Taking X-Rays Of Women In Corsets Was A Haunting Use Of New Technology

Any tech that allows humans a new type of insight is inevitably turned on ourselves. We want to know what else we can find out from peering in on our bodies or minds in a new way. Of course, x-ray machines were pretty much used from the start for that purpose, but it's amazing to see these 1908 photos examining how a fashion trend was impacting health.

Even with countless anatomical mysteries to image for the first time, the French doctor Ludovic O?Followell chose to look at and write a treatise on the corset, publishing Le Corset in 1908 (x-rays were discovered in 1895). His images reveal how significantly corsets deformed the lower ribs, pushing them into each other in really gross ways. And even though organs don't show up on x-rays, it's pretty clear that the space left for them was inadequate. Even after seeing these, O?Followell just advocated for modified corsets, not getting rid of them all together. Baby steps, people. [The Public Domain Review via Digg]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/taking-x-rays-of-women-in-corsets-was-a-haunting-use-of-550903527

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Snowden in a 'safe place' as U.S. prepares to seek extradition

By Phil Stewart

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Edward Snowden was in a "safe place" in Hong Kong, a newspaper reported on Saturday, as the United States prepared to seek the extradition of the former U.S. National Security Agency contractor after filing espionage charges against him.

The South China Morning Post said Snowden, who has exposed secret U.S. surveillance programs including new details published on Saturday about alleged hacking of Chinese phone companies, was not in police protection in Hong Kong, as had been reported elsewhere.

"Contrary to some reports, the former CIA analyst has not been detained, is not under police protection but is in a 'safe place' in Hong Kong," the newspaper said.

Hong Kong Police Commissioner Andy Tsang declined to comment other than to say Hong Kong would deal with the case in accordance with the law.

Two U.S. sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the United States was preparing to seek Snowden's extradition from Hong Kong, which is part of China but has wide-ranging autonomy, including an independent judiciary.

The United States charged Snowden with theft of government property, unauthorized communication of national defense information and willful communication of classified communications intelligence to an unauthorized person, according to the criminal complaint made public on Friday.

The latter two offenses fall under the U.S. Espionage Act and carry penalties of up to 10 years in prison.

America's use of the Espionage Act against Snowden has fueled debate among legal experts about whether that could complicate his extradition, since Hong Kong courts may choose to shield him.

Snowden says he leaked the details of the classified U.S. surveillance to expose abusive programs that trampled on citizens' rights.

Documents leaked by Snowden revealed that the NSA has access to vast amounts of internet data such as emails, chat rooms and video from large companies such as Facebook and Google, under a government program known as Prism.

They also showed that the government had worked through the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to gather so-called metadata - such as the time, duration and telephone numbers called - on all calls carried by service providers such as Verizon.

On Friday, the Guardian newspaper, citing documents shared by Snowden, said Britain's spy agency GCHQ had tapped fiber-optic cables that carry international phone and internet traffic and is sharing vast quantities of personal information with the NSA. [ID:nL5N0EX3JA]

STEALING DATA

The South China Morning Post said on Saturday that Snowden offered new details on U.S. surveillance activities in China.

The paper said documents and statements by Snowden show the NSA program had hacked major Chinese telecoms companies to access text messages and targeted China's top Tsinghua University.

The NSA program also hacked the Hong Kong headquarters of Pacnet, which has an extensive fiber-optic network, it said.

"The NSA does all kinds of things like hack Chinese cellphone companies to steal all of your SMS data," Snowden was quoted by the Post as saying during a June 12 interview.

President Barack Obama and his intelligence chiefs have vigorously defended the programs, saying they are regulated by law and that Congress was notified. They say the programs have been used to thwart militant plots and do not target Americans' personal lives.

Since making his revelations about massive U.S. surveillance programs, Edward Snowden, 30, has sought legal representation from human rights lawyers as he prepares to fight U.S. attempts to force him home for trial, sources in Hong Kong say.

The United States and Hong Kong signed an extradition treaty in 1998, under which scores of Americans have been sent back home to face trial.

The United States and Hong Kong have "excellent cooperation" and as a result of agreements, "there is an active extradition relationship between Hong Kong and the United States," a U.S. law enforcement official told Reuters.

However, the process can take years, lawyers say, and Snowden's case could be particularly complex.

An Icelandic businessman linked to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said on Thursday he had readied a private plane in China to fly Snowden to Iceland if Iceland's government would grant asylum.

Iceland refused on Friday to say whether it would grant asylum to Snowden.

(Reporting by Phil Stewart; Additional reporting by James Pomfret, Venus Wu and Grace Li in HONG KONG, Tabassum Zakaria and Mark Hosenball in WASHINGTON; Editing by Eric Beech)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-files-espionage-charges-against-snowden-over-leaks-015108216.html

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New poll shows growing Arab trust in regional press

A poll by Northwestern in Qatar, due out tomorrow, shows growing trust in regional news outlets across the Arab world.

By Ariel Zirulnick,?Staff writer / June 17, 2013

Palestinian journalists are seen through a glass window at the offices of the Arabic news channel Al Jazeera in the West Bank city of Ramallah July 2009. Arabs say the quality of their regional media is on the rise, led by Al Jazeera, which is making inroads in the US as its profile soars, a new poll shows.

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Although American trust in media has plummeted according to poll after poll, Arabs say the quality of their regional media is on the rise, led by Al Jazeera, which is making inroads in the US as its profile soars.?

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According to a sweeping Arab world public opinion survey by Northwestern University in Qatar that will be released tomorrow, 61 percent of respondents said that the "quality of reporting in the Arab world" has improved in the last two years. But while regional media basks in goodwill, less than half of respondents (48 percent) consider their own country's media credible and only 43 percent say the media can report without interference.

Twenty-six percent of respondents ranked Al Jazeera as their top news source. Broadcaster Al Arabiya trailed at 15 percent. After that, news consumption fragments to a handful of international and local news organizations.?

Northwestern in Qatar's first major regional survey since opening its doors in 2008, polled roughly 1,250 people each in eight countries (Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates) on issues of the Internet and the media in the Arab world. The findings will be presented at the International Communications Association conference in London tomorrow. (Editor's note: The paragraph has been edited to make clear that 1,250 people were surveyed in each of the eight countries.)

Northwestern in Qatar receives funding from the Qatar Foundation, founded by Qatar's ruler, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, who also funds Al Jazeera.

Everette Dennis, dean and CEO of Northwestern in Qatar, said that he has seen the regional media improve by leaps. Major broadcast networks like Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya are "doing a more detailed job of covering their own region" and "Some of the newspapers that were more kept cats or very cautious, subsidized media, are doing a better job, a more transparent job."

What propelled them forward may have been the arrival of hordes of members of the international media during the Arab uprisings, which exposed regional and local journalists to high-quality coverage on a part of the world they knew well, Mr. Dennis says.

"When you see outsiders doing a better job covering your region than yourself, that's embarrassing," he says.?

Puff pieces

Even before then business magazines, which used to be filled with press releases and "self-serving puffery" had become more critical, he says.?The wealthier Arab countries are becoming much more a part of the global economy, but they couldn't be there if their business publications were not publishing more accurate information, he says.?

The survey also shed light on the region's complicated opinions on freedom of expression.?Sixty-one percent of respondents agreed with the statement "It is okay for people to express their ideas on the Internet, even if they are unpopular," but?less than half (46 percent) think they should be able to criticize their government online.?

While people in the region may agree with freedom of expression on the internet in the abstract, practically speaking many support greater regulation. Half (51%) of the participants in the study believe there is not enough awareness of the ?laws, regulations and moralities that control one?s activities on the internet?, and, perhaps consequently, half (50%) also feel the internet in their country should be more tightly regulated than it is now.

Perhaps even more telling, only 16% overall disagree that the internet in their country should be more tightly regulated, ranging from a low of 7 percent disagreement in Egypt to a high of just 25 percent disagreeing in Bahrain. These low levels of disagreement suggest that there is no strong opposition to internet regulation in any of the eight countries under study.

"There is a paradox between?people saying they wanted almost absolute freedom of expression online ... and at the same time saying there ought to be regulation in some instances," says Dennis.?

While poll respondents often favor something in the abstract, when it is brought down to a personal level the answer often changes, he says. And it comes down to more than that in this region, he says.?

"The meaning is much deeper in the Arab world," he says. "I?think it's a tension between tradition and modernity."

"The younger, presumably more modern people do tend to favor almost unlimited expression online. They say ?Let it rip.? ? Their?parents, people who are older, tend to say yes, there should be a lot more freedom, but not in the case of criticizing Islam, for example.?

The survey did not include followup questions that allowed the university to get at the root of the contradictions; Dennis says they plan to explore it in a future survey.

An interactive website with the full survey results can be found at?menamediasurvey.northwestern.edu.

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/csmonitor/globalnews/~3/WLJB5AKdRm0/New-poll-shows-growing-Arab-trust-in-regional-press

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Prepping For Pets ? The Survival Mom | The Prepper Project

This Monday, June 24 at 7:00PM EST, I?ll be interviewing The Survival Mom about her book, her business, and her life. ?While doing research for the interview (which will air here), I ran across a fantastic article on her page about prepping for pets. ?Since I?m a huge animal person, for companionship and working, I thought I?d re-post this, as we ramp up the promotion for the on air interview.

If you have pets, take a moment to read this fantastic post from The Survival Mom, and leave your thoughts below!

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Guest post by Laura McLain Madsen, DVM
Originally published June 15, 2013 at The Survival Mom?s Blog

Do you own one (or more) of the 69 million pet dogs and 74 million pet cats in America? Or the 8 million pet birds, 4 million horses, or 2 million pet turtles? For some people, these are merely animals, but for 60% of Americans they are beloved furry (or feathery, or scaly)?family?members. For some families that decide not to have children or to postpone having children, the pet?is?the child.

Take photos of your pet as part of your evacuation prep. Image by Laura McLain Madsen.

Some preppers only keep animals if they can protect the?family, protect the food, or be food themselves. I think animals serve a broader function as companions. A disaster is by definition a stressful event, and an animal companion can relieve stress and provide comfort, especially for children.

Plan ahead for the logistics of evacuating with your pet. Does your dog get carsick? Do you have a secure carrier for your cat? Do you have a trailer for your horse or can you borrow a neighbor?s? How will you clean up the droppings from your pet goat? Does your pet iguana attack people it doesn?t know?

In general, shelters for people do not accept animals except for service dogs. The Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards (PETS) Act was enacted after Hurricane Katrina and mandates that communities include animals in their disaster planning, but that doesn?t guarantee that there will be housing for your pet. Local animal organizations may set up animal shelters adjacent to human shelters (called ?co-sheltering?) but you will be responsible for feeding, watering and walking your pet.

Each pet who will be evacuating with your family should have its own 72-hour kit. In it you should include:

• Food: Dry kibble in labeled zip-top bags, or cans (check the expiration date and don?t forget a can opener). A few companies even make pet energy bars; these aren?t nutritionally balanced for long-term feeding but for the short-term they provide calories and nutrients. For a horse, you?ll need to transport hay and grain or know a source to buy them at your destination.
• Water: Just as you plan one gallon per person per day, you should also plan one gallon per pet per day for dogs and cats. If you have a large animal like a horse, they will need a much larger amount. Industrial garbage cans can be used to hold water for large animals.
• Important papers:
  • Description of the animal (name, species, breed, color, sex, age, distinguishing features).
  • Proof of vaccinations. Shelters will typically require vaccinations, and immunizations will keep your pet safe from contagious diseases. Talk to your veterinarian about recommended vaccinations for your pet; these may include distemper, parvo and rabies for dogs, distemper and rabies for cats, and West Nile and rabies for horses.
  • Proof of a Coggin?s test for horses (a test for equine infectious anemia, a contagious blood disease).
  • Registration?and licensing papers.
  • List of shelters, boarding facilities, equestrian centers, stables, and pet-friendly hotels within a 50-mile radius.
  • Current photos of the pet. Ideally, include photos taken from both sides (see photo), the front and the back, with the animal standing in good lighting. Also include photos that show you and your pet together, to help establish ownership.
  • Bedding, towels, blankets.
  • Bowls for food and water (light-weight, collapsible bowls are available in pet and camping stores).
  • Cage, carrier or kennel for each pet. Collapsible kennels might be easier to store, or you can use the carrier to hold the pet?s 72-hour kit until you need it.
  • Litter box and kitty litter for cats. Look for a small plastic litter box that can fit in the cat?s carrier/kennel.
  • Trash bags, paper towels.
  • Can opener.
  • Muzzle. Even gentle pets can become aggressive if they are stressed or in pain. Soft cloth muzzles are available at pet stores.
  • Brushes for longer-haired pets.
  • Leash, extra collar, harness, etc.
  • For large animals: hoof care tools, fly spray, halters, lead ropes, pans, buckets, twitch, leg wraps.
  • First aid kit (see photo):?
    • Bandage material and nonstick wound dressings.
    • Scissors.
    • Claw clipper.
    • Styptic powder to stop bleeding (e.g., from a torn claw).
    • Diphenhydramine for allergic reactions (liquid or tablets).
    • Eye wash (sterile saline, not contact lens solution).
    • Cortisone cream.
    • Triple antibiotic cream.
    • Syringe with tsp and ml markings.
    • Hydrogen peroxide (3%) to induce vomiting in case of poisoning.
    • Any current prescription medications (such as for pain, inflammation, seizures, heart, etc.).
    • Probiotic. Many dogs get diarrhea from stressful events and a probiotic (the ?good? intestinal bacteria) can prevent this. You can use a probiotic meant for humans, such as Lactobacillus (1 billion cells per day for dogs).
    • Pepto Bismol for diarrhea.
    • Meclizine for motion sickness.
    • Flea/tick preventative medication.
    

    Image by Laura McLain Madsen

It?s also important to make sure your pet has positive identification at all times. This will help ensure your pet is returned to you if you get separated, and will be proof of ownership if the animal is stolen. Identification might include:

• Tags on the collar for dogs and cats.
• Tags on the halter for horses or other large animals.
• Microchip: A microchip is a tiny RFID chip that transmits a number when scanned with a radio frequency scanner. The number links in a database to your contact information. Microchips are about the size of a grain of rice and are implanted with a syringe and needle (under the skin on the back of the shoulders in cats and dogs, in the breast muscle in birds, and in the neck muscle in horses). Any species of animal can be microchipped.
• Ear tags for cattle, which also utilize RFID technology.
• Permanent marker on the shell or scales of a turtle or other reptile.
• Spray paint on the hooves of large animals.
• Leg band on birds.
• Tattoos.
• Brands for large animals.

Finally, you should take your pets with you?any?time you have to evacuate. Even a small-scale, supposedly short-term evacuation, such as a gas leak in your neighborhood, could turn into a larger scale or longer term incident. You may not be allowed by authorities to return to your home to collect your pets if the evacuation is prolonged.

? 2013,?thesurvivalmom. All rights reserved.

Source: http://theprepperproject.com/prepping-for-pets-the-survival-mom/

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