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The story of one million lives lost
Source: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 08:15 AM
Author: Ding-Shinn Chen, CEVHAP
On Sunday advocates, patients, clinicians and a growing number of government representatives will come together in support of World Hepatitis Day, an annual event endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO) that aims to raise awareness of viral hepatitis among at-risk groups.
The need for raising awareness of viral hepatitis is immense. Indeed, although the transmission of viruses that cause hepatitis is preventable, we now know that the number of people dying globally every year from these viruses has increased from approximately 986,000 in 1990 to more than 1.4 million people today. This is a similar number of people that die each year as a result of HIV/AIDS.
The situation is graver in the Asia Pacific region, where the data shows that 70 percent of all worldwide deaths related to viral hepatitis occur. That means that in Asia, one million people die needlessly every year and on average one person dies every 30 seconds. These figures - from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBDS) by the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation - were presented for the first time in Asia in June 2013, at the Liver Week conference of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL).
An important part of a worldwide movement to halt this death toll, World Hepatitis Day aims to raise awareness of how hepatitis is transmitted and to prevent the many millions of new infections that occur each year. The event addresses the abysmally low awareness levels that surround these diseases, which mean that in the case of South East Asia around 65 percent of people living with chronic hepatitis B, and 75 percent with hepatitis C, are unaware they are infected.
The significant number of undiagnosed people explains why - despite the existence of an effective vaccine for hepatitis B and treatments for chronic hepatitis C that could save millions of lives - the number of people dying from viral hepatitis continues to rise. Fundamentally, a large proportion of people are diagnosed late - once they start to have symptoms and become ill. It is only then, when their infection has led to liver cirrhosis or liver cancer, that they discover the infection they have carried, usually for many years. Unfortunately, by the later stages of the disease, treatment options are more limited.
Viral hepatitis represents one of the world's greatest threats to health, and yet these diseases remain low on the global and Asia health priority list, falling way behind other diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. These new figures reveal the increasing threat posed by viral hepatitis to the Asia Pacific region and are symptomatic of the poor understanding and lack of political commitment that has typically surrounded these diseases in many countries.
In defence of government policymakers, however, there has been a distinct lack of categorical evidence needed to guide policy development and justify the required investments. We now have the evidence we need to prove that viral hepatitis is an urgent public health priority in Asia. On World Hepatitis Day, the Coalition to Eradicate Viral Hepatitis in Asia Pacific (CEVHAP) is urging governments to embrace the blueprint contained in the WHO's new Global Framework for Action.
The WHO's framework was first launched on World Hepatitis Day 2012 and, recognising that each country will face a different set of challenges, provides a guide for governments to develop their own nationally-coordinated action plans to tackle viral hepatitis. The WHO framework represents a comprehensive strategic policy approach, and over the last year, many of our members have held encouraging discussions with ministries of health across the region, a number of which have expressed interest in strengthening their country's response to viral hepatitis.
The success in implementing the framework within countries requires, however, the realisation that many countries, particularly in the Asia Pacific region, are resource-constrained and that funding issues present a significant barrier to their ability to implement lasting measures to reduce the burden of disease. The recent formation of WHO's Global Hepatitis Network provides governments with access to the expertise needed to translate this framework into national action plans and public policy, but its work will require funding, and many governments will need support to build capacity and mobilise resources.
In the past, we have seen what can be achieved when governments, the medical community, donor organisations and civil society come together in a collective response to spur change and secure funding through the global response provided by UNAIDS, the Stop TB Partnership and Rollback Malaria Partnership. Viral hepatitis lacks a major international funding structure to resource the change that is needed to implement the framework within individual countries. On World Hepatitis Day, our members will ask governments to embrace the WHO's new global framework and CEVHAP will offer our support, but we need international commitment.
In Asia Pacific, World Hepatitis Day is a story of one million lives lost every year, but it simply does not need to be that way. We can save lives if all people who are touched by viral hepatitis work together, but our human resources alone are not enough. Development agencies, governments and donor bodies must also come to the table and designate viral hepatitis as a funding priority if we are to reverse the escalating impact of these silent but destructive diseases.
Ding-Shinn Chen is the chairman of the Coalition to Eradicate Viral Hepatitis in Asia Pacific (CEVHAP).
Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Labels: World Hepatitis Day
Don't use used syringes
By Dr Arshad Altaf Published: July 28, 2013
According to the World Hepatitis Alliance, which is commemorating the World Hepatitis Day on July 28, there are 500 million people worldwide infected with hepatitis B or C, a number which is much higher than those suffering from HIV or any cancer. Pakistan is among those countries, which has one of the highest rates of hepatitis B and C infections. A national study in 2007 estimated that there are 12 million Pakistanis infected with these two life-threatening infections. The nationwide prevalence of hepatitis B is 2.5 per cent and that of hepatitis C is 4.9 per cent. Both these infections can be life-threatening and even if the treatment is provided free, it is a complicated and lengthy process with a varying success rate and has some very serious side-effects. While there are multiple causes of transmission of hepatitis B and C, ranging from unsafe blood transfusion, use of unsterilised surgical equipment, unsafe dental procedures, ear piercing or tattooing and shaving by barbers, the most established risk based on epidemiological research is unsafe injection practices by healthcare providers.
The World Health Organisation defines a safe injection as one that does not harm the recipient or the provider and does not result in waste that is dangerous to the community. Unfortunately in Pakistan, unsafe injection practices are very common and MBBS doctors, as well as untrained ones (quacks), prescribe unnecessary injections to patients. Another dangerous aspect is the reuse of single-use disposable syringe for economic reasons. Often the patient is so poor that she/he cannot afford to pay extra or the practitioner has a package deal in which some cheap medicines and an injection is part of the prescription. The reuse of disposable syringes still happens in Pakistan in this day and age, and is an intentional practice on part of the provider. The Safepoint Trust describes this practice in the following manner: "Syringe reuse is quite literally murder on a global scale."
The Sindh government is sensitised on the issue and has been cognisant of this life-threatening practice. The Sindh cabinet approved the draft and the Sindh Assembly passed the Sindh Regulation and Control of Disposable Syringe Bill, 2010 on January 12, 2011. It has also become an Act of the Legislature of Sindh. The full Act is available at the official website of the Sindh Assembly. This action on part of the previous government must be appreciated as to the best of our knowledge, no other province has gone through this exercise.
The main clause of this Act under the heading of "Restriction" states that "no person shall manufacture, sell or use disposable syringes other that auto lock, auto destruct or auto break for injection, drawing of blood and other purposes." Under the heading of "Offence and Penalty", it states that all directors, managers, secretaries or agents shall follow this Act, and those contravening will be punished with imprisonment for a term that may extend to two years or a fine which may extend to Rs500,000 or with both.
The key reason to pass this bill was to control the reuse of single-use disposable syringes, which as mentioned earlier, has been strongly associated with the spread of hepatitis B and C infections. Unfortunately, there are areas which still need improvement.
For the ease of readers, it should be clarified what an auto disable (AD) is. It is a type of syringe that was specifically developed to restrict the reuse on part of the providers. The syringe has a mechanism, which if used correctly, can make it difficult to reuse it after a single use. At the end of the procedure i.e., after administering an injection, a small force is applied on the plunger and there is a click sound, which practically locks the plunger, making the syringe hard to reuse. In many developed countries, the use of AD syringes is mandatory by law in healthcare settings.
Now coming to the gaps in the Act. The first major weakness is its lack of implementation. To the best of my knowledge, majority of public sector hospitals are still using and tendering conventional disposable syringes. It is safe to assume that medical superintendents or purchase departments are violating the law and can easily go to jail or be liable to huge fines. Most of these persons are probably not even aware of the Act.
The other problem in this Act pertains to the selling and manufacturing of AD syringes. Even though it states that no person shall manufacture or sell syringes other than AD, the Act has overlooked a very important condition, which is that the syringe has to conform to the standard set by the International Organisation for Standardisation Standard (ISO) 7886-4. Accordingly, the manufacturer of the syringe should also comply with the ISO Quality Systems Standards for Medical Devices Manufacturing ISO 13485. The language of this Act is such that at the moment, any supplier or manufacturer can provide any type of AD syringe and no one can legally question its quality or standard of manufacturing.
As an injection safety advocate and researcher, a major gap that I see in this Act is that it does not address the intentional reuse of syringes by healthcare providers. As mentioned earlier, this practice is still around and must be addressed in the form of a law. Prior to devolution, a team, of which I was a part, and other highly trained public health professionals, worked on several drafts of a similar kind of legislation. Even though it got stuck in the government's bureaucratic system, it properly addressed this practice in detail. The poor and uneducated patient is often unaware of this kind of practice and rarely asks the provider if the syringe is new and opened from a sealed packet. No legislation is available in the province or at the national level, which addresses this issue.
In the end, to reiterate, it must be mentioned that this Act has some serious weaknesses in it. While it was being compiled, technical and public health experts should have been consulted. Making amendments in an existing legislation is a formidable task, knowing the political culture and wranglings that go around in the provincial legislature. Who will take the lead, who will revise it and who will improve it, remains a question for all concerned. One practical way is to form a provincial health promotion legislation committee, which should comprise relevant members of the provincial assembly, as well as public health professionals. They can work collectively to address weaknesses and gaps, and make improvement in this Act, which I am sure, was passed with all good intentions.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 28th, 2013
Labels: Injecting practices, World Hepatitis Day
Unnecessary injecting of medicines is still a major public health challenge globally
Tropical Medicine & International Health
Early View (Online Version of Record published before inclusion in an issue)
C. Gore1, J. V. Lazarus2,*, R. J. J. Peck1, I. Sperle2, K. Safreed-Harmon2
Article first published online: 23 JUL 2013
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12151
© 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Keywords: hepatitis; injecting practices; public health; World Health Organization
In 2012, we sought responses from all 194 World Health Organization (WHO) Member States for the WHO/World Hepatitis Alliance Global Hepatitis Survey (World Health Organization 2013). While the full survey results will be released on 28 July 2013, World Hepatitis Day, we feel that it is imperative to draw attention to one finding with potentially far-reaching public health implications. Only 7 of 126 Member States that responded to the survey were able to provide data for the following question: 'What are your government's official estimates of the number and percentage of unnecessary injections administered annually in healthcare settings?' Another 6 respondents skipped the question, and 113 – almost 90% – answered 'do not know'.
It is dismaying to learn that such a large number of countries do not appear to have these data available in light of what has been documented regarding injection overuse in developing countries. Much of the evidence is from the 1980s and 1990s, but more recent studies in China and Egypt found unnecessary health facility injection rates of 57% and 95%, respectively (Yan et al. 2006; Bodenschatz et al. 2009). A 2006 Pakistani study estimated that 94% of therapeutic injections nationally are unnecessary (Altaf et al. 2009). A 1999 review article summarising earlier evidence noted levels of unnecessary injections ranging from 70% to 99% in various patient populations in India, Indonesia, the Russian Federation and Tanzania (Simonsen et al. 2006).
The findings from the recent global hepatitis survey are a stark reminder of the persistence of this danger. In our survey, the three highest national estimates for the proportion of unnecessary injections were 68% (Mongolia), 50% (Cambodia) and 20% (Pakistan). These figures, coupled with the absence of data from many other countries, raise the question of whether progress is being made on reducing unnecessary injections, which WHO identifies as a key strategy for reducing injection-associated disease transmission (World Health Organization 2010).
Simonsen et al. (1999) define an unnecessary injection as 'one where oral alternatives are available, where the injected substance is inappropriate or harmful or where the symptoms or diagnosis do not warrant treatment by injection'. The literature on this phenomenon indicates that a complex array of factors may influence the decision-making of both patients and healthcare providers. Providers may recommend injections and patients may welcome them because of widespread misconceptions about injected medications being stronger or more effective than other types of treatment (Safe Injection Global Network 1999). Even providers who know otherwise may feel pressured by patients to administer injections (Kotwal 2005; Safe Injection Global Network 2011) – and may be concerned that withholding injections will undermine their professional credibility (Kotwal 2005; Chowdhury et al. 2011). Furthermore, it has been suggested that some providers may be motivated to administer injections because of the profitability of this practice (Safe Injection Global Network 2011).
We contacted the five Member States with national estimates of unnecessary injection levels of 5% or higher to obtain more information about why unnecessary injections occur. Three of them – Cuba, Mongolia and Pakistan – responded to this request, while two – Cambodia and Guyana – did not. (The two other Member States that reported national estimates of unnecessary injection levels were Denmark and Tonga, both of which indicated that no unnecessary injections take place).
Respondents were given several possible reasons for the occurrence of unnecessary injections and were asked to choose 'yes', 'no' or 'do not know' for each one. All three countries indicated that healthcare workers believe injections to be more effective. Two indicated that patients prefer injections rather than oral medication. One indicated that oral equivalents are unavailable, although the other two indicated that this is not a reason for why unnecessary injections occur. Additionally, one country selected each of the following as a reason: healthcare workers believe that patients expect injections; healthcare workers are paid more for injections; and better adherence can be achieved through the use of injectable medicine as opposed to the oral equivalent. The survey also asked for examples of 'a drug that is typically injected when a cheaper oral equivalent is also available'. Responses included antibiotics, diclofenac and vitamins.
It is our hope that the global hepatitis survey findings about unnecessary injection rates and follow-up survey findings will rekindle interest in a problem that may be causing widespread unnecessary suffering. In 2008, an estimated 14% of HIV infections were attributable to unsafe injections, as were 25% of hepatitis B infections, 8% of hepatitis C infections and 7% of infections with bacteraemia. These estimates collectively represented 28 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) (Safe Injection Global Network). Therefore, if even one tenth of unsafe injections globally in 2008 were cases in which the injection was not warranted, this would translate into a disease burden of 2.8 million DALYs attributable to unnecessary injections.
In actuality, it appears that estimating the global disease burden attributable to unnecessary injections would be a difficult task if at least 119 countries do not have national estimates for unnecessary injections. The lack of data gives rise to the first of four recommendations regarding how to reduce unnecessary injections. Tracking the incidence of unnecessary injections – understood as providing an injection when an oral equivalent is available – at the country level is essential for determining the magnitude of the problem and measuring progress on the response. Governments are urged to incorporate this metric into ongoing health system monitoring, including tracking it as a mode of transmission for all bloodborne viruses.
Our second recommendation calls for a more concerted global effort to reduce unnecessary injections. This issue is already on the agenda of the Safe Injection Global Network (SIGN), which since its inception in 1999 has provided leadership in the campaign to reduce unsafe injections. Given that SIGN and WHO now have a toolkit and other resources in place to help countries address the general problem of unsafe injections (Safe Injection Global Network), it is logical to focus more on increasing awareness of the contribution of unnecessary injections to disease transmission. Furthermore, the toolkit might be expanded with tools such as a global guidance document that informs decision-making around whether injections are warranted and identifies commonly injected medicines that should be replaced with oral equivalents. The latter might require WHO to carry out a review of the evidence regarding oral versus injectable drugs. Guidance is also needed on how to stage information, education and communication interventions to change perceptions among both health providers and the general public in regard to the role of injections in health care.
As for our two other recommendations, an informative body of evidence provides insight into the behavioural, economic and structural drivers of unnecessary injecting in healthcare settings, but the majority of these studies are more than a decade old. Health systems in many countries have undergone extensive changes in recent years, and research is needed to illuminate the dynamics behind current injecting practices. Finally, with the intensification of efforts to reduce unnecessary injections, research will also be needed to measure progress and to refine interventions, with particular attention given to how interventions should be adapted to address different drivers of the problem in different countries and cultures.
WHO research indicates that interventions to reduce unnecessary injections are cost-effective, as are interventions combining these activities with efforts to also reduce unsafe injections (World Health Organization 2003). WHO, SIGN and government authorities must work in collaboration with medical associations, nursing associations and civil society partners such as patient advocacy groups to take stock of this problem and develop country-specific strategies for its resolution. The WHO Director-General's upcoming injection safety initiative has the potential to serve as the backbone of this effort by increasing the global focus on unnecessary injections. Strong leadership on this issue is a moral imperative: it is simply unacceptable for the provision of medical treatment to be a pathway for large-scale disease transmission, suffering and death.
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Labels: Injecting practices, Public health, World Hepatitis Day
World Hepatitis Day: 28 July 2103
The European Medicines Agency supports World Hepatitis Day, which is taking place on Sunday 28 July 2013.
World Hepatitis Day is held every year on 28 July to provide international focus for patient groups and people living with hepatitis B and C. It aims to raise awareness and influence change in disease prevention and access to testing and treatment.
The World Hepatitis Alliance first launched World Hepatitis Day in 2008. The Alliance is a non-governmental organisation that represents hepatitis B and hepatitis C patient groups from around the world. The World Hepatitis Day is organised in partnership with the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Hepatitis B and C are caused by viruses that infect liver cells. Both diseases can lead to inflammation, scarring and cancer of the liver if left untreated. Viral hepatitis affects 500 million people worldwide and kills 1.4 million people every year.
The European Commission has authorised eight medicines for the treatment of chronic (long-term) hepatitis B and eight medicines for chronic hepatitis C on the recommendation of the Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP).
Among the medicines for hepatitis C recently authorised, two medicines in a new class called protease inhibitors attack the hepatitis C virus directly, in contrast to older medicines which work by stimulating the immune system to attack the virus.
The European Commission has also authorised ten vaccines for protection against hepatitis B infection for use in the European Union (EU).
The CHMP is currently evaluating the benefits and risks of a new vaccine for the protection against hepatitis B infection and two antivirals, a protease inhibitor and a polymerase inhibitor, for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C.
The Agency also publishes guidelines for pharmaceutical companies, describing how they should design and carry out studies of medicines for the treatment of hepatitis B and C. The Agency released a draft guideline on the clinical evaluation of medicinal products for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C in 2011 and a draft guideline on the clinical investigation of hepatitis-B immunoglobulins in 2012 for six-month public consultations. Comments received on these draft documents are currently under review.
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A basketball coach for 38 years and a football coach for 20 years, Jim Foti can look back on a record of distinction.
Now 80 years old and retired from coaching but still residing in Warwood where he piloted the high school basketball teams for 27 seasons, the fiery half pint of a coach has compiled a record staggering in quantity and luminous in quality.
The Jamestown, N. Y., native, who has called the Ohio Valley "home" ever since coming to Wheeling to coach football and basketball at Central Catholic High in 1942, gave coaches past and present something to shoot at with 466 varsity high school basketball victories. That total has been surpassed in the area by only one coach, Dick Potts, of River High at Hannibal, Ohio.
Foti was an old hand at state tournaments. His Warwood teams won 11 sectionals and seven regionals and thus appeared in the West Virginia state tournament seven times. Moreover, in his six years at Central, his basketeers won five state Catholic championships and compiled an over-all mark of 177 victories against 28 defeats. His powerful 1943 football team at Central also engaged in post-season action as its 9-1 record earned a berth in the Steel Bowl at Steubenville, where it lost a thriller to Rochester, Pa., 25-19.
At Warwood, the little general experienced 14 winning basketball seasons and three campaigns in which his Vikings won 20 or more games. His 1967 aggregation captured the West Virginia Class AA crown at Morgantown and his '75 team was runnerup to Northfork.
Foti, who retired in 1976 after taking the Vikings to the state tourney in Warwood's last year of existence as a high school, holds the distinction of coaching championship teams in three divisions of the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference. He also coached West Virginia teams in Ohio Valley all-star basketball and football games. In 1947-48, he piloted the professional Wheeling Puritans, forerunners to the Wheeling Blues.
Foti had two tours of duty at Wheeling Central. After coaching there from '42 through the basketball season of '44, he moved across the river to Bellaire High, where he coached for two years. Then he returned to Central to pilot the Maroon Knights through 1949.
When he went to Warwood, he was head basketball coach and line coach in football and one of the all-time greats of the gridiron, Chuck Howley, came under his tutelage. He became head football coach in '57 and directed the Viking gridders for 10 years. His overall record in the fall sport was 90-106-3 but Warwood often played a schedule for which it was overmatched.
Foti won an OVAC basketball championship with his '43 Central team. His '44 club bowed by only a point in the East Catholic championships at Newport, R.I. His '62 Warwood team and his '67 state champs were OVAC titlists.
A stellar high school athlete at Jamestown, Foti played football, basketball and hockey at John Carroll University. At 5-6, 160 pounds, he was a watch-charm guard in football and basketball. Yet, in the late '60s, he was selected as a member of the Blue Streaks' all-time football team.
After graduation from college in '38, he served at John Carroll for a year as a freshman coach before being hired at Erie, Pa., Prep, where in two seasons his basketeers won 26 and lost eight. Then he came to Wheeling.

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Digital Encyclopedia Is Just What People Expected
September 19, 2021 By Conn Williamson
As the golden era of the information age deviates into a turbulent period tarnished by the onset and prevalence of junk content, no source material is safe from the blatant politicization and revisionism of professional instigators. Platforms branded as encyclopedias inviting the global public with open arms to create accounts is a recipe for disaster, and now administrators are behind the eight-ball in containing a Three Mile Island debacle. With the reality of instantaneous change a perpetual theme of the digital universe, the entire spectrum of informational nodes, (from what are construed as news sites to digital periodicals, and even certain journals), are vulnerable to the prevarications of disruptive actors forwarding an agenda, and brutally indifferent to truth. These include news sites, the aforementioned digital periodicals and certain journals.
Social media is a lost cause. The onslaught of leftist radicalism overwhelmed an already uneven battlefield from the launch of F***book, as extremist "techviduals" dispatched multiple online personas (most phony) through guerilla tactics, until the company required stricter verification protocol. However, the deck was already stacked against half of the political belief ecosystem. Since Zuckerberg's lazy response to combat fake accounts, intellectual terrorists have expanded their devious franchise to hijacking and flooding popular community-run periodicals with misinformation and rhetoric, including the largest online encyclopedia. The prehistorically prodigious Wikipedia, now 21 years old, is on the front line of a cultural war, as the keyboard cowboys, including Chinese intelligence agents, are swarming to sign-up and wreck havoc. Though the website has a spotty track record in employing efficient verification efforts, and visitors are cautioned to take each article with an Oprah-sized grain of salt, despite the criticism, the portal has a reputation as a decent source for public information.
This is a problem, as the shared belief that reading between the lines may reveal at least a partial truth, only encourages the hopelessly dizzying cycle of edits in a convoluted fluidic cycle of seconds, minutes, and hours. Like salvos of gunshots fired, enemy detractors such as Beijing and Wikipedia volunteers exchange acts of distortion and restoration, as common knowledge sits atop the precarious towering summit of a Dubai skyscraper, and the energy expended is not insignificant to cause a minor singularity across the space-time continuum.
Wikipedia's model for posting a topic or editing content is disturbingly easy and simple. Anyone with an email address can apply for a free account and receive editing privileges almost instantly. Based on the initial dreams of an unregulated and self-policing environment of a "free" internet, edits are encouraged as the community relies on a peer-to-peer collaboration to maintain a minimum baseline of readability. The domain lacks the budget of a F***book grade Big Brother moderation army of bots and paid activists. As a result, the Chinese have perfected exploiting this built-in loophole to wage a perpetual battle on fact checking by deploying the efforts of full-scale propaganda team, faster than sensible corrections can be made. Like being stuck in quicksand, truth is being drowned out by coercive indoctrination. People's Liberation Army (PLA) information specialists blessed with university level English proficiency are indirectly teaming with social justice warriors to make outlandish claims on pages devoted to history and non-controversial topics, such as an article profiling a city.
The BBC reports, the digital encyclopedia has barred seven users with direct ties to the Chinese government for continuous postings of subjective pro-Beijing rhetoric, which includes passages scrutinizing supporters of Hong Kong independence. Another twelve members of the electronic espionage team were slapped on the wrist as the website revoked their administrative privileges.
The invasion of Wikipedia by rogue information techs is part of a shrewd campaign by the PLA spanning social media, Communist part news portals, and commenting forums. The diabolical plan is to provoke chaos through cultural internecine, and build the prestige of the regime, in rebranding the government as benevolent though a militarized cyber disinformation campaign designed to discredit US and Western Europe foreign policy and business practices. Domestic muckrakers are only adding gasoline to the already blazing inferno of divisiveness through an unrelenting bombardment of reckless platitudes devoid of decency and posted under the pretense of moral superiority. Within this dense jungle of sanctimony of extremism, it is shocking that Mount Rushmore has not received a socialistic overhaul and replace honorable patriots with AOC, Bernie, Hillary, and Pelosi in a virtue signaling facelift, thankfully not visible at cruising altitude on cross-continental high altitude airways.
Salvation exists within the pages of printed periodicals, but the digital information age spurred by the tech lobby has society in a bind.
Sections of Wikipedia hijacked by woke ideology, have already corrupted the fragile infrastructure of the site. Critics question the integrity of the open door editing policy, which encourages anonymous individuals to tinker with the complexion of an article, regardless of expertise, education, or political ulterior motive. To help combat the constant graffiti of mistruths, the platform has a system in place with a "history" tab, showing the entire ledger of citations and edits made to an article since birth. With the increased influx of nefarious characters, such as members of the People's Liberation Army, and the creation of pages covering new subjects and ideas, the domain has added tools for flagging egregiously politicized content, though it may be too little, too late.
Browsing through the Santa Barbara wiki, reveals that the current city possesses a rich tapestry of history influenced by indigenous peoples, and Spanish and Mexican settlers. It also highlights the municipality's "Social Activism" scene, including a blip on the history of Occupy Santa Cruz protests, a group that had ties to the international Occupy movement. The beauty and curse of Wikipedia is that the deliberately misplaced section was flagged and tagged under the new directives to improve accountability and transparency, yet similar issues remain unresolved on countless pages. Disappointingly, other than the generic warning to readers being posted, the politicized content has not been modified or removed in over a year since the alert was added, which is a disheartening indictment that some changes are for the worst. Since the inception of the Santa Barbara city page in 2002, site custodians have interacted over 1000 times with digital red pens and erasers in making edits and notes, yet have opted to crater to partisan politics.
As timber prices ascend and books, especially encyclopedias become scarce, the susceptibility to revisionism for insidious purposes overwhelms the few people left who care enough to defend truth against toxic hyperbole. The memory hole hungers for the printed and written as the societal engineers are willing to feed the beast the savory main course of the future in order to subdue the present.
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Now Cultural diversity has its Prize !
Since 2011, the French coalition for cultural diversity rewards each year personalities who have been particularly active in defending and promoting cultural diversity as well as an organization or an initiative which contributes to wide access to culture and to the diversity of cultural expressions: music, theatre, circus, cinema, plastic arts…..
In a few words"The French Coalition for Cultural Diversity brings together professionals of the cultural sector and promotes cultural diversity."


A delegation of Turkmenistan headed by the chairman of the Mejlis, Ovezgeldi Atayev, took part in the inauguration ceremony of President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine, the Ashgabat correspondent of Turkmenistan.ru was told in the national parliament.
According to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, 64 official foreign delegations attended Viktor Yushchenko's inauguration. 8 delegations were headed by presidents of state, 3 delegations – by prime-ministers, 5 delegations – by parliament chairmen and 2 delegations – by vice prime-ministers. Heads of a number of international organizations also attended the ceremony.


Researchers looked at coffee grown in over 20 different geographic regions, and determined that each contains about 15 percent lipids by weight, varying by freshness of the grounds and the type of coffee.
After soaked in organic solvents, lipids from the grounds are extracted, and then converted into a biofuel through a process called "transesterification". Researchers acknowledge that coffee grounds could only be one of many biofuels, but they do make mention of the important point: coffee grounds would other wise be thrown away.
The average coffee shop produces about 22lbs (or 10kg) of coffee grounds, which would provide about two liters of biofuel, according to the Daily Mail. Not a heck of a lot, but it's an extra kick to go for the large.
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Finding Art in Fences
Alumna artist's work lands on a TIME magazine cover
Lavett Ballard CCAS'14 with her work Tar Baby in the Rutgers University–Camden Student Works Gallery in Campus Center. Her work is featured on a March 2020 TIME magazine cover. Photo by Jonathan Kolbe.
By Sam Starnes
Lavett Ballard was seeking a distinctive surface for her paintings depicting African-American women, a project she planned for her senior fine arts thesis at Rutgers University–Camden, when nature intervened. "It just so happened my neighbor's fence got knocked down during a storm," said Ballard, who lives in Willingboro, New Jersey. "My husband helped to remove the fence, and I said, 'You know what? I think I'm going to use this fencing for my thesis.'"
Ballard cleaned up the old wooden picket fence and started painting on it. A quotation from August Wilson's play Fences—"Some people build fences to keep people out, and other people build fences to keep people in"—stayed on her mind. "That line has so much symbolism with what I was trying to paint," Ballard said.
Ballard earned a Rutgers–Camden art degree in 2014. While earning an M.F.A. at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, she transitioned from painting to creating mixed media collages on fencing and other pieces of recycled wood. In 2018, Ballard's images focusing on the identity of African-American women earned her national recognition. She was named by Black Art in America as one of the top 10 emerging black female artists to collect, which resulted in acquisitions of pieces by a number of prominent collections, including the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African-American Art.
Ballard's artwork on "100 Women of the Year" issue. Courtesy of TIME.
In early 2020, when she was asked to create a piece to appear on a cover of TIME magazine, she initially didn't believe the email. "I thought this has got to be a scam," she said. But it turned out to be "the real thing." Her piece depicting Rosa Parks and four other women who led the Civil Rights-era bus boycotts appeared on one of the magazine's "100 Women of the Year" editions in early March.
Ballard's success comes after more than 30 years of creating art, dating back to her high school years in North Jersey. She enrolled at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, but left to give birth to her first child. She continued to paint while raising a family and working a number of jobs in insurance, finance, and human resources. She returned to college in her thirties to earn an associate's degree at Burlington County College before enrolling at Rutgers–Camden in 2011. She credits art professors Margery Amdur and Elizabeth Demaray for being profound influences. "They really opened my eyes to the bigger art world," Ballard said.
Today, Ballard, who has children ages 29, 16, and 13, recently became a grandmother. She said she has often heard the old adage that one cannot make money as a professional artist, but she is glad she persevered. "I may be an exception, but if you really work at it and totally immerse yourself in it, it's possible," she said.
Ballard's work is highlighted in the exhibit HER-Stories—Visual Narratives of Women of the African Diaspora that will be on view through March 28 at the Rutgers–Camden Student Works Gallery. She is pictured below at the exhibit. Photo by Jonathan Kolbe.
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by Sean on Mon Jul 18, 2011 2:09 pm
So I've been to my first ever comic con here in Perth. Well it's not so much a comic con as a 'popular culture convention' of which comics make up about a third of it.
Anyway, so after finding a place to park in the Claremont Showgrounds venue around 11.00am and making my way to the pavilon I joined the entry line. Thankfully this wasn't that long and only took about 5 minutes to get in the door after getting slugged the $25.00 entry fee. You could book tickets online but that only saved you $1.80 off the entry fee.. wow, bank buster that one... where would I spend it first?..?
First impression of the inside of supanova...? Not overwhelmed. Lots of people in cosplay of various kinds and some of the Drizzt anime guys are walking around trying to be enigmatic and other-worldy but really just getting in people's way plus I reckon some of those costumes are very painful and impractical to wear, especially for the girls, not to mention revealing.... There're the usual stalls and sections of various comic shops, book stores and other interest groups flogging their wares as expected. Kings Comics had the biggest and most involved display while the 501st Regiment (Star Wars fans dressed as stormtroopers of various types) had a pretty good display. There was the local guys from the WWF wrestling setup there with the guys carrying on in their usual manner in the ring, but they were only there because the WWF have a new PC game coming out and they were there to promote it. Topcow's "Darkness II" was being promoted for the new game out in October and for some reason I couldn't fathom there was a huge queue of guys waiting to get into their mini-cinema to see a demo of the game being shown on a 40" flatscreen TV... You couldn't play a beta version of the game or anything yet these guys were prepared to wait for 20-30 minutes to see a 10 minute non-interactive demo...*shrugs*
Wandered off down to the various guest stars area to see what was going on down there. This year's main celebs were Larry Hagman and Barbara Eden from "I Dream of Jeanie", a bunch of anime/manga voice stars I've never heard of, and the guy who plays Draco Malfroy in Harry Potter. The voice stars were largely being ignored at the time I was there, and Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman had about 5 people waiting to see them each. Larry looked like he'd been sold a bit of a 3 legged horse IMO and was probably wondering why he'd bothered to come. I went up and said hello and how I loved the show growing up to Barbara Eden anyway as there was no one there at the time, but didn't get her autograph or anything. They're charging for these of course and I don't like her *that* much to care for it.... The line for the Draco Malfroy actor though was running off into the misty distance and I heard people say that the wait time was approaching 4 hours!!! It kind of boggles my mind that people would pay $25 to get in, then stand for 4 hours in a queue to see an actor for about 3 minutes while you hand over another $15 or so for a signature and a 'Hi how are ya, great to see you" kind of comment after which he's forgotten that you even exist 10 seconds later when he moves onto the next person... But we'll get back to this queueing thing later as I'm not entirely innocent myself later on.
So off to Artists Alley!!! Bunch of people there from the anime/manga art world that I don't know of but I did see jeffrey cruz from deviantart.com who was drawing a commission picture of "Death" and not really talking to anyone. Sure he's social enough if you talk to him first but otherwise Jeffrey wasn't very forthcoming. His stall was being largely passed over as a result. Jeffrey probably sees it differently but I got the chance to watch his spot for quite a while (the queueing thing I mentioned and to which I'll get to in a minute) and that's how I saw it.
Going up and down the alley I got to talk to Wolfgang from the local Gestalt Publishing comic publishers. I showed him this portfolio book I'd brought along which shows off some of my better coloured stuff (but not after totally embarassing myself by being a complete klutz and wiping out hs display table with my backpack bag...gawd...but no damage done, just a mess for a minute or so... gah!) and passed over this flyer I'd made up with my contact details etc. Anyway, Wolfgang really liked my colouring and gave me his card in return and said to send him an email and we can *talk* some more...!
I chatted to Stewart McKenny for a while who recognised me from the pulpfaction.net forums which was cool, and then I went along the line and found paul abstruse who is a great guy and we had a good long chat about comics, conventions (he reckons I should get my own table one year...) and colouring stuff in general which was cool. He even asked me to look after his table while he went off to the toilet for 5 minutes and so I impersonated being him for a while. There are now about 10 girls and guys out there that think Paul is far more handsome, not to mention older, than he really is :P Anyway, we chatted for a bit more then I went off to see if I could get to see two of the main celebs for the comic side of things - David Finch and Billy Tan.
So, I join the queue... See? I'm not immune to the concept of standing for very long periods of time for little return overall, and started waiting... and waiting... and waiting... It seemed everyone ahead of me wanted Dave to draw a fully rendered 3/4 page shot on the back of the poster they'd just bought, and each one took Dave about 15- 25 minutes to draw. As people will know and from what I've been told from other convention reports, Dave doesn't draw things by half which is lovely of him but makes for a VERY long wait in the queue to see him. Billy was pretty much the same but his line was shorter.
Got chatting to the other guys in the line around me to pass the time and showed off my coloured portfolio book again. I also spent a bit of time watching Jeremy draw as his booth was directly opposite the Kings Comics Celeb box where Dave and Billy were sitting. After about an hour though I did some mental math and worked out if the 4 guys ahead of me also wanted a fully rendered 3/4 shot of some character (they did..) then I was going to be there for at least another 2 hours in line! And there I was dismissively pooh-poohing the HP fans over the Draco Malfroy dude and then doing the same damm thing myself for my own little bit of fanboy worshipping only an hour later!... yeah call me hypocritical...
All I wanted to do was show Dave my portfolio book which has a bunch of pictures of his that I'd coloured for fun and pass over my details flyer (He *might* not have binned it that night and accidently taken it home with him, and then found it in his pocket one day and thought 'Yeah that guy from Perth was really talented, I should pass this onto my editor..."!! - Hey..a guy can hope!!..? Can't he..?) and basically just thank him for being such a great artist as his art is what got me into colouring and what I essentially learnt my skills on (Look at my gallery here, you'll see I've coloured a LOT of Finch art!) - So yeah, total fanboy-geekiness pretty much. I had also printed off a copy of a page inked by a girl I know named Ambra (from Italy) and who does inks for me and I was going to get him to sign that as well so I could send it to her as a gift, but alas! It was not to be....sorry Ambra. (It was the spiderman-blackcat one... )
But after the hour and the math, where my legs hurt from standing and my head hurt from the mental math, I gave up and left the line, so all of that never happened. However I *did* get to see Dave from a distance of no more than 2 meters (about 2 yards) and watched him draw about 4 commission pictures. It's stunning to see how he just gets the proportions dead right straight off. Lets hope that the people who commissioned them have a scanner and post them somewhere on the net in high res! :P Most popular characters were Batman and Batgirl it seemed. Figures, as he was selling prints of the Batman 700 cover as well as that Gnomon DVD picture he drew a while back.
So back to Artists Alley where I spoke to Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night fame) and who is also a local Perth boy originally. Shane McCarthy (Transformers writer and another local boy) was around as well but I didn't see him there. I then went back to paul abstruse's booth and chatted some more. Paul asked if I was coming again tomorrow but I said the $25 entry fee was a killer - at which point he gave me one of his spare exhibitor's entry badges so I could get in for free!!!!!! THAT was seriously cool of him!!!! I then wandered back past David Finch where absolutely no-one had moved an inch in the line after another half hour and left the con.
Unfortunately as it turned out I haven't been able to go Sundayas A) We're moving house in 2 weeks time and the wife said I have a whole shed-load of crap to throw out after 12 years of living in this same place and that had to be done and B) I had to write some stuff up for my day-job as a teacher. By the time I'd done all that it was about 4.00pm and getting too late to go over to the Con again.. However the free entry badge WAS very much appreciated Paul....
So there you have it. My first ever comic con of sorts. We only ever have the one here in Perth and it's pretty small overall. About 10-15 000 people only will come through in the 3 days but I'm sure I'll be back next year doing it all again
I colour stuff...
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Re: Supernova Perth 2011 - the con experience part 1 and par
Part 2 - Sunday
Ok, so after not making it to the con on Sunday, I get a call on the cell phone from paul abstruse He says there's going to be a podcast recorded at the Parmelia Hilton that night with various artists and guests from the con, and would I like to sit in? It'd be a chance to cruise and schmooze as it were!... Of course I said yes...
My wife and daughter decided to come along as well, so we piled in the car and drove into the city. Sure enough, the podcast was being set up and present included Ben Templesmith, (Rev) Dave Johnson, Neal Kaplan who does the voice of Optimus Prime in Transformers, a couple of other anime/manga voice actors who I don't know, authors Tom Taylor and Alison Goodman and most of the Gestalt Publishing crew who I'd met the day before.
So the podcast begins and people start talking about their various con experiences in travelling the world, plus what were their worst con experience and the stories came thick and fast. Someone they nicknamed "Scuba-guy" featured prominently but not for a good reason - he's a little "strange" it seems at the cons. During the show actor Sean Maher (from Firefly) crashed the podcast for a while and then had to go and catch his plane home.
Then I got to meet David Finch afterall....!!!!
Since we were all in the bar near the entrance of the hotel I could see the people leaving the hotel and spotted David Finch out the front loading up the family into the hotel courtesy bus to go to the airport. I quickly headed over and as politely as I could told him how big a fan I was of his work, how his drawings got me into colouring and that working on his artwork is what taught me how to colour blah blah blah, and then I managed to give him my little flyer of personal details....! Total geek-out fanboy stuff and something which I was sure that I personally would *never* have resorted to, but when the time comes, there I am, just as bad as everybody else... gawd..
So by now Dave's wife is starting to give me increasingly evil looks as Dave's little boys are getting grizzly and they need to catch the plane so I said thanks again and let them go. Yep, I just know I'm going to get a call from Dave's editor any day now because he's got my flyer!!!! Woohoo!!!... Because me and Dave, we're like this now - *crosses fingers* (not!) ....Either that or a 'cease and desist' restraining order from his lawyer...
Back to the podcast and people are coming and going depending on their interest, desire for more booze, or as flights out of town require and by 11.30, with no sign of it ending, I decided to call it quits and go home because *some* of us have to go to the day job in the morning at least...
So yeah, got to hang out with some *names* in the business. Got to hand out some more of my flyers and did a little schmoozing. Probably nothing will come of it, but what the hell, it was a fun night.
by Frankyh on Mon Aug 15, 2011 12:31 pm
This thread, while very interesting to me, is pretty old now.
Frankyh
by Sewersaint on Fri Jun 01, 2012 2:11 am
This post is so old that it's time for Supanova in Perth again.
Sean, it's a pity you couldn't make Sunday because the line for Finch and Billy Tan was quite a bit less. I also agree that when the artists are working on their commissions I felt really bad bothering them. I spoke to Billy Tan for a bit while having him sign stuff but because of the way it was organised I didn't get Finch to sign anything. Well that's not true exactly I got Billy to sign a pin-up he inked over Finch's pencils, which he then handed to Finch to sign which leaves me kinda stuck in the middle talking to the two big drawcard artists while the dude in front of Finch just stands kinda out of the loop. Like you this was my first convention so I really haven't worked out what proper etiquette is supposed to be in this kinda thing.
Oh and Ben Templesmith was cool too. I wish I gave him money for something last year because he's not making it this year.
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A new polymorphic and multicopy MHC gene family related to nonmammalian class I
Chanvit Leelayuwat, Mariapia A. Degli-Esposti, Lawrence J. Abraham, Roger L. Dawkins, David C. Townend
We have used genomic analysis to characterize a region of the central major histocompatibility complex (MHC) spanning ∼ 300 kilobases (kb) between TNF and HLA-B. This region has been suggested to carry genetic factors relevant to the development of autoimmune diseases such as myasthenia gravis (MG) and insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). Genomic sequence was analyzed for coding potential, using two neural network programs, GRAIL and GeneParser. A genomic probe, JAB, containing putative coding sequences (PERB11) located 60 kb centromeric of HLA-B, was used for northern analysis of human tissues. Multiple transcripts were detected. Southern analysis of genomic DNA and overlapping YAC clones, covering the region from BAT1 to HLA-F, indicated that there are at least five copies of PERB11, four of which are located within this region of the MHC. The partial cDNA sequence of PERB11 was obtained from poly-A RNA derived from skeletal muscle. The putative amino acid sequence of PERB11 shares ∼ 30%o identity to MHC class I molecules from various species, including reptiles, chickens, and frogs, as well as to other MHC class I-like molecules, such as the IgG FeR of the mouse and rat and the human Zn-α2-glycoprotein. From direct comparison of amino acid sequences, it is concluded that PERB11 is a distinct molecule more closely related to nonmammalian than known mammalian MHC class I molecules. Genomic sequence analysis of PERB11 from five MHC ancestral haplotypes (AH) indicated that the gene is polymorphic at both DNA and protein level. The results suggest thet we have identified a novel polymorphic gene family with multiple copies within the MHC.
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Leelayuwat, C., Degli-Esposti, M. A., Abraham, L. J., Dawkins, R. L., & Townend, D. C. (1994). A new polymorphic and multicopy MHC gene family related to nonmammalian class I. Immunogenetics, 40(5), 339-351. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01246675
Leelayuwat, Chanvit ; Degli-Esposti, Mariapia A. ; Abraham, Lawrence J. et al. / A new polymorphic and multicopy MHC gene family related to nonmammalian class I. In: Immunogenetics. 1994 ; Vol. 40, No. 5. pp. 339-351.
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AU - Townend, David C.
N2 - We have used genomic analysis to characterize a region of the central major histocompatibility complex (MHC) spanning ∼ 300 kilobases (kb) between TNF and HLA-B. This region has been suggested to carry genetic factors relevant to the development of autoimmune diseases such as myasthenia gravis (MG) and insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). Genomic sequence was analyzed for coding potential, using two neural network programs, GRAIL and GeneParser. A genomic probe, JAB, containing putative coding sequences (PERB11) located 60 kb centromeric of HLA-B, was used for northern analysis of human tissues. Multiple transcripts were detected. Southern analysis of genomic DNA and overlapping YAC clones, covering the region from BAT1 to HLA-F, indicated that there are at least five copies of PERB11, four of which are located within this region of the MHC. The partial cDNA sequence of PERB11 was obtained from poly-A RNA derived from skeletal muscle. The putative amino acid sequence of PERB11 shares ∼ 30%o identity to MHC class I molecules from various species, including reptiles, chickens, and frogs, as well as to other MHC class I-like molecules, such as the IgG FeR of the mouse and rat and the human Zn-α2-glycoprotein. From direct comparison of amino acid sequences, it is concluded that PERB11 is a distinct molecule more closely related to nonmammalian than known mammalian MHC class I molecules. Genomic sequence analysis of PERB11 from five MHC ancestral haplotypes (AH) indicated that the gene is polymorphic at both DNA and protein level. The results suggest thet we have identified a novel polymorphic gene family with multiple copies within the MHC.
AB - We have used genomic analysis to characterize a region of the central major histocompatibility complex (MHC) spanning ∼ 300 kilobases (kb) between TNF and HLA-B. This region has been suggested to carry genetic factors relevant to the development of autoimmune diseases such as myasthenia gravis (MG) and insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). Genomic sequence was analyzed for coding potential, using two neural network programs, GRAIL and GeneParser. A genomic probe, JAB, containing putative coding sequences (PERB11) located 60 kb centromeric of HLA-B, was used for northern analysis of human tissues. Multiple transcripts were detected. Southern analysis of genomic DNA and overlapping YAC clones, covering the region from BAT1 to HLA-F, indicated that there are at least five copies of PERB11, four of which are located within this region of the MHC. The partial cDNA sequence of PERB11 was obtained from poly-A RNA derived from skeletal muscle. The putative amino acid sequence of PERB11 shares ∼ 30%o identity to MHC class I molecules from various species, including reptiles, chickens, and frogs, as well as to other MHC class I-like molecules, such as the IgG FeR of the mouse and rat and the human Zn-α2-glycoprotein. From direct comparison of amino acid sequences, it is concluded that PERB11 is a distinct molecule more closely related to nonmammalian than known mammalian MHC class I molecules. Genomic sequence analysis of PERB11 from five MHC ancestral haplotypes (AH) indicated that the gene is polymorphic at both DNA and protein level. The results suggest thet we have identified a novel polymorphic gene family with multiple copies within the MHC.
JO - Immunogenetics
JF - Immunogenetics
Leelayuwat C, Degli-Esposti MA, Abraham LJ, Dawkins RL, Townend DC. A new polymorphic and multicopy MHC gene family related to nonmammalian class I. Immunogenetics. 1994 Sep 1;40(5):339-351. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01246675


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Google Pay's big global rollout begins
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Google announced last month that it was bringing Android Pay and Google Wallet together under the new Google Pay brand. Today, the big rollout begins, with the new Google Pay-branded app now available through Google Play.
If you already have the Android Pay app installed, it appears you won't need to do anything. However, the app currently still shows up as "Android Pay" on your phone, despite appearing as "Google Pay" through the Google Play store on the web. The transition is evidently still underway.
Google's digital payment setup has so far been a little muddy, given that Android Pay was for online, in-app, and retail purchases using an Android phone, while Google Wallet was a P2P payment service for those with a debit card or bank account in the U.S. or U.K. and worked on Android and iOS.
Google Pay represents the company's attempt to unify and simplify its digital payments service across the web, in apps, in stores, and through peer-to-peer (P2P) payments. It also constitutes the service formerly known as Pay With Google, which is an API that allows merchants to offer online shoppers a simpler way to enter their payment details at checkout.
Those in London, Kiev, and Portland will also be able to use Google Pay on public transport from today, and more cities will be added soon.
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Though the official Google Pay rollout kicks off today, the company said it's planning on adding new features further down the road and will eventually add support across "all Google Products," including Google Assistant.
P2P payments aren't yet available through Google Pay either, with the company noting that those in the U.S. and U.K. will be able to send and request money "within the next few months." Indeed, the Google Wallet app is no more, and it will be rebranded as Google Pay Send, which is presumably a temporary makeover until the company manages to integrate its features into the core Google Pay app.
Today is just the first step in Google Pay's big rollout. What this means is that you will start seeing the Google Pay sign everywhere, both online and in the physical world, where Android Pay has hitherto been made available.
Ultimately, Google wants you to automatically turn to Google Pay when making payments anywhere. So rather than designating Android Pay for in-store purchases, PayPal for one-tap shopping online, and Venmo for P2P payments, this amalgamation is designed to position Google Pay as a one-stop-shop for all your transactions.
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MURFREESBORO –
Middle Tennessee State University alumnus Morris Summers and his older brother, Felix, once again found "their spot" at the annual MTSU Veterans Memorial Service Saturday, according to a release from the university.
The spot was in seats near five Summers family memorial bricks placed near others at the Veterans Memorial site outside the Tom H. Jackson Building on the west side of campus between Kirksey Old Main and Middle Tennessee Boulevard.
The memorial service was just one of a number of activities for veterans and men and women currently serving in the military as part of the 33rd annual Salute to Armed Services Veterans Day events that MTSU Athletics and the Department of Military Science sponsored.
In addition to their own bricks at the site, others purchased for family members included one for their father, S. Felix Summers; one for Morris Summers' son, Norman C. Summers; and one for Morris Summers' father-in-law, George C. Hixson.
"We've been coming almost every year," Morris Summers, a 1973 graduate who earned his degree from the School of Agribusiness and Agriscience, said in the release. "We came 33 years ago to the first veterans program, and walked across the (Horace Jones) field that day. We have not missed more than three of these."
"I think it's awesome," Morris Summers said of the ceremony in the release. "I was telling Dr. (Sidney A.) McPhee (university president) that the programs they have now are excellent for guys and women coming back to school or just now starting school."
One of the newer programs is Vet Success on Campus, and MTSU has a veteran population of around 1,000 students along with their dependents.
Many-Bears Grinder, state Department of Veterans Affairs, commissioner spoke of personal experience in a message about veterans.
She spoke of the "amazing sacrifices service members and their families have to go through."
Grinder's daughter-in-law, Billie 'Jean Grinder, a U.S. Army helicopter pilot, was killed in Iraq Feb. 21, 2010, a short time before her deployment was to end.
"Not everyone can be in the military," Grinder was quoted in the release, "but everyone can support active-duty personnel and veterans."
She urged the audience of nearly 100 people to not "miss one opportunity to thank a person in (military) uniform. To those of you here today in uniform, I salute you."
The state leader told the audience "MTSU has been a great partner in helping veteran students."
Those attending the 30-minute ceremony also heard Grinder's message about suicide by veterans.
"Tennessee's lost far too many veterans to suicide," she said. "The trend's going upward. Something's wrong with that."
During the service, MTSU Veterans Committee members held a tree-planting, this year for families of veterans.
At the Dr. Joe Nunley Memorial Award presentation during the veterans' picnic adjacent to the Rose and Emmett Kennon Sports Hall of Fame, MTSU alumnus John Furgess (Class of '65) of Nashville recognized all World War II veterans with the 25th presentation of the honor.
Past recipients Fayne Haynes (2008) of Murfreesboro and Ed Smith of Brentwood were among the World War II veterans attending.
In 2015 and going forward, veterans from the Korean, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, Iraq and Afghanistan wars will be nominated for the honor.
Furgess also presented Murfreesboro's Joe "Joey" Nunley Jr., the son of the award namesake, with the 2014 Dr. Joe Nunley Sr. Memorial Award for Service to Others.
"I knew something was going to happen. I didn't know exactly," said Joe Nunley Jr., telling the crowd "genetics" played a role in his receiving the trophy. "This starts a new chapter of this award and this is a way to do it."
The events were a prelude to the MTSU-Florida Atlantic University football game in Floyd Stadium. The veterans and active-duty personnel were recognized during the game and halftime.
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Down South In The Bayou Country
I first heard Gatemouth Brown thirty years ago in a friend's basement in North Vancouver. This particular collection of songs touched me deeply. Gatemouth was born in Louisiana and grew up in Texas, while my situation was the reverse. We both had roots on each side the Sabine River. This region is known as "the Big Gumbo." Ten years later, my grandmother moved up to Canada from this same region. I decided to give her a night of music at a downtown club where Gatemouth was performing. He grew up in the next town to hers. Well, we got to the venue and there were no seats left! I lied to the doorman that we had come from Beaumont, Texas to see Gate. A few minutes later, a tall man with a beard introduced himself as Gate's manager, Jim Bateman. He got us a table up front, sat with us and then took us backstage between sets. There I was eating fried zucchini strips with Gatemouth, Jim and my grandmother, who was bouncing Gate's little daughter Renée on her knee. Before it was over between those two, Gate tried to hire my grandmother as a baby-sitter and gumbo cook for his entourage. My grandmother wanted to do it but she was just too old. Gate gave me his card and said to call if she changed her mind. I carry it in my wallet to this day. It was a magic night. My grandmother died soon after and was buried in Beaumont, Texas. Gate died in 2005. He is buried twenty miles away in Orange, Texas. Gatemouth was a legendary musician and a very special human being. Every time I hear his music, I smile because I know our paths are going to cross again someday.
Precious Fathers
"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash." -Leonard Cohen Substitute the word "music" for the word "poetry" and you have my opinion of the music of Precious Fathers. This Vancouver group has done many things well. Music is made up of sounds and the spaces between sounds. These guys are aware of the spaces and their importance. The music is immediately accessible, but reveals many subtle delights to the listener. The arrangement of the compositions is very intelligent. The mix of instruments is refreshing. Brass is used sparingly and is akin to the aftertaste of a good wine. All the compositions are imbued with potential energy and this is its appeal. Rather than exploding, these songs are like a fuse burning. Avoiding the explosion allows the listeners to engage their imagination. The tunes seem simple, but they are gently unpredictable. Like clouds. We see them all the time, but if you watch one cloud, it will change in unpredictable ways. Listen to this music on your next road trip.
I once made an unplanned automobile journey to San Diego to see an old friend. During this visit, I was introduced to the music of Michael Hedges. I was transfixed! I watched a DVD of a concert he gave. This man had obviously re-invented the guitar. There was an edifying power in the lyrics to his songs. I saw from his body motion that he was an instrument and that something invisible was playing him. It was the first time in many years that I had been excited by a guitarist. Michael said, "You can't make your music good. You can't try to be good. You can try to be present and you can try to remain open, so what is going to speak to you can speak through you." I highly recommend this music for its edifying power, beauty of composition and innovation. Michael died in an automobile crash, but if you get the chance to see him on DVD or on the internet, he will remind you that you are the author of a world that is limited only by your imagination.
This type of music is five hundred years old. It came to Marrakech with black African slaves from Mali. Their descendants are the Gnawi of Morocco. They perform derdeba ceremonies, in which evil spirits are exorcised. Their traditional instruments are the sintir, the qarkaba and the ganga; a lute with three strings, large metal castanets and a drum. Hassan Hakmoun has played Gnawa music since the age of four. He went to New York about twenty years ago and began integrating Western musical instruments into Gnawa music. In the CD featured here, he uses Arab musical instruments. You can hear an oud, a banjo, a dumbec and orchestral violins. I recently went to a concert by Hakmoun. His music made everyone dance joyfully. I heard musical echoes of every "style" of music that exists. Gnawa music reveals the truth about music. Hassan is a human musical instrument. Music, which exists everywhere in the universe, plays him. He directs this power with the honorable intent of healing and cleansing. This music is auditory apophyllite!
O Bali
Canadian composer, Colin McPhee lived in Indonesia for five years. He loved the sound of the Balinese gamelan. He said, "I could only think of a flock of birds wheeling in the sky, turning with one accord, now this way, now that and finally descending to the trees." McPhee transcribed many Balinese and Javanese songs for orchestra. In 1946, he assembled the transcriptions of gamelan music into the Suite in Six Movements. In the fourth movement, Gambangan I hear the spirit of the rain. This composition is a musical bridge between different cultures. We all benefit when imaginations are shared.
Scatterlings
The group Juluka also record as Savuka. Johnny Clegg and the group are from South Africa. The music of Juluka is strong, primitive and positive. It can clear the air in a room. The same way that lightning can clear the air in the mountains. This music causes people to dance. Their songs are stories which must be voiced. It is brimming with spirit!
Leif is multifaceted. He is a guitarist, a trumpet player, a singer, a song writer and a lyricist. He honestly acquired a salt-water voice. Music is in his blood. As you listen to Leif's songs, your imagination is activated. The melodies are not cluttered. They are built in a manner that allows the participation of the listener. That is the mark of a musician, who understands music. Ask Miles Davis about that. Leif has an innate sense of rhythm and he constantly surprises his listeners. His songs are solid. Arntzen and his group,tlab are based in New York City. Do you like jazz? Acquire his CD, Channeling Chet.
Fifty Gates Of Wisdom - Yemenite Songs
Ofra Haza is from Yemen and was born in 1957. Many scholars consider the Yemenite Jewish community to be among the most ancient. They lived under a harsh government. Many families immigrated to Palestine. Ofra and her family walked to Israel. The songs are traditional Yemenite songs written in the 16th century by a Spanish Jew, Rabbi Shalom Shabazi. Yemenite Jews were not allowed to play musical instruments. Instead, they hammered on petrol cans and on trays. You can hear Chaim Gispan play this type of percussion. Ofra brings us close to antiquity with her evocative voice.
On the north-east coast of Australia is the Yolngu homeland. This region is sacred for Yothu Yindi. A talented group of many members. They play every style of music from hard-rock to soft ballads. Many of their songs are sung in dialects that are older than 40,000 years. A marriage of the modern and the ancient. These people are warriors for our Mother, the Earth. They also fight for equal rights for indigenous people. Their weapons are truth, wisdom, and music.
Exopos To Anatolis
One rainy night, I got free tickets to a concert. I decided to gamble. An hour later, I was entertained by four people from Greece. They played violins, flutes and a Celtic drum. They also played several musical instruments I had never seen. Suddenly, we were dancing an ancient dance in oregano-scented hills. The music was different from bouzouki and rembetiko. Much more ancient. Happily, Pallaina Seferia sold the CD in the lobby, after the concert. It was a magic night!
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Education: The Thomas M. Cooley Law School
Certified as a specialist in family law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, Adam W. Dietrich focuses his practice exclusively on those types of matters. A partner at Jenkins Kamin LLP and located in the firm's office in Conroe, Texas, he provides representation to clients throughout Montgomery County and other parts of the greater Houston metropolitan area. Mr. Dietrich has been admitted to practice before all Texas state courts since May 2009.
Many of Mr. Dietrich's clients are people who are contemplating or already going through a divorce. He helps them deal with the common issues that most people in their situation are facing, including property division, child custody and visitation, and alimony and child support. In many cases, Mr. Dietrich will help to negotiate a comprehensive agreement covering these matters, but if that is not possible, he has extensive experience in both mediation and litigation. His other family law experience has included adoptions and paternity disputes, and he also helps clients whose marriages have already been dissolved obtain the enforcement of or modifications to existing parenting and support orders. Mr. Dietrich's colleagues have awarded him a "Superb" peer review rating through Avvo in recognition of his successful track record and his ethical approach to what are often high-conflict situations.
Mr. Dietrich grew up in the Houston area and pursued his undergraduate education at Sam Houston State University, where he majored in psychology and received a Bachelor of Science in 2000. He then subsequently enrolled at what was then known as Thomas M. Cooley Law School and was awarded his Juris Doctor in 2008. In order to stay abreast of current developments in his field of practice, Mr. Dietrich is a member of several legal organizations, including the Family Law Section of the State Bar of Texas.
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Thammasat University and Bangkok Bank cooperatively launched 'Startup Ecosystem @TU' campaign to improve a business incubator and to expand markets by promoting startup businesses through international collaboration.
Thammasat University (TU) has the vision to bring innovations created by professors into a business sector. Building a practical ecosystem is the key to encourage startups to gain access to these innovations. Also, the ecosystem strongly establishes networking in startup businesses among entrepreneurs, professors and students to develop new innovations, a business incubator and a place where students are able to learn outside their classrooms.
Associate Professor Gasinee Witoonchart stated that building the ecosystem could enhance the connection between the business sector and Thammasat University. Thus, new entrepreneurs would be effectively supported by the program starting from a classroom, through an internship, or from establishing their real businesses. Regarding the goal of becoming an entrepreneurial university, the business incubator would not only support students of the university, but also anyone with a license including Thammasat professors' innovations.
Apart from Startup Ecosystem@TU campaign, Thammasat University aligns with Bangkok Bank to launch another campaign called Startup Exchange Program. This program will provide interactive linkages to boost startup markets between Thai startups and international partnerships beginning with Singapore which has a large number of participants.
Mr.Chartsiri Sophonpanich, President of Bangkok Bank Public Co. Ltd., stated that right now INNOHUB is the business incubator sponsored by Thammasat University and Bangkok Bank. In the future, co-working space will be another plan to increase the utilization of university innovations in order to improve the business.
In addition, Thammasat University also has its own co-working space for ten startup companies. Deep Technology will be developed for more capacities at Office of Advanced Science and Technology, Thammasat University with support from Bangkok Bank. Approximately, there will be 50 student interns joining the startup companies. This could be a business model for other faculties.
Prof. Dr.Arnat Leemakdej, Director of Centre of Intellectual Property and Business Incubator, Thammasat University informed that 'Startup Exchange' is one of the startup projects sponsored by the university. This project will select two people from startup companies inside the university to work aboard with other business incubators in order to learn know startup works in other countries and to develop business networking.


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