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Ultimately, this is what I know: In the food world, GMOs are fruits, vegetable, grains, etc. that have been genetically modified to resist drought and disease and to yield more product without the use of more resources.
This means that those fruits and vegetables are easier to produce at higher quantities without needing pesticide.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m more concerned about the pesticides that our food is treated with than with how the food has been modified.
But I get it, people are worried about whether or not GMOs are safe.
After all, we are playing with genetics and can’t that get a little messy if it’s not done right?
Well, genetic modification of food products has been going on for 20 years, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration monitors GMOs so closely that they catch damaging ones before they hit the market.
Regardless, I don’t think people really understand what GMOs mean for the world.
The world’s population is growing at an enormous rate. Currently, we are just shy of 7.5 billion, and the population is growing quickly.
Without genetically modifying food, there’d be no way to produce enough food for even a fraction of today’s world population.
The California drought would wipe out most of the nonmodified crops grown as they wouldn’t be able to survive the dry conditions.
Disease and pests would kill of most of the rest, and what remains would be ridiculously expensive because of the scarcity and demand.
So, yeah, GMOs may be scary if all you read is the hype that anti-GMO campaigns put out.
But a world without healthy, sustainable food for everyone to eat is a frightening place that I don’t want to live in.
Leinster coach Leo Cullen has stated the club's determination to do everything within their powers to persuade players that have been “targeted” by other clubs to remain in Dublin with the reigning European and PRO14 champions.
It was announced earlier this week that scrum-half Nick McCarthy will leave Dublin for Munster as of next season, following on from the likes of Joey Carbery and Andrew Conway who have previously swapped the capital for Limerick.
With Jordi Murphy moving north to Belfast and a new chapter of his career with Ulster, there is a clear sense of Leinster players choosing to play with other provinces in the hope of gaining more game time at club level and, in cases, improve their international prospects.
Leinster are the best-stocked side in the country, maybe in European club rugby as a whole, and juggling such enviable resources is a challenge for Cullen and his management team. So too the bid to keep players at the club when opportunities arise elsewhere.
“Yeah, definitely,” said Cullen today ahead of their Heineken Champions Cup trip to Toulouse this weekend.
“Everyone here at the club is conscious of the fact that there is a lot of Leinster players being targeted maybe? I'm not sure what the best way to describe it is.
“We talked about it in the lead-in to the Munster game a few weeks ago: how Munster had changed quite significantly. There was a big South African influence there, even some young guys coming into the academy, and there are a good few Leinster guys down there.
Cullen admitted he was sad to see McCarthy, a product of the Leinster academy, go but claimed to be unaware if this was the latest example of a move helped along by the IRFU who are keen for the player pool to be spread out a tad more evenly for the benefit of the national side.
“We need to create an environment that players want to stay in, be successful and provide everything for them here. That's the thing that is in our control, that we make sure that Leinster is the best place to play rugby and hopefully the players are happy.
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A famous painting that sold for $1.6 million made its first public appearance in decades in Nigeria at the ART X Lagos exhibition over the weekend.
Ben Enwonwu's "Tutu" painting, often dubbed the "African Mona Lisa," was missing for more than 40 years before turning up in a London apartment last year. It had been hanging up in the flat for over 30 years.
The last time it was displayed in Nigeria before being sold at Bonhams London auction house earlier this year was in 1975 at the Italian embassy in Lagos.
The painting is part of a set of three artworks created by Enwonwu during the aftermath of Nigeria's bloody civil war that disappeared shortly after being painted in 1974.
Depicting the Ife princess Adetutu Ademiluyi (abbreviated as "Tutu"), the painting was created after Enwonwu encountered her walking in the Nigerian countryside.
The two additional pictures of Ademiluyi are still missing.
ART X Lagos which began on Friday, bought many surprises and star turns including the presence of the Ooni of Ife -- Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi -- a traditional king in the ancient Yoruba city in southwest Nigeria. Artworks by British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare were also unveiled.
"I think that the future can only be bright for artists in this part of the world especially at a time when African art is getting much bigger internationally," Shonibare told CNN at the exhibition.
"Europe and America, historically, they've dominated the art scene. And I think the world is realizing that there are different kinds of people. And there are different audiences and that audience is yet untapped."
Shonibare revealed he was in the process of building an international residency space in Lagos to bring artists from across the world into a cultural exchange of ideas with Nigerian artists.
Shonibare, who became a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2004, is well known for using richly patterned Dutch wax textiles to explore Nigeria's colonial history and migration to Europe.
"Traffic for many years has always been Africa going to the West and I think it's about time the West came to Africa," said Shonibare.
The exhibition is part of a flurry of events taking place in Lagos this month, including Lagos Photo Festival and Lagos Fashion Week, that marks the megacity's busiest cultural calendar. At Lagos Fashion Week internationally renowned brands such as Maki Oh and Orange Culture took center stage last weekend.
While at Lagos Photo Festival, which runs until 15 November, female photographers from across the African diaspora are being celebrated. This year, the international photo exhibition includes a workshop program for emerging women photographers from Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Senegal, Sierre Leone and the UK.
Education Minister and Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett responded to former Prime Minister Ehud Barak who attacked the Jewish Home Party.
"The national tweeter with his daily provocation; you keep on tweeting, we'll keep on leading," said Bennett.
Earlier. Barak told Radio 103FM, "The vision of the Jewish Home Party with the man and woman heading it is racist and messianic, with their rabbis Lior and Ginsburgh, the sources of inspiration for the murderer of Rabin and the murderers of the Dawabsha family, who threaten the future of Zionism."
Minister Shaked responded: "After discovering that most of the public isn't with him, Ehud fled. This time to the Supreme Court.'' She reiterated her position that "legislation is enacted in the Knesset by a democratic majority, not by running to the Supreme Court."
"The Nationality Law itself will certainly not be disqualified in the Supreme Court," she explained, adding that the Supreme Court has no authority to disqualify Basic Laws.
The Easter Bunny may arrive at your home in the wee hours on Sunday morning, but a personal chef to cook brunch for your family won’t. Never fear: These nine restaurants will hop right to it with menus that cover all the breakfast (or dinner) basics, and some even have egg hunts, special kids menus, or Easter Bunny appearances to keep the little ones smiling in their Sunday best.
Note: All of these restaurants had open reservations at the time this article was scheduled for publication.
There are many in the contemporary art world who see the RHA as an anachronism, a bastion of outmoded aesthetic values and hierarchies. Say what you want about it, but those who exhibit in its annual exhibition, through entitlement, invitation or selection, are not afraid to fail.
Walk into an exhibition of contemporary art these days and it is as if whatever you find there, be it a piece of text on the wall or, indeed, nothing at all, can be justified by a framing theoretical discourse. If you don’t get it, that’s because you’re missing the intellectual point. You’re not qualified to express an opinion, or at least that’s the way you’re often made to feel.
Still loosely organised around a few familiar generic categories – such as portrait, landscape, still life – the RHA annual opts to depend on practice, not theory. You can look at any piece in the show, figure out how you feel about it, what you think of it, and be reasonably sure that you’re not going to be ambushed by theory.
That probably contributes to its relative popularity. Visitors are confident about offering an opinion because they expect to understand what they see, and if they don’t, it’s not their problem.
The corollary is that the artists are, in a sense, setting themselves up to fail. They can be measured against readily available standards. Shortcomings are likely to be glaringly apparent.
Art that reaches beyond a general level of competence is rare. You can more or less depend on competence in what’s in the annual exhibition, but you can’t count on something more. It is to some extent a populist exhibition, but that doesn’t rule out quality. And in the end, it’s that incalculable extra, competence plus personality perhaps, that makes the difference between a poor show and a good one.
Make your way through the 560-plus works in this year’s RHA Annual Exhibition and chances are you’ll feel, that was pretty good. Not because it is all really good – it’s not – but because there’s more than enough to give a lift to your step along the way, despite the doldrums.
For this viewer, one of the wow moments is arriving at David Crone’s two fairly big paintings in the main gallery. Their titles, Garden Forms I and II, describe them accurately in that Crone’s inspiration lies in his garden. But, like Georges Braque with a still-life arrangement, he makes something wonderfully lyrical and serene with his material, building up complex arrangements of interwoven planes, forms and colours, creating compositions that are endlessly involving for the eye.
As impressive, though altogether different, is Maeve McCarthy’s nocturnal suite of modestly scaled paintings. They hint at a composite narrative, around the idea of setting off by night from the comfort of home to a stormy sea and they are beautifully, subtly observed. For sale individually (and inexpensively), they look as if they belong together.
Though not hanging together, Veronica Bolay’s paintings also make up a suite of sorts. A series of studies of spaces, domestic interiors or exteriors, they are either charged with a sense of absence, conveying a lingering warmth, or they capture the fleeting presence of a girl who seems always to be disappearing out of frame.
Bolay is incredibly sensitive to nuances of light and atmosphere. For once, the overworked word poetic is an appropriately descriptive term for a set of paintings.
Perhaps low-key trumps loud in general. Eithne Jordan focuses very effectively on mundane aspects of the environment in her paintings. Anita Shelbourne shows three relaxed, good-natured pieces. You could easily walk by Maggie Madden’s minimally stated but breathtaking sculpture.
In fact it’s transparent enough to have eluded the catalogue compilers. While she is mentioned as an invited artist there doesn’t seem to be any listing. Hugh Cummins’s three wood vases, Flight, are feather-light and elegant.
Individual pieces that are well worth seeking out include: Genieve Figgis’s bitingly satirical and non-PC Ladies Chatting; a pair of tremendously lively paintings by Diana Copperwhite; Terry Markey’s spectacular tower of jumbled scrap-wood; Paul Ringrose’s intricate, meditative study of woodland in Listarkin; Claire Kerr’s impossibly detailed miniature; Anthony Lyttle’s weave-patterned abstract; Patricia Burns’ moody, night-time motorway landscape; and Joe Dunne, who ventures seriously into landscape with a nod to Donald Teskey.
This is a list that could go on and on, which is a compliment to the exhibition.
Is there a downside? Yes, in the form of quirky visual puns, which are fine on first viewing but wearing in the long run. There is a lot of reasonably competent portraiture but relatively little with that something extra. Allyson Keehan’s Self-Portrait perhaps, Una Sealy’s lively, conversational account of a couple on their roof terrace, and some works that are as much figures in interiors as portraits: Michael O’Dea’s Tony Kilduff, his study of the late Tony Rudenko, and Colin Harrison’s The Problem with Munch.
Barrie Cooke’s Big Didymo, a spare, fluid, fabulously dynamic study of an invasive growth of a pest diatom (also known, charmingly, as “rock snot”), a freshwater scourge he encountered in New Zealand, is a reminder of what was lost when he died earlier this year.
Sadly, he is one of several much-missed academicians. His friend Seamus Heaney was on the honorary council, as were artists Patrick Scott and Campbell Bruce.
The Detroit Lions have hired Darrell Bevell as their offensive coordinator, the team announced Wednesday.
Bevell joins head coach Matt Patricia's staff after spending a season out of the NFL. He most recently served as the offensive coordinator of the Seattle Seahawks from 2011-17.
Ironically, it was Bevell who called the infamous pass play at the goal line in Super Bowl XLIX that resulted in an interception for the New England Patriots, whose defense was coordinated by Patricia.
The Lions' offense struggled in 2018 and the team did not retain Jim Bob Cooter as its offensive coordinator.
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A person can bleed to death in as little as five to eight minutes.
“Do you have any way to control the bleeding?” the dispatcher asked.
Gracey Evans, a seventeen-year-old junior at the time, remembers that she was walking down the hall with her friend Brett when someone rushed past them “like a black mass.” She didn’t realize that Brett was hurt until he “fell to the ground, withering in pain”—he had been stabbed in the back. In front of her, a boy in a red hoodie grabbed his stomach. A third boy collapsed. The victims took refuge in a nearby science classroom.
Brett’s wound did not look life-threatening, so Gracey dropped to her knees beside the boy in the red hoodie. She raised the hem of his sweatshirt and saw blood pouring out of a clean slit above his waistband. Although she had never witnessed real physical trauma before, she didn’t flinch. Her mother was an orthopedic nurse, and she had seen videos of athletes’ legs broken at grotesque angles.
Gracey recalls that someone handed her a “big wad” of those “terrible” brown paper towels that aren’t very absorbent. She placed them over the gash, interlaced her fingers, and pushed. A dancer, she’d been told that she was stronger than she appeared, and she worried that she might be hurting her classmate, but she kept pressing. The boy suddenly vomited, and part of his liver emerged from the wound. Gracey, nauseated, let go, and blood rushed out again. “I’m so sorry!” she cried, unable to continue. Another student, who happened to be an E.M.T., took over, buying the boy more time.
A category of emergency known as an Intentional Mass Casualty Event is now considered a public-health crisis. In recent years, deadly attacks have occurred at schools, offices, concerts, sporting events, shopping malls, and houses of worship. They have involved guns, knives, trucks, and improvised explosive devices. In March, a gunman killed fifty people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.
For victims whose injuries are serious but survivable, rapid treatment is essential. A person can bleed to death in as little as five to eight minutes. Traditionally, during an active-shooter event, paramedics held back until law enforcement secured the area, then rushed in to treat the wounded and evacuate them to hospitals. That approach changed after Columbine. During that event, rescuers, unable to determine if the killers were dead or hiding, didn’t reach some victims for hours. In a second-floor science lab, teachers and students were stranded with a coach, Dave Sanders, who had been shot once in the neck and once in the back. Two Eagle Scouts applied pressure to his wounds, and someone else put a sign in a window—“1 bleeding to death.” Sanders died at the scene; it’s unclear whether he would have survived with quicker or different treatment.
The Las Vegas shooter positioned himself in a sniper’s nest—a hotel window overlooking the festival—and sprayed the crowd with bullets. In this case, it was impossible to stage an orderly transition from a security phase to a medical phase: victims arrived at hospitals in Ubers and pickup trucks, or in the arms of loved ones and strangers.
As public shootings became commonplace, doctors started paying more attention to them. One such doctor was Lenworth Jacobs, the head trauma surgeon at Hartford Hospital, in Connecticut. He’d grown up in Jamaica, where his father was a doctor; when Jacobs was about seven, he and his dad came across an injured bicyclist by the side of the road, and the sight of his father urgently helping a stranger left a lasting impression. Jacobs told me that trauma surgery appealed to him because each case contains a “beginning, middle, and end.” A patient presents with a problem—“a gunshot wound, a stabbing”—which is then resolved, one way or another. When Jacobs wasn’t operating, he devised protocols that would help increase survival rates in the Emergency Department. At Hartford, he founded Life Star, the first helicopter-ambulance service in Connecticut.
The victims at Sandy Hook likely died instantly, but Jacobs, unable to “go back to business as usual,” kept thinking about what could be done to reduce casualties in the future. There was not even a second to waste in such incidents: the wounded had to be treated immediately, at the scene.
In trauma care, the primary cause of preventable death is hemorrhage. External bleeding can always be controlled in an extremity wound, if it is addressed quickly enough: no one should bleed to death from an arm or a leg injury, even with the loss of a limb.
This message had never been clearly conveyed to the public. Four months after Sandy Hook, Jacobs convened a small group of physicians, military leaders, and law-enforcement officials—including representatives of the F.B.I. and the Department of Defense—at Hartford Hospital. The group became known as the Hartford Consensus.
One member was Frank Butler, an ophthalmologist and a former Navy seal platoon commander. In the nineteen-nineties, Butler reviewed the state of battlefield trauma care in the U.S. military. He ultimately discovered that, during the Vietnam War, more than thirty-four hundred service members died because of hemorrhaging from extremity wounds.
For Butler, a solution came to mind: tourniquets. The devices are known to have been used as far back as 1674, during the Franco-Dutch War. Early versions consisted of a strip of cloth and a stick, which was used as a windlass. Modern tourniquets work much the same way: you snugly encircle a bleeding limb with a band of cloth, then turn the windlass, tightening the band until it stops the flow of blood.
Butler’s recommendations also introduced the concept of “tactical combat casualty care”: soldiers, trained with basic lifesaving skills and equipment, could act as front-line medics when necessary. Several élite combat units immediately embraced the idea. The Army’s 75th Ranger Regiment—whose members had seen comrades bleed to death from extremity wounds during the 1993 battle in Mogadishu—began training with tourniquets during simulated missions. Soldiers were taught how to apply a tourniquet to themselves or to someone else within seconds. A group of soldiers at Fort Bragg, in North Carolina, designed a tourniquet that was optimized for battlefield conditions; the device, which came to include a built-in windlass, secured by a plastic clip and a Velcro strap, is called a Combat Application Tourniquet, or C-A-T.
An outdated technique had become a modern cure. Tourniquets are now standard issue in the U.S. military, along with hemostatic dressings—sterile gauze infused with kaolin, a clay that promotes swift blood clotting. By 2012, the Journal of Vascular Surgery reported, some soldiers were embarking on missions with tourniquets “already in place” on their limbs.
In April, 2013, when Jacobs and the other experts convened at Hartford Hospital to talk about Intentional Mass Casualty Events, they discussed the tourniquet revival. The group decided that the military’s standardized approach to controlling external hemorrhage could be applied to civilian life: members of the public could be trained to identify and treat life-threatening bleeding. The Hartford Consensus devised a protocol, Stop the Bleed, in the hope that it would become as widely known as C.P.R. and Stop, Drop, and Roll.
Jacobs told me that Stop the Bleed training had to be short enough to fit “between church and cooking dinner, or between dinner and the football game,” and simple enough for a sixth grader to understand. The instruction had to focus on one goal: “Keep the blood in the body.” He and his colleagues knew that the protocol would save lives if they could persuade people to use it.
Thirteen days after the Hartford Consensus first met, explosive devices filled with nails and ball bearings detonated near the crowded finish line of the Boston Marathon. The sidewalks of Boylston Street were strewn with injured spectators. As a team of specialists later wrote in The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, the bombing was the first major terrorist event in the modern United States “with multiple, severe, war-like, lower-extremity injuries.” More than a dozen people lost limbs in the blasts.
The marathon attack confirmed the Hartford Consensus’s view: people would instantly help one another during a crisis, even when the injuries were almost unbearable to see, much less to touch. The real first responders were bystanders.
One icy morning in mid-January, Matthew Neal, a trauma surgeon and a research scientist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, got in his car and drove twenty-six miles north of the city. He arrived at Mars Area High School, where more than two hundred employees of the public-school district were filing into the auditorium, for a mandatory Stop the Bleed seminar. They wore puffy coats and snow boots, and carried Starbucks cups and thermoses that were still warm.
The Orlando Fire Department was modernizing its first-responder protocol when, in June, 2016, a gunman shot up the Pulse night club, killing forty-nine people and injuring fifty-three. Trauma specialists based at George Washington University Hospital, in Washington, D.C., found that four of the victims might have survived if they had received “basic E.M.S. care” within ten minutes and had been transported to a trauma hospital within an hour. (None of those who died had received tourniquets or other bleeding-control interventions.) Two days after the Pulse shooting, the American Medical Association voted to adopt a new policy aimed at training the general public in bleeding control.
In Pittsburgh, Andrew Peitzman, U.P.M.C.’s chief of surgery, urged the hospital system to embrace Stop the Bleed. Seminars were soon held throughout the region, with a special emphasis on training law-enforcement officers. U.P.M.C. announced that it would donate more than a million dollars to provide such supplies as tourniquets and hemostatic gauze to every public school, and to put “a tourniquet on the belt of every law-enforcement officer in western Pennsylvania.” By the start of this year, nearly forty thousand people in western Pennsylvania had been trained, and bleeding-control kits had been handed out to some five hundred public schools in the area—more than anywhere else in the country.
Stop the Bleed uses a “ripple” approach: volunteers train people, who, in turn, train others. At the Mars Area High School seminar, Neal and Forsythe were the volunteers, along with a group of Cranberry Township paramedics and U.P.M.C. flight nurses. The team also included a more unusual participant: Neal’s nine-year-old son, Cameron, who often helps his father teach workshops. He was standing with the other volunteers in a red-and-blue striped shirt, khaki cargo pants, and glasses. Before Christmas, Cameron’s third-grade teacher had assigned how-to presentations; recommended topics included how to bake cookies or make a paper airplane. Although Cameron has various areas of expertise—Legos, kung fu—he chose to demonstrate Stop the Bleed.
The standard presentation contains graphic images: an enormous leg gash, a nearly severed foot. Macky Neal warns audiences that the photographs may be upsetting, and trainees sometimes look away or leave. The queasiness is understandable. Blood is supposed to remain inside the body, and it can be sickening to see it released, especially in large quantities. Blood is slippery and messy, and it has a strong metallic smell. Under certain circumstances, it may transmit disease. In traumatic injuries, blood may be mixed with body tissue and teeth and bone. Neal, the son of a Pennsylvania State Police commander, believes that showing people images of severe injuries, if done sensitively, can reduce their unease in a crisis later, just as the use of dummies in C.P.R. training helps people overcome the discomfort of performing chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation during a cardiac arrest.
The location of a wound dictates treatment. For an arm or a leg, use a tourniquet. For a “junctional” injury—neck, armpit, groin—press against the wound or pack it with gauze. (Place the victim on a hard surface, to maximize pressure.) For a chest, belly, or head wound, the most helpful interventions, such as suction or a needle thoracostomy, require E.M.S. training, but applying pressure can help a patient hold on. Skeptics sometimes ask Neal whether administering emergency care will traumatize a young person, to which he responds, “It may be more traumatic to stand there and watch someone die.” The National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health recently received a fema grant to design a Stop the Bleed-style program for schools.
They moved on to wound packing. Forsythe told the crowd, “This is the part that gives some people the willies.” The hole in the fake limb simulated a gunshot or a stabbing injury. Cameron poked an index finger into it and said, “As you can see, it’s really deep.” He steadily thumbed length after length of gauze into the hole, and said, “You’re gonna stuff it in.” The audience laughed.
The wound held several feet of gauze. When no more fit, Cameron balled up the remaining material and used it to apply pressure on top. His father explained that, beneath the skin, a wound could be surprisingly large—it was important to “get gauze down in there, to occupy that space.” Packing a wound added pressure that impeded blood flow, and the kaolin in the gauze encouraged clotting. In a mass-casualty incident, using tourniquets and packing wounds could free up first responders to move on to other patients.
The audience had questions. Which should be used first with an extremity wound, a tourniquet or wound packing? A tourniquet. What if the patient fights you? Calmly but firmly explain what you’re doing, and acknowledge that the tourniquet may be painful. Forsythe noted, “Tourniquets hurt—a lot.” (Paramedics typically give victims pain medication.) What if you don’t have any hemostatic gauze? “If I needed to, right now, I could take off my scarf or my jacket and use that,” she said.
For the second half of the training, everyone trooped to the cafeteria and broke into groups. Each table held a fake limb and a Stop the Bleed kit. The basic kit, which is sold online by the American College of Surgeons, costs sixty-nine dollars. It contains a C-A-T, a compression bandage, protective gloves, hemostatic gauze, and a Sharpie, for writing “tourniquet,” and the time it was put on, in a highly visible location, such as across the patient’s forehead.
Brad Orsini, one of the F.B.I. agents who worked the Franklin Regional case, retired in December, 2016. The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh hired him right away, as its first director of community security. Violence affecting the Jewish community had “become increasingly common around the world,” the group’s C.E.O., Jeffrey Finkelstein, said at the time.
Orsini spent twenty-eight years in the F.B.I.; during part of that time, he was a crisis manager. His new job entails conducting security assessments of the federation’s seventy or so buildings and training the fifty thousand members of the local Jewish community in how to stay safe during an Intentional Mass Casualty Event. Orsini and the federation have also begun providing free training at mosques, through the Muslim Association of Greater Pittsburgh.