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The military-industrial complex rejoices! » « Now that Thanksgiving is out of the way…
Not a headline I like to see
Thanks, Washington Post. And first thing in the morning, too! What a thing for an old geezer to wake up to.
Great. My demographic. Although, while I am over 65, I'm not sick or poor, so I can take some solace in that…except that I don't think being old, sick, or poor should mean you get neglected by society, and I don't think any of us should be categorized as an acceptable loss.
More than 300 people are still dying each day on average from covid-19, most of them 65 or older, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While that's much lower than the 2,000 daily toll at the peak of the delta wave, it is still roughly two to three times the rate at which people die of the flu — renewing debate about what is an "acceptable loss."
And while older Americans have consistently been the worst hit during the crisis, as evident in the scores of early nursing home deaths, that trend has become more pronounced. Today, nearly 9 in 10 covid deaths are in people 65 or older — the highest rate ever, according to a Washington Post analysis of CDC data.
If this disease does get me, I'm going to raise a bony finger to point at all the heedless younger people who don't believe in masking, or any other basic preventative measures. And I'm especially planning to claw my way out of the grave to knock on the doors of all those people who think that saying "it's just a flu" is an excuse for ongoing contempt for core concepts in epidemiology. Or anyone who claims the pandemic is over.
That's great news for me. I'm only 63, so I'm in the clear for 2 more years.
raven says
Well, look at it on the bright side.
A lot of those under 65 won't die but they will be very sick and some will be permanently disabled, the long haulers.
(This is sarcasm although it is also true.)
I didn't know too many people who died, but I do know a lot of long haulers.
That headline alarmed me as well (age 71). But, the hard truth is that more than 9 in 10 deaths in any given year are people over 65. Follow the link to the chart for the death rate in the United States in 2019, by age and gender.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/241572/death-rate-by-age-and-sex-in-the-us/
It's just the way it is. It's almost as though we are programmed to expire before age 100.
In the third year, the nation is on track to lower that count significantly, to 150,000 to 175,000 deaths — barring a curveball in the form of a new variant.
Last month, people 85 and older represented 41.4 percent of deaths, those 75 to 84 were 30 percent of deaths, and those 65 to 74 were 17.5 percent of deaths, according to a Post analysis.
More from the article.
It is even more skewed than just saying that 90% of the deaths from Covid-19 virus are over 65.
The average age of those dying of Covid-19 virus is around 80.
Those 65 year old kids still aren't in that much danger.
I read the article and one piece of data was left out.
How many of those old people are antivaxxers?
"According to the CDC, 98 percent of those ages 65 to 74 and 96 percent of people 75 and over completed an initial two-shot course.Almost all very old people are vaccinated.
I did see one 70 something antivaxxer get Covid-19 virus.
He was healthy considering and got sick but not that sick.
The virus infection also destroyed his kidneys in a few weeks.
He ended up on dialysis.
Made worse because he was scheduled for an operation to repair a limiting knee injury.
No surgeon will do the operation now because dialysis makes bone healing too difficult by interfering with calcium and phosphate levels.
chris61 says
28 November 2022 at 12:23 pm
@4 raven
Almost all very old people are vaccinated but only half or so have had all the recommended booster shots. Of course as a very old person being vaccinated or not may not make that much difference (haven't seen the numbers), given the ability of the immune system to respond to vaccines declines with age.
Jim Balter says
Oh noes, 100% of COVID deaths are among humans!
weekendeditor says
If this disease does get me, I'm going to raise a bony finger to point at all the heedless younger people who don't believe in masking, or any other basic preventative measures.
That's pretty much what happened to me (index of a dozen blog posts about COVID-19, paxlovid, rebound, and slow recovery). I got stuck on a shuttle bus filled with unmasked younger folks, with a driver who didn't know the route. So that was effectively an unplanned indoor confinement for an hour in a poorly ventilated space with a crowd of unmasked people. I was masked, but at that point it probably didn't matter.
The resulting COVID-19 case cost me a month of my life, even with paxlovid. I'm still feeling a bit of brain fog, which the literature hopefully informs me should clear up around February. My spouse also got infected, the R0 for Omicron being as high as it is.
So, yeah… not wearing a mask may feel like it's a free move for you, but it's not free for those around you who bear the consequences.
I've had 5 doses of vaccine, including the new bivalent booster, and so has my spouse. But we really don't want to repeat the experience of being infected.
seachange says
I think there's information missing here in these statistics, PZ. I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm not saying that COVID isn't bad. Just that statistics can be sloppy and be motivated by money and trends. There isn't enough information that you have presented here, and when I follow your link I get a request to pay for a subscription. To the Washington Post, owned by Jeff Bezos.
This leaves me uninspired to throw some of my money that way to be sure.
My dad died -with- prostate cancer, but not -from- prostate cancer. Back when AIDS was untreatable in any useful/effective way and the stigma for being gay was much higher, obituaries would blandly say 'from sudden illness' or 'from complications of pneumonia'. Among some there would be mention of cancer but not Kaposi's Sarcoma specifically.
As usual excess deaths is the way to look at this for sure. Does the article describe the graph as presented as accounting for these?
We are in the 'death demographic' and have had 5 vaccinations. We don't want to become hermits, But, as prudent precautions, we will mask-up and avoid crowds and the drooling anti-vaxxer rtwingnuts for the rest of our lives.
For those who threaten those of us who are responsible and masked-up, "You imbeciles, the mask protects me from your diseases, it also protects you from anything I have, it works on Covid and helps with the flu and also lessens environmental allergies. So, stuff your malicious ignorance up your own sphincter!")
I'm angry. I'm tired of irresponsible, selfish, ignorant rtwingnuts murdering people with impunity and without any consequences.
@8 seachange: You should know that most responsible epidemiologists and medical professionals recognize that the CDC no longer collects and reports 'comprehensive' information about Covid, espouses the 'droplet' fantasy instead of the accurate 'airborne' model and mainstream media NEVER presents a complete and accurate picture of what they report. There is always emotion driven distortion in causes of death. (classic: gunshot victim reported as 'dying of lead poisoning') Therefore, we must examine multiple authoritative sources to get a more accurate (but never completely accurate) picture.
silvrhalide says
There's a lot of data that I'd like to see teased out of the information in the article. Yes, the bulk of Covid 19 deaths skew old and poor.
So does the audience for Fox News and all their shrill halfwit spinoff shows. Given that Faux News and associated idiots promote antivaxxer nonsense and useless "cures" or "treatments" (including bleach, WTF) and their audience skews elderly, poorly educated and credulous, I'd like to see how many/what percentage of elderly deaths are also antimaskers, antivaxxers, people who are mainlining horse dewormer, etc. I'd be curious to see what the death rates look like for the elderly if you filtered out the suicidally stupid.
The article also mentioned the death of 65 and over in nursing homes. The elderly in nursing homes are, by definition, less healthy and more vulnerable. They already have preexisting conditions that necessitate their living in some kind of assisted care. Again, I would like to have seen a comparison of the death rates between the nursing home elderly (and breakdown by age) vs. the independently living elderly (also broken down by age). I kind of feel that there's probably some important data that's just being glossed over because as a society, we largely view all old people as a monolithic group when in fact there is considerable variation. Also, the environmental factors (if you live in a group facility, you are by definition exposed to far more people than you might if you were living independently.) If a person becomes infected and sick with Covid in a nursing home setting, would they have been equally vulnerable/susceptible had they been living independently? Are they better off in a care facility despite the greater risks of infection, because they are more likely to be diagnosed earlier and receive supportive care earlier?
If it turns out that there is only a mild or insignificant bump in the death rate from Covid in the over 65 crowd after you filter out the suicidally stupid, then it's time for "still mask when visiting Grandma and Grandpa". If not, then it's time to shift resources to fight that bump. If it turns out that most of the increase is from stupid people being stupid, well, good luck with that. I'm sure the stupid people already have medical personnel telling them to manage their diabetes/take their heart meds/wear a mask/get vaccinated and they are already choosing not to comply. In which case, I feel kind of bad for their next of kin who may miss them when they're gone (or not) but I'm not going to lose sleep over it either. Asshats are gonna ass.
whheydt says
I'm 73. I've had a total of 5 shots so far, the last one being a bivalent vaccine. I still mask up to go out (note…not masking again as I never stopped). If another booster is recommended, I'll get it. (And I expect that to happen in the spring.)
Here is an example of the murderous deceit in mainstream news. IIRC Fux news reported that 'more vaccinated than unvaccinated people now dying'. However, the graphs and reports from the 'medical' sources were based on people who had 'one vaccination' (or more). That is a GROSS distortion, since if you have only one vaccination, you are not fully vaccinated.
And the hits just keep on coming. Apparently we are on the verge of a measles resurgence.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/11/24/measles-threat-vaccine-who-cdc/
Remember when the repubs were warning us about the "Obamacare Death Panels" that would deny medical care to the old and infirm? Now they're fine with those same people dying of COVID.
"According to the CDC, 98 percent of those ages 65 to 74 and 96 percent of people 75 and over completed an initial two-shot course….
That's the rate for everybody in those demographics.
What's the rate of vaccination among those who are dying? That is, to what extent are the people who are dying unvaccinated? Earlier in the epidemic, it was mostly the unvaccinated who were dying or ending up in the ICU. Has this changed?
What's the rate of vaccination among those who are dying?
Yeah, I know.
It wasn't in the Washington Post article from the OP.
.1.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/23/vaccinated-people-now-make-up-majority-covid-deaths
For the first time, a majority of Americans dying from the coronavirus received at least the primary series of the vaccine.
Fifty-eight percent of coronavirus deaths in August were people who were vaccinated or boosted, according to an analysis conducted for The Health 202 by Cynthia Cox, vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Here it is.
It is 58% vaccinated among the dead.
Antivaxxers are still way overrepresented.
This isn't at all surprising.
When almost everyone is vaccinated, who is left.
The antivaxxers who were dying like flies for a while and reducing their numbers in the population.
.2. The other point here is obvious.
Having a two dose vaccination two years ago doesn't really make you all that vaccinated.
We know that the vaccine effectiveness goes down with time and also as newer variants of the virus take over.
The consensus among ICU staff these days is that the Covid-19 virus patients that end up there are either; very old people, organ transplant patients, cancer patients, or antivaxxers.
StevoR says
There's another wave here in South Australia. Most people seem to be ignoring it and not masking anymore. It really worries me. FWIW, I'm masking up, fully vaxxed and have greatly reduced going out .
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-26/wave-has-long-covid-sufferers-and-vulnerable-worried/101697968
On the positive side the state govt just made RAT's free and I think have reintroduced compulsory masking for schools.
Too many have decided this is over when it isn't and this is going to have pretty terrible consequences.
chrislawson says
shermanj@13–
They don't need to massage the figures to come up with that headline. It's a very old, very effective misdirection technique borrowed from the antivaxx crowd. Even for an incredibly effective vaccine, once the population vaccination rate gets higher than the vaccine efficacy, there will be more total cases in vaccinated than unvaccinated people. Which then becomes a liar's talking point because it's both true and incredibly deceptive.
The honest way to report this is in cases per capita, not total number of cases. As soon as the data is presented this way, then the efficacy of a vaccine becomes apparent (it is, in fact, how we calculate efficacy! — it's literally the ratio of cases per capita in vaccinated vs. unvaccinated groups).
Jeez, I tried to do everyone here a favour and drag out the references from that WaPo article so you could look up the information it was derived from even if you weren't prepared to step through the paywall. No such luck!
This article, despite being well written and imho pretty much on point, commits the cardinal error of not consistently linking to its sources. Even worse, it doesn't even describe its sources well enough to check them. For instance, there is a major finding that is simply referred to as "a recent CDC report". Which one? Do you expect readers to trawl through every one of the CDC's many monthly reports to find the data you refer to?
Weirdly, there are times that they are extremely precise: 'In an open letter published Oct. 7 in the BMJ, formerly the British Medicine Journal, Gregg Gonsalves, an associate professor at the Yale School of Public Health, and about a dozen other experts emphasized that "pandemics do not end with a flip of the switch."' So they've given a very clear reference to quote an opinion that has been held by every epidemiologist ever since the term epidemiology was invented, but they won't give clear references to data sources!
I don't expect journalists to become scientists, but it would be nice if they understood some core scientific standards (e.g. clearly fucking reference any data you report on) before wading into print.
hemidactylus says
I've become more of a fatalist tempting fate. I've gotten all my shots and I'm not supersocial except work, but haven't been masking for quite a while. A coworker went on vacay and got it, but was behind on boosters. He's masking now. I haven't gotten it yet since 2020. Close calls! I'll mask afterwards if I do once cleared. At this point being exposed is probably inevitable. The 'rona might act if timed right as an apt booster. YMMV. Why spar with boosters if you're not going to fight the main event? It's never going away. That ship done sailed.
rorschach says
9 out of 10 people dying being over 65 is the base rate, Covid didn't change that. The thing is, these deaths are largely preventable. Masks, distancing, vaccination, Paxlovid, and most of these people would not have to die. That is the real scandal.
That, and the 10% of under 65s with asymptomatic or mild infection, who are rendered unable to work due to Long Covid. The cancers from mild HIV infection started after 5+ years, we are yet to see if this virus is oncogenic. We know it shoots down the immune system, see current number of paediatric hospitalisations.
"The 'rona might act if timed right as an apt booster."
No, no, and no. We are in the seventh wave here mate, just think about your theory there for one second. And then consider the longterm effects, the hightened cardiovascular mortality after infection, and the immune system effects. You don't want this, and it doesn't booster anything, apart from your death and disability.
@23- rorschach
With multiple waves almost everyone is fated to get it. The waves might themselves get less severe. I assume my updated booster probably attracted attention of immunocytes looking roughly for matches to Wuhan due to multiple previous vaxxes against that epitopic look. My T-cells chopped it up differently than yours due to our differing genetic backgrounds. My B-cells have some sloppy spread due to developmental recombination of antibody genes plus mutational breadth. The updated booster response may have broken me free of imprinting bias and started mutating toward BA.4 and BA.5 with some fortuitous slop for new Omicron variants or are still deeply mired in the Wuhan past. Another boost of updated Spikevax may have overcome imprinting but those aren't offered :-(
Regardless my B-cell response to any coming variant may result in mutation toward the Spike look of that variant PLUS its other immunogenic epitopes. It will be a boost against Spike plus primary response to the other parts of the virus in separate immunocytic pools (assuming I have not been infected previously). Some of those antibodies may not be neutralizing but relevant to other effector responses (hopefully not ADE causing). Infection will boost in people with vaccination history. See hybrid immunity.
In the long term hopefully SARS-CoV-2 tamps down, due to its own mutations and also the B/T cell responses set up in hosts due to multiple rounds of vaccination and infection, into yet another HCoV "cold".
There will be nastier variants as happens with influenza. There could be other coronavirus spillovers that make COVID-19 look like a picnic.
Maybe more universal vaccines will help with both influenza and sarbecoviruses, if they get funding, support, and adoption down the road.
"With multiple waves almost everyone is fated to get it."
No. And there is no evolutionary pressure on this virus to get more mild. Why would it, if it can infect people even when they are asymptomatic?
"Regardless my B-cell response to any coming variant may result in mutation toward the Spike look of that variant PLUS its other immunogenic epitopes. "
Sorry, but this makes no sense at all. This is about T-cell response.
chrislawson @ #20:
This article, despite being well written and imho pretty much on point, commits the cardinal error of not consistently linking to its sources.
This infuriates me. It's basically journalistic malpractice, and for some reason it's allowed at prestigious publications.
Weirdly, there are times that they are extremely precise: 'In an open letter published Oct. 7 in the BMJ, formerly the British Medicine Journal, Gregg Gonsalves,…
FFS, WaPo – it was the British Medical Journal.
Jazzlet says
The not quoting sources goes along with presenting two non-comparable numbers as if they mean something. I suspect that goes way back to the injunction of so many English teachers that you shouldn not repeat a word in an essay, you should find synonyms. So the journalist won't say "58 per cent of the dead were unvaccinated, while another i5 percent % had only one vaccination", they'll say 58 percent of the dead were unvaccinated, while 3,680 had an incomplete series" or some such.
1. Asymptomatic is as mild as it gets. WTF? Vaccination will reduce chances infection progresses to severe illness or death. It may take some days for infection to result in an immune response if previously vaccinated, but still much quicker than if antigen naive. Symptoms will be milder typically if not naive. Fewer and fewer people are antigen naive. That's important in terms of future waves becoming tsunamis or smaller pebble drops.
If a person vaccinated with IPV gets exposed to polio they may get infected and could transmit but the three doses will keep the infection from progressing to a disease state.
B and T cell immunity are both aspects of adaptive immunity. In that part you quoted I was highlighting hypermutation within B cell antibody gene variable regions though left out the subsequent selective component where the better matching variants survive.
I did mention T-cell immunity which only involves pre-exposure recombination within receptor gene segments. The MHC complex varies within human populations and we each chop up antigens differently. T-cell response may be more resilient towards SARS-CoV-2 in people who have been vaccinated keeping us from getting really sick and dying once antibody levels decline months after previous boosting or infection. And the variable cuisinart nature of T-cell immunity might keep SARS-CoV-2 variants from being as evasive. If they outwit B-cell immunity, they still have to deal with the T-cells which seek out infected cells and signal them to self-destruct (among other things).
But memory B cells will remain to provide a pool of cells that can ramp up an effectivish response and may then undergo rounds of mutation and selection (affinity maturation) that make them better matches against the variant they just went up against. It's an arms race between affinity maturation in B-cells to provide sterilizing immunity upon future reinfection and the ever evolving variants themselves.
In what way can it be exclusively "about T-cell response"?
"1. Asymptomatic is as mild as it gets. "
I don't quite understand that statement. Asymptomatic Covid is just as likely to produce cardiovascular complications, premature death, dementia, psychiatric conditions, diabetes, you name it, than symptomatic Covid. Although there might be a cluster of symptoms that are more likely to occur after moderate to severe disease and ICU stay. In particular anosmia is becoming a predictor of developing early dementia, no matter what age group.


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GMB's Piers Morgan weighs 16st after eating six meals a day as he vows to lose a stone inspired by Eamonn Holmes
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GOOD Morning Britain's Piers Morgan weighs 16 stone after eating six meals a day – and he vowed to lose a stone as he was inspired by Eamonn Holmes.
The presenter, 55, has vowed to shed the pounds as lockdown and a gruelling work schedule has lead him to slip.
However, Piers is taking inspiration from his ITV co-star Eamonn Holmes – who he once mocked for being overweight when he was an editor.
"My own Good Morning Britain day regime is usually porridge and honey at 5.30am, Marmite on toast at 7.30am, eggs and something when I get home at 9.15am, possibly another sandwich snack at 11am, and a hearty lunch at 12.30pm before attacking the biscuit tin in the afternoon, until my wife Celia locks it away," Piers wrote in his Daily Mail column.
"By 5pm I'm slumped on the sofa like a zombie waiting for dinner."
He continued: "As a result, I now weigh 16 stone, a stone more than when I started at GMB, and the former "Telly-Tubby" has gone from being my merciless fat-mockery to my fitness role model.
"So my resolution is to weigh the same as Eamonn Holmes by the end of 2021."
While editor of the Daily Mirror, Piers published photos of Eamonn playing golf under the headline "TELLY-TUBBY!"
But the This Morning star has managed to go from 18st to 15st through juicing, fasting, walking and Pilates after making a New Year's Resolution to get fitter.
After his and wife Ruth Langsford departure from their regular Friday This Morning slot, Eamonn has vowed to get even fitter this year.
"I have shed 3st over five years," Eamonn told the Mirror.
"I genuinely believe in New Year's resolutions. It's a great time to take stock to repair your habits, to improve your life."
After pledging to do a juice diet to shed weight in 2015, Eamonn lost 10lbs.
He also fasts for 12 hours a day, takes his dog Maggie for daily walks to keep his step count up and even does pilates once a week.
"Now, if I have lunch, I will have a juice for dinner," he said.
"If I have it during the day, I look forward to a meal in the evening."
Piers has already begun his new diet and even moaned that his wife Celia Walden served him a "canape sized" dinner.
It's not the first time that Piers has made comments about his weight – last year making his followers laugh as he compared himself to a "fat" ornament.
After weeks of overeating in this first national lockdown, he wrote alongside a photo of a ceramic jester ornament: "Lockdown diet is turning me into my ornaments."
Months later, he revealed he's been shamed into embarking on a weight-loss programme after gaining half a stone on holiday.
The plan included limits on booze intake, a stringent diet and workouts with former Olympian and personal trainer Sarah Lindsay.
He told The Sun: "I'm going to see a new personal trainer, and unfortunately Celia's taken it all quite seriously, so suddenly it's all the good stuff's gone and all the kale's come in and the quinoa and vegetables.
"A lot of vegetables. A lot of salmon. A lot less Bordeaux – I'm down to one glass a night."
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Fairview Baptist Church, 900 Charlotte St., will host an American Red Cross Blood Drive today, noon to 5 p.m. Park at the corner of Charlotte and Shepherd streets. Masks and appointments are required. Temperatures will be checked at the door, and all COVID-19 protocols will be followed. Appointments may be made at redcrossblood.org, using the sponsor code fairviewbaptistchurch. 540/373-8377; fairview-baptist.org.
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Potomac Valley Church, 12500 Chewning Lane, offers online worship services Sundays at 10 a.m. on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. In-person services are temporarily suspended. The "She Speaks" series for women and other options are available on the church's YouTube channel; small group meetings are available via Zoom. 703/878-6937; potomacvalleychurch.com/contact.
Redeemer Bible Church, Spotsylvania Courthouse Village, 7610 Heths Salient St., holds in-person worship on Sunday at 9:30 and 11 a.m. Services may also be streamed on the church's Facebook page.
Resurrection Lutheran Church, 6170 Plank Road, will livestream its 10 a.m. Sunday worship service at sites.google.com/view/rlcfxbg. Prayer requests may be left on the prayer request link on the church's Facebook page. 540/786-7778; resurrectionpeople.org.
Second New Hope Baptist Church, 3836 Summit Crossing Road. The Sunday School Ministry will accept monetary donations, canned foods and nonperishable items today, from 10 a.m. until noon, rain or shine. There will be no drop-off in December. Proceeds benefit the Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank. Drive to the front entrance of the church, and pull up to the church steps. Have your donation bagged or boxed in the trunk of your vehicle, open the trunk and someone will retrieve the items. Enclose a monetary donation in an envelope in the trunk of your vehicle. Make check payable to Second New Hope Baptist Church, and indicate food drive on the memo line. 540/898-9899; secondnewhope.org.
Spotswood Baptist Church, 4009 Lafayette Blvd., holds in-person worship on Sundays at 9:30 a.m. (traditional) and 11 a.m. (contemporary). Services may also be streamed online at Spotswood.org/watch-live or from the church's Facebook page. Small groups meet on Sunday mornings and throughout the week. spotswood.org.
Saint Faustina Conference–SVDP, 8206 Robert E. Lee Drive, hosts a contactless, drive-up food pantry and baby closet 2–6 p.m. Wednesdays; 9 a.m. to noon Fridays; and 9–11 a.m. on the first Saturday of every month, under the supervision and management of St. Matthew Church. 540/507-8106; svdpstfaustina.org; facebook.com/svdpfaustina; twitter.com/SVdP_StFaustina.
Unity of Fredericksburg, 3451 Jefferson Davis Highway, will livestream its Sunday celebration service at 11 a.m. on the church's Facebook page. 540/654-5305; uofva.org.
Zion United Methodist Church, 8700 Courthouse Road, will stream its sermon on Sunday at 11 a.m. 540/582-6532; zionumc@historiczionumc.org; historiczionumc.org.
Andrew Chapel United Methodist Church, 1732 Brooke Road, offers Sunday contemporary worship services in the church's pavilion at 9 a.m.; a pre-packaged communion will be offered, or you can bring your own bread and grape juice in a zip-close bag. Traditional worship services are livestreamed on Facebook and Zoom on Sundays at 11 a.m. Bible study is held on Zoom every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. 540/659-2461; andrewchapelumc@yahoo.com; andrewchapelumc-staffordva.com.
Aquia Episcopal Church, 2938 Jefferson Davis Highway, offers outdoor worship services on Sunday with the Holy Eucharist at 10:30 a.m. and 4 p.m., weather permitting. The church offers livestreamed worship services on Sundays at 7:30 a.m. and weekdays at 8 a.m.; Bible studies on Wednesday mornings and evenings; and occasional topical discussions at facebook.com/AquiaEpiscopalChurch. Events are viewable at any time and can be accessed without a Facebook account. Aquia's Table provides curbside pickup of meals on Wednesdays: 6–7 p.m. in the church parking lot, and 6–7:30 p.m. from the regional food bank and other sources. 540/659-4007;aquiachurch.org.
Beth Sholom Temple, 805 Lyons Blvd., is closed for on-site services. Virtual services are held Fridays at 7:30 p.m. and Saturdays at 10 a.m. Torah study is held Saturdays at noon on Zoom. 540/373-4834; email@gmail.com; bstva.org.
Bethlehem Baptist Church, 135 Chapel Green Road. Sunday service will be by conference call at 10 a.m. at 425/436-6350, use code 245538.
Hollywood Church of the Brethren, 225 Ferry Road. Worship services are Sundays at 11 a.m. in person and on Facebook and YouTube. Sunday school for all ages is 10 a.m. Masks and social distancing are required. The church hosts a food pantry every Tuesday from 10 a.m. until noon. Donations are appreciated.
Mount Olive Baptist Church, 395 Mt. Olive Road. Worship service will be held Sunday at 10 a.m. on the church's Facebook page. 540/752-4296.
New Hope United Methodist Church, 164 New Hope Church Road, holds a drive-in church service every Sunday at 10 a.m. Call to reserve a space or just show up. The service is also available on YouTube and Facebook. 540/370-4875; newhopeva.com.
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Fredericksburg, 25 Chalice Circle, hosts online services via Zoom Sundays at 10:30 a.m. and RE classes for youths at the same time. Sunday's focus is "Healing from Religion." Explore some of the more hidden aspects of healing in the biblical texts, as well as our own healing in relation with the texts. Visit uuffva.org for Zoom link. 540/310-4001.
KING GEORGE COUNTY
Good Hope Baptist Church, 17223 Good Hope Road, will hold a drive-up worship service on Sunday at 9 a.m. Masks are required when out of your vehicle.
NewLife King George, Potomac Elementary School, 16495 15th St., holds service at 11 a.m. Sunday. Safety measures include temperature checks, masks and a shorter service without singing. NewLife Kids is now open for preschool and elementary. 540/413-9465; newlife.live/king-george.
Peace Lutheran Church, 5590 Kings Highway, has resumed holding services Sundays at 10 a.m., at 50 percent capacity and following COVID-19 guidelines. Online services continue to be available for viewing on the church Facebook page and website. 540/775-9131; peacekg.com.
First Baptist Church, 9262 Guinea Station Road, Woodford, will hold a virtual service at 11 a.m. Sunday via Zoom, using us02web.zoom.us/j/8046334233 (meeting ID: 8046334233). To dial in, call 301/715-8592 (meeting ID:8046334233). 804/633-4233; firstbaptistwoodford.com.
River Rock Church Caroline, gymnasium of the Ladysmith Community Center, 7278 Ladysmith Road, Ruther Glen, holds live, in-person worship service Sundays at 10:30 a.m. Service is also streamed at riverrockcc.com. Community groups meet in person every Sunday morning at 9 a.m. and throughout the week; they can be found at riverrockcc.com/next-steps/community-groups.
St. Mary of the Annunciation Catholic Church, 10306 Ladysmith Road. In-church Mass is held Saturday at 5 p.m. and Sunday at 8:30 and 11 a.m. The 8:30 a.m. Sunday Mass is also livestreamed. The church sponsors a drive-up food pantry on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6–7:30 p.m. Bring your ID. 804/448-9064; saintmarycc.org.
CULPEPER COUNTY
Beulah Baptist Church, 9297 Eggbornsville Road, Rixeyville, will hold online Sunday Worship service at 9:30 a.m. Join via conference call at 302/202-1118, code 862090 to listen in; at Beulah Baptist Facebook; or to participate by Zoom, call or email the church for the meeting ID number. Wednesday Bible study, the Book of Leviticus, is at 7 p.m. by conference call. 540/937-5563; bbc9297@gmail.com.
Jeffersonton Baptist Church, 18498 Springs Road, Jeffersonton, will host Bible study Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the church and online. 540/937-5446; jeffersontonbaptistchurch.org.
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 115 N. East St., holds online adult Sunday school and prayer groups. Zoom links are on the church website and Facebook. Contact the church office to sign up to receive other Zoom invitations. Monetary donations are being collected for turkeys, $15 each; do not donate a turkey. The Culpeper Food Closet is in need of canned chicken, ham and tuna; Spam/ Treet; pork and beans; Pop Tarts and bar soap. Donations may be dropped off Monday through Friday, 9–11:30 a.m., at 120 N. Commerce St., or make a monetary donation at ststephensculpeper/foodcloset.net. For assistance, call 540/727-1055 before coming to the Food Closet. The waiting room is closed; clients will drop off their voucher and wait in a designated area in the parking lot. 540/825-1177; culpeperfoodcloset@gmail.net; Facebook: The-Culpeper-Food-Closet. Park at 120 N. Commerce St., ststephensculpeper.net. 540/825-8786; ssec@ststephensculpeper.net.
The Wayland Blue Ridge Baptist Association Inc., 15044 Ryland Chapel Road, Rixeyville, 22737, has reopened to 50 percent capacity. Social distancing practices and masks are required. Any community organization or member church can call or email for pricing. Temporary reduced pricing is offered until further notice. 540/661-2013; wayland_blueridge@usa.com; or waylandblueridge.org.
First Baptist Church, 5340 Tidewater Trail, Loretto, will have drive-thru services on Sundays at 11 a.m. Remain in your vehicle and connect live at facebook.com/fbcloretto or on the conference line, 313/209-8800; access code 2610624#. Communion will follow the service on first Sundays; bring your own water or juice and cracker to represent the blood and body of Christ. Bible study is held Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. on Facebook and over the conference number. Moments of Inspiration for Seniors Citizens is held Thursdays from 6–6:30 p.m.; the conference line number is 425/436-6367; access code: 871111#. 804/443-5007.
—Compiled by Tara Lee
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What is Play-to-Earn? These Are The Top Play-to-Earn Crypto Games
Saza November 4, 2021 8 min read
Online Gaming Becoming the Meta
The Metaverse: What's It All About?
What is Play-to-Earn?
Are Play-to-Earn Games Free to Play?
2021 Most Popular Play-to-Earn Games
Gamers are no longer overlooked and crossed out as outcasts who waste their time instead of doing something productive.
According to some estimations, the global gaming market is expected to reach a value of $268 billion by 2025. Considering a career in gaming is no longer frowned upon but actually encouraged in many countries.
As with every industry, online gaming also witnessed a myriad of trends and tendencies over the years. From first-person shooters (FPS) to multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games, the list grows constantly.
Now, it appears that the cryptocurrency industry has realized the potential of this growing segment and the impact that blockchain-based technology can have on it. This was largely possible through the boom of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), as developers understood they could be able to create and transfer tangible value in gaming ecosystems, providing further incentives for people who spend their time gaming.
This is how the play-to-earn model (specifically pertaining to crypto) was born, and it's starting to catch speed. In this article, we explore the play-to-earn model within the cryptocurrency industry, some of the important concepts, and popular games.
But first, it's essential to clarify a few things in advance.
Online gaming has undoubtedly become a phenomenon that can no longer be ignored. Millions of people across the world play a variety of games – some professionally, some casually. While gaming was a niche a year ago, it's now the norm for many young people.
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There are quite a few traditional online games that are played competitively on a very high level. One of the first games to propel the competitive gaming scene and legitimize eSports to the broader audience was League of Legends and the massive 2015 LoL World Championship.
For the first time in history, we saw a gaming event take place in the famous Wembley Arena, and the winning team received a staggering reward of $1 million.
Today, millions of people across the world play a variety of games such as World of Warcraft, New World, League of Legends, CS: Global Offensive, Final Fantasy, and many, many more. They create communities, interact with each other, and, in a way – create a whole other parallel ecosystem where they can escape reality.
This last part is at the center of a concept that many refer to as the "metaverse" – a place beyond reality, completely digitized and fictional, but also a place where people can literally go through the usage of various AR devices and spend time and resources at.
When speaking of play-to-earn, it's impossible to disregard this. It also brings us to the next important concept – the metaverse.
We see the term "metaverse" tossed around a lot lately. It exploded in popularity recently as Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook's CEO – made a few statements on how he wants to be a leading figure in building it, going so far as to say they plan on onboarding as much as 10,000 in the EU to develop it.
And while Zuckerberg is one of the most recognized and influential names working towards making the metaverse a reality (pun intended), the concept itself measures in incomprehensible scale.
Put simply – the metaverse is a virtual world, a land of a sort, where people would be able to go inside instead of just looking at a flat-screen display. It's the internet brought to life with all of its intricacies.
Imagine a world where everything is possible, so long as it's designed and developed. It can be described as a world of endless and interconnected virtual realities where people can play, meet, work, and do whatever they want, using headsets, AR devices, and other smart gadgets.
This is where the play-to-earn model becomes even more monumental. It's a fact that the world is becoming more digital – just think about how much time you spend on your phone interacting with distant friends and family over messengers. Imagine being able to digitally interact with them through virtual reality.
As this grows in popularity, so will the play-to-earn model because it would provide people with the opportunity to create value and be rewarded in this metaverse – hence why there's currently a race between billionaires such as Mark Zuckerberg on who will be the first to realize this concept.
Now, let's see what play-to-earn actually means.
Play-to-earn is exactly what it sounds like – a business model where users get to play a game and earn cryptocurrency while doing it.
It's a very powerful psychological model because it combines two activities that have been driving mankind since the dawn of time – making money and entertainment.
The key component in this model is to give gamers ownership over certain in-game assets and allow them to increase their value by playing the game actively. Usually, in the crypto world, defining the ownership and even transferring it is possible through the use of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
We have an in-depth guide on what NFTs are, and you can check it here.
By taking part in the in-game economy, players create value for other players in the ecosystem and for the developers. In turn – they receive a reward in the form of potentially appreciating in-game assets. These assets can be absolutely anything ranging from appealing characters with variable scarcity to a certain type of cryptocurrencies.
The main idea is that in play-to-earn games, players are rewarded for putting in more time and more effort into the game.
It's a relatively new phenomenon in the cryptocurrency market – or at least it grew in popularity only recently, especially with the advent of one particular project – Axie Infinity, but more on that later.
There's a debate whether or not play-to-earn games should be freely accessible, but the truth is that each developer takes their own path. Some games are free, while others require some contribution to play.
Developing a video game is expensive, and it's essential to know that these games are created by businesses. The point of every business is to be profitable.
On the other hand, the benefit of play-to-earn games is that gamers create some value that can be sold. Even when they need to pay something to start playing, these items can then be sold for a potential profit.
It's also true that most of the free games require some sort of investment early on to unlock basic capabilities and complete gameplay.
With this in mind, let's have a look at some of the most popular play-to-earn cryptocurrency games out there.
Axie Infinity is undoubtedly the most popular play-to-earn game in the crypto world. It's inspired by some popular games such as Pokémon and Tamagotchi. Players are able to collect, breed, raise, battle, and even trade token-based creatures, which are, of course, called Axies.
These creatures can all take various forms, and there are currently over 500 different body parts that are available – these include reptile and plant parts, bugs, birds, beasts, aquatics, and so forth. The parts classify in four different rarity scales: common, rare, ultra-rare, and legendary.
Every single Axie is a non-fungible token (NFT), and it has different attributes and strengths. Users can spend time and effort on upgrading their Axies, and they can trade them for cryptocurrencies on a dedicated marketplace.
The native cryptocurrency of the protocol is Axie Infinity Shards (AXS), and it's used to participate in the governance of the game. AXS can also be staked. We have a detailed guide on how to stake AXS that can be found here.
However, there's also the Small Love Potion (SLP) cryptocurrency, which is earned by playing the game. It's an ERC-20 token, and it can be used to breed new Axies. The cost of breeding starts at 100 SLP but increases with every breed – the second costs 200 SLP, the third 300 SLP, the fourth 500 SLP, and so forth, where the sixth one costs 1,300 SLP. You can't breed more than 7 Axies.
Players are able to accrue SLP throughout the game, and this is how they can essentially earn. At press time, both AXS and SLP are traded on the Binance exchange.
Evidently, the earnings of a player will vary based on the price of SLP at the time they're selling. However, this can also be a good thing because if there's strong demand for it, then their earnings can increase accordingly.
Decentraland is another very popular game that was created by Ariel Meilich and Esteban Ordano. It's worth noting that both of them have since stepped down from occupying major positions in the project but are still working on it as advisors.
The project is somewhat of a veteran in the space – it was launched back in 2017 through an ICO, which managed to raise $24 million.
It's essentially a virtual world – a parallel universe that's running on Ethereum, and players are able to create, experience, and monetize different content and applications. Users can purchase plots of land. They can, after that, moderate it in a way that makes it more attractive, they can build on it and potentially monetize it.
Users have created plenty of different exciting things in Decentraland. Many people see a lot of potential in this virtual reality, and back in June, Reuters reported that someone had bought a patch of virtual land for more than $900,000.
The native cryptocurrency of Decentraland is MANA, but there's also LAND. MANA is a basic ERC-20 token, and it can be burned to acquire non-fungible ERC-721 LAND tokens. The MANA token can also be used to pay for different names, wearables, avatars, and other things available on the Decentraland marketplace.
The Sandbox is another blockchain-based virtual world that allows players to earn as they enjoy the game.
The main mission, according to the public whitepaper, is to introduce blockchain tech into the gaming world in a way that's successful.
It combines the capabilities of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and NFTs to create a digital world that harbors a considerable gaming community. Its blockchain-based virtual world allows players to build, create, buy, and sell various digital assets in the game.
Like Decentraland – there are two different tokens, one of which (SAND) is based on the ERC-20 protocol and is a utility token with a finite supply of three billion. The other one is a non-fungible token (LAND), and there's only 166,464 of it available. LAND can be used to host games, create housing, build multiplayer experiences, and so forth.
Many believe that blockchain gaming is the future of the e-gaming industry, and it's not that hard to see plenty of merits supporting that narrative.
Play-to-earn is turning into a viable business model which allows both game developers and players to monetize the time they spend on something they enjoy doing.
In addition, the world in itself is becoming more and more digital, especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing many traditional social interactions to go online. With this, it's entirely reasonable to believe that the future is, indeed, digital.
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Die Coricancha (spanische Schreibweise), Qurikancha oder Qorikancha (Quechua "Goldhof"), ursprünglich Intikancha (Quechua "Sonnenhof") war der wichtigste Tempel in der Inka-Hauptstadt Cusco. Er überstand die Zerstörungen der Conquista nicht. Heute existieren im Zentrum von Cusco lediglich einige Mauerreste, die den Glanz jener Arbeit bezeugen. Nach einem schweren Erdbeben 1650 wurden seine Ruinen weitgehend durch den Bau des Convento de Santo Domingo überbaut. Lediglich vier Räume wurden weiterhin vom Kloster genutzt. Ein weiteres schweres Erdbeben 1950 beschädigte die Kirche und legte längst vernichtet geglaubte Mauerreste des Tempels wieder frei.

Heiliger Ort

Die Coricancha war der heiligste Ort, an dem die Inka Hochzeiten, Krönungen, Bestattungen und Riten von "nationaler" Bedeutung feierten. Den Tempel des Inti (Sonne) konnten die Inkas nur nüchtern, barfuß und zum Zeichen ihrer Demut mit einer Last auf dem Rücken, den Weisungen des Willaq Umu (Villac Umu, Huillac Umu), des Hohepriesters des Sonnenkultes folgend betreten. Dieser lebte immer in der Nähe des Sapa Inka. Sofern der Sapa Inka sich in Cusco aufhielt, war die Coricancha Sitz des Villac Umu und seine Hauptwirkungsstätte. Neben dem Hauptsonnentempel des Reiches umschlossen sechs weitere Tempel Inti Pampa (quechua = Sonnenfeld), die dem Kult anderer Gottheiten, wie Mama Killa (Mutter Mond) und Illapa, dem Gott des Blitzes und Donners, dem Kult der Venus (Ch'aska quyllur) und der Plejaden (Suchu, qullqa quyllur), der Wettergötter und des Regenbogens (K'uychi, im "Schlangentempel" Amarukancha) dienten.

Das Tempelinnere verfügte neben anderen Schätzen auch über jene goldene Scheibe, die die Sonne repräsentierte und darüber hinaus eine Darstellung des gesamten inkaischen Pantheons. In trapezförmigen Nischen in den Wänden und auf goldenen Thronen waren die Königsmumien aufgestellt und mit goldenen Masken und überaus fein gewebten Stoffen dekoriert. Die Mumien wurden durch Diener mit Speisen und Getränken rituell versorgt. Boden und Wände waren ursprünglich mit 700 soliden Goldplatten bedeckt. Die massivgoldene Sonnenscheibe in Gestalt eines Menschen war vor einer mit Smaragden und Türkisen reich geschmückten Wand so aufgestellt, dass die aufgehende Sonne vom Metall und den Edelsteinen reflektiert wurde und jene ein blendend goldenes Licht zurückwarfen.

Der benachbarte Raum, der der Mondgöttin Mama Killa gewidmet war, war vollkommen mit Silber ausgeschlagen. Hier wurde eine aus Platin hergestellte silberfarbene Mondscheibe in Frauengestalt als Braut und Schwester des Sonnengottes von 10 Meter Durchmesser und über 900 kg Gewicht verehrt und um Fürsprache und Kindersegen gebetet. In diesem Raum waren die Mumien der "Coyas", der Königinnen aufgestellt.

Der Chronist Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa versicherte, Pachacútec habe in der Coricancha große, goldgerahmte Leinwände aufhängen lassen, auf denen die Inka-Geschichte aufgezeichnet wurde, die später in der angrenzenden "Puquincancha", dem "Reichsarchiv" aufbewahrt wurden und bei der Eroberung von Cusco zusammen mit der Stadt in Brand gerieten. Pachacútec machte die Coricancha zum Schauplatz eines im präkolumbischen Amerika einmaligen Vorgangs, eines "Theologen"kongresses, einer Art Konzil, bei dem der Viracocha-Kult reformiert wurde. Pachacútec ließ in der Coricancha ein ovales Bildnis Viracochas aufstellen, so wie auch die übrigen Hauptgottheiten in der Coricancha über ein ovales Bildnis verfügten.

In seiner Nachbarschaft befand sich außerdem ein Heiliger Garten, der mit goldenen Figuren von lebensgroßen Menschen, Tieren und Pflanzen geschmückt war. Der Chronist Pedro Cieza de León beschrieb: "in dem die Erde aus Klumpen feinen Goldes bestand, mit Maispflanzen mit goldenem Stengeln, Blättern und Kolben, die so fest gepflanzt waren, dass sie nicht entwurzelt wurden, gleich wie stark der Wind blies. Daneben weideten zwanzig goldene Lamas mit ihren Lämmern, bewacht von lebensgroßen Hirten mit Krummstäben und Schleudern, die wie alles, aus purem Gold waren." Wohlgestaltete Mädchen pflückten hier goldene Früchte von goldenen Bäumen. Auf den Zweigen von goldenen Bäumen und Sträuchern wiegten sich aus Gold gefertigte Vögel, wie beispielsweise Kolibris. Goldene Schlangen, deren Augen aus dunklen Edelsteinen funkelten, wanden sich über den Boden. In Wiesen, deren einzelne Halme täuschend echt aus Gold gearbeitet waren, glänzten Blüten aus Edelsteinen, auf denen sich goldene Schmetterlinge niederließen und durch die goldene Käfer krochen. Daneben gab es Eidechsen, Mäuse und sogar Spinnen, aber auch Gießkannen und fünf Brunnen aus Gold. Ähnliche Gärten in Silber schmückten andere Tempelhöfe. Gold und Silber hatten ausschließlich kultischen Wert, galt doch das Gold als "Schweißperlen der Sonne" und Silber als "Tränen des Mondes".

Obwohl die Coricancha selbst nicht auf der Liste der Heiligtümer zu finden war, vermuteten die Spanier wegen der reichen Opfergaben, dass er den Inka als der allerheiligste Ort galt, weshalb sie hier eine Kirche mit Konvent errichteten.

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Die Coricancha wurde 1438 am Ort der ältesten Ansiedlung Cuscos errichtet. Hatte der legendäre Manco Cápac den Ort, der zwischen den beiden spitz zusammenlaufenden Flüssen Río Huatanay und Río Tullumayo lag, aus militärischen und bewässerungstechnischen Gründen zur Gründung seiner Inti Cancha gewählt – einem kleinen Haus, in dem seine Schwestern lebten – so steigerte Pachacútec die sakrale Bedeutung des Ortes noch: Er ließ Cusco in Form eines Pumas, eines mit dem Mondkult verbundenen uralten Machtsymbols umgestalten, wobei die Coricancha genau unterhalb des Pumaschwanzes an der Stelle seiner Sexualorgane platziert ist.

Eine Umfriedung umfasste neben dem apsidal gestalteten Sonnentempel vier kleinere Tempelanlagen, die einen Tempelhof an drei Seiten umgaben. Die Vorderseite hatte eine schöne Mauer von feinstem Steinmetzhandwerk, einheitlich verziert mit einem fortlaufenden Streifenband aus purem Gold in drei Meter Höhe vom Boden, einem edlen und raffiniert kurzem Strohdach, dem ein Geflecht aus Golddraht Halt verschaffte. Die Mauern bestanden aus perfekt fugenlos ohne Zement ineinandergefügten Natursteinen, die eine leichte Kissenform an den Seiten haben, die die ästhetische Schlichtheit des Baus betonen. Nach oben verjüngen sich die Steinquader, womit sie optisch die Höhe noch mehr betonen.

In einer der Blöcke der zweiten Steinlage beobachtet man drei Löcher, die möglicherweise zur Ableitung des Regenwassers vom Innenhof oder der geopferten Chicha benutzt wurden. Nach den Experimenten von Augusto León Barandiarán kann man die musikalischen Noten D, A und E hören, wenn man in die Löcher schlägt.

Der Umfang des Tempels betrug mehr als 365 Meter. Sein Hauptportal lag an der Nordseite. Dieser, wie die Nebeneingänge waren mit Goldplatten bedeckt. Damals existierte kein dreieckiges Atrium, der dem Eintritt des Kolonialtempels diente und die gewundene Mauer im rechten Winkel bis zur Ahuacpinta- bzw. Awaq-Pinta-Straße, in der sich noch ein Stück der Originalmauer von fast sechzig Metern Länge erhalten hat. Auf der gegenüberliegenden Seite dieser Straße windet sich die Mauer um eine Biegung von mehr als 90° und setzt sich mit einer sanften Kurve fort, die während der Bauzeit des Tempels verkürzt wurde. Die Coricancha-Wand krönte ein System von Terrassen, die einst bis zum Fluss abfielen.

In der Nähe befindet sich heute ein archäologisches Museum, das über interessante Exponate verfügt, darunter Mumien, Textilien und Kultgegenstände.

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Literatur
 Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamaygua (1613). Relación de antiguedades deste reyno del Piru. Neu herausgegeben: La "Relación de antigüedades deste Reyno del Pirú" : gramática y discurso ideológico indígena / Rosario Navarro Gala (ed.), Madrid / Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 2007

Weblinks

Quellen

Inka-Reich
Tempel in Südamerika
Architektur (Altamerika)
Cusco
Sonnenkult

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Layers of new regulations and policies, including carbon pricing, have made it difficult for Canada's energy sector to compete and provide good jobs here at home.
The fact is, total capital spending by the oil and natural gas industry in the Canadian economy was $45 billion in 2017 – a 44-per-cent decline compared to $81 billion in 2014, and a 19-per-cent drop from 2016. Meanwhile, capital spending in the United States increased by about 38 per cent to $120 billion thanks to a more streamlined regulatory system.
This kind of loss in investment curbs industry development of innovation and technology that is key to breaking the link between energy growth and emissions growth over time. But currently, climate policies in Canada come at a high cost to the country's economy with minimal effect on global emissions as natural gas and oil production migrates to regions with fewer, if any, regulations.
We need to do more to spur growth in our energy sector and protect jobs in Canada instead of letting that money go to our competitors.
Canada has a proud story to share. We are among the most innovative and responsible producers in the world. If given the chance, citizens would prefer to buy oil and natural gas from Canada more than from any other country in the world. According to Ipsos' first-ever Global Energy Pulse, Canada ranked No. 1 among 11 producing nations as the global energy supplier of choice.
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In the least shocking news of the 2020 season for the Carolina Panthers, star running back Christian McCaffrey has been listed as doubtful for Saturday's game at Green Bay and is anticipated to miss his 11th game of the year.
First, it was a high-ankle sprain suffered near the end of Week 2's game at Tampa that caused him to miss six games, followed by a sprained shoulder seven weeks later in the closing seconds at Kansas City.
He hasn't played since that close loss to the Chiefs on Nov. 8.
But it's his latest injury of a strained thigh that is the most unusual as it occurred while rehabbing during the bye week and then aggravated during practice a few days later.
Even with all the trouble McCaffrey has had getting on the field this season, Panthers head coach Matt Rhule said thoughts of benching the Pro Bowler haven't been discussed amongst those in the front office or to McCaffrey.
"I would not bring it up and I know he wants to play," Rhule said. "If a player came to me and say, 'Coach, I'm not sure I want to play right now. I'm a little banged up,' I'd understand. I'd say, 'Yeah, no problem.'
"If he doesn't get healthy, I won't play him. But if he's a hundred percent healthy, and he wants to play, which I know he does, then we would play him."
Against the Packers (10-3), who are a game behind New Orleans for grabbing the No. 1 seed in the NFC, Carolina obviously could used all the help it could get. Fortunately for the Panthers (4-9), D.J. Moore will return to the starting lineup.
Moore is second in the NFL in yards-per-catch at 18.5, and 15th in total yards with 924, despite missing last week's game against Denver.
Even with the return of Moore, the Panthers have to play a near perfect game if they want to win at Lambeau Field. If they play anywhere the way they did against Denver, they have little to no chance.
And Rhule is well aware of that.
"A lot of coaches will make a lot of excuses," he said. "I won't make excuses for our lack of execution. We have to execute better and that's what it'll take to win."
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The Case for Video Art
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Video art. What is it even? Moving pictures that someone somewhere decided to call art? Distinct from all the other moving pictures that are apparently not art? The explosion of technology that has reshaped our lives so dramatically in the past 50-odd years has also had a profound impact on the lives of artists. Since the 1960s, artists have picked up video cameras for numerous reasons and involved moving images in their work in countless ways, but what of it? Why does it need special designation and what sets apart these moving pictures from all the others? This is the case for video art.
The first mechanisms for recording moving pictures were not terribly portable and even when they became more so, they weren't easy to buy or use. Early cinema was experimental because well, there was no other way to do it. No one had done this before. They were making up what it was that should be done with this technology and figuring out how we'd watch it, whether it should be served to the public one by one or in a communal setting. Cinema caught fire and took hold and as it evolved, artists made films, too.
Italian futurists made films and dadaists made films as abstraction was explored in painting, so it was in moving pictures. Marcel Duchamp experimented with the medium, as did abstract painter Fernand Leger, whose non-narrative "Ballet Mecanique" made expert use of found footage. Cinema was used to great effect by the surrealists as well, bringing to startling life their trippy visions. Art and film have always been intertwined without clear boundaries dividing them, but it wasn't until the Sony Portapack was introduced in the mid 1960s that video art was truly born.
Battery powered and self contained, the camera and recorder system could be carried and operated by a single person, requiring neither studio nor crew. Artists loved it, especially early adopters Nam June Paik and Shigeko Kubota. Although Paik was no stranger to moving image. His 1964 work "Zen for Film" is composed of an upright piano, a double bass, and a home movie screen, onto which is projected 30 minutes of clear, unprocessed, 16mm film. It was about as minimal as film could be, nothing appearing on the screen except for the dust and scratches inevitable in the projection process. No images to get lost in, just the mechanism itself to consider and behold.
Paik was captivated by the technologies that proliferated in modern life in the '60s and '70s and he was unafraid to use them as raw material, re-imagining and re-engineering them into hybrid works, bridging video, sculpture, experimental music, and performance. He collaborated with Charlotte Moorman on his "TV Cello", which Moorman performed by running her bow across a stack of TVs that played prerecorded images of her doing the same.
Television entered the lives and consciousness of many in the years following World War II and artists were eager to think through its implications. Joan Jonas's 1972 "Vertical Roll" is titled after the technological glitch common to TV at the time. She structured a performance in front of the camera that accounted for the video's rolling bar which fragments her body into disjointed frames. Jonas and others used the medium to consider and critique how women were represented in film and on TV, taking control of the means of production and distribution.
With the advent of the Portapack, making moving pictures became cheap and easy. Women and people of color and artists living around the world could pick up a camera and make a moving picture, and you didn't need the blessing of the narrow art world to do it. Video art appeared at a time of a great intermingling of media, when artists unabashedly combined the traditional arts of painting, sculpture, and drawing with theater, dance, music, and film. Experimentation came from all directions. Filmmaker Stan Vanderbeek called it "expanded cinema" when films exited movie theaters, entered unusual spaces, and challenged the role of the passive spectator.
Carolee Schneemann's 1967 work "Snows" involved performers, films, slides, strobe lights, and a revolving light sculpture. The movement of audience members in certain seats would trip an electronic system that activated elements of the installation. Art wasn't just sitting there anymore and you weren't supposed to either. Video has allowed artists to document performances that are fleeting and seen by few, giving it form, allowing it to live on and be represented in museums, galleries, libraries, and archives.
Some of these performances were public and others private, performed by the artists only for the audience of the camera. Bruce Nauman made a number of films in the late '60s in his studio, just him and the camera, recording his actions as he performed self-directed tasks like bouncing in the corner or walking in an exaggerated manner around the perimeter of a square. His rationale was, "If I was an artist and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art." Here, the artist's body was the raw material and the process of making the work itself.
From the beginning, video art has excelled at analyzing itself and the technologies that create it. Anthony McCall's 1973 "Line Describing a Cone" is just that: an animated film of a white dot on a black background that traces a circle and becomes a thin, arcing white line. It's projected on to a wall in a room with mist from a smoke machine and the beam of light forms a three dimensional hollow cone. Unlike traditional cinema consumed by a reclining spectator, these moving pictures are sculptural, filling the whole room and begging the viewer to walk around even through the projection, but video art doesn't just examine its own existence and it lives far outside galleries.
Since its inception, it's been able to exist in public spaces of many kinds, able to integrate into life in ways a single fragile oil painting simply cannot. For Dara Birnbaum's work "Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman", she isolated and repeated the moment in the TV show when Linda Carter as Diana Prince transforms into a superhero. The piece was first shown not in an art context, but broadcast on cable TV. For the first time, new technologies made possible the remix culture that in time would become second nature.
Artists pulled from the ocean of existing media and freely adapted it for their own purposes. This was not TV as a device for conformity and control, but as a means of expression and opposition. Video can follow artists out in the world, documenting guerilla performances, and recording actions of all kinds. It can share voices and images and stories of those far from the centers of the art world. It has allowed artists to share personal accounts, like Howardena Pindell's 1980 recounting of the instances of racism she'd encountered in life.
Like no other medium, video has been an enormously powerful and elastic tool for addressing and exploring identity and reconsidering histories. As technology has progressed way beyond the Portapack, artists have pushed available technologies to do remarkable things and make possible images and experiences that far outstrip blurry little images on monitors, although those can be pretty cool, too.
The internet has allowed video art to not only be shared far and wide, but to also exist within and through online platforms. The category has expanded to include experiences in virtual and augmented reality and the line between video art and not video art is blurrier than ever.
Poppy: Celebrities are important. Celebrities are important.
Sarah: But it's always been blurry. That haziness is a reminder that art doesn't belong to galleries or museums and it isn't created by people who are fundamentally different than you. Art is what we collectively decide it is and artists are people who make art, including you.
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Sarah: So when you see a glow emerging from a darkened gallery or a pair of headphones danging seductively from a hook, take a leap into the unknown. Revel in not knowing what will happen next. Trust that it can widen your understanding of what can be done with new technologies beyond what's prescribed by our corporate overlords. Let it help you get to know your world a little better, to understand what film is, what TV is, what digital moving images are, and begin to fathom the complexity of the layered, tabbed, archived digital atmosphere we're all breathing.
Pipilotti Rist has likened her video installations to handbags because, she says, "There's room in them for everything: painting, technology, language, music, lousy flowing pictures, poetry, commotion, premonitions of death, sex, and friendliness". Video art doesn't really describe what this is very well, but neither do any of the other names, really. Video is a catch-all term, describing a moving image captured on magnetic tape or in digital format, but video comes from Latin, meaning 'I see' and in the way it reflects how we now understand and process and see the world, it works well enough.
Video: I wanna love you. Yes and you treat you right. I wanna love you. Yeah, everyday and every night night. We sing together, yeah, yeah, with a roof that's over our heads, we share the shelter of my single bed. We'll share the same roof, yeah, yeah.


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The Civil Air Patrol is routinely tasked by FEMA and local public safety officials with taking aerial photographs. This collection comprises nearly 30,000 photos taken over the Hurricane Harvey study area, between August 19, 2017 and June 2, 2018. The majority of this collection were taken over southeast Texas from August 10 to September 2, 2017. These were originally uploaded to the web using the GeoPlatform.gov imageUploader capability, and hosted as a web map layer . For this Harvey collection, I exported the dataset of photo location points to a local computer, subset it to the Harvey event, and created a shapefile, which is downloadable below. The photos and thumbnails were not included in this archive, but are attribute-linked to the FEMA-Civil Air Patrol image library on Amazon cloud .
Note: The cameras used by the Civil Air Patrol do not have an electronic compass with their GPS to record the viewing direction. The easiest way to determine the general angle is to look at consecutive frame counterpoints to establish the flightpath direction at nadir and adjust for the photographer's position behind the pilot looking out the window hatch on the port (left) side of the aircraft. The altitude above ground level is typically between 1000-1500 feet, so it's easy to locate features in reference orthoimages.
The Civil Air Patrol is routinely tasked by FEMA and local public safety officials with taking aerial photographs during damage events, for use in understanding damage impacts and for Search & Rescue. This collection comprises nearly 30,000 photos taken over the Hurricane Harvey study area, between August 19, 2017 and June 2, 2018. The majority of this collection were taken over southeast Texas from August 10 to September 2, 2017. These were uploaded to the web using the GeoPlatform.gov imageUploader capability, and hosted as a web map layer . For this Harvey collection, I exported the dataset to a local computer, subset it to the Harvey study area across TX-LA-MS-AR, and created a shapefile, which is downloadable below. The photos and thumbnails were not included in this archive, but are attribute-linked to the FEMA-Civil Air Patrol image library on Amazon cloud .


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Medical Malpractice – Limitation of Actions – Amended Complaint – Relation Back
40 Fla. L. Weekly D1035d
Torts — Medical malpractice — Limitation of actions — Amended complaint — Relation back — Trial court erred in granting substituted defendant's motion for summary judgment on ground that statute of limitations had run where mistake in naming proper defendant was merely a misnomer, all the parties knew which entity the plaintiff intended to sue, and there was substantial identity of interest between the original defendant and substituted defendant — Moreover, incorrectly named defendant engaged in extensive discovery and did not reveal that it was not the proper defendant until after statute of limitations had run — Plaintiff not at fault for failing to inquire further after original defendant made conclusory statement in its first affirmative defense that it was "not a proper party to this action," an assertion which was legally insufficient and inconsistent with its conduct in engaging in discovery
PAUL MAY, individually and as legal guardian of Jean May, Appellant, v. HCA HEALTH SERVICES OF FLORIDA, INC., d/b/a Blake Medical Center; FRANCISCO ESPARZA, M.D.; DAVID DIVITA, M.D.; and PINNACLE MEDICAL GROUP, P.A., Appellees. 2nd District. Case No. 2D13-5626. Opinion filed May 1, 2015. Appeal from the Circuit Court for Manatee County; Peter A. Dubensky, Judge. Counsel: Celene H. Humphries and Tyler K. Pitchford of Brannock & Humphries, Tampa, and Gene Odom and Michael Valen of Martinez Odom Law Group, P.A., Brandon, for Appellant. Karen S. Cox and Joshua P. Welsh of Bush Ross, P.A., Tampa, for Appellee HCA Health Services of Florida, Inc. No appearance for remaining Appellees.
(MORRIS, Judge.) Paul May, individually and as legal guardian for Jean May, appeals a final summary judgment entered in favor of HCA Health Services of Florida, Inc., d/b/a Blake Medical Center (the Medical Center), in the Mays' medical negligence action. The Mays' original complaint listed Blake Medical Center Auxiliary (the Auxiliary) as a defendant. During the pendency of the case, the Auxiliary filed a motion for summary judgment wherein it asserted that it was entitled to judgment because it was not a healthcare provider and did not employ healthcare professionals.1 The Auxiliary and the Mays then entered into a stipulation for the Medical Center to be substituted for the Auxiliary as a defendant. However, once the Medical Center became a defendant in the case, it filed a motion for summary judgment arguing that the statute of limitations had run. The trial court granted summary judgment on that basis. Because we conclude that the mistake in naming the proper defendant was merely a misnomer, that all parties knew that the Mays intended to sue the Medical Center, and that there is a substantial identity of interest between the Medical Center and the Auxiliary, we hold that the trial court erred by granting a final summary judgment, and we hereby reverse.
I. FACTS
In November 2008, Mr. May took Mrs. May to the Medical Center's emergency room. The Medical Center admitted Mrs. May under suspicion that she may have been suffering from a stroke. However, the neurologist who evaluated her concluded that her symptoms were nothing more than disequilibrium and vertigo and recommended her discharge. A second doctor at the Medical Center came to the same conclusion, and Mrs. May was discharged.
A few hours after her discharge from the Medical Center, Mrs. May returned because her physical condition had significantly deteriorated. A third physician examined her, ordered a CAT scan with contrast of her brain, and ultimately diagnosed her as suffering from a severe stroke. Mrs. May is now wheelchair bound, unable to speak, and is permanently incontinent.
In March 2011, the Mays filed a complaint against the two physicians who originally discharged her. The Mays also named the Auxiliary as a defendant believing it to be the Medical Center. In addition to sharing similar names, the Medical Center and the Auxiliary share the same legal counsel and the same physical address. In filings with the Florida Secretary of State, the Auxiliary lists the Medical Center as its principal place of business along with listing the Medical Center's physical address as both the Auxiliary's mailing address and the Auxiliary's registered agent's address.
After receiving the complaint, the Auxiliary's counsel filed a generic answer denying all of the Mays' claims and listing affirmative defenses, most of which are common to tort litigation. Although the Auxiliary generally denied the Mays' allegations that it was a hospital or held itself out as a hospital and that it had any hospital-patient relationship with Mrs. May, it did not explain the nature of the Auxiliary or its relationship with the Medical Center. Only one of the affirmative defenses came close to revealing that the Auxiliary was not the medical provider for Mrs. May. In the first affirmative defense, the Auxiliary stated it was "not a proper party to this action." There was no factual explanation provided as to why the Auxiliary was not a proper party. Two other affirmative defenses were more vaguely worded, though it was argued to this court that they could also be interpreted as alleging that the Medical Center was the proper defendant.
In May of 2011, the Mays filed a motion to strike several of the Auxiliary's affirmative defenses. On that same day, the Auxiliary began serving notices of its intention to serve nonparty subpoenas on various medical-related entities and providers in an effort to collect Mrs. May's medical records. Between May 2011 and August 2012, the Auxiliary sent subpoenas to at least eighty-three of Mrs. May's nonparty medical providers. In June 2011 and February 2012, the Auxiliary served over thirty-five requests seeking copies of various medical records from other entities.
In its March 2012 motion for summary judgment, the Auxiliary revealed its relationship to the Medical Center; the Auxiliary also revealed that it was not a licensed healthcare provider or facility. Notably, this was after the statute of limitations had run. In response to this information, the Mays and the Auxiliary entered into a joint stipulation acknowledging that the Mays had mistakenly named the Auxiliary as defendant and substituting the Medical Center in the Auxiliary's place. The stipulation specifically provided that "[d]efendants do not waive any affirmative defenses, including but not limited to the statute of limitations."
Prior to the entry of the stipulation, the Auxiliary had failed to respond to outstanding requests for copies of records pending from other defendants. After the Medical Center was substituted for the Auxiliary as a party to the action, the Medical Center fulfilled seventy-three of those requests.
In October 2012, the Mays filed their amended complaint naming the Medical Center as a defendant in the case. The Medical Center filed its answer and affirmative defenses, adding the affirmative defense that the statute of limitations had run. The Medical Center subsequently filed its motion for summary judgment based on the statute of limitations argument.
In their response to the Medical Center's motion for summary judgment, the Mays asserted that the Auxiliary had "not conducted discovery or otherwise participated in this lawsuit in any manner." This was despite the fact that the Auxiliary served nonparty discovery requests. The Mays explained that
[a]lthough [the] Auxiliary, by and through legal counsel at Bush Ross, P.A., answered the original complaint knowing Plaintiff incorrectly named the hospital where the alleged medical negligence occurred, it was [the] Medical Center, by and through the same legal counsel at Bush Ross, P.A., that conducted all discovery and participated in every aspect of this pending litigation.
Thus it is clear that the Mays' theory of misnomer was predicated on the idea that the Medical Center was acting through the Auxiliary when serving the nonparty discovery requests. The Mays also asserted that the Medical Center was estopped from challenging its substitution into the case because the trial court approved the stipulation of substitution between the parties on the basis that the Mays had incorrectly named the corporate defendant.
At the summary judgment hearing, the Medical Center's counsel argued at length that there was no overlap or identity of interest between the Medical Center and the Auxiliary, but even if there was such an overlap, that fact would not be sufficient to permit the amended complaint to relate back to the filing of the original complaint. The Medical Center's counsel also argued that the Medical Center "did not engage in discovery . . . until the parties had been changed out and the right defendant was in" and that, therefore, this was not a case "where there was any kind of lulling."
In November 2013, the trial court granted the Medical Center's motion for summary judgment. In doing so, the trial court found that the complaint filed against the Auxiliary was not a misnomer because the Medical Center was a separate corporate entity and that the Auxiliary's answer should have placed the Mays on notice of their mistake. The trial court also relied on Gray v. Executive Drywall, Inc., 520 So. 2d 619 (Fla. 2d DCA 1988), finding that there was no overlap of interest between the Auxiliary and the Medical Center because the Auxiliary did not provide medical care. Lastly, the trial court noted that the stipulation between the Mays and the Auxiliary specifically stated that the affirmative defense of statute of limitations was being reserved.
" 'Summary judgment is proper only if (1) no genuine issue of material fact exists, viewing every possible inference in favor of the party against whom summary judgment has been entered and (2) the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.' " Hardey v. Shell, 144 So. 3d 668, 671 (Fla. 2d DCA 2014) (quoting Armiger v. Associated Outdoor Clubs, Inc., 48 So. 3d 864, 869 (Fla. 2d DCA 2010)). We review a final summary judgment de novo. Volusia Cnty. v. Aberdeen at Ormond Beach, L.P., 760 So. 2d 126, 130 (Fla. 2000).
We first note that the Medical Center contends that because the Mays did not file a reply in response to the Medical Center's answer and affirmative defenses, the Mays have waived any argument that the action is barred by the statute of limitations because a misnomer occurred and/or because there was an identity of interest between the Auxiliary and the Medical Center. However, the Mays filed a response to the Medical Center's motion for summary judgment wherein they raised the misnomer issue and asserted, somewhat inartfully, that the Medical Center had been acting as the Auxiliary when it engaged in discovery. And the transcript of the hearing reveals that the trial court was clearly aware of all of the arguments being made. Thus we are not persuaded by the Medical Center's preservation argument. Cf. Corya v. Sanders, 76 So. 3d 31, 33 (Fla. 4th DCA 2011) (holding that defendant waived reliance on New York law because (1) she relied on Florida law in answer and affirmative defenses and failed to file any response or affidavits in opposition to the motion for summary judgment and (2) there was no transcript of the motion hearing provided). Further, the Medical Center never raised the issue of the Mays' failure to file a reply before the trial court. Thus, it cannot make a tipsy coachman argument on that basis here. See Fitzsimmons v. State, 935 So. 2d 125, 128 (Fla. 2d DCA 2006) (holding that where State failed to raise alternative argument below and thus defense did not have an opportunity to respond, "it would be improper to rely on the 'tipsy coachman' doctrine to affirm the trial court's ruling").
On the merits then, the issue is whether the Mays' mistake in naming the Auxiliary in their complaint constitutes a misnomer for which relief is available. Ordinarily, if a plaintiff sues the wrong corporate party, "the mistake cannot be remedied after the period of limitations has elapsed." B & H Sales, Inc. v. Fusco Corp., 342 So. 2d 105, 107 (Fla. 2d DCA 1977). However, there is an exception where, after the limitations period has run, "a substitution of a corporation as a party defendant for another corporation amounts to no more than rectifying a misnomer." Id. In that situation, "the statute of limitations will not be a bar," id., and we allow the amendment of a complaint and relation back to the original filing where the new party will not be prejudiced, see Arnwine v. Huntington Nat'l Bank, N.A., 818 So. 2d 621, 624 (Fla. 2d DCA 2002). "Thus, relation back will usually apply when the new party 'knew or should have known that the plaintiff had made a mistake or was guilty of a misnomer as concerns the correct identity of the defendant so that the added party was deemed to have suffered no prejudice by being tardily brought in or substituted as a party.' " Arnwine, 818 So. 2d at 624 (quoting Kozich v. Shahady, 702 So. 2d 1289, 1291 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997)).2
In B & H Sales, Inc., the plaintiff sued a corporation by the name of Sunshine Associates, Inc., regarding a contractual dispute. 342 So. 2d at 106. Sunshine Associates filed various defensive pleadings including an answer with affirmative defenses. Sunshine Associates also responded to discovery requests. Id. It was only after B & H Sales moved for summary judgment that Sunshine Associates revealed that the correct name of the defendant was The Fusco Corporation, which had been doing business as Sunshine Associates. Id. at 106-07. On those facts, we concluded that applying the statute of limitations to bar the amended complaint would be "manifestly unjust" because the mistake in naming the defendant was merely a misnomer. Id. at 107. Thus, we held that the amended complaint related back to the original pleading. Id.; see also Schwartz v. Metro Limo, Inc., 683 So. 2d 201, 203-04 (Fla. 3d DCA 1996) (holding that where incorrectly named defendant filed a motion to dismiss and an answer with affirmative defenses and actively participated in discovery, it "led the plaintiff to believe that the correct defendant had been sued" and that the plaintiff was therefore entitled to amend its complaint to correct the misnomer); Galuppi v. Viele, 232 So. 2d 408, 410-11 (Fla. 4th DCA 1970) (similar).
In addition to an incorrectly named party's active participation in the litigation, there are other factors that courts have considered in holding that a misnomer occurred. See, e.g., Darden v. Beverly Health & Rehab., 763 So. 2d 542, 543 (Fla. 5th DCA 2000) (same law firm, same corporate address, overlapping directors, and same registered agent); Schwartz ex rel. Schwartz v. Wilt Chamberlain's of Boca Raton, Ltd., 725 So. 2d 451, 453 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999) (same officers, same registered agent, and same attorney); Kozich, 702 So. 2d at 1291 (same address, phone, and fax numbers, overlapping officers, directors, and shareholders, same registered agent, and same attorney); Metro Limo, Inc., 683 So. 2d at 203 (similar names, same premises, same principal operating officer, same registered agent, and same attorney); Palm Beach Cnty. v. Savage Constr. Corp., 627 So. 2d 1332, 1333-34 (Fla. 4th DCA 1993) (overlapping officers and directors, shared consolidated financial and registration statements, same attorney, same registered agent, and same premises with shared, single telephone line). Some of those factors are present in this case.
We acknowledge that in Gray, we rejected the claim that the plaintiff's mistake in failing to name an additional defendant (as owner of the originally named defendant) constituted a misnomer despite the facts that both entities had some common ownership of stock, occupied the same office building (though in different offices), used the same person to sign contracts, the same attorney, and the same insurance carrier and despite the fact that the proper defendant knew of the litigation and would not have been prejudiced by being added as a party. Gray, 520 So. 2d at 620-21. But Gray does not control the outcome in this case. This is because in Gray, the originally named defendant "did not conduct the type of extensive discovery aimed at prolonging matters until the statute of limitations expired." Id. at 621.
Here, in contrast, the Auxiliary — the incorrectly named defendant — filed an answer and affirmative defenses. The Auxiliary's counsel, who also happens to be counsel for the Medical Center, then engaged in discovery, including serving subpoenas on eighty-three of Mrs. May's nonparty medical providers and serving thirty-five requests for copies of various medical records from other entities. It was only after the statute of limitations had run that the Auxiliary, for the first time in its motion for summary judgment, explicitly revealed its relationship to the Medical Center and that it [the Auxiliary] was not a licensed healthcare provider or facility, i.e., it was not the proper defendant.
While we do not dispute that a defendant has "no obligation to advise [a] plaintiff who[m] to sue," Gray, 520 So. 2d at 621, we also adhere to the principle that "[t]he trial of a lawsuit should be a sincere effort to arrive at the truth." Cabot v. Clearwater Constr. Co., 89 So. 2d 662, 664 (Fla. 1956)). "It is no longer a game of chess in which the technique of the maneuver captures the prize." Id.; see also Metro Limo, Inc., 683 So. 2d at 203 (agreeing that the general rule that a defendant does not have an obligation to advise the plaintiff of his mistake in naming the proper defendant is inapplicable where the incorrectly named defendant, through its overt acts, lulls the plaintiff into a false sense of security) (citations omitted). The Auxiliary's conduct in responding to the complaint and engaging in discovery up to the point of filing its motion for summary judgment — in conjunction with the facts that the Auxiliary had a similar name to the Medical Center, shared the same physical address as the Medical Center, utilized the same counsel as the Medical Center, and used the Medical Center's physical address for purposes of mailing and for service of process — led the Mays to believe they had sued the correct party. The mistake here amounts to nothing more than a misnomer and it would be "manifestly unjust" to apply the statute of limitations as a bar to the amended complaint under the facts of this case. See B & H Sales, Inc., 342 So. 2d at 107. Further, because it was clear from the Mays' complaint that the subject was the alleged negligence of the Medical Center, and because the Medical Center, through its counsel " 'knew or should have known that the [Mays] had made a mistake or [were] guilty of a misnomer' " in identifying the correct defendant, the Medical Center would not be prejudiced by the amendment. Arnwine, 818 So. 2d at 624 (quoting Kozich, 702 So. 2d at 1291); see also St. John's Hosp. & Health Ctr. v. Toomey, 610 So. 2d 62, 64 (Fla. 3d DCA 1992) (holding that defendant estate was not prejudiced by amendment of complaint to correct misnomer in name between hospital and its similarly named fundraising foundation where the complaints were identical except for correction of the name and clearly indicated the subject matter of the suit and where estate had actual knowledge that foundation was the intended plaintiff).
Finally, unlike the trial court, we do not fault the Mays for failing to inquire further after the Auxiliary stated in its first affirmative defense that it was "not a proper party to this action." Such a conclusory statement, without supporting facts, is legally insufficient. See Leal v. Deutsche Bank Nat'l Trust Co., 21 So. 3d 907, 909 (Fla. 3d DCA 2009); Cady v. Chevy Chase Sav. & Loan, Inc., 528 So. 2d 136, 138 (Fla. 4th DCA 1988). Additionally, the Auxiliary's conduct in engaging in discovery was inconsistent with its assertion that it was not a proper party to the action. That conduct, in conjunction with the facts suggesting a substantial identity of interest noted herein, essentially led the Mays to believe that no further inquiry was necessary.
We therefore hold that the trial court erred by entering a final summary judgment in favor of the Medical Center.
Reversed and remanded for proceedings in conformance with this opinion. (ALTENBERND and LAROSE, JJ., Concur.)
1The Auxiliary explained that it provides support services to the hospital, but it does not provide medical care.
2The relation back doctrine is in accordance with the policies that Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.190(c), permitting the amendment of pleadings, "should be liberally construed" and that "cases should be resolved on the merits whenever possible." Caduceus Props., LLC v. Graney, 137 So. 3d 987, 993 (Fla. 2014).