstream-model-of-reality-bernardo-katdrup**Follow/message me:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/simonmundie/Twitter https://twitter.com/simonmundieAnd for the 'Mundie on Monday' newsletter - featuring three of the best Life Lessons from three years and 200 of these conversations - head to simonmundie.com (where you can also drop me an email)Please do share this episode with anyone who may benefit, and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts. It makes a big difference and is hugely appreciated. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Die Lage-Podcast des Deutschen BundeswehrVerbandes
EUROMIL: das richtige Bild der Gesellschaft von ihren Soldaten

Die Lage-Podcast des Deutschen BundeswehrVerbandes

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2022 9:09


Sat, 24 Sep 2022 07:30:00 +0000 https://dielagepodcastdbwv.podigee.io/55-euromil-das-richtige-bild-der-gesellschaft-von-ihren-soldaten 2eeeb088d9ee829f70f5d32548e5c129 Im Gespräch mit Oberst a.D. Bernhard Gertz 35 Verbände aus 22 europäischen Ländern gehören der Dachorganisation der europäischen Militärverbände EUROMIL an, der Deutsche BundeswehrVerband ist einer dieser Mitgliedsverbände. In diesen Tagen ist die „European Organisation of Military Associations and Trade“ 50 Jahre alt geworden und hat den runden Geburtstag dort gefeiert, wo am 13. September 1972 die Erfolgsgeschichte von EUROMIL begann: in Bergisch Gladbach. Warum ist EUROMIL weiterhin wichtig? Präsident Emmanuel Jacob beantwortet diese Frage so: „Wir müssen unseren Kampf fortsetzen, wir schulden es uns und all unseren Kameraden in Uniform, wir schulden es auch den Männern, die wenige Kilometer von hier vor 50 Jahren entschieden haben, Bürger in Uniform auf europäischer Ebene zu verteidigen. Wir schulden es allen Männern und Frauen, die ihr Leben hingaben, um ihre Mitbürger, die Demokratie und die Menschenrechte zu verteidigen.“ Und warum ist EUROMIL grundsätzlich wichtig? Oberst a.D. Bernhard Gertz, ehemaliger Präsident von EUROMIL und 15 Jahre Bundesvorsitzender des Deutschen BundeswehrVerbandes, sagt auf die Frage: „Das ist wichtig, weil die Bilder, die sich Gesellschaften in Europa von ihren Soldaten machen, mit Realität gefüllt sein müssen. Und damit sie ein reales Bild erhalten, müssen die Menschen von den Soldaten selbst, aus deren Mund über deren Probleme, über deren Herausforderungen und über deren Erfolge etwas lernen.“ In Bergisch Gladbach sprach Frank Schauka, Redakteur des Verbandsmagazins „Die Bundeswehr“, mit dem studierten Juristen und ehemaligen Oberst der Luftwaffe, Bernhard Gertz, über EUROMIL und einiges mehr im Podcast „Die Lage“. www.dbwv.de full Im Gespräch mit Oberst a.D. Bernhard Gertz no DBwV,Deutscher BundeswehrVerband,Bundeswehr,EUROMIL,Europa,Präsident,Bernhard Gertz,Bergisch-Gladbach,50 Jahre,Jubiläum DBwV

Faces of Digital Health
(TRAILER) The State of the Right To Be Forgotten for Cancer Survivors in Europe (dr. Françoise Meunier)

Faces of Digital Health

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2022 17:31


Many cancer survivors in long-term remission are faced with restricted access to financial services because of their medical history. Some EU countries have already implemented the right to be forgotten - a right for patients to not disclose their medical history. In most countries, the requirement is for the patient to be cancer-free for 10 years, France has changed this time limit to 5 years. Changes across Europe are happening very slowly. The understanding of the problem is poor and needs a lot more awareness. The incidence of cancer is increasing, however, at the same time, treatments are becoming more successful, returning long-lasting health to patients. Due to this scientific advancement, social care and policies should be changed as well.  Dr. Françoise Meunier is Member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine, she was Director General of European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer for 24 years from 1991 to 2015. She is also a Scientific Member of the European Cancer Patient Coalition. She has been advocating for the right to be forgotten for almost 10 years. This is just an excerpt of a broader episode published in autumn 2022.

Taking Stock with Vincent Wall
The Future of Aviation: Exclusive interview with Head of EUROCONTROL

Taking Stock with Vincent Wall

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2020 0:22


Vincent is joined by Eamonn Brennan the Director General of EUROCONTROL the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation. Taking Stock with Vincent Wall on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify.      Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.     You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary | Astronomy, Space & Science News
Cracking the Standard Model of Particle Physics

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary | Astronomy, Space & Science News

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2020 31:11


SpaceTime 20200131 Series 23 Episode 10The astronomy and space science news podcast.Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com/spacetime (mobile friendly). *Intriguing new results could crack the standard model of particle physicsPhysicists at CERN the European Organisation for nuclear research have come up with some intriguing new results which if confirmed by follow up study could crack the standard model of particle physics – the foundation of sciences understanding of the universe. *Dating a Milky Way feeding frenzyA single bright star in the Southern Hemisphere constellation Indus has revealed new insights on the Milky Way galaxy’s cannibalization of the small dwarf galaxy Gaia-Enceladus. *More evidence that asteroid impact killed the dinosaursThere’s been another study showing how asteroid impact rather than volcanic activity caused the mass extinction event 66 million years ago which killed 75 percent of all other life on Earth including the non-avian dinosaurs. *Ariane 5’s first launch for 2020The European Space Agency has carried out its first Ariane 5 launch for the year carrying two telecommunications satellites into geostationary orbit.https://spacetimewithstuartgary.tumblr.com/post/190309723403 *China launches Galaxy 1China has launched a new nano communications satellite. *The Science ReportDamage to the ozone layer may be responsible for half of Arctic warming over the last 50 years.A little bit of good news amongst the ecological disaster of Australia’s mega fires.A link between fish oil supplements in improved sperm counts.Scientists culture the microorganisms from which all complex life might have descended.Have human body temperatures dropped since the 1860s.Fire hosing is the term given to the latest strategy designed to stop intellectual debate on issues. For enhanced Show Notes including photos to accompany this episode, visit: http://www.bitesz.com/spacetimeshownotes Get immediate access to over 175 commercial-free, double episode editions of SpaceTime plus extended interview bonus content. Subscribe via Patreon or Supercast....and share in the rewards. Details at www.patreon.com/spacetimewithstuartgary or if you’re not a fan of Patreon, go to Supercast - https://bitesz.supercast.tech/ RSS feed: https://rss.acast.com/spacetime Email: SpaceTime@bitesz.com To receive the Astronomy Daily Newsletter free, direct to your inbox...just join our mailing list at www.bitesz.com/mailinglist Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/spacetime. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Kompilator
014 - Unittesta ett teleskop med Jakob Sagatowski

Kompilator

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2019 33:54


Sponsor Detta avsnitt är sponsrat av SPP, som just nu söker fullstack-utvecklare med .Net-bakgrund. Veckans gäst Jakob har kodat sen han fick sin första PC (486 DX2-66MHz!) i mitten på 90-talet, och har en förkärlek till att programmera stora (och därigenom oftast dyra) maskiner. Fick sitt första teleskop 1998 och kan nu kombinera sina intressen programmering och astronomi. Jobbar med PLC-programmering av världens största teleskop under konstruktion, ELT (Extremely Large Telescope). Driver bloggen AllTwinCAT och underhåller PLC-enhetstestramverket TcUnit. Länkar AllTwinCat ESO, European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere Extremely Large Telescope TwinCAT TcUnit

Kompilator
014 - Unittesta ett teleskop med Jakob Sagatowski

Kompilator

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2019 33:53


Sponsor Detta avsnitt är sponsrat av SPP, som just nu söker fullstack-utvecklare med .Net-bakgrund. Veckans gäst Jakob har kodat sen han fick sin första PC (486 DX2-66MHz!) i mitten på 90-talet, och har en förkärlek till att programmera stora (och därigenom oftast dyra) maskiner. Fick sitt första teleskop 1998 och kan nu kombinera sina intressen programmering och astronomi. Jobbar med PLC-programmering av världens största teleskop under konstruktion, ELT (Extremely Large Telescope). Driver bloggen AllTwinCAT och underhåller PLC-enhetstestramverket TcUnit. Länkar AllTwinCat ESO, European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere Extremely Large Telescope TwinCAT TcUnit

Cracking Cyber Security Podcast from TEISS
Getting more girls into Cyber Security with Sarah Atkinson, VP at CA Technologies

Cracking Cyber Security Podcast from TEISS

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2018 13:49


On this episode we are commemorating Ada Lovelace Day, which happens on the second Tuesday of every October to celebrate the achievements of women in STEM careers (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), and was created in memory of Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer. However, it’s also at these moments in time when we should take note that women make up just 23 per cent of the stem industries workforce. What’s more, just last week, a leading male scientist presented a talk at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Geneva claiming that “physics was invented and built by men, it’s not by invitation”. Proof that there’s still a way to go to achieve equality in the work place and to change certain attitudes. So what can be done about this? How can we encourage more girls to consider STEM careers? Do organisations need to change the way they recruit? If so, how? To discuss these questions on the podcast we are joined by Sarah Atkinson, Vice President at CA Technologies.

Google Cloud Platform Podcast
ATLAS with Dr. Mario Lassnig

Google Cloud Platform Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2018 25:50


Our guest today is Dr. Mario Lassnig, a software engineer working on the ATLAS Experiment at CERN! Melanie and Mark put on their physics hats as they learn all about what it takes to manage the petabytes of data involved in such a large research project. Dr. Mario Lassnig Dr. Mario Lassnig has been working as a Software Engineer at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) since 2006. Within the ATLAS Experiment, he is responsible for all aspects of its large-scale distributed data, including management, storage, network, and access. He is also one of the principal developers of the Rucio system for scientific data management. In his previous life, he developed mobile navigation software for multi-modal transportation in Vienna at Seibersdorf Research, as well as cryptographic smart-card applications for access control at the University of Klagenfurt. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Klagenfurt, and a doctoral degree in Computer Science from the University of Innsbruck. Cool things of the week The Machines Can Do the Work, a Story of Kubernetes Testing, CI, and Automating the Contributor Experience blog Google Cloud grants $9M in credits for the operation of the Kubernetes project blog Improving job searches for veterans with Google Cloud’s Talent Solution blog Unity For Beginners… From a Beginner blog GCP Podcast Episode 134: Connected Games with Unity and Google Cloud with Brett Bibby and Micah Baker podcast Neural Information Processing Systems Conference site Interview Rucio - Scientific Data Management site CERN site ATLAS site Google Cloud Storage site Google Compute Engine site G Suite site GKE On-Prem site Rucio on GitHub site University of Oslo site University of Innsbruck site Brookhaven National Laboratory site University of Texas at Arlington site Square Kilometer Array site DUNE site LIGO Lab site Scientific Computing with Google Cloud Platform: Experiences from the Trenches in Particle Physics and Earth Sciences video GCP Podcast Episode 122: Project Jupyter with Jessica Forde, Yuvi Panda and Chris Holdgraf podcast Rucio Workshop site ACM/IEEE Supercomputing 2018 site Question of the week I am not familiar with Docker or Kubernetes - where can I get started? Docker Docker’s official “Getting Started” guide Katacoda’s free, interactive Docker course Kubernetes You should totally read this comic and interactive tutorial Katacoda’s free, interactive Kubernetes course Where can you find us next? Melanie will be at Deep Learning Indaba. Mark will be at Tokyo NEXT. We’ll both be at Strange Loop.

WIN 2015
SPECTAlung: improving clinical trial access for patients with thoracic tumours

WIN 2015

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2015 5:24


Dr Jessica Menis and Dr Benjamin Besse Dr Menis (EORTC, Brussels, Belgium) and Dr Besse (Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France) talk to ecancertv at WIN 2015 about SPECTAlung, a new initiative of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer in collaboration with the European Thoracic Oncology Platform that aims to improve clinical trial access for patients with thoracic tumours.

DevOps Days Podcast
2015 - DevOpsDays DC - 19 - Learning from Aviation Safety

DevOps Days Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2015


Recent publications from EUROCONTROL (the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation) provide a concise and accessible way to learn the principles & practices of Systems Thinking for Safety.  This provides a quick way to establish a foundation of fundamental principles and practical advice for organizations adopting Blameless Postmortems as part of their DevOps practices.

ESMO 2014
EORTC and the management of clinical trial data

ESMO 2014

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2015 8:08


ecancer's Gordon McVie talks to Anastassia Negrouk, of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC), at ESMO 2014 on managing data in clinical trials and encouraging more personalised medicine to take place for the progression of cancer care.

ESMO 2014
Financial impact of a cancer diagnosis

ESMO 2014

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2015 5:49


Prof Meunier, Director General of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer, Belgium (EORTC) talks to ecancertv at ESMO 2014 about the financial impacts of cancer and the quality of life issues associated with them.

Antics of Earthbound Astronauts
The Reunion Part I - Geneva, Switzerland to Casablanca, Morocco

Antics of Earthbound Astronauts

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2013


After three contrasting months apart, The Earthbound Astronauts have finally reunited! We’ve only been on the road for five weeks, yet we’ve had the pleasure of traversing through eight distinctly different countries. It’s been an adventure-filled reunion, so this is only Part I of our unpredictable voyage. Don’t blink or you’ll miss it!To listen to the Part I podcast click HERE!Switzerland – Geneva – September 30th– October 1stAfter being apart for three months, we were both enthusiastic to start the next phase of our journey. Meeting in Geneva was convenient for us both as Casey had been travelling with his parents in Switzerland, and Geneva was only a short two-hour train ride away from Lyon, where I had been stationed for the previous two months. We jubilantly met at a prearranged hostel both invigorated by the unknown of the coming months. Casey was excited to be no longer travelling solo, whilst I was ecstatic to be on the move once more. Wanting to celebrate our once again formidable duo, we ventured into Geneva to enjoy a meal. Having been forewarned of the exuberant pricing in Switzerland still did not prepare us for the blatant extortion encountered! Unfortunately for us, pricing was relative to the heightened salaries received in Switzerland, those with heavy financial restraints, such as ourselves, were reduced to the common European travellers meal: a baguette, cheese, salami and a lukewarm beer. Meeting Casey’s parents at The European Organisation for Nuclear Research or ‘CERN’ was a very exciting occasion. We were able to join them both for a tour of CERN and find out about the enormous subterranean particle accelerator and the recently confirmed Higgs Boson, a concept that is still outside my scientific grasp. It was a great event to share with Casey’s dad, David, as he has a great passion for physics, and this facility is at the forefront of research in this area. As we sadly farwelled both Aleysha and David, it marked the true beginning of our journey.A combination of rejuvenating motivation along with Casey’s resent success hitchhiking, spurred us on an adventure to hitchhike from Geneva, Switzerland to Barcelona, Spain. Catching public transport to the Swiss-French border, garnished with our packs, we climbed a small fence leading to the highway, casually strolled across the border checkpoint, placed our packs down for but a second, barely having time to lift the iconic hitchhiker thumb and a car pulled up. Knowing the broad direction we wanted to head in, AKA west, the driver asked us where we’d like to go, we said Lyon (a large city in the general direction of Barcelona), when he said he wasn’t going in that direction we naively insisted that any ride was a good ride, even one that smelt so strongly of cheese… We had a great time chatting to our new Hungarian friend about his new life in France; however, it soon became apparent that we were not heading in the direction we’d initially intended. We ended up in Chamonix, a small town in the shadow of Europe’s tallest mountain, Mont Blanc. Surrounded by snow-capped peaks, luscious forests and typical French buildings, this charming town is what dreams are made of. Contemplating our new situation, we separately had the same idea of travelling into Italy. Astonished at our already distorted plan (a habit we cannot seem to break), we changed our tact and now waited on a highway, not so far away from the Italian border, waiting for our next willing lift. Italy – Genoa & Cinque Terra – October 2nd – October 5th We were eventually picked up by a really nice Italian-speaking Albanian, who was kind enough to drive us past his own small town to Aosta, a town with a main train station. We drove through an incredible part of Italy, with valleys dotted with various castles and villages, which seemed to be untouched by the progressive modernization witnessed in larger cities. Unfortunately, our new friend was unable to speak English, but this gave Casey an opportunity to put his freshly practiced Italian to use. He was incredibly hospitable; he even bought us a beer and refused to let us pay for it! From the train station we headed to Genoa, a port town, where we would enquire about a ferry to Spain.We arrived into Genoa at night with no organised accommodation. Not believing this to be a problem, we were turned away from numerous hotels and hostels either due to unavailability or extravagant prices. We swallowed our pride and stayed at the cheapest we could find, even though it was considerably more then we were expecting to pay. When enquiring as to why there was such a shortage of accommodation, we found out it was due to the famed Genoa annual boat show. What would a trip to Genoa be without going to the fabled boat show! It was amazing to see the yachts that were on show. Casey and I definitely didn’t quite fit the part when it came to prospective cliental, yet we boarded some of the more modest yachts and were still able to dream about potential future travel opportunities.Determining that we had a few days before we were going to board the ferry to Barcelona, we headed to Cinque Terre, a portion of coast on the Italian Riviera. Cinque Terre consists of five distinctively unique villages, all vibrantly coloured. Each village sits in a small cove, with the buildings carefully teetering on the sharp slope of the surrounding tumultuous terrain. It was beautiful to see these still lively villages in an incredibly well preserved and prosperous state. Returning to Genoa after a fleeting visit, we boarded the 20-hour ferry across the Mediterranean to Barcelona. Spain – Barcelona, Tarragona & Granada – October 6th – 12thAs we arrived into Barcelona it was obvious that the city was going to live up to it’s impressive reputation as a culturally rich and vivacious city. Every street or small alley was bustling with life, a combination of luminescent light, erratically scattered boutiques and restaurants, and people eager to enjoy the temperate ambience. Having discovered that a friend from home, Sam, was going to be in Barcelona at the same time, we decided to meet. As Sammy had been in Barcelona for about a week before we arrived, he acted as our pseudo-tour guide, attempting to enlighten us about Gaudi, a famous architect whose eccentric and imaginative buildings have become icons of Barcelona. Shamefully, Casey and I were unaware of Gaudi before our arrival and were naively curious about this ‘Gaudi’ character people continually referred to as if it was common knowledge. As a trio, we trekked up to Montjuïc Castle, where we are able to see the incredible immensity of Barcelona and it’s surrounding satellite towns.Even though Barcelona is well known for pickpockets and petty crime, we had no issues. The only act of theft that we experienced was due to a lapse in our concentration, forgetting to ask the price of mediocre paninis in what seemed like a legitimate panini business, which resulted in blatant daylight robbery! This was a sore moment for us both, especially when we sent Sam into the same shop a day later to enquire about the price, to find out there had been a significant price reduction… Having enjoyed our time with Sammy thus far, we invited him to join us through the remained of Spain and into Morocco. Even though there had been a slight ‘salting of game’ whilst we partook in the infamous Catalan nightlife, Sam whimsically decided to joined us. We headed to the historical beach town, Tarragona, to see Margherita, a friend of Casey’s from his exchange to Italy eight years earlier. Tarragona is primarily a student town and Margherita, who was there on the Erasmus study exchange program, was kind enough to accommodate us for the night and expose us to the energetic nightlife of an Erasmus student on exchange. This was but a brief visit to Tarragona as we were eager to arrive in Morocco. Finding it difficult to plan a direct route to a port town where we could board a ferry headed for Tangiers, we organised an overnight train to Granada through Valencia, where we had the pleasure of waiting until the early hours of the morning for our connecting train.Arriving in Granada with no idea about the city, we walked around attempting to find accommodation, which, again, was quite an ordeal. Eventually, we found a nice pension run by a very friendly elderly non-English-speaking lady we fondly nicknamed ‘Nonna’. The room was barely big enough for one person, let alone three, and this was before Sammy decided to covert the room into a Chinese laundry. Granada was quite an old town, and we had arrived (unbeknown to us) on National Day. This explained the lack of accommodation and the continuous parades consisting of marching bands and officials garnished with lavish medals and medallions. Granada was the point where we started to notice influences from North Africa. The main area of Granada was full of exotic stalls selling spices, clothes and various other memorabilia. Again, we were only in Granada for a night as we were attempting to arrive in a port town the following day and make our way to Morocco. We awoke the following morning marginally later then anticipated, which raised the anxiety levels slightly. Whose fault this was is an ongoing argument… However, we were able to board a train to Algeciras where we boarded a late, and somewhat delayed, ferry headed to Tangiers, Morocco. After about three and a half months we fondly said goodbye to Europe and were excited for the next stage of our journey, North Africa and the Middle East.Morocco – Tangiers, Fes, Marrakech & Casablanca – October 13th – October 21stThe ferry across the Strait of Gibraltar was a swift yet symbolic passage from one continent to the next. As we left the Tangiers port terminal we were asked if we wanted buses or taxis into the city. However, we had done some research earlier and determined that a reasonable hostel was within walking distance and refused all offers. We started walking down a highway parallel to the port for what seemed like an immense distance before we started to question our whereabouts. It turned out that we had arrived into the second port of Tangiers, approximately 50 kilometres from the actual city. We swallowed our pride and returned to the port to enquire about catching a bus to the amusement of a collection of drivers that had offered us lifts earlier. It was nearing midnight as we arrived in Tangiers so we decided to stay in a quite reasonably priced four-star spa resort hotel. This luxury was quite a change from the accommodation we were accustomed. We had not intended on spending much time in Tangiers as we’d heard it was predominately a port town where Moroccans head to indulge themselves in taboo or illegal activities, so we decided to head to Fes.Boarding the train to Fes was an experience in itself. We boarded an already crowded train with our large bags, the only remaining space was located next to the rancid bathroom at the end of the carriage, and this was filling fast. As we gathered in this confined space, we realised that standing for six hours in the sweltering heat was going to present us with another ‘unique’ experience. Obviously realising that the train was at capacity, they decided to add some additional carriages, and we were luckily able to secure a compartment before it too become obscenely crowded. Fes turned out to be what we imagined an incredibly authentic Moroccan city would be like. We had booked a hostel within the medina, the old town enclosed within a medieval fortification. Within the medina, buildings were all constructed using the same yellowish clay into simple rectangular structures arbitrarily mounted upon one another. The small streets and alleyways were almost impossible to navigate as they unpredictably wound around and through buildings with smaller capillary streets branching of into small squares or to other indistinguishable locations. It turned out the train had been so crowded because people were returning home for an Islamic holiday, which became evident by the heightened activity within the medina. We were witness to donkeys hauling peculiar products into the labyrinth of the medina, sheep being delivered to a multitude of butchers and continuously directed to illusive tanneries. Seeing a sheep being delivered on the back of a donkey is an unusual sight at the best of times. Fes was also an interesting location as Sam and I were unlucky enough to encounter bed bugs, our first and incredibly unpleasant encounter with these brutal parasites. Casey was smugly impressed he avoided these macroscopic terrors, yet a few days later, to Sam and my enjoyment, a few bites did appear.After we’d visited Fes, we headed to Marrakech, much more of a tourist-centric city, which did partially subtract from the appeal; however, the city was still an amazing spectacle. The highlight of Marrakech is a large market place that has numerous performances, snake charmers, orange juice stalls and restaurants. At night, the market was flooded by lights and truly came to life as people bustled between all the interesting performances, most of which seemed to involve men dressed as women… I, unfortunately, was slightly unwell during our time in Marrakech and didn’t have the pleasure of visiting some ancient tombs and a castle, but Casey and Sam visited the sights and raved about the intricacies and the impressive atmosphere of the structures. Preparing to leave Morocco, we headed to Casablanca where Casey and I were going to catch our flight to Jordan and Sam was going to fly to Paris. Casablanca seemed like a very plain city, so we were glad we had not afforded it too much of our limited time. We headed to the Casablanca airport, said our goodbyes to Sam who we’d greatly enjoyed travelling with for just over two weeks, and boarded our plan to Amman, Jordan. We did get to enjoy a stopover night in Cairo airport that resulted in us both passing out at a table just outside of our boarding gate while we waited for a flight to Tunisia to board. An interesting image: Two westerners sleeping quite ungracefully at a table as a large group of Tunisians board their flight, many of them impressively carrying their possessions on their head…And that is the end of The Reunion Part I! It is difficult to believe that this all happened within the space of three weeks. I’ll leave you with a quote by Ernest Hemingway that has helped me keep things in perspective, “Never mistake motion for action”. As we continue to travel I reflect upon everything we have done and everything we hope to do both while travelling and beyond. The Reunion Part II is only a few days away, so keep your eyes open and as always, keep posted.

Information Pioneers
Information Pioneers Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Information Pioneers

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2010 5:10


Geneva, 1980s. Based at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee was suffering from a case of information overload at work. Desperately trying to co-ordinate a mass of research and data from incompatible computer systems around the globe, Berners-Lee figured there must be a better way to do things. So he set about creating a space where any piece of information could be linked to any other piece of information out in the world. To do this he joined two separate ideas that had been knocking about for some time - hypertext and the internet - and he created the World Wide Web. He gave his invention to us, the public, for free and, after a cautious start, we all leapt on board to create the huge collective brain that we now use daily. Imagine a world without the world wide web. You can't, can you?

Information Pioneers
Information Pioneers - Tim Berners-Lee Shooting Script

Information Pioneers

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2010


Geneva, 1980s. Based at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee was suffering from a case of information overload at work. Desperately trying to coordinate a mass of research and data from incompatible computer systems around the globe, Berners-Lee figured there must be a better way to do things. So he set about creating a space where any piece of information could be linked to any other piece of information out in the world. To do this he joined two separate ideas that had been knocking about for some time - hypertext and the internet - and he created the World Wide Web.

Medizin - Open Access LMU - Teil 16/22
Spezielle Therapiesituationen beim metastasierten kolorektalen Karzinom

Medizin - Open Access LMU - Teil 16/22

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2010


Specific Treatment Situations in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer As far as the management of primary resectable liver metastases is concerned, three approaches are currently competing with each other: surgery alone, surgery with pre- and postoperative chemotherapy, and surgery with postoperative chemotherapy alone. The core of the argument for pre- and postoperative chemotherapy in these patients is the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) 40983 study, which concluded that, in comparison with surgery alone, perioperative chemotherapy improved the 3-year progression-free survival (PFS) by 7 months. In contrast to this, there are two smaller studies - at a somewhat lower strength of evidence - indicating that adjuvant chemotherapy extends PFS by 9.1 months compared with surgery alone. In Germany, the adjuvant approach continues to be favored in many places; this can also be seen in the formulation of the S3 guideline. In patients with unresectable liver metastases - with the associated difficulty of classification due to the lack of clear and definitive criteria preoperative systemic therapy to induce `conversion' is indicated, in order to allow secondary resection. In KRAS wild-type tumors, high response rates ( in terms of a reduction in size of the metastases, such as according to RECIST ( Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors)) and a high conversion rate are achieved using a cetuximab/chemotherapy combination. Triple chemotherapy combinations with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), oxaliplatin and irinotecan also produce high response rates. Bevacizumab/chemotherapy combinations have led to a high number of complete and partial pathohistological remissions in phase II studies; these seem to correlate with long survival times. In the absence of long-term survival data, it therefore seems to remain unclear as to what is the best parameter to use in order to assess the success of preoperative treatment. Lung metastases, too, or local peritoneal carcinomatosis can nowadays be operated on in selected patients with a good prospect of long-term remission or even cure. The surgery should, however, generally only be carried out in experienced centers, especially in the case of peritoneal carcinomatosis. For synchronous metastasization, the appropriate management depends on the size and extent of liver metastases and of the primary tumor. Small, peripherally lying and safely resectable liver metastases can be removed before or at the same time as the primary tumor, especially if a hemicolectomy is being carried out. If the metastases are unresectable and there is no bleeding or stenosis, the primary tumor can also be left in situ and systemic chemotherapy can be carried out first. However, it should be borne in mind that, according to current data, palliative resection of the primary tumor combined with systemic therapy leads to longer overall survival than does chemotherapy alone. Whether resection or chemotherapy should be done first therefore depends on the patient's clinical situation.