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Measuring the nutritional benefits of fisheries adaptations in the Pacific Islands region
Adaptations to sustain fish consumption rarely quantify nutritional outcomes. We introduce a simple ‘fish meals’ approach that translates catch into per capita dietary protein intake recommended by the World Health Organisation. The approach is applied to an adaptation to help small-scale fishers catch tuna more efficiently – installing anchored fish aggregating devices (aFADs) in nearshore waters – and is readily scalable to other fish-based interventions to support nutrition security.
"A Risk Too Far: A Psychological Autopsy of the Planning for Arnhem" Book Review
A Risk Too Far: A Psychological Autopsy of the Planning for Arnhem. Gary Buck. Howgate Publishing, 2025, ISBN 9781912440771, pp. 242. $27.28. Operation Market Garden has become a near-mythical battle of the modern age. The World War II (WWII) effort to capture a series of bridges across the Netherlands in 1944 and get the Allies across the Rhine into Germany “to end the war by Christmas” was an audacious gamble that failed for a host of reasons.
The change in Presidential administrations will likely include an update to U.S. policies concerning China. There will likely be a renewed interest in Graham Allison’s “Thucydides Trap,” which claims that the ancient historian’s explanation of the Peloponnesian War uncovered a permanent feature of great power rivalry: the likelihood that leading powers and rising challengers will go to war.
Ancient Great Power Conflict: A Roman Counterpoint to Thucydides
The change in Presidential administrations will likely include an update to U.S. policies concerning China. There will likely be a renewed interest in Graham Allison’s “Thucydides Trap,” which claims that the ancient historian’s explanation of the Peloponnesian War uncovered a permanent feature of great power rivalry: the likelihood that leading powers and rising challengers will go to war.
The Place to Stop Chinese Aggression Is on the Indian Border
India is the perfect place to firmly check the PRC’s designs of regional border expansion. In June of 2020, along a ridge high in the Galwan Valley in the Himalayas, Indian and Chinese troops fought desperately in a life-or-death night struggle using sticks, nail-studded iron bars, and even rocks. The incident left twenty Indian army soldiers and four Chinese troops dead as each side blamed the other for violating the non-discrete border. China is often the instigator of such incidents.
Sins of Omission: Are junior doctors failing to report clinical incidents, and if so, how can we better support them to do so?
Abstract Objectives University Hospitals Birmingham's (UHB) Foundation Doctors should log clinical incidents via the Trust's incident reporting system. Anecdotal reports suggest under-reporting is commonplace. It is therefore important to identify the proportion of Foundation Year 1 (FY1s) who witnessed but did not report incidents and identify and weigh perceived barriers to reporting. We can then suggest strategies to address these barriers and repeat our data collection.
GP14 Northern Bell Open at Royal Windermere Yacht Club Original
GP14 Northern Bell Open at Royal Windermere Yacht Club by Ian Bertram 25 Jul 21:06 BST 11 July 2021 With the best forecast of wind for the week before and the week after, 13 boats rigged and waited for the wind to appear. There was a good turnout of 8 home boats and 3 boats visiting from Bassenthwaite Sailing Club, one from Burwain Sailing Club and one from Budworth Sailing Club.
Eisner Awards 2020: Wide Range of Winners
The 2020 Eisner Awards were even more spread out than last year (see “First Second Takes Most Eisners; IDW Second Most”), with only one publisher, Dark Horse, taking home three awards for publications and Drawn and Quarterly, Fantagraphics, First Second, IDW/Top Shelf, Image, and Viz taking home two apiece. (The award counts above do not include awards given to creators for publications by those publishers).
SHUT IN THEATER: 8 comics about being stuck inside
-Advertisement- It’s now week four of Shut In Theater here at Stately Beat Manor, and we’re starting to go a little stir-crazy! Fortunately, we’ve fallen back on our one of our most reliable defensive strategies: reading some shut in comics! In these eight comics, the characters find themselves unable to leave and often encroaching on the nerves of anyone who might be trapped inside with them.
The Return of Limited War
Notes: [1] Stephen Morillo, Jeremy Black, Paul Lococo, War in World History: Society, Technology, and War from Ancient Times to the Present, Vol 2 (New York: McGraw Hill, 2009), 442-443. [2] Tacitus, Annals, Book 1. [3] Morillo, War in World History, 576. [4] Nina Tannenwald, “Nuclear Weapons and the Vietnam War,” The Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol 29, no 4, 675-722 (Aug 2006) 718.
The Death of American Conventional Warfare | RealClearDefense
Conventional warfare is officially dead. This has become an obvious trend with innumerable adversaries engaging the American military and its allies in unconventional ways with unconventional means. The long-held notion of the decisive battle that brings the combat power of two nations against each other for a winner-take-all slugfest lies in the next grave. Even wars of attrition, in the model of the American Civil War, First and Second World Wars, and Korea are gone.
Military needs effective social media ops
The United States military and government in general must effectively harness the power of social media. Without this critical first step, the United States will continue to fall behind its foes in producing a constructive narrative. Right now, the military’s efforts are laughable at best, and often nonexistent due to an overabundance of operational security. This problem allows our opponents to set the public agenda, leaving us to respond with “nuh-uh!” in our best playground voice.
IAN BERTRAM: Military needs effective operations in the realm of social media
The United States military and government in general must effectively harness the power of social media. Without this critical first step, the United States will continue to fall behind its foes in producing a constructive narrative. Right now, the military’s efforts are laughable at best, and often nonexistent due to an overabundance of operational security. This problem allows our opponents to set the public agenda, leaving us to respond with “nuh-uh!” in our best playground voice.
Military needs effective operations in the realm of social media
The United States military and government in general must effectively harness the power of social media. Without this critical first step, the United States will continue to fall behind its foes in producing a constructive narrative. Right now, the military's efforts are laughable at best, and often nonexistent due to an overabundance of operational security. This problem allows our opponents to set the public agenda, leaving us to respond with "nuh-uh!" in our best playground voice.
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