Maxim Gorky Quotes

 “If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.”
― Maxim Gorky

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

“Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.”
― Maxim Gorky

  

“When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.”
― Maxim Gorky

  

“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery!”
― Maxim Gorky

  

“You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.”
― Maxim Gorky

“The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.”
― Maxim Gorky, Untimely Thoughts: Essays on Revolution, Culture, and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918

   

“Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths, And Other Plays

 

 

“Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future”
― Maxim Gorky, Twenty-Six Men and a Girl: And Other Storie

 

“You will not drown the truth in seas of blood”
― Maxim Gorky 

“The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution.This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer.”
― Maxim Gorky, Literary Portraits

 

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Maxim Gorky Quotes (Author of Mother)

Global burden of cancers attributable to infections in 2008: a review and synthetic analysis : The Lancet Oncology

Having already quoted a news source about this Lancet article, including the summary from the original article to view different emphasis versus the news article.
 

Global burden of cancers attributable to infections in 2008: a review and synthetic analysis : The Lancet Oncology

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The Lancet Oncology, Early Online Publication, 9 May 2012
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Global burden of cancers attributable to infections in 2008: a review and synthetic analysis
Catherine de Martel MD , Jacques Ferlay ME , Silvia Franceschi MD, Jérôme Vignat MSc, Freddie Bray PhD , David Forman PhD, Dr Martyn Plummer PhD

Summary

Background
Infections with certain viruses, bacteria, and parasites have been identified as strong risk factors for specific cancers. An update of their respective contribution to the global burden of cancer is warranted.

Methods
We considered infectious agents classified as carcinogenic to humans by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. We calculated their population attributable fraction worldwide and in eight geographical regions, using statistics on estimated cancer incidence in 2008. When associations were very strong, calculations were based on the prevalence of infection in cancer cases rather than in the general population. Estimates of infection prevalence and relative risk were extracted from published data.

Findings
Of the 12·7 million new cancer cases that occurred in 2008, the population attributable fraction (PAF) for infectious agents was 16·1%, meaning that around 2 million new cancer cases were attributable to infections. This fraction was higher in less developed countries (22·9%) than in more developed countries (7·4%), and varied from 3·3% in Australia and New Zealand to 32·7% in sub-Saharan Africa. Helicobacter pylori, hepatitis B and C viruses, and human papillomaviruses were responsible for 1·9 million cases, mainly gastric, liver, and cervix uteri cancers. In women, cervix uteri cancer accounted for about half of the infection-related burden of cancer; in men, liver and gastric cancers accounted for more than 80%. Around 30% of infection-attributable cases occur in people younger than 50 years.

Interpretation
Around 2 million cancer cases each year are caused by infectious agents. Application of existing public health methods for infection prevention, such as vaccination, safer injection practice, or antimicrobial treatments, could have a substantial effect on the future burden of cancer worldwide.

Funding
Fondation Innovations en Infectiologie (FINOVI) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF).

Red Meat damages you and the Planet

This is a friendly reminder:


UC San Francisco researcher and vegetarian diet advocate Dr. Dean Ornish said he gleaned a hopeful message from the study ( Red Meat Consumption Increases Risk of Early Death) .



"Something as simple as a meatless Monday can help," he said. 
"Even small changes can make a difference."

Additionally, Ornish said,

"What's good for you is also good for the planet."

In an editorial that accompanied the study, Ornish wrote that a plant-based diet could help cut annual healthcare costs from chronic diseases in the U.S., which exceed $1 trillion. 

Shrinking the livestock industry could also reduce greenhouse gas emissions and halt the destruction of forests to create pastures, he wrote.

One in 6 Cancers Caused by Infection

One in 6 Cancers Caused by Infection - ABC News

By Katie Moisse
May 8, 2012

 

Roughly one in six cancers is caused by an infection, according to a global study highlighting the power of vaccines in cancer prevention.

French researchers pooled data on 27 cancers from 184 countries to calculate the fraction of cases attributable to viral, bacterial and parasitic infections.

“Around 2 million cancer cases each year are caused by infectious agents,” the researchers wrote in their report, published today in The Lancet Oncology. “Application of existing public health methods for infection prevention, such as vaccination, safer injection practice, or antimicrobial treatments, could have a substantial effect on the future burden of cancer worldwide.”

Human papillomavirus (HPV), hepatitis B and C, and the ulcer inducing Helicobacter pylori caused 1.9 million cancers worldwide in 2008, according to the study.

HPV and hepatitis B infections are largely preventable through vaccination, and H. pylori can be treated with antibiotics.

HPV is a sexually transmitted infection that causes cervical cancer as well as cancers of the throat, vagina, vulva, anus and penis, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC recommends the HPV vaccine for teenage girls and boys as well as some men and women up to age 26, but few end up getting all the necessary doses.

The hepatitis B vaccine is also given in three doses, but in the first 18 months of life.
“We vaccinate all children against hepatitis B, so their risk of liver cancer down the road will be very much reduced,” said Schaffner. “If we look back 20 years from now, we will see the occurrence of liver cancer dropping precipitously.”

The realization that infections like HPV can trigger cancer is relatively new, earning virologists Harald zur Hausen, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier the Nobel Prize in 2008.

 

But, he added, choosing not to smoke, eating a healthy diet and keeping physically active also reduce the risk of cancer.

“We have to remember that in our country behavioral risk factors still loom large,” he said. “There are a number of strategies we can all employ to reduce our risk of cancer even more.”

Renaissance

Renaissance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 The Renaissance was a cultural movement that profoundly affected European intellectual life in the early modern period. Beginning in Italy, and spreading to the rest of Europe by the 16th century, its influence was felt in literature, philosophy, art, music, politics, science, religion, and other aspects of intellectual inquiry. Renaissance scholars employed the humanist method in study, and searched for realism and human emotion in art.


 Renaissance (disambiguation).

David, by Michelangelo (The Accademia Gallery, Florence) is an example of high Renaissance art

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance

Tsunami motorcycle owner located in Japan - British Columbia - CBC News

Tsunami motorcycle owner located in Japan - British Columbia - CBC News
 Japanese owner of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle that was washed out to sea in the tsunami of March 2011 says its discovery on a remote beach on the West Coast of B.C. last week is a miracle.

The owner, Ikuo Yokoyama, a 29-year-old resident of the town of Yamamoto, in Miyagi Prefecture, was tracked down by a Harley-Davidson representative in Japan who saw the story, first reported by CBC News, in the media.

A company spokeperson told CBC News they are now hoping to pay for the return of the bike to Yokoyama and to see if they can restore it for him.

The motorcycle was found on its side in the back of the moving truck container. (Submitted by Peter Mark)

Yokoyama told Japanese television station NHK that the discovery of the motorcycle was miraculous and he wished to thank the B.C. man who found it personally, but so far he has only been able to do so on TV.
He said he lost his home and three family members in the tsunami and is now living in temporary accommodation. The motorcycle was being kept at his house in the back section of a cube van that he was using as a storage shed when the tsunami struck.
He said he bought the bike five years ago and some of his fondest memories were of his tours around Japan on it.
When asked if he wanted to say anything to his bike, Yokoyama laughed and and said, "Thanks for coming back buddy," in Japanese.

Drifted 5,000 km to Haida Gwaii

After it was washed out to sea in the tsunami in the makeshift storage container, the motorcycle apparently floated 5,000 kilometres across the Pacific Ocean

It was discovered by Peter Mark, a resident of B.C.'s Haida Gwaii, while he was exploring a remote beach on Graham Island.

'LemonAid For Used Submarine might have stoppped Canada's Purchase of GLITCH PRONE SUBS.

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Old Submarine

 

Old Submarine by Peter Griffin

Canada bought a 'pig in a poke' and the taxpayer bears the burden while the politicians ramble on.  The venerable CBC shines the light on the mismanagement of the purchase and the finger pointing begins = business as usual.

 

Used U.K. submarines prompted compensation demand

Used U.K. submarines prompted compensation demand - Nova Scotia - CBC News
 

Canada demanded compensation for its glitch-prone, second-hand submarines just four years after they were bought from the British, CBC News has learned.

The four used Victoria-class Royal Navy submarines were bought from the U.K. in 1998 for a price of $750 million.

In a letter obtained by CBC News, the British junior minister of defence wrote the Canadian government first asked for compensation for the submarines in 2002.

"I can confirm that in 2002 and 2004, the Canadian government asked for compensation to be paid for the submarines due to concerns about their condition and ability to meet the Canadian requirements," wrote Peter Luff.

"The Ministry of Defence did not pay any compensation; however, an amendment to the contract was agreed where the cost of the final submarine was reduced by £2 million as an act of good faith and without liability."

After that compensation demand, the final price of the submarines was about $746 million. Since then, the Department of National Defense has pumped more than $1 billion into repairing and converting them for Canadian use.

The submarines have been beset with problems, including a fatal fire aboard one boat and another that was damaged when it ran aground.

Successive governments and Royal Canadian Navy officials have staunchly defended the sale of the subs, but one British MP said the fact that Canada asked for compensation tells a different story.

'Canada was shafted'

"It just shows you how badly Canada was shafted," said Mike Hancock, the Liberal Democrat MP for Portsmouth South.

Hancock has been vocally questioning the submarine sale. The vessels had been based in his Portsmouth riding before they were decommissioned in 1993 when the U.K. decided to focus solely on nuclear subs.

Hancock said the letter he received from Luff in mid-April confirmed his worst suspicions.

"They flog you some dead ducks of submarines and won't give you compensation and then give you £2 million to go away and be quiet," he told CBC News.

More details and videos can be found at CBC.ca

Source:

 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2012/05/02/ns-subs-compensation-letter.html