Dr. Harper also participated in the research on Glaxo-Smith-Kline’s version of the drug, Cervarix, currently in use in the UK but not yet approved here. Since the government began administering the vaccine to school-aged girls last year, more than 2,000 patients reported some kind of adverse reaction including nausea, dizziness, blurred vision, convulsions, seizures and hyperventilation. Several reported multiple reactions, with 4,602 suspected side-effects recorded in total. The most tragic case involved a 14 year-old girl who dropped dead in the corridor of her school an hour after receiving the vaccination.

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Janus Bakrawi is tired of the fact that ethnic roles [in Denmark] are for "thematic" reasons, rather than ordinary people. While Sven Clausen, producer of "Livvagterne" is complaining there aren't enough ethnic actors to fill all the roles in the hit show, Janus Bakrawi attributes the lack of interest to the fact that the ethnic roles are mainly bad guys. "You don't want to be seen as the problem all the time. Some ethnic actors don't want to be part of "Livvagterne" because the brown roles are all problematic. I'd like roles that aren't all about the ethnicity."

But that's unlikely to happen anytime soon. Sven Clausen: "Action shows are about creating dramatic situations. So you could ask if we're not making it dramatic, and the answer is yes, or the show becomes incredibly boring [Oh, I wish English had words like "møgkedeligt"]. As long as we're doing these kinds of stories, and depicting the present, we're going to use Jutlanders, Christians, Sjællanders, Muslims, in situations that happen in the real Denmark."

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saigaddam

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We now operate in a prodigious universe of data. As the content of our lives is continuously transformed into bit streams of information, machine learning and data mining technologies discern our needs, desires, and preferences with ever greater accuracy.

Four billion years of tinkering has allowed us humans to thrive in a dynamic, data-rich environment. Many of these evolutionarily gathered tools can be put to use in navigating a fast expanding virtual world. Discernible Preferences will document insights accrued while wrangling data from this philosophical paddock.

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Whitefandomstania is applying for membership of the UNF (United Nations of Fandom). The UNF says "sorry, you're going to have change your treatment of immigrants and refugees first".

Whitefandomstania natives try to have a conversation about immigrants and refugees and how they're treated in Whitefandomstania. It's quite painful, particularly as there's a significant fraction of WFS nationals who don't think there's any particular problem. At some point, one of the WFS nationals who does think immigrants could be treated better, think they notice a pattern: WFS who think immigrants could be treated better are more likely to wear bright colours, while the ones who don't think there's much of a problem wear subdued colours.

The inhabitants of WFS are now caught up in this (to them) very exciting discussion about groups differences within WFS, whether these groups even exist, what the differences consist of, with the attitudes towards immigrants and migrants seen as an incidental side effect of some more fundamental differences in the WFS identity.

And the UNF are tapping their feet, saying "guys, we don't care how excited you are about this internal discussion, when are you going to start treating immigrants and refugees to meet UNF standards? Do you even want to join?"

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[...] any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups.