Domestic Abuse | Student Notice Board Blog

One woman in four (and one man in six) in the UK will be a victim of domestic violence during?their lifetime, according to research estimates. Two women a week are killed by a current or former male partner.

?Don?t suffer in silence speak to friends, relatives, doctors, counsellors or speak to other students on Student Notice Board.

Domestic violence is officially classified as ?any incident of threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between adults who are or have been in a relationship together, or between family members, regardless of gender or sexuality?.

We think of domestic violence as hitting, slapping and beating, but it can?also include emotional abuse as well as forced marriage and so-called ?honour crimes?.

It?s abuse if your partner or a family member:

• threatens you
• shoves or pushes you
• makes you fear for your physical safety
• puts you down, or attempts to undermine your self-esteem
• controls you, for example by stopping you seeing your friends and family
• is jealous and possessive,?such as being?suspicious of your friendships and conversations
• frightens you

Where can you get help?

You don?t have to wait for an emergency situation to seek help. You can:

The?Survivor?s Handbook from the charity Women?s Aid is free and provides information on a wide range of issues such as housing, money, helping your children and your legal rights. The handbook is available as a downloadable PDF in 11 languages.

For forced marriage and ?honour? crimes, contact Karma Nirvana (0800 5999 247) or The Forced Marriage Unit (020 7008 0151).

Broken Rainbow UK provides support to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people experiencing domestic violence.

Men of any age can be victims of domestic violence or abuse, in heterosexual or?same-sex relationships. Help and?support is available from Men?s Advice Line on 0808 801 0327 or Mankind on 01823 334 244.

If you decide to leave

The first step in escaping an abusive situation is realising that you?re not alone and it?s not your fault.?Try to?get advice from an organisation such as?Women?s Aid or?Refuge before you go.

If you?re considering leaving, be careful who you tell. It?s important that your partner doesn?t know where you?re going. Planning is very important. If you decide to leave, it will help to take:

• documents, including?birth certificates for your children, passports, any medical records, benefits books,?and mortgage or rent details
• your address book
• house keys
• if you have young children: baby items, some clothes and a special toy for each child

Sexual assault

Women and men who have been sexually assaulted can get confidential help, treatment and support at a sexual assault referral centre. Find your nearest sexual assault referral centre.

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Read James Cameron's Script for Rambo: First Blood Part II

If you've noticed an influx of Sylvester Stallone movies on cable these past couple weeks, it's no coincidence. With The Expendables 2 still going strong in theaters, cable networks have been digging into their Stallone vaults to capitalize on your desire to watch Stallone kick lots of ass. IFC, for example, aired a Rambo marathon over the weekend, allowing us to catch up with one of our favorite old-school action franchises. However, there were two scenes in Rambo: First Blood Part II that had us scratching our heads, wondering if these throwaway character moments are what helped inspire the number one movie at the box office over two decades later.

In the second Rambo movie, war vet John Rambo is released from prison and sent on a covert mission back to Vietnam to rescue POWs. As any true sequel should, First Blood Part II ups the action considerably, as Rambo blasts his shirtless way through the jungle. He's assisted in his rescue efforts by an agent on the inside named Co-Bao (Julia Nickson), and at two points during the film the idea of a soldier being expendable is brought up. Watch both scenes below.

Originally we wondered whether these scenes helped inspire The Expendables not realizing that Stallone has said previously that they are indeed the source of his inspiration for the current action franchise (thanks to Matt Singer for the heads up and the video).

This aspect of the character's emotional and psychological trauma may also be a taste of what James Cameron helped add to the movie. Cameron wrote the first draft for Rambo: First Blood Part II, but when all was said and done they wound up cutting out most of Cameron's character drama and leaving in a lot of the action.?

Speaking about his draft back in 1986 to The Hollywood Reporter, Cameron said,?"Well, I came rather late to that. I actually thought the first one was a pretty good film. That's what attracted me to the second one, the underdog story. I was kind of fascinated by Vietnam at that point and what a weird and surreal kind of war that was. So my approach to it was a lot heavier, a lot more character. I just ran into Sly (Stallone) recently, and he was saying that when he looks back on it -- although he doesn't have any regrets -- in a way he wished he could have done the script that I wrote because they did wind up throwing out about the first half of it. They kept a lot of the action. They just kind of made it a Mission: Impossible thing -- for me it took on kind of a superhero-type quality. I thought it was much more interesting to kind of explore this traumatized character. Maybe I'll get to use that stuff somewhere else. I used a bit of it in Aliens, having them come back from something they were traumatized by. There was a bit of that delayed stress syndrome stuff in Aliens they didn't use in Rambo II."

For those interested, you can read James Cameron's draft for First Blood II: The Mission here. Rambo: First Blood Part II is available to watch now via iTunes and Amazon.

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'Cyborg' tissues: Merging engineered human tissues with bio-compatible nanoscale wires

ScienceDaily (Aug. 26, 2012) ? Harvard scientists have, for the first, time created a type of "cyborg" tissue by embedding a three-dimensional network of functional, bio-compatible nanoscale wires into engineered human tissues.

As described in a paper published August 26 in Nature Materials, a multi-institutional research team led by Charles M. Lieber, the Mark Hyman, Jr. Professor of Chemistry at Harvard and Daniel Kohane, a Harvard Medical School professor in the Department of Anesthesia at Children's Hospital Boston developed a system for creating nanoscale "scaffolds" which could be seeded with cells which later grew into tissue.

Also contributing to the work were Robert Langer, from the Koch Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Zhigang Suo, the Allen E. and Marilyn M. Puckett Professor of Mechanics and Materials at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

"The current methods we have for monitoring or interacting with living systems are limited," said Lieber. "We can use electrodes to measure activity in cells or tissue, but that damages them. With this technology, for the first time, we can work at the same scale as the unit of biological system without interrupting it. Ultimately, this is about merging tissue with electronics in a way that it becomes difficult to determine where the tissue ends and the electronics begin."

The research addresses a concern that has long been associated with work on bioengineered tissue -- how to create systems capable of sensing chemical or electrical changes in the tissue after it has been grown and implanted. The system might also represent a solution to researchers' struggles in developing methods to directly stimulate engineered tissues and measure cellular reactions.

"In the body, the autonomic nervous system keeps track of pH, chemistry, oxygen and other factors, and triggers responses as needed," Kohane explained. "We need to be able to mimic the kind of intrinsic feedback loops the body has evolved in order to maintain fine control at the cellular and tissue level."

Using the autonomic nervous system as inspiration, Bozhi Tian, a former doctoral student under Lieber and former postdoctoral fellow in the Kohane and Langer labs, and collaborator Jia Liu worked in Lieber's lab at Harvard to build mesh-like networks of nanoscale silicon wires -- about 30 -- 80 nm in diameter -- shaped like flat planes or in a reticular conformation.

The process of building the networks, Lieber said, is similar to that used to etch microchips.

Beginning with a two-dimensional substrate, researchers laid out a mesh of organic polymer around nanoscale wires, which serve as the critical nanoscale sensing elements. Nanoscale electrodes, which connect the nanowire elements, were then built within the mesh to enable nanowire transistors to measure the activity in cells without damaging them. Once complete, the substrate was dissolved, leaving researchers with a net-like sponge or a mesh that can be folded or rolled into a host of three dimensional shapes.

Once complete, the networks were porous enough to allow the team to seed them with cells and encourage those cells to grow in 3D cultures.

"Previous efforts to create bioengineered sensing networks have focused on two-dimensional layouts, where culture cells grow on top of electronic components, or on conformal layouts where probes are placed on tissue surfaces," said Tian. "It is desirable to have an accurate picture of cellular behavior within the 3D structure of a tissue, and it is also important to have nanoscale probes to avoid disruption of either cellular or tissue architecture."

Using heart and nerve cells, the team successfully engineered tissues containing embedded nanoscale networks without affecting the cells' viability or activity. Using the embedded devices, they were able to detect electrical signals generated by cells deep within the tissue, and to measure changes in those signals in response to cardio- or neuro-stimulating drugs.

Researchers were also able to construct bioengineered blood vessels, and used the embedded technology to measure pH changes -- as would be seen in response to inflammation, ischemia and other biochemical or cellular environments -- both inside and outside the vessels.

Though a number of potential applications exist for the technology, the most near-term use, Lieber said, may come from the pharmaceutical industry, where researchers could use the technology to more precisely study how newly-developed drugs act in three dimensional tissues, rather than thin layers of cultured cells. The system might also one day be used to monitor changes inside the body and react accordingly, whether through electrical stimulation or the release of a drug.

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The Oatmeal's call to raise funds for a museum celebrating Nikola Tesla seems to have electrified enough people. From Digital Trends: "The Oatmeal has raised over $1 million on IndieGoGo in an effort to secure Wardenclyffe, the site of Tesla's final laboratory, to build a museum dedicated to Tesla. ... [Oatmeal founder and artist Matthew] Inman?s original goal of $850,000 would buy just half of the cost of the property, but the state of New York has agreed to match contributions, bringing total funds up to $1.7 million. Raising the capital to build a museum from the property will be another cost, but from the looks of it, with 36 days left and having already surpassed the $1 million mark, there should be funds to spare."

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Recovery and Continuity The Distinction | ACTIVE WORLD TODAY

Recovery and Continuity: The Difference

March 10th, 2012

In the past handful of years there have been a huge number of natural disasters causing untold amounts of harm, setting a lot of organizations back years if not decades. There is not a lot we can do to steer clear of these disasters, but we can be ready for them. Is your organization ready?

Most companies have at least fundamental protection from emergencies and disasters in place. The most typical forms of protection are insurance, server and personal computer backup, and simple preparations as needed by law. Whilst these protective measures are deemed sufficient for most companies, there is nonetheless a likelihood a disaster will strike, leaving your company in the lurch.

In the recent months and years an increasing number of occurrences, such as the earthquake in Japan and flooding in Thailand, have brought on widespread disruption to corporations. To counter this, two business initiatives have risen to the forefront: Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Preparing (BCP). In fact, these two terms have turn into common buzzwords, a rapid net search returns over 53 million hits on business continuity alone. The dilemma is that several pros are unclear on what every single actually is. It is critical to be clear on each and every topic and the simple steps to take to be prepared for any disaster.

What is a Company Continuity Program (BCP)? BCP, 1st observed in the course of the Y2K scare of the late 90s, is a plan that covers the way an organization prepares for and maintains all crucial company functions. BC arranging is comprised of actions that make certain maintenance, stability, and recoverability of service just before, in the course of, and immediately after a disaster. The plan is normally set up on a day-to-day basis, and covers the complete organization.

It is crucial to have a BCP for your organization simply because if a thing happens and you cannot deliver to your customers, they will go to one more business.

What is Disaster Recovery? Disaster Recovery is thought to be a component of the general continuity plan that focuses on the technical side of the enterprise, like elements such as data backup and recovery. Assume of BCP as an umbrella and DR is below the umbrella if you do not have a disaster recovery program, the overall umbrella is more or less useless.

What Ought to be in Your DR and BCP Plans? These plans each share a quantity of similarities, usually following the same steps involving the very same components. Both plans should incorporate:

An operational plan for a number of disasters that could occur in your geographical area. The plans must cover occurrences as small as computer hardware errors and as large as massive natural disasters.
A succession strategy for you or your best management.
Instruction for substitute workers on crucial tasks.
Cross education of your personnel on the basics of different roles so they will be in a position to take over if want be.
A communication strategy focused on various crises, like techniques of communicating if networks are down.
Off-website meeting areas for staff and managers.
A focus on safety. Foster partnerships and communication with local and emergency response services: Fire, Police, National Guard, Search and Rescue. Ideally, all employees must at least know basic 1st help. If you have employees who are volunteer members of local Emergency Response Services, ask them to be responsible for teams.
Day-to-day plans to backup your Enterprise systems, along with training and testing of recovery of systems.
Coaching and testing of all employees to practice recovery actions in conditions as realistic as feasible.

It is critical that you conduct regular tests of your systems and processes, and make alterations as required. Be aware that your company is always changing and so ought to your Company Continuity and Disaster Recover Plans. With a very carefully ready and practiced plan, your company ought to be prepared to face a variety of disasters with minimal downtime. If you would like to know far more about Company Continuity and Disaster Recovery please make contact with us at www.lgnetworksinc.com.

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