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Illinois' law legalizing marijuana could threaten Iowa's fledgling medical cannabis industry
"There is no doubt in my mind that patients will forgo options in Iowa to go to Illinois and bring marijuana back," MedPharm Iowa GM Lucas Nelson said.
Illinois' law legalizing marijuana could threaten Iowa's fledgling medical cannabis industry "There is no doubt in my mind that patients will forgo options in Iowa to go to Illinois and bring marijuana back," MedPharm Iowa GM Lucas Nelson said. Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2019/07/09/marijuana-illinois-law-recreational-use-iowa-cannabis-department-of-public-safety-division-narcotics/1573867001/
Gage Miskimen, Des Moines Register Published 6:53 p.m. CT July 9, 2019 | Updated 11:48 a.m. CT July 10, 2019
Editor's note: The number of medical cannabis dispensaries operated by MedPharm Iowa has been updated from an earlier version of this story.
Iowans seeking marijuana for medical purposes will have another option — albeit an illegal one — when Illinois legalizes recreational marijuana next year.
Marijuana will remain illegal in Iowa, but that won't stop many people from traveling to Illinois to purchase the drug.
And that could harm Iowa's fledgling medical cannabis industry.
"I have massive concern about this," said Lucas Nelson, the general manager of MedPharm Iowa, a Des Moines-based medical cannabis manufacturer.
The company operates two of the state's five dispensaries where it sells medical cannabis products, including oils, creams and capsules.
► RELATED: Marijuana will soon be legal in Illinois. What does that mean for Iowans?
In Iowa, medical cannabis patients must have a qualifying condition, receive a doctor's certification and obtain a state card authorizing them to purchase the products.
In this March 29, 2019, photo Brian Kirkland, assistant cultivator, tends to plants in flowering room at the Bedford Grow, a marijuana cultivation facility in Bedford Park in Bedford Park, Ill. (Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune via AP) (Photo: Zbigniew Bzdak / AP)
Nelson said he worries that some people will opt to bypass Iowa's strict regulations for easy access afforded to customers in Illinois.
"There is no doubt in my mind that patients will forgo options in Iowa to go to Illinois and bring marijuana back," he said. "We know people do that already; they've been vocal with legislators about it.
"There's been a failure to recognize that people are suffering, and traditional medicine has left them behind, and they're going to do whatever it takes to get relief."
'You're seriously looking at whether or not this industry survives'
Iowa's medical cannabidiol act was first passed in 2014 and updated in 2017 to include a manufacturing and dispensary system.
This spring, the Iowa Legislature passed a bipartisan bill that would have further expanded the program, removing a 3% cap on THC — the chemical that makes recreational marijuana users high — for products made and sold in the state.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds vetoed the legislation in May, though, saying the state needs to "proceed cautiously" to ensure any expansion of the state's cannabis program was "thoughtful and deliberate."
Democratic lawmakers have called for legislative leaders to convene an interim committee to study options for revising the state's medical cannabis program.
► RELATED: Democrats will keep pushing for expanded medical marijuana as call for special session fails
State Sen. Joe Bolkcom and Rep. John Forbes, both Democrats, released a letter Tuesday asking Republican leaders to appoint a committee to study the issue and seek input from advocates, medical experts and others.
Bolkcom said the committee could develop language that could be presented to the Legislature in January.
Earlier efforts to convene a special session to override the governor's veto failed.
In a statement to the Register last week, Reynolds said she looks forward to "working with lawmakers and the Medical Cannabidiol Board next year to build on Iowa's current medical marijuana program."
"However, I don't support the legalization of recreational marijuana," she said.
Nelson said he is concerned about the future of the medical marijuana industry in Iowa.
"If nothing happens again in 2020, you're seriously looking at whether or not this industry survives," he said. "Having nothing happen would demonstrate that our decision-makers, as a whole, are not interested in providing options to people, which would be incredibly sad."
'They have been taking the risk for some time now'
"What happened in Illinois will be a benefit to Iowa cannabis patients," Bolkcom told the Register.
Iowans with conditions such as multiple sclerosis, Crohn's and Parkinson's disease will have easier access to the drug, but those bringing marijuana back to Iowa face the possibility of being arrested.
► More: CBD is still illegal in Iowa. What agencies can say otherwise?
"They have been taking the risk for some time now of breaking federal and state law, but I think a bunch of patients will find access to lower cost medicine in Illinois," Bolkcom said.
"You don't want people breaking the law to get the care they need. But in the past, I heard lawmakers tell people who were sharing their stories, 'If it were my family, I'd go to Colorado … to heck with the law.'"
Colorado decriminalized marijuana use in 2012. Residents and tourists can purchase and use marijuana at dispensaries throughout the state.
A lead grower cares for marijuana plants at the Ataraxia medical marijuana cultivation center in Albion, Illinois in this 2015 photo. (Photo: Seth Perlman, AP)
Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement Assistant Director Paul Feddersen said he expects Iowans will choose to make a trip across the Mississippi River over driving through Nebraska to Colorado.
"It will be really interesting to see what happens," he said.
The Nebraska Center for Justice Research at the University of Nebraska at Omaha reported that marijuana-related arrests in Nebraska increased 11% from 2013 to 2014, one year after Colorado legalized marijuana. Counties along Nebraska's western border and the Interstate Highway 80 corridor saw the highest rates of arrest.
The study also found a $10.2 million increase in Nebraska law enforcement costs from 2013 to 2014. Once again, counties along the I-80 corridor were responsible for most of the increase.
'We're going to continue to enforce whatever laws Iowa has'
Feddersen said it's going to business as usual for the Iowa Department of Public Safety next year.
"We're going to continue to enforce whatever laws Iowa has," he said. "Obviously, Colorado is a source state and we're receiving marijuana from Colorado, but we'd be fools to say it's not going to come from Illinois."
Knocking down online rumors, Sgt. Nathan Ludwig of the Iowa State Patrol said there will be no checkpoints along the Iowa/Illinois border.
"The only thing it's going to do for us is to bring a heightened awareness to drivers," he said. "We have seen more impaired drivers due to drugs, but we're not going to set up checkpoints along the river."
► RELATED: Cannabis oil openly sold by Iowa stores without state permits, despite legal questions
Dubuque's Chief of Police Mark Dalsing said that, as with any law changes in a border state, the city will have to monitor the impact.
It's not uncommon for border states to have conflicting laws. In the past, the states' laws covering things like firearms, seatbelt use, vehicle insurance, and the use of electronic devices while driving have not been the same.
"We will probably have a period of confusion for community members traveling between the states," Dalsing said. "We will continue to educate people about the laws on controlled substance as we go, but we will still enforce on Iowa laws, even if the substance was legally purchased in Illinois."
Dale Woolery, the director of the Iowa Governor's Office of Drug Control Policy, said it's too early to know how Illinois' law will affect Iowa.
"It's something we would clearly want to monitor," he said. "We will watch, we will listen, and we will see."
Gage Miskimen covers news for the Register. He can be reached by phone at 515-284-8234 or by email at gmiskimen@registermedia.com. Follow Gage on Twitter, at @gagemisky.
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Q: polymorphism with reference member variable Can someone tell me what is wrong with my program below? I am using a reference member variable in a class for polymorphism. I am expecting the second cout to say "derived2" but it says "base";
#include <iostream>

// Example program
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
class base
{
public:
    virtual void print(){ std::cout<<"base"<<std::endl;}
};
class derived: public base
{
public:
    virtual void print(){ std::cout<<"derived"<<std::endl;}
};

class derived2: public base
{
    virtual void print(){ std::cout<<"derived2"<<std::endl;}
};

class foo
{
public:
    base & bar;
    base boo;
    derived foobar;
    derived2 foobar2;
    foo(): bar(boo){}
    void newfoo(base & newfoo){ bar = newfoo; bar.print();}
};
int main()
{
  foo test;
  test.bar.print();
  test.newfoo(test.foobar2);
}

Output:
    base
    base

A: As mentioned by others, you cannot reassign a reference.
Whenever you do something like bar = newfoo you are not resetting the reference. Instead you are invoking operator= for bar with newfoo as an argument.
Therefore, in your case you are slicing your objects and (let me say) copying its base part in bar.

A kind of reference-like tool to which you can reassign exists in the standard template library and it's called std::reference_wrapper.
It follows an example based on your code that uses it and has the expected behavior:
#include<functional>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>

class base
{
public:
    virtual void print() { std::cout<<"base"<<std::endl;}
};
class derived: public base
{
public:
    virtual void print(){ std::cout<<"derived"<<std::endl;}
};

class derived2: public base
{
    virtual void print(){ std::cout<<"derived2"<<std::endl;}
};

class foo
{
public:
    std::reference_wrapper<base> bar;
    base boo;
    derived foobar;
    derived2 foobar2;
    foo(): bar(boo){}
    void newfoo(base & newfoo){ bar = newfoo; bar.get().print();}
};
int main()
{
  foo test;
  test.bar.get().print();
  test.newfoo(test.foobar2);
}

In this case, operator= actually rebinds the reference to the given object. Anyway, as you can see, in this case you must invoke get to access the underlying reference.
Note: set aside the example above, your code isn't the typical use case for a std::reference_wrapper.
I mentioned it only for the sake of completeness.

A: You can't 'reassign' the reference. When assignment operator is used with the reference, it assigns the underlying value.
Thus, bar = newfoo; simply assigns foo of the base type to foobar, slicing it in the process.
You could have a different behavior if you'd substitute references with pointers, which can be re-assigned.

A: bar is a reference to boo, and boo is of type base whatever you assign to it.
Assignment can only change a variables value, not its type.

A: Polymorphism does not work with references. Try this:
#include <iostream>

// Example program
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
class base
{
public:
   virtual void print(){ std::cout << "base" << std::endl; }
};
class derived : public base
{
public:
   virtual void print(){ std::cout << "derived" << std::endl; }
};

class derived2 : public base
{
   virtual void print(){ std::cout << "derived2" << std::endl; }
};

class foo
{
public:
   base* bar;
   foo(): bar(0) {}
   void newfoo(base* newfoo){ bar = newfoo; bar->print(); }
};

int main() {
   foo test;
   test.newfoo(new derived2);
}

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Francisco Fernández Blanco de Sierra–Pambley (Villablino (León), 1827 – Madrid, 1915), hacendado y filántropo, fue el promotor y patrono fundador de la Fundación Sierra-Pambley.

Biografía
Nacido en Villablino, población de la montaña leonesa, centro de la comarca histórica de Laciana, Provincia de León, hijo de Marcos Fernández Blanco, hacendado hidalgo de la Ribera del Órbigo, y de María de Sierra-Pambley y Álvarez-Brasón, hija de Felipe de Sierra-Pambley, Secretario de Despacho de Hacienda bajo Fernando VII durante el período constitucional entre 1820 y 1823.

Tuvo un hermano, Pedro, y una hermana, Victorina, falleciendo el primero joven, en 1883, como consecuencia de una caída de un caballo, y contrayendo matrimonio la segunda con José de Posada Herrera, tras una frustrada propuesta de matrimonio con un hermano de su madre, Segundo de Sierra-Pambley, tío que permanecerá soltero el resto de su vida, titular de una cuantiosa fortuna que legará, a su muerte, a sus sobrinos Pedro y Francisco, y que acabaría aunando Francisco Fernández Blanco de Sierra-Pambley, tras el fallecimiento de su hermano.

Don Paco, como familiarmente le llamaban sus amigos, nombrado, así mismo, de modo profuso como Paco Sierra, era de pequeña estatura, austero y sobrio, con un carácter que combinaba armónicamente la familiaridad y el señorío, de honda raigambre liberal y republicana, habiendo militado desde muy joven en las huestes dirigidas por don Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla, volteriano, de espíritu progresivo y abierto a todos los adelantos e innovaciones tratándose de cosas públicas y generales.

Cursa los estudios de derecho en la universidades de Valladolid y Madrid, accediendo al título de licenciado en esta última en 1850. Considerado afecto a las ideas krausistas, sobre todo en materia pedagógica y educativa, en lo político se le  encuadra en el liberalismo avanzado de la ideología progresista y republicana de Ruiz Zorrilla, como ya se ha dicho, bajo la cual fue diputado a Cortes en las .Legislaturas 1858–1863.

Respecto a sus asuntos personales, conservaba un respeto ciego al pasado, opuesto a todo cambio, por mínimo que fuera, en nada que afectara a lo que había recibido de sus antepasados, y en especial de su tío Segundo, hacia cuya memoria rindió durante toda su vida un verdadero culto. Quizás influido por este tío sufrió una furiosa misoginia que le llevó a permanecer soltero hasta su muerte a los 87 años de edad.

Patrimonio

Francisco Sierra aúna, a la muerte de su hermano, el cuantioso patrimonio heredado de su tío Segundo Sierra–Pambley, al que añade el también cuantioso patrimonio paterno, formado por muchos y escogidos valores mobiliarios junto a cuatro casas situadas en Madrid, León, Villablino y Hospital de Orbigo, unos bienes acompañados de una considerable propiedad territorial distribuida en tres áreas, el valle de Laciana y las montañas de Babia, la Ribera del Órbigo, donde radicaba el patrimonio de su familia paterna, y dos espléndidas dehesas en la provincia de Zamora, a orilla del río Esla, cerca del antiguo Monasterio de Moreruela de Távara.

En estas tierras, según la época del año, se sitúa una ganadería compuesta de dos mil cabezas de ganado lanar y una yeguada, encontrándose al pie de Peña Ubiña, en la montaña leonesa, sus «puertos» o pastos de verano, mientras pasaban la invernada en las tierras mesetarias.

Estas propiedades, su normal desarrollo, lo supervisaba Don Paco, que pasaba el invierno en su casa de Madrid, viajando en la primavera, cuando llegaba la época del esquileo de las ovejas, a sus dehesas, pasando cuatro semanas instalado en una habitación de la casa de los guardas. Terminado el esquileo, y cuando los rebaños emprendían su marcha hacia los «puertos» de Babia, se instalaba en su casa de Hospital de Orbigo, en la que esperaba su paso hacia las montañas leonesas. El mes de junio lo pasaba en León, y los de julio y agosto en Villablino. En el otoño volvía a hacer, en sentido inverso, el mismo recorrido de la primavera, a saber, León, Hospital de Orbigo, donde veía pasar los rebaños de vuelta a sus pastos de invierno, las dehesas de Zamora hasta que les dejaba instalados en sus apriscos para la invernada, y allá para primeros de noviembre retornaba a su casa de Madrid, coincidiendo con el principio de la temporada de ópera en el Teatro Real, que seguía fielmente, unos viajes que realizaba en coche de caballos (los de León a Villablino y a Hospital de Orbigo, 80 y 40 kilómetros, respectivamente), o en mulo hasta los ochenta años pues, aunque en los últimos años de su vida el automóvil estaba ya incorporado a la vida diaria, nunca quiso utilizarlo para sus viajes.

Obra cultural
Con el exceso de sus rentas, ya que según su concepción el recurrir al patrimonio heredado era impensable, con ninguna finalidad, fundó cuatro escuelas en la provincia de León y una en la de Zamora, siendo Gumersindo de Azcárate, su amigo de toda la vida, su consejero en todo lo relativo a los aspectos legales de la fundación que daría cobertura formal a esta iniciativa.

Así mismo, y por indicación del mismo Gumersindo de Azcárate, fueron llamados en consulta Francisco Giner de los Ríos y Manuel B. Cossío para todo lo concerniente a los aspectos pedagógicos y educativos.

De este modo, en el año 1886, a la edad de 59 años, crea la primera escuela, en Villablino, una escuela de enseñanza mercantil y agrícola, dedicada a perpetuar la memoria de su tío Segundo de Sierra–Pambley, que dirigió él mismo. Al año siguiente se instituye esta escuela como Fundación benéfico–docente, a cuyo efecto se otorga, el 21 de abril de 1887, la oportuna escritura pública ante notario de Madrid, fijando los bienes muebles e inmuebles que quedaban asignados a la Fundación para el sostenimiento de la escuela, nombrando patronos de la Fundación, en unión del fundador, a Gumersindo de Azcárate y a Manuel B. Cossío.

A esta escuela de Villablino siguieron, diez años más tarde, en 1907, otras cuatro, una en Hospital de Orbigo, de ampliación de instrucción primaria y de agricultura, una escuela industrial de obreros, en León, con una sección de ampliación de instrucción primaria para niños, y dos escuelas de ampliación de instrucción primaria, respectivamente, en Villameca y en Moreruela de Tábara, la última en la provincia de Zamora.

En mayo de 1907, y por escritura pública otorgada ante el notario de Madrid, estas cuatro escuelas se funden con la de Villablino, en una misma Fundación con el mismo nombre «Sierra–Pambley», fundación que es dirigida por un Patronato compuesto de los mismos antiguos patronos designados en 1877, más dos nuevas incorporaciones.

A su muerte, en el año de 1915, el Fundador, Francisco Fernández Blanco de Sierra–Pambley, deja la casi totalidad de su fortuna a la Fundación, lo que representa un incremento muy substancial de sus ingresos, disponiendo que sus tres casas de León, Hospital de Orbigo y Villablino sirvieran de alojamiento a los patronos en las frecuentes visitas que les rogaba hicieran a las escuelas.

Notas

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Filántropos de España
Fallecidos en Madrid
Nacidos en Villablino

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The talk of the town. Hopefully. – Brian Beatty: Writer. Jokester. Bearder.
The talk of the town. Hopefully.
Tom Poole, of the Twin Cities agency Talent Poole, convinced me to submit an audio sample of me jabbering on in my bored baritone so that I might be hired for voiceover work by clients looking for a different sound.
Those clients exist, he insisted.
When I know for sure where my sample is posted, I'll share the direct link. Until then, let's pretend I'm going to become rich and famous. Because I've already spent the money.
← With great indifference comes great procrastination.
Welcome to the 21st century. I can't wait to hear an audio sample.


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Neanderthal Man Rocks
Emmett Tyrrell
WASHINGTON -- When I read the other day about those cross-hatched engravings found by archaeologists in Gorham's Cave in Gibraltar being "the first known examples of Neanderthal rock art," I, of course, thought immediately of Rolling Stone magazine. Rolling Stone, the magazine for modern aesthetes, covers "rock art" ceaselessly. That a Rolling Stone writer might have found modern rock's roots among Neanderthal man came as no surprise to me. What about punk rock? What about grunge? I believe the word is grunge.
Yet I had leapt to a hasty conclusion. The report I was reading about in London's Daily Mail was not drawn from Rolling Stone but rather from the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. And it was not about the artistic aspirations of rock singers, but rather about artists who really were scribbling on ancient rocks over 39,000 years ago, artists drawn from the species Homo neanderthalensis, a species of human much like us only less intellectual.
As to their artistic aspirations we can only speculate, but as to their art there is no question, at least not in the mind of Dr. Clive Gamble, an archaeologist at the University of Southampton who adjudged, "Any discovery that helps improve the public image of Neanderthals is welcome." Apparently Neanderthals have heretofore had an image problem down through the ages.
According to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neanderthal man (and presumably woman) attempted to communicate artistically with their peers by scratchings on stone, and now, thanks to the industry of these devoted archaeologists, we are in possession of some of these priceless works of art, stones that are in essence cross-hatched engravings. Perhaps we shall eventually find stones with squiggles. Possibly we shall find stones with primitive faces. At any rate, these stones are doubtless the first artifacts on the road to Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) or more recently Henry Moore (1898-1986). Though this was not mentioned in the report in Proceedings.
At first, I was skeptical about these findings. It occurred to me that some miscreant might have been having a little fun at the expense of our earnest archaeologists. Some cut-up might have gone into Gorham's Cave surreptitiously, scratched a few lines on an old stone, and left it out there where even a trained archaeologist could not miss it. Or perhaps the stones were the leavings of a performance artiste or a lunatic.
Yet no, these archaeologists are serious and rigorous in their tests. They had not been duped. They had done chemical analysis of the stones and their grooves or cross-hatched engravings, as they are called. They had, as the Mail reports, "shrunk photographs to microscopic scale to see the tool marks [used by the Neanderthals] within the engraving and then compared them with experimental marks made with various tools." They are convinced. The detritus at Gorham's Cave is no hoax.
Yet is it really art? How would it stand up to today's geniuses? Would it be mistaken for the work of Jackson Pollock? I have seen the cross-hatched engravings of 39,000 years ago. I think it would stand up.
Or push the question to the outer limits of contemporary art. How would Neanderthal art be judged against Andres Serrano's "Piss Christ," which depicts a crucifix in a glass container of Andres' own urine? Or how would it compare with the work of Chris Ofili that incorporates elephant dung among other substances?
I am no expert. I really cannot say. I do know that Neanderthal man's sloped forehead suggests he had a very primitive brain. I doubt that Ofili and Serrano have that excuse.

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Soft-skill intensive occupations expected to account for two-thirds (63%) of all jobs in Australia by 2030, according to a report released in May. The Deloitte Access Economics report shows that while the Australian workforce has a strong soft-skill base, demand for soft skills still exceeds supply by up to 45%. So what does this mean for workplace training moving forward?
A new report released this week revealed the specific types of soft skills that employers are looking for, how they evaluate them and how they impact career advancement opportunities.
The report by iCIMS Inc, a provider of cloud-based talent acquisition solutions, identified the top three soft skills that recruiting professionals value most in a job candidate.
These were problem-solving (62%), adaptability (49%) and time management (48%).
The top three personality traits recruiting professionals value most in a job candidate included professionalism (71%), drive (50%) and enthusiasm (49%).
The business areas where soft skills are more important than hard skills include customer service (67%), human resources (67%) and sales/marketing (53%).
Daniel Pecharich, senior manager of recruiting at DISH Network defined the soft skills he looks for in candidates.
"We hire for three things at DISH – energy, intelligence, and the need to achieve. We believe these characteristics are innate to our employees and essential for the company's success," Pecharich said.
Josh Wright, iCIMS chief economist, said the US labor market has been growing polarised between high-skill and low-skill jobs, but common to both ends of the spectrum is the need for soft skills.
"Whether home health aides or white-collar data scientists, the human element is the key to many of today's fastest growing jobs," he said.
However, Dr Marcus Bowles, Director of Institute for Working Futures and DeakinDigital Strategic Consultant, says these skills have never been 'soft' because they are often very hard to get.
"Transferable skills, like problem-solving, critical thinking, communication, teamwork, and emotional judgement, are essential for leaders, as well as the rest of the workforce," Dr Bowles told L&D Professional.
Dr Bowles said this includes understanding the customer, looking at the implications of what you are doing, collaborating with colleagues, and (in many cases) advocating for the customer to achieve outcomes that other people hadn't thought about.


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Q: Activation link activates by itself at mail reception I'm trying to make a simple activation token and I'm having an issue.
Here is my verification code :
if (isset($_GET['token'], $_GET['account_id']) && !empty($_GET['token']) && !empty($_GET['account_id']))
{
    // Checking if the account has a token to activate
    if ($query[0] > 0)
    {
        // Fetching some info about the token
        if ($tokenData['used'] == 0)
        {
            if ($tokenData['token'] == $_GET['token']) // Checking if given token is valid
            {
                // Activates user account
                // Sets the token as 'used'
            }
        }
    }
}

And here is the screenshot of the table structure:

Here is what happens :
When I try to create a test account (myaddress@gmail.com) everything works, the account and tokens are created. The token is not used and the account is not activated.
But after I receive the mail, less than a second after I receive it, the token is set to used and the account activated so something must have clicked the link even tho I didn't.
I would like to know if there's a way to ensure that it's the actual user that clicked the link and not the email client checking if the link is secure or something.
Thanks in advance and sorry for my bad english.


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Condition and Treatment Options
Clinical Experts
Dr Nigel Kellow
Sciatica and Brachialgia
Updated Monday, September 8, 2014 - 13:58
Published Wed, 06/24/2009 - 00:00
This article discusses the causes, symptoms and treatment of sciatica and brachialgia. This article will be of great help to anyone who suffers from nerve pain of the arms or legs and would like information on their various treatment options.
What are sciatica and brachialgia?
What causes sciatica and brachialgia?
How can sciatica and brachialgia be treated?
What are the risks and outcomes of the various treatments?
What are the risks for spine surgery?
The terms sciatica and brachialgia are used to describe nerve pain in the leg and in the arm respectively. Anyone who has ever had nerve pain will tell you that it is like no other pain they have ever had before. They tend to use very characteristic words to describe it, like "burning", "gnawing", "aching", "shooting", "electric shock." Nerve pain does not respond very well to normal painkillers that you can get from a pharmacy, and even many doctors often find it hard to believe that it is painful as patients tell them it is. But it is usually excruciatingly painful, and patients can often find no respite from it even if they are taking large doses of very strong painkillers. Many patients can't find a comfortable position during the day or night and they quickly get very tired.
Sciatica is pain caused as a result of pinching, pressure or damage to the sciatic nerve, which is the large nerve formed by a combination of smaller nerves which leave from the lumbar spine and the section of spine below that called the sacral spine. These smaller nerves join together outside the spine deep inside the pelvis to form the sciatic nerve. The sciatic nerve runs deep in the buttock where it starts to give off branches as it travels down the back of the thigh. It controls all the muscles in the back of the thigh and all the muscles below the knee. It also carries all the sensory signals from these regions back to the spinal cord on their way to the brain.
The pain from sciatica is normally felt in a line starting as high as the low back, but more often in the buttock. It then travels either down the back of the thigh and calf and into the heel and sole of the foot, or it travels down the outside of the thigh and calf to the ankle and outside of the foot. The route it takes is important as that helps to determine which lumbar nerve roots have caused it.
Brachialgia is the exact analogy of sciatica but it is pain felt in the shoulder, arms, and hands. It can start as high as the neck and sometimes the head, and many patients have severe pain in the region of the shoulder blade. Brachialgia is due to problems affecting the cervical nerve roots, and just as in the leg the course it takes, whether into the outer upper arm, or into the middle finger, or the inner forearm, is equally important in making the diagnosis of the level of the problem.
In simple terms both sciatica and brachialgia are caused by damage to the spinal nerve roots generally inside the spine but occasionally just outside the spine. There are many potential causes of both conditions which are covered in some depth in another article (The ageing spine). The main causes are:
Herniated intervertebral disc
Osteophyte formation
Facet joint hypertrophy
Spinal cancer
Before talking about treatment it is essential to find out what is causing the condition as this always guides treatment. The main causes of sciatica and brachialgia are are covered in depth in the accompanying article "The Ageing Spine". Anyone who has been diagnosed with sciatica or brachialgia by their GP can be referred to a specialist consultant in spinal medicine or surgery. The consultant will take a full history to try to establish what may have caused the problem, and examine the patient to see how the problem has affected things like posture, flexibility, and nerve function. It is then important to get some imaging of the spine and nerves to visualise and characterise the problem. This will be an MRI scan unless the patient has a contraindication to MRI such as a pacemaker. MRIs show extraordinary detail of bones, ligaments, nerves, and intervertebral discs. They are essential to identifying the nature of the problem and therefore guiding treatment.
Manipulation can make sciatica and brachialgia worse and should not be considered until the patient has been seen and assessed by a spinal medical or surgical specialist. Although both sciatica and brachialgia can settle down spontaneously without any intervention, they are very different from simple mechanical back or neck pain, and the two should not be confused. While some people get twinges of sciatica or brachialgia for short periods of time from minor nerve root compromise, when there is significant nerve compression patients get no respite at all and find the pain all consuming, stopping them from standing or moving properly, and usually also stopping them from sleeping.
Physical therapy from special spinal physiotherapists can be helpful, but patients often find it very painful to be manipulated during the acute stage of the condition, so at this stage treatment is generally focussed on relieving:
associated muscle spasm,
correcting postural abnormalities, and
introducing some core stability exercises for sciatica.
Patients cannot be left like this hoping for the condition to settle down. Few people are able to work or lead anything approaching a normal life with the sort of pain they get with these conditions. Because of this anyone with either of these conditions should seek specialist help. They often need very strong painkillers such as Morphine or even stronger drugs like Fentanyl. Other specialist nerve pain drugs can also be used. Drugs in this category include:
Amitriptyline,
Gabapentin, and
Pregabalin.
These drugs can be highly effective in relieving nerve pain from smaller nerves but are unfortunately not very effective at relieving sciatica or brachialgia, which are caused by compromise of large nerves. Sometimes oral steroids are used, but these are also generally not very effective.
If the pain from sciatica or brachialgia cannot be quickly controlled by analgesics the next step for most patients is for them to have some steroids injected around the affected nerve root. This has to be done very accurately, the injections being guided by continuous x-ray or by CT scanning. Steroid infiltration around nerves is usually very effective at controlling pain from sciatica or brachialgia. It may need to be repeated on up to two further occasions during the acute phase of the condition but most patients can avoid surgery by having these treatments.
If the pain cannot be controlled by analgesics, or by image guided spinal steroid injections then the next step is to consider surgery. The main indications for surgery to treat sciatica or brachialgia are the following:
Inability to adequately control pain by analgesics and image guided percutaneous treatments
Progressive muscle weakness due to nerve compromise
Problems with bladder or bowel control in the presence of a known lumbar disc herniation.
Most patients get better in a few weeks with simple conservative management consisting of analgesia and physical therapy. These few weeks can seem like a lifetime for patients whose pain cannot be adequately controlled. The risks of conservative management are less than those of any interventional treatment, but there can be a risk attached to putting off these treatments too long.
If bladder or bowel weakness occur this is a surgical emergency called "Cauda Equina Syndrome." If the spine is not surgically decompressed within hours the patient can be permanently paralysed.
With prolonged nerve compression and progressive weakness in the arm or leg muscle strength may take many months to recover even after surgery and may not fully recover at all. Similarly if numbness develops the skin may not return to normal sensation.
It is vital therefore that if you develop sciatica or brachialgia you are evaluated and cared for by a spinal specialist who will know when to recommend that you have surgery.
What about the risks of Spinal Surgery?
There are the general risks associated with all surgical procedures such as bleeding, infection, and general medical problems, but there are also risks associated with the nature of the surgery being undertaken. Obviously the spinal cord and nerve roots are very close to the site of surgery and these can, in rare circumstances, become damaged. Other structures nearby can also be damaged in rare instances. There is a small risk that the symptoms may be worse after surgery as the result of a complication. These risks are small though, with a serious surgical complication rate of typically less than 5% in the best centres.
The majority of patients with sciatica or brachialgia do not need surgery
The decision of whether to proceed to surgery, if so when, what sort of surgery to have, and by whom, should be made in close consultation with your spine specialist. It should be remembered though that the majority of patients with sciatica or brachialgia do not need surgery. These patients can be managed by a combination of analgesia, image guided percutaneous treatments, and carefully supervised physical therapy.
For further information on the author of this article, Consultant Interventionalist Spine and Pain Physician, Dr Nigel Kellow, please click here.
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Above photos are of Branka District Bingula.
January 15, 2015 Reported [here] and [here]. Rough translation from Croatian. Zagrepčanki Branka District Bingula (56) was diagnosed in 2005, a malignant tumor of the breast. They operated on it, and then have her uterus removed. Just two years later, they found her lung metastases. He says he has vowed to Our Lady and her intercession, God had completely healed. - I was sitting at the table and suddenly sting me in the left breast. Hand I felt the lump. I guessed what it was. Mammography and ultrasound confirmed my fears, it was a malignant tumor - a story Branka showing us extensive medical documentation.
Metastases spread to the lungs. The doctors sent her to the hospital, was followed by surgery to remove the tumor which, and began the tedious and difficult recovery. After chemotherapy had a problem with the uterus and the ovaries so she removed them. Already the following, 2007, metastases have spread to the lungs. - The whole world we crashed. It seemed to me as if I had all these years fighting in vain. As soon as the metastases, and the end is near - recounts Branka. The church had previously walked out of habit. Although she was born in a Catholic family, the church had previously walked out of habit. - I had a Bible for years, and I never took in hand and read. Never even opened. And yet I wondered, 'God, why me?' And then I started thinking about my life and faith - says Branka.
At hospital, she heard stories about Lupoglava. At the hospital she heard the story of a woman doctors gave only a few months old, and was able to defeat cancer. She went to Lupoglav in the Community Good Shepherd with charismatics, Reverend Drazen Radigović. Drawn to the story, and Alicia went to Lupoglav. People pray there and glorify the Lord, and reverend is laying hands on the sick. God heals through it. Already after the first visit I knew that God would not leave and that I will get well - explained Branka.
Often contacted the Lady in quiet, personal prayers. She began to make pilgrimages to Medjugorje. After several weeks of examination showed that the metastases disappeared. - My illness has disappeared as if by magic, and believe me through Our Lady's intercession, God healed - she concludes with a broad smile on his face holding a normal findings in hand.


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Q: Get Gene IDs for a list of Gene Names in R I have a huge list of gene names, and I'd like to map corresponding gene IDs to each name. I've tried using this R library: org.Hs.eg.db, but it creates more IDs than names, making it hard to map the results together, especially if the list is long.
Example of an input file (7 gene names):
RPS6KB2
PSME4
PDE4DIP
APMAP
TNRC18
PPP1R26
NAA20

Ideal output would be (7 IDs):
6199
23198
9659
57136
84629
9858
51126

Current output (8 IDs !!):
6199
23198
9659
57136
27320 *undesired output ID*
84629
9858
51126

Any suggestions on how to solve this issue? or use other simple tools to do the required task (map gene IDs)?
This is the code I'm using:
library("org.Hs.eg.db") #load the library

input <- read.csv("myfile.csv",TRUE,",") #read input file

GeneCol = as.character(input$Gene.name) #access the column that has gene names in my file

output = unlist(mget(x = GeneCol, envir = org.Hs.egALIAS2EG, ifnotfound=NA)) #get IDs

write.csv(output, file = "GeneIDs.csv") #write the list of IDs to a CSV file

A: use mapIds() on your org.Hs.eg.db package. But the reason you're seeing 8 ids is because the mapping between symbols is not 1:1. You'll need to decide on a strategy for dealing with such multiple maps. Also, ask questions about Bioconductor packages on the Bioconductor support site https://support.bioconductor.org .
Here's a complete example (note how I do not need your file 'myfile.csv' to run this, so it is easy to reproduce)
library(org.Hs.eg.db)
symbol <- c(
    "RPS6KB2", "PSME4", "PDE4DIP", "APMAP", "TNRC18",
    "PPP1R26", "NAA20"
)
mapIds(org.Hs.eg.db, symbol, "ENTREZID", "SYMBOL")

The output is
> mapIds(org.Hs.eg.db, symbol, "ENTREZID", "SYMBOL")
'select()' returned 1:1 mapping between keys and columns
RPS6KB2   PSME4 PDE4DIP   APMAP  TNRC18 PPP1R26   NAA20
 "6199" "23198"  "9659" "57136" "84629"  "9858" "51126"


A recent book outlines other countries' approaches to gun control that have significantly reduced violence. Should states look to these places as a model for gun laws?
In the year and a half since 20 children were killed by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., a handful of states have passed laws requiring universal background checks, bans on semi-automatic weapons and limits on high-capacity magazines. But the U.S. remains a patchwork of uneven regulations on firearms, ammunition and gun owners. Meanwhile, at least 44 school shootings have occurred since the Newtown tragedy.
If state leaders want to curb firearm violence through regulation, perhaps they could learn from countries that have tightened gun restrictions in recent years. That's the idea behind Reducing Gun Violence in America, a compendium of social science research on guns, with chapters on the experiences of Australia, Brazil and the United Kingdom.
"Because no two jurisdictions share the same problems or legislative or social settings — let alone attitudes — none can claim to have discovered the magic bullet," writes Philip Alpers, a public health researcher and one of the book's authors. Still, it's clear the book is intended to outline foreign approaches that could be implemented in the U.S. Originally published last year, the book has already been re-released with an update.
It's worth noting that the book's foreword was written by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a prominent voice in national efforts to restrict access to illegal guns. The book's editors, Daniel Webster and Jon Vernick, are researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Though their work is independent from the former mayor's advocacy agenda, the book's original kick-off event last year did have political overtones: In addition to a speech by Bloomberg himself, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley used the occasion to preview his gun control proposals for the state legislature, which led to bans on both high-capacity magazines and assault-style long guns.
Just as the Newtown shooting triggered new gun laws in the United States, the 1996 mass shooting of 35 people at the Port Arthur historic site in Tasmania precipitated a national response in Australia. Within 12 days, the country had passed a ban on automatic and semi-automatic long guns. The government also bought, collected and destroyed more than 1 million firearms, eliminating about one-third of the nation's overall firearm stock. Since then, Australia has not had another mass shooting. Meanwhile, its firearms mortality rate is half of what it was in 1996 and about one-tenth of the current rate in the United States.
No single tragedy prompted new regulations in Brazil. But in 2003 the country's high rate of gun violence — it had 2.8 percent of the world's population but 13 percent of firearm homicides — spurred legislative changes. A new law banned guns above a .38 caliber, raised the minimum purchasing age from 18 to 25, and added qualifications for buying a gun, including evidence of psychological stability and knowledge of gun safety. The country saw a 13 percent reduction in gun deaths between 2003 and 2010.


Joseph Fornance (October 18, 1804 – November 24, 1852) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Joseph Fornance was born in Lower Merion Township. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1832 and commenced practice in Norristown. He served as president of the council of the Borough of Norristown. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1834 to 1843. Fornance was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1842. He resumed the practice of his profession, and died in Norristown in 1852. Fornance nominated future Civil War Major General and Democratic presidential candidate Winfield Scott Hancock for the United States Military Academy at West Point.


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App Store revenue grew 28% in 2020, up from 3.1% growth in 2019, according to CNBC's analysis.
Apple's App Store is a core growth area for the company. It's reported as part of Apple's Services division, which reported $53.7 billion in sales in Apple's fiscal 2020, which ended in September.
The money that Apple makes from its App Store has become a flash point for critics of Apple which argue it has too much power. Apple charges 30% for digital sales through its platform, with a few exceptions. Apple recently altered its fee structure, and now it only takes a 15% cut from companies that generate less than $1 million in the App Store.
A congressional subcommittee found in 2020 that Apple has monopoly power over iPhone app distribution, which it said gives Apple outsized profits. Apple is being sued on antitrust grounds by Epic Games, which wants to avoid paying Apple 30% of sales from its games for iPhones, which it calls unfair. Apple has denied that the App Store is a monopoly, and is currently fighting Epic Games' allegations in court.
Apple doesn't disclose how much revenue its App Store makes per year. Instead, since 2013, it has released data points in January that include the total that Apple has paid to developers since the beginning of the App Store in 2008.
Using those numbers, it's possible to back out roughly how much revenue the App Store generated based on how much Apple paid to developers in any given year. According to a press release on Wednesday, Apple has paid developers $200 billion since 2008, up $45 billion from the figure that was announced in January 2020. If that's equal to 70% of App Store sales, then the App Store grossed around $64 billion last year.
There are some exceptions to Apple's 30% cut of digital sales, and Apple's figures are rough, which means that Apple's App Store total sales is likely even higher. Sensor Tower, an app analytics firm, estimates that the App Store did $72.3 billion in sales 2020.
In 2016, Apple said that apps on the second year of a subscription only have to pay 15%, and Apple executive Eddy Cue emailed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in 2016 suggesting Apple would take a 15% fee on subscriptions that signed up through the Amazon Prime app to get a deal done, according to an email released by the House Antitrust Subcommittee last year.
But as an assumption, 30% for Apple's take is closer than 15%. Analysis by RevenueCat, a company making software to help Apple developers to bill subscriptions, found that only 16% of apps that it works with manage a "take home" rate above 75%. The apps that make the most money on the App Store are usually games, which aren't subscription-based, but monetize through in-app purchases, which are billed by Apple at 30%.
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Do soutěže ženské dvouhry na tenisovém turnaji Istanbul Cup 2016 nastoupilo třicet dva hráček. Obhájkyní titulu byla ukrajinská tenistka Lesja Curenková, kterou v úvodním kole vyřadila rumunská kvalifikantka Sorana Cîrsteaová.

Vítězkou dvouhry se stala nenasazená Turkyně Çağla Büyükakçay, jež ve finále zdolala černohorskou turnajovou pětku Danku Kovinićovou po třísetovém průběhu 3–6, 6–2 a, 6–3. V probíhající sezóně si připsala premiérové turnajové vítězství, které představovalo první titul na okruhu WTA Tour. Büyükakçay se stala vůbec první Turkyní, která si na tomto ženském okruhu zahrála semifinále i finále dvouhry a získala turnajový vavřín. Premiérově se také posunula do elitní světové stovky, když v žebříčkovém vydání z 24. dubna 2016 vystoupala ze 118. na 82. příčku.

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Author Archives: Helene Meyers
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December 13, 2018 by Helene Meyers
7 Jewish Feminist Highlights of 2018
I don't need to tell readers of Lilith that parts of this year have been soul-crushing for Jewish feminists. In 2018 we mourned those massacred at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, and many of us gnashed our teeth about antisemitism in our own feminist movements.
But Jewish feminist hope, grit, and creative resistance were also part of 2018. As the secular year winds down, let's remember and celebrate all that has healed and nourished our souls. Here's my annual list of 7 Jewish feminist highlights (7 being the number associated with creation and blessing in Jewish tradition):
Tags: barbra streisand, Dara Horn, jewish feminism, Jewish Women, Paula Eiselt, RBG
August 7, 2018 by Helene Meyers
When an Accused Sexual Harasser is an Academic Superstar
The news report that Steven M. Cohen, a luminary in Jewish sociology, is an alleged serial sexual harasser sickened me. New York Jewish Week broke this story that brought the #metoo movement to the heart of Jewish Studies. Cohen is currently a professor at Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion in New York and has just voluntarily resigned his position as the director of the Berman Jewish Policy Archive at Stanford University; his work on contemporary Jews is widely known and supported not only by prestigious academic institutions but also by well-regarded Jewish communal networks.
Cohen's sexual misconduct has apparently been part of his professional modus operandi for decades. He has not denied the multiple charges against him, which include touching women's breasts in public, propositioning mentees for sex, and using sociological research as a screen for homophobic conduct.
Tags: #MeToo, academia, Demographics, Hannah Dreyfus, intermarriage, Jewish Studies, sexual harassment, sexual harassment and academia, Steven M. Cohen
May 24, 2018 by Helene Meyers
Why Did I Cry for Philip Roth?
Unbidden, copious tears were my initial response to the news of Philip Roth's death. That visceral response of grief surprised me. Of course, as a professor of Jewish literature, I have written about and taught some of his books during the course of my career, most notably, The Human Stain, The Plot Against America, and, to a mostly female group of adult learners, Portnoy's Complaint (I freely admit that I am much too prudish to teach the last to a group of traditionally-aged undergraduates).
But much as I admire Roth's literary chops and chutzpah, he was never the center of my Jewish American literary universe. My critical kvelling tends toward such heavy hitters as Michael Chabon, Rebecca Goldstein, and Tony Kushner as well as such lesser known figures as Tova Mirvis, Judith Katz, and Michael Lowenthal. As a Jewish feminist, I found Roth's literary performances of bad-boy masculinity more than a bit trying (I'm attempting understatement here). And his larger-than-life reputation (much of it earned, some of it the result of a critical boys' club) tended to suck the air out of the room for other Jewish writers.
The contemporary Jewish American literary renaissance is broad and deep; Roth-mania inside and outside the academy had the potential to lionize the one at the expense of the many, especially women and queer writers of all genders. My personal critical practice has been to give him his due but to avoid idol worship. I wouldn't, couldn't put him on a patriarchal pedestal, but neither would I leave him behind in the misogynist mud.
Tags: feminism and Philip Roth, Jewish literature, Philip Roth, Portnoy's complaint, the counterlife, The Human Stain, The Plot Against America
February 5, 2018 by Helene Meyers
Academic Grief: A Satire
A recent memo about changes in departmental budget protocols at my university included the following:
"Items not allowed under department and program budgets: Given the tightness of budgets across campus, department and program funds should only be used for expenses related to the professional work of the department. Faculty are asked to avoid expenses that are not directly related to the mission of the department or program. A few exceptions to this rule may be allowed. For example, sending flowers to the funeral of a department member or emeritus faculty is an allowable expense. When in doubt over the nature of the expense, please consult the Dean of the Faculty for approval prior to committing funds."
While the above is real, a faux memo follows that might provide guidelines for those funeral flowers. Even the irreligious among us should pray that cost-conscious administrators do not adopt these guidelines.
January 11, 2018 by Helene Meyers
Our Bodies, Our Memories, Our Poetry: A Review of Lesléa Newman's "Lovely"
Lesléa Newman is a woman of a certain age, and Lovely, her new volume of poetry (Headmistress Press, $15), revels in that fact. In this collection, Newman's birth family shares these pages with her beloved. She chronicles her shifting relationship with her own body as she memorializes those who were often violently forced to leave theirs behind. While many of these poems celebrate the sensual pleasures of the past and present, Newman also fleetingly envisions a world to come.
Newman's trademark compassion is on full display in "Home Safe." Here the language of nursery rhymes frames the trauma of childhood sexual exploration and abuse: "Little Girl Blue/What happened to you?/Who was it? Who?/And what did he do?" Yet even as the speaker gives full voice to a little girl's confusion and pain, she also belatedly recognizes that the boy child who overpowered her must himself also have been a victim: "Little Boy Blue,/What happened to you?/Who was it? Who?/And what did they do?"
Several poems are devoted to the life and death of Newman's mother, the subject of a previous volume of poetry, I Carry My Mother (2015). In the prose poem "Maidel," the foibles and wisdom of a loving Jewish mother are wittily conveyed, while the somber "My Mother Cups Her Hand" reflects the words not spoken as death becomes imminent.
In "1955-2001: A Hair Odyssey," Newman's "frizz bomb/kinky head/Jew fro/ the human barometer" charts her aging process and a path to self-acceptance. The gorgeous "Blessed are the Weeds" metaphorically tells a similar story as "they are not afraid to take up space" and "they respect their roots." More whimsical is "Your Loss: To The Lovely Butch In Front Of Me At The A&P," which presents a femme consumer of Hungry Man Dinners as fully able to appreciate "the gluten-free, sugar-free, dairy-free yet delicious-looking pair of sticky buns" in said butch's basket. And while very few poets could pull off turning a kasha knish into a suitable subject for poetry, Newman manages it in "Ode to a Knish Shop."
Reminiscent of Newman's dazzling 2012 October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard, "That Night" is the litany of those who were murdered at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, on June 12, 2016. In this moving poem that also does the work of queer history, the bar scene is juxtaposed with the horrific death scene that unfolded: "That night the music pulsed through our veins/That night the bullets tore through our veins." Such historical horrors give rise to "A Farewell to Arms," a Newmanesque version of John Lennon's "Imagine" in which bullets, pistols, missiles, stoning, torture, and snipers are no more. In this world to come, there will be "No more hatred, no more blame/No more killing in God's name."
The final section of the volume, titled "Nasty Women," is an intensely personal paean to queer love. The historical "To Have and To Hold" commemorates May 17, 2004, when Massachusetts issued the first marriage certificates to queer couples "bursting with pride." "The Coming Storm" cunningly counterpoints a meteorological disturbance with orgasmic love and passion: "Outside nasty weather/Inside nasty women."
Lovely truly is a lovely read and a reminder that the most personal poetry can simultaneously speak to our collective lives, bodies, and histories.
Helene Meyers is Professor of English and McManis University Chair at Southwestern University in Texas. The author of three books, most recently Identity Papers: Contemporary Narratives of American Jewishness, she is currently at work on a project about Jewish American movies. Her more journalistic work has appeared in Lilith, Tablet, Forward, Ms. Magazine Blog, the Washington Independent Review of Books, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Inside Higher Education. Find her on Twitter: @helene_meyers
The views and opinions expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect those of Lilith Magazine.
2017 has been a doozy of a year. It's tempting to fall into despair or to become inured to news that goes from bad to worse. But we need to resist and to persist—and to do that, we need sustenance. The following have functioned as Jewish feminist manna for me this year, and I hope that Lilith readers find these 7 highlights of 2017 nourishing as well. (For those curious, 7 is the number associated with creation and blessing in Jewish tradition!)
1) Thanks to a lawsuit brought by Renee Rabinowitz, a retired lawyer and Holocaust survivor in her 80s, El Al airlines will no longer be able to ask women to change their seats to accommodate ultra-Orthodox men. As someone who wrestled with such a request on my first trip to Israel, I am inspired by Rabinowitz's pursuit of justice and gender equality.
2) Jewish feminists had a banner year at the movies, with Gal Gadot playing Wonder Woman and Orthodox director Rama Burshtein showing her range with The Wedding Plan, whose comic pathos sharply contrasts with the intensity of her 2012 Fill the Void. But my favorite flick this year was The Women's Balcony, (directed by Emil Ben Shimon and written by Shlomit Nehama) about the religious intolerance, activism, and alliances that result when a slick but nefarious rabbi inserts himself into a spiritual void. This smart movie with heart and hope tackles the issue of Jewish communities riven by gender fundamentalism.
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October 20, 2017 by Helene Meyers
Billie Jean Beats Bobby: Watching Battle of the Sexes in Trumpian Times
If Hillary had won, what would it be like watching feminist and queer icon Billie Jean King beat cocky Bobby Riggs in Battle of the Sexes, the film that revisits their spectacular 1973 tennis match?
As the world is—a self-professed pussy-grabber in the White House who isn't surprised by revelations about serial sexual harasser Harvey Weinstein, employers now having the religious right to prohibit health insurance coverage for birth control, the so-called Justice Department deciding that transgender workers are not protected from employment discrimination, white supremacists marching yet again in Charlottesville—Battle of the Sexes provides some cathartic hope as well as contemporary and historical angst.
July 28, 2017 by Helene Meyers
The Misogyny of Menashe
At the preview of Menashe at the Manhattan JCC last Thursday, director Joshua Weinstein expressed his tongue-in-cheek hope that the title character, a Hasidic widower who wants to raise his son without remarrying, will become the second most famous Jew today (the first, of course, being Ivanka Trump). Already reviews of the film are lauding the universality found in the particular. As a lover and critic of Jewish American cinema, I eagerly anticipated Menashe. A U.S. made Yiddish-language film—how much more Jewy can we get? But after watching the film, I couldn't shake the feeling that what is being presented as universality is really old time misogyny.
At the JCC screening, Weinstein was asked about the representation of women in the film. Although he seemingly welcomed the question, he also got a tad bit defensive. Indicating that this was "the biggest debate" in making the film, he ultimately responded that this film was "not about a woman but a widower." Fair enough, but there ARE women on the margins of the film and most of them are cast in unflattering, stereotypical roles. Menashe's sister-in-law, who is raising Menashe's son, is notable only for her "bad" and unimaginative cooking. A female shopper in the store at which Menashe works is obviously burdened by her large brood of children in sharp contrast to Menashe who is desperate to keep his son and who piously considers a large family a blessing. Menashe's wife was not particularly fruitful—she bore him only one son. Notably, he expresses relief (albeit with respectable attendant guilt) that his wife died of a blood clot after undergoing in-vitro fertilization.
Yet, when Menashe pursues a potential marriage partner so that he can regain his son, she is cast as unfeeling for being ready to be married again after only four months of widowhood. She also expresses disdain for a rabbi who advocates driving for women, suggesting that women are the real policewomen of patriarchy (to be fair, we have a VERY quick scene of one of Menashe's nieces in the background arguing that the Ruv—Yiddish for rabbi—can't stop her from attending college). Some might argue that Weinstein's commitments to neo-realism compel this gender trouble; after all, the film is based on the life of Menashe Lustig, the non-professional Hasidic actor who plays the title role. However, even neo-realistically inclined directors (Weinstein is a documentarian) make choices. For me, the most telling and disturbing scene is one in which Menashe bonds with Hispanic workers complaining about their wives. Welcome to the Trump era in which the universal appeal made to a larger audience is a coalition of Hasids and Hispanics doing a version of Henny Youngman's "take my wife, please take my wife" routine.
June 23, 2017 by Helene Meyers
Flying While Female on El Al
Jewish feminists are celebrating the ruling that El Al airlines can no longer ask women to change seats in order to accommodate Haredi men who believe it is their religious prerogative not to sit next to women. The suit arguing that such religious accommodations are gender discrimination was brought not by a young upstart but rather by an 81 year-old Holocaust survivor, Renee Rabinowitz, with the support of the Reform Movement's Israel Religious Action Center. According to the Times of Israel, Rabinowitz changed her seat at a flight attendant's request but the wrongness of the request rankled her.
Dana Cohen-Lekah, Jerusalem's Magistrate Court Judge, was unambiguous in her judgment: "Under absolutely no circumstances can a crew member ask a passenger to move from their designated seat because the adjacent passenger doesn't wasn't [sic] to sit next to them due to their gender…. The policy is a direct transgression of the law preventing discrimination." Hopefully, this ruling will end the disruptions and delays that often attend demands for gender-segregated seating.
Renee Rabinowitz's legal triumph reminded me of the Jewish feminist anguish that I experienced on an El Al flight several years ago.
Serious Missteps in Dirty Dancing Remake
I was critically warned not to watch ABC's remake of "Dirty Dancing". But I'm a Jewish feminist film critic, so I don't simply follow directions. I also know that remakes are notoriously and often unfairly judged only in relation to the idolized original. So I wanted to see for myself the 2017 reinterpretation of this iconic 1987 film about a Jewish smart girl who discovers that she has a body as well as a mind.
Thank the Goddess, I didn't watch it with commercials on Wednesday night, but I did give in to movie masochism over the Memorial Day weekend, courtesy of Hulu. Much as I would just like to forget about this astonishingly bad film, I think the specific left feet of this remake demands attention through a Jewish feminist lens.
Yes, as many professional critics and lay viewers note, the dancing is uneven at best, abysmal at worst, and I agree with the tweeter who suggested that Patrick Swayze must be turning over in his grave. Yes, the decision to have the 2017 Baby/Francis (Hannah Breslin) and Johnny (Colt Prattes) sing as well as dance doesn't inspire confidence in the aesthetic vision undergirding this film. But it's what the film does to Jewish smart girls and to feminist politics in 2017 that is depressingly instructive.
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Smithfield, NC: Mrs. Sue Fleming Mayhew, age 96, passed away on Friday, December 2, 2022 at the SECU Hospice House in Smithfield surrounded by her loving family. Graveside Funeral Services will be 1:00PM, Wednesday, December 7, 2022 at Iredell Memorial Park in Statesville, NC. Mr. Clint Honeycutt will officiate.
Mrs. Mayhew was born August 24, 1926 in Mecklenburg County to the late John Franklin, Sr. and Minnie Belle Honeycutt Fleming. She was preceded in death by her husband, Kenneth "Pete" Mayhew; and four sisters and two brothers. Mrs. Mayhew was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was a member of the Divine Street Methodist Church in Dunn.
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Crown Court upholds Chabloz conviction, first UK conviction over Holocaust denial, calling her "manifestly antisemitic" and a "Holocaust denier"
Moments ago, Judge Christopher Hehir, sitting with a lay magistrate, Ms M Rego, upheld the conviction of Holocaust denier Alison Chabloz over her Holocaust denial on social media.
The decision sets a new precedent in British law.
The case effectively delivered a landmark precedent verdict on incitement on social media and on whether the law considers Holocaust denial to be "grossly offensive" and therefore illegal when used as a means by which to hound Jews.
Ms Chabloz was appealing a decision last year by Westminster Magistrates' Court convicting her on three charges of sending grossly offensive communications via a public communications network. The case began as a private prosecution by Campaign Against Antisemitism, which was then taken over and continued by the Crown Prosecution Service.
Ms Chabloz, from Glossop in Derbyshire, had pleaded "not guilty" to charges relating to three self-penned songs in which she denounced a supposed Jewish conspiracy to dominate the world and denies the Holocaust.
Gideon Falter, Chairman of Campaign Against Antisemitism, said: "This is the first conviction in the UK over Holocaust denial on social media. The Crown Court is a court of record, meaning that its judgement upholding the previous Magistrates' Court decision sets a new precedent in British law.
"Many brave British patriots died in the cause of defeating the Nazis. Alison Chabloz is no patriot and her actions defending the Nazis and claiming that the Holocaust was a fraud seek to defile their sacrifice. This sentence sends a strong message that in Britain, Holocaust denial and antisemitic conspiracy theories will not be tolerated.
"Alison Chabloz is a remorseless and repulsive antisemite who has spent years obsessively inciting others to hate Jews, principally by claiming that the Holocaust was a hoax perpetrated by Jews to defraud the world. Other antisemites who believe that they can abuse the Jewish community online with impunity should take note."
Reading the court's judgement, Judge Hehir said that the court did not have to entertain "absurdity or fiction" in cases of Holocaust denial and that "We take judicial notice of the fact that the Holocaust occurred." Turning to Ms Chabloz, he said: "She is a Holocaust denier…she is manifestly antisemitic and obsessed with the wrongdoing of Jews," adding that on the subject of the Holocaust "she has lost all sense of perspective." Addressing the songs themselves, Justice Hehir said of the first song: "It is by no means an exaggeration to call this song disgusting", before describing her other songs in similar terms. He added that "she positively intended to be grossly offensive to Jews" before confirmed that her original sentence was upheld. We will soon post a copy of the full judgement.
Last year at Westminster Magistrates' Court, District Judge John Zani found Ms Chabloz guilty and sentenced her to a 20-week prison sentence suspended for two years, 180 hours of unpaid community service, an indefinite order against contacting two leaders of Campaign Against Antisemitism, as well an an order banning her from social media for 12 months. She was also ordered to pay a £115 victim surcharge, and costs of £600. The suspension of her sentence was on the basis that District Judge Zani said that he did not wish to satisfy her desire to become a "martyr".
Ms Chabloz had published on YouTube a series of songs mocking Holocaust survivors and inciting hatred against Jews, including:
"Did the Holocaust ever happen? Was it just a bunch of lies? Seems that some intend to pull the wool over our eyes. Eternal wandering liars haven't got a clue, and when it comes to usury, victim's always me and you."
"Now Auschwitz, holy temple, is a theme park just for fools, the gassing zone a proven hoax, indoctrination rules."
"Tell us another, come on, my brother, reap it, the cover, for tribal gain. Safe in our tower, now is the hour, money and power, we have no shame."
"History repeats itself, no limit to our wealth, thanks to your debts we're bleeding you dry. We control your media, control all your books and TV, with the daily lies we're feeding, suffering victimisation. Sheeple have no realisation, you shall pay, all the way, until the break of day."
The songs were partly set to traditional Jewish folk music such as Hevenu Shalom Aleichem and Hava Nagila. She mocked prominent Jewish figures persecuted by the Nazis, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel and Anne and Otto Frank.
Appealing her conviction, Ms Chabloz showed no contrition. Under cross-examination, she said that there are liars in all ethnicities but: "Jews are more likely to tell lies. In the Talmud, it's even encouraged. In the verses. Lying is following religious duty."
When asked if she thinks Jews are responsible for their own persecution, she explained that a "certain amount of evidence occurred throughout history" to support that view. Judge Hehir noted that her claim was identical to that of notorious antisemite Gilad Atzmon, who caved in after just two hours in court in a defamation case brought over his claims that Campaign Against Antisemitism fabricates cases of antisemitism.
She also claimed that Jews have disproportionate power and influence, saying that "Jews are over-represented in banking, finance, the media. There's information that's out there. 8% in the Houses of Parliament." She added that: "They control Twitter" too.
Asked about her views on the Holocaust, Ms Chabloz described herself as a "revisionist", stating that the number of Jews murdered in the Holocaust was 600,000: "Revisionists think 10% of those [Jews] reported in the mainstream media" were murdered by the Nazis.
She disputed that there were death camps, saying that "Jews were deported, sent to camps but they were prisoner camps." On the subject of gas chambers, she said that: "There's no evidence of gas chambers. Gas chambers were used for disinfection purposes, as life-saving devices." She also claimed that Holocaust survivors lie, telling the court: "There's great incentive for survivors to elaborate their story."
In a comment that drew gasps in court, Ms Chabloz said that Jewish concentration camp inmates forced to play in an orchestra at Auschwitz were luckier than her. She said: "Musicians in the orchestra were luckier than me" because she said it was "heartbreaking" that venues no longer booked her to perform on account of her views and songs. When challenged by Judge Hehir, she said that she might not have chosen her words as well as she could have.
She claimed that her songs were an act of love towards Jews, saying: "My songs are a product of love. To free Jews from the shackles of atrocity propaganda." She added that: "I wish they will liberate us from this false narrative."
At one point she even claimed that she had invented the melody of Hava Nagila on her own and had no idea that it was also a piece of Jewish folk music. Asked how she came up with the tune all on her own, she claimed: "The tune was a gift from G-d."
Ms Chabloz was represented by barrister Adrian Davies, who has a track record of unsuccessfully defending antisemites and Holocaust deniers including David Irving and Jeremy Bedford-Turner. At one point Mr Davies injected his own views into proceedings whilst cross-examining Campaign Against Antisemitism's Chairman, Gideon Falter. While debating Mr Falter, Mr Davies suggested that the Nazis did not deliberately murder Anne Frank, declaring "She died of typhus, there is no dispute. They didn't deliberately murder her. They might be responsible for her death by mistreatment." Judge Hehir stopped the debate, telling Mr Davies: "I'm not sure that's your strongest point Mr Davies."
The tens of supporters who even performed Nazi salutes when the judge was not looking at Westminster Magistrates' Court were apparently dispirited and stayed away from Southwark Crown Court, numbering only around half a dozen.
The case began as a private prosecution brought by Campaign Against Antisemitism after the authorities failed to act. Once we had begun the private prosecution and won a judicial review against a decision not to prosecute a separate case, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decided to take over our private prosecution of Ms Chabloz. Due to strict deadlines for bringing prosecutions, had Campaign Against Antisemitism not brought our private prosecution, the CPS would have missed its chance to take action against Ms Chabloz. Campaign Against Antisemitism's Chairman, Gideon Falter, and Director of Investigations and Enforcement, Stephen Silverman, were the only prosecution witnesses to be called.
This case comes amidst a crisis of confidence in the Jewish community. Each year, the CPS prosecutes in the region of 15,000 hate crimes, but there has yet to be a year in which there have been more than two dozen known prosecutions of antisemitic hate crimes. With antisemitic crime rates surging, the failure to prosecute has led to a crisis of confidence in Britain's Jewish community, with Campaign Against Antisemitism's Antisemitism Barometer research showing that just 35% of British Jews believing that an antisemitic crime against them would be acted on by the authorities, even if there was enough evidence, and only 26% of British Jews saying that the CPS does enough against antisemitic crime.
Whilst Campaign Against Antisemitism brought its private prosecution of Ms Chabloz because the authorities had failed to act and due to a consistent failure by the CPS to adequately tackle antisemitic crime, we could not be more satisfied with the professional excellence of the expert prosecuting team from the CPS, led by barrister James Mulholland QC at Crown Court and Karen Robinson at Magistrates' Court, with the outstanding support of Hazel Allen and Tim Mackenzie throughout. Before it was taken over by the CPS, our private prosecution was led pro bono by Jonathan Goldberg QC, with junior barristers Senghin Kong and Jeffrey Israel, supported by solicitor Stephen Gilchrist.
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