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Screening of checked baggage

Airport security seems to mostly cover screening of passengers and carry-on luggage, and contains surprisingly little information on screening of hold baggage. What procedures are in place at major international airports for screening of hold baggage? I imagine X-rays must be among them, but is *every* piece of hold baggage x-rayed? And what other measures are in place – sniffer dogs? what else? Moving from the general to the specific, what is known about screening procedures for hold baggage at Sharm el-Sheikh airport? --Viennese Waltz 10:09, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

Part of the issue (at least as a rationale provided by the authorities would be) that it may be hard to provide reliable sources as to the exact procedures to the public. To do so may allow people with nefarious aims the ability to find exploitable weaknesses in the system, though others would counter that security through obscurity isn't really security anyways. But that's neither here nor there. This is an unofficial account by a former TSA employee who screened such baggage. It is not official, though, so take it with a grain of salt. It's also about 10 years old, so procedures may be out of date. --Jayron32 18:49, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

While the specific procedures often aren't made public, the fact that all checkedin luggage is generally supposed to go through X-rays is public in many cases. See e.g. [1] (it actually has a few more details than that). The best I could find for the US is [2] and [3] but I don't think it's some much that they don't want the public to know they do generally x-ray all checked in baggage, more that they don't bother to say. Nil Einne (talk) 07:08, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Relationship between oneself and one's environment

Do we have any article relating the entitled statement? -- Space Ghost (talk) 10:22, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

There's quite a few. To start with, look at interconnectedness, ecological relationship, and symbiosis. In those articles you'll find dozens of related links. Viriditas (talk) 10:31, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

Also Human impact on the environment. --Jayron32 13:36, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks guys. -- Space Ghost (talk) 18:38, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

• You'll want to read the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset, specifically his dictum "I am myself and my circumstance"

  Ortega y Gasset proposes that philosophy must overcome the limitations of both idealism (in which reality is centered around the ego) and ancient-medieval realism (in which reality is located outside the subject) in order to focus on the only truthful reality (i.e., "my life" — the life of each individual). He suggests that there is no me without things and things are nothing without me: "I" (human being) can not be detached from "my circumstance" (world). This led Ortega y Gasset to pronounce his famous maxim "Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia" ("I am I and my circumstance") (Meditaciones del Quijote, 1914)[6] which he always situated at the core of his philosophy.

  I also strongly recommend his The Masses are Revolting, which is his most widely known work. μηδείς (talk) 18:12, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

I'm saving this post, I will when I get back home... Thanks. -- Space Ghost (talk) 18:38, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

I don't know of the copyright status, most of his work was well before the Spanish Civil War. Various texts are available online. μηδείς (talk) 20:04, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

-- Space Ghost (talk) 18:40, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Category:Environmental social science includes "Environmental psychology".

—Wavelength (talk) 20:19, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

-- Space Ghost (talk) 21:21, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Want to expand this article Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Local Government Act 2013

Hi I am here to inform you all that this topic Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Local Government Act 2013 is very important and I am unable to see any content on Wikipedia. So, I have just created the page. But it is not as much standard as it should be. So I request to all of you please expand this article. I have given all helping materials in reference section or in 'External Links' section. Inform me if any one want to help. Thanks Fawad (FWd82 (talk) 13:21, 6 November 2015 (UTC))

Suppose transgenderism DID work the way ignorant people often think it worked...

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As can be seen by reading comments on many news articles online, many ignorant people think transgenderism works by arbitrarily wanting to change your gender. What if that actually WERE the case?? I'm almost absolutely sure that male-to-female transgenderism wouldn't even have existed, because boys often want to grow into big, strong men and don't want to be treated like females. Female-to-male transgenderism, on the other hand, I'm not sure about. Anyone able to answer this question?? Georgia guy (talk) 23:09, 6 November 2015 (UTC) You are giving us a vague counterfactual, based on your unsupported idea of what "ignorant" people think and asking us for open-ended comment based on your bald supposition. This page is not the right place for that. μηδείς (talk) 02:10, 7 November 2015 (UTC)