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Infertility Healed Through Faith By Cassie McCullers
This beautiful story of the healing of infertility for Bill and Cassie McCullers is from the book Amazing Grace for Families, as told by Cassie.
All my life, I dreamed of being a wife and mother, and everything I did pointed in that direction — from asking Santa for a baby doll when I was ten to deciding against medical school in my junior year of college.
As the oldest of five healthy children, I just assumed that once I married, the babies would come as easily for me as they did for my mom. My husband Bill and I were introduced to Natural Family Planning (NFP) during our Pre-Cana preparation in 1991. I studied it enthusiastically and carefully in the weeks leading up to our wedding, and as a couple we fully embraced it in our married life.
I became pregnant rather quickly, but miscarried at ten weeks in October 1992. We grieved terribly, but using NFP made us confident we would be able to conceive again promptly. That was not to be the case. Following the miscarriage, we endured a two-and-a-half-year odyssey of doctor visits, lab tests, and a diagnosis of endometriosis that required six months of drug treatment. After all that, we were hopeful to be blessed with a pregnancy. When we passed that milestone, feelings of despair began to creep in. While we tried to remain faithful in the Lord, each month's disappointment opened the door a bit wider to the fear that perhaps we might never conceive a child.
During all that time, faithful, wonderful family members and friends had been lifting us up in prayer. In late January 1995, my mother (a confirmed chocolate-lover) felt led to give up all chocolate as a fasting sacrifice until I conceived. Then, in the early spring of that year, my parents attended a healing Mass in North Carolina. My mother stood in for me when the celebrating priest prayed over her.
In the meantime, my brother John took a pilgrimage to Israel. He and a friend offered prayers at many holy places for Bill and me, and family and friends continued to pray — as did we. By the early spring of 1995, my parents and my sister Julie and her husband told me had been led to pray in thanksgiving for the child we would conceive. They felt the Lord had told them there was no need to "ask" anymore, that it would be done. I could only hope they were right.
In April 1995, Bill and I were very excited, then terribly disappointed, when I was a week "late." On May 3, another healing priest anointed and prayed over Bill and me. On May 5, we attended a healing Mass, after which I planned to ask the priest to pray over me for complete healing of the infertility. The Mass was beautiful, and the presence of the Lord was very strong. (I should mention that every May 5, we've offered special prayers for the baby we lost in miscarriage, as May 5 was the baby's estimated due date.)
On the way to receive Communion, Bill was praying — not thinking about babies, or infertility — when an amazing thing happened. He felt the Lord speak directly to him, telling him that I was already pregnant. Just like that.
Anyone who knows Bill knows he's not one to jump to conclusions without being certain.
When he told me, right away I knew it was true. Crying, we began to praise and thank God for His goodness and the precious life He had formed in me. Based on signs and symptoms of ovulation, conception had to have occurred within 24 hours of this revelation. No lab test in the world could confirm a pregnancy that early, so we waited.
Then, on May 19, my home pregnancy test was positive. A visit to the doctor confirmed it. Matthew arrived on January 21, 1996. In fewer than six years, he was followed by his brothers and sister, Will, Michael and Sarah.
Those years of infertility sometimes seemed like eternity, but the Lord used that time to teach us many things: to trust Him, to pray in the face of hopelessness and to seek His will — all of which are easier said than done. In addition, our experience has given us real sensitivity to couples who struggle with infertility. It is our sincere wish that this story of the power of prayer, God's faithfulness to His people, and the wisdom of His timing, will give new hope to all who struggle with the cross of infertility.
Cassie McCullers is a parishioner at Mary, Mother of the Redeemer parish in North Wales.
Follow Patti at Twitter and like her Facebook pages at Dear God Books, Big Hearted Families and Catholic News & Inspiration on Facebook.
Labels: Amazing Grace for Families, healing through prayer, infertility, infertility healing, Miracle healing, Natural Family Planning, NFP
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In search of a more intimate comic convention experience, he starts one for fans like himself
Steve Kirk is the founder of this year's inaugural InterGalactiCon, a new and smaller comic convention with speakers, artists, exhibitors and workshops.
(Eduardo Contreras / San Diego Union-Tribune)
By Lisa Deaderick
June 14, 2018 11:15 AM PT
Steve Kirk enjoys a good convention, both organizing them and attending, but he'd grown weary of the larger ones with big crowds and lines that lasted for hours. He wasn't alone. Other comic book and science-fiction fans said they'd be interested in going to a convention that was a bit smaller with greater access to panelists and exhibitors. This week, Kirk and his team are bringing InterGalactiCon to San Diego.
"I've traveled, I've talked to people and tried to gather a good idea from other people about what would make a con more attractive to them. …(InterGalactiCon is) speakers and artists and exhibitors, foundational elements of a fan con, but also workshops, events, contests and parties," he says of his inaugural convention at the Town & Country San Diego in Mission Valley Friday and Saturday.
Kirk, 47, spent 17 years previously running the network and audio and visual operations for DEF CON, the long-running hacker convention, and also managed the global information technology groups for PlayStation Worldwide Studio. Today, he owns F7 Productions and is the founder of this week's more intimate comic convention, and lives in Ramona. He took some time to talk about InterGalactiCon, his own fandom and creating a memorable experience for other fans.
Q: Tell us about InterGalactiCon.
A: After leaving corporate life, I took some time off and started thinking about what I wanted to do going forward. I went down the path of, "What do I enjoy doing?" and realized that I missed running cons. After several ideas, I landed on the idea of running a comic con-type of event. There was a big market here in San Diego, many of whom could not go to San Diego Comic-Con International for various reasons, and the more I researched, the more I was getting feedback from fans saying they would love to see the type of show I was envisioning InterGalactiCon to be.
Q: Why did you feel like San Diego could use another comics and science-fiction convention?
A: Part of it was that no one else was doing this "mid-tier" type of convention. There are a number of smaller cons, which often focus on specific areas of the fan market. We found there was a great amount of demand for something more without being the size of San Diego Comic-Con, but still with broad content, accessibility to content, and also wanting to encapsulate it as more of an experience where it could be more interactive.
Q: What didn't you like about larger, more traditional comic conventions?
A: Personally for me, the older I've gotten, the less tolerant I've become of waiting in lines and, let's say, feeling disrespected as someone willing to give my money to a conference and its exhibitors. I've had too many experiences where I may shell out hundreds or thousands of dollars (if you include travel to far-away states) only to be denied various experiences and basically paying a lot of money and only being able to see the exhibits hall. Younger fans tolerate it much better than me. However, as fans grows older, I've also seen people who share my views. Nothing is universally good or bad, but why not look to offer a better experience?
What I love about Ramona ...
I grew up on farms and ranches, so Ramona offers me something that's very comfortable for me: I can have some space around me. Neighbors wave at you as you drive down the road, or they'll stop and talk to you at the mailbox. I lived down in urban San Diego the first few years I lived here, but I found I was close enough to work that when I was having a bad day at the office, by the time I got home, I was still having a bad day. After moving to Ramona, a switch flipped. I suddenly had left the office behind me and I could be home without that sense of burden. It was a distinct change of environment.
Q: How did you want InterGalactiCon be different from a traditional convention?
A: I've heard many stories of fans who, for example, don't go to the bigger cons because they're not comfortable with big crowds. Lots of fans are very introverted, shy, or have social anxiety. I understand this because I'm one of them. They've told me they'd be much more likely to come to something like InterGalactiCon with great content and without the enormous crowds because they'd feel more comfortable.
Q: What can people expect from the first year of this convention?
A: I hope they have an experience that they remember. A great experience leaves you with lasting memories; maybe it's being able to actually share stories with a celebrity guest. Maybe it's a new person you meet who becomes a genuine friend for years to come. Maybe it's a random interaction that sticks in your head, someone who shared a story that perhaps inspired you. Those are the things I hope people will experience.
Q: What do you hope fans get from this experience?
A: Lasting memories. It's about finding something or someone that inspires them. Twenty years ago, it was really tough being a nerd; you still had to hide that from many people. It's gotten much easier as "geek" has become popular, but it still takes courage to expose that very personal, very passionate side of yourself and do something with it. We have an amazing community here in San Diego, and if we can bring people together and strengthen that community, inspire others, that's the experience I hope they can take with them.
Q: Why did you select the people who are appearing as panelists at the convention this year?
A: I wanted people who genuinely looked to connect with their fans and I wanted talks and stories that people could connect with. The people we chose were real, genuine people with some inspiring stories. They had the ability to connect to people. Colin Cantwell, for example, designed the Death Star and it's become iconic in our culture. His work has fundamentally impacted peoples' lives for the last 40 years. That's powerful! To meet the man who did that, whose name you maybe had never heard before, and be able to shake his hand and take a photo with him, that's huge to a "Star Wars" fan.
Q: What comic book/movie/television show turned you into a science-fiction/fantasy super fan?
A: What DIDN'T? My mom bought me my first comic book from a local 7-11 in 1978: "Shogun Warriors #17." I still have it, even though it's in terrible condition. I got into video games around that same time, and computers, as well. I always enjoyed science-fiction television; the original "Star Trek," or the original "Battlestar Galactica." I remember being in third grade and we'd argue at recess about which girl was the prettiest on "Battlestar Galactica." I think these shows helped me see possibilities in terms of science and technology. The future.
Q: When was the last time you participated in cosplay?
A: I wouldn't classify myself as a cosplayer, especially having met so many who truly are. I'm an amateur at best, but even as a kid dressing up as a pirate or a devil for Halloween, the details were important. In college, I have to admit I had a "Star Trek" officer's uniform, which I proudly wore to the first con I ever went to, a "Star Trek" con. Obviously, there's never any chance of me escaping being "Captain Kirk," so I fully embraced it. These days, I'm much more a "Star Wars" fan, so I do keep a set of Jedi robes in my closet.
Q: What is the best advice you've ever received?
A: "Listen." Listen to people, no matter who they are. Everyone brings something to the table, whether they're the CEO or the guy in the mail room. Listen to the universe. Listen to yourself. Don't get such a big ego that you think you know it all. You don't.
Q: What is one thing people would be surprised to find out about you?
A: That I'm a huge introvert. If you take the full-blown Myers-Briggs personality test, the introvert/extrovert scale goes from 32 to 0 to 32. I'm a 31 on the introvert side. People hear me get up and talk in public, or with groups, or do all this press for InterGalactiCon, and then I tell them what a massive introvert I am and they are outright shocked and flabbergasted.
Q: Please describe your ideal San Diego weekend.
A: Meditating on the Ocean Beach cliffs at sunrise, hiking the hills near Poway, and a casual dinner with a nice wine in North Park or Little Italy.
Email: lisa.deaderick@sduniontribune.com
Twitter: @lisadeaderick
Lisa Deaderick
Lisa Deaderick writes about social justice issues in her Sunday column for The San Diego Union-Tribune, as well as influential San Diegans for the One-on-One series that runs on Saturdays. Each week, she's speaking with community activists, academics, volunteers, or other knowledgeable individuals about everything from the benefits of music in education and the creative work of notable artists, to understanding the importance of representation and inclusiveness. A Chula Vista native, Lisa graduated from Bethune-Cookman University in Florida and Columbia University in New York, and has worked at the Union-Tribune since 2008.
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Another Sea of Thieves scale test starts this weekend [updated]
Sea of Thieves is back for more hijinks over the next few days.
Asher Madan
Updated March 2, 2018: The scale test is now live. If you're an Xbox Insider who took part in the previous closed beta test, you should be able to dive into Sea of Thieves and start testing now.
Recently, Rare conducted a few Sea of Thieves scale tests to determine how servers responded during heavy player counts. While the two tests were a success, there is still room for improvement and accommodating even more players.
Today, the developer announced that a third test will start on March 2 at 5 AM EST and end on March 4 at 5 AM EST. The goal of this is to see how the latest multiplayer updates hold up and to hit a higher number of concurrent players than before. Gamers can participate in the scale test by downloading the beta build from the Microsoft Store and playing it over the weekend on Xbox One or Windows 10.
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Growing up, John sang in a church choir in Cambridge, and went on to become a choral scholar at Durham Cathedral whilst studying music at the university there. He then spent a number of years working as a classical singer in and around London, as well as touring further afield. As a choral singer he worked with the choirs of Westminster Abbey, St Paul's Cathedral, St George's Chapel Windsor, the Dmitri Ensemble among many others, as well as singing for numerous live broadcasts on BBC radio and several recording sessions in the famous Studio 2 at Abbey Road. He worked in person with a number of world-renowned composers including Arvo Pärt, Giles Swayne, James MacMillan, John Rutter and the late Sir John Tavener. As a baritone soloist, John gave performances of Bach's B Minor Mass and St John Passion, Harvey Brough/Henry Purcell's A Fairy Dream, Faure's Requiem, Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Coronation Mass and Requiem, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, and Vaughan Williams' Five Mystical Songs and Fantasia on Christmas Carols, and recitals of Schubert, Ravel, and Mussorgsky's bleak song cycle Sunless.
Whilst studying, John also found his way into theatre, mainly as part of the university's sketch comedy group, and as an actor, he went on to work at theatres all over the country, including the Bush and Unicorn in London, the Sheffield Crucible, the Royal Exchange in Manchester, Traverse in Edinburgh, with directors including Omar Elerian, Blanche MacIntyre, Ellen McDougall and Lyndsey Turner; he also performed in several plays and dramas on BBC Radio 4, including eleven series as regular character Will in The Diary of Samuel Pepys.
Throughout this time, he would occasionally be asked to write music for theatre productions, and since 2016, following a winding path back to the training of his degree, he has focussed entirely on this side of his work, now with a busy diary composing and sound-designing for theatre, as well as for radio, podcast and screen.
John is an Associate Artist of The Egg, a dedicated children's theatre attached to the Theatre Royal Bath.
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Вайт-Гейвен () — місто () в США, в окрузі Лузерн штату Пенсільванія. Населення —  осіб (2010).

Географія
Вайт-Гейвен розташований за координатами  (41.058926, -75.785239).  За даними Бюро перепису населення США в 2010 році місто мало площу 3,23 км², з яких 3,16 км² — суходіл та 0,07 км² — водойми.

Демографія

Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у селищі мешкало  осіб у  домогосподарствах у складі  родин. Густота населення становила 340 осіб/км².  Було 535 помешкань (166/км²).

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 0,5 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 3,2 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 20,3 % — особи молодші 18 років, 63,7 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 16,0 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 42,0 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у селищі припадало 85,3 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 85,6 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство  становив  доларів США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  долари (медіана — ). Медіана доходів становила  доларів для чоловіків та  долари для жінок. За межею бідності перебувало 14,4 % осіб, у тому числі 21,8 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 10,5 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило  осіб. Основні галузі зайнятості: освіта, охорона здоров'я та соціальна допомога — 20,5 %, виробництво — 11,9 %, мистецтво, розваги та відпочинок — 11,3 %.

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Джерела

Містечка Пенсільванії
Населені пункти округу Лузерн (Пенсильванія)

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Card games can be intimating to gamers new to the genre, conjuring up the image of grey-bearded men in dimly lit rooms playing secret games where the rules are only known to the select few and are passed down through generations. Even with digital versions, I myself find my interest waiving as soon as I see the 100 odd page wiki that accompanies some of the more famous ones. Who has time for that? I just want to play a game! Insane Robots aims to open up the genre by striping away the complication whilst maintaining a surprisingly level of logic and strategy. The developers have even tried to hide the fact that it's a card game by dubbing it a "rogue-lite" 2D strategy game, but will they actually fool anyone or are they just insane?
BASIC – To cut to the chase, in order to win the game, you need to build your attack circuit value higher than the opponents defense circuit and then launch your attack. Both the attack and defense circuits are comprised of 2 cards which you draw randomly from the deck. If the enemy's defense is of equal value or is higher than your attack value, the attack will fail. If it succeeds, you'll take a number of points off the enemies health. Similarly you will also need to ensure your defense circuit is able are able to withstand an enemy assault should they beat you in building their attack circuit quicker. It's basically a simple game of math, albeit more fun than math class. Placing cards on a circuit uses one move and as the battle continues you earn an increasing number of moves per turn. There are opportunities to earn extra moves in each turn by drawing special cards, or even by attaching special augments to your robot, that allow free moves for certain types of cards. Alike most card games, you can actually see the enemies circuits being built before they even launch an attack, this means you'll want to use hack cards and glitch cards to sabotage the enemy and keep your circuit values higher than theirs. As the game progresses there are other neat tricks that can be employed, such as distractions, boosts and doublers though these are all introduced at a steady pace meaning you're never overwhelmed with new information.
Do Until – Insane Robots isn't just a card game, there's also a fun board game to navigate between card battles. Set across a hexagram grid, you are launched into an arena with 9 other robots to beat. Each takes their turn travelling across the map, avoiding hazards like lightening and toxic gas clouds in order to face each other in battle. This is where some strategy comes into play as you soon realize that it's often wise to take on a robot after they've been injured by an environmental hazard or even another robot. In fact, you can let each of the robots take each other out and then beat the last remaining one to earn a victory. Of course that won't earn you the best map score and won't set you up well for the later tournaments! Additionally there are cogs, the game's currency, to find across the board. These can be spent the various vending machines, also littered throughout, where you can replenish health and purchase upgrades. More interestingly, there are mystery spaces where you play a sort of "choose your own adventure" style scenario. Depending on your choices, these may provide you with a small reward or even cause injury if you choose wrongly.
Variables – Whilst there is no card collecting, the game does introduce you to new cards types at regular intervals, all of which will become part of the randomized deck during battles. These can be gained by winning tournaments or by finding them in your travels across the game board. Augments can also be earned or purchased in vending machines, which can give your robot an advantage during both the map segments, for example by providing immunity to toxic gases, or during a card battle by allowing you to draw cards for free. This steady pace of new mechanics keeps the game fresh and challenging to the end. There are also newly playable robots to unlock after each tournament, though they don't seem to offer any major changes other than a cool new sprite to chose from. I personally just picked to play as the ones I liked the look of best, to no adverse effect.
Missing Parameters – Unfortunately the game's narrative isn't up to much. Some dull tale about a robot rebellion and robots losing their memory. To be fair we're here for the card battles, not the next War and Peace, but the story still feels tacked on rather than an integral part of the single-player campaign. It's a shame as the framework is there to deliver some decent lore, particularly during the board sections when you come across some role-playing style conundrums. Should we hack this terminal or save this robot from a swamp? Who cares, as it'll be forgotten about after the next turn.
Error 404 – The game can be played single player against the AI or against other players either online or offline. Unfortunately, I was unable to find any other players online. A lack of player base is not necessarily the game developers fault, however, it serves as a reminder of design choices that could have been made such as cross play with other platforms, a free to play model, or perhaps even just an old-fashioned demo to pull players in.
Overall Insane Robots is a well presented, fun little card battler. Its simplicity makes it an ideal game to start with if you're new to card games, and the difficulty curve is spot on meaning you'll be continuously challenged until the end and beyond. Whilst a multiplayer mode is available, given the lack of player base, you should view this as a single player game. However, the story could have done with some more depth to make the game a true standout; in fact, I would happily waive the multiplayer aspect for some better lore. That said, Insane Robots is an otherwise bright and cheerfully entertaining game for both newcomers and card game fanatics alike.
Insane Robots was developed and published by Playniac. It was released July 13, 2018, for $19.99. A copy was provided for review purposes.


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Manager Karl Robinson admits his side deserved their 2-0 defeat to Leyton Orient on Saturday afternoon.
Goals from O's duo Gary Sawyer and Kevin Lisbie inside the final ten minutes condemned the Dons to their first loss in five, a result which sees them remain four points adrift of the play-offs with only three games left to go.
And when speaking to the media after the match, Robinson refused to make any excuses in a frank assessment of his team's performance.
The Dons boss said: "We deserved to get beat two-nil. We were poor today and I can't make any excuses because, as a group, we just weren't good enough.
"I can't put my finger on why. The preparation has been the same, as it always is, but today it looks like we stopped doing what we do best and I'm frustrated because we've been playing so well recently.
"Unlike against Shrewsbury, when we were by far the better team, and unlike the defeat to Crewe, where we just weren't at the races for half an hour, today we weren't good enough for the full 90 minutes and I can't defend myself or the players after that. It's unacceptable.
"It's difficult to take because we'd put ourselves in a wonderful position with recent results and we had chances to win it today, which adds to the frustration.
"We were second best all over the park and, although, I'm not questioning the players' effort, Orient just worked a lot harder than us. To be fair they didn't play in the week while we've been playing Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday, Tuesday over the course of the last few weeks but I expected a lot more from my team today."
The Dons, though, have a chance to bounce-back on Tuesday evening when they travel to Essex to take on Colchester United at Weston Homes Community Stadium.
Victory over the U's could see the Dons revitalize their play-off push and manager Robinson is fully aware his side must take maximum points from Joe Dunne's outfit if they are to keep their promotion hopes alive.
"If the team don't bounce-back then they'll find themselves finishing in mid-table, which isn't acceptable.
"Our target is 73 points and so it's still possible to achieve what we want to achieve, but we're not hiding from the fact that if we would have won today we would be in a much stronger position, with both Tranmere losing and Swindon losing. We could have been right in the mix tonight, so I'm disappointed."
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Afghanistan officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located within south–central Asia. Afghanistan is bordered by Pakistan in the south and east; Iran in the west; Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan in the north; and in the far northeast, China.
Afghanistan is a unitary presidential Islamic republic with a population of 31 million, mostly composed of ethnic Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras and Uzbeks. It is a member of the United Nations, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the Group of 77, the Economic Cooperation Organization, and the Non-Aligned Movement. Afghanistan's economy is the world's 108th largest, with a GDP of $64.08 billion; the country fares much worse in terms of per-capita GDP (PPP), ranking 167th out of 186 countries in a 2016 report from the International Monetary Fund.
Health in Afghanistan is unsatisfactory but slowly improving. The Ministry of Public Health oversees all matters concerning the health of Afghanistan's population. According to the Human Development Index, Afghanistan is the 15th least developed country in the world. Its average life expectancy at birth is reported at around 60 years. The country's maternal mortality rate is 396 deaths/100,000 live births and its infant mortality rate is 66 to 112.8 deaths in every 1,000 live births.
Global prevention of preterm birth, maternal and infant mortality. Preventing/reducing PTSD for survivors, families and providers. Preventing and reducing health care provider shortages.
Since 2002, the improvement of health care in Afghanistan has been great. According to USAID, "9 percent of Afghans lived within a one-hour walk of a health facility." Today, over 50 percent of the population has access to a health care facility, the infant and child mortality rates have decreased and maternal mortality rates have declined as well.
The country's turbulent history, filled with war and internal strife, has contributed a deteriorated health care system. The old Taliban regime stifled access to adequate medical facilities and professionals. With the help of groups like UNICEF, WHO and USAID the Afghan people are seeing tremendous progress within their country.
On May 16, 2016, a campaign to vaccinate every child under five years of age for polio was launched.
Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only two countries still struggling against the illness. According to WHO, the campaign could put an end to the disease in the next few months.
This is just one example of the efforts being made to improve health care in Afghanistan. U.S. support in the country has also led to success in fighting tuberculosis. Data from 2012 reports daily TB treatments to have a 91 percent success rate.
Women's health has improved immensely over the last decade. With the help of the U.S. government, more trained midwives were available in Afghanistan. As a result, by 2010, 60 percent of women had care prior to birth. This is an enormous step forward from 2002 when only 16 percent had this same access.
Despite its progress, the country still has a long journey ahead in improving the health care system. According to the Thomas Reuters Foundation, nearly 1.2 million Afghans have been internally displaced.
These individuals have little to no access to healthcare, which is a major problem as they also struggle for food and clean water. Violence against medical facilities has not helped the issue either. In 2015, 42 people were killed in a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz.
Increased foreign aid and peace efforts are necessary to solve the health care crisis in Afghanistan. This will involve supporting organizations already involved in the country as well as increased pressure on foreign governments for humanitarian action.
Improving women's access to medical care is helping reverse troubling trends in Afghanistan, one of the world's most dangerous places to bear children.
A March of Dimes report card shows the preterm birth rate has worsened from the previous year in 30 states.
As the country's preterm birth rate rises again, health professionals and organizations say they're taking steps to address issues like inequitable access to prenatal care.
The March of Dimes premature birth report card notes the rate of premature births rose to 9.9 percent in 2017 in the U.S, up from 9.8 percent in 2016. In looking at all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, the maternal and infant health nonprofit reports the rate has risen for the third year in a row.
Earlier this year, Johns Hopkins University researchers reported that American babies are 76 percent more likely to die before turning one than babies in other wealthy countries like Canada, France or Japan, per Vox.
March of Dimes reports high stress levels can cause a baby to be born premature — earlier than 37 weeks — or a baby that weighs less than 5.5 pounds, and those born too small or too soon face greater risk for other health problems. An American Academy of Pediatrics study has found children born prematurely face higher risk of hospitalizations, doctor visits, and societal costs down the road.
Reasons for preterm birth can vary, but March of Dimes points to inequities in quality health care across the country; rates are higher in poverty-stricken communities.
Race, too, plays a part from the womb. Women of color are 50 percent more likely to deliver a preterm baby, and babies of color experience a 130 percent higher death rate than white infants, the report states.
In the past few years, racial disparities have worsened, NPR reports. Chronic stress from racism may be to blame: research has shown it's connected to a greater risk of preterm birth among black women.
Giving birth prematurely brings greater risks for moms, too. Mothers of babies born prematurely experience a high rate of postpartum depression, and researchers now recognize the experience associated with having a baby receive care in a NICU can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder, per The Atlantic.
"The experience of the neonatal intensive-care unit, the birth of a premature baby — it's a very different kind of trauma from what we call single-incident trauma, like someone in a car accident or even a sexual assault," Dr. Richard J. Shaw, psychiatry and pediatrics professor at Stanford University's Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital, told The Atlantic.
The monetary cost of preterm birth is another blow. One study found preterm births cost employer-sponsored health insurance plans $6 billion. Even after insurance coverage kicks in, parents might be on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The March of Dimes report card showed the preterm birth rate had worsened from the previous year in 30 states. Mississippi and Louisiana were the states with the highest rates, at 13.6 percent and 12.7 percent. Vermont, with a rate of 7.5 percent, was the only state to receive an A grade.
Among the country's cities with the highest number of births, Irvine, Calif., had the lowest rate — 5.5 percent — while Detroit had the highest, at 14.5 percent.
But progress was made in some states, with efforts like greater collaboration among March of Dimes, state officials and health care providers in Rhode Island; addressing issues like smoking and early elective deliveries in Raleigh, N.C.; and tailored programs like group prenatal care in Knox County, Tenn. Each location saw its preterm birth rate drop.
Group prenatal care may be making a difference in South Carolina, too. Per Vox, infant deaths there have dropped 28 percent since 2005, and experiments like Dr. Amy Crockett's — holding large group appointments where women receive prenatal care — could be a contributing factor.
Women who've gone through these appointments are less likely to have premature babies, Vox reports, and appreciated that the group appointments offered a bit of community with women in the same situation.
"South Carolina has absolutely been at the forefront, from a state perspective. I think they do serve as a model for what can be done nationwide," Jessica Lewis, Yale University infant health researcher, told Vox.
The availability, well-being, safety and development of our Neonatal Womb/Preterm Birth Community healthcare partners must be a community priority. Our access to healthcare is critical to the health and vitality of our community.
Health workers are at high risk of violence all over the world. Between 8% and 38% of health workers suffer physical violence at some point in their careers. Many more are threatened or exposed to verbal aggression. Most violence is perpetrated by patients and visitors. Also in disaster and conflict situations, health workers may become the targets of collective or political violence. Categories of health workers most at risk include nurses and other staff directly involved in patient care, emergency room staff and paramedics.
WHO, ILO, ICN and PSI jointly developed Framework guidelines for addressing workplace violence in the health sector to support the development of violence prevention policies in non-emergency settings, as well as a questionnaire and study protocol to research the magnitude and consequences of violence in such settings. For emergency settings, WHO has also developed methods to systematically collect data on attacks on health facilities, health workers and patients.
We are sharing this article/data to represent an example of healthcare targets of collective or political violence. Violence and lack of healthcare access significantly traumatizes our neonatal womb/preterm birth community globally, increasing preterm birth rates and infant and maternal mortality.
We are sharing this article as an example of healthcare targets perpetrated by patients and visitors.
A new report by the AMA Council on Science and Public Health responds to increasingly common violence directed at physicians and other health care professionals where they work, looking at the trends in violence, solutions that have been tested and barriers to addressing the problem. The AMA adopted policy to help prevent violent acts in the health care setting.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that workplace assaults from 2011 to 2013 were 23,540-25,630 annually, with upwards of 70 percent occurring in health care and social service settings. Health care workers are three to four times more likely than other private sector employees to sustain injuries that involve days of work missed.
One of the biggest obstacles to fully understanding the scope of the problem and taking corrective action is the fact that many incidents go unreported. "Reasons for not reporting can be as simple as health care workers not knowing what constitutes an act of workplace violence or a reporting process that is too cumbersome and time consuming," the report said. "Other reasons for not reporting include a perception that workplace violence is 'normal' or a part of the job, fearing the response they may receive when reporting these events (blaming the victim), and lacking support from leadership to encourage reporting." Some hospitals and health systems are taking steps to prevent violence, according to the report. They range from more traditional facility safety to more clinical approaches. Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, for instance, has installed metal detectors at its entrances to prevent people from bringing weapons into the buildings. In the first six months of screening, the hospital confiscated 33 handguns, 1,324 knives and 97 chemical sprays.
The Veterans Health Administration, meanwhile, flags patient records to help clinicians and others identify patients who may pose a threat to themselves or others. Patients are flagged in tiers, one for those who are high risk for violent or disruptive behavior based on a history of violence and credible threats, and another for patients with other high-risk factors, such as drug-seeking behavior, a history of wandering or spinal cord injuries.
New policy calls on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to develop and enforce a standard addressing workplace violence prevention in health care and social service industries.
The AMA will encourage Congress to provide additional funding to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to further evaluate programs and policies to prevent violence against health care workers, and asks the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to adapt the content of their online continuing education course on workplace violence for nurses into a continuing medical education course for physicians.
The AMA is urging all health care facilities to adopt policies to reduce all forms of workplace violence and abuse; develop reporting tools that are easy for workers to find and complete; make prevention training courses available; and include physicians in safety and health committees.
Updated policy also encourages physicians to take an active role in their safety by participating in training to prevent and respond to workplace violence threats, report all incidents of workplace violence and promote a culture of safety within their places of work.
I sat knee to knee with a nurse practitioner at a school-based clinic in rural Ohio. Choking back tears, she described a patient she couldn't get out of her head: a middle-school girl, accompanied by her mother and a social worker. Just days prior, the girl was dropped off at her father's home for the weekend. Before the promised Friday night football game, she discovered him unconscious on the bathroom floor. Within the hour, paramedics were laying a sheet over his body. Another victim of an opioid overdose in a region of the country that has been devastated by the epidemic.
That was only part of the story.
As I spoke with the NP, she described the girl entering the exam room, listless and distant. Mom was shouting at the social worker and insisting it was a "good thing" the girl's father was "finally" out of the picture. Her daughter would get over it, she said.
The NP noticed the girl furiously scratching the back of her head. She lifted the girl's hair to examine her scalp.
Lice. Hundreds of nits covered the girl's head, with spots rubbed raw and scabbed over. She had likely had them for weeks, maybe longer. The girl looked down at her feet in shame. Her mother, picking up on the encounter, eyed her daughter with disgust.
"And just like that," the NP said, "the mother left. She just left. She couldn't stand to look at her own daughter." She began to cry.
"How do you process that?" I asked.
What we're witnessing isn't a failure to thrive in America's clinics; it's a failure to act in America's communities.
Her story is no different than hundreds I've listened to over the course of the year — along the southern border, in community health centers, in prisons, on Native American reservations, in the hallways and exam rooms of some of the most esteemed academic medical centers in our country.
I listened to these stories as part of my work with Primary Care Progress, a national nonprofit working to strengthen primary care teams and clinicians. As I spoke with several health care providers about the realities of their work, I expected to hear the usual concerns: the rise of the electronic medical record, cumbersome administrative burdens, the frenetic pace and long hours. These pain points certainly came up.
What I didn't expect to discover, however, was our own central role — my role as a patient and member of the public — in so much of their professional trauma. Burnout is a real issue, and we're contributing to it.
It's easy for those of us on the outside the burnout epidemic to wonder why professionals so skilled at healing seem unable to heal themselves. Indeed, who among us doesn't feel overworked and undervalued?
But there's something deeply disturbing about this growing crisis in medicine. What we're witnessing isn't a failure to thrive in America's clinics; it's a failure to act in America's communities.
Take, for example, the brutal shooting in Thousand Oaks, California, this past November. In a hospital waiting room, a trauma surgeon changed her bloodied scrubs. She stood in front of a bathroom mirror to rehearse the name of a victim so she didn't accidentally say the name of the one she worked on an hour earlier. Then, donning her starched white coat and well-trained detachment, she met with the family to notify them that their 22-year-old son was dead. Her team had done all they could. She was sorry. Later that day, she mourned the deaths. Alone.
Days later, a row between the National Rifle Association and health care professionals ensued over the NRA's remarks that doctors should "stay in their lane" when it comes to gun violence. Providers hit back with a powerful, viral social media campaign to draw attention to their critical role in treating victims of gun violence.
While the NRA and clinicians nationwide debated the issue, an important point was missing from the dialogue: Gun violence shouldn't have to be physicians' responsibility; preventing it should be in the public's responsibility.
Yet there are countless ways in which we — the public — abdicate that responsibility, instead putting the onus on clinicians to treat victims of our hate, our neglect, and our bigotry. Community health workers offer care in homeless encampments and outpatient drug treatment facilities nationwide. Nurses treat thousands of children in detention facilities on America's southern border. Health care providers work with millions of incarcerated men and women in our country's overcrowded prisons.
At a recent visit to a community health center in suburban Seattle, I asked a group of doctors to share the best part of their week. One clinician noted that after days of negotiating with a local power company, she was able to get her patient's electricity turned back on. "It was important," she said, "because she's on medication that requires refrigeration." Another glowed when talking about the clinic's new food pantry that had opened to serve its food-insecure patients.
All that is laudable — and an absolute travesty. It's a sobering testament to the fact that America is content to neglect social and structural determinants of health.
William Osler famously remarked, "Listen to your patients; they're telling you their diagnosis." We also need to listen to our clinicians. Story by story, they're telling us that our nation is in crisis.
Those of us who aren't in clinics or emergency rooms every day can look away when we see injustice. Health care professionals don't have that luxury. While they're checking their clothes to make sure there's no visible blood before they break the news to a family, the rest of us listen to so-called experts tell us it's "too soon" to address gun reform in the wake of another mass shooting. While an oncologist tries to figure out how to treat a mother's cancer when she can't afford her medications, policymakers explain why it would be imprudent to tackle health care coverage or rising prescription costs.
Our health care providers don't get to turn a blind eye to symptoms of America's divisions and inactions. They also don't get to decide who deserves treatment. The victim or the shooter. The immigrant or native born. The nationalist or the progressive. For clinicians, they're all patients. But health care professionals do suffer the consequences of inaction.
William Osler famously remarked, "Listen to your patients; they're telling you their diagnosis." We lso need to listen to our clinicians. Story by story, they're telling us that our nation is in crisis. Too many people are dying too unnecessarily from too many treatable conditions by too many factors that we can control.
They may have done all they could, but the rest of us haven't.
Why should the public care about the well-being of a well-heeled workforce? Because when the problem is on us, so is the solution. Instead of asking physicians if they're burned out, let's start asking: Did we do all we could to heal our nation? Maybe then we can be a part of healing the healers.
A special thanks to Dr. Krisda Chaiyachati for your important contribution to this piece.
Working in the healthcare industry can be both gratifying and challenging. The unrelenting chronic stress of being exposed to life and death issues, long hours and loads of work can progressively evolve into burnout. If fact, the odds are pretty high that burnout will affect every healthcare professional at some point in their career. Burnout is defined as the consequence of mental and physical exhaustion that is caused by stress resulting in depersonalization and a profound decrease in personal accomplishment.
If you still feel that you are not getting enough out of mindful techniques, and are still feeling emotionally vulnerable, chronically stressed and overwhelmed, seek help. Seeing a therapist can help you process your feelings and put things in better perspective, which can help you successfully implement the strategic techniques that will help you move toward a healthy work-life balance.
Expectant women who increase their intake of omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids can reduce the risk of premature birth, according to a new study published in the Cochrane Review.
"We know premature birth is a critical global health issue, with an estimated 15 million babies born too early each year," said Associate Professor Philippa Middleton from Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth and the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI).
Infants born prematurely are at greater risk of a range of long-term conditions including visual impairment, developmental delay and learning difficulties.
Middleton and a team of Cochrane researchers have been looking closely at long-chain omega-3 fats and their role in reducing the risk of premature births; particularly docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) found in fatty fish and fish oil supplements.
lowers the risk of having a small baby (less than 5.5 pounds or 2,500g) by 10 percent.
"There are not many options for preventing premature birth, so these new findings are very important for pregnant women, babies and the health professionals who care for them," Middleton says.
This review was first undertaken back in 2006. At that time, the researchers had concluded there wasn't enough evidence to support the routine use of omega-3 fatty acid supplements during pregnancy. Over a decade later, however, this updated review concludes that there's high quality evidence for omega-3 supplementation to be used as an effective strategy for preventing preterm birth.
"Many pregnant women in the UK are already taking omega-3 supplements by personal choice rather than as a result of advice from health professionals," Middleton said.
"It's worth noting though that many supplements currently on the market don't contain the optimal dose or type of omega-3 for preventing premature birth. Our review found the optimum dose was a daily supplement containing between 500 and 1000 milligrams (mg) of long-chain omega-3 fats (containing at least 500mg of DHA) starting at 12 weeks of pregnancy.
Below are some additional links to organizations with information that may be useful for those caring for preterm newborns or dealing with the loss of a baby.
First Candle is one of the nation's leading nonprofit organizations dedicated to safe pregnancies and the survival of babies through the first years of life. Their current priority is to eliminate stillbirth, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and other Sudden Unexpected Infant Deaths through research, education, and advocacy programs.
The International Stillbirth Alliance is a nonprofit coalition of organizations dedicated to understanding the causes of and working on the prevention of stillbirth. Their mission is to raise stillbirth awareness, promote global collaboration in the prevention of stillbirth, and to provide appropriate care for parents who have lost a baby to stillbirth.
SANDS supports anyone affected by the death of a baby, works in partnership with health professionals to improve the quality of care and services offered to bereaved families, and promotes research and changes in practice that could help to reduce the loss of babies' lives.
The TEARS Foundation is a non-profit organization that seeks to compassionately assist bereaved parents with the financial expenses they face in making final arrangements for their baby who has died.
March of Dimes helps moms have full-term pregnancies and focuses on researching problems that threaten babies' health.
Hayden's Helping Hands is a non-profit foundation that assists Oregon and Washington families after the birth of a stillborn baby by paying for a portion or all of their hospital delivery medical expenses.
UCalgary's Abhay Lodha shows early caffeine treatment of premature babies born less than 29 weeks' gestation has no long-term negative effects on brain development. Calgary mom Avril Strachan says she's pleased to learn the results of the study as her daughter, Anna, was treated with caffeine.
Born prematurely at 27 weeks at the Foothills Medical Centre, Kyle and Avril Strachan's baby, Anna, was given caffeine to help her breathe and to boost lung function.
The team examined data from followup assessments conducted at age 18 to 24 months. During these followups, children were assessed for their cognitive, language and motor development using the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, a standardized scoring system to assess developmental functioning in infants and toddlers.
Now two years old, Anna has completed multiple followup assessments and is participating in dance classes, gymnastics lessons and swimming like a fish, says her mom.
This study was conducted with data from the Canadian Neonatal Network and the Canadian Neonatal Follow-up Network, which is supported by the Maternal-Infant Care Research Centre at Mount Sinai Hospital. Abhay Lodha and Dianne Creighton are associate members of the Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute.
As the New Year approaches and we create our lives with vitality and curiosity one of the most important things we can choose to do daily is to connect with Source and engage in peaceful connections within and throughout. May Peace be with us as we journey.
Afridun Amu was the first Afghan athlete to internationally represent Afghanistan in surfing. He participated in the International Surfing Association World Surfing Games in Biarritz, France in May 2017. Amu also won the first official Afghan surfing championship (men) in 2015 in Ericeira, Portugal. He is the reigning Afghan surf champion.
Amu was born in Kabul, Afghanistan on June 23, 1987. He spent his childhood in Moscow, Russia, where his father worked as a diplomate. His family moved to Germany as political refugees in 1992. He graduated in law, cultural science and design thinking. He works as an expert in Constitutional law at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law and is a lecturer on Design thinking at the Hasso Plattner Institute.
At 29, surfer Afridun Amu is thrilled to be participating in his sport's world championships in Biarritz, and even more so to be representing his native country: land-locked Afghanistan. A political refugee, Amu grew up in Germany, and hopes his performance this week might help people to see his country differently.


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D.33A (COPY) Allegory of the Virgin, London
For an Unexecuted Fresco at S. Maria delle Lagrime, Arezzo
D.33A. (COPY?) London, British Museum, no. 1950-11-11-48.
Fig.D.33Aa
Fig.D.33Ab bw
Pen and dark brown ink, brownish and brownish gray washes, over black chalk, with ruled perspective lines and light squaring in black chalk; 32.4 x 25.5 (the drawing is contained within a quarter-circle with the arc at the right, and the sheet cut just outside the outlines of this arc and the straight sides at left and bottom); laid down; wm?. Inscribed in ink in the bottom margin: Cao [?], and in pencil on the mount: After Rosso. French XVI cent. Rene Boyvin?
Carroll, 1961, 452, 453, Fig. 15, as a copy of a lost drawing by Rosso for the Lagrime project.
Carroll, 1964 (1976), I, Bk. I, 187-195, II, Bk. II, 298-300, D.29, Bk. III, Fig. 87. Carroll, 1966, 169, 173.
Fagiolo dell'Arco, 1970, 110, Fig. 227, as by Rosso, and as reflecting his interest in alchemy and its myths.
Julian Klieman, in Giorgio Vasari, 1981, 104, under no. 2.
Darragon, 1983, 51, 53-54, n. 8.
Ciardi and Mugnaini, 1991, 122, apparently refer to this composition.
Franklin, 1994, 237, 246-250, Pl. 196, as a copy after Rosso, and as showing Five Images of the Virgin.
D.33B. (COPY) Turin, Biblioteca Reale, no. 15662.
Fig.D.33B
Pen and ink and wash over traces of black chalk, 23 x 15.3 (the sheet is cut into an arc at the upper right); laid down on a very slightly and faintly larger sheet and the drawing very slightly and faintly extended at the upper left and right; wm?.
Bertini, BdA, 1952, 312-314, as no. 15652, and as a weak copy of a lost drawing by Rosso resembling his Throne of Solomon in Bayonne, but of the French period because of the resemblance of the rays of the dove to those of the bird in Rosso's Pandora and Her Box in the École des Beaux-Arts.
Bertini, 1958, 51, no. 381, the same as in 1952 but as a copy of that drawing either of the Italian period or of the French period.
Carroll, 1961, 453, n. 29, as a copy of the same drawing copied in the British Museum drawing.
Carroll, 1964 (1976), II, Bk. II, 298, under D.29.
Franklin, 1994, 237, 246, 248-250, Pl. 195, as a copy after Rosso, and as showing Five Images of the Virgin.
D.33B (COPY) Allegory of the Virgin, Turin
The two drawings show, the Turin one only partially, a drawing by Rosso that can be related to the frescoes projected for the half-lunettes in the atrium of S. Maria delle Lagrime in Arezzo. What is represented in the complete British Museum drawing is most probably identifiable with the description of one of Rosso's cartoons for this project that Vasari, in 1568, gave as: "quando l'Arca federes è portata da Mosè, figurata per la nostra Donna, da cinque virtu circondata." Although the Ark of the Covenant is not actually shown, the stairway in the drawing could be the one that led to it, and from which the dove descends. Vasari mentioned five virtues and these could well be the five young women in the drawing. It seems highly unlikely that there was another, but lost, composition for another of the half-lunettes of this project that also showed five female personifications.1 Furthermore, the style of the drawing – its figures, its composition, and its draughtsmanship – is very similar to that of Rosso's Throne of Solomon in Bayonne (Fig.D.34), which corresponds to another cartoon for this project that Vasari described. The Turin drawing also bears an old inscribed attribution to Rosso. Thus while neither the Turin drawing, which is certainly a copy, nor the British Museum drawing, very well executed and possibly by Rosso himself, can be recognized without any doubts as autograph drawings – the former is too course, and the other perhaps too belaboured – they can be recognized as representing a lost drawing for the Lagrime project. (The Turin drawing shows in black chalk the arm and hand of the foremost kneeling woman in the London drawing drawn over to obliterate them and to make the scene look complete with only three women.) But in spite of its crudeness there is a certain sharpness of line and boldness of tonal contrasts in the Turin copy that, judging from the autograph Throne of Solomon, is more indicative of Rosso's style than what, in these respects, appears in the other copy, suggesting that this copy is not made from the London version. There is no reason to believe that the complete London drawing is by Boyvin or that it was done in France as the note of the mount suggests.
The squaring of the British Museum drawing also appears in Rosso's Throne of Solomon, which is also almost exactly the same size. One other detail of this version deserves mention: the ruled perspective lines in black chalk of the third step from the bottom. In a copy this would not seem to have been necessary, especially when so little of that step appears in the finished scene. One probably has to assume that these lines were in the original drawing and conclude that the copyist wished to be as accurate as possible in recording the autograph drawing. Perhaps such a copy was assigned to one of Rosso's assistants to provide another exact model from which the cartoon would be made and to use when the fresco itself was being executed by an artist other than Rosso.
I am not wholly convinced that the London drawing is a copy. It is not as brilliant in its execution as the Throne of Solomon, which also shows no pentimenti. Could the British Museum drawing, with its perspective lines and light squaring, be a copy by Rosso himself for the special needs of executing this fresco project?
The proportions of the London drawing indicate that this composition was made for the north or south wall of the central bay of the atrium of the church. As the light in the drawing comes from the upper left and as it seems most likely that it is so directed in accord with the light entering from the window in the façade of the church, this scene would most likely have been intended for the right half-lunette on the north wall. The shape of the scene accords with that location. Next to it, on the left, would have been placed the Throne of Solomon with its comparable flight of stairs.
Rosso's drawing would have been done between 28 November 1528, when the Lagrime commission was awarded to Rosso, and mid-September 1529, when he fled Arezzo. However, this composition and the very similar Throne of Solomon are so unlike the two versions of the Allegory of the Immaculate Conception (Fig.D.31; Fig.D.32) for this same project that it is likely that the latter were not done at the same time as the other two. Because of their similarity to Rosso's study of 1528 (Fig.D.29) for the Christ in Glory, the compositions of the Immaculate Conception appear to have been done first, in 1528-1529; the Throne of Solomon and the Allegory of the Virgin as the Ark of the Covenant should be dated later, in 1529.
1 In the London drawing there is a bearded and apparently nude figure wearing a band around his forehead and hair, peering out over his shoulder behind the stairs in the lower right corner of the scene. He looks cross-eyed and sinister, resembling the evil-looking figure in the background of the Borgo Sansepolcro Pietà. Perhaps he serves a similar function, juxtaposed to the five virtues of Pollastra's invention. On the possibility that the drawing may show, or also show, the "scala coeli," and refer to Jacob's ladder, see the Preface to D.31-34, n. 18.


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Q: Go: Confusion about initialization of struct array My Confusion is shown in the following code snippet:
type Ex struct{
    A,B int
}

a := []Ex{Ex{1, 2}, Ex{3, 4}}     //it works, and I understand it
b := []*Ex{&Ex{1, 2}, &Ex{3, 4}}   //it works, and I understand it
c := []Ex{{1, 2}, {3, 4}}   //it works, and I don't understand it
d := []*Ex{{1, 2}, {3, 4}}   //it works, and I don't understand it
e := []*Ex{{1, 2}, &Ex{3, 4}}   //it works, and I don't understand it

What puzzles me most is that both c := []Ex{{1, 2}, {3, 4}} and d := []*Ex{{1, 2}, {3, 4}} can work well. Why can{1, 2} be used to initialize both an object and a pointer?
I found the same question and someone answered:

If  is a pointer like *Ex or *Track, it also automatically initializes correctly:

But I expect a deeper explanation. Is there any official documentation on this question?
I have a good C/C++ foundation, but a Golang novice. Looking forward to your answers, and I thank you in advance.

A: Spec: Composite literals:

Within a composite literal of array, slice, or map type T, elements or map keys that are themselves composite literals may elide the respective literal type if it is identical to the element or key type of T. Similarly, elements or keys that are addresses of composite literals may elide the &T when the element or key type is *T.

This explains the cases c, d and also e.
c := []Ex{{1, 2}, {3, 4}}
d := []*Ex{{1, 2}, {3, 4}}
e := []*Ex{{1, 2}, &Ex{3, 4}}

All these are slice composite literals, and elements are also provided using composite literals. So the quoted part applies. As per the spec, you may omit the element type of T from the composite literals of the elements (and also the & operator if it is a pointer type), in which case it is inferred from the element type of the slice (the "outer" composite literal).
In case of c, {1, 2} is interpreted as a composite literal Ex{1, 2}.
In case of d, {1, 2} is interpreted as &Ex{1, 2}, namely taking the address of the composite literal Ex{1, 2}.
The same applies to case e (since the element type of the slice is the same).
This is a simplification of composite literals allowed by the language spec. Repeating the element type for all elements when it's known from the slice type is simply redundant, makes code longer and harder to read.

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(FILES) This file photo taken on February 05, 2016 shows WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (C) addressing the media and supporters from the balcony of Ecuador's embassy in central London.
WikiLeaks is now 10 years old. SPIEGEL met with founder Julian Assange, 45, to discuss the whistleblower platform's achievements and whether recent criticism leveled at the site is justified.
Assange: A few days after the publication of internal emails from the Democratic National Committee, an entirely false story was put out that we had published the names, addresses and phone numbers of all female voters in Turkey. It is completely false. And it was and is simple to check. Power factions fight back with lies. That's not surprising.
SPIEGEL: Quite a few German journalists have long sympathized with WikiLeaks and also with Edward Snowden. But they aren't impressed with the publishing of the DNC emails. Are you campaigning on behalf of Donald Trump?
Assange: We're not going to start censoring our publications because there is a US election. Our role is to publish. Clinton has been in government so we have much more to publish on Clinton. There is a lot of naivety. The US presidency will continue to represent the major power groups of the United States — big business and the military — regardless of who the talking head is.
Assange: Yes, of course. That's what we do.
SPIEGEL: The German newsmagazine Focus has even has accused WikiLeaks of publishing NSA documents and other documents that have been forged by the Russian secret service. What's your comment on that?
SPIEGEL: Isn't WikiLeaks vulnerable because it isn't possible for you to check and verify every single document submitted and to find possibly forged documents?
Assange: Yes. In fact we have already published more than 650,000 documents on Russia and President Vladimir Putin, most of which was critical. A number of highly critical books were written using this material, like "The Mafia State" by the Guardian journalist Luke Harding. The documents have also gone on to be used in a number of significant litigations, including the Yukos case.
SPIEGEL: You have received political asylum from the government of Ecuador, but have been stuck in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for the last four years. British authorities would like to arrest you and extradite you for interrogation to Sweden. Hasn't this situation handicapped WikiLeaks?
Assange: While many of the established media make losses or go bankrupt, WikiLeaks has survived a major conflict with a superpower, including an unlawful economic blockade by its banks and credit card companies and the detention of its editor. We have no debts. We have not had to fire staff. We have never lost a court case related to our publishing. We have never been forced to censor. Adversity has hardened us. We're 10 now. Just wait until we're teenagers.
SPIEGEL: What has been WikiLeaks' most important publication?
SPIEGEL: Do you regret the fact that you no longer have a cooperation with established papers like the New York Times or the Guardian — and that WikiLeaks is even criticized by liberal papers?
Assange: Let us not compare Edward Snowden's situation with that of Chelsea Manning or Jeremy Hammond, who is also imprisoned in the United States. As a result of WikiLeaks' hard work, Edward Snowden has political asylum, has travel documents, lives with his girlfriend, goes to the ballet and earns substantial speaking fees. Edward Snowden is essentially free and happy. That is no coincidence. It was my strategy to undo the chilling effect of the 35 year Manning sentence and it has worked.
Assange: We believe in what we are doing. It's very satisfying. It's extremely interesting intellectually. Sometimes great moments of justice come out of it. In one case, a man falsely accused left prison thanks to a publication of ours. A lot of people who work for WikiLeaks have the same instinct as me: If you are pushed you push back.