#non-european 78%

[notaplaceofhonour]

I understand and agree with pointing out that the Holocaust didn’t just affect the Jews that lived in Europe, and shedding light on the stories of Jews in other territories under Axis control. Every life lost or uprooted in the Holocaust matters and deserves to be remembered, not just Ashkenazim.

However, I’ve been seeing a bit of an overcorrection to the point that this valid & important point get twisted by some into the idea that Ashkenazim weren’t actually all that affected by the Holocaust at all and may have actually been safer than other Jews due to being White/European*, and I wanted to walk through exactly why that is so far from the reality and gets into really dangerous Holocaust Distortion.

The fact is that the vast majority of Holocaust victims were Ashkenazim. How do we know this? Well, first and most obvious without even getting into the numbers: the Nazis were most active in Eastern Europe, where most Jews were overwhelmingly Ashkenazi. Germany had colonies elsewhere and the affect the Holocaust had on Jews living in Africa and Asia is not any less important (and the fact remains that their stories are a genuine gap in Holocaust education that needs to be filled), but this doesn’t change the fact that the center of Nazi activity was Europe, and thus that is where their impact on Jews was most intense. But it’s important to not just go off of what seems “obvious” because what’s obvious to any given person is subjective and subject to bias. So let’s look at the numbers:

Estimates prior to the Holocaust put Ashkenazim at 92% of the world’s Jewish population (or roughly 14 million of the 15.3 million total Jewish population), meaning that it would be physically impossible for less than 4.7 million (or 78%) of the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust to be Ashkenazim.

Even that number is only possible to reach by assuming that only Ashkenazism survived and literally every non-Ashkenazi Jew died in the Holocaust, which we categorically know is not the case due to the continued existence of Sephardim & Mizrahim, as well as other Jews. So the number has to be higher than 78%.

Additionally, the fact that the proportion of the world’s Jewish population that was Ashkenazi fell so drastically during to the Holocaust and still hasn’t recovered (from 92% in 1930, only recovering to close to 75% in the last couple decades) means that not only a higher overall number of deaths were Ashkenazim, but that a higher proportion of the total Ashkenazi population died than from other groups.

We also know that 85% of Jews killed in the Holocaust were Yiddish-speakers. The fact that Yiddish is endemic to Ashkenazi culture (and not all Ashkenazim would have even been Yiddish-speakers) due to assimilation means that at least—and most likely more than—85% of Jews killed in the Holocaust were Ashkenazi.

So, no, Ashkenazim were not some privileged subcategory of Jews who avoided the worst of the Holocaust. They were the group most directly devastated by it.

That doesn’t change the fact that the devastation the Nazis and their allies wreaked on other Jews is every bit as important to acknowledge and discuss, and must not fall by the wayside. The stories and experiences of all victims & survivors deserve to be heard, remembered, and honored, not just the most common or most statistically representative of the majority of victims. However, we can (and must) do that without allowing the facts of the Holocaust to be distorted or suggesting Ashkenazim were somehow less affected by the Holocaust or more privileged under the Nazis. The Nazis hated all Jews. Antisemitism affects all Jews. Period.

*without getting too deep into how categories like Ashkanzi/Sephardi/etc. don’t map neatly onto race like so many people seem to want them to. that’s a different post, but just pointing that out

#antisemitism #holocaust distortion #tw shoah #tw holocaust #ashkenazi #ashkenazim #minhag

[transgenderer]

Pan-Turkism has been characterized by pseudoscientific theories known as Pseudo-Turkology.[64][65] Though dismissed in serious scholarship, scholars promoting such theories, often known as Pseudo-Turkologists,[64] have in recent times emerged among every Turkic nationality.[66][67] A leading light among them is Murad Adzhi, who insists that two hundred thousand years ago, "an advanced people of Turkic blood" were living in the Altai Mountains. These tall and blonde Turks are supposed to have founded the world's first state, Idel-Ural, 35,000 years ago, and to have migrated as far as the Americas.[66]

According to theories like the Turkish History Thesis, promoted by pseudo-scholars, the Turkic peoples are supposed to have migrated from Central Asia to the Middle East in the Neolithic. The Hittites, Sumerians, Babylonians, and ancient Egyptians are here classified as being of Turkic origin.[65][66][67][68] The Kurgan cultures of the early Bronze Age up to more recent times are also typically ascribed to Turkic peoples by pan-Turkic pseudoscholars, such as Ismail Miziev.[69] Non-Turkic peoples typically classified as Turkic, Turkish, Proto-Turkish or Turanian include Huns, Scythians, Sakas, Cimmerians, Medes, Parthians, Pannonian Avars, Caucasian Albanians, and various ethnic minorities in Turkic countries, such as Kurds.[69][70][71][67][68] Adzhi also considers Alans, Goths, Burgundians, Saxons, Alemanni, Angles, Lombards, and many Russians as Turks.[66] Only a few prominent peoples in history, such as Jews, Chinese people, Armenians, Greeks, Persians, and Scandinavians are considered non-Turkic by Adzhi.[66]

Philologist Mirfatyh Zakiev, former Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Tatar ASSR, has published hundreds of "scientific" works on the subject, suggesting Turkic origins of the Sumerian, Greek, Icelandic, Etruscan and Minoan languages. Zakiev contends that "proto-Turkish is the starting point of the Indo-European languages".[66] Not only peoples and cultures, but also prominent individuals, such as Saint George, Peter the Great, Mikhail Kutuzov and Fyodor Dostoevsky, are proclaimed to have been "of Turkic origin".[66] As such the Turkic peoples are supposed to have once been the "benevolent conquerors" of the peoples of most of Eurasia, who thus owe them "a huge cultural debt".[66][72]

The pseudoscientific Sun Language Theory states that all human languages are descendants of a proto-Turkic language and was developed by the Turkish president Mustafa Kemal Atatürk during the 1930s.[73] Kairat Zakiryanov considers the Japanese and Kazakhgene pools to be identical.[74] Several Turkish academics (Şevket Koçsoy, Özkan İzgi, Emel Esin) claim that Zhou dynasty were of Turkic origins.[75][76][77][78]

what is going on with the turkish

[because-its-eurovision]

Finland is number one in Poland's Viral 50 💚. Slovenia is second by the way. And also Croatia, Austria, Switzerland, Cyprus, Armenia, Moldova, France and Czechia are all trending above Sweden and fit in top15. Which I think kind of shows how middle of the road their song is (I'm not going to say it's bad, because Loreen is a good singer, but it really kind of goes is one ear and out the other without leaving a trace), and that people want something more memorable and crazy from Eurovision.

It is kind of interesting that after watching both semis and the grand finale, I was able to kind of accurately predict who would be a qualifier, but the finale voting was one big mystery to me 😅. Why didn't Slovenia, Austria and Czechia get more points? Why was Germany lower than Poland? What is even happening in the heads of the juries?

But Finland is definitely going to be remembered. And I think Swedish commentators know that, and it really bothers them it's your country that captivated people hearts, and they turn offensive out of some wounded pride.

This new made me really happy ❤ Not only that Cha Cha Cha is number one, but in general that Eurovision is so relevant nowadays that it is able to make the competing songs (other than the winner and the country’s own entry) go viral. Tattoo was ofc viral in many, many countries even before the contest which is really not surprising seeing how it embraces the pop hit pattern and is ridiculously catchy, but seeing non-English songs even higher really warms my heart.

There are always going to be surprising results, but the running order and competition in the same genre do have an effect. Obviously I do not have the answers, and this is speculation only.

Slovenia qualified and 78 points is not a bad result at all, considering they also got points from 14 different countries. The withdrawing of North Macedonia and Montenegro likely had an impact on their total score. Before the grand final Slovenia was 23rd in the odds which is in line with their result of 21st place. In my view Slovenia was since the beginning always more of a fan favourite than a real contender. I once read a take saying that only diaspora and fans vote in Eurovision, which is supported by the fact that Joker Out got their highest points in the final from Croatia, Serbia and Finland (got to support Käärijä’s boyfriend 🥰)

Austria was hurt by the running order in the grand final perhaps more than anyone. It has been shown that the running order doesn’t affect the juries as much as the televoters, perhaps because the juries are required to watch the whole show from the beginning to the end while the regular viewers might miss the first few songs. Juries did raise Austria to the 8th place which is once again a great result in my opinion, for a country that usually doesn’t enjoy that much of neighbour support. In general despite the country it is really hard to place higher than around 15th place when opening the grand final – Belgium came 10th in 2016 but was only 16th in the televote. Other reasons for Austria's low televote score might have been the quality difference between first and second semi final, and the voters all gathering to support Finland when it became clear they were the only ones who could challenge Sweden.

Czechia got their second ever top 10 result, second best result ever and best result since Mikolas Josef’s 6th place in 2018, so I wouldn’t be disappointed at all. Perhaps they suffered having to perform between Finland and Australia, which is something I expected could happen.

Germany is one of the Central European countries that cannot trust their neighbours to support them, as we have unfortunately seen many times. In general, succeeding with a rock/metal entry in Eurovision is very difficult and rare, although there are a couple of exception which I probably don’t even have to mention. In March I got this ask and made a prediction based on how well rock/heavy entries similar to Blood and Glitter usually have succeeded in Eurovision (21st-24th place), so I’m not that shocked by their result. Sad of course, but not surprised. (I expected UK be last, but I guess they got some support points for being the host). My guess is Germany also once again suffered from being a direct qualifier (not having the same bond with viewers as semi-finalists do) and competing against Australia and especially Finland, who have similar-ish target audience.

As for Poland I need to remind that they have a huge diaspora – their highest points came from Ukraine, Ireland, Lithuania and United Kingdom. Most people who knew and cared about the infamous NF result were Polish viewers themselves and Eurovision fans, and neither of those groups can give negative votes. To Blanka’s credit we must admit that the performance improved massively since the NF and Solo as a light and campy female pop didn’t really have any genre competition, and it isn’t as divisive as metal or heavy rock is.

Juries are asked to focus their vote on 4 main sets of criteria: Vocal capacity of the artist(s) Performance on stage Composition and originality of the song Overall impression of the act

Regardless of how angry I am of the ridiculously high jury points to Sweden this year – and almost every year, really – I think they were pretty consistent with their ranking this year. We can argue about Cha Cha Cha being more original than Tattoo, but we can’t argue about Käärijä being weaker singer than Loreen or Marco. Juries always put more emphasis on the vocal capacity and singing skills than televote does. That is also why what the fans call “boring ballads” tend to be higher than campy uptempos and ethnic bops, because the latter rarely require expectional vocal techniques. My hot take is that juries are necessary to evaluate objectively the actual technical skills of the performers and prevent us from having to sit through another year like 2008 with Leto Svet, Baila El Chiki Chiki, Dustin the Turkey and Wolves of the Sea kind of atrocities.

I love the last chapter 🥺 Käärijä is the people’s princess 💗 I think @suspiciouslandlady put it best in this post. Sweden cannot take that all the attention and love is not directed at them. They cannot take that we are celebrated instead of them. They cannot take that their "former Eastern part of the kingdom" is acknowledged at its own right and not just as the lesser neighbour country. We are so used to being forgotten between Sweden and Russia, the weird Nordic that has their own strange language none of the others understand, always the oppressed, the underdog in contests and sports. We might have lost once again, but this time the world is on our side and the spotlight is on Finland. And that is hard for our neighbours to swallow.

#asks #sorry this got so long

[herohimbowhore]

All Formula One Race Winners

The general state of Formula One fan spaces has been hellish, to say the least. It is a cesspool of hate for drivers, hate for fans who just want to watch their driver, and rumors. While I do generally avoid most of it by heavily curating my feeds and timelines, it has been everywhere and nearly unavoidable. It also led me to revisit my original post of Formula One Race Winners and Where They Won From instead of focusing on my somewhat regularly scheduled F1 history posting.

That post had been a slice of the larger pie and focused on just drivers from this season and drivers that I personally liked to watch. This post delves a little bit deeper into race winners as a whole.

So I spent the weekend going through all 113 Formula One race winners and compiling the following information:

Name (obviously)

Country they raced under

Number of wins

Number of championships

Race starts

Percentage of races won out of their total race starts

I have found what true insanity looks like and it is combing through 113 Wikipedia pages because I was annoyed.

The chart was color-coded for easier viewing.

In the yellow color, we have all the world champions who are no longer racing in Formula One. The three world champions who are still racing in Formula One, they're color-coded in purple. In the pink color, we have all the current Formula One drivers who have not won a world championship. And in white are all the other drivers who no longer race in Formula One and have not won a world championship.

So what does this tell us? It's really hard to win more than one race. 78 drivers out of 113 have won more than one race, which alternatively means 35 drivers have not won more than one race in their entire Formula One career. Or 30.97% of race winners have won one race. It is the highest percentage for any number of wins.

Approximately half of the race winners have won 1 to 4 races (51.31%) with a large bulk of that coming from the 35 drivers that have only won a single race. And while I say only a single race, that is not to discredit their achievement in winning that one race.

Here’s another breakdown of how the difference in number of race wins looks like:

It’s very clear to see that there are a few outliers in the data. The first six to eight data points aren’t a part of that very distinct and stable line of wins. In those top 8, rest some of the most known and well accomplished world champions — Lewis Hamilton, Michael Schumacher, Max Verstappen, Sebastian Vettel, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna, Fernando Alonso, and Nigel Mansell.

The first non-world champion race winner is 18th on the list with 16 race wins. Stirling Moss is described as the greatest driver to never win the Formula One World Championship.

There is the argument that much of the single race winners were from the USA and the race that they won was the Indy 500. The Indy 500 used to be a part of the calendar during the early years of Formula One and a lot of the European drivers wouldn’t make the journey across the Atlantic due to how much time/money it took. But of the single race winners, only 10 were from the USA.

Richie Ginther — won the 1965 Mexican Grand Prix

Rodger Ward — won the 1959 Indy 500

Jim Rathmann — won the 1960 Indy 500

Johnnie Parsons — won the 1950 Indy 500

Jimmy Bryan — won the 1958 Indy 500

Troy Ruttman — won the 1952 Indy 500

Sam Hanks — won the 1957 Indy 500

Bob Sweikert — won the 1955 Indy 500

Pat Flaherty — won the 1956 Indy 500

Lee Wallard — won the 1951 Indy 500

However, even by excluding the nine drivers from the USA that won just the Indy 500 (which is a difficult race to win), there are still 26 drivers that won just one race which is still the most for any number of race wins.

The following is a list of all 34 Formula One World Championship winners:

The visual representation of race winners based on the number of championships:

Other than no championships, the largest category is 1 championship win with a total of 17 drivers. Since 1950, only 34 drivers have won a world championship because it is difficult to have all the necessary factors come together for the entirety of a season to win a championship. Just as, on a much smaller scale, it is difficult to have all the necessary factors come together throughout a race for a win.

The following chart shows how many drivers have won for each country. The UK, USA, Italy, and France have the most race winners (taking out the 9 USA drivers who won the Indy 500 would put the USA in line with Germany and Brazil).

It should be noted that:

2 out of the 20 race winners from the UK are currently on the grid

The only driver to win from the Netherlands is currently on the grid

2 out of the 14 race winners from France are currently on the grid

The only 2 race winners from Spain are currently on the grid

1 of the 5 race winners from Finland is currently on the grid

1 of the 4 race winners from Australia is currently on the grid

1 of the 2 race winners from Mexico is currently on the grid

The only race winner from Monaco is currently on the grid.

The last data point that I collected was the percentage of races each driver won out of their total race starts.

The top ten based on percentage were:

8 of the 10 names here make sense because they are world champions with a lot of race wins. But 2 names stand out - Lee Wallard and Bill Vukovich. Wallard only started 2 races during his Formula One career and won 1 of those races (the 1951 Indy 500) which got him a 50% win rate. Similarly, Vukovich only entered 5 races during his career and won 2 of them (the 1953 and 1954 Indy 500) which gave him a 40% win rate. Due to this, they were able to rank amongst the top 10 drivers with the highest win percentage.

On the other end are the bottom ten based on percentage:

There is no outlier here like there was with the top ten. All of these drivers won one race and had approximately 100+ race starts. As the number of race starts increased, the win percentage decreased. There is a clear and visible pattern here whereas the top ten does not have that.

In conclusion, winning a race is hard, winning multiple races is hard, winning a championship is hard, and winning multiple champions is hard. We focus so much on how a driver/team can dominate and think that is the norm when based on all the data we have, that is not true at all.

When only 113 drivers out of 775 have won a race in their career and there have only been 34 distinct world champions in almost 75 years, the norm is not the dominance we see with drivers like Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton, Michael Schumacher, Sebastian Vettel, Alain Prost, etc. It is drivers fighting for their race win, being at the right place at the right time and on the right strategy. There are so many individual factors that have to come together for a driver to win just one race, much less more than one.

#formula 1 #f1 #race winners

[thencd]

Lucifarian Family 80s Redux: Bios:

The Princess of Greed: Nadia Lucifarian / Nadezhda Kovalchuk (1984)

The third of the seven sins, but money is the root of all evil, and those with greed can have the darkest hearts.

"I came to America with a dream, a dream of being rich."

Name

Full Legal Name: Nadezhda Lyubov Kovalchuk

First Name: Nadezhda

Meaning: Means 'Hope' in Russian and Bulgarian

Pronunciation: nu-DYEZH-da

Origin: Russian, Bulgarian

Middle Name: Lyubov

Meaning: Derived from the Slavic elements 'Lyuby' meaning 'Love'

Pronunciation: lyuw-BOF

Origin: Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian

Surname: Kovalchuk

Meaning: Derived from Ukrainian and Russian 'Koval' meaning 'Blacksmith'

Pronunciation: ka-vul-CHOOK

Origin: Ukrainian, Russian

Aliases: Nadia Lucifarian, The Princess of Greed, The Greedy Princess, The Greedy Nymph, The Nymph of Greed, The Voracious Nymph, The Nymph of Voraciousness, The Princess of Greed Nadia Lucifarian, The Greedy Princess Nadia Lucifarian, The Greedy Nymph Nadia Lucifarian, The Nymph of Greed Nadia Lucifarian, The Voracious Nymph Nadia Lucifarian, The Nymph of Voraciousness Nadia Lucifarian

Nicknames: Nadia, Nadya, Liouba, Luba, Lyuba, Lyubochka, Princess N, Nymph

Titles: Miss

Characteristics

Age: 28

Gender: Female. She/Her Pronouns

Race: European (Slavic) (Human)

Nationality: American

Ethnicity: Mixed (Both Sides White/Slavic) 1/2 Bulgarian 1/2 Ukrainian

Birth Date: March 18th 1956

Sexuality: Straight

Religion: Non-Religious

Native Language: Bulgarian

Spoken Languages: Bulgarian, Ukrainian, English, Spanish

Relationship Status: Single

Astrological Sign: Pisces

Theme Song: 'Money Changes Everything' - Cyndi Lauper (1983-), 'Money (That's What I Want)' - Barrett Strong (1976-1983)

Voice Actor: Lena Katina

Singing Voice: Julia Volkova

Geographical Characteristics

Birthplace: Zlatograd, Smolyan Province, Bulgaria

Current Location: On The Road

Current Residence: Albany, Albany County, New York, USA

Hometown: Zlatograd, Smolyan Province, Bulgaria

Appearance

Height: 5'5" / 165 cm

Weight: 145 lbs / 65 kg

Eye Colour: Green

Hair Colour: Ginger

Hair Dye: None

Body Hair: N/A

Facial Hair: N/A

Tattoos: 3

Piercings: Ear Lobes (Both, Triple)

Scars: None

Clothing Style: Fancy but Simple

Health and Fitness

Allergies: None

Alcoholic, Smoker, Drug User: Social Drinker

Illnesses/Disorders: None Diagnosed

Medications: None

Any Specific Diet: None

Relationships

Allies: Ves Lucifarian, Bon Lucifarian, Kat Lucifarian, Anna Lucifarian, Nora Lucifarian, Syn Lucifarian

Enemies: Moolah, Wendi Richter, Lord Alfred Hayes, Mr Fuji, Sgt Slaughter, Hulk Hogan

Mentor: Zlatan Kovalchuk

Significant Other: None

Previous Partners: None of Note

Parents: Zlatan Kovalchuk (76, Father), Alla Kovalchuk (78, Mother, Née Sobol)

Parents-In-Law: None

Siblings: Inna Popov (46, Sister, Née Kovalchuk), Vladislav Kovalchuk (43, Brother), Kalyna Medved (40, Sister, Née Kovalchuk), Vladimir Kovalchuk (37, Brother), Larisa Shvets (34, Sister, Née Kovalchuk), Tihomir Kovalchuk (31, Brother)

Siblings-In-Law: Stanislav Popov (48, Inna's Husband), Mila Kovalchuk (44, Vladislav's Wife, Née Shevchenko), Simeon Medved (42, Kalyna's Husband), Susanna Kovalchuk (38, Vladimir's Wife, Née Baran), Rumen Shvets (36, Larisa's Husband), Alma Kovalchuk (32, Tihomir's Wife, Née Sýkora)

Nieces & Nephews: Radko Popov (26, Nephew), Barbara Popov (28, Radko's Wife, Née Sokol), Božena Pokorný (23, Niece, Née Popov), Mladen Pokorný (24, Božena's Husband), Miroslav Popov (20, Nephew), Danica Popov (22, Miroslav's Wife, Née Babić), Ida Popov (17, Niece), Milan Popov (14, Nephew), Iris Popov (11, Niece), Ivan Popov (8, Nephew), Irma Popov (5, Niece), Goran Kovalchuk (23, Nephew), Laura Kovalchuk (24, Goran's Wife, Née Ziętek), Ljubica Zieliński (20, Niece, Née Kovalchuk), Emil Zieliński (22, Ljubica's Husband), Dobroslav Kovalchuk (17, Nephew), Matilda Kovalchuk (14, Niece), Daniel Kovalchuk (11, Nephew), Milica Kovalchuk (8, Niece), Borislav Kovalchuk (5, Nephew), Sabina Kovalchuk (3, Niece), Boris Medved (20, Nephew), Sanja Medved (22, Boris' Wife, Née Żbikowski), Vera Medved (17, Niece), Bogdan Medved (14, Nephew), Vesna Medved (11, Niece), Yaroslav Medved (8, Nephew), Zora Medved (5, Niece), Vsevolod Medved (3, Nephew), Adela Kovalchuk (17, Niece), Timur Kovalchuk (14, Nephew), Blažena Shvets (14, Niece), Taras Shvets (11, Nephew), Dagmar Shvets (8, Niece), Svyatoslav Shvets (5, Nephew), Darina Kovalchuk (11, Niece), Roman Kovalchuk (8, Nephew)

Children: None

Children-In-Law: None

Grandkids: None

Great Grandkids: None

Wrestling

Billed From: Hell Itself

Trainer: Zlatan Kovalchuk

Managers: Damo Lucifarian

Wrestlers Managed: None

Debut: 1976

Retired: N/A

Wrestling Style: Showman

Stables & Teams: The Lucifarian Family (1976-)

Regular Moves: Diving Crossbody, Spinning Heel Kick, Springboard Dropkick, Springboard Plancha, Onehanded Bulldog, Missile Dropkick, Gold Digger (Inverted Spinning Elbow Strike), Diamond Ring (Running Enzuigiri), Pin By Standing On Her Opponent

Finishers: Money Maker (Full Nelson Facebuster), Inheritance (Running Double-Knee Facebreaker)

Refers To Fans As: The Possessive, The Possessive Ones, The Greedy,

Commentary Name: The Nymph

Extras

Backstory: Nadezhda Kovalchuk grew up longing for a life of extravagant spending. Nadezhda was her father's 'little princess', which means she was put first when it came to spending (any) extra money her (already poor) family got, Nadezhda wanted to learn ballet, she would get lessons, Nadezhda wanted to learn archery, she got lessons, and so on. Nadezhda eventually wanted to learn how to wrestle, and she didn't need to go far to find lessons, her father (Zlatan) used to fight bears when he was a teenager, for people's entertainment. Meeting both Vesta and Bonita, in the same part of the British wrestling circuit, the three became friends fast, during that time she also met Damocles. Nadezhda was often broke due to paying for lavish items, champagne, limos, designer clothing, and so on. Nadezhda was the perfect candidate for 'Greed', being so money-hungry (with good reason), but never truly knowing how to limit her spending. She has been with the 'Lucifarian Family' since the start of her career.

Trivia:

Nadezhda is cowardly in a Jimmy Hart way, she'll piss someone off, during a promo, and run away once she feels like she's in danger

Nadezhda is a showman (Show-woman?) because she's more show than work, meaning she works exceptionally quick matches

Nadezhda's role is as the heart (and wallet) of the group

Nadezhda is Charming, Cowardly, Greedy, Loyal, Self-Confident and Vain

Nadezhda knows how to keep herself out of harm's way

Nadezhda can keep a close group of friends together

Nadezhda can sort out differences between people quite easily

Nadezhda is very hard to plan simple matches for

Nadezhda is even harder to get to participate in tougher, more challenging matches

Nadezhda cares more for money than people deep down

Nadezhda likes: Money, Sunrises, Cruises, Yellow, Holubtsi (Ukrainian boiled cabbage packages), Kupala Night, New Year's Eve, Poison Dart Frogs, Limos, Sunflowers, Champagne, Dresses, Winter Coats, Poetry, Moor Frogs

Nadezhda dislikes: Government, Black Ice, Museums, Neon colours, Beer, Christmas, 4th of July, Bears, Sunsets, Orchids, Hail (Weather), Short skirts, Ripped clothing, Caves, Giant suids,

Nadezhda's named moves are jokes on the fact that she is greed, such as Gold Digger and Diamond Ring. However, Money Maker is also a joke on the fact that it's a facebuster, and usually an actor's face is called their 'money maker'

Nadezhda hates Hulk Hogan and Sgt Slaughter, because of how patriotic they are

Left: Nadezhda in 'Human form' (With her natural brown eyes)

Right: Nadia in 'Demon form' (With yellow eyes)

#Lucifarian Family Redux #Lucifarian Family #Lucifarian #original character #Kovalchuk #1980s Universe

[skippyv20]

Hotel Migrants Harassing young girls!

Migrants arriving in the UK non stop is by design.  A great replacement migration is taking place. They (UN,WEF, and others) want to reduce the white european population. There is a list of 20 countries that have agreed to reduce its population by 2025. We in the UK from 65MM as of 2019 to 15MM that is 78%. The list is long and quite frankly scary. I hope they don’t get away with it but our society is corrupt. 

Thank you❤️

[aboutanancientenquiry]

A volume with views of Chinese historians on the history of Western historiography

Herodotus, the founder of Western historiography, and Sima Qian, the greatest historian of ancient China

“History of Western historiography: The views from China—Introduction

Q. Edward Wang

Pages 73-78 | Published online: 04 May 2020

This issue presents a group of articles written by Chinese scholars on the tradition and transformation of Western historiography. Perhaps somewhat surprising to some of our readers, the subject is an important subfield in the garden of history in China. The course of “History of Western Historiography” or “History of Foreign Historiography,” for instance, is regularly taught to history majors on many college campuses. There are also specialists on the history faculty at several key universities who research and publish around the area and supervise students at both M.A. and Ph.D. levels. In fact, the majority of important historical texts constituting the tradition of European historiography from the ancient to modern periods have already had Chinese translations, readily available to Chinese readers and students. In more recent years, notable studies of the European/Western tradition of historical writing, its modern transformation and contemporary developments by scholars in the Western academe have also been rendered into Chinese. As a result, Chinese history students are familiar with major scholars in the field, such as Lynn Hunt, Peter Burke, Georg Iggers (1926–2017), Donald Kelley, Hayden White (1928–2018) and Frank Ankersmit. Indeed, in China’s historical circles, these scholars’ reputation rivals that of well-known China scholars in the West, such as Philip Kuhn (1933–2016), Frederic Wakeman (1937–2006), Jonathan Spence, Susan Mann, Timothy Brook and Benjamin Elman. And this trend of interest, in my opinion, would probably continue into the future. In January 2019, the Chinese government established the Chinese Academy of History (中國歷史研究院 Zhongguo lish yanjiuyuan) under the auspices of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中國社會科學院 Zhongguo shehui kexueyuan). Of its six departments, there is an Institute of Historical Theory (歷史理論研究所 lishi lilun yanjiusuo). Its task, needless to say, is to continue exalting the importance of Marxism as the theory in guiding historical research in China. Yet in order to promote the study of Marxism, which originated from the West, it is necessary for Chinese scholars to enhance their knowledge of Western historiography as well as to compare Marxist theory with other theoretical constellations advanced by Western scholars in both Marx’s times and more recent decades.

Looking around the world, it is not a uniquely Chinese phenomenon that the country’s history students and teachers accord substantial attention to Western academic cultures and historiographies. In his influential work, Provincializing Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty, a prominent postcolonial theorist, has made the following observation:

This engagement with European thought is also called forth by the fact that today the so-called European intellectual tradition is the only one alive in the social science departments of most, if not all, modern universities.

As a result, Chakrabarty continues:

That European works as a silent referent in historical knowledge becomes obvious in a very ordinary way. … Third-world historians feel a need to refer to works in European history; historians of Europe do not feel any need to reciprocate. … “They” [Western historians] produce their work in relative ignorance of non-Western histories, and this does not seem to affect the quality of their work.1

Indeed, not only do historians in the West feel unnecessary to reference the histories of the rest of the world in their writings, but they also feel, as it were, irrelevant to pay attention to how historians outside Euro-America think and study of their history, or the histories of Europe and America. Given the rise of global history, the situation of the former is rapidly changing in recent years—comparative history and historiography, large or small in scope, are becoming increasingly attractive to historians in the West and their counterparts around the world. But no significant improvement has been made on changing the latter, or the indifference of Western historians toward the works of their counterparts in non-Western regions and countries. To a degree, this is perhaps not entirely the fault of Western historians. Concerning scholarly publication, its circulation and translation, there has been an asymmetrical relationship in our world: “Many of the important works in history or related social science and humanistic disciplines are translated from English into non-Western languages, as are important French and German books and articles. But very few Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Farsi, Turkish, or Arabic writings have been translated into English.”2 In other words, many valuable studies of Western history are inaccessible to Western historians as they are untranslated and unavailable. This, of course, also circulates back to the same question addressed earlier: while language proficiency is usually required for a proper training in history, many historians of Britain or the US, for instance, don’t feel the urge to learn a language other than English, which is in stark contrast to their counterparts in other countries and even their colleagues specializing in non-Western history.

All this accounts for the principal reason for editing this issue, which is to showcase some selected studies of Chinese historians on the history of Western historiography. Before moving on to discussing these articles, I think a brief review of the origin and development of Western historiography in China is in order. In China’s long tradition of historical writing, which spanned about two millennia before modern times, it was customarily for historians to record about their neighbors in the surround. Their approach to the writing, however, was ethnocentric, in that they regarded China as the “Middle Kingdom” that radiated its influence, or civilization, outwardly to the neighboring regions. Throughout the period of imperial China, as Ge Zhaoguang, a noted intellectual historian and a frequent contributor to this journal, observes, the idea of “the central empire as the principal, the peripheries as subordinates,” which was formulated by Sima Qian (c. 145–86 BCE) in his magisterial Records of the Grand Historian (史記Shiji), was the guiding principle for Chinese historians to write about the relationship between “China,” or whatever a regime that occupied the Central Plain in a given time, and its relation to and position in the known world. During the long period, Ge avers, there emerged three opportunities for Chinese historians to develop a different worldview, but it was not until the end of the nineteenth century, after a series of defeats the then ruling Qing dynasty (1644–1911) suffered in battling Western powers, that a fundamentally new approach was adopted. This approach was characterized by the full recognition of the development of a multipolar world in modern times, of which China was a part but not the center. As such, it became necessary for Chinese historians to learn and write about the much-expanded world beyond the Sinitic sphere.3

In this newly acquired worldview, the West figured centrally, for it was largely due to the Western powers’ challenge that sufficiently pained Chinese to realize their modern woes as a nation. And from the mid-nineteenth century throughout the twentieth century, this Western-centered worldview persisted, despite the drastic changes happening in the political arena. So much so that in the minds of Chinese students today, “History of Western historiography” is by and large equivalent to “History of foreign historiography.” And, indeed, if one looks and compares the syllabi of the two courses taught in China’s colleges, one often finds that there are substantial overlaps between them, even though the latter is supposed also to cover historical practices in Asia, Africa, South Asia and Latin America. In fact, as shown in Zhang Guangzhi’s article in this issue, the course of “History of Western Historiography” is taught more frequently than its counterpart, “History of Foreign Historiography,” in Chinese universities. Zhang, a seasoned scholar who has witnessed as well as participated in the expansion of the field over the past several decades, also chooses to concentrate his discussion on the teaching of “History of Western Historiography” in the PRC.

As an academic field, the development of the history of Western historiography began only a half century ago in China. Yet from the late nineteenth century, some Chinese historians had already taken an interest in learning about how history was written in the West. In his Pufa zhanji (普法戰紀 Report on the Franco-Prussian War), for example, Wang Tao (王韜 1828–1897), who had gotten an opportunity of sojourning in Scotland while assisting James Legge’s (1815–1897) translation of Chinese Classics, not only recorded the War that led to the German unification, but he also experimented with new ways in constructing his narrative by drawing elements from Western historiography. From the early twentieth century, buoyed by Liang Qichao’s (梁啟超 1873–1929) call for making a “historiographical revolution” (史界革命 Shijie geming), more attempts were made to translate works of Euro-American historians on the nature and methodology of history. He Bingsong’s (何炳松1890–1946) translation of James Harvey Robinson’s New History and Li Sichun’s (李思純 1893–1960) rendition of Charles-Victor Langlois’ and Charles Seignobos’ Introduction aux études historiques were well-known examples at the time.4

Both He and Li were returned students from the West. For the advance of Western historiography as an academic field in China, students with an educational background similar to theirs were forerunners. But the opportunity to formally introduce it into the college curriculum did not occur until 1961, after China, now ruled by the Communists, suffered from the disastrous Great Leap Forward Movement launched by Mao Zedong (1893–1976) in 1958. Perhaps for assuaging the pain and suffering of the Chinese people (the educated Chinese had fared worse because they were severely chastised in the Anti-Rightists Campaign waged by Mao, almost simultaneously as he commanded the Great Leap Forward) had experienced in the previous decade, the Chinese government introduced several projects in the 1960s that permitted, if also covertly encouraged, Chinese historians to find alternatives to the Soviet model of historiography, for, by that time, the honeymoon between Communist China and the Soviet Union had ended. It is perhaps worth noting that in his call for taking the Great Leap Forward, Mao’s hope was for China to catch up with the UK and US, not the USSR. In any case, what transpired was that a group of Western-educated Chinese historians was invited to a meeting held in Shanghai in 1961 by the Department of Education, discussing the likelihood of teaching the course on “History of Western Historiography” and composing a textbook. Motivated by the meeting, some of them also published journal articles in its wake on the need for developing the course and gaining knowledge on Western historiography for history students in China.5

Due to the interruption of the Cultural Revolution, which took place only a few years after but lasted for a decade, Western historiography as a bourgeoning field failed to take root in the 1960s. It was not until the 1980s that its research and teaching were resumed. By the time, most scholars who had received education in the West were already in the retirement age—some had even already passed away. Yet the survivors cherished the hard-earned opportunity and renewed their enthusiasm for plowing and establishing the field. Again, as covered by Zhang Guangzhi’s article, some of the pioneering studies, including valuable translations, of Western historiography were produced by these Western-educated historians from the period, such as Geng Danru (耿淡如 1897–1975), Wu Yujin (吳于廑 1913–1993), Guo Shengming (郭聖銘 1915–2006) and Zhang Zhilian (張芝聯 1918–2007), whose works laid the foundation for historians of younger generations to continue expanding the field to this day.

The importance of the aforementioned scholars, too, is shown that most of the articles sampled here were written by their students and/or students of their students. Wu Xiaoqun, the author of the first article, for instance, worked with Zhang Guangzhi in earning her Ph.D. degree, and Zhang had been a graduate student of Geng Danru during the Cultural Revolution. Taking the recent disputes on Herodotus regarding his “father of history” status as a point of departure, Wu, a professor of history now at Fudan University in Shanghai where Geng and Zhang both worked before, offers her defense of Herodotus as a bona fide historian. She acknowledges the value of recent scholarship on Herodotus, as it offers a much more in-depth analysis of the cultural “context” in which Herodotus worked on his Histories. Meanwhile, she emphasizes that while he inherited the genre of Historia from earlier Greek writers, Herodotus made a great improvement on it in his writing. “Although the “historia” method was not his original invention,” Wu argues, “nor did he elevate it into a theoretical or systematic proof, he [Herodotus] did nonetheless make it the most important method of narration. Since Herodotus, everyone who studies past events in human history and everyone who studies changes in society all add their own judgments and interpretations.” By and large, Wu champions the view advanced by such historians as Arnaldo Momigliano (1908–1987) that modern historiography indeed had “classical foundations.” In her opinion, recent studies of Herodotus in the West have overemphasized Herodotus’ cultural inheritance while overlooking the paradigmatic influence of the Histories in developing European historiography.

Li Longguo contributes the second article to this issue on the transition from ancient to medieval historiography in Europe. A specialist in the history of the Middle Ages at Peking University, where Zhang Zhilian used to teach, Li has made an interesting observation of the transition. As shown by its title, “From ‘Walking’ to ‘Sitting’: Changes in the Practices of Western Historiography From Ancient to Medieval Times,” Li’s article compares the different research styles adopted by ancient and medieval historians. In ancient Greece, he writes, as exemplified by Herodotus and Thucydides, followed also by Xenophon, historical writing was mostly drawn on eyewitness experiences; those Greek historians usually collected information for their writings by personally traveling to the places where historical events had taken place. By comparison, Roman historians like Livy and Tacitus began to use materials already collected in the imperial library; they no longer “walked” as much as their Greek predecessors had. Then in the Middle Ages, historical records were mostly produced by Christian monks who tended to lead a solitary and sedentary life in the monastery. That is, they seldom “walked” to gather source materials but instead they “sat” in the library where they went through its source collections for their writing. This evolution of research style, Li opines, also unveiled a change in epistemology: ancient historians “walked” to locate the sources for ensuring their factuality whereas medieval historians believed that their religious faith could guarantee the truthfulness of their records.

The third article is written by Zhang Yibo, a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department of Peking University. His research focuses on a key moment in the development of European historiography into the modern age. In the so-called “Age of Discovery” of European history, Zhang finds, the tradition of universal-history writing experienced a notable change—after discovering the Americas, European historians embarked on the task of expanding their horizons in perceiving the world. The multivolume Universal History, compiled chiefly by George Sale (1697–1736) but assisted by many others, was a prime example. Appearing in the mid-eighteenth century, Zhang finds, this massive book of sixty-five volumes contained many fresh ideas that were unseen before. However, no sooner had it become a commercial success than it received harsh criticisms, for, in the eyes of the historians who then already aspired to turn history into a science, such as August Ludwig Schözer (1735–1809), Sale’s work was a mere assemblage of unscrutinized materials, lacking the commitment for ascertaining their credibility. Consequently, in Zhang’s words, “the kind of encyclopedic history writing model represented by Sale’s Universal History was a tradition that gradually disappeared following the professionalization and scientificization of historiography.” His study thus offers a specific case that documented the transformation of modern European historiography.

In developing scientific historiography in Europe, German historian Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886) evidently played an instrumental role, well recognized by many experts in the West. Over the centuries, a great number of works have been published on Ranke and his influence as the “father of modern scientific historiography.” In his article, “Equal Emphasis on ‘Research’ and ‘Representation’: A New Analysis of Ranke’s Debut Work,” Lü Heying, who teaches at Sichuan University, offers a close-up examination of Ranke’s two Prefaces to the First Edition of the Geschichten der Romanischen und Germanischen Völker von 1494 bis 1515 (Histories of the Latin and Teutonic Peoples from 1494–1514). The Prefaces are important because in which Ranke declared that while previous historians sought in history political idealism and moral didacticism, his writing of the book was merely for telling history “wie es eigentlich gewesen,” or “as how it actually was.” Engaging critically with some of the recent Western publications, such as that by J.D. Braw and Jörn Rüsen in History and Theory,6 Lü argues that for a better understanding Ranke’s well-known statement, one needs to conduct an in-depth reading and textual analysis of the two Prefaces as well as the appendix to the work, Zur Kritik Neuerer Geschichtschreiber (Criticisms of modern historians). He believes that all of them holistically as an organic system that addresses not only what Ranke desired to accomplish in his writing but also how he devised his research method and his style of presentation.

Li Hongtu, our fifth contributor, is a professor of European intellectual history at Fudan University where Lü Heying received his Ph.D. In recent years, Li has published extensively on the modern, postwar trends of intellectual history, centering around the works of Quentin Skinner and Reinhart Koselleck (1923–2006). In this article, he traces the origin of the history of ideas as defined and advanced by Arthur O. Lovejoy (1873–1962) in the prewar period and proceeds to discuss the vicissitudes of its change from the second half of the twentieth century. He notes that the changes stemmed from a wide range of new interests among the practitioners. Due to the “linguistic turn,” intellectual historians developed a focus on context, rhetoric, actions, etc., whereas the growing influence of sociocultural history also prompted them to look into the relationship between ideas and social contexts. Last but not least, echoing the march of globalization, the “spatial turn” has now emerged in the field as well. As a result, Li believes, there is no decline of the history of ideas as a field, but historians have since expanded its boundary and enriched its research paradigms. He himself points out a few cases that call for historians, Western and Chinese alike, to note how the intellectual variances in China could help produce new and different understandings of certain well-received concepts in the field.

The sixth article is written by Huang Yanhong who, after obtaining his Ph.D. from Peking University, worked at the World History Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences for over a decade. He is now a professor of European history at Shanghai Normal University. Having commanded several European languages and translated a number of works from French, English and German into Chinese, Huang has also written extensively on modern historiography and intellectual history in Europe. In this article, he offers a detailed analysis of Pierre Nora’s “Lieux de Mémoire” concept and project and their international influence. His aim is to explore the transformation of historical consciousness and historical writing in postwar France. Nora’s introduction of the project, which incidentally has been translated into Chinese at present,7 according to Huang, reflected the changing intellectual milieu, which gave rise not only to New National History, but also to the idea of “presentism” (présentisme). As such, Huang maintains, while Nora’s project (as he himself admitted) was specific to France, it has far-reaching implications for contemporary historiography in both Europe and beyond.

Zhang Guangzhi, mentioned earlier, provides the seventh and last article for this issue. A professor emeritus of history at Fudan University, where he spent his entire career of over forty years, Zhang is a well-known expert on Western historiography in China. Over the decades, he has trained a number of students in the field, many of whom have also become established scholars (e.g., Wu Xiaoqun). In writing this review article, Zhang observes that the development of the Chinese study of Western historiography went through three major periods in the twentieth century and the progress in the third period, beginning from the late 1970s after China was ushered in the “Reform and Open-up” era, has been most impressive. And, as I point out at the beginning of this introduction, this trend of growth will likely continue in the years to come.

All in all, I believe, editing this issue can help our readers to see the other side of the recent and robust globalization of history writing—as historians in the West are searching for ways to expand their research horizons, their counterparts in the other hemisphere have also been working on enhancing their knowledge of Western history and historiography. In his thought-provoking work, Global Perspectives on Global History, Dominic Sachsenmaier, a noted global historian at the University of Göttingen who serves on our editorial board, observes sharply that for the future expansion of global history, it is necessary for Western historians to diversify their outlooks and augment their knowledge base. For “much of global history in Europe and North America,” he aptly notes, “remained more characterized by a rising interest in scholarship about the world rather than scholarship in the world” (italics original).8 While a rather small step, I hope this issue will make a contribution to reaching this goal by stimulating more interest among our readers in Chinese scholarship on the West and the world.

Notes

1 Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), 8, 28.

2 Georg Iggers, Q. Edward Wang and Supriya Mukherjee, A Global History of Modern Historiography (London: Routledge, 2017), 312.

3 Ge Zhaoguang, “The Evolution of World Consciousness in Traditional Chinese Historiography,” a keynote speech delivered at the international symposium on “The Conceptions of the World in Twentieth-century China” at the University of Göttingen on October 26, 2017. See also his What Is China? Territory, Ethnicity, Culture, and History, trans. Michael Gibbs Hill (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2018); and Q. Edward Wang, “History, Space and Ethnicity: The Chinese Worldview,” Journal of World History, 10, no. 2 (Sept. 1999), 285–305.

4 For a general discussion of the origin of modern Chinese historiography and its connection with the West, see Q. Edward Wang, Inventing China through History: The May Fourth Approach to Historiography (Albany: SUNY Press, 2001).

5 Besides Zhang Guangzhi’s article in this issue, Chen Heng also discusses the development of the history of Western historiography in his “Xifang shixueshi de dansheng, fazhan jiqi zai Zhongguo de jieshou” (The Origin and development of the history of Western historiography and its acceptance in China), Shixueshi yanjiu (Journal of historiography), 2 (2016), 56–66. For a discussion in English, see Qingjia Wang, “Western Historiography in the People's Republic of China (1949-to the present),” Storia della Storiografia [History of Historiography], 19 (1991), 23–46.

6 J. D. Braw, “Vision as Revision: Ranke and the Beginning of Modern History,” History and Theory 46, no. 4 (2007), 45–60.

7 Sun Jiang, a professor of history at Nanjing University, is in charge of the translation project, which is expected to complete in 2021.

8 Dominic Sachsenmaier, Global Perspectives on Global History: Theories and Approaches in a Connected World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 4. Also, Sven Beckert and Dominic Sachsenmaier, eds., Global History, Globally: Research and Practice around the World (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).

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Introduction to “History of Western historiography: The views from China”, in Chinese Studies in History, Volume 53, Issue 2 (2020), Routledge

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International School Saigon Pearl - Trường Quốc Tế Saigon Pearl

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Saigon South International School - Trường Quốc tế Nam Sài Gòn

Địa chỉ: 78 Nguyen Duc Canh Tan Phong Ward, District 7 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Chương trình: tú tài quốc tế, Mỹ Học phí: từ 453,700,000 đến 789,600,000  ₫ Học sinh: 3-18 tuổi

The Western Australian International School System - Hệ Thống Trường Quốc Tế Tây Úc 

Địa chỉ: International Campus:  157 Ly Chinh Thang St., Ward 7, Dist. 3, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Primary Campus: 43 Nguyen Thong St., Ward 7, Dist. 3, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam Middle & High School Campus: 84 Ba Huyen Thanh Quan St., Ward 9, Dist. 3, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Kindergarten Campus 1: 260 Dien Bien Phu St., Ward 7, Dist. 3, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam Kindergarten Campus 2: 35 Nguyen Huu Canh St., Ward 22, Binh Thanh Dist., Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam Chương trình: tú tài quốc tế, Úc, Song ngữ Học phí: từ 108,075,000 đến 480,690,000 ₫ Học sinh: 3-18 tuổi

European International School Ho Chi Minh City - Trường Quốc Tế Châu Âu 

Địa chỉ: 730 F-G-K, Đ. Lê Văn Miến, Thảo Điền, Thủ Đức, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh Chương trình: tú tài quốc tế Học phí: từ 255,500,000 đến 703,800,000 ₫ Học sinh: 2-18 tuổi

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Địa chỉ: 189 A1 Nguyễn Văn Hưởng, Thảo Điền, Quận 2, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh  Chương trình: Pháp Học phí: từ 129,636,525 đến 169,398,000  ₫ Học sinh: 2-11 tuổi

APU American International School - Trường Quốc Tế Hoa Kỳ APU

Địa chỉ: Middle & High School Campus: 286 Lãnh Binh Thăng, Phường 8, Quận 11, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam Elementary Campus:  501 Lạc Long Quân, Phường 9, Tân Bình, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam Chương trình: Mỹ Học phí: từ 237,600,000 đến 517,200,000  ₫ Học sinh: 3-18 tuổi

The ABC International School - Trường Quốc tế ABC

Địa chỉ: Nhà Bè Campus: #2, Street No. 9, Khu Dan Cu Tan An Huy, AP 5, Phuoc Kien, Nha Be, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 700 000 Trung Sơn Campus: 152-158, Street #1 Khu Dan Cu Trung Son, Binh Hung, Binh Chanh Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 700 000 Chương trình: Anh Học phí: từ 280,000,000 đến 690,600,000  ₫ Học sinh: 2-18 tuổi

Saigon Star International School - Trường Quốc tế SaiGon Star

Địa chỉ: Khu dân cư số 5, ​​Phường Thạnh Mỹ Lợi, Quận 2, Sử Hy Nhan, Phường Thạnh Mỹ Lợi, Quận 2, Hồ Chí Minh Chương trình: Anh, Quốc tế Học phí: từ 155,000,000 đến 478,000,000   ₫ Học sinh: 1-13 tuổi

The Canadian International School - Trường Quốc tế Canada

Địa chỉ: Khu dân cư số 5, ​​Phường Thạnh Mỹ Lợi, Quận 2, Sử Hy Nhan, Phường Thạnh Mỹ Lợi, Quận 2, Hồ Chí Minh Chương trình: Tú tài quốc tế, Canada Học phí: từ 349,400,000 đến 824,100,000   ₫ Học sinh: 4-18 tuổi

Vietnam Finland International School - Trường Quốc Tế Việt Nam - Phần Lan

Địa chỉ: 01 Đ. D1, Tân Hưng, Quận 7, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Việt Nam Chương trình: Quốc tế, Phần Lan, Việt Nam, Song ngữ Học phí: từ 457,590,000 đến 639,240,000  ₫ Học sinh: 6-18 tuổi

International German School Ho Chi Minh City (IGS) - Trường Quốc tế Đức Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh

Địa chỉ: 12 Võ Trường Toản, An Phú, Quận 2, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh Chương trình: Tú tài Quốc tế, Đức Học phí: từ 280,500,000 đến 442,500,000  ₫ Học sinh: 1-18 tuổi

Vietnam Australia International School - Trường quốc tế Việt Úc (VAS)

Địa chỉ: Garden Hill Campus:  168 Phan Van Tri, Go Vap district, HCMC, Vietnam Hoang Van Thu Campus: 202 Hoang Van Thu, Phu Nhuan District, HCMC, Vietnam Phan Xich Long Campus: 1L Phan Xich Long, Binh Thanh District, HCMC, Vietnam Le Quy Don Campus:  32 Le Quy Don, District 3, TP.HCM, Vietnam Sunrise Campus:  Street 20, Him Lam area, HCMC, Vietnam Ba Thang Hai Campus: 594 Ba Thang Hai Street, District 10, HCMC, Vietnam Riverside Mega Campus: 99 Nguyen Thi Thap, Tan Phu Ward, District 7, HCMC Sala Mega Campus: 10 Mai Chi Tho, Thu Thiem New Urban Area, District 2, HCMC, Vietnam Chương trình: Anh Học phí: từ 171,600,000 đến 498,604,000  ₫ Học sinh: 2-18 tuổi

La Petite Ecole -Trường mầm non quốc tế Mặt Trời Thế Giới 

Địa chỉ: 234 Nguyễn Văn Hưởng, Thảo Điền, Quận 2, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Việt Nam Chương trình: Pháp, Quốc tế, Song ngữ Học phí: từ 172,477,000 đến 246,514,000 ₫ Học sinh: 1-11 tuổi

The American School - TRƯỜNG QUỐC TẾ MỸ (TAS)

Địa chỉ: 6 Song Hanh Road, ĐCT Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh - Long Thành - Dầu Giây, Freeway, Quận 2, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh Chương trình: Mỹ Học phí: từ 228,371,850 đến 689,000,550 ₫ Học sinh: 2-18 tuổi

Aurora International School of the Arts - Trường mầm non Quốc tế Aurora 

Địa chỉ: 11 - 11A - 13 - 15 Trần Ngọc Diện Phường Thảo Điền, Quận 2, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh  Chương trình: Reggio Emilia Học phí: update Học sinh: 1-12 tuổi

British Vietnamese International School Ho Chi Minh City - Trường Quốc tế Anh Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh

Địa chỉ: 44-46 Street 1, Khu dân cư 6B Intresco, Bình Chánh, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh Chương trình: Anh, Quốc tế, Việt Nam và Song ngữ Học phí: từ 237,000,000 đến 588,500,000 đ Học sinh: 2-18 tuổi

Montessori International School of Vietnam - Trường Quốc tế Montessori Việt Nam

Địa chỉ: Thao Dien Campus:  42/1 Ngo Quang Huy, Thao Dien Ward, Distric 2, HCMC, Vietnam River House Campus: 177/8 Nguyen Van Huong street, Thao Dien ward, Thu Duc city, HCMC, Vietnam Binh An Campus: No 5, Street 10, An Khanh ward, Thu Duc city, HCMC, Vietnam Chương trình: Montessori Học phí: từ 220,000,000 đến 400,000,000 đ Học sinh: 2-12 tuổi

American International School Vietnam - Trường Quốc Tế Mỹ Việt Nam

Địa chỉ: 220 Đ. Nguyễn Văn Tạo, Long Thới, Nhà Bè, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Việt Nam Chương trình: Tú tài quốc tế Học phí: từ 280,000,000 đến 725,000,000  đ Học sinh: 3-18 tuổi

International Schools of North America - Trường Quốc tế Bắc Mỹ

Địa chỉ: 62 Phan Đăng Lưu, Phường 5, Phú Nhuận, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Việt Nam Chương trình: Tú tài quốc tế Học phí: update Học sinh: 5-18 tuổi

Australian International School Saigon - Trường Quốc Tế Úc (AIS) 

Địa chỉ: 264 Đ. Mai Chí Thọ, An Phú, Quận 9, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Việt Nam Chương trình: Tú tài quốc tế, Anh, Úc Học phí: 271,000,000 đến 774,000,000 đ Học sinh: 2-18 tuổi

North London Collegiate School Ho Chi Minh City - Trường liên cấp NLCS TP.HCM

Địa chỉ: 214 Pasteur, Phường 6, Quận 3, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh 70000, Việt Nam Chương trình: Quốc tế, Việt Nam, Song ngữ Học phí: update Học sinh: 6-11 tuổi

Horizon International Bilingual School - Trường Song ngữ Quốc tế Horizon

Địa chỉ: 6 – 6a – 8, 44 Street, Thao Dien, District 2, HCMC, Vietnam Chương trình: Anh, Việt Nam, Song ngữ Học phí: 201,932,000 đến 287,354,000 đ Học sinh: 6-18 tuổi

Fosco International School - Trường Quốc tế FOSCO

Địa chỉ: 40 Bà Huyện Thanh Quan, Phường 6, Quận 3, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Việt Nam Chương trình: Mỹ Học phí: 141,312,000 đến 292,245,000  đ Học sinh: 2-11 tuổi

Wellspring Saigon International Bilingual School - Trường Phổ thông Song ngữ Quốc tế Wellspring Saigon

Địa chỉ: 92 Nguyen Huu Canh Street, Ward 22, Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Chương trình: Mỹ, Việt Nam, Song ngữ Học phí: 213,080,000 đến 365,880,000  đ Học sinh: 6-18 tuổi

Singapore International School @ Saigon South - Trường Quốc tế Singapore tại Nam Sài Gòn

Địa chỉ: 29 Đường số 3 Khu dân cư Trung Sơn, Đường số 6A, Khu Phố 4, Bình Chánh, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh 70000, Việt Nam Chương trình: Anh, Singapore Học phí: 264,731,000 đến 589,070,000 đ Học sinh: 3-18 tuổi

International School Ho Chi Minh City - American Academy -Trường Quốc tế Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh - Học viện Mỹ

Địa chỉ: 16 Võ Trường Toản, An Phú, Quận 2, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam Chương trình: Mỹ Học phí: từ 558,100,000 đến 697,700,000 đ Học sinh: 11-18 tuổi

Lycée Français International Marguerite Duras - Trường Quốc tế Pháp Marguerite Duras

Địa chỉ: 260 Đường 11, Long Bình, Thành Phố Thủ Đức, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Việt Nam Chương trình: Anh, Pháp Học phí: từ 116,349,864 đến 139,558,154 đ Học sinh: 3-18 tuổi

Anne Hill International School - Trường quốc tế Anne Hill

Địa chỉ: Primary School: 33 Giang Văn Minh, An Phú, Quận 2, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam Preschool: 32 An Phu, An Phu Ward, Thu Duc City, HCMC, Vietnam Chương trình: Anh, Quốc tế, Montessori Học phí: từ 234,000,000 đến 311,000,000 đ Học sinh: 2-11 tuổi

Bản đồ các trường quốc tế ở thành phố Hồ Chí Minh

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#trườngquốctế #trườngquốctếởhồchíminh

[oxshare]

US Yields Fall Despite Cautious Fed Talk, Oil Nears Oversold Territory

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The Portuguese markets experienced a decline yesterday as a result of the resignation of the Prime Minister due to an investigation into potential corruption related to lithium and hydrogen projects. The Portuguese PSI 20 index dropped by more than 2.50% due to political concerns and uncertainty. However, the scandal did not have a significant impact on other European indices, which remained relatively unchanged. The Stoxx 600 index maintained its position around 445, which was previously a support level that has now become a resistance level. The overall outlook is negative due to the slowing economic activity in Europe. In addition, the EUR/USD exchange rate fell below 1.07 as the US dollar continued to strengthen for a second consecutive day.

Whatever

Yesterday was an interesting day regarding discussions from the Federal Reserve (Fed) and the market’s response to these discussions. Several Fed speakers, such as Neel Kashkari and Michelle Bowman, conveyed a cautious message to the market that the Fed’s efforts to combat inflation are still ongoing and tightening measures could continue. However, the market seemed indifferent to these comments, with a resolute reaction of “whatever”. In response, the US 10-year yield dropped below its 50-day moving average, the 2-year yield remained below 5%, and the gap between the two yields is widening once again. This is primarily due to the prevailing expectations of a dovish stance from the Fed following the recent soft US jobs data and the Fed’s decision to postpone any further action for another month. This week, Fed President Powell is scheduled to speak and is expected to echo the sentiments of his colleagues, emphasizing that the fight against inflation is not yet over and that future decisions will be guided by economic data. However, despite these possibilities, investors have already made up their minds and are trading with confidence based on the belief that the Fed has concluded its hiking cycle.

I believe that if the inflation numbers don’t increase significantly, the Federal Reserve will stop raising interest rates. However, because of the excessive optimism in the market and the decrease in yields, the Federal Reserve will strengthen its position to prevent financial conditions from easing too quickly. A decrease of 50 basis points in the US 10-year yield and a strong comeback in the equity markets will not be beneficial in controlling inflation. As a result, I anticipate that the bond rally will begin to slow down when the 10-year yield approaches the 4.50% level, and I expect the 2-year yield to rise above 5%.

The S&P 500 has been above its 50-day moving average for the third consecutive day, while the Nasdaq 100, which is sensitive to interest rates, has broken through its downward trend. Currently, the S&P 500 has an earnings yield of approximately 4%, and the Nasdaq has a yield of 3.70%. This suggests that the Federal Reserve should consider reducing interest rates, and sovereign yields need to decrease further in order for these returns to be attractive. This uncertainty is why the rise in equity markets seems unstable. It is advised to invest in non-cyclical, value stocks. US equities may continue to perform better than those in Europe and China.

Crude Oil Below 200-DMA

Yesterday, the price of crude oil dropped nearly 5% after the $80 per barrel support level was unable to withstand the increasing pressure from aggressive bears. The price quickly fell below the 200-day moving average, close to $78 per barrel, and is currently stabilizing below this level. The trend and momentum indicators are showing negative signs, but the Relative Strength Index (RSI) suggests that crude oil is nearing oversold conditions and a correction may be on the horizon. It is anticipated that buyers will enter the market in the $75 to $77 per barrel range, and there is potential for a correction up to the $80 to $82 per barrel range, although there is limited upside beyond that. There is a possibility of a sudden increase in price due to supportive geopolitical news, but even with factors like the Gaza war, Iranian warnings, and OPEC and Russia’s production commitments, the market is still influenced by the slowing demand and supply concerns, keeping it in a bearish state. In the US, crude oil remains in a bearish trend below the $85 per barrel level.

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[inkovsky]

The Hong Kong stock market will be closed this morning due to the typhoon. The Hong Kong Observatory will issue a strong wind signal No. 3 at 11:40 a.m.

The stock market is expected to resume in the afternoon. Beishui returned this week. Investors sneaked into the market last Friday, but the overall transaction volume continued to be quiet, with less than HK$50 billion for two consecutive days. After HSI opening 156 points higher, It rose as much as 389 points, with the reaching a high of 17,603 points; it closed at 17,485 points, up 272 points. The HS technology index closed at 3,816 points, up 58 points. The main board's total daily turnover was. HK$ 47.9 billion .

The Hang Seng Index fell first and then rebounded last week, falling 323 points, or 1.81%, for the whole week; the Stock Exchange Index fell 104 points for the whole week. The Hang Seng Index has been in a downward trend for 33 weeks. It fell from a high of 22,700 on January 27 to a low of 17,094 points on October 4. The decline was 5,606 points, which was seriously oversold. There should be a short-term rebound. If the Hang Seng Index can return to above the 10-DMA (17,528) and maintain it for at least more than 3 trading days, it can be said that the market has initially stabilized and returned to above the 20-DMA (17,765), which can be confirmed.

It is expected that the return of North Water this week may boost market transactions, but it is difficult to say that the trend will stabilize. The market outlook still depends on the trend of the RMB, the real estate market and the performance of the mainland economy. On the contrary, it is easier for Bomei stocks to rebound. The U.S. stock market fluctuates, mainly affected by fluctuations in labor data. Sometimes it is stronger, sometimes it is weaker. Strong U.S. non-farm payrolls data released on Friday night is not necessarily a bad thing. Instead, we should pay attention to whether the labor participation rate can rise. If the labor force population rises, it will Salaries relieve stress.

European stock markets remained stable, with British, French and German stocks rising 0.58%, 0.88% and 1.06% respectively.

The number of non-agricultural jobs in the United States increased by 336,000 in September, the largest increase since January, significantly more than the expected 170,000 jobs, and far more than expected. The market estimates that the chance of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates again before the end of the year is more than half. Long-term debt yields Hitting another multi-year high, U.S. stocks fell first and then recovered on Friday. The Dow opened 78 points lower, and the decline expanded to 272 points, reaching a low of 32,846. However, the low was sustained. It once soared 438 points, reaching a high of 33,557, and the closing rally narrowed; the S&P 100 had rebounded by 1.55%, and the Nasdaq had rebounded by 1.91% at most.

At the close of the U.S. stock market, the Dow Jones Industrial Average slowed its gains to 288 points to 33,407; the S&P 500 rose 50 points to 4,308; the Nasdaq jumped 211 points to 13,431.

[moremedtech]

Cataract Surgery with Alcon’s AcrySof IQ Vivity IOLs Demonstrates Sustained High Patient Satisfaction and Reduced Spectacle Dependence

Cataract Surgery with Alcon’s AcrySof IQ Vivity IOLs Demonstrates Sustained High Patient Satisfaction and Reduced Spectacle Dependence.

Highlights:

- Alcon Vivity Registry continues to demonstrate excellent outcomes with AcrySof IQ Vivity and AcrySof IQ Vivity Toric, the first and only PCIOL+ with wavefront-shaping technology - World-renowned surgeons will present new registry data at #ESCRS2023, including data on rates of visual disturbances1,2 - Registry monitored 900+ cataract patients post-surgery, including those with certain mild comorbidities GENEVA, September 09, 2023 - Alcon (SIX/NYSE: ALC), the global leader in eye care dedicated to helping people see brilliantly, today revealed final data from its Vivity® Registry Study, which monitored real-world patient experiences for up to 12 months post cataract surgery with implantation of either AcrySof® IQ Vivity® or AcrySof® IQ Vivity® Toric presbyopia-correcting intraocular lens (PCIOL). Data from more than 900 cataract patients demonstrated sustained clinical performance, high patient satisfaction and reduced dependence upon spectacles (glasses). Evidence also suggested that AcrySof® IQ Vivity® can be used successfully in a broad range of patients, providing surgeons and patients with additional treatment options. “Since its introduction, AcrySof® IQ Vivity® has been a disruptive technology—and an innovation we are very proud of as a company. Vivity® is a first-of-its kind, non-diffractive extended depth of focus IOL built with our proprietary X-WAVETM technology, which stretches and shifts light without splitting it,” said Sunil Vasanth, VP, Europe Surgical Franchise, Alcon. “Our real-world registry data gives surgeons the confidence that Vivity’s performance is sustained over time. This data is also important as it includes patients with common mild comorbidities like glaucoma, dry eye and retinopathy/maculopathy.” The Vivity® Registry Study3 was a multicenter, ambispective, non-comparative, open-label, non-interventional registry study conducted across 41 sites from eight (8) countries: Australia, Belgium, Germany, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. Researchers concluded that: - Three-quarters of patients reported no difficulty with their sight for activities in everyday life∞ - Most patients (92%) reported they were satisfied with their sight‡ - More than 91% of patients reported no halos, glares or starbursts† (common visual disturbances that come from splitting the light in a diffractive IOL) - Excellent binocular distance and intermediate uncorrected visual acuity was observed, with mean Snellen visual acuity values of 20/20 and 20/25, respectively - More than 78% and 88% of patients reported they no longer needed to use glasses to see at arm’s length and far away, respectively These results and additional data are being discussed in 11 sessions with world-renowned surgeons at the 41st Congress of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS), currently underway in Vienna, Austria. AcrySof® IQ Vivity®, a non-diffractive IOL, uses Alcon’s proprietary Wavefront-Shaping X-WAVETM technology, a next-generation optical principle that stretches and shifts light without splitting it. As a result, it fulfils an unmet medical need to provide excellent distance, intermediate and functional near vision (e.g., for close-up daily activities such as using a mobile device), while maintaining low visual disturbances.

Vision is at the top of people’s minds as they get older—and Cataract Surgery can make a difference

According to a new Global Alcon Survey, vision ties with mobility as the second most important quality of ageing (83%), with only memory scoring higher at 84%. For people already diagnosed with cataracts, vision is the most important concern when it comes to ageing. According to the survey, cataract patients report they have an improvement in quality of life post-surgery, including 81% of patients who received any PCIOL. Additionally, 69% of all people surveyed, including those who have not been diagnosed with cataracts, would feel liberated without their glasses. Of those diagnosed with cataracts and awaiting surgery, 3 in 4 reported that they would be willing to pay for a lens that eliminates the need for spectacles. Vision plays a powerful role in empowering people as they age. AcrySof® IQ Vivity® can help to meet patient demands and expectations related to performance, quality of life and spectacle independence. AcrySof® IQ Vivity® and AcrySof® IQ Vivity® Toric may not be approved in all markets; please reach out to your Alcon Rep for questions about availability in your local market. Please refer to relevant products DFU or Operator’s manuals for complete list of indications, contraindications and warnings. This content is intended for Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) only. Please note that product related promotion of Medical Devices to non-HCPs may be subject to restrictions based on local rules and regulations.

About the AcrySof® IQ Vivity® IOL

The non-diffractive AcrySof® IQ Vivity® Extended Vision Posterior Chamber Intraocular Lens Model DFT015 (referred to as AcrySof® IQ Vivity® IOL) is a UV-absorbing and blue light filtering foldable intraocular lens (IOL). This IOL, compared to a monofocal IOL, provides an extended range of vision from distance to near without increasing the incidence of visual disturbances. Potential side effects: As with any surgery, there is an implicit risk, whether or not the IOL is implanted. The complications of the IOL implantation surgery ranges from minor side effects (usually temporary) to serious complications. Patients with previous illnesses or disorders (such as chronic infections of the eye or eyelids, or diabetes) may present a higher risk of complications. Temporary surgical complications include, but are not limited to, reactions to medications such as irritation or mild allergic response, bleeding, redness, itching of the eye, sensitivity to light, swelling, corneal edema (swelling of the cornea), problems with the iris, cell growth in the IOL, and an increase temporary eye pressure. There is a small risk of needing further surgical treatment (such as IOL replacement implanted by a different one or surgery to improve vision) after the implantation of the initial IOL. Source: Alcon Read the full article

#cataract #healthtech #medtech #medtechnews

[jayjtheunsispiciousmelodicathem]

While tarot divination is cool and all, I think it's important to anyone with so much as a passing interest in tarot to know that tarot cards started out as playing cards first and foremost.

"umm, but what would you use the major arcana for in a game? Aren't those specifically designed for divination?"

The major arcana, or tarots in tarot games, are actually a trump suit. To those of you who don't play much traditional card games, a trump is a card or suit you can play (usually when you run out of cards of the needed suit), and provided no one else played a higher trump, you will probably win the trick - tarot games are mostly if not exclusively trick-taking.

All the symbolism you see attached to the illustrations? it all begins with cartomancy using the tarot de marseille deck (which was a gaming deck).

"But tarot cards don't have spades-clubs-hearts-diamonds suits, how can they be used for playing if they don't use normal card suits?"

So the SCHD suits weren't the first suits to be used on the european gaming arena. The french suits (the "standard poker deck" suits) are actually a derivative of German suits (Greens-Acorns-Reds/Hearts-Bells). The German suits are ubiquitous in southern parts of Central Europe, and one of the most popular games played with a German deck (32 cards, like a regular 52 card deck but all pips lower than 7 are removed) is Skat.

Those suits arose from German cardmakers experimenting with new suits - "new suits?" yeah, new suits! Before that, most decks were Latin-suited - Spanish and Italian (and Portuguese but those are extinct nowadays) suits are the oldest suits in European cards. Swords (or spades depending on the translation), coins, cups and clubs/wands were the evolution of Mamluk suits (cards were introduced to Europe from Mamluk Egypt) which in turn evolved from the Chinese currency cards.

And those suits are still used in parts of Spain and Italy (in italy both spanish and italian suited decks are used)! For gaming no less! Divinatory tarot cards retain those, because cartomancers were so dead-set on using decks that have the same/very similar composition of tarots as Tarot de Marseilles.

Nowadays you can also find (gaming, although you can use it for divination too) tarot cards using french suits. Hell, even tarock cards (closely related, albeit shorter decks of 22 trump cards from 0 to XXI and 32 face-and-pip cards with knights between jacks and queens; mostly used in Central Europe where tarock games are popular) use french suits.

"but 78 is so many cards to have in a gaming deck!"

yeah, and that's why it's so fun!

Also, you may have noticed that if you remove the tarots/major arcana and knights from the deck, you pretty much get a standard 52 card deck? yeah! that's where it came from. Not all games asked for trump cards, so they were often put aside for the game duration, and ultimately non-trick-taking games became more popular, further reducing the need for the tarots, possibly making it easier for cardmakers, who didn't have to copy 22 illustrated cards. No idea what happened to knights that they vanished from the deck tho.

"if tarot cards were gaming cards first and foremost, why does no one play tarot anymore?"

They actually do play it a (relative) lot in France and France-influenced regions such as former French colonies like Quebec or French middle east. And if you're willing to include the aforementioned Tarock games, Austria and Denmark are very fond of it as well.

Now, this post is simply a PSA to remember about the gaming origins of tarot cards, and an encouragement to try some of the many games that can be played with tarot cards. Try French Tarot for the whole deck, or one of the many tarock games for a shorter deck. Get yourself a gaming tarot deck, or buy a cheap divinatory deck and play with it. You can find rules on the internet.

#tarot #history #gaming #games #card games #cards #tarot cards #major arcana #gaming history #tabletop #fortune telling

[bronze-gamin-o]

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[legerclinic]

Is there an increased risk of prostate cancer with taking testosterone replacement therapy?

Should you have a PSA test? And when? Dr Benjamin Davis discusses whether an increased risk of prostate cancer is one of the risks of taking testosterone replacement therapy.

Some basic facts about prostate cancer:

It’s the most common cancer in men. Over 50,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in the UK each year, and 12,000 die from it.1 However, a lot of men live with prostate cancer for a long time and it never causes them any problem. In fact, over 78% of men in the UK diagnosed with prostate cancer survive over 10 years. Some men, particularly those with a family history or those of Black ethnicity are at higher risk. The risk of prostate cancer changes with age. The graph below shows that there are virtually no cases of prostate cancer in men under 45, but the risk of prostate cancer increases as men get older.2 This means in men under 45 we don’t need to be worried about prostate cancer, but once over 45 or 50 years old we need to be more aware of the possibility.

Should I have a PSA test?

A PSA or Prostate Specific Antigen test is a blood test that can help diagnose prostate cancer. However, it’s not a perfect test. 75% of men with a raised PSA (a level over 3) will not have prostate cancer, and equally a small proportion of men with a low PSA will later be found to have prostate cancer. A PSA can be raised for lots of different reasons as the image below shows:3

Having a PSA done is an individual decision. It is included in the Advanced TRT blood tests we recommend from Medichecks. If you are having a PSA blood test, it is best to avoid vigorous exercise including cycling and sex for 2 days before the test as this can affect the level.

The risk of having a raised PSA is that you might need further investigation including an ultrasound scan or MRI and then possibly a prostate biopsy to look for cancer cells even when no cancer is present. The use of more advanced MRI techniques has reduced the need for prostate biopsy by about 25% and so the risk of a raised PSA leading to invasive prostate biopsy has decreased in recent years. 

Is an increased risk of prostate cancer one of the risks of taking testosterone replacement therapy?

There is an understandable concern that increasing your testosterone level might increase your risk of prostate cancer. After all, men who have prostate cancer are treated with drugs that block or reduce testosterone levels in the body. So surely increasing your testosterone must increase your risk of prostate cancer?

The evidence from multiple studies seems to be that testosterone replacement doesn’t increase the risk of prostate cancer.4 Guidance from the European association of urology, the British Society of Sexual Medicine conclude there is no compelling evidence that testosterone therapy is associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer.5 Multiple studies have shown that testosterone levels do not correlate with risk of prostate cancer.

Why might this be? Decreasing your testosterone treats prostate cancer, but increasing it through testosterone replacement therapy doesn’t increase prostate cancer risk? Studies have shown that the prostate gets saturated with testosterone at around 8-8.5nmol/L, so increasing your testosterone above this level, doesn’t lead to higher levels of testosterone in the prostate.6

It is therefore possible that if your total testosterone is less than 8.5nmol/L, you may be more likely to see a rise in your PSA when you start testosterone therapy; and possibly have a higher risk of prostate cancer which has stayed quiet when your testosterone level is low, growing when you start testosterone therapy and your level goes over 8.5nmol/L.

The Testosterone Trials were a trial of testosterone therapy done in the USA. One study from this trial compared men over the age of 65 taking testosterone with a placebo (non-active drug) group. 7 4.4% of men taking testosterone had a rise in the PSA by 1 year which necessitated referral to a urologist vs 1.7% in the placebo group. Twenty-two out of 743 men in total between the two arms were seen by a Urologist and 6 of these ended up having prostate biopsies – 4 men in the testosterone arm, and two in the placebo arm. Of the four men taking testosterone who had a prostate biopsy, three had prostate cancer, two of which were high grade (more high risk). Of the two men who had a biopsy in the placebo group, one had cancer.These were men aged over 65 and so had a higher risk of prostate cancer. You can see that the risk of needing a biopsy from PSA monitoring is low, and those who did have a biopsy were highly likely to have prostate cancer, particularly in the men taking testosterone replacement therapy

It can all seem a bit confusing but the take aways are:

There is no convincing evidence that an increased risk of prostate cancer is one of the risks of taking testosterone replacement therapy. However, an absence of evidence doesn’t totally rule out the risk of prostate cancer after starting testosterone. To be on the safe side, for men over the age of 50, checking your prostate through examination and monitoring of your PSA is recommended before starting testosterone replacement therapy and with a repeat PSA test at 3 – 6 and 12 months, and yearly after that.

All of the clinical team at the Leger Clinic are experienced in discussing these issues and are more than happy to talk through PSA monitoring at any point.

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[mcleanlau99]

Obstruction in the formation involving granulation muscle contributes to delayed injury therapeutic after scald melt away harm inside rats.

The aim of these studies ended up being determine any core dataset involving distributed components of the various information registries which you can use for upcoming effort involving international locations. Techniques: Merchandise listings coming from all taking part Top Uniform cancer registries were obtained. Goods ended up won 'present' while within the pc registry, or even once the items could be taken off their products in your computer registry. The meaning of a common object ended up being that it was contained in no less than half a dozen from the more effective collaborating nations. Outcomes: The number of listed goods diverse involving 45 (Poland) and also Six hundred and fifty (Ireland in europe). One of the 46 discussed products had been info in patient traits, staging and diagnostics, neoadjuvant treatment, surgical procedure, postoperative program, pathology, and adjuvant therapy. Information on non-surgical therapy was for sale in only Some registries. Results: A summary of Forty six shared items through 7 taking part Second Gastrointestinal most cancers registries was made, providing the groundwork regarding future quality peace of mind and study within Upper Uniform cancer therapy with a Western european level. (H) The year 2013 Elsevier Limited. Most legal rights set aside.Quantifying feed ingestion by best possible predators is a crucial element of ecosystem-based management inside the Southeast Marine. In this study, we created bioenergetics model for you to estimation victim intake by the best predator, the actual Adelie penguin Pygoscelis adeliae. Our own style Repotrectinib supplier forecasts feed consumption through the entire propagation season and also contains uncertainness throughout product variables employing S5620 Carlo simulators. The product had been parameterized using information received at Bechervaise Area, the website of a long-term keeping track of put in East Antarctica. We all parameterized the actual model (1) making use of Thirteen calendar year associated with penguin human population information, (A couple of) for a 12 months through which penguins properly reared his or her the baby birds (2001-2002) and (3) for the yr along with reduced propagation good results (1998-1999). Day-to-day per person power consumption in the mating period averaged 4269 kJ n(-1) (95% CI: 4187-4352 kJ deborah(-1)) and 4684 kJ n(-1) (95% CI: 4596-4771 kJ deborah(-1)) for males and females, respectively. In the whole propagation period men animal breeder consumes 470 MJ (95% CI: 461-479 MJ) when compared with 515 MJ (95% CI: 506-525 MJ) to get a female. Normally, the actual Bechervaise Island inhabitants of 1836 mating frames utilizes 16 447 MJ n(-1) which depends upon 1 809 224 MJ through the propagation time of year. On the basis of adjustable breeding success and the amount associated with krill along with fish of their diet, all of us estimate that this human population uses 78 to 406 t involving krill along with Four in order to Forty-six capital t involving fish each and every breeding time. Our own results illustrate apparent periods involving maximum consumption for this penguins' mating cycle.

[soelbergsander99]

Determining high quality involving infant proper care in district amenities inside Malawi.

Antioxid. Redox Sign. Sixteen, 1119-1128.The actual evolution of the very pathogenic H5N1 influenza virus creates anatomical different versions that can cause alterations in antiviral weakness along with receptor-binding nature. Within nations around the world the location where the extremely pathogenic H5N1 trojan can be native to the island as well as brings about standard outbreaks, your surveillance of those adjustments is vital regarding examining the actual crisis danger. In Cambodia among 04 along with 2010, there has been Twenty-six episodes associated with remarkably pathogenic H5N1 influenza virus in poultry as well as 10 described human instances, 7 that had been fatal. We now have observed natural versions throughout hemagglutinin (Lol) and also neuraminidase (NA) of Cambodian H5N1 infections which were expected to vary level of responsiveness to neuraminidase inhibitors (NAIs) and/or receptor-binding specificity. Many of us tested H5N1 trojans separated from chicken as well as people in between '04 and The year 2010 regarding sensitivity on the NAIs oseltamivir (Tamiflu) along with zanamivir (Relenza). All trojans had been responsive to the two inhibitors; even so, all of us identified the herpes simplex virus which has a gently lowered awareness to be able to zanamivir and have forecast a V149A mutation is actually dependable. In addition we discovered a computer virus using a hemagglutinin A134V mutation, within any subpopulation increased straight from an individual trial. Making use of opposite genetics, many of us verified that mutation is actually adaptative regarding individual leader Two,6-linked sialidase receptors. The significance of a continuous security associated with H5N1 antigenic deviation along with genetic float that will modify receptor presenting along with the like involving H5N1 viruses to be able to NAIs is not underrated even though bird coryza remains the widespread risk.The past few years get observed unparalleled rise in analysis in the area of nanoscience. Just about the most lively applying nanoscience, your "science in the modest particles usually under Hundred nm in diameter" will be nanomedicine. Latest improvements in biomedical analysis get generated opportunity to understand the factors root the growth and also advancement of illness throughout personal patients. Moreover, identifying aspects which in turn forecast the average person reply to treatment method make it possible for fresh way of remedies from the stratification of therapy along with avoidance. This is actually the first step toward customized treatments. Several nanotechnology medicines and products have obtained regulating endorsement; other medication is increasingly being investigated in clinical studies. This post handles a few points regarding utiliser involving nanotechnology inside customised treatments.Aim: To ascertain the features as well as upshot of abstracts shown to the get togethers in the Western european Society for Pediatric Urology (ESPU). Material and methods: Abstract textbooks through 2003 in order to 2010 were evaluated and up coming publication associated with offered abstracts driven by see more MEDLINE/PubMed research. Results: Involving 1194 abstracts, 50-78% per year originated in 15 to 20 The european union as well as 50-22% through 8 to be able to 12 non-European international locations; 233 (19%) were basic research along with 961 (81%) specialized medical.

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