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__label__wiki	0.504994	0.504994	Wild Thing: The True Story of Britain's Rightful Guv'nor (eBOOK) Author:Bernard O'Mahoney, Lew Yates Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd Categories:True Stories, Biography, Sports Books Overview:Wild Thing: The True Story of Britain's Rightful Guv'nor - Everybody in the unlicensed fight game knows that only one man has the honour of being titled 'Guv'nor' - and that man is Lew 'Wild Thing' Yates. Yates began boxing at the age of six, and as an adult he was ruthless in pursuit of his dream of becoming world heavyweight champion. But when his licence was revoked following an assault on a referee, he turned to unlicensed boxing. By day, Yates pounded punchbags and the streets in an effort to reach the peak of physical fitness as he prepared for his epic battle with Roy 'Pretty Boy' Shaw. At night, he pounded gangsters and drug dealers foolish enough to take him on in the nightclubs where he worked. Wild Thing documents how Yates rose to the top of his bloody profession. When it comes to his fighting ability, he doesn't need to boast, brag or exaggerate. With Lew Yates, what you see is what you hope you're never going to get. This is his remarkable story. This book is on page /3574b176dc725218de3835184742780c/book/1603725640-9781845963521. It was written by the following authors: Bernard O'Mahoney, Lew Yates. Book Wild Thing: The True Story of Britain's Rightful Guv'nor, which can be read online, published by the company: Transworld Publishers Ltd. Other books on similar topics can be found in sections: True Stories, Biography, Sports Books. The book was published on 2009-01-08 00:00:00. It has 288 pages and is published in Paperback format and weight 199 g. File for download Wild Thing: The True Story of Britain's Rightful Guv'nor has PDF format and is called wild-thing-the-true-story-of-britains-rightful-guvnor.pdf. Other books you can download below. Our koopbitcoin.eu site is not responsible for the content of PDF files. How to download book Wild Thing: The True Story of Britain's Rightful Guv'nor? Wildflowers of the Eastern United States - Wormsloe Foundation Publication Wildlife the South African Way Wilde Stories 2013: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction - Wilde Stories: Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction Wilderness Oman Wild About Fierce Creatures Wild Life: Adventures of an Accidental Conservationist in Africa Wildlife Ecology and Management Wild Animals Tattoos - Dover Tattoos Wild Daisies: An Appalachia-Inspired Short Story Collection Things to Make for Mums - Usborne Activities Wild and Wacky Animals - Touch and Feel Fun 4 Wild Horses of the Carolinas and How They Came to be Here Wild in the Garden - Cold Porcelain Flowers Wild Frontier: Western Australia Wildfires: A Skills Review and Writing Text - Forces of Nature Series Wild Together: My Adventures with Loki the Wolfdog Things That Happened - Glas: New Russian Writing v. 19 Wild About Superbikes Things We Never Said Wild Cards The Series 1-2 Wilden T:Exchange of Clowns Wild Men on the North Fork: a Yellowstone Summer Wildflowers and Ferns of Newfoundland: Field Guide Wild Edible Fruits and Vegetables Wild Animals: Puzzles and Activities Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin Wilde Stories 2010: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction - Wilde Stories: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction (Cloth) Wild Signs and Star Paths Wild for Horses Wild Berries & Fruits Field Guide of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan Wilderness And Rescue Medicine Things I Learned While Waiting for the Hearse Wildland Fire Management Terminology /F2970: FAO Forestry Paper, No 70 Things to Do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park: When You're 29 and Unemployed Wild About You!: The Sixties Beat Explosion in Australia and New Zealand	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798710
__label__cc	0.551709	0.448291	Home COVID19 Covid-19: 1 716 new cases and 40 more deaths reported Covid-19: 1 716 new cases and 40 more deaths reported The number of confirmed coronavirus cases has increased by 1 716 and the death toll has risen by 40. This brings the total number of infections to 32 683, with 683 fatalities. More than half – 16 809 or 51.4 percent – of patients have recovered. The Western Cape still has the most confirmed cases with 21 382, accounting for 65.4 percent of all cases nationally. Gauteng has recorded 4 003 cases (12.2 percent of the national total) while Mpumalanga remains the only province with no Covid-19 related deaths. See the stats for all provinces below: Some 51.3 percent of deaths nationally occurred in those aged between 50 and 69 years. Four deaths have been recorded in the 0 to 19-year-old age group, while there have been 44 fatalities among those aged between 20 and 44 years. The Department of Health has conducted 725 125 tests nationally since the outbreak of the pandemic, with 23 242 conducted within the last 24 hours. Coronavirus reporting by Kormorant in partnership with Caxton Local Media aims to combat fake news. As your local news provider, we have the duty of keeping you factually informed on Covid-19 developments. As you may have noticed, mis- and disinformation (also known as “fake news”) is circulating online. Kormorant is determined to filter through the masses of information doing the rounds and to separate truth from untruth in order to keep you adequately informed. Kormorant follows a strict pre-publication fact-checking protocol. A national task team has been established to assist in bringing you credible news reports on Covid-19. Readers with any comments or queries may contact Kormorant editor Deon van Huizen (deon@kormorant.co.za), National Group Editor Irma Green (irma@caxton.co.za) or Legal Adviser Helene Eloff (helene@caxton.co.za). Read original story on northcliffmelvilletimes.co.za Previous articlePresident Cyril Ramaphosa speaks of the re-opening of schools Next articleSchools: 8 June it is, says Basic Education Minister	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798711
__label__wiki	0.757553	0.757553	KYBP on Film John Taylor (Duran Duran, Power Station) John Taylor, bassist, by Tom Semioli Seminal Sides: Duran Duran (1981), Rio (1982), Notorious (1986) with Duran Duran; Power Station (1985) Artists / Bands: Duran Duran, The Power Station No ensemble captured the zeitgeist of the MTV era more so than Duran Duran and their bassist Nigel John Taylor. Though oft derided as “video stars” more so than musicians, this Birmingham lot had the chops as players, recording artists, and performers to go the distance, even without the (then) ubiquitous twenty-four hour video channel. Profoundly inspired by David Bowie’s Berlin-era bassist George Murray, the various Roxy Music players (including Sal Maida and John Gustafson), and Chic’s Bernard Edwards (John now owns his MusicMan Stingray bass), Taylor’s basslines as waxed with Duran Duran and the super group that actually lived up to its name – The Power Station- often provided the hooks that made the hits. “Last Chance on the Stairway,” “Hungry Like The Wolf,” “Notorious,” “Rio,” “Get It On” and “Some Like It Hot,” are just a few examples of Taylor’s signature meld of rock and dance approaches to the instrument. Aside from Duran x 2, John has cut solo sides, authored a fine memoir In The Pleasure Groove, acted on film and television, and collaborated with simpatico pallies including Steve Jones, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum in Neurotic Outsiders. And he’s still on the bandstand, still workin’ the groove for the pleasure of millions of Duran Duran fans around the globe…. nice work if you can get it! “Last Chance on the Stairway” https://youtu.be/quqp_PeWc6A “Tiger Tiger” https://youtu.be/3pScycbJX60 “Rio” https://youtu.be/nTizYn3-QN0 “Get It On Bang A Gong” https://youtu.be/O2vHbXI2p4k “Notorious” https://youtu.be/Z9z0e1Wm64M “Some Like It Hot” https://youtu.be/Hw1t7OCESUw Coda: Taylor’s sharp, chorus enhanced tone and nifty combination of finger and slap style was in such high demand in the 1980s that I had to purchase an Aria Pro II bass in the UK to appease the US producers I worked with! That’s how influential they were. John Taylor with author, KYBP Super Fan Geoffrey Dicker Copyright 2020 © know your bass player - Privacy Policy	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798718
__label__wiki	0.735212	0.735212	Digestive strategies of small hindgut fermenters Ei SAKAGUCHI Faculty of Agriculture, Okayama University, Okayama-shi, Japan Small mammalian herbivores have a limitation in their supply system of nutrients to their energy and protein demands because they need much more energy and protein per unit body mass than larger herbivorous animals. Therefore, small herbivores need to have characteristic strategies in their digestive systems to overcome the limitation of their small body mass compared with larger animals. Although small herbivorous mammals commonly have an enlarged cecum, the pattern of ﬂow and mixing of digesta in the large intestine varies among them. Distinct separation of the larger ﬁber particles from smaller and liquid contents which are retained in the cecum can be recognized in some species. Coprophagy, practiced by many small herbivores, has nutritional signiﬁcance providing a source of vitamins, amino acids, and other nutrients which are excreted with feces. Among coprophagous mammals, several species produce two types of feces: soft feces, which are eaten; and hard, which are not eaten. Soft feces contain more water than hard feces and dry matter includes more protein and less ﬁber. Coprophagic behavior must be supported by the colonic separation mechanism, which operates retrograde transport of ﬂuid and ﬁne particle digesta or bacteria trapped in the mucus, resulting in high density bacteria in the cecum contents, which is successively consumed as cecotroph. These mechanisms must be necessary for small herbivores to survive on the feed in their habitat. cecum fermenter, colonic separation, coprophagy, digesta ﬂow Digestion Nutrition & Metabolism Coprophagy cecum fermenter colonic separation digesta ﬂow Animal Science Journal Lunney Timms Comprehensive profiling of retroviral integration sites using target enrichment methods from historical koala samples without an assembled reference genome Comprehensive profiling of retroviral integration sites using target enrichment methods from historical koala samples without an assembled reference genome Pin Cui1,, Ulrike Löber1,2,, David E. Alquezar-Planas1, Yasuko Ishida3, Alexandre Courtiol4, Peter Timms5, Rebecca N. Johnson6, Dorina Lenz7, Kristofer M. Helgen8,9, Alfred L. Roca3, Stefanie Hartman2 and Alex D. Greenwood1 1… Morphology of the Thyroid in Coastal and Noncoastal Populations of the Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) in Queensland Morphology of the Thyroid in Coastal and Noncoastal Populations of the Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) in Queensland Veronica J. Lawson and Frank N. Carrick Koala Study Program, Department of Zoology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia, 4072 ABSTRACT The gross morphology, histology, and ultrastructure of the thyroid gland of the… Lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis genes in koala type I Chlamydia: cloning and characterization Lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis genes in koala type I Chlamydia: cloning and characterization A.A. Girjes ^(1, 3)(), EN. Carrick ^(2) and M.F. Lavin ^(1, 4) 1 Queensland Cancer Fund Research Unit, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Bancroft Centre, 300 Herston Road, Brisbane 4029 (Australia), 2 Department of Zoology, 3 Department to Anatomical… Hepatic microsomal enzyme activity in the koala and tammar wallaby: high 17β -hydroxysteroid oxidoreductase activity in koala liver microsomes Hepatic microsomal enzyme activity in the koala and tammar wallaby: high 17β -hydroxysteroid oxidoreductase activity in koala liver microsomes I. Stupans ^a,, S. Kong ^a, A. Kirlich ^a, M. Murray ^b, E.L. Bailey ^a, B.R. Jones ^a, R.A. McKinnon ^a a) Center for Pharmaceutical Research, School of Pharmacy and Medical… Characterisation of tolbutamide hydroxylase activity in the common brushtail possum, (Trichosurus vulpecula) and koala (Phascolarctos cinereus): inhibition by the Eucalyptus terpene 1,8-cineole Characterisation of tolbutamide hydroxylase activity in the common brushtail possum, (Trichosurus vulpecula) and koala (Phascolarctos cinereus): inhibition by the Eucalyptus terpene 1,8-cineole Panagiota Liapis ^a, Georgia J. Pass ^b, Ross A. McKinnon ^a, Ieva Stupans ^a,* a) School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, City East, North… Cloning and expression of koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) liver cytochrome P450 reductase Cloning and expression of koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) liver cytochrome P450 reductase Sandra Kong a, Suong N.T. Ngo a,b,⁎, Ross A. McKinnon a, Ieva Stupans a a Sansom Institute, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia b School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Pharmacy… Absence of type 1 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase enzyme in koala liver Absence of type 1 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase enzyme in koala liver Sandra Kong, Ross A. McKinnon, Behnaz Mojarrabi, Ieva Stupans* Centre for Pharmaceutical Research, School of Pharmaceutical, Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, University of South Australia, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia ABSTRACTThe 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases (11β-HSDs) interconvert 11β-hydroxysteroids such as cortisol into… Hepatic cytochrome P450 enzymes belonging to the CYP2C subfamily from an Australian marsupial, the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) Hepatic cytochrome P450 enzymes belonging to the CYP2C subfamily from an Australian marsupial, the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) Brett R. Jones a, Adaweyah El-Merhibi a, Suong N.T. Ngo a,b,⁎, Ieva Stupans a, Ross A. McKinnon a,⁎ a Sansom Institute, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA… A Method for Estimating Crown Weight in Eucalyptus, and Some Implications of Relationships between Crown Weight and Stem Diameter A Method for Estimating Crown Weight in Eucalyptus, and Some Implications of Relationships between Crown Weight and Stem Diameter P. M. Attiwill School of Forestry, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ABSTRACT Equations relating crown weight to diameter at breast height outside bark (dbhob) are developed for approximately 50-year-old, even-aged stands… Molecular Evidence to Support the Expansion of the Hostrange of Chlamydophila pneumoniae to Include Reptiles as Well as Humans, Horses, Koalas and Amphibians Molecular Evidence to Support the Expansion of the Hostrange of Chlamydophila pneumoniae to Include Reptiles as Well as Humans, Horses, Koalas and Amphibians TRACEY J. BODETTI^1, ELLIOTT JACOBSON^2, CHARLES WAN^1, LOUISE HAFNER^1, ANDREAS POSPISCHIL^3, KARRIE ROSE^4 and PETER TIMMS^1 1) Centre for Molecular Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Queensland University… Interdisciplinary Guidelines for Developing Effective Koala Conservation Policy Interdisciplinary Guidelines for Developing Effective Koala Conservation Policy TIM W. CLARK,* NICOLE MAZUR,† ROBERT J. BEGG,‡ AND STEVEN J. CORK§ School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Sage Hall, 205 Prospect Street, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, U.S.A., and Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative, Box 2705, Jackson, WY 83001, U.S.A., email… Lymphoid neoplasia in the koala Lymphoid neoplasia in the koala JH CONNOLLY^a, PJ CANFIELD^a, S HEMSLEY^a and AJ SPENCER^b ABSTRACT Objective Correlation of immunophenotype with history, anatomical and morphological features of lymphoid neoplasia in the koala.Methods Routine necropsies were performed on 51 koalas with suspected lymphoid neoplasia between 1986 and 1997 in New South Wales… Estimating forest habitat complexity in relation to time since ﬁre Estimating forest habitat complexity in relation to time since ﬁre NICHOLAS C. COOPS^1 AND PETER C. CATLING^2 1) CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products, Private Bag 10, Clayton South, Victoria 3169, Australia (Email: ) 2) CSIRO Wildlife and Ecology, GPO Box 284, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia ABSTRACT Forest structure… The Muscles of Mastication of Phascolarctos cinereus (Phascolarctidae: Marsupialia) The Muscles of Mastication of Phascolarctos cinereus (Phascolarctidae: Marsupialia) Charmaine V. Davison and William G. Young Department of Oral Biology & Oral Surgery, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld 4067, Australia. ABSTRACTThe muscles of mastication of the koala, Phascolarctos cinereus, were dissected, described, weighed and the areas of their origin… Unusual macromorphology of the ductuli efferentes and epididymis of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) Unusual macromorphology of the ductuli efferentes and epididymis of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)Rachel J. Gibson^A, Chris M. Leigh and William G. Breed^B Department of Anatomical Sciences, University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia. A) Current Address: Department of Medical Oncology, Royal Adelaide Hospital, SA 5000, Australia. B) To whom correspondence should… Phylogeographic differentiation in the mitochondrial control region in the koala, Phascolarctos cinereus (Goldfuss 1817) Phylogeographic differentiation in the mitochondrial control region in the koala, Phascolarctos cinereus (Goldfuss 1817) BRONWYN A. HOULDEN,† BRIAN H. COSTELLO,† DEIRDRE SHARKEY,† ELIZABETH V. FOWLER,‡ ALISTAIR MELZER,§ WILLIAM ELLIS,¶ FRANK CARRICK,¶ PETER R. BAVERSTOCK* and MARTIN S. ELPHINSTONE** Taronga Zoo, PO Box 20, Mosman, 2088, Australia †School of Biological Science,… Sequence variation of koala retrovirus transmembrane protein p15E among koalas from different geographic regions Sequence variation of koala retrovirus transmembrane protein p15E among koalas from different geographic regions Yasuko Ishida^a,,1, Chelsea McCallister^b,1, Nikolas Nikolaidis^b,1, Kyriakos Tsangaras^c, Kristofer M. Helgen^d, Alex D. Greenwood^c, Alfred L. Roca^a,e,** a) Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1207 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA b)… Endogenous Retroviruses in the Genomics Era Endogenous Retroviruses in the Genomics EraWelkin E. JohnsonBiology Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467; email: ABSTRACT Endogenous retroviruses comprise millions of discrete genetic loci distributed within the genomes of extant vertebrates. These sequences, which are clearly related to exogenous retroviruses, represent retroviral infections of the deep past, and… Overview, Critical Assessment, and Conservation Implications of Koala Distribution and Abundance Overview, Critical Assessment, and Conservation Implications of Koala Distribution and Abundance ALISTAIR MELZER,* FRANK CARRICK,†, PETER MENKHORST,‡ DANIEL LUNNEY,§ AND BARBARA ST. JOHN** Koala Research Centre of Central Queensland, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, QLD 4702, Australia, email †Koala Study Centre, Department of Zoology, University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Australia… Field Metabolic Rate, Water Flux, Food Consumption and Time Budget of Koalas, Phascolarctos cinereus (Marsupialia: Phascolarctidae) in Victoria Field Metabolic Rate, Water Flux, Food Consumption and Time Budget of Koalas, Phascolarctos cinereus (Marsupialia: Phascolarctidae) in Victoria Kenneth A. Nagy and Roger W. MartinB Laboratory of Biomedical and Environmental Sciences, and Department of Biology, University of California, 900 Veteran .Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90024, U.S.A.BDepartment of Zoology, Monash University,… A review of feeding and diet selection in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) A review of feeding and diet selection in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) Benjamin D. Moore and William J. Foley Division of Botany and Zoology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia. ABSTRACT Food quality and availability are believed to be primary determinants of habitat quality for koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus), so we… Pathology of the female reproductive tract in the koala, Phascolarctos cinereus (Goldfuss), from Victoria, Australia Pathology of the female reproductive tract in the koala, Phascolarctos cinereus (Goldfuss), from Victoria, Australia DL. OBENDORF, Department of Veterinary Paraclinical Sciences, University of Melbourne, Veterinary Clinical Centre, Princes Highway, Werribee, Victoria, 3030. ABSTRACT Lesions occurred in the female genital tract of 10 of 16 (63%) koalas, Phascolarctos cinereus, examined… Causes of mortality and morbidity of wild koalas, Phascolarctos cinereus (Goldfuss), in Victoria, Australia Causes of mortality and morbidity of wild koalas, Phascolarctos cinereus (Goldfuss), in Victoria, Australia David L Obendort Department of Veterinary Paraclinical Sciences, University of Melbourne, Veterinary Clinical Centre, Princes Highway, Victoria 3030, Australia ABSTRACT Between 1975 and 1980, necropsy investigations Were conducted on 44 wild koalas (24 males, 20 females)… Cytochrome P450 CYP3A in marsupials: Cloning and characterisation of the second identified CYP3A subfamily member, isoform 3A78 from koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) Cytochrome P450 CYP3A in marsupials: Cloning and characterisation of the second identified CYP3A subfamily member, isoform 3A78 from koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) Adaweyah El-Merhibi a, Suong N.T. Ngo b,⁎,1, Tamara A. Crittenden c, Ceilidh L. Marchant c, Ieva Stupans d, Ross A. McKinnon e,⁎⁎ a Women's and Children's Health Research Institute,… Patch Mosaic Burning for Biodiversity Conservation: a Critique of the Pyrodiversity Paradigm C Patch Mosaic Burning for Biodiversity Conservation: a Critique of the Pyrodiversity Paradigm CATHERINE L. PARR∗ AND ALAN N. ANDERSEN Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre, CSIRO Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre, PMB 44, Winnellie, 0822, NT, Australia ABSTRACT Fire management is increasingly focusing on introducing heterogeneity in burning patterns under the assumption that… A forest simulation model for predicting eucalypt dynamics and habitat quality for arboreal marsupials A forest simulation model for predicting eucalypt dynamics and habitat quality for arboreal marsupials JULI G. PAUSAS,1,3 MIKE P. AUSTIN,1 AND IAN R. NOBLE2 1CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology, PO Box 84, Lyneham, A. C.T. 2602, Australia 2Research Schools of Biological Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, A. C.T.… Development and evaluation of rapid novel isothermal amplification assays for important veterinary pathogens: Chlamydiapsittaci and Chlamydiapecorum Development and evaluation of rapid novel isothermal amplification assays for important veterinary pathogens: Chlamydiapsittaci and Chlamydiapecorum Martina Jelocnik1, Md. Mominul Islam1, Danielle Madden1, Cheryl Jenkins2, James Branley3, Scott Carver4 and Adam Polkinghorne1 1Centre for Animal Health Innovation, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Queensland, Australia 2NSW Department of Primary Industries,… Demographic Forecasting in Koala Conservation Demographic Forecasting in Koala Conservation ANGELA M. PENN, WILLIAM B. SHERWIN,†† GREG GORDON,† DANIEL LUNNEY,‡ ALISTAIR MELZER,§ AND ROBERT C. LACY* School of Biological Science, University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Australia †Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, P.O. Box 155, Albert Street, QLD 4002 Australia ‡Biodiversity Survey and Research… The tree species preferences of koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) inhabiting forest and woodland communities on Quaternary deposits in the Port Stephens area, New South Wales The tree species preferences of koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) inhabiting forest and woodland communities on Quaternary deposits in the Port Stephens area, New South Wales Stephen PhillipsA, John CallaghanB and Valerie ThompsonC ASchool of Resource Science and Management, Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW2480, Australia. BAustralian Koala Foundation, GPO… Chlamydiaceae and Chlamydia-like organisms in the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)—Organ distribution and histopathological findings Chlamydiaceae and Chlamydia-like organisms in the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)—Organ distribution and histopathological findings Fabienne Burach a, Andreas Pospischil a, Jon Hanger b, Jo Loader b, Trestan Pillonel c, Gilbert Greub c, Nicole Borel a, aInstitute of Veterinary Pathology, University of Zurich, Vetsuisse Faculty, Winterthurerstrasse 268, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerlandb Endeavour Veterinary… Cytotoxic-T-Lymphocyte-Mediated Cytolysis of L Cells Persistently Infected with Chlamydia spp. Cytotoxic-T-Lymphocyte-Mediated Cytolysis of L Cells Persistently Infected with Chlamydia spp. STEPHANIE J. RASMUSSEN,1,2* PETER TIMMS,2 P. ROBERT BEATTY,1,3 AND RICHARD S. STEPHENS1,3 1Francis I. Proctor Foundation and Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0412 2Centre for Molecular Biotechnology, School of Life Science, Queensland… Recent advances in understanding the biology, epidemiology and control of chlamydial infections in koalas Recent advances in understanding the biology, epidemiology and control of chlamydial infections in koalas Adam Polkinghorne a,, Jon Hanger b, Peter Timms aa Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, 60MuskAvenue, KelvinGrove, Brisbane 4059, Australiab Endeavour Veterinary Ecology Pty Ltd, 1695 Pumicestone Road, Toorbul 4510, Australia ABSTRACT… A spatially explicit habitat selection model incorporating home range behaviour A spatially explicit habitat selection model incorporating home range behaviour JONATHAN R. RHODES,1,2,4 CLIVE A. MCALPINE,1'2 DANIEL LUNNEY,3 AND HUGH P. POSSINGHAM2 1School of Geography, Planning and Architecture, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia 2The Ecology Centre, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia 3New South Wales Department of… Historically low mitochondrial DNA diversity in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) Historically low mitochondrial DNA diversity in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) Kyriakos Tsangaras1, María C Ávila-Arcos2, Yasuko Ishida3, Kristofer M Helgen4, Alfred L Roca3 and Alex D Greenwood1 1Leibniz-Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin 10315, Germany.2GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Østervoldgade 5-7, Copenhagen, DK 1350, Denmark.3Department of… Genetic diversity in the plasticity zone and the presence of the chlamydial plasmid differentiates Chlamydia pecorum strains from pigs, sheep, cattle, and koalas Genetic diversity in the plasticity zone and the presence of the chlamydial plasmid differentiates Chlamydia pecorum strains from pigs, sheep, cattle, and koalas Martina Jelocnik1, Nathan L. Bachmann1, Bernhard Kaltenboeck2, Courtney Waugh1, Lucy Woolford3, K. Natasha Speight3, Amber Gillett4, Damien P. Higgins5, Cheyne Flanagan6, Garry S. A. Myers7, Peter Timms1… Patterns of evolutionary transformation in the petrosal bone and some basicranial features in marsupial mammals, with special reference to didelphids Patterns of evolutionary transformation in the petrosal bone and some basicranial features in marsupial mammals, with special reference to didelphids M. R. SANCHEZ-VILLAGRA1 and J. R. WIBLE2 1Zoologisches Institut, Spezielle Zoologie, Universitat Tubingen, Germany; 2Section of Mammals, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, USA ABSTRACT Twelve petrosal and four nonpetrosal characters… First report of a spermatic granuloma and varicocele in a marsupial: A Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) Case Study First report of a spermatic granuloma and varicocele in a marsupial: A Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) Case Study B.K. Schultz a,b,⁎, C. Palmieri b, V. Nicolson c, R. Larkin d, T. Keeley a, M. McGowan b, S.D. Johnston a a Wildlife Science Unit, School of Agriculture and Food Science, The University… In vitro hepatic microsomal metabolism of meloxicam in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus), brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula), ringtail possums (Pseudocheirus peregrinus), rats (Rattus norvegicus) and dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) In vitro hepatic microsomal metabolism of meloxicam in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus), brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula), ringtail possums (Pseudocheirus peregrinus), rats (Rattus norvegicus) and dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) B. Kimble a, K.M. Li b, P. Valtchev c, D.P. Higgins a, M.B. Krockenberger a, M. Govendir a,⁎ a Faculty of Veterinary Science,… Distribution models for koalas in South Australia using citizen science-collected data Distribution models for koalas in South Australia using citizen science-collected data Ana M. M. Sequeira1, Philip E. J. Roetman2, Christopher B. Daniels2, Andrew K. Baker3 & Corey J. A. Bradshaw1 1The Environment Institute and School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia2Barbara Hardy… Analysis and Conservation Implications of Koala Genetics Analysis and Conservation Implications of Koala Genetics WILLIAM B. SHERWIN,* PETER TIMMS,† JONATHAN WILCKEN,‡ AND BRONWYN HOULDEN§ School of Biological Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia, email †School of Life Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, George Street, Brisbane, QLD 7000, Australia‡Australasian Regional Association of Zoological Parks… Maternal effort and joey growth in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) Maternal effort and joey growth in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) J. R. Tobey1, C. H. Andrus2, L. Doyle2, V. D. Thompson2 & F. B. 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Brouwer Botany Department, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Qld. 4067. ABSTRACTField data, collected at fortnightly intervals over a period… Durikainema phascolarcti n. sp. (Nematoda: Muspiceoidea: Robertdollfusidae) from the pulmonary arteries of the koala Phascolarctos cinereus with associated pathological changes Durikainema phascolarcti n. sp. (Nematoda: Muspiceoidea: Robertdollfusidae) from the pulmonary arteries of the koala Phascolarctos cinereus with associated pathological changes D.M. Spratt1 and P.A. Gill2 1 CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology, PO Box 84, Lyneham 2602, Australia2 New South Wales Agriculture, Regional Veterinary Laboratory, Wollongbar 2477, AustraliaABSTRACTDurikainema phascolarcti n.… Retroviral invasion of the koala genome Retroviral invasion of the koala genome Rachael E. Tarlinton1, Joanne Meers2 & Paul R. Young1 1School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, and 2School of Veterinary Science, University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072, Queensland, Australia. ABSTRACTEndogenous retroviruses are a common ancestral feature of mammalian genomes with most having been inactivated over… Eucalyptus Digestibility and Digestible Energy Requirements of Adult Male Koalas, Phuscolarctos cinereus (Marsupialia) Eucalyptus Digestibility and Digestible Energy Requirements of Adult Male Koalas, Phuscolarctos cinereus (Marsupialia)* D. E. UllreyA, P. T. RobinsonB and P. A. WhetterA ADepartment of Animal Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, U.S.A.BJennings Center for Zoological Medicine, Zoological Society of San Diego, San Diego, California 921 12, U.S.A.… Treatment of Chlamydia-associated ocular disease via a recombinant protein based vaccine in the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) Treatment of Chlamydia-associated ocular disease via a recombinant protein based vaccine in the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) Courtney Waugh a, Ray Austin b, Adam Polkinghorne a, Peter Timms a, * a Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering, The University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australiab Keen Street Veterinary Clinic, Lismore, New… Evaluation of an enzyme immunoassay test for the diagnosis of Chlamydia psittaci infection in free-ranging koalas (Phascolarctos Cinereus) in Southeastern Queensland, Australia Evaluation of an enzyme immunoassay test for the diagnosis of Chlamydia psittaci infection in free-ranging koalas (Phascolarctos Cinereus) in Southeastern Queensland, AustraliaBenjamin J. Weigler,1,4 F. Christian Baldock,2 Adeeb A. Girjes,3 Frank N. Carrick,5 and Martin F. Lavin31 Department of Animal Sciences and Production, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland 4067,… Chlamydia psittaci in a Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) Population in South-east Queensland Chlamydia psittaci in a Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) Population in South-east Queensland Neil A. WhiteAB and Peter TimmsC ACentre for Biological Population Management, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box2434, Brisbane, Qld 4000, Australia.BTo whom correspondence should be addressed.CCentre for Molecular Biotechnology, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Qld 4000, Australia. ABSTRACTClinical signs… Ecology of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) in rural south-east Queensland, Australia Ecology of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) in rural south-east Queensland, Australia Neil A. White School of Natural Resource Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, Qld 4001, Australia.Present Address: Biodiversity Section, Natural Environment Branch, Brisbane City Council, GPO Box 1434, Brisbane, Qld 4001, Australia. ABSTRACTThis study investigated home-range… load more hold SHIFT key to load all load all	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798719
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Turning away from his mother and Jesus after discovering a family secret, twelve-year-old Will Hutchinson lies, steals, and embraces the ways of the Tewa Indians Free shipping over $ Visitors to the Discovery Mountain site under age 13 are free to access the site without disclosing any personal information, with the exception of the optional "Contact" form which requires an email address. On the contact page listeners are asked "If you're under age 13 please ask your parents or guardian to. as Christian pdf rather than simply discovery or European discovery.” Newcomb, who is Shawnee/ Lenape, also breaks new ground by making use of “the tools and methods of cognitive theory” in order to expose—and challenge—the “negative, oppressive, and dominating concepts that .“It is a Christian crucifixion taking place outside the city walls,” says Mr Davies. 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That’s why gardeners deadhead to keep neat and increase the beauty of the knockout rose bush. http://www.brighterblooms.com/category/knockout-roses/ Learn how to get the most out of your Knock Out Roses with the proper planting techniques. Knockout rose problems. [4], "'Many people consider 'Knock Out' a good example of the type of rose that will be most popular in the future. About a month later it was loaded with roses. Grows in a rounded, bushy and well-behaved shrub, up to 4-5 ft. tall and wide (120-150 cm). 99. Blooms are 2—3 in (5—7 cm) in diameter, saucer-shaped, with single to semi-double (5—13) petals. Thus, the Conard-Pyle Company, those friendly folks from Pennsylvania who introduced 'Knock Out' rose to America, saw an opportunity. No need to spray. 'Knock Out' is a medium, bushy shrub, 2 to 4 ft (60—121 cm) in height with a 3 to 4 ft (90—120 cm) spread. 2.6 out of 5 stars 164. 97. Plant in decorative containers for your porch or patio, or in mass for a dramatic pop of color! 4.5 out of 5 stars 359. Double Pink Knock Out Rose - 2 Gallon Shrub - Developed Plants for Instant Blooms, Not Tiny Quarts, Seedlings or Seeds \| Cannot Ship to AZ. [2] Flowers have a strong, fruity fragrance, and bloom in flushes from spring through fall. color: Whiteflowering: Abundant and continuoushabit: Compact, bushymature size: On average 3½’ h x 3½’ wfoliage: Very dark matte green, young foliage is almost blackzone: 4–11scent: Very slight citrus. If you deadhead the spent flowers before producing seed, then channel the energy of the roses into a direction that promotes new healthy growth and blooms. Flowers open from attractive buds, and are a bright cherry red with a white center and green-yellow-stamens. FREE Shipping. New stems and growth are purple. It had everything -- showy, continuous blooms; compact growth habit; tough-as-nails constitution; and, best of all, no need to spray for black spot disease.But now, nature has tossed green kryptonite into Superman's garden. the White Knock Out® Rose ‘Radwhite’ PP 20,273 An excellent shrub rose that stands out in the landscape due to the contrast between pure white blooms and very dark green foliage. Get it as soon as Tue, Nov 24. $20.35 $ 20. $13.99 $ 13. Knock Out® roses (Rosa 'radrazz') continue to be a popular perennial choice for home gardens everywhere. Use the pruning shears to remove all diseased, damaged or dead canes from the bush. The bush hasn't bloomed since and the stems are starting to turn brown. The plant thrives in USDA zone, 4 and warmer. See the FAQ's. Knockout Roses have become a fast favorite … FREE Shipping on orders over $25 shipped by Amazon. … Blue Ribbon™ Winner for outstanding, low water performance in 2017-2019 WUCOLS trials. 3.8 out of 5 stars 16. Knock Out rose bushes are known for being extremely disease resistant as well as being nearly carefree. Pests and insects can damage the knockout rose plants by yellowing the leaves. Get it as soon as Fri, Nov 27. Not fragrant like traditional roses except Sunny Knockout. Introduced in 2000, 'Knockout' rose quickly became the best-selling landscape plant in the country. Blooms are 2—3 in (5—7 cm) in diameter, saucer-shaped, with single to semi-double (5—13) petals. The cultivar was developed from a cross between the floribunda, Rosa 'Razzle Dazzle' and shrub rose, Rosa 'Carefree Beauty'. Not a traditional rose-shaped bloom. Knockout Roses. During that time a bug (a rose slug I think) came and ate every single leaf. FREE Shipping by Amazon. Thin the Knockout Rose as you desire to bring it back into a compact shape (removing as much as one-third of the new growth). Although Knock Out roses are hardy to USDA Zone 5, they will need some winter protection. The perfect NPK ratio will help you to get healthy knockout roses with extra bigger blooms. This rose variety reblooms every five or six weeks throughout the growing season. It has the same flower power and easy care as others in the family, but in an adorable, petite size! The extremely hardy rose cultivar, was successful that first year, and has become one of America's top selling roses, 'Knock Out' is also the original rose variety of a large family of 'Knock Out rose varieties. Everywhere. Once late summer hits, knockout roses start preparing for colder weather and do not require fertilizer. 4.1 out of 5 stars 98. Easy Care or Carefree roses are a part of most of the colorful landscapes. "The rose was special, a dense bush full of pinkish-red blooms. Japanese beetles, Rose scales, Rose leafhopper, Slugs, Aphids, thrips, sawflies, and grasshoppers are the major pests of knockout roses. Perfect Plants Sunny Knock Out Rose 1 Gallon, Live Plant Includes Special Blend Fertilizer & Planting Guide Yellow. 4.0 out of 5 stars 14. No need to prune. 35. Saavyseeds Rose Bush Terradoga Rose Seeds - 11 Count - October 2014 Harvest. Flowers have a strong, fruity fragrance, and bloom in flushes from spring through fall. It was named an All-America Rose Selections winner in 2000. These fast-growing, compact, deciduous shrubs can be grown singly or in groups. It blooms from spring through fall, maintaining a compact habit. Full sun, partial sun. Its on the north side of our house so it really only gets morning sun. 99. Drought resistant. Knock Out roses are known for their easy care, extended blooming season with repeat flowering, and increased disease resistance when compared to traditional tea roses. 99. Just like 'Knock Out,' they bloom nonstop and don't need spraying for disease. Low maintenance. [3] Flowers open from attractive buds, and are a bright cherry red with a white center and green-yellow-stamens. They are very thin, lacking foliage, and have limited blooms, and the blooms that do open are rather small. After eight years of testing, Star Roses introduced the new rose into the United States in 2000 under the marketing name of 'Knock Out'. These are other names of knock out roses. My knockout roses have been struggling this summer. Compared to the other new hybrid rose plants in his backyard test garden that year, Radler recalled that new cultivar was exceptional. knockout rose bush Frigidaire Slide-in Range Rear Filler Kit, Who Is Charlie In Charlie's Angels, Samsung Reversible Cast Iron Griddle Care, Overnight Oatmeal With Evaporated Milk, Mrs Renfro's Ghost Pepper Scoville, As If Clueless, knockout rose bush 2020	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798751
__label__cc	0.625674	0.374326	Climate change impacts on runoff in West Africa: a review Roudier, P. Ducharne, A. Feyen, L. HYDROLOGY AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES Volume: 18 Issue: 7 Pages: 2789-2801 Published: 2014 DOI10.5194/hess-18-2789-2014 This review summarizes the impacts of climate change on runoff in West Africa, assesses the uncertainty in the projections and describes future research needs for the region. To do so, we constitute a meta-database made of 19 studies and 301 future runoff change values. The future tendency in streamflow developments is overall very uncertain (median of the 301 points is 0% and mean +5.2%), except for (i) the Gambia River, which exhibits a significant negative change (median= -4.5%), and (ii) the Sassandra and the Niger rivers, where the change is positive (+14.4% and +6.1%). A correlation analysis revealed that runoff changes are tightly linked to changes in rainfall (R = 0.49), and to a smaller extent also to changes in potential evapotranspiration. Other parameters than climate - such as the carbon effect on plant water efficiency, land use dynamics or water withdrawals - could also significantly impact on runoff, but they generally do not offset the effects of climate change. In view of the potential changes, the large uncertainty therein and the high vulnerability of the region to such changes, there is an urgent need for integrated studies that quantify the potential effects of these processes on water resources in West Africa and for more accuracy in climate models rainfall projections. We especially underline the lack of information concerning projections of future floods and droughts, and of interannual fluctuations in streamflow. GLOBAL WATER-RESOURCES RIVER-BASINS NAKAMBE RIVER NIGER RIVER [Roudier, P.; Feyen, L.] EC, JRC, IES, Climate & Risk Management Unit, Ispra, Italy; [Ducharne, A.] Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR7619, Lab METIS, Paris, France Roudier, P (reprint author), EC, JRC, IES, Climate & Risk Management Unit, Ispra, Italy. Milieux Environnementaux, Transferts et Interactions dans les hydrosystèmes et les Sols (METIS), UMR7619 uid:/8MB6M2PZ	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798752
__label__wiki	0.524217	0.524217	We're showing you business for the Minutes section for 13 January 2021 as the Motions Relating to Delegated Legislation section does not apply to this date. Download a PDF of the Order Paper only. House of Lords Business Download the House of Lords business PDF. Whips office list Download a PDF of the Whips office daily list. Questions for Written Answer Minutes for 13 January 2021 The House met at 12 noon. Prayers were read by the Lord Bishop of Birmingham. (at 12:00) Select Committee Reports Item number 1 Statutory Instruments The following Report from the Select Committee was made and ordered to be printed: Report on certain statutory instruments, including the following affirmative instruments: Misappropriation (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 Unauthorised Drilling Activities in the Eastern Mediterranean (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 Health Protection (Coron… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text Public Business COVID-19: vaccine trials A question was asked by Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon and answered by Lord Callanan. (at 12:06) COVID-19: variant A question was asked by Lord Scriven and answered by Lord Bethell. (at 12:18) Extradition arrangements: European Union member states A question was asked by Lord Thomas of Gresford and answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford. (at 12:30) COVID-19: small businesses A question was asked by Lord Stevenson of Balmacara and answered by Lord Callanan. (at 12:40) The House adjourned. The House resumed. (at 12:52) Liaison The Senior Deputy Speaker (Lord McFall of Alcluith) moved that the Report from the Select Committee Review of investigative and scrutiny committees: strengthening the thematic structure through the appointment of new committees (5th Report, HL Paper 193) be agreed to. After debate, the motion was agreed to. (at 13:00) Liaison The Senior Deputy Speaker (Lord McFall of Alcluith) moved that the Report from the Select Committee New special inquiry committee on youth unemployment (6th Report, HL Paper 194) be agreed to. The motion was agreed to. (at 13:25) COVID-19: vaccinations Lord Bethell answered questions on a Ministerial statement on COVID-19, made in the House of Commons on Monday 11 January. (at 13:26) Antique Firearms Regulations 2020 Baroness Williams of Trafford moved that the draft Regulations laid before the House on 25 November 2020 be approved. The motion was agreed to. (at 14:18) Item number 10 Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill The report stage was continued, beginning with amendment 12. Amendments 15 (see division 1), 22 (see division 3), 24 (see division 4), 33, 34 (see division 5), 36, 44 and 46 were agreed to. Amendments 17 (see division 2) and 42 (see division 6) were disagreed to. The bill, as amended, was ordered to be printed. (HL Bill 16… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text (at 14:20) Joint Committee on the Fixed-term Parliaments Act A message was brought from the Commons that, notwithstanding the Resolution of that House of 10 November 2020, it be an instruction to the Joint Committee on the Fixed-term Parliaments Act that it should report by Wednesday 31 March 2021. (at 20:35) The House adjourned at 8.35pm until Thursday 14 January at 12 noon.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798756
__label__wiki	0.545459	0.545459	Reflection by calleighstorres TV » CSI: Miami Rated: T, English, Drama & Poetry, Calleigh D., Ryan W., Words: 1k+, Follows: 2, Published: 7/18/2020 Authors Notes: A short narrative/canto/story or whatever in regards to 7x20 (WISC) told from two perspectives. He staggers into the bathroom, gasping for breath. Pain ensues throughout his body endlessly. A light-headed feeling comes over him as he turns his head and observes his face. Beaten, bleeding and bruised. She elegantly travels to the en suite. Her hand reaches for the tap when footsteps behind her interrupt her one track thought process. Her lover comes up behind her, smirking as he stares at her in the reflection. He unbuttons his dress shirt and attempts to pull it off, but a wound with the fabric caught in it stops him. A grunt briefly escapes his lips. He doesn't want to bear the pain again, but he can't stay in this shirt. A sharp breath is drawn in and quickly the fabric rips off his skin. Curse words are lowly spoken as he breathes out. A splash with water to wake herself up, she's ready to go get dressed. The black, thin silk robe won't do. She wonders where he is for a second - though she is soon distracted by her lover calling her name from the bedroom. It wasn't anything new to him. Running on zero hours of sleep, many agonizing injuries he'd have to leave untreated and the sting of his sister's foundation to cover up the bruising. Once she's had a shower, freshened up and put on yesterday's clothing, she leaves the bedroom. Her bag is sitting on the kitchen counter with her car keys beside it. She says she has to go yet her lover insists he'll drive her. They come to a disagreement about how she would get to her condo, change clothes and head to work. He managed to rid of the blood stains and hides his bodily wounds underneath a fresh grey blazer, his favorite jeans, dress shirt and the ligature marks around his neck by having the collar done up with a tie. Eventually she gives into her lover's stubbornness. His hair is combed out of it's shaggy mess, gelled back and done neatly like yesterday. His appearance is no longer an issue. He grabs his phone, taps in a number and holds it to his ear. He's going to be late for work, but there were bigger issues to address. They stop by her place. She gets out the car, closing the door behind her as she runs to the front door. Her lover watches. After disappearing into the apartment, she comes out a few minutes later in a different set of clothes with her hair done up nicely. He compliments her as she gets into the car, but she rolls her eyes and shuts the door. He stopped by his sister's place. Since she was a paramedic, he hoped she would be able to do something about his ribs. His pale skin decorated with blue/purple splotches of bruises that ran along with a rib on his right side. The paramedic, his older sister, is horrified when she becomes witness to his injuries. "God help us," She utters, getting started on treating his rib problem. A feeling of guilt comes over her upon arrival at work. She can see fellow co-workers examining them carefully. Their "little secret" wasn't exactly hidden well. Her lover couldn't convince anyone that there wasn't something going on to save his life. So she walks swiftly ahead of him, making sure not to catch the eye of the captain, who's talking to the lieutenant and a uniformed officer beside him. Her lover doesn't understand why she's embarrassed. He tries to catch up, but she's already gone. "Promise me that you'll tell your boss what happened?" His sister begs. He simply shakes his head softly, admitting that it's uncertain as to whether he would ever come clean about what happened after his tire was punctured on road. She frowns and pulls him into a gentle hug. It's needed. He hadn't felt so lonely since the last shooting incident. She doesn't want anything serious with her lover, and hopes he realizes that. He hates worrying his older sister like this.. But anger washes over him, replacing the melancholy feeling, as he knows nobody bothered to even look for him anyway when he gets to work. Her day is like any other day. She goes to get coffee, catches up on some paperwork in her office and awaits the next callout to come soon. His shoulder is killing him. Spikes of an agonizing sensation with every movement sends his body into panicking frenzy. But he plasters an "ok" front up for the day. He'll need to think of a reason why he never came back after his tire went out and left his department-issued vehicle on the side of the road. She sees him walking down the hallway in direction of the reception desk. He winces, holding onto his arm and purses his lips. A classic sign of discomfort. But what from was a mystery to her. He never clocked out yesterday. He knows they're all staring at him. Wondering what happened. He thinks of a blatant lie, knowing that the likelihood of them believing he got abducted and taken hostage by Russian criminals, ones in which his friend was in serious debt to, would be slim. She hopes that he'll be honest. Tell her why. But instead he avoids her when she comes his way, and rushes out of sight. His sights are set on fixing these issues. He hears whispers calling her names. Saying that she slept with the mentioned lover. If his rib on the verge of fracture hadn't been the most physically painful thing, the way his heart tore was second to none when he heard it. He's not happy. She can sense his annoyance. The rumors are true, although, protocol was already the top reason why her and her lover couldn't be together. She's been lying to him. He doesn't know what to say about it. When desire is put above concern, it really does make him wonder what he means to her. She says she cares but he can never convince himself she's phrased it correctly. The trust he had in her dissipated unknowingly. "..If there is anything bothering you.. anything at all, you do not have to keep it a secret from me." "I'm not keeping anything a secret." He lies, guilt quenching into his suffering dignity. Why he lies is something she'll never figure out, ..though he knows that it's because he believes bringing others into his personal life problems wouldn't solve the situation. That was up to him. Not her, his boss, or his other colleagues. Two mirrors. Two people. Both stuck in something spiralling out of their control. Self destruction vs an unrequited love. She didn't know if she could forgive him for what he did, but he knew that his trust issues had only grown stronger from the stemming issue. Secrets are, realistically, hidden lies. Whatever he was hiding, there was a reason he wouldn't tell so willingly.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798757
__label__wiki	0.934972	0.934972	Juvenile male tries to defend grandmother in Morgan home invasion Published 10:10 pm Wednesday, November 25, 2020 By Michael Wetzel For the Enquirer Two armed and masked men forcibly entered a Union Hill home Thursday night, knocking down a female homeowner and disarming her juvenile grandson after he picked up a weapon to protect her, according to authorities. Morgan County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Mike Swafford said the two intruders and a suspected getaway driver were later apprehended, and each was charged with first-degree robbery in the eastern Morgan County home invasion. Swafford said Brandon Lee Taylor, 20, of Lacey’s Spring, Savon C. Black, 19, of Fayetteville, Tennessee, and Erica Nicole Campbell, 18, of Somerville, were taken to Morgan County Jail with bail set at $60,000 each. “The two intruders used physical force to enter the home and knocked down the grandmother and rummaged through the house,” Swafford said. “Fortunately, nobody was injured.” Swafford said the two masked intruders, Taylor and Black, allegedly broke into the home in the 3000 block of Rescue Road about 7 p.m. Thursday. After the suspects pushed down the homeowner, “a juvenile in the home bravely, but unsuccessfully, attempted to protect the grandmother and home by grabbing a handgun and confronting the assailants,” according to the sheriff’s office’s Facebook page. After taking the handgun from the juvenile and exiting the house with it, the intruders left in a maroon Dodge Charger believed to be driven by Campbell, Swafford said. The sheriff’s office issued a lookout notification for the Charger. About 1:30 a.m. Friday, a deputy spotted the vehicle in the 4700 block of Highway 67 near Somerville and stopped the vehicle and its three occupants. “Investigators were called and found the stolen handgun in plain view in the vehicle,” Swafford said. He said the case is under investigation, and more charges may be added. Sheriff Ron Puckett said people should stay aware of possible home invasions, especially during the holidays. “Home invasions are rare in our area, but they are always serious,” Puckett said. “I am thankful for the work put in by our team to quickly make an arrest in this case.”	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798758
__label__cc	0.701887	0.298113	Labor & Employment Law Daily President’s COVID-19 reopening plan has specific guidance for employers President’s COVID-19 reopening plan has specific guidance for employers The three-phase plan includes guidelines for employers and individuals at each phase. After initially asserting that the authority to “reopen the country” rested solely in his hands, President Trump has walked it back and left that authority to the states, saying in written remarks for a press briefing about his new reopening guidelines, “Governors will be empowered to tailor an approach that meets the diverse circumstances of their own states. Every state is very different . . . . If they need to remain closed, we will allow them to do that. And if they believe it is time to reopen, we will provide them the freedom and guidance to accomplish that task—and very, very quickly—depending on what they want to do.” Most constitutional scholars agree that the President lacks the authority to tell states whether to reopen or remain closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Trump also encouraged “states to work together to harmonize their regional efforts.” The White House has issued guidelines for a three-phase recovery that outlines, in each phase, the criteria to be met before a state or region proceeds to a phased reopening, how states should prepare, and the responsibilities of persons and employers at each phase. Gating criteria. Under the guidelines, before states or regions begin a phased reopening, they should meet proposed “gating criteria.” As to symptoms, states or regions should see downward trajectories of both influenza-like illnesses (ILI) and COVID-like syndromic cases reported within a 14-day period. There should also be a downward trajectory of either documented cases or positive tests as a percent of total tests (with a flat or increasing volume of tests) within a 14-day period. Further, under the gating criteria, hospitals should be treating all patients without crisis care and have a robust testing program in place for at-risk healthcare workers, including emerging antibody testing. The guidance acknowledges that state and local officials may need to tailor application of the criteria to local circumstances. Where appropriate, governors should work on a regional basis to satisfy the criteria and to progress through the phases outlined. Core state responsibilities. The guidance lays out the core preparedness responsibilities for states, which may represent an indication that the federal government’s role will be minimized in terms of providing the tools necessary to mitigate the risk of COVID-19 spread. Testing and tracing. The following are the criteria for testing and tracing: Ability to quickly set up safe and efficient screening and testing sites for symptomatic individuals and trace contacts of COVID+ results; Ability to test Syndromic/ILI-indicated persons for COVID and trace contacts of COVID+ results; and Ensure sentinel surveillance sites are screening for asymptomatic cases, and contacts for COVID+ results are traced (sites operate at locations that serve older individuals, lower-income Americans, racial minorities, and Native Americans). Healthcare systems. States should also have the healthcare system capacity to quickly and independently supply sufficient Personal Protective Equipment and critical medical equipment to handle dramatic surge in need, as well as the ability to surge ICU capacity. Planning. Further, states should have plans in place to: Protect the health and safety of workers in critical industries; Protect the health and safety of those living and working in high-risk facilities (e.g., senior care facilities); Protect employees and users of mass transit; Advise citizens regarding protocols for social distancing and face coverings; Monitor conditions and immediately take steps to limit and mitigate any rebounds or outbreaks by restarting a phase or returning to an earlier phase, depending on severity. Three-phase approach. The guidance outlines three reopening phases: 1. For states and regions that meet the gating criteria; 2. For states and regions with no evidence of a rebound and that satisfy the gating criteria a second time; and 3. For states and regions with no evidence of a rebound and that satisfy the gating criteria a third time. Employers at all phases. During all phases, the guidelines instruct employers to develop and implement appropriate policies, in accordance with federal, state, and local regulations and guidance, and informed by industry best practices, regarding: Social distancing and protective equipment; Temperature checks; Testing, isolating, and contact tracing; Sanitation; Use and disinfection of common and high-traffic areas; and Business travel. Employers should also monitor their workforce for indicative symptoms and should not permit symptomatic people to physically return to work until cleared by a medical provider. Further, employers should develop and implement policies and procedures for workforce contact tracing following an employee COVID+ test. Employers at Phase One. Under the guidelines, at Phase One, all employers should: Continue to encourage telework, whenever possible and feasible with business operations; If possible, return to work in phases; Close common areas where personnel are likely to congregate and interact, or enforce moderate social distancing protocols; Minimize non-essential travel and adhere to CDC guidelines regarding isolation following travel; and Strongly consider special accommodations for personnel who are members of a vulnerable population. Vulnerable individuals include the elderly and people with serious underlying health conditions, including high blood pressure, chronic lung disease, diabetes, obesity, asthma, and those whose immune system is compromised such as by chemotherapy for cancer and other conditions requiring such therapy. Specific employers. The guidelines instruct the following for specific employers during Phase One: Schools and organized youth activities (e.g., daycare, camp) that are currently closed should remain closed; Visits to senior living facilities and hospitals should be prohibited, and those who do interact with residents and patients must adhere to strict protocols regarding hygiene: Large venues (e.g., sit-down dining, movie theaters, sporting venues, places of worship) can operate under strict physical distancing protocols; Elective surgeries can resume, as clinically appropriate, on an outpatient basis at facilities that adhere to CMS guidelines; Gyms can reopen if they adhere to strict physical distancing and sanitation protocols; and Bars should remain closed. Employers at Phase Two. At Phase Two all employers should: non-essential travel can resume; and Specific employers. The guidelines lays out the following for specific employers during Phase Two: Schools and organized youth activities (e.g., daycare, camp) can reopen; Visits to senior care facilities and hospitals should be prohibited, and those who do interact with residents and patients must adhere to strict protocols regarding hygiene; Large venues (e.g., sit-down dining, movie theaters, sporting venues, places of worship) can operate under moderate physical distancing protocol; Elective surgeries can resume, as clinically appropriate, on an outpatient and in-patient basis at facilities that adhere to CMS guidelines; Gyms can remain open if they adhere to strict physical distancing and sanitation protocols; and Bars may operate with diminished standing-room occupancy, where applicable and appropriate. Employers at Phase Three. At Phase Three all employers can resume unrestricted staffing at worksites. As to special employers: Visits to senior care facilities and hospitals can resume, but those who interact with residents and patients must be diligent regarding hygiene; Large venues (e.g., sit-down dining, movie theaters, sporting venues, places of worship) can operate under limited physical distancing protocols; Gyms can remain open if they adhere to standard sanitation protocols; and Bars may operate with increased standing room occupancy, where applicable. Guidelines for individuals. The guidelines also address practices for individuals through each phase of reopening. Notably, at every phase, individuals should: Wash their hands with soap and water or use hand sanitizer, especially after touching frequently used items or surfaces; Avoid touching their face; Sneeze or cough into a tissue, or the inside of their elbow; Disinfect frequently used items and surfaces as much as possible; and Strongly consider using face coverings while in public, and particularly when using mass transit. Those who feel sick should stay home and not go to work or school, and contact and follow the advice of their medical provider.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798760
__label__wiki	0.797815	0.797815	Jacob Elordi Age, Height, Nationality, Girlfriend, Euphoria, Net Worth, Instagram Popeye 9 months ago Teen based movies are always such a pain and harmful for our tender hearts. Aside from cheesy romantic plots and clique moments, the film does feature eye-catching actors and actresses. And one of them happens to be Jacob Elordi. We believe many fans are familiar with the name, Jacob; he is the one who played the role of Noah Flynn in the 2018 movie, The Kissing Booth. After the release of the film, his fans have increased in numbers. But do they know enough about him? Jacob Elordi, 22, Australian Actor If you don’t know much then don’t worry, we have got you covered. Today we will let you know all the information on Jacob, including his dating life and so on. Let’s start with some facts first. Jacob Elordi: Quick Facts Full Name Jacob Nathaniel Elorid Date of Birth June 26, 1997 Horoscope Cancer Place of Birth Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Ethnicity Spanish Education St. Joseph College, Nudgee Height 6 feet 4 inches(193 cm) Weight 86 kgs(190 lbs) Profession Actor Active years 2015-present Social Media Instagram, Facebook Known for The Kissing Booth Age and Height- How Tall Is Jacob Elordi In feet? From the moment, Jacob appeared in the movie, The Kissing Booth; people could not help but notice his height. The giant actor stands tall at the height of 6 feet 4 inches that is equivalent to 193 cm. Also, he weighs around 86 kgs(190 lbs). Despite his mature physique, Elordi is just in his 20s. Born on June 26, 1997, the Australian actor is 22 years old as of now. Not to mention, he was born under the star sign of Cancer. Jacob Elordi for VANN Magazine Aside from that, Jacob has got a killer body; athletically build, his chest and waist measure 44 and 32 inches respectively. Simply said he has got a mesomorph body type. Moreover, the young actor has got short brown hair and an attractive pair of brown eyes. Early Life, Nationality, and Education Now, talking about his childhood, Jacob was born as Jacob Nathaniel Elordi to his parents in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Also, Elordi is the son of a father, John Elordi, and mother, Melissa Elordi. Irrfan Khan Dies At The Age of 53 Due to NeuroEndocrine Tumour >> Aside from his parents, he grew up right alongside his two sisters, Isabella Elordi and Jalynn Elordi. Likewise, Jacob is an Australian who comes from a Spanish background. As for his education, the young actor attended secondary school at St. Kevin’s College in Toorak, Melbourne, and later enrolled in St. Joseph’s College, Nudgee, in Nudgee, Brisbane, Queensland. Are Jacob Elordi and Joey King Still Together?- Girlfriend and Dating In the new series, Euphoria, Jacob plays the role of Nate Jacobs, a volatile football-player but in truth, Elordi is far from it. In fact, he is the sweetest guy as many of his co-stars have stated. So, is this Aussie boy taken or is he still single? Well, there is going around that the hunk Jacob might be dating his co-star, Zendaya. However, the two refrained from answering the rumors. Jacob Elordi and Joey King But when things started getting out of hands, Jacob stated that Zendaya is nothing but like a sister to him. Hmm.. well, some fans are not convinced by the statement. Similarly, it has not been long since he broke up with his former girlfriend, Joey King, also his co-star from The Kissing Booth. The lovely couple reportedly met for the first time on the set of the movie back in 2017. During the filming, the two fell in love and started dating. Fans could not contain their happiness when their favorite on-screen couple turned out to be a real deal. However, the two ended things in 2019 after two whole years of dating. Joey revealed in an interview with Refinery29 that the two were done for good. Even though Jacob did not speak about it, his action spoke louder than words. Following their breakup, the Aussie actor deleted all the pictures of them together, confirming their separation. Professional Career: Movies Talking about his acting career, from an early age, Jacob was interested in acting and hence enrolled in school dramas. During his active college days, Elordi participated in many plays and shows and gained experience. Along with his true passion, Elordi was also active in sports, thanks to which he has such a stunning physique. Many might not know this, but during college, he played American football and was even named best player for two consecutive years. Jacob Elordi has a stunning physique Now, turning to his career, Elordi made his acting debut from the short film titled Carpe Liam where he portrayed the role of Liam. The short film was released in 2015, and since then the young actor has appeared in plenty of movies and series. Eric Young Bio, Facts, Career, Age, Net Worth, TNA, WWE >> Likewise, the Australian actor made his Hollywood debut from the box office hit movies, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales in 2017. He played a small role of St. Martins Marine, so, many did not notice him. Then in 2018 came, The Kissing Booth, the romantic American teen movie that put Jacob in the map. His role of Noah Flynn was loved by many making him the eye-candy of many female fans. Because of the success of the movie, its sequel, The Kissing Booth 2 was made. The film is set to release in 2020. Jacob Elordi and Zendaya From then on, many started to notice him and his talent was also well-appreciated. That same year, the 22 years old appeared in another movie called Swinging Safari. Apart from them, Jacob has appeared in other notable movies and shows such as Max & Losefa(2016), Bad Dream(2019), The Mortuary Collection(2019), The Bend(2019), and many other uncredited roles. Since the beginning of 2019, Jacob also stars in the HBO television series, Euphoria where he plays the role of Nate Jacobs. Created by Sam Levinson, the American teen drama series stars other prominent actors like Zendaya, Maude Apatow, and so on. Net Worth and Income As of 2020, The Kissing Booth actor has the net worth of $1 million which he accumulated thanks to his successful career as an actor in the movie industry. Aside from acting, Jacob surely does appear in clothing campaigns and brands. Alphonso Davies Girlfriend, Parents, Height, Age, Net Worth, Value, Status, Career >> Sadly, the Australian actor has not disclosed his income and salary for the general public to know. But with time and years, we hope to get some more information out on this topic. Instagram- 6.5 million Followers Facebook– 325k Followers Posted in ActorTagged #Jacob Elordi #Jacob Elordi age #Jacob Elordi and Joey King #Jacob Elordi and Zendaya #Jacob Elordi ethnicity #Jacob Elordi Euphoria #Jacob Elordi girlfriend #Jacob Elordi height #Jacob Elordi movies #Jacob Elordi nationality Tommaso Ciampa Bio, Facts, Wife, Personal Life, Career, Net Worth Thu Apr 30 , 2020 Tommaso Whitney is an American professional wrestler whom we best know for his time on NXT promotion under the ring name “Tommaso Ciampa.” Ciampa is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment under the NXT brand. 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__label__wiki	0.591806	0.591806	Found 52 Seniors & Aged Care volunteer opportunities in Australian Capital Territory ACT and the surrounding areas Volunteer social home visitor ACT HammondCare Australia Canberra Australian Capital Territory Category: Seniors & Aged Care Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Seniors & Aged Care An elderly lady in the Canberra area would enjoy your company during the week, particularly if you enjoy reminiscing about travelling around the world. We would be happy to arrange a suitable time to visit each week for 12 months or longer. Volunteer social home visitor Canberra An elderly gentleman in the Canberra area would enjoy your company during the week, particularly if you enjoy visiting galleries. We would be happy to arrange a suitable time to visit each week for 12 months or longer. Seniors Digital Mentors Council on the Ageing (COTA ACT) Hughes Australian Capital Territory Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, IT & Web Development, Seniors & Aged Care, Tutoring & Coaching In 2020 the Council on the Ageing (COTA) ACT started a new program to help seniors get digitally connected - especially during the pandemic. The sessions are a place where senior Canberrans can come and ask questions in a relaxed way and learn about how to get online and become confident with using technology. The sessions are designed to assist seniors with staying in touch with their community, family and friends and be a resource for finding information online. Palmerston Australian Capital Territory Types of work: Food Preparation & Service, Seniors & Aged Care Our multicultural social groups come together each week for social activities, company and a meal. This role helps prepare nutritious culturally appropriate meals for our clients to enjoy together. Volunteer Coordinator (Charity Community Consultants) Diversity & Inclusion Not-for-Profit & Charity Community Consultants Indigenous Corporation \| Diversity Inclusion Charity Docklands VIC, Hawthorn VIC, Melbourne VIC, Richmond VIC, St Kilda VIC, Canberra ACT, Gold Coast Mc QLD, Sydney NSW / Remote Friendly Types of work: Accounting & Finance, Administration & Office Management, Companionship & Social Support, Disability Support, Education & Training, Fundraising & Events, Governance, Boards & Committees, IT & Web Development, Library Services, Marketing, Media & Communications, Mediation & Advocacy, Music & Entertainment, Research, Policy & Analysis, Retail & Sales, Safety & Emergency Services, Seniors & Aged Care, Sport & Physical Activity, Tour Guides, Information & Heritage, Translating & Interpreting, Tutoring & Coaching, Writing & Editing We have outstanding opportunities for passionate and experienced people to work with a highly reputable and iconic community services organisation. The Volunteer Coordinator will work flexibly, primarily across the Southern and Eastern metro regions to lead a team of volunteers to enhance the connection between consumers General Manager of Fundraising (Charity Community Consultants) Diversity & Inclusion Types of work: Accounting & Finance, Administration & Office Management, Companionship & Social Support, Counselling & Help Line, Disability Support, Education & Training, Fundraising & Events, Governance, Boards & Committees, IT & Web Development, Library Services, Marketing, Media & Communications, Mediation & Advocacy, Music & Entertainment, Research, Policy & Analysis, Retail & Sales, Safety & Emergency Services, Seniors & Aged Care, Tour Guides, Information & Heritage, Translating & Interpreting, Tutoring & Coaching, Writing & Editing The Director of Fundraising has overall responsibility for the organisation’s effectiveness in raising funds to target and support the organisation's goals. Report to the Chief Executive Officer Supervises - Fundraising/Bequests Manager Accounting Manager (CPA/CA/CFA) (Charity Community Consultants) Diversity & Inclusion Types of work: Accounting & Finance, Administration & Office Management, Companionship & Social Support, Disability Support, Education & Training, Fundraising & Events, Governance, Boards & Committees, IT & Web Development, Marketing, Media & Communications, Mediation & Advocacy, Music & Entertainment, Research, Policy & Analysis, Retail & Sales, Safety & Emergency Services, Seniors & Aged Care, Tour Guides, Information & Heritage, Tutoring & Coaching, Writing & Editing Responsible for Line Manager responsible for managing and controlling functional areas of the Management Accounting department. Report to Divisional Executive, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Executive Officer/Managing Director. Supervises Management Accounting staff and Administration staff. Head of Corporate Affairs (Charity Community Consultants) Diversity & Inclusion Banyule VIC, Docklands VIC, Hawthorn VIC, Melbourne VIC, Richmond VIC, St Kilda VIC, Canberra ACT, Sydney NSW / Remote Friendly Types of work: Accounting & Finance, Administration & Office Management, Companionship & Social Support, Disability Support, Education & Training, Fundraising & Events, Governance, Boards & Committees, IT & Web Development, Library Services, Marketing, Media & Communications, Mediation & Advocacy, Music & Entertainment, Research, Policy & Analysis, Safety & Emergency Services, Seniors & Aged Care, Tour Guides, Information & Heritage, Tutoring & Coaching, Writing & Editing Responsible for Managing and protecting the organisation’s reputation through effective public, community, and media relations, internal corporate communications and other communications activities including oversight of any online initiatives. Providing leadership and development of the Corporate Affairs team. Report to Chief Executive Officer/Managing Director Supervises a Corporate Affairs team. Senior ICT Systems Analyst (Charity Community Consultants) Diversity & Inclusion Types of work: Accounting & Finance, Administration & Office Management, Disability Support, Education & Training, Fundraising & Events, Governance, Boards & Committees, IT & Web Development, Library Services, Marketing, Media & Communications, Mediation & Advocacy, Research, Policy & Analysis, Retail & Sales, Safety & Emergency Services, Seniors & Aged Care, Tutoring & Coaching, Writing & Editing Responsible for analysing and specifying applications systems requirements and design. In this senior role, activities will relate to the more advanced or costly assignments. Report to the Project Manager, Systems Analysis Manager. Supervises and may mentor Systems Analysts. Driver- Community Transport for Multicultural Seniors Types of work: Driving & Transportation, Seniors & Aged Care MCCI supports older people from multicultural backgrounds. Our Volunteer Drivers provide provide door to door transport on our small buses (12 seater Toyota Hiace) with transport to social groups and activities. Normal car licence only required. Full training provided. Social Worker, Social Services Officer, Case Manager (NFP Community Justice Organisation) Diverse Communities and Social Services Australia Inc. (DCSS Australia Inc.) Collingwood VIC, Hawthorn VIC, Heidelberg VIC, Melbourne VIC, St Kilda VIC, Canberra ACT, Sydney NSW, Queensland / Remote Friendly Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Counselling & Help Line, Disability Support, Education & Training, Fundraising & Events, Governance, Boards & Committees, Mediation & Advocacy, Seniors & Aged Care Social work case manager is a mental health professional who assists families and individuals in a health care setting and has a high degree of recognised experience and expertise. The certified social work case manager might work with the clients in dealing with the emotional strains incurred by the modern health care process. ICT Officer and Leader (Not-for-Profit & Charity - Community Justice Organisation) Banyule VIC, Docklands VIC, Hawthorn VIC, Melbourne VIC, St Kilda VIC, Canberra ACT, Sydney NSW, Queensland / Remote Friendly Category: Mentoring & Advocacy Types of work: Administration & Office Management, Companionship & Social Support, Disability Support, Education & Training, Fundraising & Events, Governance, Boards & Committees, IT & Web Development, Library Services, Marketing, Media & Communications, Mediation & Advocacy, Music & Entertainment, Research, Policy & Analysis, Retail & Sales, Safety & Emergency Services, Seniors & Aged Care, Tour Guides, Information & Heritage, Translating & Interpreting, Tutoring & Coaching, Writing & Editing Diverse Communities and Social Services (DCSS) Australia is a Not-for-Profit Community Justice and Social Support Services, Volunteer-led Organisation throughout Australia. Diverse Communities and Social Services (DCSS) Australia is the only LGBTIQA+, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse, Diversity and Inclusion focused organisation which delivers a dual-accredited Not-for-Profit Community Justice Program operating across Australia. Board Secretary (Not-for-Profit & Charity - Community Justice Organisation) Heidelberg VIC, Melbourne VIC, Prahran VIC, Richmond VIC, St Kilda VIC, Canberra ACT, Sydney NSW, Queensland / Remote Friendly Category: Human Rights Types of work: Accounting & Finance, Administration & Office Management, Companionship & Social Support, Counselling & Help Line, Disability Support, Education & Training, Fundraising & Events, Governance, Boards & Committees, IT & Web Development, Marketing, Media & Communications, Mediation & Advocacy, Research, Policy & Analysis, Retail & Sales, Safety & Emergency Services, Seniors & Aged Care, Tour Guides, Information & Heritage, Tutoring & Coaching, Writing & Editing Mental Health Support Worker (Not-for-Profit & Charity - Community Justice Organisation) Banyule VIC, Hawthorn VIC, Melbourne VIC, Richmond VIC, St Kilda VIC, Canberra ACT, Sydney NSW, Queensland / Remote Friendly Types of work: Administration & Office Management, Companionship & Social Support, Counselling & Help Line, Disability Support, Driving & Transportation, Education & Training, Fundraising & Events, Governance, Boards & Committees, IT & Web Development, Library Services, Marketing, Media & Communications, Mediation & Advocacy, Music & Entertainment, Research, Policy & Analysis, Retail & Sales, Safety & Emergency Services, Seniors & Aged Care, Tour Guides, Information & Heritage, Tutoring & Coaching, Writing & Editing Mental Health Support Workers are qualified social workers and nurses who specialise in helping those with a range of mental health problems such as anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder. Recreation and Leisure Champion - Queanbeyan Goodwin Aged Care Services Oaks Estate Australian Capital Territory Types of work: Arts, Craft & Photography, Companionship & Social Support, Driving & Transportation, Garden Maintenance, Music & Entertainment, Seniors & Aged Care, Sport & Physical Activity As a Recreational and Leisure Champion you will use your skills and expertise to create a creative and fun program for Queanbeyan Day Club members. Join us to increase the health and well being of people over the age of 65.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798766
__label__wiki	0.608108	0.608108	Training Resources for Civil Society in the Middle East and North Africa Instagram Twitter Facebook MEPI MEPI Submit Training Resources Maktabat MEPI Library Initial Search: (175) Technical Areas: Governance and Human Rights Previous: (1) Organizations: American Near East Refugees Aid (ANERA) Current: (1) Target Groups: CSOs/NGOs Women, Democracy and Human Rights Organization: American Near East Refugees Aid (ANERA) Project: Empowering Women's Community Based Organizations in Jordan This curriculum addresses the issue of human rights and democracy. It provides a historical summary of the development of human rights and the role of the United Nations in the development of women's rights. About MEPI Total Returned (1) Technical Areas Governance and Human Rights (1) Gender and Youth (1) CSOs/NGOs (1) American Near East Refugees Aid (ANERA) Empowering Women's Community Based Organizations in Jordan The Maktabat MEPI Library is a regularly updated online repository for training resources developed by civil society organizations and institutions that support civil society in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region through funding from The U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI). contact@maktabatmepi.org 2021 © All Rights Reserved \| Terms of Use MEPI	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798767
__label__wiki	0.641816	0.641816	‫العربية Deutsch English Español Français Italiano 日本語 Nederlands Polski Português Русский 中文 search Search maps Homepage Tourist Lisbon points of interest map Lisbon points of interest map Lisbon places of interest map. Lisbon points of interest map (Portugal) to print. Lisbon points of interest map (Portugal) to download. The Castelo de São Jorge castle stands majestically above central lisbon points of interest and was entwined in the early history of Portugal map. It was here that the Christian crusaders defeated the Moors in 1147, the Portuguese survived a siege by Castile (1373) and was the seat of power for Portugal for over 400 years. This rich and extensive lisbon points of interest is captured within the castle, from the formidable fortifications, the defensive viewpoints or the tranquil gardens of the royal quarters. Lisbon places of interest map printPrint system_update_altDownload The Elevador de Santa Justa is an industrial age lift and lisbon best points of interest, which transports passengers up one of steepest hills in central Lisbon. The lift was constructed in an era when artistic detail and flare were incorporated into the magnificent machines that powered the age. Within the iron structure are gothic arches and geometric patterns, while the cabins are lined with polished wood and control by brass dials.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798772
__label__wiki	0.824607	0.824607	Free Trump Swag Home/Democrats/Dan Crenshaw Excoriates Democrats For Constantly Comparing Trump to Nazis Alexandria Ocasio-CortezDemocratsLiberal LunacyNews/OpinionRepublicans Dan Crenshaw Excoriates Democrats For Constantly Comparing Trump to Nazis Rusty Weiss Follow on Twitter August 26, 2019 Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw blasted Democrats who constantly play the Nazi card in order to discredit Republican policies and platforms. Crenshaw, appearing on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, called Democrats out for helping to incite violence in America today by portraying their political opponents as the next coming of Hitler. The Republican noted that the resistance party can’t claim President Trump’s words incite violence while simultaneously slandering conservatives as genocidal maniacs. “I always tell people when they’re complaining about something Trump said and they’re like ‘look at the violence he’s inciting’ and I say ‘well, you call us all Nazis,'” Crenshaw said. “When you call someone a Nazi, you are calling somebody something that we all agreed as Americans to bomb, and kill, and destroy.” “How is that not inciting violence by your standards?” the former United States Navy SEAL asked. Crenshaw added that the terms most popular among the left in describing the President and his supporters are ‘white supremacist’ and ‘Nazi,’ something he explains is interchangeable. And if you call one Republican that, you’re calling all of them the same thing. “When you’re calling the president that – and they often call his supporters that, too – so you’re calling 60-something million people who voted for him the same thing,” he said. RELATED: Ocasio-Cortez Says U.S. Government Running ‘Concentration Camps’ at the Border What He’s Talking About Anyone who has read these pages knows there are innumerable times that liberals have stooped to denigrating Trump and his supporters as Nazis. CNN panelist Angela Rye claimed the President was operating “death camps” similar to what existed in Nazi Germany, while host Don Lemon directly compared him to Hitler. A former Obama-era FBI official recently claimed Trump was ordering flags lowered to half-staff in honor of shooting victims in El Paso and Dayton was a means to honor Hitler. Beto O’Rourke and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unintelligently compare Republicans and the President to the Third Reich in seemingly every argument they have – ranging from immigration policy to global warming. Beto O’Rourke compares President Donald Trump to the Third Reich pic.twitter.com/6pgeMwVTJW — Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) April 4, 2019 RELATED: Dan Crenshaw Flays Ocasio-Cortez: ‘She’s Getting Bolder With Her Lies’ Crenshaw Has Blasted ‘Nazi’ Rhetoric Before Ocasio-Cortez was one of the original leftist lunatics to claim Republicans and conservatives are Nazis, culminating with her coining of immigration detention centers as ‘concentration camps.’ Crenshaw wrecked her over the lies. “She’s getting bolder with her lies on this,” he said in a Fox News interview. “People like AOC are operating off of a false premise and deliberately designed to misinform the American people for her own political ends. Remember, first there was no crisis at all. Then it was a manufactured crisis. Then it was a crisis completely created by Trump. Then there were concentration camps. Then people are Nazis.” Dan Crenshaw on Ocasio-Cortez’s border outrage: “they fought us tooth and nail against that $4.5 million of humanitarian aid … that DHS needed that HHS needed in order to better conditions at these facilities. They fought us for months on this. They said there was no crisis” pic.twitter.com/LWOO24pUAy — Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) July 3, 2019 Crenshaw, in a video directed at Democrat Hank Johnson (D-GA), also implored the left to tone down their wild rhetoric. “President Trump is a lot of things but he’s not Hitler,” he explained. “He didn’t kill millions of people. He didn’t start a world war. He doesn’t have any concentration camps.” It can’t really be that hard for Democrats to grasp that simple truth, can it? Read more at the Political Insider Rusty Weiss Rusty Weiss is a freelance journalist focusing on the conservative movement and its political agenda. He has been writing conservatively charged articles for several years in the upstate New York area, and his writings have appeared in the Daily Caller, American Thinker, FoxNews.com, Big Government, the Times Union, and the Troy Record. He is also Editor of one of the top conservative blogs of 2012, the Mental Recession. Leaked E-Mails Show the DNC Really, Really Didn’t Want to Talk About Bill Clinton’s History of Sexual Abuse Trump Slams ‘Fake News’ Report That He Sought to Revoke Obama’s Access to Intelligence Briefings Ted Cruz Just Torpedoed Pelosi And Her Impeachment Circus CNN’s April Ryan Mocks Melania For Not Being ‘Culturally American,’ White House Responds MenRec Videos © Copyright 2021, MenRec.com. All Rights Reserved	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798780
__label__cc	0.74888	0.25112	John Spear Book to purchase: Theo Paijmans: Free Energy Pioneer: John Worrell Keely Submitted by esaruoho on May 14, 2007 - 10:07 Baron Carl Von Reichenbach John Ernst Worrell Keely Karl Schappeller Theo Paijmans theosophical Free Energy Pioneer: John Worrell Keely by Theo Paijmans "This is a magnificent contribution to anomaly literature; a monument of research, rich in information presented with clarity, backed with detailed references and a wealth of illustration." --Hilary Evans, Fortean Times year \| language \| place \| person \| tag Free Energy News from PESN.com PESWiki - AltEnergy Get this box! FAIR USE NOTICE: This site may contain some copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to expose and advance the understanding of the issues covered here. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. The ONLY reason why free energy has been suppressed and forced out by economics, politics and bankers, is because they are operating through fraudulent man-made laws which are at odds (out of balance) with nature. There is no reason that Paul Pantone spent months upon months in a mental hospital by court order for attempting to reduce the footprint we place directly on the face of mother nature and spaceship earth. Wilhelm Reich was unlawfully harassed by FDA/court officials - this again having nothing whatsoever to do with natural law - Wilhelm Reich worked for the benefit and health of all humanity. That John Bedini, Joe Booker, Viktor Schauberger, Thomas Henry Moray and others have been attacked, vilified, threatened, purposefully forgotten and ripped off means that the society and systems that allow this to happen "legally", are frightfully wrong. Thus we need to tear this current system apart from the root and plant a new seed which is in harmony with nature and God's Law. Only by all of us working as aware crewmembers of spaceship Earth - for the benefit of every crewmember, instead of selfishly for ourselves can we ever hope to escape the slavery that we are in right now. Here is Staffan's message: The ONLY solution is to enforce The Plan against the traitorous Free-Energy supressing N. W. O. Zion-Nazi mass-murder, inside-job perpetrators of OKC, 911, Bali, 7/7/2005 and the phoney War on Terror and Freedom, and reinstate God's Perfect Laws of Liberty and bring the perpetrators to Justice:- http://jahtruth.net/plan.htm Time is running out:- http://jahtruth.net/signs.htm MERLib supports MERLib supports the Wilhelm Reich Museum / Wilhelm Reich Infant Trust through using GoodSearch / GoodShop to gather money for this non-profit-organization. In addition to running the physical museum, they are in charge of producing two full-length documentaries on Wilhelm Reich, are working on a book which will have the 1947-1957 letters, diaries and scientific studies of Wilhelm Reich, so we will better be able to comprehend the latter decade of Wilhelm Reich's life. A Biopic and a full-length documentary would be beneficial at clearing the name of Wilhelm Reich after the travesties of "W.R. - Mysteries of The Organism", and the scant footage available on Wilhelm Reich or his devices. If you know there is something to Wilhelm Reich's orgone discoveries, his orgone accumulator, orgone shooter, orgone blanket, and orgone cloud-busting devices, if you find that there should be more information on the atmospheric orgone motor, and the human orgone-energy running motor, conditioned vacuum-tubes which respond to orgone.. if you believe orgone plays a part in the nuclear energy and preservation of nature question, then please start using GoodSearch from now on and point all of your search-"income" to the "Wilhelm Reich Infant Trust Foundation". As of September 2008, 17$ has accumulated by a few persons using it. That is 0.01$ per search and use. If you use eBay via GoodSearch (GoodShop), a larger percentage will be donated to the trust. The Wilhelm Reich Museum are attempting to collect over 200,000$ for the singular production of two of these films, they also require time and funds for the research, translation and compilation purposes of the 1947-1957 followup to "American Odyssey", a previous Wilhelm Reich study compilation which featured his encounters at explaining Orgone energy to Albert Einstein. And also, they now require funding for a new roof. Solar Ovens Earthship Biotecture	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798781
__label__cc	0.68254	0.31746	Malyebone Flavours & Aromas Marylebone Gin Are you over Thomas Greenall founded Greenalls in 1762 – at a time when London’s Marylebone Pleasure Gardens were in full swing. Then, in the 1830s, a Liverpudlian solicitor named John fell in love with Isabella, the daughter of Thomas. They married, and John began working for Greenalls. Turned out distilling was in his blood, as it has proved to be for his son, his grandson…all the way down through eight generations to Johnny Neill, who carries the family torch forward today. - Johnny Neill Rooted in the Pleasure Gardens On any given night in Georgian London - the London of Pepys, of Jane Austen, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Dr. Johnson - a fête was afoot. To find it, all you needed do was make your way to the nearest pleasure garden. One of the most famous of all was close by the Rose of Normandy Tavern on the east side of what is now Marylebone High Street. Called the Marylebone Pleasure Gardens, it was the place to see and be seen throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. Rumour has it that Dick Turpin – highwayman, horse thief and folk hero – was no stranger to the gardens. Here, classical music concerts and ballets were staged just steps away from boxing matches and cock fights. Just a silver sixpence would buy you access to fireworks shows, dances, burlesques and beautiful gardens. Georgian refinement mingled with notoriety, gambling and card sharping. Society’s upper echelons intersected with the lower orders in a way unthinkable in any other walk of life at the time. In this magical place, princes could - and did - happily rub shoulders with paupers. It’s easy to see how this exotic blend of people and pleasure became the inspiration for the creation of Marylebone Gin. Subscribe now and we will keep you up to date. Copyright 2021 \| Marylebone Gin. Official Sponsor of Middlesex County Cricket Club	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798790
__label__cc	0.731176	0.268824	Job Search for Veterans Waters Finance Director- FP&A Transformation in Milford, Massachusetts As a result of Waters’ Indomitable transformation, we are seeking a new highly skilled Finance director position to facilitate Indomitable transformation, execution and tracking across the organization, while also aligning with FP&A to ensure Indomitable decisions/results are reflected in results and operating plans. This role will be the financial lead for Project Indomitable and other transformation initiatives. This role will report to the Senior Director of FP&A while also supporting the Vice President of Transformation, contributing to the company’s success by providing relevant data, analysis, insights, and influence to aid company decision making and performance within the Indomitable initiatives/workstreams. As the financial lead for Project Indomitable and other transformation initiatives, this role will be responsible for all aspects of the project, which includes but is not limited to: Collaborate with cross-functional teams on major Transformation initiatives, leading value-added financial analysis and support of business reviews and decisions from the financial perspective. Ability to concisely articulate ‘the financial story’ to VPs, and EC members. Develop framework for measuring and monitoring Project Indomitable Develop quarterly milestones with workstreams to gate funding for workstreams Actively engage workstreams with an enterprise minded approach to help drive success. Challenge business assumptions to ensure the best decisions for the corporation are made. Facilitate/mentor/assist other finance business partners when/if needed to support Indomitable workstreams Support VP of Transformation as a finance business partner Drives coordination with FP&A team to ensure decisions/results are properly recognized across the business for planning forecasting and other purposes. Participate in current year and long-range planning by helping define financial targets for the business using key assumptions while applying financial rigor to ensure the corporation meets its operating objectives. Operates with integrity, transparency and humility Acts as a true company owner to advance the overall interests of Waters Carries a broad global perspective of markets, tech, and trends Balances clear strategic thinking and accountability in execution to deliver results Actively creates the conditions for Waters’ people and teams to succeed Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for more than 60 years. With more than 7,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality. Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow. Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status. Company Name: Waters Division External Company URL: www.waters.com Street: 34 Maple Street Telecommute: Negotiable - Flexwise Finance Director- FP&A Transform...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798791
__label__cc	0.747357	0.252643	"With God's Grace Our Worst Past Becomes Our Best Future" Linda Wood Rondeau ABOUT LINDA WOOD RONDEAU A Writer's Life In Pictures Snark & Sensibility Writing Consultant THE SWEET COUPLE HOLDING HANDS 7/13/2020 1:00:00 AM by: MELISSA HENDERSON PLEASE WELCOME HAVING THE PRIME OF MY LIFE My husband Alan and I enjoy taking leisurely walks in our neighborhood, especially when the temperatures are not too warm. Sidewalks provide safe areas to stroll and share conversation. We often comment about the bluebirds, eagles, gray herons, egrets, lizards, and occasional alligators we see along the way. The low country of South Carolina is filled with the beauty of God’s creations. The world has changed due to the coronavirus and our conversations with neighbors now take place while we stand on the sidewalk and the neighbor stands more than six feet away. We are adjusting to this new way of walking and chatting with friends and strangers. Although we must follow the rules for the health and safety of everyone, Alan and I still hold hands while we walk. This is something we’ve always done throughout our 41 years of marriage. Whenever we are together and walking, we hold hands. Something as simple as holding hands can have a wonderful effect on other people. Many times in our married life, we have been told “You two are so cute. Holding hands like that is so sweet!” or “Still holding hands? Did you just get married?” or “How precious! You two must be in love.” We hold hands because we love each other. The quiet and sweet gesture of my husband reaching for my hand, even after all these years, truly touches my heart. As for the comments from friends and strangers, we welcome conversations about love and long-lasting marriage. Through ups and downs, sickness, taking care of aging parents, job changes, moving from location to location, and more… we continue to be in love and show our love by being “the sweet couple holding hands.” ABOUT MELISSA HENDERSON Melissa Henderson is a writer of inspirational messages. Her first book for children, “Licky the Lizard”, was released in 2018. She also has a story in the compilations “Heaven Sightings” and “Remembering Christmas”. She contributes articles and devotions to various magazines and websites. Her passions are helping in community and church. Melissa is an Elder, Deacon, and Stephen Minister. The family motto is “It’s Always A Story With The Hendersons”. Follow Melissa on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and at http://www.melissaghenderson.com ABOUT LICKY THE LIZARD Licky the Lizard is one nice lizard, and just like you and me, he’s one of God’s own creations. Unfortunately, we sometimes forget that we’re really all the same—because He created everything in our world. We feel afraid because of our differences. What happens when Licky the Lizard comes face to face with a lady who’s going in and out of her house? When the lady sees Licky, he causes her quite a fright! But guess what? Licky is also scared. Of her. They’re scared of each other! Then Licky and the lady remember that there is no need to be afraid. They were both created by God, and that’s what makes them very special. In Licky The Lizard, author Melissa Henderson offers parents, grandparents, and educators a tale that teaches young children a simple, yet important message: There is no need to fear any of God’s creatures because we are all created by Him—and He loves us all. buy link: “Licky the Lizard” http://a.co/d/0a3COnd Melissa Henderson From Mount Pleasant SC At 7/15/2020 3:29:48 PM Thank you Marcie. We grow more in love every day. :-) Marcie Cramsey From Virginia At 7/14/2020 11:16:56 PM You two are an example for other couples. I love it that you both still hold hands. ?? Thank you Yvonne. Love is a beautiful blessing. Thank you Nancy. Yvonne Morgan From Oklahoma City At 7/14/2020 2:50:06 PM Such a beautiful picture of marriage. I love it. My husband and I just celebrated 38 years together and I do still love when he holds my hand. Thanks Melissa Nancy E Head From PA At 7/14/2020 2:21:46 PM A wonderful testimony! Ava, sweet memories for you. Have a blessed week! Ava Penningto From At 7/13/2020 3:15:03 PM Sweet. My husband & I used to do the same thing. I marveled that people found it unusual! Thank you Jessica. Simple gestures like holding hands can touch the hearts of others. Have a blessed week! :-) Jessica Brodie From SC At 7/13/2020 12:01:46 PM This is beautiful! My husband and I feel the same way. I love modeling love and affection so other people can see it in the world. Today's world can be harsh and cruel, so simple things (like smiling at strangers and holding hands with my hubby) do help. xoxo Melissa Henderson From Mount Pleasant SC At 7/13/2020 11:05:00 AM Thank you for sharing my story Linda Rondeau. Have a blessed week! :-) Reply by: Linda Wood Rondeau glad to have you LANDSCAPING THE HEART AND SOUL THE PAST EVER PRESENT 1/15/2021 1:00:00 AM by: DEBRA COLEMAN JETER BORN WITH A PURPOSE 1/12/2021 1:00:00 AM by: MARTIN WILES LITTLE GREY CELLS 1/8/2021 1:00:00 AM by: LEEANN BETTS LUCKY OR BLESSED 1/5/2021 1:00:00 AM by: LYNNE MODRANSKI MY GIGI'S HOUSE 1/1/2021 7:43:00 AM by: MEREDITH SAGE KENDALL OBEDIENCE HAS ITS REWARDS 12/30/2020 1:00:00 AM by: KATHY COLLARD MILLER THE YEARS THE LOCUSTS ATE 12/28/2020 1:00:00 AM by: JUNE FOSTER THE GAME IS AFOOT 12/25/2020 1:00:00 AM by: LEEANN BETTS SMALL BOATS AND BIG WAVES 12/23/2020 1:00:00 AM by: DONNA SCHLACTER CATHEDRAL STATE PARK, WEST VIRGINIA 12/21/2020 1:00:00 AM by: JOHN BARRINGER THE MISTLETOE CONTRACT 12/18/2020 1:00:00 AM by: JENNIFER CHASTAIN THE BEST GIFT OF THE SEASON 12/16/2020 1:00:00 AM by: TRINA BRESSER MATOUS PRIME OF MY LIFE 12/14/2020 1:00:00 AM by: GAIL KITTLESON Northern Protector 12/11/2020 1:00:00 PM by: Laurie Wood A PEEK AT THE JEWISH SHABBAT PART 2 12/9/2020 1:00:00 AM by: SUSAN G MATHIS 12/7/2020 1:00:00 AM by: JAYME H MANSFIELD 12/5/2020 1:00:00 AM by: GAIL KITTLESON GREEN STUFF AND HUBS 12/2/2020 3:30:00 PM by: LINDA WOOD RONDEAU NOEL: THE CAT WHO CAME FOR CHRISTMAS 11/30/2020 1:00:00 AM by: LINDA WOOD RONDEAU SNOWBOUND IN WINTERBERRY FALLS 11/27/2020 1:00:00 AM by: ANN BRODEUR 11/25/2020 1:00:00 AM by: SUSAN G MATHIS GREEN STUFF MAGIC 11/23/2020 7:48:00 PM by: LINDA WOOD RONDEAU CHRISTMAS WITH THE ENEMY 11/20/2020 1:00:00 AM by: MARY VEE EXTRAORDINARY IN THE ORDINARY A PINK LADY THANKSGIVING/A STORY BEHIND THE STORY WHAT DO I VALUE 11/11/2020 1:00:00 AM by: CYNTHIA SIMMONS JONAH GOT SWALLOWED 11/9/2020 1:00:00 AM by: LINDA WOOD RONDEAU TOGETHER FOR GOOD 11/6/2020 1:00:00 AM by: PENEPOLE POWELL HARD FAITH WHEN GRANDMA FORGETS 11/2/2020 1:00:00 AM by: CRYSTAL BOWMAN FORTUNE'S FALL 10/30/2020 1:00:00 AM by: KATHERINE BARGER OF COMPUTERS AND BUMPERS HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF BLUE ZONES? 10/26/2020 1:00:00 AM by: SALLY JO PITTS GOD SAID WAIT (AGAIN) 10/21/2020 1:00:00 AM by: LOREE PEERY FIVE WAYS SENIORS CAN BOOST THEIR IMMUNE SYSTEMS 10/19/2020 1:00:00 AM by: GINNY DENT BRANT SPRINKLED WITH SABOTAGE 10/16/2020 1:00:00 AM by: ALLISON PEARL HOW WELL HAVE I LOOKED THE SLEUTH'S SURPRISE SPECIAL ONCORE POST 10/11/2020 6:38:00 PM by: KIMBERLY ROSE JOHNSON A REVIEW OF NIV FULLY REVISED BIBLE STUDY 10/2/2020 1:00:00 AM by: AMY R. 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FROM FICTION TO NON-FICTION AND BACK AGAIN 6/29/2020 1:00:00 AM by: GAIL KITTLESON COOKING UP A MYSTERY 6/26/2020 1:00:00 AM by: GAIL PALLOTTA TRUST GOD IN THE FOG OF UNCERTAINTY WHO SAID GROWING OLD IS FUN? 6/22/2020 1:00:00 AM by: MARTHA ROGERS THE WIDOW & THE WAR CORRESPONDENT 6/19/2020 1:00:00 AM by: LINDA SHENTON MATCHETT KNOWN FOR WHAT 6/17/2020 6:16:00 PM by: MARTIN WILES AND NOT TO YIELD YOU'RE BRILLIANT 6/12/2020 7:08:00 AM by: JULIE ARDUINI GOSPEL FOCUSED IN THE FACE OF FEAR 6/10/2020 1:00:00 AM by: JENNIFER SLATTERY MY CULTURAL DISCONNECT THE GREEN DRESS 6/5/2020 1:00:00 AM by: LIZ TOLSMA AN IMPOSSIBLE PRICE 6/3/2020 1:00:00 AM by: DAVALYNN SPENCER WHAT IS RETIREMENT WHOLLY LOVED BY GOD 5/27/2020 1:00:00 AM by: Victoria Mejias LOOKING UP OR LOOKING AWAY 5/22/2020 1:00:00 AM by: JOHN OWENS Bible Gateway's Bible Audio App 5/21/2020 5:17:00 PM by: LINDA WOOD RONDEAU GOOD NEWS IS COMING 5/20/2020 1:00:00 AM by: JULIE COSGROVE A HOPE AND A FUTURE 5/15/2020 1:00:00 AM by: DONNA SCHLACTER CONFESS DON'T BURY WHERE THE ROAD BENDS IN OUTBACK AUSTRALIA 5/8/2020 1:00:00 AM by: DAVID RAWLINGS THE EXTRAORDINARY IS APPARENT IN THE ORDINARY 5/6/2020 1:00:00 AM by: TRINA BRESSER MATOUS HOW OLD ARE YOU 5/4/2020 1:00:00 AM by: Rachel J. Good DEVYN'S DILEMMA 5/1/2020 1:00:00 AM by: SUSAN G. MATHIS NOW HE'S ALONE 4/29/2020 1:00:00 AM by: SUSAN K. STEWART IT'S NOT OKAY LEAF ME ALONE 4/24/2020 1:00:00 AM by: JULIE B. COSGROVE HURTING WITH THE BROKEN 4/22/2020 1:00:00 AM by: SUSAN G. MATHIS EMBRACING MY INNER BOOMER 4/20/2020 1:00:00 AM by: BARBARA BRITTON JUSTICE FOR ELIZABETH 4/17/2020 1:00:00 AM by: MARY VEE WHEN LIFE FALLS APART ... DON'T THE RACE FOR LILY 4/13/2020 1:00:00 AM by: SHERRI STEWART WHEN HEARTS ENTWINE 4/10/2020 1:00:00 AM by: BONNIE ENGSTROM IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO BE THANKFUL GRANNY ALICE 4/6/2020 1:00:00 AM by: LYNNE BASHAM TAGAWA ROLL BACK THE CLOUDS 4/3/2020 1:00:00 AM by: TERRI WANGARD THERE'S LOVE IN THOSE BURNT CASSEROLES 3/27/2020 1:00:00 AM by: H.L. 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__label__cc	0.623755	0.376245	Another Way to Detect Design? Part 3 By William Dembski on October 19, 2001 in Essay, Intelligent Design and Its Critics Part 3. Design by Elimination The defects in Sober’s likelihood approach are, in my view, so grave that it cannot provide an adequate account of how design hypotheses are inferred. [18] The question remains, however, whether specified complexity can instead provide an adequate account for how design hypotheses are inferred. The worry here centers on the move from specified complexity to design. Specified complexity is a statistical and complexity-theoretic notion. Design, as generally understood, is a causal notion. How do the two connect? In The Design Inference and then more explicitly in No Free Lunch, I connect the two as follows. First, I note that intelligence has the causal power to generate specified complexity. About this there is no controversy. Human artifacts, be they Hubble space telescopes, Cray supercomputers, Dürer woodcuts, gothic cathedrals, or even such humble objects as paperclips exhibit specified complexity. Moreover, insofar as we infer to nonhuman intelligences, specified complexity is the key here too. This holds for animal intelligences as well as for extraterrestrial intelligences. Indeed, short of observing an extraterrestrial life form directly, any signals from outer space that we take to indicate extraterrestrial life will also indicate extraterrestrial “intelligent life”. It is no accident that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, by looking to radio signals, cannot merely detect life as such but must detect intelligent life. Moreover, radio signals that would warrant a SETI researcher in inferring extraterrestrial intelligence invariably exhibit specified complexity. To show that specified complexity is a reliable empirical marker of design, it is therefore enough to show that no natural cause has the causal power to generate specified complexity (natural causes being understood here as they are in the scientific community, namely, as undirected, blind, purposeless causes characterized in terms of the joint action of chance and necessity). Showing that natural causes cannot generate specified complexity seems like a tall order, but in fact it is not an intractable problem. Natural causes, because they operate through the joint action of chance and necessity, are modeled mathematically by nondeterministic functions known as stochastic processes. Just what these are in precise mathematical terms is not important here. The important thing is that functions map one set of items to another set of items and in doing so map a given item to one and only one other item. Thus for a natural cause to “generate” specified complexity would mean for a function to map some item to another item that exhibits specified complexity. But that means the complexity and specification in the item that got mapped onto gets pushed back to the item that got mapped. In other words, natural causes just push the problem of accounting for specified complexity from the effect back to the cause, which now in turn needs to be explained. It is like explaining a pencil in terms of a pencil-making machine. Explaining the pencil-making machine is as difficult as explaining the pencil. In fact, the problem typically gets worse as one backtracks specified complexity. Stephen Meyer makes this point beautifully for DNA. [19] Suppose some natural cause is able to account for the sequence specificity of DNA (i.e., the specified complexity in DNA). The four nucleotide bases are attached to a sugar-phosphate backbone and thus cannot influence each other via bonding affinities. In other words, there is complete freedom in the sequencing possibilities of the nucleotide bases. In fact, as Michael Polanyi observed in the 1960s, this must be the case if DNA is going to be optimally useful as an information bearing molecule. [20] Indeed, any limitation on sequencing possibilities of the nucleotide bases would hamper its information carrying capacity. But that means that any natural cause that brings about the specified complexity in DNA must admit at least as much freedom as is in the DNA sequencing possibilities (if not, DNA sequencing possibilities would be constrained by physico-chemical laws, which we know they are not). Consequently, any specified complexity in DNA tracks back via natural causes to specified complexity in the antecedent circumstances responsible for the sequencing of DNA. To claim that natural causes have “generated” specified complexity is therefore totally misleading — natural causes have merely shuffled around preexisting specified complexity. I develop this argument in detail in chapter 3 of No Free Lunch. In the next lecture I shall consider the type of natural cause most widely regarded as capable of generating specified complexity, namely, the Darwinian mechanism. In that lecture I shall show that the Darwinian mechanism of random variation and natural selection is in principle incapable of generating specified complexity. In my final lecture, “The Chance of the Gaps,” I close off one last loophole to the possibility of naturalistically generating specified complexity. A common move these days in cosmology and metaphysics (the two are becoming increasingly hard to separate) is to inflate one’s ontology, augmenting the amount of time and stuff available in the physical universe and thereby rendering chance plausible when otherwise it would seem completely implausible. In my final lecture I show why inflating one’s ontology does not get around the problem of specified complexity. For the remainder of this paper I therefore want to focus on logical and foundational concerns connected with specified complexity. This is where Sober focuses his criticism. According to Sober, the chief problem with specified complexity is that it detects design purely by elimination, telling us nothing positive about how an intelligent designer might have produced an object we observe. Take, for instance, a biological system, one that exhibits specified complexity, but for which we have no clue how an intelligent designer might have produced it. To employ specified complexity as a marker of design here seems to tell us nothing except that the object is designed. Indeed, when we examine the logic of detecting design via specified complexity, at first blush it looks purely eliminative. The “complexity” in “specified complexity” is a measure of improbability. Now probabilities are always assigned in relation to chance hypotheses. Thus, to establish specified complexity requires defeating a set of chance hypotheses. Specified complexity therefore seems at best to tell us what is not the case, not what is the case. In response to this criticism, note first that even though specified complexity is established via an eliminative argument, it is not fair to say that it is established via a purely eliminative argument. If the argument were purely eliminative, one might be justified in saying that the move from specified complexity to a designing intelligence is an argument from ignorance (not X therefore Y). But unlike Fisher’s approach to hypothesis testing, in which individual chance hypotheses get eliminated without reference to the entire set of relevant chance hypotheses that might explain a phenomenon, specified complexity presupposes that the entire set of relevant chance hypotheses has first been identified.[21] This takes considerable background knowledge. What’s more, it takes considerable background knowledge to come up with the right pattern (i.e., specification) for eliminating all those chance hypotheses and thus for inferring design. Design inferences that infer design by identifying specified complexity are therefore not purely eliminative. They do not merely exclude, but they exclude from an exhaustive set in which design is all that remains once the inference has done its work (which is not to say that the set is logically exhaustive; rather, it is exhaustive with respect to the inquiry in question — that is all we can ever do in science). Design inferences, by identifying specified complexity, exclude everything that might in turn exclude design. The claim that design inferences are purely eliminative is therefore false, and the claim that they provide no (positive) causal story is true but hardly relevant — causal stories must always be assessed on a case-by-case basis independently of general statistical considerations. I want next to take up a narrowly logical objection. Sober and colleagues argue that specified complexity is unable to handle conjunctive, disjunctive, and mixed explananda. [22] Let us deal with these in order. Conjunctions are supposed to present a problem for specified complexity because a conjunction can exhibit specified complexity even though none of its conjuncts do individually. Thus, if specified complexity is taken as an indicator of design, this means that even though the conjunction gets attributed to design, each of the conjuncts get attributed to chance. Although this may seem counterintuitive, it is not clear why it should be regarded as a problem. Consider a Scrabble board with Scrabble pieces. Chance can explain the occurrence of any individual letter at any individual location on the board. Nevertheless, meaningful conjunctions of those letters arranged sequentially on the board are not attributable to chance. It is important to understand that chance is always a provisional designation that can be overturned once closer examination reveals specified complexity. Thus attributing chance to the isolated positioning of a single Scrabble piece does not contradict attributing design to the joint positioning of multiple Scrabble pieces into a meaningful arrangement. Disjunctions are a bit trickier. Disjunctions are supposed to pose a problem in the case where some of the disjuncts exhibit specified complexity but the disjunction itself is no longer complex and therefore no longer exhibits specified complexity. Thus we would have a case where a disjunct signifies design, but the disjunction does not. How can this run into trouble? Certainly there is no problem in the case where one of the disjuncts is highly probable. Consider the disjunction, either the arrow lands in the target or outside. If the target is sufficiently small, the arrow landing in the target would constitute a case of specified complexity. But the disjunction itself is a tautology and the event associated with it can readily be attributed to chance. How else might specified complexity run into trouble with disjunctions? Another possibility is that all the disjuncts are improbable. For instance, consider a lottery in which there is a one-to-one correspondence between players and winning possibilities. Suppose further that each player predicts he or she will win the lottery. Now form the disjunction of all these predictions. This disjunction is a tautology, logically equivalent to the claim that some one of the players will win the lottery (which is guaranteed since players are in one-to-one correspondence with winning possibilities). Clearly, as a tautology, this disjunction does not exhibit specified complexity and therefore does not signify design. But what about the crucial disjunct in this disjunction, namely, the prediction by the winning lottery player? As it turns out, this disjunct can never exhibit specified complexity either. This is because the number of disjuncts count as probabilistic resources, which I define as the number of opportunities for an event to occur and be specified (more on this in my final lecture). With disjunctions, this number is the same as the number of lottery players and ensures that the prediction by the winning lottery player never attains the degree of complexity/improbability needed to exhibit specified complexity. A lottery with N players has at least N probabilistic resources, and once these are factored in, the correct prediction by the winning lottery player is no longer improbable. In general, once all the relevant probabilistic resources connected with a disjunction are factored in, apparent difficulties associated with attributing a disjunct to design and the disjunction to chance disappear. Finally, the case of mixed explananda is easily dispatched. Suppose we are given a conjunction of two conjuncts in which one exhibits specified complexity and the other does not. In that case one will be attributed to design and the other to chance. And what about the conjunction? The conjunction will be at least as improbable/complex as the first conjunct (the one that exhibits specified complexity). What’s more, the pattern qua specification that delimits the first conjunct will necessarily delimit the conjunction as well (conjunctions always restrict the space of possibilities more than their conjuncts). Consequently, the conjunction will itself exhibit specified complexity and be attributed to design. Note that this is completely unobjectionable. Specified complexity, in signaling design, merely says that an intelligent agent was involved. It does not require that intelligent agency account for every aspect of a thing in question. In closing I want to take the charge that specified complexity is not a reliable instrument for detecting design and turn it back on critics who think that likelihoods provide a better way of inferring design. I showed earlier that the likelihood approach presupposes some account of specification in how it individuates the events to which it applies. More is true: The likelihood approach can infer design only by presupposing specified complexity. To see this, take an event that is the product of design but for which we have not yet seen the relevant pattern that makes its design evident to us (take a Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence example in which a long sequence of prime numbers, say, reaches us from outer space, but suppose we have not yet seen that it is a sequence of prime numbers). Without that pattern we will not be able to distinguish between the probability that this event takes the form it does given that it is the result of chance, and the probability that it takes the form it does given that it is the result of design. Consequently, we will not be able to infer design for this event. Only once we see the pattern will we, on a likelihood analysis, be able to see that the latter probability is greater than the former. But what are the right sorts of patterns that allow us to see that? Not all patterns signal design. What’s more, the pattern needs to delimit an event of sufficient improbability (i.e., complexity) for otherwise the event can readily be referred to chance. We are back, then, to needing some account of complexity and specification. Thus a likelihood analysis that pits competing design and chance hypotheses against each other must itself presuppose the legitimacy of specified complexity as a reliable indicator of intelligence. Nor is the likelihood approach salvageable. Lydia and Timothy McGrew, philosophers at Western Michigan University, think that likelihoods are ideally suited for detecting design in the natural sciences but that my Fisherian approach to specified complexity breaks down. Taking issue with both Sober and me, they argue that the presence of irreducible complexity in biological systems constitutes a state of affairs upon which the design hypothesis confers greater probability than the Darwinian hypothesis. [23] Irreducible complexity is biochemist Michael Behe’s notion. According to Behe, a system is irreducibly complex if it is “composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning. [24] The McGrews are looking for some property of biological systems upon which the design hypothesis confers greater probability than its naturalistic competitors. This sounds reasonable until one considers such properties more carefully. For the McGrews specified complexity is disallowed because it is a statistical property that depends on Fisher’s approach to hypothesis testing, and they regard this approach as not rationally justified (which in The Design Inference I argue it is once one introduces the notion of a probabilistic resource). What they apparently fail to realize, however, is that any property of biological systems upon which a design hypothesis confers greater probability than a naturalistic competitor must itself presuppose specified complexity. Ultimately what enables irreducible complexity to signal design is that it is a special case of specified complexity. Behe admits as much in his public lectures whenever he points to my work in The Design Inference as providing the theoretical underpinnings for his own work on irreducible complexity. The connection between irreducible complexity and specified complexity is easily seen. The irreducibly complex systems Behe considers require numerous components specifically adapted to each other and each necessary for function. On any formal complexity-theoretic analysis, they are complex. Moreover, in virtue of their function, these systems embody independently given patterns that can be identified without recourse to actual living systems. Hence these systems are also specified. Irreducible complexity is thus a special case of specified complexity. But the problem goes even deeper. Name any property of biological systems that favors a design hypothesis over its naturalistic competitors, and you will find that what makes this property a reliable indicator of design is that it is a special case of specified complexity — if not, such systems could readily be referred to chance. William Paley’s adaptation of means to ends,[25] Harold Morowitz’s minimal complexity,[26] Marcel Schutzenberger’s functional complexity,[27] and Michael Behe’s irreducible complexity all, insofar as they reliably signal design, have specified complexity at their base. Thus, even if a likelihood analysis could coherently assign probabilities conditional upon a design hypothesis (a claim I disputed earlier), the success of such an analysis in detecting design would depend on a deeper probabilistic analysis that finds specified complexity at its base. Consequently, if there is a way to detect design, specified complexity is it. Let me conclude with a reality check. Often when likelihood theorists try to justify their methods, they reluctantly concede that Fisherian methods dominate the scientific world. For instance, Howson and Urbach, in their Bayesian account of scientific reasoning, concede the underwhelming popularity of Bayesian methods among working scientists.[28] Likewise, Richard Royall, who is the statistical authority most frequently cited by Sober, writes: “Statistical hypothesis tests, as they are most commonly used in analyzing and reporting the results of scientific studies, do not proceed … with a choice between two [or more] specified hypotheses being made … [but follow] a more common procedure….”[29] Royall then outlines that common procedure as specifying a chance hypothesis, using a test-statistic to identify a rejection region, checking whether the probability of that rejection region under the chance hypothesis falls below a given significance level, determining whether a sample falls within that rejection region, and if so rejecting the chance hypothesis.[30] In other words, the sciences look to Ronald Fisher and not to Thomas Bayes for their statistical methodology. The smart money is therefore on specified complexity — and not a likelihood analysis — as the key to detecting design and turning intelligent design into a full-fledged scientific research program. 18. Fitelson et al. (“How Not to Detect Design,” 475) write, “We do not claim that likelihood is the whole story [in evaluating Chance and Design], but surely it is relevant.” In fact, a likelihood analysis is all they offer. What’s more, such an analysis comes into play only after all the interesting statistical work has already been done. 19. Stephen C. Meyer, “DNA by Design: An Inference to the Best Explanation for the Origin of Biological Information,”Rhetoric & Public Affairs 1(4) (1998): 519-556.=20 20. Michael Polanyi, “Life Transcending Physics and Chemistry,”Chemical and Engineering News (21 August 1967): 54-66; Michael Polanyi, “Life’s Irreducible Structure,” Science 113 (1968): 1308-1312. 21. Fitelson et al. (“How Not to Detect Design,” 479) regard this as an impossible task: “We doubt that there is any general inferential procedure that can do what Dembski thinks the [criterion of specified complexity] accomplishes.” They regard it as “enormously ambitious” to sweep the field clear of chance in order to infer design. Nonetheless, we do this all the time. This is not to say that we eliminate every logically possible chance hypothesis. Rather, we eliminate the ones relevant to a given inquiry. The chance hypotheses relevant to a combination lock, for instance, do not include a chance hypothesis that concentrates all the probability on the actual combination. Now it can happen that we may not know enough to determine all the relevant chance hypotheses. Alternatively, we might think we know the relevant chance hypotheses, but later discover that we missed a crucial one. In the one case a design inference could not even get going; in the other, it would be mistaken. But these are the risks of empirical inquiry, which of its nature is fallible. Worse by far is to impose as a priority requirement that all gaps in our knowledge must ultimately be filled by non-intelligent causes. 22. Ibid., 486. 23. Lydia McGrew, “Likely Machines: A Response to Elliott Sober’s ‘Testability’,” typescript, presented at conference titled Design and Its Critics (Mequon,Wisconsin:ConcordiaUniversity, 22-24 June 2000). 24. Michael Behe, Darwin‘s Black Box (New York: Free Press, 1996), 39. 25. See the watchmaker argument in William Paley, Natural Theology: Or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity Collected from the Appearances of Nature, reprinted (1802; reprintedBoston: Gould and Lincoln, 1852), ch. 1. 26. Harold J. Morowitz, Beginnings of Cellular Life: Metabolism Recapitulates Biogenesis (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1992), 59-68. 27. Interview with Marcel Schtzenberger, “The Miracles of Darwinism,” Origins and Design_ 17(2) (1996): 11. 28. Colin Howson and Peter Urbach, Scientific Reasoning: The Bayesian Approach, 2nd ed. (La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, 1993), 192. 29. Richard Royall, Statistical Evidence: A Likelihood Paradigm (London: Chapman & Hall, 1997), 61-62. 30. Ibid., 62. Tags:Intelligent Design and Its Critics	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798805
__label__cc	0.567187	0.432813	Trading profits boost Glencore Commodities trading and mining giant Glencore impressed the markets with its first full-year results. by: Andrew Van Sickle Commodities trading and mining giant Glencore impressed the markets with its first full-year results since its $66bn takeover of Xstrata in May 2013. It posted a 7% drop in income to $4.3bn, excluding one-off charges, with a 23% drop in earnings from the mining division offset by an 18% jump at the trading arm. The group mines and markets 93 commodities. What the commentators said The trading arm is worth 42% of group earnings, and it covers a wide range of raw materials: the trading profits stemmed completely from Glencore's agriculture sub-segment. Profits at the grain and oilseed business quadrupled, offsetting a decline in earnings from trading mined commodities and energy. The burning question now, said Elizabeth Knight in the Sydney Morning Herald, is whether Glencore still wants to take over Rio Tinto, leapfrogging BHP Billiton to create the world's biggest miner. Last year's tilt was rejected by Rio's board, but "few believe Glencore has gone away". The firm merely appears to have "moved into the background to regroup" now that the price of iron ore, Rio's main product, has further declined. But rather than go shopping, Glencore may have to concentrate on keeping investors and ratings agencies "comfortable with its debt pile", reckoned Helen Thomas in The Wall Street Journal. Its net debt, at three times the earnings of its mining segment, is far higher than sector peers, and its shares have already priced in a recovery in metals prices. Throw in the threat of a downgrade by Standard & Poor's if it pursues mergers or hands out too much cash to shareholders, and the industry's "ultimate dealmaker" appears to have "limited room for manoeuvre". Make money from the metals mining boom in Latin America Covid-19 has hit Latin America harder than any other. But the continent's highly competitive mining sector looks poised to profit handsomely over the … More upside to come for the oil price The Brent crude oil price its highest level since last February this week. And there could be more gains to come. A simple way to profit from the next big trend change in the markets Change is coming to the markets as the tech-stock bull market of the 2010s is replaced by a new cycle of rising commodity prices. John Stepek explains… Frisby’s forecasts – what does 2021 have in store for investors? Dominic Frisby gazes into his crystal ball and makes his predictions for the markets in the year ahead.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798811
__label__wiki	0.84149	0.84149	Movies Models and Music Horror Movie Hotties Movies On Demand Blu-rays and DVD’s CONQUEST Pay Tribute to Lemmy of Motorhead with Ace of Spades Dark Star Records Artist CONQUEST Pay Tribute to Lemmy of Motorhead by Streaming their Metal Version of the Classic Motorhead Song “Ace of Spades” Ian Fraser “Lemmy” Kilmister (24 December 1945 – 28 December 2015) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who founded and fronted the rock band Motörhead. His music was a distinctive part of the heavy metal genre. He was known for his appearance including his friendly mutton chops and his distinctively gravelly voice. He had many minor roles in film and television. Lemmy was born in Stoke-on-Trent and grew up in North Wales. He was influenced by rock and roll and the early Beatles, which led to him playing in several rock groups in the 1960s, including the Rockin’ Vickers. He worked as a roadie for Jimi Hendrix and the Nice, before joining the space rock band Hawkwind in 1971, singing lead on their hit “Silver Machine”. After being fired from Hawkwind, he founded Motörhead as lead singer, bassist, songwriter and frontman. Motörhead’s success peaked in 1980 and 1981 and included the hit single “Ace of Spades”. Lemmy continued to record and tour regularly with Motörhead until his death in December 2015. The Song ACE OF SPADES is Available on CONQUEST’s new CD called UNDER THE INFLUENCE And, a Special LIMITED EDITION AUTOGRAPHED “PRE RELEASE CD” is Now AVAILABLE Dark Star Records Artist CONQUEST is pleased to announce that they are releasing the new Metal Gods Tribute Album called UNDER THE INFLUENCE. The new full length album features all new versions of some the greatest classic metal songs of all time like FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS by METALLICA, COWBOYS FROM HELL by PANTERA, METAL GODS by JUDAS PRIEST and Many More! All the songs are Preformed by Conquest and Produced by Conquest and Adam Long. 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__label__wiki	0.759484	0.759484	Forum is open for all, Tracker is invite only. Please use same username as on both when you register... Username: Log me on automatically each visit Board index ‹ MMA Community ‹ MMA Events [Event] UFC on ABC 1 - Holloway vs. Kattar - Jan 16 Post a new topicPost a reply Page 1 of 1 [ 8 posts ] Post subject: [Event] UFC on ABC 1 - Holloway vs. Kattar - Jan 16 Location: In front of you UFC Fight Night 183 - Thompson vs. Neal --- UFC on ESPN 20 - Chiesa vs. Magny UFC on ABC 1: Holloway vs. Kattar (also known as UFC Fight Island 7) is an upcoming mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that will take place on January 16, 2021 at the Flash Forum on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Main card (ABC / ESPN+) Featherweight Max Holloway vs. Calvin Kattar Welterweight Carlos Condit vs. Matt Brown Welterweight Santiago Ponzinibbio vs. Li Jingliang Middleweight Joaquin Buckley vs. Alessio Di Chirico Middleweight Punahele Soriano vs. Duško Todorović Preliminary card (ABC / ESPN+) Middleweight Phil Hawes vs. Nassourdine Imavov Women's Bantamweight Wu Yanan vs. Joselyne Edwards Heavyweight Carlos Felipe vs. Justin Tafa Welterweight David Zawada vs. Ramazan Emeev Women's Bantamweight Sarah Moras vs. Vanessa Melo Featherweight Jacob Kilburn vs. Austin Lingo The main card will mark the first time a UFC event will be broadcast on ABC. It also means the first return to network television since UFC on Fox: Lee vs. Iaquinta 2 was broadcast on Fox in December 2018. After hosting nine events behind closed doors at the du Forum amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the UFC will make its debut at the newly built Etihad Arena. A limited number of fans will be allowed inside the venue, marking the first time since UFC 248 on March 2020 that non-essential event personnel will be in attendance. The venue has maximum capacity of over 18,000, but the UFC is expecting to have closer to 2,000 fans for each of the Fight Island's events during the week. A featherweight bout between former UFC Featherweight Champion Max Holloway and Calvin Kattar is expected to serve as the event headliner. A bantamweight bout between Ricky Simon and Brian Kelleher was initially scheduled to take place at UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Sakai, but Simon's cornerman tested positive for COVID-19 and he was forced to withdraw from the event. The pairing was then rescheduled for this event. In turn, Kelleher also tested positive on January 1 and was pulled from the bout. He was replaced by newcomer Gaetano Pirrello and the bout will take place four days later at UFC on ESPN: Chiesa vs. Magny. A women's bantamweight bout between former UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship challenger Bethe Correia and Wu Yanan was expected to take place at UFC on ESPN: Hermansson vs. Vettori. However, due to visa issues, they were rescheduled for this event. In turn, Correia had to pull out on January 5 due to appendicitis, which required an appendectomy. She was replaced by promotional newcomer Joselyne Edwards. Muslim Salikhov was scheduled to face Santiago Ponzinibbio in a welterweight bout at the event. However, Salikhov pulled out of the bout in mid-December citing health issues after contracting COVID-19. He was replaced by Li Jingliang. A flyweight bout between former UFC Flyweight Championship challenger Tim Elliott (also The Ultimate Fighter: Tournament of Champions flyweight winner) and Jordan Espinosa was expected to take place at this event. However, Espinosa tested positive for COVID-19 in late December and the pairing was moved to UFC 259. A women's bantamweight bout between The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rousey vs. Team Tate bantamweight winner Julianna Peña and former title challenger Sara McMann (also 2004 Olympic silver medalist in wrestling) was originally scheduled for this event before being pushed back a week later to UFC 257. The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil 3 middleweight winner Warlley Alves and Christian Aguilera were expected to meet in a welterweight bout. However, Aguilera pulled out in late December due to an injury. He was replaced by Mounir Lazzez and the pairing will take place at UFC on ESPN: Chiesa vs. Magny. A middleweight bout between five-time Brazilian Jiu Jitsu World Champion Rodolfo Vieira and Anthony Hernandez was expected to take place at this event. However, Hernandez pulled out due to a positive COVID-19 test and they were rescheduled for UFC 258. A welterweight bout between former WEC Welterweight Champion and former interim UFC Welterweight Champion Carlos Condit and Matt Brown was originally booked for a planned January 30 event. After the UFC opted against holding a card on that date, they were then briefly rescheduled for UFC on ESPN: Chiesa vs. Magny. At last, they were booked for this event. The pairing has been previously cancelled as they were initially scheduled to meet at UFC on Fox: Johnson vs. Benavidez 2 in December 2013, but Brown pulled out due to an undisclosed injury. They were booked once again in April 2018 for UFC on Fox: Poirier vs. Gaethje, but Brown had to pull out a second time as he injured his anterior cruciate ligament. A featherweight bout between Nik Lentz and Mike Grundy was scheduled for this event. However, a member of Grundy's team tested positive for COVID-19, hence Lentz was given a new opponent off Movsar Evloev who he will face at UFC 257 in a catchweight bout of 150 pounds. During fight week, the UFC opted to move a middleweight bout between Omari Akhmedov and Tom Breese to UFC on ESPN: Chiesa vs. Magny due to "COVID-19 related issues". Jan 8 - Updated fight card & background Jan 14 - Updated fight card & background Real fast 1 gbit seedboxes - Professional support 24/7/365 Can off course be used on any tracker to gain ratio - Its pure freedom in a box! Torrentflux or Dedicated Servers - 100% anonymous and encrypted - Welcome to try us out - 30 days money back garantuee! Post subject: Re: [Event] UFC on ABC 1 - Holloway vs. Kattar - Jan 16 Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 10:40 am cain1753 Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2021 10:48 pm I am just wondering if you will be including this event in the competition for 2021? Are you going to even have a competition in this year? If so will it be run from the start of the New Year UFC schedule or be done in a similar manner to last year. Please let us know further as to which events will be a part of the competition, or also if there will even be a competition in 2021. ..::UFC 254 - Khabib vs. Gaethje Competition Winner::.. ..::UFC 237 - Namajunas vs. Andrade Competition Winner::.. ..::UFC 235 - Jones vs. Smith Competition Winner::.. @cain1753 No competition for this event. This event will not be part of the league of 2021. Thank you for your reply. I know a great deal of work goes into making these competitions take place. It was also a monster chore to finalize last year's competition results in such a timely manner. Thank you for that. When you can I know you will let us know when the new season initiates (competition) and also post when there are breaks in the competition schedule and when it will resume. Regardless of which events are a part of the competition the playing field remains equal for all that choose to compete. The competitions quite simply make the events more meaningful. We have to invest time to do our own homework and also challenge our brains in order to make our picks. It is a lot of fun. Our pandemic filled world is not so much fun in the moment. However involvement in events like this that don't require one to step outside the front door are very much enjoyed and appreciated. Thank you for that Dent! Thank you brother for your appreciation! We will have s low start of the league this year. But with a bang! First competition of 2021 will be UFC 257. Thank you for your reply and also the confirmation on the first competition event. A PPV event is as good as any to start the new season off and ticks the box for the first month of the year. Yeah exactly, and we started with McGregor last year, so I figured we would do it again for 2021 Jump to: Select a forum ------------------ MMA Community MMA Events General MMA Discussion Chill Out Room MMA Competitions Torrents Vault - Ratio builders MMA Polls MMA News Support Important Information GUIDES & TUTORIALS Support & Suggestions Tech Stuff Theme By: Nikkbu	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798821
__label__wiki	0.748474	0.748474	Alkane Energy increases output as demand grows Alkane Energy has increased its output following new contract wins and orders, the gas and power provider said Friday. Production has risen 19% year-on-year, according to the group's trading update for the year to December 31st. The company expects to deliver full-year electricity output of 167 gigawatt hours (GWh), compared to 140GWh in 2011, in its preliminary results to be released in March. Group output increased 44% to 101 megawatt hours (MWh) in 2012, buttressed by the addition of seven sites through its acquisition of Greenpark Energy in April. The transaction bolstered Alkane to the top spot as the largest operator of coal mine methane in the UK. Another contributor to output was Alkane's approval for plans to extract natural gas at Nooks Farm in Staffordshire. Electricity will be generated using the group's core gas to power skills. The drill programme is expected to be completed in coming months and the site has estimated contingent resources of 1.5bn cubic feet (bcf) of gas, which is expected to provide 2.0 megawhatt (MW) electricity output for up to 15 years. Alkane also gained from orders for new biogas plants worth £4.0m and has contracted 21MW of its power response capacity to the National Grid's UK Short Term Operating Reserve ("STOR") market up to March 2014. "We have continued to see strong growth in our core coal mine methane business and we are encouraged by our progress in related markets such as power response and biogas," Chief Executive Officer Neil O'Brien said. "The prospect of a shortfall in energy supply in the UK, as highlighted by Ofgem and the National Grid, reinforces our confidence about the continuing opportunities to the group for further growth. "Given the high level of interest in UK onshore shale gas, Alkane is evaluating its options in relation to potential shale gas resources within its licensed portfolio." Shares jumped 3.7% to 27.75p at 11:23 Friday.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798827
__label__wiki	0.922795	0.922795	Metalrax set to enter administration Metalrax announced Tuesday that it was set to fall into administration after its working capital worsened and attempts to refinance failed. The AIM-listed supplier of specialist engineering and consumer durable products said that as a result of trading falling below expectations it will appoint Will Wright and Mark Orton of KPMG as joint administrators. The company has struggled, particularly in its Consumer Durables division, since the loss of a major contract in July last year. Sales volumes have fallen below expectations and as a result the group's funding availability has dropped significantly. "Although the directors have sought further financing to allow the company to continue trading, such financing has not been forthcoming," the group said in a statement. "It has therefore become evident that the only course of action available for the board is to place Metalrax and certain of its subsidiaries into administration." The group has consequently suspended its shares from trading on AIM pending clarification of its financial position.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798828
__label__cc	0.643115	0.356885	Do You Have To Pay For Samples On A Mixtape? Do you need permission to sample a song? What songs can I sample for free? Is sampling music stealing? Is it illegal to remake a beat? Do artist get paid for mixtapes? Can I use samples for a mixtape? Is it legal to sell mixtapes? How much of a song can you sample without paying? How much does it cost to clear a sample? Do artists have to pay for samples? Can you get sued for using a beat on a mixtape? Is it OK to use samples in music? Is it legal to use someone else’s beat? Can I use 30 seconds of copyrighted music? How much of a song can I sample legally? How do you legally sample a song. When you sample, you must get permission from both the owner of the composition and the owner of the recording before you release any copies of your new recording. If both parties approve your request to sample, you’ll need to enter into a sampling agreement with each copyright owner.. 3 Websites That Have The Best Free Music SamplesSampleSwap. SampleSwap is not just a website full of free samples. It offers much more than that. … LANDR Free Music Samples. People know LANDR mainly for its service that automatically masters your song. … Library Of Congress. Any audio you find on the Library Of Congress’ website is up for grabs. If you sample someone’s song without permission, it is an instant copyright violation, both of the sound recording and of the song itself. Re-recording the sample, which many artists do, can get around the former but not the latter. If you remake the beat yourself, YES you can. You only need to change it up 20% to clear copyright infringement and legally make it your own. There are some major artists that get paid, but a new artist will typically not receive any income from his mixtapes. … Another way rappers get paid from mixtapes is to sell it on their own. Either on Itunes or their website. Datpiff or Livemixtapes do not allow rappers to sell their music on their platform. Some individuals believe that uncredited sampling in a hip-hop mixtape is fair use because it’s non-commercial. This is wrong. If you are distributing copies of somebody else’s recording for free, it has the potential to reduce the profits of the original work. Therefore mixtape artists can’t hide behind fair use. But since mixtapes often contain copyrighted material, they were illegal until now. … It lets anyone upload and sell mixtapes. What’s special is that typically to do this, a DJ would have to get the rights to sell every song they play on the mixtape. You may have heard of “fair use,” a copyright provision that permits you to use 10, 15 or 30 seconds of music without copyright obligation. That is, you understand that you can use a short section of a song without paying a fee. More than likely you will be hiring an attorney to spearhead the process but it is very important to understand the process yourself to either assist or possibly even take on the mission of clearing a sample on your own. On the master side the clearance fee will likely range somewhere between $2,000 to $10,000. Some artists have to pay 50% of all the recording royalties just to use a sample which may be a few seconds long. These three amounts all vary widely, though. In order to pay the least possible amount, use as short a sample as you can. Use it as few times as you can. You see, while in most genres people usually have to get permission to use backing tracks or buy them, most rap producers won’t mind you using one of their beats on your mixtape. As long as: You credit them. … You aren’t profiting from your mixtape. There is nothing wrong with loops or samples. Just make sure you have a solid collection of them, so that you don’t reuse the same ones all the time (especially loops) and use ones which are good quality and actually work well in the track. In the United States and most European territories, it is illegal to use someone else’s original beat without getting prior permission from the original creator beforehand – this is referred to as copyright infringement. Unfortunately, this is not true and there is no bright line rule that says a use is an acceptable use as long as you only use 5, 15, or 30 seconds of a song. Any use of copyrighted material without permission is, according to U.S. copyright law, copyright infringement. You CANNOT sample music without permission, no matter how short or long the sample is. Copyright is copyright. 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__label__cc	0.711985	0.288015	PC Mag Middle East Software & Services Mobile Apps iPhone Apps Apple Offers Veterans 10 Percent Discount Via New Online Store The new store is offering the discount to both US veterans and active military service members. Eligible buyers can now get access to the iPhone XS starting at $899 or the iPhone XR for $674. Dec. 4, 2018, 10:37 a.m. Apple has launched a new online store for US veterans and active military members that offers a 10 percent discount on company products. The special store went online on Monday and contains all of the company's newest gadgets, including the iPhone XS, iPad Pro and Apple Watch Series 4, in addition to Macs. "At Apple we are deeply grateful to the men and women of our armed forces," the company told PCMag. "We're proud to offer active military and veterans a new dedicated online store with special pricing as an expression of our gratitude for their brave service." Apple had been offering the military discount through the company's federal government purchase program. However, the new store goes beyond offering a 2 percent to 6 percent discount, and raises it to 10 percent. Eligible buyers can now get access to the iPhone XS starting at $899 or the iPhone XR for $674. The new store is also available to immediate family members of veterans who reside in the same household. Buyers can also get discounts on AppleCare protection plans. However, eligible customers are limited to purchasing up to three unlocked iPhone devices, three iPad devices and three Macs for each calendar year. Apple told PCMag that eligible customers who buy from the store must also agree that they are current or past members of the US Military, National Guard or Reserve. What the company will do to stop potential abuse isn't totally clear. But the company can rescind an order if it suspects the buyer is trying to resell the product. If you don't qualify for the discount, but want access to cheaper Apple products, you can consider buying a refurbished product from the company. Apple also has a special discount store for college students, but it only offers price cuts for Mac and iPad devices, not the iPhone or the Apple Watch. Facebook Stickered for Messenger (for iPhone) Review Pokemon Go (for iPhone) Review Microsoft Cortana (for iPhone) Review How to Secure Your Phone for a Protest Under Armour Unveils Smart PJs With Tom Brady	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798831
__label__cc	0.676875	0.323125	MechStuff ''Making stuff… Simpler'' Mech-Tech Robot Stuff For Mechanical Engineers Games for Mechanical Engineers Movies for Mechanical Engineers Projects for Mechanical engineers The Top 10 Biggest Machines in the World ! We Humans, being a couple of feet high, weighing barely a quintal are capable of making & building things million times bigger & heavier than us & we have proved it. Hats off to those engineers who have built them ! So lets have a look at the top 10 biggest machines of all time which we’ve never imagined of ! These are the machines which are so big that you might have to walk a kilometre or so to view them completely. So get ready to get your jaw drop…! The top 10 biggest machines are- 10. The giant mechanical spider -La Princesse La Princesse. source:- 21region.org La Princesse is a 15-metre giant mechanical spider weighing over 37 tons. It was designed & operated by French performance art company La Machine. The spider was showcased in Liverpool, England, as part of the 2008 European Capital of Culture celebrations. In 2009, it was on display in Yokohama, Japan, as part of Yokohama’s 150th anniversary of it’s port opening. 9. Biggest dump truck – BelAZ 75710 It is manufactured by BelAZ in Belarus. The entire truck costs over $6 million. Length – 20.6 m Breadth – 9.87 m Height – 8.16 m ! source:- ridus.ru The empty weight is 360 tons & it can carry 450 tons of load ! It is powered by 2 diesel engines giving a power output of 4600 hp – 4.6 times than the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, the fastest car in the world ! 8. Biggest aircraft – Antonov An-225 Mriya The Antonov An-225 Mriya is a cargo aircraft that was designed by the Soviet Union’s Antonov Design Bureau in the 1980’S. The An-25-225’s name, Mriya means “Dream”(inspiration) in Ukrainian. It is powered by six turbofan engines and is the longest and heaviest airplane ever built with a maximum takeoff weight of 640 tonnes. The Antonov An-225 was initially developed for transporting the Buran space shuttle. Antonov An 225 carrying Buran space shuttle. source:- img.planespotters.com Length – 84 m (275 ft 7 in) Wingspan – 88.4 m (290 ft) Height – 18.1 m (59 ft 5 in) The airlifter holds the absolute world records for an airlifted single item payload of 189,980 kgs ! Currently it is in commercial operation carrying oversized payloads. 7. Biggest rail gun – Schwerer Gustav Schwerer Gustav is the biggest railway gun ever made. It was developed in late 1930’s by Krupp to destroy the main forts of French Maginot Line. The fully assembled gun weighed nearly 1,350 tonnes, and could fire shells weighing 7 tonnes to a range of 47 kilometres (29 mi)(I seriously read it thrice to make sure what I am reading…can you believe that – 7 tons … Oh crap ! I SURRENDER ). Length – 47.3 metres Width – 7.12 metres Height – 11.6 metres Barrel length – 32.5 metres ! The Nazis had to stop using the gun because the railway tracks laid were easily visible to enemy air troops & hence it was easy for them to destroy the gun by dropping bombs on it. It could fire only 14 times a day. 6. Crawler – The Rocket Transporter Crawler is a vehicle used by NASA to transport rockets & space shuttles. Only 2 of them are built by Marion Power Shovel using components designed and built by Rockwell International. Crawler. source:- i.ytimg.com Length – 40 m Breadth – 35 m Height – Adjustable from 6.1 m to 7.9 m Weight – 2721 tons ! The crawler-transporter is the LARGEST SELF-POWERED LAND VEHICLE in the world. To know amazing, interesting facts & details about Crawler, visit this link ! 5. Largest tunnel boring machine – Bertha Bertha is a tunnel boring machine built specifically for the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel project in Seattle. The name Bertha, after Seattle’s only female mayor, Bertha Knight Landes. Length – 300 feet Diameter – 57.5 feet 4. Biggest ship – OOCL Hong Kong Built by the Samsung heavy industries, the OOCL Hong Kong is the biggest cargo ship evr built. It has a carrying capacity of 21,413 TEUs, being the first one to cross the 21000 mark (TEU is Twenty foot equivalent unit, an inexact way to indicate 1 twenty feet long container). And guess what, the biggest cargo ship is powered by the biggest internal combustion engine – the Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C generating more than 80,000 kW of power ! OOCL Hong Kong- Worlds largest cargo ship Length – 399.87 m Maximum speed – 40 km/hr Carrying capacity – 197,317 tons You should definitely check out the top 5 longest, biggest & heaviest ships and submarine in the world, they will blow your mind! 3.Largest excavator – Bagger 288 Bagger 288 (Excavator 288), one of a group of similar sized ‘sibling’ vehicles such as the Bagger 281, Bagger 285, Bagger 287 etc. built by the German company Krupp is a bucket-wheel excavator or mobile strip mining machine. It can excavate 240,000 tons of coal of overburden daily – the equivalent of a football field dug 30 m deep ! The Bagger’s operation require 16.56 megawatts of externally supplied electricity. It can travel upto 2-10 metre per min(0.1 to 0.6 km/hr). It can maximum climb a 5 slope. Length – 220 m Height – 96 m Weight – 13,500 tons ! 2.Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60 F60 is the series designation of five overburden conveyor bridges used in lignite(type of coal) opencast mining in Lusatian coalfields in Germany. As overburden conveyor bridges, they transport the overburden which lies over the coal seam. The cutting height is 60 m, hence the name F60. It is the largest moving machine in the world. Length – 502 m (even greater than the height of Empire State Building) Width – 240 m Weight – 13,600 metric tons ! It is also described as lying Eiffel tower ! The Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60s hold the title of largest land vehicle of any type by physical dimensions. 1. The Large Hadron Collider The Large Hadron Collider(LHC) is the world’s largest & most powerful particle collider, most complex experimental facility ever built & largest single machine in the world. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research(CERN) between 1998 & 2008 in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries. It lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres (17 mi) in circumference, as deep as 175 metres (574 ft) beneath the France-Switzerland border near Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC’s mission is to allow physicists to test the predictions of different theories of particle physics & in particular to test the properties of the Higgs boson and other unsolved questions of physics, advancing human understanding of physical laws ! You might like :- Top 10 Flying Machines in the World ! Well, I would love to hear your thoughts on these mighty machines. Would you like to own any one of them ? If yes, which one would it be & why ? OR you could also share your favorite one ! Share your thoughts in the comment section below 🙂 ! Share this Stuff : Engineering Marvels, MechStuff Antonov An 225 Mriya, Bagger 288, BelAZ 75710, Bertha, biggest aeroplane, biggest machines, biggest ships, crawler, F60 conveyor bridge, jalopnik, La Princesse, largest machines, LHC, OOCL, Schwerer Gustav, shocking facts, top 10 3 comments on “The Top 10 Biggest Machines in the World !” saurabh nevgi says: bagger 288….woww….can anybody imagine larger than this in case of excavator? Jay Baviskar says: bwahaha ! I guess not Saurabh Chey says: Toss up between the mriya & hadron collider. Not sure where i would put them or how i’d run them without a team of teams but they belong together anyway, that hadron collider could be used for figuring out how to make the giant airplane move without it’s jet engines. Or just move my teams of engineers back & forth around the world to operate my collider ? 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__label__cc	0.650131	0.349869	Maxine Papadakis Awards The Maxine Papadakis Awards for Faculty Professionalism and Respect The Maxine Papadakis Awards recognize faculty who are exemplars in treating students and all others in the clinical environment with professionalism, courtesy and respect. Dr. Papadakis recently retired as Associate Dean for Students at UCSF School of Medicine from 1998 to 2016. She is currently Professor Emerita. During her tenure, Dr. Papadakis devoted considerable effort to measuring and improving the professionalism and respectful behavior of faculty in the learning environment. It was her work that led to the “respect” questions on the student evaluations of faculty. These questions ask every student to indicate the extent to which faculty treated them and others with courtesy and respect. Dr. Papadakis has published widely in this area, and received national recognition for her work. David Elkin, MD, MSL, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Aaron J. Harries, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine Derek Ward, MD, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Josué Zapata, MD, MBA, Department of Medicine The importance of publicly rewarding outstanding behavior in shaping excellent cultures of learning and patient care cannot be overestimated. By celebrating the faculty teachers in the core clinical rotations, we have the opportunity to significantly impact the clinical learning climate for our students. Teaching Opportunities in the Bridges Curriculum Academy Awards and Recognition Recognition Awards for Volunteer Clinical Faculty Bridges Curriculum Awards Henry J. Kaiser Awards Teaching Scholars Program Graduates Teach for UCSF Certificates Outcomes & Success Stories Volunteer Clinical Professor (VCP) Faculty Policies News and Listservs Contact the CFE	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798833
__label__wiki	0.667712	0.667712	The Haitian Immigrant Experience with Comedian, Writer, and Filmmaker, Tanael Joachim, Ep. 209 Ep. 209: This week on the Multiracial Family Man Podcast, speaking about the Haitian immigrant experience and representing that onstage, in essays, and on film with Haitian comedian, writer and filmmaker, Tanael Joachim. Tanael Joachim is a standup comedian who has made appearances on Gotham Comedy Live on AXS TV and on... The Russian-Jewish Immigrant Experience with Comedian and Writer, Vicky Kuperman, Ep. 208 Ep. 208: Russian-born Vicky Kuperman has performed nationwide for over a decade and was named one of Huffington Post’s new comedians to watch. Her comedy albums “When I Could Feel” and “All Good!” are in regular rotation on SiriusXM, and her book “How to Spy on Your Neighbor” was top 10 in political-humor... The Midwestern Multiracial Latino Experience, with comedian Kyle Ocasio, Ep. 207 Ep. 207: Dancer-turned-comedian and multiracial family mom, Kyle Ocasio, has had a fascinating multiracial and multicultural Latino experience. Born and raised in the Midwest (Cleveland), she has a mom who has roots in Central/Eastern Europe, and a dad from Venezuela. And, she's had the ability to compare and... The Afro-Latino experience with comedian Ian Lara, Ep. 206 Ep. 206: Ian Lara is just a regular Dominican kid from Queens, New York. Youngest of five and born to immigrant parents since a young age being funny became a way of life. He started comedy right after college after being told by some really successful lawyers that he should skip going to law school because it was a... Exploring Multicultural and Multiracial Experiences Onstage with Comedian DC Benny, Ep. 210 Ep. 210: In the hard-hitting New York comedy world, D.C. Benny is a heavyweight contender. His nickname “D.C.” was given to him by Harlem’s legendary host; “Uncle” Jimmy Mack, who sadly passed away in the 2014 Tracy Morgan car accident. Benny’s unusual style of telling autobiographical...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798836
__label__cc	0.729307	0.270693	about mw3 A new atmosphere, a new conscience and a new vision... The MW3 International Business was born from a passion about what is happening world wide right now, the music globalisation. People are adopting a very open minded attitude about many aspects of life and with music it's not different. Consumers are more open for what is new, what brings adventure, what makes them having a different experience without moving their feet too far, what open new doors in terms of imagination and personal satisfaction. NEW ATMOSPHERE \| Producers - Starting with the producers Carlos Maia from Brazil - with 22 years of experience in the music industry in a continental country with more than 240 million people, and Will Lisil from England - with 16 years of experience in international business in the European Union and United Kingdom - the idea of a world wide music crossover scheme for independent and professional artists came to light in the same moment they were having exactly this kind of experience, they were working with artists from Brazil and England, developing music collaborations between them, so they realised they already where in a new atmosphere of international music business and that was the final test to see if that could work. That worked amazingly! They really felt it, feel the vibe yourself... NEW CONSCIENCE \| Artists – Many independent and professional artists have a dream about a solid music career and expand their music experience not only for money but to live their passion. They normally achieve that, but at some point they find themselves struggling to experience different things and keep seeking for different ways to feel different feelings, that's the new conscience about music development. The MW3 Team has exactly the same passion and that's where the conscience between producers and artists find a very strong connection. this works as a very powerful and efficient fuel to make things happening, because it's not only business, it's a family working hard and growing together where everybody is essential and we build new projects together. You are essential! We are builders... NEW VISION \| The process of a music career transformation and international expansion starts with both producers and artists that in some point see themselves in a different atmosphere, naturally developing the new conscience of the great opportunities that are available all around the world and achieve a new vision of music business. This is the main reason the MW3 Team not only have their all artists but work in partnership with the actual artist's producers. It's in first place a family and a business that supports other business in the music industry. That's the vision, we can't make things happening without supporting each other. Your dreams are our dreams, lets do our best and let it flow! When we contribute for the transformation of 1 life, we find the fuel to transform more 1000! Be part of it! Carlos Maia \| Music Producer Will Lisil \| International Business Management Wrok in progress... Be part of it! Our works are constantly in progress and are mostly related to creating different ways to connect businesses, producers, artists, arts, countries and continents, making the magic of international experiences happen and dreams coming true!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798840
__label__cc	0.58215	0.41785	November 10, 2014 Next AV Excellence Awards for NAD Digital Amplifiers Last week in South Africa, Audio Video Magazine unveiled the winners of their annual “AV Excellence Awards”, and the NAD D 7050 Direct Digital Network Amplifier & D 3020 Hybrid Digital Amplifier were awarded “Overall Innovative Product of the Year” and “Recommended Integrated Amplifier”. NAD Electronics is tremendously proud to announce this great achievement and were very pleased with the critical acclaim that these two all-digital music streaming amplifiers have received since introduced in the new forward-thinking NAD Digital Series, including a “Best Amplifier Award” from What Hi-Fi? Sound & Vision in October 2013. “The D 3020 undoubtedly plays louder and cleaner, especially in low impedance speakers. It has a very marginally tighter bass, smoother midrange and better definition and accuracy in the high-frequency region. That is what I expect you to hear,” said Bjorn Erik Edvardsen, NAD Director of Advanced Product Development. “The D 3020 has been designed to fit today’s needs in terms of digital sources and has a good quality DAC with 8 channels mixed to 2, giving improved resolution which represents the same kind of value-bending innovation that gave the original 3020 its legendary phono stage.” Download the November digital edition of Audio Video Magazine and read the latest reviews here. NAD Awarded Top Honour by World’s Most Prominent Hi-Fi Press August 14, 2017 CE Pro Masters Recognizes NAD’s Greg Stidsen January 11, 2017 NAD C 368 Wins Product of the Year Award from The Absolute Sound December 21, 2017 NAD C 368 is ‘Effectively Bulletproof’ in AVS Forum Review October 23, 2017	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798842
__label__cc	0.627735	0.372265	mycloakedlink.com Can Stainless Steel Be Magnetized? Can stainless steel rust? Is it OK to drink from stainless steel? Is good stainless steel magnetic? What are the 5 types of stainless steel? How can you tell if stainless steel is 304? How can I tell if my stainless steel is 304 or 316? Is 304 or 316 stainless better? What grade of stainless steel is safe for cooking? Does 316 stainless steel rust? How can you tell if its stainless steel? Why do magnets not stick to stainless steel? What grade of stainless steel will not rust? Which types of stainless steel are magnetic? Do magnets stick to 304 stainless steel? What is the highest grade of stainless steel? How can you tell if a bolt is stainless steel? Stainless steel remains stainless, or does not rust, because of the interaction between its alloying elements and the environment. Stainless steel contains iron, chromium, manganese, silicon, carbon and, in many cases, significant amounts of nickel and molybdenum.. Stainless steel doesn’t contain the chemicals found in plastics that can cause severe health risks even in very small ‘doses’. … #304 or 18/8 food-grade stainless steel is safe at any temperature and won’t leach chemicals into your water if it’s scratched or ages. Ferritic stainless steels typically have better engineering properties than their counterpart, austenitic, but have reduced corrosion resistance due to lower nickel and chromium content. This makes ferritic stainless steel magnetic. … Ferritic metals are classified in the 400 series. There are a number of grades to choose from, but all stainless steels can be divided into five basic categories:Austenitic.Ferritic.Duplex.Martensitic.Precipitation hardening. Originally Answered: How do I check the grade of stainless steel 304 or 202 ? Hi. If you want to do spot check of SS, just take a random piece from the raw material and do a spark test. Run a grinder on it, if the sparks are reddish orange, thin and don’t fly much it’s SS304. Try the magnet test. If the magnet sticks it cannot be 316 and might be 304. If the magnet doesn’t stick it could be either 316 or cold worked 304, so heat the piece to about 800 °C, let air-cool and try again with magnet. If it sticks now its 304 SST. The most basic difference between grade 304 and grade 316 stainless steels is that 316 tends to have more nickel and a bit of molybdenum in the mix. … Though the stainless steel 304 alloy has a higher melting point, grade 316 has a better resistance to chemicals and chlorides (like salt) than grade 304 stainless steel. Food grade stainless steel is steel that met all criteria to be deemed safe for food preparation, storage and dining. The most common food grade stainless steel is Type 304. But 304 grade stainless steel also goes by another name or code, 18/8 and 18/10 stainless steel. Stainless 316 is made up of 16% chromium, 10% nickel and 2% molybdenum. The two steel grades are comparable in appearance, chemical makeup and characteristics. Both steels are durable and provide excellent resistance to corrosion and rust. The nickel is the key to forming austenite stainless steel. So the “magnet test” is to take a magnet to your stainless steel cookware, and if it sticks, it’s “safe”—indicating no nickel present—but if it doesn’t stick, then it’s not safe, and contains nickel (which is an austenite steel). The most popular stainless steel has good forming properties, resists corrosion, and is strong. However, it is not magnetic because it is alloyed with nickel, manganese, carbon, and nitrogen (austenitic). Austenitic stainless steels such as 304 or 316 have high amounts of nickel and chromium. The chromium combines with the oxygen before the iron is able to which forms a chromium oxide layer. This layer is very corrosion resistant which prevents rust formation and protects the underlying metal. The following types of stainless steel are typically magnetic: Ferritic Stainless Steels such as grades 409, 430 and 439. Martensitic Stainless Steel such as grades 410, 420, 440. Duplex Stainless Steel such as grade 2205. All stainless steel is magnetic except austenitic stainless steel which is actually 300 series stainless such as 304 and 316. However, 300 series stainless is non-magnetic only after it is freshly formed. 304 is almost for sure to become magnetic after cold work such as pressing, blasting, cutting, etc. Type 304Type 304: The best-known grade is Type 304, also known as 18/8 and 18/10 for its composition of 18% chromium and 8%/10% nickel, respectively. Type 316: The second most common austenitic stainless steel is Type 316. 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__label__cc	0.511799	0.488201	Jonathan Creek: Black Canary (TV) November 14, 2020 Categories Locked Rooms and Impossible Murders, Movie TimeAlan Davies, Caroline Quentin, David Renwick, Rik Mayall7 Comments on Jonathan Creek: Black Canary (TV) Originally broadcast 24 December, 1998 Preceded by Mother Redcap (Season Two) Followed by The Curious Tale of Mr Spearfish (Season Three) Written by David Renwick Directed by Sandy Johnson Key Guest Cast Rik Mayall makes his first appearance as DI Gideon Pryke, a Police Investigator who is every bit as brilliant as Jonathan. Mayall was one of the stars of Britain’s alternative comedy movement in the 80s, featuring in some of the decade’s most popular shows such as The Young Ones, Comic Strip Presents and The New Statesman. This was apparently his first acting role after he experienced a traumatic quad biking accident that had left him in a coma for five days. He would make a further appearance in show around fifteen years later in the episode The Clue of the Savant’s Thumb. The first TV special feels deserving of that title, giving Jonathan a brilliant rival to spar with and a pretty challenging case to solve. Marella Carney was one of the stars of the magic circuit, performing as the Black Canary, before a tragic accident led to her early retirement. Marella’s daughter contacts Jonathan to ask for his help in explaining the strange circumstances surrounding her sudden suicide. We learn that Marella’s wheelchair-bound husband Jerry was dozing in the conservatory when he woke to see her standing in the snowy garden arguing with a limping man. Suddenly she brandishes a shotgun, causing the man to run away, before turning it on herself moments later and shooting herself. Distraught, Jerry tries to get outside and when he does he notices that the only footprints that have been left in the snow are Marella’s… Throughout its first season and most of its second Jonathan Creek stories were about fifty minute, standalone stories. The exception to that was a two-part story in the second season (The Problems at Gallows Gate) which I regard as fundamentally misconceived with many of its problems arising from the change in running time and issues of pacing. Black Canary, the show’s first Christmas special, would also be essentially double-length and could very easily have fallen into many of the same traps that Gallows Gate had. Instead Renwick delivered a story that not only felt tailored to its running time but also actually deserving of the label “special”. To describe why this works I think it is important to pose a question: What do we want from a Jonathan Creek TV special? The answer couldn’t simply be more Jonathan Creek. The show had by this point established a pretty solid rhythm and formula with an impossibility mixed with some comedic material and some will they/won’t they banter between Jonathan and Maddy. The Gallows Gate two-parter had shown that simply adding more running time into a story doesn’t make it more baffling or compelling. Instead I think the answer lies in using that extra time to create a story that is bigger and more complex than you can typically tell. That doesn’t necessarily mean bigger in terms of the stakes of the show but bigger in the sense of telling Black Canary takes just such an approach and goes a step further by introducing a character who is capable of disrupting the show’s typical pacing, allowing for a different tone and unsettling the usual dynamics within our investigative team. Much of my love for this episode stems from this character, DI Gideon Pryke, who represents a brilliant challenge to Jonathan. Pryke is, like Jonathan, incredibly brilliant with an ability to quickly assess and process information and see small details that would pass others by. As a consequence of that he is frequently one step ahead of Jonathan meaning that he has genuine competition to solve this case. It is, for the most part, fairly cordial although Jonathan is clearly frustrated by Pryke’s initial patronizing dismissal of him as the amateur who must be tolerated. Yet by the end their deductions are feeding each other, spurring each other on to crack the case. It is a really fun dynamic and one that I think enhances rather than diminishes Jonathan as a sleuth. Rik Mayall gives a superb performance in the part, managing to not only portray Pryke as a good rival to Jonathan but ultimately a very effective detective. While the character is certainly arrogant, an attribute found in many of Mayall’s most celebrated characters, he is also surprisingly charming and ultimately quite gracious. This friendly rivalry reminded me somewhat of the one between Poirot and Giraud found in Murder on the Links although there is less of a stylistic difference between Creek and Pryke. Turning to the actual details of the case, Renwick also makes some very smart choices in the way he sets up this story. One of the reasons that I have been rather vague about the details of this story in this post is that at the start of the story he leaves us with a lot of intriguing threads and pieces of information to think about. The seasoned viewer is likely to make some solid deductions from some of these and may feel that they are far ahead of the sleuths, only to find that there are a number of early reveals, some of which actually spin the story off in different directions. This is the real benefit of the expanded running time – Renwick has the option here to develop clues that lead to other clues or sometimes cause you to rethink the way you are looking at them. The result is a story that feels much more complex than any Creek has tackled up until this point, building a sense that this story is more complex than it appears. That feeling is borne out by the solution which is, for the most part, quite clever and logical. While the means by which the impossibility is achieved is not directly clued, I feel the viewer can infer what happened from some of the other clues around the crime scene. I enjoyed the way in which the solution is revealed with the two sleuths working in tandem to deliver the explanation which felt a rather charming way to not only close out the mystery but to show that the two had come together and a respect had formed. It is a nice moment that made me wish he had been brought back sooner so we could see more of that tag-team sleuthing that I found so enjoyable to watch. While I think most of the mystery plot works well there are a few elements that I think are less successful. One aspect of the storyline, Jonathan and Maddy’s betting about whether Pryke’s assistant is male or female, feels pretty inappropriate and does not reflect brilliantly on those characters. It is another instance of the comedic elements of the show feeling really dated, though unlike some of the other examples I have pointed to this would not have been unusual content for the era it was produced in. The other element that I think wouldn’t be written in exactly the same way today is Adam Klaus’ misbehavior with a costume designer working on his show. In particular, his behavior with a small recording device without her knowledge. Clearly we are intended to view this as a boorish and sleazy behavior when it is more of a violation of her body. Aside from that initial scene however I think that story thread does have some very amusing moments that I do think serve as a nice balance to the much more serious mystery material while the eventual payoff to that thread stands up pretty well. With the exception of those two issues, I think much of the rest of the episode holds together really very well and proves that the show could work in a longer format. I think the hook of the disappearing footprints is fun and handled pretty well and I do enjoy the sort of haunting, spooky quality the episode channels at several points with the camera often dwelling on that rather eerie statue of Marella by the stairs. The biggest reason I hold this episode in such high regard though is Mayall’s performance as Pryke. The character fits alongside Creek perfectly and, revisiting this episode, I found myself wishing that we had seen him more often. It is, in my opinion, one of the best guest performances on the show and I think that difficult relationship is perhaps the episode’s most memorable elements. Which brings me to the end of my current run of Jonathan Creek posts. I plan on taking a short break from writing about the show until after the New Year when I plan on offering up some thoughts on The Curious Tale of Mr Spearfish. Previous Post Murders in Volume 2 by Elizabeth Daly Next Post Constable Guard Thyself! by Henry Wade 7 thoughts on “Jonathan Creek: Black Canary (TV)” Pingback: Jonathan Creek: Mother Redcap – Mysteries Ahoy! TomCat says: “The biggest reason I hold this episode in such high regard though is Mayall’s performance as Pryke. The character fits alongside Creek perfectly and, revisiting this episode, I found myself wishing that we had seen him more often.” Hear, hear! Rival detectives have been grossly underused in Western detective stories and more Gideon Pryke certainly would have livened up the post-season 2 episodes, which slowly began to decline after this special. Another reason why I hold Black Canary in such high regard is that it gave us a glimpse what good, respectfully done adaptations of Carr, Halter, Hoch or Talbot would like/feel like. Renwick’s masterpiece! I would love to read more competing detective stories – as you say, an underused idea! And yes, it definitely shows how good a Carr TV show could be. I missed this post when it was new, but I still have to comment. 🙂 I’ve mentioned several times by now that I’m not overly fond of the B-plots and comedic elements of this show – but in this one I think Maddie goes beyond the pale when she deliberately shuts down any chance of Jonathan connecting with an old flame. After this episode, I just couldn’t stand her any more, and it made me look at her with different eyes when I re-watched other episodes as well. Otherwise, I do agree that this is a fine episode with a great mystery. It might just be the best Jonathan Creek episode of all. Like you say, Renwick uses the extended time to go into several minute details which only serve to enhance the mystery. And yeah, Pryke was a good guest. I’m not as sure as you that it would have worked out if they had featured him more often, but of course, we’ll never know how that would have turned out. Looking forward to the new year even more now! 😉 Thanks Christian – I am always excited to read your thoughts about these episodes. It is certainly in contention to be one of the best, in part because of just how much detection it packs into the time. You make an excellent point about Maddy’s decision to mess with Jonathan’s chances of reconnecting. I understand the impulse and it’s certainly very human but it also betrays a lack of confidence and a rather mean spirit on her part. And yeah, I’m sort of looking forward to the New Year for all sorts of reasons including getting back to JC. The only thing is that my memories of the next episode are not particularly positive… On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 10:28 AM Mysteries Ahoy! wrote: Overall, I remember season 3 as being a bit spotty, so I can understand those feelings. We’ll just have to see when you get to the individual episodes, won’t we? That is my memory too though I would be delighted to be proved wrong! Once we get beyond Season 3 I will be seeing most of the episodes for only the second time so I will be curious to see how they stack up! Leave a Reply to Aidan Cancel reply	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798856
__label__wiki	0.930983	0.930983	Botswana decriminalizes homosexuality in Africa, News, Politics Botswana has decriminalized homosexuality, a landmark decision in sub-Saharan Africa where more than two-dozen countries have laws criminalizing gay sex. On Tuesday, Botswana’s High Court ruled unconstitutional two sections of the country’s penal code that made same-sex relations punishable by up to seven years in prison. Judge Michael Elburu said the laws, many of which were holdovers from colonial times, oppressed a minority of the population, drawing cheers from activists who had packed the courtroom. The court had been petitioned by a person who remained anonymous for security reasons. Pro-gay activists were dealt a blow last month when Kenya’s High Court upheld laws against same-sex relations. Before Tuesday’s ruling, 28 out of 49 sub-Saharan countries had laws penalizing same-sex activity. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) applauded Tuesday’s ruling, saying criminalization of consensual same-sex relations is a violation of human rights. “It restores privacy, respect and dignity to the country’s LGBT people, and it is a day to celebrate pride, compassion and love,” said UNAIDS Executive Director Gunilla Carlsson. Amnesty International urged other African countries to follow Botswana in ushering in “an exciting new era of acceptance.” Tags: BotswanaBotswana legalises gay sexgay sexhomosexuality Botswana changes law to allow wives to own land Botswana's President, Mokgweetsi Masisi, has said the law has been amended so that a wife can for the first time... Botswana steps up investigations as 275 elephants succumb to mystery illness Homosexuality one step closer to no longer illegal in Gabon Botswana’s capital city returns to Covid-19 lockdown after new cases pop up Botswana ends 7-week lockdown by Jonah Kirabo Kawempe North Member of Parliament - elect, Muhammad... Sam Lyomoki dropped, Dr. Obuku beaten as NRM dominates Workers MPs	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798858
__label__wiki	0.921288	0.921288	Dog abandoned with nothing but cage in Barnegat woods Dan Alexander Ginger, a Siberian Husky mix found in the woods in Barnegat (Popcorn Park Zoo) BARNEGAT — A $1,000 reward is being offered for information about a dog left in the woods on Monday. The young Siberian husky had broken out of the crate and was running around it when it was spotted off West Bay Avenue near a gun club, according to John Bergmann, the executive director of the Popcorn Park Zoo, where the dog was brought by police and the animal control officer. The staff at the zoo named the dog Ginger after examining it and giving it the shots. "She is an incredibly sweet, friendly, happy dog. She is full of energy and life, and she loves people and is so forgiving," Bergmann said. The reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the individual responsible. "We can't imagine what goes through someone's mind when they commit such an act of cruelty toward a helpless animal. How someone could lock this dog in a crate, leave her in a rural, wooded area, and turn their back on her and walk away is beyond us," Bergmann said. Ginger will eventually be put up for adoption when her stray-hold ends. The zoo in the Forked River section of Lacey has taken in several abused animals this fall, including a kitten named Pumpkin that was shot with a pellet gun in Newark in October. A 6-month-old kitten named Cinnamon was left in a carrier next to garbage cans ready for collection in Ocean Township in September. A husky left tied to a fence in a Roselle backyard in November after its owners moved to Georgia was also brought to the zoo. The zoo is accepting donations to its ResQ fund to help with the care of Ginger and its other animals at ahscares.org. Contact reporter Dan Alexander at Dan.Alexander@townsquaremedia.com or via Twitter @DanAlexanderNJ A look inside Buzz Aldrin’s childhood home Filed Under: Animals, Barnegat, Crime, Lacey Asking for help: Mental health & COVID — Live NJ101.5 town hall	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798860
__label__cc	0.712753	0.287247	The Networks Australia – New South Wales NOII Australia – Queensland NOII Australia – Northern Territory NOII England – Whole Education Network Network Leadership Spiral of Inquiry NOIIE Symposium Case Studies 2019/2020 Case Studies: 2018/2019 Submit Inquiry Plan Hillcrest Elementary SD#36 Surrey By submissionsSeptember 4, 20202019-2020 Case Study School Name: Hillcrest Elementary School District: SD#36 Surrey Inquiry Team Members: Cole Stewart: stewart_cole@surreyschools.ca, Jessica Boss:/nm boss_j@surreyschools.ca Inquiry Team Contact Email: stewart_cole@surreyschools.ca Type of Inquiry: NOIIE Grade Levels: Intermediate (4-7) Curricular Area(s): Language Arts – Writing, Other: Social Emotional Learning/Mindfulness-Core competencies Focus Addressed: First Peoples Principles of Learning, Land, Nature or Place-based learning, Social and emotional learning In one sentence, what was your focus for the year? Self-regulation and how interacting with our natural environment promotes mindfulness. Scanning: We discussed common challenges we face with our students, including their struggle to self-regulate and their limited interactions with the natural environment surrounding them. We considered what would benefit students of varying grade levels. We considered our physical environment around our school, and what would be feasible to have students engage with nature regularly. We were interested in having students reflect on the way they feel when they interact with nature in a variety of ways. We hoped to increase their ability to be mindful and use self-regulation strategies. We also wanted to develop better understanding of the First Peoples Principles of learning, and use these principles to support personal and social awareness in students. Focus: We were hoping for a few things: 1. That students would develop an understanding of place and build connection with the land that our school is on 2. Students would develop a better understanding of community and how our school plays a part in that community 3. Students would be able to develop mindfulness strategies through interactions with nature that benefited their emotional states 4. Students would develop a better understanding of First Peoples Principles, and see how these principles are embedded within our teaching. Hunch: Schools have become highly focused on academic achievement and show limited understanding of Indigenous pedagogy, particularly in regards to how we interact with place. Many students are spending more and more time indoors (both in and outside of school) and experiencing less connection to the natural environment around them. Our school focuses very little on Indigenous pedagogy, and we are hoping to improve our understanding and comfort with incorporating Indigenous pedagogy into our teaching so that we can try to help others do so as well. New Professional Learning: We explored a variety of activities and cognitive tools that fostered imaginative exploration. We made plans that allowed students to deliberately interact with nature in order to promote our teaching and their understanding of self-regulation and mindfulness. This directly supported the personal and social awareness core competencies and First Peoples Principles of Learning. The resources that were most helpful were engaging in conversation with our Aboriginal Helping teacher, Heidi Wood. Due to COVID, we have not been able to support the learning of colleagues yet. Taking Action: The two of us met regularly and planned lessons together that incorporated mindfulness and FPPL. We bought journals for each student and designed a template for how they would fill out their journal. Each journal entry required reflection and usually included a piece of nature, such as a leaf, that each student found on our walks. We also reflected after each lesson to see what worked and what didn’t. Our biggest challenge was the location of our school, in that it does not take place near parks, forests, etc. Checking: I think the main difference that we made was that we made students more aware of the connection between themselves and the earth. We focused a lot on how focusing on the little things around us, and specifically using our senses, can help us to connect with nature in a more meaningful way, and in doing so, improve our mental state. To be honest, we don’t think the differences were enough, which left us feeling unsatisfied. This was an overall weird year, not only with Covid-19, and we felt like we were unable to give this our best shot. Our baseline: before we did a lesson, we asked students to jot down in their journals how they were feeling. The most common responses were “tired, bored, stressed.” Students then reflected after the lesson and the students’ responses changed to “calm, relaxed, comfortable.” I think our students’ responses to the four questions might be filled with somewhat more understanding of what the questions are asking, but could still use more depth and connection. Reflections/Advice: What we learned: Firstly, we learned that our school and community pose a challenge for conducting an inquiry like this, mainly due to the lack of genuine green-space and forest, or anything that really feels like nature. We had to be creative in how we designed our lessons, and think outside the box to create lessons that had purpose, connected to our inquiry, and impacted our students. Where we plan to go: For next year, we hope to be able to create more opportunities to get our students outside and continue to use their senses to connect to their own mental health and a sense of place. We also want to further develop students’ sense of place and connection to land, and try to use story to do so. Advice: At times this was an extremely frustrating experience. It felt like we were up against a brick wall trying to plan lessons that were engaging, focused, purposeful, embedded the FPPL and aspects of SEL. My best advice is to work closely with your colleagues, be willing to be vulnerable and admit that you don’t always understand certain things, and absolutely ask your helping teachers for guidance. Also, focus on the little things. There were times when we were very frustrated, but the most vivid memory of this inquiry for me was lying down in a field with 26 of my students, listening to the sound of snow falling. Even thinking about it brings me peace and a sense of calm. So, despite the challenges, it was definitely worth it. The NOIIE acknowledges the support of the BC Ministry of Education, Irving K Barber Learning Centre at UBC and the BCPVPA through their publication of Spirals of Inquiry. © 2021 Networks of Inquiry and Indigenous Education.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798861
__label__wiki	0.79509	0.79509	MLB Rumors: Red Sox Recalling Chris Mazza, Taking Jonathan Lucroy Off Roster by Logan Mullen Pitching hasn’t exactly been an area of strength for the Boston Red Sox five games into the 2020 season, and now they’re trying to address that issue internally. The Red Sox are removing catcher Jonathan Lucroy from the roster and calling up relief pitcher Chris Mazza, according to The Athletic and MassLive. Lucroy was kept on the roster as a third catcher, but he only had appeared as a late defensive replacement and had yet to take an at-bat. Mazza, meanwhile, was a somewhat surprising omission from the Opening Day roster. The 30-year-old right-hander only has appeared in nine career big league games, all of which were last season with the New York Mets. In those appearances, Mazza allowed 10 runs (all earned) on 21 hits over 16 1/3 innings for a 5.51 ERA and 1-1 record. Boston is set to begin a two-game series with the Mets on Wednesday at Citi Field. More Red Sox: Mitch Moreland’s Home Run Vs. Orioles Had Special Meaning Behind It Thumbnail photo via Brian Fluharty/USA TODAY Sports Images Boston Red Sox Logan Mullen MSN Distribution Top Stories Yahoo Distribution Red Sox Pitching Woes; Marlins’ Coronavirus Outbreak \| TC & Jerry Podcast, Ep. 17 Sign Up For ‘Red Sox Daily Challenge’ For Your Chance To Win With NESN Games Alex Cora Restates Message On Red Sox Rotation ‘Puzzle,’ Urges Patience Where Three Red Sox Prospects Rank Among Baseball America’s Top 100 Chaim Bloom, Red Sox Complete Trade With Dave Dombrowski, Phillies Red Sox Reveal Internal Action Steps While Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798870
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__label__cc	0.656119	0.343881	Home Assam PM Narendra Modi likely to visit Assam on Jan 23 PM Narendra Modi likely to visit Assam on Jan 23 The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is gearing up for the upcoming assembly elections in Assam. In a move to give boost to the party’s poll campaign, prime minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit the state on January 23. On the other hand, union home minister Amit Shah will address rallies at Kokrajhar and Nalbari on January 24. BJP national president JP Nadda who is on two-day Assam visit had a meeting with Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal, finance minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma, state BJP president Ranjeet Kumar Dass at Amingaon on Monday. The meeting discussed the strategies for the assembly polls in Assam. “We have prepared a roadmap. PM Modi is likely to visit Assam on January 23. Home minister Amit Shah is also likely to address two public rallies at Kokrajhar and Nalbari on January 24,” said Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma. BJP national president on Monday launched party’s poll campaign in the state with ”Vijay Sankalp” rally at the police parade ground in Silchar. Nadda asserted that it will return to power for the second consecutive term by winning hundred plus seats in the 126-member House. The party since the 2016 assembly win in the state has emerged victorious in all the elections-whether it be the Parliamentary, byelections, zilla parishads, panchayats, territorial or autonomous councils-and will come to power again in the next assembly polls, said the BJP chief. “This has been possible due to all-round development of all sections of the people and the entire state by the government of Sarbananda Sonowal with the support of Prime Minister Narendra Modi”, he said. Its BJP’s “double engine” government at the centre and the state that has led to proper implementation of all the schemes in the various sectors, he said. “It is in the entire country that people have time and again reposed faith in Modi ji which has resulted in the BJP winning almost all elections at all levels”, Nadda said. Previous articleSC stays implementation of agri laws, forms committee to hold talks with farmers Next articleManipur gets additional borrowing permission of Rs 75 cr	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798875
__label__wiki	0.895152	0.895152	Home › Competitions › NEWFM Northern League One Round 8 Review NEWFM Northern League One Round 8 Review PHOTO: VALENTINE SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY DECLAN PAYNE Match of the Round South Cardiff FC 0 defeated by Thornton Redbacks 6 (Halverson 22’, 42’, Whitelaw 25’, 35’, Atwell, McAllister) Sunday 30th April, 2:30 pm at Ulinga Oval It was a result no one could have predicted on Old Boys Day at Ulinga Oval as Thornton stormed to a shock 6-0 win over South Cardiff on Sunday afternoon. Thornton’s Will Whitelaw had the opening chance of the match, a half chance at the top of the box which he blazed over. Thornton controlled much of the opening stages of this one and made the most of it in the 22nd minute. Jack Halverson closed down South Cardiff’s Cameron Herring and won the ball on the corner of the defender’s 18-yard box and played a nice one-two with Jamie Subat. The youngster made himself some space and finished emphatically into the far corner to make it 1-0. The Redbacks doubled their lead three minutes later after Liam Penglaze cut the ball back to William Whitelaw who was standing at the top of the box. He finished hard and low into the bottom left-hand corner to make it 2-0. Thornton pushed the game virtually out of reach in the 35th minute, after a tough Liam Coppeti challenge on an off balance Halverson won a free kick for the Redbacks. Nathan McAllister’s ball across the face found the diving head of Whitelaw, who finished for his second and Thornton’s third. With only three minutes before halftime, Thornton would nail the coffin shut, thanks again to a good delivery for Penglaze out wide. His ball into a collection of players fell favourably for Halverson, who made no mistake from 8 yards out to grab his second and make it 4-0 Thornton at halftime. The Gunners started the second half more positively, the introduction of Antonio Atmataj from the bench adding some much-needed flare up front for the home side. South Cardiff had a glorious chance when captain Corey Nicholas whipped a ball across the face of goal, but a vital touch from Thornton ‘keeper Drew Olsen sent the ball just out of danger. The match was turned on its head in the 57th minute after a collision between Thornton’s Jesse Smith and Gunners’ goalkeeper Mikel Breckenridge was adjudged violent conduct on the keeper’s behalf by the referee and seen him given his marching orders. Joey Grujevski made way for reserve goalkeeper Zac Hamilton, and the Gunners were down to 10 men. Despite their man advantage, Thornton didn’t change the way they were playing and slowly took control of the match once again. Hamilton was challenged in goal, making good saves in the 75th and 79th minutes to keep the score at four. However in the 81st minute, Thornton would well and truly put the match to bed – a Will Whitelaw nutmeg on half way found Wade Atwell, and the substitute made no mistake in finishing his chance and making it 5-0 Thornton. Nathan McAllister would add the cherry on top for the Redbacks in the 86th minute – touching up a floated ball in and hitting a volley sweetly over the head of Hamilton in goal and making it 6-0 at full time. Thornton coach Daryl McAllister was ecstatic about the result following the match. “We didn’t expect that result, I think in the first half we put four goals past them and doubled their season tally by halftime,” McAllister said. “The boys did well, doing what they’ve been doing and scoring plenty of goals and we were just a bit better defensively as well. “Keeping a clean sheet was tremendous for us today.” South Cardiff coach Denis Fajkovic was choosing to look forward following the big defeat. “It was disappointing, we’re learning and it’s a tough learning curve,” Fajkovic said. “We’re lucky it’s just one game, I’d rather lose one game 6-nil than six games 1-nil… it was Old Boys Day for us so it hurts a little bit for us not to be able to show up for those boys. “Conceding those early goals in the first half rattled us and the inexperience in games like that sort of showed, it’s very easy to have a bad thirty-minute spell and then be out of the game.” Cessnock City FC 1 (Taylor 29’) drew New Lambton FC (Taylor 62’) 1 Saturday 29th April, 2:30 pm at Turner Park It was a tale of what could have been for New Lambton as they squandered a plethora of chances on the way to a 1-1 draw with Cessnock at Turner Park on Saturday afternoon. Nic Pepper had the ball in the back of the net within 35 seconds for the Eagles but was adjudged to be offside. Riley Taylor fired a chance at the keeper just a minute later, and Luke Maloney fired wide in the 11th minute. Taylor fired another chance at the goalkeeper just three minutes later, and Cessnock had their first chance of the half in the 17th minute – Travis McCabe found Jason Zechel, but the winger could only fire over. Another shaky moment for the Hornets only a couple of minutes later, when some poor distribution from Matt Zechel in the Cessnock goal handed Riley Taylor another golden opportunity but he could only find the hands of the keeper once again. It was a wonder goal in the 29th minute almost against the run of play that handed Cessnock an unlikely lead – a Beau Taylor in-swinging corner hit so sweetly it nestled into the inside of the net to hand his side a 1-0 lead. New Lambton had a number of chances to go level before halftime – Josh Casey fired a shot at the keeper in the 36th, Cessnock captain David O’Hearn cleared off the line on the 38th and Justin Maddalena hit the crossbar on the 41st, but it was the Hornets that’d take a rare lead into the sheds at halftime. The Eagles started the second half similar to how the first played out – missing chances. Riley Taylor found himself in behind but failed to finish early into the half, Luke Jocevski had a shot saved in the 59th minute and Josh Casey fired over a minute later. New Lambton would finally make the breakthrough in the 61st minute, and it was the man who’d put his fair share at the keeper – Riley Taylor. The winger wiggled his way out of some close attention from a couple of opposition defenders and got a curling shot off, which found its way in at the far post to make it 1-1. Cessnock had a number of chances to reclaim the lead in the latter stages of the match – Brodie Williams didn’t get enough power into his shot in the 84th minute, Matthew Frances fired wide in the 94th minute and ultimately, it’d end 1-1. Cessnock coach Lino Gatti was pleased to pick up his side’s second point of the season. “Always happy when we get a positive result against one of the competition’s top teams,” Gatti said. “They had plenty of wonderful chances and they should’ve had several, but we should have also had several and towards the end, it could’ve gone either way. “I think the match was good preparation [for Tuesday night’s Westfield FFA Cup clash with Hamilton Olympic], especially defensively… our shape was a bit better and our determination to defend the ball was definitely the best we’ve had this season.” New Lambton’s Andrew Packer was frustrated by his side’s inability to finish their dozens of chances. “Obviously disappointed but it was such a good performance from us, we created so many and should have come in at four or five nil at halftime,” Packer said. “It was really poor, I was upset by the finishing in the first half and I said to the boys it’s no point getting to there if you can’t finish those chances. “Even in the second half we had chances to score two or three, our finishing was a problem but it hasn’t been for most of the season, so it’s hard to criticise.” Singleton Strikers 0 defeated by Kahibah FC 3 (Abshilava 28’, Illfield 40’, Penfold 89’) at Howe Park Kahibah piled on the misery for Singleton at Howe Park as they shot up into second place with a confident victory on Saturday afternoon. Jake Kepreotes and Jarrod Penfold had early chances for Kahibah saved and go wide respectively, and it was Gocha Abshilava who’d open the scoring for the Green and Black in the 28th minute with a confident header at the back post past Stuart Plant in the Singleton goal to give the away side a 1-0 lead. Kahibah would double their advantage before half-time through midfielder Ash Illfield – a shot from a way out which cannoned off the underside of the crossbar and was adjudged to have crossed the line to hand his side a 2-0 lead at the break. The Strikers came out of the sheds firing in the second half – James Bates had a chance saved in the 47th minute, and Michael Bruzesse went close not long afterwards. Despite some enterprising football from Singleton throughout the second half, Kahibah again took the ascendancy and would finish off the match thanks to Jarrod Penfold, whose shot took a touch from Jackson Skinner on the way in but was awarded to Penfold, which gave Kahibah a 3-0 lead at full-time. Singleton coach Dave Willoughby wasn’t disheartened by the defeat. “They were very well organised, I was happy with our effort, it was fantastic, we got in a couple of times and generated some scoring opportunities,” Willoughby said. “We stuck to our game plan and took it to them on the day… A fair reflection of the game would have been 3-1, I think. “Kahibah were just too good.” Kahibah boss Andre Gumprecht was pleased with his side’s comprehensive win. “Very happy with the result, but happier about keeping a clean sheet for the second game in a row. “We struggled a little bit in areas… in converting and being more composed could have helped us notch a few more goals. “Singleton tried to play football, which I really liked and they were unlucky on occasions… but 3-0 shows we were quite solid.” Belmont Swansea United 4 (Nakhoul 6’, Marcus 45+1’, 62’, 74’) defeated West Wallsend SFC 3 (Cole 41’, 85’, Price 88’) Sunday 30th April, 2:30 pm at Blacksmiths Oval It was a nervy finish for Belmont-Swansea as they secured victory over a determined West Wallsend outfit at Blacksmiths Oval on Sunday afternoon. Belswans got the ball rolling early on when Jayden Nakhoul turned in a header in the sixth minute to give the home side an early lead. The Bluebells squared the ledger in the 41st minute through Ryan Cole after some good work from Jarrod Olivieri in a rare piece of clinical finishing for West Wallsend. Jayden Nakhoul would turn provider a minute into injury time to give Belswans a valuable lead going into half time as he found Tega Marcus over the top, who finished past Zac Park in goal to give his side a 2-1 lead at halftime. Marcus would grab his second in the 62nd minute and push his side’s lead to two after he turned in a Josh Hall cross, and then grab a third to snag his hat-trick in the 79th minute and give his side a comfortable 4-1 lead with ten to go. The Bluebells stood up and made a game of it where they would’ve folded earlier on in the season, however. Ryan Cole scored his second in the 85th minute of the match thanks to a good Bryson Cox ball in, and Fletcher Price scored West Wallsend’s third in the 88th minute to make it a tight finish, but it finished 4-3 Belswans. Belmont-Swansea coach Josh Rufo was pleased with the win but will focus on the improvements ‘later on’. “We dominated the match until the 85th minute, and the last couple of minutes took a bit of polish off the performance,” Rufo said. “Better to still win, and we can talk about and work on those little things later on.” Rufo was also pleased with his hat-trick hero Tega Marcus. “I’ve known Marcus for a couple of years and he keeps getting better and better, spending time working on the little things to become a more complete player.” West Wallsend coach Gary Rowe was disappointed his side didn’t push on and snag a point. “They decided to have a go at the point in the game which was nice, but it was too little too late,” Rowe said. “The issue for us is that we’re playing decent football but we give goals away for fun, we don’t do it every second or third week but we do it every week. “While ever we keep gifting things to our opposition we’re going to continue to struggle.” Wallsend FC 2 (Pett 83’, Williams 89’) defeated Toronto Awaba 0 Sunday 30th April, 2:30 pm at The Gardens Wallsend left it late to collect all three points at home to an up-and-down Toronto on Sunday afternoon at the Gardens. With one eye on Tuesday night’s mammoth challenge at Magic Park in the Westfield FFA Cup, Wallsend set up to play similar to how they envision tomorrow night’s clash will play out. As such, much of the match was spent sitting deep and soaking up pressure from a strong Toronto side. A couple of substitutions midway through the second half livened up the game and opened the door for some fresh legs to do the damage for the Red Devils. Wallsend broke from the defence in the 83rd minute and Matt Williams beat his defender one on one and played in substitute Jackson Pett who finished past Blake Redman in the Toronto goal to give his side a 1-0 lead. The Red Devils would finish Toronto off just a couple of minutes from time after a delightful ball from 16-year-old Ty Cousins found Luke Alexander, who beat his man and squared to Williams in the middle who finished and made it 2-0 at full-time to Wallsend. Wallsend coach Chris Gallagher was frank about how his side lined up yesterday. “We used yesterday as preparation for Tuesday night, trying to get our defensive shape set a lot better and working as a unit,” Gallagher said. “I don’t think people give Toronto the credit they’re due… they came out reasonably well, our boys had their shape. “It was ugly because we did a lot of defending, but the boys did exactly what was asked of them, and we knew we’d fade away towards the end because we’ve had so many boys coming back from injury, so a few changes we made late on made a real difference. “There’s a couple of chances we probably should have taken, but the main thing for us was to stop conceding silly goals and we did that,” Gallagher concluded. 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__label__wiki	0.739259	0.739259	HomeCivil Society Police Checks Targeting Aboriginal People In The NT By Max Chalmers on April 24, 2014 Civil Society Photos by Rusty Stewart. A controversial anti-drinking measure used in Alice Springs is being deployed in other major centres across the Northern Territory, despite allegations that it is racist and unfairly targets Aboriginal people. Since February this year police in Alice Springs have overseen a lock-down of take-away alcohol venues as part of Operation Leyland, under which patrons are prevented from buying alcohol if their ID lists them as a resident of a “dry” area or if they have been placed on an Alcohol Protection Order. While the NT Chief Minister’s office has confirmed these “temporary beat locations” are now also being used at bottle shops in Katherine and Tennant Creek, residents in Alice Springs have warned that police are regularly performing the checks only on those who appear to be Aboriginal. Barbara Shaw, an Indigenous activist, has been observing police monitoring bottle shops in the town, and claims to have seen several instances of racial profiling. “They’re only pulling up Aboriginal people,” Shaw said. “Police are very selective of whom they can choose to ask for ID and … it is Aboriginal people that are in fact getting targeted — and it is racist.” Non-Indigenous residents told NM they have been able to enter bottle shops without being asked for identification but have seen Indigenous patrons pulled up by police at the same outlets. Although similar measures have been used in Alice Springs for some time, concerns about the escalation of selective policing have been growing. Twice in the past month crowds have gathered in Alice to protest racist policing and demand a repeal of Section 95 of the NT Liquor Act, which gives police broad search powers. Chief Minister Adam Giles, who is Indigenous, has denied the policy has allowed for or encouraged racist policing. “Every time I have been through a drive-through bottle shop or a take-away bottle shop I have had my licence checked and have been asked if I am drinking grog,” Giles told parliament last month. “Every time I have been with someone else, it does not matter if they are Caucasian or otherwise, those people have been checked.” “There is no racial element to the checks,” he reiterated in a statement to New Matilda. But one of the Alice Spring rally organisers, Dr Hilary Tyler, told New Matilda that the manner in which police selected which patrons to check was clearly racist and that Aboriginal visitors from outside Alice Springs had been targeted on the basis of their skin colour alone. “The excuse [the police]are giving is that for people who come from interstate, you need to have an address in Alices Springs before you can buy alcohol — but they don’t say that to non-Aboriginal tourists,” she said. Police check the licences of patrons before they enter outlets where alcohol is sold to check whether they live in a “prescribed area” — communities and town camps where alcohol has been banned under federal legislation since 2007. Prescribed areas are inhabited almost entirely by Indigenous residents and the legislation that brought them into being required the suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act. Signs have been placed out the front of bottle shops warning potential patrons that if they intend to take alcohol to areas where drinking is banned, police will prevent them being served. Supermarkets such as Woolworths, Coles and IGA are licensed to sell take away alcohol, so police are performing checks on people who do not even intend to buy alcohol, according to Tyler. “[if you’re Aboriginal]you’re watched when you go into the shop to see if you’re going into the alcohol section or the bread aisle. People are getting questioned when they just go to the shop for groceries,” she said. “People have told me how anxious they feel when approaching a grocery shop and seeing police outside.” Dr Thalia Anthony, a criminal law expert at the University of Technology Sydney, who has spent time in the NT researching the NT Intervention, said the selective policing is only possible because of laws that target Aboriginal people. “It’s an extension of how alcohol has been policed since 2007 [under the]Intervention,” Anthony said. “The Stronger Futures legislation and the Northern Territory Emergency Response [Intervention] Act before it, gave police distinct powers in relation to Indigenous people and communities, especially when it came to powers surrounding alcohol and also powers relating to seizure of vehicles where there is alcohol”, Anthony said. She said that these laws had “extended how Indigenous people can be selectively policed” and that bottleshop policing was part of “a whole range of police powers relying on unspoken racial assumptions”. Tyler told NM that along with increased policing, these measures had left Indigenous people feeling “disempowered” and “humiliated”. “It’s this whole sense that everyone who’s Aboriginal is being seen as a dysfunctional alcoholic, violent and unable to manage their own affairs and so all together that has a huge affect on people’s psyche,” she said. On a recent night Tyler, who is not Indigenous, was able to leave a bottle shop with multiple cartons of beer without having her ID inspected by police. But when an Indigenous friend tried to pick up a bottle of wine before a visit, the same convenience was not extended. “When my friend who is Aboriginal walks out of the bottle shop with one bottle of wine she’s told she can’t buy it and — even if she’s coming to my place for dinner — she’s told that I have to go to the bottle store to buy it for her to prove that she’s being responsible,” Tyler said. A response provided by NT police to NM’s questions did not address accusations of racist policing and declined to confirm or deny whether the practice of bottle shop policing was targeting Aboriginal people. In an interview with local ABC radio, Assistant Police Commissioner in the NT, Travis Wurst, denied that police were acting in a racist manner. Read our backgrounder on Operation Leyland and the broader push towards criminalising alcoholism here. 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__label__wiki	0.638465	0.638465	Why We Publish Editorial Board and Sponsors Older Archives Author: Stefanie Prezioso Stefanie Prezioso is Professor of European contemporary history at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She is the author of numerous publications on Italian contemporary history, the First World War, and problems relating to the public use of history. She is one of the organizers of the French Language network “Penser l’émancipation” (Emancipatory Thought), which will hold its second conference in Nanterre on February 19-22, 2014. Antonio Gramsci: From War to Revolution By: Stefanie Prezioso Summer 2017 (New Politics Vol. XVI No. 3, Whole Number 63) Eighty years after his death, Antonio Gramsci is among the most influential Marxist intellectuals across the board. By the end of World War II, liberal intellectuals had already found in him “a Marxist you can take home to Mother.” The tone was set by Benedetto Croce, who allegedly gushed in 1947, upon reading Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks, “He’s one of us!”1 It reached the point that the Sardinian activist can be presented today as no less than the guarantor of “Italian Democracy.”2 ‘Sovereignty Belongs to the People’ Winter 2017 (New Politics Vol. XVI No. 2, Whole Number 62) On December 4, 2016, the Italian electorate was asked to vote on a government-proposed constitutional reform, and the vote dealt the government and Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s plans a ringing blow. The referendum was a political gambit on which the PM bet everything, yet 59.1 percent of voters rejected the reform. Barely an hour after the polls closed, Renzi announced his resignation. Portrait of a Continent in Crisis Summer 2015 (New Politics Vol. XV No. 3, Whole Number 59) Seventy years after the end of World War II and the defeat of fascism and Nazism, the extreme right is on the rise in almost every European country. The European Elections: Despite the Crisis, the Neoliberals Save the Day By: Stefanie PreziosoJune 7, 2014 “Disaster,” “an earthquake,” “electroshock,” “a historic shock,” “a thunderclap,” “a stroke”: the results of the most recent European elections have caused a veritable media storm throughout Europe, beginning with France where the historic victory of the National Front of Marine Le Pen has left commentators with a real hangover. End of a Cycle and a New Beginning Some Thoughts on Today’s Italy Winter 2014 (New Politics Vol. XIV No. 4, Whole Number 56) In March 2010, a few months before his death, Mario Monicelli, the unforgettable director of the 1958 caper film Big Deal on Madonna Street (I soliti ignoti), was interviewed live on Michele Santoro’s program “Rai per una notte.”2 Disillusioned, Monicelli sketched the portrait of a subdued country, an Italy overcome with fear, which he then followed with expressing the hope of “a real blow [to the system], a revolution, something Italy has never experienced,” because, according to him, redemption only comes from sacrifice and Donate to Support New Politics Please donate to New Politics to allow us to continue bringing you independent, sharp, and provocative political analysis. You can make a tax-deductible contribution by clicking here. To subscribe, click here. Need help in making your donation or in subscribing—or just want to send us your suggestions? 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__label__wiki	0.733644	0.733644	Cattle, wild boar and foxes in Paljassaare coastal area ({{contentCtrl.commentsTotal}}) Scottish highland cow and calf. Source: ERR While a mother bear and her cub who wandered into Tallinn recently caught the public's attention, there are regions of the capital where livestock and wild animals are permanent residents. One of these areas is the Paljassaare Peninsula in Tallinn Bay, where cattle, wild boar and reptiles have a great life thanks to the relative lack of permanent human settlement. In Paljassaare, there are 40 Scottish highland cattle, whose home is usually close to Keila. Estonia is at the forefront of the world in preserving semi-natural communities, meaning those created by the interaction of man and nature. It is in such areas that two-thirds of our plant species and more than half of the rarities grow, ETV current affairs show "Aktuaalne kaamera" reported on Monday. The cattle are working there to maintain the landscape in the framework of the Finland-Estonia coastal areas project Coastlife Net. Mountain cattle breeder, Piret Bärg said: "It has actually changed quite a bit. When we first came here, we couldn't really see the coastal line. The rushes were very high and there was a lot of brush. Rose hips grew over our heads. When we looked now from the tower, we could see everything." But there are also fauna in Paljassaare who have caught the attention of walkers with cameras. In some aspects, it is a closed area - on one side, lies Tallinn, with its noise and bustle, and on the other side, the sea. "By the traces found, we have assumed that there could be wild boar and maybe even lynxes, since the tracks we were looking at suggest there is a large feline running around. But of foxes, rabbits - we have them too," Bärg said. Paljassaare is also a paradise for birds. The cattle are cooperating with white wagtails, who both feed on the flies the cattle attract and pluck their capacious fur to get nesting material. paljassaaretallinn baycattlecoastlife net Second ASF case found in Wild Boar Fox cub-slaying municipal official reneges on own resignation Cows from Võru County will graze at Pärnu coastal meadow this summer	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798884
__label__cc	0.546855	0.453145	Montana State Library Commission to Meet Thursday, August 8, 2019/Categories: Montana State Library/Tags: libraries , Montana State Library Commission CONTACT: Jennie Stapp jstapp2@mt.gov Montana State Library Commission to Meet in Helena and Online (HELENA)--- The Montana State Library Commission will meet in Helena at the Montana State Library and via webinar on Wednesday, August 14 at 9:30 a.m. The Montana State Library is located at 1515 E. Sixth Avenue in Helena. The public is invited to attend. For an agenda, meeting materials, and information about how to join the online meeting, visit: https://mslservices.mt.gov/ASPeN/Events/Event_Detail?Committee_ID=1. The Montana State Library Commission meets six times per year. Commissioners include Chair Aaron LaFromboise of Browning; Bruce Newell of Helena; Kenning Arlitsch, appointee of the commissioner of Higher Education; Elsie Arntzen of Helena, Superintendent of Public Instruction; Jamie Doggett of White Sulphur Springs; Anne Kish of Twin Bridges; and Ken Wall of Missoula. At this meeting the Commission will discuss Library work plans, they will review reports by the Montana Natural Heritage Program, the Montana Land Information Advisory Council, and the Network Advisory Council, they will view a MLIA grant presentation, and they will consider action on Commission Officers election and the Strategic Certification Pathway. The Montana State Library tries to ensure that we hold our meetings in facilities that are fully accessible to persons with mobility disabilities. If you plan to attend the commission meeting in person and will need services or accommodations relating to a disability, please contact Marlys Stark at 406-444-3384 at least two (2) working days prior to the meeting. The Montana State Library helps all organizations, communities, and Montanans thrive through excellent library resources and services. For more information about the Montana State Library, visit http://msl.mt.gov. For more information about the Commission meeting, contact Jennie Stapp, State Librarian, at (406) 444-3116 or via e-mail at jstapp2@mt.gov.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798888
__label__wiki	0.647728	0.647728	Renowned Personal Injury Law Firm John Bales Attorneys Expands Into Tampa, FL For over 20 years, John Bales Attorneys have championed the cases of personal injury victims across the state of Florida, having won over $400-plus million in settlements to date. On the heels of this success, and a reputation backed by over 5,000 satisfied clients, John Bales Attorneys expands it’s offices into the greater Tampa area. This move is one that puts the firm’s resources within arm’s reach of the Tampa community, and enhances accessibility for those in need of legal support, counsel and representation in the area. John Bales Attorneys: Tampa Office Conveniently located at 625 E Twiggs St., Suite 100 Tampa, FL 33602, the firm’s Tampa location in a welcomed addition to it’s growing list of offices. John Bales Attorneys understands how traumatic the aftermath of an accident or injury can be. With a singular focus on personal injury law, the team at it’s Tampa office is backed by a combined 100-years of experience obtaining favorable resolutions and outcomes for it’s clients. As a client-centric and service-oriented law firm, it’s Tampa Personal Injury Attorneys are steadfastly committed to fighting for justice and helping its clients get the compensation they need to recover and thrive after an accident. Services and Areas of Representation Available at the Tampa, FL Office John Bales Attorneys is predominantly focused on personal injury cases and representation, having won their clients over $400 million throughout it’s 20 years of service. Common Personal Injury Cases the Firm Represents Include Those Involving: Employment Dispute Insurance Dispute Types of Compensation Tampa Personal Injury Clients May Qualify for Medical bills and expenses Physical rehabilitation and therapy Psychological counseling and therapy Lost wages from time off work Lost earning potential The Team, Values and Track Record Choosing the right law firm for a case can be a daunting process for those facing legal challenges. John Bales wants to make this process personable and efficient for those needing assistance. To them, each client is family, and treated as a top priority. Initial consultations are always free, and for those cases, the firm takes on, clients pay zero upfront out of pocket costs and only owe a fee if the firm is able to achieve a settlement in or out of court. Since its inception, the firm has established a strong and storied track record for aggressive representation and the relentless pursuit of compensation and justice for its clients. About John Bales Attorneys Located in sunny Tampa, Florida, John Bales law firm is a leading personal injury law firm with a 20-year track record of providing exceptional client services, support and representation. Over its many years in business, the firm has earned client settlements totaling over $400 million. Parties interested in learning more about the law firm or scheduling a free initial consultation at it’s Tampa location are encouraged to reach out via their official website or by calling 800-225-5564. Company Name: John Bales Attorneys Contact Person: John Bales Address:625 E Twiggs St #100 33602 City: Tampa Website: www.johnbales.com/ © 2018 Copyright Share Prices News. All Rights reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798890
__label__wiki	0.878283	0.878283	It’s About Florida: Amendment One During the Primary, Florida Voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment for tax breaks on solar amendment. Solar is popular in the Sunshine State. So much so, there’s a second amendment question on the November ballot. But environmentalists and clean energy advocates are urging voters to say NO on this one. They call it a deception on behalf of utilities, and argue that just because it sounds good, doesn’t mean it is. Amendment One: what it is, what it means, and the latest controversy clouding its future. That’s coming up on It’s About Florida. Guests: Candy Munz with the NO one 1 campaign It's About FloridaIt’s About Florida It’s About Florida: Hurricane Irma It’s About Florida: Dress Codes It’s About Florida: Visit Florida It’s About Florida: State, Legislative Leaders At Odds Ahead of 2017 Lawmaking Session It’s About Florida: Gambling	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798891
__label__wiki	0.582344	0.582344	Ahead Of 2015 Elections, @Chude Jideonwo @DebolaLagos Other Founding Members Resign From @EiENigeria Board Four of the founding Board members of EiE Nigeria have resigned from the Board, a statement issued by the Civil Group and made available to NewsireNGR Tuesday reads. They are Executive Director of Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN), ‘Gbenga Sesan; Founding Partner of Red Media Africa, Adebola Williams; Executive Director of The Future Project, Chude Jideonwo and journalist Cheta Nwanze. Read complete statement below.. “Started in 2010 and formally incorporated in 2012, EiE is Nigeria’s leading coalition of individuals and organisations focused on good governance and public accountability. It was the product of the historic youth-led protests in Abuja in March 2010 and in Lagos in April 2010, demanding that the National Assembly follow the rule of law and make Mr Goodluck Jonathan the substantive President while raising concerns around fuel scarcity, killings in Jos and the comatose state of the power sector. “Summarising his transition from non-partisan advocacy to partisan activities, ‘Gbenga Sesan said in his resignation letter to the Board: “In 2011, we decided to work as a non-partisan organisation because of the need for a neutral organisation that can call any of the players in our governance space to order without the accusation of bias. It was a wise decision and … I respect the decision of the organisation to remain non-partisan. Nigeria needs an institution like EiE Nigeria and I wish the organisation more strength as it fulfills an all important role of working for good governance in Nigeria. Due to what is nothing short of the ‘fierce urgency of now’ …. I will complete and be involved in projects to convince others not to reward failure and incompetence during the 2015 general elections.” “EiE’s outgoing Board Chair, Adebola Williams , said, “The past four years have been an amazing ride, the historic things young people have done through EiE Nigeria have changed the way we see our country and the way we engage it for good. It was a difficult decision to make but I have decided it is time to pursue nation-building imperatives outside of EiE, mostly for active involvement in political campaigns for candidates I feel very strong about and this directly conflicts with my role at EiE. I continue to root for the change that this very important project must drive, and its sterling Executive Director, ‘Yemi Adamolekun continues to have our goodwill and our deepest best wishes.” “Cheta Nwanze added: “The times call for big decisions, and some big risks, and we hope we can continue our work with EiE in the future, but this is important for many to do at this time. Nigeria demands it.” “In his letter to the Board, Chude Jideonwo said, “It [is] terribly confusing for me at this time to make this decision, and it makes me deeply concerned for if I, and others, are truly doing the right thing, for our country, and for our peers. For me, these aren’t exciting times for our country. These are deeply troubling times. Still, I truly hope that in our life time we can build that country that I have never seen, but I desperately want. It might not be now. But, warts and all, what kind of lives will we live if we don’t do the least that we can?” “In her response, ‘Yemi Adamolekun said, “As EiE slows down for the holiday season in preparation for a busy 2 months of 4 voter education awareness concerts and 6 debates in Lagos, Imo, Kaduna, Rivers, Taraba, Plateau and a Presidential Debate in Abuja, losing the contributions of ‘Gbenga, Adebola, Cheta & Chude is a huge blow. However, as we continue to encourage young Nigerians to get involved as active citizens – advocates and active members within political parties – to build the Nigeria of our dreams, we can only wish them the very best.” “The resignations were made in the past week and all were with immediate effect. “Their exit follows the resignation of Amara Nwankpa in 2012 for personal reasons and Scott Igbene in 2013 to explore elective office. “Alkasim Abdulkadir will serve as Acting Board Chair until the Board’s next meeting in Q1 2015.” EnoughisEnough Nigeria (www.eienigeria.org) is a coalition of individuals and organizations committed to instituting a culture of good governance and public accountability in Nigeria through advocacy, activism and the mobilization of the youth population as responsible citizens. The coalition includes The Future Project; Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN); Education as a Vaccine (EVA); Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND); LYNX Nigeria, Budgit, RISE Networks; Chocolate City Group and EME. EiE Nigeria created the RSVP (Register\|Select\|Vote\|Protect) Campaign to leverage technology, especially social media to mobilize significant participation from citizens in the 18-35 age bloc in the 2011 elections and beyond. Related Topics:Nigeriapolitics2015 electionsBreaking newsEnough is Enough Nigeria Militants Hold Delta Deputy Governor Utuama, Hostage Breaking: Scores Killed As Bomb Rips Through Bauchi Central Market Just In: Unknown number of travelers abducted in Osun State 80-year-old, ward head and three others killed in bandits attack in Kaduna	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798893
__label__wiki	0.973293	0.973293	Senator Ifeanyi Araraume expelled from APGA The caretaker committee chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance in Imo State, John Iwuala, has said that the party has expelled Senator Ifeanyi Araraume. Iwuala said that the senator who represented Imo North between 1999 and 2007 and was the APGA governorship candidate during the 2019 election in Imo state was guilty of alleged anti-party activities. Araraume had publicly pledged to work with the governor of Imo state, Hope Uzodinma, who is a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress. Araraume had endorsed the APC candidate of the Okigwe North House of representatives rerun election as against the APGA candidate. The APGA caretaker chairman said that the party in the state and in the South-East zone had expelled the senator. He said, “APGA in Imo State and in the South-East have expelled Senator Ifeanyi Araraume. We expelled him in a letter we wrote to the national leadership on January 11. We are waiting for the national leadership to ratify the expulsion. “ But Araraume who spoke to journalists on Saturday after casting his vote during the Okigwe North rerun election said that the caretaker committee chairman had no legal rights to speak for Imo APGA. He said, “John Iwuala is unknown to me. He is unknown to APGA and unknown to law. A valid state Congress was conducted in Imo State and APGA has a duly elected chairman in Imo State. “We have said that what we are running in Imo State now is a coalition. APGA, APC, AA, and part of PDP led by Senator Samuel Anyanwu are supporting the APC government of senator Hope Uzodinma.” He insisted that he was still in APGA and the caretaker committee chairman had no power to expel him or any member of the party. Related Topics:politicsSenator Ifeanyi Araraume APC Wins House of reps Re-run in Cross River State, John Gaul defeated They’ve said “what happened in Imo State, that is what they will do” in Rivers State – Nyesom Wike Okorocha pleads with APC and PDP members to join together for Nigeria’s growth Abdulmumin Jibrin: 2020 US election, what defeated the Incumbent? Any take for Nigeria? Victor Ejechi: The relationship between economics and politics in Nigeria	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798894
__label__wiki	0.874915	0.874915	Pandemic filmmaking: Refocusing the lens with Richard Kind and Jessica Hecht By Hazel Shahgholi World-class acting while socially distancing is a cinematic experiment and feat for Jessica Hecht (left) and Richard Kind. PHOTO: Elias Plagianos Sign up for our Daily Email newsletter to stay up-to-date on the latest local news throughout Philadelphia. Richard Kind and Jessica Hecht are both prodigious stars of stage and screen. They have IMBD pages that stretch for miles. Hecht has been nominated for Tony- and Emmy-Awards and Kind is the ultimate “that guy,” in the “always the bridesmaid never the bride,” niche. And that is by no means a criticism, as he is certainly one of the best character actors of his generation, and received rave reviews for his portrayal of Max Bialystok in “The Producers” on Broadway. Now that Broadway’s lights have been turned off indefinitely, Kind and Hecht are joining forces on unchartered terrain—pandemic filmmaking—in the murder mystery series, “Hudson Falls.” THIS IS THE WAY: amRUSH reaction to The Mandalorian season two finale amRUSH https://podcasts.schnepsmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Mando-amRUSH-Mixdown-2.mp3 The series is still at pilot phase and skeletal details can be found online—the cast themselves don’t even know what lies ahead for this show that focuses on a private detective (Kind) and his ex-wife, a former professor turned craft brewery owner (Hecht). Hecht and Kind spoke to Metro about the minutia of this entirely new kind of filmmaking, and the lasting effect it may have on the industry. Richard Kind. PHOTO: Elias Plagianos Stringent COVID-19 protocols were obviously put in place. Cast and crew were tested everyday, and as Kind pointed noted, at $100 a pop for a swab, COVID filming—in some ways—is not cheap. These kinds of expenses and social distancing protocols also prevented the use of any extras—in fact, the only extra used was Kind’s 15-year-old-son who doubled as a patron at a bar and a policeman. Kind, who describes himself as a “trusting soul” when asked about how exactly one judges social distance visually said he had absolute faith in his co-stars; that they were not going out and engaging in risky behaviors. In fact, Kind went so far as to say, “I feel safe on set, I don’t feel safe off set,” as he applauded SAG’s cautious approach to resuming an industry that had ground to a halt entirely until July. When asked if making a pandemic production that—albeit was in the murder mystery genre—at least approximated some kind of worldly realism, both actors offered interesting perspectives on whether or not they thought that filming in the midst of mass, global death and tragedy had an effect on their performances. Kind rationalized by likening it to commonplace situations such as stomach aches or fights with spouses that hypothetically could affect an actor’s performance before making a deeper speculation: “If COVID is a preoccupation for you, you go and do your job and who knows, perhaps it makes it better? Because you get to immerse yourself in something other than the problems of the world.” For Hecht, marked peculiarities occurred during rehearsals. When Kind and Hecht where rehearsing they were only permitted to take their masks of briefly, and so Hecht found that repeating the lines while masked became more important than visual or facial expressions, “which is quite different, as often on TV and film you kind of act around the lines.” Additionally, the “unmasking moments” were especially touching, “because we were so starved for contact!” Jessica Hecht. Elias Plagianos In the end, Hecht—whose character’s name was originally and hilariously Karen, before a downpour of memes necessitated this moniker be changed—found this project challenging but gratifying, and in some ways hopes that the status quo does not return, believing that this piece manages to reach a level of intimacy and truth that it might not have under “normal” conditions. Kind agreed when he put forth the contradiction that the film was composed mostly of static shots, with no tracking sequences, so in a way, this was a peculiarly still “motion picture,” giving it a unique ambience. Returning to the question of the restrictions of COVID filmmaking, the location had to be remote and it was mostly filmed in New Jersey and upstate New York, far from the madding crowds of New York City or Los Angeles. And so, when COVID-19 paranoia was mentioned to Hecht, she expressed some anxiety, but also a plus side. She admires productions that are slow and labor-intensive, but now sees that efficiency—the piece was filmed over four days—also has its merits in “finding something true,” a peculiar realism in an unimaginable reality. After all, life moves quickly—an eternal truth, but one that is particularly apparent in times such as these. The question of genre weighs heavily on pandemic filmmaking, should it continue. I asked Hecht about this and about how, of course, a murder mystery plot centered around a divorced couple would be suitable for social distancing, but any kind of romantic or physically intimate film surely would not be possible. Hecht agreed. And for this, there really is no solution. She thankfully recalled that 90% of the sex scenes in her recent hit Netflix series “Special” were filmed before the pandemic hit. Being that these two leads are both known for their Broadway, TV and film work, in closing, for Hecht, Broadway represents a “superior art form” and likewise, Kind prefers to tread the boards as he enjoys the engagement and energy of an audience and believes that “you’re either a good actor or you’re bad,” when questioned about the skillset required for each speciality. Both actors miss Broadway—particularly Hecht, “who would give an arm and a leg” to be on stage right now,” whereas Kind was more relaxed. So, what have we learned? Pandemic filmmaking is possible, and indeed groundbreaking; 2021 is unlikely to have many XXX movies; Richard Kind makes being “that guy” enviable, and Jessica Hecht should never play “a Karen.” Questions linger about why alleged killer was released Phase 1B begins in Philadelphia Trump fraud claims open Republican rift in red states Trump’s legacy – A more divided America, a more unsettled world Let freedom ring: National Bell Ringing Ceremony takes place at Liberty Bell “The Apology Line” heard compelling and sometimes chilling confessions Hollywood movie box office slumped to near 40-year low in 2020 Ways for kids to honor and learn about Martin Luther King Jr. As Eagles search for head coach, Andy Reid wants Eric Bieniemy to go to NFC Report: Josh McDaniels a frontrunner for Eagles job, is Jeffrey Lurie sold? 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__label__cc	0.744177	0.255823	← Declan Waugh claims it’s “clear as day” Let’s rely on anecdotes instead! → Standing up to junk science in New Zealand Posted on November 9, 2014 \| 281 Comments Last week we saw several local victories for science over pseudoscience. And the US mid-term elections also gave electoral victories supporting community water fluoridation in 5 out of 6 communities where it was voted on.* Peter Griffin from New Zealand’s Science Media Centre reported on the New Zealand victories in his post Experts shine in fight against junk science. “It was a week when climate change denial, a “miracle” ebola cure and homeopathy grabbed headlines. But by and large it was also a week where the media laid out the evidence and featured expert commentary putting the science behind the claims in perspective.” So, the media seemed to be “on-side” this time and scientific experts were fronting up to counter the pseudoscience. “The pending arrival in New Zealand of Genesis II Church of Health and Healing leader James Humble to push his Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS) was front page news. Medsafe warned that the treatment acts like an industrial bleach and could cause serious harm to those who took it. Australia’s Nine News reported that four Victorians had been hospitalised after taking the MMS treatment. Dr Shaun Holt Natural remedies expert Dr Shaun Holt and University of Auckland microbiologist Dr. Siouxsie Wiles made numerous media appearances to explain the pseudoscience Humble has been spreading about MMS, including that it can cure Ebola, HIV and malaria.The Herald reported today that an Auckland man who attempted to attend one of the “non-religious” Church’s seminars in the Hauraki Plains, was removed when it emerged he had not paid the US$500 registration fee, a hint perhaps at the real reason behind Humble’s Australasian tour.” NZ Herald’s front page piece on MMS The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change renewed the media interest in climate change. “False balance in climate coverage Professor Tim Naish and Dr James Renwick, who have both contributed to IPCC reports put the latest update in context for New Zealand on One News and 3 News. However TVNZ undermined its own climate change coverage by featuring noted climate sceptic and energy sector consultant Bryan Leyland on the Breakfast show, including presenting a graph featuring data supplied by Leyland himself. By the end of the day the item had been pulled from TVNZ’s website after the broadcaster received numerous complaints from the public, scientists, as well as journalists.” Then there was the response to the Green Party’s natural products spokesman Steffan Browning’s folly in signing a petition calling for homeopathic treatments to be used in the fight against Ebola. This lead to his demotion within the party and removal of his spokesman role. “The embarrassing endorsement attracted attention in the UK and the condemnation of Browning’s own caucus. Writing on Sciblogs, Dr Grant Jacobs applauded Browning’s demotion, but pointed out that he retained other science-related shadow portfolios. “I’m aware of a number of people who have said they didn’t vote for the Greens because of Steffan Browning’s stance on genetic engineering and others who have said that while they voted for the Greens they don’t approve of Browning’s approach to GMOs and GE.” Peter Griffin finishes by thanking “all the scientists who stepped up to make sense of the dubious claims journalists and the public were faced with this week.” I think this also shows what can be achieved when good science journalism is actively promoted by groups like the Science Media Centre, and when scientists and other experts participate in the social communication media and make themselves available to journalists. Support for community water fluoridation in these 5 communities was pretty overwhelming: Boyne City, Michigan – 68% support for fluoridation: http://goo.gl/BUQVev Bronson, Michigan – 63% support for fluoridation: http://goo.gl/KogVkP Kalama, Washington – 73% support for fluoridation: http://goo.gl/wP6xAY Saline County, Kansas – 67% support for fluoridation: http://goo.gl/Q2IGWL Healdsburg, California – 68% support for fluoridation: http://goo.gl/KsOCgn These victories were probably because fluoridation supporters, families and dentists organised public campaigns. See Group wants fluoride vote to keep its teeth. This entry was posted in New Zealand, SciBlogs, science, Science and Society and tagged climate change, ebola, MMM, SciBlogs, Science journalism. Bookmark the permalink. 281 responses to “Standing up to junk science in New Zealand” soundhill1 \| November 9, 2014 at 2:02 pm \| Something might be evidence-based and marvellous scientific technology like fracking, but wider science is needed to decide upon its use. You may be called a Luddite if you oppose genetic modification. Then are you really dealing with science or with salespeople selling the outdated genetic modification of our food which means it contains antibiiotic resistance genes? Insertion of antibiotic resistance is outmoded by science now but a huge number of crops still contain that old technology. I find articles weak unless they cover that sort of point. greenbuzzer \| November 9, 2014 at 3:37 pm \| Jeez Ken . . . haven’t you had a gratifying week . . . but as for ‘Junk Science’ what is it about ‘evidence-based science’ that can ever be relied upon when it ignores the most basic fact about life that is the difference between a live body and a dead body? @greenbuzzer yes some of the GMO “safety” testing has done on a just a chemical. Then the gene for the chemical was put into a plant and it was assumed that the result would consequenly be safe. But a gene inserted in a living plant really has more consequences than just producing the intended chemical. This author wants more experiments to test if his work is good or junk. and his abstract Click to access Konovalov%20Abstract%20WC2012.pdf greenbuzzer \| November 9, 2014 at 10:23 pm \| Very interesting doco about Goat Island Marine Reserve on tonight 9th November, which reminded me of you and the events of the past week Ken, and how real scientists actually have humility and keep an open mind realising that ‘facts change’ and new things are revealed and ‘discovered’ every day – like the fact that the noise they thought was being made by the crayfish was actually coming from the very small fish called ‘Big eyes’. Under your regime and that of the likes of Souxsie Wiles, et al, you would keep denying this to the bitter end if this was one of your core dearly held beliefs – such as fluoride is safe, no matter what the evidence to the contrary, and homoeopathy is whacko even though very smart people, such as the Queen, claim enormous benefits from using it . . . would be sad really if it was just you and your cohorts who were left suffering in your ignorance, but unfortunately you would have the rest of us bound by your lack of knowledge as well . . . look at all the people who could have benefitted from an RDI of vitamin C well above that set to prevent scurvy and even now who’s going to stump up the cash to do the clinical trials when there’s nothing in it for them – we have long since been deserted by our ‘health officials’ to do any such research and the ‘public interest’ is now squarely at the mercy of Big Pharma, and your ‘colleagues’ livelihoods no doubt depend upon them toeing the party line . . . so do forgive me if I take a very jaundiced view of most of what you’ve written. The shame of all of you is that because your beliefs do not allow you to partake of any of the benefits of megadoses of IV vitamin C or even homoeopathy you would deny everyone else the opportunity by ensuring that any tax money spent on their health care was not of their choice but rather your narrow, ignorant and limited ‘evidence-based’ Big Pharma poisons because they have set it up that they are the only ones that can afford to buy the ‘scientists’ to jack up the studies in favour of their products and come up with any number of counter studies should anyone dare to suggest they may not only be ineffective but downright dangerous. Isn’t it something like 40% of deaths & / or hospital admissions are from iatrogenic illnesses – it would be good if Souxsie keep a running commentary of those alongside her obvious witch hunt against homoeopathy don’t you think? Don’t need to wish you Good night or anything because as they say Ignorance is Bliss – you must be very blissful . . . :} Ken \| November 9, 2014 at 10:30 pm \| You seem upset about something, greenbuzzer? Wonder what it is. soundhill1 \| November 9, 2014 at 11:06 pm \| Ken, it is possible greenbuzzer may be referring to thngs like: http://www.nature.com/news/china-sacks-officials-over-golden-rice-controversy-1.11998 @greenbuzzer I saw that doco. I wonder how many people are aware of the EPA hearing going on about mining the Chatham Rise for phosphorite. Quite a bit of science has been discussed. One point has been the sound of the vacuum dredge. I was firstly thinking in terms of hearing damage, But watching the doco I thought of how the 24/7 dredging sound could mask sounds that creatures use as signals. I think the doco said the little crayfish hear the spiny sea urchin munching on kelp and that is a way they know where to swim back to after their initial time in the more open ocean. Evidence of how creatures have burrowed into phosphorite nodules: http://docs.niwa.co.nz/library/public/NZOIm77.pdf, science needs to take a wide view. What part have those creatures played in long our food chain? (And will there be enough moisture and low enough pH to make the rock phosphate of use in a sufficient portion of NZ?) greenbuzzer \| November 10, 2014 at 12:06 am \| Yes Soundhill1 – to see the crayfish return after 2 years at sea by following the sound of the sea urchins munching on kelp makes one realise just how much we don’t know about the big picture . . . and as far as China goes, they also fined Glaxo Smith Kline the $488M they spent on bribes to doctors etc to use their products . . . just the tip of a very big iceberg I suspect . . . funny Ken didn’t see fit to comment on that as well . . . :} Nor this . . . http://www.knoxnews.com/news/local-news/oliver-springs-removes-fluoride-from-water-supply_43415611 . . . :} heh \| November 10, 2014 at 6:22 am \| I don’t know, Shaun. The Red Cross seemed to have pretty good results with this “bleach” when they cured 154 cases of Malaria in Uganda 2012, documented on video by two different producers. The videos are on the frontpage of the (non-religious) Genesis II Church of Health & Healing website as we speak. Looks convincing to me. Keep in mind that Oxygen is also a bleach if you want to get scientific about it, and we have lungs to use that as much as possible — in moderate amounts, of course. Chlorine dioxide is the same principle and the oxidation potential is actually weaker than that of Oxygen, so it’s safer than Oxygen, in moderate amounts. Here are the Red Cross Cured 154 Cases of Malaria with MMS links, for safety sakes. http://mmswiki.org/index.php?title=Red_Cross LEAKED: Proof the Red Cross Cured 154 Malaria Cases with MMS Red Cross World Sensation! Malaria finally defeated! Perhaps a little humility is required. @6.22am I don’t know, Shaun. Shaun? It seems the kooks are all on a first name basis. soundhill1 \| November 10, 2014 at 9:39 am \| Ken I feel your Galileo picture may have been made quite a few years ago when Google was not so encompassing. Just because something is on Google does not mean it isn’t science. Nowadays Google is rather good at giving which scientific papers have cited another. The scientist can not usually put that in their paper because it has not happened yet at the time they published. And some “research” is actually just a review of many papers on a subject. The scientist does not have to be in a lab to do that. There is even a whole branch of physics working with mathematical models, they don’t work with equipment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical_physics soundhill1 \| November 10, 2014 at 1:11 pm \| Thanks, Heh. Charity can be big business. This seems a fairly academic artice: http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/ethics_and_nonprofits It is hard to know what sort of review of articles are true as opposed to advocacy. Beware of emotive writing and writing which brings about confusion over doses and danger &c. A lot of the criticism of that chlorite work alludes to the danger of doses way beyond what is used. So far that is the only sort of criticism of the study that I have been able to find. People without much knowledge of science can thus be carried along if there is an agenda to keep up profits by avoiding a cheap treatment. Perhaps we could rank writers on this group by the amount of emotive terms they use. Scientist Changes Sides Grant Cameron, as quoted: “I’m aware of a number of people who have said they didn’t vote for the Greens because of Steffan Browning’s stance on genetic engineering and others who have said that while they voted for the Greens they don’t approve of Browning’s approach to GMOs and GE.” Here is more recounting of points I have been making, and a story of a scientist changing sides: http://earthweareone.com/former-pro-gmo-scientist-speaks-out-on-the-real-dangers-of-genetically-engineered-food/ Stuartg \| November 11, 2014 at 6:27 am \| Ken, it seems like some of your commenters believe that the definition of scientist is someone who can point a web browser towards Google. It’s the equivalent of calling yourself a mechanic because you can drive a car to a garage / service station. They certainly don’t understand that science defines a way of thinking; maybe their way of thinking precludes that understanding? soundhill1 \| November 11, 2014 at 10:47 am \| @Stuartg I am wondering who your target audience you think you can swing is, who will buy your aspersions here. How about taking several of the points and commenting? Science has a way of thinking, politics has a way of thinking, business has a way of thinking. Some of them try to bend the public perception of the others for their own ends. Trevor Crosbie \| November 11, 2014 at 1:52 pm \| This on GMO from a scientist – There is a growing body of scientific research – done mostly in Europe, Russia, and other countries – showing that diets containing engineered corn or soya cause serious health problems in laboratory mice and rats.I don’t know if I was passionate about it but I was knowledgeable. I defended the side of technological advance, of science and progress. I have in the last 10 years changed my position. I started paying attention to the flow of published studies coming from Europe, some from prestigious labs and published in prestigious scientific journals, that questioned the impact and safety of engineered food. I refute the claims of the biotechnology companies that their engineered crops yield more, that they require less pesticide applications, that they have no impact on the environment and of course that they are safe to eat. There are a number of scientific studies that have been done for Monsanto by universities in the U.S., Canada, and abroad. Most of these studies are concerned with the field performance of the engineered crops, and of course they find GMOs safe for the environment and therefore safe to eat. Individuals should be encouraged to make their decisions on food safety based on scientific evidence and personal choice, not on emotion or the personal opinions of others. We should all take these studies seriously and demand that government agencies replicate them rather than rely on studies paid for by the biotech companies. (end) I respectfully suggest the same applies to the scientific studies done to ‘prove’ the safety, benefits and effectiveness of fluoridation. Well, Trev, at least you a “respectful” about your “suggestion” regarding fluoridation but you provide absolutely no evidence for it. @Ken, I pointed out that the Royal Society review did not mention a paper about IQ and fluoridation that had controlled controlled for other trace elements. Indeed in your blog you claimed a possible different explanantion. When I asked you about the matter you said I should contact the authors of the RS study. So in relation to your reply to Trev, this must be evidence pending. Sorry must action it. Stuartg \| November 11, 2014 at 4:21 pm \| soundhill1: “Just because something is on Google does not mean it isn’t science.” We agree on that. The trouble is that some of the comments here (and other of Ken’s blogs) imply that the commentor equates the double negative with a positive. In other words, it seems they think that (“does not mean it isn’t” = “means it is”). There is a tiny fraction of Google that includes science. Most of Google is neither science nor scientific. The tiny minority of science available on Google means that Google is not a good place from which to perform scientific “research.” Some comments here suggest that the person has used nothing but Google for their “research.” Science starts with the basics. It slowly builds from there. Scientists check each other’s results, contribute to each other’s thinking, they suggest areas to be followed, point out relevant areas which may have been investigated before, and then they eventually reach a consensus from which further research can be done. Google is not required at any stage of this process. Someone using Google gets many thousands, even millions of hits from a query. If they have not done the scientific basics then they have no idea which of those hits, if any, may be relevant to a scientific query. The ability to point a web browser to Google does not enable a non-scientist to do scientific research. @ Trevor Crosbie This on GMO from a scientist – ….blah blah blah More unattributed and therefore utterly worthless anecdotes from Trevor Crosbie. He’s repeatedly been asked to lift his game in this respect but seems incapable of doing so. Trevor was highlighting the bit of my link whose method he wishes to be applied to fluoride, too. I think he is also pointing out that going by what people are saying they had not been reading that link. @stuartg so-called research is not always honest either. Are you trying to cast doubt on this link I gave on this thread because it was on Internet? Note it is a link to the journal Nature which has some scientific standing. Or what specific examples can you use from this thread to back up your argument? http://www.nature.com/news/china-sacks-officials-over-golden-rice-controversy-1.11998 Where did I mention honesty of research? What argument did I make? I made some observations. I will comment on generalities (scientific method, junk science…), but otherwise I’m just not able to contribute to arguments outside of my fields of expertise. I would suggest that’s a good principle for anyone to follow. soundhill1 \| November 12, 2014 at 12:15 pm \| @Stuartg \| November 11, 2014 at 6:27 am \| Ken had offered a picture saying “sometimes scientists are proven wrong but it’s always by smarter scientists and never by google researchers whose entire argument boills down to, “NUH-UH.”” and then he said, “Perhaps a little humility is required.” Well thunder is about and I’ve read that lightning can cause surges that destroy computers. Though I have not read research about it I’ll write this quickly and turn off for a bit. So Stuartg, that comment to Ken is perhaps, by saying, “seems like,” asking Ken to back it up and make it into, “is.” There needs to be a distinction between “reporting research, or researchers’ battles” and “being a scientist.” OK I am humble, not a GMO researcher. Does that stop me from pointing to scientific controversy? Stuartg, when you saw the website ref “nature.com” with that word, “nature” did you not click on it thinking it was some sort of alternative site? Did I not click on it..? Did I think it was an alternative site..? Did I not think it was an alternative site..? Please structure your sentences so that your meaning is clear. Why should I have made a comment about that website reference? It’s about people breaking laws in China. There’s nothing in it that is remotely near my fields of expertise. I agree, Stuart. Soundhillâs link did not warrant a comment. It was unexplained and therefore seemingly irrelevant. I still canât fathom his thinking on it. Is he trying to suggest via such links that there is something wrong with the scientific method, with testing ideas against reality, and therefore fluoridation is bad? Or that anti-science and pseudoscience activists should be believed because someone broke the law in China or the US? There seems no rational purpose for his promotion of the link. I take it from Richard’s ramble (11 Nov) that every bit of science conducted and peer reviewed is absolutely true and not subject to any bias or untoward influence. If that is true why are we not all smoking Chesterfield cigarettes, which were promoted by the AMA journal in the 1950s and backed by scientific research(funded by US tobacco interests) as safe and beneficial? I might not be a scientist but I can recognise manipulation and bullshit when I see and smell it! Sorry Richard – the scientist I quoted is Thierry Vrain, a former research scientist for Agriculture Canada. greenbuzzer made a serious accusation: ” buy the ‘scientists’ to jack up the studies in favour of their products”. So I gave that reference about a study on golden rice 2 and USA and Chinese scientists being severely reprimanded for false reporting. Why would scientists be doing that? What would they gain? In your article you reported Grant Cameron saying that people turned away from voting Green because of the Greens’ anti-GM policy. Golden Rice has been a platform for pro-GMOers to try to attack anti-GMOers. GR1 produced about 2001 had little carotene. GR2 came in some years later about 2008 with several different genes inserted and not tested on animals before being tried on children without consent. Even then it was not given daily to children as reported but only once. (As well as the dishonesty in the paper it arouses suspicion as to whether side effects were noticed.) Were the scientists being employed by the industry to give the GR2 a good look? 6 years later it is still not released. Trev, I can appreciate you have no trouble recognising “manipulation and bullshit.” You and your mates indulge in these all the time. You however, don’t understand the most basic concepts in science. No one ever claims that “every bit of science conducted and peer reviewed is absolutely true . . ” in fact it is easy to explain that most ideas in science are wrong. That is inevitable because we can never get an absolutely exact depiction of reality. However, it is certainly not up to you to make the declarations about what is correct or not. That involves interaction with reality – something you probably do very rarely. So sound hill you are attempting to justify junk science ( because that is what the Science Centre article was about) by randomly selecting some event around the otherwise of the world. Why not discuss the junk science that has been successfully debunked in NZ in the last week? Why get so defensive about that fact? And why not discuss the details of their claims if you really want to justify it? You Re just diverting. @Ken wrote: “Why not discuss the junk science that has been successfully debunked in NZ in the last week?” As you have pointed out Ken maybe I do not spell things out enough. One of the “junk science” things being dealt with in the article is the MMS/activated chlorite cure. Quickly looking I have not been able to find evidence that it does not work. The attack on it appears to based on risk, as I said: “A lot of the criticism of that chlorite work alludes to the danger of doses way beyond what is used. So far that is the only sort of criticism of the study that I have been able to find. People without much knowledge of science can thus be carried along if there is an agenda to keep up profits by avoiding a cheap treatment.” And the risk was based on taking doses other than the recommended doses. That may be risky for many medicines. Quoting from your article: “Medsafe warned that the treatment acts like an industrial bleach and could cause serious harm to those who took it.” A few drops in water are used. I searched for more of what Shaun was saying and found him saying: “Victoria University professor Shaun Holt said that MMS should in no way be consumed by humans. “It’s highly concentrated and I wouldn’t let one drop near my lips.” “http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/10627103/Miracle-church-on-way-here Of course a drop of it could burn your lips. He owes it to peoples’ intelligence to reaffirm whether it is the diluted or concentrated product that he would not put near his lips. Say 5 drops per 100ml. If I remember correctly 50 drops are roughly a ml. So 5 drops is 0.1ml. put that in 100 ml of water and the dilution is 1 part per 1000. The drops were some 25% chlorite so it may be 250mg per litre that you drink, or 25mg in your 100ml dose. For malaria it is one dose. But here is a study in which people who may be susceptible to the substance because they are glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-deficient were given the substance in their water at 5mg/l for 12 weeks and did not suffer. OK it is a lesser concentration. But if they consumed 2l of water in a day they would be getting 10mg per day. If your doctor intends to prescribe penicillin to you he should ask if you are allergic to it. If it is your first time you cannot know yet. It can be life threatening. It would be nice to have a way of knowing in advance. Same with bleach if the 25mg dose puts you into shock. Note also in the video people were given a bottle of water to drink so the concentration in their stomach would be much reduced. So where are studies that debunk its effect on malaria? I don’t see where it has been successfully debunked. This has been a bit complex. I hope you ask for clarification if needed. This comment is just so typical of those who want to believe without evidence. And yet the same people attempt to discredit the evidence -based science: “Quickly looking I have not been able to find evidence that it does not work.” I had a quick look tonight and could not find any evidence that there wasn’t a unicorn at the bottom of my garden. So there you are scientists – you either don’t know what you are talking about or you are in the pay of companies who want to hide these unicorns from us. @Ken the videos appeared to demonstrate that it worked. Your people set out to debunk it with statements about its danger, not its efficacy.. I don’t see any evidence against its efficacy so far. Perhaps you could point me to it. Sound hill – you are just naive to take these videos at face value. The advantage of science is that things can be rested properly and transparently, and then results can be peer reviewed to reduce the chances of ideological motives or simple bias. Has the miracle mineral solution been tested in this way? If not, why not? One should be very sceptical when something like this is advanced as a miracle cure for problems as diverse as AIDS, Ebola and malaria – especially with no proper objective evidence and testing. Especially when it is advanced by a church and untrained people are being enlisted for $650 each to attend a seminar on it with the enticement they can make money out of it. Now about those unicorns at the end of my garden. Do you accept my assurances they exist because I have not been a able to find anything to show they don’t? Or would you be happier if I can get someone to make a video of me and my mates making this claim? Obviously I won’t subject my claim to the normal scientific evaluation because we know that scientists are biased and paid by companies who wish to hide the fact of unicorn existence from us. @ trevor crosbie. why are we not all smoking Chesterfield cigarettes, which were promoted by the AMA journal in the 1950s What the hell do you mean by “promoted by the AMA journal ” -that a paid advertisement for Chesterfield cigarettes appeared in the journal? -that the editor promoted a cigarette brand as official smokes of the journal, deliberately endorsing them over Phillip Morris and Camel? – Chesterfields were the official cigarettes of the AMA? and backed by scientific research(funded by US tobacco interests) as safe and beneficial? more confusion Are you claiming the AMA published a study funded by the tobacco lobby? Did it represented AMA’s position on the health effects of smoking? I tell you what, Trevor, how about doing something novel and provide link to the original source, it’s not that people have learned not to trust you or anything. Ken your story about unicorns has some connection to type 1 and type 2 errors which are involved in statistical analysis. Debunkers don’t always understand that procedure either, or they hope their audience won’t. This essay relates to the Seralini GMO study which was severely though falsely junked. http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Excess_cancers_and_deaths_from_GM_feed_stats_stand_up.php Ken studies may be done or not and published or not. The truth table has 4 categories. For each category commerce regards outcome, scientific quest, politics, religion, commerce regards funding, personal goals and maybe others will have varying inputs. Since there is a lot of feeling against MMS it is surprising that studies trying to disprove it have not been published. There was a doctor in attendance in the second MMS video. It didn’t look like actors to me. I have pointed to material which says teh Red Cross have been censured for collecting donations for the 9/11 event then spending them elsewhere. So I am not quite sure I can trust them. soundhill MMS contains chlorine atoms. Chlorine is a halogen, just like fluorine. According to your maths (and I will just note that drop size is not standard and depends on the dropper used), the concentration of chlorine after dilution is many times the concentration of fluorine in community water supplies. Since atoms in the same group of the periodic table tend to have similar properties and actions, where is your evidence that MMS will not cause the same problems that you have previously attributed to CWF? Have you tried Google? Or maybe looked at some science instead? I know, I know. I just thought it would be fun to throw junk science and junk scientific reasoning back at those who use it routinely. Maybe someone else reading it would get an insight into how junk science differs from science. It’s up to the people promoting MMS to prove what it can and can not do. If you say your car can drive to the moon, it’s up to you to drive your car to the moon and prove it. It’s not the job of scientists to prove your car can’t drive to the moon. It is a sad day if public good is sidelined for a promotional environment. Perhaps I am being harsh. Businesses have always done R&D. Unfortunately these days sometimes that means promoting the same old remedy in a new package for commercial purposes and not for public good. Universities and DSIR used to do more pure research and public good research but the commercial environment imposed since the 1980s means they are now have to look to business for funding, too. Science has people keen on it without pay, like people watching for comets. And the guy offering the knowledge of the MMS treatment could hardly have been into it for profit, (though some are now trying to make money from teaching about it,) I think he an amateur keen to help alleviate suffering. With the constraints operating which I have just related, it must be acknowledged it can be hard to get scientists to work on a project. But the well-meaning people have done an experiment, and offered the results they got. They have used the video format to report rather than going to the expense of journal publishing possibly also in the knowledge that many people learn faster from video. They have put their results out in the world and now it is up to people to respond. What we have seen from Shaun and Medsafe appears to be saying it is dangerous to use undiluted bleach in your mouth. That would be correct, of course, but saying pretty much nothing, and a discredit to them. At least they could have said people whose bodies do not produce a particular enzyme may be more at risk. The junkers would look more credible if they stopped focusing on the medium and got on with examining the message. 1: Anecdotal videos is not “putting the results out in the world.” It is what you do when you don’t have good results but want to sell or promote something. 2: Sure there is an attempt to get NZ business to front up with what they should see as their moral responsibility for research. But the fact is that there is still a lot of public good and public funded research in NZ. In the end, of course, if scientists want to attract corporate funding for their research the best way to do that is produce good science. Both corporate and public good funding have roles to play in research. 3: The MMS people would look more credible if they commissioned honest scientists to research their product. This of course means that they, not the public purse, have to pay for the research. But that is in fact what responsible companies do all the time. It is the snake oil salesmen and crooked companies who rely instead on propagandist videos instead of honest commissioned research. My experience has always been that honest companies do not object to commissioning research – but the small, opportunist ideologically driven and plainly dishonest companies always object to paying for research. 4: If the MSS people already have proper research results (the video reports are not proper research) then put them out there to be considered. It is understandable that extreme miracle claims like theirs do not win sympathy without evidence. And as Christopher Hitchens famously said – “that which is asserted without evidence can be rejected without evidence.” It is the responsibility of the manufacturer and promoters of this snake oil, not anyone else’s, to produce evidence – to do or commission the research. Just because it is a video does not imply it is anecdotal. “But the fact is that there is still a lot of public good and public funded research in NZ. In the end, of course, if scientists want to attract corporate funding for their research the best way to do that is produce good science.” At the time of doing pure maths research it may not have been known whether it would be publicly or commercially useful, thouight quite often is some years along. Are your saying if your pure research is good science then commerce will make up for the reduced amount of pure research funded publicly? “The MMS people would look more credible if they commissioned honest scientists to research their product. This of course means that they, not the public purse, have to pay for the research. But that is in fact what responsible companies do all the time.” There are two parts to the MMS scenario: the profit part and the public good part. Can we deal with them separately? “If the MSS people already have proper research results (the video reports are not proper research)” They may or may not be reports of proper research, but the fact that they are in video format does not make them improper. No, I am not saying commercial companies fund pure research – that would be highly unusual. In NZ we have the Marsden Fund for that. Here is a patent application for use of chlorite with 5FU to improve quality of life in advanced cancer. Anecdotes I suppose. What research method would you prescribe? I suppose they checked chlorite by itself. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080292729.pdf In other words, you are saying that the promoters of MMS haven’t done any research. They haven’t got any proof that it works. They haven’t any proof it doesn’t work. They haven’t done any research into any side effects. They have no idea of the dose (that drop size again). They don’t know of any interactions with medications or drugs a person may be on. What they have done is make a TV advert about it, although they haven’t paid for the advert to go on TV. NZ, unfortunately, has joined the USA in allowing direct to consumer marketing of medications. All the advert has to do to be legal is mention indications, doses, warnings, contraindications, interactions, and side effects. Oh, that’s why it’s not advertised on TV – they haven’t done any of that research yet. Here was me thinking it was all about maximisation of profits by not paying for advertising! In other words, you are saying that the promoters of MMS haven’t done any research. saying and fabricating excuses for it. Stuartg, sometimes it is regarded as unethical to continue with a double blind study because the effect of the actual treatment is so much better. The way you and Ken are going on about the video is like you are trying to think up reasons to suppress the research when you can’t really argue with it. Some 500 came to the clinic. Some 150 tested positive for malaria with test strips. They were given the dose and their water. They came back and most tested negative. A few were given another dose and became negative, too. The doctor in attendance was satisfied. Now a church is travelling to charge people for more training about the process for other afflictions. They may involve more doses and more care to get it correct. Why is it legal to sell bottled water in NZ for such a price when the same thing is free out of the tap? Oh and if the test strip said positive their blood was examined under microscope for verification. What is lacking in the study? Do you say half at random should have been given only water for double blind purposes and left with the disease? It is of course unethical to continue a double blind study in some situations â but that comment is completely irrelevant. There was no double-blind study in this case. To make an intelligent comment on the poor quality of the âstudyâ does not indicate a desire to suppress it â simply to point out the problems. Whatever the misgivings of a genuine researcher, if they are commissioned to research a product they are quite capable of designing appropriate experimental procedures and producing objective results. In this case no attempt appears to have been made to commission proper research. I have been approached several times by companies wanting their product tested. In some cases I thought they were away with the birds but put appropriate costed proposals to them. The more honest companies accepted the proposals, the less hones preferred to stick with their weird ideas rather than put them to the test. the point is that research costs money. If a company wishes to validate their product they should be prepared to invest in that research. If they donât then we are entitled to treat them as charlatans. Sorry about the drop size. It seems it can vary from 18 to 40 drops per ml, although a standard dropper seems to give 18-26. So the doses may be a bit over double what I said. Note also that the patent application whose ref I posted says that for the best results with cancer the dose should be adjusted to the patient’s weight. In the malaria video babies were given less. You may not know that aspirin relates to body weight. It annoys me that the 75mg dose costs more than the 100mg low dose enteric coated aspirin for heart care. Side effects were talked of weren’t they? Most medicines, vaccines &c have varying side effects, and cost vs benefit ratios. It will be nice when tests become available and checked before vaccines &c are administered. Ken this did not appear to be the usual situation for a double blind test where you are looking for some advantage of treatment over placebo. I do not think placebo can cure malaria, verified by testing. I have been part of a controlled trial of administering potassium in heart attack care. There I was in a confused state trying to understand if I wanted to be part of the test in which I would not know if I got the treatment or not, and they were telling me to get on with deciding so as they could start the treatment. I was presuming it is normal to check and administer potassium if levels are low and here they were wanting to withhold it for a test. Drop size: equipment I have personally used has varied from 5 drops per ml to 60 drops per ml. That difference can give a 12x variation in the dose of MMS. So, what is the recommended dose of MMS? Per kg, please, just the way you say it should be done with aspirin. Aspirin in NZ is available in 75, 100, 150, 300 and 650 mg tablets. The dose depends on which of its indications it is being used for. @Stuart, in the supermarket the stomach safer 75mg tabs cost 30% more than the stomach-safer 100mg. “The indications” normally means what condition to treat, but the weight of the patient should also be taken into account. I think it should be about 1mg per kg body weight for thinning the blood. So a 75kg person taking 100mg is more unnecessarily susceptible to common or uncommon side effects: http://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-1082-3/aspirin-oral/aspirin-oral/details/list-sideeffects Medicine droppers 4a. Standards are described for medicine droppers in USP Chapter 〈1176〉 and Chapter 〈1101〉 Medicine Dropper. b. Graduated medicine droppers are described in Chapter 〈1101〉; when held vertically, they deliver drops of water each of which weighs between 45 mg and 55 mg. Chapter 〈1101〉 states that the volume error for these droppers should not exceed 15% (11). d. Notice that for both types of droppers, the calibration is given in terms of water. Other liquids have different surface tensions and viscosities, which give different drop volumes[…] https://www.inkling.com/read/contemporary-guide-pharmacy-practice-thompson-3rd/chapter-14/v–volumetric-devices The equipment I used was medical equipment manufactured and calibrated to worldwide standards. There’s still a 12x variation in drop size. Ask your supermarket why the difference in price between different doses and brands of aspirin, not bloggers or the general public. Rather than just “think” that aspirin should be 1 mg/kg, why not look up the research? Whilst you do that, look up genetic variation in cyclooxygenase and relate it to both response to aspirin and potential for side effects. You may learn something interesting. Now, you’ve done your best to dodge questions so far, but here’s some direct questions that should be answered by someone as supportive of MMS as you are. What is the dose of MMS per kg? How does the dose vary for different indications? What actually are the indications for MMS? What are its contraindications? What interactions are there with different medications? What are its side effects? Those questions have been answered for aspirin by the manufacturer and distributor, and the answers have been made public. There is no reason for the manufacturer and distributor of MMS not to do the same. …unless it doesn’t work and they’re after a quick buck, just like other snake oil sellers. Away from home with only a phone… That had to be tapped out four times before it posted! Three times it just deleted instead. May be something wrong with Openparachute. My post has disappeared, too. Don’t see anything by you in spam or awaiting moderation. In case someone saw my post before it disappeared, I feel a caution is needed about putting drops of MMS into the nasal passages as shown by Humble in his 2014 video. Would the smell sense organ be at risk? I am not expecting a reply, just giving my wonderings, as for the aspirin. Humble is still working on doses, with his ones in his 2014 video still quite heavy single dose for malaria but hourly small doses for some other things. Stuartg, medical droppers drop size do vary depending on whether it is for a very slow saline drip into a vein &c. And standard medicine droppers should be as I said, isn’t it? Humble talks of contraindications. He speaks of starting with small doses. If you are going to use DMSO to get it through your skin, test with a little DMSO first to see if your liver can cope, which it may not do for a small number of people. The earlier films posted on this thread say it is a pilot test being described. I bet it was a while before the doses/troubles with aspirin were well known. My doctors have not been able to prescribe less than 100mg enteric coated aspirin. A lot of the indications for aspirin on apparently authoritative websites do not take body weight into account. So in a way I believe aspirin is still in a sort of pilot stage. When I was started on it there was no attempt to measure that enzyme you write of. I think Humble is doing quite well with his cautions in comparison to what often happens in medical practice where a patient may be lucky to read the small print. I wish there would be tests to determine whether particular vaccines may be harmful to particular patients. A claim has been made that the pilot MMS test in Uganda was done without proper ethical permission. Note that the Golden Rice 2 experiment was likewise done. “I believe aspirin is still in a sort of pilot stage.” Aspirin is one of only four current prescription medications that were available when Queen Victoria was on the throne. It has over a century of research backing its use. More than five generations have successfully used it for various indications. Just when do you think it will be ready to leave the “pilot stage”? That’s a rhetorical question. We already know that you think MMS has left the “pilot stage”, even though the manufacturer/distributor has done no research into its indications, contraindications, dosage, interactions or side effects. All they have done is made a TV advert, which is apparently sufficient proof for you. You have obviously asked questions about aspirin, yet when I ask you the same questions about MMS you avoid answering those questions and then shift the goalposts. Aspirin has over a century of research backing it, with millions (billions?) of people using it effectively for more than a century. MMS, an industrial bleach, hasn’t even got any safety data for human ingestion, but its manufacturer/distributor has made a TV advert! If you can’t see the discrepancies between your approaches to the two, then there is no point in discussing it further, but it is a good comparison between science (aspirin) and junk science (MMS). The problem was me and my phone. I was deleting the typed (tapped?) contribution rather than posting. I think I’ve solved the problem now. Stuartg wrote: >Aspirin is one of only four current prescription medications >that were available when Queen Victoria was on the throne. > It has over a century of research backing its use. More than > five generations have successfully used it for various indications. > Just when do you think it will be ready to leave the “pilot stage”? I am not satisfied that 100mg is the only dose available on prescription for heart care. >That’s a rhetorical question. We already know that you think MMS > has left the “pilot stage”, No I said that one of the films above reported it is only a pilot experiment. > even though the manufacturer/distributor > has done no research into its indications, contraindications, >dosage, > interactions or side effects. No the 2014 film I pointed to which was showing then disappeared was a talk by Humble about his dose adjustments. >All they have done is made a TV advert, > which is apparently sufficient proof for you. It’s not a TV advert. It’s a pilot study. Jim wants to be helpful. The materials are very cheap. Some people are packaging them but he is not pushing a particular brand, “There’s a lot of bottles on Internet, but we believe on them all.” >You have obviously asked questions about aspirin, yet when I ask >you the same questions about MMS you avoid answering those >questions and then shift the goalposts. The 2014 film gives you some answers. >Aspirin has over a century of research backing it, with millions > (billions?) of people using it effectively for more than a century. It should have it’s doses related to body weight, not just the very rough difference from child to adult. >MMS, an industrial bleach, hasn’t even got any safety data for >human ingestion, Not true. It is the substance used in water treatment. >but its manufacturer/distributor has made a TV advert! Sometimes research articles are intended as publicity for a product or service. A lot of scientific journal articles have to be retracted. I would like to see a bit more detail about the pilot test. >If you can’t see the discrepancies between your approaches to >the two, > then there is no point in discussing it further, but it is a good >comparison between science (aspirin) and junk science (MMS). I’ve asked you to tell us the indications, contraindications, doses, interactions and side effects of MMS. Please explain why you don’t. I am learning about it. I only know what is in the videos, and a few points some people have discussed in various groups. Ken’s current discussion related to fluorosis/IQ is also a pilot study. Being a pilot study not everything is known so far. As with GMOs some people may be wrongly selling it without proper testing. I agree caution there. China thinks GMOs/glyphosate are hurting their people. The companies have made it hard to get material to test, so often there is no science in the public domain. Harmful science is not necessarily junk science, either. Here we have Humble wanting to help, and doing his best. If he is harming we should start to see reports of that. I don’t think we should be any less lax on him than on normal medicine which causes huge amounts of iatrogenic disease. “Please explain” my (soundhill1s’) difference in attitude between aspirin and MMS. Very well, a single example, paraphrased. Aspirin: “I want a dose of 1mg/kg, exactly.” MMS: “I’m not going to tell you the dose in mg/kg. Use a few drops of unknown size, using a dropper that hasn’t been specified by the manufacturer/distributor, from a base solution of an unknown concentration, diluted in water. That’s close enough.” As I said, if you can’t see the discrepancies between your attitudes towards aspirin and MMS, then there is no point in debating. Others will see the discrepancies, then they will make their own informed judgments about whether they should be placing untested industrial bleach into the various orifices of the human body. The base solution of chlorite if I remember is around 25%. The drops can be seen in the 2014 video. At a rough guess they were around 20 per ml I figure by the amount they filled up the containers. Humble explained his doses, 18 drops for malaria in one dose, or 2 drops for some other afflictions every hour. It is mixed with the same volume of citric acid and agitated for some 10-20 seconds till it goes yellow then 100ml of water is put in, or ordinary fruit juice, which must not have vitamin C added. As I said for a standard medicine dropper, (not some of the other medical equipment which you won’t say what it is you talked about,) the drops should be fairly well specified. I have not tried it. I worry that it might kill some of my beneficial intestinal flora. But I have it in mind as an option. I don’t know too much about malaria. The people in the videos did not look terribly sick, except for maybe the baby. My uncle got malaria in WWII. I think he said he got cold shivers. I was very young. It seemed to get better, I don’t know how. But I believe malaria is a major killer, killing far more than AIDS, and of course ebola. With many serious diseases conventional treatments may be very disabling. Search for “iatrogenic”. Maybe this bleach will hurt a few. But that is acceptable with conventional medicines/vaccines. Quite a lot of children have died from HPV vaccination, I think. Our bodies work on oxygen. This beach supplies a bit more. Some doctors try to treat people by making them breath higher pressure oxygen. This thread is about junk science and I believe to junk this treatment there needs to be more talk than about the danger of bleach. Stuartg \| November 18, 2014 at 12:40 pm \| Wow, what a load of junk, both science and medicine. Lets see. Your dose for MMS is “around”, “a rough guess”, “mixed with”. Hardly an exact mg/kg dose, is it? Like you ask for with aspirin? There aren’t any standard medicine droppers, at least in NZ, even though you supplied a USA standard. In NZ, if a medication requires a dropper then the manufacturer supplies one for that medication alone (example: nystatin). Unless the dropper for MMS is specified by the manufacturer/distributor, then you have no idea of the drop size or the dose. I wouldn’t worry too much that bleach “might kill some of my beneficial intestinal flora.” I would worry that it would kill off my oral and oesophageal mucosa. I’ve seen it happen, and I wouldn’t wish it on anybody. Wikipedia informs us “The EPA has set a maximum contaminant level of 1 milligram of chlorite per liter (1 mg/L) in drinking water.” Now, what was the concentration of chlorite in your made up solution? You have absolutely no idea. You “believe” that malaria is a major killer. You got that right. That’s why there are well investigated, scientifically based medications that can be used to treat it. Any new medication would be have to be compared with existing medications since comparing it with an ineffectual placebo would not be ethical. The earliest antimalarial was quinine, originally from the bark of the cinchona tree. That’s where G&T originated – the gin helped disguise the bitter taste of quinine in the tonic water. If you “don’t know too much about malaria”, then why are you commenting on it? “Maybe this bleach will hurt a few.” No, it will kill a lot. Medications may have side effects, but they don’t carry warnings about poisoning on the outside of the container like sodium chlorite does. Even Wikipedia details some of the toxic effects and clinical symptoms that can be expected in someone who ingests it. ToxiNZ gives a lot more information, and also tells how to treat someone who has ingested the stuff. “Search for “iatrogenic.”” No, I won’t. Are you trying to switch the goalposts here? I deal with iatrogenic illness (aka “side effects”) every day of my working life. Is that good enough? Ebola has killed around 5,000 during this epidemic. The WHO estimates that influenza kills 250,000 to 500,000 every year. Ebola is much harder to catch than influenza, as is HIV. Both HIV and influenza are routinely dealt with by medical personnel in NZ, and the ebola training is being rolled out. Why bring it up, unless you were switching the goalposts? “Our bodies work on oxygen. This beach supplies a bit more.” Wrong. Bleach supplies chlorine, not oxygen. Chlorine is used for sterilisation of surfaces – because it kills living things. Concentrations that will kill a malarial parasite (which, in the human, usually lives inside erythrocytes and hepatocytes) will also kill the cells that it lives in. Those concentrations will result in toxic effects and clinical symptoms, maybe even death. What was that dose for MMS again? is it above or below the concentration that will kill malaria, erythrocytes and hepatocytes? “Quite a lot of children have died from HPV vaccination, I think.” No, you think wrong. The exact figure is zero. It’s one of the safest vaccines ever produced. Continuing research since its release has repeatedly shown its safety. Don’t take my word for it, try Orac: http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/?s=hpv+vaccine . “Some doctors try to treat people by making them breath (sic) higher pressure oxygen.” True… Off the top of my head, nitrogen narcosis and Cl. perfringens infection are a couple of reasons. It’s used so infrequently that there are only two places in NZ that can supply the therapy. “This thread is about junk science…” It is, and you are supplying a lot of examples. By the way, I missed something (as well as spelling mistakes). “With many serious diseases conventional treatments may be very disabling.” The word “may” does not mean “are”. It’s all about risk versus benefit. Have you ever considered how disabling the alternative of death would be, if those “serious” diseases were not treated? >Wow, what a load of junk, both >science and medicine. I’ve not got it all right, nor you. Some quick replies: >Lets see. Your dose for MMS is >“around”, “a rough guess”, >“mixed with”. Hardly an exact >mg/kg dose, is it? >Like you ask >for with aspirin? I want a better dose for aspirin. I feel there needs to be a wider understanding that a 60kg adult could do with a different dose from a 120kg adult. Such is a factor of two. There aren’t any >standard medicine droppers, at >least in NZ, even though you >supplied a USA standard. Which looks to be another NZ thing that ought to be fixed. The USA standard droppers would not give a factor of 2. In NZ. >if a medication requires a dropper >then the manufacturer supplies >one for that medication alone >(example: nystatin). Unless the >dropper for MMS is specified by >the manufacturer/distributor, then >you have no idea of the drop size >or the dose. That’s rather poor. >I wouldn’t worry too much that >bleach “might kill some of my >beneficial intestinal flora.” I >would worry that it would kill off >my oral and oesophageal mucosa. >I’ve seen it happen, and I >wouldn’t wish it on anybody. You need to give more data. I agree with Shaun not to put one drop of undiluted bleach near my lips. How many drops per 100ml are you talking about? Even if they are big or small? >Wikipedia informs us “The EPA >has set a maximum contaminant >level of 1 milligram of chlorite >per liter (1 mg/L) in drinking >water.” That is when sports people are drinking 5 litres every day the whole year. Now, what was the >concentration of chlorite in your >made up solution? You have >absolutely no idea. I got the drop a bit small in my calculations which I gave.before For malaria I see now it’s about 18 drops at .05ml each which gives about 1ml. And that is what it looked like in Humble’s 2014 video. The drops were about 25% chlorite so it’s about 0.25 ml with 100ml of water put in on top. Then you drink quite a lot of water. It’s quite strong, but you’re dealing with a serious disease. The other protocols are weaker and have several ways to find the best you can tolerate. >You “believe” that malaria is a >major killer. You got that right. >That’s why there are well >investigated, scientifically based >medications that can be used to >treat it. But often unaffordable. Any new medication >would be have to be compared >with existing medications since >comparing it with an ineffectual >placebo would not be ethical. The >earliest antimalarial was quinine, >originally from the bark of the >cinchona tree. That’s where G&T >originated – the gin helped >disguise the bitter taste of quinine >in the tonic water. If you “don’t >know too much about malaria”, >then why are you commenting on >it? I know it’s a big killer and is not being treated. Here is a treatment being offered and being called junk science without proper argument. >“Maybe this bleach will hurt a >few.” No, it will kill a lot. >Medications may have side >effects, but they don’t carry >warnings about poisoning on the >outside of the container like >sodium chlorite does. They ought to. >Wikipedia details some of the >toxic effects and clinical >symptoms that can be expected in >someone who ingests it. ToxiNZ >gives a lot more information, and >also tells how to treat someone >who has ingested the stuff. Like a kid drinking out of the neat bleach bottle? >“Search for “iatrogenic.”” No, I >won’t. Are you trying to switch >the goalposts here? I deal with >iatrogenic illness (aka “side >effects”) every day of my >working life. Is that good >enough? I don’t think the goalposts for one treatment should be different from another. >Ebola has killed around 5,000 >during this epidemic. The WHO >estimates that influenza kills >250,000 to 500,000 every year. >Ebola is much harder to catch >than influenza, as is HIV. Both >HIV and influenza are routinely >dealt with by medical personnel >in NZ, and the ebola training is >being rolled out. Why bring it up, >unless you were switching the >goalposts? Just to say that however bad we are made to feel about ebola a whole lot worse problem is not being got at by conventional medicine partly because of cost. >“Our bodies work on oxygen. >This beach supplies a bit more.” >Wrong. Bleach supplies chlorine, >not oxygen. Sorry a bit more oxidation. Not as strong an oxidising agent as chlorine. Chlorine is used for >sterilisation of surfaces – because >it kills living things. It’s not chlorine produced. http://www.thesabrecompanies.com/science/chemistry.aspx >Concentrations that will kill a >malarial parasite (which, in the >human, usually lives inside >erythrocytes and hepatocytes) >will also kill the cells that it lives >in. Those concentrations will >result in toxic effects and clinical >symptoms, maybe even death. “The mechanism of action by which chlorine dioxide inactivates microorganisms is not entirely well understood. As a general matter, however, it is known that chlorine dioxide destroys microbes by attacking their cell walls (or viral envelopes) and interfering with essential protein formation. It is also known that chlorine dioxide is more effective against viruses than either chlorine or ozone. Furthermore, chlorine dioxide is known to be effective against hearty waterborne protozoans such as Giardia Lambia and Cryptosporidium, the causative agents of giardiasis and cryptosporidiosis, respectively. Since chlorine dioxide is an oxidative biocide, microorganisms cannot build up a resistance to it.’ >What was that dose for MMS >again? is it above or below the >concentration that will kill >malaria, erythrocytes and >hepatocytes? >“Quite a lot of children have died >from HPV vaccination, I think.” >No, you think wrong. The exact >figure is zero. It’s one of the >safest vaccines ever produced. >Continuing research since its >release has repeatedly shown its >safety. Don’t take my word for it, >try Orac: >http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/?s=hpv+vaccine . Seems to be controversy language rather than science. Try this, I.m not sure if it’s the newest: http://therefusers.com/refusers-newsroom/us-vaccine-court-pays-6-million-to-gardasil-victims-most-claims-not-yet-settled/#.VGsb2ckzDEs >“Some doctors try to treat people >by making them breath (sic) >higher pressure oxygen.” True… >Off the top of my head, nitrogen >narcosis and Cl. perfringens >infection are a couple of reasons. >It’s used so infrequently that >there are only two places in NZ >that can supply the therapy. >“This thread is about junk >science…” It is, and you are >supplying a lot of examples. >By the way, I missed something >(as well as spelling mistakes). >“With many serious diseases >conventional treatments may be >very disabling.” The word “may” >does not mean “are”. It’s all >about risk versus benefit. Yes and I’m asking for genetic testing before vaccination. >Have you ever considered how >disabling the alternative of death >would be, if those “serious” >diseases were not treated? That’s what I am considering. “Because chlorine dioxide has lower oxidation strength, it is more selective in its reactions. Typically, chlorine dioxide will only react with compounds that have activated carbon bonds such as phenols, or with other active compounds like sulfides, cyanides, and reduced iron and manganese compounds. Chlorine is a more powerful oxidizer than chlorine dioxide, and will react with a wider variety of chemicals, including ammonia. This property limits its overall effectiveness as a biocide. Conversely, because chlorine dioxide has more oxidative capacity compared to ozone or chlorine, less chlorine dioxide is required to obtain an active residual concentration of the material when used as a disinfectant.” Stuartg \| November 19, 2014 at 11:12 am \| Some of these are repeated and reworded because you do not seem to have understood them previously. You “want a better dose for aspirin.” In NZ it is available in 75, 100, 150, 300 and 650 mg tablets. That’s sufficient for most people and easily accommodates that factor of two you want. If more accuracy is needed, it can be prescribed in individual doses, prepared by a compounding pharmacy. I’ve seen 40 mg capsules prescribed in the past. You can even get 71.5 mg capsules (for example) prepared, if you want, but you’d have to pay for them. (A colleague suggested that a big meal, or a big poo and wee, would change your kg. Would you then change the mg of aspirin? If not, why not? That’s science for you!) “I don’t think the goalposts for one treatment should be different from another.” Oh, but you do. You don’t look for the same science for MMS that you insist on for aspirin. The manufacturer/distributor of aspirin supplies indications, contraindications, doses, side effects and interactions. The manufacturer/distributor of MMS doesn’t do the same. Why not? Why don’t you ask for those details? You said: “I don’t think… one treatment should be different from another.” Then let’s not treat them differently and apply the same approach to both substances. Let’s get that information from the manufacturer/supplier of MMS, just like we got it from the manufacturer/supplier of aspirin. You are the one who says aspirin should be an exact mg/kg dose. So, making sure again that you don’t treat MMS differently from aspirin, what is the dose of MMS in mg/kg? “Around” and “a rough guess” is the only answer you have given me. Science says mg/kg; junk science says “around” or “a rough guess.” “How many drops per 100ml are you talking about? Even if they are big or small?” It’s not me that is talking drops per 100mL, it’s you. Drug companies in NZ supply droppers that are calibrated for the individual medication in order to reduce errors and enhance patient safety. Why doesn’t the manufacturer/distributor of MMS do the same? Relying on the purchaser to source an unspecified dropper is hardly a scientific (or safe) approach. Malaria: “I know it’s a big killer and is not being treated.” It is being treated. I mentioned it before, but maybe you didn’t read it. Some drugs are very cheap (quinine), others are more expensive. There is a cost to manufacture them all, so none of them are free. You get what you pay for. If you wish to pay for something that is dirt cheap, for which the manufacturer/distributor won’t give indications, contraindications, interactions, dosages or side effects (like MMS), and try to use it for malaria, then that’s your own lookout. It’s up to the manufacturer/distributor of any compound to use science to prove an effect on any disease, not wait for others to show it hasn’t got an effect. Why don’t you insist on seeing the science behind MMS rather than just accepting junk science? MMS (aka bleach): We need to know the concentrations at which chlorine kills living things, not necessarily how. Malaria is not a protozoan and it doesn’t have a cell wall or a viral envelope (you mentioned all three; they have no bearing on malaria). The malarial parasite is a eukaryote. That means that it dies at about the same concentration of chlorine as other eukaryotes – including humans. A high enough concentration of chlorine in the blood WILL kill intracellular malarial parasites, but unfortunately it will kill the human as well. All the manufacturer/distributor of MMS has to do, to make it a valid antimalarial treatment, is to demonstrate that the existing scientific knowledge on chlorine (chloride, chlorite, hypochloride, etc) is wrong. “Like a kid drinking out of the neat bleach bottle?” No, like adults drinking out of unmarked bottles of diluted bleach that did not have poison warnings. HPV vaccination: “Try this.” Yes, it’s a news report. No science in it. No mention of a single death after HPV vaccination, just implication. The VICP pays out for 50% and a hair; proof of a direct relationship between a vaccine and a complaint is not needed. Science requires the proof; junk science doesn’t. Your “I think” is accepting junk science without question. “Seems to be controversy language rather than science.” Controversy? No, there is no scientific controversy over HPV vaccine. Orac, or one of his “minions”, has backed up every argument with references to the peer reviewed science. All of those references are available to you by reading through and clicking on the links. You can do that easily. By dismissing the reference out of hand, you are ignoring the science. You have the opportunity to learn and correct your thinking, but you won’t do it? That’s the attitude of junk science rather than science. “Yes and I’m asking for genetic testing before vaccination.” Shifting goalposts again? And exactly what do you mean by “genetic testing”? The human Genome Project was only completed 11 years ago. It’s going to be decades before we understand how our genome contributes to infection or disease. Gene analysis is still in its infancy, and today is mainly used in testing for some specific genetic diseases. Some SCAM artists offer “genetic testing”, but their results are both meaningless and very expensive. They have no science behind their “interpretation” of results. Their “genetic testing” is a good example of junk science. I’ve answered your questions where I can, in language that tries to avoid jargon. I have asked you questions, but all you have done is regurgitate junk science and avoid answering them. It would appear that, as well as not recognising that you have different attitudes depending on the subject, you also do not understand the difference between science and junk science. >Some of these are repeated and >reworded because you do not >seem to have understood them >previously. >You “want a better dose for >aspirin.” In NZ it is available in >75, 100, 150, 300 and 650 mg >tablets. That’s sufficient for most >people and easily accommodates >that factor of two you want. It is not sufficient for people who are concerned about bleeding stomachs unless they are also available enteric coated. When has 75mg enteric coated become available on prescription. It’s a year or two since I asked the doctor. >more accuracy is needed, it can >be prescribed in individual doses, >prepared by a compounding >pharmacy. I’ve seen 40 mg >capsules prescribed in the past. >You can even get 71.5 mg >capsules (for example) prepared, >if you want, but you’d have to >pay for them. How much will it cost for 75mg enteric capsules on prescription? They are about $4.95 per month at the supermarket. >(A colleague suggested that a big >meal, or a big poo and wee, >would change your kg. A big wee might be 0.5kg and a poo 1.5kg. >you then change the mg of >aspirin? If not, why not? That’s >science for you!) I think your friend is being a bit deprecating. “You’ve got to find a way around these fussy patients.” I am not asking for the same accuracy with aspirin theat might be required with warfarin. Even then your 3% poo-wee accuracy is probably not necessary. And you have a funny definition of science. >“I don’t think the goalposts for >one treatment should be different >from another.” Oh, but you do. >You don’t look for the same >science for MMS that you insist >on for aspirin. >The manufacturer/distributor of >aspirin supplies indications, >contraindications, doses, Normally just chld/adult dose, not by weight >effects and interactions. The >manufacturer/distributor of MMS >doesn’t do the same. Why not? So you have looked at the bottles. I haven’t. But I have watched Humble talking about doses and effects of chlorite/citric acid. >Why don’t you ask for those >details? You said: “I don’t >think… one treatment should be >different from another.” Then >let’s not treat them differently >and apply the same approach to >both substances. Let’s get that >information from the >manufacturer/supplier of MMS, >just like we got it from the >manufacturer/supplier of aspirin. >You are the one who says aspirin >should be an exact mg/kg dose. Not exact. Just not out by 30% to 100% in mg/kg. This source gives mg/kg for children up to 11 years of age. Then no real explanation of where in the range of doses it offers to use for older people for each condition. >So, making sure again that you >don’t treat MMS differently from >aspirin, what is the dose of MMS >in mg/kg? “Around” and “a >rough guess” is the only answer >you have given me. Science says >mg/kg; Actually science knows how to specify the required accuracy. I note Ken does not bother with error bars on his graphs. junk science says >“around” or “a rough guess.” Somewhere in secondary school pupils learn how to deal with significant figures, orders of magnitude, and not spcifiying something to more significant figures than you know. That is science. >“How many drops per 100ml are >you talking about? Even if they >are big or small?” It’s not me that >is talking drops per 100mL, it’s >you. You were talking about a damaging concentration of chlorite. What concentration? >Drug companies in NZ supply >droppers that are calibrated for >the individual medication in order >to reduce errors and enhance >patient safety. That does not mean they should not have to specify the dose. Temperature may have an effect on drop size. https://www.scribd.com/doc/50062179/How-Temperature-Affects-the-Volume-of-a-Drop Also learn about specifying errors in that. Why doesn’t the >do the same? I don’t know they don’t. And I know they do better in Youtube videos than I can find for aspirin. Relying on the >purchaser to source an >unspecified dropper is hardly a >scientific (or safe) approach. People need a bit of teaching to buy a standard dropper just as they do for a standard teaspoon. >Malaria: “I know it’s a big killer >and is not being treated.” It is >being treated. If it were being treated sufficiently then the death statistics would show it. I mentioned it >before, but maybe you didn’t read >it. Some drugs are very cheap >(quinine), others are more >expensive. There is a cost to >manufacture them all, so none of >them are free. You get what you >pay for. You get what you CAN pay for. If you wish to pay for >something that is dirt cheap, for >which the >manufacturer/distributor won’t >give indications, >contraindications, interactions, >dosages or side effects (like >MMS), and try to use it for >malaria, then that’s your own >lookout. As I pointed out there is more easy-to-understand stuff about MMS than about aspirin. >It’s up to the >manufacturer/distributor of any >compound to use science to prove >an effect on any disease, not wait >for others to show it hasn’t got an >effect. The video appeared to show it. You can’t junk that just by saying it’s dangerous and not specifying the concentration you think is dangerous. Why don’t you insist on >seeing the science behind MMS >rather than just accepting junk >science? I gave a ref in which a water treatment company said it is not really known how ClO2 kills parasites. Several medical treatments have been done without proper scientific explanation, just because they are thought to work. Example ECT right up to the present though controlled studies now are showing no difference to placebo. >MMS (aka bleach): We need to >know the concentrations at which >chlorine kills living things, not >necessarily how. ClO2 does not produce chlorine. After reaction the chloride ion is left and that is naturally in blood. Malaria is not a >protozoan and it doesn’t have a >cell wall or a viral envelope (you >mentioned all three; they have no >bearing on malaria). The malarial >parasite is a eukaryote. That >means that it dies at about the >same concentration of chlorine as >other eukaryotes – including >humans. A high enough >concentration of chlorine in the >blood WILL kill intracellular >malarial parasites, but >unfortunately it will kill the >human as well. I say again which I said yesterday, also, it is not chlorine. This gives some indication of how the body is being helped to fight. http://bioredox.mysite.com/CLOXhtml/CLOXilus.htm The first thing I cam across, maybe NIH/NLM will come up with something. “MALARIA IS OXIDANT SENSITIVE From November 2006 through May of 2007 I spent hundreds of hours searching biochemical literature and medical literature pertaining to the biochemistry of Plasmodia. Four species are commonly pathogenic in humans namely: Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium ovale and Plasmodium malariae. What I found was an abundance of confirmation that, just like bacteria, Plasmodia are indeed quite sensitive to oxidants. “ >has to do, to make it a valid >antimalarial treatment, is to >demonstrate that the existing >scientific knowledge on chlorine >(chloride, chlorite, hypochloride, >etc) is wrong. >“Like a kid drinking out of the >neat bleach bottle?” No, like >adults drinking out of unmarked >bottles of diluted bleach that did >not have poison warnings. Household bleach is diluted at about 3% to 8%. Is that the dilution you mean? Some supermarket bleach is stronger than other, and needs dilution. But the concentration to treat malaria, given the drop size &c data in the ref I have just given 25 drops per ml, … gives up to 0.15% before you even drink extra water on top of it. >HPV vaccination: “Try this.” Yes, >it’s a news report. No science in >it. No mention of a single death >after HPV vaccination, just >implication. The VICP pays out >for 50% and a hair; proof of a >direct relationship between a >vaccine and a complaint is not >needed. Science requires the >proof; junk science doesn’t. So they are paying out on junk. >“I think” is accepting junk >science without question. >“Seems to be controversy >language rather than science.” >Controversy? No, there is no >scientific controversy over HPV >vaccine. Orac, or one of his >“minions”, has backed up every >argument with references to the >peer reviewed science. All of >those references are available to >you by reading through and >clicking on the links. You can do >that easily. By dismissing the >reference out of hand, you are >ignoring the science. You have >the opportunity to learn and >correct your thinking, but you >won’t do it? That’s the attitude of >junk science rather than science. I am always suspicious of stuff filled with emotive language. >“Yes and I’m asking for genetic >testing before vaccination.” >Shifting goalposts again? And >exactly what do you mean by >“genetic testing”? The human >Genome Project was only >completed 11 years ago. It’s >going to be decades before we >understand how our genome >contributes to infection or >disease. Gene analysis is still in >its nfancy, and today is mainly >used in testing for some specific >genetic diseases. Some SCAM >artists offer “genetic testing”, but >their results are both meaningless >and very expensive. They have >no science behind their >“interpretation” of results. Their >“genetic testing” is a good >example of junk science. Missing enzymes can be checked for. >I’ve answered your questions >where I can, in language that tries >to avoid jargon. I have asked you >questions, but all you have done >is regurgitate junk science and >avoid answering them. >It would appear that, as well as >not recognising that you have >different attitudes depending on >the subject, you also do not >understand the difference >between science and junk >science. I have made comments about that. Chris Banks \| November 19, 2014 at 4:32 pm \| Actually, Soundhill, you don’t necessarily get what you pay for. People are, after all, expected to pay good money for this bleach product which, by all indications, is modern-day snake oil. In this case, you pay money and you get nothing. Or perhaps you develop all new health problems to go with the ones you already had. Capitalism in action, I’m afraid. You don’t actually need to demonstrate that something works in order to make money off it, all you need to do is convince your customers that it works. Whether that’s through actual evidence or simply through advertising (perhaps on youtube videos). If you doubt this, there are plenty of homeopaths in the world who make a decent living. Also psychics. Now, I’m not particularly inclined to watch half an hour’s worth of youtube video, but I did run across a short interview with one of the church’s founders ( http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/258889/watchdogs-investigate-miracle-claims ), which was quite sufficient to convince me that the man is a charlatan. After all, he is reporting a 100% success rate in treating people with ebola, malaria, herpes, cancer firbromyalgia, multiple sclerosis and AIDS. Now, these claims are extraordinary enough that I would be highly skeptical on an individual basis. Taken together, claims of 100% cure rates (in a single day, no less) for a diverse range of completely unrelated conditions are, well, quite literally unbelievable. That is, the man is lying through his teeth. Unfortunately, many of these conditions are sufficiently scary that desperate people will fork out money in hopes of a cure that actual medical professionals are simply not able to guarantee. Oh, did I mention that autism is also on the list, albeit the claim isn’t 100% in that case? A veritable grab-bag of scary conditions which you can cure if only you will give the church your money. Yes, bleach kills stuff. Very effectively. The problem is that in order to cure people without killing them in the process, you have to target a specific set of cells, whether invading bacteria or cancer cells or whatever. Quite how bleach is supposed to cure multiple sclerosis or autism I haven’t the faintest idea. Nor, I’m sure, do the Genesis Church people. They will simply trot out their unverifiable claims of x number of people they supposedly cured of this that and the other, spout some unscientific gibberish so they sound authoritative and rely on people’s gullibility or sheer desperation to bring in the money. >Actually, Soundhill, you don’t >necessarily get what you pay for. >People are, after all, expected to >pay good money for this bleach >product I checked on ebay and it’s not expensive. which, by all indications, >is modern-day snake oil. Indications from where, and wghat indications? Are people saying it did not work for them? >case, you pay money and you get >nothing. Or perhaps you develop >all new health problems to go >with the ones you already had. Some treatments do that. TV3 Campbell Live ran a program promoting prostate cancer screening. I tried to post on their Facebook a link to a recent report by our Parliamentary Health Committee. They did not recommend universal screening. Men are quite often left incontinent and or impotent by cancer treatment when more men die with prostate cancer than from it. Why would Campbell Live not leave my link up? CTV did leave it up. I fear I have to consider medbusiness pressure. >Capitalism in action, I’m afraid. >You don’t actually need to >demonstrate that something >works in order to make money >off it, all you need to do is >convince your customers that it >works. Or force ti though legislation. Whether that’s through >actual evidence or simply through >advertising (perhaps on youtube >videos). You can “advertise” your concerns on Youtube videos. Doesn’t mean you want to make money. If you doubt this, there >are plenty of homeopaths in the >world who make a decent living. >Also psychics. And purveyors of ECT machines. >Now, I’m not particularly >inclined to watch half an hour’s >worth of youtube video, So your comment is not worth so much. but I did >run across a short interview with >one of the church’s founders >http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/258889/watchdogs-investigate-miracle-claims ), which >was quite sufficient to convince >me that the man is a charlatan. >After all, he is reporting a 100% >success rate in treating people >with ebola, malaria, herpes, >cancer firbromyalgia, multiple >sclerosis and AIDS. >Now, these claims are >extraordinary enough that I >would be highly skeptical on an >individual basis. Taken together, >claims of 100% cure rates (in a >single day, no less) for a diverse >range of completely unrelated >conditions are, well, quite >literally unbelievable. That is, the >man is lying through his teeth. That’s your feeling. I think he agreed in the interview he may be using a bit of hyperbole. He is wrong about oxygen being harmless. Permit me the indulgence of a little brain storm. When I was young I suffered from severe asthma. It was before the days of steroids. I used to fight for breath till I no longer could. I do not have asthma now. I learnt not to fight for breath. In later years I read about hyperventilation. Panic attacks sometimes do it to people. It has been recommended to breath into a paper bag to treat the problem. A theory is that the hand-tingling that goes with hyperventilation is a result of oxygen starvation of the tissues. For respiration to occur the haemoglobin must let go of oxygen to the tissues. CO2 is part of that process and hyperventilation may render the CO2 lefvel too low for that to occur. It seems very contrary to breath less to stop fingers tingling. Now I have come across this today in the link I referenced: “Low dose oxidant exposure to living red blood cells induces an increase in 2,3-diphosphoglycerate levels inside these cells. This attaches to hemoglobin (Hb) in such a way that oxyhemoglobin (HbO2) more readily releases oxygen (O2) to the tissues throughout the body.” So I need to think about that. Asthma was expensive with the doctor having to come around with his adrenalin injections to brign me back. Since I cured myself I am not contributing in that way to GDP. >Unfortunately, many of these >conditions are sufficiently scary >that desperate people will fork >out money in hopes of a cure that >actual medical professionals are >simply not able to guarantee. It seems very cheap. Medical professionals are increasing the things they can cure, rather than just treating. And I see a patent applied for which uses chlorite in combination with 5Fluoro-Uracyl to reduce suffering in cancer sufferers. >did I mention that autism is also >on the list, albeit the claim isn’t >100% in that case? There must be differing reasons for autism. Pathogens may be one. Note the high level of prescribing of anti-depressants when patients may be suffering from an infection. A veritable >grab-bag of scary conditions >which you can cure if only you >will give the church your money. They want to help. They are not allowed to cure people, as Humble said if you had watched the video, it is only a church since they cannot be stopped from offering sacraments. >Yes, bleach kills stuff. Very >effectively. The problem is that in >order to cure people without >killing them in the process, you >have to target a specific set of >cells, whether invading bacteria >or cancer cells or whatever. Our bodies have natural killer cells and know how to be rid of wrongly proliferating cells. But sometimes they may need a bit or a lot of help. >how bleach is supposed to cure >multiple sclerosis or autism I >haven’t the faintest idea. Nor, I’m >sure, do the Genesis Church >people. Closed mind. >They will simply trot out their >unverifiable claims of x number >of people they supposedly cured >of this that and the other, spout >some unscientific gibberish so >they sound authoritative and rely >on people’s gullibility or sheer >desperation to bring in the >money. Or they might be helping. Where is the database of complaints from patients? Any reported at all? It doesn’t look like genetically modified plants where you are not allowed to find out and report. You think? Plainly you didn’t listen to the interview all that well then. He said nothing about hyperbole. The message was clear and consistent: 100% success. He is wrong about pretty much everything he says. Why single out oxygen? Skepticism, Soundhill. I’m perfectly okay with not understanding the details of how a particular treatment works. I’m actually okay with nobody fully understanding how it works. But I do expect evidence that it actually works. You know, records of the trials. There is a claim of 100% success, over a period of 17 years. Why, then, is the information on these trials not available for scrutiny? I’m sorry, Soundhill, you’re confused. I wanted evidence that they were helping. I wanted some record of their successes. Where is that database? Does it exist? No? Well then, if they’re not even maintaining that database, why on Earth would it be in their interests to maintain a database of complaints? “Oh, hey, we can’t demonstrate that our product works, but here’s a list of people who it didn’t work for or who were otherwise unhappy.” “They are not allowed to cure people,” They’re able to sell their product, aren’t they? Then there is no impediment to them being able to cure people if it works as they say it does. Hell, the snake-oil salesman insisted repeatedly that they’d cured 100% of patients in every supposed trial. What they’re not allowed to do is lie about their ability to cure people. If they want to make that claim, they have to put forward evidence. >“That’s your feeling. I think he agreed in the interview he may be >using a bit of hyperbole.” >You think? Plainly you didn’t listen to the interview all that well >then. He said nothing about hyperbole. The message was clear >and consistent: 100% success. No he agreed there are things he cannot control. >“They are not allowed to cure people,” >Bollocks. >They’re able to sell their product, aren’t they? Then there is no >impediment to them being able to cure people if it works as they >say it does. Hell, the snake-oil salesman insisted repeatedly that >they’d cured 100% of patients in every supposed trial. >What they’re not allowed to do is lie about their ability to cure >people. If they want to make that claim, they have to put forward >evidence. But there are huge hurdles to getting certification for a product. They have decided to put their energy into using it instead. To do much in this current capitalistic medical environment without the profit motive loud and clear is heresy of the first order and to be jumped on very quickly. Well it’s not only in medicine, water and everything has to be monetised. Why aren’t you jumping on the people who are applying for a patent with chlorite in combination with 5FU? Because that is on the big profit alter. Wow, Soundhill, that is some seriously impressive selective listening you’ve got going there. Let me break it down for you: First, the snake-oil salesman claims a 100% success rate in trials to date. Second, the interviewer challenges him, asking if this means people will live forever if they use his product (because, you know, 100% effective against everything under the sun). Third, snake-oil salesman, grasping that perhaps claiming his product will confer immortality is a step too far, notes that, yes, people might still die due to factors beyond his control. Now, Step 3 does not actually contradict step 1. Stating that your product might not be 100% effective in future (against death from any cause whatsoever) does not invalidate a claim that it has been 100% effective SO FAR. Search Google for patent cancer chlorite Why? Putting a patent on something doesn’t mean the thing actually works. It just means nobody else is allowed to steal the design and profit from it. I’m sure there are all manner of ridiculous patents out there. A chlorite-based drug in phase 2/3 trials hcv hiv http://www.metaphysical.ca/IIM/cuttingedge.html Somewhat better, Soundhill. Still not actually relevant to the Genesis Church product though. After all, they’re not claiming they have a particular chlorite-based drug undergoing testing for its efficacy and safety in treating certain autoimmune disorders (eg severe persistent allergic rhinitis). They’re claiming they have a wonder-drug which has been 100% effective against all manner of unrelated conditions.And they will not produce so much as a shred of evidence to this effect. Furthermore, various medical professionals and regulatory bodies are actively warning people not to consume the product for safety reasons. This is likely because there are very important differences between chlorite-based drugs and a product which is 28% sodium chlorite by volume. Chris Banks \| November 19, 2014 at 10:15 pm \| … Okay, how the hell did I miss this? It was, after all, one of the earlier links in Ken’s post. How did you miss it, for that matter, Soundhill? You’re the one who’s been demanding to know whether the stuff’s harmed anyone. http://www.9news.com.au/health/2014/11/03/09/15/four-victorians-sick-after-drinking-miracle-potion Yes, huge hurdles. Like, for instance, demonstrating that it actually works. And is safe (or that side-effects are well understood and clearly laid out). Oh poor, naive Soundhill. Genesis Church screams profit motive. Without, unfortunately, the checks and balances on the profit motive which apply to actual medicine. It’s very much a product of capitalism. Let me lay this out for you: There are two approaches you can take to making money off a product. First, you can sell an expensive product in low volumes. Second, you can sell a cheap product in high volumes. Genesis Church’s MMS epitomises the second approach. Without any need to recoup regulatory or development costs, they can produce it at a dirt cheap price, and still make a very respectable profit margin on each unit sold (US $40 for a packet of 100 tablets, I see). Plus, they can charge people US $500 a head to attend a seminar on how to sell their products. My, what a lot of money one can make if they only discard any pretense of ethics. (Technically, there is a third approach to making money off a product – the holy grail of selling an expensive product in high volumes. See, for instance, Steve Jobs). That article if you search further reports Dr Tony Bartone saying the problems occurred when people used it undiluted to try to get greater effect. Chris Banks \| November 20, 2014 at 12:28 am \| Yes, Soundhill, that makes perfect sense. Why, it’s as if nobody explained to them that the substance was hazardous if undiluted. Bottles of bleach, as a rule, come labeled with warnings not to ingest the stuff. Alas, the available images of MMS bottles are not legible enough to tell if they contain similar warnings. Definitely should have linked to the more in-depth article: http://bit.ly/1xCu5sa Yet again, you have declined to answer my questions. Why is that? Can’t you answer them? I’m not going to go through them again, I’ve done it enough times without getting any answers from you. As to your comments, they’re as junk as ever. Let’s just say that aspirin EC 75 mg has been, and still is, available on prescription. You just have to pay extra because the manufacturer charges too much and Pharmac will not fully subsidise it. Only after a fashion, since you can’t actually measure something that’s not there. But that’s being pedantic. You were talking about “genetic testing.” Measuring enzymes has nothing to do with gene analysis, and clinical biochemistry has been measuring enzyme activity since before we knew about genes. Now, try again, what do you mean by “genetic testing?” @Chris Banks, Can read label on Ebay.com. “Don’t use full strength.” And Humble gives the instruction it won’t help to make it stronger. You wrote: “very important differences between chlorite-based drugs and a product which is 28% sodium chlorite by volume.” http://www.google.com/patents/US6086922 It seems to be sodium chlorite, maybe calcium hypochlorite, with weak acid like citric or lactic. (Note the scare tactics “acid” in your warning.) This 2009 orthopaedic surgery article refers to it as a prototype of a somewhat more complex arrangement: http://www.morthoj.org/2009v3n1/Outcome_of_Tibial_Fractures.pdf The MMS is so cheap it is unlikely that drug companies will arrange conferences to encourage doctors to prescribe it like they do for Viagra &c. Humble is doing his best to educate about its proper use: cannot use ozonated distilled water. (The Pure Dew distilled water in Countdown Supermarkets then is ruled out.) He refers to many MMS brands on the Internet and does not specify any particular one. People are pleased he is doing this education and give him donations. As a reader of the attempts by Stuart and Chris to elicit answers from soundhill and of their efforts explain to soundhill how MMS falls well short of meeting standard ethical and efficacy requirements, I conclude that this discussion is becoming futile. I’m also inclined to question whether soundhill has some undeclared association or vested interest in the product. It is unlikely, given the anonymity afforded by the internet, that we will ever know. Aspirin is one of the cheapest medications on the market. It should be, it’s been manufactured for over a century. It is still covered at medical conferences. MMS is also covered at medical conferences. It’s a useful industrial bleach that can be used to clean and sterilise work surfaces. It just doesn’t have any therapeutic effects. (By the way, where do you get the idea that drug companies arrange conferences? They are only allowed to sponsor conferences arranged by others. Or not, if that is their preference.) Treatments tailored to our genes are becoming more known. http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm372427.htm Modern technology is rapidly advancing for genetic testing. But until we are there it should still be possible to test children more widely for lack of enzymes which will endanger them if they take aspirin &c. Some sources say do not give aspirin to any children because of what it may do to some. And maybe a test for penicillin intolerance will be developed. “A Shot of Penicillin Many parents wonder why doctors don’t give as many penicillin shots as in the past. A shot of penicillin was once the treatment of choice for streptococcal pharyngitis (strep throat). Now it is rarely used, and for good reason. A course of oral penicillin, if taken properly, is as effective as a shot of the same drug. The main reason not to give a shot is the possibility of a life-threatening allergic reaction. The chances are one in 2,000 that a person will have a serious reaction after their first injection of penicillin, and one in 50,000 the reaction will be fatal. Every year there are 250-500 deaths from reactions to penicillin. There have been only eight reported fatal reactions ever reported to oral penicillin. If your child needs a penicillin shot, stay in the doctor’s office or hospital for at least 30 minutes, and preferably 60 minutes, to watch for any allergic reaction.” http://www.kiddocs.net/information-allergies.html The wait and see procedure will become obsolete. The arguments about DNA fragments in Gardasil will become more understood. Not a very good pay off at the moment when it only gives temporary immunity against 4 strains of HPV. (Cervarix only against 2 strains). For the third time, what do YOU mean by “genetic testing?” I already know what other people mean, but have no idea what you mean. I agree, but maybe some others will realise soundhill is merely parroting junk science provided by others. S/he certainly has no insight into what science actually means. By “genetic testing” I meant looking at differences between people other than what other drugs or food they are taking which might cause a reaction. In NZ, Amoxicillin is now the drug of choice for Strep throat. It has been for the past generation, since about 1990. It covers the same spectrum of organisms that penicillin does, including Streptococcus, and has less chance of anaphylaxis than the original penicillin. Your quote, on a NZ blog, is both out of date and from the USA. Why? The original penicillin preparation included clusters of imperfectly reproduced penicillin molecules. These were big enough for the human immune system to recognise as a foreign antigen. It was these clusters that triggered the majority of anaphylactic reactions to penicillin. Modification of the original penicillin molecule, as happens when amoxicillin is manufactured, removes the clusters of imperfectly reproduced penicillin molecules. Result: much less allergy and a safer treatment. That’s how science works. The “temporary” immunity against the commonest carcinogenic strains of HPV as provided by the HPV vaccine has, so far, showed almost no diminution. The immunity is now known to last for much longer than was estimated before the vaccine went into production. But you would know that if you had read the reference I gave you earlier. Just where does your meaning include genetics? Then why have my doctors not known they could prescribe 75mg enteric coated? If you have ever had a root canal done on a tooth you would know chlorite is used in your tooth, from the smell. The smell is actually not the substance itself but its effect on organic material. And from the ref I posted it seems to be known about in Indonesia. for orthopaedic surgery. From your comments you are behind the times. An 85 year old friend on mine had his doctor grumble about giving him a test for homocysteine, and then offer him Viagra. Gender, weight, muscle mass, activity levels, age (newborn, toddler, child, pubertal, adult, elderly), medication history, previous medical history, family medical history, haematology tests, biochemistry tests, biopsy results, microbiology results… All are “differences between people” that are taken into account in every part of the medical care of a person. What do you mean by “genetic testing?” “Then why have my doctors not known they could prescribe 75mg enteric coated?” I don’t know, why don’t you ask them instead of me? “An 85 year old friend on mine had his doctor grumble about giving him a test for homocysteine, and then offer him Viagra.” As my father used to say… “and what has that to do with the price of fish in China?” Soundhill, I think you need to talk with your doctor more â and even consider changing doctors if your find her unsatisfactory. My doctor has no trouble prescribing this form of aspirin and has always been extremely helpful in explaining her prescription advice. “Can read label on Ebay.com. “Don’t use full strength.” ” What, that’s it? Does the label say why you shouldn’t use it at full strength, or tell you to contact poison control if you do? I mean, this is a product people are actually intended to swallow. Shouldn’t there be some kind of warning of the consequences of improper use? “(Note the scare tactics “acid” in your warning.)” I see you’re not complaining that “produces poisonous bleach” is a scare tactic, which I would have thought was the actual problem. “Humble is doing his best to educate about its proper use:” Yes, let’s look at the “proper use,” shall we? http://www.factssheetproject.com/MMSFactsSheet.pdf Apparently, “proper use” is to gradually up the number of drops until you feel nauseous, at which point you dial back a little.This is, of course, totally safe and nobody has ever had any damage caused by the symptoms of overuse. (Note: This has been withering sarcasm). Thanks Ken, that was an obvious reply! My own doctor thinks that the EC 100 mg formulation is appropriate for me. Even though I (probably) know more about aspirin and other antiplatelet therapy than he does, he has a more objective view of what is appropriate for me than I ever could have. “Look, a patent!” Pay attention, Soundhill. Patenting a product does not indicate that the product works. What it does is ensure that nobody else is allowed to produce and make money from your design. Stuartg wrote: “In NZ, Amoxicillin is now the drug of choice for Strep throat. It has been for the past generation, since about 1990. It covers the same spectrum of organisms that penicillin does, including Streptococcus, and has less chance of anaphylaxis than the original penicillin” Medsafe does not say it is safer. “`Amoxycillin should not be used for the treatment of bacterial infections in patients with viral infections, presenting with sore throat, pharyngitis or infectious mononucleosis, as a high incidence of amoxycillin induced erythematous (morbilliform) rashes have been associated with glandular fever in patients receiving amoxicillin” What did I mean by “genetic testing”? Well though I thought I might be encompassing modern genome printouts and what may begin to be done from them, I was also meaning the older ideas: http://www.ihavelynchsyndrome.com/10-reasons-genetic-testing-important/#.VG0i0MkzDEs Maybe 10% of patents are not valid because the device does not do as claimed. “This 2009 orthopaedic surgery article…” Tetrachlorodecaoxygen =/= Sodium Chlorite. Waving medical journal articles at me about actual treatments which do not resemble MMS and are used for specific conditions or in specific circumstances (ie surgery), in no way provides evidence that MMS is anything more than snake oil. Dangerous snake oil, at that. Yes, Soundhill, well done. You have successfully demonstrated my point. You cannot tell a product works just because it has a patent. Although I am curious where you get the 10% figure from. “The MMS is so cheap it is unlikely that drug companies will arrange conferences to encourage doctors to prescribe it like they do for Viagra &c.” Let me correct that for you. “There is no evidence whatsoever that MMS works, and people have been hospitalised by it, therefore it is unlikely that drug companies will arrange conferences to encourage doctors to prescribe it like they do for Viagra &c.” Plus, of course, it would be illegal for doctors to prescribe MMS, because it is not a medicine. It has not undergone testing, and has not gained regulatory approval. “People are pleased he is doing this education and give him donations.” Hey look, a third income stream – donations. So, that’s direct sales, charging people to attend conferences and bamboozling people to the extent that they will outright give you money. Life is clearly good if you’re a successful snake-oil salesman. Yes, I am intrigued by the 10% figure too. I have at times intensively searched patents and there is certainly an immense amount of rubbish or irrelevant stuff there. One that sticks in my mind is for underpants with an attachment providing penile stimulation while walking! Seriously! Chris: I don’t have proof for here I am just suspicious. “Four Drug Makers Dominate Payments to Local Doctors The only reason Pro Publica was able to get financial records from 15 major drug companies is because those firms were charged with crimes by federal authorities. Drug and medical supply companies spend hundreds of millions per year to influence medical providers. They provide gifts to doctors, free samples, lavish meals and entertainment, speaking fees for speeches written by the drug companies, first class travel to exotic destinations, or sign up doctors as “consultants.” The reason they spend so much is because it works.” http://www.8newsnow.com/story/24001284/i-team-drug-companies-court-doctors-with-gifts-vacations The point being that if MMS is done for money that is not unusual. “Tetrachlorodecaoxygen =/= Sodium Chlorite.” They said the second (that would be after reaction with weak acid to produce ClO2 monochlorodioxygen) is the prototype of the first. Tetra means 4, deca means 10. Chris and Ken “US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) auditors believe that as many as 10% of all issued patents are invalid, a high percent of those due to the fact the invention does not work.” http://www.willitsell.com/patmyths.asp So I can’t say for sure, but it means that if it is patented there is a good chance it works. I said “Gene analysis is still in its infancy, and today is mainly used in testing for some specific genetic diseases.” That’s exactly what your reference says. Now, unless you have one of a few rare genetically inherited diseases in other members of your family, then genetic analysis cannot predict your personal reaction to medications. Your reference says that as well. So, your request for “genetic testing” is currently useless unless you have to see a geneticist for other reasons. You said “I thought I might be encompassing modern genome printouts and what may begin to be done from them”. I covered that as well: “Some SCAM artists offer “genetic testing”, but their results are both meaningless and very expensive. They have no science behind their “interpretation” of results. Their “genetic testing” is a good example of junk science.” I’ll repeat myself again. The human Genome Project was only completed 11 years ago. It’s going to be decades before we understand how our genome contributes to infection or disease. This means that medicine does not do “modern genome printouts.” Only SCAM artists do. Pay for one if you want – but be aware that the only thing that you will get out of it is a lighter wallet. And there is a 10% chance, according to you, that it doesn’t work. How, exactly, are we meant to tell which patents make up that ten percent? Certainly we can’t tell a product works just because it has a patent. We need other evidence. Hence why I am unimpressed by you waving patents at me. “Believe?” No analysis done? Some people would call that a guess. “the invention does not work?” So as well as being a guess, it’s not even talking about medications. Any relevance is decidedly small. Having been involved in one patent application I seriously question the 10% estimate. This is because many applications are made without the backup of peer reviewed science. In my own case business managers prevented scientific peer reviewed publication until after the patent process was completed and I am sure that must be a common procedure. I have found patent applications hopeless for actually getting details of procedures and formulations. Where scientific publications exist and are cited I always go to those, @Ken I am on to my third doctor since my heart attack and bypass 13 years ago, plus several locums. None have been able to prescribe 75mg coated aspirin. Last time I asked would have been March 2013. Yes, Soundhill, I know what “tetra” and “deca” mean. I don’t think you understand the chemistry involved though. You think you get ClO2 from mixing sodium chlorite and citric acid in water? Great. Well done. Here’s the thing. ClO2 =/= Cl4O10 Not even close. So. No connection whatsoever to the paper you cited. Which, I will note, does not advocate a “mix your own in water and swallow it to cure everything under the sun” approach to using tetrachlorodecaoxygen. Ken is correct. Aspirin EC 75 mg is available on prescription in NZ. I’ve seen the prescriptions done, the latest about two weeks ago. I have no idea why your doctor(s) would not prescribe it – that has to be between yourself and your doctor(s). Maybe you could ask him/her/them? In NZ, aspirin EC 100 mg is the only antiplatelet version of aspirin that is fully funded by Pharmac, specifically the Ethics brand. All others receive the same subsidy that Ethics aspirin EC 100 mg does, which means that there is an extra cost to the patient in addition to the prescription cost. (And I’ve just learned there is an enteric coated 300 mg aspirin available in NZ as well. It’s only partially subsidised, too.) @Chris “You think you get ClO2 from mixing sodium chlorite and citric acid in water? Great. Well done.” Just in case some people don’t know when you are being sarcastic perhaps you had better be clear. ” Here’s the thing. So. No connection whatsoever to the paper you cited. Which, I will note, does not advocate a “mix your own in water and swallow it to cure everything under the sun” approach to using tetrachlorodecaoxygen.” When you dilute it in water? Seems to be curative. Not quite sure how the anti-inflammatory thing works. Don’t always want to do that. 3.6. Comparison of chlorite with chlorite-based drugs in interaction with MPO The drug substance OXO-K993 (NUVO Research Inc., Mississauga, Canada), also referred as tetrachlorodecaoxygen anionic complex [i.e. (Cl4O10)n with molar mass of 301.8 for n = 1] contains 4.25% chlorite, 1.9% chloride, 1.5% chlorate, 0.7% sulfate and sodium ions as cationic species in an aqueous solution [14]. A sterile, pyrogen-free, aqueous 10% (w/v) solution of OXO-K993 is applied under the name WF10 for intravenous infusion in patients with chronic-inflammatory diseases [39–41]. Another 55-fold diluted formulation derived from OXO-K993 is Oxoferin™ that is topically applied as a wound-healing agent [42,43].Here we applied Oxoferin to test the effects of this drug solution upon interaction with MPO. The chlorite content in Oxoferin is reported to be 12.3 mM [44]. To test if the additives lead to any differences in reactivity the direct reaction of human ferric MPO with this drug was investigated. The reaction of MPO with Oxoferin showed similar kinetics and finally resulted in heme bleaching (Supplemental Fig. 3). The reaction was biphasic with calculated rate constants of 3.9 × 105 M− 1 s− 1 and 2.3 × 104 M− 1 s− 1 (pH 5.0), respectively. Thus, with respect to reactivity towards MPO in terms of heme bleaching and kinetics, Oxoferin is indistinguishable from a pure chlorite solution.” And for interest: ClO2 has a very interesting structure: Well done, Soundhill. You have produced an entirely different paper which actually has something to do with ClO2. Very preliminary, by the looks, but a possible indicator that maybe, just maybe, it might one day function as a useful medication, properly used, in specific circumstances. Nothing, I repeat nothing in that paper remotely suggests that those circumstances are as a miracle cure-all 100% effective for ebola, AIDS, autism, malaria, you name it, which people should mix and drink for themselves, using whether they feel nauseous as a guide to whether they’ve taken too much. I mean, for zog’s sake, Soundhill, did you even read how the existing drug is used? Intravenous infusion, or application to wounds. No drinking involved. “I don’t have proof for here I am just suspicious. “Four Drug Makers Dominate Payments to Local Doctors”” Which has to do with… what, exactly? I’m perfectly aware that pharmaceutical companies are not guaranteed to operate in an ethical manner. In fact, there are significant incentives for them not to. This is why we have checks and balances, imperfect as they may be. For instance, the media. Product trials, that kind of thing. But you seem incapable of applying any degree of suspicion at all to the Genesis Church people. Despite ridiculously transparent lying about their product, hospitalisation of people using the stuff, and a profit motive utterly untempered by any kinds of checks or balances. There is confusion since I have read elsewhere not to use it intravenously. This one is for chronic inflammation which may mean a person’s metabolism is functioning differently. It seemed a very heavy dose. Inflammation is associated with many conditions. Fish oil is an anti-inflammatory because of its omega 3. The counsellor on Maori TV’s Nutters’ Club was suggesting it for depression. It’s a chance that such could be the mechanism why it might help autism. Ice packs, Nurofen, aspirin, NSAIDs, steroids are ways of reducing inflammation. I have read that sometimes schizophrenic people do not get the same amount of physical illness as non-schizophrenic people. Their inflammatory response may be low. I have read also that it is used to suppress rejection for xenotransplants. So a lot of thought is necessary. But the approach on this thread has been to spank the child in case they may be naughty. Don’t worry if you cause a complex. “hospitalisation of people using the stuff,” Double standard. How many people have been hospitalised for overdosing on alcohol because they think more is better, and I don’t see scientists ganging up on it. Chris you complained about the dose titration approach. That approach is frequently used in medicine. “In NZ, aspirin EC 100 mg is the only antiplatelet version of aspirin that is fully funded by Pharmac, specifically the Ethics brand.” Which seems dumb since it would be great to get the amount which would reduce angina without causing tiredness or stroke risk. Soundhill, you are confused. I am very specifically dealing with claims made by the Genesis Church people. For instance, they claim to have cured 100% of the people they’ve treated for malaria, ebola, AIDS, whatever. This is a ludicrous claim, which you have done nothing whatsoever to support. Who are these people? Where were they treated? By whom? Why, if Genesis Church is so very determined to educate the world about the efficacy of their product, have they so thoroughly buried any evidence of these patients’ very existence? They also claim that nobody has ever complained about their product. Now, improper use or not, I think hospitalisation counts as a complaint. You do not see anybody claiming that alcohol is perfectly safe and nobody has ever complained about the product. Indeed, there are some quite specific laws in place about drink-driving. We could, incidentally, go on and on about issues with alcohol marketing. So I’m not seeing this double standard you seem to believe exists. “Chris you complained about the dose titration approach. That approach is frequently used in medicine” No, Soundhill. I have complained about the expectation that untrained consumers should mix up the solution for themselves in ridiculously vague doses, and stop adding more when they feel nauseous. This approach is never, EVER used in medicine. Spoonfuls are vague doses. We’ve spent a lot of time determining that the antiplatelet dose of aspirin on prescription is only available in 100mg enteric coated. That is a very vague amount. They do better if self medicating buying it at the supermarket where they have a choice of 75 or 100mg. Stuartg says the doctor prescribes 100mg for him. Maybe Stuartg weighs closer to 100kg than 75kg. If not I wonder about the doctors thoughts. Aspirin is quite a dangerous drug. I think when patients are given a morphine pump to activate as they need they actually use less than they get with CR and topup. You seem to have this ridiculous idea that because I have concluded that the Genesis Church people are money-grubbing charlatans, based on the utterly ludicrous claims they have made, without so much as a shred of supporting evidence, and because of their transparent profit motive, I am in some manner hostile to, well, everything you’re going on about. Rambling on about anti-inflammatories and omega-3 as a means of treating depression / autism (erm, what?) is not actually addressing the issues I have raised about Genesis Church. Indeed, you have scrupulously avoided in any way dealing with the reasons I set out right at the beginning of this conversation for why I had concluded they were charlatans. Wow, Soundhill. Way to completely ignore the “until they feel nauseous” bit. Once again, you have managed to completely ignore the substance of my complaint. Incidentally, I am not aware that anybody uses “spoonfuls” as a dose for medicine. Either a specific size of measuring spoon (eg teaspoons) will be listed, or a spoon of the appropriate size will be provided with the medication. You can also be sure that a specific number of teaspoons will be listed for a particular time period, as opposed to “keep adding drops until you feel nauseous (or if not, a maximum of three per ill-defined time period). “Prior to 2005, colchicine dose instructions included the advice to continue dosing until the pain settled or gastrointestinal adverse effects occured. The standard dose instructions have now been changed to improve safety.” ” In a case series of nine patients presenting with colchicine overdose in the Auckland region over a 15 year period, eight died.6 Four of the patients had taken an accidental overdose of colchicine (ranging from 18 – 24 mg) due to lack of knowledge about the medicine” http://www.bpac.org.nz/BPJ/2014/September/safer-prescribing.aspx Were you getting up in arms about that before 2005? I suppose it is possible that there are medicines which use “spoonfuls” as a dose. Cough syrup is a possible example. In this case, it is incumbent on the manufacturer/ prescriber to be sure that nobody is going to come to harm if their spoons are a little larger than the average. Safety margins do exist. Taking extra spoonfuls, beyond what is specified (ie +100% or 50% or whatever to the recommended dosage range) is of course another matter. Wow, Soundhill. You have successfully identified an example of an unacceptable dosage regime, of which I was previously unaware. This has since been corrected for what I would hope are obvious reasons, and should never have been administered in that manner in the first place. So, we’ll chalk that up as evidence that this is not acceptable behaviour, shall we? There is something seriously wrong with your basic reasoning skills if you think that pointing out somebody else has been caught out doing this (with actual medicine) in some way excuses the behaviour of your favoured band of quacks. My point is why are some serious things kept quiet, like you had not heard about the colchicine deaths, and things like the current chlorite made such a media issue, with words used like “acid” rather than “citric acid” and people reported as ill from the medication when it was from overdose and many medicines make you ill from overdose. If you don’t want to watch the 2014 dosing video for MMS maybe someone should transcribe bits of it for you. Soundhill, I am not some omniscient being with perfect knowledge of every specific case. I am, however, perfectly aware that things do go wrong in medicine. Given that the egregious issue you raised has, in fact, been corrected, I am unsure what the hell you are talking about in regards to cover-ups. But hey, you seem to think that because things go wrong in medicine, absolute quacks who have provided not a shred of evidence that their product does anybody any good whatsoever, should be able to market it in an untruthful manner, with unsafe directions on how to use the stuff and flowery assurances that nobody’s ever made any complaints. I will pass on the video, thank you. The fact sheet is much quicker to read, and I’m sure most consumers don’t bother to view half-hour youtube videos before using a product. But do let me know if the video somehow contradicts it; I’ll chalk that up as evidence of the Church disseminating misleading / dangerous information. Complain to Pharmac, if you want, or just suck it up and pay the difference. Or talk it over with your doctor(s). There may be a reason they don’t want to prescribe the EC 75 mg dose of aspirin for you. Here’s the thing, Soundhill. Medical misadventure is well-recognised, recorded and hopefully learned from going forward. Whilst plainly not desirable, is an unfortunate price we pay for the good modern medicine does in society. It is expected that any given procedure or treatment will have a body of evidence supporting its use, that any risks or side-effects associated with it will be well understood. If further evidence indicates this is not correct, the product or procedure’s use can be amended accordingly, or it can be withdrawn / discontinued. Naturally, if it’s a prescription medicine, the prescribing doctor should make any risks clear, and packaging should spell out correct usage. The authorities do actually come down hard on fraud or malpractice. By contrast, alternative medicine or natural health remedies are tolerated on the basis that, although there is no evidence that they actually work, nor is there any evidence they do any harm (alas, as a general rule, nobody has checked, nor are they required to), and people should have the right to decide on their own treatment. That said, if it turns out there are serious risks or harms associated with a product (above and beyond being put forward as an alternative to actual effective treatment of a condition), there are no countervailing benefits which can be used to argue against the product being banned. If, of course, the Genesis Church people want MMS to be recognised as a medicine, they are more than welcome to engage in testing of the product. I’m highly dubious it would ever pass, and it’s surely much more profitable to lie to people about its ability to cure ebola/cancer/autism/whatever than it is to figure out what, if anything it actually does and sell it to treat that. Chris you are, to use an emotional word, pontificating about the MMS program while only acknowledging a fact sheet which says: “This paragraph is only a basic description and should NOT be used as a guide for treatment.)” (above and beyond being put forward as an alternative to actual effective AND ACCESSIBLE treatment of a condition), Stuartg you are using your strongest language when it comes to the financial basis of the situation. That is as if the money flow were very much more important than the treatment/health of the patient which becomes only a service to make capital from. Give me a list of reasons they would not want to prescribe me the coated EC 75mg when I say the 100mg does not leave me feeling so well and 75mg works. Oh, so it includes instructions on how to take the stuff, but you shouldn’t actually follow those directions? Glad we’ve got that cleared up. (note: sarcasm). Any disclaimers on the video? Any material contradicting the “fact” sheet? Or is it basically the same load of dangerous rubbish? I mean seriously, Soundhill, the “basic description” of how treatment is supposed to work sounds pretty dreadful. Are you saying it’s not accurate? That it all works completely differently? If so, why would Genesis Church put out a misleading fact sheet? Note the fact sheet that you found also says: “Who is behind this MMS Facts Sheet and why? This facts sheet is produced and maintained by a group of private citizens from around the world who want the truth to come out. The intent of this facts sheet is to provide you with just enough basic information to do further research, while highlighting the brewing controversy, so as to make it easier for you to remain objective. The information provided here only scratches the surface. We encourage you to consider the possible motivations on all sides and draw your own conclusions” The Fact Sheet does not describe the mixing with citric acid and its strength, and the yellowing as ClO2 is formed, when to put the water in and how long it will last after mixing. It does not talk about taking extra water or maybe food to help or give other maybe more comfortable options to absorb the substance. &c. You know, Soundhill, I would have thought that, having finally decided to go down the “this isn’t official information” route, you might have checked to see whether the content of the fact sheet was included in the video or not, rather than finding a bunch of stuff in the video which wasn’t included on the fact sheet. Perhaps you’d like to look into that? “The intent of this facts sheet is to provide you with just enough basic information to do further research,” It’s a bit of the recipe in the 2014 video. It’s like you go into a restaurant and ask what the scones are made of. They tell you dates and yogurt and wholemeal, and maybe mention butter or what sort of fat. But they don’t tell about the various rising agents, how the baking powder in them works with moisture, and the baking soda in them works with heat to rise the scones, whether the butter was rubbed in with fingers or such and such. The chlorite requires some sort of acid to turn it to ClO2. Maybe just stomach acid would do it a bit. But they seem to want the ClO2 there before you drink it or apply it in DMSO &c. soundhill: You said: “We’ve spent a lot of time determining that the antiplatelet dose of aspirin on prescription is only available in 100mg enteric coated. That is a very vague amount.” Wrong (repeatedly wrong). This is the third time I have told you: in New Zealand, aspirin is able to be prescribed in 75, 100, 150, 300 and 650 mg tablets. All of those tablets are available in enteric coated formulation. I don’t know how to put it any more simply. Check MIMS if you don’t believe me. Not all of those tablets are fully subsidised, so if tablet without a full subsidy is prescribed then the patient has to make up the difference between the subsidy and the amount charged by the manufacturer/distributor. What is so difficult to understand about that? Re-read your quote above. Can you tell me how a dose of “100mg” is a “very vague amount”? As opposed to MMS, the dose of which you have given as exactly “around” and “a rough guess”? By the way, where do you get your dose for aspirin in mg/kg (for prophylaxis in ischaemic heart disease) from? All my resources just give a dose range, usually 75-325 mg. You are the first (and so far only) person I know of that says the prophylaxis dose is 1mg/kg. I really want to know, because if that figure has any research data to back it then it is likely to change the practice of many doctors, cardiologists in particular. Right. Not really what I was asking, Soundhill, but what you’re telling me is that the information on the fact sheet is official but incomplete, yes? Which means that the dosage instructions are to just keep adding drops until you feel nauseous, and that diarrhoea /vomiting are nothing serious. For some reason, you seem incapable of grasping that there might be something wrong with that whole system. That it might, perhaps, be dangerous. “Right. Not really what I was asking, Soundhill, but what you’re telling me is that the information on the fact sheet is official but incomplete, yes?” I am nothing to do with it. You found that Fact Sheet, which I had not seen. My concern is for the attack on this anti-malaria measure, by people who are claiming themselves to be scientific, but appear to be more concerned to discredit new possibilities very strongly rather than assist inquiry. Society gets stuck in certain paths which may not be good for individuals. I got swayed by the idea of a very low saturated fat diet, stuck to it for many years till I got a heart attack. It was suggested I use statins. I felt terrible on them, and doubly terrible as I became a heretic and refused them. The procedure for them is to take them but watch out for muscle troubles. Many medicines you are supposed to watch out for side effects, and maybe cease taking it. Like penicillin. In the case of MMS as I see it, you may not get nauseous by the time you get to the recommended dose. But if you do then cut back. How much sunlight can a person tolerate for vitamin D? Depends on skin colour. Maybe someone will design a calculator. Maybe same for MMS. Maybe same for statins. Maybe same for warfarin so you don’t have to wait till a blood level before you know. It will depend on salicylates in your diet, and other blood thinners. It would be great to be able to vary your diet like you are not allowed at the moment when you are on warfarin. With morphine you try to titrate the dose so the pain just under the surface so you don’t get side effects. “Which means that the dosage instructions are to just keep adding drops until you feel nauseous, and that diarrhoea /vomiting are nothing serious.” Can get diarrhoea from eating figs, prunes, vitamin C megadose, beetroot some people, or boiled milk. Salt water can make you vomit, or tickling your throat inside. Which is acceptable for treatments whose sellers have had the money to get them accepted. You said “You found that Fact Sheet, which I had not seen.” You are prepared to give/take/recommend MMS, at an unknown dose, without seeing any fact sheet. Yet you study the fact sheet for aspirin, statins, penicillin, warfarin and possibly vitamin C, looking for exact doses, contraindications, interactions and side effects. And you say you can’t see any contradictions between your approach to prescription medicines and and your approach to MMS. I agree with Chris. There appears to be something seriously wrong with your basic reasoning skills. Stuartg I think maybe a cardiology nurse told me about 1mg/kg. But here, according to animal studies, a very low dose may be a risk and may be the reason why attacks occur a week or so after aspirin cessation. It says 1mh/kg has moderate effect without risk of bleeds. http://www.hindawi.com/journals/thrombosis/2012/247363/ “My concern is for the attack on this anti-malaria measure,” Soundhill, let me be perfectly clear. The “anti-malaria measure” does. Not. Work. It is snake oil, peddled by charlatans, in an apparently successful effort to make insane amounts of money off of gullible people. How do I know this? Because the snake-oil salesmen selling it claim to have a 100% success rate curing malaria, cancer, ebola and a whole bunch of other things…. But refuse to produce any evidence of a single one of their supposedly innumerable experiences. These are ridiculous, ludicrous claims, made in such a manner that they are impossible to verify. If the claims were true, they would be scrambling to produce the evidence and get it out into the world of medicine. They are not. Because, obviously, the evidence does not exist. I mean, seriously. Look at who it’s being marketed to. What, exactly, do you think are the odds that the comfortably well-off people of first-world nations such as Australia, New Zealand, America, Ireland and so forth will come into contact with malaria? Or ebola for that matter? If the goal is to help prevent malaria, why the hell are they marketing it here, rather than sending their people out to give away the product to those who would supposedly benefit from it? If, on the other hand, the claims about malaria are simply lies for the purposes of marketing, everything becomes clear. “Hey, this stuff will cure malaria. Just imagine how well the miracle cure-all will work for whatever niggling little complaints afflict you.” I am perfectly willing to consider new possibilities in the fight against disease. But the thing is that any ethical person is going to get evidence that their cure works first, setting things out in a transparent manner and ensuring that others are given the opportunity to replicate their results. If they skip that pesky little step of evidence and go straight to selling their product to gullible punters as a means of raking in money, well, that really tells us all we need to know about the efficacy of the product. The medical community isn’t going to buy into it, and it will in all likelihood do a great deal of harm, if for no other reason than convincing people they don’t need to seek actual treatment for serious conditions until it’s too late. Plainly, Soundhill, you and I have very different ideas of what constitutes “inquiry.” Shockingly enough, my approach aligns with the scientific method, which has had quite a bit of success down through the centuries, and is foundational to modern medicine. By all means, people should come out with outlandish ideas and outside-the-box thinking. This can result in great leaps forward in science, and even in medicine. But their ideas should be subjected to rigorous testing, both by themselves and a community of their peers. If the evidence is against an idea, it should be discarded, reworked, or shelved, depending. People should not expect us to simply take their word for all manner of grandiose claims. If someone claimed 100% success at curing tooth ache and the treatment was removal of the teeth then you might believe them. I think it is just that you cannot imagine a mechanism for ClO2. Let’s do a bit of decent brainstorming before rubbishing. Ken pointed out about the Marsden Fund. I searched a bit and found some pure maths research they are sponsoring involving a UOC worker, Maarten McKubre-Jordens. “Paraconsistent mathematics is a type of mathematics in which contradictions may be true. In such a system it is perfectly possible for a statement A and its negation not A to both be true. How can this be, and be coherent? What does it all mean?” http://plus.maths.org/content/not-carrot It looks like the Marsden Fund hopes that Maarten’s work may be useful in working with problems in computer networks. Our world is coming towards big problems. Malaria may come to NZ with global warming. Malaria is becoming resistant to some of the current drugs. One very risky approach is a type of genetically modified mosquitoes. I feel we need to come to grips with more than a monetised approach which I feel is limiting your ability to see. Maybe you are correct, but I hope for a moment you might be able to set aside the monetary arguments, just in case anything of value becomes faintly visible. Soundhill, you have not listened to a word I have said. I have pointed out to you, repeatedly, that MMS is ridiculously monetised. That selling the stuff without having to test whether it works or obey basic standards of safety, allows them to make large profits from each unit sold. There is no motivation, whatsoever, to actually have a working product. I do not have the faintest idea where you get the idea that I am somehow fixated on monetised approaches to medicine or research. What I have said, again repeatedly, is that we need to actually be collecting evidence that any given approach works before turning it loose on the general public. Whether or not money is involved is in some ways beside the point, though we should certainly have checks and balances to overcome the monetary incentives which may tempt people to somehow game the system. Incidentally, Soundhill, your toothache example is deeply flawed. An actual parallel would be if somebody claimed pulling a person’s teeth out would 100% cure them of toothache, earache, ulcers, clogged sinuses and whatever other condition took their fancy. Very separate conditions, with very different underlying causes, but a single miracle cure which purports to treat them all. I would have no hesitation calling anybody who made such claims a quack, despite the fairly obvious causal links between teeth and toothaches. Particularly considering that pulling a person’s teeth out does actually have downsides (I sincerely doubt nobody has ever complained after such dental procedures). Well you can see a mechanism in a heart bypass fixing chest pain, making it easier to do many things after some healing, and stop having several daily anticoagulant injections. It’s not 100% and you do get the occasional death, but no more than 1% I think. Things affect other things. Sometimes it is easier to see the mechanism. If a person is not breathing you can allow many of their organs to function by helping them to breathe again. If ClO2 were enabling some process in the body like breathing maybe it could help the body to heal itself better. I’ve caught up with a current MIMS at work, rather than the older one I have at home. The 650 mg aspirin I mentioned earlier is no longer available on prescription in NZ. The range of doses of aspirin tablets able to be prescribed (current edition of MIMS) is now 75, 100, 150, 300, 320, and 500 mg. 250g of aspirin powder is also available on prescription, presumable for compounding pharmacists to make up other doses. Soundhill, I think at some point I have to take a step back. You are going on about things which are utterly irrelevant to the point which I am trying to get through your thick skull. Namely, that Genesis Church are a pack of charlatans, which we can tell on the basis of the ridiculous claims they themselves have made about the efficacy of their product, which, in the absense of so much as a shred of evidence to back them up, we must conclude are outright lies. Further, the instructions for the use of the product are outright dangerous. You have scrupulously avoided addressing these points in any way. Rather, you go off on rambling asides trying to convince me of who even knows what. So. Do you or do you not accept that these people are charlatans, preying upon gullible consumers in order to make money? Thanks for replying. Unfortunately, that paper is about experimentation in rat models with acute myocardial infarction. In an acute myocardial infarction, different doses of aspirin are used in humans compared with those used for prophylaxis (160-325 mg/day versus 75-325 mg/day). Since we are both human beings, and neither of us are suffering an acute myocardial infarction (at least I hope you aren’t), that paper has no relevance to the aspirin used in both of us for prophylaxis. I’ll continue to follow my GP’s guidelines (which are the same as cardiologists). I’d further advise you to consider who’s advice you would rather follow: “I think maybe a cardiology nurse,” or a cardiologist. The experiment was on rats to help with a hypothesis that might apply to humans. “Recently published surveys have warned against the increased risk of aspirin discontinuation, which includes acute coronary problems, stent stenosis, acute myocardial infarction, ischemic stroke, and lower limb ischemia” Since I had been promoting lower dose aspirin I thought to pass this on, as a contraindication for very low dose. They are trying to find out whether there is a rebound effect after aspirin is stopped, and the blood level tails off, or whether a very low dose itself of aspirin itself may be dangerous. OK you claim very low dose might cause heart trouble in a rat, but no trouble for a human? Chris: very emotive language. You think that will work when you cannot scientifically back up what you are claiming? You only suggest it is obvious. How about you refer me to peer reviewed articles about charlatans and science. No, really, Soundhill, this isn’t hard. Do you believe, as claimed by the Genesis Church people, that they have cured 100% of the people they have treated for… Hang on, let me check the list… Ebola, malaria, herpes, cancer, firbromyalgia, multiple sclerosis and AIDS. Probably other conditions as, not referred to in the interview, but let’s stick with those. Yes or no question. Bearing in mind that they have produced no evidence whatsoever to back up these claims. If no, then this indicates you believe they are lying. Given that these are not minor claims, and are being used to sell the product, this would further indicate they are charlatans. I’m really not seeing an abrupt transition to emotive language; I’ve been calling them liars and charlatans for a fair while now. Further evidence that you haven’t really been paying attention to what I’ve been saying? Then again, perhaps it was the “thick skull” comment. I’d apologise, but rather than actually answering the question, you’re once again trying to divert the subject. That reference was for a rat model investigating a different problem. It was a model for acute myocardial infarction, for the first few days after a heart attack. You are talking about prophylaxis in ischaemic heart disease, ie long term use with the aim of preventing heart attacks. The reference is irrelevant to your question. That means you base your 1mg/kg on something you may remember, and you aren’t even sure who it was. Great reasoning! Why not talk to your doctor(s), or even a cardiologist? I don’t make any claims about very low dose aspirin in rats. You provided the reference and you are misinterpreting it. I follow the research based guidelines and recommendations for humans. You rely on something someone once said and research into a completely different problem. Sorry if it’s against your beliefs, but I’ll rely on the scientific approach to answering questions. Earlier, in a reply to Chris, you said “A theory is that the hand-tingling that goes with hyperventilation is a result of oxygen starvation of the tissues.” Just to let you know that theory was disproven decades ago. Oxygen supply to the tissues is maintained. What happens is that changing (lowering) CO2 levels disrupts the acid/base balance across the cell membranes. Once the balance shifts enough, the nerve cells that rely on a particular acid/base balance can no longer function normally and the signals from the disfunctioning nerves are perceived as tingling. (There’s a lot more to it than that, of course, but that’s a very simplified explanation.) You asked Chris “You think that will work when you cannot scientifically back up what you are claiming?” When are you going to ask yourself the same question? So far you have not managed to scientifically back up any of your claims. We have asked questions; you have evaded, fudged, prevaricated, changed the subject, and provided irrelevant data. What you haven’t done is to back up your claims. I will ask you again: The purveyors of various snake oil treatments never bother to answer these questions. They just claim the snake oil will cure multiple diseases with no side effects. They just “spread the word” (ie advertise) and wait for the money to role in. Manufacturers/distributors of prescription medications answer all the above questions before the medications go to market; the scientific research then continues after the medication gets to market (for over a century in the case of aspirin!) Now, a further question. Read those last two paragraphs again. Which description does MMS fit – snake oil or medication? In Humble’s book he describes getting the dose right to cure malaria in Malawi. The description is a bit sketchy. Click to access MMS_Part_1.pdf In this interview in Malawi he relates of though how he could not prove he was getting HIV negativity, he was making the people well. Comments after the video dispute some of his comments about HIV testing. Here is description of immune modulation by the related functioning Tetrachlorodecaoxygen (TCDO) and WF10 which might explain improvements in apparent health. http://www.google.com/patents/WO2013109949A1?cl=en Another posting of some of the same interview with the comment after it: “Totally Critical How do people believe a word this guy says when he doesn’t even know there are AIDS tests which doesn’t rely on antibodies? Look up NAT or PCR tests.” Yes, yes, yes. We’ve seen the TV adverts before. Now, where is the scientific data? You know, like the stuff you insist on reading for your prescribed medications? Don’t worry how things might work. Worry about IF they work. We used aspirin for a century before anyone knew how it worked, but we knew it worked. No-one has shown that MMS works. They’ve just made some TV adds. Vitamin C nearly stops it from working. It’ interesting that my uncle who had had malaria said years later that vitamin C supplementation made him feel terrible. My approach is to learn what we can about this fairly recent ClO2 work. Like a new cat coming on to your garden the existing cats will fight it off. (Cats can even have transferred aggression. A cat looking out the window and seeing an intruder cat spray in the garden may turn on his accepted house mate.) To fight off this new form of immune modulation medication the plan is to say that because the educator is exaggerating claims he can be called a charlatan therefore everything 100% of what he says is discredited. Strangely that is applying the same form of exaggeration as what Humble is applying. Add a few bits like it’s a danger when it is probably less of a danger than many accepted medications and you have a better fight against it. You think, but I think people will see through you. They will want to learn and accept that many/most salespeople exaggerate. What is the SCIENCE behind your claims? @Stuartg wrote: “What is the dose of MMS per kg? Info is gradually building for these related treatments: “Example 5: Determining the Clinical dose for TCDO [0161] HIV-positive patients received one cycle of intravenous infusions of WF10- defined as 5 consecutive daily doses followed by 16 days of no treatment-at a dose of 0.5L/kg body weight/day to 50 (0.5 mL)/kg body weight/day, without apparent adverse effect. Patients were then given 4 cycles of WF10 with the daily dose ranging from 0.5 mL/kg body weight to 1.5 mL/kg body weight. The maximal tolerated dose of WF10 was determined to lie between 0.5 mL/kg body weight to 0.75 mL/kg body weight per day. Doses of 0.75 mL/kg body weight and greater were associated with phlebitis and a pattern of decreased hemoglobin. However, in this and subsequent clinical studies, administration of 4 cycles of 0.5 mL TCDO/kg body weight per day showed no clinically relevant hemolysis” Somewhere above, you said you wanted MMS to be treated the same as other substances. Very well. That means that you also have to treat it the same as prescription medications. These questions have been asked, and answered, for prescription medications by their manufacturer/distributor. Now, we expect you to treat MMS exactly the same as prescription medications – and answer the questions. What are the indications? What is the dose? I’ve asked you these multiple times but you haven’t answered. If you don’t answer them, we have to agree with Richard: “I’m also inclined to question whether soundhill has some undeclared association or vested interest in the product.” You do sound just like a snake oil salesman. Hint: try looking for the answers in the public domain, like on a manufacturers information sheet. Answer them just like the manufacturer of aspirin would. Don’t just have a stab at Google and cherry pick something that sounds appropriate. Patents are not manufacturers information sheets; it is not expected that the general public has to search among patent applications to find the dosage of aspirin, is it? To treat it the same as prescription medications, all you have to do is give us the information that would be on a manufacturers information sheet. Simple. So give me the time other medication sellers have had. And expect that if the acceptance regulation is too lenient or new knowledge comes to light then it may be withdrawn again. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_withdrawn_drugs Also acknowledge that if the acceptance regulation is too tough a useful product may be denied to sufferers. Should the used of aspirin have been denied till what is known about it today was known? Manufacturer/distributors of prescription medications have the information sheet available when the medication hits the market. MMS is already being marketed, so you’ve already had the time that prescription medications have had. Where is the information sheet? Treat MMS the same as prescription medications, or it’s just snake oil and should never enter the market. By the way, interesting list. What relevance does it have, other than if you expect MMS to make it onto the list? It won’t, because no-one has shown it has a useful therapeutic effect. You’ll find it in the list of poisons instead. If you want MMS to be treated by others the same way they treat prescription medications, then there’s a few simple questions to answer first: “It won’t, because no-one has shown it has a useful therapeutic effect. You’ll find it in the list of poisons instead.” Botox on both lists “What are the contraindications?” Take care with a person whose metabolism is struggling. Not all known yet. May be changed. Like ECT is no longer thought by many to be appropriate for schizophrenia, only depression perhaps. Some believe it is no better than placebo for that, but it is still used. “Botox on both lists” Many things are on both lists. “…and what has that to do with the price of fish in china?” You say you want MMS treated the same as prescription medicines. That means that you have to treat it the same as prescription medicines as well. Prescription medicines have to have an information sheet before they are marketed. So do we. The manufacturer/distributor has to supply both the sheet and the information. Where is it for MMS? What is put on the market without any scientific research, claims it can cure many different diseases, is claimed to have no side effects, has no information sheet, and the knowledge of it is spread only by advertising? Answer: snake oil. Oh… …and MMS. Strike out the “So do we.” I meant to say that the other commenters on the blog, and myself, want MMS treated the same way as prescription medicines. Somehow I managed to put the sentence in the wrong paragraph. Be interesting to know more about the progress of regulation of aspirin. http://www.aspirin-foundation.com/what/timeline.html Bayer’s patent ran out in the 1930s. Stomach trouble was acknowledged before that. The process of drug regulation changes. Do you think it is perfect now? I think the current fiscal considerations make it very difficult for new drugs to come to market. R&D may be just rehashing old, already consented stuff, in new packages for the market. Ken talked about the Marsden Fund. That only administers a small proportion of what the Public Good Science Fund does. PGSF is giving large amounts to people like Tony Conner who is also funded by genetic modification companies. There may be an agenda to support enterprises who are already doing well. And they won’t do well if another strong cat comes on the block. Commercial science is very tough. China has turned against genetically modified food. So the price of genetically modified corn and soy has dropped in USA. China say it will turn to Ukraine for food. Which may be why the Blackwater/Academi/Xe name changer mercenary security firm fighting in Ukraine is used by Monsanto, could be owned by Monsanto say some. Which is why I ask Chris to put a fade on the monetary mask. Traditional breeding is ahead of GMO breeding for adapting to needs. Sometimes a gene is inserted to then mark them for patenting. But is has been at great expense to the public good and great commercial benefit. Humble says he does not have great amounts of money, though others may disagree. Most patenting drug companies have lots of money. Socially motivated people do not always have much money. When companies like Gates/Monsanto donate they may do it with a financial/political agenda and do not actually being about social improvement. Dumping of unwanted soy on poor countries can suffocate local farms and people become poorer. From Humble’s words he feels compelled to spread the word that he thinks MMS can help against malaria. Other drugs against it are losing their effectiveness. If Marsden fund or PGSF won’t touch it and want to stick with para-consistent maths &c then maybe crowd funding might help with a proving or disproving research. If we get the TPPA and strict controls being put on nutritional supplements then I think we would see a reduction in the available range with more profit in fewer hands. “…and what has that to with the price of fish in China.” You are trying to avoid answering questions. Do you want MMS treated the same as prescription medications or not? Is MMS snake oil or not? Stuartg I would not want you in charge of public transport. It would all travel at about 15km/hr and anyone who wanted to get on would have to jump on it while it is still moving. Stuartg: “Don’t worry how things might work. You seem contrary to Chris who is more worried about how they can work than if they do. Chris won’t believe they work unless he or she is able to see how they can. This thread is about homeopathy, too and before we start to talk about that we ought to understand more about water. Oh, good. More evidence that Soundhill has serious reading comprehension problems. Quite some time ago, Soundhill, I made my position very clear. “I’m perfectly okay with not understanding the details of how a particular treatment works. I’m actually okay with nobody fully understanding how it works. But I do expect evidence that it actually works.” https://openparachute.wordpress.com/2014/11/09/standing-up-to-junk-science-in-new-zealand/#comment-64339 Stuart raises a very good example in penicillin, which is precisely why I hold that attitude. History is littered with things we have made use of but only discovered the theoretical basis for later. Of course, ideally we would have evidence that something works AND we would understand why. No-one particularly worries how things work. That can wait till later. They only want to know if things work. Now, about MMS: Why don’t you answer these simple questions? Incidentally, trying to change the subject to homeopathy, despite barely a mention of it in a good 200 comments now, strikes me as a means of trying to evade Stuart’s questions. Again. One school of charlatanism at a time, please. Aspirin worked for about a century, then we found out how it worked. I don’t worry how homeopathy works, because it doesn’t work. If you say homeopathy works, then prove it. Homeopathy has been around for over 200 years. Nobody has yet shown that it works. There is no point in asking how anything works until we know that it does work. If you say you can drive your car to the moon, then prove it by driving your car to the moon. If you say that homeopathy works, then prove that it works. Maybe by curing a cancer, or a gram negative sepsis, or even by re-growing an amputated leg (something that medicine can’t do – yet), by using only homeopathy and nothing else? Now, those questions about MMS: Why don’t you answer these simple questions? Are you going to answer them, or not? How many times have I asked these questions and you haven’t answered any of them? For others apart from soundhill1: About 200 years ago a German by the surname of Hahnemann invented homeopathy. This was a system where he diluted substances in water or alcohol to a level less than one molecule in a volume of water (or alcohol) greater than the known universe. He claimed that this made the substances very powerful in their effects. Since medicine mainly used bleeding at the time, medicine was very harmful to patients. By using only water (or alcohol), homeopathy didn’t do much harm to patients. Medicine, by using bleeding, caused a lot of harm to patients, especially during a cholera epidemic. Homeopathy didn’t do any additional harm over the cholera. Since then there have been absolutely no advances in homeopathy. Nobody has ever shown any healing that has occurred by use of homeopathy alone. Medicine, however, has used scientific theory, and advanced more than a little bit in its ability to treat illnesses since those days. That’s why I say homeopathy doesn’t work. Now, soundhill, shut up about homeopathy and answer my questions. @Chris Banks: “claims of 100% cure rates (in a single day, no less) for a diverse range of completely unrelated conditions are, well, quite literally unbelievable.” “I’m perfectly okay with not understanding the details of how a particular treatment works. I’m actually okay with nobody fully understanding how it works. But I do expect evidence that it actually works.” But if it treated several conditions that appeared unrelated to you? “Depression isn’t the only mental health issue that may be related to infections and autoimmune condition. Writing last year in the Harvard Health blog, Dr. Jeff Szymanski described how some children with strep throat suddenly develop obsessive-compulsive disorder. It’s one manifestation of pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome. Quick treatment with antibiotics can reverse the problem.” http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/infection-autoimmune-disease-linked-to-depression-201306176397 And I didn’t understand your words: “Rambling on about anti-inflammatories and omega-3 as a means of treating depression / autism (erm, what?)” Soundhill, Soundhill, Soundhill…. You haven’t produced any evidence that Genesis Church has cured 100% of the patients they’ve claimed to have treated with MMS for ebola, cancer, malaria, etcetera. Heck, you haven’t produced any evidence it’s cured ANYBODY of ANY of these conditions. You don’t really think “The Genesis Church people say so” counts as evidence, do you? That’s the claim, not the evidence. “And I didn’t understand your words:” I see no particular evidence you understand anything I say, Soundhill. Why should a random sentence fragment from a couple of days ago be any different? Chris wrote: “we should certainly have checks and balances to overcome the monetary incentives which may tempt people to somehow game the system” One of the rules of the free market is that it is supposed to be contestable. I maintain that it is gaming the system to put up huge barriers to becoming a competitor. In this case that is barriers to considering whether a treatment works and can enter the system, because there is no proof yet that it works. I have made suggestion about crowd funding to help getting testing done. Then I could claim there is proof that it works for whatever, or could say it works for nothing at all. It may be simpler for ClO2 than for homeopathy, which many people buy, since to be an effective homeopathy practitioner may require an understanding of water greater than the common understanding. I think homeopathy is supposed to have some sort of innoculatory effect. I don’t know if it is to do with the phagocytes. But the patent material I posted about ClO2 says that is supposed to stimulate the phagocytes. I also note: “When bacteria enter some phagocytes, the phagocytes use oxidants and nitric oxide to kill the pathogen” http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phagocyte So maybe ClO2 is being used by the phagocytes for their oxidant needs. Stuartg asked: “What interactions are there with different medications?” http://bioredox.mysite.com/CLOXhtml/CLOXprnt+refs.htm “SOME INCOMPATIBILITIES Acidified sodium chlorite could provide a powerful new opportunity to improve or to restore sensitivity to quinolines by virtue of its oxidative power. However, quinolines contain secondary or tertiary amino groups which react with chlorine dioxide in such a way that both could destroy each other. Some possible strategies to resolve this incompatibility are suggested below. Acidified sodium chlorite could be used as explained above only as a solo therapy. Quinoline administration could be withheld until after the acidified sodium chorite has completed its action. Patients already preloaded with a quinoline could stop this, wait a suitable period of time for this to wash out, then administer the acidified sodium chlorite. The quinoline could remain in use and while the less active sodium chlorite is administered without acid. This should retain plenty of oxidant effectiveness without destroying any quinoline or wasting too much oxidant. Switch from a quinoline to an endoperoxide (such as artemisinin) or to a quinone (such as atovaquone) before using acidified sodium chlorite, as these may be less sensitive toward destruction by chlorine dioxide. Similar problems apply to methylene blue and many other drugs if they have an unoxidized sulfur atom, a phenol group, a secondary amine or a tertiary amine. Such are also very reactive with the chlorine dioxide component. [58a] ” ( On The Mechanisms Of Toxicity Of Chlorine Oxides Against Malarial Parasites – An Overview By Thomas Lee Hesselink, MD Copyright September 6, 2007 The purpose of this article is to propose research. Nothing in this article is intended as medical advice. No claims, promises nor guarantees are made.) Yeah, right. “The purpose of this article is to propose research. No claims, promises nor guarantees are made.” In other words, this is what Hesselink thinks, he’s proposing that someone else does the research (he hasn’t actually done any), and no-one should believe what he says anyway. And this is the BEST information you’ve got on MMS? Actually, I asked more than one question about MMS. I’ve asked them numerous times and you still haven’t answered any of them. For any prescription medication the answers to all of these questions can be found on the information sheet that comes with the medication. These are straightforward, standard questions that are asked of any prescription medication, and answered before the medication reaches the market. Why don’t you have the answers for MMS? After all, it’s already on the market and is being advertised. The way you comment on this blog suggests the answers to those last two questions are “No” and “Yes” respectively. Stuartg, I imagine the NZ government plan for global warming/malaria/drug resistance for NZ is so far non-existent. At some stage profits of selling increasing doses of existing drugs will be a factor and hospitalisation GDP. I find it awful that our world depends on war and disaster for stimulating GDP. Christchurch has been the improving economy in NZ since the quakes. So I am up against a very strong block when I talk about types of preparedness. Hesselink’s article cites over 50 articles in connection with OVERCOMING ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE WITH OXIDATION. Which won’t only apply to malaria. Also to many diseases, (and possibly those which are the result of horizontal gene transfer from antibiotic resistance genes inserted by genetic modification in our food we import, as well as use of antibiotics as growth stimulants in animals we eat.) In total Hesselink has cited getting on for 1000 papers. It would take a long time to count them, let alone read them. Indeed Dr Hesselink is asking for assistance with research. I can see why he needs help. That has to be one of the worst efforts at sounding scientific I have ever seen. He should probably start with a remedial research methodology course, then one on science writing. He could follow that up with experimental methodology… And that might just leave him prepared to conduct the research he says he wants to do. I’m sure his good friend Jim Humble would stump up the money if he asked nicely. As to the “look, a thousand papers” bit, I refer you here: https://sites.google.com/site/mmsdebunked/home/mms-scam “They cite an absolute mountain of articles, which looks impressive, but all this amounts to is the logical fallacy called Proof by Verbosity, or argumentum verbosium. There are so many articles that to sift through them all and refute them would be a mammoth task. The fact that no one has done so is used as a “proof” that the argument is valid when all it really proves is that no one has the time or patience to wade through it all. The fact is, it doesn’t matter how high you stack cow pats, in the end all you’ll have is still a pile of dung. If you look through the cited articles, it really doesn’t take long to see that they are pretty much all about how sodium chlorite is a disinfectant, and how oxygen can kill parasites and viruses etc. Which is all true, however there is NOT one single article which links the two, not one single article actually supports the claim that sodium chlorite has some health benefit in the human body . That “miracle cure” claim is ONLY ever made by Jim Humble and Hesselink.” The mms-scam page is using enotive language and not addressing the phagocyte issue, rather saying ClO2 is only a disinfectant. Yet again, you do not answer my questions about MMS. They are the same questions asked of every prescription medication before marketing. Anyone would think that you either don’t have any answers, meaning MMS is not a medication, or that MMS is just snake oil. Yet again: The lack of answers to these simple questions is merely confirming that MMS is snake oil. And you aren’t using emotive language? Emotive language makes no difference to the conclusions that good science reaches. Good science on that page concludes that MMS is a good disinfectant but has no therapeutic effects otherwise. It’s up to you to prove that MMS is any more than a disinfectant. Oh noes! Emotive language! How dare people describe quacks as, well, quacks? Why can’t we just naively believe whatever we’re told by some random guy who pasted a thousand references into an incoherent document which, according to the disclaimer, is not actually making any claims whatsoever? Seriously, Soundhill. The issue, which you are once again attempting to sidestep, is that no evidence whatsoever has been produced in support of the efficacy of MMS. I mean, if this person, who is supposedly intent on extolling the benefits of MMS to the world, managed to paste in a thousand references without a single one of them providing any such evidence, wouldn’t you think that’s a pretty good indication the evidence doesn’t actually exist? @Chris: “no evidence whatsoever has been produced in support of the efficacy of MMS.” Hesselink’s article is about the mechanism. The idea of oxidants and malaria has been around for a while. The parasite somewhat oxidises a red blood cell it inhabits. If the cell is further oxidised and dies the parasite dies with it. So the parasitise cells will be killed by extra oxidant more readily than non-parasitised cells. As resistance increases and combinations of existing drugs become less effective possible ClO2 could get more attention. Great that Humble found it out and wants to pass it on. I read he asked Bill Gates for help but Gates does not want to develop new stuff. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jm00402a001 “Great that Humble found it out and wants to pass it on.” Not great. He hasn’t passed on any evidence that it works. The only evidence we have is that he’s selling snake oil to make a quick buck. Show us that it isn’t just snake oil. Stuartg if you were the AllBlacks coach the team would lose because no new players would be taken on, because they had not yet proved themselves in an international AllBlack match. A number of anti-malarial drugs works by destroying folic acid. If they are given early in pregnancy the neural tube defects are possible. Supplementing folic acid may stop the anti-malarial drug from working. It may be hard to balance if at all possible. So ClO2 needs to be checked if it has such a side effect. Does it destroy folic acid? “Hesselink’s article is about the mechanism.” Well then, I’ll chalk that up to problem’s with your reading comprehension. We have, after all, been very clear that we want evidence the stuff actually works. Why, given extremely clear statements to this effect, you are wasting our time with claims about the mechanism by which people claim it works (incoherent as those claims are), I haven’t the faintest idea. More efforts at diversion, I suppose. Oh wait, I ‘m sorry, The disclaimer says the document makes no claims. Therefore, it can’t possibly be about the mechanism by which MMS is supposed to work. Difficult to tell what the point of the document is, really, if it’s not making any claims. Perhaps the guy just wanted to spam readers with as many citation as he could as part of a desperate cry for help. Again. All I am asking for MMS is the information sheet that comes with every prescription medicine from the first day a prescription medication hits the market. MMS is on the market. You say it’s a medicine. So give us its information sheet. You say you want MMS treated the same as prescription medications, but your actions in not giving us that information give the lie to that. Without that information, MMS is just snake oil. Now, are you going to give us that information, or by not giving it to us acknowledge that MMS is snake oil? No claims, promises nor guarantees are made.” It’s snake oil. Stuartg: “evidence that it works” here’s some evidence of what may NOT WORK for malaria. “Antiparasitic resistance The prime example for MDR against antiparasitic drugs is malaria. Plasmodium vivax has become chloroquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistant a few decades ago, and as of 2012 artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum has emerged in western Cambodia and western Thailand.” MDR=multidrug resistant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_drug_resistance And it’s not only about malaria. Behold the desperation as Soundhill tries any tangent he can think of to divert attention from the fact that he can’t find any evidence that MMS works on anything at all. What are NZ’s plans to deal with MDR malaria in immigrants? http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/Media-office/Press-releases/2014/WTP056987.htm The basics of medicine safety: 1. Know why you are using a medicine; what therapeutic effect you are expecting. 2. Know the dose to take, how much and how often, in order to get the therapeutic effect you want. 3. Know what illnesses the medicine is likely to make worse. 4. Know what other medications, drugs, foodstuffs the medicine will interact with. 5. Know the problems that have been reported as possible side effects. You know all this. You have made comments about aspirin, warfarin, statins, and other prescription medications that show you have carefully read about all these things on the information sheets. You have even made comments that suggest that you think the information sheet doesn’t go far enough. You would not swallow something if you didn’t know what it did, how much you were taking, when the next lot was to be taken, had no idea whether it would make you worse, no idea of any side effect, or any effects on other substances you were taking. No-one has shown MMS has any therapeutic effects. No-one has given a specific dose, how much or how often. No-one has said what illnesses it must not be used in. No-one has made a list of interactions with medications, recreational drugs, or even foodstuffs. No-one has given a list of side effects. I want MMS to be treated exactly the same a prescription medications. You have said you want the same. I want the basics of medicine safety for MMS made public, just like they are made public for prescription medications. You don’t want that at all, as you have avoided answering those safety questions every single time that I have asked them. What you say is not what you do. The only possible reason I can think of for your behaviour is that you know that MMS is snake oil and that you have some financial interest in selling it. In science this is called a conflict of interest and has to be declared up front. Now, a single question that HAS to be answered if you want anyone to take you seriously: Do you have a conflict of interest over MMS? Yes or no. You said: “What are NZ’s plans to deal with MDR malaria in immigrants?” Try the MoH website. It took me nearly 10 seconds to find what you are after. No need to make any more comments or ask about it further. I have no conflict of interest. All of the patients with malaria in New Zealand that I have diagnosed, confirmed and then treated with prescription medications have been cleared of the parasite with never a mention of MMS. If you avoid answering the question of whether you have a conflict of interest over MMS, or if you decline to answer the question, then the logical assumption is that you do have a conflict of interest. Malaria UK Year Deaths Ken: “Writing on Sciblogs, Dr Grant Jacobs ” I have checked Grant on Sciblogs and offered on Saturday the following on a June 26article, and he has not approved it so far. From the Seralini study: “Because of recent reviews on GM foods indicating no specific risk of cancer [2,16], but indicating signs of hepatorenal dysfunction within 3 months [1,7], we had no reason to adopt a carcinogenesis protocol using 50 rats per group.” (16 is the Snell review.) The 50 rats per group for the carcinogenesis protocol is a much larger number than required for the toxicology protocol. But I understand that requirement for a greater number is to make sure there is no cancer even at low frequency. So the fact that tumors showed up in the smaller number of rats required for a toxicology test was newsworthy, as well as something that protocol requires to be reported even though it was not part of the experiment. A lot of criticism has been aimed at this paper based on the straw man principle, saying there were too few rats for a cancer test when it was not a cancer test.” What has that to do with me, sound hill? What has the number of deaths from malaria in the UK got to do with a conflict of interest? Or even with you answering questions about the safety of MMS? Ken your article is quoting from sources who do not appear to give space to opposing reason. Another example the Science Media Centre has reported about transgenic mosquitoes to work against malaria. They mention risks of the process but contrast that with human lives saved, but skim over the risks. “Simply considered as a genetic trick, it is ingenious. Shredding the X chromosome of the male will make all of its offspring males. That is because female mosquitoes (like female humans) have two X chromosomes, one from the male parent and the other from the female parent, so without the contribution of the X chromosome from the male parent, only male offspring will result. A completely sterile male mosquito is useless, as it just dies out without affecting the population. But a fully fertile one that breeds exclusively males and pass on the sex-distorter trait would be ideal, as it would indeed wipe out the natural population, provided the trait is stably inherited. It would have been the perfect solution to destroying the natural populations of mosquitoes that transmit malaria; except that the DNA-cutting enzyme is by not means “specific” to “ribosomal gene sequences located exclusively on the mosquito’s X-chromosome” as stated. On the contrary, it cuts at a target sequence in ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes – numerous copies of which are present in all eukaryote genomes – plus other sites as well, and the transgenic mosquitoes have been created using a jumping gene (transposon) vector that promiscuously invades all genomes. It is the female mosquitoes that bite people and transmit disease; so any transgenic female mosquitoes among the offspring would inject GM DNA containing the vector and I-PpoI transgene for horizontal transfer into people’s cells to shred their genomes. ” http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Beware_the_New_Breakthrough_Transgenic_Mosquitoes.php Again sound hill, what has this to do with me? You are blatantly trolling my article here. If you cannot get comments on ancient articles in someone else’s blog you should either accept that as logical or take it up with the blogger. If you respond to this with another blatant trolling which has nothing to do with this blog I will put you in moderation. This is not an agony aunt column. Stuartg my conflict of interest is with corporatocracy which controls media. Ken has been talking about MH17 and may understand. Stuartg you are suggesting I have a conflict of interest when I ask for investigation of MMS. That technique of accusation is very prominent in the Ukraine conflict with USA allies accusing Russia of things the USA are doing themselves. That sounds very much like you are avoiding the question and do have a conflict of interest. “Stuartg you are suggesting I have a conflict of interest when I ask for investigation of MMS.” To place a medication on the market, the manufacturer/distributor has to make public some basic safety information. If that information is not available, then the manufacturer/distributor should not place it on the market until they can supply it, ie have done the research themselves. Claiming a chemical can cure lots of things, without giving doses, dose intervals, interactions, avoidance criteria and side effects is what snake oil salesmen do. You are doing it for MMS. I have suggested that you have a conflict of interest over MMS and am really interested that you have not denied the conflict of interest and then immediately tried two major changes of subject in an attempt to avoid the question and hide that you have been asked it. Sounds very much like a snake oil salesman to me. Do you have a conflict of interest over MMS, or not? Where is the manufacturer/distributor basic safety information for MMS? No, Stuartg. It’s quite common to point out opposing sources’ possible bias, so as to warn readers against everything else they contribute, and not to give space when others try to point out your similar failings. I am OK with your comments because I know others may be reading this without seeing everything I write: some of my concerns about MMS so far have been included. That it tries to oxidise blood cells you have said and I have acknowledged. I say again those cells harbouring a parasite are already under some oxidative stress and more likely to die, so destroy the parasite. You or Chris have said that explanation was not clear. A number of medical treatments, especially cancer treatments, work by destroying the body’s cells in addition to the cancer and hope for regeneration which does however not always occur. In the MMS case it is hoped a dose will not kill healthy cells, but not certain. The body may warn with vomiting. This has been a learning process for me. “That it tries to oxidise blood cells you have said and I have acknowledged.” No, you said that. What I said was that to get concentrations of MMS in the blood that would kill the intracellular malarial parasite, you need to reach concentrations that also kill human cells. Concentrations of MMS that kill malarial parasites in the petrie dish will also kill human cells in the same petrie dish. Concentrations of MMS in blood that will kill malarial parasites within the human body will also kill cells of the human body. I don’t see the point in killing the malaria if you also kill the human as well. You even acknowledged the problem yourself: “In the MMS case it is hoped a dose will not kill healthy cells, but not certain.” “…hope for regeneration which does however not always occur.” You hope? It’s a bit too late when people start dropping dead. I keep telling you, it’s up to the manufacturer/distributor to provide basic safety information BEFORE anything is marketed. “The body may warn with vomiting.” Or may not… People may just drop dead… …or may not. Where is that basic safety information that you keep avoiding telling us about? Your professed concerns about MMS are a front for something else. If your concerns were real then you would be asking for exactly the same basic safety information that I am. You have no wish that MMS be treated like prescription medications, otherwise you would be asking exactly the same questions that I am. Both Chris and I have said that we don’t want, or even need to know how MMS works. We just need to know that it does work. So far, neither you nor anybody else has shown that MMS works. (Quick examples: that gunpowder worked was known for centuries before people knew how it worked. Not knowing how gunpowder worked didn’t stop people from using it. That boats floated may have been known for millennia before it was worked out why. Not knowing why they floated didn’t stop people from putting out to sea.) (btw, that’s not a change of topic. I could use many medications as examples, but you would only use them to continue to avoid answering questions.) You are trying to sell MMS (using the sense of advertise) without providing indications, contraindications, doses, interactions, or side effects. That is the action of a snake oil salesman. You keep avoiding the question of your own conflict of interest over MMS, just like a snake oil salesman would. Now, do you have that basic safety information or not? Do you have a conflict of interest or not? Failing to answer tells us “No” and “Yes” respectively. Stuartg: “Concentrations of MMS that kill malarial parasites in the petrie dish will also kill human cells in the same petrie dish. Concentrations of MMS in blood that will kill malarial parasites within the human body will also kill cells of the human body.” No, and yes. Yes cells, that is some cells (a fuzzy part of English where you may hope people think all cells in contact with the oxidant, when you say “cells”), of the human body will be killed but more likely the infected ones. The malarial parasites will die if they do not have the blood cell to live in. Al least at certain stages. So it is not necessary to apply enough oxidant that will kill the parasites directly. The infected cells will be killed more easily, being already under stress. And when they are dead the parasites die inside them. That is a mechanism, which you don’t want to know about, but you described a mechanism. Stuartg, I do not have a conflict of interest in the sense that I am trying to sell MMS or promote it so that others may make a financial gain from it. Now please declare that about what you are promoting. What am I promoting? Nothing. You are the one promoting MMS. All I’m doing is asking you to give us the basic safety information behind MMS. I’m asking about the science. You are providing us with junk science. Along the way of you never giving us the basic safety information, you have tried to divert down many other avenues. It’s almost as though you don’t want people to know how, or even if, they can take MMS safely. As a mild diversion, I’ve actually corrected more than a few errors in your knowledge about prescription medications and the function of the human body. Let’s do that again with another correction. Maybe more than one. “Malarial parasites will die if they do not have the blood cell to live in.” (I presume that you mean inside the human body, not inside Anopheles mosquitoes.) Wrong, again. Inside the human, they routinely live in liver cells (hepatocytes) as well. They can transfer between hepatocytes and erythrocytes. One of the worst types of malaria is cerebral malaria, where the malarial parasites are living in brain cells as well. So, malarial parasites definitely don’t die if they are outside the blood cell. “…all cells in contact with the oxidant…” By oxidant, I take it you mean the industrial bleach called MMS. Check out “volume of distribution.” All cells of the body are in contact with the circulatory system. They get their oxygen and nourishment from the blood. If you poisoned someone with MMS, then the blood stream is how it would reach every cell in the body. If cells don’t have a blood supply, they die. (Hint: look up “gangrene”) The theoretical volume of distribution of simple ions such as Cl is such that every cell in the human body would be exposed to equal concentrations on the outside. I say “theoretical” because the practical measurement of the volume of distribution of Cl would be too risky for ethics committees to allow it to happen. It would be as ethical as measuring the same for CN. If you did put MMS into the blood, intracellular malarial parasites would be exposed to a lower concentration of MMS than the erythrocytes or hepatocytes they were inside (hint: it’s called the diffusion gradient). Once the cell died and burst open (killed by MMS) the parasite would then be exposed to the full concentration of MMS in the blood, a strength that had already killed its host cell. This is obviously entirely theoretical because the manufacturer/distributor has never run the test. “Hesselink’s article is about the mechanism (of action of MMS).” And you believe it? Even Hesselink says “Nothing in this article is intended as medical advice. No claims, promises nor guarantees are made.” – or don’t you believe what Hesselink has actually written? As I said. I don’t need to know the mechanism of action of MMS. Nobody needs to know the mechanism of action of MMS. They do need to know if MMS works or not. So far, all of the data says “not.” Now, what is the basic safety information about MMS? The stuff that tells you the dose, dosage interval, contraindications, interactions and side effects? You know, it’s the simple stuff that you insist on knowing about any prescription medication before you take it. Actually, I think I do have a point of interest, although it’s not a conflict. I don’t want to see anyone die of MMS poisoning. @Stuartg wrote including partially quoting me: ““Malarial parasites will die if they do not have the blood cell to live in.” (I presume that you mean inside the human body, not inside Anopheles mosquitoes.) Wrong, again. Inside the human, they routinely live in liver cells (hepatocytes) as well. They can transfer between hepatocytes and erythrocytes. One of the worst types of malaria is cerebral malaria, where the malarial parasites are living in brain cells as well. So, malarial parasites definitely don’t die if they are outside the blood cell.” But I had added an extra sentence: “The malarial parasites will die if they do not have the blood cell to live in. Al least at certain stages.” I am still learning, but I understand those “certain stages” are fundamental. I gave this ref on my post referring to Gates, and maybe you thought it was about him and did not click on it. So I’ll type out the first bit and hope you can click on the rest. Maybe you even have access to this journal and could see the whole 1988 article. I would be interested to know more about it. “Complex adaptations are necessary for the survival of malaria parasites. Not only must plasmodia survive temporarily as as free living organisms (sporozoites or merosoites) but they also must be able to recognise an appropriate host red cell, penetrate and replicate within it. In the intraerythrocytic phase, successful replication of the parasite entails having as little adverse effect upon the red cell as possible. In the event that the host cell is damaged so that it cannot survive the necessary 49-72 h, the parasite is doomed because immature blood-form plasmodia cannot survive.” http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jm00402a001 First, thanks for acknowledging you were wrong with “Malarial parasites will die if they do not have the blood cell to live in.” Even though you have been wrong with many other things, I think this is the first time you have acknowledged it. Your quote then confirms that the erythrocyte is not “under oxidative stress”, as you have said before, but tells us that its parasite has “as little adverse effect upon the red cell as possible”. It also confirms that the erythrocyte has to be killed before its malarial parasite becomes doomed. Both are directly contradictory to your quotes from Hesselink (who, of course, warned that nothing his article should be believed or was guaranteed.) It’s what happens when you cherry pick. “I would be interested to know more about it.” If this is true then there are many general medicine texts more recent that that 1998 article, any of which will bring you more up to date about malaria. If you are “still learning,” then I always recommend going back to learning the basics. Just trying the University of Google results in the cherry picking of papers that you don’t understand and don’t even know enough of the basics to know that you don’t understand (reference: Dunning-Kruger effect). Nice try on attempting to divert away from MMS though. Now, before someone ingests MMS, where is the basic safety information that they need to know? (Indications, contraindications, dosages, interactions, side effects)? “First, thanks for acknowledging you were wrong with “Malarial parasites will die if they do not have the blood cell to live in.” ” Ever had flesh eating bacteria? It’s very scary, advancing visibly by the hour. The fucithalmic acid treatment, if it works, does not kill the bacteria. It is a similar thing, it gets at the reproductive stage. Trying to divert again? Before someone ingests MMS, where is the basic safety information that they need to know? (Indications, contraindications, dosages, interactions, side effects)? Are you are referring to necrotising fasciitis? Why you mention antibiotic eye drops (fucithalmic acid) for deep seated fascial and skin infections is beyond me. But then I can’t understand why you would want to use MMS without it being tested for effectiveness or safety either. What is the basic safety information for MMS? Stuartg wrote: “First, thanks for acknowledging you were wrong with “Malarial parasites will die if they do not have the blood cell to live in.” ” Once again you have partially quoted me, missing “At least at certain stages.” I could have written, they will DIE OFF if their reproductive habitat is lost. That is they themselves try not to kill the red blood cells their multiplication happens in. But they do weaken those cells, which become easier to kill by oxidation of ClO2, or thereabouts. You’ve already said that you are still learning. Go back to the basics. Go to a textbook. I’ve suggested a textbook of general medicine. Read the chapter on malaria. If you can be bothered, then go and read the references, then their references. Then you will know the basics of malaria. The references you have given so far directly contradict each other. That alone demonstrates that you have not understood the basics. You are cherry picking from Google, but you don’t know enough about the basics to recognise what you don’t know and don’t understand. It’s called the Dunning-Kruger effect. I want to understand about MMS. Show me the basic safety information about MMS that would contradict all the screeds of information I have about it being poisonous industrial bleach. Show me the basics about MMS, whilst you go off and learn the basics about malaria. Stuartg wrote: “Why you mention antibiotic eye drops (fucithalmic acid) for deep seated fascial and skin infections is beyond me.” You are always just trying to get me out and not offer helpful knowledge that you ought to have if you are working in iatrogenics. Sorry I should have said fusidic acid or sodium fusidate which is the active component in Foban as it is in Fucithalmic eye drops. This is a blog. We can only read what you write. You write something. Someone corrects you. You then say “what I meant was…” Someone corrects that. What you are doing is shifting the goalposts. My goalpost has always been the basic safety information behind MMS. By that I mean the stuff that you can read about for any prescription medication by opening the information sheet. You have been kicking in all sorts of directions without coming anywhere near the goalposts. Some of the “kicks” have been pushes, throws or headers. I’ve effectively been saying “yes, nice kick, you can do a bit better – but the goalposts are not in that direction, they are over there.” Now, where is the basic safety information about MMS? Stuartg: “I want to understand about MMS. Show me the basic safety information about MMS that would contradict all the screeds of information I have about it being poisonous industrial bleach.” Do you remember our exchange: “”Botox on both lists” Many things are on both lists.”? I am learning. At the beginning of this I did not know about the sensitive stage of certain malaria parasites. The goalpost did not shift. I gained an understanding of how the toxic ClO2 could work, being dosed so as not to be strong enough to kill red blood cells unless they are already under stress such as from a replicating malaria parasite. A blog is a discussion or informational site on the WWW. A helpful blogger ought to say, “:Don’t you mean?” if they know. The problem is not what you “should” have said, but what you did say. No-one can reply to what you “should” have said unless you said it. You said “fucithalmic acid” not something else. I can only reply to “fucithalmic acid.” I can’t reply to anything else – you could have “meant” to say “State Highway 1,’ or “Betelgeuse,” or indeed anything else at all – but what you did say was “fucithalmic acid.”. Yet again, you are kicking the ball nowhere near the goalposts. You are trying to divert us away from the goalposts. I have pointed out the goalposts many times. Where is the basic safety information about MMS? Of course I do. I refrained from pointing out that MMS isn’t on both lists. It’s only on the list of poisons. Stuartg wrote: “My goalpost has always been the basic safety information behind MMS. By that I mean the stuff that you can read about for any prescription medication by opening the information sheet.” And I have tried to give various analogies, getting on a moving train, playing in an international All Blacks match when you have not yet shown yourself doing that. Information sheets evolve. Wiki says too frequent use of fusidic acid is causing bacteria to become resistant. The MSDS for ClO2 as a treatment needs to evolve. This is a blog about what is junk science, and ought to be able to encompass change. Climate change science is becoming less junked. Big names like Rockefeller are getting out of fossil investments quite recently announced. But you want a static position in which only things already regstered and thaterefore have a medical MSDS may be classed as non-junk science. Even though they vary between countries, as with fusidic acid guidelines. Fusidic acid was reintroduced as other antibiotics lost their potency in an environment of bacterial adaptation. Now it is losing its potency, though it was very good for the fast growing dark-brown-black infection of a paper-cut-like scratch on my finger. “Information sheets evolve.” I’m happy to accept ANY information sheet on MMS, as long as it covers the basic safety information. At the moment the evolution of the safety information needs to get it on to “sheet” form. The information has been evolving in countries in which literacy may not be optimum. There we have the problem that farmers may not be able to read the instructions on pesticides. (That impacts not only their health but the health of countries they export to.) The video format for MSDS and cellphone technology may be a boon in that regard. Maybe someone will write the data from the videos down on a sheet. It may or may not be able to be done satisfactorily. A heavy object dropping from a high tower does not land directly below where it was dropped from. It took science some time to explain it. So you want evidence as well as the info sheet. That is evolving, too. Humble has tried to involve Gates, but Gates only wants stuff already on the USA-literate train. ffs soundhill. You are full of total sit. Put a plug in it. “But you want a static position in which only things already regstered and thaterefore have a medical MSDS may be classed as non-junk science.(sic)” You said that, not me. I agree with the international community about a substance intended to be used as a medication: What illness(es) are we going to use it for? What illness(es) have we to avoid using it? What dose do we give? What interactions have been recorded so far? What side effects have been recorded so far? All of that is basic safety information. That basic safety information is publicly available for every prescription medication before it gets to the market. MMS is listed as a poison. It is sold in containers marked “poison.” The containers have advice about emergency measures to take when someone ingests it, and who to call to get emergency advice and treatment. All of the publicly available information for MMS says, in effect, “do not ingest this substance, it will do you a lot of harm.” MMS can, and does, kill people. You want MMS to be freely available on the market, with no restrictions about who buys it, or what they do with it. So what are you doing to make sure those people are not poisoned by MMS? “You want MMS to be freely available on the market, with no restrictions about who buys it, or what they do with it.” No. Where it has evolved, written instructions, labels may be of little use. This thread is supposed to be about science, but appears to be about conventions. Richard, give me your correction then. “Bill Gates told Jim Humble that he wouldn’t consider looking at sodium chlorite solution until it was tested and approved by the FDA.” http://g2cforum.org/index.php/list/general-discussion/1447-gates-foundation-invests-10-million-in-vaccines-developer Final note. I agree with Richard. You don’t learn the basics, so the Dunning-Kruger effect is strong and the science of your arguments weak to non-existent. You keep using junk science to promote MMS, an industrial bleach which is also a listed poison, as a “medicine.” I have asked you tens of times for the basic safety information about MMS. The information I asked for is just the same as is freely available for every prescription medication. You have prevaricated, diverted and done many other things in order not to admit that there is no basic safety information about MMS. You are correct in that the thread has been about junk science. You have supplied a high percentage of the examples of junk science, for which I thank you. The amazing thing is that I do not believe that you have recognised what you have been doing. Now, put a plug in it. Stuartg I am not promoting MMS I am examining the limited logic by which it has been classed as junk science. Looking to the future it may have a place. I have reported examples of where it is used as an adjunct with other medications such as cancer chemotherapy. Wiki says fusidic acid should not be used by itself in some jurisdictions. So is that a problem of the fusidic acid or the jurisdictions or both? Possibly same with chlorite, maybe should not be used by itself.. Hope for a science discussion which looks to the future and not for one which seeks to perpetuate the exisitng. T A Crosbie \| November 28, 2014 at 2:04 pm \| I think I might be joining the Skeptics movement: The Government was considering guidelines to scientists on the difference between speaking about their areas of expertise, and advocacy. A total of 384 New Zealand scientists answered the Association of Scientists’ survey, half of whom work in Crown research institutes, or CRIs. Association president Nicola Gaston said of those who had not felt gagged, many said they had witnessed it happening to others. “There’s an issue around embarrassing the Government, but the funding issue is quite poor so the kinds of commercial funding that come into the CRIs, those contracts are one particular issue. “But there’s also the idea of Government funding being effected by speaking out, saying the wrong things, perhaps having a point of view which is not that of the expert reviewers on a particular funding proposal.” Dr Gaston said most scientists wanted to know what the new ethics code would be before saying whether they were for or against it. I am sure you would enjoy the NZ Skeptics Trev. I understand they have some great discussions on fluoridation. You might enjoy them. @T A Crosbie. Skeptic or not always need to be careful not to cherry pick research. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/26/opinion/the-problem-with-prostate-screening.html?_r=1	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798924
__label__wiki	0.65538	0.65538	Nerdery Random Nerdery: Macross, Star Wars, Voltron, and Thunderbirds Are Go Transforming mecha and the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” make everything better. Random Nerdery is a regular Opus feature covering the latest nerdiness from the worlds of film, TV, literature, comic books, video games, technology, web development, and more. Hikaru Ichijyo’s VF-1J (Tenjin Hidetaka) Macross (and by extension, Robotech) will always have a soft spot in my anime-loving heart. The Macross franchise has a pretty set formula involving romantic triangles, interstellar war, and pop music, but let’s be honest: its most important part has always been the mecha, and specifically, the Valkyrie variable fighters. So hat’s off to C. Wilson, the individual behind the Macross Mecha Manual, which is exactly what it sounds like: an exhaustive catalog of every mecha in the Macross universe (and then some). So the next time you’re trying to determine the differences between the VF-1D and the VF-1J, or you want to know the specs of the VF-2SS, or you want to know more about the mecha featured in the Macross video games, now you know where to go. And speaking of Macross, I’m still disappointed that I didn’t pick up a 1/60 scale model of Macross Plus’ YF-19 when I was in Akihabara back in 2009. Because I want this display in my office soooo badly: プロフ画像を19に変更しました。TIAプラス風...(^^;; https://t.co/gd6hWzhYc7— VFA-501 (@muko037) # Rogue One and the Beastie Boys, Together at Last If you follow me on Twitter, then you’ve probably already seen this. Even so, it’s worth watching again because it’s just so awesome. Movie trailer mashups are nothing new, but Matthew Longua’s mashup of footage from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” is pretty much a match made in heaven. If nothing else, it puts a smile on my face pretty much every time I watch it. The blending of the guitar solo and the Death Star’s sirens around the 1:08 mark? Pure genius. Also, I love the look that Gareth Edwards has gone for with Rogue One, in terms of cinematography, backdrops, etc. It’s going to be one good-looking film. Netflix’s update/adaptation of the cult anime classic Voltron has been big hit here at Opus HQ. I watched it first on my own, and have since been rewatching it with my kids, who love it. It’s a bit goofier than I was expecting, but really well-done overall. Voltron: Legendary Defender is produced by the same folks who did The Legend of Korra, so artwork and animation-wise, it’s fantastic, and the voice acting (which includes The Walking Dead’s Steven Yeun and Arrow’s Bex Taylor-Klaus) is solid. But watching it a second time, I was really struck by the moody synth-heavy soundtrack, courtesy of Alex Geringas and Brian Parkhurst. No spoilers here, but the ending does leave viewers hanging quite a bit. Fortunately, we won’t have to wait too long for season two; it comes out later this year. Another favorite here at Opus HQ, Thunderbirds Are Go is an update of the classic Thunderbirds series from the ‘60s. It follows the Tracy brothers as they race around the world saving folks in danger while combatting the schemes of the villainous Hood, an international crime lord. Altogether, it’s a fun blend of action, derringdo, and retro style, and since it’s set in 2060, there are plenty of cool futuristic gizmos, like the Shoji Kawamori-designed Thunderbird Shadow, with classic Thunderbirds vehicles (e.g., Fireflash) making appearances, too. Like the original Thunderbirds, Thunderbirds Are Go makes great use of physical scale models for the sets (e.g., the Tracy’s secret island base), but uses CG for the characters and vehicles. Character animations can take some getting used to, but as with the original Thunderbirds, there’s something really charming about the whole thing, and the physical sets themselves are fun just to look at. (Once again, Weta Workshop does good work.) I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the series’ music; Ben and Nick Foster’s score adds a lot to the series’ adventurous feel, with soaring strings and sweeping arrangements. (At times, I was reminded of Michael Giacchino’s fantastic work on The Incredibles.) And of course, the classic Thunderbirds announcer adds just the right gravitas whenever the Tracy family launches into action. Watch the first two-part episode, “Ring of Fire,” below. Read more about Beastie Boys, Macross, Random Nerdery, Star Wars, Thunderbirds, and Voltron. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Makes the Galaxy a Much Bigger Place This successful video game uses what’s familiar about Star Wars to show us new things in a galaxy far, far away. Patty Jenkins Announces Rogue Squadron The Wonder Woman director is heading to Star Wars to make “the greatest fighter pilot movie of all time.” Osamu Shoji’s Delightfully Weird and Funky Star Wars Soundtrack This 1978 album takes John Williams’ iconic score in some truly bizarre directions. “The Mandalorian” Theme by YSSY Is an ’80s synthwave remix of The Mandalorian theme really necessary? Do you even need to ask? The Rise of Skywalker Brings Star Wars to an Exhausting Conclusion (Review) I’m ready to be done with the Skywalkers and their saga.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798927
__label__wiki	0.837743	0.837743	What It Do, Baby Boo? The Pussycat Dolls Reunite and Debut New Song, "React" The Pussycat Dolls Reunite on X Factor: Celebrity \| Video December 2, 2019 by Brea Cubit First Published: December 1, 2019 The Pussycat Dolls are back, baby! On Nov. 30, the mid-2000s girl group reunited on The X Factor: Celebrity and performed together for the first time in nearly a decade. Lead singer Nicole Scherzinger, who's a judge on the UK series, took center stage as she and fellow original members Carmit Bachar, Ashley Roberts, Jessica Sutta, and Kimberly Wyatt sang classic hits, including "Buttons," "When I Grow Up," and "Don't Cha." And the party didn't stop there, as the quintet — who, by the way, can still groove like nobody's business — also debuted their new song, "React." Their power-packed set comes about a week after they announced a 2020 reunion tour. It will begin with eight shows in the UK, running from April 5–17. Information about other potential dates and locations have not yet been revealed. However, Us Weekly reported that the Pussycat Dolls will drop a new EP in January, so there's plenty more to look forward to. Don't cha wish it was the new year already? NostalgiaThe X FactorMusicTVThe Pussycat Dolls The Funny Young Rock Trailer Gives Us a Peek at What Dwayne Johnson Was Like in High School Let the Good Times Roll as You Listen to the One Night in Miami Soundtrack by Grayson Gilcrease 4 days ago Watch the Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist Cast Hit All the Right Notes in Lyric Trivia Paul Bettany Without His Vision Costume Will Make You Do a Double Take The Friday Drop: Zayn Malik, Joshua Bassett, Anne-Marie, and More New Music This Week	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798930
__label__wiki	0.646835	0.646835	Revenge: The Psychology of Retribution Medically reviewed by Scientific Advisory Board — Written by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on June 4, 2009 Your boyfriend just broke up with you and you’re thinking, “Wow, he left his favorite t-shirt over here at my place. He wouldn’t mind if I cleaned the toilet with it, would he?” Revenge is sweet. Or is it? Psychology research on the study of revenge suggests the picture is a little more complicated than a feeling of satisfaction after we’ve taken out our revenge on another. Researchers call revenge the psychology of retribution, and our feelings about revenge the “revenge paradox,” because when we take out revenge on another person, we often feel worse afterward when we thought we would feel better. Vaughan over at Mind Hacks has the commentary on an article that appeared in the APA’s Monitor this month: One of the most interesting bits is where it covers a study finding that while we think revenge will make us feel better after an injustice, it seems to have the opposite effect and makes us feel more unhappy […]: “In the feelings survey, the punishers reported feeling worse than the non-punishers, but predicted they would have felt even worse had they not been given the opportunity to punish. The non-punishers said they thought they would feel better if they’d had that opportunity for revenge—even though the survey identified them as the happier group.” It’s not only that our feelings and happiness aren’t quite what we thought they’d be. No, it’s far worse. Not only are we bad at predicting how we’ll feel after taking our revenge, but we keep our anger alive through ruminating about the experience long afterward, according to the Monitor article: [… D]espite conventional wisdom, people — at least those with Westernized notions of revenge — are bad at predicting their emotional states following revenge, Carlsmith says. The reason revenge may stoke anger’s flames may lie in our ruminations, he says. When we don’t get revenge, we’re able to trivialize the event, he says. We tell ourselves that because we didn’t act on our vengeful feelings, it wasn’t a big deal, so it’s easier to forget it and move on. But when we do get revenge, we can no longer trivialize the situation. Instead, we think about it. A lot. “Rather than providing closure, [taking our revenge] does the opposite: It keeps the wound open and fresh,” he says. So why do we even bother seeking out revenge if, in the end, it just keeps the issue alive in our minds, keeps us angry, and doesn’t really make us any happier in the long run? Researchers have some theories about that as well: “Punishing others in this context—what they call ‘altruistic punishment’—is a way to keep societies working smoothly,” Carlsmith says. “You’re willing to sacrifice your well-being in order to punish someone who misbehaved.” And to get people to punish altruistically, they have to be fooled into it. Hence, evolution might have wired our minds to think that revenge will make us feel good. The other reason mentioned in the article is that, perhaps in some cultures, obtaining ordinary justice through the courts or what-not is not a viable option. So revenge is the only impulse still available and which can be readily and quickly applied. All of which you should take into consideration next time you’re considering taking out your revenge on another person. Because what’s sweet to you in the moment right now may become bitter later on, as you continue to ruminate upon the original act that led to your taking revenge. Above all else, revenge is not likely to make you happier, either immediately or later on. Drop it, move on, and before you know it, thoughts of the original hurt (and your imagined revenge) are just two more distant memories in your life. Hat tip to Mind Hacks: Revenge is sweet but corrosive The APA Monitor article: Revenge and the people who seek it Last medically reviewed on June 4, 2009 Inside Schizophrenia Podcast Mental Health Podcasts Bipolar Disorder Fact Sheet The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories: Why Do People Believe Them? Signs of Major Depression Subtypes: Psychotic Features Inside Schizophrenia is a long-form monthly podcast by people with mental illness for people with mental illness. 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Signs of Major Depression Subtypes: Introduction Assessing for subtypes of Major Depressive Disorder takes a trained eye, but the payoff can be great. What is Complex Bereavement? Complex bereavement has similarities to Major Depression, but is quite different at it's core, putting a different spin on treatment. Paranoia: It's More Than Fear Paranoia is not simply synonymous with fear. It is a complex lens of distortion that manifests in different ways, dictating treatment approach. © 2005-2021 PsychCentral a Red Ventures Company. All rights reserved. Our website services, content, and products are for informational purposes only. PsychCentral does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. See additional information.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798939
__label__wiki	0.607497	0.607497	Introducing Health Catalyst Touchstone: The Next-Generation AI-Powered Healthcare Benchmarking and Performance Improvement Solution Press Releases Health, HealthCatalyst, Medical, Software Survey of healthcare leaders supports need for improved benchmarking SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 27, 2018—Health Catalyst, a leader in data analytics, decision support and outcomes improvement, today launched Health Catalyst® Touchstone™, a breakthrough analytics application featuring next-generation benchmarking and prioritization capabilities powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) to supercharge healthcare improvement initiatives. A survey of 100 hospital and health system executives conducted this month by Health Catalyst confirmed that benchmarking is as important as regulatory requirements in determining organizational improvement priorities. Survey respondents also highlighted the importance of integrating benchmarks with analytics to correct deficiencies in current approaches to benchmarking. For most healthcare organizations, the process of selecting opportunities for performance improvement is under-informed by data. A key problem is that benchmarking data, used to compare an organization’s processes to those of top-performing organizations nationwide, is notoriously difficult to explore. Users must sift through hundreds of benchmarks to uncover opportunities for improvement, yet lack visibility into where they are performing well and the causes of underperformance. Moreover, most benchmarks address only inpatient performance, ignoring the comparative data from care settings outside the hospital that is essential to population health management. Touchstone not only resolves these problems but also expands the definition of benchmarking to include prioritized improvement recommendations. Developed in partnership with some of the nation’s most prestigious health systems, and leveraging Health Catalyst’s proven ability to manage trillions of data points, Touchstone proactively recommends the top improvement opportunities from across the full continuum of care. Its intelligent user experience makes it simple for even non-analysts to drill into opportunities to discover the specific causes of underperformance. That democratization of benchmarking to front-line healthcare workers, along with built-in AI-powered risk adjustment models, enables Touchstone to significantly accelerate improvement efforts, delivering better performance and competitive advantage. “Health Catalyst Touchstone is a breakthrough that we’re confident will significantly advance our outcomes improvement efforts,” said David Wild, MD, Vice President of Lean Promotion at the University of Kansas Hospital, which helped to develop and test Touchstone. “We struggle with other benchmarking tools that are very comprehensive but don’t point you in the direction of improvement. With Touchstone we’re able to get to the ‘why’ not just the ‘what’ and to get there in real-time without hours of manual work. It’s faster, easier access to data to improve decisions, so we want to put in the hands of our entire leadership team.” Lara F. Terry, MD, MPH, Medical Director of Clinical Analytics for Partners HealthCare’s Center for Population Health, which also contributed to Touchstone’s development, added, “Benchmarks are key to ongoing performance improvement. We decided to partner with Health Catalyst on Touchstone so that we could compare our risk adjusted performance to similar healthcare systems as well as national benchmarks. Touchstone Recommendation Engine automates the process of finding and prioritizing the opportunities where we can make the biggest impact.” Hundreds of Billions of Patient Facts The scale of the data available for analysis and benchmarking by Touchstone reaches into the hundreds of billions. In making its recommendations, Touchstone is able to review over 300 billion patient facts generated by more than 600 million patient visits, including 125 million distinct patients. “Healthcare organizations are laser focused on making sustainable improvements in clinical, financial, and operational outcomes. But no organization has unlimited resources, nor unlimited data at their fingertips, so knowing where to focus can often feel like a shot in the dark,” said Dan Burton, CEO of Health Catalyst. “The critical starting point for making improvements is identifying and prioritizing the biggest opportunities for improvement, knowing where you are performing well, and understanding the causes of under-performance so they can be fixed.” Old approaches to improvement identification and benchmarking miss the mark Current benchmarking tools are built on antiquated technologies and are primarily focused on performance monitoring rather than recommending and driving sustained improvements. Unable to drill into data to reveal the cause of benchmark failures, current tools cannot tell organizations how to make improvements. Their high cost, rudimentary user interfaces, and limited use by a small number of professionals hampers their ability to democratize data and accelerate improvements. Moreover, current benchmarking tools provide either inpatient or ambulatory benchmarks, but rarely both. As a result, it is difficult to monitor performance across the continuum of care, making population health management less effective. Touchstone resolves these and other problems for healthcare leaders by combing through data from electronic health records, claims, cost-accounting datasets, operations, and external benchmarks to provide: Risk-adjusted benchmarking—reveals an organization’s performance data across the continuum of care and in context, at the point of decision-making via an intuitive user interface Intelligent direction— using AI and Elasticsearch, an in-memory NoSQL database capable of querying billions of records in less than 1 second, Touchstone guides users to the data and analyses of greatest relevance to their work and to the organization’s goals. The AI accounts for variation in care, external benchmarks, trending analysis, and outlier detection to recommend how improvements can be made. Ranked list of improvement opportunities—helps users prioritize initiatives based on projected clinical, financial, and operational improvements and associated dollar value Detailed analytics—provides dynamic data exploration, real-time filtering, and drill-down to help users explore the factors driving performance issues Democratized benchmarking—makes benchmarking available to as many people as the organization wants, speeding the sharing of insights leading to improvements “Traditional products have encouraged benchmarking to mediocrity, not excellence. If the best-performing organization in the country is still only achieving mediocre clinical and financial results, today’s benchmarking products propagate that mediocrity,” said Dale Sanders, President of Technology for Health Catalyst. “We populate Touchstone based upon very granular data contained in the Health Catalyst Data Operating System. The technology behind Touchstone is the most current in the world. We borrowed AI and software technologies from great companies like Amazon and Netflix so that the end users of Touchstone see, not just comparative benchmarks, but also recommendations from our machine learning and AI algorithms to improve their performance.” Inpatient and Population Health Modules Touchstone is currently available in two modules addressing the most pressing clinical, operational, and financial improvement needs of health systems. Touchstone’s Inpatient Module discovers areas of excellence within an organization compared to national benchmarks; and identifies inpatient performance opportunities against risk-adjusted benchmarks for metrics such as mortality, length of stay (LOS), readmissions, and variable direct costs (supplies, labor, drug, etc.). The Inpatient Module highlights care processes that have both high variation in cost and poor outcomes as areas that offer the greatest opportunity for improvement. Touchstone’s Population Health Module enables organizational performance against risk-adjusted benchmarks for metrics such as cost (per-member-per-month), utilization, morality, LOS, and readmission. Using the Population Health Module, organizations can gain insights into its highest-performing primary care physicians in a network, populations based on chronic conditions and for whom care can be improved, and compares its health plan’s performance to similar plans across a specific region and the nation. Common Headaches Relieved The state-of-the-art outcomes improvement and benchmarking capabilities of Touchstone have the power to solve extremely common problems for healthcare leaders across the C-Suite and at the department level. Population Health Module: A population health analyst wants to understand how to improve the ACO’s performance. Touchstone recommends an opportunity to reduce inpatient utilization in the diabetic population attributed to the organization’s Medicare MSSP contract. After drilling into the application’s “explore” tab, the analyst discovers that high inpatient utilization is being driven by patients attributed to five primary care providers who have visit utilization rates 80 percent lower than the risk-adjusted benchmark. The analyst recommends scheduling the physicians’ patients for wellness visits. A health plan analyst looking for opportunities to improve benefit design is directed by Touchstone to an orthopedics doctor who performs knee replacements that are 20 percent less expensive than the benchmark, with a readmission rate that is 15 percent lower. The following year, the plan augments its benefit design to drive more volume to the high-performing doctor. Inpatient Module: A program manager in a hospital’s surgical department uses Touchstone to look for opportunities to lower costs and improve outcomes. Touchstone recommends an opportunity to improve the mortality rate for CABG procedures, currently running 90 percent higher than the risk-adjusted benchmark would expect. Drilling into the data, the manager finds that three physicians’ cases are driving the majority of the high mortality rates and variable direct cost of supplies is correlated with these higher-than-expected mortality rates. The manager deploys a clinical analyst to investigate the specific drivers of the cost differential, positing that if there are discrepancies in the way these three providers deliver care they could be rectified to reduce overall mortality and cost. Free Version Available to Health Catalyst Customers Interested customers of Health Catalyst can get started using Touchstone Public, a limited edition available at no cost. Contact your Health Catalyst representative for more information and to unlock the free version today. What Customers Can Expect in the Future Health Catalyst believes that with the right type and amount of data, all things are possible. Our ability to understand and transform healthcare in the future will depend on the breadth and depth of data available—including self-reported data, genomic data, social determinants, and more. “It’s the breadth and depth of data that Touchstone delivers that matters most to enabling an unprecedented feature engineering set for AI and machine learning applications,” said Sanders. “If we are successful with Touchstone and it lives up to its full potential, we humbly believe that it could become a national asset for better understanding of both population health and decision support in medicine.” Survey Reveals Importance of Benchmarking Health Catalyst conducted an online survey in February 2018 to determine typical responses to existing benchmarking technology. The 100 respondents included 14 CEOs, 16 CFOs, and 23 CIOs in organizations ranging from community hospitals (36%) to integrated delivery systems (27%) and academic medical centers (10%). Findings included: In determining where to focus their improvement initiatives, “performance against benchmarks” (22%) was nearly as important to respondents as regulatory requirements (25%) and improvement team recommendations (24%). Participants felt that easier integration of benchmarks into existing analytics is the No. 1 way to make them more helpful, followed by more timely data, easier access to the benchmarks themselves, and integration of benchmark comparisons into strategic prioritization and decision-making tools. Organizations currently use and would like to continue to use benchmarks across all categories almost equally (operations, outpatient, inpatient, regulatory/reporting, and severity of illness). Learn More About Touchstone To learn more about Touchstone, schedule a demo, or download a datasheet, visit https://www.healthcatalyst.com/product/touchstone/. About Health Catalyst Health Catalyst is a next-generation data, analytics, and decision-support company, committed to being a catalyst for massive, sustained improvements in healthcare outcomes. We are the leaders in a new era of advanced predictive analytics for population health and value-based care with a suite of machine learning-driven solutions, decades of outcomes-improvement expertise, and an unparalleled ability to integrate data from across the healthcare ecosystem. Our proven data warehousing and analytics platform helps improve quality, add efficiency and lower costs in support of more than 85 million patients for organizations ranging from the largest US health system to forward-thinking physician practices. Our technology and professional services can help you keep patients engaged and healthy in their homes and workplaces, and we can help you optimize care delivery to those patients when it becomes necessary. We are grateful to be recognized by Fortune, Gallup, Glassdoor, Modern Healthcare and a host of others as a Best Place to Work in technology and healthcare. Visit www.healthcatalyst.com. SOURCE: Health Catalyst Press Releases, Technology Cerner and Duke Clinical Research Institute Collaborate on Cardiac Risk App Allscripts Payerpath™ Achieves EHNAC Healthcare Network Accreditations Allscripts Open Ecosystem Drives Healthcare Data Interoperability	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798940
__label__wiki	0.866994	0.866994	Changes in the work of breathing induced by tracheotomy in ventilator-dependent patients Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 1999 Feb;159(2):383-8. doi: 10.1164/ajrccm.159.2.9707046. J L Diehl 1 , S El Atrous, D Touchard, F Lemaire, L Brochard 1 Service de Réanimation Médicale, Hôpital Henri Mondor, AP-HP, Institut Nationale de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale 492, Université Paris 12, Créteil, France. DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.159.2.9707046 Tracheotomy is widely performed on ventilator-dependent patients, but its effects on respiratory mechanics have not been studied. We measured the work of breathing (WOB) in eight patients before and after tracheotomy during breathing at three identical levels of pressure support (PS): baseline level (PS-B), PS + 5 cm H2O (PS+5), and PS - 5 cm H2O (PS-5). After the procedure, we also compared the resistive work induced by the patients' endotracheal tubes (ETTs) and by a new tracheotomy cannula in an in vitro bench study. A significant reduction in the WOB was observed after tracheotomy for PS-B (from 0.9 +/- 0.4 to 0.4 +/- 0.2 J/L, p < 0.05), and for PS-5 (1.4 +/- 0.6 to 0.6 +/- 0.3 J/L, p < 0.05), with a near-significant reduction for PS+5 (0.5 +/- 0.5 to 0.2 +/- 0.1 J/L, p = 0.05). A significant reduction was also observed in the pressure-time index of the respiratory muscles (181 +/- 92 to 80 +/- 56 cm H2O. s/min for PS-B, p < 0.05). Resistive and elastic work computed from transpulmonary pressure measurements decreased significantly at PS-B and PS-5. A significant reduction in occlusion pressure and intrinsic positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) was also observed for all conditions, with no significant change in breathing pattern. Three patients had ineffective breathing efforts before tracheotomy, and all had improved synchrony with the ventilator after the procedure. In vitro measurements made with ETTs removed from the patients, with new ETTs, and with the tracheotomy cannula showed that the cannula reduced the resistive work induced by the artificial airway. Part of these results was explained by a slight, subtle reduction of the inner diameter of used ETTs. We conclude that tracheotomy can substantially reduce the mechanical workload of ventilator-dependent patients. Catheterization / instrumentation Intubation, Intratracheal / instrumentation Respiration, Artificial* Respiratory Insufficiency / etiology Respiratory Insufficiency / physiopathology* Respiratory Insufficiency / therapy Respiratory Muscles / physiopathology Tracheostomy* Work of Breathing / physiology*	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798943
__label__wiki	0.740786	0.740786	Meet the Pure PlayStation Team Pure PlayStation Game Wikis GTA Online Gets Three New Radio Stations, Which Is Good News For Tired Ears Everywhere By Hannah Ellis It doesn’t take long for a game’s soundtrack to become repetitive and annoying. Especially as games get longer. So, you might be happy to hear that GTA Online is going to receive a musical update, which will add three new radio stations to its repertoire. It is, after all, one of the longest games to exist given its immortal story arc. And has been round for a number of years by now. But will they play anything that will get your toe tapping? Read more: GTA V PS5 Could Be VR Compatible According to LinkedIn Well, according to those behind the scenes, the three new stations will be called The Music Locker, Still Slipping Los Santos and Kult FM 99.1. And they will cover a range of genres from house and disco to Iggy Pop and Joy Division. But this writer is a little disappointed by the lack of country music on offer here, so she for one will be keeping the volume on the down low. However, if you’re into any of the above, GTA Online might hook you for another 100 hours plus. I bet Rockstar can hear the tills pinging already! Yet, in addition to the 250 new songs that these three new stations will bring with them, other existing channels will also get an update – coming in the guise of new songs being filtered in from week to week. So, this news will also come as some relief to those of you who have played the songs to death by now. And to anyone you share a room with who has had to endure them too… The official blurb reads as: Alongside the grand opening of The Music Locker and its new slate of resident DJs, GTA Online’s musical universe further expands at the launch of The Cayo Perico Heist with the addition of three new radio stations, as well as brand new mixes arriving on hit stations FlyLo FM and Worldwide FM, for a whopping total of over 250 new tracks, making this the biggest ever musical update to GTA Online. Which really manages to relay just how big of an update this is. But as they have already outlined their plans for a PlayStation 5 native edition, I can hardly say I’m surprised. In fact, just take this as the first of many refreshes to come to GTA Online over the coming months. Because the face lift has been a long time coming… Source: Rockstar To keep up to date with all of our latest news and reviews, follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Thanks, you sexy beast. We sometimes link to online retail stores. If you buy something from our links, we may make a small commission which goes towards keeping the lights on and coffee in the pot. Hannah Ellis Living life one Batmobile chase at a time. When she’s not writing about video games, she’s writing terrible jokes that even a Christmas cracker would be embarrassed to share. www.pureplaystation.com Related Items:GTA Online, PS4, PS5, Rockstar Housemarque’s Returnal Unites Roguelike and Shooter Genres; Coming to PS5 on March 19, 2021 Cyberpunk 2077 Update 1.04 Is Now Live, Patch Notes Here Pure PlayStation is a part of the Pure Games Media group. This site is not affiliated with or sponsored by Sony. What you doing here? We’re not sure what you’re doing right the way down here – there’s nothing fun to read. Go back to the top, refresh the page, and then read some of our lovely words. Copyright © 2020 Pure PlayStation/Pure Games Media LTD - All Rights Reserved	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798946
__label__wiki	0.758079	0.758079	Fatal Charm Blair McDowellSep 2017 The Wild Rose Press Inc A perilous scheme to thwart ruthless adversaries hurtles successful young jewelry designer Caitlin Abernathy from her comfortable California studio to the streets of Paris and the beaches of Brittany as she attempts to return a priceless stolen heirloom to the Louvre. Colin Stryker, the devastatingly handsome history professor from Ireland who has appointed himself her protector, fights to rescue her before her captors add murder to their crimes, while at the same time unraveling the torturous train of events that led to the original theft. With every moment fraught with danger, can the chemistry already sizzling between the two ignite into passion? Blair McDowell's first career was as a musician and teacher. She studied in Europe and, during the course of her academic career, lived in Hungary, the United States, Australia, and Canada, teaching in Universities in the latter three countries.She has always loved to write and has produced six widely used professional books and numerous articles in her field.A voracious reader, Blair decided when she retired from university teaching to turn her talents to her first love, writing fiction. She moved to Canada's scenic west coast and, with a friend, opened a Bed & Breakfast. Mornings she makes omelets and chats with guests from far and near, and afternoons, she writes. From March through September, the world comes to her doorstep, bringing tales that are fodder for her rich imagination, but once the tourist season is over, she packs her bags and takes off for exotic ports. Europe in the Fall, the Caribbean in the winter.Her novels are set in some of her favorite destinations. Flowing text, Google-generated PDF Web, Tablet, Phone, eReader Fiction / Romance / Suspense Available on Android devices Similar ebooks Delighting in Your Company Blair McDowell When Amalie Ansett visits her elderly cousin on the Caribbean island of St. Clements, the last thing she's looking for is romance. Just out of a disastrous marriage, she's ready to swear off romance forever. That is until she meets local plantation owner Jonathan Evans—tall, good-looking, and incredibly sexy. What more could a girl ask for? Then Amalie discovers the man she loves is a ghost. He was murdered two hundred years ago. Only she can see and hear him. To save Jonathan, Amalie agrees to return with him to the 1800's—to a time when the sugar trade reigned supreme, and the slave trade was making fortunes for wealthy planters and ship owners. During a slave uprising their love is put to a test, and when murder and deceit rear their ugly heads, Amalie wonders if taking a journey to the past is worth losing her life. She betrayed me. After everything I did for her. Now I’ll have to suffer the consequences of that mistake. But then I’ll get the revenge that I deserve. The MacInnes Affair On holiday in Scotland, Lara MacInnes discovers the journals of a woman who loved Lara's own very-great grandfather, Lachlan MacInnes, in the mid-eighteen hundreds. With the help of Iain Glendenning, a handsome Highlander, Lara traces the path of this long-ago romance. Their research unearths mystery and murder. Uncovering the truth, a hundred and fifty years later, is a torturous and frustrating trail. Along the way, Lara and Iain fall in love. Can they put an end forever to the feud between the MacInnes and Glendenning Clans that has persisted since the Battle of Culloden? All the Colors of Night An instant New York Times bestseller! Two psychics plunge into a dark world of deadly secrets in this second installment in the Fogg Lake trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz. North Chastain possesses a paranormal talent that gives him the ability to track down the most dangerous psychic criminals. When his father suddenly falls into a coma-like state, North is convinced it was caused by a deadly artifact that traces back to the days of a secret government program known only as the Bluestone Project. North knows his only hope of saving his father is to find the artifact. He is good when it comes to tracking down killers, but to locate the relic he’s going to need help from a psychic who knows the shadowy world of obsessive collectors, deceptive dealers and ruthless raiders.… With her reputation in ruins after a false accusation, antiques expert Sierra Raines is looking for a fresh start. She turns to the murky backwaters of the paranormal artifacts trade, finding and transporting valuable objects with a psychic provenance. When North Chastain approaches her for help, Sierra takes him on as a client, though not without reservations. North represents the mysterious Foundation, the secretive organization established to police the underworld populated by psychic criminals and those, like Sierra, who make a living in the shadows of that world. North and Sierra soon find themselves at the scene of the Incident, which occurred decades ago in Fogg Lake. The town and its residents were forever changed by the disaster in the nearby Bluestone Project labs. The pair unearths shocking truths about what happened that fateful night, but they are playing with fire—someone in town knows what they’ve discovered and will do anything to make sure the secrets stay buried. Where Lemons Bloom When Eve Anderson meets Adamo de Leone on a ship bound for Europe, she has no idea of the dark secret that will endanger both their lives. She accompanies him to his home on Italy’s Amalfi Coast to open an inn left to him by his grandfather. But then she learns he spent five years in prison for a crime he claims he didn’t commit. Could the man she loves be responsible for embezzling eighty million dollars from the investment firm he once owned? Adamo wants to hold Eve at arm’s length until he can clear his proud family name. But when there is an attempt on his life and Eve is terrorized by a gun-bearing thug, he realizes how much he wants her, and he must accept whatever help he can get to uncover the well-hidden trail of a six-year-old crime.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798948
__label__cc	0.745533	0.254467	Empire Warriors TD Wiki Guide, Tips and Tricks You knew this day would come. You never knew when, exactly, but you knew this day would come. The day when you would need to become the strongest defender of them all. You are the leader of an intrepid band of warriors and gods, as well as allowed to use the gold funneled from the castle and empire to build and defend the kingdom against evildoers. Utilizing these buildings and special spells, you must now defend against all evil that comes at you. This is Empire Tower Defense, where you decide the fate of the kingdom. Empire Warriors TD is a simple TD game. Modeled after the usual game type, you are put as the overseer of the defensive warriors and towers against the incoming waves of monsters, mobs, and goblins. There are quite a few different tools at your disposal, so we will be going over each one. There are also both in game and out of game tricks that you can utilize, so we will be going over towers and how they work in combat first. The Four Towers You have four different towers that you can use: Fighter, Archer, Mage, and Golem. All of these have different features that you can unlock as you go further on. The fighter class is a strong line of defense at early levels. It lets three armed guards come out in a designated area to defend. Any enemy that walks into that zone will have to fight them. The bulk of the damage, though, will be the mage. The mage is the primary damage, as it can be a massive firing squad. They sling spells, and can do high damage at higher ranks. Archers and Golems do significant damage, but not as much as the mage. Instead, they are great supportive towers that we will discuss later on with the upgrading of them. Upgrading the Towers Each tower has a different set of upgraded features. You can only pick one of the two, so it is quite impressive. With the fighter, they can be upgraded into the paladin and the assassins. Paladins are great tanks, whereas assassins are great killers against large tanks. Archers can be upgraded into either a support night tower, or a damage sun tower. The night tower gives a buff to other towers in it’s vicinity, and can also give a strong sleep attack if it hits a target. The mage tower can upgrade into a fire or arcane mage. Fire is a high damage tower, and arcane is more utility, where it can teleport enemies and send them far away. The golem is possibly the strongest. It can be upgraded into either a forest giant, or a frost giant. The forest giant is great for doing repeat damage at a decent pace, while the frost giant is best at slowing the enemies to a snail’s pace. Different Combinations Quite possibly the best combination that can be produced to destroy your enemies is the funneling channel. If you only have one exit that enemies are aimed at, then you can first place a fighter tower to block it off at the very back, and then flank it by a few fire mage towers. Then, you can place a frost giant that is upgraded with the slowing enchantment. If there are a few more exits, usually 2, that enemies can go into, it is best to focus on having all of your towers in range of one certain plot. In the center plot, you want to place a night archer tree with upgraded tower strengths. The night archer tower can give any tower in it’s vicinity a boost to crit chance, as well as a boost to attack speed, making it perfect for damage towers. These are just a few of the benefits that you can use towers for. This set up is the largest that you can use, but feel free to mix and match on your own. Your Champions Your champions can give great damage output. Each one can also have upgraded stats as well. They have one primary damage skill that you have to activate, while others are passive. As they level up, focus on levelling up the passive skills, since that will allow the heroes to become completely independent and function on their own to level up. Upgrading Towers Through Stars Each tower can also be upgraded using stars. These upgrades are a bonus passive upgrade. The stars themselves are gotten through defeating different levels. Each level can give you 3 stars total, and they can be used to unlock the tower upgrades. Each set is different. For instance, the mage towers can be upgraded with passive stars that allow them to deal more damage, as well as have a higher rate of attack. The golem upgrade tree can increase the amount of damage that they can deal, as well as decrease the amount of money that it costs to upgrade the tower itself. Also, it can be fully upgraded to help deal 5% of the current health of the enemy that it hits, or the enemies as it can deal an aoe attack. The fighter tower can be upgraded to deal more damage, as well as gain more health, making them even stronger tanks. They can also be given lifesteal, allowing them to stay alive a bit longer against many enemies. You also have magic spells. These are a bit strange, but can be useful. there is a healing spell, a stun/cold spell, a meteor spell, and a guardian spell. Out of all of these, the guardian is the most important. It allows a giant guardian, like another champion, to fall into the ground. It is best to be used sparingly, as they are not unlimited. Instead, only use them when you are in a pinch, as they will be necessary every so often. After the guardian, the meteor is next most important, and then the healing spell. These can be used to clear out large waves more frequently, as you get them more often. 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__label__cc	0.538143	0.461857	Michael D'Antonio Ph.D. Student in Geological Sciences Mr. Brendan Marcio DaCosta Undergraduate, Energy Resources Engineering dacostab@stanford.edu Nathan Dadap Ph.D. Student in Earth System Science BioNathan Dadap is a PhD student in Professor Alexandra Konings’ Group in the Earth System Science Department at Stanford University. He is interested in using remote sensing to better understand peatland hydrology - an important control on fire risk and carbon emissions. Currently, Nathan is working on a research project relating soil moisture and fire in Equatorial Asia. Prior to graduate school, Nathan worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on hazardous waste issues. Nathan holds a BS in Applied Physics from Columbia University. ndadap@stanford.edu Jasmin Lopez Tang Dalsgaard Masters Student in Sustainability Science and Practice jasmin99@stanford.edu Lola Damski MBA, expected graduation 2021 Masters Student in Environment and Resources Frances Davenport BioFrances studies hydroclimate in the Department of Earth System Science at Stanford University. She is interested in how climate change will affect precipitation extremes, flooding, and water availability. Her research also aims to quantify the impacts of extreme events on society. In addition, she is interested in understanding the efficacy of various adaptation strategies for managing hydrologic extremes (for example, floods and droughts). Previously, Frances worked as a civil engineer on a variety of flood risk reduction and ecosystem restoration projects in Colorado and around the U.S. You can visit her personal website here: https://fdavenport.github.io fvdav@stanford.edu Laura Thayer Davey Undergraduate, Geophysics Student Employee, Haas Center for Public Service ldavey@stanford.edu John Steven Davis Affiliate, Department of Energy Resources Engineering - SUPRI-C Eliza Dawson Ph.D. Student in Geophysics Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am investigating how changes in the thermal regime at the ice-bed interface could force the Antarctic ice sheet to evolve. My approach combines large scale ice sheet modeling, regional airborne ice-penetrating radar sounding analysis, and the synthesis of the two. Currently, I am using the Ice-sheet and Sea-level system model (ISSM) to learn about basal thaw processes that could drive mass loss and ultimately contribute to sea level rise. ejdawson@stanford.edu Jacques de Chalendar Affiliate, Benson Program Visiting Scholar, Department of Energy Resources Engineering - Energy Resources Engineering BioJacques de Chalendar is a doctoral candidate in the Energy Resources Engineering department at Stanford University and a Precourt State Grid Corporation of China Graduate Student Fellow through the Bits and Watts initiative. He is advised by Profs. Sally Benson and Peter Glynn. His PhD research focuses on applying state-of-the-art computational tools, at the intersection of optimization and statistics, to energy and carbon management problems. A case in point for this research is the Stanford Energy Systems Innovations project, the campus district energy system, which provides a unique source of real data as well as an ideal test-bed for new ideas and control algorithms. During his MSc, supervised by Prof. Sally Benson, he worked on image processing techniques and physical simulation models to further our understanding of the micron-scale behavior of trapped carbon dioxide in deep saline aquifers, and gain insights as to the long-term security of geological sequestration. He was previously an intern at a San-Francisco-based energy management startup, Growing Energy Labs, Inc. (Geli) and in the Electricity Infrastructure group at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Earth Systems Program Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources Energy Resources Engineering	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798954
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__label__wiki	0.663743	0.663743	Local, enterprising, creative journalistic coverage of south Mississauga (and beyond). Faith leaders uniting to help Syrians could lead to greater collective security model: Phannenhour (Photo: worldvision.ca) BY DANIEL PHANNENHOUR Great crises produce opportunities for even greater hope. Such hope was on display last Sunday afternoon at the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) mosque in south Mississauga as Muslims, Christians, and Jews joined to support each other’s efforts in responding to the Syrian refugee crisis. Representatives from ISNA and Oakville’s Maple Grove United Church and Shaarei Beth-El Synagogue drafted a proposal several months ago to co-sponsor a seven member family of Syrian refugees. The application has now been submitted to Canadian immigration authorities, and Sunday’s event was designed to raise part of the $35,000 fund required for sponsorship to Oakville. Several members of this new entity called Abraham’s Children Together (ACT) spoke of the need for concrete action in response to Syria’s suffering, and we heard, via Skype, live witness from a doctor who continues to work in Syrian hospitals that have been bombed. This gathering, in its atmosphere of relaxed cooperation, was a direct challenge to the tensions and rivalries that have been stirred up in recent weeks in our country. The easy camaraderie among the presenters and participants revealed they were comfortable working in support of one another. South Mississauga may not be the centre of the universe in many people’s eyes, but something significant is happening here in the realm of faith that could be opening a new chapter in interfaith relations. Many developing countries are struggling with the inevitable political failure of neo-colonialism. The nation states imposed by departing European powers upon their former colonies are disintegrating. They were never coherent cultural, political, ethnic, or religious entities, and their power structures were not supportive of the functioning of the human communities that they encompassed. Ongoing civil wars in Africa and the uprising known as the Arab Spring have exposed this failure before the world, and has generated a crisis of human displacement not seen since the upheaval of World War Two. People in these former countries have turned away from the secular political arrangements imposed upon them to embrace the collective identity and security offered by religion. In Africa, independent and denominational Christian churches continue their pattern of exponential growth. Africans who belong to such churches know that no matter where they go, someone will be there to offer emotional, social, cultural, moral, and even financial support. In countries north of the Sahara, Muslims are looking to their faith for the same kind of support. In both cases, faith is a necessary means of survival in a world where political entities have abandoned their social responsibilities. Religion, however, has both a good side and a dark side. At their best, all religions offer millennia of accumulated wisdom into the human condition through which we can orient our lives into a coherent community. At its worst, religion often suffers from a garrison mentality. All other religions and expressions of faith, or lack of faith, are seen as a threat to their particular doctrine and viewpoint. Believers can get locked into endless sectarian conflicts attempting to purify their community of foreign and corrupting influences. Sectarian religion narrows the possibilities for collective security down to a small group of like-minded believers. Only true believers are entitled to the benefits of security offered by religious identity. Mutual suspicion often results in extreme views and violent actions that inevitably attract popular attention. Decent people attempting to build life in community are dismissed as boring and unremarkable, remaining out of sight and out of mind. Faith leaders and faithful people here in south Mississauga and Oakville, are, however, attempting to redefine the possibilities for collective social security away from the garrison mentality that threatens each religion. By supporting each other as people of faith in offering a collective response to this crisis, they are modelling a possibility for collective security that can be shared among all people of faith. Mutual support in taking care of each other’s needs is how sustainable community gets rebuilt beyond the confines of a narrow sectarian identity. We have a long way to go, but it all may have started right here among us. That is reason enough to hope. Daniel Phannenhour (Pastor Dan) is an unretired Lutheran pastor and father to three lovely young women. He currently lives with his wife in the Oakville parsonage, and is exploring new ways of embodying the Christian faith while celebrating the multicultural and multifaith diversity of our community and nation. 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__label__cc	0.603292	0.396708	CALL USCALLFree Shipping On Orders over £75 EMAIL USEMAIL ‘Twas The Night Before ChristmOx Santa finds a better way to deliver presents tonight. The 12 Days Of ChristmOx A qiviut update to the traditional holiday madrigal. There’s cute and then there’s qiviut cute. Puppies and kittens have nothing on baby musk ox. Let’s Get Technical Medullated? AFD? Microns? What does it all mean? Qiviut – The EST Fibre What does EST stand for? Watch and learn. Don’t Take Our Word – Part 2 See what customers say about The Qiviut Jacket Don’t take our word See what respected media say about The Qiviut Jacket. Built For The Cold See how the majestic Musk Ox is uniquely equipped to survive the extreme arctic climate. What do “Warmth” and “Qiviut” have in common? Going South What do geese and their down do that Musk Ox don’t? Winter Warmth Tips Three quick tips for how to remain comfortable and cozy in the winter cold. 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(in inches – for guidance only) The Qiviut Jacket 36 39 42 45 UK and US 36 38 40 42 Germany & France 42 44 46 48 European 46 48 50 52 How to take body measurements To find your correct size follow the diagram above and the instructions below, then compare your measurements to the body sizing chart. Chest (men) Holding onto the beginning of the tape measure pass the other end of the tape measure around your back under your arms until it meets the beginning. Draw it in until it sits comfortably around your chest, not pulling it in too tightly. Note this measurement. Bust (women) Holding onto the beginning of the tape measure pass the other end of the tape measure around to your back under your arms and over the fullest part of your chest. Let the tape measure meet drawing it in until it sits comfortably around your chest not pulling it too tightly. Note this measurement. Holding onto the beginning of the tape measure below your navel and in line with your hips pass the other end of the tape measure around your back and across your hips until it meets the beginning. Draw it in until it sits comfortably around your hips, not pulling it too tightly. Note this measurement. After finding the centre back measuring point at the bottom of your neck and the top of your back bone, pass your tape measure from this point over your shoulder to your elbow and then down your wrist. Note this measurement. Body Sizing Chart MEN S M L XL Chest 36 in / 91.5 cm 39 in / 99 cm 42 in / 106.5 cm 45 in / 114 cm Waist 31½ in / 80 cm 35 in / 89 cm 38½ in / 98 cm 42 in / 107 cm Hips 38 in / 96 cm 40¾ in / 103.5 cm 43½ in / 111 cm 46½ in / 118.5 cm Arm (to wrist) 31¾ in / 80 cm 32¼ in / 82 cm 33 in / 84 cm 33¾ in / 86 cm WOMEN S M L XL Bust 36 in / 91.5 cm 39 in / 99 cm 42 in / 106.5 cm 45 in / 114 cm Waist 27½ in / 71 cm 30½ in / 77.5 cm 33½ in / 85 cm 36½ in / 92.5 cm Hips 38 in / 97 cm 41 in / 104.5 cm 44 in / 112 cm 47 in / 119.5 cm Arm (to wrist) 31 in / 78.5 cm 31¾ in / 80.5 cm 32½ in / 82.5 cm 33¼ in / 84.5 cm How to take jacket measurements Alternatively, if you have an existing jacket that fits you well you may just want to compare that garment’s measurements with the data for The Qiviut Jacket in the chart below consulting the jacket measuring points diagram for guidance. There are two additional body measurements that may be helpful to you for this purpose: Find the top of your backbone below your neck and use this as your centre back measuring point. Holding onto the beginning of the tape measure at your centre back, drop the tape measure down to find the length at which The Qiviut Jacket will finish on you according to the Jacket Sizing Chart. After finding the length of the jacket and where it finishes on you, you can then get an idea of the fit at the hem by passing a tape measure around your body at this point and letting the beginning of the tape meet at the measurement indicated in the Jacket Sizing Chart. Jacket Measuring Points Jacket Sizing Chart A Chest 45 in / 114.5 cm 48 in / 122 cm 51 in / 129.5 cm 54 in / 137 cm B Hem 41 in / 104.5 cm 44 in / 112 cm 47 in / 119.5 cm 50 in / 127 cm C Back Length 32¾ in / 83.5 cm 33½ in / 85 cm 34 in / 86.5 cm 34½ in / 88 cm D Shoulder 4¾ in / 12 cm 5 in / 12.5 cm 5⅛ in / 13 cm 5¼ in / 13.5 cm E Sleeve 27 in / 68.5 cm 27½ in / 70 cm 28⅛ in / 71.5 cm 28¾ in / 73 cm F Hips 41¾ in / 106.5 cm 44¾ in / 114 cm 47¾ in / 121.5 cm 50¾ in / 129 cm The Q & CO Tee Size Guide Chest S M L XL XXL 36 in / 91.5 cm 38 in / 96.5 cm 40 in / 101.5 cm 42 in / 106.5 cm 44 in / 111.5 cm Chest (circumference) 38⅛ in / 97 cm 40⅛ in / 102 cm 42½ in / 108 cm 44¾ in / 114 cm 47¼ in / 120 cm Back Length 26¾ in / 68 cm 27½ in / 70 cm 28&⅜ in / 72 cm 29&⅛ in / 74 cm 30 in / 76 cm Shoulder Length 5¾ in / 14.5 cm 5⅞in / 15 cm 6⅛ in / 15.5 cm 6¼ in / 16 cm 6½ in / 16.5 cm Sleeve Length 7½ in / 19 cm 7¾ in / 20 cm 8¼ in / 21 cm 8½ in / 22 cm 9 in / 23 cm Welcome to the QIVIUT & CO website and e-commerce store. 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How Is Your Musk Ox Fibre Harvested Since musk ox are wild animals there are only three ways of harvesting their fibre: 1) Collecting it off of the tundra during the animals’ annual molt. As you can imagine, this is quite inefficient, is only done in small quantities by natives living near musk ox habitat and typically provides poor quality fibre contaminated with dirt and other residue that must be substantially processed before it is usable with potential damage to the fibre. 2) In the two locales where small, semi-domesticated herds of musk ox are husbanded, both in Alaska, the animals can be placed in a squeeze shoot to limit their mobility while their fibre is combed out by hand, also done during the annual molt. This can result in high quality fibre but is only available in very small quantities. 3) In Alaska, Canada and Greenland, primarily subsistence natives are permitted by the respective governments to hunt a limited number of musk ox for meat each winter, the limited number determined by what will maintain a healthy musk ox population in the respective locales. After dressing the animals from a successful hunt, the hunters sell off the hides to qiviut processors for extra income. The processors then comb out the fibre from the hides by hand. It is strictly a by-product of food acquisition. QIVIUT & CO uses fibre sourced from processors in Canada and Greenland harvesting via the third method. Until now, these processors harvested qiviut to be made only into yarn for sale to home hobbyists knitting garments by hand. The Qiviut Jacket and our qiviut accessories are the first use of musk ox fibre in garments manufactured in commercial quantities and, in the case of The Qiviut Jacket, using musk ox hair for insulation as well as knitted fabric. Needless to say, whether or not qiviut was harvested, musk ox would continue to be hunted in permitted numbers for their meat. But because it is harvested as a prized fibre, it provides significant economic benefit to the native hunters, the processors, and all of the small business people up the manufacturing chain who now have an expanded market for their goods and services. What Is The Qiviut & Co No Questions asked Guaranty? We recognise that qiviut products are significant purchases for most people. At the same time, we completely stand behind the outstanding quality of what we sell and all of the claims we make for our products. Therefore, if you are dissatisfied with any item you purchase from us for any reason you can return it in its original, unworn and unwashed condition within 30 days of purchase for a complete refund of the purchase price, no questions asked. (See a full description of our returns and exchange policy here.) We think 30 days is a reasonable, if not generous, period of time for someone to make up their mind about our products. Just contact us at concierge@qiviutandco.com for return instructions. We will do all of the paperwork for you. That’s all there is to it. What this guaranty does not mean is that you should expect a refund for an item returned to us in damaged, worn, washed or otherwise unsaleable condition or used for more than 30 days from purchase. That disclaimer notwithstanding, we are extremely customer service oriented and will do our best to accommodate any reasonable exchange or refund request. Our goal is to have satisfied non-customers as much as it is to have enthusiastic customers. Can I send Qiviut & Co Products as gifts? Most definitely but note that it is slightly different with our flagship product, The Qiviut Jacket. That is a special item because it is a numbered and registered limited edition whose unique identity is maintained in our jacket database. While a jacket is normally associated with the named purchaser in our database, when giving a jacket as a gift he or she may designate another individual for that purpose by contacting customer service at concierge@qiviutandco.com with that request. The gift recipient will then receive The Qiviut Jacket with his or her name on the Certificate of Authenticity. Because our presentation of all QIVIUT & CO items when shipped is eye-catching already, we do not offer a gift wrapping option but we can include a personalised gift note by requesting same when e-mailing our concierge. To Which Countries Can You Ship? We currently ship worldwide except to Israel, Russia and Turkey where local restrictions make courier delivery difficult. For orders of £75 or more, shipping is free for both delivery and any returns for exchange or refund. Orders less than £75 incur a flat rate shipping charge of £5 and the cost of returning or exchanging an item(s) is the responsibility of the customer. What is the Q Club? The Q Club is our method of benefiting our most enthusiastic supporters. By joining The Q Club you create an account with us that will streamline all purchases and purchase tracking thereafter and ensure that you have notice about and access to all new products in advance of the general public (and, potentially, before our limited editions are sold out). It is also planned that Q Club members will receive special offers as our brand grows and evolves. Joining is very straight forward and quick via the link found on our home page menu. Yes, by using the Concierge Call link found at the foot of any page on our website. As a small company we may not always be available but you can leave a phone number and we will call you back promptly. What payment methods does Qiviut & Co accept? We accept American Express, VISA and MasterCard credit or debit cards, PayPal (including ApplePay or AndroidPay) and now Klarna for payment over time. (Find out more here.) We also accept electronic funds transfer. If you wish to pay by EFT, please contact our Concierge service for bank details. What VAT, Import Duty and Charges are payable? The displayed list price of our products includes VAT at the UK rate for all shipments within the EU until 31 December 2020. After that date, shipments to EU countries will incur a VAT rate, if any, as may be agreed between the UK and the EU but yet to be determined. We offer tax free shopping for non-EU delivery destinations which is automatically deducted at checkout. This is to compensate for any import duties and taxes that may be levied by the non-EU destination country and paid by the customer so as to attempt to make our products approximately the same landed price no matter where in the world they are delivered. Any customs or import duties for shipments to non-EU destinations are charged once the parcel reaches its destination country. These charges are the responsibility of the recipient who will be advised by DHL of the amount to be paid before delivery can be completed. Unfortunately, QIVIUT & CO has no control over these charges, and cannot tell you what the exact cost will be as customs policies and import duties vary widely from country to country. Most countries have online import duty and taxes estimators that can be found via a Google search or, if you wish, please contact concierge@qiviutandco.com and we can provide an estimate. Please note, however, that the customer takes full liability for all postal charges, return shipment costs, customs charges and handling fees should they refuse to accept a parcel due to import duties or taxes and authorises QIVIUT & CO to take payment for same. For all orders received by 2PM UK time, despatch will be on the same day. For orders received after this time, despatch will occur the following business day. For all items other than Ox Socks and the Q&CO Shirt, we use DPD as our designated shipper in the United Kingdom and DHL as our designated shipper for the rest of the world. Both companies offer end to end tracking service and you can be notified by e-mail or text of the status of your order. Delivery time to all UK destinations is typically 1-2 business days and for other allowed international destinations 2-5 business days. All shipments require a signature upon delivery. Ox Socks and the Q&CO Shirt are shipped via Royal Mail and are tracked but do not require a signature. Free samples of our qiviut fibre are shipped by Royal Mail and are not tracked. We ship worldwide except to Israel, Russia and Turkey where local restrictions make assured and timely delivery difficult. Customers interested in delivery to these countries should contact concierge@qiviutandco.com to discuss alternative delivery methods. For orders of £75 or greater, shipping and returns are free of charge to and from any allowed destination. Orders less than £75 incur a flat rate shipping charge of £5 and the cost of returning or exchanging an item(s) is the customer’s responsibility. Special Country Specific Requirements Purchases shipped to Brazil require a tax ID number (Cadastro de Pessoa Fisica – CPF). To avoid any possible delays, make sure you have this information available when DHL contacts you. Please note, orders over 2999 USD require formal customs clearance. We recommend that you hire a customs broker to ensure you comply and to avoid the risk of confiscation. Because clearance procedures vary between Chinese gateways, contact your local DHL office on the telephone numbers following for further guidance. Call DHL from within China: 800 810 800 (from a landline) or 400 810 8000 (from a mobile). From the rest of the world: North China – 86 10 67806680 East China – 86 21 55514777 South China – 86 20 86669288 Copies of these documents must be provided to DHL when shipments arrive to the following destinations: Saudi Arabia – your Saudi National ID or valid resident permit (Iqama) Bahrain – your Civil Population Registration (CPR or ID Card) Qatar – your Qatar Identification Number (QID) South Korea All South Korean postcodes must now be 5 digits. Our return policy is quite simple: You can return any QIVIUT & CO product in its original condition (unworn, unwashed and undamaged with all original packaging and garment tags) at any time within 30 days of purchase for a full refund of the purchase price, no questions asked. We just need to be able to re-sell the item(s) you are returning. Returns for refund are accomplished by contacting our concierge service by e-mail at concierge@qiviutandco.com. We aim to respond within 24 hours with detailed return instructions. Refunds can only be made by crediting the purchaser’s original form of payment. Exchanges for size, colour or style may also be done within 30 days of purchase by the same e-mail request to our concierge service. However, an exchange for size of The Qiviut Jacket is a bit more complicated because of the numbering and registration of each jacket and the limited availability of sizes. A jacket once numbered on a Certificate of Authenticity always retains its limited edition registration number but is linked to a unique serial number on the garment in our database. The jacket number will be permanently referenced to the initial buyer or his or her designee but the serial number to which the jacket number is linked will change upon an exchange and a new Certificate of Authenticity issued. While we will always try to accommodate exchanges insofar as possible, because of the limited edition of The Qiviut Jacket a desired size may not be available. Where a satisfactory exchange cannot be accomplished a refund of the full purchase price will be made by crediting the buyer’s original form of payment. RETURNS & EXCHANGES TERMS AND GUIDELINES • All returned items must be unworn, unwashed and complete with original tags and packaging. We just need to be able to re-sell the item(s) you are returning or exchanging. • For all orders of £75 or more, we offer free shipping for all returns and exchanges when done through our designated couriers, DPD (UK) and DHL (ROW), and from the same destination to which your order was originally shipped. You will be given instructions how to accomplish this when you contact our concierge service. • Orders less than £75 incur a flat rate shipping charge of £5 and the cost of returning or exchanging an item(s) is the responsibility of the customer. • A return or exchange should be sent in the same packaging it was received along with all packaging materials and garment tags. • If returning an item from outside the EU, please prominently mark ‘RETURNED GOODS’ on the packaging to avoid any customs charges. QIVIUT & CO cannot be responsible for any return custom charges made and may refuse the shipment. CONCIERGE CONTACT ENQUIRY Please complete the form below and one of our concierges will reply within 24 hours. SubjectSizingShippingTry for FitGeneral EnquiryYour order To view our sizing guide, please click here or email us below if you have further questions. To view our shipping information, please click here or email us below if you have further questions. hiddenhoneypot noshow Feel the Fibre The amazing qiviut fibre we use in our products has to be seen – and felt – to be believed. Please fill out your details below if you are interested in receiving a free sample to better appreciate the qiviut experience. Sustainability is a core value at QIVIUT & CO. As explained in our FAQ, we currently acquire our qiviut and guard hair from animals hunted in the winter for meat by subsistence natives in Canada and Greenland as they have been doing for millennia and as permitted in limited numbers by the respective regional governments. The natives keep the meat and sell off the hides to the “mom and pop” processors who comb out the fibre we purchase. This supplies supplemental income to the natives and others involved in the supply chain. The number of permits issued varies each year according to the governmental determination of what amount can maintain the health of the overall musk ox population. These subsistence hunters hunt in order to survive in accordance with their traditional way of life, and QIVIUT & CO only uses the by-product of this centuries-old life sustaining food source. Unlike most furs and feathers used in clothing, the use of musk ox fibre has no impact on the amount of animals harvested. This said, the long term goal of the company is to replicate the experience of two small operations in Alaska and create a substantial domesticated herd of musk ox which can be live combed annually for qiviut and guard hair. This effort will be particularly important if climate change continues to have an adverse impact on the arctic environment in which musk ox have survived and thrived for millennia. Finally, all packaging that we use for our products is made from recyclable material and is itself recyclable to the maximum extent possible. Caring for Qiviut Qiviut is a delicate luxury fibre requiring particular care. Our official instruction is to SPECIALIST CLEAN all qiviut items. However, because qiviut is a hair it can be carefully hand washed and many people claim this is better for the fibre. To hand wash any qiviut content knitwear, including Ox Socks and the removable knitted trim on The Qiviut Jacket, do the following: 1. Before washing remove any pilling with a pill comb or shaving machine. 2. Turn the garment inside out if applicable (e.g., socks or a jumper/sweater). 3. Fill a clean basin with lukewarm water <30º C (<85º F). Add 50ml Woolite detergent or 30ml baby shampoo for extra softness and mix by hand. 4. Gently massage the garment. Do not twist, stretch or rub. Leave to soak for no more than 3-5 minutes. 5. Rinse thoroughly in lukewarm water until all trace of soap is removed. 6. Lay flat on dry towel and then roll up gently to remove any excess water. 7. Lay flat on new towel to air dry away from direct sunlight. NEVER TUMBLE DRY OR HANG. When dry turn garment outside in (again, if applicable). 8. Optional) Lightly press with a cool iron (or iron at low temperature with a pressing cloth so as not to directly touch the fabric) to restore to original shape and condition. Qiviut is hypoallergenic and does not retain odour so cleaning need only be done infrequently. CONCIERGE CALLS ARE TAKEN 8:30AM-6PM GMT, MONDAY TO FRIDAY The Qiviut Jacket Stockists (The Qiviut Jacket Only) Andrew Gardner Ltd. The Tanyard Tring Road Wendover, Buckinghamshire, HP22 6ND www.andrewgardner.co.uk R Gledhill Ltd. 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__label__cc	0.527923	0.472077	Two Women, 1 Man Charged After Man OD’s on Heroin by Racine County Eye June 11th, 2015 June 10th, 2015 Two Racine women and a Caledonia man are behind bars after Racine police say they contributed to a man’s heroin overdose that could have been fatal. Sunshine Ketchum, 26, of Racine, was supposed to be in court Wednesday for her initial appearance to face six felony bail jumping charges; one felony count each of heroin possession, 1st degree recklessly endangering safety and possession of marijuana; and one misdemeanor count of possession of drug paraphernalia. If convicted, she faces up to 60 years in prison and/or up to $125,000 in fines. Ketchum’s initial appearance was postponed until Thursday because, online court records indicate, she was in the hospital. Joshua Molnar, 36, of Caledonia, was charged with a single felony count of possession of narcotic drugs. If convicted, he faces up to 3-1/2 years in prison and/or up to $10,000 in fines. Ashley Miller, 22, also of Racine, was charged Wednesday in Racine County Circuit Court with two felony counts of heroin possession; three felony counts of bail jumping; and one felony count of 1st degree recklessly endangering safety. If convicted, she faces up to 55-1/2 years in prison and/or up to $105,000 in fines. According to their criminal complaints, Racine police and fire responded at 2:54 p.m. Monday to the to 1000 block of Park Avenue for a call of a possible heroin overdose. When officers and rescue arrived, they found a man – later identified as Molnar – who wasn’t breathing. They administered Narcan and revived Molnar then transported him to Wheaton Franciscan St. Mary’s for treatment. Police say Molnar called Ketchum because he knew she could get heroin. He picked Ketchum up in his truck from her home and they drove to the 1100 block of Main Street to meet a woman – later identified as Miller – for the heroin. After buying $50 worth of drugs, Ketchum cooked the heroin and injected Molnar with it because he can’t do it himself. When he turned blue, she called 911 for help. During questioning, Ketchum at first wouldn’t admit to any wrongdoing, but later told investigators the same story Molnar told police when they questioned him in the hospital. Ketchum agreed to arrange another buy, the complaint reads, and set up a deal for $60 with Miller. Officers say Ketchum did buy heroin from Miller, and they took Miller into custody shortly after the transaction was completed. All three defendants remain in the Racine County Jail. Miller was assigned a $3,500 cash bond during her initial appearance Wednesday and will next be in court June 25 for her preliminary hearing. Molnar was given a $2,000 cash bond and has his preliminary hearing scheduled for June 18. Ketchum’s initial appearance is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. Police: 'Elderly' Disguise Doesn't Hide Woman from Arrest Police: Two Charged After Man OD's on Heroin Man Charged With Felony Drug Charges After Heroin Overdose, Police Say Tagged: heroin, Narcan, newsinpictures, Racine Police Department 2 replies on “Two Women, 1 Man Charged After Man OD’s on Heroin”	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798962
__label__wiki	0.76073	0.76073	US stock futures and the dollar ease after Trump’s release from hospital proves a short-lived boost U.S. President Donald Trump removes his mask upon return to the White House Getty Images News US stock futures pared gains, suggesting a more modest start on Wall Street later, after an initial lift from President Donald Trump’s release from hospital lost steam. Oil recouped all last week’s losses, as a strike in Norway impacted output and Hurricane Delta threatened Gulf of Mexico crude production. “We saw a rebound at the beginning of the week, when people started thinking maybe this was not so much of an issue, and now we’re back to all of the question marks that were there before,” IG market strategist Joshua Mahony said. US stock futures and the dollar pared gains on Tuesday, as the boost to investor risk appetite from US president Donald Trump’s discharge from hospital the previous day faded and concern over the risk stemming from the upcoming election, as well as the outlook for the economy, reasserted itself. Trump left the Walter Reed military hospital on Monday after spending three days there to receive treatment for COVID-19. News of the president’s return to the White House prompted a rally across all risk assets, with stocks gaining more than 2%, while oil posted its largest one-day rally in five months. But by Tuesday morning in Europe, much of this boost had faded. Futures on the S&P 500, and the Nasdaq 100 fell between 0.1 and 0.4%, pointing to a weaker start on Wall Street later, after Monday’s gains of around 2% in all three indices. “We saw a rebound at the beginning of the week, when people started thinking maybe this was not so much of an issue, and now we’re back to all of the question marks that were there before, plus the fact that Donald Trump still has the virus and for all the fact that he said he was fine … the risk is certainly still there and then of course you have election coming up,” IG markets strategist Joshua Mahony said. In Europe, blue-chip benchmarks were mostly in the red, with the FTSE 100, DAX and Amsterdam’s AEX down between 0.3 and 0.6%, as investors booked profits in technology and healthcare stocks. Asia-Pacific indices rallied sharply overnight, echoing the steep gains on Wall Street, boosting the S&P/ASX 200 by 0.4%, the Nikkei by 0.5% and the Hang Seng by 0.7%. Mainland Chinese markets were closed for the Golden Week public holiday. Read more: The space industry will grow by over $1 trillion in the next decade, says Bank of America. Here are the 14 stocks best-positioned to benefit from the boom. The dollar eased against traditional safe-haven currencies such as the Japanese yen and the Swiss franc, losing around 0.1% against both, but gained versus more risk-linked currencies, such as the Australian dollar, which fell by 0.4% and the Mexican peso, which lost 0.6%. With the dollar index holding almost unchanged on the day, gold eased by 0.3% to $1,913 an ounce, while silver lost 0.5% to trade around $24.25 an ounce, as investors cashed in on the previous day’s gains. Oil, meanwhile, held on to Monday’s gains and rallied further, aided in part by a push into risk assets, but also by the prospect of a rapid decline in supply, as a strike unfolded among Norwegian oil employees and US oil companies evacuated workers from rigs in the Gulf of Mexico ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Delta. Analysts said they did not think the strength in the oil price would be long-lived. “Even if oil prices do continue to rally this week, I would caution about getting sucked into a false dawn,” Jeffrey Halley, a senior market analyst at OANDA, said. “Extraneous factors are lifting oil prices, with nothing structurally changed on the supply-demand equation for global markets.” Brent crude futures were last up 1.3% at $41.81 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate was up 1.2% at $39.67 a barrel. Investors are betting more heavily that Democrats and Republicans will reach an agreement on a new round of stimulus for American households, as the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed over 200,000 and rendered 13 million people unemployed in the United States alone, continues to impact the economy. Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin have held several conversations over the last few days and, while a definitive deal is still not in the bag, the two have agreed that additional aid will include lifelines for the airline industry and direct payments to households. US Treasuries steadied after Monday’s sell-off that lifted yields by almost a basis point, the largest one-day rise since March. The return of risk appetite was reflected most clearly in longer-dated Treasury bonds, with the 30-year yield rising to its highest since June. The 10-year Treasury was last at 0.767%, steady on the day, while 30-year bonds were yielding 1.56%, down 3 basis points, but narrowly below Monday’s highs. “Growing expectations for US fiscal stimulus have been rising in parallel with the president’s hospitalization, judging by the bear steepening in the US Treasury curve,” AxiTrader chief markets strategist Stephen Innes said, referring to the widening gap between 10- and 30-year yields, which reflects a growing expectation among investors that shorter-term borrowing rates will be kept low through more stimulus. Read more: A CIO who earned up to 90% per trade during the March crash offers his 2 best strategies for protecting against Trump-driven volatility – and says the president’s diagnosis will be the catalyst for a further sell-off French First Lady’s Twist on Business Casual Includes a Pinstripe Blazer, Skinny Jeans & Fall Booties Fire chiefs step into row over soaring insurance costs for high-rise flats	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798964
__label__wiki	0.844507	0.844507	Ohio Governor Vetoes Very Bad 6-Week Abortion Ban, Signs Slightly Less Bad 20-Week Abortion Ban But Kasich vetoes the fetal heartbeat bill. <a href="http://www.istockphoto.com/portfolio/zak00?mediatype=illustration&facets=%7B%22pageNumber%22:1,%22perPage%22:100,%22abstractType%22:%5B%22photos%22,%22illustrations%22,%22video%22,%22audio%22%5D,%22order%22:%22bestMatch%22,%22filterContent%22:%22false%22,%22portfolioID%22:%5B4176963%5D,%22additionalAudio%22:%22true%22,%22f%22:true%7D"</a>/iStock Update, December 13: Gov. John Kasich vetoed legislation known as the “heartbeat bill” today, which aimed to effectively ban abortions after six weeks of gestation—the point at which a fetal heartbeat can be detected. Instead, Kasich signed into law a ban on abortions after 20 weeks of gestation. The new 20-week ban passed through the Ohio legislature a little more than a week after the “heartbeat bill.” Update, December 6: The Ohio House passed this bill in a 56-39 vote, just hours after it passed Ohio’s Senate. The bill is now headed to Gov. John Kasich’s desk. If he signs it, Ohio will become the third state to pass such a measure; similar bills in Arkansas and North Dakota were struck down by the 8th Circuit Court, and the Supreme Court affirmed those rulings by declining to hear any appeals. On Tuesday, the Ohio Senate voted to approve a ban on abortions once a heartbeat can be detected, which usually occurs at six weeks into the pregnancy. The Columbus Dispatch reported that Sen. Kris Jordan (R-Ohio) introduced the bill. “This is just flat-out the right thing to do,” Jordan said. “It affords the most important liberty of all—the opportunity to live.” The House had already passed the Heartbeat Bill for the third time; its two previous versions failed to pass the Senate. This time, the Heartbeat Bill language was inserted at the last minute, into a measure that revised state child abuse and neglect laws. It passed in the Senate, 21-10.* But Senate Minority Leader Joe Schiavoni objected because the law will almost certainly be challenged in court and found unconstitutional. Similar laws have been blocked by federal judges in North Dakota and Arkansas because they were inconsistent with Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that established a woman’s right to an abortion. Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated when the heartbeat bill had passed the House. Trump Can’t Overturn Roe, But He Will Still Be a Nightmare for Abortion Rights	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798967
__label__cc	0.608284	0.391716	Board and Council Mission and Founding PRIMO Risk Management Award Risk & Resilience Radar From Global to Local Global Risks Report Nederlands, Vlaams Tackling Public Risk: a practical guide for policy makers 31 January 2011 Government, Library Source: Risk & Regulation Advisory Council, United Kingdom This report captures and explains the experience, knowledge and good practice developed by the Risk and Regulation Advisory Council. The guide explains how policy makers can apply the Council’s approach to their own public risk issues. Executive Summary (quote) “The Risk and Regulation Advisory Council has been leading an experimental offensive against the mishandling of risk in society. It looked at how distorted perceptions of risks can encourage poor policy-making and unnecessary laws, leading people to feel that Government is interfering too much in their lives. Through its experimental work programme and research the Council has developed an approach to help tackle public risk issues in an increasingly risk-averse environment, and has shown how successful this can be. This approach means taking a step back from the immediate concern, recognising the wide range of groups that can combine to influence responses to a risk, and incorporating them actively into the policy-making process. It allows policy-makers to get to grips with risk issues, developing a common understanding with a wide range of interested people and groups leading to more positive outcomes. It can be used by policy- makers in developing policy, in implementing policy and in evaluating and refining policy. It will help build a policy that is robust and widely supported, reducing the chance of unintended consequences and the policy being unnecessarily criticised. The approach places an emphasis on three key disciplines: • Understanding the risk in context – getting to the bottom of how perceptions of the risk have been shaped, including through mapping the landscape around the risk. • Engaging with a broad community – actively engaging the many different groups of people who have an interest in the issue and its outcomes, from an early stage, using the map of the risk landscape to develop a common understanding of the issues and to explore together how the issues can be tackled. • Effective communication – quickly restoring focus to the underlying nature of any given risk, provoking insightful debate amongst the public about interventions and trade-offs. This document compliments the Risk and Regulation Advisory Council’s report “Response with Responsibility – Policy-making for public risk in the 21st century” which summarises the results of its programme of work and recommends the wider use of its approach by providing a high-level practical guide to tackle public risk issues. It captures and communicates the experience, knowledge and good practice developed by the Risk and Regulation Advisory Council during the last 15 months in a practical guide for policy makers. This guide explains how policy-makers can apply this approach to their own public risk issues, and what they should consider when doing so. It also provides details of tools developed and tested by the Risk and Regulation Advisory Council to support this approach as well setting out where to go for further help.” Download Tackling Public Risk PRIMO enters KnowledgeHub Future Global Shocks The Risk Landscape Risk and Responsibility in a Hyperconnected World Climate Change 2013 A worldwide Network for Responding to the Next Crisis Worrier’s Guide to Risk The UK Government response to "Response with Responsibility" PRIMO is the premium European network for knowledge sharing in public risk & resilience management 10 Ways to improve risk management 22 Strategic Risks What Is Public Value? How Can It Be Created & Sustained Yuval Noah Harari: the world after coronavirus Examples of Public Risk Communication Bruno Latour: ‘This is a global catastrophe that has come from within’ 12 Principles of Good Governance and European Label of Governance Excellence (ELoGE) SONAR 2020: New emerging risk insights The looming risk for banks: biodiversity loss John Adams on Risk «La crise économique liée au Covid-19: une épreuve de vérité pour les principes qui guident les dirigeants des grandes entreprises» Your Company Is Too Risk-Averse COVID-19: A Failure in Risk Management Quality Manager becomes Risk Manager in ISO 9001:2015 Visualizing the History of Pandemics Transforming enterprise risk management for value in the insurance industry Public Perceptions of Climate Change as a Human Health Risk In alliance with 2015 © PRIMO Premium Theme by Governance Connect	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798969
__label__cc	0.636702	0.363298	Withdrawal of Armenian forces from Nagorno-Karabakh begins Withdrawal of Armenian forces from Nagorno-Karabakh begins The statement came from the Russian Defense Ministry. https://static.report.az/photo/e0f20a45-44c6-4e16-b0a2-8f20927a4031.jpg From 07:00 Baku time, Russia begins to deploy a peacekeeping contingent in the zone of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in parallel with the withdrawal of the Armenian armed forces. Report informs, the statement came from the Russian Defense Ministry. “In accordance with the statement of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the President of the Russian Federation and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia dated November 10, 2020, at 06:00 Moscow time (07:00 Baku time) in parallel with the withdrawal of Armenian forces from Nagorno-Karabakh the deployment of a peacekeeping contingent of the Russian Federation begins,” ministry informed. Anar Tagiyev https://static.report.az/photo/521ea7f7-9159-350b-a557-a7cab76a438a_50.jpg Azerbaijani version Video Ermənistan silahlı qüvvələrinin Dağlıq Qarabağdan çıxarılmasına başlanılıb Russian version VideoНачинается вывод вооруженных сил Армении из Нагорного Карабаха	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798971
__label__wiki	0.605698	0.605698	Category: Katherine Foxhall Following Valerian: New Name, Old Idea Katherine Foxhall In late August, 1781, Sir Charles Blagden, physician, Francophile, army surgeon and Fellow (later to be Secretary) of the Royal Society of London received a letter from his friend, Thomas Curtis. Curtis was concerned about the health of his son, who for more than a decade had suffered a ‘very peculiar kind of head ach’ with ‘a dizziness, or partial vision’, and which recently seemed to coincide with the fortnightly full or changed moon. Curtis had sought the opinions of plenty of doctors, but their prescriptions had failed. Blagden responded swiftly. He proposed that the young man was suffering from what the French called migraine. Blagden was not convinced that the moon’s phases were causing Curtis’ illness, but if the young man’s disease returned on 12 September 1781 (the date of the next full moon), Blagden instructed that the young Mr Curtis should have twelve ounces of blood taken a week later, and then to trial valerian ‘in considerable doses’, increasing the dose until his stomach could bear no more. ‘Valerian’. Credit: Wellcome Collection: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/rw9eqv2m. Having long been known as an anticonvulsant, by the middle of the eighteenth century the herb Valerian had become something of a fashionable prescription for treating migraine. The distinguished physician Richard Mead, author of the famous Treatise concerning the influence of the sun and moon upon human bodies (1748) recommended frequent use of valerian root for periodic diseases of the head ‘pulverized before it shoot out its stalk’.[1] This seems to have prompted the Scottish physician John Fordyce to try it for his own hemicrania. Finding it of very great benefit, he recommended taking drachm doses of valerian three or four times a day in his essay De Hemicrania (1765). Erasmus Darwin included both bleeding and valerian in Zoonomia as treatments for the symptoms of hemicrania, and physicians throughout the nineteenth century would continue to recommend the herb. Such influential texts explain why Blagden turned to valerian for his young patient’s periodic ailment, but it struck me that this had not been one of the herbs that I had come across during the many months I had spent researching the Wellcome Library’s collection of recipe books for seventeenth century migraine remedies, though Nicholas Culpeper talked of valerian’s warming properties, and recommended the root for headache, diseases of the eyes, wounds splinters and thorns. I forgot about Curtis, and moved on. Then, by accident, I discovered that the valerian family also contains a plant called spikenard, and the penny dropped. Like valerian root, spikenard has an earthy musky odour, and a similar effect on the body – having sedative and relaxing properties. Suddenly, valerian didn’t appear to be an eighteenth-century story, but an episode in a longer history, which I’ve written about here before. But the story goes back even further. The dispensatory of the Nestorian physician and pharmacologist Sābūr ibn Sahl, from southwestern Iran, is one of the earliest pharmacopeia written in Arabic. Dating from the ninth century CE, it provides important evidence of medieval Eastern Arabic medical practice. In Chapter Four of the dispensatory instructions set out the preparation of nard oil, an expensive essential oil with sedative properties used to treat hemicrania, among other things. This was an expensive recipe requiring a large investment to collect over twenty herbal ingredients (including cyprus, laurel, elecampane, citronella, myrtle leaves, wild caraway, forget-me-not, sweet marjoram, stalkless roses, fresh myrtle-water, myrrh and grape ivy), and prepare them with different liquids in three stages taking several days. The third stage took Indian spikenard (the ingredient that gave ‘nard oil’ its name), pounded together with cloves, storax, nutmeg, added to fresh water, balm oil and the strained oil from the previous two stages. Then the whole concoction should be boiled until the water had disappeared, before being bottled, stored and used as required. Remedies for ‘Mygreyn’ in a Fifteenth century leechbook. Credit: Wellcome Collection MS.MSL.136: https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b19295467#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=192&z=0.0194%2C0.2362%2C0.8409%2C0.673. Several centuries later, we find a mid fifteenth-century English ‘leechbook’ contained a recipe for migraine attributed to ‘Galen the good philosopher’ that required several of these same ingredients: nutmeg, ginger, cloves, a pennyweight of ‘spiknard’, anise, elecampane, liquorice, and sugar. By the sixteenth century, spikenard was appearing in print. In 1526, the anonymously published A New Book of Medecynes gave a recipe for migraine, postume and dropsy requiring ‘iiii peny weyght of the rote of Pyllatory of Spayne / a half peny weyght of Spygnarde’, ground together and boiled in good vinegar. The compilers of recipe books (including this blog’s favourite Mrs Corlyon) adapted these remedies to local conditions, substituting herbs of similarly warm, dry and aromatic qualities (such as sage and rosemary) that they could more easily obtain or grow. Following translations is notoriously hard, as Sietske Fransen’s post shows, but spikenard and valerian have weaved their way through more than a thousand years of migraine history. Does it work? Perhaps. It certainly has sedative properties, so today it’s more commonly used for insomnia. [1] Richard Mead, A Treatise concerning the influence of the sun and moon upon Human Bodies and the Diseases thereby produced trans. Richard Stack (London: J. Brindley, 1748), 84-6 Katherine Foxhall is Lecturer in Modern History at University of Leicester. Her new book, a history of migraine, will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2019. Tales from the Archives – Gumpowder? A strange little recipe for sensitive teeth… In September 2017, The Recipes Project celebrated its fifth birthday. We now have over 600 posts in our archives and over 150 pages for readers to sift through. That’s a lot of material! (And thank you so much to our contributors for sharing such a wealth of knowledge on recipes.) But with so much material on the site, it’s easy for earlier pieces to be forgotten. So, the editors have decided that, every now and then, we’ll pull something out of the archives to share with our readers anew. November in the UK is marked by fireworks, which commemorate the failed Gunpowder Plot, orchestrated by Guy Fawkes in 1605. When I first moved to the UK in 2001, I was a little surprised to see firework displays in the Autumn – in Belgium and France they are much more common in the Summer. However, I quickly got used to wrapping up warm to go and enjoy sparkling nights. I have trailed the Recipes Project archive for a firework-related post, and have found this post from 2012 by Katherine Foxhall on the therapeutic uses of gunpowder. Certainly not one to try at home! By Katherine Foxhall If you go to your bathroom and check the ingredients in your well-known brand of sensitive toothpaste, you may well find that the recipe contains the active ingredient potassium nitrate. Also known as saltpetre or nitre, this naturally occurring mineral is found in foods as a preservative (e.g. corned beef), and used in fertilizer, cigarettes, blood pressure medicines and fireworks. Since medieval times it has formed one of the main ingredients in gunpowder, and it is this connection that has also given potassium nitrate a long association with teeth and gums. Many of the seventeenth and eighteenth century recipe books in the Wellcome Library’s manuscripts include treatments for gunpowder burns, but some also proposed that gunpowder could be therapeutic. Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh (sister to the famous chemist Robert Boyle), recommended a ‘little gunpowder’ applied in a linen cloth to ease toothache. On one page of Anne Brumwich’s recipe book (Wellcome MS 160, p.83) we can find nine recipes for toothache remedies written in two different hands. One, ‘An aproved medecine for ye toothake’ (approved meant that it worked) required gunpowder, aniseed water and lint, mingled together to ‘make a litell thing’. Once the sufferer had picked their tooth very clean, the recipe instructed them to push the preparation into the tooth, taking care not to allow any of the mixture down the throat. A century later, in A Treatise on the Scurvy (1795) David Paterson introduced his fellow naval surgeons to a wonderful, and apparently unknown remedy for scurvy: during a voyage in 1784, he claimed, he had restored the health of eighty sick seamen not with lemon juice, fresh fruit or vegetables, but with the potassium nitrate extracted from the gunpowder in his ship’s stores. Paterson’s remedy was soon forgotten, until in 1828, a desperate surgeon named Charles Cameron, having used up all his supplies of lemon juice, remembered Paterson’s recipe. Cameron was stranded in the calms near the equator and he was faced with a ship’s hospital full of scorbutic convicts, less than half way through the voyage to Australia. He extracted the nitre from the powder, dissolved some of it in vinegar, and mixed some more with vinegar and lime juice. He also added a little sugar (to taste?!) The effects were ‘miraculous’. For the Navy, if Cameron was right, this was a money-saving opportunity; nitre was cheap and did not decompose over time. In the following decades surgeons continued to experiment with different remedies for scurvy until, in 1840, the Admiralty decided to perform a large-scale experiment to determine once and for all the best scurvy remedy. Over the next four years the surgeons of sixty ships transporting fifteen thousand convict men from Britain and Ireland to Australia received crystallised citric acid, potassium nitrate, and lemon juice. Their instructions clearly forbade the surgeons from trying to cause scurvy during the voyage but if the disease did appear, the patients were to be divided into three groups, each group receiving one of the remedies. Of course, the surgeons often had their own ideas, and often altered, combined and varyed the doses according to their own personal favoured recipe. So, while Surgeon Deas mixed some nitre with lime juice and some with citric acid, and felt that both mixtures were useful, Alexander Bryson gave each group the remedies mixed in a glass of wine, water and sugar. After many of the convicts developed severe scurvy, Bryson finally decided that potassium nitrate was ‘objectionable’. The surgeons had come to very different conclusions about the value of potassium nitrate but the results of the experiment were clear; potassium nitrate was abandoned as useless, lemon juice was in for good. In the mid 1970s, dental researchers – in laboratories this time, rather than on ships – began to report a strange occurrence: mixing potassium nitrate with toothpaste seemed to reduce dental sensitivity in sufferers. More work confirmed the compound’s beneficial effects, but the scientists still admitted that they were unclear why it should work; being soluble, it seemed that it should simply dissolve in water and wash out of the teeth at first rinse. Jump forward again to the present, and potassium nitrate is often used as the active ingredient in products for sensitive teeth. So we have come a long way in medical understanding since women like Anne Brumwich stuffed aching teeth with gunpowder soaked lint, or Victorian naval surgeons dosed their convicts with nitre in the certainty that it helped with scurvy, and yet nitre has proved persistent: these earlier ideas about potassium nitrate’s ability to reduce not only the pain of toothache, but the symptoms of scurvy – a disease so commonly experienced in the mouth and gums – are worth wondering about. Hunting for herbs: chasing migraine remedies across the centuries I was delighted to see Mrs Corlyon’s recipe book (Wellcome MS.213) as the subject of Jennifer Sherman Roberts’ recent post on this blog. Here, I am going to explore another of Mrs Corlyon’s recipes: A Gargas or Medecine for the Megreeme in the heade. Take Sage Rosemary and of Pellitory of Spaine, the rootes of eche of these a like quantity, and boil them in a pinte of Vineger, uppon a chafing dish of coales, untill halfe be consumed, then putt therein two good spoonefulles of Mustard beyng made with good vineger, and so lett it boile a while, And then take a litle of it, as hott as you can suffer and holde it in your mouthe, as you shall feele occasion and then spitt it out, and take more and doe this five or six times every morninge so long as you shall fynde occasion or feele your selfe greeved. My current book project is a history of migraine from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century (funded by the Wellcome Trust). Having found nearly a hundred different recipes for migraine treatments in published and manuscript remedy collections from the late sixteenth to the mid seventeenth century, I have become fascinated by examples of knowledge transfer from print to manuscript and vice versa. It seems likely that recipes would often have made this leap. Cheap medical books were common in the seventeenth century, and recipe collections were among the most affordable, costing only a couple of pence. For example, in his Breviary of Helthe (1547) – one of the earliest medical texts to have been published in English, and which went through at least six editions by 1598 – Andrew Boorde recommended that sufferers of ‘megryme’ should avoid eating garlic, ramsons and onions. Similar advice appeared in Philip Barrough’s Method of Phisicke (1583). Sure enough, a few years later we find Mrs Corlyon recommending that sufferers of migraine should ‘forbeare much butter or anything wherin Garlicke, onions, or any leeke be used’. It is also interesting to note the recipes that did not end up in manuscript collections, suggesting knowledge that remained purely theoretical. Bleeding for migraine was common in print, but did not seem to translate into personal collections. Neither did recipes for migraine reflect a fashion for New World tobacco, nor feature ingredients such as bole armoniac or terra sigillata deriving from classical medical traditions. Many published books contained details of simples (single ingredients, often herbs) but compilers of manuscript recipe collections rarely stuck with one, when several would do. Tanacetum cinerariifolium (Pellitory of Spain) Credit: Wellcome Library, London. To return to Corlyon’s recipe: sage, rosemary and pellitory of Spain were considered hot and dry herbs, and therefore good for migraines, as they were supposed to draw out excess phlegmatic and waterish humours from the head (see Anne Stobart’s post on herbal qualities). Sage and rosemary also have a strong aromatic smell, and combined with the pungent vinegar and mustard would have enhanced a sensation of the remedy infusing through the head. So the rationale behind the recipe seems clear, but can we trace its provenance more precisely? Searching for pellitory of spain in recipe collections from Early English Books Online yields some interesting leads. In 1526, the anonymous A New Book of Medecynes contained a recipe ‘for the mygrayme in the heed’ requiring ‘rote of Pyllatory of Spayne / a half peny weyght of Spygnarde’, to be ground together, boiled in vinegar, mixed with honey and mustard and held in the mouth a spoonful at a time. This recipe was not new even then: it also appears in a fifteenth-century leechbook, with the additional instruction to hold the preparation in the mouth ‘as long as though mayest say two Agnus Dei’. We find a similar recipe in Thomas Vicary’s English Man’s Treasure (1586), this time requiring ‘Pelitorie of Spaine’, ‘Stavisacre’, ginger and cinnamon in a linen bag soaked in vinegar and held in the mouth. I was excited to be able to trace this back further still to a fourteenth-century collection containing a remedy for ‘Þe mygrenen’ requiring ‘peletir of spane and stafsacre in a litil poke’. Seven different types of sage (Salvia species): Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Mrs Corlyon’s recipe simply replaces Stavesacre, a poisonous plant of the delphinium family, grown in southern Europe, and Spikenard, an aromatic plant from the Himalayas, with similarly hot and dry herbs (sage and rosemary) that she could more easily obtain or grow herself. It is always difficult to know how ordinary people read books, and the extent to which knowledge on paper was adapted in practice, but tracing recipes such as this shows how practical knowledge could remain ‘current’ even across the space of several centuries. Pilau, eighteenth-century style To follow Katherine Allen’s post on tobacco: some thoughts on a different colonial import. Researching in recipe books often presents tempting diversions, and this recipe for ‘Pilau after the East Indian manner’ looks pretty tasty. Sarah Tully [and others], Book of receipts for Cookery and Pastry, eighteenth century. Wellcome Library MS 8687. Image credit: Wellcome Library (author’s own photo). Boil half a pound of Butter to a pound of Rice & when the Butter is turn’d to Oil put in some Mace Cloves whole pepper & cinnamon together with the Rice and stir it about & let it fry till the Butter is almost dryd & soak’d away, Let a Fowl at the same time be boiling in Mutton Broth till it be enough & then pour as much Broth upon the Rice as will cover it about three Inches & let that boil away without stirring, only raising it now & then from the bottom for fear of its being burnt, then add by degrees a little & little more Broth until the Rice is boiled th[r]ough and quite Dry, then Dish it, putting the Fowl in the Dish first & pouring the Rice over it with some Salt according to your Taste. The recipe comes from Sarah Tully’s recipe book which she probably began when she married Sir Richard Hoare, heir to Hoare’s bank and, by 1745, Lord Mayor of London. A portrait of Sarah Tully in the National Trust collection depicts her amid rural scenery, dressed as a shepherdess. Unfortunately, Sarah died only four years after her marriage. She left one son, and other anonymous hands continued her recipe collection. We have seen in recent posts about chocolate and gingerbread that spices such as cinnamon and cloves were common ingredients in the early modern household, but the Hoare household seemed to have been uncommonly fond of foreign flavours for their time. Recipes include ‘A Loyn of Mutton Kebob’d’, ‘currie powder’ and ‘Indian pickle’, in addition to cosmopolitan European recipes for ‘Parmason cheese’ and ‘Fromage Fondu’. Hoare’s Bank held investments in the South Sea Company, Royal African Company and East India Company. While other investors including Isaac Newton lost a great deal of money when the South Sea bubble burst in 1720, perhaps the fact that Hoare’s Bank made a substantial profit from ‘riding the bubble’, contributed to their culinary as well as financial enthusiasm for the exotic. Several printed books from the late seventeenth century mention pilau (other spellings include pellow and peelaw). In the 1690s, Simon de La Loubere’s A New Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Siam explained that ‘the Levantines, or Eastern People, do sometimes boil Rice with Flesh and Pepper, and then put some Saffron thereunto, and this Dish they call Pilau’ while Antoine Galland described ‘a great Dish of pilau’, made of rice, and dressed with butter, fat or gravy. Other writers were less than complimentary; according to Jean-Baptiste Tavernier’s Collections of travels through Turky into Persia (1684) the Turks’ use of three pounds of butter to six of rice (the same ratio as in Sarah Tully’s recipe), made the dish ‘so extraordinary fat, that it disgusts, and is nauseous to those who are not accustom’d thereto, and accordingly would rather have the Rice itself simply boyl’d with Water and Salt’. In 1709, William King dismissed Peter Heylin’s suggestion that the inspiration for European silver forks had originally come from China, scoffing that ‘These sticks are of no use but for their sort of meat, which being Pilau, is all boil’d to Rags’. It is likely that the pilau recipe in Sarah Tully’s book dates from the middle of the eighteenth century; Hannah Glasse’s The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy (1747) contained what seems to have been the first published curry recipe in England as well as a very similar recipe to Tully’s for ‘a pellow the Indian way’–though in Glasse’s recipe the fowl is also accompanied by bacon, half a dozen hard eggs and a dozen onions ‘fried whole and very brown’. By the nineteenth century, ‘curry’ was commonplace in English households – even if the pre-mixed powder commonly used bore little relation to its ‘authentic’ Indian roots. Dating recipes is one thing, but understanding their meaning in households is another. In Nabobs (2010), Tillman W. Nechtman argues that hookah pipes, turbans and curry powder exposed Britain as ‘an irretrievably imperial nation’, but, as Troy Bickham has commented, it is difficult to find evidence of how items such as recipes were used in practice. This early pilau recipe copied into a private book suggests that recipe collections might be a good source for understanding the changing ways in which the empire was incorporated into the daily routines of British homes. I’ll admit, I’m still tempted to make this pilau, though maybe I will leave out some of the butter.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798979
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Nascarella, Ph.D., Massachusetts Department of Public Health 6. Mich[egrave]le Pr[eacute]vost, Ph.D., Polytechnique Montreal 7. P. Barry Ryan, Ph.D., Emory University 8. Kathleen Vork, Ph.D., California Office of Environment Health Hazard EPA requests that no individual or organization in any way contact the peer reviewers regarding the subject of the peer review meeting, send them written materials regarding the subject of the meeting, or make any offers or requests to any of them that appear to be linked to their participation in the peer review. ERG will direct the reviewers to report any such contacts directly to ERG, and take appropriate action in consultation with EPA to ensure the independence and impartiality of the peer review. IV. Information About the Peer Review Meeting EPA has charged the peer reviewers with evaluating and preparing written comments on the draft lead modeling report. Specifically, reviewers will work individually to provide general comments, their overall impressions of the draft lead modeling report, and responses to the charge questions. Reviewers will also consider the appropriateness of the quality, accuracy, and relevance of the data in the lead modeling report. Prior to the meeting, ERG will provide the peer reviewers with a summary of the public comments (along with the full text of all comments) on the draft lead modeling report and peer review charge questions that were submitted to EPA's public docket (Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-2016-0686) during the public comment period. Dated: May 8, 2017. Michael H. Shapiro, Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Water.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798984
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__label__cc	0.671493	0.328507	food and spirituality thoughtful discussions around higher aspects of food! Food, Philosophy and Finance Begin Here Life, Men & Microbes Help! The Dog Ate My Dinner! Hello Fabulous Food Friends! Bitcoin and Food – So Similar? Mothers and Soldiers Tag: Thomas Hobbes Post author By Raw Tibicos When was the last time we found ourselves discussing the connections between finance, food, and spirituality? There is so much to say, and the concepts involved have such wide-ranging impact, that perhaps they should be on every secondary school’s curriculum. One cannot imagine how such a primary subject got missed; which is why this topic will cover more than one post. Let’s not allow another moment to escape without beginning this discussion! The philosophy of our modern diet, and our modern finance began with religion in the dark ages. Most of today’s world was born and raised in monotheistic systems that came to dominance after the agricultural and iron age revolutions, solidifying about one to two thousand years ago, depending on region. In the West, Christianity was by-and-large imposed from the top down, imposing a theology of One God over a landscape that had harboured gods and goddesses – who represented both human failings and divine help, divinities tied to one particular place, minor spirits who helped with one aspect of life, helpful totems associated with each tribe, and spirits of everyday items, trees, rocks, hills, herbs – in a word, polytheism. In ancient times, Rome’s founding was associated with the wolf who nursed Romulus and Remus – the snake was associated with wisdom and healing – Irish tribes were said to each have their own totem tree – the Netherlands is named after its own goddess of place, Helle (Hol-land); not to mention the divinities who gave us the days of the week, and also represented movements of the sun, moon and visible planets. Plato’s writings could be said to have laid the foundations for monotheism by popularizing the concept of one perfect, abstract archetype that lies behind each type of material object. Behind every cat, lies an abstract “cat”, which contains all the physical cats – behind every meal, lies an abstract “meal” that epitomizes all the meals – and so on. These writings and the traditions they came from, were lost to early Europe for a time, but preserved in the Middle East, and thus were part of the cultural landscape as both books of the Bible were written. Those who have dipped into Icelandic Sagas, particularly the work of Snorri Sturluson, will have read about the discussion in Iceland, circa the year 1000, about whether people should follow the Norse tradition of polytheism, or adopt Christianity. This is how we know that for kings, Christianity had one siren virtue; Divine Right. Divine Right is the belief that God has chosen our parents in order to place us in the sphere of life in which He wants us. In other words, kings are made by God; any disobedience to the royal will is a sin against God and the proper order as determined by absolute authority. It is a very Calvinist notion – far more punitive than the idea of karma, where those born into misery must have sinned in previous lives. With karma the door is open for improvement in this life – with divine right, one man is locked in place at the top – and the rest are frozen in an immutable hierarchy below. The difference, in fact, relates to whether philosophy holds “the one” or “the many” as the basis of correct thinking. Calvinism and the Divine Right of Kings have only one narrative; karma is a choose-your-own-adventure. . . According to the old testament, “the many” are closer to our instincts as humans; the Bible itself describes the difficulties in maintaining monotheism. A glance at today’s Christianity shows many polytheistic elements: the Trinity, Mother Mary, Saints, places such as Lourdes, as well as the more humble practice of exorcism. Monarchies have mostly been superseded by non-hereditary forms of government, but the concept of divine right in politics continues – modern government is quite intolerant of challenges to its authority. Extending the analogy, many readers will notice the similarity in structure between divine right of kings and the central bank system of finance and currency that each country has today! Try paying for your meal with wampum, cowrie shells, or salt, all of which were once considered valid currency – established in common law, one might say – unlike challenging the government, so secure are central banks that the most probably reaction will be laughter! The most famous proponent of the divine right of kings was Thomas Hobbes. Hobbes’ opinions have frequently been attributed to his premature birth due to his mother’s fear at the news of the Spanish Armada approaching England – in itself, a very Calvinist explanation for a remarkable work of either wisdom, or propaganda – depending on one’s beliefs. Hobbes most famous work, Leviathan, is celebrated for his analogy of government as a human body – the king is the head, and each hierarchal hereditary group has its immutable place in the “body politic”, held in place by natural law, as our bones, organs and muscles are held in one spot by our functioning systems. Many will have heard the most famous quote from the Leviathan, where Hobbes calls life without a monarch, “nasty, brutish and short”. Hobbes’ Leviathan is a classic example of how our desires mold our beliefs! Thinkers before this era recognized the heart and the gut, (and a lower organ), together with the head, as alternate sources of behaviour. Modern science supports the earlier view – the gut has been found to have its own complex nervous system – our hearts are another source of decision-making, controlling some hormones and body functions – and perhaps even Hobbes didn’t believe that our heads always ruled all of our lower organs! Thomas Hobbes was tutor to Charles, Prince of Wales during the period of the English Civil war, which is to say that Thomas Hobbes had a personal financial incentive to write as he did, as did the many who quoted his work, so perhaps we shouldn’t assume that he was completely behind all that he wrote. Interestingly, at about the time that Hobbes was proposing government as a body politic, food in the western world was changing. Previously, food in the Christian world was in line with the rest of the world: each bite was supposed to contain all of the four flavours – sweet, savoury, salty and sour. Think of a mincemeat pie; one of the few survivors of the change in philosophy from a polytheistic (many) to a monotheistic (one) cuisine. The new style was invented in France – also the origin of the ultimate expression of the divine right of kings – L’état, c’est moi – and involved a single flavour – a breast of turkey, for example – with a sauce of thickened turkey juice, to intensify the turkey flavour. Normally, Raw Tibicos is in favour of culinary diversity, however, in hindsight, one can notice three unfortunate results of the switch to monotheistic cuisine. First: the unitary flavours tend to make us overeat. We fill up on the savoury, but yearn to overeat as our sweet and sour flavours have not been satisfied! Second: the unitary flavour concept led to the idea of “purity” in food, which has lead us to nutritional nightmares such as white sugar and white, bleached flour. Third: monotheism in food has led to the notion that getting almost all our calories from only wheat, beef, and tomatoes is virtuous – in other words – only one starch, only one meat, and only one veg! Never challenge the king’s rule, and never challenge the supremacy of wheat, beef, tomatoes, in many, many forms. Over the past few decades, in the Christian world, the people most likely to say, L’état, c’est moi, have been not monarchs, but central bankers. When younger, Raw Tibicos spent a few years in the World of New York Banks. At that time, the elder bankers were – without exception – while wearing bespoke suits, hand-tailored shoes, handing around cigars, snorting white, hopping in taxis to go to surf ’n’ turf meals – they were smiling while saying that North America was going to become a service economy. Being a rather literal child, Raw Tibicos couldn’t help imagining how happy these bankers would be in a pure service economy — nothing but services — getting pat downs and foot massages as compensation for being naked and homeless in a New York winter – smoking and snorting – what? – another person’s breath, provided as a service? Being carried around by two stout (naked) service providers, to a lovely dinner of one’s own saliva – or perhaps, in a service economy – someone else’s? Joking aside, talk of becoming a service economy was never about reality – it was an expression of hierarchy – the kind of hierarchy Hobbes, the king’s tutor, understood. Banks themselves are the epitome of a service industry. At this time, Raw Tibicos was interested in politics, rather than banking, and spent may hours chatting with the bank’s chief lobbyist. We may have discussed questions such as: if one buys a politician, the politician who is bought – isn’t he also part of a service economy? His service is pleasing campaign donors? Like Hobbes, our beliefs follow our desires. One of the most basic desires of mankind, is to be surrounded by “people like us”. From a self-referential, mirror-gazing perspective, one can understand that policy-makers (who are of the service economy) might think that increasing the number of “people like them”, is the ultimate good, and those who do so are benefactors. That’s logic! What Plato has to say about politicians verges on rude, so we will pass him by. Thomas Hobbes was a monarchist, of course, and would not hesitate to tell us that rule by the service economy, for the purpose of expanding the service economy, would be like having a body politic composed of only hands. Hands are the service sector of the physical body. Having fiscal policies that benefit only hands, brings new meaning to the expression, “he’s all hands,” doesn’t it? Amazing how the rudeness creeps back in, isn’t it? In a monotheistic world one function is more important and rules over the others. For Hobbes it was the monarch, the head. In the modern world we feel democratic by making a lower part of the body supreme – the hands. Yet, whether the head or the hands rule, it is still rule of the one! Yet, this all relates back to food. Both Plato, and Hobbes, and in fact, all pre-modern philosophers lived in a culinary world where all food was local, seasonal and organic, and in all cases, white flour would have been an expensive delicacy, and sugar almost non-existent. Plato travelled from Athens to Italy and Egypt, and ended up summarizing his archetypal ideal meal as bread, wine, figs, cheese and honey, along with other fruits and perhaps beer – but absolutely never large servings of meat. History has not recorded Thomas Hobbes food preferences – all we have is one Dad joke – probably apocryphal: Q: What was Hobbes favourite healthy drink? A: A shot of cod liver oil (“nasty, brutish and short”) History has also remained silent on the bacterial contents of pre-modern philosopher’s guts. We can find a proxy, though. Recent research with the Hadza – a hunting-gathering tribe still following traditional food ways – has shown some incredibly interesting facts: Overall diversity of bacteria was much greater with the Hadza than modern populations, The composition of the bacteria changed seasonally, as food changed, Bacteria associated with illness in the modern world, Treponema, were not only more prevalent among these hunter-gatherers, but the autoimmune diseases we associate with these bacteria in modern populations do not appear in the Hadza, Bacteria differed in men and women, reflecting a different proportion of hunting, versus gathered foods eaten by men and women. Perhaps beauty is more than skin deep – perhaps it is gut-biome deep? Our two featured philosophers were separated by almost two millennia, but their gut biomes – in fact, the guts of every single person before modern n food – would have been closer to the Hadza than to ours. All our ancestors gut biomes would have been seasonal, location-based, and complex – a polytheistic gut biome, in effect – or, in body politic terms – it would have had all its limbs, organs, functions, with competing centres of decision-making power. Modern gut biomes are hands only! Hobbes could plead that the head should be paramount over all the other centres of bodily power – we who live in a centralized, simplified, sterile world must balance our bodies and diets by seizing the other end of the analogy. For us, health, prosperity and happiness of a polity, a body, or a meal depend on overlapping power structures, overlapping tastes and textures, complementary dishes and beverages, independent decisions by heart, mind, soul, gut, government, business, labour, service – independent yet with a common goal of health, wealth, happiness. Hobbes lived in a world of always changing diverse gut bacteria, diverse dialects, customs and foods, which change as one travels even a few miles away; and a wide range of currencies available in each market, not only bi- and tri-metalism, but English, Spanish, French coins of different (and changing) values, not to mention frequent barter and promissory notes. He sought to balance this with what we today call totalitarianism; (although it is important to note that the ability of the monarch, at this time, to impose his will often did not extend beyond his court). In contrast, today we have thin, fragile, monoculture biomes, year-round choice of the same few processed foods, paid for with a single centrally-controlled currency, bought in towns that each resemble the other. For balance, to be whole people, at least our cuisine must be polytheistic. Hobbes, personal tutor to a monarch, spoke for the head, and history followed. If we, the many, speak for and cultivate the microbiome, what will our future be? Shall we revel in the beautiful complexity of our bodies? Shall we care for our intestinal biomes, like gardeners and gourmets, wrapped into one? Shall we explore how changing our diet – not only changes our internal biome – but also shifts the external biome too? Much has been said about how the flap of a butterfly wing can affect events miles away – and that may be – however for Raw Tibicos, the small action of a central banker pressing “return” on a keyboard has a direct effect on the food we all eat, in a way that policy-makers themselves may not be aware aware of; and in return, the food that we eat (in the aggregate) shall rebound onto national policy. Shall we return to choose-your-own-adventure? Placed here is a conceptual overview, future discussions will go deeper and higher, looser and tighter, so please stay tuned! Tags Banking and food, Christianity and food, French cuisine, gut biome, Leviathan, modern food, monotheism, Plato, polytheism, Thomas Hobbes © 2021 food and spirituality	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798990
__label__wiki	0.775234	0.775234	4:44pm, 31 October 2020 Clive Woodward sensationally calls out Italy and their abject Six Nations form ahead of England game Former England rugby head coach Clive Woodward dropped some serious facts on Italy and their abject form in the Six Nations over the past 10 years. The World-Cup winning head coach called out the Azurri after their head coach spoke in a pre-match interview about Italy using the game as part of their ‘rebuilding’ project. Woodward, who was on the ITV pre-match panel seemed to have had enough of the talk from Italian coaches, who have been dire in the tournament in the past 5 years. “They need to stop saying they’re on a 3-year project. I’d prefer them to say, ‘we have one game, if we don’t win this game we’re all gone.’ The mindset just got to be about the next game”. We personally love this from Clive Woodward, Italy needs to up their game unless serious questions will be arisen about their future in the tournament. Love this from @CliveWoodward calling out Italy for their bull ‘ 4-year plan’ talks. Just focus on winning games and not projects… pic.twitter.com/HiMXABRfyn — springbokbabyyy (@springbokbabyyy) October 31, 2020 Wales lose against Scotland Scotland ruined Alun Wyn Jones’ world record-breaking day as they claimed a 14-10 Guinness Six Nations victory over Wales in Llanelli. The Scots’ triumph at a windswept Parc y Scarlets was their first away win against Wales for 18 years. And Wales, who wanted to mark captain Jones breaking Richie McCaw’s world Test match appearance record in winning style, could have few complaints as they suffered a fifth successive defeat. It is their worst run of results since 2016, and they were also consigned to just one victory in the entire Six Nations campaign, which Wales have not experienced for 13 years, to increase pressure on head coach Wayne Pivac. Replacement hooker Stuart McInally’s 61st-minute try proved the difference in a poor game littered with errors and precious little memorable attacking rugby. Finn Russell, whose return to Scotland’s starting line-up lasted just 33 minutes before he suffered a suspected groin injury, kicked a penalty, as did his replacement Adam Hastings, before captain Stuart Hogg’s 80th-minute strike finished Wales off. October 31, 16:44	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1798993
__label__cc	0.683847	0.316153	Complementary and alternative medicine Entertainment/culture Medicine Popular culture Pseudoscience Quackery Science Skepticism/critical thinking The decline of pseudoscience? More like the mainstreaming of pseudoscience 152 Comments on The decline of pseudoscience? More like the mainstreaming of pseudoscience As hard as it is to believe, I’ve been spending a significant part of my time countering pseudoscience for close to 17 years, so long that it seems that I’ve always been doing it. Of course, that’s not true; I didn’t actually become involved in this seemingly never-ending Sisyphean task until I was in my mid-30s, which means that the majority of my life had been spent more or less blissfully ignorant that there are people out there who passionately believe, for example, that vaccines are dangerous and cause autism and that bleach enemas can reverse that autism or that there were quacks out there who advocate slapping yourself silly until you have bruises all over to treat, well, just about anything. And so it is with the vast majority of people out there, including physicians, who by and large know on a superficial level that a lot of what is part of “integrative medicine” involves the “integration” of quackery into medicine but don’t know on a deeper, visceral level what, exactly, that means. Yes, being a skeptic, as rewarding as it is, can often be a lonely calling. Periodically, over the course of my now lengthy history of doing my best to push back against the tide of unreason, I’ve wondered what the situation was. Are we being drowned in a wave of pseudoscience, or is what we skeptics do helping to hold it at bay? What got me thinking about this again, as I do every so often, is an article by Phoebe Maltz Bovy published in The New Republic, entitled The Decline of Pseudoscience, with a subtitle that read: “Now that ‘natural’ living has gone mainstream, its days are numbered.” It’s exactly the sort of op-ed that’s comforting, making the sort of argument that I’d love to believe. After all, why wouldn’t I (or you or any other skeptic) not want to believe that the tide is finally turning, that the seemingly endless swamp of pseudoscience and quackery through which we slog day in and day out is on the verge of being drained? No wonder I saw this shared by several of my friends on Facebook and showing up in several Twitter feeds that I follow. Unfortunately, it’s almost certainly exactly the opposite. Now that “natural” has gone “mainstream,” if anything, it’s become more profitable than ever, which means that it’s going nowhere. It’s actually a bizarre argument that’s worth looking at mainly because of its excessive optimism and confidence that nonsense is going anywhere coupled with not being clear on the concept what is pseudoscience and what is not coupled with a conflation of trendy lifestyle choices with pseudoscience. Basically, Bovy’s entire argument boils down to the first three short paragraphs, with the rest of the article consisting attempts to support a thesis that is questionable at best, totally wrong at worst: Have we reached peak green juice? The New York Times’ Brooks Barnes suggests as much in a recent story about what a haute-hippie refuge in California is bringing to an already over-saturated market: With every mini-mall, gas station and gym in Los Angeles now boasting a juice bar, or so it seems, the truly cutting-edge folks need to raise the ante to the point of ridiculousness. Kale-avocado-dandelion-cucumber-caraway-seed-jalapeño-heirloom-pear smoothie? Snore. When the “Style” section not only identifies a trend, but deems it passé, it’s a safe bet it has indeed run its course. But it’s not just glorified cold vegetable soup that’s lost its allure. The pseudoscience that persists more generally in America is losing its cultural cachet. The story to which Bovy refers describes the Springs, an urban oasis where, according to a waitress there, “You can eat dinner — everything is raw, vegan, organic, soy free and gluten free — and then have your colon cleansed right through that door!” (I suppose you can consider it a full service vegan GI treatment.) One of the features at the Springs is drink made with Pürblack (because naming something with umlauts is always cooler than not), something I had never heard of before and apparently a mineral resin scraped off Himalayan rocks. Supposedly, before swallowing, you’re supposed to swish it around in your mouth to let the extract’s “healing properties” absorb through your gums. The humorous hook in the article was that apparently this drink tastes really bad, having been compared unfavorably to bong water. There’s no doubt that the Springs is a woo-ey place indeed, as a perusal of its website indicates very rapidly. For instance, its “wellness center” offers something called Gravity Colon Hydrotherapy (quackery), which is described as “the equivalent of giving your colon a deep cleansing bath,” complete with claims of “removing toxins” and “strengthening the immune system” (my colon is quite happy the way it is most of the time, with the possible exception of after a heavy meal of spicy Mexican food, thank you very much); craniosacral therapy massage (which is also pure quackery); infrared sauna (more quackery); reiki (faith healing); and a wide variety of other “wellness” quackery. To be honest, I’m just not seeing how a hippy dippy raw vegan restaurant coupled to a woo-filled “wellness” center designed to cater to hip and trendy denizens of Los Angeles and environs being dismissed as passe by the NYT Style section provides evidence that the decline in popularity of pseudoscience is upon us. Indeed, Bovy neglects to mention that, according to the NYT Style article she cited, is a “smash hit” among Angelenos who are into this sort of thing and already turning a profit after only six months in operation, which is very impressive for any new restaurant or spa. If anything, the example chosen seems to argue that, whatever the NYT Style section published about it, dismissive or not (and to my reading it was not), the Springs is a big hit. Moreover, it’s not really any more “woo-ey” than any number of “wellness centers” in LA or elsewhere. Hell, I know of at least two such “wellness centers” with offerings every bit as quacky as those of the Springs within walking distance of my house. (OK, one of them would be a pretty long walk, but it’s still quite doable.) Heck, just Google “vegan restaurant” and “wellness center,” and you’ll see that the Springs is hardly unique. Lots of articles about the Springs pop up, but there are also links to, for example, Coco Green’s Vegan Cafe and Wellness Center, a vegan restaurant and “detox center” in Nashville, TN; the Sol D’Licious Wholistic Cafe in Wisconsin; and the El Ameyal Hotel & Wellness Center in Cabo San Lucas. There aren’t a lot of them, but, based on the success of the Springs, unfortunately, I suspect there soon will be. The second part of Bovy’s argument seems to be that, although pseudoscience such as what’s peddled at the Springs and other such places became status signifiers to which mainstream America aspired, such that: “Healthy” living became associated with being upper class, and therefore glamorous. The pseudoscience embraced by the rich—a group who also have superior access to actual healthy living, as in proper medical care, safe places to exercise, and so forth—is now, in turn, marketed to the rest of the population. I actually don’t disagree with this part. There’s little doubt that “lifestyle” woo such as that epitomized by the Springs now did “trickle down, so that the masses now have access to it, sold and commoditized by companies like Whole Foods. I even partially agree with this: But the backlash has begun. As Freeman noted, “a new genre of journalism has risen up in response to a growing trend,” consisting of articles “debunking quacky pseudoscience bloggers.” She cited Belle Gibson, the clean-eating blogger who cured what turned out to be non-existent cancer, and Vani “Food Babe” Hari, who also turns out to be full of something other than organic strawberry, as examples of discredited advice-givers. Freeman might have also mentioned Dr. Oz, and indeed does discuss him in a later column. Photogenic men, and photogenic people with medical expertise, have also entered the pseudoscience game, and it’s just as much fun to watch their downfalls. That said, there is a gender dimension to this issue, given the tremendous (if often unstated) overlap between dubious health advice and beauty tips. A gender issue there might well be, but I would argue that it’s not the amount of pseudoscience where there’s a gender issue but in the types of pseudoscience. Yes, the “wellness” movement might have a larger female component, but from my vantage point tend to fall for sports-, car-, and electronics-related pseudoscience in a manner that women do not. Whether that’s true or not, however, Bovy’s next confident assertion grates on me, because I’m pretty darned sure it’s not true: Why the shift toward reason? The scientific evidence against quack theories is hardly new, after all. I suspect there are two related reasons for the decline of pseudoscience: an increase in awareness, and a decrease in trendiness. As pseudoscience has become more popular, the threat it sometimes poses—not just to oneself, but to society at large—has become more widely known. The measles outbreaks has caused genuine, legitimate fear, inspiring otherwise apolitical parents to rail against anti-vaxxers and the celebrities, like Jenny McCarthy, who inspire them. Meanwhile, exposed fraudsters have bred disillusionment. Popular lifestyle blogger “The Blonde Vegan” revealed that she wasn’t extra-healthy but actually suffering from orthorexia; she gave up veganism (if not snake-oil peddling) and now calls herself “The Balanced Blonde.” Then there’s Dr. Oz, whose high profile quackery recently inspired ten fellow doctors to ask Columbia University to fire him, and now Oprah’s also done with him. When controversies like these get publicity, it reminds all of us, tastemakers included, that actions taken in the name of health can be detrimental to wellbeing. Nutritional pseudoscience may be the first to fall. The ingredient-purity obsession has inspired a backlash from people citing the social benefits of notturning every meal into an ingredient-by-ingredient research project. While I will concede that, over the decade that I’ve been blogging, there has been a salutary change in media reporting of some forms of pseudoscience. For instance, it’s clear to me that many journalists have abandoned the “tell both sides” narrative that is fine if you’re talking about politics but not so fine when discussing pseudoscience versus science. After all, in science some things are just plain wrong, such as antivaccine pseudoscience, and “telling both sides” is a trope akin to including the viewpoint of a flat earth believer in a story about geology or the viewpoint of a moon hoaxer in stories about space exploration. Although I don’t have quantitative data to back it up, my overall impression is that these days it’s much less common to include the antivaccine viewpoint in stories about vaccines than it was in 2005, when I first started paying attention to these things. What if I told The Food Babe… That being said, however, I see no difference in the prevalence of pseudoscientific nonsense. Indeed, if anything, I can’t help but think it’s probably somewhat more prevalent than it was when I first started blogging in 2004. In fact, for some quacks, any publicity is good publicity. A great example of this is The Food Babe, the nom de quack (or should I say nom du canard?) of a former computer analyst turned “food activist” named Vani Hari. Yes, I’ve been highly critical. Science Babe has been highly critical. Many bloggers and now mainstream reporters have written some very unflattering things about her in critical articles in the press. Yet companies keep caving to her pseudoscientific quackmail, in which she demonizes chemicals in food based on how “yucky” they sound to her or how difficult their chemical names are to pronounce. Kraft is the most recent company to cave, and Chipotle recently decided to remove GMOs from its menu. Meanwhile, Panera announced yesterday that it’s now “on a journey to remove all artificial preservatives, colors, sweeteners, and flavors from the food in our bakery-cafes by the end of 2016,” complete with a video showing people having difficulty pronouncing the names of certain food ingredients: The stupid, it truly burns. It’s thermonuclear in intensity. I feel like Mance Rayder in the first episode of this season of Game of Thrones crying for release as the flames engulf me. The add even concludes with this blurb: If the ingredients in your food are unpronounceable we believe they shouldn’t be in your food. Orac knows how Mance Rayder feels if those flames are flames of burning stupid. Think of The Food Babe as Melisandre with dark hair. It’s as though Panera Bread has internalized the most idiotic of the many idiotic Food Babe messages that if you can’t pronounce it you shouldn’t eat it and turned it into an equally idiotic advertisement. Hell, Panera even basically stole her catch phrase, tarted it up a little, and turned it into an advertising slogan! If, as Bovy argues, Food Babe-style nutritional pseudoscience is on the way out,, then why is it that The Food Babe seemingly more popular and influential than ever. Whether the “Food Babe Army” had anything to do with this decision or not, The Food Babe is crowing over these new victories. As for the antivaccine movement, yes, the Disneyland measles outbreak, the most famous of a number of outbreaks that have occurred over the last couple of years largely because of pockets of unvaccinated children exist, did produce a backlash. There might even be state laws passed to tighten up the requirements for nonmedical exemptions to school vaccine mandates or, in the case of California, to remove them altogether. Yet none of this has stopped the inevitable antivaccine backlash cloaked in appeals to “freedom” and “parental rights” that have spewed forth from the mouths of even mainstream politicians blowing the antivaccine dog whistle. Then there’s the Dr. Oz incident. As you recall, ten doctors did indeed write an article to Columbia University’s dean in essence asking him to fire Oz because of his peddling of anti-GMO pseudoscience and medical quackery on his show. Unfortunately, as I predicted, their letter, although it did garner some negative publicity for Oz, ended up backfiring spectacularly as Oz fired back with the predictable “shill gambit,” a gambit made all the more effective because several of the doctors who signed the letter were arguably industry shills, particularly the those associated with the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH). Because these doctors were so eager to frame their criticism as having a lot to do with Oz’s occasional anti-GMO segment (such segments are a small part of Oz’s crimes against science) rather than his medical quackery, all Oz had to do was to paint himself as in favor of “more information,” tar his opponents as industry shills (easily done), and claim to be “fighting for you,” and the substantive criticisms got lost. The battle became one of industry shills trying to “silence” Dr. Oz because he had dared to gore the sacred cow of GMOs. The whole publicity stunt was a spectacular failure. Never mind that Dr. Oz himself has been caught looking for some sweet, sweet shilling opportunities from Sony and others. I’m inclined to agree with my good bud, chemist Joe Schwarcz: Joe Schwarcz, director of the Office for Science and Society at McGill University in Montreal, predicts the recent criticism will boost the careers of both Oz and Hari, even if their claims and arguments don’t always hold scientific water. “In the quackery business, any publicity is good, it doesn’t matter if it’s criticism,” says Schwarcz, who is among Hari’s critics. “She’ll be more popular than ever. So will Oz,” he predicts. Exactly. Bovy’s article is nothing but an exercise in wishful thinking. The battle against pseudoscience and quackery won’t be won so easily. It’s a battle that will last generations, with victories and losses and momentary fluctuations. Arguably, it’s a battle that can’t be won as long as human brains have the cognitive quirks that predispose them to believe in superstition and pseudoscience, but if we take the long view working to counter unreason is still a worthwhile endeavor if only for the consumer protection aspect alone. It’s also a good thing that more and more mainstream news outlets are becoming more critical of quackery and pseudoscience. But evidence of the “decline of pseudoscience”? There’s no way we can say that until many years have passed, because this could just be a brief positive blip in favor of reason, and already the forces of unreason are rallying. Be that as it may, Bovy seems to think that the co-optation of pseudoscience by corporate America and its “trickling” down from woo-ey elites on the coasts like Gwyneth Paltrow to large mainstream companies like Panera is a good thing because it means that Paltrow and her ilk will view it as no longer cutting edge hip and cool, thus resulting in a backlash. This is nothing more than even more wishful thinking disconnected from reality. The type of people who go for the Springs will just move on to another form of pseudoscience. In practical terms what this mainstreaming of pseudoscience means is that pseudoscience has become such good marketing that companies now embrace it as a sales tool or a means of distinguishing themselves from their competitors, just as hospitals embrace more and more outlandish ways of “integrating” quackery in order to show they are “holistic” and, yes, distinguish themselves from their competitors. Just watch that Panera video again if you don’t believe me. I predict it is just “trailblazer” and that there will be many more. Tags antivaccine, azodicarbonamide, Chipotle, colon cleanse, Food Babe, Game of Thrones, GMO, Gwyneth Paltrow, Joe Schwarcz, Kraft, Mance Rayder, Mehmet Oz, Panera Bread, Phoebe Maltz Bovy, pseudoscience, quackery, raw vegan, The Dr. Oz Show, the Springs, vaccine, Vani Hari ← The annals of “I’m not antivaccine,” part 17: More Nazis versus freedom! → Science. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. 152 replies on “The decline of pseudoscience? More like the mainstreaming of pseudoscience” Prissays: Okay. I had to know what the fuck Pürblack actually is. It’s a brand name for shilajit, which is also known as mumijo. It’s used in ayurvedic practice. There are no independent studies confirming any medicinal effects. And the name of that brand is simply silly. Why an ü? I guess the though ‘Pureblack’ was too mundane. It quite reminds me of the ‘heavy metal umlaut’. Look that one up on tv tropes at your own peril. Yvette Lewissays: Of course there will always be pseudoscience, for the reasons you mentioned. I have been following pseudoscience much shorter than you- a few years- but I noticed an incredible pro-science backlash in the past few months. Food Babe has taken a beating. Oz has taken a beating. Chipotle is getting blasted in the media. Anti-vaxxers are being ostracized like racists. This has been great fun to watch. Perhaps Dr. Oz and Food Babe will emerge stronger, though I I am not so sure. But will anyone emerge to take the place of Food Babe and Dr. Oz? Will another A-list celebrity come out as anti-vaccine? If so, they must know their pseudoscience will not go unquestioned for long before an army of pro-science bloggers and meme-makers mock and ridicule them. Good. Organic, a pure form of quackery, has been consistently growing at a double digit rate, even through the recession. Until organic sales drop, it will be hard for anyone to claim that pseudoscience and quackery are on the way out. Daniel Welchsays: I have to agree that pseudoscience isn’t going anywhere; for that to happen, there would have be a fundamental shift in how people approach problems, i.e. they would have to start using their brains. Sadly, that’s just not going to happen in a lot of cases. However, there are positive signs. Take Chipotle’s recent announcement, which was greeted by cheers from the anti-GMO crowd, but was also quickly denounced in a bunch of major publications: the NY Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, NPR, Time — heck, even MOTHER JONES, that venerable haven of poor thinking, took them to task, pronouncing GMOs “totally safe to eat”. Here’s the other thing that makes me hopeful: the supporters of science have become much more galvanized. There is a long history of believing “the facts will speak for themselves” and refusing to engage with the peddlers of quackery, as if it would demean science to take anything but the high road. But increasing, there are more bloggers such as yourself willing to speak out — at great length, in, ahem, some cases — in favor of science. There are more people like SciBabe (motto: “come for the science, stay for the dirty jokes”) and the Food Hunk who are working to make science SEXY, for the lack of a better word. And the power of social media gives voice to those who love reason and rationality just as easily as it does to those who do not, and some of us are very, very pissed off about how badly science has been treated. Go to the Anti-Vax Wall of Shame for some great examples of how to laugh through the pain of dealing with the lunatic fringe. On television, yes, we still have Oz, and we still have Maher, but we also have Jimmy Kimmel, who revels in mocking the stupidity of the organic lifestyle and openly laughs at the anti-vax nutjobs. John Oliver is enormously popular, and typically on the right side of rationality, as is (or was, now) John Stewart. These are a newer breed of personalities, who are willing, even eager, to use their influence for the good. So while pseudoscience isn’t going anywhere, I think the potential for it to be contained is there, because it is easier than ever to mock it. And in the end, mocking is a better strategy than education, because the kind of people who don’t want to learn, want even less to be seen as ridiculous. herr doktor bimlersays: The humorous hook in the article was that apparently this drink tastes really bad, having been compared unfavorably to bong water. If something tastes really really vile, it should at least contain 40% alcohol. Bovy’s take on that restaurant reminds me of Yogi Berra’s famous remark about a night spot or something: “Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded!” Seriously disappointed in Panera. KayMariesays: I do have two minds about Panera (which is so typical of me, sigh) On the one hand I think it is all about marketing and pandering. On the other hand I do think the more we can get people to eat minimally processed foods rather than flavor-enhanced and artificially colored the better. Now sometimes the flavor-enhanced, artificially-colored food is also nutrient dense, phytochemical rich with appropriate macro nutrient balance, but mostly it just makes junk taste good enough you will eat it. I do wonder if eating too much of that junk ends up making actual food less palatable (so reinforces eating more junk as after awhile non-junk just doesn’t taste right). I seem to recall a study where enough people eat enough artificial flavors their palate/brain starts to think the artificial is the correct flavor and the actual food it is supposed to mimic starts to seem to be the wrong flavor for that food. So while I think they are doing it for all the wrong reasons I do think the more we can get train people to prefer the flavor of food rather junk maybe we can get people to eat a bit more nutritious food on a regular basis as they get used to that taste rather than whatever flavor profile industry can use to get us to eat more of what isn’t good for us. Mephistopheles O'Briensays: This sounds like the old complaint that nobody goes to that restaurant anymore because it’s too crowded. Dang it – palindrom beat me to that. @1 Thank you for that information. I find that I absolutely cannot ingest this substance. It contains phospholipids, which I am unable to pronounce. Eric Lundsays: Why an ü? I guess the though ‘Pureblack’ was too mundane. It quite reminds me of the ‘heavy metal umlaut’. I noticed that, too. It doesn’t fit so well with the image they are trying to project. It comes off more like that classic Onion article, “Ünited Stätes Toughens Image With Umlauts“. “You can eat dinner — everything is raw, vegan, organic, soy free and gluten free — and then have your colon cleansed right through that door!” She says that like it’s a good thing. Maybe it’s just me, but when I’m eating, I prefer not to think about what comes out the other end. There may be good reasons for removing ingredients from food, but this isn’t one of them. Among other things, it brings up the question: unpronounceable to whom? I recall a commercial from the late 1970s, riffing on the then-prevalent “Why Can’t Johnny Read” mania, which showed six- to eight-year-old kids trying to read the ingredients lists of various food products and tripping on some of the longer words, e.g., “polysorbate-80”. Panera is playing to exactly the same thing, except they are explicitly calling their customers morons: a well-educated adult native English speaker should be able to read those ingredients, whereas it’s understandable for a child, or a foreigner (whose native language may not have certain phonemes–English has more than most), to have trouble with those unfamiliar long words. JLNIHsays: Traditional western medicine is based mostly on pseudoscience. All science is open to being questioned. Each day, we learn more, and retract our old “facts.” I’m in research and a health professional of the traditional sort, so save your hate speech. If you don’t fully understand something, it doesn’t make it quackery or pseudoscience. Many (most) of our most impressive treatment modalities have been discovered in nature, then refined, and reproduced in the laboratory. Beyond that, pharmaceutical medicine isn’t the only, or even best way to deal with disease. Were you to delve into health research, you would see that we are researching and utilizing successfully, nutritional strategies to cure, reverse, and prevent many illnesses, physical and mental. Visit the NIH online sometime. The scientific method begins with asking questions and postulating ideas. Thinking outside the box, and being open to things that have not yet been discovered is how we learn, grow, invent, and ultimately cure. You are quick to judge and assume. I’m hopeful you are not in a position of research or any actual power in society. That’s probably a safe assumption based on your rhetoric. More, I am hopeful those who read your blog see you for what you really are uninformed and grossly opinionated beyond your education and experience. Oracsays: What sort of “health professional of the traditional sort” are you? Naturopath? Practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine? Homeopath? I’m more than happy to discuss the evidence with respect to pretty much any modality. Nor am I “quick to judge and assume.” My opinions with respect to “natural medicine” have been evolving for at least 17 years. For instance, I used to think there was something to acupuncture until around 8 years ago, when I actually started looking closely at the studies published in —yes—the peer reviewed medical literature about acupuncture. Doing so led me to realize that acupuncture is indeed no more than an elaborate placebo. That’s changing one’s mind. I’d also bet that my education and experience exceed yours. Nicolesays: The three ingredients most likely to kill you at Panera can be pronounced by your average second grader. We should really start a movement to get them to remove them- I’m sure they would still have a sustainable business plan after removing sugar, fat, and salt- right? JLNIH, Are you in for a heap of feedback. Claims unsupported by evidence: Aneoplastins, Gersons, acupuncture, bleach enemas, anti-vaxcination, etc. Evidence is required, not good feelings. darwinslapdogsays: @Ellie Who can’t pronounce phospholipids? Or is that your point? How about calling for reform in labeling that allows listing things by their common names instead of their chemical names? In many cases, this would make much of an ingredient list more pronounceable for the less educated. As to Panera, or Chipotle, who eats at these places? They are ful of the same calorie dense food as any other place, in fact a lot of their food has more calories than the traditional fast food outlets. But I forget myself–calories don’t matter as long as it’s an organic GMO-free calorie, right? And why eat kale salad when you can drink kale, avocado, blah, blah juice until you gag? I will mention, however, that I dislike the tendency to equate veganism with pseudosicence. There is overlap, of course, but some of us go vegan for philosophical/moral reasons and because it’s a simple way to reduce calories and avoid many of the excesses of the meat industry in terms of animal treatment and environmental issues like water use. (And I’m not saying I NEVER have an egg or a bit of cheese or a speck of bacon in a salad–one does not have to be anal about a dietary choice). Unfortunately, there is a whole lot of vegan woo, particularly raw vegan diets. It’s there, and it’s represented as the cure for almost everything. It’s also not just in raw vegan cafes like the Springs. Hell, it’s promoted in “integrative medicine” in a lot of places; i.e., by Dean Ornish. Science Momsays: Traditional western medicine is based mostly on pseudoscience. You contradict yourself with the rest of your comment. All science is open to being questioned. Each day, we learn more, and retract our old “facts.” Well duh, that’s the point of research. I’m hopeful you are not in a position of research or any actual power in society. That’s probably a safe assumption based on your rhetoric. More, I am hopeful those who read your blog see you for what you really are uninformed and grossly opinionated beyond your education and experience. You arrogant twit; you don’t even know the author’s background but make ridiculous assumptions based on butthurt. The fact is is that most here are educated professionals in science, medicine, engineering, etc. and can spot a sanctimonious, pseudoscience boot-licker like you a mile away. Actually, I would almost agree with JLNIH. Traditional “Western” medicine is mostly based on pseudoscience, just like traditional Chinese medicine. After all, traditional Western medicine includes bloodletting, purges, the idea that disease comes from imbalances in the four humors, and other prescientific ideas as wacky as those behind TCM. Science-based medicine, of course, is nothing like either traditional “Western” or “Eastern” medicine. Delphinesays: I don’t understand why you’re answering, Orac. You should be busy delving in to health research, or visiting the NIH online. Panaceasays: I have some medical quackery devices in my collection of medical antiques. They’re fun to pull out to show the kinds of silliness people believed 100 years or so ago. I think we got away from a lot of quackery when the FDA first came about and had some actual teeth. The deaths of children in the Septra case didn’t hurt public opinion for reasonable regulation. And science itself enjoyed a much better reputation than it does now. Years of the war on science and the decline of the scientist as respected expert are what’s fueling this rebirth of open and mainstream quackery. We need a Carl Sagan for medicine: someone who can connect with the public in a convincing way, and make science cool again. @ Nicole #14: let’s not forget water. Maybe if we relabeled it dihydrogen monoxide, that would get people’s attention. Hilariously, whilst the woo-centric name their establishment The Springs, instantly bringing to mind a pristine mountain oasis of purity and sparkling cleanliness, Orac describes slogging through the swamp of pseudoscience. Tell me about it. – Yes, woo frequently permeates women’s magazines and health/ beauty supply stores in an alarming way: every issue of Vogue, no matter from which fashion capitol it originates, seems to be rife with the stuff whether it involves general health, dietary considerations, highly specialised exercise, skin care or other weighty concerns. Some of it tests the imagination. A brief leafing through a current issue reveals the confessions of a spa ‘virgin’ and an article praising fermented foods, mostly fish. – I personally began sceptically monitoring woo – while stifling my laughter- in the early 1990s by attending New Age presentations about spirituality, healing, yoga, tai chi, diet and crystals/ magic stones ( of all things). Usually, there was a lecture, a class or a demonstration followed by a barrage of balderdash. I even had my aura read in front of a roomful of believers in a university auditorium: supposedly, I have an extremely attractive one that precisely illustrates my remarkable talents and independent spirit. Or so they tell me. – HOWEVER my adventures in the Dead Marshes of Unreasonability really began around the turn of the millennium when I chanced upon a radio broadcast that provided the answer to all health concerns through veganism by proclaiming that, in effect, life was “like a beanstalk” . All ills could be prevented or cured and longevity could be secured by following a few simple rules that forever forbade animal products, wheat, sugar, caffeine, alcohol, most cooked foods and a laundry list of taboo substances as one exercised religiously daily, dutifully swallowed handfuls of supplements, steadfastly meditated and persued the spiritual instead of the worldly. A person’s true lifespan should be 150 years, not a mere 80, but most people are DOING IT RONG, so they’d better listen up and straighten up and fly right. – Although my active pursuit of woo has taken as many twists and turns as antivax advocates’ theories concerning why vaccines cause autism, I feel that perhaps there is a now mainstreaming effect: what might have once been arcane knowledge, restricting only to the alternative initiates years ago, is now splashed all over the place and sold from every food market and beauty supply store. It’s bigger business than ever. One consolation however is that recently mainstream media seems to become more aware of potentially dangerous woo like non-vaccination. I’m afraid though that there will not be non-proliferation of the dietary stuff because it is becoming so linked with corporate profits and imagery. “We sell healthy food not junk”, they crow. That’s not entirely a bad thing but is it really true? I wonder. No wait, that was Procol Harum VegasPremedsays: This article somewhat hits home for me, as I was a produce manager at a Whole Foods a few years back. The amount of woo flying around is literally astounding, with the employees promoting everything under the sun. And they recommend them to customers too; although it’s always “off the record”, of course. I left to go back to school and am applying to medical schools this June. I don’t think it should come as a surprise that the friendly atmosphere disappeared entirely when I told them why I was quitting. I did my best to counter it all when I had interactions with customers, however. It’s very disappointing to me how many vegans are so heavily into pseudoscience. I’ve been vegan for a decade and I have deliberately avoided associating with most others precisely because of that. It seems just having personal moral reasons isn’t good enough. They have to prosthelytize and tout outlandish health benefits. It’s another reason I never bring up being vegan to anyone; I don’t want to be lumped in with them! Old One Eyesays: “The battle against pseudoscience and quackery won’t be won so easily. It’s a battle that will last generations, with victories and losses and momentary fluctuations.” Ah, the old warfare metaphor. I suggest you leave that one to pseudoscience and religion. Science does not require jihad. I believe a little mockery, some gentle humor, and a pinch of marketing (propaganda) works wonders for both Woo’s and Corporate-types to open hearts (and minds) to evidence and critical thinking. Traditional “Western” medicine is mostly based on pseudoscience, just like traditional Chinese medicine. Very true however I doubt JLNIH was making that distinction in his/her condemnation given that s/he referred to his/herself as a “traditional” healthcare professional. JPsays: The other day I felt like going for a long-a** walk, so I walked like halfway to Ypsilanti, and stopped at Trader Joe’s on the way home to pick up a couple things. There’s a big sign in there now that says: “If it says Trader Joe’s, that means no G.M.O.s!” Grumble… I mean, I gave half a thought to boycotting Chipotle over the anti-GMO nonsense, but sometimes you just need a Mission-style burrito the size of your head. So yeah, I mean, I think some of the ranker pseudoscience, like anti-vax stuff, is finally getting the public shaming it deserves, but food woo in particular is at an all-time high, anti-GMO sentiment in particular. And it’s just about impossible to have a rational discussion about it with most people – the “antis” have been way too successful with their emotional appeals and fear-mongering, and even Joe Average has a head full of Monsatan and fishmatoes now. @ Science Mom: Oddly enough, I have heard TWO separate usages of the word traditional by alt med proselytisers : – as in traditional Chinese medicine ( woo) – ALSO to refer to non-alternative standard health care ( SBM)! Believe it or not! Because OBVIOUSLY to those riding the tsunami of paradigm shift, medicine looks traditional and probably habitual as well. But then, these people usually don’t know what they’re talking about anyway. @ JP: There’s a book about a mental hospital called IIRC The Three Christs of Ypsilanti. @Denice: There’s also this Sufjan Stevens song: For the Widows in Paradise, for the Fatherless in Ypsilanti. “Western medicine” versus “Eastern medicine” is an false dichotomy, JLNIH: there’s simply medicine-treatments that have been shown to work–and everything else. “ If you don’t fully understand something, it doesn’t make it quackery or pseudoscience.” Agreed: it’s instead the lack of evidence that something is effective which makes it quackery (e.g., acupuncture), and that we understand something well enough to state with certainty it cannot work by the mechanism proposed (e.g., homeopathy) which makes it pseudoscience. “Many (most) of our most impressive treatment modalities have been discovered in nature, then refined, and reproduced in the laboratory.” And for each of these modalities there’s a robust body of evidence characterizing safety and demonstrating efficacy. “Beyond that, pharmaceutical medicine isn’t the only, or even best way to deal with disease.” Which diseases, under what circumstances? Preventing a disease is of course always preferable (i.e., “better”) to addressing it once acquired, but in many cases pharmaceutical medicine is the only or best way to deal with diseases once they’ve been acquired. (Consider drug intervention to treat HIV infection, which has successfully converted what was once a rapidly fatal disease into a chronic one that can be managed.) “Were you to delve into health research, you would see that we are researching and utilizing successfully, nutritional strategies to cure, reverse, and prevent many illnesses, physical and mental.” Be happy to: please provide citations to the articles published in first or second tier peer-reviewed journals where the results of this research is published so I so ‘delve’. “ The scientific method begins with asking questions and postulating ideas.” Actually, it begins with collecting observations. “Thinking outside the box, and being open to things that have not yet been discovered is how we learn, grow, invent, and ultimately cure.” What box is it you believe we need to think outside of—surely not the one where conclusions are drawn from evidence? Good point on dihydrogen monoxide. They could always drown in their cup of complimentary lemon water. TBH, I think the blueberry scones would do me in first. Well, maybe not now that they’re anti-science scones. I’ll have to find a replacement for my carbs and fat death pastry addiction. Dangerous Baconsays: “I’m in research and a health professional of the traditional sort, so save your hate speech.” Gosh darnit, you’ve spiked my best comebacks! “The scientific method begins with asking questions and postulating ideas.” Except when it’s woo that you identify with, evidently. “You are quick to judge and assume. I’m hopeful you are not in a position of research or any actual power in society.” Oops! Not only is Orac involved in research, he wields vast powers in Society and has brought many a villainous woo-ster to his/her/its knees. Trifle not with the box of blinky lights and his hordes of ravenous minions. any bets that JLNIH is from Austin? @ Nicole: Wheat has become alties’ devil du jour. Interestingly, in the olden days, health food stores were stocked to the rafters with breads, granola, cereals, sweet alternatives and pasta composed of WHOLE wheat and WHEAT germ amongst other more exotic grains. Woo does evolve but it follows no path of discernible rationality: just new taboos and sources of mana emerge as if by magic. Survival of the most marketable I suppose. jrkrideausays: “Nutritional pseudoscience may be the first to fall.” Oh no! I just got my “Applied Nutritionist”[1] business cards printed up. I have not managed one consultation yet and the market is collapsing. I have not even managed one free meal yet. It may be time to switch to “Behavioural Economist”. I’d just use “Economist” but the PM has sullied that one. 1. Note the term “Applied Nutritionist” is not a legally protected name in my province 🙂 mnasays: Agree that the wellness elite will just move on to new old woo (better the old new woo) but I do think that rationals are becoming more inclined to call this crap out. In the past, politeness along with an assumption that CAM is mostly harmless would prompt them to refrain. Now I do see more challenging happening thanks to a growing realisation that there are real-world consequences that are non-trivial. Although the market for woo-tinged goods and services has grown considerably, the number of suppliers have increased to the point where it’s not really enough to have a Buddha statue and an Enya soundtrack anymore. You need to invest heavily in slick marketing, décor and the like to have any cut through because you don’t have much else. Over time, small players will have to increasingly have to scrabble for scraps while a few major players do well. And big players become big targets and start to behave a lot like ‘vested interests’. Won’t matter to true believers but the mildly woo prone may take notice. If you’re going to walk all the way to Ypsi, keep going until you hit Zingerman’s. Their scones are better than Trader Joe’s anyway. Roadstergalsays: How many of the woo-ful can pronounce the γ-tocopherol they gleely slurp down in excessive quantities? In terms of chemical names that are simple to pronounce, many roll easily off of the tongue, very pretty words – methanol, phenol, thallium, phosgene. Not a great idea to ingest. Roman Korolsays: Daniel Welch wrote “But increasing, there are more bloggers such as yourself willing to speak out — at great length, in, ahem, some cases — in favor of science. There are more people like SciBabe (motto: “come for the science, stay for the dirty jokes”) and the Food Hunk who are working to make science SEXY, for the lack of a better word.” Hey, not to forget: the excellent work being done by Dr. Joe Schwarcz of McGill University! He has an App, even! (OSS, which stands for Office for Science and Society) Zingerman’s is like ten minutes from my apartment; I was walking to Ypsi from Ann Arbor. Trader Joe’s has a great cheese section, though, and reasonable prices on certain Belgian ales. I also like to buy flowers there sometimes. I used to get Zingerman’s care packages from my mother. (Adopt me). Elliottsays: One of the things that we get from the local TJ’s is edamame, which are just soy beans. Since at least 85% of the soy beans grown in the US are GMO-derived, I guess that means that Trader Joe’s has found the minority that are not. Or maybe it’s not GMO if you call it “edamame” instead of “soy bean” . TBrucesays: Some random comments: My mother was a public health nurse. She would be appalled. So am I. life was “like a beanstalk “Life is a beanstalk, I want to weed it all night long” Worst Tom Cochrane song ever. Thinking outside the box… is how we learn, grow, invent, and ultimately cure. It’s ironic how you guys who tell us to “think outside the box” always resort to the most tired cliche in the world: ” think outside the box”. Anyway, my cats sometimes “think outside the box”. The results are the same. Basically, isn’t any fruit or vegetable that has been selectively bred a GMO? So if Trader Joe’s is selling Red Delicious or Mackintosh apples, or Country Gentleman corn… (the spousal unit has a vague idea that GMOs are “wrong” but that doesn’t keep him from scarfing down the Country Gentleman in July). sadmarsays: If you controlled for the actual level of science knowledge in a society at any given time, I’m guessing a historical study would show the presence of ‘pseudoscience’ as more-or-less constant: certainly not in decline as Ms. Bovy claims, but also not “the opposite” as Orac fears. The issue is not as Daniel Welch puts it of ‘people not using their brains,’ but one of HOW they use their brains. It would be impossible to approach every aspect of everyday-life with due regard for scientific rigor. In terms of real people getting through their day, various forms of ‘not-reason’ are completely rational strategies at a macro level. The skeptic describes and decries all the failures of ‘magical thinking’, logical fallacies, ‘intuition’, ‘common sense’… This is, frankly, unscientific. A proper scientific take on ‘common habits of mind’ would examine them in totality, including the considerable ways in which they DO ‘work’ for people in all manner of mostly small things. And it would also ascertain how these habits actually function, including the ‘depth’ of any thought processes involved. ‘Pseudo’-science, like real science, requires a time and cognition investment that any individual can only devote to a few select priorities. It might be warped. but it’s not superficial. In that sense, mainstreamed practices originally rooted in some pseudoscience – unscientific behaviors, aren’t evidence of the spread of genuine pseudo-scientific thinking at all. In the end, I argue “pseudoscience” is not a valid generic category for social concern, as it ranges from superficial trivialities to very dangerous and deeply held ideologies. Related, and even more troubling to me, is the whole language of whether or not something ‘works’. For one thing, it’s utterly ineffective as critique, as the way scientists deploy it is both tautological and blindered in ways J. Doe intuits, if not fully understands. More importantly, it fails to address the reasons J. Doe might ever care about any of these issues. Everything ‘works’ in one way or another. The question is ‘WHAT WORK DOES IT DO?’ So, just for sake of argument, imagine I’m right and a certain more or less constant quantity of both pseudoscience thought and unscientific behavior are part of the human condition. If the numbers don’t change, the qualities and effects can still vary in the extreme, and the ‘what work does it do?’ question becomes essential for guiding concern and action about applying science, where we MUST put our priorities for push-back, and what we can write-off as tolerable annoyances. The slippery slope is a textbook logical fallacy. One thing does NOT lead to another. Sure, Mike Adams will attach and interweave all forms of woo. But he’s a charlatan-kook who markets to the kook fringe. If the J. Does like a common-word ingredient list at Panera, or feel mildly comforted by the “no GMO” banner at Trader Joe’s, that hardly means they’re on their way to anti-vax zealotry, cancer quackery, slapupuncture, or even a trip through the colon cleanse door after a vegan meal at The Springs. The question is ‘what’s the harm?’ – not in the rhetorical sense of ‘nothing to worry about here’ – but literally. If society has a constant woo-quotient, the directions that takes could be shifting toward lower harm if anti-vax is taking it in the shorts, or greater harm if naturopaths get PCP certification and prescription privileges. To the extent overly broad semiotic oppositions between science/pseudoscience distract us from evaluating changes in relative genuine harm, and focusing on the most important stuff, that doesn’t ‘work’ for me. Pürblack It’s for people suffering from a lack of Pürbs. I really think Pürblack needs another umlaut. Also, sadmar seems to be writing as though he thinks that skeptics have never thought about these issues before, as if we don’t make any distinctions based on potential harm. He comes across as attacking a straw man that we’re advocating a society completely run by science and reason, with all of us being good little Mr. Spocks. RJsays: As usual, the post-modernism-influenced guy has nothing worthwhile to say in his plodding long paragraphs. Shorter sadmer: “Me! ME!! ME!!!”. ‘Pseudoscience’ is in fact a very useful category, and attacks on it by humanities scholars – usually influenced by poststructuralism and constructivism – are a major causal influence on that particular nonsense that hurts our culture today. As I see it, this certain kind of ‘scholar’ has given intellectual cover to this an other nonsense. The social constructivists are free to complain, as they always do, that guys like me don’t ‘understand’ them, that they never meant to denigrate science, etc. Honest people would instead admit that their school has had a massive negative influence on public respect for, and understanding of, science. Indeed. sadmar also seems to think that skeptics don’t think about and debate the definition of science, particularly what we like to call the demarcation problem (that is, where science crosses over to become pseudoscience). Since at least 85% of the soy beans grown in the US are GMO-derived, I guess that means that Trader Joe’s has found the minority that are not. The frozen ones are imported from Southeast Asia. Krebiozensays: JP, Zingerman’s is like ten minutes from my apartment; I’m envious, I love Ann Arbor, and Zingerman’s is the best deli every. Indeed it is, although it’s too expensive for me to go there terribly often. Ann Arbor itself has gone somewhat downhill in my opinion, even since I moved here five years ago; I’m sure some people see it as “movin’ on up,” but the rents keep rising, the town is getting increasingly “bougie,” and every time I turn around there’s another new expensive high-rise apartment building. I hear the tuition is about three times what it was in the 90s, and the U is trying ever harder to attract out-of-state students. The place is starting to feel like more of a country club than the Ivies. If I had a car, I’d probably be living in Ypsi, to be honest. Some concrete claims from JLNHI — rather than this unspecific hand-wavy “many diseases” — would have been nice. @ TBruce: No, it actually was* Procol Harum, ‘In Held twas’ etc: I was g–gling videos last week which was sparked by JP’s link. Interesting how associative memory works. Too bad alties muck its results up so badly. “‘Life is a beanstalk, I want to weed it all night long’ Isn’tt Tom Cochrane the guy who keeps trashing influenza vaccine in his comprehensive reviews? Militant Agnosticsays: @Roman Korol Joe Schwarcz was interviewed on The Current today. “The frozen ones are imported from Southeast Asia” A bit more googling has revealed that worldwide soybean production is approaching 80% GMO, but it seems that SE Asia is one of the corners of the planet that has largely not adopted GMO-based agriculture. If Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, & Burma ever switch to GMO, then TJ’s is going to have to remove their edamame. It will have to disappear from their shelves just like that frozen strudel I used to enjoy. I now suspect that the strudel maker was using GMO apples provided by Monsanto. Ewan Rsays: I believe that edamame are generally only certain varieties of soybean, and as yet these varieties tend not to be GMO (I could be wrong, but I’m reasonably sure I’m not) – not all soy is equal, just as not all corn is created equal (for a long time there simply wasn’t GMO sweetcorn, even though most corn was GMO, because most corn isn’t actually sweetcorn) Garnetstarsays: I agree with the “unpronounceable for whom?” comment. I can correctly pronounce each one of those in a second, and that last woman was almost perfect with “dimethylpolysiloxane”. So she and I can eat it without fear, right? While it’ll kill everyone who can’t say it. Actually, between equal quantities of DMPS and sugar, the DMPS is better for you. Well, just think: for millenia, there was nothing but psuedoscience and superstition. A mere four centuries or so of science-based reasoning can’t wholly eradicate that, but a lot of progress has been made! Keep at it for another four centuries, Orac, and you’ll see the results of your hard work. Robert L Bellsays: In my experience, everyone loves him some Science as long as you define Science to be “a club for beating the fundies” or “proof that dope smoking cures cancer.” Turn that around into “evidence that your favorite boogerman is not in fact killing widows and orphans and small furry animals” then you find that you have created fresh converts to the Republican campaign to destroy Science for the Public Good. You’re probably correct, Ewan, although most of the natural websites that I found seemed to recommend varieties based upon where they come from more than anything else. Edamame is just defined as “young soybean picked before hardening”. I can do without it, but the spousal unit likes to snack on it, and she refuses to spend more on something just to get “GMO-free” or “Organic” ion the label. I do wonder at what point others, particularly those in poorer countries, may come to same conclusion. A recent look at the bottles in the Whole Foods supplements aisle shows that the supplement makers are quite guilty of using long, hard-to-pronounce polysyllabic names in their lists of ingredients. It seems very odd to me that relatively simple chemical names are deemed “yucky” by the alternative med types, but long pseudo-latin names are acceptable. In my opinion, the supplement makers are more guilty than Kraft of obfuscation in their labeling methods. JustaTechsays: I read over a list of things that Panera has put on it’s No-No list (how childish is that name) and the ingredient that really stuck out to me was lard. What’s artificial about lard? What’s hard to pronounce? Laaaaaarrrddd. It’s not hard. If I were inclined to real-life trolling (which I’m not) it would be a fun bit of performance art to walk into a Panera, horrendously mis-pronounce something on the menu, and then demand it be removed, because I can’t pronounce it. Something like ciabatta. Now that I think about it, the whole “don’t eat it if you can’t pronounce it” is pretty xenophobic. Or American-English-centric. ‘Pseudoscience’ is in fact a very useful category Assertion w/o evidence. √ And attacks on it by humanities scholars Grammar fail. √ usually influenced by poststructuralism and constructivism Citation needed. √ are a major causal influence on that particular nonsense that hurts our culture today. Hilarious. √ As I see it, this certain kind of ‘scholar’ has given intellectual cover to this an other nonsense. Ad hominem airquotes. √ The social constructivists are free to complain, as they always do, that guys like me don’t ‘understand’ them. You don’t understand them. You can’t cite and explicate a single major point from this corpus accurately. You fantasize some monolithic perspective among people who disagree one another constantly. Arrogance of ignorance. √ that they never meant to denigrate science Useless definition of “science”, failing to distinguish scientific validity from ‘science’ as a social-economic institution. √ Honest people would instead admit that their school has had a massive negative influence on public respect for, and understanding of, science. Umm, smart people would admit that the public neither knows or gives a mouse’s butt about humanities scholarship. And honest people would realize, as such, that they’ve created a boogeyman to blame for their own failures. Failure to address any substantive points in my post. √ the ingredient that really stuck out to me was lard They’re going to have a devil of a time eliminating cysteine from the menu. And I take it that they’re also using only naturally occurring baking soda and cream of tartar. Wait… theobromine? WTF about the chocolate pastry? This should be good. Oh, and… Doesn’t know what a surd is. ✓ Does like a common-word ingredient list at Panera, or feel mildly comforted by the “no GMO” banner at Trader Joe’s, that hardly means they’re on their way to anti-vax zealotry, cancer quackery, slapupuncture, or even a trip through the colon cleanse door after a vegan meal at The Springs. It’s not that I find the “no GMO” banner at TJ’s particularly harmful; it’s that I find it annoying. It’s disingenuous pandering on the likes of TJ’s, Panera and Chipotle, and it feeds into a general miasma of fear about GMO’s that one could argue actually does do material harm. Look at the developing countries like Zimbabwe that have refused food aid shipments because they were GM; that doesn’t come from nowhere, it comes from the anti-GMO fear-mongering of orgs like Greenpeace. Not to mention that I find the whole anti-GMO thing to be symptomatic, if you will, of a general anti-science attitude among the general public, “liberal” types like my own tribe in particular. Anti-science just annoys me more when it comes from my own side, especially given how much libs like to beat Republicans over the head about their anti-evolution and global warming denialist stances (and rightly so.) TBH, I’d like to see more people on both sides of the aisle basing their opinions/worldviews/whatever on reality and not on ideology and ideology-driven emotion. If you controlled for [undefined] the actual level [undefined] of science knowledge in a society at any given time, I’m guessing a historical study would show the presence of ‘pseudoscience’ as more-or-less [sic] constant: certainly not in decline as Ms. Bovy claims, but also not “the opposite” as Orac fears. The same can be said of your assertion that “pseudoscience” is “not a valid generic category for social concern.” It’s in the “already not in our food” color, so it wasn’t there anyway; I’m guessing they put it on the list just because it sounds yucky and has certain connotations. (Lard-a*, etc.) I mean, it’s not like Panera is a vegetarian joint or anything, so I can’t think of any other reason. Maybe they should start calling it “manteca” and using it in their food. Judging by the quality of the food at my cousin’s taqueria, it’d improve the cuisine at Panera quite a bit. Orac seems to be strawmaning via reductio ad dichotominium. 🙂 he thinks that skeptics have never thought about these issues before I think individual skeptics actually, vary a lot in how much or how well they have thought about these issues, but overall the community has not addressed them suffiicently as if we don’t make any distinctions based on potential harm Of course skeptics make distinctions based on potential harm all the time. But sometimes they don’t. And sometimes they get it wrong. He comes across as attacking a straw man That wasn’t an attack. we’re advocating a society completely run by science and reason I’m not saying that. I’m talking about recognizing the limited extent to which science and/or reason can ever be expected to guide human thought and behavior, thus differentiating between the importance of Un-science and Un-reason based on harm, and thus creating strategies to maximizing the pro-social effect of asserting science and/or reason by picking and choosing. I’m suggesting skeptics may actually be doing a good enough job of that, that while the total amount of woo floating about now may be the same as it was 15 years ago, things might indeed be better now, all things considered. Not that I necessarily think they ARE better. I just think it’s a fairly complicated question, open to investigation and debate. with all of us being good little Mr. Spocks. Hey, I iove Spock! 🙂 ^ Regarding #67, it’s true that in the olden days I would have told the typesetter “set rad+vinc”; then again, we also told them “solidus” when they knew what was meant was “virgule.” Bringhurst, oddly, doesn’t have an entry for the term, but OUP’s The Printing of Mathematics (1954) concurs with “surd.” I mean, it’s not like Panera is a vegetarian joint or anything, so I can’t think of any other reason. It is quite difficult to get nonhydrogenated lard, at least at the consumer level. Gray Squirrelsays: Serious proposal: This “if you can’t pronounce it, you shouldn’t eat it” meme is a major danger of going viral, getting Food Babe and her ilk much more publicity & actual power. We need a counter-meme campaign that a) brings people back to reality and b) destroys the value of Food Babe’s meme via mockery and c) goes viral faster & better than her dreck. “If you can’t pronounce it, look it up.” “If they can’t pronounce it, they’re stupid!” (Certain venues only, this one might be controversial.) List of various international dishes that many people eat but many can’t pronounce: particularly French but also some Asian and some Mexican, with the header “Can you pronounce these correctly?” List of common chemicals in foods, with their common names after their chemical names, ending up with “Dihydrogen monoxide: Water,” and the tag line “Chemicals: they’re everywhere!” Stick-figure cute cartoon characters representing molecules, with the text-ballons over their heads saying “We are chemicals. We are everywhere!” This plays on the old gay rights slogan “we are everywhere,” and will get traction in the progressive community if it’s done right. This also suggests “chemicals: they’re coming out of the closet” as part of the theme. Brainstorm & suggestions welcome. (In case someone has already suggested this: I just wrapped up work & haven’t had a chance to read all the comments yet, sorry about that…) it’s true that in the olden days I would have told the typesetter “set rad+vinc”; then again, we also told them “solidus” when they knew what was meant was “virgule.” I have tried correcting people who talk about “slash-fic” when clearly they mean “virgule-fic”, but they just don’t listen. There could be little objection to “shilling-fic” in that case. sadmar also seems to think that skeptics don’t think about and debate the definition of science, particularly what we like to call the demarcation problem (that is, where science crosses over to become pseudoscience). My bad. What I was trying to get at is the idea that ‘pseudoscience’ sometimes gets deployed as if it was a unified category, with everything inside the Venn diagram (however you draw the lines) generically bad in the same way and to the same degree. But I botched it badly by not clarifying what I meant by “overly broad opposition”. So Orac’s interpretation of that as ‘nonsense’ makes perfect sense. Johnnysays: My favorite example is a Greek sandwich thingie that you must order as if you are requesting a component of a guidance system, or you will wind up with another type of sandwich. I gotta say that the “dihydrogen monoxide” routine is so trite that it sets my teeth on edge. Well, the actual names of ‘life-saving’ vitamins don’t sound exactly edible either. @Orac #48: as sadmar relies on argumentum ad nauseum to make his points, I pretty much just skip over his posts. Re. “You can eat dinner — everything is raw, vegan, organic, soy free and gluten free — and then have your colon cleansed right through that door!” Comeback: “_That_ door? The one that leads to the _bathroom_? So if I eat dinner _here_, I’ll have to dash in _there_ when I’m done? Is “colon cleansing” a euphemism for food that gives you _diarrhea_? One more question: do you, er, uh, _recycle_?” Pris @ 1: Someone needs to test Pürbläck for toxic heavy metals, for example lead and cadmium. It would not surprise me if that stuff was loaded. Ayurvedic medicine also includes something about drinking your own urine. Eww. “Ayurvomit” anyone? Herr Doctor Bimler @ 5: And the reverse is also true: if something contains at least 40% alcohol, chances are it tastes really vile, and dissolves the cell membranes of neurons. I prefer ice cream;-) Vegan stuff: There are also the ecological impact issues of meat production. I eat my share of meat & dairy etc., but there’s some truly excellent vegan food out there and it’s no sacrifice to have veggie or vegan meals a couple of days a week. Wooful Groceries: Last I checked, Whole Foods also charges $3 extra for two types of meat on a deli sandwich, even if you want half-and-half rather than double meat. At Safeway deli, half-and-half is free, and it’s something like 50-cents or a buck for double meat. (The only thing Whole Foods deli has that Safeway deli doesn’t is fresh spinach, and I’ll admit I like fresh organic spinach.) I told the nice lady at the Safeway deli that she makes better sandwiches than Whole Foods, and she was very happy to hear that. Now that our nearby Safeways (Oakland CA) carry Clover Dairies milk (local oldschool dairy, best-tasting milk around), I have very little reason to go to Whole Foods. Re. Trader Joe’s: Delicious store-bakery soft chocolate chip cookies, that harden like concrete two days after you open the package. This happened a bunch of times in a row so I stopped buying ’em. _And this is why I like* preservatives._ I don’t want my food going inedible within a couple of days. BHA and BHT etc. prevent waste of food. Speaking of religious/moral principles: wasting food is bad. Narad: Is there a keyboard shortcut for a real check mark? (I shall happily continue to lack Pürbs, but I welcome the typographic knowledge). JP: I totally get the ‘annoyed with my own tribe’ thing. Berkeley, f’rinstance, is just TOO MUCH for me to take. But I’d say TJ’s isn’t so much pandering as just doing marketing-business-as-usual, hyping whatever essentially empty label has some cultural buzz. For most customers, I think ‘No GMO’ is just another fad label, basically another iteration of ‘No (X)’, so the typical response is more like ‘well if there’s any possible problem, I guess I’m glad that stuff isn’t in there, whatever it is, not that I care that much…’ I mean, there’s even a “Not Made With GMO Ingredients” on CHEERIOS! My point in #45 was that this isn’t symptomatic of ANTI-science, just of the routine and pragmatic absence of science in the routines of everyday life, and much less weird in that than most of what most people do most of the time. Gray Squirrel: If people demand food ingredients they can pronounce, won’t the manufacturers just change the names? Just call azodicarbonimide ‘addimite’; call semicarbazide ‘somadoe’. Those sound yummy! How about a faux-Food-Babe giving thumbs down to benign ingredients with letter-salad names, and thumbs up to easy-phonetics poisons? “The pronunciation-based diet!” I can say ‘arsenic’, ‘lye’, ‘ammonia’ ‘mouse feces’… So ‘Red Dye #2’ must be cool, it’s all three letter words! The issue is not as Daniel Welch puts it of ‘people not using their brains,’ but one of HOW they use their brains. No, it is if they use their brains, as opposed to their hearts, or funny bones, or genitals. You seem to be either purposefully misunderstanding, or perhaps splitting a hair that would be better left whole, but the point of my comment was that decisions that require data to make correctly are far too often made without it, or indeed despite it. People hate GMOs because they have an instinctive revulsion to eating “unnatural” things, not for any rational reason. They call glyphosate “poison” without recognizing that the caffeine they probably drink everyday is about 30 times as poisonous; it’s all about the base, er, dose. They believe in astrology because one time, by sheer chance, their horoscope was right, and they remember that and forget the thousand times it has been wrong. They favor Creationism because their religion demands it. They believe in gigantic-yet-totally-hidden conspiracies because… oh, who the hell knows why, maybe because it makes the world seem more exotic to their dull minds. These are all examples of people not using their brains. I think the meaning of the comment was perfectly clear. What I was trying to get at is the idea that ‘pseudoscience’ sometimes gets deployed as if it was a unified category Grammar fail. ✓ But I botched it badly by not clarifying what I meant by “overly broad opposition”. So Orac’s interpretation of that as ‘nonsense’ makes perfect sense. Failed use–mention deployment. ✓ (BTW, the Zorse’s Ass really needs some help in this regard hereabouts. He’s been pining for you, as well.) Is there a keyboard shortcut for a real check mark? I don’t think you appreciate the (disastrously conceived) scope of Unicode. If you’re on OS X, I can probably tell you how to put access to the character palette – if it still exists in modern versions – in the menu bar, but I haven’t remapped the keyboard in some time. It’s not really used that much, after all, although I’m mildly surprised that the HTML &check; “entity” (← ‘scare quotes’)* doesn’t seem to exist. But misappropriating the mathematical symbol requires wholesale abdication of the notion that designed symbols might exist solely by virtue of specific denotations. * Assuming ← does. But I’d say TJ’s isn’t so much pandering as just doing marketing-business-as-usual, hyping whatever essentially empty label has some cultural buzz. No, that’s just what I mean by “pandering.” It’s annoying when it comes to gluten-free stuff, or the coconut oil fad, or drinks based on aloe vera, or whatever, too. It’s just that I think it’s actually problematic when it comes to anti-GMO fear-mongering, because it encourages knee-jerk rejection of a whole freaking technology that has great potential to be of real benefit, including from an ecological standpoint. Berkeley, f’rinstance, is just TOO MUCH for me to take. Don’t get me wrong; I like the far-out types, much more than I like the wealthy middle-of-the road liberal types, though I don’t necessarily pass judgment on the latter. I just like weirdos in general. I do get annoyed when radicals spew the whole “there’s no difference between the Democrats and Republicans!” nonsense, but that’s another story. I applied to Berkeley, actually, but I didn’t get in. I heard the same from a bunch of people who applied to the Slavic dept. there and were accepted in a whole bunch of other places; we all got rejection letters within about three weeks. My suspicion is that they just weren’t accepting graduate students due to the funding crisis, but in that case, they could’ve said so, and saved me the fifty bucks or whatever it was I paid to apply. (In all fairness, my main reason for applying there was that I sort of wanted to stay on the West Coast.) My point in #45 was that this isn’t symptomatic of ANTI-science, just of the routine and pragmatic absence of science in the routines of everyday life, and much less weird in that than most of what most people do most of the time. The marketing maybe, but the anti-GMO is blatantly anti-science. The studies that people try to wave around when they want “science” to back up their anti-GMO position are absolute transparent BS, for instance. ^ the anti-GMO movement. Oakland, eh? Used to live there, then Alameda, went to CT for 13 years, back in Daly City now. Before Oakland I was in SF, and I was never fond of the Safeways, which were too small for me. So I used to drive to SSF to the Pak ‘n Save, which I found out, was actually run by Safeway. I suffered Safeway in Oakland, as nothing else was close, but in Alameda, I lived by the tube and went to Lucky. Which got a lot better when it became Albertsons. But then Albertsons sold all the Albertsons stores to SuperValu and CVS, which sold the NoCal locations to Save-Mart, which renamed them back to ‘Lucky’. And then Albertsons bought Safeway, though they didn’t rename it, and as far as I can tell it’s still the same old Safeway pretty much. So I’m really confused, and I just go to Target – which is also between 280 and the mobile home park so, you know, I conserve gas :-). if something contains at least 40% alcohol, chances are it tastes really vile, and dissolves the cell membranes of neurons I’m pretty sure that’s not how EtOH neurotoxicity works. In fact, now that I briefly scout around, I’m not sure that a direct effect exists at all outside of rodent models. No, that’s a former US President. I just like weirdos in general. How do you feel about a weirdo’s three cats if said weirdo loses the roof over his head? I hope said weirdo is not you, as I find that possibility personally distressing. Sadly, I’m not in a place to be adopting any cats, as I live in a little studio apartment with a strict no-pets policy, and I have a certain globe-trotting tendency as well; I’m going to be out of the country for most of the fall semester. I would certainly hope the three cats could find a good home if that needed to happen. I do know some people in various locales in the Midwest who would probably be able to adopt some cats. I’m all for weird. Berkeley isn’t too ‘out there’ for me. It’s too… I’m tempted to say hegemonically granola-crunchy, but that’s not quite it. And I think it’s the townies more than the UC folks. It’s a great school, and there’s an intellectual/political tension there, in a good way, like people are using their minds. Telegraph Ave. is cool. You’d have liked it there, I think… Too bad Ann Arbor’s going bourgie. I was only there once, in the 80s, when Borders was still just the (totally awesome) local bookstore, and it rivaled Madison for college-town cool. But other big State schools in the Midwest have been under similar economic pressures to get smaller and more ‘elite’, and that burns me. Same at Minnesota, which is barely recognizable these days compared to my UG days in the 70s. FWIW, the Grad Colleges usually handle the incoming applications, want as many $50 fees as they can get, and neither know nor care how many slots are open in any specific program. If you inquire with the head of grad studies in the department, they usually give you the straight story. Now, if you want to get abusive time-wasting at the department level, wait until you apply for a tenure track teaching job… The GMO-thing is a real mess. Short version: technology that has great potential to be of real benefit, and is not in and of itself harmful, is often used to create more harm than good in the service of profit and power. (This is basically the history of industrial technology in a nutshell.) People conflate the use with the technology, and TPTB actually benefit from that by being able to discredit any social critique of use as ‘anti-technology’. If the GMOs-are-poison loonies didn’t exist, Monsanto would probably invent them… Sandman2says: Speaking of Whole Foods. Gotta like this. ” Whole Foods Tops List Of Companies Forced To Recall Food.” … “Within the food industry, some companies appear to sell contaminated food more often than others. Whole Foods tops our list of offenders, with 26 store-brand products recalled since the beginning of 2014.” From https://www.yahoo.com/health/whole-foods-tops-list-of-companies-forced-to-117606410767.html @Narad: BTW, do you have my contact info? If you need any help getting anything figured out – and I am invested in making sure things get figured out, for the cats and for the human – I can be reached at j l p a r s @ u m i c h . e d u. BobMsays: “vantage point tend to fall for sports” Should there be a men in there somewhere? Might want to fix that. BTW, do you have my contact info? I do now, thanks. Alainsays: Narad, I have a place for you to crash and know some mountain movers (of which I am also one) if you need anything. OTR (off the record), I met over 300 peoples since January 2014 and selected out 4 or 5 of them as mountain movers. I no longer work at SAP but currently involved with these 4 mountain movers (one of which, I’m ready to marry and asking her out today) to start 4 businesses. I also have many other plans but these 4 businesses I’m working on at the moment. BTW, many thanks JP 🙂 llewellysays: sadmar: Good point. It is important to make the essential distinction between pandering for unspecified reasons, and pandering for profit. Good to know the motive is greed. Probably too late, but I thought of a better way of characterizing how social media is a powerful weapon in the fight against pseudoscience: Quacks make it their full-time job to bamboozle the public. Vani Hari, to cite an example that is particularly grating at this moment (seriously, she’s like a tiny, tiny splinter under a fingernail), quit her job as a “computer consultant”, whatever that means, to focus on her career as a food advocate scam artist. And we all know how little actual doctoring Dr. Oz does these days. No single person, no matter how much they love reason and rationality, can compete with that — everyone has a life to lead, and all the quacks have to do is out-wait their critics. But with social media, the criticism can be done in tiny slices which “normal” people can accommodate. Enough tiny slices, and you get the whole pie. Now, whenever I have five or ten minutes, I can leave comments, express outrage, poke fun, or whatever I can do to further the cause of science. My little efforts don’t add up to much all by themselves, but if there are enough people doing it — and there are now — it can have a substantial impact. We have, in effect, crowd-sourced skepticism. Depends a lot on where you post the tiny slices, after all some pages seem quick to ban people and scrub themselves clean of dissent. At least based on the number of large banned by… groups and the size of them. In the fake debate over human-caused global warming, pseudoscience has delayed action by about 25 years, and will probably continue to slow the process to a crawl for at least another decade. (See James Hansen’s 1988 predictions. Which were presented to the US congress.) That’s the difference between getting started back when co2 levels were at about 355 ppm, and getting started 10 years from now – and now, co2 levels are about 399 ppm. In 10 years they’ll be at 420 ppm or more. Some estimates suggest co2 will more likely peak as high as 450 ppm, or maybe even 550 ppm, depending on what we do. Then, hopefully, we’ll do things like cover an area 1.5 the size of India (500 million hectares) with BECCS, and suck some of that co2 back out. If BECCS works, a thing we do not yet know. But let’s go with 420 ppm as the long term level that will eventually determine global sea level rise. Does that not sound like much? Well, we know that during the Eemian, global sea levels were probably 4 to 6 meters above today’s levels. What was co2 during the Eemian? It varied, but no more than about 300 ppm at any given time. If, the difference between the pre-industrial level of about 275 ppm and the Eemian level about 300 ppm amounts to 5 meters of sea level rise, then, what does the difference between 355 ppm and 420 ppm amount to? We’re talking a 25 ppm differnce in the first case, and a 65 ppm difference in the second case. But the relationship between co2 and global temperature is approximately logarithmic. But the relationship between global temperature and sea level rise is not too well understood … Hansen and Sato, 2011 found the Eemian was probably no more than about 1 C warmer than today. Does 1 C amount to 5 meters of sea level rise? It might. (See also this ) Well, if a doubling of co2 produces a 3 C rise, then, the difference between 355 ppm and 420 ppm is about 0.7 C . The math is (* (- (/ (log 420) (log 2)) (/ (log 355) (log 2))) 3) , if you read elisp. I don’t do algebra anymore. How much sea level rise is that, if the Eemian was 1 C warmer than today, and had sea level 5m higher? I don’t know. Let’s go with 3.5 m . The relationship is almost certainly not linear, but I don’t know enough to pick a better estimate. What population of people is threatened by 3.5 m of sea level rise? One country, Bangladesh, has a population of about 156 million, and about 10% of its land would be drowned by 1m of sea level rise. That’s 15 million people. There are other densely populated river deltas too. The Mekong, and others. Now, for reasons that make little sense to me, practically all projections of sea level rise end at 2100, and forecast between 1m and 2m of sea level rise by then, but that’s not the ultimate sea level rise, because the ice sheets are not going to melt that fast – we hope. (Presently, the west antarctic and greenland ice sheets are melting much faster than expected). I don’t know how long it will take for 3.5 m of sea level rise to come about. Glaciologists toss around figures like “300 years”, for how long it might take the Greenland ice sheet to melt (Greenland is about 7 meters of sea level rise), but they do not seem to place much confidence in any particular estimate. But, according to this USGS slide on sea level rise , 5m of sea level rise would affect about 670 million people, and 3.5 meters threatens about 600 million people. Note this does not account for the fact that global population is likely to grow from about 7 billion or so to about 9 or 10 billion or so, so “600 million” is conservative. So, I am going to assume that the difference between stabilizing co2 at 355 ppm, achievable if we had acted in 1990, and stabilizing at 420 ppm, what is more likely to result from today’s politics, results in a sea level difference that affects 600 million people – though, I don’t know if the population between the sea level rise reached as a result of 355 ppm and the sea level rised reached as a result of 420 ppm is the same. Probably it is not, but for now it is my best estimate. So while governments have been listening to pseudoscience, 600 million people have been put at risk due to fossil fuel caused sea level rise. And sea level rise is not the only effect of global warming. Global warming will also dramatically displace agriculture. (See here for a little overview on the effects of climate change on agriculture.) (Or see here for effects already occurring.) And there will be many other effects – recall the European and Russian heat waves that killed tens of thousands of people. But to keep my estimate conservative, I will just go with the 600 million lives threatened by sea level rise. Now, sure, there are many uncertainties in my back-of-the-envelope math. I am not a scientist of any kind. But for now that is my conclusion: 600 million lives at risk. That is the work that pseudoscience does, sadmar. @ Daniel Welch: Woo-meisters spend their entire lives lying, posturing and spreading false information- they’re experts at it. It’s how they support themselves. Most of them have a history in this mode of behaving in untrustworthy fashion If a dedicated group of sceptics documents their escapades, believe me, the message will spread. And it already has. I notice that the anti-vaxxers are spending a great deal of time countering their critics and web woo-meisters need to present conspiracies that explain why sceptics are totally compromised. Now Mike Adams himself announces that he is inaugurating his very own search engine to combat the obvious crimes of the most popular ones. Wikip— is a designated enemy these days and the name of Orac is known far and wide. TMR and other anti-vaxers want to desert facebook because it censors their nonsense ( perhaps they will use MeWe they say). I know that they can feasibly use our efforts to their own advantage by presenting themselves as persecuted martyrs who have the Real Truth ™.but eventually, they go too far ( see Alex Jones recently) I find that besides explicating the obvious pseudoscience, we can also explain 1. HOW these charlatans operate- the minutiae of their business plans; what they write, how they seek out followers, how they branch out to other charlatans, how they control more than one business, how they manipulate internet ratings, etc. It’s interesting to find that one single individual runs several businesses- all scams- and may even have a charity or two to bilk the public. AND 2. How they are motivated- what makes a person live this way? Who are these people? Are there any personality flaws or weaknesses that can give us insight into their malfeasance? Why would a guy spend his entire life tearing down SBM? Why would a woman spend her days hooked up to others on the internet teaching misinformed rubbish that might conceivably endanger children?. Hilariously, they often represent their activities as a public service or as education when it is merely the means to self-enrichment and self-aggrandisement. It’s to benefit themselves and their accounts. Daniel #104: Good point! Scammers can devote all their time and energy to scamming, because its lucrative. They really are a minority, though, so they can be countered if a lot of people chip in a little, and time is almost as good as money as a chip. This is basic democratic political strategy – e.g. the only way for the many workers to push back against the few bosses is to unionize. This may be happening to some extent now, as my sense is the comment threads on relevant stories in ‘general issue’ media are increasingly anti-woo compared to a few years back. Things change slowly, and it’s easy to get frustrated. But if enough ‘ little efforts’ keep pouring in, the tide can indeed turn… eventually. I can’t help but note that the limits of time we ‘normals’ all have to devote to such things you discuss correlates to what I was trying to say about how we use our brains. In #85 you use “brains” figuratively – as opposed to “hearts” etc. – and I was using “brains” literally – ‘heart’ is a brain function, of course. If “decisions that require data to make correctly are far too often made without it,” a major reason for that is that we simply don’t have time to gather all that data and process it properly in our cognitive frontal lobes, so the tasks get slotted to short-cut-land involving more of our lizard brains. The decisions that result may not be scientifically “correct”, but for most routine human business, they function pretty well. We all make a massive number of decisions every day, large and small, each one involving a massive amount of potentially relevant data, and we’d just freeze if we tried to process each one cognitively with something like scientific reason. I’m not talking about labeling glyphosate “poison” or astrology or Creationism or conspiracy theories, all of which DO involve time-investment and can indeed be critiqued as ‘poor thinking’. I’m talking about more ‘reflex’ or ‘automatic’ responses that occur in a split-second. As you said yourself, the bias against the ‘unnatural’ is instinctive, but I’ll assert it needn’t rise to anything near revulsion for the consumer to pick one box of breakfast cereal off the shelf over another. So, basically, I was posing the same question you did in #104: how do we use our limited time resources most effectively? Because a major limit is the amount of attention we can expect any ‘normal’ person to devote to listening to us amid all the demands of work, family, etc. @ sadmar: Perhaps an apt phrase can get to the heart of matters… -Heath expert’s degree is in technical writing. -Natural health guru is poisoned by his own product. -Researcher who warned of vaccine dangers was patenting his own version. -Surgeon earns more money on television than in the operating theatre. @ Narad; I hope you have an alternate place lined up. I’m sorry to hear that. Denice #106: Yess! Exposing how the scams work, and interrogating the true motives of the scammers IMHO is far more persuasive than “this is wrong on the facts.” But when conflicting claims get weighed, being right on the facts sure helps. Look at how much mileage woo-promoters get from false exposes of process and false attribution of motives: e.g. ‘the Pharma Shill Gambit’. It’s textbook turdblossom: accuse your opponents of your own sins. Simply documenting that this is factually wrong becomes back-on-your-heels defense. Fight that fire with fire, and trust that the flames will burn the position built on a house-of-cards un-reality more than a position anchored in the concrete of verifiable scientific fact. Of course. The facts are the foundation. ALWAYS. Here’s the tricky part: some of the idiots I survey present their own distortions as fact because they know that their followers will hardly go and LOOK IT UP. Here are a few recent ones: -Both Thorsen and the Whistleblower, Thompson, are portrayed as LEAD authors in charge of the studies. -Doctors who oppose vaccination ( those nearly ubiquitous shrieking harpies, Humphries, Banks, Brogan & Tenpenny) are called ‘vaccine experts’. -Offit’s vaccine and HPV are portrayed as “killing” children and teenagers. – and a thousand other memes Another probem is that the woo-entranced listen or read this swill regularly and may even ((shudder)) cross-reference- thus repeating the prevarication- by going from Adams to Null to Olmsted and to Lord knows what other snake-in-the-grass h3llbent upon securing their discretionary income. I notice that a certain journalist we know used great headlines to lead into his precise and detailed findings. it feeds into a general miasma of fear about GMO’s that one could argue actually does do material harm Yes, exactly this. I purposefully avoid buying food that brays about being ‘non-GMO,’ and as a vegetarian in the SF Bay Area, that is getting increasingly frustratingly difficult. Anti-science just annoys me more when it comes from my own side Yup. Anti-GMO, vax pseudoscience, colon cleanses, crystal healing, anti-microwave-oven BS, childbirth woo – come on, liberals, you’re letting me down… (The only thing Whole Foods deli has that Safeway deli doesn’t is fresh spinach, and I’ll admit I like fresh organic spinach.) I’ve never been to a Subway that doesn’t have it – I do sometimes have to ask for it, as they don’t always have it out. Probably not organic, but as that’s food-woo, too, I’m happy about it. Re: Berkeley – it just seems so very predictable, these days. Affluent folk showing their ‘counter-culture’ credentials by buying the Right Food and the Right Clothes and having the Right Jewelry. It warms my heart when I come across an Actual Hippie. This is a rather late reply to the umlaut discussion, but I don’t think they were going for a heavy metal thing. Rather, it was probably more like what Häagen-Dazs did. They threw the double-a and umlaut in to appear Danish, but of course it’s really just a nonsense phrase invented by a Polish immigrant who spoke no Danish whatsoever, but who knew that people tended to associate Denmark with quality products. Foreign branding, it’s called, and I bet that’s what’s going on here. @ Roadstergal: Oh yes the Bohemian Bourgeoisie! One of my gentlemen works where they reside and occasionally I am invited to some activity there and must decide if I should attempt to fit in or just be myself. So far, it appears that they actually LIKE me. I don’t know iif I should be happy or upset by that. @KayMarie #7 I’ve been musing on what you wrote, and wanted to comment on it – this isn’t a personal attack; not too long ago I would have entirely agreed with you. I have radically changed the way I think about this over the past few years. I came to realize much of the way I thought about food was rooted in vitalism; I had uncritically swallowed the idea that raw food or juices are healthier than cooked vegetables, for example. I’m not at all convinced that flavor-enhancers and colorings are a serious problem. I suspect that the real problem is that humans are hard-wired to enjoy sweet and fatty foods like chocolate, ice cream and donuts. Sugary sodas probably don’t help either, though these days it’s increasingly hard to find any with sugar in them. Few otherwise healthy people are malnourished in the developed world, though I have come across one person with laboratory confirmed scurvy, albeit mild (his diet was very weird). I think the main cause of insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, obesity and type 2 diabetes is simply consuming too many calories and using too few through exercise. Some foods may fool our satiety responses, and rarely there may be genetic factors involved, but generally speaking I think it’s a pretty simple of input exceeding output. When you refer to flavor enhanced foods and artificially colored foods, which flavor enhancers and artificial colors do you think are bad for us, and why? My reading suggests that the evidence for adverse health effects from artificial coloring is weak and contradictory (for example); though probably most of us know someone who claims their children become hyperactive when exposed to certain food colorings. Evidence for adverse effects of flavor enhancers, which are mostly (perhaps all) entirely ‘natural’ (e.g. glutamates, inosinates, guanylates and salts of 5′-ribonucleotide), despite their frequent demonization, is equally sparse; even Chinese restaurant syndrome does not appear to be caused by MSG as some have claimed, since carefully designed double-blind studies show no effects. Now sometimes the flavor-enhanced, artificially-colored food is also nutrient dense, phytochemical rich with appropriate macro nutrient balance, but mostly it just makes junk taste good enough you will eat it. In general I think sugars, fats and salt make junk foods so popular, and all of those are indisputably ‘natural’. For example, I just checked the ingredients on a bag of tangy cheese Doritos, and every ingredient is entirely ‘natural’ (in the sense of not being made out of petrochemicals in a factory); the flavor enhancer is MSG and the colorings are paprika and annatto. I do wonder if eating too much of that junk ends up making actual food less palatable (so reinforces eating more junk as after awhile non-junk just doesn’t taste right). That’s an interesting possibility. I think that may be be true for salt and sweetness. It is certainly possible to train ourselves to use less salt and sugar, and as with anything in life we become used to it eventually. For example I stopped using dressings on salads almost entirely a couple of years ago and now thoroughly enjoy munching through an undressed salad (which may consume more calories than the salad contains). I love that. I’ll have to send it on to my poly-sci sister. I doubt I’m welcome over there, because someone will eventually ask about my work, and that will inevitably lead to one of those awkward conversations where everyone thinks they understand ‘inflammation’ better than me. :p (The last time I was in Berkeley was for a Willie Nelson concert, which lead me to a very firm conclusion – yes, one can get too stoned.) I had uncritically swallowed the idea that raw food or juices are healthier than cooked vegetables, for example There’s a grain of truth to that – boiling vegetables can leach away some of the nutrients, and frying them can bring along excess calories for the ride. But steaming or sautéing in a non-stick pan rectifies a lot of that… Denice #114 Be yourself, of course. The hard-core new-agey loonies will get all huffy, but they’re actually pretty rare. In my experience, most NoCal new-age is more ‘soft’, and the people are genuinely nice. I think Roadstergal echoes part of my own discontent with the comment on predictability. It’s a ‘vibe’ you can get moving through the area and taking it in as a whole. On the other hand, when you meet people as individuals, it’s usually a different story – more openness and tolerance. The Actual Hippies (and other genuine Bohemians) have been squeezed out by economics, not because the bourgie-libs dislike them and want to be rid of them. I actually base a lot of comments here on people I’ve known in the Bay Area – a self-selected sample to be sure – most of whom seem to be into some form of woo… but to varying degrees, mostly benign, and limited to certain specific topics. That is, they’ll be kinda woo-ey about (X), kinda ‘rationalist’ about (Y), not particularly dogmatic about either… no sign of ‘crank magnetism.’ Complex and contradictory, as most people are at base IRL, (their internet personae notwithstanding). I don’t consider cooked food less real or nutritious than raw/juiced foods. I know that is common but really never bought into that one. However I sometimes will go to town on a good veggie or fruit plate ignoring whatever dip they put out to try to make it edible. Although I will say that last event with the roasted veggie plate, Oh man was that good. I tend to get impatient and take them out too soon or get distracted and leave them in too long, these were at that perfect level of charred but not charcoal. I wasn’t thinking so much that the things you put in to make one bit of processed thing taste a bit different than the other bit of processed thing was bad for you directly I think overall they are mostly harmless. Just the training people to prefer intensely sort of strawberry flavored pseudo-strawberries may over time make people think regular strawberries taste funny so are less likely to eat them. So at least some actual food in the fast casual dining space doesn’t irk me quite as much as it otherwise might. I do agree the pack in as much salt, fat and sugar into a bite doesn’t help, either with the preferring junk over real food. Although that may be more of a problem in kids where sometimes giving in to something that is designed to hit the right buttons they will eat the first time is much easier than the however many times they need to actually eat a real piece of chicken rather than a preformed bit of ground chicken like nugget, a real bit of fruit rather a “fruit snack” or some real cheese instead of orange powder cheese. no sign of ‘crank magnetism.’ I have to admit, that hasn’t been my experience. My friends are generally decently-off, college-educated, fans of NdGT, Bill Nye, and the like – and they’ll still have a good wide streak of pseudoscience, combining usually more than one form of food-woo (mostly anti-GMO, pro-‘organic,’ anti-microwave), cancer woo, and supplement-woo; the parents are usually into several sorts of childbirth/AP woo and most are ‘formula is poison’ woo. “Rather, it was probably more like what Häagen-Dazs did. They threw the double-a and umlaut in to appear Danish, but of course it’s really just a nonsense phrase invented by a Polish immigrant who spoke no Danish whatsoever, but who knew that people tended to associate Denmark with quality products. Foreign branding, it’s called, and I bet that’s what’s going on here.” You see that on beauty products in the US — lots of accents aigus added to the names of shampoos and moisturizers to make them seem more French. Because all Frenchwomen are beautiful, non? Roadstergal, I doubt I’m welcome over there, because someone will eventually ask about my work, and that will inevitably lead to one of those awkward conversations where everyone thinks they understand ‘inflammation’ better than me. Really? Inflammation is hideously complex and even the word gives me a headache by association. (The last time I was in Berkeley was for a Willie Nelson concert, which lead me to a very firm conclusion – yes, one can get too stoned.) Ain’t that the truth. I’m reminded of a recent TV show in the UK in which researchers gave Jon Snow, a well-respected journalist and presenter, a substantial overdose of THC and filmed him unraveling. He has been under fire in war zones but said getting stoned was the most frightening experience of his life. The whole thing seemed more than a little disingenuous to me. You could get a teetotaler to drink a bottle of vodka and film them vomiting and suffering the spins as an argument against alcohol. True, but a surprising number of vegetables are more nutritious when cooked, with the exception of vitamin C. Also, don’t forget that some antinutrients are destroyed by cooking. (The fact that the Huffington Post has become The Go-To Reading For Liberals around here – for no good reason I can think of – doesn’t help, because they support all the woo.) Sure but occasionally I do like a little dress-up ( without going all-out cosplay). A crisp shirt and neat trousers looks fabulous with my unruly hair. I can’t do the faded jeans and Indian cotton shirts in all conscience. Altho’ my area – very near the great city of [redacted]- has its share of hippies, liberals, bourgeoise, yuppies, moneyed perfectionists and arbiters of hip, I must admit that NorCal has more fine lines of distinction in leftie-ism. BUT I agree, I constantly meet very nice people whenever I visit. there. They just love me.. So do 20-something shopgirls/ boys in the City and café employees. The whole thing seemed more than a little disingenuous to me. For sure. I’ve been ‘too stoned’ in ‘wow, I really can’t be arsed to get off of the couch and stop watching The Simpsons,’ but it’s another few leaps to ‘everyone around me is smoking pot endlessly and it’s just really a lot of THC.’ They were even blowing bubbles filled with pot smoke around, which were beautiful but Too Much. Also, this factor. Ooh, thanks for the SA link! I always like good food info. 🙂 Andreas Johanssonsays: anti-microwave I don’t think I know anyone who is anti-microwave in general, beyond simply thinking it declassé, but a surprising lot of people in my circles are convinced that specifically microwaving tea water is bad, either for taste or health. Most, if pressed, can’t explain why they think so or what difference there’d be from other means of heating. One suggested that by heating the water evenly, there’d be less convection and thus the water would pick up less oxygen. No explanation was given, of course, as to why you’d want tea water highly oxygenated (and I don’t know if it even works in the first place – gases become less soluble in water with increasing temperature, so if anything getting convection going might if anything help the water lose oxygen). Kreb: I used to joke my five essential food groups were sugar, fat, salt, caffiene and starch. 🙂 But seriously, I think your post shows how easily different and complex things get conflated and over-simplified, with the imprecision of language playing a major role as usual. Processed foods are mainly processed to amp up the ‘natural’ flavor enhancers of sugar, fats and salt. While the ingredients may be ‘natural’, the balance is not. Thus the “minimally processed foods” are more ‘natural’ in that more ‘holistic’ sense. I have no illusions my packaged junk food diet is as healthy as meals prepared from fresh groceries at the market, and that belief has nothing to do with vitalism, which I take as nothing but a crock. No doubt we’re ever more sedentary, burn fewer calories than humans of yore, and our hard-wired drives for raw fuel lead us to take in more than we can expend. But I don’t think that alone accounts for the obesity epidemic by any stretch. Consider the differences between the rampant obesity in the U.S. compared to other countries. Here we have fewer and/or less powerful heathy diet traditions, and the most aggressive packaged-food industry acting like pushers for ‘unnatural’ concoctions of sugar/starch/fat/salt junk. There’s a class angle, too. The more well to do have the money and time resources to eat better, while the less-well-off gravitate toward the fast and cheap. You can see this by walking through the grocery stores in different neighborhoods and checking the different things they stock – which is not just response to ‘consumer demand’ as the vendors pay the stores for shelf space. I suspect the presence of certain preservatives/additives and also certain nutrient-diminishing processing has an economic root in increasing the shelf-life of the sugar/starch/fat/salt junk, so maybe that adds to the confusion: the ‘unpronounceable’ chemical ingredients are benign themselves, but have some correlation with the ‘natural’ junk content (??). Ain’t that the truth. Brownies are pretty dangerous in this regard for the young and inexperienced. Just sayin’. Roadstergal: I’d expect multiple forms of food-woo to go together. If the cancer-woo is anything but a minor offshoot of that, I’d be surprised (and worried). But the Bill-Nye-loving Whole-Foods-shopping is just the kind of contradiction I’m talking about as far as not buying crank magnetism as a real slippery slope. But then, nobody I know gets their news from HuffPo — more Daily Kos, The Nation, The New Yorker… Makes we wonder exactly what ‘here’ you’re ‘around’… 🙂 [Like, tell me so I can avoid going there, if possible…] But the Bill-Nye-loving Whole-Foods-shopping is just the kind of contradiction I’m talking about as far as not buying crank magnetism as a real slippery slope. Or former Bill-Nye-loving. I posted something on FB some time back about how Bill Nye basically did a 180 on GMOs, and one of my friends said that “he should stick to [something or other.]” People say the same thing about Neil deGrasse Tyson if he dares to say anything about GMOs – “he should stick to astrophysics!” In other words, a lot of people like popular science guys, unless they say things they disagree with. They want the cachet of liking science, but they don’t want to actually listen to scientific consensus when it doesn’t jive with their ideology. A lot of people also seem to honestly think science is on their side on issues like GM technology, or they desperately want science to be on their side, to the point that they’ll try to point to BS like the Seralini study or some bunkum by Stephanie freaking Seneff as “evidence” that GMOs are bad. Even relatively scientifically literate people will do this; it’s sad, honestly. Ideology: what a drug. They want the cachet of liking science, but they don’t want to actually listen to scientific consensus when it doesn’t jive with their ideology. Yes, that’s perfectly put, and neatly describes the people I’m thinking of. Science is great – until it doesn’t agree with what they’ve already decided, and then they jump to the Brave Mavericks. I’ll turn around on things given evidence – I don’t always do it graciously or punctually, but I’ll do it – and that’s really important to my own self-worth. Like, tell me so I can avoid going there, if possible… Oakland, SF, Marin county, scattered down the Peninsula, Santa Cruz, a few that are overseas… Yup, even very scientifically literate people pick-and-choose to fit their conformation biases. IMHO, your observation that people desperately want science to be on their side is spot on, and points to a complex dynamic that could tell us a lot if we unpack it properly. The proliferation of Seralini/Seneff-type pseudo-science is a testament to the social power of ‘science’. It means the cranks know ‘science’ = legitimacy. How else do we get should-be-oxymorons like “creation science”? But ‘science’ (as a socio-cultural institution) bears some responsibility for the ideological mechanisms behind the effectiveness of its fun-house-mirror reflections, by casting itself as outside of ideology when it is anything but. Scientific consensus goes a lot farther when it jives with the dominant ideology, no matter how pernicious that ideology may be [obligatory Werner Von Braun reference, though I’ll claim to be Pynchoning rather than Godwining in this case 🙂 ]. Scientific research takes money and permission, and the people who hand out out the resources direct them to serve their own ends. Legit medical science is probably toward the least-ideological end of the scale, but as a whole the nature of scientific has always bent toward the powerful. Specifically, the histories of many branches of science are inextricable from the history of militarism. E.g. science education in U.S. public schools was pretty lame, neglected and underfunded until the late 1950s. Then, in the shadow of Sputnik, Congress passed the Defense Education Act… and new science classrooms popped up all over the country all but over-night, with new teachers hired to teach newly expanded curricula. Which only happened because the Pentagon really wanted it. The manned space program was a massively expensive Cold War exercise, pushing science away from all sorts of more beneficial projects into what amounted to an MI-complex boondoggle (and no I don’t think the creation of Tang justifies the budget wastage). Maybe if scientists admitted they’re the hand-maidens of power – and their rigorous and correct science is always framed by some ideology or other – the legitimating mystique of ‘science’ would fade enough for pseudo-science to crumble under the weight of questioning any claim to science with ‘What for?”, ‘Whose agenda is driving this?’ and so on. I don’t know what skeptics think of Vonnegut, but the man had a solid science and technology background, which he came to view through the lens of the horrors of Dresden and his work as a tech writer for General Electric. Between ‘Player Piano’ and ‘Cat’s Cradle’ he pretty much nailed the social context of STEM with satire. When the scientists don’t just create EPICAC, Orange-O and Ice-9 because that’s what they’re expected to do; when they talk back to power and bite the hands that feed them; when they say, “well, the science is good, but the purpose seems mighty sketchy so let’s reconsider…”; when they stop waving their own scientifically valid studies as totems of social legitimation… how then can pseudo-science scams survive the exposure? (NdGT obviously has worthy things to say about a lot besides astrophysics, but lately the guy’s reach has exceeded his grasp, and he doesn’t seem to know where his limits are and when to STFU…) Maybe if scientists admitted they’re the hand-maidens of power @ Andreas Johansson: I do hear a little anti-microwave sentiment courtesy of PRN and Natural News but they don’t push too hard for it because, I imagine their customers enjoy convenience and might be turned off by that type of woo. HOWEVER some of the antivax crunchy moms fear the micro-ondes. @sadmar: I don’t know if science is inherently ideological, or the “handmaiden of power” or whatever. I do more or less agree with Latour in, say, We Have Never Been Modern that the separation between science and what you might call “society” is completely imaginary, although it has served a certain purpose in “Western” intellectual history. Science is ultimately a product of society, of particular cultures, languages, etc. – scientists can’t do science without language, after all – and yeah, it can’t be neatly separated from politics, either. BUT what social constructivists – who want to reduce everything to “society” – don’t realize is that all of the societal stuff they study is nothing other than a product of objectively real physics, chemistry, biology, etc. It’s a book worth reading, though you may have already done so, although it is pretty freaking dense. I think I was averaging like 10 pages an hour when I was reading it. As far as the space program goes, I mean, when it comes to a “whose dick is bigger” contest, I’d much rather see it played out in space travel than in stockpiles of nuclear weapons. TBH, there are worse things to spend money on, and in any case, it’s fckin’ cool that we can build a thing that can shoot us up into space and keep us alive there. Old Rockin' Davesays: Gluck-ose? Glue-kis? Glue-cosy? Guh-lu-koze? Now you know why nobody likes my desserts. Hands up, any scientist posting here who thinks he/she is a “hand-maiden of power.” I’m sure that my lovely brothers and sisters from the great state of California will thoroughly enjoy Mike Adams’ latest article ( Natural News today) wherein he predicts the future: a massive drought, real estate collapse, bankruptcy, default, poverty, fear, loathing and dogs and cats living together drinking pee. .In Oakland. AS if that isn’t bizarrely unrealistic enough, he then predicts that the impoverished, desperate refugees will head to Austin, where he has lived for the past several years. Imagine that! He is frightened however that they might bring those danged Calyfornicatin’ values with them – and whilst he wouldn’t begrudge them drinking their smoothies- he does draw the line at their uncanny unliklihood of being gun toters. What’s wrong with these people? He can’t wait until he can carry his rod openly ( is that what they call them? Rods?) as a freedom-loving,, flag-waving, government-hating patriot. Interestingly, I hear almost the same rant from Null at PRN. These guys saw too many western movies when they were children or else know deep down that they can’t live up to the lifestyle in CA- they’re not hip enough. Harken back to the olden days that exist in your imagination, fellows. Dream on. Perhaps if they are right about real estate, we can all pick up some great bargains. How about an old Mission? Or an historic adobe? I might fancy a lighthouse myself., Or a place where I can watch sea lions bark. @ shay: Well, I am a handmaiden of Draconis, does that count? I really don’t think so. Honestly, I think what gives science the aura it definitely does possess, and what makes people want to associate themselves with it even when they don’t understand it, boils down to one thing: engineering. Science enables us to build really cool sht. We’re all surrounded by marvels like airplanes, computers, modems, pacemakers, and so on and so on. These things work – you have to literally deny concrete reality to say that they don’t. That aura of power around science that drives cranks to couch their BS in “sciencey” language is always going to be there, really; I think maybe the best counterweight to it is to encourage people toward empiricism and a questioning attitude. Nobody wants to be a dupe when it comes down to it. When the scientists don’t just create EPICAC, Orange-O and Ice-9 because that’s what they’re expected to do; when they talk back to power and bite the hands that feed them; when they say, “well, the science is good, but the purpose seems mighty sketchy so let’s reconsider…”; when they stop waving their own scientifically valid studies as totems of social legitimation… how then can pseudo-science scams survive the exposure? I was actually talking about this with one of my former Russian students, an adorable rocket scientist, who recently moved back to the area and got a job here because he hated Alabama. We were talking about the whole Manhattan Project thing, actually, and how it’s like, yeah, this is the worst thing anybody could ever have made. But once the knowledge to enable us to build nuclear weapons exists, we’re going to build nuclear weapons. We are, when it comes down to it, all too human in that sense. It’s sort of like that law that says that if you can think of something, there’s porn of it on the Internet. To be honest, when it comes to the history of the development of the bomb, I can’t say that I’m entirely convinced that it’s not a good thing it was the US that got there first. Do we get to wear revealing frilly costumes? Asking for a friend. Maybe if scientists admitted they’re the hand-maidens of power – and their rigorous and correct science is always framed by some ideology or other What such ideology “frames,” say, quantum chromodynamics? What do you think about the (occasional) debate over the leap-second? After all, ‘time of day’ is about the clearest use of science to enforce a social construct imaginable. ^ One might note that an accumulated ∆UTC of 3 s has a noticeable effect. (And I had no idea that this had been in the news recently.) I should have written social constructionists above, incidentally, not “social constructivists.” I had Vygotsky in my head or something. when they say, “well, the science is good, but the purpose seems mighty sketchy so let’s reconsider…” Like this? Beware: One side is waving around “totems of social legitimation.” The math is (* (- (/ (log 420) (log 2)) (/ (log 355) (log 2))) 3) , if you read elisp. I don’t do algebra anymore. That’s surely the strangest endorsement of Polish notation that I’ve ever heard. So if those hand-maidens of power would just admit that all the independent lines for evidence that lead to the conclusion that the Earth and the life on it are billions of years old are just framed by some ideology or other, then the legitimating mystique of geology and biology will crumble and young Earth creationists will start asking their pastors, ‘Whose agenda is driving the claim that the Earth is 6,000 years old?’ Oh, sure. I can totally see how telling young Earth creationists that geology and biology are nothing special, just some more socially-constructed stories supporting the military-industrial complex of the United States is going to lead them to question their religious beliefs. NoPanShabuShabusays: #140 JP: “We were talking about the whole Manhattan Project thing, actually, and how it’s like, yeah, this is the worst thing anybody could ever have made.” Well, it did save countless millions of Japanese lives, and kept WWIII from happening, so it does have that going for it. I’m really disappointed that there’s been no subsequent analysis of the social implications of the hegemonic ‘science’ of the ‘leap-second’. Glaxxon PharmaCOM Orbitalsays: MESSAGE BEGINS—————————— Yes, Domina Walter, I’m still here. I’m just busy. New Royal Hatchling. Quarrelling Rothschilds. Generally misbehaving monkeys. New filing system. The Food Babe. But I’m watching. Always watching . . . Yrs in Ph Evl Lord Draconis Zeneca, VH7ihL Thrice Celebrated, Exalted, Forward Mavoon of the Great Fleet, Monkey Master of Mars, etc., etc. Glaxxon PharmaCOM Orbital ————————-MESSAGE ENDS My dearest Lord Draconis, Of course, you have my sympathies. Our scheduled activities are progressing nicely in Sacramento and elsewhere. I only ask that you please don’t call me the D word publicly: people might get entirely the wrong idea and we wouldn’t want that to happen, now would we? Most sincerely yours, DW. Ideologies and power are things that are always there. Neither category is inherently bad. Nor are human activities typically shaped by only one ideology, or one source of social power. Rather our social projects are ‘contested terrain’ with different forces and ideas tugging at them. These struggles frame ALL practice – some more than other, though, and generally at a macro level that may appear (or truly be) trivial when we dig down into specifics like the ‘leap second’. Narad pointed to the macro-level significance of concepts of time, but I think the distinction JP observed between the inter-related but still different projects of science and technology may be apropos here: I might amend Narad’s observation to: ‘time-of-day is about the clearest use of technology to enforce a social construct imaginable’, as I’m not sure ‘science’ per se has a major role in that. While ‘time’ is indeed a highly ideological social construct, and uses of clock-technology highly ideological as well, it would be egregiously simple-minded to suggest these things have any uni-vocal source or effect; e.g. an exclusively progressive or repressive trajectory (‘dialectic’, blah, blah, yada yada). Contrary to what skeptics may imagine, ideological analyses in the Humanities are not just pulled out of a critic’s butt, but require extensive research, yielding enough evidence to support a plausible argument. While peer-review in the Humanities has very different standards than in the sciences, it’s more often than not quite rigorous. And much more so than in the sciences, if you put out a piece of pure BS, the relevant community of scholars will rip it to shreds on its own failed terms. If I could still do that kind of research (which I can’t) a passable “analysis of the social implications of the ‘leap-second’” would take me at least 3 months to write, and I’d have no reason to imagine the result would be interesting or productive enough to justify the time and effort. The distinction between ‘science’ and ‘technology’ has been a major site where “the legitimating mystique of science” has been deployed to justified social agendas articulated through technology. Since we’re talking about time, I can think of better example of this than the work of F. W Taylor, through which industrial capital used the rubric of ‘science’ to control and dehumanize labor in ways that were not genuinely ‘scientific’ at all. More broadly, “the legitimating mystique of science” means social agendas get legitimated by wrapping them in a rubric of ‘science’. This is NOT a discussion about the legitimacy of factual claims produced by scientific research as recognized by scientific consensus, but rather what what the policy implications of anything taken to be ‘science’ by TPTB can or should be The Manhattan Project is emphatically NOT an example of this. AFAIK, no one involved in the nuclear weapons race between the U.S. and the Third Reich had any illusion about what they were doing. In Cat’s Cradle the story of Ice-9 is a parable of unintended consequences, or rather a utter vacuum of intent-consequence connections. In contrast, I’d offer Oppenheimer as an example of a scientist expressing proper recognition of the social context of his work. He understood the stakes, and admitted the larger moral contradictions, but at the end of the day could say ‘this is why I did what I did, why I thought it was absolutely justified under the conditions.’ The premise that everything is framed by ideology and power simply demands that we all be willing to acknowledge those frames, accept responsibility for the consequences of our choices, and find a legitimate social argument to stand proud behind them. WWII was framed by a pernicious ideology of militarism, but once that was activated in armed conflict pacifism became highly questionable, and the argument that the relevant question had become ‘which side are you on?’ in terms of the contesting configurations of power: fascism or democracy? Being a handmaiden of power isn’t necessarily anything any of us need apologize for. Personally, my own apologies include not being a better handmaiden for “power to the people!’ So, yes, “the independent lines for evidence that lead to the conclusion that the Earth and the life on it are billions of years old” are “framed by some ideology or other,” but not just</i. so. Nor is this an example of biology and geology being used as a means of mystification, or in service of the military industrial complex. Evolution and natural history have been openly politicized from the get go. If biologists and geologists dating the Earth were aware of the various ideological influences on their work, on balance I doubt those badges would be anything they'd be ashamed to wear. Invoking the mystifying appeals to 'science' by Young Earth creationists here is reductio ad absurdem, since those claims are pretty transparent attempts to put rationalist lipstick on a pig of Biblical-literalist blind faith. The broader terrain of 'creation science' and 'intelligent design' is another story, though, as it seeks to square spirituality and supernatural dieties with biology and geology by disputing the interpretations of various empirically verified facts. Finally, deconstructing/undermining "the legitimating mystique of science" isn't going to lead anyone to question their religious beliefs. They're religious beliefs. They don’t depend on science at all. The people who hold those beliefs employ pseudo-science to justify their beliefs to society beyond their in-groups-of-faith, largely to make arguments about policy — e.g. using the profit-motive-driven economics of the textbook industry to displace solid science with woo in the national science curriculum by stirring enough enough trouble with a fervent minority in Texas. We are talking about the political arena here, and “the legitimating mystique of science” gives any agenda that can support itself by some ‘sciency-ness’ that looks enough like science to pass with policy-makers gets an unfair leg up. Why does woo manifest itself wearing a lab coat? Because, in the social/political/cultural realm ‘Pseudo-Science Works!” If we could kick out ALL the props offered by the rubric of science, do you doubt the causes of ‘real’ science would prevail of the causes of the woo-ists? Admitting that the development of factual scientific knowledge was framed by some agenda doesn’t make it false. Having the collected facts on your side still offers a superior basis for argument. If ‘science’ is unwilling to answer the question “But what work does it do?” with moral confidence, then indeed something is very, very wrong. Rebecca on Did the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine cause Dr. Gregory Michael’s fatal ITP?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1799002
__label__wiki	0.742917	0.742917	Tag: Preston House Lawsuits target local businesses with websites deemed inaccessible to the visually impaired A series of “cut and paste” lawsuits has reached the North Fork, affecting dozens of local businesses and prompting the Riverhead Chamber of Commerce to issue an “urgent alert”... Luxury spa, salon planned in Riverhead next to Preston House & Hotel Renovations are underway to transform the historic Howell House on East Main Street into a luxury spa and salon. Additional hotel rooms are planned in tandem with the neighboring... Riverhead commission moves to landmark more properties Six more landmarks are under consideration in Riverhead Town. The town’s Landmarks Preservation Commission has received applications from the owners of six properties to become town-designated landmarks. Five-story hotel, restaurant gets approval from Riverhead Town Board The Riverhead Town Board granted site plan approval Thursday to a five-story hotel and restaurant planned for the northwest corner of East Main Street and Ostrander Avenue. Town Board to vote on EPCAL study The Riverhead Town Board is expected to adopt a findings statement to concludes its environmental studies at the Enterprise Park at Calverton. Two projects granted tax incentives from Riverhead IDA Two projects received tax incentives from the Riverhead Industrial Development Agency Monday, and two others began the process of applying for them. Atlantis says Aquarium would close without tax break Without tax incentives from the Riverhead Industrial Development Agency, the Long lsland Aquarium in downtown Riverhead would pay close to $1 million a year in taxes and would not... Boutique hotel, upscale restaurant planned for downtown Riverhead The company that owns the Long Island Aquarium and Hyatt Hotel in downtown Riverhead is proposing to build a five-story hotel with an upscale restaurant across the street.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1799008
__label__wiki	0.728502	0.728502	Postincident conferring by law enforcement officers: determining the impact of team discussions on statement content, accuracy, and officer beliefs Lorraine Hope, Fiona Gabbert, Joanne Fraser SAS - PFS - Psychology In many jurisdictions, law enforcement officers are permitted to discuss their recall of an incident when preparing their official statement. This practice has been criticized on the grounds that it lacks transparency and may produce inaccurate corroborative accounts. In the current study, 300 armed officers took part in an interactive staged crime scenario and were permitted to confer (or not) while writing statements. Alternative procedures for statement production by teams were also evaluated. Some officers also provided an independent statement prior to conferring while others were provided with retrieval support instructions. Although errors were transmitted during discussions, conferring had no overall impact on the accuracy or content of final statements. However, officers who wrote an initial independent statement did not incorporate any errors obtained from colleagues into their final accounts. Conferring officers expressed greater confidence in the accuracy of their accounts than nonconferring officers despite no differences in accuracy. Law and Human Behavior https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000019 10.1037/lhb0000019 Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Postincident conferring by law enforcement officers: determining the impact of team discussions on statement content, accuracy, and officer beliefs'. Together they form a unique fingerprint. Law enforcement officers Social Sciences Law Enforcement Arts & Humanities Crime Medicine & Life Sciences Police Medicine & Life Sciences Jurisdiction Arts & Humanities transparency Social Sciences Scenarios Arts & Humanities Transparency Arts & Humanities Hope, L., Gabbert, F., & Fraser, J. (2013). Postincident conferring by law enforcement officers: determining the impact of team discussions on statement content, accuracy, and officer beliefs. Law and Human Behavior, 37(2), 117-127. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000019 Hope, Lorraine ; Gabbert, Fiona ; Fraser, Joanne. / Postincident conferring by law enforcement officers : determining the impact of team discussions on statement content, accuracy, and officer beliefs. 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Although errors were transmitted during discussions, conferring had no overall impact on the accuracy or content of final statements. However, officers who wrote an initial independent statement did not incorporate any errors obtained from colleagues into their final accounts. Conferring officers expressed greater confidence in the accuracy of their accounts than nonconferring officers despite no differences in accuracy. U2 - 10.1037/lhb0000019 DO - 10.1037/lhb0000019 JO - Law and Human Behavior JF - Law and Human Behavior Hope L, Gabbert F, Fraser J. Postincident conferring by law enforcement officers: determining the impact of team discussions on statement content, accuracy, and officer beliefs. Law and Human Behavior. 2013 Apr;37(2):117-127. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000019	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1799009
__label__cc	0.738019	0.261981	Author: Minnie Jennings If you have a pet in a horror game, which one will you choose October 23, 2020 October 23, 2020 Minnie Jennings Video games A pet in a horror game sounds cool. Surely it is better than the ridiculous kind of beast that only has a code, but it is not worth anything. If there is a chance, I […] Dying Light Game – True horror action quality Dying Light does not bring any new elements that really stand out, but just harmoniously combines the mechanics of different games. But that was more than enough for my spectacular performance. Techland is a game […] How to play Among Us game October 8, 2020 October 8, 2020 Minnie Jennings Video games Among Us is an online inference game, developed by InnerSloth game company. This game takes place in space, where players will play one of two roles. Usually, the creator of a room will choose between […] NieR: Automata game – Explains plot and mysteries We will now realize that, ever since A2 escaped from YoRHa, she has always been traveling around the Earth to hunt and destroy the machines. After knocking down the machine, she collapsed. When she wakes […] Reviews on Shadow of the Tomb Raider Game September 26, 2020 September 26, 2020 Minnie Jennings Video games First of all, the changes to this time. Shadow’s pace feels much slower as this time around, the game focuses more on exploring. Instead of constantly throwing players into set pieces and shooting each other […] The crusader Kings II game play experience Digital Experience shares Crusader Kings II experience for those who experience this game for the first time. Crusader Kings II is the second game and the latest installment in the grand strategy series Crusader Kings. […] Resident Evil 3 Remake First Impressions – More like action games than horror The most anticipated horror game of the past time – Resident Evil 3 Remake is finally released. In general the name Nemesis alone is more than enough for people to be curious. Many people believe […] Pragmata – A new adventure game from Capcom September 5, 2020 September 5, 2020 Minnie Jennings Video games Pragmata is an enchanting new adventure game coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X from Capcom. Capcom announced at Sony’s PlayStation 5 launch earlier today, a stylish adventure game “set in the near future on […] King of fighter XIV introduces new characters to shock the player August 14, 2020 August 14, 2020 Minnie Jennings Default Specifically, the character of Tung Fu Rue. He is this martial artist who is the martial arts teacher for Geese Howard, Jeff Bogard. He invented the Hakkyokuseiken – the Noble Eightfold Technique. This character has […]	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1799010
__label__wiki	0.811292	0.811292	Rogue Embryo a.k.a. Camille Martin: a blog about poetry, collage, photography, whatnot Paris Wanderlust Robert Zend About me . . . Category Archives: experimental film Robert Zend – Afterword: Citizen of the Macrocosm Afterword: Citizen of the Macrocosm Robert Zend admired Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy for his unwillingness “to accept any label, either for himself or for others”: He didn’t identify with any group; he belonged nowhere, but this non-belonging meant for him an extremely strong belonging to Man, to Mankind, to Humanity.1 Zend similarly disregarded boundaries in seeking out like-minded writers and artists around the world, in shaping themes exploring the connectedness of all humanity and a cosmic sense of place, and in creating art using the most humble and mundane objects. National culture is a fuzzy proposition, and this is true for the countries where Zend found kindred artists and writers. At a certain point, the idea of nation becomes merely a convenient rubric to demonstrate his cosmopolitanism. For example, within Canadian culture are the cultures of many nations. In turn, the cultures of those nations cannot be thought of as pure but are often congeries of contributions from many peoples across history. As Zend resisted the notion of labels and boundaries, my use of them here might seem to contradict his convictions. But nations, perhaps especially one such as Hungary, whose language and culture evoke in many Hungarians fierce sentiments of belonging, are of course not totally artificial cultural constructs. And although Canada’s historical quest for a cohesive national culture has been eroded over the decades by the crosscurrent trend toward a national policy of multiculturalism, Canadian cultural protectionism has cast an enduring shadow on any debate on national identity. Zend had Hungarian cultural roots, and part of his cosmopolitan Budapest heritage was also the thirst to look beyond borders to find literary and artistic kin worldwide. This desire was integral to the freedom that he so valued. In Canada, he had close ties to immigrant as well as Canadian-born artists and writers. Thus his Canadian heritage and legacy are based not so much on national identity as on multicultural affinities. In the afterword to Oāb, he lists his “spiritual fathers and mothers” as well as “chosen brothers and sisters.” They include poets, artists, sculptors, short story writers, novelists, philosophers, literary theorists, actors, and filmmakers from Argentina, Canada, the United States, France, Austria, Germany, Ancient Greece and Rome, Romania, Flanders, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Russia, Hungary, Great Britain, and Belgium. In short, his tally of creative family is a model of interdisciplinary and cosmopolitan openness. Zend was a Canadian original: born in Hungary and adopted by Canada, he wrote about both places. He was also a citizen of a broader community of writers and artists and wrote about realms of cosmic dimension. His cosmopolitan outlook is a part of Canadian cultural history. It is a remarkable achievement and an homage to what he most admired in other writers, artists, and cultures without regard to borders. Thank you for reading my series on the life and work of Robert Zend — I hope you enjoyed it. It has been a great pleasure to work on this project. A Special Announcement — The Robert Zend Website One important matter remains: in a few days, I’ll announce the completion of a significant project recently undertaken by Zend’s daughter Natalie Zend: The Robert Zend Website. This valuable resource provides information on acquiring his books and art and offers information to anyone interested in learning more about his remarkable life and work. Stay tuned . . . Acknowledgements and Bibliography Below is a list of heartfelt acknowledgements to the many people who have kindly assisted my research. Particular gratitude goes to Janine Zend, Natalie Zend, and Ibi Gabori, who so generously contributed to this project. Please do not hesitate to let me know if I have overlooked any person or institution. And for anyone interested in the sources I used during my research, I include a Bibliography at the end of this post. I am grateful for the kind assistance and generosity of the following: The family of Robert Zend: Janine Zend, Natalie Zend, and Ibi Gabori Rachel Beattie and Brock Silverside, curators of the Zend fonds at Media Commons, University of Toronto Library Edric Mesmer, librarian at the University at Buffalo’s Poetry Collection and curator of The Center for Marginalia, and the other wonderful librarians of The Poetry Collection for their research assistance Brent Cehan and other librarians of the Language and Literature division of the Toronto Reference Library The librarians in the Special Arts Room Stacks at the Toronto Reference Library The librarians at Reference and Research Services and at the Petro Jacyk Central and East European Resource Centre, Robarts Library, University of Toronto Libraries Susanne Marshall (former Literary Editor for The Canadian Encyclopedia) Irving Brown Robert Sward Jiří Novák “Administrative history / biographical sketch.” Robert Zend fonds. Media Commons, University of Toronto Libraries, Toronto, Canada. http://mediacommons.library.utoronto.ca/sites/mediacommons.library.utoronto.ca/files/finding-aids/zend.pdf Bangarth, Stephanie, and Andrew S. Thompson. “Transnational Christian Charity: the Canadian Council of Churches, the World Council of Churches, and the Hungarian Refugee Crisis, 1956–1957.” American Review of Canadian Studies 38, no. 3 (2008): 295–316. General OneFile. Web. The Book of Canadian Poetry. Edited by A. J. M. Smith. Toronto: Gage, 1943. Borges, Jorge Luis. Comments on back cover of Daymares: Selected Fiction on Dreams and Time by Robert Zend. Vancouver: CACANADADADA Press, 1991. ———. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings. Edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby. New York: New Directions, 1964. Botar, Oliver, to Janine Zend. Email. 9 April 2001. Buzinkay, Géza. “The Budapest Joke and Comic Weeklies as Mirrors of Cultural Assimilation.” In Budapest and New York: Studies in Metropolitan Transformation, 1870–1930, edited by Thomas Bender and Carl E. Schorske, 224–247. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1994. Catalogue. Országos Széchényi Könyvtár (National Széchényi Library) in Budapest, Hungary. Cavell, Richard. McLuhan in Space: A Cultural Geography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Clarity, James F., and Eric Pace. “Marcel Marceau, Renowned Mime, Dies at 84.” New York Times. 24 September 2007. Colombo, John Robert. Ottawa Journal. 11 May 1974. 40. Day, Lawrence. “Re: Handbook 386(b) – Ken Field.” Chess Talk. 27 August 2008. http://www.chesstalk.info/forum/printthread.php?s=bea6d4e5851d02610f6670258010f473&t=375 ———. IMlday. 23 September 2004. http://www.chessgames.com. Donaghy, Greg. “An Unselfish Interest? Canada and the Hungarian Revolution, 1954-1957.” In The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: Hungarian and Canadian Perspectives, edited by Christopher Adam, Tibor Egervari, Leslie Laczko, and Judy Young, 256—74. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2010. Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. “Hungary: The Great Depression.” Library of Congress Country Studies. 1989. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html. Ferrazzi, A. Portrait of Giacomo Leopardi. C. 1820. Oil on canvas. Casa Leopardi, Recanati, Italy. “Fiftieth Anniversary of the Hungarian uprising and refugee crisis.” United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. 23 October 2006. http://www.unhcr.org/453c7adb2.html. Fifield, William. “The Mime Speaks: Marcel Marceau.” The Kenyon Review 30, no.2 (1968): 155-65. Fleeing the Hungarian Revolution, Settling in Canada: Photos and documents of Robert, Ibi and Aniko Zend’s voyage November 1956 – April 1957. 1956 Memorial Oral History Project: Materials accompanying Eve (Ibi) Gabori’s interview, 31 March 2007. Prepared by Natalie Zend, 24 June 2007. Fosler-Lussier, Danielle. Music Divided: Bartók’s Legacy in Cold War Culture. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. Frye, Northrop. Afterword to Daymares: Selected Fictions on Dreams and Time, by Robert Zend. Vancouver: Cacanadada Press, 1991. Gabori, George. When Evils Were Most Free. Deneau, 1981. Gabori, Ibi. Interview 01544-2. Visual History Archive. USC Shoah Foundation Institute. Accessed online at the University of Toronto Library. Gould, Glenn. “If I were a gallery curator . . .” Dust jacket of From Zero to One by Robert Zend. Translated by Robert Zend and John Robert Colombo. Mission, BC: The Sono Nis Press, 1973. Hahn, Lionel / McClatchy Newspapers. Photograph of Marcel Marceau performing in Westwood, California, in 2002. Available from: The Seattle Times. http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2003899052_marceau24.html. Hamlet. Directed by Lawrence Olivier. London: Two Cities Films, 1948. Hidas, Peter. “Arrival and Reception: Hungarian Refugees, 1956—1957.” In The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: Hungarian and Canadian Perspectives, edited by Christopher Adam, Tibor Egervari, Leslie Laczko, and Judy Young, 223—55. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2010. History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Volume 1. Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 2004. Hungarian American Federation. “The 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Photos.“ The 1956 Hungarian Revolution Portal. http://www.americanhungarianfederation.org/1956/photos.htm. Jones, Frank. “The first time I met Ibi Gabori.” Toronto Star. 29 February 1992. K2. ProQuest. Web. Józsa, Judit, and Tamás Pelles. La Storia della Scuola Italiana di Budapest alla Luce dei Documenti D’Archivio [The History of the Italan School of Budapest, in Light of Archival Documents]. http://web.t-online.hu/pellestamas/Tamas/bpoliskol.htm#_Toc189916144. Kafka, Franz. “An Imperial Message.” Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir. The Complete Stories. New York: Schocken Books, 1971. 4–5. Karinthy, Frigyes. “Chain-Links.” Translated by Adam Makkai, edited by Enikö Jankó. http://djjr-courses.wdfiles.com/local–files/soc180:karinthy-chain-links/Karinthy-Chain-Links_1929.pdf. ———. A Journey Round My Skull. New York: New York Review Books Classics, 2008. ———. Tanár úr kérem [Please Sir!]. Budapest: Dick Manó, 1916. ———. Voyage to Faremido: Gulliver’s Fifth Voyageand Capillaria: Gulliver’s Sixth Voyage. Translated by Paul Tabori. London: New English Library, 1978. Kearns, Lionel. By the Light of the Silvery McLune: Media Parables, Poems, Signs, Gestures, and Other Assaults on the Interface. Vancouver: Daylight Press, 1969. Kieval, Hillel J. “Tiszaeszlár Blood Libel.” The Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. 2010. http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Tiszaeszlar_Blood_Libel. Koehler, Robert. “Pantomimist Marcel Marceau in Performance at Segerstrom Hall.” Los Angeles Times, 11 February 1988. http://articles.latimes.com/1988-02-11/entertainment/ca-41839_1_marcel-marceau. Kossar, Leon. “Canada Heaven for Hungarians.” The Telegram, 30 April 1957. Kramer, Mark. “The Soviet Union and the 1956 Crises in Hungary and Poland: Reassessments and New Findings.” Journal of Contemporary History 33, no. 2 (April 1998): 163—214. Lenvai, Paul. One Day That Shook the Communist World: The 1956 Hungarian Uprising and Its Legacy. Translated by Ann Major. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. Leopardi, Giacomo. Canti. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2010. Lloyd, John. Portrait of Robert Zend. Cover of Beyond Labels. Translated by Robert Zend and John Robert Colombo. Toronto: Hounslow Press, 1982. Luther, Claudia. “Marcel Marceau, 84; legendary mime was his art’s standard-bearer for seven decades.” Los Angeles Times, 24 September 2007. http://articles.latimes.com/2007/sep/24/local/me-marceau24. Madách, Imre. The Tragedy of Man. Translated by George Szirtes. New York: Puski Publishing,1988. ———. The Tragedy of Man. Translated and illustrated by Robert Zend. Magritte, René. Le fils de l’homme. 1964. Magritte Foundation. http://www.magritte.be/portfolio-item/fils-de-l-homme-2/?lang=en. ———. Radio interview with Jean Neyens (1965), in Harry Torczyner, Magritte: Ideas and Images, translated by Richard Millen, 172. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1977. ———. Les valeurs personelles (Personal Values), Series 2. 1952. Magritte Foundation. http://www.magritte.be/portfolio-item/les-valeurs-personnelles/?lang=en. The Maple Laugh Forever: An Anthology of Comic Canadian Poetry. Edited by Douglas Barbour and Stephen Scobie. Edmonton, Alberta: Hurtig Publishers, 1981. Marceau, Marcel. Comments on front inner dust jacket of From Zero to One by Robert Zend. Translated by Robert Zend and John Robert Colombo. Mission, BC: The Sono Nis Press, 1973. ———. Marceau, Marcel. “Marcel Marceau Paintings.” Encyclopedia of Mime. Available at http://www.mime.info/encyclopedia/marceau-paintings.html. ———. The Mask Maker./em> Available at http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ffi4_marcel-marceau-le-masque_fun. ———. Portrait of Robert Zend. Drawing (medium unknown). Dust jacket cover of From Zero to One by Robert Zend. Translated by Robert Zend and John Robert Colombo. Mission, BC: The Sono Nis Press, 1973. ———. “This Drawing, Poem, and Zend During and After.” In A Bouquet to Bip by Robert Zend. Exile Magazine 1, no. 3 ( 1973): 121-22. ———. Youth, Maturity, Old Age, and Death. Film stills from 1965 performance. Available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5RLTZSrr4A. Marcus, Frank. “Marceau: The Second Phase.” The Transatlantic Review 11 (1962): 12—18. Marinari, Umberto. Introduction. Pirandello’s Theatre of Living Masks. Translated by Umberto Mariani and Alice Gladstone Mariani. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. 3—26. Martin, Camille. Entry on Lionel Kearns for The Canadian Encyclopedia. 2013. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/lionel-kearns/. Messerli, Douglas. “Frigyes Karinthy.” Green Integer. The PIP (Project for Innovative Poetry) Blog. 30 November 2010. http://pippoetry.blogspot.ca/2010/11/frigyes-karinthy.html. New Poems of the Seventies. Edited by Douglas Lochhead and Raymond Souster. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1970. New York Café, Budapest. Photograph. Available at Famous Coffee Houses. http://www.braunhousehold.com. Nichol, B. P. The Alphabet Game: A bpNichol Reader. Edited by Darren Wershler-Henry and Lori Emerson. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2007. ———. Art Facts: A Book of Contexts. Tucson: Chax Press, 1990. ———. “Calendar” (detail). Broadside. S.n, n.d. ———. Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer. Toronto: Coach House Press, 2004; originally released in Canada in 1974. ———. The Martyrology, Book 6 Books. 1987; reprint. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1994. ———. The Martyrology 5. 1982; facsimile edition. Toronto: Coach House Books, 1994. ———. Meanwhile: The Critical Writings of bpNichol. Edited by Roy Miki. Vancouver: Talon Books, 2002. ———. Merry-Go-Round. Illustrated by Simon Ng. Red Deer, Alberta: Red Deer College Press, 1991. ———. Zygal: A Book of Mysteries and Translations. Toronto: Coach House Books, 1985. Nietzsche, Friedrich. “The Birth of Tragedy.” Basic Writings of Nietzsche. Translated and edited by Walter Kaufmann. New York: Modern Library, 2000. 1—144. Nyugat 1938, no. 10. Budapest. Frigyes Karinthy memorial issue. Pirandello, Luigi. Right You Are, If You Think You Are. In Pirandello’s Theatre of Living Masks. Translated by Umberto Mariani and Alice Gladstone Mariani. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. 69—118. ———. Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays. Translated by Mark Musa. New York: Penguin Classics, 1996. ———. Six Characters in Search of an Author. In Pirandello’s Theatre of Living Masks. Translated by Umberto Mariani and Alice Gladstone Mariani. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. 119—67. Priest, Robert, Robert Sward, and Robert Zend. The Three Roberts: On Childhood. St. Catherines, Ontario: Moonstone Press, 1985. ———. The Three Roberts: On Love. Toronto: Dreadnaught, 1984. ———. The Three Roberts: Premiere Performance. Scarborough, Ontario: HMS Press, 1984. Q Art Theatre. The Tragedy of Man publicity poster. Montreal: Q Art Theatre, October – November 2000. R., Patrick. Robert Zend. “Memorial.” http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10862727. Rippl-Rónai, József. Portrait of Frigyes Karinthy. 1925. Pastel. Petőfi Museum of Literature. Available from Terminartors. http://www.terminartors.com/artworkprofile/Rippl-Ronai_Jozsef-Portrait_of_Frigyes_Karinthy. Robert Zend bio. Ronsdale Press. Available at http://ronsdalepress.com/authors/robert-zend/. Robert Zend fonds. Media Commons, University of Toronto Libraries, Toronto, Canada. Sanders, Ivan. “Karinthy, Ferenc.” The Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. 2010. http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Karinthy_Ferenc Six Degrees of Separation. 1993. DVD Culver City, Canada: MGM Home Entertainment, 2000. Sled, Dmitri. “Partisans In The Arts: Marcel Marceau (1923—2007).” Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation. 12 June 2012. http://jewishpartisans.blogspot.ca/2012/06/partisans-in-arts-marcel-marceau-1923.html. Standelsky, Eva, and Zoltan Volgyesl. Tainted Revolution. Dir. Martin Mevius. The Netherlands: Association for the Study of Nationalities, 2006. Stark, Tamás. “‘Malenki Robot’ – Hungarian Forced Labourers in the Soviet Union (1944–1955).” Minorities Research: A Collection of Studies by Hungarian Authors. Edited by Győző Cholnoky. Budapest: Lucidus K., 1999. 155-167. http://www.epa.hu/00400/00463/00007/pdf/155_stark.pdf Sterne, Laurence. Tristram Shandy. Edited by Howard Anderson. New York: W. W. Norton, 1980. Szabó, László Cs. Qtd. in “Frigyes Karinthy Author’s Page.” Publishing Hungary. Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum. http://www.hunlit.hu/karinthyfrigyes,en. Szaynok, Bożena. “Stalinization of Eastern Europe.” Translated by John Kulczycki. Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution, Volume 1. Edited by Richard S. Levy. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2005. 677—80. Talpalatnyi föld [Treasured Earth]. Directed by Frigyes Bán. Hungary: Magyar Filmgyártó Nemzeti Vállalat, 1948. The Toronto Mirror. Published and edited by Robert Zend. October 1961. Troper, Harold. “Canada and the Hungarian Refugees: The Historical Context.” In The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: Hungarian and Canadian Perspectives, edited by Christopher Adam, Tibor Egervari, Leslie Laczko, and Judy Young, 176—93. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2010. Ungváry, Krisztián. The Siege of Budapest: One Hundred Days in World War II. Translated by Ladislaus Löb. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC. “Hungary after the German Occupation.” Holocaust Encyclopedia. Last modified 10 June 2013. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005458. Veidlinger, Jeffrey. “Stalin, Joseph (1879—1953).” Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution, Volume 1. Edited by Richard S. Levy. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2005. 676—77. Volvox: Poetry from the Unofficial Languages of Canada . . . in English Translation. Edited by J. Michael Yates. The Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia: The Sono Nis Press, 1971. Wershler, Darren. “News That Stays News: Marshall McLuhan and Media Poetics.” The Journal of Electronic Publishing 14 no. 2 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.208. White, Norman T. “The Hearsay Project.” The NorMill. 11—12 November 1985. http://www.normill.ca/Text/Hearsay.txt. Zend, Natalie. A Biography of Robert Zend. Unpublished manuscript. 8 March 1983. Personal library of Janine Zend. Zend, Robert. Ararat. N.d. Paper collage. Private collection. ———. Arbormundi: 16 Selected Typescapes. Vancouver: Blewointment Press, 1982. ———. Beyond Labels. Translated by Robert Zend and John Robert Colombo. Toronto: Hounslow Press, 1982. ———. A Bouquet to Bip. Exile Magazine 1, no. 3 ( 1973): 93–123. ———. Dancers. N.d. Paper collage. Private collection. ———. Daymares: Selected Fictions on Dreams and Time. Edited by Brian Wyatt. Vancouver: CACANADADADA Press, 1991. ———. Eden. N.d. Paper collage. Private collection. ———. Fából vaskarikatúrák. Budapest: Magyar Világ Kiadó, 1993. ———. Film poster produced for Hamlet, directed by Lawrence Olivier (London: Two Cities Films, 1948). Press and Publicity Department of the Hungarian National Filmmaking Company, 1948. ———. Film poster produced for Talpalatnyi föld (Treasured Earth), directed by Frigyes Bán (Hungary: Magyar Filmgyártó Nemzeti Vállalat, 1948). Press and Publicity Department of the Hungarian National Filmmaking Company, 1948. ———. From Zero to One. Translated by Robert Zend and John Robert Colombo. Mission, BC: The Sono Nis Press, 1973. ———. Genesis. N.d. Paper collage. Private collection. ———. Hazám törve kettővel. Montréal: Omnibooks, 1991. ———. Heavenly Cocktail Party. N.d. Paper collage. Private collection. ———. How Do Yoo Doodle?. Unpublished manuscript. Private collection of Janine Zend. Coloration is the author’s. ———. “The Key.” Exile Magazine 2, no. 2 (1974): 57-67. ———. LineLife. Ink drawing on paper. 1983. Box 10, Robert Zend fonds, Media Commons, University of Toronto Libraries. Adapted for digital medium by Camille Martin. ———. “Months of the Super-Year.” Exile Magazine 2, no. 2 (1974): 50. ———. Nicolette: A Novel Novel. Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 1993. ———. Oāb. Volume 1. Toronto: Exile Editions, 1983. ———. Pirandello and the Number Two. Master’s thesis. University of Toronto, 1969. ———. Polinear No. 3. 1982. Ink on paper. Private collection. ———. Quadriptych in Gasquette series. N.d. Paper collage. Private collection. ———. Science Fiction. N.d. Paper collage. Private collection. ———. Toiletters. N.d. Ink on toilet paper rolls. Private collection. ———. “Type Scapes: A Mystery Story.” Exile Magazine 5 nos. 3-4 (1978): 147. ———. Versek, Képversek. Párizs: Magyar mühely, 1988. ———. Windmill. N.d. Mixed media with thumbtacks, sewing pins, string, and paper on wood. Private collection. ———. “The World’s Greatest Poet.” Exile Magazine 2, no. 2 (1974): 55-56. ———. Zendocha-land. Unpublished manuscript, 1979. Zend, Robert, ed. Vidám úttörő nyár (Happy Summer Pioneers). Magyar Úttörők Szövetsége (Association of Hungarian Pioneers), 1955. Zend, Robert, translator and illustrator. The Tragedy of Man by Imre Madách. Unpublished manuscript. Zend, Robert, and Jerónimo. My friend, Jerónimo. Toronto: Omnibooks, 1981. “Zend, Robert.” Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Edited by W. H. New. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. 1234. Camille Martin Posted in collaboration, collage, concrete poetry, cultural identity, digital art, experimental film, poetry, Vispo, visual art Tagged Canadian literature, Canadian poetry, cosmopolitanism, cultural identity, Frigyes Karinthy, Hungarian literature, Hungarian poetry, magyar irodalom, magyar költészet, Natalie Zend, Robert Zend, The Robert Zend Website Robert Zend – Part 10. International Affinities: France (Marcel Marceau) Part 10. International Affinities: France (Marcel Marceau) L’Art du Silence and the Language of Empathy In 1955, French mime artist Marcel Marceau made his historic North American debut, beginning his tour at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada, and continuing with standing-room-only performances in most major cities in the United States. The tour propelled Marceau into international fame. In 1958, he made a triumphant return to the Stratford Festival, the venue that had kicked off the series of performances that not only secured his place as the most important mime artist of his time, but also established miming as an performance genre with a high degree of artistic and intellectual merit. In 1970, Marceau once again returned to Canada to perform at the Stratford Festival. To commemorate his visit, Zend designed a chess set to be presented by the CBC to Marceau, an avid chess player (figs. 1 and 2). The warm and reciprocal friendship that developed between the two men isn’t surprising. On a personal level, they had both survived Nazi-occupied countries and experienced profound losses during that period. Zend lost both of his parents to hostilities against civilians during the Soviet siege of Nazi-occupied Budapest, and his first wife, Ibi, lost both of her parents and other family members to Nazi concentration camps. Marceau lost his father, who was murdered in Auschwitz. Subsequently, he joined the French Resistance and helped many Jewish children escape to neutral countries; in fact, Marceau began miming in order to entertain the children and keep them quiet during their treacherous escape.1 And Zend was active in the resistance to Soviet rule during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Both Marceau and Zend understood well the consequences of authoritarian regimes founded on terror and hatred. They shared a keen sense of humour and apparently also a love of the spontaneous sketch: Zend calls Marceau “a friend with whom I like doodling together.”2 And since they also shared a close personal, artistic, and spiritual bond, each refers to the other as his “chosen brother.”3 Zend was deeply affected by Marceau’s practice of l’art du silence in his creation of a mute clown, Bip, who in brief mimed narratives played out the dilemmas of an ordinary man faced with predicaments (fig. 3). Marceau ascribes Bib’s popularity to the fact that Bip is a funny, sad fellow, and things are always happening to him that could happen to anybody. Because he speaks with the gestures and the movement of the body, everyone knows what is happening to him, and he is popular everywhere. . . . There is no French way of laughing and no American way of crying. My subjects try to reveal the fundamental essences of humanity.4 Of his art, Marceau noted, “It’s not dance. It’s not slapstick. It is essence and restraint.5 Zend felt an affinity for the “essences of humanity” within Marceau’s tragicomic everyman, Bip, out of his own concern with the erasure of superficial barriers between peoples to reveal their commonalities. He admired Marceau’s ability to create through Bip’s gestures alone a universal language by presenting distilled human nature in “style pantomimes.” Film and theatre critic Robert Koehler describes Marceau’s “style” pieces as “ambitious works” that might be “Bip’s fantastic dreams,” and that “often try to soar above the earthly plain.”6. In one such style sketch entitled “Youth, Maturity, Old Age, and Death,” Marceau glides seamlessly through the trajectory of a human life in about three minutes, from curled fetus to shriveled old age and death. The general idea can be seen in the following montage of film stills from a 1965 performance (available on YouTube, for anyone interested) (fig. 4): Marceau’s compressed arc of human life is reminiscent of Zend’s typescape Mutamus (We Are Changing) (fig. 5), which shows five stages of human life against the backdrop of an hourglass. It also recalls Zend’s 1983 flipbook animation entitled Linelife, which I featured in Part 1. of this series, and which I repeat below for any who missed it or would like to see it again (fig. 6): Fig. 6. Robert Zend, LineLife, ink drawing on paper, 1983, Box 10, Robert Zend fonds, Media Commons, University of Toronto Libraries. Adapted for digital medium by Camille Martin. Copyright © Janine Zend, 1983, all rights reserved, reproduced with permission from Janine Zend. Like Marceau’s ethos of embracing all humanity by appealing to commonalities, Zend’s poetry also dissolves boundaries between self and other, as in the following aphoristic poem: When I talk about myself, I talk about you, too.7 In just a few words, Zend creates an empathetic bridge linking two persons and acknowledging their common humanity. And in “The Universalist,” dedicated to “the Style Pantomimist Who Can Tell Years in Minutes,” Zend celebrates Marceau’s ability to render the “essences of humanity.” The poem’s premise is reminiscent of Borges: a writer dreams of capturing “the history of the world in ten volumes” but is faced with the “impossib[ility] to know everything about all the peoples in all times.” He then tries writing successively less ambitious but equally detailed pieces: “a triology about three consecutive generations,” “a play about an interesting conflict,” and “one short story about one character.” But each time he begins a new project, he soon gives up in defeat because he realizes that the enormous scope of his subject exceeds his capacity to capture all of the details of world history in “a true picture.” Then he tries to render “one of his moods in a short lyrical poem.” This also fails because he realizes that such a poem would always remain a “fragment,” unable to do justice even to one momentary mood in one human life, “for his mood rooted back into his childhood, into his family, into the culture which bore him, into the whole history of mankind.” At last, after decades of not writing at all — when he was very, very old — one evening — after careful consideration — he took a clean sheet of paper and immersed his pen in the ink, and — as if he had just finished the magnificent life-work he had started dreaming about when he was very young — he dropped a tiny, little dot of ink onto the paper, and was satisfied and happy, because he knew that the little dot contained hundreds of billions of universes in it, complete with galaxies, and within the galaxies solar systems, and within the solar systems swarming life on each of the infinite number of planets contained in them. He was a god after the creation. No longer afraid of death.8 Within the microcosm of a drop of ink swarm macrocosms that in turn, viewed through an imaginary microscope, contain infinite microcosms. In his fantastical tale, Zend acknowledges Marceau’s gift of distilling complex human emotions and predicaments into a series of gestures, which in turn suggest infinite possibilities in the macrocosm of “all the peoples in all times.” “I divide myself in two” (Marceau) “and punch myself on the nose” (Zend) The flip side of that universalism is Zend’s interest in Marceau’s renditions of masking and of the divided self. In one style sketch, Bip plays a mask maker who alternately tries on his masks of tragedy and comedy, performing various antics appropriate to the masks’ moods. But at a certain point he’s unable to remove the laughing mask. As Bip grows increasingly desperate to pry it off, his frantic gestures reveal the stark incongruity between the laughing mask and the tragedy of the situation (fig. 7). Finally, Bip blinds himself and is then able to peel off the offending mask. Marceau describes the sketch of the Mask Maker as showing, “through the use of his many faces, the problem of illusion and reality,” thus creating a “Pirandellian effect,”9 referring to the Italian playwright’s exploration of the human capacity for self-delusion and the construction of masks hiding a darker, unknowable reality. (This idea of the multiple masks of the self fascinated Zend and will be explored further in the section on Italian affinities, Pirandello in particular.) Marceau describes his performance in “The Mask Maker” as one of self-division: I must detach myself wholly from my face. At the end, when he cannot wrench the laughing mask off, the face laughs and the body cries. I divide myself in two.10 Zend had the opportunity to hear in depth Marceau’s ideas on the mask when he produced a CBC Ideas program entitled The Living Mask in 1971, featuring conversations with Marceau. Moreover, as an exiled immigrant, Zend himself knew intimately that “schizoid” feeling of being split by the impossibility of reconciling two different places, so his life was steeped in that feeling of dividedness. In “Spheroid Poem,” dedicated “to All Men in Marceau,” he writes of a self sometimes violently opposed to itself: I sometimes met myself on the street and punched myself on the nose — and I was mad at myself for I wasn’t even sorry for myself — sometimes I stayed home and penned poems which every hundred years or so I will reread and either like them or dislike them. I was often dissatisfied and rebelled against myself — I declared war and in one bloody battle after another I wiped myself out — through boring years of peace, I thought triumphantly about my losing the war, so I thought revengefully about my winning the war, so I thought triumphantly about . . . and so on.11 The multiplicity of identities within the self are also explored in Zend’s poem “You”: If I say “you” it’s not you I think of but rather the one I think of It’s not me I think of but rather the one I am thinking of I’m thinking of one of my selves in whom another self believes12 Zend’s repetition of the phrase “thinking of” becomes like a hall of mirrors in which not only is the “you” or other person unknowable but the self that thinks of the “you” is also unknowable, and so on, in a potentially infinite regression of unknowable selves thinking unknowable thoughts. Portraits and Bouquets: A Collaboration of Gifts Following Marceau’s visit, Zend and Marceau continued their expression of friendship and mutual esteem. Marceau expressed his admiration of Zend in both words and art. He wrote that “[o]nce Robert Zend told me that I was a poet of gestures. Once I told him he was a mime with words. Robert Zend is a poet in every moment of his life.”13 Marceau also drew a fine portrait of Zend, published in the negative on the front dust jacket of his first book of poetry, From Zero to One (fig. 8). Before he became a professional mime, Marceau had first dreamed of becoming an artist. During his tours, he would often present quick sketches of himself to autograph-seekers.14 Marceau also created more studied portraits of Bip that often feature stylized suns with exaggerated starburst lines. It’s perhaps a sign of Marceau’s esteem for Zend that he draws his portrait with Bip’s characteristic suns exhibiting various emotions from joyful (high in the sky) to mournful (setting) – Marceau’s version, perhaps, of the Greek masks of tragedy and comedy. Also, it’s possible to see in Zend’s image a hint of Bip in the almost mutton-chop effect of the facial hair, a trademark feature of Marceau’s clown. The care that Marceau took with Zend’s portrait, with its delicate strokes and the meditative, slightly melancholic countenance, is evident. After designing the chess set, Zend again paid tribute to Marceau in a thirty-one-page piece entitled A Bouquet to Bip, published in Exile Magazine in 1973 (fig. 9). The bouquet in the title likely refers to the single red flower absurdly sprouting from Bip’s crumpled opera hat. We have already seen some text from A Bouquet to Bip above. The following are some remarkable images from that sequence. One of the most beautiful and poignant of these, entitled “The Family Tree of the Alphabet,” is a concrete poem consisting of letters in a connect-the-dot configuration of a butterfly (fig. 10). The image renders homage both to Marceau’s sketch “Bip Hunts Butterflies” and to George Mendoza, author of the children’s book Marcel Marceau Alphabet Book. Zend’s butterfly shows an imaginary evolution of the modern alphabet originating from punctuation marks in the body of the butterfly and branching out into more evolved letters along its wings. The detail (fig. 11, above right) focuses on one branch of the letter “X” symbolically dead-ending in the swastika, which is topped with a cross as grave-marker. Below are two additional concrete poems in Zend’s Bouquet series. To the left is a “nomograph” (a word probably coined by Zend) depicting Bip using the letters of Marceau’s name and dedicated “to a Friend with Whom I Like Doodling Together” (fig. 12). And the one to the right uses the letters in “The Title” to salute Pierre Verry, the “presenter of the cards” who walked onstage prior to each of Marceau’s sketches carrying a sign indicating the title (fig. 13). Marceau wrote a three-page response to A Bouquet to Bip, which Zend included in the Exile Magazine publication. Two pages are reproduced below. At left is Marceau’s drawing of Bip showing his silent acceptance of Zend’s “bouquet” (fig. 14). Perhaps in response to Zend’s use of The Mask Maker in his tribute, Bip’s mouth is divided into a smile and a frown, echoing the masks of comedy and tragedy like the starburst suns mentioned above. And to the right is a Zend-like poem by Marceau (fig. 15). Although their meeting was relatively brief, Zend’s friendship with Marceau was extraordinarily fruitful in their exchanges of poems and drawings. The ideas and feelings that raised Marceau’s miming to a subtle and ingenious artistic expression resonated with Zend’s own explorations of self and other and the tension between human universality and the divided self. Zend thrived on such creative interactions with other writers and artists, which produced within his own work sympathetic vibrations. Zend honours Marceau and, by extension, Bip by finding aspects of them within himself and creating work that is a spiritual collaboration and a testament to their friendship. A Bouquet to Bip is remarkable for being so openly and sincerely woven of their close and affectionate brotherhood. Next Installment — Part 11. International Affinities: Italy (Leopardi and Pirandello) Posted in concrete poetry, cultural identity, experimental film, Holocaust, poetry, poetry magazine, Vispo, visual art Tagged A Bouquet to Bip, Bip the Clown, Canadian literature, Canadian poetry, CBC, concrete poetry, French resistance, Holocaust, Hungarian literature, Hungarian poetry, Hungarian Revolution, l'art du silence, magyar irodalom, magyar költészet, Magyar konkrét költészet, Marcel Marceau, mime artist, Robert Koehler, Robert Zend, Stratford Festival, typewriter art Robert Zend – Part 8. Canadian Literary Cross-Pollination: The Three Roberts, Norman McLaren, Glenn Gould Posted on February 20, 2014 \| 1 comment Part 8. Canadian Literary Cross-Pollination: The Three Roberts, Norman McLaren, and Glenn Gould Robert Zend the Nomad gazing in like an acrobat at the window in the sky. This installment will conclude the sections on Zend’s Canadian affinities. The next ones will look at some significant international collaborations, notably with Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges and French mime artist Marcel Marceau. I’ll also show some Italian connections, such as his interest in experimental playwright Luigi Pirandello and cynical poet Giacomo Leopardi. And I’ll demonstrate the influence on Zend of Belgian artist René Magritte as well as Japanese traditions such as haiku and origami. But first . . . The Three Knights of a Roberthood: Priest, Sward, Zend During the 1980s, Zend participated in a remarkable collaboration with two Canadian poets who were also fellow immigrants: Robert Sward, an American poet from Chicago who lived in Canada from 1969 to 1985, and Robert Priest, a British poet who moved to Canada. Picking up on their admiration for one another’s poetry and the fact of their identical first names, they began performing together in poetry reading tours, calling themselves “The Three Roberts.” They also published a series of poetry anthologies of their work in themed collections: Premiere Performance, On Love, and On Childhood (fig. 1). Sward and Priest performed their poetry together at CBC radio, where they met Zend. Sward recalls that Zend’s cosmopolitan outlook drew them together and inspired them. He relates that the sense of humour and playfulness of their personalities and poetry allowed them to play off one another during their performances and to serve as muses to each other.1 Each of the Roberts has a recognizable voice: Sward often writes from a personal and familial perspective steeped in his Jewish heritage; Priest’s poetry exhibits a zany sense of humour and the influence of popular British music such as the Beatles; and Zend explores the personal and fantastical with a cosmic vision. There is a warm accessibility to the work of the three that creates a coherence in their anthologies that, as Sward observed, placed them a bit outside the mainstream of Canadian poetry during that time. Below (figs. 2 and 3) are a photograph of the three looking rather like a jolly barbership trip, and a set of silhouettes created by Zend to commemorate their friendship. One of Robert Sward’s poems in Premiere Performance captures the spirit of good humour, rapport, and mutual inspiration of the “Roberts . . . / Robertness . . . / Three Knights of a Roberthood.” The following is an excerpt: Robert Zend phones Robert Sward. Ring, ring. “Robert, this is Robert.” “Is this Robert?” “This is Robert, Robert.” “Yes, Robert?” I say, “This “is Robert, too.” “Ah, excuse me, I need to find a match,” says Robert Zend putting down the telephone and rummaging for matches . . . Zend translates serious things into funny things and funny things into serious things. He also translates himself into other people, and other people into himself — and where does one of us end and the other begin? And where does Zend begin and where do I zend? I mean, end? And what about Robert Priest? Is he a visible man? An invisible man? Or the man who broke out of the letter X? Is he a spaceman in disguise? A blue pyramid? A golden trumpet? A chocolate lawnmower? An inexhaustible flower? Or a reader who escaped from some interstellar library? Rock Musician in residence at the University of the Moon? And meanwhile Robert Zend looks into his mirror and sees not Zend But Chicago-born Uncle Dog; Half a Life’s History; Mr. Amnesia; Mr. Movies; Left to Right; Mr. Transmigration of the Soul; The poet as wanderer; A forty-nine-year-old human violin . . . at the window in the sky.2 Their first performance, at Grossman’s Tavern in Toronto in January 1984, was reviewed by Sheila Wawanash of Shades Magazine, a punk rock magazine: [Their] poetry reading . . . was especially fine (by which I mean fun). . . . Three voices — and quite different kinds of approaches — broke up hieratic monotonies in “poetry” “readings,” while their (rough) conjugation of themes circled round and took off. Of course, it helps that they are all worthy poets and readers and much else besides; in their concluding, separate sections/performances, Priest sang some of his songs (which survived a solo acoustic rendition) and Zend showed the slides illustrating his long and abiding obsession with “action word” doodles, some of which were remarkably funny and beautiful.3 Although their collaboration was cut short by Zend’s untimely death in 1985, while they were together they formed a vibrant part of the Canadian poetry scene. And the sympathetic vibrations among the three during their performances and in their three anthologies is testament to their creative rapport and close friendship. Norman McLaren: Musical Geometry I cannot end the installment on Canadian influences and affinities without at least a mention of Zend’s admiration for the experimental films of Norman McLaren. Zend, who had worked in film in both Hungary and Canada, was fascinated by McLaren’s artistic and sometimes abstractly geometric animated films. Zend’s Linelife, a work that I featured in Part 1, most obviously shows Zend’s interest in McLaren’s avant-garde animations. As well, Zend dedicated to McLaren “The Three Sons (a fable of geometry),” involving the progeny of “Father Circle and Mother Circle.” The admiration was mutual: McLaren called Zend “a sorcerer par excellence.” Zend’s experimentation with geometrical animation was brief and not sustained. However, the little gem of Linelife is one piece in the overall picture that I wish to build of Robert Zend’s openness to many different influences. Indeed, this little piece of animation bears an affinity not only with Norman McLaren, but also (as I will show in a later installment) with Marcel Marceau. In addition, McLaren played a role as a kind of tutelary spirit in Zend’s development of his typescapes. In his creative essay “Type Scapes: A Mystery Story,” he imagines McLaren as a guiding force, encouraging him to overcome difficulties in his struggles to “tame” the typewriter. After some trial and error, Zend becomes frustrated: I remember taking a coffee break. While sipping coffee and smoking my cigarette, I sulked: “Why do I have to make mistake after mistake?” Then suddenly Norman McLaren’s face leapt into my mind’s eye. I saw him bending over a “mistake” on a piece of film, with a loving smile on his face. What was this? I’d never seen Norman working with film, where did this memory come from? Then I knew. Last summer, I made a radio series consisting of 5 programs in which Norman not only spoke about his life, but every night a guest speaker talked about Norman’s art. The last of these speakers was NFB executive producer Tom Daly who gave a beautiful talk about the various worlds Norman had created in each of his animated shorts. Among other things, he said that whenever Norman made a mistake, he wasn’t angry, as people usually are, but that he contemplated the mistake and tried to take advantage of it so that many times a small mistake became the source of a great innovation.4 Zend had the epiphany that like McLaren, he could use his mistake to his advantage. He experimented by superimposing characters to create an almost infinite variety of textures, each with “a different soul” (fig. 4): With this revelation, inspired by McLaren’s process, he went on to produce, in a feverish and concentrated period of creative energy, scores of typescapes whose hallmark is their subtle and overlapping textures with delicate shadings. A Glenn Gould Scherzo: Where to Put the Zend? An admirer of Canadian pianist Glenn Gould, Zend dedicated his poem “Symphonie Fantastique” to him; one of his doodles below (fig. 5) also pays tribute to Gould. His esteem was reciprocated: Gould called Zend “unquestionably Canada’s most musical poet.”5 And to conclude my installment on Zend’s Canadian lineage, I’d like to quote Gould’s homage to Zend in the following humorous quandary about the resistance of Zend’s work to categorization. Zend was not quintessentially Hungarian or Canadian or any other nationality. As Gould suggests, Zend is akin to many, yet he also “stands alone.” If I were a gallery curator, Robert Zend would pose a problem. “Where do you want the stuff to hang, boss,” my assistant would ask, “in with the Mondrians, maybe?” “No, I don’t think so—the sense of line is similar, but there’s more sense of humour in Zend—so try wedging them between the Miros and the Klees, and better set up an exhibit of Saul Steinberg in the foyer as a teaser.” If I were a symphony manager, the problem would be similar. “Out of ze question,” Maestro von Zuyderhoffer would declare. “I conduct no Zend before Bruckner, not even mit Webern to raise curtains.” “But, maestro, Zend takes the cosmos for a plaything, as does Bruckner, and wrings out of it an epigram, like Webern. However, I suppose we could try him on a chamber concert with early Hindemith, maybe . . .” “Ja, besser.” “. . . and then, perhaps, Kurt Weill . . .” “Viel besser!” “. . . and finish off with Satie.” “Nein, kein Satie. Zat vun is not knowing secondary dominants, und ze vork of Zend is full of modulation.” Ah, well. But if I were a book publisher, no such problem would exist. Robert Zend could stand alone—his cynically witty, abrasively hedonistic, hesitantly compassionate, furtively God-seeking poems could mingle with each other, find their own program-order, and settle among themselves the question of what goes where and how much wall-space will be needed. Gee, what an easy life book publishers must have!6 Next Installment — Part 9. 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__label__cc	0.527248	0.472752	Home / Mystery, Crime & Thriller / Guarding Savage Guarding Savage The great strength of political thrillers such as Dave Edlund’s Guarding Savage is that each novel in the series revolving around the eponymous hero is typically a standalone book, allowing readers to gain entry to the series without any prerequisites. Broadly speaking, this is the exact reason the genre is so very popular. Edlund’s Peter Savage appears in his fifth book with Guarding Savage, an incredibly fast-paced and action-filled novel taking our hero and readers from sleepy Bend, Oregon, to London and then across the world to the tiny but wealthy nation of Brunei as a political crisis in the East China Sea dovetails with a high-profile kidnapping. Peter is the epitome of the kind of hero who is, depending on perspective, always in the right place at the right time. In the opening of the novel, Peter rescues a young woman named Jade from being assaulted. This chivalrous act connects Peter to the scions of a huge international corporation run by the royal family of Brunei. As a means of thanks, he is flown with his loyal dog, Diesel, at his side to England to pick out a bespoke Rolls Royce. Once there, a second attempt is made to spirit Jade away and succeeds. Peter, Jade’s bodyguard, and Diesel are then tasked by Jade’s mother with finding and retrieving Jade from her kidnappers. At the same time, Japanese and American warships training in the East China Sea are attacked and sunk by a never-before-seen hypersonic missile. It takes little to no time before the balance of power in the region threatens to overturn as China, the number one suspect of the US and its allies, doubles down on its denials as more ships are attacked. But matters are complicated further when the U.S. president is given an anonymous ultimatum—withdraw all military forces from Southeast Asia or suffer total destruction of the Seventh Fleet. Edlund writes compelling prose, deftly fusing military jargon, history, and geographical detail with his two increasingly entwining plotlines. He also surrounds Peter with just enough engaging characters to buttress his hero without stealing focus or leaving him to commit some implausible act. Instead, readers learn alongside the characters. Edlund gives the reader plenty of heart-racing action, ranging from cinematic sequences to emotionally-intense encounters. As the political standoff grows, bringing the world closer and closer to an active war between the two most powerful nations on the planet, so does Peter’s own grasp of his kidnapping case, until finally both plotlines merge in a stunning manner. Lovers of political thrillers and mysteries will find Guarding Savage a satisfying addition to their library. Reviewed By: Daniel Casey Dave Edlund Light Messages 2018-Oct-30 Be the first to review “Guarding Savage” Cancel reply Extreme Prey The Fine Art of Murder: A Katherine Sullivan Mystery (Katherine Sullivan Mysteries)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1799017
__label__cc	0.513321	0.486679	Sonja Ingeborg Bergvall Sonja Bergvall was one of the most valued translators of English literature into Swedish of the late 20th century. Sonja Bergvall was born on Fårö. Her parents were the adult education teacher Edvin Bergvall and his wife Agnes (née Gäfvert), who was a junior school teacher. When Sonja Bergvall was six years old the family move to Södertörn. After gaining her school-leaving certificate in 1926 Sonja Bergvall studied at the Frans Schartau Handelsinstitut (a business school) in 1927. She then worked at Stockholms Enskilda Bank from 1927 to 1929. In 1929 she was employed by the Natur & Kultur publishing house, where she remained in post until the autumn of 1933. She then began to work at the Albert Bonnier publishing house and she stayed with them until she retired in 1971. In the early 1940s she became head of advertising for the publishers, a post she held until 1949. She then was put in charge of contacts with foreign publishers, with a view to making Swedish literature available abroad, and it was not long before she became head of this section. She was involved in launching Harry Martinson, Vilhelm Moberg, Ivar Lo-Johansson, Eyvind Johnson, Sara Lidman, and others. When Sonja Bergvall began translation work in the 1930s it was more of a hobby. At that time it was largely her translations of Dorothy Sayer’s detective novels which attracted attention for “their ingenious resolutions, amusing ironies, and light-hearted implied teachings”, as Madelaine Gustafsson writes in her article on Sonja Bergvall in Svenskt översättarlexikon. During this period Sonja Bergvall also translated several important modernist novels, such as E.M. Foster’s Credo and Virginia Woolf’s Mot fyren. It was only after retiring that Sonja Bergvall became a fulltime translator. During the 1970s she translated a series of English and American novels in swift succession, including works by Jane Austen, Muriel Spark, Agatha Christie, P.D. James, Vita Sackville-West and Lilian Hellman. Above all she made Doris Lessing’s works, as well as those of Margaret Drabble and Anne Tyler, accessible in Swedish, along with other authors who were significant for the new women’s movement. Sonja Bergvall largely translated from English into Swedish but she also did a selection of translations from German, Norwegian, and Danish. When she received the Elsa Thulin translator’s prize in 1981 the reason given was this: “For a substantial professional contribution of translations of an unusual breadth across a long time period with emphasis on particularly demanding English-language literature.” For Sonja Bergvall being responsive to the author and producing a faithful translation of the text was fundamental to the translator’s role. One of the things she said in an interview with Lena Rydin was that: “One has obligations to the readers, one does. But one is most obliged to the author. It is he that must take prime place.” In this interview, and in others, she also spoke enthusiastically of the importance of understanding the author’s references, of knowing Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson and the like. Sonja Bergvall belonged to the first generation of translators who consciously worked to obtain better conditions and improved standards for translators. She was a driving force in setting up Svenska Översättarförbundet (the Swedish translators’ association) in 1954. Sonja Bergvall’s translations were highly valued and she was awarded a series of prizes and scholarships. In addition to the Elsa Thulin translation prize in 1981 she also received Tidningen Vi’s literature prize in 1971, Rabén & Sjögren’s translation prize in 1974, and in 1975 she was given the Trevi prize for her translations of the first four parts of Doris Lessing’s books about Martha Quest. In 1979 she was also awarded the Swedish Academy’s translators’ prize. Sonja Bergvall died in Stockholm in 1989. Lisbeth Larsson (Translated by Alexia Grosjean) You are welcome to cite this article but always provide the author’s name as follows: Sonja Ingeborg Bergvall, www.skbl.se/sv/artikel/SonjaIngeborgBergvall, Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon (article by Lisbeth Larsson), retrieved 2021-01-19. Show complete information Visa förkortad information Civil Status: Unmarried Mother: Agnes Gäfvert Mother: Agnes Gäfvert (1880 – 1961) Father: Edvin Bergvall Father: Edvin Bergvall (1881 – 1956) Folkskollärare Sister: Birgit Ingeborg Bergvall Sister: Birgit Ingeborg Bergvall (1909-03-28 – 1992-12-12) Yrkesutbildning, , Frans Schartaus Handelsinstitut Yrkesutbildning, , Frans Schartaus Handelsinstitut (1927 – 1927) Övrigt, : Studentexamen Övrigt, : Studentexamen ( – 1926) Profession: Stockholms Enskilda Bank Profession: Stockholms Enskilda Bank (1927 – 1929) Profession: Natur & Kultur Profession: Natur & Kultur (1929 – 1933) Profession: Albert Bonniers Förlag Profession: Albert Bonniers Förlag (1933 – 1971) Profession: Översättare Profession: Översättare (1930 – 1989) Colleague: Georg Svensson Svenska Översättarförbundet Medverkade till bildandet av förbundet Medverkade till bildandet av förbundet (1954 – ) Birthplace: Gotland Gotland (1907 – 1913) Södertörn (1913 – 1927) Stockholm (1927 – 1989) Place of death: Stockholm Prices/awards Scholarship: Boklotteriets stipendium Scholarship: Boklotteriets stipendium (1958) Other: Sveriges författarfonds premium till personer för belöning av litterär förtjänst Other: Sveriges författarfonds premium till personer för belöning av litterär förtjänst (1962) Prize: Tidiningen Vi:s litteraturpris Prize: Tidiningen Vi:s litteraturpris (1971) Prize: Rabén & Sjögrens översättarpris Prize: Rabén & Sjögrens översättarpris (1974) Prize: Trevipriset Prize: Trevipriset (1975) Prize: Svenska Deckarakademins pris Prize: Svenska Deckarakademins pris (1976) Prize: Svenska Akademiens översättarpris Prize: Svenska Akademiens översättarpris (1979) Prize: Elsa Thulins översättarpris Prize: Elsa Thulins översättarpris (1981) Gustafsson, Madeleine, 'Sonja Bergvall, 1907–1989', Svenskt översättarlexikon (Hämtad 2018-02-15) Rydin, Lena, 'Sonja Bergvall om konsten att översätta: man är inte klåfingrig med stora poeter!', Röster i radio TV, 1983:2 By Sonja Bergvall 20th century Translators Trade unionist	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1799040
__label__wiki	0.59432	0.59432	The Sky Project Providing information and support in issues around forced marriage Legal Position The Sky Project Newsletter – December 2020 Director of the Sky Project named finalist for the Inspiration Women in Law Awards Remembering Honour Based Abuse Victims on The Day of Remembrance The Sky Project Statement on the BlackLivesMatter movement 1000 Steps for Justice The Sky Project gave an engaging and detailed presentation at a recent conference we hosted about the hidden issues of domestic abuse. The warmth and passion they brought to a complex and challenging subject area had the audience gripped. The knowledge and understanding of Forced Marriage and Honour Based Violence the Sky Project have is enlightening, informative and invaluable to raise awareness and impact on the safety and freedom of people within Bristol and the UK at risk of forced marriage. Thank you so much. Kim Hometruths, Swindon Set up in 2009, The Sky Project is a charity that is actively working to reduce the number of forced marriage cases in and around Bristol and the South West. Forced marriage is a criminal offence and a violation of human rights. Men and women should have the right to choose their own marriage partners, and society has a duty to recognise and defend this right. Read more Email: skyproject@hotmail.co.uk Copyright © 2021 The Sky Project. All rights reserved. Theme Spacious by ThemeGrill. Powered by: WordPress.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1799043
__label__wiki	0.500238	0.500238	Shoreham Rowing Club Rowing Coast and the River since 1862 Rowing at Shoreham Learn to Row Rowed before? Junior Rowing British Rowing & CARA Races / Results Adur Head 2019 CARA League Tables 2019 Regatta Archives Member Safety Garry Saunders Tag Archives: Garry Saunders Shoreham’s Saunders is British Rowing Volunteer of the Year Shoreham Rowing Club Captain Garry Saunders has been named as British Rowing’s West & South East Coast Volunteer of the Year 2018 at its recent National Volunteer of the Year Awards. The Awards, run by the UK governing body for rowing aims to recognise the efforts of an army of volunteers around the country who are integral to the success of the sport at grass roots level and beyond. Guest speaker at the event, Zoe de Toledo, cox of the GB women’s eight which won an historic silver medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics said “Its a great privilege to be able to present these prizes at the Volunteer and Coach of the Year Awards. The people we are honouring today are the backbone of our sport, form grass roots all the way through to high performance. “All of us remember not only our first coach, but also the people who made the biggest impact on us in our sport, whether they are coaches or volunteers, or both. I have some huge admiration for those who turn up week in, week out, in rain, wind, and snow, to encourage participation in rowing. Thank you for everything you do.” Will McGrath, Chairman of Shoreham Rowing Club spoke of his pride at Shoreham’s captain being singled out by British Rowing. “We are an entirely volunteer-run club, no paid coaches, no salaried staff to keep our boats in good working order, and yet we’ve had junior rowers enjoying success competing for their country at an international level, we’ve had representation at prestigious events such as Henley Royal Regatta, we’ve won the coveted ‘Bideford Bowl’ – the South Coast mens senior coxed fours championship – more times than any other club and our current cohort of senior women have been unbeaten for the last six years. “Garry has played a pivotal role in many of these successes and we are extremely proud that the huge commitment he has given to the club in time spent coaching, towing boats to regattas, organising crews and developing junior members has now been recognised on a national level.” Saunders, 51, who has been a member of Shoreham Rowing Club since he was 16, has been the driving force behind several of the club’s recent junior rowers attending trials to join the GB junior rowing team – with past Shoreham GB successes including a gold medal at the Youth Olympics in Sydney in 2013 and a bronze medal at the Coupe de la Jeunesse in Amsterdam in 2006. He said “I am very pleased, and very surprised to have received this award. Shoreham Rowing Club has been part of my life for so many years that I couldn’t imagine not being part of the community here. When I was 16 my father took me and some friends out on the water for the first time. I loved it and I have not looked back.”For me, taking a leading role in the club is about people having opportunities to progress, to gain confidence and to realise their potential.” Saunders collected his award on Monday at a special ceremony and reception at the iconic River & Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames. Presenting the awards were Mark Davies (Chair of British Rowing), Phil Hornsey (Director of Membership & Rowing Community at British Rowing), Sarah Harris (Head of Education & Training at British Rowing) and Olympic silver medallist Zoe de Toledo. Hornsey said of the awards “It was a real privilege to be among so many of the people who make rowing the sport we all love. On behalf of the rowing community I’d like to say how grateful we are for the passion, commitment and energy of not just our awards winners, but of every volunteer and coach in rowing, at every level of the sport – you really do make it all possible”. Written By Sarah Faith News Garry Saunders Latest SRC News 100k Charity Challenge in Memory of Becky Povey Back in September a bunch of misfit SRC rowers thought […] Shoreham Rowing Club Captain Garry Saunders has been […] Shoreham success on home water at 2019 Head of the Adur Shoreham town centre once again played host to the […] Latest Club Fundraising Back in September a bunch of misfit SRC rowers thought it would be a good idea to enter the Boston marathon in a mixed 8 with no training only to go on and bloody win it! In the euphoric pain of that victory whilst sipping our well deserved pints after a 4 hour row someone … Junior Rowers smash 100km indoor row Challenge! A massive well done to our juniors who completed 157km on 14th April 2019 in the 100km indoor row challenge at Holmbush! We have now raised a total of £500 from online donations and the collection tins and there’s still time to donate online! Thank you to everyone involved! Junior ChallengersMaisieMelissaDixieDan, Xav, KirklandSam Thanks to … Lewes 10k Easter Fundraising Run Give your dry trainers an outing & raise some money for the club! Last year a few club members ran the Lewes Easter 10k to raise money for the club – and it was a great success! The run is on Easter Monday (1st April 2013) and is a flat (bar one very small hill), … Thanks to everyone who entered the quiz last week…and well done to the winning team – Adam, Kim, Laura et al – who sneaked through to win with a stonking final music round. It was fantastic to see so many members, friends and family supporting the club and having a great time. 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__label__wiki	0.911853	0.911853	Trinity students travel through time Adam Hirsch, left, dressed as Alfred the Great fights with Joseph Avakian, 10, dressed as the knight El Cid, during the fourth grade Medieval Times and Renaissance Faire at Trinity Classical Academy on Friday, March 31, 2017. Katharine Lotze/The Signal Historical characters like Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, Galileo, Attila the Hun and Shakespeare were alive and well Friday morning as they shared their biographies with students, parents and teachers from Trinity Classical Academy. The costumes, monologues, dances and sword fights were part of the annual Medieval Times and Renaissance Faire for Trinity’s and Imago Dei’s fourth grade students. “In fourth grade, we study from the Middle Ages to the Reformation of the church,” said Harmony Stickles, a fourth grade teacher at Trinity. “We called them to step into a character or a role, and the students can feel the success and accomplishment of the whole process.” Elementary school students keep their eyes on a rubber chicken held up by a court jester during the fourth grade Medieval Times and Renaissance Faire at Trinity Classical Academy on Friday, March 31, 2017. Katharine Lotze/The Signal Four months ago, students began studying the time period and selected a historical character or order of society—like jester, blacksmith, goldsmith, serf, tailor and carpenter—to transform into during the Medieval Times and Renaissance Faire. “This is the culminating event for the whole year,” said Emily Brown, a fourth grade teacher at Trinity. The 53 fourth grade students studied their biographical figure, wrote a monologue of their character and created a two to four minute presentation of their figure, complete with costumes, props and hand gestures. “They write whole speech themselves and then spend time in class to practice and research their characters,” Stickles said. Ella Thompson, 10, acts the part while drsesed as Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine during the fourth grade Medieval Times and Renaissance Faire at Trinity Classical Academy on Friday, March 31, 2017. Katharine Lotze/The Signal Student Ella Williams, 10, said she was excited to act and dress like her historical figure, Queen Elizabeth. “She was a powerful woman during the Renaissance,” Williams said. “I’ve seen her in the past and wanted to be her.” Ian Izakowitz, 9, who acted as Martin Luther said he enjoyed learning about how his biographical figure shaped history and started the Protestant Reformation. “I learned that he wrote the 95 Theses and that changed history,” he said. “I learned a lot. We also read a book about Martin Luther.” Chase Bowers, dressed as Attila the Hun, stages a swordfight with James Bacon, dressed as Clovis the Viking, during the fourth grade Medieval Times and Renaissance Faire at Trinity Classical Academy on Friday, March 31, 2017. Katharine Lotze/The Signal During the faire, students also looked on as sword fights between Attila the Hun and Clovis the Viking, and Alfred the Great fights and El Cid took place periodically throughout the event. “It was a lot of fun,” said 10-year-old Adam Hirsch who acted as Alfred the Great. “We practiced for it.” The students also would step away from their presentations to perform a dance inspired by Medieval Times and the Renaissance, which was choreographed by the school’s music teacher. Students dance in a circle dressed as famous figures and tradespeople from the middle ages during the fourth grade Medieval Times and Renaissance Faire at Trinity Classical Academy on Friday, March 31, 2017. Katharine Lotze/The Signal During her monologue, Emerald Lipis, 9, held up a flag she created that read “Thesus Maria” to replicate the banner her historical character, Joan of Arc, held during battles like the Hundred Years War. “She didn’t use a sword to fight in the battle and encouraged her army with this flag,” she said. “I liked how she was really confident and she fought and cared about her army and gave her life up to God.” On Twitter as @_ChristinaCox_ Christina Cox is a multimedia journalist covering education, community and breaking news in the Santa Clarita Valley. She joined The Signal as a staff writer in August 2016. COVID-19: SCV surpasses 22K cases UPDATE: Forward progress stopped in Canyon Country brush fire	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1799046
__label__cc	0.733934	0.266066	Tag: kirkpatrick Is Jive CMO Sam Lawrence the next Robert Scoble? Rick Turoczy on April 11, 2008 Portland-based Jive Software has been all over the blog world as of late with their release of Clearspace 2.0. But that’s not the only place they’re turning heads. Jive’s Chief Marketing Officer, Sam Lawrence, has rapidly become a social-media phenom on Twitter and on his blog, Go Big Always (which coincidentally uses the same Justin-Kistner designed WordPress theme that adorns Silicon Florist). Now, Portland’s Marshall Kirkpatrick is hinting that Lawrence may be the next Robert Scoble, given how readily his social media presence jumps to mind: When we asked for examples of people doing this kind of work well on Twitter, the first name that flooded our replies inbox was Jive Software’s Sam Lawrence. For those of you unfamiliar with Scoble, Kirkpatrick provides a short and sweet primer: Robert Scoble blazed a big trail by blogging and producing video as a technical evangelist for Microsoft from 2003 through 2006. No longer at Microsoft, Scoble now produces media for media’s sake at FastCompany.tv. Others have followed his lead, knowingly or not, and job titles like “social media evangelist” are no longer nearly as rare as they used to be. As for me, I’ve seen the power of Sam’s influence in a variety of media. And it continues to grow on a daily—if not hourly—basis. His bursting on to the social-media scene has been nothing short of explosive. And I continue to be impressed with his growing influence and impact. That’s good for Jive. But it’s also good for us here in the Silicon Forest. We could be witnessing the emergence of another true A-Lister, right here in our own backyard. And that, gentle reader, could be huge for the Portland startup scene. Category: Jive, MarshallKirkpatrick, Oregon, Portland, SamLawrence, scoble, Scobleizer Tag: Jive, kirkpatrick, lawrence, marshall, Oregon, Portland, scoble, Scobleizer	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1799048
__label__cc	0.599486	0.400514	Simon Denegri's Lay Review The public, their health, and democracy Simon Denegri OBE bio Papers, articles, interviews and misc. We don’t do duvets: patient choice and clinical trials simondenegri medical research September 7, 2012 5 Minutes Younger readers will remember a regular skit from the BBC’s Saturday morning children’s tv show some years ago in which the week’s special guest would enter Trevor and Simon’s laundrette and ask if they do duvets. ‘We don’t do duvets’ Trevor and Simon would reply along with the studio audience. You could say that a patient’s experience of the NHS when it comes to taking part in clinical trials is like that. That’s always assuming they get the chance to ask the question: ‘do you do research?’ of course. And many do not. They are not even prompted by a helpful ‘we do duvets’ type window sticker of the sort you’ll find in your local laundrette. As it so happens my laundrette spells out all the different duvets they do by size, type and price. Take this summer’s National Cancer Patient Experience survey. The results showed that only 1 in 3 people with cancer have had a discussion with their doctor about the chance to take part in a trial. Many, many of those who did not, would like to have had. The situation is probably far worse in other conditions. What little data we have supports the stories patients tell me about the barriers they have faced: ‘I had to find my own way’ is the most common refrain. (Of course it should be pointed out that we don’t really know from the survey whether it was a discussion in the true sense of the word or the sort of discussion I have with my doctor where I get half-way through my opening sentence and he prints a prescription. Or I say something like: ‘I think I have ‘x” and he says ‘no you don’t.’ End of story) Anyway, I digress. The bottom line is that the survey shows the NHS is poor at communicating with patients about research and a long way from enabling their participation through providing patient choice. It’s as though the NHS is stuck on a very long spin cycle impervious to all known tricks at stopping the machine including a proverbial kick. In fact you could say the same about patient choice generally : it seems to have been put on a ‘heavily-soiled wash’ programme by some health professionals even though it only needed a good rinse – everything has become a whole lot more tangled than it ever needed to be as a result. But things are improving and we are entering a period where the opportunity to accelerate this change is greater than it has ever been. We must grab it before things default to the ‘old world’ NHS view of research. For a long time we have needed to re-boot the system so to speak, and provide patients with the sort of access to research which takes account of their growing interest. Well, that re-booting has now happened with the Health and Social Care Act and its duties on NHS organisations to promote research. Whatever you may think about the legislation as a whole, this is the unequivocally good bit of it. There has also been a need for re-programming the system so that it becomes more responsive to patient choice. The Draft Mandate and NHS Choice Framework on clinical research published just before the summer is the beginning of this re-programming. (By the way the books are still open on the Department of Health public consultation on this. So if you have time you should respond to it now or, if you can bear it, drop me a comment instead). What remains with this reprogramming is the somewhat harder task of downloading the new software in every Trust, CCG, Healthwatch etc etc. Just think about the average software upgrade in your office and the most computer illiterate person in it (usually me) and you are about 1/1000th of the way to understanding the difficulty of the task. That will also be followed in the autumn with the review of the NHS Constitution including what it says about patients and access to research. Once this has washed through the system, a way to think of it is as the computer desktop shortcut to benefiting from the new software mentioned above. But we have much to do to grow awareness of it – only 7% of people currently know about their existing rights under the Constitution according to an NIHR CRN CC survey last May [see blog about International Clinical Trials Day]. So the next bit is making sure that patients are empowered appropriately to make the right choices (and I include the choice not to take part). I think choice architecture is the policy parlance for this. And, for all its faults, the sort of framework laid out in ‘Nudge’ by Thaler and Sunstein (Penguin 2009) which i have been reading recently is as reasonable a starting point as any. I know ‘Nudge’ came in for a lot of flak when it was published over here but you might like to have a read and have a go at thinking about what it might mean in the context of clinical trials. I certainly did. From the incentives for people to make such choices (the potential opportunity to benefit from new treatments as well as an altruistic desire to ‘make a difference’) thru giving people the evidence (all the evidence) and relevant tools to make sense of this evidence, and ensuring a good default choice for those who are disenfranchised for one reason or another, to making the system responsive to feedback. As I say it’s one way of looking at the challenge. You may agree or disagree with it as an approach. You might even think, as i do, that it doesn’t go far enough towards empowerment. But it provides a starting point and a way of looking with patients at their pathway in research so that it works better than it does now. I am sure there are others. I am sure there are better ones. The important thing is that any framework is focused on delivery in terms of patient outcomes. And what of the outcome of choice in research for the patient? That’s a blog or several blogs in their own right. Right?! Derek Stewart writes crisply and lucidly on his blog about the patient experience and always with an eye on outcomes. I can not better that, so check it out on my blog roll if you have time. Personally I would summarise what ‘choice’ means for patients in the context of research by recounting a story told to me by a colleague – a researcher. He told me about a patient he works with closely who, when asked by someone whether she was disappointed that the trial she had been involved in had not succeeded said something along the lines of: ‘no, because it means we can tick another thing off the list.’ Simply put, patient choice in research might be expressed as giving people the opportunity to tick things off the list whether for themselves or for others. There’s undoubted and understandable scepticism about whether all the elements described above will fit together in the name of patient choice in research (I have barely touched on professional attitudes as a barrier for instance). Indeed you may contest much of the basis of my argument above. But, ever the optimist, I believe they can. Everyone has the right to a duvet day in my laundrette. Published by simondenegri View all posts by simondenegri Previous Post A few distant musings about the cancer telethon ‘Stand up to Cancer’ Next Post New book on social care, service users and user involvement Follow Simon Denegri's Lay Review on WordPress.com RT @acmedsci: The UK-EU treaty paves the way for our research communities to continue to work closely together. 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__label__cc	0.628464	0.371536	Selective catalytic oxidation of CO: Effect of chloride on supported Au catalysts H. H. Kung, M. C. Kung, H. S. Oh, J. H. Yang, C. K. Costello Supported Au catalysts are generally prepared from chloride-containing Au precursors and their characteristics are highly sensitive to preparation procedures. To better understand and control the variables important in the preparation of these catalysts, the effect of chloride on the catalytic performances of highly active Au/Al2O3 catalysts in the selective catalytic oxidation of CO (SCO) was studied. The complex manner in which Cl- affected Au catalysis was deconvoluted in a series of complementary experiments where chloride was quantitatively removed and added. The residual chloride affected the activities in two different ways, i.e., it facilitated the agglomeration of Au particles during heat treatment and it inhibited the catalytic activity by poisoning the active site. Chloride poisoning was not only observed at the steady state, it was more pronounced in the transient toward steady state. To better assess the poisoning effect of Cl-, phosphate was introduced to the support surface as a postsynthesis treatment before the addition of CI- in some experiments. Activity suppression was observable at a Cl-/Au molar ratio as low as 0.0006. Thus a very small fraction of gold was related to the active site. This implied that the activity per active site was extremely high. Journal of Catalysis https://doi.org/10.1006/jcat.2002.3710 Selective CO oxidation 10.1006/jcat.2002.3710 Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Selective catalytic oxidation of CO: Effect of chloride on supported Au catalysts'. Together they form a unique fingerprint. Catalytic oxidation Chemical Compounds Chlorides Chemical Compounds chlorides Physics & Astronomy catalysts Physics & Astronomy Catalysts Chemical Compounds poisoning Physics & Astronomy oxidation Physics & Astronomy Kung, H. H., Kung, M. C., Oh, H. S., Yang, J. H., & Costello, C. K. (2002). Selective catalytic oxidation of CO: Effect of chloride on supported Au catalysts. Journal of Catalysis, 210(2), 375-386. https://doi.org/10.1006/jcat.2002.3710 Selective catalytic oxidation of CO : Effect of chloride on supported Au catalysts. / Kung, H. H.; Kung, M. C.; Oh, H. S.; Yang, J. H.; Costello, C. K. In: Journal of Catalysis, Vol. 210, No. 2, 10.09.2002, p. 375-386. Kung, HH, Kung, MC, Oh, HS, Yang, JH & Costello, CK 2002, 'Selective catalytic oxidation of CO: Effect of chloride on supported Au catalysts', Journal of Catalysis, vol. 210, no. 2, pp. 375-386. https://doi.org/10.1006/jcat.2002.3710 Kung HH, Kung MC, Oh HS, Yang JH, Costello CK. 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__label__wiki	0.573447	0.573447	Register/Opt In Components & Connectors Displays & LED Vector Software offers real-time access to actionable code quality metrics Vector Software offers real-time access to actionable code quality metrics: VectorCAST/Analytics from Vector Software offers development teams real-time access to actionable code quality metrics. New capabilities enable users to quickly launch and customise dashboards to assess, manage and improve code quality, adds Vector Software. New capabilities in VectorCAST/Analytics provide an intuitive, web-based dashboard of software code quality and testing completeness metrics. As a result, users can immediately assess risk areas and prioritise test resources, says Vector Software. VectorCAST/Analytics is available with enterprise versions of VectorCAST/C++ unit testing and VectorCAST/QA code coverage and system testing tools. The tool is is activated through a ‘quick-launch’ menu option that displays an analytics dashboard in a browser window. Project-wide metrics are shown in tables, and heat maps, to offer an initial quality assessment and identify high value activities to improving code quality. VectorCAST/Analytics immediately captures technical debt metrics including code complexity, testing completeness and comment density as well as test case quality metrics, such as the number of tests, test failures, tests with requirements and requirements without tests. The dashboard can be fully customized, based on an organisation’s goals. Teams can create views to capture key metrics that are most relevant to them. Vector Software provides software testing solutions for safety- and business-critical embedded applications. Companies worldwide in the automotive, aerospace, medical devices, industrial controls, rail, and other business critical sectors use Vector Software’s VectorCAST test automation platform. The VectorCAST environment enables software development teams to easily automate complex testing tasks to improve software quality, using test-driven development, continuous integration, and change-based testing processes to accelerate time-to-market release cycles. This news story is brought to you by softei.com “Vector Software offers real-time access to actionable code quality metrics” To stay up to date, register for our free mailing list to receive regular updates and offers. Register today for our monthly newsletter and keep informed of the latest technology news and new products from around the globe. Vector Software offers real-time access to actionable code quality metrics: http://www.vectorcast.com Softei.com Electronic News 2016 – Latest News and Advice regist and stay up to date with the latest electronic news. Latest News from Softei This news story is brought to you by softei.com, the specialist site dedicated to delivering information about what’s new in the electronics industry, with daily news updates, new products and industry news. To stay up-to-date, register to receive our weekly newsletters and keep yourself informed on the latest technology news and new products from around the globe. Simply click this link to register here: Softei Registration Softei.com is dedicated to providing those who purchase and specify electronic components, instruments, software, machinery and services with the very latest Industry news plus details of promotions and Competitions from around the globe... Softei.com is part of the Marjonmedia, Digital Publishing Group Softei.Com@SofteiCom· Farnell expands range of test and measurement solutions through global agreement with NI #TechNews https://softei.com/?p=36387&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=BlueBadger+Tweets Tri-band chipset opens access to 6GHz spectrum, says NXP #TechNews https://softei.com/?p=36384&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=BlueBadger+Tweets EEPROMs’ technology sets record for writing time, says Rohm #TechNews https://softei.com/?p=36381&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=BlueBadger+Tweets IQD Frequency Products introduces 5V atomic clock #TechNews https://softei.com/?p=36377&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=BlueBadger+Tweets RS Components teams with OKdo for exclusive Raspberry Pi 4 starter kit #TechNews https://softei.com/?p=36374&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=BlueBadger+Tweets © 2018 Softei.com \| Privacy & Cookie Policy \| Terms and Conditions	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1799052
__label__cc	0.593957	0.406043	Audio effect that adds a natural sounding vibrato to a vocal track I'm looking for an audio effect (on Windows) to add a natural sounding vibrato to a vocal track which has virtually no vibrato. I don't mean the singer didn't use much vibrato, I mean I have artificially reduced the amount using Melodyne and now I want add a different kind of vibrato. The reason here is that I have a sample library of female voice samples, but I wanted to extend the range a bit by pitch shifting the lowest and highest samples by up to a few semitones (which, using the original vibrato, still sounds fairly convincing). On a pitch-shifted sample I need to have a different vibrato than the original, otherwise it becomes extremely obvious (artificial sounding) if you play two notes together with the same kind of vibrato. The vibrato implemented in Auto-Tune is not so great for this purpose; no one sings with a vibrato of a fixed rate like 1Hz or below (I think, if they are not deliberately adding vibrato like in classical singing). I also don't know how to reasonably select different rates for the different samples. Vibrato (after the attack phase) sounds/looks more a like random walk, so ideally I want to find a plugin that realizes something close to that. Alternatively, I thought about the possibility of using pitch recognition on another vocal track (e.g. one I record myself) to recognize the vibrato and "transfer" it to the sample I need vibrato on. But this is hypothetical, I have no idea whether something like this is even remotely possible. sound-effects vocals pitch-shifting Marc W Stefan PerkoStefan Perko Hmm, interesting. Ideally, you could have the original vibrato, just altered slightly to make it sound less like the original. The only thing I can think of is using a pitch-warping tool to apply it manually if it's possible, or to adjust the original vibrato. Or maybe you could just attenuate the original vibrato rather than removing it completely? – Marc W May 9 '17 at 23:55 @MarcW Do you have any tool for pitch-warping in mind? I have a graphic tablet, perhaps I could draw convincing curves with that (if some program allows that) - Yes, I reduced the vibrato of the original instead of removing it completely. But ultimately, I just need another "vibrato curve" with no obvious relationship to the original. If you play two notes together, where the vibrato (modulo the actual note) only differs by a constant factor, I believe this becomes very obvious to the listener. – Stefan Perko May 10 '17 at 13:33 Yeah, I understand your dilemma. Unfortunately, I don't know of any pitch-warping tool that is that customizable. I thought something like Melodyne would do it. But if I come across anything, I'll let you know. – Marc W May 10 '17 at 16:32 To understand correctly, you want a vibrato that follows the given Hz rate thats decided by the note of the singer? – frcake May 10 '17 at 17:20 @frcake One basically separates the actual pitch as a function of time (e.g. in cents, i.e. logarithmically) into "note + vibrato", i.e. the note meant (that's a constant) plus the deviations pitch-wise from this note (that's not constant). I want to switch out the "vibrato" part with something else. – Stefan Perko May 10 '17 at 20:47 Browse other questions tagged sound-effects vocals pitch-shifting or ask your own question. Vocal Disguise Effect What's that vocal effect? Or is it natural? How to make back vocals sound more powerful and deep? What's the main effect on this vocal What sounds (not frequency!) can dogs hear? Pitch-Shifting makes sample sound out of tune How to achieve the strange vocal effect on this track? Pitch shift vocals without sounding sqeaky (Logic Pro X) How to make low-tech microphone sound effects?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1799056
__label__cc	0.67121	0.32879	Here's a great idea for a new episode Ribelin2000 Postby Ribelin2000 » Mon Feb 18, 2008 1:32 pm The American broadcasters of the Canadian TV show "Terrance and Phillip" are hit with a $28 thousand fine from the FCC after airing an episode in which Terrance's bare buttocks can be seen for seven seconds. This forces the network to heavily censor new episodes of "T&P". The four boys then go to Washington D.C. to the FCC headquarters to try to convince FCC head Kevin Martin to leave "T&P" alone. When they get to his office, Martin is there with Brent Bozell, head of the Parents Television Council, which is responsible for the majority of complaints made to the FCC. Martin turns down the boys' requests, and Bozell yells at the kids, screaming "THERE WILL BE NO MORE OBSCENITY ON TELEVISION!!!" The kids, Martin and Bozell start fighting each other, and the episode ends with Bozell getting killed in a rather graphic fashion. BRMBug Re: Here's a great idea for a new episode Postby BRMBug » Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:23 pm That's great, but how about adding that it was shown back in 2001, like what's going on with that NYPD Blue bullsh*t. In ur livinroomz beein' a dildo Postby S-O-U-T-H-P-A-R-K » Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:06 am the last ting SP needs is a whole terrance and phillip epsiode like not without my anus if tehre is to b a good ep of T and P if have to be like terrance and phillip movie trailer or behind the blow but with more of the boys Postby Ribelin2000 » Tue Feb 19, 2008 12:06 pm To BRMBug: The "NYPD Blue" episode that ABC is getting fined over is from 2003, not 2001. S-O-U-T-H-P-A-R-K: I don't think you read my post all the way through. I'm not talking about an episode with just Terrance and Philip; I mean an episode where Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny go to D.C. and battle with the FCC and Brent Bozell over the censoring of "T&P".	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1799057
__label__cc	0.667698	0.332302	Smart Buildings Show Main menu ☰ Duisburg to become smart city Published 16th January, 2018 by John Hatcher Duisburg in Germany has signed a Memo of Understanding(MoU) with Huawei to work together on smart city development. Duisburg Mayor Sören Link and Wang Yonggang, CFO of Huawei‘s Enterprise Business Group, signed the MoU. With this declaration of intent, both partners will begin work to make Duisburg an innovative and digitalized Western European model city. The MoU provides a framework for further discussion in which the two partners will commit to the implementation of specific projects from agreed topics. Huawei also announced plans to build a Joint Innovation Center in Duisburg. The city will benefit directly from innovations developed at the center. Plans already include expansion of the city’s WLAN network to include the city zoo and public transport. In education, the focus will be on the "intelligent classroom" with Wi-Fi and broadband connections for Duisburg schools. Other plans under discussion range from intelligent street lamps, supply networks and traffic management, to cloud based eGovernment solutions that simplify public access for citizens. In addition, Huawei will offer its experience and solutions in 5G LTE technology and wireless broadband networks, which are required for autonomous driving, smart logistics and Industry 4.0. Ultimately, the goal is to develop innovative ideas and solutions that use new technologies to enhance the quality of life in Duisburg and make the city more attractive to residents, business and investors. This should be done with an ecosystem that includes local and international partners, municipal invested companies and exchanges among local research institutions and universities. To exploit the potential in the areas of supply, infrastructure and traffic, in particular, Duisburger Versorgungs- und Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH (DVV) and DU-IT GmbH as municipal subsidiaries are responsible for the coordination and management of a number of planned projects. "Innovative technologies are the key to meeting the challenges of the future,“ said Lord Mayor Sören Link. “We want to exploit the opportunities offered by digitization to improve the quality of life in the city and promote economic growth. At the same time, we are further expanding our relations with a global player from China with this cooperation. We are an attractive partner city for international companies, employees and students.“ "We are pleased to be able to use our digitization skills to develop the city of Duisburg into a smart city,“ said Wang Yonggang, CFO of Huawei‘s Enterprise Business Group. ”Our products and solutions, will help simplify daily living of citizens and visitors in Duisburg, and to increase security.“ Subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates latest news in the Smart Buildings sector Tweets by @Smart_build	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1799060
__label__wiki	0.624206	0.624206	View/Download PDF ---Citations--- :11; 10.25259/SNI_238_2020 Buy Reprints Unilateral absence of the internal carotid artery associated with anterior communicating artery aneurysms: Systematic review and a proposed management algorithm Aktham O. Al-Khafaji1, Zahraa F. Al-Sharshahi2, Ryan P. Lee3, Zahraa A. Alsubaihawi1, Ali A. Dolachee4, Samer S. Hoz2 1College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, 2Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq, 3Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, 4Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Al-Qadisiyah, Diwaniyah, Iraq. Corresponding author: Zahraa F. Al-Sharshahi, Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq. zahraaalsharshahi@rcsi.com Received: 2020-05-01 , Accepted: 2020-07-13 , Published: 2020-08-01 Copyright: © 2020 Surgical Neurology International This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. How to cite this article: Al-Khafaji AO, Al-Sharshahi ZF, Lee RP, Alsubaihawi ZA, Dolachee AA, Hoz SS. Unilateral absence of the internal carotid artery associated with anterior communicating artery aneurysms: Systematic review and a proposed management algorithm. Surg Neurol Int 2020;11:221. Absence or hypoplasia of the internal carotid artery (ICA) is a rare congenital anomaly that is mostly unilateral and highly associated with other intracranial vascular anomalies, of which saccular aneurysm is the most common. Blood flow to the circulation of the affected side is maintained by collateral pathways, some of which include the anterior communicating artery (Acom) as part of their anatomy. Therefore, temporary clipping during microsurgery on Acom aneurysms in patients with unilateral ICA anomalies could jeopardize these collaterals and place the patient at risk of ischemic damage. In this paper, we review the literature on cases with a unilaterally absent ICA associated with Acom aneurysms and provide an illustrative case. We combined our experience of one case of a unilaterally absent ICA associated with an Acom aneurysm with the 33 existing publications on the same subject in the literature, for a total of 40 cases. We provide a detailed systematic literature review of this association of vascular anomalies, exploring different aspects regarding the collateral pathways and how they impact management strategies and propose a management algorithm to deal with such association. The mean age was 48.2 ± 16.5 years. The aneurysmal rupture was the most common presentation (75%). Agenesis was observed in 70% of patients, followed by hypoplasia (20%) and, finally, aplasia (10%). Lie Type A was the most common pattern of collaterals (50%), with Types B and D being of almost equal proportions. Most aneurysms were located at the A1-Acom junction contralateral to the anomalous side (Fisher’s Exact test; P = 0.03). One case of temporary clipping was reported in the literature. Acom aneurysms in patients with unilateral ICA anomalies, given they are more commonly present contralaterally, could be of acquired etiology, warranting periodic screening in asymptomatic patients. Temporary clipping might be safe in patients with Type D collateral pattern, while those with Types A or B may require intraoperative rupture risk assessment and a tailored management plan to avoid disrupting collateral flow and causing ischemia. Anterior communicating artery Hypoplasia Internal carotid artery Unilateral Show Related Articles from PubMed Congenital anomalies of the internal carotid artery (ICA) is an umbrella term encompassing three developmentally distinct, although interchangeably termed, conditions affecting the ICA, namely, agenesis, aplasia, and hypoplasia.[30] These anomalies are extremely rare, affecting <0.01% of the population with as few as 200 reported cases in the literature. They occur either unilaterally or much less commonly bilaterally with a reported ratio up to 3:1.[29] Agenesis refers to the complete absence of an artery or its primordium, while aplasia is used to describe an undeveloped ICA with the presence of some of its primordia, such as remnant vessel segments, or a sign of its presence such as a patent ipsilateral carotid canal. These two terms are often collectively referred to in the literature as congenital absence of the ICA.[8,11] In a subtle yet important contrast, hypoplasia describes an artery that is present but underdeveloped. These anomalies rarely cause symptoms when present in isolation.[33] This observation implies the provision of sufficient collateral blood flow, served in most cases by the contralateral ICA and the vertebrobasilar system through the circle of Willis, or less commonly by persistent primitive pathways (i.e., intercavernous anastomosis) or transcranial collaterals from the external carotid artery (ECA).[8] Hence, the risk lies not in the ICA anomalies themselves, but rather in other cerebrovascular abnormalities reported to be associated with them. Of those abnormalities, intracranial aneurysms project the heaviest burden, with a much higher reported prevalence averaging at about 27.8% compared to an incidence rate of 2–4% in the general population.[22,59] The anterior communicating artery (Acom) is reported to be the most common location for intracranial aneurysms associated with congenital ICA anomalies.[59] This artery also happens to be part of the anatomy of a major pathway in two of the six patterns of collateral blood flow described by Lie.[30] Thus, neurosurgeons are faced with a dilemma when managing patients with Acom aneurysms associated with a unilaterally absent ICA, as both microsurgical and endovascular management could compromise the artery, leading to loss of this collateral pathway, and an ensuing vascular insufficiency and iatrogenic ischemia in the affected side. In this article, we provide a detailed, systematic review of the available literature on the unilateral absence of the ICA associated with Acom aneurysms. Clinical aspects of the available cases are abstracted, statistically analyzed and discussed in regards to their etiology, the possible collateral pathways, and their impact on treatment options. The available data are also used to propose a management algorithm for dealing with such conditions. Illustrative case A 51-year-old man with a history of hypertension was referred to the Neurosurgical Teaching Hospital in Baghdad after complaints of sudden, severe headache associated with nausea and forceful vomiting. Physical examination showed intact consciousness and normal vital signs. Pupillary examination showed bilaterally equal and reactive pupils of normal size (about 3 mm) and round shape. Cranial nerves examination was unremarkable. The patient had severe neck stiffness and left hemiparesis (muscle power was 3/5). Non-contrast computed tomography (CT) scan revealed diffuse thick subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) with mild ventricular dilatation. CT angiogram (CTA) shown in [Figure 1] revealed a dome-shaped, wide-neck aneurysm arising from the left A1-Acom junction with right-anterior- superior projection. The right ICA was not visualized down to its origin from the common carotid artery (CCA); both the right anterior cerebral artery (ACA) and the middle cerebral artery (MCA) connected to the contralateral ICA through the left A1-Acom pathway. There was no connection between the right posterior communicating artery (Pcom) and the right MCA. Revision of the plain CT scan using bone window revealed an absent carotid canal. Due to the high cost and unavailability of endovascular treatment facilities, the wide neck of the aneurysm, and the need to avoid antiplatelets in the setting of rupture, we were not in favor of endovascular options in this patient and instead opted for surgery. Figure 1:: Computed tomography angiogram (CTA) (a) and 3D-reconstructed CTA (b and c) showing a left A1-ACoA junction aneurysm with right superior-anterior projection (thin arrows). The right internal carotid artery (ICA) is not visualized down to its origin from the common carotid artery (thick arrow). The right anterior cerebral artery and middle cerebral artery are supplied by the left ICA through the left A1-ACoA pathway. Export to PPT Microsurgical treatment was performed through a left pterional trans-sylvian approach. During surgery, absence of the right ICA was visually confirmed, and the left A1-Acom complex showed vasospasm. In addition, the aneurysm neck was very wide and its manipulation was difficult without temporary clipping of the left A1, a procedure that would risk blood flow to the right ACA and MCA. Intraoperatively, the aneurysm showed a punctate source of bleeding. A low- voltage bipolar cautery, set at 5–7, was used to shrink the bleeding source. Once bleeding has been controlled, the aneurysm was secured with muscle wrapping. Using low- voltage bipolar cautery to repair vascular injuries or to shrink punctate bleeding is a common practice in cerebrovascular surgery. After surgery, the patient’s muscle power improved, he had no further complications, and was discharged on day 7 postoperatively. The lesion remained stable on follow-up imaging. A systematic online literature search was performed on the April 14, 2020, for reports on unilateral congenital ICA anomalies associated with Acom aneurysms. PubMed (Medline 1966–2020) and Google Scholar were used for the review, and the search algorithm was as follows: “(((Acom) OR (ACoA) OR (AComA) OR (anterior communicating artery)) AND ((aneurysm) OR (intracranial aneurysm [MeSH])) AND (unilateral) AND (((ica) OR (internal carotid artery) OR (carotid artery, internal [MeSH])) AND ((anomaly) OR (absence) OR (aplasia) OR (agenesis) OR (hypoplasia)))).” An additional filter was applied for articles published on humans. The search returned 526 peer- reviewed manuscripts. A systematic abstract screening was performed, and only articles that reported on unilateral congenital ICA anomalies with associated Acom aneurysms were included for final analysis. In addition, the reference list of each article was screened for additional articles. All non- English literature was translated. The gender, age, presenting signs/symptoms, type, side of the ICA anomaly, and Lie classification for collateral pattern were recorded for each case. Concerning the Acom aneurysm, the side (of its junction with A1), whether it was ruptured or not at presentation, course of treatment, and outcome was recorded. Statistical work was done using IBM Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 26. Continuous variables were tested for the difference using independent samples t-test. Categorical variables were tested for correlation using Fisher’s Exact test. The significance level was set at P < 0.005. Our review yielded a total of 33 articles reporting 39 cases of unilateral ICA anomalies associated with Acom aneurysms, aside from the case we present in this article.[1-5,7,9,12-14,18,19,21,24-28,36,37,40,41,43,47-50,52,53,55-58] A table summary of the review is provided in the [Appendix Table 1]. Table 1:: Demographic data of the cases of ICA anomalies associated with Acom aneurysms. The mean age of patients at presentation was 48.2 ± 16.5 years. Twenty-one (52.5%) of the patients were females, and 29 (72.5%) of cases had a left-sided anomaly of the ICA. Of the aforementioned anomalies, agenesis was most common (70%), followed by hypoplasia (20%). There was no significant difference in age at presentation between males and females (P = 0.84) or the types of anomalies (P = 0.67). Half of all cases had a Lie Type A collateral pattern, with the remaining half having either Types B or D patterns in almost equal proportions (22.5% and 20%, respectively). Thirty (75%) of the patients presented with signs of SAH; namely, sudden severe headache with or without nausea and vomiting (three of which were due to ruptured aneurysms other than the Acom aneurysm), while the remaining cases had different presentations (three chronic headache, two incidental, one dysarthria, one seizures and microcephaly, one progressive hearing loss, one numbness, and one unavailable data). Additional vascular anomalies were reported in nine patients; those included absence of the CCA, ECA, and vertebral artery, “cross-over” duplication of the MCA, moyamoya phenomena, and arachnoid cyst. Surgically treated patients had a significantly better outcome compared to non-operative treated patients (Fisher’s Exact test, P = 0.004). The demographic data of the study group, as well as characteristics of the Acom aneurysms, are summarized in [Tables 1 and 2], respectively. [Table 3] demonstrates the correlation between the laterality of the ICA anomaly and that of the Acom aneurysm. Table 2:: Characteristics of Acom aneurysms in the study patients. Table 3:: Association between the side of ICA anomalies and Acom aneurysms. Given the low prevalence of congential ICA anomalies, the available literature is mainly related to their epidimiology. There has not been much discussion on details of management and follow-up for these patients, particularly for the special circumstance of association with Acom aneurysms. Hence, our review suffers from an inherent lack of clinical data on surgical and long-term follow-up details, and we are therefore forced to depend on anecdotal evidence and single incidental reports from the literature in providing recommendations for the management of such patients. In our case, the bleeding point was cauterized, and the aneurysm was muscle wrapped. This management strategy was also adopted by Burmester and Stender. However, other management options, including clipping, and endovascular coiling, should all be considered by the surgeon when faced with such lesions. Patterns of collateral flow in unilateral absence of the ICA In his original 1968 thesis, Lie describes six patterns of collateralization to supply blood to the hemisphere affected by ICA agenesis, aplasia, or severe hypoplasia.[30] Types C and E describe the patterns in bilateral ICA anomalies. Type F, characterized by unilateral or bilateral “rete mirabile;” a web-like mesh of thin arteries at the skull base connecting and supplying the anomalous ICA(s) through the ECA(s), has not been documented to be associated with Acom aneurysms. Therefore, the three above-mentioned types were not considered in the context of this study and are henceforth not discussed. In Type A, the ACA of the affected side is supplied by the contralateral ICA through the contralateral A1 and Acom, while the MCA of the affected side is supplied by the posterior circulation through an enlarged ipsilateral Pcom. In type B, both the ACA and MCA of the affected side are supplied by the contralateral ICA through the contralateral A1 and Acom. Type D describes a “trans-cavernous” pattern of collateralization, in which an embryonic remnant vessel originating from the cavernous portion of the normal ICA persists. This remnant vessel reconstitutes blood flow either by anastomosing with the cavernous portion of the affected ICA (a pattern we refer to as D1), or by directly supplying the MCA of the affected side (D2). Of particular interest, we observed that patients with Lie Type D collateral pattern, the rarest type in unilateral anomalies, displayed a much higher affinity for Acom aneurysms compared to other types. Of the total 20 cases of ICA anomaly with type D pattern reported in the literature, eight of them had saccular intracranial aneurysms, and all of them had an Acom aneurysm (sole in six cases, associated with other aneurysms in one case).[24] Etiology of Acom aneurysms associated with unilateral absence or hypoplasia of ICA Although the exact etiological factors causing intracranial saccular aneurysms in patients with anomalies of the ICA are not well studied, several articles propose two main possible mechanisms. The congenital theory implies the coexistence of the aneurysm alongside the ICA anomaly since fetal life.[51,54] In contrast, the acquired theory implicates the changes in blood flow brought about by the abnormal flow vectors within the collateral pathways as a cause for the development of the aneurysms.[55] The data we reviewed seems to support the latter acquired etiology as a more plausible cause, at least in the particular case of Acom aneurysms. For one, the mean age at presentation was 48 years, making an acquired etiology more probable. Second, a majority of the cases had the Acom aneurysm at a side opposing that of the ICA anomaly, as shown in [Table 3], which supports the theory that altered blood flow vectors in the enlarged contralateral circulation constitute stress on the vessel wall, leading to the development of aneurysms. Need for periodic aneurysm screening Despite the rarity of ICA absence or hypoplasia, which are estimated to be prevalent in <0.01% of the population, the prevalence of intracranial saccular aneurysms in association with them (ranging from 25 to 67%) is much higher compared to that of the normal general population (2–4%).[1,25,53] Some articles suggest screening for intracranial aneurysms in individuals with a higher risk than that of the general population, such as those with positive family history or autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.[6,44] The above-mentioned points, alongside the proposition of the aneurysms being of an acquired nature within this context, may support periodic screening of such patients to detect the development of new aneurysms. Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) might be preferable in this setting over catheter or CT angiography, given its non-invasive, non-ionizing properties, and good sensitivity profile. The previous studies support the suggestion that MRA is a valid screening tool for intracranial aneurysms, as recent advances have significantly improved its sensitivity and specificity.[6] Despite that, it is recognized that there is an uncertainty concerning the cost-effectiveness of MRA periodic screening and that there is an occurrence of false-positive and false-negative aneurysm detection on MR angiograms, especially for small aneurysms.[16,45] In cases, where there is a particularly high suspicion for the presence of an aneurysm, more sensitive imaging tools like CTA might be a better option. Preservation of collateral flow during microneurosurgery Temporary clipping is often employed during microvascular clipping of intracranial aneurysms, either in an elective manner to acquire proximal or distal control of vessels to facilitate the manipulation of the aneurysm complex, or as a rescue measure to control bleeding caused by intraoperative rupture (IOR) of the aneurysm. For Acom aneurysms, the temporary clipping usually involves the A1 segment of the ipsilateral ACA. Temporary clipping is not associated with additional risk of delayed cerebral infarction or delayed ischemic neurological deficits in patients with bilaterally normal ICA formation.[31] However, these findings might not apply to patients suffering from aneurysms associated with unilateral congenital ICA anomalies. Given the anatomical relation of Acom aneurysms to the collateral pathways in several of the patterns described by Lie and illustrated in [Figure 2], temporary clipping during microsurgery of these aneurysms could be of particular concern. Figure 2:: Figure artistic depiction of the anatomical position of ACOM aneurysm in normal and unilateral congenitally absent ICAs and its relation to collateral blood flow patterns. CICA: Cavernous internal carotid artery, SCICA: Supraclinoid internal carotid artery, A1, A2: Segments 1 and 2 of the anterior cerebral artery, ACOM: Anterior communicating artery, MCA: Middle cerebral artery, BA: Basilar artery, PCA: Posterior cerebral artery, PCOM: Posterior communicating artery, EPCOM: Enlarged posterior communicating artery, TCA: Transcavernous anastomosis. For Type D1, blood flow is reinstituted to the affected ICA at its cavernous portion far from the Acom, and as such, no special considerations need to be taken when managing such a combination. On the other hand, the contralateral A1 segment and Acom constitute a major collateralization pathway in ICA anomaly patients with Type A, B, and D2 patterns. In Type A, the collateral pathway supplies the ACA, while the MCA is supplied by the posterior circulation through an enlarged ipsilateral Pcom. Disruption of the A1-Acom pathway by temporary clipping in such patients would compromise blood flow to the affected side ACA, sparing the MCA. Bhaskar et al.[5] reported a case with such conditions who presented with signs of aneurysmal rupture. IOR occurred during microsurgical clipping, and temporary clipping of the unaffected side A1 segment for 5 min was done. The aneurysm was clipped, and the patient recovered without complications. At the 6-month follow-up appointment, the patient had no neurological deficits. The absence of postoperative complications could be attributed to the short duration of temporary clipping. It has been shown that temporary clipping for <20 min under induced hypertension and mild hypothermic technique is an acceptable practice that causes no additional risk of delayed cerebral infarction.[38] In addition, electrophysiological intraoperative monitoring and propofol burst suppression may help ameliorate the risk of hypoperfusion injury and ischemia.[23] However, those studies were conducted in the context of bilaterally intact ICAs. Based on the above-mentioned case report, it can be assumed that temporary clipping can be employed in such patients, at least in an emergency context, to stop bleeding from IOR. The same can be said of Type D2 pattern cases, as the anatomy is similar in the context of collateral flow to the affected side ACA through the contralateral A1-Acom pathway. In contrast, Type B, in which the collateral pathway supplies blood flow to both the ipsilateral ACA and MCA, the anatomy implies that disruption of these collaterals would cutoff all blood supply to a major portion of the affected hemisphere. Based on the above flow patterns for Types A, B, and D2, it is a reasonable practice to assess the risk of IOR before intervention and determine the course of action accordingly. Endovascular intervention is a very viable initial treatment option for intracranial aneurysms, both ruptured and unruptured.[20,34] However, there is still some concern regarding its use in aneurysms with difficult morphological features and the frequent need for antiplatelet therapy, most notably with flow diversion. This often prohibits its use in ruptured cases.[42] In addition, endovascular treatment entails higher costs compared to clipping, and its facilities are not widely available, particularly in developing countries. In this review, we only found one case of Acom aneurysm associated with ICA hypoplasia treated by endovascular coiling.[21] For high-risk patients, endovascular coiling might be considered as an alternative to microsurgery as it has an overall lower risk of rupture and does not require temporary clipping.[15] Based on all data discussed above, we have devised a simple algorithm for the management of patients presenting with unilateral absence or severe hypoplasia of the ICA in the context of associated aneurysms, as shown in Figure 3. Figure 3:: Proposed outline for anterior circulation aneurysm-contextual management of patients presenting with unilateral congenital ICA anomalies. For ICA anomalies with no associated aneurysms, we propose periodic screening, preferably using MRA as a non-invasive safe method. **Generally, ruptured aneurysms have a higher risk of IOR compared to unruptured aneurysms. High risk group (unruptured aneurysms): large (for clipping) or very small (for coiling) size, anteriorly directed dome, irregular shape with daughter cysts, high aspect ratio. High risk group (ruptured aneurysms): High modified Fisher’s or Hunt and Hess grade, rebleeding before intervention. Some studies have suggested that ruptured Acom aneurysms have the greatest risk for re-rupture during microsurgery among all aneurysmal sites.[15] This pre-imposed risk necessitates checking for other factors that increase the risk of IOR and thus emergency temporary clipping in patients with anomalous ICA and anterior circulation. Overall, ruptured aneurysms have a higher risk of IOR compared to unruptured aneurysms. The specific risk of IOR during microsurgical clipping for unruptured aneurysms can be assessed in the context of the surgeon’s experience on factors such as large (for clipping) or very small (<4 mm – for coiling) size, anteriorly directed dome, irregularly-shaped aneurysms with Murphy’s teats (daughter cysts), and a high aspect ratio.[10,17,32,35,46] Additional factors for assessing IOR risk in ruptured aneurysms include high modified Fisher’s or Hunt and Hess grades and rebleeding before intervention.[39] If the surgeon deems the case to have a high risk for IOR during microsurgery, then endovascular coiling should be considered, particularly in patients with Lie Types A, B, and D2 collateral patterns. Intracranial saccular aneurysms are a common finding in patients with unilateral congenital anomalies of the ICA and could be of acquired etiology in such patients. Periodic screening for patients with these congenital anomalies for the development of aneurysms could be warranted. 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__label__cc	0.62847	0.37153	LifeShape Earns American College of Surgeons Accreditation By Space Coast Daily // July 18, 2013 Dr. Mark Fusco IS LifeShape Medical Director Health First LifeShape Advanced Bariatric Center of Florida is located at 1223 Gateway Dr. in Melbourne, and the LifeShape team is committed to helping you achieve your weight loss, fitness and wellness goals. (Image for SpaceCoastDaily.com) BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Health First LifeShape and the Melbourne Same-Day Surgery Center has been named an Accredited Outpatient Bariatric Surgery Center under the Bariatric Surgery Center Network, BSCN, Accreditation Program of the American College of Surgeons, ACS. Dr. Mark Fusco Health First LifeShape is the first program on the Space Coast to be fully accredited as an Outpatient Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence. “Since the inception of the LifeShape program 10 years ago, our team has worked diligently to provide the highest quality of care possible to our patients,” Health First LifeShape Medical Director and Minimally Invasive General Surgeon Dr. Mark Fusco said. “We are honored to receive this distinguished accreditation.” MET ESSENTIAL CRITERIA To earn the accreditation, Health First LifeShape met the essential criteria that ensure its ability to support a bariatric surgical care program and the institutional performance requirements outlined by the ACS BSCN Accreditation Standards. “We are proud to receive this national designation as it recognizes the success of our team in improving the health of our community.” These accredited outpatient centers offer the laparoscopic adjustable gastric band procedure, also known as gastric bands or lap bands, which is an outpatient surgical procedure and are used to address obesity and comorbid conditions such as type II diabetes and heart disease. “Obesity is a national epidemic that sometimes requires surgery in order to receive maximum results,” said Health First Holmes Regional Medical Center President Sean Gregory. About Health First LifeShape Health First LifeShape Advanced Bariatric Center of Florida is a full-service multidisciplinary weight loss center offering physician supervised medical weight loss programs, personalized fitness training in private state-of-the-art gym and surgical treatment. With a highly trained team of surgeons, internal medicine doctors, nurses, nutritionists, personal trainers and psychologists, Health First LifeShape provides patients with a safe and effective weight-loss surgery, comprehensive pre- and post-operative education and ongoing aftercare. For information visit LifeShape.net or call 321-728-7553. Health First offers numerous outpatient and wellness services, including four Pro-Health and Fitness Centers. (SpaceCoastDaily.com Image) Founded in 1995, Health First is Central Florida’s only fully integrated health system and employs more than 7,500 people and has four hospitals, including Holmes Regional Medical Center, Palm Bay Hospital, Cape Canaveral Hospital and Viera Hospital. Health First Health Plans also offers a wide variety of health insurance plan options for Brevard and Indian River Counties. In addition, Health First is home to Brevard County’s only Trauma Center. Health First Medical Group is the largest multi-specialty physician group on the Space Coast. Health First offers numerous outpatient and wellness services, including four Pro-Health and Fitness Centers. Visit Health-First.org for more information. [gmarker marker_latitude=”” marker_longitud=”” marker_label=””] [/gmarker] ABOVE MAP: Health First LifeShape Advanced Bariatric Center of Florida is located at 1223 Gateway Dr. in Melbourne, and is the first program on the Space Coast to be fully accredited as an Outpatient Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence. Dr. Mark Fusco of Merritt Island Passes Away After Courageous Battle With Cancer CDC: Although Still Common, Hospital Infections Down LifeShape Surgical Weight Loss Set For Today Dr. Mark Fusco Hosts Esophageal Cancer Seminar	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1799064
__label__cc	0.657976	0.342024	VIDEO: Great Turn Out For Cancer Care’s ‘Strike Out Cancer’ At Space Coast Stadium By Space Coast Daily // June 27, 2015 ABOVE VIDEO: The Cancer Care Centers of Brevard and Cancer Care Centers Foundation presented “Strike Out Cancer Night” at Space Coast Stadium on Friday night as the Manatees took on the Daytona Tortugas. (SpaceCoastDaily Video) BREVARD COUNTY • VIERA, FLORIDA – The Cancer Care Centers of Brevard and Cancer Care Centers Foundation presented “Strike Out Cancer Night” at Space Coast Stadium on Friday night as the Manatees took on the Daytona Tortugas. In its continued efforts to provide financial support and educational resources to local patients, Cancer Care Centers of Brevard and Cancer Care Centers Foundation once again teamed up with the Brevard County Manatees to host Cancer Care Centers Night at Space Coast Stadium. “It’s a fantastic way to get the community out here to raise cancer awareness and Cancer Care treatments available here in the county,” said Dr. Ashish Udeshi. Dr. Ashish Udeshi “It also is a great opportunity to spend time with family and friends, and meet new people.” The Brevard County Manatees wore“Cancer Survivor” theme jerseys during the game. The front featured a lavender ribbon — the color used to denote all types of cancer — while ribbons representing more than 15 types of cancer were included on the back. Official Strike Out Cancer Shirt is the Minor League Baseball Promotional item of the week. All 35 Manatees game jerseys are available for purchase online at the official minor league baseball site manatees.milbauctions.com/gallery.cfm “Cancer Care Centers of Brevard’s mission is to promote the importance of early cancer detection, which gives the patient a better outcome in their fight against this dreaded disease,” said Cancer Care Centers’ Marta Fiol. “Our tagline reads ‘At Cancer Care Centers, every month is cancer awareness month.’”	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1799065
__label__wiki	0.789854	0.789854	THIS WEEK @NASA: Vice President Pence Introduces the Artemis Team of Astronauts, NASA Remembers Chuck Yeager By Space Coast Daily // December 13, 2020 Latest Happenings around NASA ABOVE VIDEO: The Vice President introduces the Artemis team of astronauts, progress on hardware for upcoming Artemis missions, and the science priorities for our next human mission on the Moon … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! Vice President Pence Introduces the Artemis Team of Astronauts On Dec. 9, we announced 18 NASA astronauts that will form the Artemis Team to help pave the way for the next astronaut missions on and around the Moon as part of the Artemis program. Vice President Mike Pence introduced the team and made remarks during the eighth National Space Council meeting at our Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Mike Pence, Vice President of the United States): “Really is amazing to think that the next man and first woman on Moon are among the names that we just read and they may be standing in the room with us right now. My fellow Americans, I give you the heroes of the future who will carry us back to the Moon and beyond – the Artemis generation. [applause]” NASA will announce flight assignments for Artemis Team astronauts later, with additional Artemis Team members, including international partner astronauts, joining this group, as needed. NASA Building Core Stages for Second, Third Artemis Flights While testing and preparations continue for next year’s uncrewed Artemis I mission to the Moon, technicians at our Michoud Assembly Facility are simultaneously manufacturing the Space Launch System core stages for the Artemis II and Artemis III missions. All the main core stage structures for Artemis II are being outfitted with electronics, feedlines, propulsion systems, and other components, while a process called friction stir welding is being used to assemble the core stage structures for Artemis III. NASA Report Defines Science Priorities for Artemis III Moon Landing On Dec. 7, NASA released a report defining the agency’s science priorities for the Artemis III mission. The priority science goals include a better understanding of fundamental planetary processes that operate across the solar system and beyond, a greater knowledge of how the Moon formed and evolved, and characterizing the origin, movement, and preservation of water and other resources on the Moon. The report is available online at nasa.gov/reports. NASA Science, New Airlock Delivered to Space Station An upgraded SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station on Dec. 7 with more than 6,400 pounds of science investigations, a new airlock, and other cargo, just one day after launching from our Kennedy Space Center. Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Starts Tracking Sea Level Less than a month after launching to space, the joint U.S.-European Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite has sent back some of its first sea level measurements. The satellite will move into its operational orbit by mid-December, then spend the next 6 to 12 months checking the data it collects. It’s also monitoring atmospheric conditions that will help improve weather and hurricane forecasts. New Findings Highlighted at Virtual AGU Meeting Highlights from the virtual American Geophysical Union meeting include findings that the Solar Orbiter mission, a collaboration between the European Space Agency and NASA, is making the first direct connections between events at the solar surface and what’s happening in interplanetary space around the spacecraft. Data from the mission have provided new insights into so-called “solar campfires” that crop up on the surface of the Sun, solar wind and space weather, and disintegrating comets. NASA Remembers Aeronautical Pioneer Chuck Yeager NASA is remembering U.S. Air Force pilot, General Chuck Yeager who passed away Dec. 7. In addition to his military service during World War II, he may be best known for becoming the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound as an aeronautical test pilot in October 1947. In a statement, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said Yeager’s achievements advanced America’s abilities in the sky, set our nation’s dreams soaring into the jet age and the space age, and will guide us for generations to come. That’s what’s up this week @NASA	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1799066
__label__cc	0.723875	0.276125	The Eagle, the Cave, and the Footbridge (Hamelin Stoop #1) By Robert B. Sloan 10 Jan 2021 1 Comment by Splashes of Joy in Prism, Prism Tours, Prism Tours Book Blitz, Robert B. Sloan We’re celebrating the release of the third book in the Hamelin Stoop series, The Ring of Truth! Today, the author talks about the inspiration for the series. Next, on Wednesday, January 13th, he’ll be talking about the storybook world of Hamelin Stoop HERE. Come back HERE on Friday, January 15th, to read an excerpt from book three. Plus, there’s a giveaway to enter below. Enjoy! The Eagle, the Cave, and the Footbridge (Hamelin Stoop #1) By Robert B. Sloan Young Adult Fantasy, Christian Hardcover, Paperback, Audiobook & ebook, 332 Pages November 15, 2016 by 12 Gates Publishing Afraid of being caught by trackers from another world, a young mother abandons her baby boy in a tomato box inside the screened porch of a children’s home. The staff at the orphanage name him Hamelin Stoop, but he grows up longing to learn his real name, find his parents, and thus discover his true identity. Life is not easy for Hamelin. He belongs to everyone, though in some ways to no one fully. And the people he is closest to leave him one by one. A letter from an older friend advises Hamelin to “keep waiting and keep hoping.” Bitter experiences force Hamelin to wait, but he has to learn how to hope. When the children’s home forgets his eighth birthday, he sneaks away at night. He soon discovers that he isn’t just running away — he is being summoned by the Ancient One. Guided by the Great Eagle through a mysterious cave, Hamelin must pass a dangerous test of courage before he can find his parents. Hamelin’s failures, fears, and hopes become part of a larger story, a story of a great struggle between worlds and kingdoms where the old myths of magic, evil contracts, and enslaved children turn out to be real. (Affiliate links included.) Goodreads \| Amazon \| B&N \| Book Depository \| BAM \| Apple \| Kobo \| 12 Gates Publishing The Lost Princess and the Jewel of Periluna (Hamelin Stoop #2) By Robert B. Sloan Young Adult Fantasy, Christian Hardcover, Paperback, Audiobook & ebook, 304 Pages February 7, 2017 by 12 Gates Publishing Hamelin finally makes it across the footbridge only to learn that his quest to find his parents and learn his true identity will not be quickly done or easy to fulfill. The Great Eagle leads him through the dangerous Waters of Death and Life and into the Land of Gloaming, where Hamelin is thrown into the midst of a war already being waged between the evil Chimera and the mysterious Ancient One. He must help two new friends find a kidnapped princess and recover a stolen jewel, tasks for which they have special gifts that must not be misused: a scarf of sight, shoes of speed, and a sword of death. But these quests are only part of the larger story, a story including Chimera’s plan to use Hamelin—a child of two realms—to seize the kingdoms on both sides of the Atrium of the Worlds. (Affiliate links included.) Goodreads \| Amazon \| B&N \| Bookshop \| BAM Book Depository \| Apple \| Kobo \| 12 Gates Publishing The Eagle, the Cave, and the Footbridge (Hamelin Stoop #3) By Robert B. Sloan Young Adult Fantasy, Christian Hardcover, Paperback, Audiobook & ebook, 580 Pages December 29, 2020 by 12 Gates Publishing Will Hamelin be summoned again? Hamelin suspects that his friend Layla is the lost princess from the Land of Gloaming. As he describes his daring adventures to trusted friends at the children’s home, an intricate tapestry of stories emerges. Layla admits that she has had dreams – or are they memories? – of another world with faded light. The orphan boy is not alone in his struggle to learn the truth, search for family, and question the Ancient One’s purposes. Meanwhile, dangerous forces continue to pursue the boy of both worlds, but the evil Chimera gives his agents an additional task: find the fourth princess, the missing daughter of Carr, and stop her. She must never return home. (Affiliate links included.) Amazon Print \| Kindle \| B&N \| Apple Guest Post: The Bible, the Pied Piper, and Hamelin Stoop Do you remember the legend of The Pied Piper? When I was young, I was attracted to many stories of myth and magic, but it was this story that I longed to see finished. It is the story of the lost children of Hameln town. The children were seduced into following the alluring music of a cunning piper (their parents failed to live up to the contract made with the Pied Piper, and he stole the children to exact their unpaid debt and avenge his wounded dignity), who led them into a magic mountain, never to be seen again. Only a few witnesses were left to go back so that the parents would know what they had done, that it was their fault the children were taken. My childhood mind was troubled. What happened to the children who were taken away? Could they ever be rescued and come home? What about their parents and the pain they felt? Would it ever be relieved? Even today the town of Hameln has an old stained glass window commemorating the loss of the children, as well as historical documents and inscriptions that place the great loss on June 26, 1284, the day of Saints John and Paul. Will Hameln always endure the shame of its treachery? The answers are – nothing will ever be the same until the children are restored to their town and families. But how? I lived with that painful non-ending until one day the story of the Bible and the legend of The Pied Piper connected in my imagination. The story of the Bible is also unfinished in the Old Testament, and though the beginning of the hoped for ending is picked up again in the New Testament and carried forward substantially through the story of Jesus, it remains still unfinished on the stage of history. I think the stories connected in my mind because both are unfinished, with exiles who have yet to be brought home. Once I filled out a larger narrative for the world and backstory of The Pied Piper, the Hamelin Stoop series was born. Robert is married to his college sweetheart, Sue. With seven married children and over twenty grandchildren, they enjoy large family gatherings with good food and lively conversation around the table. Favorite family activities include role-playing games, writing and reading stories, and, of course, storytelling. Robert is also a University president and scholar. Photo Credit: Joannah Buffington Goodreads \| BookBub \| Amazon \| Facebook 12 Gates Publishing: Website \| Instagram One winner will receive print copies of The Eagle, the Cave, and the Footbridge and The Lost Princess and the Jewel of Periluna plus bookmarks and a $15 Amazon Gift Card (US only) Ends January 18, 2021 Previous Tour and Giveaway for Dream it & Do It by Holly Sharp Next Tour and Giveaway for The Future of Buildings, Transportation, and Power by Roger Duncan and Michael E. Webber Jeanna Massman The series sounds amazing. The covers sets the tone for the books.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1799070
__label__wiki	0.925811	0.925811	Tony Romo tosses credibility out the window for allegiance to Tom Brady Objectivity does not seem to be a priority for Tony Romo. Tony Romo is a sellout. On Sunday, during CBS’ broadcast of the Kansas City Chiefs-Tampa Bay Bucs game, Romo sold out the viewing audience for his affection, respect (and maybe even friendship) for Tom Brady. Even as Brady, the Bucs’ old-new QB, struggled in the first half in an eventual 27-24 loss, Romo, the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback turned color commentator, blamed everyone… except Brady. Romo handed out excuse after excuse. His commentary about Brady was so sweet that viewers likely got a toothache just listening to it. It was a sad reminder that former athletes aren’t always the best people to give an honest opinion about other players. It’s a reminder that plenty of guys who turn to the booth or TV studio haven’t had formal training and aren’t close to being reporters or journalists. Yes, many can’t be trusted to deliver sports fans an honest view of the game. There are simply too many conflicts of interest — ranging from knowing players personally, sharing the same agent, or having played for the same organization. It was so blatant, so over the top, that other TV analysts ripped Romo without saying his name on social media. ESPN NFL analyst Ryan Clark, a former defensive back in the league, tweeted this out: “Dear current DBs I am sorry. I clearly don’t do my job correctly. I will now (as a former DB) look for every way to explain your mistakes as someone else’s fault. Former QBs do this well and I apologize for not having y’all back.” Some fans, watching the game, got into the act and simply pounced on Romo like a blitzing linebacker in his playing career. One Tweet read: “Tony Romo is giving Brady every excuse in the book. Brady is washed up man.” Clearly, on this day, Romo picked friendship over frankness. This, of course, isn’t true for all. Some former athletes are great on TV. They bring both the honest insight of actually playing in games at the highest level and a brutally honest take on the situation. Enter Charles Barkley on TNT. The Hall of Fame NBAer protects no one, no league. Barkley once said on national TV that the NBA was “unwatchable.” Barkley’s unvarnished mouth also cost himself his friendship with Michael Jordan. Barkley criticized MJ’s work as an executive. Jordan took it personally. But it’s why fans watch Barkley. We want it 💯. All the time. Fans are smarter than people give them credit for. And this isn’t a jealousy thing. Romo is wildly popular with many NFL fans. Romo has a knack for calling plays and situations before they happen. That’s the kind of analyst you’re looking for when you watch a game. It’s why Romo is getting gobs of money from the network. Having athletes in the booth is nothing new. In fact, it was made popular in the 70s with Monday Night Football. Howard Cosell, an iconic sportscaster, worked with many. But even he was bothered by it way back when, and famously dubbed it “jockocracy.” Players have a stake in it, a horse in the race. It doesn’t always lead to cozy coverage, either. Many thought NBA analyst Paul Pierce was too harsh on LeBron James in his commentary because the two were rivals during Pierce’s playing days in the league. The fact remains that players aren’t always the most objective. In 2017, 128 out of 324 NBA players didn’t vote for LeBron James for the All-Star Game. That was personal. And as much as sportswriters and journalists are ripped by fans for not being fair, media members are actually the most objective because they don’t have a horse in the race. For all the crap that the Baseball Writers’ Association of America gets about its Hall of Fame votes, those same guys voted Barry Bonds the NL MVP — seven times. Bonds never had a good relationship with the media. But it didn’t stop them from honoring a player who was obviously worthy of the award. It’s a warning to fans to be wary of where you get your sports information. Avoid places that are compromised. It’s like going to the Players’ Tribune and expecting a story that makes a player look bad. Or going to your favorite team’s website and expecting a column saying the coach should be fired. Neither will happen. And neither will you always get unbiased coverage from former players — even when everyone is watching. Romo proved that. Under Armour launches Steph Curry Brand to compete with Nike’s Jordan Brand Jones vows to dominate weakened France	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line1799071

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