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Airport renamed in honour of the late Queen Elizabeth

<p>An airport has been given the seal of approval to be rebranded in honour of the late Queen Elizabeth. </p> <p>The airport in the seaside town of Le Touquet in France was given the go ahead for the renaming by King Charles on Monday, as the entire royal family shared a particular fondness for the town. </p> <p>The renaming of the airport is one of the first places to get approval following Queen Elizabeth II's death on September 8th last year.</p> <p>Although there is no official date announced for when the rebrand will take place, Touquet-Paris-Plage airport will become Elizabeth II Le Touquet-Paris-Plage International Airport.</p> <p>"The international airport of Le Touquet Paris-Plage is about to undergo a historic transformation by taking on the name 'Elizabeth II International Airport of Le Touquet Paris-Plage'," the town hall said in a statement.</p> <p>"This is a tribute to a great Queen and her uncle who had a fondness for France, as well as a recognition of the 'most British of French resorts'," it added.</p> <p>While honouring the late monarch in the name, the rebranding also acknowledges King Edward VIII, who held a love for the country before he abdicated the throne. </p> <p>Edward VIII, Queen Elizabeth's uncle, frequented the resort to enjoy horse riding and sand yachting, sometimes accompanied by his niece when she was not yet Queen.</p> <p><em>Image credits: Getty Images / Google Maps </em></p>

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Renaming obesity won’t fix weight stigma overnight. Here’s what we really need to do

<p><em><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/ravisha-jayawickrama-1457644">Ravisha Jayawickrama</a>, <a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/curtin-university-873">Curtin University</a>; <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/blake-lawrence-1452739">Blake Lawrence</a>, <a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/curtin-university-873">Curtin University</a>, and <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/briony-hill-1041619">Briony Hill</a>, <a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/monash-university-1065">Monash University</a></em></p> <p>The stigma that surrounds people living in larger bodies is pervasive and deeply affects the people it’s directed at. It’s been described as one of the last acceptable <a href="https://theconversation.com/how-australias-discrimination-laws-and-public-health-campaigns-perpetuate-fat-stigma-80471">forms of</a> <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6592337">discrimination</a>.</p> <p>Some researchers think the term “obesity” itself is part of the problem, and are calling for a <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27967229/">name change</a> to reduce stigma. They’re <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/obr.13590">proposing</a> “adipose-based chronic disease” instead.</p> <p>We study the stigma that surrounds obesity – around the time of <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/obr.13147">pregnancy</a>, among <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/oby.23266">health professionals</a> and health <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(23)00071-8/fulltext">students</a>, and in <a href="https://www.phrp.com.au/issues/october-2022-volume-32-issue-3/weight-stigma-in-australia/">public health</a> more widely. Here’s what’s really needed to reduce weight stigma.</p> <h2>Weight stigma is common</h2> <p>Up to <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26596238/">42% of adults</a> living in larger bodies experience weight stigma. This is when others have negative beliefs, attitudes, assumptions and judgements towards them, unfairly viewing them as lazy, and lacking in willpower or self-discipline.</p> <p>People in larger bodies experience <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1038/oby.2008.636">discrimination</a> in many areas, including in the workplace, intimate and family relationships, education, health care and the media.</p> <p>Weight stigma is associated with <a href="https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-018-1116-5">harms</a> including increased cortisol levels (the main stress hormone in the body), negative body image, increased weight gain, and poor mental health. It leads to decreased uptake of, and quality of, health care.</p> <p>Weight stigma may even pose a <a href="https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-018-1116-5">greater threat</a> to someone’s health than increasing body size.</p> <h2>Should we rename obesity?</h2> <p>Calls to remove or rename health conditions or identifications to reduce stigma are not new. For example, in the 1950s homosexuality was classed as a “<a href="https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp-rj.2022.180103">sociopathic personality disturbance</a>”. Following many years of protests and activism, the term and condition <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4695779/">were removed</a> from the globally recognised classification of mental health disorders.</p> <p>In recent weeks, European researchers have renamed non-alcoholic fatty liver disease “metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease”. This occurred after <a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj.p1587">up to 66%</a> of health-care professionals surveyed felt the terms “non-alcoholic” and “fatty” to be stigmatising.</p> <p>Perhaps it is finally time to follow suit and rename obesity. But is “adiposity-based chronic disease” the answer?</p> <h2>A new name needs to go beyond BMI</h2> <p>There are two common ways people view obesity.</p> <p>First, most people use the term for people with a body-mass index (BMI) of 30kg/m² or above. Most, if not all, public health organisations also use BMI to categorise obesity and <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(22)00138-9/fulltext">make assumptions</a> about health.</p> <p>However, BMI alone is not enough to accurately summarise someone’s health. It does not account for muscle mass and <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/downloads/bmiforpactitioners.pdf">does not provide</a> information about the distribution of body weight or adipose tissue (body fat). A high BMI can occur <a href="https://theconversation.com/using-bmi-to-measure-your-health-is-nonsense-heres-why-180412">without</a> biological indicators of poor health.</p> <p>Second, obesity is sometimes used to describe the condition of excess weight when mainly <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/obr.13590">accompanied by</a> metabolic abnormalities.</p> <p>To simplify, this reflects how the body has adapted to the environment in a way that makes it more susceptible to health risks, with excess weight a by-product of this.</p> <p>Renaming obesity “adiposity-based chronic disease” acknowledges the chronic metabolic dysfunction associated with what we currently term obesity. It also avoids labelling people purely on body size.</p> <h2>Is obesity a disease anyway?</h2> <p>“Adiposity-based chronic disease” is an acknowledgement of a disease state. Yet there is still no universal consensus on whether obesity is a disease. Nor is there clear agreement on the definition of “disease”.</p> <p>People who take a biological-dysfunction approach to disease <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25336733/">argue</a> dysfunction occurs when physiological or psychological systems don’t do what they’re supposed to.</p> <p>By this definition, obesity may <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37279872/">not be classified as a disease</a> until after harm from the additional weight occurs. That’s because the excess weight itself may not initially be harmful.</p> <p>Even if we do categorise obesity as a disease, there may still be value in renaming it.</p> <p>Renaming obesity may improve public understanding that while obesity is often associated with an increase in BMI, the increased BMI <em>itself</em> is not the disease. This change could move the focus from obesity and body size, to a more nuanced understanding and discussion of the biological, environmental, and lifestyle factors <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/obr.13590">associated</a> with it.</p> <h2>Workshopping alternatives</h2> <p>Before deciding to rename obesity, we need discussions between obesity and stigma experts, health-care professionals, members of the public, and crucially, <a href="https://www.phrp.com.au/issues/october-2022-volume-32-issue-3/weight-stigma-in-australia/">people living with obesity</a>.</p> <p>Such discussions can ensure robust evidence informs any future decisions, and proposed new terms are not also stigmatising.</p> <h2>What else can we do?</h2> <p>Even then, renaming obesity may not be enough to reduce the stigma.</p> <p>Our constant exposure to the socially-defined and acceptable idealisation of smaller bodies (the “thin ideal”) and the pervasiveness of weight stigma means this stigma is deeply ingrained at a societal level.</p> <p>Perhaps true reductions in obesity stigma may only come from a societal shift – away from the focus of the “thin ideal” to one that acknowledges health and wellbeing can occur at a range of body sizes.<img style="border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; margin: 0 !important; max-height: 1px !important; max-width: 1px !important; min-height: 1px !important; min-width: 1px !important; opacity: 0 !important; outline: none !important; padding: 0 !important;" src="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/209224/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-basic" alt="The Conversation" width="1" height="1" /></p> <p><em><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/ravisha-jayawickrama-1457644">Ravisha Jayawickrama</a>, PhD candidate, School of Population Health, <a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/curtin-university-873">Curtin University</a>; <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/blake-lawrence-1452739">Blake Lawrence</a>, Lecturer, Curtin School of Population Health, <a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/curtin-university-873">Curtin University</a>, and <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/briony-hill-1041619">Briony Hill</a>, Deputy Head, Health and Social Care Unit and Senior Research Fellow, <a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/monash-university-1065">Monash University</a></em></p> <p><em>Image credits: Shutterstock</em></p> <p><em>This article is republished from <a href="https://theconversation.com">The Conversation</a> under a Creative Commons license. Read the <a href="https://theconversation.com/renaming-obesity-wont-fix-weight-stigma-overnight-heres-what-we-really-need-to-do-209224">original article</a>.</em></p>

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Poxy McPoxface, TRUMP-22, Mpox: Public called on to rename monkeypox virus

<p>The World Health Organisation has called on the expertise of the public to help them rename the monkeypox virus after claiming the name is "misleading".</p> <p>Names for viruses are usually chosen by a committee behind closed doors, but the WHO has decided to open up the process to allow submissions from all over the world. </p> <p>Names such as Poxy McPoxface, TRUMP-22 or Mpox have been put forward so far, prompting the WHO to say they will choosing a serious name. </p> <p>WHO spokesperson Fadela Chaib said, "I am sure we will not come up with a ridiculous name."</p> <p>Dozens of submissions have now been made from a range of contributors including academics, doctors, and a gay community activist.</p> <p>One more technical submission came from Harvard Medical School emergency physician Jeremy Faust, who said the virus should simply be called OPOXID-22.</p> <p>Another proposal, TRUMP-22, appeared to be refer to former US President Donald Trump who used the controversial term "Chinese virus" for the new coronavirus, although its author said it stood for "Toxic Rash of Unrecognized Mysterious Provenance of 2022".</p> <p>Pressure is growing for a new name for the disease, largely because critics say it is misleading, since the virus did not originate in monkeys. </p> <p>A group of leading scientists wrote a position paper in June calling for a name that was "neutral, non-discriminatory and non-stigmatizing" amid fears the name can be used in a racist way.</p> <p>"It's very important we find a new name for monkeypox because this is best practice not to create any offence to an ethical group, a region, a country, an animal etc," Miss Chaib said.</p> <p>"The WHO is very concerned by this issue and we want to find a name that is not stigmatising," she added without giving a timeline of when the new name may be decided. </p> <p>Monkeypox was first discovered in 1958 and named after the first animal to show symptoms.</p> <p>The WHO declared the current outbreak a public health emergency in July having reported more than 32,000 cases from over 80 countries.</p> <p><em>Image credits: Getty Images</em></p>

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Birds of Prey renamed after flopping at the box office

<p>Margot Robbie’s <em>Birds of Prey </em>has been renamed after a disappointing opening weekend in the cinemas.</p> <p>Warner Bros. has changed the film’s name from <em><span>Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) </span></em><span>to <em>Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey</em>, less than a week after its debut.</span></p> <p><span>A studio representative told <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/11/21132868/harley-quinn-birds-of-prey-name-change-seo-warner-bros-opening-weekend-trailers?utm_campaign=theverge&amp;utm_content=chorus&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter"><em>The Verge</em></a> the name change is part of an effort to make it easier for moviegoers to find the flick. </span></p> <p><span>While the R-rated film opened at number one at the US box office, it only grossed US$33 million, coming short of the studio’s US$45 million projection. Industry expectations were around US$50 to US$55 million.</span></p> <p><span>The opening for <em>Birds of Prey</em> is the lowest so far for a DC Comics title, overtaking <em>Shazam!</em>’s record of US$53.5 million.</span></p> <p><span>In Australia, the film also earned <a href="https://mumbrella.com.au/birds-of-prey-flies-straight-to-the-top-of-the-australian-box-office-taking-almost-4m-in-its-first-weekend-616648">the top spot at the box office</a>, taking in $3.85 million across 528 screens on its first weekend.</span></p> <p><span>Directed by Cathy Yan, <em>Birds of Prey </em>depicts the story of Harley Quinn (played by Margot Robbie) who finds herself becoming allies with Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) and Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez) after her breakup with the Joker.</span></p>

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How to rename your digital photos in bulk

<p><em><strong>Lisa Du is director of <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.readytechgo.com.au/" target="_blank">ReadyTechGo</a>,</span> a service that helps people gain the confidence and skills to embrace modern technology.</strong></em></p> <p>After returning from my six week European adventure, I had over 4,000 photos to organise! I gave myself this organisation task over the festive season, but I only made a small dent in it. </p> <p>In my organisation attempt, the last thing I wanted to do was spend an extra three hours renaming my photos from the standard IMG_2318.jpg into something like: Venice_1.jpg.</p> <p><strong>There is a workaround</strong></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Windows users:</span></p> <p>1. With all your photos in one photo, press <strong>ctrl + A</strong> on your keyboard to select all the photos in one go <br /> 2. Using the mouse or keyboard trackpad, right click over the selected photos, and select<strong> Rename</strong> from the drop-down menu <br /> 3. Type in the new name and press<strong> Enter</strong> on the keyboard. Windows will automatically rename the batch of photos. For example, from IMG_0001 to Venice_0001, Venice_0002 and so on! </p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Mac users:</span></p> <p>For those of you using a iMac or Macbook, the modern versions of OS X have a built in batch file renaming tool. This way, you can quickly rename large groups of photos or files in one action. The bulk rename utility is part of Finder or the "smiley face" icon.</p> <p>How to rename your photos in bulk with rename finder function:</p> <p>1. It's best to have all the photos that you wish to rename in one folder, ready to go <br /> 2. Press<strong> Command + A </strong>on your keyboard to select all the photos in one go <br /> 3. Using your mouse or keyboard trackpad, right click over the selected files, and choose <strong>"Rename X items"</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img width="500" height="305" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/34387/1_500x305.jpg" alt="1 (166)"/></p> <p>4. A "Rename Finder Items" tool appears, choose "Replace Text" from the dropdown menu<br /> 5. Change the text in the "Find" search to match the text you wish to replace, then change the text in the "Replace with" box to match what you would like the files to be renamed to<br /> <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Example:</span> </strong>I want to change anything beginning with <strong>IMAG </strong>to be replaced with <strong>Venice</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img width="500" height="305" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/34388/2_500x305.jpg" alt="2 (164)"/></p> <p>VOILA! I just renamed a batch of photos in one go.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img width="500" height="305" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/34389/3_500x305.jpg" alt="3 (143)"/></p>

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