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6 Shocking Revelations About Wall Street's "Secret Government"
Ed Jewett
Top officials willfully concealed the true extent of the 2008-'09 bailouts from Congress and the public.
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We now have concrete evidence that Wall Street and Washington are running a secret government far removed from the democratic process. Through a freedom of information request by Bloomberg News, the public now has access to over 29,000 pages of Fed documents and 21,000 additional Fed transactions that were deliberately hidden, and for good reason. (See here and here.)
These documents show how top government officials willfully concealed from Congress and the public the true extent of the 2008-'09 bailouts that enriched the few and enhanced the interests of giant Wall Streets firms. Here's what we now know:
The secret Wall Street bailouts totaled $7.77 trillion, 10 times more than the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) passed by Congress in 2008.
Knowledge of the secret bailout funds was not shared with Congress even while it was drafting and debating legislation to break up the big banks.
The secret funding, provided at below-market rates, gave Wall Street banks an additional $13 billion in profits. (That's enough money to hire more than 325,000 entry level teachers.)
The secret loans financed bank mergers so that the largest banks could grow even larger. The money also allowed banks to step up their lobbying efforts.
While Henry Paulson (Bush's Secretary of the Treasury) was informing Congress and the public that only minor reforms were needed to protect Fannie and Freddie from collapse, he met secretly with leading Wall Street hedge fund managers -- among them his former colleagues at Goldman Sachs -- to alert them that he was about to nationalize the giant mortgage companies a move that would eradicate nearly all the stock value of the companies. This information was enormously valuable because it allowed these hedge funds to short Fannie and Freddie and thereby make a fortune.
While Timothy Geithner was head of the NY Federal Reserve, he argued against legislative efforts by Senator Ted Kaufman, D-Delaware, to limit the size of banks because the issue was "too complex for Congress and that people who know the markets should handle these decisions," Kaufman recalls. Meanwhile, Geithner was fully aware of the enormous secret loans while Senator Kaufman was kept in the dark. Barney Frank, who was authoring key bank reform legislation was also not informed of the secret loans. No one in Congress was told.
So what does this all mean?
1. The big banks and hedge funds were in much more trouble than we were led to believe.
As many of us suspected, all the big banks were on their knees begging for help secretly while telling their investors, the public and Congress that all was well. They had gambled and lost. Under the rules of ideal capitalism, they should have suffered some "creative destruction," and seen their shareholder value eliminated through bankruptcy, and their managers replaced. The entire banking system should have been reorganized from top to bottom as well. Instead, these colossal failures were secretly rewarded.
2. Wall Street's secret government made sure the largest banks would grow even larger, aided by the secret funding.
While Congress was debating legislation to break up the large banks and reinstitute Glass Steagall (to separate risky investment banking from insured commercial banking,) the secret government was using public funds to grow even larger through mergers and acquisitions. Because Congress and the public were unaware of the secret funding and ill-health of all the banks, the legislation was easily defeated. As the chart below makes painfully clear, too-big-to-fail banks grew even bigger.
3. The bigger Wall Street becomes, the more government it can buy.
This part isn't secret. As the top six banks grew larger, they spent more funds lobbying to make sure that they wouldn't suffer any unprofitable impacts from banking reform legislation. So after the biggest banks received hundreds of billions in secret loans, they upped their lobbying funds to maintain their size and power. Read em and weep:
4. Wall Street's secret government protects its own.
At first, it's not easy to understand how Treasury Secretary Paulson, the former head of Goldman Sachs, could risk attending a secret meeting with giant hedge fund managers, many of whom used to work at Goldman Sachs. How could the nation's highest ranking financial official dare to tip off these hedge fund elites about the imminent government takeover of Fannie and Freddie before Congress and the public were informed? Well, one answer is that Paulson felt obliged to warn his old comrades of the impeding nationalization. Maybe, he wanted to get them out of harm's way just in case they were heavily involved in those markets. Or maybe he also wanted to give them a very valuable tip to profit by. But the deeper explanation, I believe, is that Wall Street's key government officials Paulson, Summers, Geithner, Orszag (the former Obama OMB chief who now makes millions working for CitiGroup), etc. truly believe the following:
Wall Street banks are the best in the world and are the cutting-edge of the American economy. They are our future.
Wall Street bankers and hedge fund managers are enormously smarter and sharper than the rest of us. They deserve our admiration.
Helping Wall Street to grow and prosper is precisely the same thing as helping all Americans and the entire economy. They deserve our support.
Secret meetings to provide insider information are normal on Wall Street. There's nothing wrong with warning your friends about upcoming policy decisions that might impact their profits.
There's also absolutely nothing wrong with providing trillions of dollars of secret loans to the best and the brightest and not telling Congress about it.
It's all a closed loop of self-justification and self-deception: Wall Street is brilliant. What Wall Street does is for the good of the country. Helping Wall Street profit is good for the country. Hiding the truth from democratically elected leaders is also for the good of the country because Wall Street is brilliant and knows better.
And all this is deeply believed by Wall Street and its secret government, even though Wall Street, and Wall Street alone, took down the economy and killed 8 million jobs in a matter of months. Simply brilliant!
5. Wall Street is a clear and present danger to democracy.
Usually, I am not an alarmist. In fact, I often argue against facile conspiracy theories. I want to believe that our democracy still has promise. But, the Wall Street-induced crash and the government's response to it has me very worried. The Bloomberg News revelations suggest that Wall Street's secret government has enormous disdain for what remains of our democracy. The financial elites obviously believe that Congress cannot be trusted to do the right thing even when it is bought and paid for by the very banks it supposedly regulates. As for the rest of us? We're just a financially illiterate mass to be manipulated through the mass media. Our minds too can be bought and sold through careful marketing.
This financial arrogance and corruption is enormously corrosive to our democratic values. Already, many Americans, and for good reason, no longer trust their government. Already, many Americans, and for good reason, no longer vote. Already, many Americans, and for good reason, believe that democracy as we know it is a sham. Wall Street couldn't have written a better script to maintain its domination.
6. Occupy Wall Street is fundamentally correct, but we need more.
The occupiers dramatically attacked Wall Street elites and captured the country's imagination with their 1 percent, 99 percent framework. And the idea is sticking and spreading. But that's only the start. To reclaim our country from Wall Street's secret government we will need to develop an enormous movement among the 99 percent. Although we hope it just happens spontaneously through Twitter and Facebook, we all know it will require hardcore organizing involving millions of us.
At the moment, no one knows what form it will take. But we do know this: great concentrations of power and wealth do not give up their power and wealth without an enormous fight. Wall Street's secret government is more than ready to protect itself, even if it means subverting democracy. Our occupiers have shown great courage in helping us reclaim our democratic rights. Let's hope it spreads…and soon.
Les Leopold is the executive director of the Labor Institute and Public Health Institute in New York, and author of The Looting of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs, Pensions, and Prosperityand What We Can Do About It (Chelsea Green, 2009).
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Songhoy Blues - Optimisme
Songhoy Blues
23rd October 2020 / LP or CD / Transgressive
“By keeping the sound refreshingly straight-forward, the emphasis has been thrown on the band’s knack for hitting the riffs and finding a groove.”
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Songhoy Blues make a welcome return to bring the Malian shimmer to guitar music, harder-rocking this time but still the same Songhoy sweetness.
Sons of Mali. Groundbreaking Artists. Refugees. Virtuosos. Survivors. Rock Stars. Unforgettable and undeniable, SONGHOY BLUES represent the future of African rock n’ roll. Now they return with their third album 'Optimisme'.
+ Limited Indie shop version LP is pressed on gold coloured vinyl.
Arguably one of the most successful and exciting bands to emerge from Africa in recent years. The lead track from the album is called 'Badala', Songhoy for “We Don’t Give a F*ck”. This follows the infectious and anthemic first single, Worry.
Talking about the track, Aliou from the band said:
"When you go out to clubs in Soho, London or New York, you hear hard rock music that can make people move. We wanted to make a rock club crowd get involved with Songhoy Blues. It’s about Songhoy Blues reaching even further than before. We want to see people jumping on a Songhoy Blues track, like they were at a concert. Matt Sweeney said something important the day before we went into the studio. He said ‘We need to make a real Songhoy Blues album. Songhoy Blues stage energy is crazy. Why don’t you put that energy straight in the song?’ That’s what we did."
This 11-song, multilingual album marks a real musical breakthrough. Musically harder, steeped in deep traditions of classic Malian music and desert blues and fused with an urgent and super-charged sound of now, the album was produced by Matt Sweeney of beloved indie rockers Chavez, who’s worked with a host of celebrated artists including Johnny Cash, Run the Jewels, El-P, Cat Power and Will Oldham, and recorded & mixed by Daniel Schlett (The War on Drugs, Modest Mouse, Ghostface Killah) in Brooklyn, NY.
Formed almost ten years ago, born from civil war and a country divided by ideology, Songhoy Blues have travelled a long way, in every sense. Surely one of the greatest live bands on the planet, their dynamic and tenaciously unique style has enthralled audiences across the spectrum, bringing their musical culture to people across the globe.
First attracting the attention of Damon Albarn’s Africa Express and label Transgressive from their performance on the acclaimed ‘Maison Des Jeunes’ record, the band went into the studio with Nick Zinner producing their debut LP, ‘Music in Exile’, beginning a touring cycle that soon took them from the 80 capacity Servants Jazz Quarters in Dalston to Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage and the Royal Albert Hall. Their second album, ‘Résistance’, produced by Neil Comber (MIA, Gengahr), broadened the palette sonically and celebrated its diversity featuring the likes of Iggy Pop and Elf Kid.
Appearing in 'They Will Have To Kill Us First', an award-winning documentary film centred around the situation in Mali, acting as spokespersons for WaterAID, performing at the UN Climate Action Summit, forming a key part of The Imperial War Museum’s “Culture Under Attack”, performing a series-stealing show at the Nile Rodgers curated Meltdown Festival at London’s South Bank in 2019 and performing in the BBC’s “Noughts And Crosses” show, they are always working, campaigning and, bringing joy and pointing to salvation through their music.
Praise for Songhoy's last album, Résistance:
"'Resistance' bubbles with zest and vitality!" - Mojo.
"This follow-up is even better [than 2015's Music In Exile], their skittery rhythms making fuller use of R&B grooves, brass and funky licks." - Uncut.
"They hit a James Brown groove on Bamako, use fiddle on the Ali Farka-style Hometown, and let loose a children’s choir on One Colour, a delightful closer to a joyous, eclectic album." - Observer.
"Where British guitar bands like the Arctic Monkeys have failed in enabling their audiences to dance in any way more stylised than an up-down jump, this guitar band play songs you could very nearly jive to, partner in hand." - Drowned In Sound.
"Their original influences were desert blues and traditional Songhai styles, but here these are transformed by tight, attacking riffs, jangling funk guitar work and the addition of brass and keyboards." - Guardian.
"Songhoy Blues have once again produced an album for all. This is quite simply a record for anyone ready to get down to some beautiful rhythms." - Clash.
1. Badala
2. Assadja
3. Fey Fey
4. Gabi
5. Barre
6. Pour Toi
7. Bon Bon
8. Worry
9. Korfo
10. Dournia
11. Kouma
Format /LP or CD
Released /23rd October 2020
Catalogue / TRANS469X
Barcode / 5400863036492
Artist / Songhoy Blues
Label /Transgressive
Genre / World Music
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These fragments I have shored against my ruins
The Last Messiah
On May 1, 2017 May 1, 2017 By Scott HarrisonIn Uncategorized
I stumbled upon a bleak work of Philosophy by the Norwegian Peter Wessel Zapffe: “The Last Messiah.” A deeply pessimistic, anti-humanist and antinatalist work, described by one reviewer as “The human condition stripped naked, truthfully and painfully,” (Sven-are Bjerke) it is a fascinating read.
A strange book indeed, but I am attracted to the philosopher’s brooding Nordic thoughts. I found a helpful navigator through these pessimistic straits in a review by a 24-year old Norwegian, “Jakob” (also at Good Reads: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1403348401) who rescued me from complete dejection with his observation that “Camus… grappled with many of these themes and questions during the same period and came to a slightly different conclusion: yes, the universe is without any inherent meaning, and it isn’t capable of answering some of our most pressing questions. But perhaps the best we can do is to rebel, scoff at the fates and—like Sisyphus—keep rolling that stone.”
Jakob’s review in full:
In 1933, Peter Wessel Zapffe shook the philosophical circles up in his native country when he published this essay, Den sidste messias. In this essay he gives his account of the nature of the human life and how we typically deal with it, and he outlines the main themes that he would later develop more thoroughly in his phd thesis Om det tragiske (which I believe hasn’t been translated to English, somewhat surprisingly).
Safe to say, Zapffe’s account of humanity is a bleak one. The main tenet that runs through much of his philosophy is this belief: while most all other animals have developed biological tools that stand in proportion to their essential tasks in life, it is not so with modern man. We been vastly over-endowed with an advanced consciousness that allows us to reflect upon our selves, our transient nature, and pose questions about grander meaning in the universe. In fact, paradoxically, nature has given us a consciousness that writes checks (in form of metaphysical questions) that nature can’t cash (through answers to these questions).
Life had overshot its target, blowing itself apart. A species had been armed too heavily – by spirit made almighty without, but equally a menace to its own well-being.
This is what Zapffe views as the tragic element of human existence—the discrepancy between our potential and what nature allows for us.
Zapffe illustrates this point by asking us to picture a Paleolithic hunter. While hunting for prey, he suddenly becomes aware of his place in the universe, and ponders about the shared fate of all living creatures. His loss of practical focus ends fatally. Our consciousness has evolved so far that Zapffe imagines that it can become calamitous to our survival. Zapffe points out that this isn’t the first time that a species suffers from over-evolution of one’s ability. He references the giant Irish Elk, who through the games of evolution developed antlers of such size that it contributed to their own extinction. He powerfully suggests: in depressive states, the mind may be seen in the image of such an antler, in all its fantastic splendour pinning its bearer to the ground.
So why, then, do we go on living seemingly undisrupted, generation upon generation?
Zapffe claims it is mostly due to conscious and unconscious efforts to limit our own consciousness and keep the darkest impulses hidden away. In this sense, he echoes much of the Freudian thinking of his time. We use defense mechanisms such as isolation, which is simply to ignore and suppress such thoughts.
We may use anchoring, which is to invent our own arbitrary goals and overarching meaning (typically God, Church, State, or various idealistic ideas).
We also often use distraction (probably more relevant than ever in these ever more accelerating technological times—just give the children some iPads, and they won’t get the time to face themselves).
The last tactic he describes is the use of sublimation , which is a more conscious strategy which attempts to turn the dark and tragic realizations into art and other productive activities.
In his forecast of our species future, he proposes that we will eventually face a collective breakdown as we get more and more time to reflect upon such existential matters, and that new methods of anchoring at one point won’t convince us anymore as we continue to overthrow our old ones (demise of God etc). He famously consummates his text with the short parable of the “Last Messiah” who will come and cry out: Know yourselves – be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye
What to say about this philosophy? Well, it probably comes as a surprise to no one to hear that Zapffe was a deeply unhappy and troubled man for large parts of his life. He had a dreadful childhood, and on several occasion he openly spoke about being abused as a child. It’s hard not to think that this provides a relevant backdrop for the terribly grim philosophy he would develop. That said, perhaps he would argue that this corroborates his point: our staunch tendency to ascribe deeply pessimistic philosophies merely as results of horrible childhoods and troubled psyches could be yet another sign about our wish to deny and hide these impulses away, an attempt to disarm them in a way.
In the end, while Zapffe’s philosophy is certainly thought-provoking and remarkable in that it dares to voice the questions that are disturbingly taboo to this day, it’s still hard to join completely in his grim outlook. A universe without us would in a way be wasted. Humans are seemingly a once-in-history occurrence in the sense that we are the only ones who can truly and fully perceive the richness of the universe (albeit still within certain limits of our own). If what he deems defense-mechanisms are in fact things that can be perceived as making life subjectively meaningful for others, is that really so bad? I am somewhat sympathetic to the viewpoint of Camus, who grappled with many of these themes and questions during the same period and came to a slightly different conclusion: yes, the universe is without any inherent meaning, and it isn’t capable of answering some of our most pressing questions. But perhaps the best we can do is to rebel, scoff at the fates and—like Sisyphus—keep rolling that stone
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Schopenhauer Pauer Sick Sick Six
>But perhaps the best we can do is to rebel, scoff at the fates and—like Sisyphus—keep rolling that stone
Does that argument have the momentum of te average boulder-enough to cross-over into the next generation? Imagine:
Dad, what’s life about? Why are we here?
Life isn’t about anything, son. Your mother and I had you for no reason and the only purpose you have is to be a sensation seeking animal. The dangers and struggles should fill your heart. And if you stick it out to the bitter end, why, your balls will surely be boulders of their own.
Th-thanks?
Sick sick semper, peebers and champers
Tempted to put, Bieber in Pampers
Scott Harrison
I seriously doubt if the argument has sufficient momentum, and the Dad’s argument seems thin to me, somehow. David Benatar would say so too I think. Cioran too, but why are both their positions to me seemingly unsatisfactory (and I’m suspicious of snarling Cioran who lived to a ripe old age even with his useful platitude that suicide always happens too late). I appreciate your challenge. Maybe Sisyphus was an idiot to keep rolling the boulder, or perhaps there is an answer beyond both Sisyphus and Zapffe, or would Zapffe just pity me for my senseless quest?
Benjamin Vandogyules
A useful perspective by Trine Riel on Zapffe: https://medium.com/after-us/the-last-messiah-930217041874
I am sorry for the prodigious prolixity of my comment, but your post really activated my almonds….
I suppose we antinatalists are always side-eyed and sidelined due to the effrontery of our continued existence. And it’s true. You are entitled to question Cioran’s resolve (look at nietzche; do these aphoristic philosophers *stand* for anything? Yall niggas takin’ a knee up in here!), bbut I view it as more ‘meta’. Antinatalism is a fairly cynical philosophy (I mean, the only scope for “Hope” is that it will be adopted by others-emphasis on ‘adopt’!!!) and he was cynical about even that, in its implications. An ergonomic,acedic (i.e from acedia) minimalism of implicit, fractal cynicism.
Besides, clearly, antinatalism has no argument *against* suicde, given opportunity and testicular fortitutde. But if you really believe that we should suicide, you are saying ‘antinatalism is a logical, coherent belief that logically exhorts (though does not require) suicide.’, Fine, that means extending access to helium canisters and/or barbituates. Even given the barbarities of current methods, suic-ideation didn’t get Mitchell Heisman, Virginia Woolf etc serious treatment (I.e academic consideration, not freudulent therapy). Our continued existence is a cop-out, but our suicide is a cop-out for society, which can pretend we (and our ideas) never existed.
There are only two circumstances when you can gamble with another sentience’s welfare:1) it’s a sure winner (they have complete control over their environment such that frustration is impossible) 2) there is an easy, dignified method for them to fold their hand, cuz “the best you can hope for is to die in your sleep”.
And now I am rambling, and I haven’t even got to your most interesting arguments-of ontology/teleology and its deontological applications.. “Maybe there is an answer beyond both Sisyphus and Zapffe”. If you wanna talk about transcendence, this existence (including, but not limited to, the hard problem of consciousness; it’s the old paradox of larger fuel tanks require more thrust to escape, which requires more rocket fuel, you savvy? “if our brains were simple enough to understand, we would be too simple to understand them”) is beyond our understanding. In what set of circumstances shall we feel ‘at home’? Chesterton (I am an atheist with no bigotries against-indeed extensive sympathies with-religious doctrine couched in mysticism (gnostics/Bogomils/theraputae)scholasticism (Platonic apologia) and ascetism (Desert Fathers, mortification)) said (I paraphrase) that it is truly a mark of Man’s divinity that he considers this world strange, yet he knows of no other. More worrisome, as an atheist, I have to impute the ‘problem of evil’ upon parents, not gods- and even the religious are culpable for eternal hell and suchlike-after all, procreators are co-creators. Transcendence is the indulgence of the austere, the refuge of the rigorous. It is a reason to abandon Reason.
. In the final analysis, the religious would have us believe that this plane of existence is a test of our virtue, when it’s really a test of our intelligence. The sooner we SMOD (M for ‘Missile’) the f-uh, check out, the smarter we will have proved ourselves to be. The unborn won’t thank us, but they would if they knew
Sick Sick Semper, Dichter und Denker
Styx styx hammer, sperging like Sprenger
I appreciate your response Schopenhauer Pauer Sick Sick Six – food for thought indeed (as to how Cioran could live to a ripe old age, further clarity on the antinatalist position – and the double cop out dilemma you refer to). The rocket fuel analogy is apt too … “beyond Zapffe” is to become even more entangled in the reindeer’s antlers.
It’s overcast and cold this morning, a few tentative birds singing, and the sigh of the wind. My exhausted, heavy antlers rest on the ground. Thomas Merton is in the background of my thoughts, his words written from the monastic austerity and simplicity of the Abbey of Gethsemane – and christian mysticism helps with my antlers a little, though many would consider that a cop out too(which it might be, but who can blame a tired reindeer?)
“The unborn won’t thank us, but they would if they knew” – powerful.
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Officials with the National Guards of Georgia and Minnesota offered swift denials on Saturday regarding allegations that some of its citizen soldiers sent into protest zones were underage.
Video captured in Minneapolis and Atlanta during the fourth day of protests over the police killing of George Floyd, 46, appeared to show several armed young men and women dressed in battle fatigues. In footage posted to Twitter, protesters are heard saying the soldiers appear as young as 13 years old.
The videos quickly went viral on Twitter with most users expressing shock or dismay over the soldiers’ diminutive height and youthful visage. Many of the apparent guardsmen seemed dwarfed by the protesters who approached them without resistance. In the small hours of the morning, rampant allegations began to spread online that the National Guard had deployed “child soldiers” to quell the violent clashes with police. (The hashtag #HitlerYouth trended in some cities.)
Asked whether any of its members depicted in the videos are minors, Lt. Colonel Patrick Watson, the director of public affairs for the Georgia National Guard, said in an email: “Absolutely not.”
Sergeant First Class Ben Houtkooper, a public affairs specialist for the Minnesota National Guard, wrote that, “All of our activated service members are traditional, fully-trained Citizen-Soldiers and Airmen, with ages currently ranging from 18 to 63.”
Both officials were provided copies of the footage taken in their respective states beforehand.
The U.S. Army’s minimal height requirement is 58 inches or four-foot-ten. The minimum weight requirement for male soldiers this tall is 91 lbs. Women under five-foot tall must weigh at least 124 lbs. (The average 13-year-old teenager is taller than this minimum height requirement.)
It’s also easy to determine the sizes of certain objects in the footage because they are standard, such as the rifles they are holding, which are over three-foot long. One of the shortest-looking soldiers is holding a rifle this size and is clearly almost two feet taller than the weapon in her hand. Another guardsman appears small because she’s standing next a much taller male, but she’s also holding a riot shield, which is typically 48-inches tall and only rises to her chest. This would make her around four-foot-ten, at a minimum.
The camera angle in some cases, pointed downward at these shorter individuals, may make the subjects appear smaller than they are. But this is a perspective illusion.
A night-time video captured in Atlanta—confirmed by the appearance of the city’s Bank of America tower in the distance—depicts four guardsmen holding rifles and riot shields. The individual filming them is heard saying: “This is honestly weird, there is literally like a 12-year-old out here—13, maybe 14. I don’t know what the fuck y’all got runnin’.”
Other footage of the Minnesota National Guard was captured by Instagram user @freebandz.sj, who came into close contact with the guardsmen. The guardsman did not break ranks or issue any commands for the protesters to halt their advance or step back. The encounter appeared largely peaceful.
At one point, @freebandz.sj appears to lean down and speak with a female solder standing in formation. “At 8 o’clock there’s a curfew, you know that right?” he says. The guardsman appears to respond that they are not there to enforce the city’s curfew. @freebandz.sj responds, “That’s what I like to hear, good job.”
Patches on the troops’ uniforms resemble those in use by the 347th Regional Support Group, which is part of the 34th Red Bull Infantry Division based out of the Minneapolis region.
@freebandz.sj later asks the guardsman what happens if the police and protesters clash. “If we’re peacefully protesting and they come attacking us, what’s going to happen? Are you guys going to help them or not?” The guardsman’s responses are too muffled by her gas mask to hear. (The footage appears sideways on YouTube.)
Speculation was rampant online that the smaller guardsmen may be members of a mobilized JROTC or participants in other youth programs.
The National Guard runs a Child, Youth & School Services program “available for school age dependants of Army National Guard service members ages 6 to 18 years old.” The program’s mission statement is to “promote and sustain the quality of life and resiliency of National Guard children and youth by providing secure, timely, flexible, high-quality support services and enrichment programs.” The program also has a U.S. Army equivalent.
Officials with the National Guard units deployed in Atlanta and Minneapolis denied that anyone depicted in battledress are members of any youth program. All are at least 18 years old, they said.
Later in the Minneapolis video, the guardsman appear to be coordinating with police. It is only after they fall back to the police department’s staging position that police officers begin firing tear gas at protesters to enforce the 8pm curfew.
The nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers entered its fourth day with crowds gathering in as many as 30 cities. The National Guard has been authorized to help control crowds in Georgia and protests at the White House are expected again tonight.
In a tweet Saturday, President Trump appeared to invited his supporters to counter-protest demonstrators at the White House, saying: “Tonight, I understand is MAGA NIGHT AT THE WHITE HOUSE???”
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GoDaddy used a holiday bonus email as a phishing scam test and people aren’t happy
I can’t quite think of a worse way for a company to test whether its employees will fall for a phishing scam than by sending out an email notifying them that they’d be receiving a holiday bonus, especially in the December month of a year beset by a global pandemic. But GoDaddy appears to think otherwise, because that’s exactly what it did.
A copy of the email, which was first sent out on Dec, 14, was recently obtained by 12 News which read:
12 News notes that the email was sent out after GoDaddy’s employees had already been told they weren’t receiving a bonus in 2020. And, if that wasn’t bad enough, this also happened months after the company announced lay-offs across the country. Read more…
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Embracing Digital Disruption with Voice Technology
Alexey Chalimov / 12th January, 2021 / Trends
Machine-to-human interaction is getting more sophisticated. A while ago, the adoption of touch screens had changed the way we communicate with our devices’ operating systems, and now, the use of voice technology is gaining momentum, propelled by the need to introduce contactless interactions during the COVID-19 outbreak.
The stage for the emergence of voice-enabled devices and interfaces, though, had been set long before the pandemic. Voice technology adoption has been driven to a large extent, by demographic and social factors as our daily lives become increasingly more complicated.
Below, we will give you a brief overview of voice tech use cases, and uncover its business benefits. But first, let’s take a closer look at the existing voice-enabled solutions and how they work. Read on to learn more!
What is voice technology?
Voice processing technology is not entirely new. In fact, computers were capable of receiving voice commands as early as the 1990s, but lacked conversational interfaces. Nowadays, the proliferation of cloud solutions and AI is finally enabling voice recognition technology to fully unleash its potential.
In essence, voice tech is an integration of NLP, cloud computing, wireless networking, speech recognition and other complex technologies enabling us to use voice commands to operate devices and perform internet searches.
Today, the voice recognition technology market is expanding at a 16.8% growth rate and is set to reach $27.16 billion by 2025. About 90% of people report they are enjoying voice search, and 62% of shoppers using voice search say they plan on using it again.
On top of that, there’s a growing trend for the development of Voice User Interface (VUI) software. As experts prophesize, voice interface will become the predominant means of how we interact with devices in the near future. Why reach for the remote to switch to another channel or control the lighting when you can tell your virtual assistant to do it?
Speaking of voice-based virtual assistants, most of the Internet and smartphone users are already well familiar with the following apps:
Siri – built by Apple, Inc., this virtual assistant uses a natural-language user interface and machine learning to perform searches, give recommendations, and communicate with users. It also uses gesture-based controls, apart from voice communication, and comes installed by default in IOS, watchOS, tvOs and other Apple products.
Alexa is an AI-based virtual assistant built by Amazon. Alexa uses voice interactions and performs tasks like setting alarms, assembling to-do-lists, playing music and podcasts, etc. It is also used in home-automation systems and its skill sets can be extended with third-party apps.
Cortana is a virtual assistant built by Microsoft. Cortana can perform a wide range of features and act as a full-fledged assistant: schedule meetings, set reminders, perform a range of sophisticated searches, record personal data and access it on-demand, etc. The assistant can recognize music and notify users about upcoming concerts, find the nearest local attractions, and more.
Google Assistant is a voice app for Android OS. It also comes as a standalone app for iOS. Google Assistant recognizes the human voice, although keyboard entry is also available. This voice assistant can perform voice searches, take notes, set alarm clocks, schedule events, and adjust the device’s hardware settings.
As per the Voice Report by Microsoft, 69% of customers were using voice apps in 2019, primarily, on their mobile phones. In business, 19% of organizations are using voice assistants, and 46% are planning the adoption of voice enabled technology in the near future.
How does voice technology work?
Voice recognition technology is, in essence, the use of digital systems to recognize and authenticate the voice of an individual. The concept of voice recognition is often confused with speech recognition, however, these technologies are distinctly different. While speech recognition technology can understand what has been said, voice tech identifies a speaker via recognizing individual voice specifics and patterns.
An example of speech recognition is a YouTube search feature, enabling users to search for videos using audio input. Voice recognition technologies act similarly to fingerprint identification, helping install highly-personalized locks on a car or a home. Voice-enabled technology is preventing others from using your devices or accessing the information that you want to keep private.
Benefits of voice technology
Initially, the adoption of voice technology has come across a number of challenges. It’s no secret that voice-enabled systems were cumbersome and uncomfortable to use at the early stages of their existence. Today, though, voice processing technology has become a lot more advanced and has all it takes to become a valuable asset for businesses and individuals.
Here’s what the benefits of voice technology can bring to the table:
Fast searches
The reasons why people use voice technologies mostly revolve around the freedom of movement that comes with conversational interfaces. Voice search works faster than manual input, saving time, and enabling users to search for whatever they need on the go or while driving.
No learning curve
Voice User Interface is as intuitive as it can be – rather than us learning how to talk to machines, it’s the other way around – artificial intelligence is learning how to recognize individual voice and understand human language. Moreover, it looks like soon machines will understand even our hidden intentions, as tech giants are already working on AI assistants capable of understanding human emotions.
Creating lists and schedules
With voice-based software, customers can create simple shopping and to-do-lists, schedule tasks, make appointments, etc. Virtual assistants are perfect in organizing daily routines: they remember everything and are instantly available. Electronic reminders and schedulers eliminate paperwork and help handle daily tasks faster and more efficiently.
Accessing apps on devices
Voice assistants like OK Google and Siri can control apps on your devices and perform some complex functions: Searching flights to a specific location, looking for special offers and discounts, booking a doctor’s appointment, or looking up an address in an address book – the range of things they can do is getting increasingly diverse. Amazon’s Alexa, which can act as a digital smart home manager, is a vivid example of how intelligent virtual helpers have become.
Voice-based software can read printed documents back to you so that you can identify and correct errors or inadequacies. Such software generates a robotic voice that reads the text out loud without omitting a word and enabling you to make all the necessary corrections.
Voice apps are transforming our daily lives as well as the business environment. In the next section, we will explore examples of how voice recognition technology is applied in different business segments or industries.
Voice technology use cases
The integration of voice enabled-technologies is underway in many business segments, streamlining a lot of routine operations, and accounting for the introduction of sleeker and smaller devices as well as lighter and more convenient software interfaces. Let’s now take a closer look at voice technology examples in different industries.
Application of voice recognition technology in banking and finance
The finance sector has been among the first ones to recognize the potential of voice tech. Currently, the clients of PayPal, Venmo, and a number of established banks can send payments via mobile personal voice assistants. A lot of financial market players are implementing voiced-enabled services.
For example, Garanti bank has built a proprietary voice based application that clients can use to transfer funds and pay for products by pronouncing a name of a company or a person.
Voice technology examples in healthcare
The healthcare industry has immense potential for the adoption of voice-enabled technology. Eliminating manual entry can help physicians reduce the time it normally takes to input patient data into the EHR system and enable them to see more patients or reach a better work-life balance.
In the patient care segment, voice-enabled systems can help patients take better control of their environment, control lighting and heating, and feel more comfortable during their recuperation period. On top of that, voice-based software streamlines workflows by freeing up the hands of the healthcare professionals, enabling them to easily retrieve patient-related information via voice commands.
Using voice-enabled solutions in education
Before the pandemic, the adoption of voice assistants had been gradually taking place, but the post-pandemic surge in distant and hybrid education has led to the increased use of tools like Alexa or Google Assistant in the classroom.
Voice-enabled solutions can streamline the teacher’s work and automate writing progress reports, sending email assignments, updates and even shopping lists with essential items for homeschooling.
How voice search technology revolutionizes transportation
Voice related technologies are impacting the public transportation sector as well; today, they are already a part of car sharing services like Uber. Voice assistants are also helping citizens across the world receive information about available public transportation routes and schedules.
In the near future, bus and train stops will be equipped with voice interfaces, helping people choose optimal routes to their destinations. On top of that, voice technology fosters inclusions providing a helping hand to the elderly and the visually impaired.
Creating better shopping experiences with voice tech
The retail sector is also reaping the benefits of voice recognition technology. As of today, profits generated for retailers using voice ordering capabilities have reached $2 billion and are expected to grow even more, along with the increasing use of smart home systems like Amazon Alexa and Google Home.
Voice-tech in retail still has a long way to go to fully live up to customer expectations, but it is already transforming the shopping experience as we know it.
Applying voice biometrics to enhance security
Sharing any kind of personal data in the digital era is potentially challenging from the security standpoint. The use of voice biometrics gives companies across all industries a possibility to protect user data using unique voice characteristics like tone and pitch to identify a particular customer.
For example, Swisscom, an EU-based telecom company has implemented voice recognition in its customer call centers to streamline and facilitate real-time user authentication. All in all, the application of voice tech for security protection is a growing trend.
Recording meeting minutes with voice transcription apps
At times, taking exact meeting minutes or having a detailed written record of what has been said can be crucial for business or legal reasons. Voice recognition makes these tasks easier by instantly converting the spoken words into text, which users can quickly e-mail to other meeting participants or store for reference.
Needless to say, transcribing podcasts and making them accessible in the text format is also one of the functions of voice transcription software.
Using voice recognition for real-time translation
Real-time translation is no longer a human-specific skill. Using voice recognition technology, modern video conferencing software can not only automatically transcribe what has been said, but also translate the words into another language and make the translation appear on the screen almost instantaneously.
Learning languages using natural voice recognition is also easier now, since the software can automatically check your language skills and pronunciation.
Applying voice recognition technology in criminalistics
The use of voice recognition technology is equally applicable in both security services and criminalistics. The Interpol is already assembling a database of criminals’ voice clips in order to compare them to voice recordings on social networks to identify offenders. While this is raising rightful privacy concerns, the potential of using voice technology in law enforcement is immense.
Voice assistants in the workplace
Voice recognition technology is entering the workplace, helping workers maximize their efficiency by using keyboardless entry and faster access to information. By using virtual voice assistants, employers and employees can access HR management systems such as Dayforce, schedule meetings and ask for available vacation days. Saleseforce is also looking to integrate voice recognition technology into its ecosystem to enable fast and hands-free data entry.
Application of voice-enabled solutions in the hospitality industry
While the travel and hospitality industry has been facing a crisis in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s quickly adapting to new challenges. The use of contactless voice interfaces is not only minimizing the risk of contracting a disease, but also accounting for a faster and easier way to book tickets and make hotel reservations.
The Heathrow Airport (UK), for example, has launched an Alexa extension that passengers can use to see the latest flight updates.
Empowering content marketing and journalistics with voice technology
Dictaphones are outdated now: voice recognition software can not only record what has been said but also automatically convert it into a text format. Content marketing and journalistics is being transformed now that it is possible to simply dictate what you want to say and see the text instantly appear on a screen. Needless to say, it saves precious time and helps reach an unprecedented increase in efficiency.
Clearly, the adoption of voice technology solutions is just a question of time. In three or five years we are likely to witness the integration of voice-enabled technology into every facet of our lives.
Voice tech opens a doorway of opportunities to software development startups that want to tap into its lucrative potential. While tech giants like Google and Amazon are certainly far ahead in the fields of AI, they have already created ecosystems for building Alexa skills or Google Assistant apps where third party companies can thrive.
As a business looking to enhance your company services with voice technology, you will need a step-by-step approach.
In a nutshell, the steps you will have to take in implementing voice tech will include:
identifying the niche for integrating voice tech within your company,
envisioning how you want voice tech to improve your customer experience,
considering existing voice recognition software and platforms for your business needs, and
partnering with a reliable development company to bring your solution to life.
At EsternPeak we can help you integrate voice recognition technology into your operations or products. Need expert advice on voice-tech adoption? Contact us now for a free consultation!
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Mark Ruffalo and his stunt double in Now You See Me
When you see Mark Ruffalo and his Now You See Me stunt double, you will surely need to take a double look. The two look uncannily similar.
Mark Ruffalo played an FBI agent in the movie, which was filled with dangerous stunts and explosive car chases. It was up to Mark’s double Anthony Molinari to step in and complete the star’s role in the action-packed film. Anthony seemed like the actor’s doppelganger with the same scruffy beard like him.
Anthony was also a stunt performer for Ruffalo in The Avengers.
Throughout the years, Massachusetts-born Anthony has been a stunt coordinator and stuntman in over 100 TV shows and feature films like Hardest Hit, Best High Work, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Amazing Spider-Man, and The Dark Knight Rises.
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VICTONs Byungchan has teamed up with 1st Look Magazine for a photo shoot on the topic of winter!
Byungchan made his acting debut on the JTBC drama “Live On” and said in an interview with the magazine, “I’m looking forward to it and I’m excited. As soon as I read the script, I felt that the character and I were in many ways It was like putting on clothes that fit just right. “He added,” I think I read the script at least ten times a day to really get into the character. “
When asked to name one thing he had enjoyed lately, he named VICTON’s fans ALICE. He stated, “They always give me good energy, so it makes me happy to think of them.” Speaking of the upcoming VICTON fan meeting on November 8th, he said: “We’re going to be presenting our never-before-seen sites, so please look forward to it.”
Byungchan had a busy 2020 with group activities filing his first drama. VICTON last released their second single “Mayday” in June and announced a comeback in December. At the end of his interview he said: “I hope I can look back on myself and be proud.”
Byungchan’s upcoming drama “Live On” also plays NU’ESTs Minhyun, I’m young, Noh Jong Hyun, Yeonwoo, and more. The show premieres on November 17th and is available on Viki.
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I Hope My Heart Goes First
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Remarkable young company delves into matters of the heart
If you want to know what it feels like to watch this show, you could do worse than to listen to the song from whose lyrics it takes its title – Cardiff indie-poppers Los Campesinos’ ‘We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed’ – a four-minute scrunched-up ball of cynicism and bounce, self-consciousness and devil-may-care recklessness, spat out cliché and riveting, unadorned frankness. Length aside, all of the above applies to this show about matters of the heart from Glasgow’s Junction 25, now much fêted makers of devised theatre about the world as real teenagers see it.
The company was born out of a desire to see young people represented in the contemporary performance world, and the result is a performance possessed of a rare naturalness and ease. It has a workshoppy feel too – the same sequences are repeated over and again with subtle differences, people butt in when someone’s getting carried away, and a light-hearted camaraderie underlies the whole thing.
This is a show about the heart, and it runs the gamut from physical sequences portraying a young couple’s magnetic push and pull, to a profound monologue about maternal love, to facts about the physiology of the organ, to liberal (and gleeful) use of squashed tomatoes. The performers take knowing swipes at teenagers and their ways – and why not, when everyone else can and does – and neatly skewer the clichés from film and music that come to stand in for how we really feel, at the same time offering a tip of the hat to the way they help us work out exactly that.
Characterised most of all by remarkable insight, keen wit and youthful energy, I Hope My Heart Goes First contains truths about growing up that anyone who’s tried it can relate to, and crucially reminds us that it’s a process that we’re all, to some extent, still clumsily engaged in.
St George’s West, 225 7001, until 16 Aug, 2pm, also 24 Aug, 8.30pm, £10 (£8).
‘Pure joy … beautiful and brand-new’ ★★★★ (Scotsman). Fresh from sell-out shows in London and Norway, Glasgow’s dynamic 20-strong company of teenage performance-makers explore the curious workings of the human heart, from love to cardiac arrest, in this energetic and life affirming piece. ‘There’s engaging freshness…
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BREAKING: TRUMP DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY!!! BIG CHANGES!
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CIA headquarters raided over the weekend. George Sr was behind JFK and 9/11. Obama was born in Kenya and guilty of identity fraud and more. Hilary ordered hits on many including JFK Jr.
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Ep. 2380b – Optics & Timing Are Extremely Important, Insurgency Is Real The News Is Fake (rumble.com)
The [DS]/[MSM] are now trapped in the largest sting operation. Everything that is being implemented is not for their protection. Optics are very important. Trump will act like he is not involved in the operation. While the events happen Trump will be flying on AF1. The [MSM] will be none the wiser because this is tradition. The insurgency is real, the news is fake. It’s time to take back the country.
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Ep. 2380a – Trump Releases His Economic Accomplishments, The Direction Is Clear (rumble.com)
The [CB]/[DS] economic plan failed before it began. The plan they are pushing is the same old garbage, it’s about destroying jobs while making it look like people are making more money, this will make more people dependent on the government. Trump has done the complete opposite and he is showing the people. The direction is clear
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White House Showcases List of Trump Presidency Accomplishments
BY ALLEN ZHONG
January 16, 2021 Updated: January 16, 2021
The document titled “Trump Administration Accomplishments” lists what the outgoing president achieved in the last four years, including an unprecedented economic boom before the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic, job opportunities for Americans of all backgrounds, tax relief for the middle class, job creation and investments in Opportunity Zones, deregulation, and trade policies and deals.
Some iconic pillars of the president’s agenda mentioned in the list are over 450 miles of new border wall, over $2.2 trillion in military spending, and a rebuilding of the judiciary system.
With help from the GOP’s majority in the Senate, Trump successfully installed three conservative-leaning justices in the Supreme Court and appointed over 230 federal judges and 54 judges to various courts of appeals.
The list also highlights Trump’s upholding of religious freedom in the United States and globally, including “imposed restrictions on certain Chinese officials, internal security units, and companies” for their complicity in persecuting members of religious groups in China.
The White House document appears to indicate that Trump is preparing to leave the White House after a long fight over election integrity.
Trump recently took several retrospective actions of his presidency. He visited the southern border to celebrate the newly-constructed border wall on Monday and touted his military policies in a statement on Wednesday.
“It has been a great honor to rebuild our military and support our brave men and women in uniform,” he said in the Jan. 14 statement.
President Donald Trump tours a section of the border wall in Alamo, Texas, on Jan. 12, 2021. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
He committed to an “orderly transition” to the next administration earlier this month and said he will not attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.
A reporter posted outside the White House said Trump staff are moving out of the West Wing.
“West Wing walls are bare, except for some paintings and pictures that belong to the White House. Most desks are emptied out,” Bloomberg White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs wrote in a Twitter post.
Protesters gather at the east entrance to the Capitol building in the District of Columbia on Jan. 6, 2021. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
Trump toned down the vehement challenges against the November election results after most legal channels were exhausted at different levels of state and federal courts and the breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Some protesters stormed the Capitol when Congress was counting the electoral votes.
The breach happened as hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters rallied in the District of Columbia.
The composition of the protesters who broke in is still being determined. According to various court filings, those being charged have been identified and associated with both right and left-wing groups.
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China ‘Sought to Influence’ 2020 US Election, Director of National Intelligence Assesses
CIA Management Pressured Analysts to Withdraw Assessment
BY IVAN PENTCHOUKOV
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe assessed that China interfered in the 2020 federal elections, according to a letter transmitted to Congress.
In the letter (pdf), Ratcliffe alleges that intelligence about China’s election interference was suppressed by management at the CIA, which pressured analysts to withdraw their support for the view.
Citing a report by the Intelligence Community’s Analytic Ombudsman Barry Zulauf, the director of national intelligence said that some analysts were reluctant to describe China’s actions as election interference because they disagreed with the policies of President Donald Trump.
The Washington Examiner published Ratcliffe’s letter and the ombudsman report on Jan. 17, ten days after publishing an original report on the documents. The ODNI didn’t immediately respond to requests from The Epoch Times to authenticate the documents.
“Based on all available sources of intelligence, with definitions consistently applied, and reached independent of political considerations or undue pressure—that the People’s Republic of China sought to influence the 2020 U.S. federal elections,” Ratcliffe wrote.
The report by Zulauf was sent to Congress on Jan. 7 alongside an intelligence community assessment of interference in the 2020 election. In the report (pdf), Zulauf states that the analysts working on Russia and China applied different standards to their reporting on election interference. While labeling Russia’s activity as clear election interference, the analysts were reluctant to do the same for China.
“Given analytic differences in the way Russia and China analysts examined their targets, China analysts appeared hesitant to assess Chinese actions as undue influence or interference,” Zulauf wrote.
“These analysts appeared reluctant to have their analysis on China brought forward because they tended to disagree with the Administration’s policies, saying in effect, I don’t want our intelligence used to support those policies.”
Neither the ombudsman report nor the letter from Ratcliffe includes details on China’s meddling. Zulauf redirected an interview request by The Epoch Times to the ODNI, which didn’t immediately respond to an emailed request.
The analytic ombudsman’s report assesses that politicization occurred in relation to both Russia’s and China’s election interference. Zulauf assessed that neither intelligence community leaders nor analysts are at fault, blaming the hyperpartisan atmosphere in the United States instead.
“In most cases, what we see is the entire system responding to and resisting pressures from outside, rather than attempts to politicize intelligence by our leaders or analysts.”
The report states that the analysts who assessed Russia’s election interference had complained that the intelligence community management was reluctant to deliver their assessments to government clients because the work was not “well received.”
“Analysts saw this as suppression of intelligence, bordering on politicization of intelligence from above,” Zulauf wrote.
The Epoch Times previously documented a multi-pronged election influence campaign linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
In a Dec. 3 op-ed, Ratcliffe said the CCP “poses the greatest threat to America today, and the greatest threat to democracy and freedom worldwide since World War II.”
“The intelligence is clear: Beijing intends to dominate the U.S. and the rest of the planet economically, militarily and technologically,” he wrote. “Many of China’s major public initiatives and prominent companies offer only a layer of camouflage to the activities of the Chinese Communist Party.”
Congress certified Joe Biden as the president-elect on Jan. 7. In the two months leading up to the certification, Trump challenged the outcome of the election in seven states, citing unconstitutional changes to election laws and potentially illegally cast votes.
Pro-CCP Organizations in the US Influenced the Election: Trevor Loudon
BY MIGUEL MORENO
December 2, 2020 Updated: December 2, 2020
In an interview with American Thought Leaders, Trevor Loudon an expert on Marxist radical left movements, said pro-Communist China organizations in the United States have worked to try and flip the election.
He says that Liberation Road, a socialist, Chinese-directed group that has close ties to the Chinese regime, is involved in the registration of voters in key states like Georgia and Arizona.
“They are the same people who are involved in several, large, voter registration organizations in many of the key states in question. I’m talking Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona. I have them in their own words, talking about how they targeted these states to destroy Trump and to win the election for Biden,” said Loudon.
Loudon says Liberation Road runs two different Chinese Progressive Associations (CPA), one in California’s bay area, and another in Boston.
The Boston Branch openly works with Chinese communist officials, even holding an event for a Chinese consulate.
Liberation Road and both CPAs do voter outreach and registration, and they’re openly anti-Trump.
“These are groups that owe their allegiance to communist China. And they’re boasting about winning the election. You know, if you’re a leader of the communist party of China, would you really want this guy, Trump, in the White House for four more years? After all he’s done to counter your plans? Or would you use your assets in the United States to try and tip the scales in favor of a much more friendly candidate like Joe Biden?” said Loudon.
The Biden family has had extensive business relationships with China, and the Democratic Candidate showed little concern about communist China during his election campaign compared to President Trump.
From NTD News
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Ep. 2378b – Silent Running, What Happens At The Very End Of A Sting Operation? (rumble.com)
Ep. 2378a – The [DS]/[CB] Prepare To Reverse All Economic Policies, Who Is In Control? (rumble.com)
The [DS]/[CB] are now moving to undo everything Trump has done over the 4 years. They want the Economy back to the way it was so they can move it into the great reset plan. There is only one problem, they elite are not in control. The [DS]/MSM have been trapped in the biggest sting operation the world has ever seen. The bribes, blackmail, treason and sedition is about to come out. The clock is now ticking down and Trump will strike when the time is right. What happens at the end of a sting operation, arrest. During a sting op, those involved believe they are getting away with the crime, until the very end when they find out that is all over.
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This link will lead you to declassified information regarding UFOs, COVID Obama Knowingly funding al-Qaeda, Hunter Biden Emails, Peter Navarro Election report and much more.
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The pandemic is part of the continued battle between good and evil. It is and will be one of the many catalyst for change within ourselves and the world. This battle has been going on since the beginning of time but we have been asleep. We are playing the game like it or not. There is no escape, nowhere to hide. Now it is time to wake up.
The masses have been transferring wealth for years though our taxes, interest payments for loans, big pharma, energy and our entire way of life has added to the wealth and power transfer. the . There are a lot of areas the truth is hidden from the public for diverse reasons. Most of the reasons can be traced back to wealth and power. On our planet exists a small elite of extremely wealthy people, referred to elites or globalist who control almost everything in the world from behind the scenes. And they do this in a mostly rather ruthless manner, often hidden out in the open. The reason we were not aware is because we programmed by these globalist from the very first day of our lives through the educational systems and through corporate media which has been feeding us with propaganda that suited their interest all along our lives. Those lies spread through a lot of areas in our life and all those areas are interconnected.
For those who are starting to wake up, they can feel there is change in the air. We have been exposed to things in 2020 that we never thought we would see in our lifetime, not only affecting, the United States but the world. Of course the pandemic was a plandemic for many reasons and the in meantime, the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. The politic phrase “Never let a good crisis go to waste” certainly applied here.
But things are getting ready to change. The National / Global Economic Security & Reformation Act (NESARA / GESARA) is in the process of being implemented. It is based on a Supreme Court decision that has been sealed by previous administrations. It will help the people by zeroing out all credit
card, mortgage, and other bank debt due to illegal banking and government activities. Income tax will be abolished along with the IRS. IRS employees will be transferred into the US Treasury national sales tax. A flat rate non-essential tax of 14% to 17% will be created for revenue for the government. Constitutional Law will return to all courts and legal matters and retrains all judges and attorneys on constitutional law. We are witnessing the implementation of Constitutional Law through the Presidential Election process.
After NESARA announcement, new Presidential and Congressional elections will be established within 120 days while the interim government will cancel all national emergencies and return us back to constitutional law. Elections will be monitored and will prevent illegal election activities of special interest groups. The Federal Reserve System will be eliminated. During the transition period the Federal Reserve will be allowed to operate side by side of the U.S. treasury for one year in order to remove all Federal Reserve notes from the money supply.
There will be release of over 6,000 patents of suppressed technologies that are being withheld from the public under the guise of national security, including free energy devices, antigravity, and sonic healing machines.
All aggressive action by the U.S. government military worldwide will cease and peace will be established throughout the world. There will be releases of enormous sums of money for humanitarian purposes. Finally, COVID19 will be exposed.
But it does not end there. Each community, town and city must legally and peacefully remove leaders that were involved in this attempt to overthrow our republic. We all have been chosen to be here at this time. We are here to learn and understand the ways of love and wisdom and 2020 and the future will be our catalyst like no other . We have been given special gifts to discover and apply them in our world today. Our job is to positively raise the planet vibration.
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X22 Report January 13, 2021
Ep. 2377b – Checkmate, [Zero Day] Approaches, Sometimes A Good Movie Can Reveal A Lot Of Truth
Ep. 2377a – The Entire Global Economic System All Depends On What Trump Does Next
The [DS]/[CB] have walked through the front door, they committed treason at the highest level. Why interfere with your enemy while they in the process of destroying themselves. What makes a good movie, great actors, how do you show the people the truth, via a movie. Sometimes you need to have the stage ready so people can enjoy the performance.
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Return to the Republic; Ends of the US Incorporated
We have never lived in a time when the whole world has been censored from seeking the truth. When Censorship occurs we know truth is being hidden from the masses.
In the coming days, weeks and months we will be receiving information
that may be seem unbelievable. Use your God Given Gift of discernment to assist you in determine the value. We have to remember the world we have been living is and was not as it seemed and the physical and metaphysical worlds are inseparable. Take what resonates with you and let the rest drop away. Much is going to be revealed that is why we are getting small doses at a time. The truth is being revealed. Keep an open heart and mind.
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September 23Please join HOSA !!! Please sign up using SCHOOL CASH ONLINE for $27.00 to become an official member! Being a member will give you loads of fun and excitement!
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Student council a place for friends, family
Bright lights and late nights. Laughter and purple poms. Hallway decorating and hours of preparation. These are just a few of the factors that go into planning homecoming each year.
The week is an exciting time for students to stand united and to show off their personalities and meet new people. Homecoming is a place for students to see the fun side of school and create unforgettable memories. But most importantly, it’s a time for students to become aware of each other and see what school spirit really means.
Homecoming is something that was created for the student body to meet each other and discover that school can be a fun environment to be in. According to Student Activities Manager Angel Santa Cruz, the Student Council and their Executive Board work extremely hard each year to make homecoming happen.
One such student is Senior Dana Marquez. Marquez is a general member of the council and has been helping to create decorations for the senior class on weekends and during the week. For Marquez, all her hard work culminates in being able to get gussied up for the dance.
“Getting ready for and showing up to the dance is my favorite part of homecoming, Marquez said. “And of course seeing all my friends.”
Each year students across all grade levels collaborate in hopes that the rest of the student body will be willing to join in on homecoming festivities. This years theme is Dancing Through the Decades. While participating in these events may seem dumb or weird, sometimes dumb and weird can be fun.
“Yeah maybe it’s dumb, but this is fun. And just because you feel dumb doesn’t mean other people are judging you,” Santa Cruz said. “It builds confidence and it makes you – I think – a more well rounded person.”
While a lot of the student body gathers to join in on the homecoming fun, a lot of students also decide to opt out of these festivities.
For Senior Brianna Sano, she’s undecided about attending the dance but will attend other homecoming festivities.
“The ticket prices are expensive, they’re similar to the prom prices,” Sano said. “That’s kinda messed up. It’s almost not worth it.”
Freshman Annette Galvan shares Sano’s sentiment about ticket prices. She is opting out of the dance.
“I don’t think it needs to cost that much,” Galvan said. “It’s just a dance for a few hours and that’s basically it.”
According to Santa Cruz about 1100 students showed up to last years HoCo Pixar Dance, about 20-25% of students will dress up on an easy dress up day and there are a good chunk of students that participate in and watch the parade.
Homecoming is organized and planned in a way so that it is inclusive to every student. All clubs and teams are invited to be in the parade, time is scheduled during the class day to allow students to attend the pep rally and the game and dance are a way for Cougars to hang out and have fun together.
According to Santa Cruz the week was designed so that everyone can be involved in some way, shape or form. The theme is universal, accessible, and broad to make it easier for every student to participate.
“We try to make it more accessible. When we think of the theme or the days we try to make it more broad, so that everyone can join in,” Santa Cruz said.
The overall homecoming experience can help students feel happier at Franklin, learn that being at school doesn’t have to be a bad thing, and learn the true importance and meaning of school spirit. New students can also use homecoming as a way to grow closer to other students and feel more welcomed at FHS.
For Sophomore Leo Manzo, joining student council this year was a way for him to find a niche at Franklin.
“Last year, it was hard for me to fit in,” Manzo said. “I was going through a rough time last year, this year I’m feeling a little better and I think it’s a good time to help out.
Manzo has been helping out with hallway decorations since the beginning of the year. He enjoys spending time with classmates.
“Everyone is chill,” Manzo said. “Santa Cruz is chill.”
Student Council started planning HoCo months before school started.
Senior Class President Lauren Menchaca has worked tirelessly to make homecoming successful for her class.
“I pretty much work at the school. I’m here at least 40 hours a week,” Menchaca said. “Decorating is pretty stressful but at the end of the day it’s worth it because of the final result.
Menchaca has built lifelong friendships in the StuCo room and encourages any student who might be interested to just pop in.
“Come join us, because we’re open. We’re here to have fun,” Menchaca said. “If you are scared just come into Student Activities, meet us and you’ll be more willing to come in later.”
Homecoming tickets can be purchased for $45 during the week, prices will rise at the door to $50. The parade will begin at 6 p.m. and will leave from the magnet campus. It will travel up Westwind, take a right on Belvidere and a right on N. Resler.
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US ‘terminating relationship’ with World Health Organization – Trump
Home Politics US ‘terminating relationship’ with World Health Organization – Trump
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Accusing the World Health Organization of being under ‘total control’ of China, US President Donald Trump has severed all ties to the WHO and said US funding will be redirected to other public health efforts.
“We will today be terminating our relationship with the WHO,” Trump announced on Friday at a press conference in the White House Rose Garden.He said that the WHO was “pressured” by China to mislead the world about the novel coronavirus, hampering the US and global response and resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide – including more than 100,000 Americans.
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As one example, Trump listed the WHO advice against banning travel earlier this year, and criticism of his decision to halt incoming flights from China. Almost every country eventually stopped air travel, in addition to Chinese-style lockdown tactics intended to slow the spread of the respiratory disease.
“The world is now suffering as the result of malfeasance of the Chinese government,” Trump added.
Trump had sent a letter to WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus two weeks ago, demanding that the agency “clean up its act” and giving it 30 days to do so. He accused the body of “inaccurate and misleading” statements about the coronavirus, and doing Beijing’s bidding.
“The only way forward for the World Health Organization is if it can actually demonstrate independence from China… we do not have time to waste,” he wrote.
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‘No time to waste’: Trump gives WHO 30 days to make ‘major improvements’ before US PERMANENTLY freezes funding
Friday’s announcement comes 20 days after that letter, ahead of the self-imposed deadline.
“We have detailed the reforms that it must make and engage with them directly, but they have refused to act,” Trump said.
As part of the dispute with the WHO, Trump had suspended US funding to WHO back in April. WHO’s own numbers show that the US had given $893 million – between member dues and voluntary contributions – to its budget in 2018-19, compared to $86 million coming from China.
The WHO responded to Trump’s funding stop by pledging an “independent review” that will “no doubt” show “areas for improvement” and “lessons for all of us to learn,” but said the US decision was regrettable and creating “cracks between us” that can be exploited by the virus.
‘Virus exploiting cracks between us’: WHO responds to Trump cutting funding, promises internal probe
In addition to exiting the WHO, Trump announced a new set of measures aimed against China, from restricting the entry of Chinese students and scholars to reviewing the ability of Chinese companies to do business in the US.
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Lindsey Graham is offering unsolicited legal advice to Trump's team
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a juror in President Trump's impeachment trial, is offering free legal advice to his counsel, if they want to accept it.So far, the House impeachment managers have "done a good job" of "painting ... a tapestry, taking a series of events and telling a story," Graham told reporters on Thursday. When Trump's legal team starts delivering his defense on Saturday, they will "start pulling on the threads."Graham also thinks Trump's attorneys will need to shift the focus to former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden was on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company, and is in the center of a debunked conspiracy theory being peddled by Trump allies, including Rudy Giuliani. Graham said Trump's team needs to "really go hard at the idea that when they tell you there's not a scintilla of evidence, groundless, baseless, phony accusations regarding the Bidens, I would challenge that very hard."More stories from theweek.com Trump debuts official Space Force logo — and it's literally a ripoff of Star Trek 14 dead, hundreds injured after 6.7 earthquake in eastern Turkey Donald Trump and the moral decline of the pro-life movement
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Boy Bishop of St Paul's
Four unusual London Christmas traditions…4. The Boy Bishop of St Paul’s…
by exploringlondon January 6, 2021
Inside St Paul’s Cathedral. PICTURE: It’s No Game (licensed under CC BY 2.0)
This tradition is actually one which is no longer observed – but we thought it worth a mention to finish this short series.
The creation of temporary of ‘boy bishops’ was relatively widespread at greater churches in Middle Ages (and several other churches in London also observed the tradition apparently including Westminster Abbey).
At St Paul’s, it involved one of the choir boys being elected to be the ‘boy bishop’, usually on 6th December, for a role that would run through until Holy Innocents Day on 28th December.
Dressed in child-sized bishop’s robes, the ‘boy bishop’ performed various ceremonial duties throughout the season, culminating with them delivering a sermon and leading a procession through the city.
The tradition apparently became more raucous as time went on, so much so that eventually it was abolished during the Reformation by King Henry VIII, revived by his successor Queen Mary I, and then abolished again by Queen Elizabeth I.
Since then, the idea of a ‘boy bishop’ or ‘youth bishop’ has been revived in a somewhat updated form in certain cathedrals including those in Salisbury and Hereford.
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How psychic power became big business: ‘Paranormal Professionals’ have given the industry a makeover
Picture a medium at work and chances are you’ll imagine a woman hunched over a crystal ball at the end of a pier. But today’s ‘paranormal professionals’ have given the industry a modern makeover to satisfy booming demand, says Claudia Connell
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The social media medium with nearly a million fans
He recently finished a tour taking him all over the country where he put his skills as a medium to work, charging between £20 and £30 depending on the venue
With a gym-honed body, dazzling white teeth, a wardrobe full of designer clothes and a Mercedes sports car on the drive, Chris Riley is a world away from your typical psychic. But with a quarter of a million followers on Facebook and Instagram, a host of celebrity clients and a long list of sold-out live shows at £25 a ticket, the 25-year-old is one of the most successful psychics in the country.
‘People do say I’m not what they expected when they meet me. I’m not going to walk around draped in crystals just because of what I do. I work really hard and, yes, I like to enjoy the rewards,’ he explains.
Those rewards will very soon include buying his first home – not bad for the boy from Colchester in Essex who started doing readings at 15 and developed his business via word of mouth. Chris now employs 25 psychics who do readings via email and text. But can you really tune into someone over a text message?
‘Of course you can,’ he says. ‘If you’re somebody who is able to communicate with spirits then they’re going to come through to you whether the person is in front of you, on a computer screen or phone.’ He does most of his readings via Skype, charging £100 per session.
Since he does regular readings for reality TV stars and counts Gemma Collins as one of his clients, Chris attracts a younger audience, and love-life woes are top of their worries. Live shows are also a big part of Chris’s work. He recently finished a tour taking him all over the country where he put his skills as a medium to work, charging between £20 and £30 depending on the venue.
‘We don’t sell tickets in advance because I don’t want anyone to say that I had people’s names and googled them all before the show.’ Fans queue to see Chris in the hope he can help contact their deceased loved ones. ‘People come along and bring photos. They put them on a table before the show – I don’t see them do it – and then I pick out photographs and see what comes through to me.’
With hundreds of five-star Google reviews and another live tour in the pipeline for later this year, Chris’s clients are more than convinced.
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The £240-an-hour celebrity psychic
Jayne Wallace founded the highly successful Psychic Sisters, based in London’s luxury department store Selfridges
A professional psychic for the past three decades, Jayne Wallace founded the highly successful Psychic Sisters, based in London’s luxury department store Selfridges, 13 years ago. Since then she has become the capital’s go-to psychic and now employs a team of 16 ‘readers’ to keep up with demand.
A 30-minute reading costs £80 but to see Jayne personally, clients must join a three-month waiting list to secure a half-hour reading, which costs £120. Jayne and her colleagues see around nine clients each a day.
Customers are as likely to ask her for insight into their careers and businesses as they are about love and romance, but she never claims to have all the answers. ‘I can’t read for everyone,’ she says. ‘Sometimes I just don’t get a connection to somebody and nothing comes through and in those cases I have to say that I’m sorry, I can’t help them. I’ve built my business on my reputation so I’m not going to mislead anyone.’
Jayne, 52, from Epping, also operates a policy banning any clients she feels have become too reliant on her. ‘It’s lovely that people come and see me for guidance, but we have to be aware of when that tips over into an addiction. I have one client who I’ve limited to bimonthly readings as she was requesting too many appointments and spending too much money. It’s a privilege to do my job but I would never take advantage of someone.’
Privately, Jayne has built an impressive celebrity client list – including Kim Kardashian, and actress Kate Hudson – and she regularly flies to Los Angeles to provide readings for her Hollywood clientele. She has also expanded the Psychic Sisters brand, selling a range of products online including aura mists (£20), gemstone wands (£19.95) and candles (£25). Last year she signed a lucrative deal with online fashion giant Asos to stock the range, and the aura spray was so popular it sold out.
While Jayne admits that her business affords her a nice lifestyle, ‘You’ve got to consider how much it costs to have a concession in Selfridges,’ she says. ‘I’m certainly not swanning around on private jets!’
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The house healer who quit her high-flying job
She can remove unwelcome guests and replace the negative energy with positive
For unlucky homeowners who believe their house is plagued with bad energy, Emma Loveheart’s services are often a last resort. ‘People are embarrassed at first,’ she says. ‘They will tell me that they feel incredibly low at home, or they’ve suffered poor health or bad luck since moving into a property. They can’t explain it, but it’s like their home is zapping the life out of them. They’re all perfectly ordinary people who don’t understand what’s happening but have become desperate and need help.’
‘But you seem so normal’ is something Emma, 51, from Newbury, is used to hearing when she speaks to clients for the first time. ‘Their relief is palpable when they realise that I’m not barking mad. I always reassure clients that there is nothing wrong with them and they haven’t been targeted and they’re certainly not some magnet for misfortune.’
In a busy month Emma can heal 40 homes; her prices start from £195 per property. She heals everything from one-bedroom flats to huge country estates. Tuning into the spiritual energies of a house and land, she clears negative energy – caused, she says, by a combination of ‘stressors’, such as negative vortexes and even spirits that are inhibiting the property. She can remove unwelcome guests and replace the negative energy with positive.
While many people working in the psychic world claim to have had a gift since childhood, Emma was a latecomer. Seven years ago she had a high-flying corporate career, working in HR for a large telecoms company. Then, having never experienced anything of the kind before, she had a vivid vision that her daughter was going to be seriously injured on the skiing trip the family were planning and subsequently cancelled.
The vision was a turning point. Emma began to explore her psychic side and realised that she could talk to spirits and connect with energies, which evolved into her becoming a house healer. ‘I truly believe this is my calling,’ she says. But she has paid a heavy price for it. ‘My marriage broke up as my husband could not come to terms with what I wanted to do, and I lost long-standing friends who couldn’t accept it either. Thankfully there were others who supported me even though they didn’t fully understand why I needed to pursue this as a career.’
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The modern witch who charges £120 to cast a spell
‘If witchcraft didn’t work, it wouldn’t have survived for all these years, would it?’
Pushing her trolley around her local supermarket, there’s nothing to suggest Dee Johnson is anything other than a well-groomed 50-something doing her weekly shop.
But the Range Rover parked outside reveals her secret. Her number plate reads W22 TCH. ‘I’m so proud of who I am and what I do, I don’t hide it,’ she explains.
Dee, 56, from St Albans has known she was a witch since she was 15, but it was only nine years ago that she realised how lucrative her sideline as a witch had become and discovered it could be her full-time career. She now works up to seven days a week casting spells for clients at £120 a time. She also charges £60 for one-to-one or over-the-phone psychic readings.
‘Love spells are particularly popular,’ says Dee. ‘Often clients have experienced some trauma in their life and feel they have a blockage of negative energy. Others may want help getting a new job or have had a run of bad luck and believe they have been cursed. They seek my help often at their lowest moments.’
Dee’s spells can take several hours for her to prepare and perform. Although she won’t reveal her income, she says she now earns more than she did in her former career as a veterinary nurse.
‘To cast a love spell, I need someone’s full name, date of birth and a picture of them. I will only cast this spell during a positive Moon phase and on a Friday, as it is the day governed by the goddesses Freya, Venus or Aphrodite – all the same energy for love.
‘Then I take a red or pink candle and I anoint it with a “love oil” I’ve made from rose petals, rose oil, jasmine, almond oil and cinnamon. I visualise that person with love and as the candle burns, I look at the flame and say an incantation, which must rhyme. Every witch has their own spells and does things differently; some even use a cauldron – it’s very individual.’
Dee insists the proof that what she does works is backed up by her clients. ‘They tell me they’ve found that special person they were looking for, they got that promotion or they simply feel much more positive and empowered, depending on what spell I have cast for them.
‘If witchcraft didn’t work, it wouldn’t have survived for all these years, would it?’ she says. ‘I’ve cast spells successfully for myself, including one when I was desperate to sell my house, and it did the trick!’
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The ghost hunter who’s spooked 200,000 people
Hazel and her team use cameras, microphones, Ouija boards and divining rods to locate paranormal activity
Since launching her paranormal events company, Haunted Happenings, in 2008, over 200,000 customers have attended Hazel Ford’s ghost-hunting tours across the UK and Europe. But becoming a professional ghost hunter was never part of Hazel’s career plan.
The 58-year-old from Nottingham previously worked as a psychotherapist, but after attending a ghost hunt on a whim 13 years ago – and seeing inexplicable dancing lights while she was there – a fascination with the paranormal took hold. She started volunteering with a ghost-hunting group and quickly her hobby became her calling. She founded Haunted Happenings and now employs a team of people.
‘We used to run four ghost hunts a week but there has been a massive upturn in demand in the past few years. ‘Now we’re running around 16 events per week,’ says Hazel. Visiting sites known for ghost sightings – haunted pubs, abandoned buildings, old prisons and hospitals – during tours, Hazel and her team use cameras, microphones, Ouija boards and divining rods to locate paranormal activity. On sleepover hunts, customers can stay overnight in the haunted hotspots from around £60 per person.
‘Our basic hunts start from £20 for exploring some huge tunnels in Kidderminster,’ she says, ‘but our weekend breaks in York, Derbyshire and Lancashire cost £289 and they’re incredibly popular. We also host events in Europe in places such as Dracula’s Castle and Hoia Baciu Forest in Romania, which costs approximately £779 for three nights.’
All Haunted Happenings hunts have a ‘safe room’ with lights for any guests who get too terrified, but as you’d expect from a seasoned ghost hunter, Hazel is not easily spooked. ‘Three years ago I was setting up cameras with a colleague at 30 East Drive in Pontefract, which is considered a very haunted house, when we both witnessed a chair moving independently across the floor. I wasn’t scared, just fascinated. I’m one of those people who can leave a haunting, go home and ten minutes later be stacking the dishwasher as if nothing has happened.’
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Nicola Sturgeon claims ‘democratic outrage’ not to hold IndyRef2
Nicola Sturgeon today claimed it would be a ‘democratic outrage’ if the next Prime Minister decided to block a second referendum on Scottish independence.
The First Minister made the incendiary claim in Edinburgh today as legislation was published that could pave the way for a fresh vote five years after the SNP lost the last one.
But the Referendums (Scotland) Bill contained no details on the key issue of when a referendum could be held or what the question would be as she tries to get Downing Street to give in.
Ms Sturgeon said: ‘It is essential the UK Government recognises that it would be a democratic outrage if it seeks to block such a referendum – indeed, any such stance would, in my view, prove to be utterly unsustainable’.
The SNP leader’s party won the European elections in Scotland and has repeatedly dared Theresa May to stop Scotland voting on it again – and has laid down the same warning to her successor after the Tories’ disaster at the polls.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon holds up a leaflet featuring Tory rival Ruth Davidson as she published the Referendums (Scotland) Bill, a legislation paving the way for a new referendum on Scottish independence today
The SNP leader, pictured with Constitutional Relations Secretary Michael Russell, has tared the Tory Government to block IndyRef2 – but has not set a date for when it takes place
All the Tory leadership candidates are expected to oppose IndyRef2, with Sajid Javid linking it with Brexit and said today: ‘Nicola Sturgeon has never met a referendum she hasn’t wanted to overturn’. Rory Stewart also ruled out allowing one.
Can Nicola Sturgeon hold Indyref2 without the Prime Minister’s permission?
Nicola Sturgeon’s wish to hold a binding second Scottish independence referendum is not entirely in her hands.
A Section 30 order, as set out in the Scotland Act 1998, allows Holyrood to legislate on reserved areas – but requires the Westminster Government’s says-so.
The Scottish Government would be required to request a Section 30 in order to hold a second independence referendum as the power to call a referendum is reserved to Westminster.
While the Scottish Government could stage another vote on independence, a section 30 order transferring the powers needed to hold such a ballot from Westminster would be needed for it to be legally binding.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she would not hold a referendum without Westminster’s permission.
She could choose to hold a non-binding vote, however, to pile pressure on the Government.
The SNP may try to launch a legal battle – but that is unlikely to succeed.
But a new Labour Government – especially one that requires a coalition to form a majority – could help deliver the Section 30 Ms Sturgeon needs.
Scots voted against independence 55 per cent to 45 per cent in a 2014 referendum billed as a once-in-generation poll, but the SNP say that Brexit has forced them to tear-up up their pledge and try again.
Theresa May has repeatedly refused to sign a ‘section 30 order’ – needed by the Holyrood parliament to call a legally binding referendum.
But Mrs May has now quit and it has been claimed that Ms Sturgeon could do a deal with Jeremy Corbyn and Labour to get them into power if it secures a second referendum on Scottish independence.
The First Minister spoke out today as the Referendums (Scotland) Bill was published, setting out the rules and regulations for any future vote.
The Scottish Government proposes that these will be set using secondary legislation, if and when the UK Government grants Holyrood the power to hold another ballot.
But Theresa May has repeatedly refused to grant a Section 30 order for this, declaring ‘now is not the time’ for a second independence vote, and it seems unlikely her successor will change that stance.
Ms Sturgeon, who has already earmarked the second half of 2020 as a possible time for the referendum, said the Scottish Government would ‘seek agreement to a transfer of power at an appropriate point to enable an independence referendum that is beyond challenge to be held later in this parliament’.
The publication of the Bill comes in the wake of the European elections – where Ms Sturgeon’s ruling SNP increased its share of the vote and won three of the six spots for Scottish MEPs.
Sajid Javid said today: ‘Nicola Sturgeon has never met a referendum she hasn’t wanted to overturn’. Rory Stewart also ruled out allowing IndyRef2 today
That contrasts with the success of Nigel Farage’s newly formed Brexit Party south of the border.
Ms Sturgeon has already told how those elections, coming in the wake of Scots voting to remain in the European Union in 2016, have shown a ‘tale of two countries’ within the UK – with Scotland ‘diverging markedly in our outlook, ambition and vision for the future’.
And she stressed: ‘Now, more than ever, it is essential that we keep Scotland’s options open so that people have the opportunity to choose a better future.’
The First Minister stated: ‘An independence referendum within this parliamentary term will give Scotland the opportunity to choose to be an independent European nation – rather than have a Brexit future imposed upon us.
‘Throughout the Brexit process, Scotland has been treated with contempt by Westminster, and our efforts to find compromise and protect the interests of the people of Scotland, who voted overwhelmingly to remain in the EU, have been ignored.’
Recent polling found that Scots would vote for independence if the UK crashes out of the EU with no Brexit deal, but they would back to stay in the UK if a vote was held in other circumstances
The Bill – which has 42 separate sections – provides a ‘legal framework for the holding of referendums on matters that are within the competence of the Scottish Parliament’, accompanying papers said.
Scots would back independence if there is a No Deal Brexit – but is unlikely otherwise, polling says
Scots would vote for independence if the UK crashes out of the EU with no Brexit deal, recent polling has said – but is unlikely in other circumstances.
Voters would oppose the break up of the United Kingdom if the referendum was held tomorrow, according to a Survation survey from last Autumn.
And if the UK leaves the EU with a deal then the voters are split 50:50 the poll found.
According to the survey, if there is a referendum held now then 54 per cent of Scots would vote ‘No’ and 46 per cent voted ‘Yes’.
But if the Tories do not get a Brexit deal and a vote is held then the result switches, with ‘Yes’ narrowly winning by 52 percent to 48 per cent.
The poll of 1,013 people was carried out between October 3 and 5 last year.
These made clear: ‘The main policy objective of the Bill is to ensure that future referendums on matters that are within the competence of the Scottish Parliament maintain the high standards achieved by the referendum on Scottish independence in 2014.’
They also stipulated that determining what questions are to be asked of voters, Scottish ministers ‘must consult the Electoral Commission’.
While having the UK Government legislate for future referendums would be a ‘alternative approach’, Scottish Government papers stated: ‘This would not be an effective or acceptable option.
‘The Scottish Parliament should set the rules for referendums within its legislative competence, as this is the only legislative approach that respects the rights and role of the Parliament.’
Constitutional Relations Secretary Michael Russell said that ‘although referendums have become an increasingly common feature of UK democracy, it is a long time since the framework governing them was last comprehensively reviewed’.
He added: ‘Introducing a standing framework for referendums is a reasonable thing for any country or Parliament to have and this legislation will put Scotland in the same position as the UK and many other countries.’
However the pro-UK campaign group Scotland in Union said the publication of the Bill was a ‘reckless act by an irresponsible Government’.
Chief executive Pamela Nash, a former Scottish Labour MP, said: ‘With a constitutional crisis over Brexit, the very last thing the country and the economy needs is deeper division and greater uncertainty.
‘Nicola Sturgeon only cares about putting up barriers between people, but it’s time for her to become First Minister for everyone in Scotland and drop this unwanted plan.
‘Only a fifth of voters back her proposal to force a divisive second independence referendum on the country by 2021, and a third of former Yes voters now want to remain in the UK.’
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Category: extinct good doctors
Ayurvedic Surgery: who should be concerned?
A strange situation has cropped up after the claim of Ayurvedic doctors doing surgeries has got the CCIM approval. Serious doubts has been raised by Allopathic medical organizations about the consequent safety issues.
There would always be claims or counter claims about who should be allowed to do surgeries. But there has to be a neutral and competent authority to decide, rather than claiming the competence. After all it is question about safety issues of millions of people.
Who should really decide about it?
NABH has raised concerns about the issue.
Although it has limitations and can be applicable only to a fraction of hospitals, but still a larger network of hospitals or clinics are not covered by NABH.
In such situation, who should be worried about the safety? Strangely the stakeholders, who would be affected most are silent on the issue: the patients.
If patients have nothing to protest and they feel safe or do not anticipate any danger, why allopathic doctors should make a noise about it? They would be seen as a Jealous cat.
Use Ayush docs for clinical work and you could lose ACCREDITATION: NABH TO HOSPITALS
The National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare providers (NABH) has warned allopathic hospitals accredited with it that they could face withdrawal of accreditation if they were found employing Ayush doctors for performing clinical duties in ICUs and other patient care areas in place of MBBS resident medical officers (RMOs) and emergency doctors. A “cautionary notice” the board issued on Thursday said, “This is a blatant violation of NABH standards for healthcare accreditation and very much against patient safety norms and compromise quality of modern medicine clinical care outcomes.” TOI had, in October, reported on the use of Ayush doctors in ICUs for night duty being a fairly common practice in many private hospitals, particularly in Maharashtra and Gujarat. Thursday’s notice stated that the NABH has taken a serious note of the matter and reiterated that deploying of Ayush doctors in allopathic hospitals for writing independent orders and clinical work without the supervision of allopathic doctors is not permitted. In case the allopathic hospitals are employing such doctors to work as clinical assistants, under applicable state laws, they should not be involved in direct patient care and should strictly follow job responsibilities as defined by hospital management, it added. Ayush doctors working in allopathic hospitals will not be considered by the NABH as RMOs during the process of assessment and for the purpose of grant of accreditation, stated the notice, adding that any violation may invite adverse decision by NABH, including withdrawal of accreditation. However, even as the NABH has been carrying out surprise inspections in hospitals in this matter, it is yet to have a definite list of states that allow Ayush doctors to be employed in allopathic hospitals to either prescribe a pre-defined set of allopathic medicines or to do clinical procedures after completing a bridge course. NABH officials clarified that the board’s legal team was in the process of determining the status of the law in different states.
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#Medical-Consumer-Protection-Act: Pros & Cons: Advantages & disadvantages
As in last few decades, patients are defined as consumers and Medical Consumer Protection Act takes roots, the whole system of medicine and healthcare has changed. All the new changes in regulation, insurance and legal system have resulted in facilitating and exercising an easy control of medical industry over health care, each revision has affected doctors adversely. They have been reduced to just only one small component of the industry, who deliver care and remain at receiving end for poor outcomes. Other important stake holders are patients. How this change has been beneficial for patients?
Suppressed professionals can be used to work more, get less paid and can be dragged to courts easily. It should be a win-win situation for all, except doctors. Therefore everyone makes merry, while doctors sulk, except those who can mingle with the present scenario, act smart and are able to entrench themselves in changed business and legal milieu.
Disadvantages of medical consumer Protection Act (Negatives, cons)
1 .Promotes Defensive medicine: Every patient with any illness has a potential for complications. Progression of any disease state can cause death. If doctors start looking at every patient as a potential litigant, especially while dealing with very sick ones, practice of defensive medicine is a natural consequence. This may manifest as excessive investigations, more use of drugs, antibiotics and even reluctance or refusal to treat very sick patients. Worst scenario of excessive fear will be refusal of very sick patients in emergency situations or non-availability of doctors.
2. Erosion of doctor-patient relationship: Stray and occasional Incidents about negligence, the cases in courts or their outcome attract wide publicity in media. People are unable to understand the correct application of such stray incidents to themselves. But they always try to imagine themselves being in the chaos or scenario projected. Because of prejudiced notions, a sense of mistrust gradually creeps in, which then extends into and involves their own imagination and circumstances. This sense of mistrust multiplies manifold whenever there is some adverse or even small unpleasant event. Ultimately doctor and patients move forward together with a strained relationship and the treatment goes on with a surmounting sense of mistrust.
3. Increased cost of care: With the increasing need for defensive medicine, there is a need to document everything and to offer everything possible in the world, leading to increased medical costs. Insurance companies, medical industry and lawyers have positioned themselves in between doctor and patients. They charge everyone on both sides, heavily for allaying the fears, both patients (medical insurance, lawyer fee) and doctors(indemnity insurance, lawyer’s fee) alike. The vicious cycle of rising costs, need for insurance, medicolegal suits, and high lawyer fee (for patients and doctors) goes on unabated. All these contribute significantly to overall increased cost of health care.
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4. Enhanced insecurity in medical profession: Needless to say, consumer protection act has increased the anxiety and insecurity of the medical profession. One keeps wondering which patient will prove to be his bane and finish his total career, will result in professional hanging or a media trial. There is a real probability of being entangled in these problems in present era in day to day practice.
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5. Unnecessary litigation: Legal cases can be put on doctors for various trivial reasons, for example the sense of revenge or to extract money or simply for avoiding to pay for services. In an era where family members, brothers and sisters fight for money, it will be naïve to think that idea of making money from doctor does not exist. These ideas are further stoked by the incidents of previous high compensations granted by courts .
6. Increased paper work: excessive documentation and time consumption: crucial and large chunk of time of doctors and nurses, goes in completing documentation. Needless to say, this time previously was dedicated solely to patient service. Management is now-a day more worried about completing paper work as well. Initially it was a symbolic documentation, but now there is requirement of mammoth paper work. It leads to consumption of time that was meant for real discussions for the benefit of patients.
7. Doctors used as scape-goats for revenge: Any unsatisfied patient can vent his anger by putting complaint or case against the doctor. This is done to some extent for revenge or just finding a human factor which can be punished. Not uncommonly doctors are used as scape- goats to have a concession on the patient treatment by administrators. Everything can be easily put on doctors as they are universal final link to a patient’s treatment and adverse effects.
8. Distraction of doctors from the primary point of intention: Nothing else ever has distracted doctors more than medico-legal cases and punishments. In certain circumstances, saving themselves becomes more important than saving a patient. Uncertainty of prognosis, grave emergencies, split second lifesaving and risky decisions that may later be proved wrong by retrospective analysis with wisdom of hindsight. Complex medico-legal situations are endless distractions that have creeped in and are enough to distract doctors from primary point of intentions ‘the treatment.
9. Early retirement or burn out: Becoming a doctor and practising has become a tough job. After people have reached a point of financial security or when near point of burn out, doctors tend to leave practice. No wise man will like to face medicolegal complexities in older age. Taken to court for a genuine decision is enough to spoil and tarnish health, wealth and fame that was earned by slogging the doctor’s whole life.
10. Reluctance to do emergency, risky work: If the decision to decide or act or help someone in an emergency situation, puts one’s own life and career to risk, why should anyone put himself in that difficult position? Therefore increasingly, financially secure doctors are staying away from the riskier jobs.
11 .Only Doctors are sufferers of the act: Patient can have poor outcome because of any reason. It can be severe disease, poor prognosis, rare or genuine complications or even unintentional mistake or human errors, system errors or deficiency. But retrospectively doctors can easily be blamed because of wisdom of hindsight. All patients, who are unsatisfied or with unrealistic or unexpected outcome can go to courts. Whatever court decides, harassment of doctors is full and permanent. There is no compensation possible for the sufferings and agony spanned over years, even if court decides in favour of doctor.
12. Spoils teamwork among doctors; Whenever there is adverse outcome in any patient, all the doctors involved may start looking for, whom to blame among themselves. All of them will try to pinpoint each other’s mistake. Such situation produces a bitter and worst kind of disagreements among various teams or specialties. Mutual understandings take a back seat and the teamwork is spoiled permanently. Administrators in a bid to be safe, encourage putting doctor’s concerns against each other, creating a strange sense of enmity. Ultimately a mutual understanding and team work takes a hit.
13. Doctors converted to cheap labour:
Hugely benefitted are medical industry, law industry and administrators; The ease with which doctors can be harassed has lead to rampant misuse of consumer protection ac and t has instilled a sense of deep fear in mind of medical professionals. The act has been used as a whip against the doctors by all these three stakeholders. Fear of medicolegal cases has reduced doctors to cheap labour. Industry has used the protective systems to gain the maximum out of doctors hard work. Benefits to law industry and lawyers are obvious and don’t need to be elaborated. Besides this, even insurance industry has collected money both from doctors and patients by creating the fear.
14. Confusion while treating; Right decisions ? A certain element of doubt always remains in minds of doctor whether he will get justice in the long run, or will end up being victim of sympathy towards patient or clever lawyering. What was medically right and judicious decision at that real time situation may be looked as wrong later, especially when retrospective analysis is done over years with fault finding approach. So taking medical decisions is becoming more difficult amid future uncertainty of disease.
15. Delayed treatment in emergency situations: Due to prejudiced minds, it is not uncommon for patient’s relatives to keep seeking second opinion, thereby delaying consent for procedures, surgeries and treatment. Though doctors know this problem, but they obviously cannot proceed without necessary documentation. With increasing mistrust, even emergency treatments are delayed. Delay in surgeries or therapies are a common outcome.
16. Instigation by law industry; Windfall profits for lawyers and law industry at the cost of doctors is a disadvantage for medical profession: One can see zero fee and fixed commission advertisements on television by lawyers in health systems even in developed countries. They lure and instigate patients to file law suits and promise them hefty reimbursements. There is no dearth of such relatives, lawyers who are ready to try their luck sometimes in vengeance and sometimes for lure of money received in compensations. This encouragement and instigations of lawsuit against doctors is a major setback for medical profession.
17. Hostile environment for young impressionable doctors: The young and bright doctors complete their long arduous training and then suddenly find themselves starting the work in a hostile environment. They find it strange to find themselves at the receiving end of public wrath, law and media for reasons, they can’t fathom. They work with continuous negative publicity, poor infrastructure and preoccupied negative beliefs of society.
18. Doctors have become ‘Sitting ducks’ for continuous blackmail: Even with routine complications amongst very sick patients, a threat looms over doctor’s head. People do not accept even the genuine complication, what to talk of unintentional mistakes. Mistakes are always easy to be pinpointed with retrospective analysis and with lawyers pondering over it for years. In such situations, doctors are sitting ducks for any kind of blackmail.
19. Demoralization of medical professionals – as selectively applied: strangely it applies only to doctors. All of other professions are out of it. Selective application is what demoralizes doctors. Considering the uncertainty and kind of work of medical profession, actually it should be other way around.
The consequences are like victimization.
Advantages of Medical Consumer Protection Act: (Positives, Pros)
1. Redressal of grievances: patient will get satisfaction, if there is a genuine negligence case
2. Better quality of care ; medical systems will improve as they will need to lessens the errors and court cases. Better systems from abroad are also copied to improve the efficiency.
3. Better introspection by medical profession: although doctors from the beginning are sensitive about their work and always look at how better results can be achieved. But act will make this process more formal and official.
4. Training of medical professionals: it will be difficult to put errors under carpet. Doctor will like to get trained better as no one want to be in soup.
5. Future learning from court cases: each and every court decisions is viewed carefully by medical fraternity. Improvement in protocol and policy making is a natural consequence.
6. Eye openers for medical profession: court cases and decisions have acted as eye opener for medical profession. It gives an idea, how law looks at medical treatment. It has made clear that medical science and medical law are a bit different. In real time, things are easier to be said than done.
7. Better documentation and communication: for doctors to save themselves, documentation is the key. Previously doctors were doing everything, but not documenting much. But now there is lot of stress on documentation.
Stress itself is not a bad thing. It can often help us perform at our best, expand beyond our limits and achieve better results. The real problem lies in the fact that in this age, anxiety prevailing more for care givers, a sense of injustice prevails . Stress generated can alter the ways, the patients get treated. If the core of the health care (medical hands) are harmed, no one can benefit in the long run.
Violence at #NMMC HOSPITAL VASHI Mumbai- shame on law and order agencies
Attacks and assaults on doctors appears to be one of the indicators of a lawless and uncivilized society and poor governance. Doctors have become punching bags for all the malaise prevalent in the health system. A failing and inept system, which is unable to provide health to people and security to doctors. The system hides behind their working doctors and presents them as punching bags. The impunity with which attendant easily and brutally assault doctors and vandalize hospitals is really appalling. Similar violent incidents all over should be shameful to law enforcing agencies. Are we a lawless society? More problematic is the government apathy and silence of human right commission and similar organizations.
Unwillingness or failure of government to prevent such attacks on doctors will have deep ramifications on future of medical profession. Silence of authorities, human right commission is really appalling.
Media, celebrities, film stars in spreading the hatred against the medical profession and creating an environment of mistrust is unpardonable, where stray incidents were portrayed as generalization, just to earn money and fame.
Empathy, sympathy, compassion and trust of the doctor towards the patient, will definitely get a hit after these incidents. Everyday the news of assaults on doctors, court cases against doctors, negative projection of the medical profession in the media are viewed by doctor’s community anxiously..
Merely taking some token action and showing protest will not solve the problem. It does not compensate for the damage done to medical profession. Sympathy, compassion and trust of the doctors towards patients will definitely reduce. Who will be the ultimate sufferer, does not need a Einstein brain to predict.
This insecurity or fear of the uncertainty tends to affect the thinking process of doctors and the way they practice medicine or deal with the patients. Many will like to be defensive in practice, or try not to treat very sick patients. Why would someone try complex surgeries, if there is greater risk involved? Few will limit themselves to follow protocols. Going extra mile along with risk, which not everyone will like to take. Many will become health managers or do something else than do active clinical work. Who should risk his life while doing routine work?
Patients might get their revenge for the naturally occurring disease, but they will lose compassion and trust of doctors in the long run. If that is the way to impart justice in this era, doctors will have to find some way to save themselves.
Patient relatives vandalized NMMC Hospital Vashi, Mumbai
Relatives were booked for vandalising the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) hospital in Vashi following the death of a 50-year-old man. Of the seven, the four men were arrested. The patient, Venkatesh Suryavanshi, a resident of Juhu gaon, was shifted from a private hospital in Koparkhairane to the NMMC hospital on Tuesday afternoon. At the time of admission, Suryavanshi, who had tuberculosis, was in a critical condition and had very low oxygen levels. An antigen test had declared him negative for COVID-19.“At the time of admission, after checking his condition, vitals and the history papers, we had said that his chances of survival are very less. He was admitted to the ICU ward,” Prashant Jawade, medical superintendent, NMMC hospital, said.Suryavanshi died during treatment around 3.45 a.m. on Wednesday. After getting to know about the death, his sons Rupesh (22) and Sandesh (20), along with their friends Pankaj Jadhav (22) and Rohit Namwad (32) entered the ICU ward and started vandalising the department. Three women who followed them assaulted security guard Satish Dere.“I was told that they also carried a few sharp weapons with them. The security guard has received injuries. Our engineers are analysing the damage and finding the losses that we incurred,” Mr. Jawade said. Chief Medical Officer Majur Shaikh and a few other hospital staff were also allegedly attacked.
According to the police, the seven had vandalised three ventilators, one dialysis machine, two fans, one table fan, and two nurse stations.
TRUMP BLAMES DOCTORS FOR COVID
Unparalleled sacrifice by medical community during pandemic has not resulted in any enhancement of respect or prestige to the medical profession. It was not enough to stop physical or verbal assaults, legal or financial exploitation. It was sufficient to alter the course of oppression by administrators or moral blackmail by society.
Sadly it is getting more worse. Doctors and nurse have been reduced to sacrificial lambs, that are easily slayed, when administrators tend to put themselves on high moral pedestals.
Financial and legal complexities have been the major side effects of modern medicine, especially for doctors. They are facing complex environment, which are beyond their control. Besides financial and legal complexities, moral dilemmas, facing verbal and physical assaults are creating complex working conditions. Criticized by administrators despite their sacrifice, media insults are adding to their disillusionment and possibly a withdrawal response.
Arm chair preachers would just say “yes, as a doctor, they should do it as moral duty.”
Media and celebrities usually have proudly projected on screen and television that it is right to be disrespectful towards doctors. They have made it appear correct to masses to be disrespectful to doctors. But such news is viewed by medical community anxiously and is definitely a poor advertisement for younger generation to take medicine as profession.
As incidents are widely publicized and masses following their “Reel Heroes” and celebrities to insult medical profession.
Disrespect and media insult by celebrities towards a profession as a normal routine and perceived as an easily do-able adventure to gather populism.
On the night of October 24th, President Trump addressed his supporters at a Wisconsin rally, located just minutes from a temporary COVID-19 field hospital, making the argument that doctors at the pandemic’s front lines are falsely capturing COVID-19 cases in order to profit from the pandemic. Undermining his own scientific experts was not enough to dispute the severity of the crisis. Now, he desperately suggests — “I don’t know, some people say…” — that America’s most trusted professionals are fabricating the rising coronavirus case numbers of the current “third spike” for personal financial gain.
Trump’s wrong insinuations
As doctors we are outraged by Trump’s gutless insinuations. We’re not alone. The American Medical Association, American College of Physicians, and the Council of Medical Specialty Societies, leveraging the voices of over 800,000 American physicians, have each castigated Trump for his callous allegations.
The mere implication that health care professionals would be incentivized by profit to alter the true rate of this public health pandemic is reprehensible. Here’s why:
We struggle to contain the losses — and we continue to lose our own. For months, we have worked tirelessly to contain the spread of COVID-19. As we approach a quarter of a million deaths nationwide, we cannot forget the 1,700 of our own health care colleagues among that number. We are the teams that care for everyone, day and night, as we risk our own lives for the benefit of our communities. Unsurprisingly, we are burnt out. These last seven months have been a marathon in resilience, frustration, and fear.
Here’s the truth: We label patients with COVID-19 because accurate identification of this disease is essential so we can track cases to take the quick action necessary to prevent further spread. If a patient has a history of heart disease or other medical problems, and dies in the hospital with COVID-19, we know that coronavirus exacerbated that underlying condition — and their demise. It is accurate and in line with public health principles to list it as a cause of death.
We face historic furloughs, layoffs and pay cuts.
Here’s what’s worse: the assertions that doctors are profiting off of the pandemic are completely baseless and could not be further from the truth. Physician practices are not immune to the economic losses Americans are experiencing. One in five American physicians, whether salaried or in independent practice, have experienced pay cuts during the pandemic. Hospitals and physician practices have had to implement furloughs and layoffs to stay afloat, including furloughs at 35% of all primary care offices. More than 16,000 — or 9% — of independent physician practices have had to close entirely.
More recent estimates suggest that hospitals, thanks to the loss of elective surgeries during pandemic spikes, will face over $300 billion in lost revenue this year alone. And this is all happening while physicians report working more hours this year — amid more uncertainty about the future of their profession.
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We still work in unsafe conditions, without the equipment needed to protect us — and you. In the spring, the images were indelible: N95 masks being reused for days on end, while nurses were covered in trash bags as a proxy for PPE. Across the country, hospitals, clinics and state agencies bid against each other for what few PPE supplies existed. All the while, President Trump accused health care workers of hoarding PPE and other medical equipment. He blamed health care workers for shortages across the nation, when the root cause of that unfolding tragedy was his administration’s unwillingness to enact a national and comprehensive strategy.
Fast forward to today, where many healthcare workers still do not have adequate PPE and continue to reuse masks, gowns and gloves meant for one-time use. This could have been easily addressed by now, had President Trump fully activated the Defense Production Act to speed up and nationalize PPE production, a request he consistently refused.
The long road of COVID ahead
We see no end in sight. White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows made it clear: the Trump administration has given up trying to control this pandemic. While they wave the white flag in hopes of therapeutics and vaccines becoming available in sufficient quantities for all Americans, hundreds of thousands more are projected to die.
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The new “medical swamp” narrative emerging from the White House, while deeply disturbing, is not out of character for this administration. Since the first U.S. coronavirus case was reported in January 2020, the president has undermined his own health experts and denied the scientific evidence at every turn.
The coming weeks and months will be dark as we continue to experience the repercussions of Trump’s callous inaction, but you have the ability to shape how this story ends. We urge all Americans to elect leadership that is morally responsible, unwilling to allow the political manipulation of science. The lives of the American people depend on it.
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Covid-Warriors or Beggars: Doctors without pay
Imagine a highly skilled professional community, which can be harassed, assaulted, dragged to courts and subjected to cruelty beyond imagination. Ironically, the despise to this community comes from the very people, whom they are trying to save.
Even the rightful is denied in a shameless manner, as if their lives don’t matter. During pandemic, doctor and nurses treated as dispensable disposables. A mere lip service to call them Covid-warriors was performed, but real treatment to these selfless health workers was akin to sacrificial lambs.
The plight of doctors of Hindu Rao Hospital is just an indication of the real thought process and apathy of administrators. If doctors are forced to beg for basic fundamental rights, their situation is worse than beggars. The current unfortunate situation is enough to convey a message to the medical profession, the nation and is demoralizing the entire doctor community, more so to the aspiring doctors.
Doctors at Hindu Rao Hospital unpaid for months
Irked over non-payment of salaries, doctors and staff members of North Delhi Municipal Corporation’s Hindu Rao Hospital have decided to sit on indefinite agitation from Monday onwards. The emergency services will, however, operate smoothly.
The doctors and staff members of the hospitals have not been paid since June. Last week, the staffers were on a ‘Pen Down Strike’ from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. to display their ordeal. According to the civic body, the matter is being looked into.
The letter written by the Resident Doctor Association to the hospital administration stated, “We apologise to announce that we are forced to go for an indefinite agitation w.e.f. October 5, 2020 considering strictly ‘No pay, No work’, while operating the emergency services smoothly.”
It added, “The chronic sufferings of the staff have been too agonizing and intractable where it is distressing to one’s mental and physical well-being, We strongly plea to you for releasing 3 months’ pay and giving us an immediate permanent solution. We also demand a formal notice regarding the same.”
The association rued that despite the High Court Order and repetitive intimations in the past, the salaries of North MCD doctors and staff are long overdue for three months and its ongoing four months.
Besides Hindu Rao hospital, doctors and nurses of other hospitals like Maharishi Valmiki Infectious Diseases, Kasturba Hospital, Girdhari Lal Maternity Hospital and Rajan Babu Institute of Pulmonary Medicine and Tuberculosis have also been protesting over non-payment of dues.
#NEET: Paying Irrational Fee for Medical College Seat: An Unwise Idea
At a time when medical students and even doctors are uncertain whether opting for medical college along with the vulnerability and risk associated with becoming a doctor is worth it or not, some are naive enough to pay millions as fee for medical education and for securing a seat of MBBS.
A famous axiom “as you sow so shall you reap” has an application to health system. One is convinced that industry selling medical college seats has been quite powerful and practically, every technique to sell seats is prevalent to bypass the merit and deny seat to deserving candidates. These meritorious children, who are denied seats could have been good doctors and real custodian for the health of people. But if for some reason, business prevails and government fails to prevent this cruel and corrupt selling of medical seats, an Einstein brain is not required to guess the whole malaise prevalent in health system
Truth cannot remain hidden for long. It has to be realized that getting into medical college is a minuscule component of the process of becoming a good doctor. Once they opt for this profession, the real tough and prolonged battle begins. Quite a few successful candidates may eventually feel that the money spent and the hard work may not be worth it, especially those who may have invested in heavy fees and in debt.
Although the whole effort and huge expenditure to become doctors in this way may be really worthless in today’s scenario, considering the difficult times and vulnerability of medical profession
Paying the irrational fee of medical colleges may be an unwise idea for the candidates, who are not from strong financial backgrounds. But at the same time unfortunately, it may be a compulsion and entrapment for students, who have entered the profession and there is no way forward or fail to get residency.
The government should regulate these fees and also ensure that if a heavy fee is charged, then it should be spent on medical education of students only. It should not take a form of just any another money minting industry to be used for other purposes.
Going by selection criteria of candidates as doctors, if given a choice, by whom a patient will like to get treated? A candidate who scored 20% – 30 % marks or a person getting 60% or 80% marks. NEET eligibility getting lower and candidates getting around 30 % of marks may be able to secure a degree to treat patients. What will be the deciding factor? So in the end, seats remain unfilled and may be a kind of auction, whosoever can pay millions, takes the seat.
Ironically, that strange equation is acceptable in lieu of money paid!
It is ironical that the medical profession is regulated, but medical business or medical education is not. Such business of producing doctors based on their paying capacity should be clearly trounced for the benefit of public. Foundations of healthcare should be on touchstone of merit, ethics and character and not based on business deals.
Therefore meritorious students, especially from average backgrounds, who opt to become doctors feel cheated when they pay massive fee to buy a seat. It is an insult to the very virtue of merit which should have been the sole criteria for these admissions.
It is the people and society, who will be the real sufferers in future. Therefore resentment to such system should come from the society. If the society continues to accept such below par practices, it has to introspect, whether it actually deserves to get good doctors.
Dr Deben Dutta Mob Lynching & Murder: Lesson for Doctors
Dr Deben Dutta lynching and murder by mob in Assam last year, was a new low in the current era of deteriorating doctor- patient relationship. In the era, where consumerism was imposed on doctors in most crude form, media and law industry taking advantage of the situation for their benefit. Complexity of medical science has taken a back seat. The consequences and the brunt of resultant negativism were borne by doctors. Dr Deben Dutta was victim of venomous negativism spread by media against doctors in general.
Every incidence of verbal, legal, and physical assault is a trust breaker. It is not only erosion of patient’s trust on doctors but the vice versa is also true. As a rule of nature, as violence increases, compassion decreases. Patients might get their revenge for one stray incident, but they will lose compassion and trust of doctors in the long run. Millions of lives saved everyday by medical professionals were of no consequence.
GUWAHATI: An Assam court on Tuesday awarded death sentence to a tea garden worker and life imprisonment to 24 others in connection with last year’s lynching of a 73-year-old doctor. Dr. Deben Dutta, a senior medical officer of the Teok Tea Estate hospital in Jorhat district, was lynched by a mob on August 31 last year for his alleged delay in treating a worker, Somra Majhi. Dutta was attacked with sharp weapons and he succumbed to his injuries on the way to a hospital. He had served at the tea garden for over four decades. His killing had triggered widespread outrage.
The impunity with which attendant easily and brutally assault doctors is really appalling. Should such incidents be shameful to law enforcing agencies? Are we a lawless society? More problematic is the government apathy and silence of bodies like human right commission.
In this case, at least the culprits have been brought to book and punished by the court. But still the root cause for such gruesome incident is not addressed. The danger for the medical fraternity is still lurking due to many factors. Risk to the doctor not only comes from the infectious diseases, but can be there because of physical and legal assaults. It can be just consequent to venting out emotions of angry relatives, resulting from a natural poor prognosis, but blaming the doctor. Doctors who are universal common link present at the time of death of patients, become victims and punching bag.
There are lessons to be learnt by doctors from such episodes. As patients are turning into consumers, health providers cannot remain simply doctors as before. They need to develop skills to anticipate danger and save themselves. They need to assess their place of work for their own and their family’s safety.
Aspiring doctors should choose this profession carefully and take a well informed decision. Such incidents are warning signs for the young generation, who are oblivious and ignorant to the risks faced by doctors in present era.
Admin Apathy- Kerala Doctors to Protest State’s ‘lack of concern’
Doctors and nurses are now getting out of their own self-imposed moral enslavement. Rather they are now forced to do so, as their lives and deteriorating working environment are becoming impossible to be in. One cannot burn himself in a furnace for eternity, for the well-being of others, especially if others are not concerned.
The incidents at few places are just a tip of the iceberg. Covid has helped doctors to bring forth their plight. Doctors and nurses not paid for months in some Delhi Hospitals. Doctors openly ridiculed and scolded by Administrators for no fault of theirs. Even a doctor lynched by mob in Assam and many assaulted at other places. Hospitals vandalized indicate that there is danger lurking for doctors everywhere. Most sad part is that, there are no firm administrative hands to deal with the menace.
Clearly Well being of doctors and nurses is not being taken care of. They are being used as dispensable disposables. Such system, which is based on exploitation of the health workers, is becoming fast unsustainable. If apathy towards their genuine problems continues, negative attitude towards doctor and nurses persists, it will kill the empathy towards patients as well.
Overall, a complex scenario for doctors: There is increasing discontentment amongst doctors because of this complex and punishing system. They are bound by so many factors that they finally end up at the receiving end all the time. They are under Hippocratic oath and therefore expected to work with very high morality, goodwill and kindness for the sufferings of mankind and dying patients. They are also supposed to maintain meticulous documentation and also supposed to work under norms of medical industry. They are supposed to see large number of patients with fewer staff and nursing support while still giving excellent care in these circumstances. And if these were not enough, the fear of courts and medico-legal cases, verbal threats, abuses, and physical assaults and show of distrust by patient and relatives further makes working difficult. Additionally there may be bullying by certain administrative systems at places, who use pressure tactics to get their own way.
Government doctors in Kerala to boycott additional duties
The Kerala Government Medical Officers’ Association (KGMOA) has declared that government doctors will stay away from all additional duties from Thursday, in protest against the government’s apparent lack of concern about the plight of health-care workers who are overworked and fatigued, fighting on the front lines for the past nine months.
The KGMOA has, however, made it clear that while declaring non-cooperation, COVID-19 care and disease containment activities will not be disrupted.
In a statement issued here, the KGMOA said that apart from ignoring the KGMOA’s repeated demand for deploying additional human resources in COVID-19 care activities, the government’s decision to take away the leave given to health-care workers after continuous COVID-19 duty was something that defied all principles of fairness. This was totally unacceptable, the KGMOA said here.
Penal Servitude for Doctors, Nurses- Administrators Delight
Life for health care professionals like doctors and nurses is hard in present era, right from getting into medical college, passing the exams, gaining experience, work under new imposed legal environment, with over-regulation and under the moral burden of over-expectations of society. The benefit of these difficult situation is reaped to the maximum by administrators and overpowering medical industry.
Despite working amid of a national emergency in Covid-times, the meagre salaries of hundreds of doctor and nurses are not paid for months in Hindu Rao Hospital, Delhi
Ironically where doctors are punished for small genuine mistakes or even poor prognosis during medical treatment, the blunders of health administrators are taken as trivial issues. More ruthlessness, cunningness or cruelty towards health care workers is possibly becoming an appreciated quality of health administrators. Why no punishment for the administrators for such blunders?
Consequently, with no support from society, to whom they serve, doctor and nurses gradually are pushed to a penal servitude. If this is regarded as normal in present era, anyone would wonder, what does slavery constitute?
No salaries for doctors for four months
The doctors alleged negligence and apathy on part of the government and said that they were unable to run their basic errands and accomplish their daily routine due to non-payment of salaries.
Irked over non-payment of salaries for over four months in a row, doctors at Delhi’s Hindu Rao Hospital announced that beginning Saturday, October 10, they would stop attending to patients including those suffering from Covid-19. Hindu Rao Hospital, the largest municipal hospital in Delhi with 900 beds, is currently a dedicated Covid-19 facility.The doctors alleged negligence and apathy on part of the government and said that they were unable to run their basic errands and accomplish their daily routine due to being unpaid for months.Abhimanyu Sardana, President of the Resident Doctors’ Association (RDA) of the hospital, said that several letters and reminders had been sent to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal regarding the issue faced by the doctors, who are frontline warriors at the Covid-19 dedicated facility. “Don’t ignore the basic needs and rights of doctors,” wrote the RDA-Hindu Rao.
Be it any circumstances like working without any facilities, poor infrastructure, non-availability of drugs, inhuman duties hours over 48-72 hours or poor pay, the administrators would say, “you are a doctor, it is your moral responsibility.” Armchair preachers and administrators will always remind them of moral duties, but easily forget their own.
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Moral Dilemma: Should Doctors Stop Work-if unpaid?
From the very beginning of medical career, certain phrases are repeated to doctors and become ingrained in their memory. Be it any circumstances like working without any facilities, poor infrastructure, non-availability of drugs, inhuman duties hours over 48-72 hours or poor pay, the administrators would say, “you are a doctor, it is your moral responsibility.” Slowly doctors will adjust, keep on working and take hardship as part of their life. Armchair preachers and administrators will always remind them of moral duties, but easily forget their own.
Humbled by the nature of profession and blunted retaliation reflexes due to hard training and enormous studies, gradually they become moral slaves to themselves. Enlightened people will understand the situation as attaining higher level of hierarchy.
All the problems are taken as part of “Routine Life of a Doctor.” The long Struggle to become a doctor, slogging in wards to learn and earn degrees, work in inhuman conditions, listen to endless abuses, tolerate the false media criticism, dragged in courts for alleged negligence, work with fear of physical assaults, work without proper infrastructure and manpower, endangering their own lives, exploited by medical industry and administrators, poorly paid and still not respected.
As doctors have not retaliated to deterioration, adapted well to the slavery, situation is worsening. A large hospital has not paid salaries to doctors for three months. Now there is a moral dilemma for doctors: whether to continue work or not?
Till society understands the concealed sense of enslavement that remains hidden, while performing these duties, the suffering of the profession will not end. A problem that is clearly visible to every one, but not admitted till now, is in itself an evidence for a difficult scenario to be implemented.
Apart from moral dilemma, doctors will worry about legal implications. In present era, amid maze of legal complexities, dilemmas are unending. Among all such complexities, they have to worry about patients also.
A strange situation, where thousands are being paid sitting at home, The real warriors are unpaid. Covid paradox: salary cut for doctors other paid at home
The resident doctors of Hindu Rao Hospital: indefinite strike from October 5 considering strictly ‘no pay no work’
NEW DELHI: The resident doctors of Hindu Rao Hospital, the biggest medical facility under the North Delhi Municipal Corporation, will be staging an agitation against the administration due to their failure of paying the salaries of the healthcare workers over the past three months, said the president of the doctor’s body Abhimanyu Sardana.
The RDA of the hospital, which is also a dedicated Covid-19 facility, has decided to go on an indefinite strike from October 5 considering strictly ‘no pay no work’. However, essential services won’t be affected.
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December 9, 2011 · 12:56 pm
The “Ice Bowl”: One of NFL’s Most Historic Games
A victorious Vince Lombardi is held above Lambeau Stadium
Fun Facts About NFL’s “Ice Bowl”
January 1, 1967 at Lambeau Field, Green Bay, Wisconsin
What was the significance of the game?
This was the 1967 National Football League Championship Game. The winner of this would go on to play the winner of the American Football League (AFL) in Super Bowl II.
What was the final score?
Packers, 21, Cowboys, 17
What 2 famous future NFL Hall of Fame coaches were pitted against each other?
Tom Landry (Cowboys) and Vince Lombardi (Packers)
The Two Star Quarterbacks: "Dandy" Don Meredith and Bart Starr
The game became known as the “Ice Bowl” because the field was a sheet of ice and the air temperature at game time was -13 Fahrenheit. What extraordinary measure had been used to try to keep the field playable?
Warming it with an underground electric heating grid. Packer coach Vince Lombardi had purchased a system of heating coils that were implanted six inches under the field. The coils were intended to keep the ground warm enough to ward off freezing. In “When Pride Still Mattered,” a biography of Lombardi, author Dave Maraniss suggested that the problem came about because of the tarpaulin covering the field. The warm air under the tarp formed condensation, which froze immediately upon exposure to the extremely cold air.
How did Cowboy receiver Bob Hayes help the Packer defense throughout the game?
He kept his hands in his pants. Varying accounts exist of whether Hayes kept his hands in his pants only when the Cowboys were running the ball, or for all plays for which he wasn’t the receiver. But whatever the account, Hayes was the Cowboys’ best receiver, he frequently kept his hands in his pants, and this would let the Packer defense know they didn’t need to worry about him for the play.
How cold were conditions that day?
All of these (CBS sportscaster Frank Gifford said, “I think I’ll take another bite of my coffee”, An official tore the skin off his lip when his metal whistle froze to it, The halftime show was cancelled when the marching band scheduled to play found that its instruments were unplayable). After several officials had problems with their whistles, the officiating crew stopped using them and relied only on voice commands. At least Gifford was in a broadcast booth, and the halftime musicians got to go home early.
Which uncharacteristic miscues by the Packers led to the first 10 points for the Cowboys?
Fumbles. The warm-weather Cowboys eventually adjusted to the cold better than the Packers did. After Green Bay had built a 14-0 lead on two Bart Starr passes to Boyd Dowler, the Cowboys’ George Andrie recovered a Starr fumble and ran it seven yards for the Cowboys’ first touchdown. Later in the second quarter, the Packers’ Willie Wood fumbled a punt and the Cowboys recovered, leading to a field goal that sent them into the warm locker room at halftime trailing only 14-10.
How did Cowboys’ halfback Dan Reeves figure in the touchdown that put his team ahead 17-14?
He threw a pass for the touchdown. Reeves, later a successful NFL coach, threw a 50-yard halfback option pass to Lance Rentzel in the end zone, giving the Cowboys a 17-14 lead on the first play of the fourth quarter.
A month after the game, Vince Lombardi announced his retirement from coaching, making this the last game he coached in Green Bay. For what Packer player was this the last game he played in Green Bay?
Fuzzy Thurston. After playing for two seasons for the Baltimore Colts, Thurston played the remainder of his NFL career from 1959-67, for Green Bay. Hornung was picked up from Green Bay by New Orleans in the 1967 expansion draft, but retired before ever playing for the Saints. Kramer and Starr retired from the Packers and the NFL in 1968 and 1971 respectively. Besides Thurston, this was also the last game in Green Bay for receiver Max McGee and kicker Don Chandler, two other players who played vital roles in the Packers’ title teams.
The Packers won the game on Bart Starr’s quarterback sneak. The play called in the huddle was “31 Wedge.” As the “31 Wedge” play was written, who was intended to carry the ball?
Chuck Mercein. The play was designed to be a handoff to Mercein. This is another moment from the Ice Bowl for which accounts differ as to what actually happened. David Maraniss writes in, “When Pride Still Mattered”, that Starr fearing Mercein slipping before he could take the ball, decided to keep the ball himself but didn’t tell anyone else. Accounts by Jerry Kramer and others described Starr announcing a quarterback sneak in the huddle. No matter what though, as written in the Packers’ playbook, the “31 Wedge” play was designed to be a handoff to the fullback, who on that play was Mercein.
In the famous photograph of Bart Starr’s winning touchdown, Chuck Mercein can be seen with both hands in the air. He later said that he was not signaling a touchdown. Why did he say his hands were in the air?
To show that he did not push Starr. It would have been illegal to assist Starr by pushing him, so Mercein threw his hands in the air as if to say “look ref, no hands!”
What was later shown to have happened on Starr’s touchdown that could have changed the game’s outcome?
Jerry Kramer was offside. In a frame by frame analysis of that play, Kramer can be seen lifting his hand while the ball remains on the ground awaiting the snap. Even Kramer wrote “I wouldn’t swear that I wasn’t actually offside on the play.” Many Packer fans argue though that Donnie Anderson made it into the end zone on the previous play (the officials spotted the ball about two feet outside the end zone though). In fact, Jethro Pugh, the Cowboy blocked to make room for Starr’s score, supported this theory, saying that most of the Cowboys thought Anderson had scored.
The dramatic ending of the game helped provide the name of the book that Jerry Kramer and Dick Schaap wrote, based on Kramer’s diary of the season. What was the book’s title?
Instant Replay. The replays of Starr’s touchdown, and of Kramer’s block on the play, helped make Kramer much more of a celebrity than linemen usually get to be. “Instant Replay” was released the following year and became one of the best-selling sports books in history. In the locker room after the game, Kramer dissuaded center Ken Bowman, also instrumental in the block, from joining him on camera for a television interview. Kramer argued that he was old and that Bowman’s day of glory would come. Little did Bowman realize how rare such recognition is for a center, or that after that season’s Super Bowl, he would play in exactly one more playoff game in his career.
VIDEO: The Story of the Ice Bowl
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Kathia Yacamán, marketing director at Altia, said the Altara mall, on two levels, will be built on an area of 21,500 square meters, and the hotel Altia Place Hotel will have 70 rooms on eight levels.
A Successful 2011 for Central America
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It will be a tough year. Many challenges await, but also many opportunities are there to be taken advantage of. We believe this to be Central America’s greatest advantage: it is a region where much is to be done, with many unexploited market niches ready for smart entrepreneurs.
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SCIC pours up to 345.6 million USD in Vietnam Airlines
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Tenney Mountain
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MEtoVTSkier said:
Tenney Interview page 2
Skip down to the section " Which components of the snowmaking system have been salvageable?"
Just buy ONE gun, and show it off front and center, like all the other videos they've made. No need to go broke buying a ton of them yet. Just ONE... Lol!
Notice they've hardly made ANY videos on their FB page in quite some time now? Just ads for the pub in the Lodge. It's more of a clubhouse for the Condo developement, that just so happens to have a small, occasionally operating ski hill attached.
I would take everything in that interview regarding snowmaking with a grain of salt.
mgalluzz
Has anyone heard any news about Tenney for this season?
2planks2coasts
mgalluzz said:
Messaged them via FB. They answered and said they plan on being open, still working out the details with the state, but likely thurs-mon.
Really wish they would put that on their website or FB page. They are 20 minutes from me, but with the 01 Nov Deadline for many passes in NH, holding out for them to announce pricing doesn't seem wise.
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I feel like Tenney’s biggest issue is that unlike other resorts that have reopened, they really haven’t done much to spread the word about it or advertise themselves as having something unique compared to other mountains. When Geoff took over operations at Magic he gave it an overhauled website, logo and he came up with a way to set Magic apart (a throwback). Tenney needs to get the word out there and at least try to make an attempt at distinguishing themselves. I doubt they’ll be able to continue operations much longer with COVID and the lack of skier visits they have been seeing.
Slidebrook87 said:
IDK about that, I thought the Tenney owner's planned other things and maybe bring skiing back. So they brought the skiing back without spending much on that end, I think the skiing has always been a sideshow to other things they planned to do. Whether they continue the ski ops I think has more to do with of they progress on the other things they had lined up.
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Strange things with that place. The guy who seem to own the place bought it for the water and mineral rights. Then decided to open it back up. There were some legal issues with a contractor.
Now it seems to be owned by some South American family.
The original guy seems to have taken on a different roll.
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Smellytele said:
Blanchard was never the owner, its always been owned by Alessandro Insolia and his family. Blanchard was the general manager of the place. Insolia is from Boston.
mbedle said:
No Blanchard never owned it but Sir Michael Bouchard has been noted as the purchaser in the past...
Tenney Mountain Ski Area, located in Plymouth, dates back to 1960. It flourished for years but hit roadblocks in the 80’s, compounded by financial problems involved with ambitious plans for nearby condominiums. It then went through four owners, including a Japanese company, before shutting down in 2010. In 2014, Michael Bouchard bought 900 acres on the mountain, including the ski area, for a reported $1.2 million.
From what I see he was part of the group that bought it and he is/was the CEO of Tenney Mountain Development. The first I heard of Alessandro Insolia was last year. Bouchard has been the face of the investors group the whole time.
Sorry for the misspelling, but take a look at this interview.
https://www.wmur.com/article/tuesday-january-21st-tenney-mountain-reborn/30550728
Yes I watched that and that is when I found out he was the owner before that Bouchard was being promoted as the buyer. After the issue with the contractor this guy seems to have stepped forward into the light.
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Looks like the answer is no.
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Well that's unfortunate.
Hopefully they can open in the future.
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2planks2coasts said:
I think it is concerning to say the least. It is hard for a ski area to not open for one season. and then be successful. Tenney was already in the "rebuilding" phase and has a recent history of being closed for multiple seasons .
Did they pre-sell season passes for this year? (I think they did).
chuckstah
The base lodge/restaurant is open according to a friend in the area, and had a live band play last evening for New Year's, so all is not lost. Post seems to leave room to open at least briefly if natural snow permits during lucrative time frames at a minimum. Hopefully.
chuckstah said:
I wondered if the restaurant was still open.
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OSHA requires adequate first aid supplies to be available in the workplace but they don't require any specific contents. By recommending a specific fill, one will be guaranteed to find necessary items in an ANSI kit.
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Yes, one of the most important parts of ANSI Z308.1-2015 is the standardization of colors on unitized refills, however ANSI compliant kits can be made of either bulk or unitized content. When the kit is made of bulk pieces, color coding is not required, but when unitized fill is used, Bandages, Antiseptics, Burn Treatment, PPE, and Miscellaneous items will each have their own color according to the ANSI Color Codes. This standardization will make it easy to quickly recognize boxed product in an emergency.
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(written in 2014, revised in 2015, effective in 2016)
ISEA is the trade association for manufacturers of industrial first aid kits and supplies. Members of the group manufacture and market a full range of first aid kits and supplies, designed to meet user needs for a wide range of applications.
ISEA members have a seat at the table when standards are being written that affect their products; they get a first look at changes in standards, they influence the development of new standards, and they are kept informed of developments on standards around the world. ISEA is the secretariat for the American National Standard for first aid kits and supplies, ANSI/ISEA Z308.1, and managed the process by which a broad-based consensus group was brought together to prepare the expanded 2014 edition which was then revised again with a few more changes and published as the 2015 standard.
ISEA gives members a full-time Washington office. They are kept up to date on important developments affecting their companies, and are identified with a respected and responsible organization that is an advocate for product standards and worker safety. ISEA has worked with OSHA to gain recognition of the ANIS/ISEA first aid kit standard as a guideline for the workplace. When authorities propose regulations that affect first aid kits or their contents, ISEA keeps members informed and ensures that their views are well represented in agency deliberations.
ISEA members use the association to learn from each other, and work together to improve markets. Information services are tuned to member companies’ needs.
In addition to bringing companies together in the First Aid Group, ISEA membership is a link to the larger world of safety equipment, both in the US and around the world. Companies receive regular bulletins and reports on standards, government policies and proposals, and market intelligence. They participate in the association’s Annual and Fall Meetings, where the industry comes together to share information and insight. Members’ products are listed in a Buyers Guide, published in print and in a searchable on-line database.
For more than 75 years, ISEA has set the standard for personal safety equipment manufacturers, supporting and promoting the business interests of its member companies, united in the goal of protecting the health and safety of people worldwide.
First Aid Standards
American National Standard from ISEA ANSI/ISEA Z308.1-2015 ( Revision of ANSI/ISEA Z308.1-2014)
American National Standard - Minimum Requirements for Workplace First Aid Kits and Supplies
Approved June 17, 2015
This standard, a revision to the 1998, 2003, and 2009 editions, was prepared by the members of ISEA’s Industrial First Aid Group, in conjunction with leading industry stakeholders and was reviewed by a consensus panel of users, health and safety professionals, and government agencies.
The International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA), in conjunction with leading industry stakeholders, developed this standard in 2014, updating and expanding ANSI/ISEA Z308.1-2009. A subsequent revision in 2015 corrected a minor technical revision to the 2014 edition. The standard classifies first aid kits based on the assortment and quantity of first aid supplies intended to deal with most types of injuries and sudden illnesses encountered in the workplace including: major wounds, minor wounds (cuts and abrasions), minor burns, sprains and strains, and eye injuries.
This revision Introduced two classes of first aid kits: Class A kits with contents designed to deal with most common types of workplace injuries, and Class B kits with a broader range and quantity of supplies to deal with injuries in more complex or high-risk environments. By expanding the items in a basic first aid kit, employees will have greater access to items needed to treat common workplace injuries. Significant updates incorporated into this version of the standard include the designation of new kit types, expansion of the required supply list beyond the 2009 additions of a first aid guide, to include several new items, and redesignating many of the first aid supplies previously identified as being "recommendations" in the 2009 standard as now being "required" for both newly-designated kit types, and a redesign of the product labeling required. In addition, scissors are to be included in both classes of kits and a splint and a tourniquet are both required for a Class B first aid kit.
Kits in compliance with this standard will provide a basic range of products to deal with most types of injuries encountered in the workplace. “During the revision process, much consideration was given to contemporary first aid protocols and the availability of products used to treat workplace injuries,” said Bob Rock, chairman of the ISEA Industrial First Aid Group and product manager of North by Honeywell. “The updated document reflects an assortment of supplies in sizes and quantities that are best-suited to treat worker injuries.”
The kit label has been redesigned to draw specific attention to fact that each workplace is unique and, as such, may necessitate the availability of additional first aid supplies. “The standard developing committee recognized that as work sites vary, so does the likelihood for the need for specific first aid supplies beyond the minimum required items,” said Rock. “The new kit label is an added tool to remind employers that supplementary first aid contents may be needed.”
In deciding which class of kit is more appropriate for a given workplace... employers should consider the risks and task load of the work environment and the potential severity and likelihood of occurrence of an injury. Employers should also consider whether multiple first aid kits are needed, based on the number of employees, physical layout of the work environment, and the remoteness of the worksite to emergency services. These same considerations can be taken into account when determining if a first aid kit should be augmented with additional supplies.
Our ANSI first aid kits meet ANSI first aid standards, these OSHA ANSI first aid kits were designed according to ANSI first aid kits standards. Updated for ISEA (International Safety Equipment Association) Revisions ANSI/ISEA Z308.1-2015, Minimum Requirements for Workplace First Aid Kits and Supplies (revision and redesignation of ANSI Z308.1-2003 and ISEA ANSI Z308.1-2009): 5/8/2009 If you need an ANSI first aid kit to meet ANSI first aid requirements, know that our first aid kits and first aid cabinets meet or exceed ANSI first aid standards, as do our other ANSI first aid supplies, which will fill your ANSI first aid list, and meet ANSI first aid regulations for ANSI first aid compliance. To follow ANSI first aid recommendations, make sure to order ANSI first aid refills, in accordance with the ANSI z308 requirements. Your source for ANSI Code Compliant first aid and safety kits, products and supplies - Wholesale to the Public Manufacturer Direct Safety Product Sales since 1993
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Here sits the Wyrmwood dice tower on the desk. The map from Deven Rue is an inspiration. The wood comes from Central and South America. Here is what the people of Wyrmwood have to say about it. One of our most highly varied woods in hue, it ranges from warm and subtle plum to vivid, cool shades of violet. Over time, the color will mellow to a rich tint. Purpleheart is unmistakable, unique among thousands of wood species, and many collectors count it as a favorite. This is a review of the Kickstarter with Wyrmwood Gaming and their dice tower. Let this begin with the most important part of this review. I like this dice tower a lot.
Make Concrete Playground yours with My Playground. Save and share your favourite picks and make plans to go out with friends. Registration is fast and free. When Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead hits cinemas this Friday and only this Friday , do yourself a favour and remain indoors. The feature film debut of the Sydney-born Roache-Turner brothers, this is a gruesome zombie apocalypse movie with a grungy, DIY aesthetic — the duo spent three-and-half-years on the project, and their hard work and enthusiasm can be felt in every frame.
The movie begins — as such movies tend to do — with the downfall of civilisation.
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Most of the project, at this point, has been fulfilled, with the bulk of our remaining orders being pre-orders. We expect to wrap up all remaining shipments this month. The next update, on the 15th, will have a rundown of how it’s going, but we fully expect the news to be good – although bittersweet. After all, once fulfillment concludes, these updates will come to a close! But, you know what the say – all good things The end of fulfillment is close at hand, so does that mean that Tabletop Tiles are gone forever?
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We plan to launch a selection of Tabletop Tiles on WyrmwoodGaming. Of course, we won’t be shipping any website orders until the last of the Kickstarter pledges and pre-orders have gone out. These were our most popular options, and the ones that make sense to offer on a more permanent basis.
Would you like to tell us about a lower price? If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support? Australian zombie horror. Following a meteor shower a vast number of the population turn into flesh-eating zombies. When his wife and daughter succumb to the apocalypse, mechanic Barry Jay Gallagher makes his way across the outback to rescue his sister Brooke Bianca Bradey , though he is unaware she has been kidnapped by an experimental scientist known as The Doc Berryn Schwerdt.
Wyrmwood is directed by Kiah Roache-Turner and was released on Feb 13th, All release dates. Cinema Release Date, Friday February 13, DVD.
In the aftermath of a comet breaking up over Earth, most of the planet’s population quickly succumbs to a strange disease which turns them into “zombies. Trapped in a wilderness teeming with living dead, one of the survivors, Barry, has lost everything except his sister, Brooke. But even as the disaster unfolds, Brooke is kidnapped and dragged to a terrifying medical lab run by a psychotic “doctor”, who is performing a series of deranged experiments on plague survivors.
With a healthy dose of Mad Max-inspired vehicular mayhem and an enormous serving of pure, raw talent, this raucous post-apocalyptic epic is one of the most original and wildly entertaining genre films in years! Special Features Include:. Would you like to tell us about a lower price? If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support? Skip to main content. FREE Shipping on your first order.
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Barry plans to kill them all in an explosion, but Benny instead sacrifices himself to turn into a zombie so Brooke can control him to overpower the soldiers. He kills two of the three soldiers, but the captain kills him and shoots Brooke in the chest. Barry challenges him to a fistfight but ends up shot when the captain retrieves his pistol.
Here sits the Wyrmwood dice tower on the desk. all the days in the month, and the arrival date of March 21st would make it two months late.
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Learn More. A compact, solid wood carrying case for your gaming essentials. From your favorite set of dice, to your character mini, to whatever pocket-sized loot you want to bring on your adventure, the Hero Vault is a great addition to any arsenal. Release Date: 19 February, Skip to main content. Wyrmwood Quality Gaming Supplies. Share this Share on Facebook Share on Twitter. Wyrmwood Wyrmwood is a small, customer-focused company founded by three friends, whose mission is to deliver exceptional craftsmanship and high quality materials to the tabletop gaming community.
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The director of this year’s blood-soaked horror comedy Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead is pushing for a Wyrmwood game. According to the interview, Roache-Turner is in the early stages of making the game a reality, which he envisions as an open-world title. You could really make a story out of it. The possibilities are fantastic.
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray and will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play. Australian zombie horror. Following a meteor shower a vast number of the population turn into flesh-eating zombies. When his wife and daughter succumb to the apocalypse, mechanic Barry Jay Gallagher makes his way across the outback to rescue his sister Brooke Bianca Bradey , though he is unaware she has been kidnapped by an experimental scientist known as The Doc Berryn Schwerdt. Along the way Barry meets fellow survivor Benny Leon Burchill and the two team up as they battle their way through hordes of zombies.
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Wish List. Rating: 3. Overview Barry, a devoted family man and mechanic, wakes up on the morning of the zombie apocalypse and is forced to kill his wife and child. His sister, Brooke, is soon kidnapped by gas-mask wearing, soldier of fortune type of people.
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I love it when a plan comes together. Their crowdfunded zombie road movie, Wyrmwood: Road of The Dead, is the epitome of a labor of love. Taking nearly four years to complete and shooting only on weekends, their film has gone on to amass quite the following and even enjoyed a brief theatrical release, before its worldwide release on DVD. However, there is still room for maneuver, should it be approached the right way and not be afraid to stray from the usual tired formula.
In a few ways the two films are strikingly similar while, in practically every other, they really are worlds apart. With both men writing, Tristan producing, and Kiah taking his place behind the Canon 5D, they appear to have found their true calling and the proof here is in the pudding. And what a dainty dessert it is too.
Once a campaign is funded, backer pledges allow us to plan production very efficiently, giving us a complete list of everything we need to build. That gives us the ability to offer lots of wood variety and extra options. Kickstarter also reaches a large audience of people interested in supporting the latest innovations, in exchange for being first in line to receive what they helped us create. The Dice Vault.
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The screenplay concerns a mechanic who finds himself faced with zombie hordes. Roache-Turner’s directorial debut , [1] it had its world premiere on 19 September at Fantastic Fest. Mechanic Barry lives in the Australian outback with his wife Annie and daughter Meganne. During a meteor shower , Barry’s sister Brooke is attacked in her Bulla, Victoria studio by her model and her assistant, who have suddenly become zombies. She calls Barry and warns him to get out of the city.
He, Annie, and Meganne don gas masks and fight their way to the family car. When Meganne and Annie remove their gas masks they become infected and zombify, and Barry is forced to kill them with a nailgun. He runs out of nails before he can kill himself. Chalker, another survivor, finds Barry and knocks him unconscious when Barry attempts to kill himself with Chalker’s gun.
Remember Me. Co-written and directed by Kiah Roache-Turner, Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead features telepathy, a zombie-fueled truck, plenty of living dead mayhem, and much more. Fans can pre-order their copies now at ShoutFactory. Trapped in a wilderness teeming with living dead, one of the survivors, Barry, has lost everything except his sister, Brooke.
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Academic journal article Irish Gothic Journal. The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water – the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter. Zombie films have historically displayed a tendency to be framed within an ecopolitical narrative – think Dawn of Dead both the original and its remake , Day of the Dead , 28 Days Later , and Land of the Dead , for example.
Like these, Wyrmwood is a film of its time which seeks to capitalise on fears regarding pollution, scientific misconduct, natural fuel shortages, and shifting power dynamics. Such themes, of course, closely parallel the Mad Max films, including the recent Mad Max: Fury Road , a film to which Wyrmwood has been repeatedly compared. From the films’ subtitles Road of the Dead vs.
Fury Road and depiction of the post-apocalyptic disintegration of society, to the way in which each posits female characters as not only being integral to a new way of life but actually the key to ensuring humanity’s survival, these films are indeed comparable. The theme of resurrection may be located at the heart of both these films, but there is one marked distinction between Fury Road and Wyrmwood: where the former ultimately maintains a largely serious tone, the latter mostly takes an irreverent approach.
What’s more, the world is beginning in Fury Road, and follows a road in the Australian outback that ultimately leads to a promise of rejuvenation and rebirth; by contrast, Wyrmwood travels along a road of the dead. For the protagonists in Wyrmwood, the world as they knew it is ending, a fact which not only drives the narrative trajectory but also provides the basis for much of its black humour. Within the first few high-octane and bombastic moments of the film, the tone is set.
This article contains plot spoilers. If you do not yet know of this information, it is recommended that you read at your own risk or not at all. Twelve years have passed since the end of the rat plague and Corvo Attano, Royal Protector and Spymaster of his Empress and daughter Emily Kaldwin , worries of his own age.
She then placed the small wyrmwood box onto its center. Dart knew it was an ancient instrument, dating back to the second millennia following the Sundering.
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Standing on Points: A Cultural History of Punctuation
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Still Library Isolated: Another Punctuation Book Review
Libraries are open now, that is, you can go pick up pre-ordered books. I live a little out of town, so I’m just getting my long list ready, and when the day comes to cycle a few tens of kilometres and I pick up my darlings…I shall be so ready. Until then, I’m reading what’s at home. And very overdue, it is.
I’ve dipped in and out of Keith Houston’s first book, Shady Characters (2013), so many times, but never sat and read it cover to cover. I did that over the week-end after finishing his second book on books called The Book (the review here). Hysteron-proteron like, the horse before the cart.
Shady Characters is a whirl-wind tour through thousands of years of writing and writing technology, following (almost) one mark of punctuation per chapter, exploring where it came from, and what’s quirky about it. What we did with and to it.
It’s actually not true that the marks are marks of punctuation. At least not in a medium to strict sense. It’s not a stretch of definition to call a dash a mark of punctuation, but it certainly is to categorize a manicule as one. And what about the @ sign? Or the # ? The & ? (To be fair, the subtitle of the book is the very broadly-kept The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks.)
It all depends on your understanding of punctuation, of course: some might say any sign in a text that is non-alphabetical is punctuation. Well, but what about a superscript a, acting as footnote? Thus: blablaa. According to this definition, an emoji, a manicule, a number, a decorative border – all this would be punctuation. And I can see the point, and I agree. Those things punctuate the text, disrupt linearity, import otherness. But I also don’t agree.
For me, punctuation has actually to have a rhetorical or grammatical function. An exclamation mark indicates emphasis. A full stop separates sentences, so clarifies syntactic relationships. Tone, pitch, emotion. Grammatical belonging. That’s what punctuation does. A manicule doesn’t really do either of these. It draws attention to stuff. Content.
Then again, what about the paragraph sign a.k.a. pilcrow? What about the asterisk, and (oh dear) my beloved ampersand? Which is nothing but a substitute for ‘and’, right? A word. An alphabetical word.
I think pilcrow and asterisk can be “saved” by arguing they clarify structure. And the hashtag, if thought about as Twitter-like qualifier of tone, could make it into the emotion-punctuation-marks.
But I’ve written about this before here, and there’s no hard and fast answer. Which is A Good Thing! The moment we people agree on something it’s dead, is my experience.
Houston grapples with some really complicated processes, such as transmission of texts, concepts and practices of reading, evolving purposes of writing, technologies of writing. From scroll to book, typewriter and word processor. And his book is definitely worth reading twice, which is what I did, digging up lots of gems of information which I overlooked first time round.
Like The Book, Shady Characters is actually a bit of a hard read, not because the topic is hard (it’s just convoluted like history and culture are), but because Houston writes in such a dry enumerative way that your focus keeps slipping. Fewer facts, more meat. Upon reading it once, just making a few notes in the margin, I felt curiously under-informed. It didn’t stick. And I think that’s because…I think his writing is just not (dare I say it)…beautiful.
It’s packed, but not woven. There’s little loose story-telling, and not a lot of digging, actually, making the book both crammed and superficial. Well, what does it mean that the pilcrow disappeared from manuscripts, leaving blank space which became the re-branded paragraph indentation? What does it mean that the sign is there but not? Like he says, it’s a ‘ghost’. What does that mean? Word processors certainly still keep it, just that we don’t see it. Unless we want to. We can make all those pilcrows visible with one click. So it’s like they’re there, but not. The almost-punctuation-mark. But it is a mark if one considers space punctuation (which we do). Categorized absence. Differently-sized absences. What does it mean for a Shakespeare text that the printer would sometimes pad a line with “invisible type”, and sometimes collapse proper spacing, making blank verse appear as prose (leaving us to wonder for what those lines were intended)? What does it mean that a dash censors profanity, and we still read ‘damned’ when we see ‘d–d’? What does it mean.
A little less information, and a little more thought.
That said, there’s plenty of the former which has triggered plenty of the latter in me, including old issues:
-punctuation as aid for speaking and/or reading
-overlaps of use and inconsistencies of understanding
-our relatively conservative nature when it comes to new punctuation (we’re happier to re-purpose familiar marks than integrate completely new ones into our writing)
-our belief that punctuation somehow ought to, or does, represent the zeitgeist of a certain period. Always the current one, of course. About all of which more soon, particularly the latter. The mark of our time just now would probably be the Edvard Munch screaming emoji.
Ah, and after some scrambling and massaging of definitions, I can say with good conscience that the ampersand is a mark of punctuation. It’s a connecting conjunction, you see, so it clarifies syntactical relationships… phew. Not exactly water-tight, but who would want the sensual & kicked out of the ranks of punctuation?
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Back to Basics: What is Punctuation?
I’ve been working on an encyclopaedia entry on punctuation in literature in the past couple of days, and it’s been a lot of fun, thinking about – well, so many things:
With punctuation, you need to unpick its relationship between rhetoric and grammar, that it has a perpetual foot in both camps, no matter what the punctuation system is. That makes a lot of sense, since punctuation is a phenomenon of language – written language, it’s true, but language nonetheless, and we experience that in speech and writing. Is punctuation only that when you can see it? Or does it guide oral performance? What about the silent oral, when we read silently with a voice in our head?
With punctuation, you need to unpick standardization, convention, and custom. The differences are subtle, but they are.
With punctuation, you need to think about genre expectations, the imagined readership or audience, how they will encounter the text, what it’s supposed to do. What they think it ought to do.
You need to think about the technology of writing (is it a digital document or an actual book? Printed or manuscript?). This goes hand in hand with the most vexing of issues surrounding editing: who put that punctuation there? The author, secretary, copyist, editor, typesetter, proof-reader? What is their level of education, what’s the house style like? Did the author care, or not? Does it matter? Should we care who put punctuation there, or can be still say something about it, even though it might not be “original” (whatever that means).
Editor. Harmless drudge?
As a parenthesis: I’ve always been a proponent of the caring about punctuation regardless who put it “there”; even if it was a typesetter that put a bracket into a sentence by Philip Sidney rather than Sidney himself, that typesetter from the 1590s was definitely closer to the mindset of the author than anyone today reading or editing; he may have made an educated guess, or made the text consistent with conventions of the time. Why should that then not be note-worthy? Whether we understand such textual minutiae like punctuation among those so-called accidentals of text which we can brush under the carpet in our close-reading as vulnerable to unauthorial loss or addition (hence not intended hence not important), or whether we embrace that texts issue into the world as an amalgamation of intention, motivation, care, and carelessness, touched by many hands and minds, whether we think text is social or not – that is a question of politics.
It’s tricky to hold together so many threads, although it’s also nice to realize just how enmeshed punctuation is in all the stuff of writing, and in all the stuff of living, too. But before I came to ponder the things punctuation engages with in the first place, I thought I’d have to give some suggestions for future encyclopaedia readers on what punctuation actually is.
It’s both totally clear what punctuation is. And not at all.
What do the reference works say?
Well, the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics is quite hands-off inconclusive: punctuation is a ‘system of nonalphabetical signs that express meaning through implied pause, pitch shifts, and other intonational features’ (4th edition, 2012, p.1131). I was at first a bit put off, because it sounds quite vague, but it’s actually really smart. They hedge their bets. Punctuation, according to this definition, is what you think it is.
If you think an asterisk means you pause and look at the bottom of the page for a comment, then that’s punctuation. If you think a hashtag does not add an intonational feature through the now-common meta-commentary (#weird), then it’s not. It’s not punctuation. It’s something else (what?). I think Princeton’s is a smart definition of punctuation, precisely because it’s so open, so based on effect, the end-result, but it’s not really useful. It’s like saying a dog is an animal that some people are afraid of, rather than a dog looks like xyz and was domesticated from wolves in order to protect property, which is why they bark and make some people afraid. Not sure if that analogy is working. But I, for one, think we can allow ourselves to be a little more definite in our definitions.
The OED thinks punctuation is the ‘practice, action, or system of inserting points or other small marks into texts, in order to aid interpretation; division of text into sentences, clauses, etc., by means of such marks (2.a ‘punctuation’).
That’s a bit more focussed than the Princeton definition. Now we have ‘small marks’, which I think is better than nothing, but still vague (numbers? Letters? Pictures?). In any case, typography such as italics or bold isn’t included. What does interpretation here refer to, though? And shouldn’t they make clearer just what kind of divisions we’re talking about? That is, grammar and rhetoric. There’s nothing here about the effect of punctuation, its emotional value, performance aspects.
Princeton 1: Oxford 1.
‘Punctuation, the use of spacing, conventional signs, and certain typographical devices as aids to the understanding and correct reading, both silently and aloud, of handwritten and printed texts.’ (Encylopedia Britannica)
Lots to like here! We’ve got marks and typography covered, we’ve got the oral/written aspect, we’ve got rhetoric and grammar (I think), and we’ve got ‘convention’ for the first time. Punctuation, as in the OED, is a helpmate, the catalyst for understanding. That’s absent from the Princeton, which I appreciate, although we might want to think about punctuation as clarifier before we look at its potential to create ambiguity.
Just how essential is punctuation to writing? How does it (un)confuse?
I think it’s exciting to consider punctuation in the broadest way possible: I remember an undergrad supervision with the god of all marks, John Lennard, who asked us to retrieve all punctuation from a poem by John Clare he had handed out. Of course, we only took out your run-of-the-mill marks like commas and full stops, bungling fools that we were. He returned the paper to us. ‘Do it again.’ We came back taking out the line spaces between stanzas. ‘Again.’ And so on.
He told us, if pushed to the extreme, we should have returned…nothing. Apart from all the usual marks and spaces, one could say any kind of text punctuates a page. And a page (or book) punctuates space, so…nothing.
I think that’s a valid thought experiment. That’s exactly what university is supposed to do. Challenge us, make us stop and think. Attend.
I also think zooming in on a certain set of marks which negotiate syntactic relationships between grammatical units, and give information for pausing and tone in silent and loud reading is also valid.
That’s where I perched my own definition of punctuation, followed by hundreds of words of unravelling. Never too much of a good thing!
I guess, David Crystal’s approach of pragmatic enthusiasm and curiosity is truest to the subject: punctuation cannot be understood in isolation of other aspects of language such as spelling, capitalization, lay-out, and typography. Performance, I’d add. What reader and writer want, need, expect. A lot of fun, and so many things.
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Bolton Wanderers transfer round-up: Potential player return, Crellin departure possible, loan player set to leave club
Ben Wignall
Bolton Wanderers have already done some early January transfer window business as they look to climb from their mid-table position in League Two.
Ian Evatt has brought in vast experience from levels above with the signing of ex-Sheffield Wednesday man Kieran Lee on an 18-month deal, and also solved his issues at left-wing-back with the loan capture of Declan John from Swansea.
Trotters fans will have to wait a bit longer to see John in action due to an injury he’s picked up, but you get the feeling that more additions are needed for Wanderers to rise from 17th position.
The League Two salary cap might put paid to that, so Bolton may have to get rid of a few faces to improve – let’s look at the latest speculation surrounding incomings and outgoings.
Peter Kioso
Right-wing-back Kioso joined on a loan deal from Luton Town back in October and was a regular figure for Evatt, scoring an impressive three league goals – but was recalled by Nathan Jones this week.
It’s thought that he is needed in-case of further injuries, but there’s every chance that he could return out on loan, but whether that is with Bolton or someone else is another matter.
Logic would suggest he returns to a place where he’s been flourishing, and Ian Evatt clearly wants him back, but League One interest has emerged according to Alan Nixon, who tweeted a few days ago that Northampton are now in the mix.
Billy Crellin
The highly-rated Fleetwood stopper joined on a season-long loan, having once attracted the attentions of Premier League side Everton and has played for England at four different youth groups.
It’s not quite gone to plan though for the 20-year-old at the UniBol, and Evatt had to apologise a few months ago for publicly telling Crellin to ‘man up’ after making a mistake against Cambridge which led to a goal.
More criticism of Crellin from Bolton fans came after a 4-0 defeat away at Leyton Orient in October, and he’s now spent 11 straight games on the bench (transfermarkt), which may prompt a termination of the loan deal.
Quiz: Did these 20 things happen to Bolton Wanderers in 2020?
Won three straight league games?
Along with Crellin’s potential departure, Evatt has confirmed that midfielder White may also be set to go back to Blackburn Rovers, having played just nine times in League Two this season.
Just five of those have been starts and with the emergence of young starlet George Thomason, White has been further pushed down the pecking order.
Sitting on the bench will do his development no good whatsoever and a return to Ewood Park seems likely.
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North Versus Hanson
Experts Frustrated by Stalled Efforts to Counter Megafires
“Use every damn tool you’ve got,” he said. “If we could have beavers on crack out there I’d be donating to that process — anything that will speed up the pace and scale of this thing.”
Dr. Malcolm North
Categories adaptive management, climate change, ESA, Federal Forests, Fire and Fuels, Forest Ecology, Landscape Scale, timber, Wildlife, Wood Tags bark beetles, biomass, climate change, Collaboration, Endangered Species Act, Fire and Fuels, FireWise, Restoration, Rim Fire, Thinning, wildfire 11 Comments
Sierra Nevada Logging Examples
December 23, 2018 December 22, 2018 by Larry Harrell Fotoware
Back in 2012, I worked my last season with the Forest Service, on the Amador Ranger District of the Eldorado National Forest. In particular, I led the crew in marking the cut trees in this overcrowded unit.
The above picture shows the partially logged unit, as well as the sizes of logs thinned.
This part of the same unit shows a finished portion, and two other log landings.
Here is a link to the larger view.
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.6022239,-120.3284245,1019a,35y,90h/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
There are also other completed cutting units in the area, which I worked in. Most of those were also cut in 2018, six years after they were marked. The existing plantations were cut back in the 80’s. At least one new goshawk nest was found, and the cutting unit was dropped.
Categories adaptive management, collaboration and public involvement, conflict resolution, Diversity and species conservation, Economics and Economic Recovery, ESA, Federal Forests, Fire and Fuels, Forest Products, Jobs, Landscape Scale, Multiple Use, Photos, Wildlife, Wood, workforce Tags Collaboration, Endangered Species Act, Fire and Fuels, old growth, Photos, Restoration, Thinning, Wildlife 2 Comments
What is Beyond the “Fog of War”?
September 30, 2017 by Larry Harrell Fotoware
There are scary and uncertain times ahead for our forests. There is just too much “Fog of War” going on for the public to sort out and fact-check for themselves. Even the ‘fact-checkers’ should be suspect, until proven reliable and bias-free. The rise of ‘fake news’ has blurred multiple lines, and many people, even in mass media, fall for the hoaxes, satire or misinformation. (Example: An article appeared on the Grist website, showing concern about a recall of “Dog Condoms”, presenting the link to www.dogcondoms.com )
Categories 21st Century Problems, Diversity and species conservation, Economics and Economic Recovery, Ecosystem Services, Federal Forests, Fire and Fuels, Forest Products, Humans and the Environment, Landscape Scale, Litigation, Monitoring, NEPA, Old Growth, Partizanizing Issues, Photos, Planning, Politics, Press, Reforestation, Restoration, Stewardship, Sustainable Rural Economies, timber, Tree diseases and insects, Water, Wildlife, workforce Tags bark beetles, climate change, Collaboration, Endangered Species Act, Fire and Fuels, old growth, Photos, Restoration, salvage logging, Thinning, wildfire, Wildlife Leave a comment
March 25, 2017 by Larry Harrell Fotoware
Los Padres National Forest.
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Categories adaptive management, Building Trust, Civility and Dialogue, Communication, Good Things, Humans and the Environment, Landscape Scale, Natural Resources, Photos, Research, Restoration, Stewardship Tags Collaboration, Photos, Restoration 3 Comments
Post-Election Thoughts About Our Forests?
With a new Republican President and a Republican-controlled Congress, how will this affect the Forest Service and the BLM?
Regarding the picture: I did some processing with a High Dynamic Range (HDR) program to get this artsy view. It is interesting that it enhanced the flames better than in the original scan, from a Kodachrome slide. I shot this while filling in on an engine, on the Lassen NF, back in 1988.
Categories Budget, Civility and Dialogue, collaboration and public involvement, Communication, Congress, Federal Forests, Fire and Fuels, Forest Service: Culture, History, Morale, Organization, Future, Humans and the Environment, Landscape Scale, Litigation, Natural Resources, Naturalist Interest, NEPA, Partizanizing Issues, Photos, Politics, Reform and Enhance Litigation and Appeals, Restoration, Roadless, Uncategorized Tags Collaboration, Photos 15 Comments
Urgent Action Needed to Save Sierra Forests
This viewpoint shows more of the reasons why the desire to have larger and more intense wildfires, in the Sierra Nevada, is the wrong way to go.
In this picture below, fire crews were run out of this stand, and back into the “safety zone”, on this fire I worked on, back in 1988.
http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/28/6737076/viewpoints-urgent-action-needed.html
Air quality the past two weeks has been several times worse than some of the most polluted cities in the world due to smoke from the King fire. Last year’s Rim fire emitted greenhouse gases equivalent to 2.3 million vehicles for a year.
Also, the lost habitat and recreational opportunities from major fires like these are significant. It is not an exaggeration to say that virtually all Californians are affected when these “megafires” occur.
The report points out that wildfires are getting larger and burning at higher intensity than ever before. The Rim fire burned at nearly 40 percent high intensity – meaning virtually no living vegetation is left – covering almost 100,000 acres. More acres have burned in the first 4½ years of this decade than in seven decades of the last century.
The main bottleneck in treating more acres is in implementation. The Forest Service is unwilling to increase the size of its Region 5 timber management staffs. They use some of the usual excuses, some of which are beyond their control but, not all of those issues are really significant, looking at the big picture. Yes, it is pretty difficult to implement extremely-complex plans when you are constantly training new temporary employees, hired right off the street.
Categories adaptive management, Biomass, Budget, climate change, Federal Forests, Fire and Fuels, Forest Products, Humans and the Environment, Landscape Scale, Natural Resources, Naturalist Interest, Old Growth, Partizanizing Issues, Photos, Place-Based Bills & Agreements, Politics, Restoration, Stewardship, timber, Wildlife, Wood, workforce Tags bark beetles, biomass, Collaboration, Fire and Fuels, King Fire, old growth, Photos, Restoration, Thinning, wildfire 3 Comments
Update: Montana Citizens Given Zero Notice or Opportunity to Participate in Gov Bullock’s 5.1M acre “Fast Track” Logging Proposal
April 17, 2014 April 16, 2014 by Matthew Koehler
Last week Steve shared this article about Montana Governor Steve Bullock nominating 5.1 million acres of National Forest lands in Montana for “fast track” logging under the recently passed Farm Bill.
Since that article appeared in the Missoulian I attempted to gather basic information from the Gov’s office and the MT DNRC regarding what type of public notice or public process was used to come up with these 5.1 million acres of National Forest land. For days both the Gov’s office and MT DNRC refused to provided the information, and then when they finally said they’d provide basic information, such as “Was there public notice? Were notes taken?” they stonewalled by telling me I’d have to pay them to answer these basic questions. After I told them that as a Montana citizen I have a constitutional right to an “open government” (and after a reporter got involved) they finally sent me 3 pieces of paper.
Many of you may have an interest in the fact that, with zero notice given to the public and with zero notes taken, Gov Bullock’s office hand-picked a total of 7 people who met 5 times on the phone and came up with 5.1 million acres of Montana’s National Forest lands that they have nominated for priority “fast track” logging through a weakened and streamlined “Categorical Exclusion” NEPA process that also significantly reduces meaningful public input.
It’s estimated that this “fast track” logging would apply to 60% to 75% of the forested acres of the Lolo, Bitterroot and Kootenai National Forests outside of designated Wilderness areas, but would include previously unlogged forests and critical wildlife habitat.
It should be noted that with the exception of one of the 7 hand-picked people, all of them are also big supporters (and in some cases the authors) of Senator Tester’s mandated logging bill, the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act.
This whole situation should also lend further evidence to what I’ve been saying for years now, and that’s the fact that not all “collaboration” is created equal, and when it comes to Montana public land and National Forest issues we have some incredibly rotten examples of “collaboration.”
The Great Falls Tribune’s John Adams has the story in today’s paper.
HELENA – Critics of Gov. Steve Bullock’s recent nomination of 5.1 million acres of U.S. Forest Service land as priority for “restoration” say the public was left out of the process.
On April 7, Bullock, a Democrat, announced he submitted a letter to the Forest Service nominating more than 8,000 square miles of timber land from northwestern to southcentral Montana to increase the pace of scale of restoration on federal public land.
Bullock said the lands he nominated under a provision in the recently passed farm bill are declining in health, have a risk of increased tree deaths or pose a risk to public infrastructure or safety.
But critics of Bullock’s recent action said there was no notice of the process and no opportunity for meaningful public input on a plan that could potentially open up the majority of non-wilderness timber lands across the state to fast-track timber harvests.
“I didn’t know anything about this until I read about it in the newspaper,” said Michael Garrity, director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies.
State forester Bob Harrington, of the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, acknowledged in an email to the Tribune that the process for choosing the lands Bullock would nominate was not open to the public.
While Harrington, in earlier media reports, couched the process as a “collaboration,” on Monday he said just six people were invited to join an “ad-hoc group” to advise him on identifying priority landscapes national forest lands.
Members selected for the ad-hoc group included Bruce Farling of Montana Trout Unlimited; Barb Cestero of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition; Sanders County Commissioner Carol Brooker; Julia Altemus of the Montana Wood Products Association; Keith Olson of the Montana Logging Association; and Gary Burnett, of the Blackfoot Challenge and Southwest Crown Collaborative.
All participants except for Brooker were involved in drafting and promoting Sen. Jon Tester’s proposed Forest Jobs and Recreation Act.
According to Harrington, the ad hoc group met five times via conference call between Feb. 28 and April 4. Only the Feb. 28 meeting had an agenda, and the meetings were not noticed to the public and no meeting minutes or audio recordings were made.
“They were primarily discussions about the proposed landscape boundaries and focused on a series of maps that were produced along the way, as well as timelines for each of the collaborative groups and/or USFS staff to submit proposed changes to us,” Harrington said in an email.
Matthew Koehler is a longtime Missoula-based forest activist with the nonprofit WildWest Institute. Jake Kreilick, WildWest’s restoration coordinator, is an active member the Lolo Forest Restoration Committee, one of the collaborative groups cited by Bullock in his proposal to the agriculture department.
Koehler pointed out that the agenda for the first ad-hoc conference call, which took place Feb. 28, listed an April 1 deadline for submitting a proposal to the governor “after broader public review/input.”
But the broader public review and input never happened before the governor submitted his letter to the Forest Service, Koehler said.
“What just transpired here is that the governor’s office and the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation hand-selected a group who got together, with no public notice, and over the course of five phone calls they decided that 5.1 million acres of Montana forests should be opened to logging under weakened and streamlined public input processes and limited environmental impact analysis,” Koehler said. “Over the course of five conference calls, seven people came up with 5.1 million acres of fast-track public lands logging. That’s more than a million acres per conference call.”
Bullock’s spokesman, Dave Parker, said there will be future opportunities for the public to weigh in.
[Update: The Billings Gazette newspaper reports that on 4/16/14 Bullock’s spokesman, Dave Parker, “threatened to exclude The Gazette from further advisories from the governor….” – mk]
“This is only the first step in the process, one which ensures vigorous public participation on a project-by-project basis,” Parker said. “The process of designating the landscapes was necessary due to the time frame established by the passage of the farm bill.”
Governors had 60 days from the enactment of the farm bill in February to make their nominations to the Department of Agriculture.
“Governor Bullock is proud to have an incredibly diverse coalition, from the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and Trout Unlimited, to the Wood Products Association and Montana Logging Association, working on this project,” Parker said. “We look forward to creating jobs, restoring the health of our forests and improving habitat for fish and game. We understand that there will be some who instinctively throw rocks at collaboration, which is their right, but they are in the minority.”
Garrity argued that there is no scientific basis for declaring the 5.1 million acres of forest outlined in Bullock’s nomination as “characterized by declining forest health, a risk of substantially increased tree mortality, or an imminent risk to the public infrastructure, health or safety.”
Garrity said the bark beetle epidemic has run its course across much of the state, and that the dead and dying trees that remain in the forest provide important habitat for birds and other native species as well as food sources for grizzly bears — which eat ants and other insects that live in dead trees — and denning habitat for endangered lynx.
“By any ecologist’s definition of what is healthy, these forests are healthy,” Garrity said. “When Teddy Roosevelt decided he wanted to protect our National Forests, he didn’t want them protected just to be tree farms. He wanted to protect them because they are important watersheds for the American public and they provide habitat for native species. Based on that they are healthy forests.”
Koehler estimates that if Bullock’s nomination is approved as it stands now, between 60-75 percent of all the forested acres outside of designated wilderness in the Kootenai and Lolo National Forests would be prioritized for timber harvests under the categorical exclusion provision, which limits the requirement for rigorous environmental analysis.
“What that means is less public involvement, and less analysis about how the timber sale could affect bull trout, or Westslope cutthroat trout, or threatened and endangered species such as the grizzly bear, and lynx, and wolverines,” Koehler said. “Does the public want a say in how their lands are managed, or do they want hand-selected groups meeting secretly behind closed doors undermining America’s public lands legacy and the ability of Americans to fully participate in the management of their public lands?”
Categories Accountability, Uncategorized Tags Collaboration, Farm Bill, Governor Bullock, Montana, National Forest Logging 28 Comments
Incorrect Road Data Presented to Flathead NF Collaborative
March 13, 2014 by Matthew Koehler
Here’s another letter from Swan View Coalition Chair Keith Hammer to the Flathead National Forest and the Meridian Institute. The letter is shared with Mr. Hammer’s permission, as it is part of the public record. The letter also highlights more problems and frustrations with the “collaborative” process as being carried out by the Forest Service in regards to the Flathead National Forest’s forest plan revision process. Previously this blog has devoted more attention to this specific issue on the Flathead.
Dear Folks and Flathead National Forest and Meridian Institute;
You have presented inaccurate and misleading road data to the Flathead Forest Plan revision collaborative. We ask that you make the following corrections and insure it is brought to the attention of the entire collaborative and other public participants.
We dowloaded the attached document from the Meridian web site and have attached it for your convenience; “Access Information for Desired Condition Discussion.”
1. On page 5, this Access Information states “A total of about 887 miles of road have been decommissioned” since 1995.
This is not true. Some 130 miles of those roads have not yet been decommissioned and the majority of those have languished on the landscape since 1996.
An example is the 72 miles of road never decommissioned though authorized under the 1996 Crane Mountain Salvage timber sale.
This is important because the Access Information continues on page 7 to claim “the amount of decommissioning each year has decreased as the backlog of decommissioning is reduced and the A19 commitments under project level planning have been largely accomplished” – which is also not true.
The above statement does not fairly or accurately explain why the amount of annual road decommissioning has decreased from an average of 43 miles/year from 2006-2010 to just 4 miles in 2013 – when there are some 130 miles of “shovel-ready” road decommissioning NEPA decisions sitting on the shelf collecting dust.
If this is due to a lack of funds, the Access Information should make that clear. Instead, the Access Information essentially states the Flathead is already at the one-yard line, a touchdown is imminent, and all is fine concerning road decommissioning.
The Access Information needs to make clear that the timber sales which authorized the road decommissioning did not raise enough money to pay for the decommissioning, nor has the Flathead secured enough funding elsewhere to accomplish 15% (that’s one out of seven) of the road mileage it has already decided is necessary to adequately protect fish, wildlife and other resources.
2. The remaining section of the Access Information dealing with road maintenance and budgets is equally misleading and remiss:
The Flathead’s 2004 Analysis of the Management Situation clearly indicated the Flathead receives less than one-sixth of the budget needed to maintain its road system to applicable standards for the protection of water quality, fish, wildlife and human safety. See page 4-2 of this 2004 document at: http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5432382.pdf
The attached Access Information at 7, however, presents a table that makes it look like a budget of as little as $1.3 million will adequately maintain 99% of passenger car roads and does not adequately summarize the environmental damage that occurs when roads are not maintained up to standards, including closed roads in Maintenance Level 1.
While the Access Information makes it clear that road management budgets continue to decrease, it does not – but must – contain a succinct summary of what budget the Flathead needs to meet all applicable maintenance standards and what budget it can reasonably expect to receive in coming years (as did the 2004 Analysis).
3. Finally, the Access Information does not provide the summary of road maintenance and road decommissioning costs necessary for the public to determine what mix of roads to retain on the Flathead and which to remove – nor does it provide the summary conclusion that it is cheaper to decommission a road than it is to maintain it with the required Best Management Practices. This is a conclusion announced by the Flathead in a 11/16/98 press release and subsequent 11/20/98 Missoulian news article. This conclusion was most recently confirmed in the Flathead’s 2/14/14 proposed Chilly James Restoration Project.
We ask that you make the above corrections to the Access Information and resubmit it to the collaborative with an announcement of the changes that have been made. And let’s be clear we are not suggesting a more complex presentation of the data. We find you must present it in a more accurate and summary manner in order for the public to grasp the relationship between roads, road funding, resource protection, and fiscal reality. As it stands now, the Access Information is incorrect and misleading.
Please respond and indicate what you intend to do about this.
Keith Hammer – Chair
Swan View Coalition
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More Flaws in Flathead NF “Collaborative” Process
For a few years now some of us have been trying to hammer home the point – based on our actual experiences – that not all Forest Service “collaborative” processes are created equal, and in some cases, lead to even greater feelings of mistrust and frustrations.
One such recent example of a questionable “collaborative” process has been on the Flathead National Forest in Montana, concerning the Forest Plan revision process, which has been highlighted on this blog with the following posts:
Swan View Coalition Shares Perspective on Collaboration
Another invite-only “collaborative” leads to unprofessional Forest Service conduct
Flathead NF Skews Forest Plan Revision Process, Deceives Collaborative Group
The following letter from Keith Hammer of the Swan View Coalition was provided to the Flathead National Forest leadership and the private Meridian Institute, which the USFS has contracted with to help run the “collaborative” process on the Flathead’s forest plan revision process. The letter is shared with Hammer’s permission, as it is part of the public record.
Dear Folks at Meridian Institute and Flathead National Forest;
While we appreciate being involved in the Jan 20 conference call discussing problems with the Flathead Forest Plan revision collaborative process, we are very disappointed in the outcome. It seems at most every turn this process has turned into more sub-groups, more meetings, and less transparency – making it increasingly difficult for folks to be meaningfully involved and to provide informed input.
At the Sept 25 Process Workshop, Connie Lewis made it clear that folks “Encourage transparency and accessibility throughout the process.”
More meetings and more groups do not provide more accessibility or transparency. Well facilitated meetings faithfully recorded in written form and posted publicly in a timely manner does provide better accessibility and transparency.
We appreciate that Meridian has begun posting written summaries of the meetings on its web site and has begun sending emails with links that go directly to those summaries and other recently posted materials.
The summaries, however, do not provide an accurate record of who said what at the meetings. This makes it impossible for people to determine what differences or common ground exist between who, or whom to turn to if they would like to know more about what they have said. Recording and associating the names of the people with their comments is absolutely essential to providing accountability and the building blocks necessary for any progress to be made in common understanding of the issues.
Having people keep their name placard on the table in front of them at the Jan 22 meeting was a step in the right direction, but we are at a loss why, in the summary, those names were not then recorded in association with comments being made. It should be standard practice that folks state their full name before commenting – for the benefit of the record keeper and all others in the room.
From an accountability standpoint, folks should be required to provide their first and last names when commenting at meetings or in the forums provided on the Meridian web site – for the reasons provided above and to keep things from running amok in an unaccountable manner. In this regard, we found it troubling that one person speaking at the Jan 22 Vegetation group had only what we assume to be a nickname on his pre-printed placard – something along the line of “Boomer.” Are you allowing folks to participate in this process without firstly identifying themselves, or is this person’s full given name actually “Boomer” or whatever?
We offer these criticism after having attended all of the collaborative meetings thus far, but having also been promised full transparency and accessibility via eCollaboration and other means for when folks can’t make the meetings. Can you imagine not being able to attend these meetings and trying to track who is involved and what is being said via the meeting summaries you have thus far provided?
We ask that you follow up on your promise to make this process transparent and accessible to everyone. We urge you to put yourselves in the shoes of someone that can’t make a single meeting and then conduct this process accordingly.
Categories collaboration and public involvement, Uncategorized Tags Collaboration, Flathead National Forest, Swan View Coalition 3 Comments
March 13, 2014 December 5, 2013 by Matthew Koehler
Yet another invite-only, exclusive “collaboration” involving public U.S. Forest Service land management has sprung up in Montana. This time the collaborative group is called the Whitefish Range Partnership (WRP), and they are focused on roughly 350,000 acres of the Flathead National Forest’s portion of the Whitefish Range above the cities of Columbia Falls and Whitefish.
As you will see below, the leaders of the Whitefish Range Partnership completely admit that they made a conscious decision to exclude certain members of the public. Notably, the WRP admits to purposely excluding any conservation organization that had worked within the established public participation processes outlined within the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in order to comment, appeal and, if necessary, file a lawsuit against a timber sale on the Flathead National Forest. It also appears that the WRP purposely excluded some of the “multiple-use” folks. Also of note is the fact that Flathead National Forest officials were invited to attend all the meetings of the WRP in an advisory capacity.
The WRP leaders conducted a media blitz last week, announcing an agreed upon deal that, among other things:
• Increases the “Suitable Timber Base” by 45% in order to supposedly achieve “commercial certainty for the timber industry” (in an era where lumber consumption and home construction are down more than 50% and not expected to rebound anytime soon).
• Decreases recommendations for areas protected as Wilderness.
• Increases motorcycle recreation in the southeast portion of the Whitefish Range.
• Provides a large increase in recreation opportunities for snowmobilers.
Q: Has there even been a public lands “collaborative” group that didn’t decide to increase logging, decrease Wilderness and increase motorized recreation?
At the time the WRP deal was made public there were no plan details or maps available to the public. In fact, board members of at least one organization that did participate in the invite-only, exclusive collaboration also didn’t know any details, except what they read in the newspaper. A few days after framing the debate and controlling the media messaging, the leaders of the WRP did make this copy of the agreement available to some of people, although I’m pretty sure it’s not available to the general public.
Keep in mind that starting tonight the Flathead National Forest is hosting “Stakeholder Collaboration Orientation Meeting” from 4 to 8:30 pm Kalispell to kick off their Forest Plan revision process. The weather forecast calls for a low tonight in Kalispell of 8 below zero, with wind chill values dropped to 32 below zero. Many roads in the area are snow-covered and icy.
Ask yourself this question: If you are a member of the public who cares about the management of the Whitefish Range and the Flathead National Forest, and you were excluded from the Whitefish Range Partnership “collaboration” and plan, would you venture outside in the cold and dark to attend the Flathead National Forest’s “Stakeholder Collaboration Orientation Meeting?”
Before you decide, read the information below, where you will see that Chip Weber, the Supervisor of the Flathead National Forest, has already publicly claimed that the plan developed by the invite-only, exclusive Whitefish Range Partnership “may be very close to, if not exactly what we end up doing.”
What follows below are some reactions and more information to the Whitefish Range Partnership plan, and the Flathead National Forest’s “advisory” role in this invite-0nly, self-selected, exclusive “collaboration.” The views expressed below (which are shared with permission) come from long-time conservationists who live in the immediate area, but were not invited to participate in the WRP’s “collaboration” on account of supposedly being too radical or extreme.
[Founded in 2006, James Conner’s Flathead Memo is an independent journal of observation and analysis that serves the Flathead Valley and Montana. Below are some of Mr. Conner’s thoughts, including a number of recent posts about the Whitefish Range Partnership plan made at the Flathead Memo. – mk]
Matt Koehler asked my permission to repost some of my essays on www.flatheadmemo.com. Permission granted, and granted with pleasure.
Collaboration is not an intrinsic evil. In fact, when conducted in an ethical manner, it can do good. There’s never any point to fighting over common ground. But, as with the Frenchwomen who “collaborated” with the Wehrmacht’s soldiers, it also can be an act of desperation and betrayal, a lesser of evils in an effort to survive, or simply an outcome of weak character. It can can and does turn colleagues against each other in the pursuit of ephemeral gains, poisoning relationships and weakening communities.
One collaborative effort I encountered involved citizens, who, frustrated with a county commission’s heads-in-the-sand approach to planning in a rapidly growing northwestern valley, decided to take matters into their own hands. They wrote their own master plan which, wrapped in bells and bows, they presented to the commissioners, expecting swift approval. “Here, we’ve done your job for you,” they said in effect. The rump master plan never was adopted, and the collaborationists never realized they were practicing vigilante politics. When government is broken, it must be fixed, for it cannot be sidestepped.
We’re now beginning another round of national forest planning. The U.S. Forest Service, desperate to adopt new plans that enjoy widespread public support, hopes a collaborative process will rally the public around the plans. It won’t, certainly not to the extent the agency desires. The public is too diverse for that. Moreover, not all uses and practices are compatible, not all collaborative efforts will produce wise, or even legal, agreements, and no amount of collaboration can relieve the agency of its legal and moral duties to decide what the plan includes and does.
As these collaborative efforts move forward, those involved must remember that the objective is not compromise, for compromise is not an intrinsic good, but support for that which best protects the land in ways consistent with the needs and aspirations of humanity and the world of living things. – James Conner
Unprofessional conduct at the Flathead National Forest
By James Conner, © James Conner, www.flatheadmemo.com
The man in charge of revising the forest plan at the Flathead National Forest, Joe Krueger, and his boss, forest supervisor Chip Weber, exercised questionable professional judgment in their remarks on the forest plan alternative developed by the Whitefish Range Partnership.
Here’s what the InterLake’s Jim Mann reported:
Joe Krueger, the forest plan revision team leader, said forest officials are impressed with the work done by the Whitefish Range Partnership.
“That’s a very big group,” Krueger said, referring to a membership roster that included representatives for raft companies, timber interests, conservation groups, business owners, hunting and angling, mountain biking and much more. “Anytime you can get a group of diverse folks together and problem solve like that … we’re going to give that a lot of weight.”
“Now it will be easy for people who weren’t part of the process to take pot shots at it,” Krueger said. “The hard part was working through this.”
At the Flathead Beacon, Tristan Scott reported:
“This may be very close to, if not exactly what we end up doing,” [Flathead National Forest Supervisor] Weber told the group at its Nov. 18 meeting, after the members presented him with a lengthy draft plan, the product of more than a year of bi-weekly meetings. “You were first out of the gate, you’ve put in an incredible amount of work and you’ve given us a lot to think about.”
“What the people did here was some yeomen’s work,” he added later. “This group helped set a good example and a model for others to look at.”
One can defend Weber and Krueger by arguing they were trying to be positive and diplomatic, but expressed praise for the WRP’s work in a way that inadvertently endorses the WRP’s proposal. I’m sure someone will make that argument. I won’t. This is more than a case of not being artful — it’s a case of playing favorites, and not in a subtle way.
Had Weber said only “…you’ve put in an incredible amount of work and you’ve given us a lot to think about,” and followed with “your proposal will accorded the same fair consideration as all proposals,” he would have been on solid — and neutral — ground. But he couldn’t curb his enthusiasm.
But Weber’s statements are weak tea compared to Krueger’s “ …we’re going to give that a lot of weight,”and “…it will be easy for people who weren’t part of the process to take pot shots at it.” He’s both endorsed the WRP’s proposal and denigrated as cheap shot artists those who may criticize the proposal. Quite clearly, Krueger is invested in the WRP’s proposal. That’s old school Forest Service favoritism and bully boy behavior, and highly toxic to a successful forest planning effort.
The FNF’s unprofessional conduct imperils the forest planning process from the gitgo, and sullies the hard work of the Whitefish Range Partnership.
[Addition: Here’s an example, captured on video tape, of the Flathead National Forest’s Joe Krueger (at left with yellow hard-hat) mocking a very sincere question from a concerned citizen about the role of science in timber sale management targeting old-growth forests and grizzly bear habitat during a Forest Service public tour of the Beta Timber Sale on the Flathead National Forest in 2005. – mk]
Whitefish Range rump agreement far from a done deal
By James Conner © James Conner, www.flatheadmemo.com
Another rump caucus, the Whitefish Range Partnership, has reached agreement on how a tract of National Forest land, this time in the Whitefish Range, west of Glacier National Park, should be managed. Rob Chaney of the Missoulian has the story.
The agreement has no force of law, but it does have political weight that will be recognized by Congress, which has the power to designate wilderness, and the U.S. Forest Service, which is starting another round of forest planning. Many of the WRP’s proposals are intended to be incorporated in the next forest plan, which will have the force of law.
Here, from Chaney’s report, is what we know so far:
In the final agreement, the [mountain] bikers gained recognition for their trail-building efforts around Whitefish, as well as their interest in using mountain roads and trails elsewhere. Loggers saw their suitable timber base go from about 55,000 acres to 90,000 acres. Wilderness advocates outlined 85,000 acres they want federally protected. Forest homeowners concerned about having federal wilderness bordering their property borrowed an idea from the Flathead Indian Reservation and proposed a buffer zone that would allow reduced logging or hazardous fuels management around their land before the nonmotorized territory began.
All of this remains tentative, as the Forest Service adds it to the public process for its forest plan. The radical fringe of all camps will likely object. But few will have put in the 13 months of Monday nights to present a case as convincing as the Whitefish Range Partnership.
According to the North Fork Preservation Association, maps will be released in early December. They could, of course, have been released now, but the absence of maps makes it easier for the WRP to shape the public discussion, and I’m concerned that part of the shaping will include an attempt to characterize those who disagree with the agreement as radicals or ignoramuses. That was the tactic employed by the rump caucus that engineered the agreement leading to Sen. Jon Tester’s ill-fated wilderness-forest management bill, so I won’t be surprised it’s employed here. (My 2010 comments on Tester’s bill and the rumpery leading to it.)
The agreement was reached not just because the WRP’s members worked hard. It also was reached because the “radical fringe” was excluded. Rump caucuses can do that, but the U.S. Forest Service and Congress cannot. Those excluded from the WRP’s rump caucus have the same right as the rumpers to petition their government. Furthermore, the excluded are not by definition radical or fringe. Some may endorse the agreement. Others, I suspect, will object to parts of it.
Speaking for myself, based on what I know about the Flathead National Forest’s history of logging in the Whitefish Range, I’m skeptical that a 64 percent increase in the suitable for timber management acreage can be justified. There was a lot of old growth mining in the North Fork 40–50 years ago, and the lands not permanently damaged are still recovering. Some never should have been logged or defiled with roads. In the rump agreement leading to the Tester bill, conservationists got rolled by the timber beasts. I hope that didn’t happen here.
I’m keeping an eye on the situation, and from time-to-time will offer my analysis, comments, and recommendations.
See also The WRP agreement – grand bargain or deal with the Devil? by James Conner. © James Conner, www.flatheadmemo.com.
Keith Hammer, a former logger who is the Chair of the Swan View Coalition, brings up some additional concerns about the Flathead National Forest’s “advisory” role in the WRP invite-only, exclusive “collaboration” process in this recent letter to the editor:
Dear Editor;
It is truly disappointing to watch the Flathead National Forest make a mockery out of the Whitefish Range Partnership collaborative and its Forest Plan revision public involvement process. In local newspapers the past week, the Forest Service demonstrated its utter lack of objectivity and fairness when it comes to public input.
The Flathead Forest Supervisor told the WRP “This may be very close to, if not exactly what we end up doing,” praising them also for being “first out of the chute.” (Flathead Beacon 11/27/13). This even though he has not yet had his staff or the general public assess the environmental impacts and merits of the proposal.
The Supervisor’s right-hand man made things even worse when he said that those folks that weren’t invited to be a part of the WRP could later “take pot shots at it.” (Daily Inter Lake 11/30/13). What better way to disenfranchise an American public only recently invited by the Flathead to participate in revising its Forest Plan through both a collaborative and a broader public review and comment process?
Ethics, common sense and the law require that the Forest Service not play favorites. The Forest Supervisor and his staff should have thanked the WRP for its proposal and said it would be considered right alongside the many other proposals it will be receiving during the Forest Plan revision process.
The Flathead National Forest belongs to all Americans, not just those that live locally or able to participate in a lengthy collaborative process. That is why the law requires that all proposals be submitted to the entire public for comment – and that those comments be regarded as something more than just “pot shots.”
Keith J. Hammer
Chair, Swan View Coalition
Brian Peck, a sportsman and wildlife advocate from Columbia Falls, MT recently shared some good background information about the history of Wildereness advocacy in the Whitefish Range:
I just ran across a Montana Wilderness Association proposal for the Winton Weydemeyer Wilderness in the Northern Whitefish Range from 2005. It noted that in 1925, Weydemeyer proposed a 485,000 acre Wilderness in the Whitefish Range, back when that was still possible.
However, by 2005, just 171,000 (or 35%) of potential acres remained after decades of trashing by the Kootenai and Flathead National Forests. About 100,000 of those acres are on the Flathead NF, but the Whitefish Range Partnership would only recommend 83,000 as Wilderness – a further loss of 17,000 acres of Wilderness.
That means that when the conservation members of the Whitefish Range Partnership agreed to sit down at the table with long-time adversaries, 65% of the Whitefish Range had already been lost to logging, roading, motorized Wreckreation summer & winter, and more recently to “combat mountain biking.”
Clearly, the only responsible environmental position to take was that not so much as 1 additional acre of the remaining 35% would be given up. Yet, by agreeing to a format where all 30 groups had to agree or there was no deal, conservationists guaranteed that that they’d have to compromise away thousands of additional acres – unless they were willing to say no and walk away from the table – something that Dave Hadden said he would do “if things started to go sideways,” but clearly didn’t follow through on.
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Thief: Deadly Shadows – Review
By Mike Doolittle on September 14, 2004 in Reviews
As a dedicated console gamer, I've never laid my hands on either of the popular Thief PC games, which are largely credited with pioneering the stealth genre. Thief: Deadly Shadows is my first foray into the series and after hearing so much overwhelming praise garnered by the first two games I expected to be thoroughly impressed. And while I was indeed impressed with the depth and artistry of its design, Thief is far from perfect. It is, at best, a well-conceived but flawed entry into the stealth genre.
In many respects, Deadly Shadows is a beautiful and engaging game. The atmosphere is vividly conveyed through brilliant architecture and impressive real-time lighting. I dare not give away the details of the intricate plot, but suffice to say it involves sorcery, warring factions and plenty of deviousness and deceit. Players once again take control of master thief Garret as he loots, plunders and kills his way through large, open-ended levels. A bevy of gadgets become available as the game progresses to aid Garret in his stealthy ways, but most of them are unnecessary. Much of the enjoyment of the game comes from the dramatic tension of the stealth gameplay, which occasionally builds to nail-biting heights.
Unfortunately, much of the game's conceptual ingenuity—nonlinear gameplay, branching narratives, etc.—is tarnished by flaws in the core gameplay itself.
Garret's animations, and particularly those of the enemies he encounters, are rather rudimentary and, while functional, lack any outstanding panache. Garret is also quite limited in his available moves, certainly paling dramatically in comparison to his modern counterpart in the Splinter Cell games. And the vast majority of the gadgets, items and weapons he acquires are mostly pointless. It's easy enough to sneak up on guards (Garret is always completely silent when crouched) and dispatch them with a lethal stab to the throat that many of Garret's diversion and escape devices are of little value. Besides, should the guards be alerted to Garret's presence and pursue him, the combat itself is so poorly done (with no depth to speak of in the melee combat and an annoying oversight that allows alerted enemies to easily spot Garret in dark places in which only moments ago they were blind to him merely inches away) that a botched mission is more enjoyable to simply retry from the last save point rather than attempting to salvage it through combat or a clever escape.
Deadly Shadows suffers from some rather glaring pacing problems, some of which are technical and some of which are by design. The levels, while expansive, are grouped into sections separated by unacceptably long load times. Frustration mounts quickly when reaching an objective requires quickly traveling between sections, such that the load times themselves are longer than the actual gameplay. Additionally, the most engaging and dramatic portions of the game occur in the later missions; yet to reach them, players must endure a rather drab set of early missions filled with simplistic stealth and boring item-fetching.
Thief's claim to fame is its nonlinearity, but I found it to be a hindrance rather than a boon. The map provided in the game is difficult to read, and with multiple available routes and tortuous corridors I found myself more often than not simply confused as to how I was to reach my next objective. Additionally, the vast majority of the time, the idea of multiple routes adds nothing to the gameplay. Garret can either enter through one door and sneak past the guards, or do the exact same thing from another entrance. Rarely does the idea of multiple paths add enough strategy to compensate for the confusion it creates.
The lighting is also underwhelming in its interactivity. Garret can use water arrows to shoot out torches, snuff out candles with his fingers, and… well, that's about it. I would like to have seen more interactive light sources in the game, such as windows, lanterns, and the like.
Finally, many of the objectives were simply unchallenging. Most areas challenge the player to steal a given percentage of loot, depending on the difficulty level. Rather than adding depth to the game, it merely becomes tedious to navigate the maze-like corridors for the trivial purpose of tracking down an extra gold cup or two. In fact, many of the central level objectives feel redundant and tedious. Most are, as one might surmise from the title, centered on theft. Usually, this means one primary objective that is broken up into numerous smaller item-fetching objectives.
Thief may have been at the forefront of stealth years ago, but nowadays its gameplay feels lacking. However, despite all of the aforementioned problems, Deadly Shadows excels in creating a gripping narrative that lends a strong contextual backdrop to the gameplay. It's just enough that it allows the flaws to slip by much of the time, allowing the player to become engrossed in the tense, foreboding atmosphere experienced in the game's finest moments. Conceptually bold but pragmatically flawed, Thief: Deadly Shadows falls under the weight of its ambitions, but accomplishes enough along the way to be well worth a look. Rating: 6
Mike Doolittle
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Standardized guidelines for improving identify-this-game questions? [closed]
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I don't want to rehash old arguments about the validity of these types of questions, since they're generally accepted as being on-topic for the site.
However, it seems like a good percentage of them require us to prompt people for way more information than they initially provide. I don't really think there's a good way around this (as it essentially requires that a person read documentation prior to posting something, which never happens).
I think though that it might be a good idea to have a general set of questions we can point to that say "this information is useful, please provide as much of it as possible so we can answer your question."
I got this idea from this thread over on the xkcd forums. They have a little template at the top of the forum thread that people can fill out with general information about the game they're searching for.
The use case for this template would be that if an ITG question pops up which has insufficient detail, we could link to a meta post in the comments, thereby giving the asker an idea as to what information would be useful if they could provide it. Having one standardized location would mean that we could keep it up to date, and always cover the broadest possible set of ITG search parameters.
What does everyone think? Is this worth doing? If so, we can repurpose this question with a wiki answer, perhaps, if that's the best route.
discussion game-identification
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For the record, although I think ITGs are sometimes fun, I don't particularly think they suit the Q&A style of the site well. (Just before someone posts a comment saying "I think they should die in a fire and I hate you and you smell bad.") – agent86 Jan 4 '12 at 17:34
I think they should die in a fire and I hate you and you smell bad.... ;) – Raven Dreamer Jan 4 '12 at 17:45
The best way to "improve" an ITG question is to close it. – Invader Skoodge Jan 4 '12 at 18:05
I think we should push again to disallow ITG questions. This site no longer needs the "training wheels" of ITG to get new users, and these questions cause harm: for example, they were the source of a lot of terrible, awful tags that we had to clean up later. See blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/the-pee-wee-herman-rule – Jeff Atwood Jan 6 '12 at 10:00
We actually do have a number of suggestions. These were all catalogued in the tag wiki for identify-this-game by Oak long ago.
How to ask an identify-this-game question
Use an informative title containing some information about the game.
Give us the general description of the game and its gameplay.
When was the game released / when did you play it?
What platform did you play it on?
If you controlled a character, what did it look like? How did you control it?
What was the perspective? Was it top-down, side-scroller, isometric, etc.?
If there were enemies, what did they look like? How were they destroyed?
If there were puzzles or riddles, can you describe them?
Do you remember anything about how the game box looked, how the title screen looked?
One game per question, please.
And if you ever find out the game by yourself, please answer your own question for future reference.
Questions which are too vague in the details they provide will be closed as "not a real question".
Tips for increasing your chance to get an answer
Provide a basic diagram showing how the game looked like.
Check the site a few hours after you ask the question. Sometimes you will receive a request to provide more data, that can help focus the question.
Questions might get answered weeks or months after they were asked. Once your question gets answered, your in-site "inbox" will show a notification. If you don't intend to check the site later, you can subscribe to receive your inbox notifications by e-mail. That e-mail will only be sent if you actually have a notification.
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Discussion about the validity of these types of questions on this site: What is the point of "help me remember this game" questions?
The Moby Games game browser is an excellent tool for finding games by genre, date, perspective, platform, etc.
Wikipedia maintains a lot of game lists, neatly categorized by platform/data/genre etc.. A good place to start is this list of video game lists.
We actually ask for a bit more than what's in that XKCD thread, to an extent. Though I do think we could do with appending the "Environment" point since the game world is a pretty strong stress point. The wiki is free game to edit whenever you'd like to clarify, strengthen, or reinforce our guidelines.
We as well include in these guidelines that questions which lack sufficient detail stand to be closed.
I don't think our problem lies as much in standardizing the guidelines, as it is actually enforcing them. Many users are slightly lax on it, partly because sometimes, even minimally descriptive stuff gets a hook. While that shouldn't actually spare the question, there is an impression that a lot of people end up relaxing standards on some of the vague identification questions on the grounds of "We've done this before, let's see how well we can do." Sometimes a tiny memory is all it takes, but this is detrimental for us.
Beyond just pointing new users to our wiki, I also wonder if follow-through is an issue. If an identification question doesn't get updated when asked for detail, who is actually tracking that question to notice this? It's easy to notice when something does get bumped - it's when nothing happens that's difficult. It may sound harsh, but on vague identification questions, "Close first" may be a wise move. Once the user provides the solid necessary data, you can then notice this and vote to reopen.
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The tag wiki is probably a very good resource for this. If no one else does so, I'll take any input from these answers and use it to improve the itg wiki. – agent86 Jan 4 '12 at 18:54
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Xbox Game Pass Now Offers All Latest First Party Games Including Upcoming Halo And Gears
Khurram Imtiaz
In a rather surprise move, Microsoft has announced today that their Xbox Game Pass subscription service will now include all of their first party published games on launch day. This means you will be able to play the latest Gears of War, Halo and Forza all on your Xbox One with the Xbox Game Pass. The full games will be offered on the service which is a move that is unprecedented in history.
EA Access has an early access program for all of their published games but it is a timed limited demo for the most part. Compared to EA Access, Microsoft has promised the full game and it is simply not just limited to old releases, but the latest games that will be available day one on the Xbox Game Pass service.
Microsoft has released an announcement trailer along with teasing that a new Gears of War, Halo and Forza games are in development for the Xbox One.
Sea of Thieves will be the first game to join the Xbox Game Pass beginning in March 20th. This will be followed by games like State of Decay 2, Crackdown 3 and more as they are announced at the upcoming E3.
Xbox Game Pass is a monthly as well yearly subscription service. If you are in the mood for getting more than 100 games straight on your Xbox One, you can get the service for $9.99 per month or pay the price of $59.99 for 6 months of the service.
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British Version, Style muse Stella Tennant Expires at 50
December 24, 2020 Angelina Anderson Entertainment 0
LONDON — Stella Tennant, the aristocratic British version who had been a muse to artists like Karl Lagerfeld and Gianni Versace, died suddenly at age 50, her family said Wednesday.
In a statement, her loved ones said: “It’s with fantastic sadness we announce the sudden passing of Stella Tennant on Dec. 22.”
“Stella was a superb girl and an inspiration for us all. She’ll be deeply missed,” it stated.
The family requested solitude and stated agreements for a memorial service could be announced afterward.
Police Scotland said officers were called to a speech in the Scottish Borders town of Duns on Tuesday after the sudden passing of a 50-year-old girl. Authorities said that there were no suspicious conditions.
The granddaughter of the 11th Duke of Devonshire Andrew Cavendish and his wife Deborah Mitford of a glamorous, yet unconventional aristocratic household, Tennant was one of the primary British versions of the 1990s.
Late in the past decade, Lagerfeld declared her as the face of Chanel, using a distinctive modeling contract, and that she turned into a muse into the designer.
Fashion home Versace paid tribute to Tennant on Twitter, stating: “Versace is mourning the passing of Stella Tennant. Stella has been Gianni Versace’s muse for several years friend of the household. We’ll miss you forever Stella.
Donatella Versace posted a photograph of Tennant on Instagram as a tribute to the version.
“Stella, I can’t believe you’re gone,” she wrote. “You’ve left us far too soon. We met when you’re at the commencement of your career. I cherish every minute we spent together. Ciao.
Stella McCartney stated she was”speechless” after hearing the information.
“What gloomy, terrible news to finish this shocking season!” McCartney composed in a post on Instagram that contained a photograph of her and Tennant. “Rest in peace, you inspirational girl. Your spirit and internal beauty exceeded the outside devotion, Stella.”
Back in 1999, Tennant wed French photographer David Last. She’s survived by him along with their four kids.
“From the very first time that I met Stella I was ignored,” fashion designer Marc Jacobs started on social networking. “Her beauty, personality, and body language together with her ways, kindness, sense of humor, and character were like no other. What a horrible, tragic loss.”
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Legal Identity for All Women and Children in ASEAN - ACWC Report Launch and Panel Discussion
Women and children are often vulnerable to being left behind, particularly when they are undocumented, or their legal identity is unclear. A regional project was therefore initiated to examine these issues and contribute to enhancing the capacity of the ACWC and ASEAN Member States to promote and protect the rights of women and children to legal identity, civil registration, birth registration, access to identity documentation and nationality. This year, the project’s research has been concluded through consultative processes in which every ASEAN Member State took part. A synthesis of national legal frameworks and their respective administrative implementation, challenges, good practices and recommendations in these areas can be found in the research report.
The report will be launched during the upcoming ACWC Meetings on 17 November 2020 from 13:00 – 14:30 (Bangkok time). There will also be discussion about regional collaboration to improve the protection of women and children to achieve a more inclusive ASEAN Community where no one is left behind.
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China’s Hebei Approves $1.2 bln Hydrogen Production and Consumption Projects
By FuelCellsWorksApril 3, 2020 2 min read (314 words)
April 3, 2020 | 2 min read
Hebei, China’s industrial hub, approved 43 hydrogen projects for production, equipment manufacturing, filling station and fuel cells, totaling 8.75 billion yuan ($1.23 billion), according to a statement from its provincial planner.
BEIJING, April 3 (Reuters) – Hebei, China’s industrial hub, approved 43 hydrogen projects for production, equipment manufacturing, filling station and fuel cells, totaling 8.75 billion yuan ($1.23 billion), according to a statement from its provincial planner.
Home to a quarter of China’s steelmaking capacity, Hebei has been seeking to upgrade its industrial structure by turning to less-polluted and higher-value-added sectors including equipment manufacturing for metro and wind turbine.
“We will support Zhangjiakou to take the opportunity of hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics to lead the hydrogen development,” the Hebei Development and Reform Commission said in its statement.
Zhangjiakou aims to become the hydrogen capital in China, reaching an annual hydrogen production capacity of 21,000 tonnes by 2021 and 50,000 tonnes by 2035.
Twenty-one of the total 43 hydrogen-related projects that Hebei government has approved will be located in Zhangjiakou.
The Hebei government also said it would support steelmaking hub Tangshan and Handan to launch pilot hydrogen consumption projects as they can help churn out energy during the steelmaking process.
HBIS Group, China’s second-largest steelmaker, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) last November with Italy’s mining service company, Tenova Group, to build the world’s first hydrogen metallurgy demonstration project with a production capacity of 1.2 million tonnes.
HBIS plans to set up a project in Handan to produce 3 tonnes of hydrogen from coke oven gas and 380 tonnes of liquefied natural gas via copious cooling process per day, and start four hydrogen filling stations.
Hebei also plans to set up five hydrogen fuel cell production lines and two hydrogen-fuelled vehicle production projects.
The provincial government urged city authorities to prioritize paper works and help accelerate the construction of the 43 projects, the statement said.
Reporting by Muyu Xu and Shivani Singh; Editing by Vinay Dwivedi
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The Shocking Ways Poor Kids Have Long Been Singled Out in American Schools
A brief history of what students eat and who pays for it.
Jenny Luna
When Michael Padilla was in elementary school in Albuquerque, New Mexico, his family couldn’t afford to send him to school with lunch money, so he worked extra hours mopping the school’s cafeteria to pay for his midday meal. Years later, when he became a state senator and learned that poor kids were still getting singled out in his home state, he was shocked. “In some schools they were literally stamping the arm of a child saying, ‘I need lunch money,'” Padilla said on a recent episode of our food politics podcast, Bite. “That sticks with some kids.” (Our interview with Padilla starts just before the 23-minute mark.)
So earlier this year, Padilla wrote a bill in conjunction with New Mexico Apple Seed, an anti-hunger nonprofit, to outlaw practices that shame kids who can’t fork over for their meals at school. The Hunger-Free Students Bill of Rights Act, which passed in early April, requires that all students have access to the same food and that school officials help low-income families sign up for free school lunches. Since it passed, more than 20 state representatives have contacted Padilla to create similar laws in their states, and a national Anti-Lunch Shaming Act was introduced Congress in May.
While schools grapple with paying these debts, private parties often fill the gap. Cafeteria workers have been known to pay for students’ lunches, and recent reports have surfaced of donors taking care of the outstanding bills. For instance, New York-based writer Ashley C. Ford launched a Twitter campaign last December and inspired people to donate thousands of dollars towards paying off low-income students’ lunch debts.
Lunch shaming certainly isn’t the first time school meals have become the source of controversy. Here’s a look back at some of the most notable battles about what kids eat at school and who pays for it.
1921: After experimenting with serving a midday meal to students in one of the country’s earliest school lunch programs, board members in St. Louis decide it’s too costly, declaring it illegal to spend public funds to buy food.
Students in New York City’s Public School 28 eat lunch at school, 1921.
1946: When labor and supplies begin slowly disappearing during World War II, many schools stop serving lunch. To mandate that kids are healthy and well fed, President Harry S. Truman signs the National School Lunch Act, making school lunch an official program of the federal government.
President Harry S Truman, seated at his desk.
1957: Minnijean Brown is one of the nine African American students sent to Little Rock Central High School during the school integration movement. A group of white boys begin teasing Brown in the cafeteria one day, and she spills her bowl of chili on them. Brown receives a six-day suspension.
1960: In Harper Lee’s classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird, character Walter Cunningham Jr. shows up to school with ringworm and without lunch. Scout sticks up for him to the teacher: “You’re shamin’ him, Miss Caroline. Walter hasn’t got a quarter at home to bring you.”
Mid-1960s: The School Lunch Program initially relies on a combination of state funding as well as student fees, leaving many poor African American students in Southern states without lunch. In Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, and Mississippi, only a quarter of black students get lunch, compared with 50 percent of white students.
1969: The Black Panther Party serves grits, eggs, and toast out of St. Augustine’s Church in Oakland, California, out of its own Free Breakfast for Children Program. Some party members claim the federal government ramped up its own breakfast efforts after seeing the Black Panther Party’s success fighting poverty by servings kids breakfast.
Bill Whitfield, member of the Black Panther chapter in Kansas City, serves free breakfast to children before they go to school, 1969. AP Photo/William P. Straeter
1975: While researching junk foods available in Arkansas’s school cafeterias, a PTA group uncovers a statewide price-fixing scheme organized by dairy companies. In 1977, the dairies are handed criminal indictments. In 1980, Little Rock School District files a lawsuit against the dairies; the case settles for nearly $2.5 million.
1978: “Tofu Queen” Thelma Dalman continues her progressive menu planning for a school lunch program in Santa Cruz, California, by serving tofu alongside the cafeteria’s house-made whole grain bread and other sugar-free, chemical-free menu items. But it wasn’t until 2012 that the US Department of Agriculture approved soybean protein as an alternative to meat.
1979: The US Department of Agriculture rules that lunches sold in cafeterias only need “minimum nutritional value.” One official said that even if a candy bar has one nut in it, “we feel it is above our minimum nutrient standards.”
1980: Inspectors recover 13 of 20 tons of pesticide-contaminated pork before it arrives to school kitchens in Arkansas and Louisiana. As for the remaining seven tons? “We have every reason to believe…it was eaten,” the USDA’s assistant secretary told the Washington Post.
1981: $1.5 billion is cut from the school lunch program under the Reagan administration. In order to meet federal nutrition standards, the administration proposes to classify ketchup as a vegetable in school meals. The press has a heyday, and, as reported by author Marion Nestle, Republican Senator John Heinz (of Heinz ketchup) said at the time: “Ketchup is a condiment. This is one of the most ridiculous regulations I ever heard of, and I suppose I need not add that I know something about ketchup and relish–or did at one time.”
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1990’s: Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and Subway set up shop in just over 11,000 school cafeterias. In coming years, McDonald’s markets to school kids by offering gym class videos starring Ronald McDonald, work training programs for teens, and free breakfasts on testing days in local schools.
Mid-1990’s: The media increasingly reports on the risk of death posed by peanut allergies. In 1995, the Wall Street Journal publishes an article with the headline “Peanut Allergies Have Put Sufferers on Constant Alert,” and by 1998 some schools have banned peanut butter from the cafeteria.
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2010: President Barack Obama signs the Healthy, Hunger-Free School Kids Act, with aims to decrease sodium levels in school lunches from 1,230 to 935 milligrams by 2020; increase the number of whole grains; and require kids to take fruits and vegetables as a part of their school provided lunch. “Had I not been able to get this passed, I would be sleeping on the couch,” Obama jokes. Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign, which emphasizes healthy meals and daily exercise, becomes one of her most signature contributions as first lady.
2012: ABC News and other media outlets report on “pink slime,” finely textured cow trimmings doused with ammonia used to bulk up burger mix. Beef Products Inc. sold the substance to fast-food chains, grocery stores, and school lunch programs as a safer alternative than conventional ground beef. But in preceding years, the National School Lunch Program had found that pink slime tested positive for salmonella at a rate of four times higher than other school lunch suppliers. Beef Products Inc. sued ABC News, claiming the outlet misled audiences. The case later settled for more than $177 million.
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2015: A Los Angeles-area school district accountant is sentenced to five years in prison for stealing $1.8 million in school lunch money after surveillance videos show her shoving cash into her bra.
March 2017: A second-grader in Arizona arrives home with “LUNCH MONEY” stamped on his arm. A cafeteria employee put it there when his account revealed he still owed 75 cents on his school lunch bill. In Pennsylvania, a student with an outstanding balance on her school lunch bill reaches the front of the line and is forced to toss the contents of her tray. In April, New Mexico becomes the first state to outlaw “school lunch shaming” by schools or cafeteria workers.
My friend's son came home from school Thursday with a stamp on his arm that said "LUNCH MONEY" because his account was low.
— DaBaby Yoda (@juanyfbaby) April 1, 2017
2017: The Trump administration rolls back staples of Michelle Obama’s Healthy School Lunch policies, such as requirements to reduce sodium and incorporate whole grains. A nationwide reduction in school lunches’ sodium was meant to take effect in 2017; that timeline has been dropped.
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Landlord » Landlord blog » Roundup: June’s landlord headlines
Tags: Immigration checks, HMOs
Roundup: June’s landlord headlines
June has been another fast-paced month in the rental sector and particularly for landlords as more information on potential licensing schemes and immigration checks has emerged.
If you’ve been too busy keeping up with legislation to read the news, no fear. In association with Landlord Today, we have put together a round up of June’s biggest stories…
After we expected a further announcement about a national rollout of immigration checks in May’s Housing Bill to no avail, it is now being reported by the National Landlords Association (NLA) that July is when the next key information will be announced.
The Association reported that after meeting with Immigration Minister James Brokenshire, it understands that the results of the West Midlands pilot scheme are being assessed next month.
The testing phase has been going on in the West Midlands since December 2014 and the NLA says the national roll-out of the scheme may be phased, area by area, and that it may not apply throughout the UK.
So far, the pilot scheme has generated 36,000 visits to the guidance web pages, 75 referrals, over 900 calls to the Home Office and 114 checking requests. These stats are hard to put into context at the moment so the industry eagerly awaits any official comment on the success or otherwise of the initial phase of immigration checks.
In other news, the issue of kitchen facilities in rental properties came to the fore this month after an all-party group of MPs urged that landlords who fail to provide basic cooking and kitchen facilities should have their licenses provoked and be banned from practicing.
A refrigerator and a two-ring cooking hob are the absolute minimum landlords should provide their tenants, the group said.
Another story which received one of the biggest reactions this month centred on a block of converted flats in Luton.
Forty-six tenants were forced to leave their rental accommodation because the landlord did not have sufficient fire safety measures in place and did not hold the appropriate HMO (House in Multiple Occupation) Licence.
The closure of the property was one of the first acts of Luton Borough Council’s new ‘rogue landlord team’.
The council says that of the forty-six residents who had to leave the flats, some have been helped in finding alternative accommodation, three households have been placed in temporary bed and breakfast accommodation and 13 other households have been offered advice.
At the other end of the scale, in London’s prime rental market, a central London agency took to the news pages to claim that some ‘posh’ student tenants pay up to £12,000 a month in rent.
“These students are prepared to pay £6,000 to £8,000 per month for a nice two-bed flat in Mayfair, Marylebone or Belgravia, rising to £12,000 per month in Knightsbridge,” claims Napier Watt’s director Jonathan Adams.
Back to reality, almost, and we heard this month that Britain’s biggest landlords, Fergus and Judith Wilson, have begun the mass sell-off of their 1,000 strong property portfolio.
The couple declared last year that they would be selling off their portfolio and announced through the national press that they have already sold 100 properties to foreign investors and are hoping to make around £100 million in profit from the sell-off.
And finally, as activity the student rental market begins to ramp up, Glide Utilities has released a report which outlines ‘what students seek’ in their uni pad.
The annual report outlined fast internet, inclusive bills and double beds as three of the top desires for the students of 2015.
Right, that’s it for this month. We now look forward to July’s developments which look set to include further detail on immigration checks as well as an indication to the extent and timescale of David Cameron’s plans for mandatory landlord licensing.
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Royal family’s plan to deal with ‘Markle debacle’
By Larissa Waterson| 3 years ago
How the Windsors will confront the negative press
Since her engagement to Prince Harry, Meghan Markle’s family drama has been blasted all over the media.
Whether it’s her estranged father Thomas Markle faking paparazzi photos leading up to the royal wedding or her half-sister Samantha Markle touting threats and criticism, there’s no sign that the Duchess of Sussex will escape her family drama any time soon.
So how does the royal family intend on addressing the seemingly endless bombardment of negative press?
According to royal experts, silence is the best response.
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“The strategy at Kensington Palace, I understand, is, 'Say nothing, don't dignify these comments, these interviews, these articles with a response,'" royal expert Katie Nicholl told ET.
"The royal family has had more than their fair share of scandals. This won't faze them."
Speaking to Yahoo U.K.’s The Royal Box, palace experts Victoria Howard and Liz Brewer said the royals themselves, including the queen, will ignore the Markles as part of a long standing tradition of not responding to unfavourable headlines.
“It’s the Queen Mother who said ‘never complain, never explain,'” Howard said.
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“People will think you’re whining — being a royal comes with privilege.”
“They won’t deal with this behind the scenes because it will end up in tears,” Brewer added.
“Rules are rules and this code of behaviour will continue to be followed.”
However, silence may not prove the best tactic with Meghan’s father, who recently threatened to fly to London from his Mexico home should the Duchess continue to ignore him.
“I don’t care whether she is p***** off at me or not,” he told The Sun.
“If I chose in a month, or couple of months, to go to England — I want to see my daughter. I’m thinking about it.”
The tension between Meghan and her father has reportedly been hard on the Duchess.
A royal source told Us Weekly that the 36-year-old is keen to reach out to her father, however worries that he can’t be trusted with any personal communication between them, afraid he may leak something to the press.
It’s been over two months since the Duchess of Sussex last spoke to her father, when she reportedly text messaged Thomas prior to her wedding telling him she loved him and was worried about his health.
Regardless of the tension with her father and estranged half-siblings, the Duchess is reportedly planning a trip to the US in the next 12 months to visit friends and family
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5 Anime That Will Surely Make You Cry
10:39 PM August 31, 2015
The anime-oriented website, CUPO, made a selection of 5 anime that will most likely make you cry.
Warning: There might be some spoilers ahead!
Discover the selection below:
"The episode that will bring you to tears is the very popular, and turned into a movie, Episode of Chopper: Bloom in the Winter, Miracle Sakura.
Dr. Hiluluk, Chopper and Doctorine, just to think about them brings back some tears.
There are also many other very sad episodes in the Alabasta arc or the Marineford arc, I wouldn't be able to recommend a specific episode!"
"The friendship and conflicts between the girls of the well-known, Love Live!, could make people shed some tears. I personally cried when Honoka-chan collapsed due to her fever during the school festival, and then everybody was so sorry and depressed. Some other episodes moved me or made me feel empathy for the girls."
"Depending on how much you get into this anime, it might steal you some tears! I have really been touched by the expression of Chihaya's honest feelings in good and bad times. I strongly advise you to experience this atmosphere as well!"
"This anime's scenes are beautiful. Key's series, AIR, Kanon and Clannad are all very sad, but my recommendation goes for, Clannad After Story. Its shocking story will, for sure, make you use many tissues!"
AnoHana: The Flower We Saw That Day
"This anime made me cry so much! But the saddest moment to me, was the scene where everybody is crying while reading Menma's letter. For all those who have never watched it, please do, especially since the TV drama is coming soon!"
What do you think about this selection?
Source: CUPO
Hum... I have big doubts on Love Live!. I would have picked a much sadder anime than this one!.
Thinking about these anime... Do you have any tissue?
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In light of all that’s since happened, I suppose it makes a sad sort of sense that the great love of my life should come to me by way of despair and carnage of the darkest, most savage sort…
It is 1898. In the aftermath of America’s war with Spain, Rose leaves her beloved Arans and boards a steamer for New York City. Herded through the emigrant landing depot at The Battery, abandoned and alone, she soon discovers that the New York streets are no more paved in gold than those of Galway. To survive, she must ford her way through Lower East Side tenements and sweatshops, Fifth Avenue mansions and tony hotels – tangling with Tammany Hall for the soul of the man with whom her fate is inextricably linked while fighting her feelings for the first love who still holds her heart. Just as she begins to make peace with the past, the Great War erupts in Europe, threatening to topple the dynasty for which she has sacrificed everything.
With Irish Eyes, Tarr delivers an expansive, breathtaking tale centered around Rose O'Neill, a fierce Irish immigrant who’s determined to succeed. Rose’s voice is eloquent and lyrical, the writing glorious, and the historical detail superb.
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Perak police rescue 18 human trafficking victims in Gerik
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Source: The Malay Mail Online
IPOH, Feb 26 — Perak police rescued 18 locals, including five children, believed to be victims of a human trafficking syndicate in Pengkalan Hulu near Gerik, about 170km from here early today.
The victims comprising five men and six women aged between 27 and 64; two boys aged 13 and 17; and five children aged betweeb two and seven.
A police team rescued the victims in a raid at an oil palm plantation in Kampung Tasek, Belukar Semang at the Kroh sub-district at 12.10am.
State CID chief Datuk Gan Tian Kee said a married couple believed to have masterminded the syndicate was detained to facilitate investigations.
The suspects are aged 43 and 24.
In a statement today, Gan said one of the victims claimed the woman suspect had threatened to beat him up if he did not work in the plantation sector or enquired about his wages.
He said initial investigations revealed that the woman had also forced the five children to work at the plantation without wages.
He said the police seized, among others, a Mitsubishi Fuso lorry, Nissan Navara vehicle, several identity cards, birth certificates and 11 envelopes containing copies of Etiqa Insurance policies.
The case is investigated under Section 13 and 14 of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act 2007. — Bernama
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The area was first established in 1824 when the U.S. Army constructed a small post at Armitage and Clybourn Avenue. Chicago annexed the Lakeview Township area that included Lincoln Park in 1889, more than twenty years after Lincoln Park Zoo opened its doors to the public. Lincoln Park thrived until the Great Depression when the area fell into disrepair. By 1954, a concerned neighborhood founded the Lincoln Park Conservation Association to stop the deterioration of homes in the community.
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23 October 2020, 12:55 pm ·2-min read
The company's provisions and write-offs increased by 25.8% to Rs 604.52 crore in the second quarter compared with the same period last year.
Profit before tax in Q2 September 2020 stood at Rs 329.03 crore, down by 56.5% from Rs 756.29 crore in Q2 September 2019. Current tax expense during the quarter rose 0.9% year-on-year (YoY) to Rs 242.81 crore.
The company said that the quarter saw a significant up-take in rural and infrastructure finance, led by a revival in the economy, leading to significant month-on-month (MoM) improvement in collections. LTFH took full advantage of the faster than expected recovery in rural and infrastructure segments and is well positioned for the upcoming festive season.
Commenting on the financial results, Dinanath Dubhashi, managing director & CEO, LTFH, said, "As anticipated, Q2 saw a revival in the rural economy, which we believe will also drive the economic growth of the country for the next few quarters. In Q2, our Rural business witnessed significant growth momentum backed by our market leading position and strong digital and data analytics infrastructure for the lending business. The performance was also boosted by excellent pick up in disbursements in our renewable energy portfolio.
Furthermore, with the incremental macro prudential provisions made in the quarter we have a well provided for balance sheet. AAA rated NBFCs like LTFH are seeing a gradual easing out of liquidity conditions and our focus now would be to reduce excess liquidity and bring down the cost of borrowing."
Sharing an outlook for Q3FY21, Dubhashi further added, "The rural revival led by higher reservoir levels, better water management systems, solid monsoons as well as the farm bill reform, points towards the beginning of an upward swing for companies with robust rural business models."
Separately, the company informed that its board, at the meeting held on 22 October 2020, had approved the appointment of Tushar Patankar as the chief risk officer of the company for a tenor of two years with immediate effect.
L&T Finance Holdings (LTFH) is a financial holding company offering a focused range of financial products and services across rural, housing and infrastructure finance sectors, as well as in mutual fund products, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, viz., L&T Finance, L&T Housing Finance, L&T Infrastructure Finance Company, L&T Infra Debt Fund and L&T Investment Management.
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Myntra Right On Track; Crosses $1 Bn In Annual GMV
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Ambika Chopra
23 Aug'16 2 min read
Indian fashion ecommerce platform Myntra has crossed $1 Bn (INR 6,709 Cr) in annualised GMV, post discounts in July 2016. This has been a rise from its earlier figure of $800 Mn in January.
According to the official statement, the company clocked a growth of 70% YoY in the first four months of the current financial year.
Ananth Narayanan, CEO, Myntra said, “We have now surpassed our January benchmark to make July 2016 the biggest month ever for Myntra. The annualised GMV run rate of $1 Bn puts us on the path to touching the $1 Bn GMV mark in a fiscal. ”
2016 has been a happening year for the Flipkart-owned fashion portal so far. Last month, Flipkart acquired Myntra’s competitor Jabong for an estimated $70 Mn (INR 470 Cr), enabling it to corner nearly three quarters of the online fashion market in India on a combined basis.
Myntra and Jabong claim to have a combined base of 15 Mn monthly users.
Myntra also ditched its app only strategy and relaunched a desktop site in June when it reportedly saw a 10% decline in sales post going app-only.
The platform has partnered with over 2000 fashion and lifestyle brands in the country such as Nike, Adidas, Puma, Levis, Wrangler, Arrow, Jealous 21, Diesel, CAT, Harley Davidson, Ferrari, Timberland, US Polo, FabIndia, and Biba. It services over 19,000 pin codes across the country.
Recently Myntra bought a 51% stake in Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan’s lifestyle brand HRX. Cricketing icon Sachin Tendulkar also launched his premium men’s wear brand, True Blue, on Myntra.
The idea is to open offline stores in the next 3 months with Roadster, HRX and All About You. “This Omni channel strategy is meant for marketing and touch-and-feel experience. We are also looking at how to work with different brand partners.” Ananth added.
As to what happens to Jabong now, he stated that Myntra and Jabong will remain separate entities, just as Flipkart and Myntra have been. They will use use technology integration to develop partnership with brands to increase sales in India at full price.
Myntra also plans to launch new segments such as home furnishing, personal care business and jewellery.
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Exchange Rate Volatility and Export Margins
Roberto Álvarez
This paper examines the effect of real exchange rate volatility on the intensive margin and the extensive margin of exports. Using highly disaggregated U.S. import data by product and country of origin, and a methodology that takes into account the possible endogeneity of volatility to trade, this paper finds that exchange rate volatility hinders trade by reducing the number of goods exported by countries. This result suggests that exchange rate volatility can make countries more dependent on a narrower set of export goods, particularly in developing economies with export concentration. Policy makers should take this effect into account when deciding their exchange rate regimes.
Roberto Álvarez & Michael Doyle & Ricardo A. López, 2009. "Exchange Rate Volatility and Export Margins," Working Papers Central Bank of Chile 539, Central Bank of Chile.
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File URL: https://si2.bcentral.cl/public/pdf/documentos-trabajo/pdf/dtbc539.pdf
Camara Kwasi Obeng, 2018. "Is the effect of exchange rate volatility on export diversification symmetric or asymmetric? Evidence from Ghana," Cogent Economics & Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 6(1), pages 1460027-146, January.
Obeng, Camara Kwasi, 2017. "Is the effect of exchange rate volatility on export diversification symmetric or asymmetric? Evidence from Ghana," MPRA Paper 79027, University Library of Munich, Germany.
Goya, Daniel, 2020. "The exchange rate and export variety: A cross-country analysis with long panel estimators," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 649-665.
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Housebuilder’s new distribution & build-off-site centre is one of the most advanced in the UK construction industry
Weston Logistics, part of volume housebuilder Weston Group, has opened the Braintree Logistics Centre, a vast new 75,000 sqft (6,970m2) distribution and build-of-site complex, which is one of the most advanced in the UK construction industry. Effectively a ‘housebuilding factory’, the new hybrid plant introduces automotive-industry style logistics, assembly and quality-control to the homebuilding sector.
Located on a high-security 3.5 acre site the new £12 million Braintree Logistics Centre is a huge 33 feet high (10m) warehouse and manufacturing complex designed by PRC Architects, Gideon Hillman, the supply chain consultants, Globe Tooling Ltd, the precision engineering firm, and Weston Group.
Constructed over a period of 18 months, the new complex offers 60,000 sqft of warehousing space, a 10,000 sqft state-of-the-art manufacturing, assembly and quality-control workshop and 5,000 sqft of high-tech offices. The complex currently has 40 staff, including technical engineers previously employed at Airbus Industries, and once fully operational, the logistics division will provide over 60 new jobs.
Sophisticated IT allows raw materials, goods and components being freighted from suppliers around the world to be tracked via GPS from the complex’s control centre. The entire supply chain is closely yet remotely monitored – from the start of a journey from the supplier until the goods arrive at the Braintree Logistics Centre.
At the centre items are barcoded, stored until needed; then retrieved, products assembled and quality control tested (using high-tech machines and automated processes); packaged as per homebuyer customer’s individual specification choices; then shipped to the Group’s different residential development sites.
Intermodal containers are used for the efficient transportation of goods and raw materials shipped in from locations including China, the United Arab Emirates and Italy. The centre has the capacity to handle 1,200 container shipments per annum. The CCTV monitored centre has security gates, high fences and a manned security lodge which checks all shipments into the complex.
The storage centre holds the components required to build a house or apartment including flooring, cladding, wall tiles, paneling material, kitchen components and bathroom components including up to 400 vanity units at any one time.
At the centre, three dock-leveller bays allow for the rapid unloading of materials on pallets and an advanced storage and retrieval system (ASRS) has items barcoded and stored in a 60,000 sqft, 26 feet (8 metre) high pallet racking complex with 27 storage isles, which can hold over 8,000 pallettes and other materials.
The computer controlled wire-guided system fitted to the floor and storage isles allows for the state-of-the-art computer-assisted Toyota folk-lift trucks in the complex to operate safely and precisely at extremely high-speeds.
Bulk deliveries can now be unloaded, computer-coded and stored quickly and safely in as little as 15 minutes, compared to an average of three hours previously. The system has also dramatically reduced the levels of transit and storage damage to expensive materials such as glass, marble and stone.
The 10,000 sqft state-of-the-art manufacturing, assembly and quality-control workshop is designed around a series of conveyor belts and stillages-on-wheels which transport items to processing machines, precision engineering tools and site assembly plants.
The workshop allows for raw materials to be cut and assembled into items such as bedroom wardrobes, bathroom vanity units and bathroom cabinets. Kitchen and bathroom components can be quickly assembled and transported on the stillages. The workshop also enables water-taps and kitchen and bathroom basins to be assembled, fully test run for water-leaks, flow and temperature control and barcoded once quality-control approved.
The Group’s residential development division, Weston Homes, offers purchasers a diverse range of options to customise the specification of their home including choice of kitchen units, colours, worktops and upstands and a choice of bathroom suites, wall and floor tiles, colours and finishes. Buyers are also offered a choice of flooring – wood, carpets, colours and finishes – to their living areas, kitchens and bedrooms.
At the shipping bay in the new centre data on customer’s individual specification choices is downloaded onto a hand-held barcode and customer-order scanner, creating a pick-list for items to be retrieved from the storage bay and assembly centre.
The bespoke customer order – typically a kitchen pack, bathroom pack and other fittings and finishes – is then packaged and shipped to the Group’s different residential development sites. The complex can supply up to 60 plots per day at maximum capacity; but current plans are for Braintree to help deliver up to 5,000 new homes per annum.
Before any orders are placed with the Group’s global network of suppliers, each supplier is rigorously audited by Weston Logistics to ensure that the supplier operates to a high-code of ethics respecting the environment, human rights and women in the workforce.
Bob Weston, Chief Executive of Weston Group says:
“The new Braintree Logistics Centre is a highly advanced distribution and build-off-site centre and represents the future of the volume housebuilding industry. Within the next 10 years technology will allow for new homes to be fully manufactured off-site by robots and computer-assisted engineering tools; customer specification choices fully automated; with factory-made components then built on-site using machines like a highly advanced lego-system. This step change will help enhance site safety, quality control and automotive-like precision. Our blue-chip factory at Braintree is another pioneering part of the process.”
Shaun Weston, Managing Director of Weston Logistics says:
“This new Braintree Logistics Centre transforms Weston Group’s logistics and off-site manufacturing capacity and enhances our ability to control our supply chain, improve the delivery of customer specification choices and ensure the quality of the products that form the specification of the homes we sell. Weston Group has a £2 billion development pipeline of 6,000 new homes and this new complex helps us manage this expansion. Streamlined processing and inventory also allows for significant cost efficiencies and reducing the processing time for customer orders.”
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Written by Nancy Treesh On March 08, 2020 - 35 min read
A food allergy occurs when the body’s immune system sees a certain food as harmful and reacts by causing symptoms. This is an allergic reaction. Foods that cause allergic reactions are allergens.
IgE Mediated Food Allergies
The IgE mediated food allergies most common in infants and children are eggs, milk, peanuts, tree nuts, soy and wheat. The allergic reaction can involve the skin, mouth, eyes, lungs, heart, gut and brain. Some of the symptoms can include:
Skin rash, itching, hives
Stomach pain, vomiting, diarrhea
Feeling love something terrible is about to happen
Immunoglobulin E (IgE) mediated.
Symptoms result from the body’s immune system making antibodies called Immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies. These IgE antibodies react with a certain food.
Swelling of the lips, tongue or throat
Shortness of breath, trouble breathing, wheezing
Non-IgE mediated. Other parts of the body’s immune system react to a certain food. This reaction causes symptoms, but does not involve an IgE antibody. Someone can own both IgE mediated and non-IgE mediated food allergies.
Sometimes allergy symptoms are mild.
Other times they can be severe. Take every allergic symptoms seriously. Mild and severe symptoms can lead to a serious allergic reaction called anaphylaxis (anna-fih-LACK-sis). This reaction generally involves more than one part of the body and can get worse quick. Anaphylaxis must be treated correct away to provide the best chance for improvement and prevent serious, potentially life-threatening complications.
Treat anaphylaxis with epinephrine.
This medicine is safe and comes in an easy-to-use device called an auto-injector. You can’t rely on antihistamines to treat anaphylaxis. The symptoms of an anaphylactic reaction happen shortly after contact with an allergen. In some individuals, there may be a delay of two to three hours before symptoms first appear.
Cross-Reactivity and Oral Allergy Syndrome
Having an IgE mediated allergy to one food can mean your kid is allergic to similar foods. For example, if your kid is allergic to shrimp, he or she may be allergic to other types of shellfish, such as crab or crayfish. Or if your kid is allergic to cow’s milk, he or she may also be allergic to goat’s and sheep’s milk.
The reaction between diverse foods is called cross-reactivity. This happens when proteins in one food are similar to the proteins in another food.
Cross-reactivity also can happen between latex and certain foods. For example, a kid who has an allergy to latex may also own an allergy to bananas, avocados, kiwis or chestnuts.
Some people who own allergies to pollens, such as ragweed and grasses, may also be allergic to some foods. Proteins in the pollens are love the proteins in some fruits and vegetables. So, if your kid is allergic to ragweed, he or she may own an allergic reaction to melons and bananas.
That’s because the protein in ragweed looks love the proteins in melons and bananas.
This condition is oral allergy syndrome.
Symptoms of an oral allergy syndrome include an itchy mouth, throat or tongue. Symptoms can be more severe and may include hives, shortness of breath and vomiting. Reactions generally happen only when someone eats raw food. In rare cases, reactions can be life-threatening and need epinephrine.
What is Shock and What are the Symptoms?
Shock is a life-threatening condition. Shock may develop as the result of sudden illness, injury, or bleeding.
When the body cannot get enough blood to the vital organs, it goes into shock.
Signs of shock include:
Weakness, dizziness, and fainting.
Cool, pale, clammy skin.
Weak, quick pulse.
Shallow, quick breathing.
Low blood pressure.
Extreme thirst, nausea, or vomiting.
Confusion or anxiety.
How is FPIES Diagnosed?
FPIES is hard to diagnose, unless the reaction has happened more than once, as it is diagnosed by symptom presentation.
Typically, foods that trigger FPIES reactions are negative with standard skin and blood allergy tests (SPT, RAST) because they glance for IgE-mediated responses. However, as stated before, FPIES is not IgE-mediated.
Atopy patch testing (APT) is being studied for its effectiveness in diagnosing FPIES, as well as predicting if the problem food is no longer a trigger. Thus, the outcome of APT may determine if the kid is a potential candidate for an oral food challenge (OFC). APT involves placing the trigger food in a metal cap, which is left on the skin for 48 hours. The skin is then watched for symptoms in the following days after removal. Please consult your child’s doctor to discuss if APT is indicated in your situation.
Is FPIES A Lifelong Condition?
Typically, no.
Numerous children outgrow FPIES by about age three. Note, however, that the time varies per individual and the offending food, so statistics are a guide, but not an absolute. In one study, % of children with FPIES reactions to barley had outgrown and were tolerating barley by age three. However, only 40% of those with FPIES to rice, and 60% to dairy tolerated it by the same age.
What Does IgE vs Cell Mediated Mean?
IgE stands for Immunoglobulin E. It is a type of antibody, formed to protect the body from infection, that functions in allergic reactions.
IgE-mediated reactions are considered immediate hypersensitivity immune system reactions, while cell mediated reactions are considered delayed hypersensitivity.
Antibodies are not involved in cell mediated reactions. For the purpose of understanding FPIES, you can disregard every you know about IgE-mediated reactions.
When Do FPIES Reactions Occur?
FPIES reactions often show up in the first weeks or months of life, or at an older age for the exclusively breastfed kid.
Reactions generally happen upon introducing first solid foods, such as baby cereals or formulas, which are typically made with dairy or soy. (Infant formulas are considered solids for FPIES purposes.) While a kid may own allergies and intolerances to food proteins they are exposed to through breastmilk, FPIES reactions generally don’t happen from breastmilk, regardless of the mother’s diet. An FPIES reaction typically takes put when the kid has directly ingested the trigger food(s).
Non-IgE Mediated Food Allergies
Most symptoms of non-IgE mediated food allergies involve the digestive tract. Symptoms may be vomiting and diarrhea.
The symptoms can take longer to develop and may final longer than IgE mediated allergy symptoms. Sometimes, a reaction to a food allergen occurs up 3 days after eating the food allergen.
When an allergic reaction occurs with this type of allergy, epinephrine is generally not needed. In general, the best way to treat these allergies is to stay away from the food that causes the reaction. Under are examples of conditions related to non-IgE mediated food allergies.
Not every children who react to a certain food own an allergy. They may own food intolerance. Examples are lactose intolerance, gluten intolerance, sulfite sensitivity or dye sensitivity. Staying away from these foods is the best way to avoid a reaction.
Your child’s doctor may propose other steps to prevent a reaction. If your kid has any food allergy symptoms, see your child’s doctor or allergist. Only a doctor can properly diagnose whether your kid has an IgE- or non-IgE food allergy. Both can be present in some children.
Eosinophilic (ee-uh-sin-uh-fil-ik) esophagitis is an inflamed esophagus.
The esophagus is a tube from the throat to the stomach.
An allergy to a food can cause this condition.
With EoE, swallowing food can be hard and painful. Symptoms in infants and toddlers are irritability, problems with eating and poor weight acquire. Older children may own reflux, vomiting, stomach pain, chest pain and a feeling love food is “stuck” in their throat. The symptoms can happen days or even weeks after eating a food allergen.
EoE is treated by special diets that remove the foods that are causing the condition. Medication may also be used to reduce inflammation.
FPIES is another type of food allergy. It most often affects young infants.
Symptoms generally don’t appear for two or more hours. Symptoms include vomiting, which starts about 2 hours or later after eating the food causing the condition. This condition can also cause diarrhea and failure to acquire weight or height. Once the baby stops eating the food causing the allergy, the symptoms go away. Rarely, severe vomiting and diarrhea can happen which can lead to dehydration and even shock. Shock occurs when the body is not getting enough blood flow. Emergency treatment for severe symptoms must happen correct away at a hospital.
The foods most likely to cause a reaction are dairy, soy, rice, oat, barley, green beans, peas, sweet potatoes, squash and poultry.
Allergic Proctocolitis
Allergic proctocolitis is an allergy to formula or breast milk. This condition inflames the lower part of the intestine. It affects infants in their first year of life and generally ends by age 1 year.
The symptoms include blood-streaked, watery and mucus-filled stools. Infants may also develop green stools, diarrhea, vomiting, anemia (low blood count) and fussiness. When properly diagnosed, symptoms resolve once the offending food(s) are removed from the diet.
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Frequently Asked Questions about Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome (FPIES)
Two Categories of Food Allergies
What are Some Common FPIES Triggers?
The most common FPIES triggers are traditional first foods, such as dairy and soy. Other common triggers are rice, oat, barley, green beans, peas, sweet potatoes, squash, chicken and turkey.
A reaction to one common food does not mean that every of the common foods will be an issue, but patients are often advised to proceed with caution with those foods. Note that while the above foods are the most prevalent, they are not exclusive triggers. Any food has the potential to trigger an FPIES reaction. Even trace amounts can cause a reaction.
What is a Typical FPIES Reaction?
As with every things, each kid is diverse, and the range, severity and duration of symptoms may vary from reaction to reaction. Unlike traditional IgE-mediated allergies, FPIES reactions do not manifest with itching, hives, swelling, coughing or wheezing, etc.
Symptoms typically only involve the gastrointestinal system, and other body organs are not involved. FPIES reactions almost always start with delayed onset vomiting (usually two hours after ingestion, sometimes as tardy as eight hours after). Symptoms can range from mild (an increase in reflux and several days of runny stools) to life threatening (shock). In severe cases, after repeatedly vomiting, children often start vomiting bile. Commonly, diarrhea follows and can final up to several days. In the worst reactions (about 20% of the time), the kid has such severe vomiting and diarrhea that s/he rapidly becomes seriously dehydrated and may go into shock.
How Do You Care for a Kid With FPIES?
Treatment varies, depending on the patient and his/her specific reactions.
Often, infants who own reacted to both dairy and soy formulas will be placed on hypoallergenic or elemental formula.
Some children do well breastfeeding. Other children who own fewer triggers may just strictly avoid the offending food(s).
New foods are generally introduced extremely slowly, one food at a time, for an extended period of time per food. Some doctors recommend trialing a single food for up to three weeks before introducing another.
Because it’s a rare, but serious condition, in the event of an emergency, it is vital to get the correct treatment.
Some doctors provide their patients with a letter containing a brief description of FPIES and its proper treatment.
In the event of a reaction, this letter can be taken to the ER with the child.
How Do I know If My Kid Has Outgrown FPIES?
Together with your child’s doctor, you should determine if/when it is likely that your kid may own outgrown any triggers. Obviously, determining if a kid has outgrown a trigger is something that needs to be evaluated on a food-by-food basis. As stated earlier, APT testing may be an option to assess oral challenge readiness. Another factor for you and your doctor to consider is if your kid would physically be capable to handle a possible failed challenge.
When the time comes to orally challenge an FPIES trigger, most doctors familiar with FPIES will desire to schedule an in-office food challenge.
Some doctors (especially those not practicing in a hospital clinic setting) may select to challenge in the hospital, with an IV already in put, in case of emergency. Each doctor may own his or her own protocol, but an FPIES trigger is something you should definitely NOT challenge without discussing thoroughly with your doctor.
Be aware that if a kid passes the in-office portion of the challenge, it does not mean this food is automatically guaranteed «safe.» If a child’s delay in reaction is fairly short, a kid may fail an FPIES food challenge while still at the office/hospital.
For those with longer reaction times, it may not be until later that day that symptoms manifest. Some may react up to three days later. Delay times may vary by food as well. If a kid has FPIES to multiple foods, one food may trigger symptoms within four hours; a diverse food may not trigger symptoms until six or eight hours after ingestion.
What Does FPIES Stand For?
FPIES is Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome.
It is commonly pronounced «F-Pies», as in «apple pies», though some physicians may refer to it as FIES (pronounced «fees», considering food-protein as one word). Enterocolitis is inflammation involving both the little intestine and the colon (large intestine).
Does FPIES Require Epinephrine?
Not generally, because epinephrine reverses IgE-mediated symptoms, and FPIES is not IgE-mediated. Based on the patient’s history, some doctors might prescribe epinephrine to reverse specific symptoms of shock (e.g., low blood pressure).
However, this is only prescribed in specific cases.
How Do You Treat an FPIES Reaction?
Always follow your doctor’s emergency plan pertaining to your specific situation. Rapid dehydration and shock are medical emergencies. If your kid is experiencing symptoms of FPIES or shock, immediately contact your local emergency services (). If you are uncertain if your kid is in need of emergency services, contact or your physician for guidance.
The most critical treatment during an FPIES reaction is intravenous (IV) fluids, because of the risk and prevalence of dehydration. Children experiencing more severe symptoms may also need steroids and in-hospital monitoring. Mild reactions may be capable to be treated at home with oral electrolyte re-hydration (e.g., Pedialyte®).
What is FPIES?
FPIES is a non-IgE mediated immune reaction in the gastrointestinal system to one or more specific foods, commonly characterized by profuse vomiting and diarrhea.
FPIES is presumed to be cell mediated. Poor growth may happen with continual ingestion. Upon removing the problem food(s), every FPIES symptoms subside. (Note: Having FPIES does not preclude one from having other allergies/intolerances with the food.) The most common FPIES triggers are cow’s milk (dairy) and soy. However, any food can cause an FPIES reaction, even those not commonly considered allergens, such as rice, oat and barley.
A kid with FPIES may experience what appears to be a severe stomach bug, but the «bug» only starts a couple hours after the offending food is given.
Numerous FPIES parents own rushed their children to the ER, limp from extreme, repeated projectile vomiting, only to be told, «It’s the stomach flu.» However, the next time they feed their children the same solids, the dramatic symptoms return.
How is FPIES Diverse From MSPI, MSPIES, MPIES, Etc.?
MPIES (milk-protein induced enterocolitis syndrome) is FPIES to cow’s milk only. MSPIES (milk- and soy-protein induced enterocolitis syndrome) is FPIES to milk and soy. Some doctors do create these subdivisions, while others declare that milk and soy are simply the two most common FPIES triggers and give the diagnosis of «FPIES to milk and/or soy.»
MSPI is milk and soy protein intolerance.
Symptoms are those of allergic colitis and can include colic, vomiting, diarrhea and blood in stools. These reactions are not as severe or immediate as an FPIES reaction.
Fogg MI, Brown-Whitehorn TA, Pawlowski NA, Spergel JM. (). Atopy Patch Test for the Diagnosis of Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome. Pediatric Allergy and Immunology – Retrieved on December 31, from
Burks, AW. (). Don’t Feed Her That! Diagnosing and Managing Pediatric Food Allergy.
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Nowak-Wegrzyn, A., Sampson, HA, Wood, RA, Sicherer, SH. MD, Robert A. Wood, MD and Scott H. Sicherer, MD.
(). Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome Caused by Solid Food Proteins. Pediatrics. Vol. 4: Retrieved on December 31, from #T1.
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What’s really behind ‘gluten sensitivity’?
By Kelly Servick
The patients weren’t crazy—Knut Lundin was certain of that. But their ailment was a mystery. They were convinced gluten was making them ill. Yet they didn’t own celiac disease, an autoimmune reaction to that often-villainized tangle of proteins in wheat, barley, and rye. And they tested negative for a wheat allergy. They occupied a medical no man’s land.
About a decade ago, gastroenterologists love Lundin, based at the University of Oslo, came across more and more of those enigmatic cases. «I worked with celiac disease and gluten for so numerous years,» he says, «and then came this wave.» Gluten-free choices began appearing on restaurant menus and creeping onto grocery store shelves.
By , in the United States alone, an estimated 3 million people without celiac disease had sworn off gluten. It was simple to assume that people claiming to be «gluten sensitive» had just been roped into a food fad.
«Generally, the reaction of the gastroenterologist [was] to tell, ‘You don’t own celiac disease or wheat allergy. Goodbye,’» says Armin Alaedini, an immunologist at Columbia University. «A lot of people thought this is perhaps due to some other [food] sensitivity, or it’s in people’s heads.»
But a little community of researchers started searching for a link between wheat components and patients’ symptoms—commonly abdominal pain, bloating, and diarrhea, and sometimes headaches, fatigue, rashes, and joint pain.
That wheat really can make nonceliac patients ill is now widely accepted. But that’s about as far as the agreement goes.
As data trickle in, entrenched camps own emerged. Some researchers are convinced that numerous patients own an immune reaction to gluten or another substance in wheat—a nebulous illness sometimes called nonceliac gluten sensitivity (NCGS).
Others believe most patients are actually reacting to an excess of poorly absorbed carbohydrates present in wheat and numerous other foods.
Those carbohydrates—called FODMAPs, for fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and polyols—can cause bloating when they ferment in the gut. If FODMAPs are the primary culprit, thousands of people may be on gluten-free diets with the support of their doctors and dietitians but without excellent reason.
Those competing theories were on display in a session on wheat sensitivity at a celiac disease symposium held at Columbia in March. In back-to-back talks, Lundin made the case for FODMAPs, and Alaedini for an immune reaction. But in an irony that underscores how muddled the field has become, both researchers started their quests believing something completely different.
Known wheat-related illnesses own clear mechanisms and markers.
People with celiac disease are genetically predisposed to launch a self-destructive immune response when a component of gluten called gliadin penetrates their intestinal lining and sets off inflammatory cells in the tissue under. People with a wheat allergy reply to wheat proteins by churning out a class of antibodies called immunoglobulin E that can set off vomiting, itching, and shortness of breath. The puzzle, for both doctors and researchers, is patients who lack both the telltale antibodies and the visible damage to their intestines but who feel genuine relief when they cut out gluten-containing food.
Some doctors own begun to approve and even recommend a gluten-free diet.
«Ultimately, we’re here not to do science, but to improve quality of life,» says Alessio Fasano, a pediatric gastroenterologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston who has studied NCGS and written a book on living gluten-free. «If I own to throw bones on the ground and glance at the moon to make somebody better, even if I don’t understand what that means, I’ll do it.»
Like numerous doctors, Lundin believed that (fad dieters and superstitious eaters aside) some patients own a genuine wheat-related ailment.
His group helped dispel the notion that NCGS was purely psychosomatic. They surveyed patients for unusual levels of psychological distress that might express itself as physical symptoms. But the surveys showed no differences between those patients and people with celiac disease, the team reported in As Lundin bluntly puts it: «We know they are not crazy.»
Still, skeptics worried that the field had seized on gluten with shaky evidence that it was the culprit. After every, nobody eats gluten in isolation. «If we did not know about the specific role of gluten in celiac disease, we would never own thought gluten was responsible for [NCGS],» says Stefano Guandalini, a pediatric gastroenterologist at the University of Chicago Medical Middle in Illinois.
«Why blame gluten?»
Defenders of NCGS generally acknowledge that other components of wheat might contribute to symptoms. In , a group of proteins in wheat, rye, and barley called amylase trypsin inhibitors emerged as a potential offender, for example, after a team led by biochemist Detlef Schuppan of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany (then at Harvard Medical School in Boston) reported that those proteins can provoke immune cells.
But without biological markers to identify people with NCGS, researchers own relied on self-reported symptoms measured through a «gluten challenge»: Patients rate how they feel before and after cutting out gluten.
Then doctors reintroduce gluten or a placebo—ideally disguised in indistinguishable pills or snacks—to see whether the symptoms tick back up.
Alaedini has recently hit on a more objective set of possible biological markers—much to his own surprise. «I entered this completely as a skeptic,» he says. Over his career, he has gravitated toward studying spectrum disorders, in which diverse symptoms own yet to be united under a clear biological cause—and where public misinformation abounds. His team published a study in , for example, that debunked the favorite suggestion that children with autism had high rates of Lyme disease.
«I do studies [where] there is a void,» he says.
In NCGS, Alaedini saw another poorly defined spectrum disorder. He did accept that patients without celiac disease might somehow be sensitive to wheat, on the basis of several trials that measured symptoms after a blinded challenge. But he was not convinced by previous studies claiming that NCGS patients were more likely than other people to own certain antibodies to gliadin. Numerous of those studies lacked a healthy control group, he says, and relied on commercial antibody kits that gave murky and inconsistent readings.
In , he contacted researchers at the University of Bologna in Italy to obtain blood samples from 80 patients their team had identified as gluten sensitive on the basis of a gluten challenge.
He wanted to test the samples for signs of a unique immune response—a set of signaling molecules diverse from those in the blood of healthy volunteers and celiac patients. He wasn’t optimistic. «I thought if we were going to see something, love with a lot of spectrum conditions that I own looked at, we would see little differences.»
The results shocked him. Compared with both healthy people and those with celiac, these patients had significantly higher levels of a certain class of antibodies against gluten that propose a short-lived, systemic immune response.
That didn’t mean gluten itself was causing disease, but the finding hinted that the barrier of those patients’ intestines might be faulty, allowing partially digested gluten to get out of the gut and interact with immune cells in the blood. Other elements—such as immune response–provoking bacteria—also might be escaping. Certain enough, the team found elevated levels of two proteins that indicate an inflammatory response to bacteria.
And when 20 of the same patients spent 6 months on a gluten-free diet, their blood levels of those markers declined.
For Alaedini, the beginnings of a mechanism emerged: Some still-unidentified wheat component prompts the intestinal lining to become more permeable. (An imbalance in gut microbes might be a predisposing factor.) Components of bacteria then seem to sneak past immune cells in the underlying intestinal tissue and make their way to the bloodstream and liver, prompting inflammation.
«This is a genuine condition, and there can be objective, biological markers for it,» Alaedini says. «That study changed a lot of minds, including my own.»
The study also impressed Guandalini, a longtime skeptic about the role of gluten.
It «opens the way to finally reach an identifiable marker for this condition,» he says.
But others see the immune-response explanation as a red herring. To them, the primary villain is FODMAPs. The term, coined by gastroenterologist Peter Gibson at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and his team, encompasses a smorgasbord of common foods. Onions and garlic; legumes; milk and yogurt; and fruits including apples, cherries, and mangoes are every high in FODMAPs. So is wheat: Carbs in wheat called fructans can account for as much as half of a person’s FODMAP intake, dietitians in Gibson’s group own estimated.
The team found that those compounds ferment in the gut to cause symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, such as abdominal pain, bloating, and gas.
Gibson has endless been skeptical of studies implicating gluten in such symptoms, arguing that those findings are hopelessly clouded by the nocebo effect, in which the mere expectation of swallowing the dreaded ingredient worsens symptoms. His team found that most patients couldn’t reliably distinguish pure gluten from a placebo in a blinded test.
He believes that numerous people feel better after eliminating wheat not because they own calmed some intricate immune reaction, but because they’ve reduced their intake of FODMAPs.
Lundin, who was firmly in the immune-reaction camp, didn’t believe that FODMAPs could explain away every his patients. «I wanted to show that Peter was wrong,» he says. During a 2-week sabbatical in the Monash lab, he found some quinoa-based snack bars designed to disguise the taste and texture of ingredients. «I said, ‘We’re going to take those muesli bars and we’re going to do the perfect study.’»
His team recruited 59 people on self-instituted gluten-free diets and randomized them to get one of three indistinguishable snack bars, containing isolated gluten, isolated FODMAP (fructan), or neither.
After eating one type of bar daily for a week, they reported any symptoms. Then they waited for symptoms to resolve and started on a diverse bar until they had tested every three.
Before analyzing patient responses, Lundin was confident that gluten would cause the worst symptoms. But when the study’s blind was lifted, only the FODMAP symptoms even cleared the bar for statistical significance. Twenty-four of the 59 patients had their highest symptom scores after a week of the fructan-laced bars. Twenty-two responded most to the placebo, and just 13 to gluten, Lundin and his collaborators—who included Gibson—reported final November in the journal Gastroenterology. Lundin now believes FODMAPs explain the symptoms in most wheat-avoiding patients.
«My main reason for doing that study was to discover out a excellent method of finding gluten-sensitive individuals,» he says. «And there were none. And that was fairly amazing.»
At the Columbia meeting, Alaedini and Lundin went head to head in consecutive talks titled «It’s the Wheat» and «It’s FODMAPS.» Each has a list of criticisms of the other’s study. Alaedini contends that by recruiting broadly from the gluten-free population, instead of finding patients who reacted to wheat in a challenge, Lundin likely failed to include people with a true wheat sensitivity. Extremely few of Lundin’s subjects reported symptoms exterior the intestines, such as rash or fatigue, that might point to a widespread immune condition, Alaedini says.
And he notes that the increase in patients’ symptoms in response to the FODMAP snacks was just barely statistically significant.
Lundin, meanwhile, points out that the patients in Alaedini’s study didn’t go through a blinded challenge to check whether the immune markers he identified really spiked in response to wheat or gluten. The markers may not be specific to people with a wheat sensitivity, Lundin says.
Despite the adversarial titles of their talks, the two researchers discover a lot of common ground. Alaedini agrees that FODMAPs explain some of the wheat-avoidance phenomenon.
And Lundin acknowledges that some little population may really own an immune reaction to gluten or another component of wheat, though he sees no excellent way to discover them.
After the meeting, Elena Verdù, a gastroenterologist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, puzzled over the polarization of the field. «I don’t understand why there is this need to be so dogmatic about ‘it is this, it is not that,’» she says.
She worries that the scientific confusion breeds skepticism toward people who avoid gluten for medical reasons. When she dines with celiac patients, she says, waiters sometimes meet requests for gluten-free food with smirks and questions.
Meanwhile, the conflicting messages may send nonceliac patients below a food-avoidance rabbit hole. «Patients are withdrawing gluten first, then lactose, and then FODMAPs—and then they are on a really, really poor diet,» she says.
But Verdù believes careful research will ultimately break through the superstitions. She is president of the North American Society for the Study of Celiac Disease, which this year awarded its first grant to study nonceliac wheat sensitivity. She’s hopeful that the search for biomarkers love those Alaedini has proposed will show that inside the monolith of gluten avoidance lurk multiple, nuanced conditions.
«It will be difficult,» she says, «but we are getting closer.»
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The most common FPIES triggers are traditional first foods, such as dairy and soy. Other common triggers are rice, oat, barley, green beans, peas, sweet potatoes, squash, chicken and turkey. A reaction to one common food does not mean that every of the common foods will be an issue, but patients are often advised to proceed with caution with those foods.
Note that while the above foods are the most prevalent, they are not exclusive triggers. Any food has the potential to trigger an FPIES reaction. Even trace amounts can cause a reaction.
As with every things, each kid is diverse, and the range, severity and duration of symptoms may vary from reaction to reaction. Unlike traditional IgE-mediated allergies, FPIES reactions do not manifest with itching, hives, swelling, coughing or wheezing, etc. Symptoms typically only involve the gastrointestinal system, and other body organs are not involved. FPIES reactions almost always start with delayed onset vomiting (usually two hours after ingestion, sometimes as tardy as eight hours after).
Symptoms can range from mild (an increase in reflux and several days of runny stools) to life threatening (shock). In severe cases, after repeatedly vomiting, children often start vomiting bile. Commonly, diarrhea follows and can final up to several days. In the worst reactions (about 20% of the time), the kid has such severe vomiting and diarrhea that s/he rapidly becomes seriously dehydrated and may go into shock.
Often, infants who own reacted to both dairy and soy formulas will be placed on hypoallergenic or elemental formula. Some children do well breastfeeding. Other children who own fewer triggers may just strictly avoid the offending food(s).
Some doctors provide their patients with a letter containing a brief description of FPIES and its proper treatment. In the event of a reaction, this letter can be taken to the ER with the child.
Together with your child’s doctor, you should determine if/when it is likely that your kid may own outgrown any triggers. Obviously, determining if a kid has outgrown a trigger is something that needs to be evaluated on a food-by-food basis. As stated earlier, APT testing may be an option to assess oral challenge readiness.
Another factor for you and your doctor to consider is if your kid would physically be capable to handle a possible failed challenge.
When the time comes to orally challenge an FPIES trigger, most doctors familiar with FPIES will desire to schedule an in-office food challenge. Some doctors (especially those not practicing in a hospital clinic setting) may select to challenge in the hospital, with an IV already in put, in case of emergency. Each doctor may own his or her own protocol, but an FPIES trigger is something you should definitely NOT challenge without discussing thoroughly with your doctor.
FPIES is Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome. It is commonly pronounced «F-Pies», as in «apple pies», though some physicians may refer to it as FIES (pronounced «fees», considering food-protein as one word). Enterocolitis is inflammation involving both the little intestine and the colon (large intestine).
Not generally, because epinephrine reverses IgE-mediated symptoms, and FPIES is not IgE-mediated.
Based on the patient’s history, some doctors might prescribe epinephrine to reverse specific symptoms of shock (e.g., low blood pressure). However, this is only prescribed in specific cases.
Always follow your doctor’s emergency plan pertaining to your specific situation. Rapid dehydration and shock are medical emergencies. If your kid is experiencing symptoms of FPIES or shock, immediately contact your local emergency services ().
If you are uncertain if your kid is in need of emergency services, contact or your physician for guidance. The most critical treatment during an FPIES reaction is intravenous (IV) fluids, because of the risk and prevalence of dehydration. Children experiencing more severe symptoms may also need steroids and in-hospital monitoring. Mild reactions may be capable to be treated at home with oral electrolyte re-hydration (e.g., Pedialyte®).
A kid with FPIES may experience what appears to be a severe stomach bug, but the «bug» only starts a couple hours after the offending food is given. Numerous FPIES parents own rushed their children to the ER, limp from extreme, repeated projectile vomiting, only to be told, «It’s the stomach flu.» However, the next time they feed their children the same solids, the dramatic symptoms return.
MPIES (milk-protein induced enterocolitis syndrome) is FPIES to cow’s milk only.
MSPIES (milk- and soy-protein induced enterocolitis syndrome) is FPIES to milk and soy. Some doctors do create these subdivisions, while others declare that milk and soy are simply the two most common FPIES triggers and give the diagnosis of «FPIES to milk and/or soy.»
MSPI is milk and soy protein intolerance. Symptoms are those of allergic colitis and can include colic, vomiting, diarrhea and blood in stools. These reactions are not as severe or immediate as an FPIES reaction.
Fogg MI, Brown-Whitehorn TA, Pawlowski NA, Spergel JM. (). Atopy Patch Test for the Diagnosis of Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome.
Pediatric Allergy and Immunology – Retrieved on December 31, from
Burks, AW. (). Don’t Feed Her That!
Diagnosing and Managing Pediatric Food Allergy. Pediatric Basics. Gerber Products Company: Retrieved on December 31, from
Nowak-Wegrzyn, A., Sampson, HA, Wood, RA, Sicherer, SH. MD, Robert A. Wood, MD and Scott H.
Sicherer, MD. (). Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome Caused by Solid Food Proteins. Pediatrics. Vol. 4: Retrieved on December 31, from #T1.
The patients weren’t crazy—Knut Lundin was certain of that.
But their ailment was a mystery. They were convinced gluten was making them ill. Yet they didn’t own celiac disease, an autoimmune reaction to that often-villainized tangle of proteins in wheat, barley, and rye. And they tested negative for a wheat allergy. They occupied a medical no man’s land.
About a decade ago, gastroenterologists love Lundin, based at the University of Oslo, came across more and more of those enigmatic cases. «I worked with celiac disease and gluten for so numerous years,» he says, «and then came this wave.» Gluten-free choices began appearing on restaurant menus and creeping onto grocery store shelves. By , in the United States alone, an estimated 3 million people without celiac disease had sworn off gluten.
It was simple to assume that people claiming to be «gluten sensitive» had just been roped into a food fad.
Those competing theories were on display in a session on wheat sensitivity at a celiac disease symposium held at Columbia in March.
In back-to-back talks, Lundin made the case for FODMAPs, and Alaedini for an immune reaction. But in an irony that underscores how muddled the field has become, both researchers started their quests believing something completely different.
Known wheat-related illnesses own clear mechanisms and markers. People with celiac disease are genetically predisposed to launch a self-destructive immune response when a component of gluten called gliadin penetrates their intestinal lining and sets off inflammatory cells in the tissue under. People with a wheat allergy reply to wheat proteins by churning out a class of antibodies called immunoglobulin E that can set off vomiting, itching, and shortness of breath.
The puzzle, for both doctors and researchers, is patients who lack both the telltale antibodies and the visible damage to their intestines but who feel genuine relief when they cut out gluten-containing food.
Some doctors own begun to approve and even recommend a gluten-free diet. «Ultimately, we’re here not to do science, but to improve quality of life,» says Alessio Fasano, a pediatric gastroenterologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston who has studied NCGS and written a book on living gluten-free.
«If I own to throw bones on the ground and glance at the moon to make somebody better, even if I don’t understand what that means, I’ll do it.»
Like numerous doctors, Lundin believed that (fad dieters and superstitious eaters aside) some patients own a genuine wheat-related ailment. His group helped dispel the notion that NCGS was purely psychosomatic. They surveyed patients for unusual levels of psychological distress that might express itself as physical symptoms. But the surveys showed no differences between those patients and people with celiac disease, the team reported in As Lundin bluntly puts it: «We know they are not crazy.»
Still, skeptics worried that the field had seized on gluten with shaky evidence that it was the culprit.
After every, nobody eats gluten in isolation. «If we did not know about the specific role of gluten in celiac disease, we would never own thought gluten was responsible for [NCGS],» says Stefano Guandalini, a pediatric gastroenterologist at the University of Chicago Medical Middle in Illinois. «Why blame gluten?»
«This is a genuine condition, and there can be objective, biological markers for it,» Alaedini says.
«That study changed a lot of minds, including my own.»
The study also impressed Guandalini, a longtime skeptic about the role of gluten. It «opens the way to finally reach an identifiable marker for this condition,» he says.
She worries that the scientific confusion breeds skepticism toward people who avoid gluten for medical reasons. When she dines with celiac patients, she says, waiters sometimes meet requests for gluten-free food with smirks and questions. Meanwhile, the conflicting messages may send nonceliac patients below a food-avoidance rabbit hole.
«Patients are withdrawing gluten first, then lactose, and then FODMAPs—and then they are on a really, really poor diet,» she says.
But Verdù believes careful research will ultimately break through the superstitions.
She is president of the North American Society for the Study of Celiac Disease, which this year awarded its first grant to study nonceliac wheat sensitivity. She’s hopeful that the search for biomarkers love those Alaedini has proposed will show that inside the monolith of gluten avoidance lurk multiple, nuanced conditions. «It will be difficult,» she says, «but we are getting closer.»
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What is Similar
by C. Hering
Constantine Hering gives an academic discussion of the meaning of what is similar.
One might think Hahnemann must have been inspired when one reflects and considers the many details upon which he built his new doctrine; the particulars being as astounding as the whole. Take the word homoionpath from the Greek, familiar as it has become through long usage, is yet so happy a choice, so strikingly to the point, that the more we think about it the more we marvel at its aptitude and feel gratified.
One need but hark back to the time when the word was not yet chosen and Hahnemann himself not yet able to see clearly. He did not say harmonious, agreeing, corresponding, adequate, analogous or identical; not congruous, nor covering, although he did make use of “cover” (decken) in other places; he purposely did not use the word like or ison, although he insisted upon the greatest possible likeness of symptoms, and surely never discarded a remedy by reason of its too great similarity or complete likeness. But he said homoios and translated it by similar before he could know that the word, in later scientific development, would come to stand as the one correct and approved term. Pathy, and the word allos or alloios, besides enantion (enantiopathy) were chosen later to favor homoion. The word homoion, the more we examine it, expresses the fundamental idea of the new doctrine better and more clearly than any that could have been chosen. It is the one true and right word, which has served, and will continue to serve through all time.
Our short history has already furnished several examples of the enemies attempts to substitute another name and hoist another flag, but our banner still proudly streams and is mightiest. Short as is our history, that of the other side is still more brief. All oppositions trying to hook on, were, if not exactly stillborn, yet so weazen as soon to fade, or at most to hover about like spectres in dark corners. We are still alive. So it was and ever will be; for it is not the word but the spirit that abides in the word, the spirit of truth which keeps us alive. It is in the nature of the truth to endure forever. All other power is scattered by it like dust.
The Greeks made a distinction between ison and homoion, but none between homon and homoion. I am not speaking of grammarians, but of Greeks. They use the word ison where things equal, totally alike, are compounded; equal measure, angles or leg of an angle, sides, equal values, weight, equal parts, import, also equality of birth, standing, rank. On the other hand, homoion is employed for equality of character, manner of living, feeling, opinion and disposition; the same with color, form and tone; in short, where we use the word similar. In this difference of usage we recognize a vital difference. In the New Testament ison is only used in a sense of perfect likeness, for example, “he deemed himself like unto God”, etc. Not homos. On the other hand homoion is used in the parables; for instance “the kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed”; and again, “like a merchant”, etc.; also in Revelations where corresponding imagery is concerned. Also in the parallel passage in Matthew 22, 39, “and the second is like unto it”, which Luther quite correctly translated by like.
Later I will again refer to these passages by which my remaining doubts of the true meaning of similar were dispelled. Homoios in all of these means likeness in difference of kind, in different domains, always in cases where together with likeness there must be the thought of a difference. We surely know that Hahnemann did not borrow the word from the New Testament. Not even should he have read the passage in Acts 14, 15, where Paul rends his garments and cried out, “We are homoeopaths, (sufferers alike) and will not sacrifice oxen.” Nor would this have deterred him from adopting the name. It was not Hahnemann‘s way to long hesitate over a choice of words. In choosing the remedy for a particular case he took all the more time because it was his aim and purpose to cure. Moreover there was no authority to influence him in the least in his dietetics; yet when he had gradually perfected this he had come up with Moses without suspecting it. He had the desire to heal, for which reason Nature revealed herself to him and through him to us. In this sense we may say he was inspired.
I make particular mention of this because I was always puzzled to understand the reasons which guided Hahnemann in making choice of drugs for his provings. Certain it is used that he always took the biggest catch away from the rest of us when it came to fishing for important drugs to prove. This, to say the least, is remarkable. He never appeared willing to talk about, or make answer to this; and I know that what is being written in the present would not have induced him to give reasons for making his selections, thereby giving us guidance in our work for the future. Reflect upon the large domain of the vegetable kingdom alone and make a survey of the materia medica of his time and observe how, in making his selections, he was always sure to light upon the best.
If, with Belladonna and Nux vomica, his choice was influenced by the poisoning cases, there were hundreds of other drugs equally poisonous. If he chose Chamomilla on account of its general use in the home, there were innumerable other home remedies he might have chosen; and later very little of importance came from this source. Hahnemann lost no time in selecting the obsolete Aconite, the Pulsatilla which had been overlooked, and the forgotten Arnica. I am putting the question to everyone: What would Hahnemann and young homoeopathy have done without these remedies?
The provings of Ignatia and Angustura, with a few others, were undertaken casually; the choice of Oleander was a mere fancy. He made several almost purposeless provings with Leontodon, Cyclamen, Verbascum, Chelidonium and some others. At least none of these, so far, (1845) has found its way into daily practice. In spite of all he found the more important remedies and gave them prominence. Later provings, made by other physicians, were still left far behind. Gross, with Platina, surpassed Aurum; Helbig gave us Nux moschata, which, if not more important, takes equal rank with Nux vomica. Stapf, by placing Tartar emetic in our hands, gave us a remedy of like applicability with Aconite and Bryonia, put Coffea on a par with Opium, surpassed Thuja with Sabina, and Crocus with Drosera, etc.; Seidel went beyond Ledum with his Rhododendron, beyond Capsicum with Senega, and G.F. Muller opened up a remedy in Hypericum of equal importance to Arnica. While skipping many other valuable contributions to materia medica, mention might be made of Lachesis which though not exactly on a level with those mentioned, still outstripped Moschus in symptomatology and its frequent use in practice. But what does it amount to compared to the masterly work of Hahnemann? As surely as Lachesis far surpasses all other animal medicines, how poor and incomplete it stands beside the Sepia of Hahnemann!
Strangest of all is how Hahnemann, with his antipsoric theory, and after his discovery of potentization found also the more important antipsoric remedies. They seemed to fairly snow in upon him. Not the ones he took up later and classed with the antipsorics but the ones with which he began. Who, at the time, would have placed the least confidence in the action of any of these drugs, several of which have since become our most important remedies? Many will remember the time when charcoal was jeered at as being thoroughly inert, and we were told to select poisons only, and powerful ones at that.
It was evident that Sulphur and Phosphorus would prove important medicines, but who was not surprised to find in Silicea, Lycopodium, and Sepia, and then in Natrum muriaticum, remedies of such enormous value? Was this chance? Then why was the lucky hit so often repeated? Proof by the mathematical law of probabilities fortunately is at hand, as was the case with the Pleiades and the old English astronomer. Repetition eliminates chance. Was there a scientific reason? Which? If we but knew, so that we could follow in the same course, the way by which Hahnemann won the heights through all three natural kingdoms the world over! He concealed nothing, yet nowhere mentions reasons for his choice. What then remains but inspiration?
It is not our purpose to add to or to subtract from Hahnemann. His greatness is sufficiently attested by the quality of his researches. His purpose was to heal, and to give freely to all of what seemed to him of greatest importance. For this reason he put out all of his remedies in the form of monographs. It did not seem to trouble him whence the remedies came; he simply alluded to their origin that others might know from what source they were obtainable. Possibly he did not give it a thought that Pulsatilla and Aconite were both Ranunculaceae, or that Staphisagria and Hellebore belong to the same family. And what good would it have been to him? What good to his patients?
Materia medica assumes a different aspect to him who approaches it from without, intent upon taking the fortress. The study of natural history occupied me from my earliest years, and having learned the importance of signs and characteristics, the desire grew within me to see the whole brought into an orderly system. It was therefore quite natural that my first private undertaking in homoeopathy (in the fall of 1821) was the making of a synopsis of proved remedies in tabular form showing their classification according to natural orders and indicating the important gaps and omissions. To fill some of these gaps I introduced new remedies, collected symptoms from poisonings, and began to make provings. The aim of my society of provers was to contribute original material, and preference was given to such remedies as were intended for publication; three in each issue, one from each of the kingdoms. The Cryptogamia, of which we had none, were chosen, also the animal products, Moschus, at that time, being the sole example; this being done to make the series more complete. It was not so much the effects from individual drugs that I was after, but a knowledge of the different kingdoms, classes and families. This course I have pursued hitherto, as my contributions to the Archives will show.
All provings were particularly intended to place our materia medica on a level with the natural sciences; to furnish a new side to minerals, plants and animals, a matter which belongs to natural history as much as do form, color, habits, etc. For this reason I desired always, and with all remedies, to have an eye to their origin, and to where they belong. Of course many others have done the same; in other ways I merely make mention of this for the benefit of those who have not followed the same course, that they may understand this departure.
It naturally follows that one who devoted more time to study than to general practice, aimed to get a grasp on materia medica in a diagnostic way. In natural history all is done by comparison of similarities and differences, the purpose being to become acquainted with peculiarities. Like minerals are arranged in steps for comparison, plants laid side by side to ascertain their genus and their species by comparing their greater or lesser features. So we can, and must do, with remedies, which of course is far more difficult, at least now, but the hard work must be done to make it easier in the future.
I remember with great satisfaction the time when I saw Hartlaubs comparative study of Nux vomica, Ignatia and Pulsatilla in manuscript, and remarked: “If Nux and Ignatia are similar in action this is quite natural because they belong to the Strychniae, but if both resemble Pulsatilla, which belongs to the Ranunculaceae, to which the other two do not bear the least resemblance, is this then unnatural?” It would appear that I then picked up a rough stone, without, at the time, attempting to polish it. But I kept it in my pocket. Years passed before I reached the conclusion that it must be that in the first two the differences are of most importance, and in the latter the agreement. Years passed before I placed myself before the grindstone to polish my stone.
Let us concentrate upon the law of sequences as it is to be observed in practice. If remedies follow better the more similar they are, not only to the case, but among one another, we should not hesitate to prescribe such, if at all suitable to the case. Under like circumstances I promptly, and with a light heart, prescribed one mineral acid, one base, one metal, and one of the Solanaceae after the other; the same with the Ranunculaceae, Colchicum, Veratrum and Sabadilla were found to make splendid following, likewise Nux vomica and Ignatia; for all their similarity these often seemed indicated in the same case, of course to be prescribed only when symptoms fully corresponded. In a large number of cases, for all my painstaking, I had poor success and had to look lively for other remedies. In nearly all instances the symptoms were decidedly aggravated, or the case spoiled. This, to say the least, was annoying. It put one in mind of one, who trying to start a fire by heaping wet leaves upon a bed of live coals, blows and blows until the biting smoke fill his eyes and lungs, coughs, chokes and he has to run for fresh air.
I had made a collection of real antidotes for my own use. Camphor and Spiritus nitri dulcis I did not consider to be proper antidotes. I also made a list of such remedies as were known to follow well. I then saw that but very few remedies that bore a close resemblance were to be found contiguous in nature (natural order). On the contrary the most general antidotes and the best following remedies came from sources far apart. I was in the position of one camping out, who, turning to his fire and finding the little flames crackling and leaping from between dry leaves and fagots quickly makes preparation for roasting his potatoes for which the keen mountain air has sharpened his appetite.
The discovery, with the best of intentions, was promptly communicated, but totally disregarded or misunderstood, and by some contradicted. It might have been that my potatoes were underdone, burned on the outside, since no one wished to partake of them. Believing the fault to have been mine, I, for several years, zealously continued my experiments, to find the rule to be true and constant, without an exception. All depends upon how the rule is conceived and applied. I could not possibly have overlooked the fact that, often antidotes are found in close natural relation, as for instance with Belladonna and Hyoscyamus which also follow well, also Mercurius and Aurum, and some others.
Some years ago, attention was called (in the Archives) to the nearness (closeness) of antidotes, the plant acting against the poison obtained from its fruit or leaves, bile against saliva, etc. It was this antidotal variation running through all nature that gave the impulse to my investigations and led to the discovery of the law by which medicinal forces in nature are distributed.
The best antidotes stand widely apart in the natural order of things, which experience will readily teach, even from a superficial examination of a table of antidotes. Some few antidotes stand very close, close as possible. This, to some, might have the appearance of a contradiction. Should we, on this account, no longer believe in rues? That would be stupidity. The problem must be solved. I am not surprised when practitioners become hopeless in the face of such obstacles and express themselves in favor of selecting remedies according to the old plan, taking what seems most similar to them while believing that subtleties are confusing and that the future of homoeopathy will be assured when we have grown sufficiently in age, wisdom and experience – that it has always been the same with all new doctrines, etc., etc. It would be absurd to regard some close antidotes as exceptions and others as coming under the rule. It is a poor rule that swarms and creeps with exceptions, as we all know.
There are experiences cited where there is a similarity between remedies called antidotes, and another similarity by which they are not antidotes, where the similar remedy causes an aggravation. If, however, there exists a two fold similarity, one in which the remedies mutually wipe out one another, and another in which they do not efface, but strengthen one another, the case might, indeed must, be that the same thing can happen between symptoms of the drug and symptoms of the disease. Hence there may be a similarity by which the remedy for the disease is wrongly chosen and will aggravate instead of relieve. Such cases every practitioner has known; I confess to having met many in former years, and it was but poor comfort to say that the remedy was wrongly chosen. Wherein lay the mistake?
It is to be hoped that everyone will clearly see that all attempts to raise homoeopathy to the ranks of a real science must depend upon the manner by which the fundamental principle similia similibus is defined. That this principle is lacking in scientific accuracy can readily be seen. Our learned opponents, to be sure, did not make mention of this, nor did anyone else as far as I know; and if they had they would not have put it to practical use. Anyhow they were blinded, and like poor finches kept whistling the same tune over and over, for it was still night for them in the forest. The only exception, one Comfort by name, dilated somewhat upon the subject, but to cover his speculation he denied having read the Archives, reminding one of the poor fellow who confessed to having taken money, but declared upon his honour that he had not removed any from the middle drawer of the till.
Before proceeding any further with our research we must finish with those who dubbed it “mere dealing in words while trying to define what is similar”. These, to be sure, must have held a quite different opinion of science, if any at all. The point in question amounts to no less than the foundation of all therapeutics. I am, of course, well aware that we practising physicians have found, do find, and, it is to be hoped, will find the right remedy many times more in the future, each in his own way of looking for the similimum. All of which, however, does not satisfy science, which deals with sound reasons only. Should we not then apply a bit more of printers ink, by way of a lubricant, to our creaky door hinges to make them work smoother?
“Comparisons and propositions concerning similarities,” says a celebrated empiric investigator (Berzelius, Part 4, P. 13) “depend upon the individuality of things to be compared; the comparison which best corresponds with the individuality of most of the things to be compared, is naturally the one to be followed”. In our art, homoeopathy, where everything depends upon similarity, shall we rest content with this much and stop at individualities? We might, then, as well admit that any old woman knows as much of what is alike. Old women often do know, as in the case of a newly born infant, one declaring it to be like the father, another like the mother, and a third that it resembles no one in particular, thus leaving the matter open for gossip. Consult any portrait painter and hear what he has to say about peoples opinion of what is, or is not, a likeness. I myself, know of a woman who positively refused to see a likeness to her husband in his daguerrotype, because anyone could see the wart on his face was on the wrong side! Another person, looking wise, gave assurance that the matter could not be otherwise, because “optically the rays of light,” etc., etc. And yet the woman was in the right. Again I know of a man who sanctioned the mending his wifes teakettle with her daguerrotype because, In the first place, he said, “she looks as dark as a mulatto in the picture, and secondly, it shows a hand not unlike a ham, thirdly, she looks made enough to bite me; while everyone knows my wife has a beautiful, fair complexion, a neat little hand, and is always sweet and kind!”.
Maybe the matter rests with instinct; a mysterious coming to light of the creative artistic genius; the born physician sprung ready made from the hand of his Maker, like a bee from its cell, always ready to do the trick. Is it mechanical instinct or mysterious divination that gives the experienced practitioner that nice sense of perception by which he practically smells out the suitable remedy? It is not my purpose to interfere with the practitioner who appeals to instinctive selection for I have a strong leaning to that way myself. Anyhow there are many things under the sun, likewise the moon, not dreamt of by our philosophers; all I ask is that such like talk should be kept out of science. If such an evil were allowed to spread it would soon put an end to all system and order, since everyone has his pet opinion, his own instinct, and marks time in his particular way. Who then is to know who is right?
For an answer let us first turn to the mathematicians, to whom first rank is conceded, and next to the philosophers who pretend to a kind of superiority; next to good common sense, to balance things, to the naturalists, who, in a way, share our difficulties, and finally make appeal to our own experience as to what is meant by similar. What is called similar, like all else in mathematics, is sufficiently definite but can be of little use to us unless it is raised to universality. Mathematically speaking like means that which is the same in respect to size; sometimes also when differing in size, but congruous where both are in accord and two figures cover each other. Although, at first sight, it may seem of little use to us, it yet appears that the doctrine of congruence might be here applied. Since we call like all that which is alike in substance, and similar what is alike in respect to form, it must follow that the similar, which is conditioned by form, must include a likeness of that which determines form. By the rule of like proportions we may reach conclusions as to unknown quantities. Mathematicians have found the law of analogy of the very greatest use; likewise pathologists and other natural scientists. We should be able to do the same in materia medica and in therapy, a matter which needs further elucidation.
The definition of similarity as “likeness of that which is essential, important, intrinsic, determinative”, after all, would fit into other provinces of mathematics. Like relations are always similar. For the same reason I never could become interested in the quarrels over theories concerning parallels, because obviously a higher conception of similarity, applied to lines, explains the parallels, be they straight or crooked, thereby making superfluous both straight as well as crooked proofs.
In conclusion I must make mention of the controversy between philosophers in reference to analogy and deductions by analogy. Reasoning by analogy I have always claimed to be the only correct method. It is the golden theory of Pythagoras, by which heaven and earth are unlocked. Nevertheless, like the law of quadrature of triangles, it has been dubbed Pons asinorum by dunces. The statement that deductions by analogy are untrustworthy is ridiculous. If the result is wrong, the fault is not in the method of reasoning but because it is misapplied, which holds good in all things. It strikes me in a manner as if one should not use ones eyes, because, as it is foolishly expressed,our senses deceive us, when all the while our mistakes happen because we draw faulty conclusions through our sense impressions; or again as if one would say we should discard the rule of three because schoolboys sometimes fail to get right results when doing their examples. Obviously analogous is the same as that which mathematicians call similar, meaning intrinsically alike. If our angles and corresponding sides are properly placed we will be able to take measurements into distance with the same accuracy as does the geometer. It come to the same as with the simple rule of three. As surely as anyone having three lines can find the proportional fourth, or so to speak, the fourth term, just as surely must it come our right in our reasonings by analogy if the premises are right.
This brings us to Part Second, namely, the question addressed to philosophers: What is similar?
If I begin my task with a sign I must beg that this be put down to my ignorance of the subject. After all manner of research among philosophies I have found nothing but nothings. Every now and then I came across a something which turned out to be nothing, and then again a nothing which claimed to be something. Hollow spectres arose on all sides to dishearten me. Is it any wonder I lost my temper with the old dame? No doubt there are many learned men to whom I should do reverence, cap in hand; several more who command admiration in more ways than one, to whom I pay my modest tribute, for after all it is not my purpose to throw everything into the same pot promiscuously, but I cannot be expected to spare the entire party for the sake of a few notables. It cannot be helped, for they not give us the truth as we physicians need it. This without exception.
Now, in 1840, with the goal in sight, after a period of twelve years of research in which the daily question has been, “What is the true meaning of similar?” without claiming to have read all, I find myself shuddering at the things I have read. I have followed many a circuitous route, mostly leading nowhere, through all manner of sciences and their encyclopaedias, studying dictionaries, conversation and other lexicons trying to find out what is similar, what like, and what contrary, looking first for explanations, then for corroboration of my own conjectures. I gathered much, but least of all from philosophers; from them in fact nothing, unless it were how NOT to do the thing. As far as I know, no philosopher ever took the trouble to explain these simple concepts. At any rate these learned gentlemen seem to have cared more for words than their meanings. Philosophies hang upon the tree of science very much like nests of tailor-birds, artfully constructed form fibres and threads of bark; only the birds have no technical terms. Examine such a nest carefully, as I have often done; you will find it ingeniously hanging together and firmly fastened to the tree, but either empty or containing a few eggshells, or possibly a couple of timidly peeping, naked, little objects, sorry representatives of the grand ideas of nature. Over premises which philosophers should take for granted, as do mathematicians by their axioms, they vex themselves in their efforts to prove; and that which we desire to have explained they dismiss with an hypothesis. From this nothing sensible can come.
If I am be permitted to refer to the fruits of my earnest labors so often published in a humorous way, I can give assurance that my fun is to be taken seriously.
The Homoeopathic Recorder, 1932 Jan Vol XLVII No 1
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C. Hering
Hering got the degree of M. D. from the University of Wuezburg with highest honours. The theme of his thesis was "De'Medicina Futura" (The medicine of future). Hering left Germany for West Indies and finally arrived at Philadelphia in Jan, 1833. He established a homeopathic school at Allentown, Pennsylvania, commonly known as "Allentown Academy". Soon he became very popular as a physician. He is known as the 'Father of Homeopathy' in America.
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GE Adds 300 Jobs in Michigan
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General Electric plans to hire an additional 300 people at its Advanced Manufacturing and Software Technology Center in Van Buren Township, Mich., and to boost internships by 25 percent in the state.
GE committed to hiring 1,100 people at the suburban Detroit center at its inception in 2009. So far, it has hired 850 engineers and IT professionals. This latest announcement brings its hiring pledge to 1,400 at the center and 1,600 across the state. According to its press release:
These new jobs will build on GE’s recent $163 million investment in the Detroit area, and focus on bringing together IT experts in software development, data architecture, business intelligence, and program management, as well as researchers developing future manufacturing technologies for the next generation of aircraft engines.
The company also will hire 110 students for internships and co-op programs at the center this summer in engineering, IT, finance and supply-chain operations.
GE has been opening technology centers around the country lately, most recently in New Orleans, La., but also in Glen Allen, Va., and San Ramon, Calif.
The company recently announced grants of $500,000 to Detroit health care centers that provide care for uninsured and under-served people. With its shareholders meeting under siege from protesters questioning its tax rate – or lack of one – GE could use some good PR.
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Show love to family by not hugging them this Christmas, says scientist
The best way to show your love to your family this Christmas is to hold off from hugging them until it is safe, a scientist from the University of St Andrews has suggested.
“It’s a little bit like don’t cross a road when cars are going either way. Wait until it’s safe to do it,” Professor Stephen Reicher told Sky News.
“We have to make our own choices as to what is best for us, and perhaps in a season of pandemic the way you show your love for your family is to not hug them, he said.
While it is hard, meeting virtually or outdoors will help slow the spread of transmission, he said, adding that “the best way in which you protect your family is to delay meeting up physically and hugging each other until the spring or the summer, when it’s safe.”
Wales records 1,645 new cases
There have been a further 1,645 cases of coronavirus in Wales, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 87,077.
Public Health Wales reported another 24 deaths, taking the total in Wales since the start of the pandemic to 2,695.
India has registered 36,652 confirmed coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours
India’s health ministry on Saturday also recorded 512 deaths in the past 24 hours, taking total deaths to nearly 140,000. The pace of new cases has seen a downward trend, with single-day cases remaining below the 50,000 mark a month.
India has 9.6 million total cases, second behind the U.S. with 14.3 million. But globally it has one of the lowest deaths per million population, according to the Health Ministry.
India’s home ministry has allowed states to impose local restrictions, such as night curfews. It has asked state officials to consult before imposing lockdowns at state, district or city levels.
The Covid vaccine hurdles Britain still needs to overcome
The race is on: can Britain secure and distribute enough vaccine to the right people before it is hit with a third wave of Covid-19?
Opinion divides sharply. Scientists are cockahoop with their collective achievement. Not only has ten years of vaccine development been squeezed into 10 months but an entirely new class of mRNA vaccines has been developed, boosting the prospects not just of future vaccines but a wide range of therapeutics.
Others are more cautious. They worry about a series of potential hurdles and bear traps that could yet see lockdown extended to the summer and perhaps beyond. They say we should brace for a third wave of the virus after Christmas and warn that vaccine supply and distribution is likely to be a slower, more painful process than many anticipate.
So how far away is something approximating a return to life as normal?
Paul Nuki has more
Covid break out sends Melbourne flight into isolation
An entire Virgin Airways flight to Melbourne has been advised to isolate at home after two travellers failed to quarantine in Sydney.
The Department of Health and Human Services said that anyone who travelled on Virgin Airways flight VA 838 from Sydney at midday AEDT and arriving in Melbourne at 1.25pm on Saturday should “immediately quarantine at home and contact DHHS”.
The two travellers are now in mandatory quarantine in Victoria after arriving in Sydney from overseas earlier on Saturday.
“Anyone who has been at the Melbourne Airport domestic terminal on Saturday afternoon is advised to monitor for Covid-19 symptoms and to seek testing if symptoms develop,” the department said. Meanwhile, a change to mask rules and increased social gathering caps are expected to be announced for Victoria on Sunday.
DRC hospitals struggle with influx of Covid-19 patients
Hospitals in Kinshasa are struggling to treat rising coronavirus cases because of a lack of oxygen supplies, health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Saturday.
“The number of cases is rising and the cases are more and more serious,” said epidemiologist Jean-Jacques Muyembe, head of the team leading the country’s response to the pandemic.
“The big problem for hospitals, it’s the lack of oxygen,” he added. The work of the factory in Kinshasa producing oxygen was being hampered by the capital’s frequent power cuts, he said.
The country has so far recorded just over 13,400 cases of coronavirus, more than 10,000 of them in Kinshasa.
Since the first death recorded from the virus on March 10, the DR Congo’s toll has risen to 342, and the number of cases being recorded daily has been rising in recent weeks.
How to host a virtual Christmas, from office Zoom party ideas to online games for the family
We’ve been thrown plenty of curveballs this year, but we’re not a nation of quitters: a recent YouGov survey showed that 47 per cent of us believe Christmas has never been more important. And while in previous years the festive period might have signalled a break from our virtual lives and respite from bothersome blue screens, in 2020 it’s hardly a surprise that much of the festive action has migrated online.
But even the hardened Zoom-quiz cynics among you may be interested to hear there’s some real festive fun to be had digitally.
Check out our guide to a very merry virtual Christmas here.
German court upholds ban on coronavirus demonstration
Germany’s highest court upheld on Saturday a ban on a demonstration in the northern city of Bremen planned by opponents of lockdown measures aimed at containing the spread of the coronavirus.
Lower courts had already denied permission for the protest, planned for Saturday afternoon, at which 20,000 demonstrators were due to convene in the city centre of Bremen.
Last month, German police unleashed water cannon and pepper spray in an effort to scatter thousands of protesters in Berlin angry about coronavirus restrictions.
Although most Germans accept the latest “lockdown light” to curb the spread of the coronavirus in a second wave, critics say the amendment endangers citizens’ civil rights.
The head of Germany’s public health agency said on Thursday that the country’s success in dealing with the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic in March and April had led many people to doubt the virus’s severity or even its existence.
Lothar Wieler, head of the Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases (RKI), said this meant many were now failing to take social distancing and quarantine rules seriously enough, leading to the high level of cases Germany is now seeing.
Care home hugging safety doubts are “mischief making” says Sage scientist
Those who have called into question use of lateral flow tests as a safe way to open up care homes are simply “mischief making,” a member of the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has said.
While lateral flow tests are not as accurate as PCR testing, the rapid turn around of results gives the added benefit of catching infectious cases that may have otherwise slipped through the cracks, Callum Semple, Professor of Child Health and Outbreak Medicine at the University of Liverpool told the BBC Today programme.
“The problem with test, trace and isolate using the so-called gold standard of PCR is […] that it takes three days to get the results over while people are still infectious and transmitting the virus,” he said.
“Now we know that lateral flow is not as good as PCR – it’s detecting probably two out of three people, which are the most infectious – but this still allows us to increase the safety of people visiting care homes.”
“It allows us to increase the pick up with people who are working in the care homes and really good modelling has shown that serial repeated testing of these two groups, for example, does beat hands down the performance of a PCR test that’s done in one week and takes four days to get the result back.”
Ultimately the most important thing is to break transmission chains and lateral flow tests are perfectly suited for vulnerable settings, such as care homes, he said.
Meet the modest man who is saving the world from Covid with the Pfizer vaccine
Archimedes had his bathtub, Isaac Newton an apple tree. For Dr Ugur Sahin and his wife Dr Ozlem Türeci, it was a breakfast table conversation about a mysterious virus spreading from the Chinese city of Wuhan that sparked one of the greatest scientific advances of the ages – hailed in some quarters as the most significant since Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin in 1928.
This week, as Britain became the first country in the world to grant approval for the use of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which has been invented by the couple’s firm, Dr Sahin was at home in their modest apartment in Mainz, Germany, where he has worked for much of the coronavirus pandemic.
Next to his desk are a couple of pot plants and in the neighbouring room the spinning bike where he grinds out a few miles when he needs to clear his head. The occasional car drones along the street several floors below. Nobody looking up would guess this is the home of the couple who might have just saved the world.
Joe Shute spoke to Dr Ugur Sahin, one half of the power couple behind the Pfizer vaccine – which could also bring a cancer breakthrough, too. Read more.
Dr Ugur Sahin says British authorities did ‘a fantastic job’ in approving the Pfizer vaccine
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Police patrolling English county borders this weekend to prevent ‘non-essential’ travel
Police forces will be patrolling the perimeters of some Tier 2 and 3 areas this weekend, in a bid to curb breaches of ‘non-essential’ travel rules.
North Yorkshire Police confirmed this week that it would be increasing its presence on border areas, to discourage people from travelling to the county from surrounding Tier 3 locations. Automatic Number Plate Recognition technology (ANPR) is also being used to monitor cross-border traffic.
North Yorkshire is currently under Tier 2 regulations, with all surrounding counties – except Cumbria – under Tier 3 rules. The Government currently advises against non-essential travel from Tier 3 areas, or visiting areas in a higher tier than your own.
“It is our responsibility to keep the public of North Yorkshire safe,” said Superintendent Mike Walker of North Yorkshire Police. “So, until the threat this virus poses is eradicated, we will continue to play our part in containing it.”
Oxford set to tell vaccine trial volunteers if they got a placebo once they are offered jabs by NHS
Volunteers in the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine trial are to be “unblinded” so they can receive potentially life saving Covid vaccinations quickly, the Telegraph has learnt.
Tens of thousands of people around the world who have participated in phase three trials of Covid vaccines remain unsure as to whether they received a placebo or the real thing.
It has posed a difficult ethical dilemma now the first vaccine has been approved for use, with scientists keen for trials to continue to collect added data, but participants worried that they may be forgoing protection which will soon be available to all.
At least one death has been reported among the placebo group of the Moderna phase three vaccine trial in the US, and others will inevitably follow in the months ahead.
While deaths were unavoidable at first, now that vaccines have been proved efficacious they are not.
Sarah Newey has more on this contentious issue here.
Iran’s coronavirus deaths surpass 50,000
Iran’s total death toll from coronavirus surpassed 50,000 on Saturday with 321 new fatalities recorded in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said, as the number of cases in the Middle East’s worst-affected country reached 1,028,986.
Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari told state TV that 12,181 people had been infected with the coronavirus since Friday. The death toll now stands at 50,016.
Senior government adviser defends mass testing following less than desirable results
A senior UK government adviser has defended mass use of rapid turnaround tests for coronavirus amid concerns a high level of “false negatives” is giving people a misplaced sense of reassurance, PA reports.
Government figures released earlier this week from Liverpool – where the mass rollout of the lateral flow tests was first piloted – showed they missed half of all cases and a third of those with a high viral load who were likely to be the most infectious.
It led to calls from some scientists for their use to be suspended amid fears some people who tested negative would go on to mix with others who may be more vulnerable because they wrongly believed they did not have the disease.
Dr Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser to NHS Test and Trace, told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme:
“What we are doing here is case detection. We are not saying people do not have the disease if their test is negative.
“We are trying to say (to people who test positive: ‘You do have the disease and now we want you to go and isolate for ten days’. That is a whole different game-changer.
“We have been very clear that this test finds people we couldn’t otherwise find. We are also very clear that until we get a much lower prevalence of disease in this country that we shouldn’t be changing our behaviours.”
World can start dreaming of pandemic’s end, declares UN health chief
The United Nations’ health chief has declared that positive results from coronavirus vaccine trials mean the world “can begin to dream about the end of the pandemic”. But he said rich and powerful nations must not trample the poor and marginalised “in the stampede for vaccines”.
World Health Organisation Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus cautioned that while the virus can be stopped, “the path ahead remains treacherous”.
He said the pandemic had shown humanity at “its best and worst”, pointing to “inspiring acts of compassion and self-sacrifice, breathtaking feats of science and innovation, and heartwarming demonstrations of solidarity, but also disturbing signs of self-interest, blame-shifting and divisions”.
Referring to the current upsurge in infections and deaths, Dr Tedros said without naming any countries that “where science is drowned out by conspiracy theories, where solidarity is undermined by division, where sacrifice is substituted with self-interest, the virus thrives, the virus spreads”.
In his address to the UN General Assembly’s first high-level session on the pandemic he warned that a vaccine “will not address the vulnerabilities that lie at its root” – poverty, hunger, inequality and climate change, which he said must be tackled once the pandemic ends.
On vaccines, Dr Tedros said that “the light at the end of the tunnel is growing steadily brighter” but vaccines “must be shared equally as global public goods, not as private commodities that widen inequalities and become yet another reason some people are left behind”.
Doctors in England told to prepare Covid-19 vaccination centres by mid-December
GP surgeries in England have been told to be ready to start staffing Covid-19 vaccination centres by 14 December.
In a letter sent out across England’s primary care networks, NHS England and NHS Improvement warned the “scale and complexity” of the immunisation programme would make it “one of the greatest challenges the NHS has ever faced”.
The vaccination sites must be ready to administer 975 doses of the vaccine to priority patients within three and a half days of delivery on 14 December.
Speed is of the essence with the vaccine, as it is usually stored at -70C and will only remain stable at fridge temperatures of between 2C-8C for a limited period.
There are 975 doses in each of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine packs, which has posed a logistical problem of how they can be broken up and distributed to other key sites, such as care homes.
The first people to receive the vaccine in the centres will be those aged 80 and over, as long as their other risk factors, “clinical or otherwise”, have been taken into account.
Moscow starts mass Covid-19 vaccination with its Sputnik V shot
Moscow began distributing the Sputnik V Covid-19 shot via 70 clinics on Saturday, marking Russia’s first mass vaccination against the disease, the city’s coronavirus task force said.
The task force said the Russian-made vaccine would first be made available to doctors and other medical workers, teachers and social workers because they ran the highest risk of exposure to the disease.
“You are working at an educational institution and have top-priority for the Covid-19 vaccine, free of charge,” read a phone text message received by one Muscovite, an elementary school teacher, early on Saturday and seen by Reuters.
“Over the first five hours, 5,000 people signed up for the jab – teachers, doctors, social workers, those who are today risking their health and lives the most,” Mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote on his personal website on Friday.
The age for those receiving shots is capped at 60. People with certain underlying health conditions, pregnant women and those who have had a respiratory illness for the past two weeks are barred from vaccination.
Russia has developed two Covid-19 vaccines, Sputnik V which is backed by the Russian Direct Investment Fund and another developed by Siberia’s Vector Institute, with final trials for the both yet to be completed.
Scientists have raised concerns about the speed at which Russia has worked, giving the regulatory go-ahead for its vaccines and launching mass vaccinations before full trials to test its safety and efficacy had been completed.
Russia reports record 28,782 new cases in a day
Russia reported a record high of 28,782 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, including 7,993 in Moscow, taking the national total to 2,431,731 since the pandemic began.
Authorities confirmed 508 deaths related to Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, pushing the official national death toll to 42,684.
Pubs in Tier 2 say it’s not worth opening
Three-quarters of pubs are staying closed because it is not worth opening in Tier 2, the industry’s association has warned.
The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) said many pubs that had reopened after lockdown were already planning to shut again because trade was so dire under the stringent revamped tier rules.
A survey of operators representing more than 8,000 pubs, conducted by the BBPA between November 24 and December 2, found that just 27 per cent reopened following the end of lockdown.
READ MORE: Three-quarters of pubs not reopening because of Covid tier restrictions, poll finds
San Francisco lockdowns to kick off on Sunday
The mayor of San Francisco has ordered new lockdowns and business restrictions across the Bay Area in the face of the Covid-19 surge, as political leaders nationwide ramp up pressure on Americans to stay home until vaccines can be distributed.
The new measures announced by Mayor London Breed, a first-term Democrat, apply across five Bay Area counties and are among the harshest of any major US city, closing all personal services, outdoor dining and most public gatherings.
“What we are seeing in our city, our region, our state and our country is a virus that is taking over,” Ms Breed said in announcing the new clampdown.
California Governor Gavin Newsom, also a Democrat, said on Thursday he would impose similar stay-at-home orders statewide, to take effect region-by-region as intensive care beds reach capacity.
Ms Breed said she was unwilling to wait for Mr Newsom’s mandate to take effect in the Bay Area, adding: “If you’re not working to stay ahead of this virus you’re falling far, far behind and very quickly.”
Starting at 10pm this Sunday, San Francisco will close all outdoor dining, outdoor playgrounds, zoos and aquariums along with other measures.
Third wave clusters emerge in South Korea
South Korean authorities urged vigilance on Saturday as small coronavirus clusters emerged in a third wave, centred in the Seoul area, with infections near nine-month highs.
The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) reported 583 new infections, down from the 629 reported on Friday, which was the highest since the first wave peaked in February and early March.
After implementing tighter restrictions on Saturday, the government will decide on Sunday whether to further tighten curbs in a country that had seen initial success through aggressive contact tracing and other steps.
Ford among US companies preparing for vaccine storage
With the imminent arrival of coronavirus vaccines that will need to be stored at ultra-low temperatures, American companies are gearing up for a massive logistical effort to aid their distribution.
Automaker Ford has ordered its own freezers while meat-processing giant Smithfield said it is ready to put the cold room at its abattoirs at the disposal of vaccine roll-out operations.
Companies specialising in insulated containers have been on a war footing for weeks after Pfizer and BioNTech said the vaccine they had jointly developed needs to be stored at -70C.
US logistics giant UPS is already producing 500kg of dry ice an hour in its depots and has developed portable freezers capable of storing the vaccines.
But companies not directly linked to the manufacture, storage or transport of vaccines are also stepping up.
“We have assessed our ultra-low freezer capabilities and capacity and are ready and willing to assist health agencies if storage capacity becomes constrained,” Smithfield chief administrative director Keira Lombardo said.
The meatpacker, which suffered a large number of cases of Covid-19 in some of its slaughterhouses, said it now stands ready to help authorities distribute the vaccine.
Ford has ordered a dozen ultra-cold freezers in anticipation of the arrival of vaccines, to offer them to employees who want them when they are available.
When the virus began to spread in the spring in the US, the company had to temporarily close its factories. The group has since resumed its activities but with strict health precautions.
US records more than 225,000 new cases in a day
For the second day in a row, the United States on Friday notched a record number of coronavirus cases in 24 hours, reaching 225,201 new infections.
In that same period, the country recorded 2,506 Covid-related deaths.
The US – the country with the most coronavirus cases and deaths in the world – has seen a dramatic resurgence in its epidemic in recent weeks.
It surpassed 200,000 new daily cases three times in the past month, peaking at more than 210,000 between Wednesday and Thursday.
US health officials warned of a surge after millions of Americans travelled to celebrate last week’s Thanksgiving holiday, despite pleas from authorities to stay home.
The country has recorded more than 14.3 million cases and 278,000 deaths.
Bahrain gives vaccine the green light
The island kingdom of Bahrain said it has become the second nation in the world to grant an emergency-use authorisation for the vaccine made by Pfizer/BioNTech.
The state-run Bahrain News Agency made the announcement on Friday night.
Bahrain did not say how may vaccines it had purchased, nor when vaccinations would begin.
The challenge for Bahrain would be the conditions in which the vaccine must be kept. It must be stored and shipped at ultra-cold temperatures of around minus 70 degrees Celsius (-94 degrees Fahrenheit). Bahrain is a Middle-Eastern nation that regularly sees temperatures in the summer of around 40C (104F) with high humidity.
Mexicans urged to cancel Christmas celebrations
Mexicans should cancel Christmas celebrations and even avoid exchanging presents to beat coronavirus, the president said on Friday, pitching a frugal festive season to one of the world’s largest capital cities as infections scaled new heights.
“Let’s leave Christmas presents for another time,” President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said, urging people to scale down or forego traditional family gatherings over Christmas and New Year.
Pilgrims enter the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City on Friday. The basilica registered queues eight days before the anniversary of the Virgin Mary and only six days after its temporary closure, decreed to avoid crowds on the traditional day of celebration
Mario Guzman/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Mr Lopez Obrador said people should stay at home unless they had something “truly important to do” as he announced hospitals would increase patient capacity, equipment and staff.
However, he said there would be no mandatory lockdowns.
Mexico reported 12,127 new infections on Friday, a record number for a single day rise, barring one day in October that the government said was due to a statistical blip. It was also the first time Mexico had recorded more than 10,000 new cases three days in a row.
Mexico has recorded just over 1.15 million cases and almost 110,000 deaths, the fourth-highest death toll worldwide. Officials acknowledge the true extent of the pandemic is likely significantly higher due to limited testing, while the World Health Organisation warned the country was in “bad shape”.
Care homes accused of playing God by banning hugs
Care homes have been accused of “playing God” by denying access to relatives, as increasing numbers of providers refuse contact between loved ones.
Earlier this week, the Department for Health and Social Care performed a U-turn on its previous guidance, by announcing that care home residents will be allowed to hug and hold the hands of family members and friends.
The new guidance was drawn up after care home bosses called for clarity around visits during the festive period.
While the new guidance – which stipulated that visitors should receive a negative test and wear PPE – was welcomed as “good news” by elderly care charities, it has since emerged that some relatives in parts of England have been stopped from hugging their loved ones.
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Matching Non coresident partners to households in EGOALT
Added by K.Samantha Russell Jonsson over 3 years ago. Updated over 3 years ago.
K.Samantha Russell Jonsson
Dear Support Team,
I am interested in matching respondents who have a child/children living in the household at wave 1(EGOALT) and have a non-coresident partner.
However, when I examined the documentation, it seemed that questions regarding non-coresident partnership are only available from wave 3 onwards.
Is there a way to match these partnerships backwards in time? or is there some indicator for how long they have had this relationship?
If these non-co resident partners are for example a childs biological parent, would it be possible to indentify them as such?
Thank you beforehand for your time.
Kenisha
Updated by Alita Nandi over 3 years ago
Hello Kenisha,
Using a_egoalt, you will be able to identify if a person is living in a household with his/her natural child but not with the child's other natural parent. Would that help?
Updated by K.Samantha Russell Jonsson over 3 years ago
Dear Alita,
If I understand you correctly, using a_egoalt I will have information on whether a respondent lives in a household with his/her child.
What I would like to do is to link this a_egoalt file with non-coresident partner information that is provided in wave c onwards.
I would then like to identify if any of the non-coresident partners,is the biological parent of a child living with the respondents found in a_egoalt household.
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I see what you mean.
In Wave 3, any person who has a child <18, whose other parent is not co-resident and not deceased is asked about child maintenance payments (and other qs) about this other parent. This information is recorded at the non-resident parent level and not at the child level. In some cases you will be able to deduce that the non-resident parent reported in Wave 3 is the non-resident parent of the child in Wave 1. For example, for person A, there is information about one non-resident parent reported in Wave 3. From c_egoalt you know that person A has one child, B, and the B's parent is not present in the household. Suppose you also see that in Wave 1, A was living with B, with or without B's parent then you can say that B's non-resident parent information was provided in Wave C. Now suppose another example, where everything is the same except that person A has two children with two partners.
In that case while you can find information about the two non-resident parents in Wave C, you will not be able to identify which child belong's to which non-resident parent.
But in that case while you can find information about the two non-resident parents in Wave C, you will not be able to identify which child belongs to which non-resident parent.
Understood. Thank you Alita.
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The full range of Jordan Bespoke luxury leather products can be viewed at www.jordanbespoke.com
Simon Jordan has created and designed fine leather goods for over 15 years, designing luxury leather products and accessories for private clients, including many of the heroes of motorsport. His company, Jordan Bespoke, also supplies several corporate clients including Aston Martin, Bentley, Jaguar, McLaren and Sunseeker yachts.
Since 2005 Simon has forged an admirable client base which includes many of the world’s most famous racing drivers, the most prominent classic car collectors and some of the most sought-after luxury brands. Famous for his leather travel bags, the Jordan trademark is a striking interior lining, genuine automotive seatbelt webbing for handles and adjustable shoulder straps matched with a high quality, automotive leather exterior manufactured to the very highest quality.
To coincide with the British Grand Prix double header on 2nd and 9th August, Jordan Bespoke is delighted to celebrate two British motorsport legends, Sir Jackie Stewart OBE and Jim Clark OBE, with the unveiling of two luxury leather duffle bags to help raise funds for Race Against Dementia and The Jim Clark Trust.
1965 French Grand Prix. Charade, Clermont-Ferrand. LAT Motorsport Network. Jackie Stewart and Jim Clark, motorsport legends, great friends and rivals.
Race Against Dementia – Champions of Monaco, Sir Jackie Stewart OBE
The Champions of Monaco duffle bag celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Monaco Grand Prix and partners exclusively with Sir Jackie Stewart’s Race Against Dementia (RAD) charity. Crafted from the highest quality Scottish leather the bag is finished in dark blue, complimenting the colours of the RAD charity logo.
The Monaco Grand Prix is rightly considered as the most technical, complex, highly glamorous motor racing street circuit in the world. While street racing in the Principality can be traced back to the late 20s, the first World Championship of Drivers race took place on 21 May 1950. The 100-lap race covered an overall distance of 318.1 km (197.1 miles) and was won by Juan Manuel Fangio for the Alfa Romeo team after he started from pole position. Alberto Ascari finished second for Ferrari and Louis Chiron finished third for Maserati.
Striking bespoke linings are a recognisable and in-demand feature of every Jordan Bespoke bag. The Champions of Monaco duffle has a glorious lining displaying original photographs of Monaco Grand Prix winners over 70 years of racing. Racing legends pictured include Juan Manuel Fangio (1950 winner) Sir Stirling Moss (1961 winner), Alain Prost (1988), Ayrton Senna (1992), Michael Schumacher (1999), David Coulthard (2002) and Sir Jackie himself (1973).
Sir Jackie Stewart, known as the Flying Scot, competed in Formula One between 1965 and 1973 winning three world drivers’ championships in 1969, 1971 and 1973 and is now known as one of the greatest drivers in the history of the sport. In 2016 Sir Jackie formed Race Against Dementia to fund research into the treatment and prevention of the diseases that cause dementia, using lessons learnt in Formula One’s approach to research and technology. His beloved wife of 56 years Lady Helen Stewart was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2014. Today, 50 million people have dementia. One in three people born today will die with dementia and a new person develops dementia every 2.5 seconds. A percentage of all sales from the Champions of Monaco luxury leather duffle bag will be donated to Race Against Dementia.
Sir Jackie Stewart said “I’ve used a Simon Jordan bag for many years and was delighted when he suggested creating a unique product to support my Race Against Dementia charity. Dementia is a cruel disease that will affect many of our lives, it is my aim to ensure we do all we can to beat the disease and ease the lives of those who suffer from it. Every Champions of Monaco bag sold will help our charity thanks to our partnership with Jordan Bespoke.
Jim Clark OBE
As a lifelong motorsport enthusiast, Jordan has blended his passion for the sport with business to create luxury goods depicting racing heroes. Sir Jackie Stewart and Jim Clark are famous as fellow Scots, two racing legends, great friends and rivals competing in the 1960’s, an era defined by danger and glamour.
The Jim Clark luxury leather duffle bag celebrates one of motorsport’s greatest heroes with a colour scheme that perfectly depicts his famous blue and white peaked helmet. The beautiful exterior styling includes the exclusive use of Jim Clark’s personal signature. The interior lining combines black and white Formula One images of Jim Clark with the dynamic colour of Cameron of Erracht Ancient, the Clark Family Tartan.
James (Jim) Clark won two Formula One Championships in 1963 and 1965 and the Indianapolis 500 in the same year. Clark achieved 33 pole positions, won 25 races from 72 Grand Prix starts with 8 Grand Slams, a record that remains to this day. Clark dominated world motor racing like no one before or since in all types of motorsport including sports cars, touring cars, rallying and single seaters. To many he is considered one the most naturally gifted and greatest racing drivers of all time. Clark was most closely associated with Colin Chapman and Lotus with the iconic series of Formula One race cars including the Lotus 25, 33 and 49 that dominated the 1960’s often referred to as the Clark era.
Sadly, Clark was tragically killed in a wet Formula 2 race in 1968 at Hockenheim, Germany. The world was shocked by the death of its shining star. The tragedy helped redefine the future of Formula One with a greater emphasis on safety led by his close friend Sir Jackie Stewart, now Honorary President of The Jim Clark Trust.
A percentage of all sales from the Jim Clark luxury leather duffle bag will go to The Jim Clark Trust charity dedicated to celebrating the legacy of Jim Clark with a new museum in Duns, Scotland and activities to promote heritage, education and inspiration.
Ben Smith, Chair of The Jim Clark Trust said “We are delighted with the quality and style of this unique bag Simon has created that captures the personality and heritage of Jim Clark. The detail is exceptional. I am sure it will be treasured and loved by motorsport fans of the Clark era, travelling for business or pleasure, for special occasions or day to day. Jim Clark and Sir Jackie were great friends and there is a close emotional connection between the two charities. We would like to thank Simon for his passion and support to The Jim Clark Trust and Race Against Dementia.”
Jordan Bespoke
As a lifelong motorsport enthusiast, Simon Jordan has blended his passion for motorsport with business to create unique, stylish luxury goods depicting racing heroes. Starting his automotive career as a restorer of British sportscars, his attention to detail saw him winning at concours level. A career at the height of the automotive world followed, working for luxury brands including Bentley Rolls-Royce, Ferrari & Maserati.
His passion for design and attention to detail led to Jordan creating bespoke leather luggage for his automotive clients, soon his reputation grew as fast as client demand and Jordan Bespoke was formed.
Simon Jordan, Founder of Jordan Bespoke said “Every Jordan Bespoke product has a part of my heart and soul within it, especially when it is motorsport related, but working with a hero like Sir Jackie to help the Race Against Dementia and The Jim Clark Trust, takes that to another level. My Father suffers with dementia and I know how destructive it is. Playing a small part in the fight against the disease is very important to me and many others around the world. Jim Clark has always been an icon for me. One of my very first designs was inspired by Jim Clark with Classic Team Lotus. It has been an honour working with The Jim Clark Trust to create a product that captures Clark’s personality and inspiration. If you love stylish design, quality leather, motorsport and would like to help support two very worthy charities, please visit our website and contact us to find out more.”
More information on the Jim Clark bag can be found here:
https://www.jordanbespoke.com/shop/jim-clark-leather-art-duffle-bag
More information on the Champions of Monaco RAD bag can be found here:
https://www.jordanbespoke.com/shop/champions-of-monaco-leather-art-duffle-bag
Thank you to the British Racing Drivers Club for allowing us to photograph at their Silverstone Clubhouse – the home of the British Grand Prix.
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Home Uncategorized Happy holidays for Mustang owners
Happy holidays for Mustang owners
For several decades, Classic Industries has provided restoration parts for those working on General Motors and Mopar vehicles. With its acquisition of California Mustang Group, Classic Industries offers its first catalog of restoration, customization, performance parts and accessories for 1964 through 2004 Ford Mustangs.
“The all-new Classic Industries Mustang catalog shares the same format as many of the other catalogs Classic Industries has become well-known for in the industry, and at 576 pages, the Classic Industries Mustang parts catalog represents an aggressive expansion of the product selection for Mustang enthusiasts,” the company said.
The new catalog of Mustang parts
“Items in this all-new catalog will include categories such as interior, suspension, body, engine, cooling, weatherstrip, books and manuals, and much more. While focusing primarily on restoration, this new catalog has been greatly expanded to include a wide range of popular performance parts such as crate engines, performance intakes, competition heads, valve covers, performance cams and carburetors for most popular Ford engines as well as a wide variety of drivetrain components, suspension products, dress-up items, brake conversion and upgrade kits and more.
“In addition to a host of full color photos, this revised product catalog will contain detailed descriptions, concise listings and helpful hints for every Mustang enthusiast.”
The company noted that the catalog is the result of its acquisition and merger of California Mustang and California Muscle Parts and their move to company facilities in Huntington Beach, California.
The catalog is available through the Classic Industries website.
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Home - Announcements - Nozincwadi Storytelling Festival 2020 announces a stellar line-up
Nozincwadi Storytelling Festival 2020 announces a stellar line-up
The annual Nozincwadi Storytelling Festival which is a flagship event of Dr Gcina Mhlophe internationally respected story-teller, activist, poet, playwright and director amongst her many talents will be held in two cities this year, in Pietermaritzburg and Durban.
Currently in its 12th year, the Nozincwadi Storytelling Festival hosted by Gcinamasiko Arts and Heritage Trust has touched so many communities as performers and schools have travelled from as far afield as oPongolo in the Northern KZN to Kokstad, Eastern Cape. The festival has also seen performers travel from Northern Cape, Limpopo, Gauteng as well as over the seas from USA and the UK.
“It continues to be like a central fireplace for seasoned storytellers and also those just beginning to find their voice,” says Dr Gcina Mhlophe, “Music and dance have always found themselves at home at the Nozincwadi Storytelling Festival.” She adds.
The festival will kick off with a media launch in Pietermaritzburg at the Bessie Head Library, on the 21st of October. The press launch will be facilitated by Pretty Olifant and will introduce media to Chanting the Bridges: Honouring those who came before us, this year’s festival theme. Dr Gcina will share the History of Nozincwadi Festival with media stakeholders followed by performances and a Question and Answer session for Media present at the event. Media personnel are invited to RSVP as space is limited.
The festival will be officially opened to the public on the 22ndand held at Pietermaritzburg City Hall from 10am. Themed Chanting the Bridges, the festival will be honouring the living legends of Pietermaritzburg on this day. PMB local storytellers and Philippa Namutebi Kabali Kagwa, Nompucuko Zakaza, Zanele Ndlovu and Bongiswa Kotta Ramushwana will bring back the feeling of sharing stories and performances in person at the event. This Pietermaritzburg leg of the festival is generously supported by the Msunduzi Municipal Libraries.
The Festival will continue in Durban on the 23rdwith Art in the Park under the Storytelling Tree at the Bluff Showgrounds, Tara Rd, from 10am where display stations will be set up and open to the public to indulge inart & crafts which include fine artists, beadwork, chefs,and many other delights accompanied byMusic and storytellers with performances from MaBhengu, Balungile Myeza, Zanele Ndlovu, Mpume Mthombeni, Nompucuko Zakaza, Gomolemo Moagi, Philippa Namutebi Kabali Kagwa, Bongiswa Kotta Ramushwana and Dr Gcina Mhlophe.
The National Storytelling Day which was officially inaugurated on the 24th of October 2019, will for the first time be included as part of the Nozincwadi Festival. The day coincides with the founder, Dr GcinaMhlophe’s birthday. The day will be marked by morning & evening events. The morning event will kick off at 10:30am opening with drummers and MaBhengu playing indigenous music. At 11am sharp the storytelling will begin and as has happened in 2019, numerous arts groups, schools and libraries across the country will be joining in the magic. Under the Storytelling Tree, storytelling by a number of KZN based storytellers will be followed by Dr GcinaMhlophe; acultural dance group and finally storytelling by Mala Gounden and Zanele Ndlovu.
The festival will conclude with an evening event which will be livestreamed on Gcinamasiko’s Facebook page and YouTube channel for the public. The event will take place at the Durban Art Gallery and it is strictly by invitation only. “Seeing that the pandemic hasn’t allowed for the physical presence of the international line-up of storytellers this year, Gcinamasiko has made use of the digital space to allow for their presence to be felt.” Shares Dr GcinaMhlophe.
The event will include the screening of the international performers film as well as live performances by local performers and musicians including: Gcina Mhlophe, Bongiswa Kotta Ramushwana, Nompucuko Zakaza, Gomolemo Moagi, and Madala Kunene
Some of the international mouth-watering line-up includes: world renowned storyteller Amina Blackwood (Jamaica); multi-award winning storyteller and founder of Rhode Island Black Storytellers Valerie Tutson (USA), musician, poet and composer Eugene Skeef (UK/RSA), Zenith Naverrete (Chile), Len Cabral (USA), KK Chee (Malaysia), Seema Wahi Mukherjee (India), Bevin Magama (Zimbabwe/ UK), Itah Sadu (Canada)
Updates on the specific events can be found on the Gcinamasiko Arts & Heritage Trust social media pages as well as view the international storyteller’s film and follow the live stream of the National Storytelling Day live performances from 19H30. The Durban leg of the festival has been made possible through the support of eThekwini Municipal Libraries, Video Vision Entertainment and the Department of Arts and Culture.
For more information and media enquiries, please contact JT Communication Solutions on 011 788 7632 or media@jtcomms.co.za
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Gordon Mortensen (b. 1938, American) is one of the best known reduction woodcut print artists working in the U.S today. He works from watercolor studies to understand the color dynamics needed for the woodcut. The artist uses up to sixty-four colors and takes as long as three months to create the woodblock image. Although the final outcome has a painterly feel, it is unmistakably a woodcut with rich layered colors and wood grain textures. His early images mostly represent the upper Midwest landscape, and areas around where he lived in North Dakota. His color preferences in these early works is more muted compared to the brighter colors he favors to present his current home in California.
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Home Coaching Batting partnerships in #CWC15 after five games
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Ireland defeated the West Indies in game five of the 2015 ICC World Cup.
The West Indies batted first and were the fifth team in five games to score 300 runs in the first innings of the game. DJG Sammy and LMP Simmons scored 154 runs in their sixth wicket partnership.
On this occasion, Ireland chased down the West Indies’ total with 25 balls remaining. In 2011, Ireland chased down 329 runs to beat England.
The West Indies’ defeat suggests that whilst a century partnership and 300 runs in combination have been a necessary condition for victory in the World Cup games played on Day 1 and Day 2, they are not a sufficient condition to guarantee success.
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Some rock stars have proven themselves just as comfortable in front of the camera as on a stage. In fact, some are really damn good at both vocations. Jared Leto, Justin Timberlake, and Tom Waits are prime examples of musicians whose careers consist of an acting side-hustle in addition to music.
The list of famous musicians who have tried their hand at directing movies is a much smaller and more exclusive club. Perhaps the most dedicated of these is Rob Zombie, founding member of metal band White Zombie. Mr. Zombie found a second passion in filmmaking — more specifically, horror filmmaking. He has a lengthy resume of gruesome flicks: Halloween I and II, The Devil’s Rejects, House of 1000 Corpses, and The Lords of Salem. 3 From Hell is his latest effort, with a limited theatrical release this week. In honor of Rob Zombie’s newest blood fest, it’s time to dive into the filmography of other famous musicians who stepped behind the camera.
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TINY BOUNDARIES
A documentary about Lynton and Pi and how they began to redesign their lives after a burnout, putting family, time and health first, reconnecting with nature and through it themselves. Inspired by the tiny house movement, they are exploring a way to live debt free and as simply as possible. Working with Woonpioniers and Liberté Tiny Houses in the Netherlands they designed a flexible tiny house studio/workspace which they could travel with and live in temporarily if needed. This documentary follows the journey of their tiny house from its makers in Amsterdam to its final destination, Lynton and Pi’s home on the Hebridean island of Jura, off the west coast of Scotland. What are the limits we accept for ourselves? Which boundaries could we overcome in our lives? How do we embody freedom and choice for our children? What do we really value and how central do we make this in our lives? What would we do if we knew we couldn’t fail?
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Updated National Community Recovery Handbook published to assist in disaster recovery
AIDR has published an updated handbook to build capability for those assisting communities in recovery.
The Community Recovery Handbook is a useful resource for those in emergency management who have a role in supporting communities through recovery after a disaster. The handbook explores key concepts and frameworks in recovery and provides resources for readers to work with communities to deliver effective recovery processes, services, programs and activities.
It can be used by agencies to develop policies, capabilities, emergency management plans and other documents that incorporate disaster recovery within their own jurisdictions agencies, organisations, and communities.
The handbook aligns to the recently updated National Principles for Disaster Recovery and includes guidance on applying the principles within various demographics and throughout the various complexities in supporting a community through the recovery process.
The revised handbook is freely accessible on the Knowledge Hub: https://knowledge.aidr.org.au/resources/handbook-2-community-recovery/
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Three Widows
On the 5th of November 1852, Flamborough men John BAILEY, John MAJOR and George STEPHENSON went to sea “in pursuit of their calling”. Their fishing coble was turned over by the waves and all three drowned, “each leaving a widow to lament their bereavement”.
John Major’s body was soon recovered and laid to rest on the 7th. Jane, his widow, wasn’t a stranger to the graveyard.
Photo courtesy Ann Davies
On his last day, John could not have known he would become a father again. His daughter, Jane, was born the following year, in July.
Widow Jane had been a minor when she married but signed the register with a neat hand (after a false start).
In 1861 she is living in Ship Inn Yard, Flamborough, with three children – Ann (12), William (10) and Jane (7). At the same address ten years later, young Jane is absent on census night, and William, now 20, is supporting the family by fishing. He marries two years later and sets up his own household. The enumerator in 1881 finds Jane in South Dalton, about thirty miles from Flamborough, working as a housekeeper to Henry Llewellyn CHOWEN, a single man, aged 38, and a land agent. He also employs Jane ELLERBY, widow Jane’s 14-year-old granddaughter as a servant. Jane the Elder is still Henry’s housekeeper in 1891. I don’t know if she stayed in post until his death in 1900 but at census the following year she is back in Flamborough with son William, a fish merchant now and a widower. It must have been a comfortable home because William’s three unmarried sons are all working and his daughter, yet another Jane, keeps house.
Widow Jane dies aged 87 in the winter of 1908. Find her on the Shared Tree.
The bodies of John Major’s drowned companions are not recovered for a week or more. John BAILEY is buried on 16 November and George STEPHENSON two days later.
John married Frances HUNTER in 1849 and the couple had one son before death intervened. Frances is with 10-year-old William Hunter Bailey in Mosey’s Yard, Filey in 1861 but she dies before the next census, aged 50. She is buried somewhere in St Oswald’s churchyard but her headstone has been relocated to the north wall. You can find a photo of it as a memory on the Shared Tree.
Alice COCKCROFT married George in 1850 and only had time to have one child with him, a daughter, Mary. Shortly before she buried her husband she had seen her two sisters laid to rest, Esther in August aged 17 and Hannah in September aged 26. Alice and Hannah’s husband George BIELBY, bereft and both with infant daughters to raise, moved in together. They didn’t marry and it is nobody’s business whether the arrangement ever had a romantic dimension. Six successive census enumerators from 1861 to 1911 noted Alice’s status as George’s housekeeper – and their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Find Alice on the Shared Tree.
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Fathers, Lost
William Hunter BAILEY was two years old when his father failed to return home.
John BAILEY was 28-years old, George STEPHENSON 27 and John MAJOR 35. Their bodies must have been recovered because their deaths were registered locally, but I have only found a burial record for John Major.
William and his mother moved the few miles to Filey, where Frances died in August 1870. A few months later William married Elizabeth CRAWFORD. At the 1871 census, the couple was enumerated in Mosey’s Yard and ten years later in Providence Place, having been joined by two children, John William and Sarah Ann.
William, undaunted by his father’s fate, worked as a fisherman. Like his dad, he didn’t make old bones but I have been unable to find the cause of his death at age 34.
His headstone in Filey St Oswald’s churchyard has been moved from his grave to the north wall.
In remembrance of FRANCES, wife of JOHN BAILEY, who died Aug 14th 1870, aged 51 years.
‘Farewell dear son, do thou earth’s days employ
To fit thee for our Father’s home of joy
Sleep on dear Mother and take thy rest
God took thee when he thought it best.’
Also, WILLIAM HUNTER BAILEY, son of the above and the beloved husband of ELIZABETH, died 16th Sep. 1884 aged 34 years.
Find the three drowned fishermen on FamilySearch Tree: John Bailey, George Stephenson and John Major.
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I walked along the beach to Reighton this morning as a way of remembering the solar eclipse.
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Social consequences of harmful use of alcohol in Ireland
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Social consequences of harmful use of alcohol in Ireland.
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A study of waiting times for hospital consultation and selected surgical procedures in the greater Dublin area.
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Suicide, attempted suicide and prevention in Ireland and elsewhere
Walsh, Dermot (Health Research Board (HRB), 2008)
Third Interim report on the 2006 report of the comptroller and auditor general: expenditure on health services
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Traveller's Health Status Study: census of travelling people November 1986
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Treated drug misuse in Ireland national report 1996
Moran, Rosalyn; O'Brien, Mary; Duffy, Petrina (Health Research Board (HRB), 1996)
Treated drug misuse in Ireland: first national report 1995: national drug treatment reporting system
O'Higgins, Kathleen; Duff, Petrina (Health Research Board (HRB), 1997)
Treated drug misuse in the greater Dublin area, 1990.
O'Hare, Aileen; O'Brien, Mary (Health Reseach Board (HRB), 1992)
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Treated drug misuse in the greater Dublin area: a review of five years: 1990-1994
O'Higgins, Kathleen (Health Research Board (HRB), 1996)
Treated drug misuse in the greater Dublin area: report for 1992 and 1993
O'Higgins, Kathleen; O'Brien; Health Research Board (Health Research Board, 1994)
Treated drug misuse in the greater Dublin area: report for 1994
O'Higgins, Kathleen; O'Brien, Mary (Health Research Board (HRB), 1995)
Treated drug use in the greater Dublin area 1990
O'Hare, Aileen; O'Brien, Mary (Health Research Board (HRB), 1992)
Treated problem alcohol use in Ireland, 2005 to 2010. HRB Trends Series 11
Carew, Anne Marie; Bellerose, Delphine; Lyons, Suzi; Health Research Board (HRB) (Health Research Board (HRB), 2011-11)
Treated problem alcohol use in Ireland: 2008 figures from the National Drug Treatment Reporting System
Carew, Anne Marie (Health Research Board (HRB), 2010-01)
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eBook and Audiobooks
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Articles in Popular Magazines
Online Forum or Discussion Posts
Tweets and Facebook Updates
Conference Sessions and Presentations
How to construct references for ebooks and audiobooks
Author(s). (Year)
Title of book. -or-
Title of book. [Audiobook].
Publisher Name. DOI or URL*
*If the book does not have a DOI and comes from an academic research database, end the book reference after the publisher name.
Cain, S. (2012). Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking (K. Mazur, Narr.). [Audiobook]. Random House Audio. http://bit.ly2G0Bpbl/
Rabinowitz, F. E. (2019). Deepening group psychotherapy with men: Stories and insights for the journey. American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000132-000
APA Manual p. 321, Section 10.2
How to construct references for chapters from edited books
Chapter Author
Title of chapter.
In Editor (Ed.), Title of book (page range). Publisher Name. DOI or URL. -or-
In Editors (Eds.), Title of book (page range). Publisher Name. DOI or URL.*
Aron, L., Botella, M., & Lubart, T. (2019). Culinary arts: Talent and their development. In R. F. Subotnik, P. Olszewski-Kubilius, & F. C. Worrell (Eds.), The psychology of high performance: Developing human potential into domain-specific talent (pp. 345–359). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000120-016
How to construct references for scholarly articles
Title of article
Title of Journal, Volume(Issue), page range. DOI or URL*
*If the journal article does not have a DOI and is from an academic research database, end the reference after the page range. If the journal article does not have a DOI but does have a URL that will resolve for readers (e.g., it is from an online journal that is not part of a database), include the URL of the article at the end of the reference.
Grady, J. S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Perez, C., & Yelinek, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), 207–217. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185
Guéguen, N., Jacob, C., & Morineau, T. (2010). What is in a name? An effect of similarity in computer-mediated communication. Electronic Journal of Applied Psychology, 6(2), 1-4. http://ojs.lib.swin.edu.au/index.php/ejap
APA Manual pp. 316-317, Section 10.1
How to construct references for popular magazine articles
Author(s).
(Year, Month Day)
Title of Periodical, Volume(Issue), page range. DOI or URL*
*As with scholarly journals, include the DOI or URL when available. If the magazine article does not have volume, issue, and/or page numbers (e.g., because it is from an online magazine), omit the missing elements from the reference (as in the Schulman example).
Bergeson, S. (2019, January 4) Really cool neutral plasmas. Science, 363(6422), 33-34. https://doi.org/10.1126/scienceaau7988
Schulman, M. (2019, September 9). Superfans: A love story. The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/16/superfans-a-love-story
Newspaper Articles/News Websites
How to construct references for newspaper articles
Title of article.
Title of Newspaper, page range. URL
If the newspaper article is from an academic research database, end the reference after the page range. For online newspapers without volume, issue, and/or page numbers, omit the missing elements from the reference.
For articles from a news website (e.g., CNN, HuffPost)—one that does not have an associated daily or weekly newspaper—use the format for a webpage on a website instead.
Carey, B. (2019, March 22). Can we get better at forgetting? The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/health/memory-forgetting-psychology.html
Hess, A. (2019, January 3). Cats who take direction. The New York Times, C1.
Online Forum or Discussion Post
How to construct references for online forum or discussions posts or comments
Name of group [Username]. -or-
Username.
(n.d.)
Content of the post up to the first 20 words. [Description of post].
Site Name. URL -or-
Retrieved Month Day, Year, from URL
National Aeronautics and Space Administration [nasa]. (2018, September 12). I'm NASA astronaut Scott Tingle. Ask me anything about adjusting to being back on Earth after my first spaceflight! [Online forum post]. Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9fagqy/im_nasa_ astronaut_ scott_tingle_ask_me_anything/
APA Manual p. 350, Section 10.15
How to construct references for conference sessions and presentations
Date of Conference
Presenter(s) (Year, Month Day). Title of contribution [Type of contribution]. Conference Name, Location. DOI or URL
Fisteck, A., Jester, E. & Sonnenberg, K. (2017, July 12-15). Everybody's got a little music in them: Using music therapy to connect, engage, and motivate [Conference session]. Autism Society National Conference, Milwaukee, WI, United States. https://asa.confex.com/asa/2017/webprogramarchives/ Session9517.html
How to construct references for government, technical, or research reports
Author(s) -or-
(Year).
Title of report. -or-
Title of report (Report number).
Publisher Name. DOI or URL
National Cancer Institute. (2019). Taking time: Support for people with cancer (NIH Publication No. 18-2059). U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health. https://www.cancer.gov/publications/patient-education/takingtime.pd
APA Manual pp. 329-332, Section 10.4 covers additional types of reports and gray literature
Online vs Print References
In APA style, online and print references are formatted largely the same. All references generally include the author, date, title, and source, with the source element showing the difference between online and print. Online source elements will include their corresponding DOI and URL when available.
Creating a References Page
In APA style your bibliography should be called References.
The reference list should be double-spaced with a hanging indent used for each citation.
Within your References list, your references should be in alphabetical order based on the author's last name. If there is no author listed, use the title of the source.
Reference Examples
Images/Visual Works
Video (film and TV)
YouTube or Streaming Video
TED Talks and Webinars
Computer Software, Mobile Apps, and Equipment
How to construct references for webpages or websites
Name of Group.
(Year, Month)
Title of work.
Retrieved Month Day, Year from URL
When the author of the webpage and the publisher of the website are the same, omit the publisher name to avoid repetition (as in the World Health Organization example).
When contents of a page are meant to be updated over time but are not archived, include a retrieval date in the reference (as in the Fagan example).
Use the webpage on a website format for articles from news websites such as CNN and HuffPost (these sites do not have associated daily or weekly newspapers). Use the newspaper article category for articles from newspaper websites such as The New York Times or The Washington Post.
Create a reference to an open educational resources (OER) page only when the materials are available for download directly (i.e., the materials are on the page and/or can be downloaded as PDFs or other files). If you are directed to another website, create a reference to the specific webpage on that website where the materials can be retrieved. Use this format for material in any OER repository, such as OER Commons, OASIS, or MERLOT.
Webpage Examples:
Fagan, J. (2019, March 25). Nursing clinical brain. OER Commons. Retrieved September 17, 2019, from https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/53029-nursing-clinical-brain/view
National Institute of Mental Health. (2018, July). Anxiety disorders. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health. https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/anxiety-disorders/index.shtml
Woodyatt, A. (2019, September 10). Daytime naps once or twice a week may be linked to a healthy heart, researchers say. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/10/health/nap-heart-health-wellness-intl-scli/index.html
World Health Organization. (2018, May 24). The top 10 causes of death. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/the-top-10-causes-of-death
Entire Web site:
Do not create a reference or in-text citation for a whole website. To mention a website in general, and not any particular information on that site, provide the name of the website in the text and include the URL in parentheses. For example, you might mention that you used a website to create a survey.
Kidspsych is a wonderful interactive website for children (http://www.kidspsych.org).
APA Manual pp. 350-352, Section 10.16
How to construct references for social media
Twitter and Instagram:
Author [@username].
Name of group [@username].
Facebook and others:
Author.
Name of Group [Username].
Content of the post up to the first 20 words. -or-
Content of the post up to the first 20 words. [Description of audiovisuals]. -or-
[Description of audiovisuals].
If the tweet or status update includes an image, a video, a poll, or a thumbnail image with a link, indicate that in brackets after the title: [Image attached], [Video attached], [Thumbnail with link attached].
Tweet Example:
Obama, B. [@BarackObama]. (2012, February 9). Today President Obama announced a landmark foreclosure settlement with major banks to help struggling homeowners [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/167690595870052352
White, B. [@BettyMWhite]. (2018, June 21). I treasure every minute we spent together #koko [Image attached] [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/BettyMWhite/status/1009951892846227456
Twitter Profile Example:
APA Style [@APA_Style]. (n.d.). Tweets [Twitter profile]. Twitter. Retrieved January 22, 2020, from https://twitter.com/APA_Style
Facebook Post Example:
Gaiman, N. (2018, March 22). 100,000+ Rohingya refugees could be at serious risk during Bangladesh's monsoon season. My fellow UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Cate Blanchett is [Image attached] [Status update]. Facebook. http://bit.ly/2JQxPAD
Facebook Page Example:
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden (n.d.). Home [Facebook page]. Facebook. Retrieved January 19, 2020, from https://www.facebook.com/cincinnatizoo/
APA Manual pp.348-350, Section 10.15
How to construct references for encyclopedia, dictionary, or thesaurus
Entry Title
Title of article/entry.
In Editor (Ed.), Title of book (Edition, Volume, page range). Publisher Name. URL -or-
In Editors (Eds.), Title of book (page range). Publisher Name. URL
Name of Group (Year) Title of article/entry.
In Title of book (page range). Publisher Name. URL
How to construct references for encyclopedia without an author
Title of article/entry
(Year) -or-
(n.d.)*
In Editors (Eds.), Title of book (page range). Publisher Name. URL -or-
*When an online work is updated continuously, use n.d. for the year and include a retrieval date before the URL. Also, you do not need to include a publisher name if it is the same as the author.
Merriam-Webster. (n.d.). Culture. In Merriam-Webster.com dictionary. Retrieved January 5, 2020, from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/culture
Poverty and Environmental Hazards. (2011). In S. M. Alters (Ed.), World Poverty, (2010 ed., pp. 123-136). http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=GVRL&u=muohio_gvrl
National Park. (2020, January 7). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_park
*Use the View History option to verify the date to for the version of the page you used.
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A second day of racing in changeable winds
Sunday morning turned into sunny, the sky cloudless, and the winds calm: in short, the promise was of another ideal day of yachting. The skipper assembly came about in brief at 9 am, after which all and sundry hurried to the beginning line set up among the island of visovac and the prisnjak lighthouse. Everybody who arrived on time may want to already bear in mind himself a winner??.
At around 4 kn, the winds had been very susceptible, though they appeared to be barely stronger alongside the coast of murter. As such, the primary organization of boats commenced to move along the coast, and the racing boats soon got into the lead with so little wind hampering their progress. Approximately half of an hour after the start the winds picked up throughout the ocean. The organization of boats began to skinny and lengthen and at the primary turning factor of the island of mrtovinjak, salona 38 punch observed itself in first vicinity, observed with the aid of first 40. 7 carmen after which salona 38 rum. The main three remained the identical up until the end line, although carmen ran punch near within the very last stages. The race ended between the south of kornati and the lighthouse on vela smokvica. After passing thru, most of the ships that were to go towards sibenik on monday grew to become and sailed in the direction of kaprije for the night. The following day, the forecast become for a stronger jugo, and most crews sensibly determined to minimise monday's voyage in opposition to the wind. The remaining 10 boats docked in the stunning piökera marina on kornati. We had the jetty almost to ourselves. Except us, there had been only 2 sailboats.
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Not Driving During COVID-19 Lockdowns Didn't Do Much To Help Slow Climate Change
Erin Marquis
Little traffic is seen on the 110 freeway in Los Angeles during a normally busy Friday rush hour commute on April 10, 2020 in California, where the Stay-At-Home order has been extended from April 19 to May 15 amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Image: Frederic J. BROWN / AFP (Getty Images)
The saying ‘a little goes a long way’ doesn’t really apply to climate change, so our piddly break from driving hasn’t really done much to move the needle. A new study found that the roughly three months we were all inside at the beginning of the year only lowered the estimated rise in temperature by 2030 by 0.01 degrees.
That tiny blip on Earth’s future thermostat is thanks to a 17 percent drop in global emissions during the peak of the Coronavirus crisis. At least half of that drop was from transportation emission, according to an earlier study. I mean, it’s better than nothing? And actually slightly impressive that we could move the needle at all in just a few months. It sorta gives me hope that maybe we can lick this thing. But the only thing that can slow down climate change to merely horrible from totally catastrophic would be an intense global investment into green technologies. It’s also not as easy as just stopping everything. From the BBC:
With other researchers, they calculated how 10 different greenhouse gases and air pollutants changed between February and June 2020 in 123 countries.
They found that the drop off peaked in April, with CO2, nitrogen oxides and other emissions falling between 10-30% globally, mainly due to declines in surface transport.
But this new work shows that some of the declines in greenhouse gases actually cancelled each other out in terms of warming.
Nitrogen oxides from transport normally have a warming impact in the atmosphere.
While they went down by 30%, they were matched by a drop in sulphur dioxide, which mainly comes from the burning of coal.
Emissions of this gas help aerosols to form, which reflect sunlight back into space and cool the planet.
This balancing out, combined with the temporary nature of the pandemic restrictions, mean the impact on warming by 2030 will hardly be felt.
“Although temporary changes can help, you need to reduce CO2 permanently to make a dent in global warming,” said Prof Piers Forster from the University of Leeds.
Wait, the two pollutions cancel each other out? That is incredibly frustrating. Any temperature rise of 1.5 Celcius by 2050 is considered a benchmark for just how fucked we are on our planet, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. According to Prof. Forster, if we go back to business as usual without a major global push towards green energy, then our average temperature will likely rise above the 1.5 Celcius mark.
Luckily in America, workers who are able to skip a commute are starting to like it. According to a study by Morning Consult, 75 percent of Americans said they would work from home at least once a week if/when the pandemic is under control. Another 32 percent want to stay in their home offices full time. As Streetsblog noted, a 32 percent reduction in daily drivers could lead to as many as 48.1 million cars off the road every day.
Managing Editor of Jalopnik.
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It wasn’t just a reduction of traffic, but the massive halting of most industrial factories world wide. Even though air cleared up around the globe, it made practically no impact on long-term CO2 levels yet. I’ve been watching several environmental numbers like a hawk because I’m a science nerd and was curious what impact it’d have.
We will have to wait a year for solid numbers to come out. Seasonal swings do throw a curve ball.
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Commission under pressure over circular economy
The ditched Circular Economy package aimed to prevent recyclable materials being landfilled. [Justin Ritchie/Flickr]
EXCLUSIVE: The EU is failing to create a circular economy that boosts resource efficiency and protects the environment, an influential report has found, piling pressure on the European Commission to deliver a strong replacement for the package of waste, incineration, landfill and recycling laws it controversially axed as part of its drive for “better regulation”.
The European Environment State and Outlook 2015 report will inform the next five years of EU policymaking and is written by the European Environment Agency (EEA).
The Circular Economy package of six laws on waste, packaging, landfill, end-of-life vehicles, batteries and accumulators, and electronic equipment waste. was quietly ditched last week after a meeting of the College of Commissioners.
>> Read: Circular Economy package officially dead
Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans, in charge of better regulation, has promised a “more ambitious” version of the bill will be proposed before the end of this year.
Today (3 March), campaigners and Hans Bruyninckx, the EEA’s executive director, said the report put the onus on the Commission to deliver an improved bill.
Bruyninckx told EurActiv, “We have done substantial work that illustrates the vital importance of the circular economy and resource efficiency for well-being and competitiveness, and that focusing on these elements contributes to European competitiveness, job creation and economic performance.”
“So we are looking forward to seeing the strengthened packages,” he added.
>> Read: EEA boss: Juncker plan and Energy Union should drive circular economy
Jeremy Wates, the European Environmental Bureau’s secretary general, said: “This scandal can only be mitigated if the Commission now comes forward with a proposal that is genuinely ambitious”.
That would mean keeping waste targets from the original proposal and adding measures to make products more repairable and longer lasting, he added.
>> Read: EU recycling targets workable and worth it
The dropped Circular Economy package included legally binding targets of 70% recycling for municipal waste by 2030, 80% recycling for packaging, such as glass, paper, metal and plastic by 2030, and a ban on landfilling of all recyclable and biodegradable waste by 2025.
>> Read: EU tables ‘circular economy’ package with zero-landfill goal
Not ambitious enough
The EU has a goal of “living well within the limits of the planet” by 2050 in its 7th Environment Action Programme. But current policy was not ambitious enough to meet that, or other long-term environmental goals, the EEA said in their five-yearly report.
Neither the environmental policies currently in place, nor economic and technology-driven efficiency gains, will be sufficient, the EEA said.
Biodiversity loss and climate change remained major threats. Efficiency improvements were often negated by rising consumption, the research found. Food, energy, housing, transport, finance, health and education systems had to be transformed.
Bruyninckx said EU policies had successfully tackled environmental problems over the years, but massive changes to the systems of production and consumption were needed.
“We will have to fundamentally rethink how we live on this planet with nine to ten billion people, that all have an equal right to a decent life,” he told EurActiv. “It is quite clear that we cannot continue in our linear model of getting resources out of the ground and in the end, throwing them away”.
The report will be presented by the EEA boss and European Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Karmenu Vella, in Brussels today (3 March).
Circular economy findings
The notion of the “circular economy” where nothing is wasted is central to EU efforts to boost resource efficiency, the report said.
Waste management had improved, but “Europe remains far from a circular economy”, it added.
The EU has introduced waste policies and targets since the 1990s. They included measures for specific types of waste, moving towards the broader Waste Framework Directive.
The directive, a 2008 precursor to the Circular Economy package, works on the basis of a waste hierarchy. The hierarchy prioritises prevention, followed by preparation for reuse, recycling, recovery and finally disposal as the least desirable option.
According to the report, European trends in waste management were largely positive. Per capita waste generation (excluding mineral waste) across the EU dropped by 7% to 1,817 kg per person, between 2004-2012. Municipal waste declined by 4%, to 481 kg per capita, over the same period.
Between 2004 and 2012, the EU-28, Iceland and Norway reduced wasted in landfills from 31% of total waste generated to 22% (excluding mineral, combustion, animal and vegetable wastes).
This was partly due to increased recycling rates of municipal waste, from 28% in 2004 to 36% in 2012. Reduced methane emissions from landfill and avoided emissions through recycling also contributed to a drop in greenhouse gas emissions.
But, the report said, waste generation remained substantial and policy target performance was mixed. Many EU members would have to make “an extraordinary effort” to hit the EU target of 50% recycling of municipal waste streams by 2020.
“Waste management will need to change radically in order to phase out completely the landfilling of recyclable or recoverable waste,” the report said.
Package withdrawn
Drawn up under the last Barroso Commission, the package was the highest profile pending bill to be dropped, as part of the Juncker administration’s drive for “better regulation”.
It was intended to increase recycling levels and tighten rules on incineration and landfill. Barroso’s administration claimed it would create €600 billion net savings, two million jobs and deliver 1% GDP growth.
EU environment ministers, MEPs and campaigners argued strongly against the decision. Dropping it would cause unnecessary delays and send the wrong message, they said.
>> Read: Waste laws will be binned, despite protests
>> Read: Ministers want Circular Economy saved but back Commission’s better regulation push
The withdrawal is even more controversial as a business organisation had lobbied for the package to be killed off.
>> Read: Gender equality and environment laws on business lobby hit list
Documents still not public but yesterday @EU_Commission quietly axed #circulareconomy plans http://t.co/2mwQoFlUFn pic.twitter.com/0wmWrS0iXx
— Friends of the Earth (@foeeurope) February 26, 2015
Timmermans has asked Green MEPs to trust him over the decision. He said the new bill would include laws to prevent waste being created in the first place. This can be achieved by “completing the circle”. This would involve legislating to encourage the use of materials that create less waste and are easy to recycle, he said.
>> Read: Let me prove you wrong on Circular Economy, Timmermans tells Greens
>> Read: Circular Economy package to be ditched and re-tabled
>>Read: Story on EurActiv
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REVIEW: Gringo [2018]
Rating: 5 out of 10.
Rating: R | Runtime: 110 minutes
Release Date: March 9th, 2018 (USA)
Studio: Amazon Studios / STX Entertainment
Director(s): Nash Edgerton
Writer(s): Anthony Tambakis and Matthew Stone / Matthew Stone (story)
Why’s everyone talking about gorillas all of a sudden?
You wouldn’t be wrong to view the trailer for Gringo and think, “I’ve seen this before.” You wouldn’t be wrong to assume it gave away the entire plot either—mild-mannered American is used by his ruthless bosses to perform a dangerous job they refuse to attempt and is kidnapped by a Mexican cartel for his trouble. Will he survive the chaos? Will his bosses save him or extricate themselves from blame? Or will the hapless victim of an increasingly escalating ordeal somehow luck into an escape with or without an avenue towards revenge upon those who’ve done him so very wrong? It’s the same generic potential outcomes every movie with a similar conceit contains and yet the answer isn’t what will keep you sitting until the end.
Matthew Stone and Anthony Tambakis‘ script is less interested in Harold Soyinka’s (David Oyelowo) fate than the journey towards it. While the trailer does provide the blueprint of the whole, it actually masks just how much of what it shows is independent from the rest beyond sharing Harold as a main target. Yes he’s sent to Mexico and yes the cartel has its sights on capturing him, but there’s a good hour and a half in between both of those truths. Director Nash Edgerton isn’t therefore handling a traditionally linear propulsion that follows this one man. He’s instead juggling a tapestry of mini adventures that will inevitably converge upon Harold through coincidental run-ins and connections seeking to bottle an otherwise quickly sprawling cast list of selfishly shady figures.
Are the over-the-top antics in play worth your time? Since the endgame is such an afterthought as far as entertainment value goes, the film succeeds or fails with its middle act’s insanity. You’re either going to enjoy Harold’s put-upon nice guy shtick as his entire life unravels before his eyes or he’ll grate on your patience. You’re either going to embrace the absurdity of his bosses’ (Joel Edgerton‘s Richard Rusk and Charlize Theron‘s Elaine Markinson) actions as hilarity or recognize that their stereotypical immoral characters would feel more at home in a caricature farce like Dodgeball than the black comedy Gringo strives so hard to be. One minute a grown man is screaming because of a needle and the next has someone bluntly shot dead in the head.
I was with it for the most part because I enjoy a romp that’s built from innumerable double-crosses and ulterior motives. Whether it’s Miles (Harry Treadaway) talking his cloyingly innocent girlfriend Sunny (Amanda Seyfried) into accompanying him on a risky criminal endeavor sold as vacation or Richard’s brother Mitch (Sharlto Copley) reconciling his old mercenary past with his new altruistic Peace Corps motivations when weighing Harold’s life against a lucrative payday, you know the potential for things to go bad always outweigh the alternative. Stone and Tambakis have crafted their story to intentionally fall apart at the seams, leaning heavily on the comedy through fear those with their lives in danger facilitate. The film is therefore cruel to its characters because its laughter requires it.
My issues stem from its desire to want belly laughs too. My problem isn’t that doing so risks subverting the severity of the situation, but the mean way in which they achieve it. I’m talking Theron’s mockingly derisive Helen Keller impression that comes out of nowhere and a completely wasted Thandie Newton as Harold’s wife Bonnie being used as a prop at best and wearer of a fat suit at worst. It’s one thing to want us to laugh at Harold’s fish-out-of-water patsy, but another to believe handicaps are inherently funny enough to sprinkle in for color. Gringo oversells its “bad people living large by doing bad things before ultimately walking towards karmic retribution” messaging so that the film eventually becomes meaner than the characters within.
The “fun” suddenly begins to fall flat either through repetition or the dwindling number of people we can truly root for. Endearing characters are generally introduced only to turn self-serving enough to be expendable to the plot’s ambitions of confronting Harold with a choice between listening to his heart (the voice of his father saying “Do the right thing”) and his id. I’ll give the film credit because even when it needs Harold to do the “wrong” thing, the ripples of his charity and empathy from the beginning offset any potential ramifications. Every action—no matter how small or seemingly insignificantly—means something by the end because no one onscreen is who he/she appears to be. Friends can always be found in unlikely places.
Sadly there are simply too many characters involved. The subplot with Miles and Sunny is the definition of excess as its only payoff is giving Harold another “pure” character to remind him that the world wasn’t completely lost. The more pieces there are, the “cuter” the screenwriters must be to fit them together. Coincidences become ham-fisted excuses to remind the audience of characters’ existence rather than add anything to the story. When one proves expendable due to running his/her course, they disappear until the ending can manufacture one last chuckle in bringing them back. Sometimes you can’t help but feel the wheels turning whenever Harold is off-screen because Stone and Tambakis have to figure out a way to circle back to him no matter how convenient.
Harold becomes a secondary character at times as a result. This is a shame because he is the only person in play that we can latch onto as more than a cartoon. So while we may laugh at the others independent of their connection to him, those sequences always feel superfluous because they aren’t all concerned for him. Oftentimes characters are still engaged in subplots that already served their purpose. Is the endgame of Theron’s Elaine worth the extra time spent setting it up at the expense of sacrificing our interest in Harold? No. Everyone but him is objectively bad and reinforcing this fact only wastes time. Watching bad people be bad gets tiring, especially when there’s someone like Oyelowo transcending the material to lend complexity and uncertainty.
[1] David Oyelowo stars in GRINGO
[2] David Oyelowo, Charlize Theron and Joel Edgerton star in GRINGO
[3] David Oyelowo and Sharlto Copley star in Gringo
Action/Adventure, Comedy, Film ReviewsAmanda Seyfried, Anthony Tambakis, Charlize Theron, David Oyelowo, Gringo, Harry Treadaway, Joel Edgerton, Matthew Stone, Nash Edgerton, Sharlto Copley, Thandie Newton
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Protective Effect of Mangosteen Pericarp Extract Cream Against UVB-Induced Erythema
by Khairuddin Djawad, MD, PhD; Siswanto Wahab, MD, PhD; Olivia Wibisono, MD; Christina Avanti, PhD; Astridani R. Putranti, PhD; Agussalim Bukhari, MD, PhD; and Ilham J. Patellongi, MD, PhD
Drs. Djawad, Wahab, Wibisono, Bukhari, and Patellongi are with Faculty of Medicine at Hasanuddin University in Makassar, Indonesia. Drs. Djawad and Wibisono are also with the Dr. Wahidin Sudirohusodo Hospital in Makassar, Indonesia. Drs. Avanti and Putranti are with the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Surabaya (UBAYA), in Surabaya, Indonesia.
J Clin Aesthet Dermatol. 2020;13(10):E59–E65
FUNDING: No funding was provided for this study.
DISCLOSURES: The authors have no conflicts of interest relevant to the content of this study.
Abstract: Background. Exposing the skin to ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation triggers inflammation, with erythema as the most prominent acute clinical manifestation. Xanthones, secondary metabolites of the mangosteen pericarp, have been shown to possess anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. With the increasing evidence of harmful effects of chemical sunscreens to marine organisms, it is necessary to develop environmentally friendly sunscreen options.
Objective. We sought to assess the protective effect of a nano-liposomal mangosteen pericarp extract (MPE) cream against UVB-induced erythema.
Methods. Thirty-one healthy subjects with Fitzpatrick Skin Types III or IV were enrolled.Six sites on the back of each volunteer were used for testing; Sites 1 to 4 were exposed to UVB at a dosage of two minimal erythema dose. Before UVB exposure, the test materials, including 5%, 10%, or 20% MPE cream, or a base cream without MPE, were applied to each site. Sites 5 and 6 served as the positive (UVB only, no treatment) and negative (no treatment, no UVB) control groups. The lightness index (?L*) and erythema index (?a*) were assessed before and 24 hours after treatment using Chromameter.
Results. On all treated sites, there were only slight decrease of ?L* and increase of ?a*. The ?L* of the 5%, 10%, and 20% cream groups were 1.65, -0.4, and 0.01, respectively, which were significantly different from UVB group (4.53). The ?a* of the 5%, 10%, and 20% cream (1.03, -0.07; 0.16, respectively) was significantly different from the base cream (2.03) and UVB group (5.585).
Conclusion. The 10% and 20% nano-liposomal cream of MPE appeared to exert protective effects against UVB-induced erythema on human skin.
Keywords: Chromameter, erythema, mangosteen pericarp extract, sunscreen, ultraviolet B
The skin occupies a strategic location between the harmful external environment and the biochemically active internal environment. Ultraviolet (UV) radiation is an external environmental factor that can harm the skin. Excessive sun exposure can cause erythema, edema, sunburn, hyperplasia, premature aging, melanoma, and non-melanoma skin malignancies.1 Erythema is the most visually acute prominent aspect of the sunburn response. The inflammatory process manifests as erythema and edema due to increased vasodilation and vascular permeability.2 Erythema appears in a diphasic pattern, usually seen 3 to 5 hours after exposure, then reaches maximum intensity after 12 to 24 hours and generally subsides within 72 hours. Various biochemical processes at the cellular level occur, including increased blood flow, endothelial cell activation, and increased levels of inflammatory mediators.3 The absorbed UVB radiation activates the enzyme phospholipase and releases arachidonic acid from cell membrane phospholipids. Arachidonic acid is then converted to prostaglandin (PGE) and 12-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (12-HETE) by the enzymes cyclooxygenase (COX) and lipoxygenase (LOX).2 UVB exposure triggers inflammation through direct induction of epidermal keratinocytes to produce proinflammatory cytokines, including TNF-?, IL-1?, and COX-2.4
Mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana L.), is mainly cultivated in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand.5 Secondary metabolites of mangosteen pericarp, called xanthones, have broad pharmacological properties, including anti-inflammatory, antineoplastic, antioxidant, antiproliferation, anticancer, antimalarial, antibacterial, antiobesity, hepatoprotective, neuroprotective, and cardioprotective.6,7 A total of 68 organic xanthone compounds have been isolated from all parts of the mangosteen.8 The highest xanthones concentration, reaching 78, has been isolated from the mangosteen pericarp, namely ?-mangostin.9,10 Studies have shown ?-mangostin can inhibit the production of inflammatory mediators and decrease levels of mRNA expression from TNF-?, IL-1?, and IL-6.4 Also, MPE has been shown to inhibit COX enzymes in the arachidonic acid pathway.11
Although current evidence suggests that the use of sunscreens does not yield any adverse health effects, the potentially harmful environmental effects of sunscreen agents are still of concern. Currently, there are issued statements in certain areas of the United States prohibiting sunscreens containing oxybenzone and octinoxate, since these materials have been shown to have a fatal impact on the maintenance of coral reefs, which play an important role in supporting the preservation of fish resources and marine organisms.12 Therefore, it is necessary to develop safer natural ingredients as sunscreen agents, such as from plant extracts that contain photoprotective and antioxidant effects.13
This double-blind, randomized, controlled study was designed to clinically assess the protective effect of a nano-liposomal MPE cream against UVB-induced erythema on human skin.
Subjects. Thirty-one healthy subjects with Fitzpatrick Skin Types III or IV were enrolled in the study. All participants followed the study’s specific protocol and signed an informed consent form. The subjects were 20 to 45 years of age with no history of photodermatosis or skin cancer and were not taking any photosensitizing or anti-inflammatory medications. This study complied with the ethical guidelines and was approved by the Health Research Ethics Commission Committee of Hasanuddin University (process No. 681/UN4.6.4.5.31/PP36/2019).
Materials. Mangosteen pericarp liquid extract was made at the laboratory of Phytochemistry and Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy at Hasanuddin University. The MPE creams were prepared at the Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Surabaya (UBAYA), based on the ingredients listed in Table 1. Four formulas were created using the same cream base; the first formula comprised the cream base without active ingredients, the second formula contained 5% mangosteen pericarp liquid extract, the third formula contained 10% mangosteen pericarp liquid extract, and the fourth formula contained 20% mangosteen pericarp liquid extract.
Preparation of skin cream. The cream was formulated by melting the oil phase (cetyl alcohol, sorbitan stearate, Cetearyl alcohol, isopropyl myristate, paraffin liquidum, stearic acid) at 65 °C. The water phase (aqua, sorbitol, methylparaben, sorbic aciwd, and TEA) was heated at 65 °C. Then, the water phase was put into the oil phase and stirred with Ultraturrax at a speed of 11.000rpm for three minutes, then the stirring speed was reduced to 3.000rpm and stirred for another five minutes. Stirring was continued for five minutes, then dimethicone and titanium dioxide were added, then stirring continued for five minutes to form a homogeneous emulsion. MPE was dissolved in 96 ethanol in a mortar, then added PEG-40 HCO, crushed and stirred until a homogeneous mixture was formed. The extract mixture was then put into the emulsion while still stirring at 3.000rpm for three minutes, then cooled while still stirring.
Accelerated stability study. To obtain stability data of the MPE cream at all formulas, an accelerated stability study was conducted for six months using the climatic chamber with a temperature of 25 to 28 °C and relative humidity of 60 to 70 percent. Parameters that were measured include organoleptics, pH, and viscosity. Data were recorded every month.
Solar simulator. Psora-Comb Dermalight 80 (Dr. K. Honle GmbH, Munich, Germany) was used as a UVB emitting source. It emits a continuous spectrum of UVB radiation, with peaks of 313nm, placed at a fixed distance of 3cm using its comb attachment.
Determination of the Minimal Erythema Dose (MED). Once the skin type was defined using Chromameter CR-400 (Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo, Japan) and Individual Typology Angle (ITA), the determination of the MED was performed at the first visit. Daavlin MED dose patch (Daavlin Company; Bryan, Ohio) was used on the back of each, which comprises six 1.9×1.9 cm squares (3.61 cm2 area). The MED is defined as the lowest dose that induces erythema in an individual.14 The MED is determined by exposing six squares to gradually increasing amounts of UVB radiation (200, 400, 600, 800, 1000, 1200mJ/cm2) and examining the UV-exposed areas 24 hours later.15 The area with the least erythema observed by the investigators is considered the MED subjectively, while objectively we used a 2.5-point difference in the a* value before and after irradiation to indicate a significant difference in erythema.16 Thus, in this study, the determination of the MED was performed subjectively and objectively.
Treatment protocol. This study was conducted in our dermatology and venereology outpatient clinic in September 2019. Before each irradiation, the following materials were applied to sites 1 to 4, respectively: 5% MPE cream, 10% MPE cream, 20% MPE cream, and cream base. No product was applied to Site 5, which served as the positive control, and neither UVB nor MPE cream was applied to Site 6, which served as the negative control. A standardized dose of 2.77mg/cm2 MPE cream was calculated, in which 10mg of MPE cream was applied to each site. All test product applications were performed by other volunteers using latex gloves to maintain the double-blind study. The MPE cream was applied and left for 20 minutes before irradiation. A summary of the treatment sites is given in Table 2.
We chose to evaluate the creams on the back of each participant, as it proved to be the test site with the smallest fluctuations of photometric measurements.17 Six squares of the Daavlin MED dose patch was used on the back of each subject with designation as Sites 1 to 6. All subjects received the equivalent of 2 MED in each site. This dose is considered sufficient to induce defined erythema that can be separated from the background readings of untreated.17,18 Irradiation was performed at the second visit, then chromameter measurements were performed after 24 hours to measure the erythema and lightness index.
Chromameter measurement. Before and 24 hours after exposure to UVB, the L* and a* values on the test sites were measured using a Chromameter CR-400 (Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo, Japan). The values were measured three times on each test site, and the mean values were determined. The differences (?) in median L* and a* values before and 24 hours after irradiation were calculated. Based on the Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage (CIE) system, the output values are expressed in three dimensions (L*, a*, b*), where a* represents erythema and L* is to assess lightness. The erythema index (?a*) and lightness index (?L*) was assessed by a difference (?) in baseline and 24 hours after treatment.
Statistical analysis. The data were analyzed using SPSS 25.0 software (SPSS Inc., Chicago, Illinois). Nonparametric statistical methods (Kruskal Wallis and Mann-Whitney test) were used with P-value <0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Cream stability. A difference in the pH of the three creams is caused by the differences in extract concentration. The pH of the cream decreases as the concentration of the MPE increases. Over a period of six months in storage, no significant pH differences were observed in each of the creams. Likewise, the cream viscosity did not show a significant difference over six months of storage (Figure 1). Changes in viscosity are also influenced by differences in extract concentration. The lowest viscosity was observed in the 10 percent MPE cream and the highest was observed in the five percent MPE cream. The pH and viscosity in the 5 percent, 10 percent, and 20 percent MPE creams were found to be stable while in storage for six months in a climatic chamber at 25 to 28 °C and a relative humidity of 60 to 70 percent.
Clinical photographs. After UVB irradiation, some irradiated sites developed some degrees of erythema, as shown in Figure 2. Obvious erythema was seen on Site 5 (UVB) and Site 4 (cream base + UVB), suggesting the cream base alone provided minimal protection from UVB.
The erythema index. All subjects showed significant differences in the erythema index in the UVB and no treatment group (Figure 3). This is consistent with a statistically significant P-value (p<0.05) between both treatment groups with ?a* values of 5.585 and -0.15, respectively (Table 3). Based on this observation, 2 MED exposure to UVB was shown to cause significant erythema. Overall, the administration of MPE cream was found to reduce the erythema index. This is consistent with the statistically significant difference in the erythema index among the six treatment groups (p<0.05). The erythema index (?a*) of the 5%, 10%, 20% cream (1,03; -0,07; 0,16) differed significantly (p<0.05) to base cream (2.03) and to UVB group (5.585). However, the erythema index of the base cream was also significantly different from the UVB group (p<0.05), indicating a minimal protective effect against UVB. Based on the concentration ratio, the lowest erythema index was found in the 10% cream group followed by the 20% cream group and the 5% cream group. Statistical data supports the superiority of the 10% and 20% creams over the 5% cream, whereas the 10% and 20% creams did not differ significantly (p=0.198). The 10% cream group and the 20% cream group were not significantly different when compared to the no treatment group, with values of ?a* -0.07 (p=1.000) and 0.16 (p=0.210), respectively. This finding indicates that the 10% cream and 20% cream exhibit a substantial protective effect against UVB-induced erythema equivalent to the no treatment group.
The lightness index. The lightness index in the UVB and no treatment group showed a significant difference (p<0.05) as shown in Table 4, with each L* value of 4.53 and -0.32, respectively, demonstrating 2 MED UVB exposure can significantly influence the lightness of the skin’s color (Figure 4). Overall, the administration of MPE cream was found to reduce the lightness index (?L*). This is consistent with the statistically significant difference between the six treatment groups (p<0.05). The lightness index of the 5%, 10%, and 20% cream groups differ significantly to UVB group (p<0.05), with each value ?L* 1.65; -0.4; 0.01, respectively. Moreover, the 10% and 20% cream groups were significantly different from base creams (p<0.05), but not 5% cream (p=0.314). These findings indicate that the base cream also exerts some protective effect against UVB-induced erythema. Although the 10% and 20% cream groups showed better protection, the base cream and the 5% cream group showed a similar protective effect. Based on three concentrations, the 10% cream was found to be more superior, followed by the 20% cream and the 5% cream group, though the 10% cream and the 20% cream were not significantly different (p=0.451). When compared to the no treatment group, the 10% and 20% creams did not differ significantly, with a P-value of 0.746 and 0.410, respectively. These findings exhibit the protective ability of MPE cream that was found to be quite similar to the no treatment group based on the lightness index evaluation.
The Fitzpatrick Skin Type I to VI is the most useful clinical scale in assessing skin sensitivity to UV radiation, with lesser skin types more susceptible to sunburn and at a higher risk of developing skin cancer.19 This study was conducted on 31 subjects with Fitzpatrick Skin Types III and IV, which constitute the majority of the skin color of the Indonesian population. The sensitivity of an individual’s skin to UV radiation can be measured by visual assessment of a MED. In general, MED increases with skin type.20 Most studies have used twice the MED to induce defined erythema.17,18
The peak intensity of UVB radiation occurring during the day can have an acute impact on human skin, leading to edema, erythema, or sunburn before pigmentation begins.21 In this study, the erythema index and skin lightness index were observed by assessing the difference in the a* value and the L* value at the baseline to 12 hours post-UVB exposure. The higher a* value indicates the increasingly erythematous state of the skin, while the higher L* value indicates brighter skin.
Erythema response is influenced by the strength of the energy exposure and the presence or absence of protection. Erythema is usually seen 3 to 5 hours after UVB exposure and reaches maximum intensity 12 to 24 hours after exposure. Various biochemical courses at the cellular level occur as an initial response of the skin to UV radiation, which includes vasodilation of blood vessels, activation of endothelial cells, and increased levels of inflammatory mediators.3,22
Excessive exposure to UVB radiation in the skin increases COX-2 protein receptors and the formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which triggers the expression of MMP1 that degrades collagen.23 UVB exposure also results in massive neutrophil infiltration, in which the neutrophil will produce cytokines and chemokines that also activate MMP.24 Erythema results from rapid degranulation of mast cells followed by TNF-? release and vasodilation of blood vessels.22 Therefore, the inflammatory process and erythema can be limited by reducing the formation of ROS, mast cells, and neutrophils or other inflammatory mediators.25
The biochemical composition of MPE has been reported to contain flavonoids, which play an important role in counteracting free radicals, and xanthones, which have various antibacterial, antifungal, and anti-inflammatory properties.26 Of all the xanthones that have been identified, ?-mangostin has the highest level of xanthones isolated from mangosteen pericarp.9,10
High antioxidant activity on mangosteen pericarp xanthones has been reported by various studies. Yoshikawa et al27 found that methanol extract from mangosteen pericarp showed DPPH radical scavenging activity. Leong and Shui28 compared the total antioxidant capacity using ABTS and DPPH tests, which describe a high antioxidant activity of mangosteen extract. In a similar study, Garcia et al29 studied antioxidant capacity through the measurement of lipoperoxidation and hydroxyl radical scavenging activity, which reported that MPE had the highest antioxidant activity. Moongkarndi et al30 also reported mangosteen extract significantly reduced intracellular ROS production through measurement of 2.7-DCFH-DA. Jung et al31 also reported a high capacity of scavenging free radicals by ?-mangostin, gartanin, ?-mangostin, garcinone B, garcimangone B, 1-isomangostin and garcinone D. Also, a study by Chomnawang et al32 measured antioxidant activity by inhibiting DPPH radical formation, which showed that mangosteen ethanol extract had significant antioxidant activity. Data from these various studies show the high antioxidant activity of MPE.7
In addition to being an antioxidant, various studies have also reported the role of ?-mangostin in inhibiting inflammatory mediators.33 Studies show that ?-mangostin can lower the expression of inflammatory mediators induced by lipopolysaccharides such as TNF-? and IL-6.34,35 Inhibition of activation of MAPK, NF-?B, AP-1 and diminishing of pro-inflammatory cytokine gene expression was also observed in other studies of ?-mangostin treatment.36,37 Another study examined the inhibitory effect of ?-mangostin on the secretion of pro-inflammatory mediators, where ?-mangostin inhibits the secretion of IL-8 and TNF-?.33 Other studies also evaluate the inhibition of ?- and ?-mangostin against NO and PGE2.38,39 This is consistent with other studies that reported a dose-dependent ?-mangostin inhibiting PGE2 release.40 Similar studies report suppression of histamine release by ?-, ?- and ?-mangostin which is observed in rat basophilic leukemia cells.41 This effect is associated with decreased COX-2 mRNA and protein expression, and activation of NF-?B. Other studies observed intraperitoneal and oral administration of ?-mangostin, 1-isomangostin, or triacetate mangostin and reported an anti-inflammatory activity in several mouse inflammatory models.42 The in-vivo anti-inflammatory activity of ?-mangostin has been confirmed in edema models of the soles of rat feet.38,43 Administration of ? and ?-mangostin orally also shows anti-inflammatory activity in ovalbumin-induced asthma (OVA) mice.44 The topical administration of MPE gel has been reported to reduce periodontal inflammation.45 Data from these studies show the anti-inflammatory roles of MPE through its bioactive content.
Antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects are the main mechanism of the photoprotective activity of herbal extracts. Phenolic and flavonoid organic compounds are the main source of natural antioxidant compounds that can provide oxidative protection against free radicals including ROS. In UV-damaged skin, where ROS is formed, ROS reacts negatively with DNA, protein, and fatty acids which can induce carcinogenic processes and inflammatory responses.46
Several in-vitro studies have reported a fraction of the MPE compound having UV filter ability. This is based on a spectrophotometric assessment of the ability of these compounds to absorb light.46 A study in Sri Lanka reported in-vitro research on the sunscreen activity of MPE with the highest concentration in the methanol fraction reaching an SPF value of 33.80.47 This shows that the observed solar filtering effect is natural, intrinsic and has high potential to be developed into an inexpensive and efficacious and environmentally friendly sunscreen. Two other studies from Indonesia also reported the same thing. The first study reported the results of in-vitro testing of dichloromethane and butanol fractions of MPE that has a high UV-protection ability by reaching an SPF value >50.48 The second study reported the ethanol fraction of MPE showed sunscreen activity that reached an SPF value >30 at a concentration of 100ppm.49
In this study, the base cream group was found to protect against erythema and affect skin brightness 12 hours after UVB exposure. The base cream used contains titanium dioxide (TiO?), which is a snow-white inorganic filter compound that is insoluble in water. TiO?, with a size of more than 200nm, can protect the skin physically from all UV wavelengths.50 However, the 10% and 20% MPE cream demonstrate a higher protective effect against UVB and was statistically significant. This study involved subjects with limited skin types; hence, additional research in other skin types would be beneficial in understanding the efficacy and tolerability.
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Leong L, Shui G. An investigation of antioxidant capacity of fruits in Singapore markets. Food Chem. 2002;76(1):69–75.
Garcia VV, Magpantay TO, Escobin LD. Antioxidant potential of selected Philippine vegetables and fruits. Philippine Agricultural Scientist. 2005;88(1):78.
Moongkarndi P, Kosem N, Luanratana O, et al. Antiproliferative activity of Thai medicinal plant extracts on human breast adenocarcinoma cell line. Fitoterapia. 2004;75(3-4):375–377.
Jung H-A, Su B-N, Keller WJ, Mehta RG, Kinghorn AD. Antioxidant xanthones from the pericarp of Garcinia mangostana (Mangosteen). J Agric Food Chem. 2006;54(6):2077–2082.
Chomnawang MT, Surassmo S, Nukoolkarn VS, Gritsanapan W. Effect of Garcinia mangostana on inflammation caused by Propionibacterium acnes. Fitoterapia. 2007;78(6):401–408.
Gutierrez-Orozco F, Chitchumroonchokchai C, Lesinski GB, et al. ?-Mangostin: anti-inflammatory activity and metabolism by human cells. J Agric Food Chem. 2013;61(16):3891–3900.
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Property talk:P1058
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ERA Journal ID
identifier for academic journals
Excellence in Research for Australia (Q5419428)
External identifier
According to this template: creative work (constraint: periodical (Q1092563))
According to statements in the property:
periodical (Q1002697)
When possible, data should only be stored as statements
Allowed values
[1-9]\d{0,11} (numeric string, 1 to 12 digits)
Nature (Q180445) → 17479
Ultrasonics Sonochemistry (Q26197) → 34301
According to this template:
official siteofficial site
published by Excellence in Research for Australia (Q5419428) - w:Excellence in Research for Australia
part of Australian Research Council (Q4824612) - w:Australian Research Council
http://www.arc.gov.au/era/era_2012/archive/era_journal_list.htm
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http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/era/?page=jnamedet12f&eraid=$1
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Australia (Q408) (See 131 others)
Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator (BFI) SNO/CNO (P1250), Textile Connect publication ID (P7110)
Items with the most statements of this property
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Items with the most statements
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Items with the most sitelinks
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Main statement 23,696 >99.9% of uses
Qualifier 2 <0.1% of uses
Reference 1 <0.1% of uses
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Distinct values: this property likely contains a value that is different from all other items. (Help)
Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Known exceptions: Ausgrabungen und Funde (Q778919), Archaeologisches Nachrichtenblatt (Q637127), Nouvelle revue d'Esthetique (Q3345217), Dendrobiology (Q9205931), Chinese Physics B (Q3128474), Professional Ethics (Q7247962), Current Issues in Molecular Biology (Q5195058), Brain Research Protocols (Q16039923), Molecular Brain Research (Q6895939), Anatomy and Embryology (Q1983570), Brain Structure and Function (Q13444883), Cardiovascular Therapeutics (Q1871490), Molecular Informatics (Q3319476), Journal of Plant Research (Q13548562), Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (Q15731314)
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Single value: this property generally contains a single value. (Help)
Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Known exceptions: Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction (Q15746516), Australian Nursing Journal (Q15760170), Arthritis Care and Research (Q15754720), Library Resources and Technical Services (Q15761884), Cahiers d'histoire (Q2933111), Angewandte Chemie (Q538683), International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy, and Materials (Q15745378)
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Format “[1-9]\d{0,11}”: value must be formatted using this pattern (PCRE syntax). (Help)
List of this constraint violations: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1058#Format, hourly updated report, SPARQL, SPARQL (new)
Type “periodical (Q1002697)”: element must contain property “instance of (P31)” with classes “periodical (Q1002697)” or their subclasses (defined using subclass of (P279)). (Help)
Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist.
List of this constraint violations: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1058#type Q1002697, SPARQL, SPARQL (new)
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Item “title (P1476)”: Items with this property should also have “title (P1476)”. (Help)
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Item “ISSN (P236)”: Items with this property should also have “ISSN (P236)”. (Help)
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Issues with the ERA journal listEdit
ISSN 0066-5878 for Arboretum Kórnickie (Q9158890) was included in the same entry as its successor Dendrobiology (Q9205931) in 2010 and 2012 journal lists. The former is not relevant to the collection period of ERA.
ISSN 0004-8127 for Ausgrabungen und Funde (Q778919) was included in the same entry as its successor Archaeologisches Nachrichtenblatt (Q637127) in 2010 and 2012 journal lists. The former is not relevant to the collection period of ERA.
ISSN 0035-2292 for Revue d'Esthetique (Q3428640) was included in the same entry as Nouvelle revue d'Esthetique (Q3345217) in 2010 and 2012 journal lists. There may not be a clear successor relationship between then, as there is a four year gap in publication and a title change. Both journals were active during the ERA 2010 collection period, but only the latter was active during the ERA 2012 collection period.
Three issns of Chinese Physics B (Q3128474) (English language) were included in the same entry as Acta Physica Sinica (Q2200957) (Chinese language) in 2010 and 2012 journal lists. English Wikipedia says that the English language journal published different papers when established in 1992 - whether they are still different content or are now a translation needs to be determined.
ISSN 1063-6579 of Professional Ethics (Q7247962) was included in the same entry as Business and Professional Ethics Journal (Q5001832) in 2010 and 2012 journal lists. The former was merged into the latter in 2004.
Business & Information Systems Engineering (Q127782) and the ERA record combines ISSNs for both German and English editions. (Q15765825 was created to separate them, but has been deleted as this issue has been deferred due to Wikipedia sitelinks)
ISSN 1466-531X of Current Issues in Intestinal Microbiology (Q5195057) was included in the same entry as Current Issues in Molecular Biology (Q5195058) in 2010 and 2012 journal lists. The former was merged into the latter in 2008.
ISSN 1385-299X of Brain Research Protocols (Q16039923) and ISSN 0169-328X of Molecular Brain Research (Q6895939) were included in the same entry as Brain Research (Q4955782) in 2010 and 2012 journal lists. The former were merged into the latter in 2006. Interestingly, Developmental Brain Research (Q15753638) and Cognitive Brain Research (Q15757795) were also merged into Brain Research (Q4955782) as part of the same merge, but were given separate ERA IDs.
ISSN 0044-2232 for Zeitschrift für Anatomie und Entwicklungsgeschichte (Q2183450) and ISSN 0340-2061 of Anatomy and Embryology (Q1983570) were included in the same entry as Brain Structure and Function (Q13444883) in 2010 and 2012 journal lists. Brain Research Protocols (Q16039923) was succeeded by Molecular Brain Research (Q6895939) in 1974, which became Brain Structure and Function (Q13444883) in 2006.
ISSN 0901-9928 on Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology (Q15724438) is for the preceding journal Pharmacology & Toxicology (which doesnt have a separate item yet) - the change occurred in 2003/4.
Cardiovascular Drug Reviews (Q13455172) became Cardiovascular Therapeutics (Q1871490) in 2007/8
QSAR and Combinatorial Science (Q15757021) became Molecular Informatics (Q3319476) in 2010
ISSN 0959-5287 for Medico-Chirurgical Transactions (Q15710150) was included in the same entry as Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (Q6296198) in 2010 journal lists. The former was renamed to the latter in ???.
ISSN 0006-808X for Botanical Magazine (Q13548534) was included in the same entry as Journal of Plant Research (Q13548562) in 2010 and 2012 journal lists. The former stopped publishing in 1993, but the latter which started publishing in 1995 is considered to be the successor.
Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (Q15731314) continued Sida (Q6127425) in 2007.
Multiple values
Angewandte Chemie (Q538683) ERA ID 41445 appears only in the 2010 list, for the German edition, which was imported as Angewandte Chemie (Q15756194). In the 2012 list the German and International editions are the same entry.
International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy, and Materials (Q15745378) ERA ID 44796 appears only in the 2010 list. In the 2012 list there is only one entry with the new journal name 'International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy, and Materials'.
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By Mack Veltman Posted on November 2, 2020 December 7, 2020
Obscure Comic Book Superheroes: The Blonde Phantom
Can you imagine a time when people were actually sick to death of superheroes? It’s not a concept that’s too hard to grasp, considering the oversaturation of superhero movies in the market today. Superhero fatigue was a very real thing in the post-war era of 1946, and superheroes were starting to fade from the public’s interest. Several genres, including romance and westerns, were still establishing themselves as major players in comics, and the future of comics was uncertain. Comic book publishers were determined to explore new types of characters and stories, and in an attempt to appeal to female fans of comics, they started introducing a slew of superheroines including the famed Black Canary of DC, Sun Girl, Namora, Miss America, and the subject of this post, the Blonde Phantom.
The Blonde Phantom premiered in Marvel’s All Select Comics #11 in the fall of 1946 which adapted the name The Blonde Phantom in the proceeding issue. The creator of the Blonde Phantom is disputed; Stan Lee and artist Syd Shores are believed to have created the character, but script editior Al Sulman claimed to have created her when he worked for Timely Comics, saying “Wonder Woman was popular, so Stan thought we should have a heroine, too. So I created a character called ‘The Blonde Phantom’, and I wrote those strips myself.”
The Blonde Phantom was Louise Grant, a secretary to private detective Mark Mason, of whom she was enamored with. Determined to protect her boss and help him break cases, she’d pull a Clark Kent by losing her glasses, letting her hair down, and donning a black domino mask complete with a sexy slit-leg red evening gown and high heels. Wielding a .45-caliber pistol, the Blonde Phantom near perfectly emulated the feel of a neo-noir heroine–sexy, brave and bold. She was trained in martial arts and highly athletic, and in a twist on the Superman/Lois Lane relationship, her boss Mason fell deeply in love with her while remaining seemingly oblivious to Louise Grant’s affections. Despite being hailed as a crack detective, Mason never discovered the Blonde Phantom’s identity. Her rogues gallery consisted of ordinary criminals, scheming femme fatales, Stillface–a thug who’s maimed face was rebuilt with plaster, Baron Frankenstein, Carlo the Killer and a group of stage magician criminals called the Mad Magicians. The Blonde Phantom’s adventures only lasted two years, but she had several adventures with Sun Girl and Namora in their respective comic book series.
Related: The Complete History of Earthworm Jim
By the modern age of comics in the late eighties, Louise Grant was reintroduced and left crimefighting to marry Mark Mason, giving birth to two children, daughter Wanda and son Earl. Following Mason’s death, she began working as a legal secretary alongside district attorney Blake Tower and Jennifer Walters in the 1989-1994 comic series, The Sensational She-Hulk. Louise spent the series as a civilian, but she was roped into several of She-Hulk’s adventures, including one to outer space. Her daughter eventually took up after her mother and became the Phantom Blonde.
Sexy, brave and one hell of a sharpshooter, it’s a shame the Blonde Phantom faded into obscurity, even with her adventures alongside She-Hulk. Do you think we’ll ever see her character again? Let me know in the comments what obscure comic book character you’d like me to cover next and as always, stay nerdy!
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Film Festival: Indian cinema
The Hindie Wave
A new brand of Indian cinema makes its mark at the Toronto fest
By Aseem Chhabra
Mohd. Jaffer/Snaps India
Aseem Chhabra September 27, 2010 00:00 IST The Hindie Wave
In the annals of Indian cinema, 2010 could well go down as the year in which Aamir Khan courted the arty film festival circuit with as much commitment and dedication as he does the material world of the box office. He will be remembered not for the mega success of 3 Idiots, released last year, but for the two ‘indies’ he produced and promoted with characteristic passion. Anusha Rizvi’s Peepli [Live] opened at the Sundance Film Festival, and later travelled to Berlin and several other events, before having a successful run at the theatres last month. Last week, Aamir was back at the 35th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), promoting his new home production Dhobi Ghat, written and directed by his wife Kiran Rao. He was joined by Kiran and actors Prateik Babbar, Monica Dogra and Kriti Malhotra at the film’s sold-out world premiere at the 1,560-seat Elgin Theatre.
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The Bold & The Beautiful
The Young & The Restless
Michael Fairman TV
Daytime Emmy Telecast up in ratings from previous two years in households!
Photo Credit: JPI Studios
Last night’s Daytime Emmys two-hour telecast averaged 5.6 million viewers and a 1.1 rating/3 share in adults 18-49, according to preliminary data released Monday by Nielsen Media Research. According to the Live Feed section of The Hollywood Reporter, “ That was up 2.9 million viewers and 83% higher than last year’s 0.6/2 adults 18-49 rating. Last year’s Daytime Emmys aired on Aug. 30, also a Sunday night, but on the lower rated network, The CW.
But it also could be the lowest rated major-network telecast in the adults 18-49 demographic, down 8% from 2008’s 1.2/4 when it was on ABC. This year’s telecast was up, however, 4% in viewers. ABC’s Daytime Emmys telecast aired Friday, June 20, 2008.”
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I can’t imagine how that could be possible except that the CW doesn’t have as large an audience. This was the worse Daytime Emmy’s EVER!!! A big Vegas infomercial with a little daytime thrown in to justify the title of the show. No red carpet, rushed and confused presenters, no Emmy reels, no shots of the actors/nominees as their names were called, 30 second acceptance speeches and no memorial. What the heck does The Blue Man Group, David Letterman, The Lion King or Don Rickles have to do with daytime? A total disappointment!!!
I totally agree. That was a terrible show. The people that put that show together should be embarrassed, It was like the awards were a nuisance that they wanted to get through as quickly as possible, so they would have enough time for the “real” entertainment. And that so-called “tribute” to ATWT was an absolute disgrace.
Stop your bitching and be glad you got a daytime emmy show.
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TONIGHT: Michael Fairman 60th Birthday Livestream Featuring Daytime Drama Favorites To Benefit SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Covid-19 Relief Fund
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DAYS Mike Manning On Role in Film ‘Son of the South’: “I Hope it Strengthens the Dialogue Our Country is Currently Having About the Fight for Equality on All Fronts”
Days of our Lives Mike Manning (Charlie) has been one busy actor; not only appearing on the NBC daytime drama series and in the digital drama series, The Bay, but also in the new film Son of the South.
The film will be released on February 5th and was executive produced by Oscar-winning director, Spike Lee. In story, Son of the South is about the grandson of a Klansman who comes of age in the deep south and eventually joins the Civil Rights Movement. The film is based on Bob Zellner’s autobiography “The Wrong Side of Murder Creek.”
Manning plays the role of Townsend Ellis, and the actor took to his Twitter account on Monday, during Martin Luther King Day, to let his fans know to be on the lookout for the film and why it is such an important piece for our time.
Mike expressed: ” I think #MLKDay is a good day to tell you “Son of The South” will be out Feb. 5th. I hope it strengthens the dialogue our country is currently having about the fight for equality on all fronts. Exec produced by Oscar-winner Spike Lee. Proud of this one.@son_movie”
You can check out a trailer for Son of the South below, along with Manning’s tweet.
So, have you been enjoying Mike’s work on DAYS? What do you think of his message sent out yesterday on these important moments of our time? Share your thoughts via the comment section,
I think #MLKDay is a good day to tell you “Son of The South” will be out Feb. 5th. I hope it strengthens the dialogue our country is currently having about the fight for equality on all fronts. Exec produced by Oscar-winner Spike Lee. Proud of this one. 🙏🏼 @son_movie pic.twitter.com/7Vsih0DfBi
— Mike Manning (@mikecmanning) January 18, 2021
TONIGHT: DAYS Lamon Archey on CW’s ‘All American’
Monday night, January 18th, Days of our Lives, Lamon Archey (Eli Grant) returns to the CW’s All American (8 p.m. ET) in his recurring role of Superintendent D’Angelo Carter. Archey, first appeared on the prime time series, back on the season two finale.
In a promo teasing tonight’s episode it says, “Grace won’t let him get to her that easily.”
Karimah Westbrook stars in the series. Will sparks ignite between Grace and D’Angelo?
Check out the tease for tonight’s All American below.
Then let us know if you are looking forward to seeing Lamon in his primetime role via the comment section.
Grace won’t let him get to her that easily. Season 3 premieres tomorrow at 8/7c! Stream next day free only on The CW. #AllAmerican pic.twitter.com/gVSqDbPWO7
— All American (@CWAllAmerican) January 17, 2021
Nominations were unveiled on Monday for the 26th annual Critics Choice Awards in the field of Television.
Netflix Ozark and The Crown scored the most nominations with six each. The award winners will be revealed along with the film categories (those nominations will be released on February 7th) on March 7th in a ceremony on the CW and will be hosted by Taye Diggs.
Some very familiar faces to daytime fans are in the running in some major categories. First, Tom Pelphrey (Ex-Jonathan, GL, Mick, ATWT) who gave one of the most talked about performances of 2020 in Ozark was nominated along with Justin Hartley (Ex-Adam, Y&R, Ex-Passions, Ex-Revenge) for his star-turn in This Is Us, for Best Supporting Actor in a a Drama Series.
Meanwhile on the comedy side, former As the World Turns actor, William Fichtner (Ex-Josh) scored for his work in the CBS’ Mom, in the Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy series category.
This Is Us’, Sterling K. Brown also received a nomination in the Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his work as Randall Pearson, and the series is also in the running for Best Drama Series.
Below are the full nominations in the running with Pelphrey, Hartley and Fichtner. You can check out the complete nominations in all categories here.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Jonathan Banks – Better Call Saul (AMC)
Justin Hartley – This Is Us (NBC)
John Lithgow – Perry Mason (HBO)
Tobias Menzies – The Crown (Netflix)
Tom Pelphrey – Ozark (Netflix)
Michael K. Williams – Lovecraft Country (HBO)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
William Fichtner – Mom (CBS)
Harvey Guillén – What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
Daniel Levy – Schitt’s Creek (Pop)
Alex Newell – Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist (NBC)
Mark Proksch – What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
Andrew Rannells – Black Monday (Showtime)
So will you be rooting for Tom or Justin to take hone the Critics Choice Award in the Supporting Actor Drama category? Let us know via the comment section below.
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Improving the Scenery: Why Duke’s Solar Microgrid is a Very Unusual Energy Project
November 14, 2016 By Elisa Wood 6 Comments
While many energy projects run into opposition for marring pristine vistas, Duke Energy last week proposed a solar microgrid that does the opposite. It improves the view.
A new solar microgrid on Mount Sterling will allow Duke to remove distribution wires and poles
After installing the Mount Sterling solar microgrid, Duke will be able to take down miles of wire and poles running through a remote mountain region in North Carolina’s Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
“The project is expected to improve service reliability and allow approximately four miles of the utility right-of-way surrounding the existing feeder to return to wilderness status, benefiting the customer and millions of park visitors,” said Jonathan Landy, business development manager for Duke Energy Business Services, in testimony before the North Carolina Utilities Commission.
Located atop Mount Sterling, the project runs counter to the typical story line involving energy infrastructure and beautiful scenery. Energy companies usually find themselves on the other side of the aesthetics argument, confronted by residents angry when wind turbines, transmission lines or even sometimes solar farms interrupt the landscape.
In all, the solar microgrid — which will energize a communications tower — will return about 13 acres of wilderness to its natural state.
And yet the project is pretty small. Costing under $1 million, it includes 10 kW DC solar microgrid with a 95 kWh zinc battery for storage.
Aesthetics aside, the solar microgrid is significant for other reasons too.
First, it represents Duke’s first microgrid built for commercial, not research purposes.
Second, Duke is one of a handful of utilities acting as early leaders in microgrids. The power industry is carefully following the actions of these utilities, seeking indicators about how they will influence the microgrid market and what role they will play.
Third, the project represents growing use of microgrids as ‘non-wires alternatives’ to save money. The solar microgrid will avert the need for “costly upgrades” to the feeder, Duke said.
The microgrid also will improve worker safety. Repairing the feeder line is dangerous because it is in hazardous terrain, according to Duke.
And unlike most North American microgrids, the Mt. Sterling project will be off grid. It is Duke’s first regulated investment in a remote, renewable-based microgrid as well as the company’s first DC-based microgrid.
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A solar microgrid similar to the Mount Sterling project planned by Duke
Solar microgrid to save money
Duke did not make available the amount of money it expects to save from the solar microgrid, citing competitive concerns.
“The microgrid market is still maturing, and Duke Energy would like to protect its investment in this emerging technology,” the utility said in the filing.
The cost savings come from eliminating ongoing operation and maintenance, as well as upgrade costs to the existing four-mile 12.47 kV distribution feeder in Haywood County. Duke plans to de-energize and decommission a portion of the feeder once the solar microgrid is up and running. Without the solar microgrid, Duke said it will need to make high-cost equipment upgrades beginning in 2017
The microgrid will include a ground-mounted, fixed-tilt solar installation and General Electric charge controllers regulating power transfer to loads. It also will incorporate a Fluidic Energy zinc-air battery, which Duke selected in a competitive solicitation. Caterpillar recently made an equity investment in Fluidic Energy and the pair are working together on hybrid microgrids for emerging markets.
Duke hopes to complete construction in mid-2017, so asked regulators for an expedited review schedule. It expects the solar microgrid to have a 25-year life span.
“Although the National Park Service (NPS) will not make a decision about issuing a Right-of-Way Agreement or authorizing construction of the solar-powered system until National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) compliance are complete, the park is pleased to be considered for this project, which could support the sustainability initiative,” said Cassius Cash, park superintendent.
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Any idea what the typical power consumption is for the communication tower?
Tom MacMillan says:
Exciting concept for an old man who dealt with power industry for fifty plus years. Will the Trumpster let this continue to grow? Last I heard, He’s bent on putting miners back in the mines. Of course as with most topics, he has no clue.
10kw of solar +95kwhr bsttery “will cost less than $1m” !!
I should jolly well hope so. I have 85kwhrs of battery and 4kw of solar panels at home in a system costing about $10k !!
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Don’t Fall for the Hydrogen Hype
by Eddie Bautista and Lewis Milford
A number of reputable outlets have touted hydrogen as an emissions-free energy source. Even the newspaper of record, The New York Times, recently described hydrogen as a “clean burning fuel.”
In fact, it’s hard to read an energy article without encountering the new hydrogen hype. But these reports get a critical scientific detail wrong.
Hydrogen does produce little more than water when used in fuel cells to make electricity. Fuel cell technology has great promise for use in vehicles and various industrial applications.
But that’s not what the gas and utility industries have in mind. Instead, they intend to blend hydrogen with natural gas and burn it in power plants, just as they have burned oil, coal or gas for decades. …
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Five ways Biden can fight climate change
by Dan Reich
The incoming Biden administration is the first to treat the existential threat of climate change as a top legislative priority. Unfortunately, a Senate controlled by climate-skeptical Republicans and a Supreme Court poised to limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) will dampen those ambitions.
Still, there are ways the new administration can lead on climate — even if the Senate and the Supreme Court don’t follow. Drawing on my three decades as a federal government lawyer, I offer these opportunities:
Get investors good data
Many investors care about climate and collectively they can move markets based on their sustainability commitments. Right now, they don’t have all the information they need to make climate-smart decisions. We can change that by enforcing regulations already on the books. …
Beyond “Checking the Box”
by Laurie Mazur
Green 2.0’s Andrés Jimenez on building a diverse, inclusive environmental movement.
In July, Andrés Jimenez took the helm at Green 2.0, an independent advocacy campaign to increase racial diversity among environmental organizations. Previously, Jimenez served as senior director of government affairs at Citizens Climate Lobby (CCL), and as associate director of government relations at Ocean Conservancy. The timing was right, as the nation engaged in a long-overdue reckoning with racism that prompted considerable soul-searching within the (very white) mainstream environmental movement. …
Steps to cool the climate will improve water quality, too
by Jeff Peterson
While much of Washington remains mired in partisan gridlock, there is new cooperation in two areas critical to managing climate change: reducing carbon emissions from agriculture and shifting to electric vehicles.
This is obviously good news for the climate, and it will help protect the quality of rivers, streams and coastal waters across the United States. It turns out that what’s good for the climate pays dividends in clean water.
Since the passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972, our nation has made progress in restoring the health of rivers, lakes and coastal waters. The act spurred upgrades in sewage treatment, reduced industrial pollution and protected wetlands. Congress stepped up the fight with additional measures to reduce polluted runoff from non-industrial sources, manage municipal storm water discharges and protect critical ecosystems like the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay. …
Reversing rollbacks in the post Trump-era is not enough
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The Biden administration will surely halt the Trump-era assault on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which featured regulatory rollbacks and ruinous proposed budget cuts. But to protect the health of our nation’s people and environment, the new administration must go further — effectively enforcing our existing laws and providing adequate resources for environmental protection.
A centerpiece of the Trump-Wheeler team’s environmental “agenda” was an endless parade of regulatory rollbacks, 104 by one count — promptly reversing them is an obvious first order of business. …
Make the Corn Belt a Carbon Belt
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In 2020, U.S. federal farm subsidies reached $46 billion, at least a three-fold increase in annual agricultural supports since President Donald Trump took office. This truly staggering level of taxpayer spending constituted nearly 40% of U.S. farm income, making agriculture a de facto public-private partnership. Some might call it socialism. Others might see it as a blatant attempt to buy votes in flyover country during an election year.
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In the name of “transparency” in regulatory science, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt very
un-transparently used my name and professional credentials to promote his ill-conceived proposal to significantly limit scientific studies the EPA considers in regulatory decision-making.
In April 2018, as the EPA proposed the Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science rule, I learned that the administrator had added my name and office to the rule, suggesting that I believed it was scientifically justified. I had not read the rule nor was I involved in its development. …
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Wildfires are a growing problem but developers can be part of the solution
by Jim Heid
Across the American west, 2020 has been the most active fire season on record. So far, more than 8 million acres have gone up in flames, with dozens killed and untold billions in property losses.
Call it the new normal. As the planet warms and human settlements expand their reach, we can expect bigger, hotter, more-devastating blazes. Preventing fires — and reducing their toll — is an urgent priority for both the public and private sectors.
Most wildfires occur in the “wildland-urban interface” where development pushes ever deeper into fire-prone natural areas. That expansion is driven by consumer demand — the desire to live close to nature — as well as by housing shortages in and around major cities. …
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On Nov. 10, NASA will launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air force Base in California. Its payload: a Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite, equipped with instruments that will dramatically improve measurement of changes in sea level around the world.
On the other side of the country, in Washington, D.C., lawmakers recently introduced legislation to constructively manage the challenges that rising sea level will pose for American coastlines.
Taken together, these two events are evidence of important progress toward understanding and managing the risks of sea level rise. …
Enforcing environmental laws is a key to environmental justice
Now that the nation’s eye is on racial justice, the Environmental and Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler has discovered that he wants “to solve the environmental justice issues we face today.”
As a whopper, this may not quite match President Trump’s claim to be America’s “number one environmental president,” but it is a remarkably strange way to describe the Trump-Wheeler team’s record of attacking environmental protections for low-income communities, communities of color and indigenous people. …
A changing climate means a changing society. The Island Press Urban Resilience Project (URP) is committed to a greener, fairer future. www.islandpress.org/URP
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Why So Downcast, O, My Arthur Fleck?
by Bryant Trinh on Oct 25, 2019 • 12:00 pm 2 Comments
When the first trailer for the Joker was released online, it seemed as though a swath of the nation was experiencing a mass hysteria for what was to be shown in theaters. I was among one of those who were eager and fascinated to see the character study that writer and director Todd Phillips had created for his version of the Clown Prince of Crime. Phillips is known mostly for producing The Hangover (Parts One, Two, & Three) and Starsky & Hutch. Comedy, then, seemed to be his strength, which many assumed would lend quite the advantage to his Joker film.
Joker follows Arthur Fleck who aspires to be, and ultimately fails at becoming a stand-up comedian. In the trailers, we find Arthur living at home as his mother’s care-taker, and we also follow his struggle as a clown-for-hire. On top of appearing socially inept, the two-minute clip indicates that Arthur Fleck suffers from a disorder that causes him to laugh uncontrollably at the wrong times. The trailer ends with his transformation into the Joker.
A handful of news outlets reported concern over the following that the Joker had gathered in the months leading up to the film’s opening night. Law enforcement were said to be on alert for potential Joker-inspired shootings, as the clown prince is known for rousing up chaos and anarchy. Frightening would be understating my feelings towards the film. I questioned multiple times whether waiting for the digital release made more sense than sitting in fear of another shooting.
By the time opening week came around, those fears had simmered to a low boil. In recent years, I have taken on going to and watching films by myself. Perhaps insane in my own right, I went to see Stephen King’s IT: Chapter One, Pet Sematary, and more recently, IT: Chapter Two. Only in hindsight was I thankful that I did not go see Joker all by myself but with a couple friends.
There was never a moment during the film in which I remember laughing or cracking a smile. Joker turned out to be one the more unsettling and disturbing films that I have seen. The only other film I wish to never have to watch again would be Requiem for a Dream. This is not to say that Todd Phillips failed in some way. In fact, he created a cinematically captivating and beautifully scored film. You could not deny the mastery in this work. Many might say that Joker carried out its intended effects; enjoyment certainly was far from what Phillips wanted to evoke out of his audience.
I remember coming back to work telling some of my friends that Joker would not be a film they would want to see. I remember describing to a friend that watching Joker was not far off from hearing someone tell a joke that just will not land—no one is laughing but the joker.
When we watch other films, we hope and want there to be some sort of positive turning point. J.R.R. Tolkien helps us here when he came up with the term “eucatastrophe.” Tolkien writes, “I coined the word ‘eucatastrophe’: the sudden happy turn in a story which pierces you with a joy that brings tears (which I argued it is the highest function of fairy-stories to produce).” We saw this in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings when the ring was destroyed. There was relief and release. There was a rescue and a return.
As Joker closes, we find not an ounce of any eucatastrophic event. Not one redemptive moment comes to pass. Throughout the film, you feel like a candle whose flame is slowly being snuffed out—slowly suffocating until it is completely dark. No applause. Just an awkward obligation to leave the theater quickly and quietly without an opportunity to process anything. How do you step back into broad daylight, with the warm sun seemingly trying to wake up a cold body, after watching a movie like that? How do you drive back home or to work? What hope are we supposed to feel after watching Joker? Perhaps the answer really was: none.
I struggled hard to process how I felt about what Todd Phillips created. I wanted there to be redemption in the movie, in Arthur Fleck, and in his character arc. In 2016, Hollywood graced us with Manchester by the Sea which was morbid and heavy, yet it left us with hope—even if just a glimmer of hope. A year after that, Lady Bird made us cry with a coming of age story, the ending of which warmed every viewer’s heart. I desired the same for Joker, but it was absent. Grace in its absence.
As I think more about it, though, perhaps there is something hopeful that can be said about Joker. Grace and hope for redemption usually are things we humans experience as coming from outside of us. Why should it be any different for Arthur Fleck? Every film ends, but the narrative continues. And while the film ends with chaos, violence, and destruction, grace usually is found peaking its head right around the corner. Just because we do not see the silver lining in the clouds does not indicate the sun isn’t there, out of sight.
In another review of the film, Brett McCracken writes that Joker “holds up a mirror to our cultural moment.” As we watch Joker, we are also looking into mirrors that tell us a lot about our own selves. Arthur Fleck begins the movie struggling up a staircase and ends with him dancing back down the same set of stairs as if to indicate the full embrace of his downward spiral. In those moments, we see how fragile we truly are and how capable we are of following suit. The only thing we believe is capable of producing a change was left out of the film, but that hardly means that it does not exist.
In her tour de force memoir, The Recovering, Leslie Jamison writes about her addiction and recovery: “Whatever it was, I needed to believe in something stronger than my willpower… The Higher Power that turned my sobriety into more than deprivation was simply not me. That was all I knew.”
It may be that we can add to what Jamison says: whatever it was, we (alongside the film and Arthur Fleck) need something that is not only stronger but also outside of us. Outside of our ability to fix things and make things new again. The film may have ended without a glimmer of hope, but we would do well to remember that hope is most often found on the outside anyways. Most of us will never suffer through what Arthur Fleck’s character did in the film, but when we do find ourselves at our darkest, the light that absolves and transforms us never comes from within us.
As John Zahl puts it, “God’s office is at the end of your rope.”
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blake nail says:
great piece, loved the movie but yes so dark!
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[…] Waititi’s satirical new film Jojo Rabbit. We might also add to those: crass, audacious, daring. After the release of Joker a couple weeks prior, the world needed a film that would be a little more light-hearted and […]
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Wellcamp soars while Roma airport numbers nosedive
The Brisbane West-Wellcamp Airport recorded the strongest passenger growth of any regional airport in Australia.
Key mining and gas hubs in regional Queensland suffered significant drops in air passenger movements last year, according to annual domestic airline statistics issued by the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE).
The report showed a 41 per cent drop in the number of people flying into or out of Roma in the Surat Basin in 2016 compared to 2015 and a 15 per cent drop for Moranbah in the Bowen Basin.
Gladstone experienced a 19 per cent drop and Mackay a drop of almost 13 per cent, while Townsville remained fairly static (just 0.6 per cent down compared to 2015) and Rockhampton recorded a 5.8 per cent drop.
The state’s success story was the Brisbane West-Wellcamp Airport at Toowoomba, which recorded the strongest growth of any regional airport in Australia.
Passenger movements in 2016 – the airport’s second full year of operation – reached 120,700, up 71.7 per cent compared to 2015.
“Wellcamp has begun domestic and international freight services over the last year,” Member for Groom Dr John McVeigh said.
“The popularity of the passenger services operating from Wellcamp shines through in these latest BITRE figures and with annual agricultural production of more than $660 million in the Groom electorate Wellcamp’s contribution to freight services will continue to grow.”
The BITRE report showed record growth in freight movement in Australia’s domestic aviation sector in 2016, increasing by 20.5 per cent to 435,700 tonnes.
There were 61.34 million passengers carried on Australian domestic commercial aviation (including charter operations) in the year ending December 2016, an increase of 2 per cent compared with the year ending December 2015.
Melbourne – Sydney remained Australia’s busiest RPT (Regular Public Transport service) route with 8.90 million passengers, an increase of 3.4 per cent compared with the year ending December 2015.
The routes with the greatest percentage increase in passengers included Hamilton Island – Sydney (up 16 per cent) and Brisbane – Hamilton Island (up 13.1 per cent).
RPT routes with traffic decreases in the year ending December 2016, compared with the year ending December 2015, included Brisbane – Gladstone (down 18.3 per cent), Karratha – Perth (down 18.1 per cent), Brisbane – Moranbah (down 15.4 per cent) and Perth – Port Hedland (down 13.1 per cent).
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NY Fed’s biggest financial stability concerns focus on cyberattacks, shadow banking, Williams says
02 Jul 2020 5:00 pm by Neil Roland
The US Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s biggest financial stability worries are possible cyberattacks on the banking system and the migration of assets from banks to the less-regulated shadow-banking sector, President John Williams said.
“I would really emphasize cyber risks,” Williams said in a public interview. “At a time when everyone’s at home relying on technology to support us, [that] means this is a particularly important issue for us.”
The Fed is trying to prepare for these kinds of attacks in part because cyber threats and systemic risks are intertwined, he said.
“Sometimes these get put into different buckets,” Williams said. “We at the New York Fed and others around the world have connected those dots.”
— Cyber and financial stability —
In January, before the pandemic started ravaging the US economy, New York Fed researchers looked at the potential impact of a cyberattack that harmed banks’ ability to process payments between each other.
“This could have severe implications on the stability of the broader financial system vis-à-vis spillovers to investors, creditors, and other financial market participants,” the paper said.
The paper also looked at the impact of an attack that affected the five most active banks in wholesale payments.
If any one of them were to be impaired, the effects would spill over to affect 38 percent of the four other institutions, on average, it said.
— Shadow banking —
The New York Fed also is trying to monitor risky developments in the shadow-banking sector but is limited by a paucity of information, Williams said.
“It’s not well-understood in terms of data and risks out there,” he said.
This sector includes nonbanks such as asset managers, insurers, hedge funds and money market mutual funds, which conduct short-term debt trades with each other.
Once the destruction from the pandemic recedes and regulators try to understand lessons learned, they need to “study carefully” the volatility and risks in the shadow-banking arena, Williams said.
Fed Governor Lael Brainard and former Fed Chair Janet Yellen said this week that, under President Donald Trump, US authorities have dialed back oversight of the shadow-banking sector.
Brainard and Yellen, both Democrats, agreed that the weakening of US Financial Stability Oversight Council powers has contributed to the current economic crisis. "I absolutely think the kind of risks in the nonbank financial sector were not only predictable but well documented,” Brainard said.
South Korean AI developer shuts down chatbot following privacy violation probe
13 Jan 2021 10:29 am by Wooyoung Lee
Scatter Lab, the South Korean developer of Artificial Intelligence chatbot named Iruda, is the target of a new investigation by the South Korean privacy regulator.
Section 230 debate starts new era with conclusion of Trump administration
08 Jan 2021 11:20 pm by Dave Perera
A quiet death at the US Federal Communications Commission of a Trump-era attempt to weaken the legal liability shield for online platforms won’t be the end.
Companies to face enhanced privacy enforcement in South Korea in 2021
31 Dec 2020 3:00 am by Wooyoung Lee
Businesses in South Korea should significantly step up reviews of their data-collection and management practices.
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SAP Unveils Ambitious Plans for Database Market
by Sean Michael Kerner
SAP is ramping up its HANA and Sybase database efforts to enable a new era of real-time data.
The name SAP has been synonymous with enterprise applications for decades. Now SAP executives want their company to be synonymous with databases too. SAP today announced a series of initiatives that will further enable its database efforts, including the in-memory HANA and Sybase database technologies.
During a press conference today, Vishal Sikka, executive board member for Technology and Innovation at SAP, announced that the SAP Business Warehouse (BW) will now be powered by SAP HANA.
"BW on HANA is a non-disruptive, dramatic improvement in performance and cost," Sikka said. "We are already running selected customer ERP systems on HANA too and we're confident that by the end of this year we'll enter the ramp up of ERP running on HANA."
The ultimate goal is to enable all of SAP's application portfolio to run well on SAP's database and in-memory technologies. That said, Sikka noted that HANA is also useful for non-SAP applications as well. According to Sikka, the majority of HANA sales in the U.S. to date have been for analyzing non-SAP sources of data.
At the core of SAP's HANA database push is the Linux operating system, which is the only operating system on which the in-memory database will run.
While HANA and its in-memory capabilities is a key platform for SAP's database strategy, so too is the Sybase database. SAP acquired Sybase in 2010 for $5.8 billion. Sikka said that Sybase is now able to run the entire SAP business suite.
"We have now in our hands the ability to be the fastest growing database company in the world," Sikka said. "I also want to make it crystal clear that databases are such a critical part of an enterprise landscape that for the foreseeable future SAP will work together with our partners including Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and others to support other databases for both the business suite and other products such as business intelligence."
In an interview, Steve Lucas, global executive vice president and general manager for Database and Technology at SAP, explained that HANA and Sybase serve different use case situations. Lucas noted that when he is talking to customers about which database makes sense, it's often a discussion about high volume lower value data versus, low volume high value data. In many cases, it makes sense to use both Sybase and HANA in tandem in order to deliver the best solution that meets the needs of volume and data quality.
A key competitive target for both Sybase and HANA is Oracle. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison recently attacked SAP over its database and cloud stance. Lucas noted that one of the key platforms for SAP has been the Intel Itanium based hardware, which is a platform that Oracle has recently decided to abandon.
"We have a huge number of customers calling us looking for what I would characterize as sanctuary from Oracle Itanium announcement and they want to leverage their Itanium investment," Lucas said.
While Oracle isn't the only competitive target that SAP is going after, Lucas noted that it's all about the math.
"Look at our business warehouse customer base with 13,000 customers, probably 55 to 60 percent are running on Oracle," Lucas said. "So the more penetration we get, it would stand to reason that most of that growth would come at the cost of Oracle."
Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of the IT Business Edge Network, the network for technology professionals. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.
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An Allegory for an Absconded Modernity: Claudio Correa’s Brigantine Signals Chile’s Speculative Present
By Juan José Santos • Features, Reviews• December 15, 2016
Claudio Correa, 2016. Photo courtesy the artist.
Jorge Brantmayer, "Salifene Germain," 2016.
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Physically light, Libertad, Igualdad, Fatalidad (2016) is not underweight on ambition or conceptual ballast. Its creator, Chilean artist Claudio Correa, installed a real-scale brigantine in the hall of his country’s National Museum of Fine Art, with neither a hull nor a deck: a half-visible ship out of water, at full sail in a hallowed institution. He engineered this site-specific work to reflect on Chile’s deeply-rooted migratory problems, historical debts, and struggles for national identity. This is an invitation to a trip through American history, and the roots of Chile’s present-day social and political crises. The sails billowed in an artificial breeze created by a fan system whose intensity was controlled by the volume of an accompanying audio recording. The swelling voices filling the sails belonged to three South American immigrants to Chile – from Venezuela, Peru, and Colombia. Each sang Spanish versions of the French hymn La Marseillaise, three adaptations of a chauvinist anthem repurposed by anti-imperialist political movements. Correa had previously worked with these elements in Cuatro formas de ser republicano a distancia (“Four Ways to Be a Long-Distance Republican”), 2013, an 8mm short film in which characters played translated versions of La Marseillaise while their wax instruments gradually melted. The theme was similar: the ideological deviation between the original anthem and the Latin adaptations. But this time, Correa is inviting us to climb to the top of the main mast and spy on the horizon. Do we descry any land?
Some small technical elements need improvement: the fans are too visible, too small, too ugly; the show’s titular parody of the French Revolution’s famous “liberté, égalité, fraternité” perhaps too on-the-nose. But in its major aim, this installation is a success, providing timely, historically-rich perspective on the country’s largest current concerns. In many respects, the issues countenanced by Correa’s ship (immigration, identity, assimilation) are familiar in other parts of the world, but Chile’s own particular history is crucial here.
So, here, I disguise myself as a stowaway to reveal some of the secrets imbedded in this nautical environment.
The groundswell. It’s no accident that Correa’s brigantine is based on a model from the XIX century. The Republic of Chile was founded after its independence from Spain in 1818. At that time an afrancesada –“frenchified” – aristocracy was more sympathetic to European sentiments than to the autochthonous. In 1845, the Chilean National Congress passed the so-called Colonization Law: a “passport” for more than 3000 German families to settle in the south of the country, on lands that belonged to Indigenous peoples. This is the main antecedent of the present Mapuche Conflict: today this same Indigenous population is struggling to reclaim old properties from the descendants of German settlers. The Colonization Law had other objectives as well: chiefly, the imposition of a European model of progress and modernity upon (as one Southern aristocrat put it) “an association of barbarians […] nothing but a horde of beasts that must urgently be chained or destroyed in the interest of mankind and for the good of civilization.”
In the basement of the museum lies a series of photographs of the Patagonian Indigenous, as well as a video capturing a family of their (very remote) descendants manufacturing a canoe. Native tribes such as this were exterminated, often at the hands of European “human hunters” who sold their ripped-off heads as curios to similar-looking museums back home, in “civilization.” Nowadays, Indigenous people represent only about 8% of Chile’s population.
The wake. The main floor of the museum is not only occupied with the brigantine. It also contains an exhibition of sculptures from the permanent collection. Among these are reproductions from European Classic Antiquity that have long been used as models for students at the Chilean Fine Arts Academy. The Academy, created in 1849, imported its aesthetic ideals and professors from Europe. Insofar as Correa’s ship is meant to play on the local imitation of European ideas, it’s very fitting that these teaching tools should sit in its wake.
The hull. The mast and poles that connect the sails sit suspended in thin air, above the polished floor. There is no visible hull. The absence of the structure is an allegory for Modernity’s failure to arrive. Despite the voyage’s itinerary, plotted with waypoints from the French Revolution and European Enlightenment, the ship never fully materialized at port. Not social welfare; not protection against tyranny; not cultural elevation of the population; nothing more than flags and sails blowing in a welter of translated song. Despite the familiar tune of the echoed hymns that drive the ghost vessel, nothing like freedom, equality, or fraternity fills these sheets.
The sails. In Chile the 1975 Law of Foreigners and Migrations, a relic from the dictatorship, is still in force. Though the law retains many outdated and politically vindictive restrictions, attempts at revision are perpetually postponed in Congress due to budgetary problems. By the way, the dictator, Augusto Pinochet, has French roots that goes back to the arrival of the merchant Guillaume Pinochet in 1720 to Chile (in a brigantine?).
Meanwhile, complaints from would-be immigrants rejected at the Chilean border increase in pace with the newcomer population within. In 2014, the immigrant population represented 2.48% of the population. This year, that figure has risen to 6.63%. The specter of economic immigration raises the worry and ire of the elite, a smallish group of privileged individuals who preserve colonial European surnames (despite many decades of intermarriage and naturalization).
The voices of Venezuelan, Peruvian, and Colombian immigrants swelling the ship’s sails are a symbol for a low-income American immigration attempting to emulate the precedent of high-income trans-Atlantic colonization: all under the watchful eye of a wealthy class who believe themselves to be more European than they actually are.
One of this year’s literary revelations, Pablo D. Sheng’s novel Charapo, describes Recoleta, the most multicultural neighborhood of Santiago, where the overcrowded and speculation-menaced live, selling products on the streets in front of dilapidated houses with Continental façades. Perhaps it is from here that the sails’ spectral voices emanate.
Passing in the night. Photographer Jorge Brantmayer also recently turned his attention to Chile’s unequal globalization. For his ongoing 2016 exhibition, Muchedumbre: Geografía de la piel (“Crowd: The Skin’s Geography”), he photographed the faces of a series of foreigners, mostly Haitians, in black and white. There are no gestures, no smiles. The images feel like large-scale ID cards, a collective portrait of a part of society that remains at best unknown – at worst disregarded – by the upper class. Pointedly, the exhibition is showing at CorpArtes gallery, located in an exclusive neighborhood of the capital city: an opportunity for dialogue between two communities that seldom interact, although both have their roots outside the country.
Jorge Brantmayer, “Muchedumbre: Geografía de la piel,” at CorpArtes, 2016.
These superimposed worlds were tellingly illustrated in a recent special edition of Paula, a national trend magazine. Dedicated to immigration and entitled “Chile Changes its Skin,” the volume placed four Afro-American models on the cover. Inside, however, advertisements for clothes and perfume featured familiar, mostly Caucasian models. At the end of the magazine sat the untouchable “social pages,” a section with photographs of the Chilean high-class: blonde, blue-eyed happy people with European surnames. “Progress” insists on a certain tone.
The skies. The mast of the brigantine almost touches the ceiling of the museum. This building, with its Art Nouveau decoration, is based on the Petit Palais of Paris. During its inauguration in 1910, and in commemoration of the centenary of the country’s independence, a new national anthem was debuted: “How pure, Chile, is your blue sky / And how pure the breezes that blow across you / And your countryside embroidered with flowers / Is a wonderful copy of Eden.” As though the highest ideal to which Chile could aspire – the purest blue conceivable – remains but a wondrous facsimile.
Mutiny. The National Museum was conceived as a vessel for grand dreams of Progress and Modernity. In 1922, a sculptural set of Icarus and Daedalus was installed out front, with an inscription on a stone pedestal reading: “United in glory and death.” Nearly a century later, the workers of the museum don’t seem to agree. Intermittently, since last year, visitors have encountered a new epigraph at the entrance: “Museum on strike.” Synecdoche, or no? As employees struggle to attain fair working conditions, it’s tempting to wonder whether the Greek heroes and lofty Enlightenment ideals of the institution might not also file grievance, and join the picket over promises unfulfilled.
The course. Neither the curator of this installation, Sebastián Vidal, nor the artist himself, makes a statement regarding where they think this ship is heading. With the incremental growth of the immigrant population, without revision of the present law, and with the likely re-election of the right-wing former Chilean president Sebastián Piñera, strong tides are expected.
Claudio Correa’s work, through the dematerialization of the body of a great ship, makes visible a multifaceted structure that helps us understand Chilean identity and its contradictions: the historical roots that stage the chase for an alien “European Dream,” and predetermine prejudice and grim prospects for newcomers. While Correa tells Chile’s story, in truth, Freedom, Equality, Fatality’s sense of broken promise and absconded modernity is increasingly shared by all the nations of America.
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Economists surveyed by CNNMoney predicted 182,000 new jobs were added last month.
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The U.S. has gained well over 1 million jobs so far this year and data shows wages are also picking up.
The unemployment rate in July remained steady at 4.9%.
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5. Thursday market recap: The Dow Jones industrial average and S&P 500 ended the trading day unchanged on Thursday after experiencing some minor bumps and jumps earlier in the week.
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Tony Hyde, chairman of the Board of Commissioners for Columbia County, Oregon, writes: "As a county commissioner for the past 19 years, I have seen an enormous amount of change take place in my community of Columbia County, Oregon. In order to preserve the best interests of Columbia County and communities across the state more broadly, I strive to stay at the forefront of developments in areas such as energy policy and frequently I inform fellow elected officials of opportunities that could potentially benefit their constituents in a similar fashion.
"I have found that one of the most effective means of sharing this information is through the National Association of Counties, which brings county officials together to advocate with a collective voice on national policy and pursue promising county solutions. To that end, at this year’s NACo Annual Conference & Exposition held on July 22, the association voted to approve a resolution that I submitted in June. The resolution supports the use of wood as a renewable energy source. The development of this environmentally beneficial and reliable resource would provide a number of positive impacts for not only Columbia County but also Oregon at large as well as any regions across the U.S. with plentiful forest resources." READ MORE
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Virginia will invest $850,000 over the biennial budget to expand its international trade initiatives promoting Virginia's agriculture and forestry products around the world, according to an announcement by the governor's office Tuesday. With these new funds, the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) will create a new Richmond-based position to support the newly enhanced global trade network.
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More than 25 natural resource professionals, foresters and stakeholders gathered in Aitkin County, Minnesota, on July 14 for a forestry tour highlighting bat-friendly forest management in the state. The field tour featured visits to county and state forestlands including the Savanna State Forest and Aitkin County's Cornish Hardwood Management Area (CHMA), a Forest Stewards Guild model forest.
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At St. Andrew's and St. Cyprian's in Darien, this time of year you would hear the squeals of laughter and the quiet questions of the participants of the Community Youth Program at St. Andrew's and St. Cyprian's. Instead, you'll see an empty parish hall and and hear the silence echoing in the building.
As with all things group related, the youth program at St. Andrew's and St. Cyprian's, Community Youth Connection, had to reinvent itself and try to sustain community. Youth Director Laura Evans has been running the program for three years and would typically see up to 40 youth between 4th and 12th grade each week. These days she'll see about 12. "It's hard with school being online and about one-third at home and two-thirds at school, by the end of the day, they're tired of being on a screen," says Evans.
Typically, she and her volunteers would be tutoring 4th graders in the mornings in the school cafeteria, picking up 5th graders in the church van after school for playtime, crafts, and a meal, and meeting up with middle school and high school youth during the week after school and on Sunday afternoons. This year tutoring was delayed and will start in November, the 5th grade program will begin in January, and the middle school groups are meeting over Zoom. By the end of the week, her high school youth are just tired of screens.
So what's a youth director to do?
Evans quickly took account of the situation and dove right in. She made craft boxes for each of her youth and spent about 4 hours driving around McIntosh County dropping them off at houses. "It was fun because I got more interaction with parents than usual, and the kids were really excited to have a box dropped off just for them." Each box held scissors, glue, animal cut outs, and paperclips. An unseen bonus of having youth group online is that Evans gets to see the parents more, "Usually Mom is sitting near by or with their kid during our sessions, and they get to see what we do each week. They know more about our program this way."
A few youth group members enjoying their Zoom meeting
Going from a 2 hour,
in-person session to a 45 minute session has had its challenges. "All I can hope is that the community is still connected. They are excited to see each other because they aren't all in the same classes at school so they've been extra chatty, but it's nice to see them together." Her overall philosophy is that no matter the size of the group, it's just as important, "What we're doing makes a difference. The kids want to be there and I'm just as excited to see 2 as to see 12."
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Honey Creek has been closed since the pandemic, but has now opened it's doors for individual and small group retreats. "Our lodge and cabins are perfect for individuals and families to come spend a few days away. Brunswick is right down the road, and folks can pick up the food of their choice. And with Jekyll Island and St. Simons Island so close, they can spread out their time between Honey Creek and the Islands," say Executive Director Dade Brantley.
The Lodge rooms and cottages are the perfect getaway in more ways than one, and meet the guidelines to remain socially distant. Each lodge room has a private bathroom, and the cottages include working kitchens. For more information and to book your stay at Honey Creek, contact the office at (912)265-9218 or email Georganne Younger at georgeanne@honeycreek.org.
Down to the Park to Pray heads to the Okefenokee Swamp
Worship with gators and fellow Episcopalians on the edge of the mysterious Okefenokee Swamp! The next Down to the Park to Pray gathering will be held on Saturday, October 24 at 10am at Laura S. Walker State Park, near Waycross. Registration is required by 10/22 and group size is limited, so register soon! If needed, the Creation Care Commission will add an additional service in the afternoon to accommodate more people. Details and registration can be found here: https://forms.gle/MasQ6gLZ54CHLokT6
Happening Virtual Reunion
When: Monday, November 16 & Tuesday, November 17 in the evenings on Zoom.
Who: For All Happeners from any time!
How: Register now at http://bit.ly/GAHappening
Happening, for youth in grades 10-12, is one of the Diocese of Georgia's most successful and long-running youth programs. Many adults in this Diocese and beyond its borders have been deeply impacted by their experiences of Happening weekends. Often groups of youth from the same area have formed Reunion Groups for renewal, to touch base, and to support future weekends.
As with all other Diocesan youth programs this fall, Happening has had to pause in-person gatherings. While we are sad that Happening #104 will not take place in November, several of the staff of Happening #104 are coming together to offer an online Happening Reunion experience instead! The virtue of being online, in this case, is that all Happeners (i.e. - those who have attended a Happening as a Candidate), regardless of their age or physical location, are able to join!
While there is no cost for the Happening Reunion, registration is required. This lets the staff know approximately how many participants to expect and what ages. If you register before November 1, you can order a special Happening "The Best is Yet to Come!" T-Shirt at a reduced cost!
Registration now open at http://bit.ly/GAHappening!
Disc Golf Tournament Held at Honey Creek
Nominations for Diocesan Convention
The following have been nominated and are up for election at Diocesan Convention. Full biographies and photos will be in tomorrow's Thriving in the Vine newsletter.
To nominate yourself or someone else, click here.
If you have been nominated, fill out your information here.
Board of Officers of the Corporation (1 lay person)
Church Disciplinary Board (1 clergy & 2 lay persons)
Phillip Davies
Bill Bruce
The Rev. David Lemburg
Diocesan Council ( 1 lay person or clergy)
Standing Committee (1 layperson & 1 priest)
The Rev. David Rose
Trustee of the University of the South (1 priest)
The Rev. Tom Purdy
Diocesan Online Godly Play this Sunday
Godly Play is a Montessori-based curriculum that focuses on telling stories using physical materials and allowing participants to play and work with the stories at their own level.
This coming Sunday, October 11, Canon Joshua Varner will tell the story of Exodus. This story will be shared on Sunday on the Diocesan Facebook Page .These sessions are appropriate for young people of all ages, and many adults find that the Godly Play method allows them to think about stories they have known for a long time in new and different ways.
The video will be on the Diocese of Georgia Facebook Page on Sunday morning. Please contact Canon Varner at jvarner@gaepiscopal.org with your questions.
Thriving in the Vine Deadlines
Registration deadline for delegates is October 21.
Registration for the 199th Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia, Thriving in the Vine, is now open. Due to safety concerns for large public gatherings, the 199th Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia will meet online on the evening of November 6th and the morning of the November 7th.
Registration and additional information will be available online at http://convention.georgiaepiscopal.org and through the Thursday convention newsletter.
Celebrating the Feast of St. Francis Across the Diocese
We've seen how creative our parishes have gotten during the pandemic, and rejoice in that creativity!
The Rev. David Rose at St. Luke's, Rincon with a very attentive parishioner (left), and the Rev. Ashton Williston and a parishioner provide a blessing for her new four legged friend (right).
The Rev. Cynthia Taylor from Church of the Holy Comforter blesses her furry friend (left), and the Rev. George Muir at St. Paul's, Augusta blesses one that's not so furry (right).
The Rev. Ted Clarkson of St. Andrew's and St. Cyprian's makes his way down the line (left), and the Rev. Walter Hobgood and the Rev. Deacon Ri Lamb bring out all the stops for their pet blessing (right).
Worship with the Diocese of Georgia in
St. Simons Island on Sunday
This Sunday, we will stream Morning Prayer at 10 a.m. from Christ Church, Frederica with Bishop Logue officiating and preaching Morning Prayer.
To view the service:
Christ Church Frederica Facebook Page
Diocese of Georgia YouTube Page
Find Livestream Worship
There are a lot of options each day for Episcopalians in the Diocese of Georgia to worship online and now they are listed in one place. The Livestream Services calendar tells the time, location, and which liturgy the congregation offers for the whole Diocese. Click the image above or this link: Livestream Services Calendar.
Have you adjusted your livestream schedule? Let us know! We have a running calendar that you can find here. Check to see if your schedule is correct, and if there are any changes, email Administrator Assistant Daniel Garrick at dgarrick@gaepiscopal.org.
Prayers for Weekly Liturgies
Our one-year prayer cycle combines prayers for every congregation in the Diocese of Georgia with prayers for our ecumenical partners and for our Companion Diocese of The Dominican Republic.
The 2020 one year prayer cycle is now online here: 2020 Prayer Cycle
In our diocesan cycle of prayer, we pray for our congregation in Statesboro, Trinity. We also pray for our ecumenical partners in Statesboro, especially St. Matthew's Catholic Church. In our companion diocese of the Dominican Republic, we pray for The Annunciation (La Annunciación) in Santiago.
October 11 - 17
In our diocesan cycle of prayer, we pray for our congregations in Thomasville, All Saints, Good Shepherd, and St. Thomas and for their work at the Oak Street Episcopal Mission. We also pray for our ecumenical partners in Thomasville, especially St. Augustine's Catholic Church. In our companion diocese of the Dominican Republic, we pray for St. Luke (San Lucas) in Santiago.
Additional Prayer Cycles
We also offer 30-day prayer cycles for those who wish to pray daily for the clergy and clergy spouses: Diocesan Prayer Cycle and Clergy Spouses Prayer Cycle.
Diocesan Office Update and News
Sunday, Bishop Logue will officiate and preach Morning Prayer from Christ Church, Frederica offered online at 10 a.m. To find the service, visit the Christ Church Frederica Facebook page or the Diocese of Georgia YouTube page.
Throughout the remainder of 2020 Bishop Logue will continue to record Diocesan worship from different congregations across the Diocese. To see the calendar for the remainder of 2020, click here.
In order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Diocesan staff are not all in the office at the same time with some working remotely. Email will be the quickest way to get in touch with the staff, although you are still welcome to call us on the phone! If we miss your call, please leave a voicemail with a detailed message. Staff e-mails can be found here.
What are you doing to keep community right now? Are you gathering for virtual coffee hours, delivering groceries to your neighbors - let us know! Send any updates or photos to our Communications Manager Liz Williams at lwilliams@gaepiscopal.org. We want to hear from you!
Have Peanut Butter, Will Feed
The Ladies of Love group (pandemic version) at St. Paul's, Albany continues to serve their community and provides up to 75 bags a week to their neighbors.
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The Only Path To Ending Our Healthcare Crisis
According to a recent Quinnipiac poll, with all the issues facing our nation today both foreign and domestic, the one that concerns us
Questions You Need to Ask Yourself Pertaining To Your Health…
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According to a recent Quinnipiac Poll, 29% of people polled considered healthcare as their number one concern. The economy at 18% came in
Ten Negative Effects On Our Economy Caused By Our Current Healthcare System
1-Overall healthcare costs were $3.5 trillion in 2017 almost one-fifth of our GDP (Gross Domestic Product). 2-Many people lose wages
For Most of Us, Good Health Is a Choice
Life Expectancy Rate in USA Declined Again In 2017 For the second year in a row, the life expectancy rate in the United States has declined.
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John Lewis Makes His Final Farewell March In Alabama This Weekend
As we all mourn the loss of Congressman John Lewis, we are reminded of the great work he has accomplished. Personally, John Lewis and his legacy remind me to speak up, make a difference, and to always vote. It is noted in a documentary film, John Lewis: Good Trouble, he said that his “philosophy is very simple. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, say something. Do something. Get in trouble. Good trouble.” (The American Prospect).
I was elated to receive a press release from Salute Selma, Inc. about the upcoming events that will take place this weekend to honor Congressman John Lewis. Here is part of the press release. “This Saturday July 25th, Congressman Lewis will lie in repose from 8pm - 11pm at Brown Chapel AME Church. On Sunday, July 26th at 10am the processional will depart from Brown Chapel and our beloved Congressman will take his (lone) last march across Edmund Pettus Bridge. We encourage mourners to join the final farewell and gather along the sidewalks and roadways for the Congressman’s processional from Selma to Montgomery concluding at the Capitol where he will be the first African American in Alabama’s history to lie in state from 2pm – 7pm. Congresswoman Terri Sewell, Montgomery’s Mayor Steven Reed along with Salute Selma Inc. is encouraging people to line the sidewalks from Selma to Montgomery’s Dexter Avenue. Salute Selma further encourages children & and young adults to display signs reading, “I AM JOHN LEWIS”, adults/middle age adults signs to read, “Thank you John Lewis” and Elders: “Job Well Done”. The public is required to wear face coverings and practice social distancing at all events.” Congressman Lewis will depart from Montgomery to Washington to lie in state at the U. S. Capitol rotunda Monday, then to Georgia State Capitol building Wednesday. His celebration of life will take place Thursday at Ebenezer Baptist Church Horizon Sanctuary.”
(Source) Press Release from Salute Selma sent directly to Townsquare Media via email. Press Release Contact is Catrena Norris from Salute Selma, Inc. For more from the American Prospect, click here.
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MERIAN'S MAP OF THE TURKISH EMPIRE 1640
TURCICUM IMPERIUM TURKISCHE REICH
Attractive and detailed map of the Turkish / Ottoman Empire while it was at it's zenith. . It covers the region from the Balkans to Persia and from Northern Africa through the Arabian Peninsula. It is embellished with a fine cartouche showing the Turkish Sultan on his throne with unusual allegorical female warrior figures at either side brandishing weapons.
V Good hand colour
Cartographer : MERIAN Matthaus MERIAN
Date : 1640c Frankfurt
Size : 27.5* 36 cms
availability : Sold
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About MERIAN Matthaus MERIAN
Matthäus Merian der Ältere (or "Matthew", "the Elder", or "Sr."; 22 September 1593 - 19 June 1650) was a Swiss-born engraver who worked in Frankfurt for most of his career, where he also ran a publishing house.
Born in Basel, Merian learned the art of copperplate engraving in Zürich. He next worked and studied in Strasbourg, Nancy, and Paris, before returning to Basel in 1615. The following year he moved to Frankfurt, Germany where he worked for the publisher Johann Theodor de Bry, who was the son of renowned engraver and traveler Theodor de Bry.
In 1623 Merian took over the publishing house of his father-in-law after de Bry's death. In 1626 he became a citizen of Frankfurt and could henceforth work as an independent publisher. He spent most of his working life in Frankfurt.
He produced the 21-volume set was collectively known as the Topographia Germaniae. It includes numerous town plans and views, as well as maps of most countries and a World Map-it was such a popular work that it was re-issued in many editions. He also took over and completed the later parts and editions of the Grand Voyages and Petits Voyages, originally started by de Bry in 1590.
After his death, his sons Matthäus Jr. and Caspar took over the publishing house. They continued publishing the Topographia Germaniae and the Theatrum Europaeum under the name Merian Erben (i.e. Merian Heirs).
Other Items By MERIAN Matthaus MERIAN
PIEDMONT GENOA PEDEMONTANA REGIO CUM GENUENSIUM
(AVIGNON) CIVITATUS AVENIONIS
FRANCE GAALLIA LE ROYAUME DE FRANCE
HOLLAND AMSTERDAM HOLLANDIA COMITATUS
HOLLAND BELGII SIVE GERMANIA INFERIORIS
LOMBARDY NOVA ET ACCURATA DUCATUS VENETIANI MEDIOLANI GENUA
RUSSIA TABULA RUSSIAE
GENEVA GENEVE GENFF
GENEVA GENEVE
MERIAN'S MAP VIEW OF LAUSANNE
MERIAN'S SEVENTEENTH CENTURY VIEW OF FLORENCE
MERIAN'S MAP OF PERSIA
MERIAN'S WORLD MAP IN PLANISPHERE
RARE MAP OF THE ENGLISH CHANNEL 1641
MERIAN'S SUPERB MAP OF PARIS
MERIAN'S LARGE PANORAMA OF PARIS
MERIAN PANORAMA OF BORDEAUX
MERIAN SUPERB PANORAMA OF CONSTANTINOPLE ISTANBUL
MERIAN MAP OF CHINA 1640
EAST INDIES PAPUA AUSTRALIA BY MERIAN 1640
MERIAN WORLD IN HEMISPHERES
MERIAN RARE PLAN VIEW OF ZURICH
MERIAN'S STUNNING PLAN VIEW OF LISBON
MERIAN VIEW OF EDINBURGH 1640
MERIAN'S MAP OF SOUTHERN AFRICA AFTER BLAEU 1640
MERIAN'S VERSION OF BLAEU'S IMPORTANT MAP
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Florida vs. Kentucky basketball score, takeaways: Gators embarrassed in blowout home loss
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It has undoubtedly been a difficult season for Florida Gators basketball both on an off the court, but following a 76-58 whooping on Saturday night by the rival Kentucky Wildcats inside the Stephen C. O’Connell Center, the Gators will be searching high and low for answers. Florida (5-3, 2-2 SEC), which opened the week on the cusp of being ranked in the AP Top 25, lost consecutive games for the first time this season.
UF was defeated Saturday at home in Gainesville, Florida, by 18 points, its most lopsided margin of the season and largest margin against its biggest rival since the 2015-16 campaign. It was also Florida’s worst loss to Kentucky in the O’Dome since 1998 and head coach Mike White’s worst home loss since taking over the UF program.
Though the Gators were competitive with the Wildcats (4-6, 3-0 SEC) throughout the first half, it only took a couple minutes into the latter period for the visitors to put it away. This despite UK getting off to a terrible start this season that had many doubting whether it could even contend in league play.
After the first meeting between the long-time SEC rivals, it looks like Kentucky will be just fine in conference play, while Florida has numerous questions to answer as its postseason aspirations now appear shaky at best. Let’s take a look at what went down with some Fastbreak takeaways.
It was over when … Kentucky opened the second half with a 14-2 run to lead by 18 with 14:49 to play. Following a subsequent 13-0 run, it led by a game-high 25 points with less than eight minutes left. Florida was noncompetitive over the latter portion of the game, shooting 37.5% on field goals (35.7% in second half) while allowing Kentucky to hit 55.8% of its shots (66.7% in the second half). UF was dominated in scoring in the paint (34-22), off the bench (31-18) and off turnovers (25-14).
First half focus: Florida led early but trailed quickly after a 10-0 Kentucky run. The Gators made 4 of 5 field goals to start the half but then made just 7 of 23 down the stretch while committing nine turnovers that led to 15 points for the visitors. The Wildcats dominated in nearly every phase and used an 11-5 stretch to take a six-point lead at the break.
Exceptional efforts: Junior forward Anthony Duruji scored a game-high 15 points on 6 of 13 shooting, making 2 of 5 threes with three rebounds. Junior point guard Tyree Appleby was the only other double-digit scorer with 10 points on 4 of 9 shooting. The Gators did not have a single player shoot better than 50% from the field (minimum two attempts), though as a team they shot a respectable 9 of 20 from three.
Odds and ends: Florida is now 40-105 all-time against Kentucky, including 26-38 at home and 3-8 under White with five straight losses dating back to the 2018-19 season … UF is now 61-63 under White when scoring 79 points or fewer compared to 52-3 when scoring 80+ … this marked the fourth time in the last five meetings that the Wildcats held the Gators below 60 points
What it means: It’s tough to draw any real conclusions from this beating considering Florida was never in the game late and failed in nearly every area of consequence. More than anything, it seems as if it will have to utilize this as one of those “back to the drawing board” efforts where the coaching staff completely reevaluates what it is trying to do this season.
While the Wildcats, due to their talented roster, were never going to be as bad as they played entering this game, a floundering team nevertheless used the Gators as a stepping stone to possibly jettison itself back into contention over the rest of the campaign. That’s never good. Florida being unable to get anything going in the second half is worrisome as this team needs to find an identity without star junior forward Keyontae Johnson. It’s unknown and potentially doubtful if Johnson will be able to return at any point this season, and UF is going to have to figure out ways to at least beat mediocre teams without him on the court.
What’s next? Florida will remain at home early next week as it welcomes Ole Miss to town on Tuesday in a game that will tip off at 7 p.m. ET and air live on SEC Network. It will be the Gators’ third game in eight days as they look for their first win since Jan. 2.
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TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING LOOK TO ADVANCE TO STANLEY CUP FINAL TONIGHT AGAINST NEW YORK ISLANDERS AT 8 P.M. ET ON NBCSN
Eastern Conference Final Game 5 Tonight at 8 p.m. ET on NBCSN – Lightning Lead Series 3-1
Dallas Stars Advance to First Stanley Cup Final in 20 Years
Sticks & Stones Curling Competition Featuring Stars’ Joe Pavelski and Lightning’s Alex Killorn Presented Tonight at 11:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN
Hockey Culture Interview with St. Louis Blues’ Ryan O’Reilly Available Now
STAMFORD, Conn. – Sept. 15, 2020 – The Tampa Bay Lightning look to advance to their first Stanley Cup Final since 2015 with a win against the New York Islanders in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Final tonight at 8 p.m. ET on NBCSN. Pre-game coverage begins with NHL Live at 7 p.m. ET on NBCSN.
The Lightning moved within one win of the Stanley Cup Final when Tampa Bay scored four unanswered goals, including two in a 12-second span, in a 4-1 victory over the Islanders in Game 4 on Sunday on NBC.
Tampa Bay has appeared in two Stanley Cup Finals during the franchise’s history (2004 and 2015). Their sole Stanley Cup victory in 2004 was a seven-game thriller against the Calgary Flames.
Eight-time Emmy Award-winner Mike ‘Doc’ Emrick will handle play-by-play duties alongside U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame member Eddie Olczyk (analyst) and Brian Boucher (‘Inside-the-Glass’ analyst).
Liam McHugh will host tonight’s studio coverage alongside studio analysts Keith Jones and Anson Carter.
Last night, the Dallas Stars advanced to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time in 20 years on an overtime winning-goal from rookie Denis Gurianov to beat Vegas 3-2.
Sticks & Stones, a special that features stars of the NHL, U.S. women’s national hockey team and USA Curling taking part in a round-robin curling competition, will be presented tonight at 11:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN. Participating in the event are Stars forward Joe Pavelski, Lightning forward Alex Killorn, NHL on NBC analyst AJ Mleczko, 2018 Winter Olympics women’s hockey gold medalist Kendall Coyne Schofield and 2018 U.S. Olympic curling gold medalist John Shuster, among others. A trailer for tonight’s one-hour program can be viewed here.
Earlier today, Hockey Culture debuted an interview with St. Louis Blues forward Ryan O’Reilly as part of the initiative, led by Anson Carter, dedicated to bringing equality and inclusion to the sport of hockey. O’Reilly and Carter discussed his childhood growing up with foster siblings and how those experiences have a played a role in his hockey career as well as his thoughts on how to increase inclusiveness within the sport. Highlighted quotes from the conversation are below:
O’Reilly on growing up with foster siblings: “Learning how to live with them and get along, it’s something that has carried over to everything and I really hope I can give my kids the same experience because you learn so much from it. Especially in hockey, playing on a team with guys that have different backgrounds, but be able to relate and develop a friendship is so important.”
O’Reilly on how his childhood experiences have played a role in his hockey career: “It’s helped me so much in being to help include everyone. Seeing when someone is having a hard time with something, being able to notice it, and bring them in closer to be a part of this family and team.”
O’Reilly on inclusiveness in hockey: “There’s so much room for improvement, especially early in the game…in my household and growing up with my parents, the lesson was that you’re responsible for each other’s well-being. That’s got to be the golden rule…it’s more than just a game, and we need to…help people be better people and be responsible for each other.”
Hockey Culture also features, among others, the following interviews:
Vegas Golden Knights forward Ryan Reaves
Hockey Night in Canada: Punjabi commentator Harnarayan Singh
Edmonton Oilers defenseman Darnell Nurse
Following is tonight’s Eastern Conference Final schedule:
Date Coverage Network Time (ET) Commentators
Tues., Sept. 15 NHL Live NBCSN 7 p.m. Liam McHugh, Keith Jones, Anson Carter
Game 5 – (6) N.Y. Islanders vs. (2) Tampa Bay NBCSN 8 p.m. Mike ‘Doc’ Emrick, Eddie Olczyk, Brian Boucher
PATRICK SHARP AND ANSON CARTER DISCUSS DALLAS STARS ADVANCING TO STANLEY CUP FINAL FOR FIRST TIME IN 20 YEARS
Last night, studio analysts Patrick Sharp and Anson Carter discussed the Dallas Stars advancing to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time in 20 years:
Sharp: “There’s just something special about this Dallas Stars team. Time and time again, they come back and win games that they get outplayed in, they play for each other, having fun inside that bubble…every reason you have to doubt the Dallas Stars, they answer the bell right away.”
Carter: “That celebration told me everything. There’s a game-winning goal scored at the other end, and half the team piles off the bench to celebrate with your netminder. That tells me that those guys love playing for Anton Khudobin.”
NBC SPORTS RADIO STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS BROADCAST SCHEDULE
In conjunction with Westwood One, NBC Sports Radio will broadcast every remaining game of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, including the Conference Finals and the Stanley Cup Final. The following is tonight’s NBC Sports Radio and Westwood One’s Conference Finals broadcast schedule:
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Tues., Sept. 15 Game 5 – N.Y. Islanders vs. Tampa Bay 7:45 p.m. Sam Rosen, Joe Micheletti
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Revelation > Revelation is venue for Norfolk veterans drop-in
Revelation is venue for Norfolk veterans drop-in
Norfolk Christian cafe Revelation is the new venue for regular drop-in sessions of a Norfolk veterans charity.
Veterans Norfolk is a charity that brings together all Norfolk’s service charities to help Norfolk’s armed formed and veterans community.
The group have relocated their drop-in meetings to the Revelation Resource Centre and Café, at St Michael at Plea Church, Redwell Street, on Wednesday.
The drop-in sessions provide veterans, service personnel and their families with a safe place to go for help, from a friendly chat to support and advice with serious problems from outside agencies. The facility will be manned by volunteers from 10am until 2pm every weekday.
The previous facility, the Britannia Veterans’ Centre has ceased operating as the Ministry of Justice plans to dispose of the building.
The president of Veterans Norfolk, General the Lord Dannatt said: “Moving the facility represents a new start in a central location.
“We hope the armed forces community, serving and retired, will be attracted to the café by the relaxed and friendly environment, and we encourage use by all ages.”
Norwich Christian Resources Centre
The Norwich Christian Resource Centre is an ecumenical Christian resource centre, offering a bookshop, a meeting place; a platform for stimulating debate and a welcoming refuge for refreshment. We are open to visitors of any faith or none.
Revelation Café
Situated in the old medieval church of St Michael at Plea on Redwell Street at the top of Bank Plain, Revelation is an ecumenical charitable enterprise exercising a ministry in the centre of the city. Within the walls of this ancient church, we offer a bookshop, a meeting place, a platform for debate and a welcoming refuge for refreshment.
Open Tuesday-Saturday 10am-3pm
Visit the Revelation Café website
Visit Revelation's online shop
Browse and shop at Revelation online for a wide range of christian books. Bibles, DVDs, candles, cards, gifts and church supplies.
Click here to visit the online shop
Find us at: St Michael-at-Plea, Redwell Street, Norwich, NR2 4SN
Shop Tel: 01603 619731
Café Tel: 01603 766978
Email us: enquiry@revelation-norwich.co.uk
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Ohrid SOS: UNESCO Report
In April 2017, representatives of high-level international bodies IUCN, ICOMOS and the World Heritage Centre visited the Ohrid region to conduct a Reactive Monitoring Mission for the UNESCO World Heritage Committee.
Reactive Monitoring is a special report on the state of conservation for specific World Heritage properties that is conducted either when their condition has severely deteriorated or when major constructions may negatively impact their Outstanding Universal Value to all humanity. It is part of the procedure by which a location may fall onto the List of World Heritage in Danger and possible eventual loss of World Heritage status. During this process, Ohrid SOS met with the monitoring mission representatives and presented them with a very important document: World Heritage on the Edge.
World Heritage on the Edge contains robust evidence of deterioration and threat to ancient Lake Ohrid from improper management of hydroelectric dams to the sewerage system, which has been allowed to fall into disrepair. It further details the campaign of fake news conducted to discredit Ohrid SOS and even includes transcripts from wiretapped conversations indicating that urban planning processes may be abused in the UNESCO Ohrid region.
Ohrid SOS is very concerned that planned projects such as drainage of Studenchishte Marsh, an A3 express road, ski-resort and multiple coastline Tourism Development Zones will irreversibly damage ecosystems in the Ohrid region, and thereby lead to the loss of its World Heritage designation. It is also deeply concerned that institutionalized neglect is heightening these dangers.
Finally, the Reactive Monitoring Mission produced a report with 19 recommendations for the Ohrid region. These include a moratorium on shoreline construction, total cancellation of two critical express road sections, abandonment of the ski-resort and stringent enforcement of laws, such as for the 50m green belt at the Lake Ohrid’s edge. In November, the IUCN followed suit with a World Heritage Outlook assessment that found the Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid region to be in a state of “significant concern” and highlighted the priority need for wetland rehabilitation.
World Heritage on the Edge is included in the bibliography for both reports. Immediate measures such as abandonment of the road sections and ski-resort are expected from Macedonian authorities by February 2018.
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