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Cumberland Gap — Dulcimer Beginnings & Ralph Lee Smith
February 9, 2021 Maylee at Beyond Gumbo Interesting Stories and People, Mountain Dulcimer Tablature, Tunes and Techniques Leave a comment
The dulcimer community lost an iconic mountain dulcimer player and historian when Ralph Lee Smith passed away in December. Ralph said that to play the dulcimer, you should also know its roots and beginnings. And he was the person who connected the dots for me; tracing the humble beginnings of the dulcimer and its evolution into the modern instrument that it is today. Ralph collected many early dulcimers. He authored books including two historical ones and seven books of dulcimer tablature. The first tune in his book, "Songs and Tunes of the Wilderness Road," is "Cumberland Gap" alluding to the importance of this part of Appalachia to the mountain dulcimer. Although I never met Ralph, I was well aware of his historical work from his articles in Dulcimer Players News and communications he had with my father.
Ralph's premise is that the modern mountain dulcimer evolved from scheitholts which German settlers brought with them to this country. These German immigrants came to Pennsylvania in the 1700's and then spread out and down through Virginia's Shenandoah Valley on the "Great Philadelphia Wagon Road." Eventually they journeyed through southwestern Virginia and through the Cumberland Gap to Kentucky, Tennessee and further west. Several pockets of musical instrument makers settled in southwestern Virginia and Kentucky. Over the years they crafted and refined the scheitholt into the instrument which we know as modern dulcimers. Ralph Lee Smith's extensive research on this subject and tracking down these old dulcimers is impressive and important to understanding the history of the dulcimer.
Family Scheitholt
Little did I know that the scheitholt hanging on the wall in my parent's home was modeled after one of these old, old instruments. My father found the scheitholt at a garage sale in Harrisonburg, Virginia. It was made by an elderly fiddler luthier who said he got the pattern from a zither dating from the 1700's which he found in a barn. Ralph Lee Smith also knew of this fiddler-maker and confirmed the story of my father's scheitholt shown on the left in this photo.
We also discovered that we own a very old mountain dulcimer crafted by an early Virginia southwest dulcimer maker. Excited that I wanted to learn to play the dulcimer, my father purchased this old Virginia-style dulcimer at a flee market in Verona, Virginia, for forty dollars. It is identical to some of the dulcimers described in Ralph Lee Smith's historical books. These dulcimers have the characteristic teardrop shape, curved handle and drilled holes in the fretboard for sound. To make it easier to tune, my father replaced the wooden pegs with mechanical ones. Alas, the fretboard was badly warped making the dulcimer unplayable. It is now hanging on the wall of my dining room and would have had more value if it had been left untouched.
Cumberland Gap – Mountain Range and a Fiddle Tune
Cumberland Gap is a pass in the Cumberland Mountains which are part of the Appalachian mountain range. The Cumberland Mountains run north to south and the gap is about the only place in the mountain range to forge a passable route to the western frontier of Kentucky and Tennessee. Daniel Boone carved his Wilderness Road through this Gap which opened Kentucky and Tennessee to settlement.
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"Cumberland Gap" is also an old fiddle, banjo and dance tune and was named for these mountains. The tune probably dates to the late 1800s although the exact origin is unknown. Several old-time fiddlers commented on the similarity to old Scottish ballad, "Bonnie George Campbell," except this one is typically played at a faster pace. There are as many versions to the melody as there are musicians and there are numerous versions of lyrics. Some lyrics refer to the Civil War and the fact that the Cumberland Gap changed hands between the Confederate and Yankee forces three or fours times. Other lyrics are more of a nonsense nature and refer to the pioneers living in this region.
Recordings of the Song
The tune has been recorded by many well-known folk singers and artists. Woody Guthrie recorded a version of the song in his Folkways sessions in the mid-1940s. Pete Seeger sang it in the 1950s. The song made it across the Atlantic Ocean where one of Britain's most popular musicians, Lonnie Donegan, recorded a version of it in the "Skiffle" style. The song reached the top ten in the British popular charts for over a month in 1957. ("Skiffle" style is a type of music played with home-made and folk instruments with influences of jazz, blues and Appalachian folk.) Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs recorded a version the song in the early 60s. West Virginia sitting US Senator, Robert Byrd, also recorded it to show off his fiddling skills.
Connection to the Beatles
The song has an interesting connection to the Beatles. Paul McCartney and the other Beatles would have been teenagers when Lonnie Donegan and his "Skiffle' music was popular. The Beatles hosted a television show special in the 1960s, "Around the Beatles." A rockabilly artist, PJ Proby, had an appearance on the show in 1964 and performed the tune, "Cumberland Gap." Thus, the Beatles knew of this song and style of music. Paul McCartney rehearsed "Cumberland Gap" in anticipation of his 1991 "Unplugged" concert. This rehearsal was officially broadcast as part of the Oobu Joobu radio show. (The Oobu Joobu was a radio show created by Paul McCartney in 1995 and included demos, rehearsals, live performances, and unreleased recordings of Paul McCartney and the Beatles). Paul McCartney, however, never performed "Cumberland Gap" before a live audience.
Collections of American Folk Tunes
A version of "Cumberland Gap" appeared in the 1934 book, American Ballads and Folk Songs, by folk song collector John Lomax. The song is also included in the 1960 book, Folk Songs of North America, edited by Alan Lomax, son of John Lomax. Alan was assistant archivist for the Library of Congress folk collection.
This extensive song book had guitar chords and arrangements by Peggy Seeger. Peggy is the half-sister of Pete Seeger and they were family friends of Alan Lomax. Peggy Seeger spent much of her adult living in Great Britain — singing and performing as a member of the folk group, "The Ramblers." She recorded albums, wrote books and was advocate for many causes. In addition to the banjo, Peggy also played the mountain dulcimer.
Playing "Cumberland Gap" on Dulcimer
Over the years, the tune, "Cumberland Gap" has evolved. There are several, almost completely different, melodies to the tune. Contemporary musicians interpret "Cumberland Gap" in numerous ways — part of the folk process. It is played in bluegrass style, a driving old-time fiddle style and even as a slow melodic ballad.
Since the basic tune is very repetitive — only eight measures which repeat for both the chorus and verse — it is a good one for improvising, adding "breaks," combining it with other tunes and changing up the melody. I used the version in "Folk Songs of North America" sung by Peggy Seeger as a starting point for my arrangement and adapted it for the dulcimer.
Peggy Seeger's rendition is unique because there is a "break" in the middle of the song — rather than at the end. These five measures, #13 – #17, break up the monotony of the tune and pick up your interest in what is being played. The measures provide a an opportunity to improvise and make this otherwise simple tune into something creative. It also makes the song an odd number of 21 measures long. If you don't like this "break" it can easily be omitted — just skip from measure #12 immediately to measure #18.
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Ralph Lee Smith's arrangement of "Cumberland Gap" is completely different. It makes another way to play the song! Enjoy them all — and remember the history of this Appalachian region in relation to the dulcimer as told to us by Ralph Lee Smith.
https://www.the-paulmccartney-project.com/song/cumberland-gap/
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/08/01/an-interview-with-billy-bragg/
https://folkways.si.edu/peggy-seeger-a-life-of-music-love-and-politics
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With programs at College Career Centers, students answer the question "What profession do I want?" There might be group workshops for writing a resume or interview preparation. Students connect to companies at career fairs planned by the Career Center. Students definitely benefit from the career fairs, yet only a fraction will get an internship or a post-graduation job offer.
The counselors at College Career Centers are dedicated and passionate talent professionals. They are skilled at career assessment and career counseling. But they are also understaffed and overworked. Therefore, most College Career Centers focus on programs, not individual student support.
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Matilde Noemí Lalín is an Argentine-Canadian mathematician specializing in number theory and known for her work on L-functions, Mahler measure, and their connections. She is a professor of mathematics at the Université de Montréal.

Education and career
Lalín is originally from Buenos Aires, and is a double citizen of Argentina and Canada. As a high school student, she represented Argentina twice in the International Mathematical Olympiad, in 1993 and 1995, earning a silver medal in 1995.

She earned a licenciatura in 1999 from the University of Buenos Aires. After starting graduate study at Princeton University and spending a term as a visiting student at Harvard University, she completed her doctorate in 2005 at the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation, Some Relations of Mahler Measure with Hyperbolic Volumes and Special Values of L-Functions, was supervised there by Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas.

She became a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, and Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, before obtaining a tenure-track faculty position in 2007 as an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Alberta. She moved to the Université de Montréal in 2010, earned tenure as an associate professor there in 2012, and was promoted to full professor in 2018.

Recognition
Lalín is the 2022 winner of the Krieger–Nelson Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society, "for her outstanding contributions to research in Number Theory and related areas". She was named to the 2023 class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, "for contributions to number theory, including the study of L-functions, and for service to the mathematical community".

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I wish I taught at this Uni.
My class would be called Pink and Print 101: The Design of Nightmares.
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Are you feeling like a monster tonight?
I bet that hoodie doesn't come with the extra pair of hands you need, though.
Monsters have all the fun. I bet they're more efficient than mothers.


Get a copy of current issue of Northside Sun. Newspaper knocked it out of the park this week.
I sue you, you sue me. So goes the Ballad of Rudy the Warnock. Former Madison County engineer Rudy Warnock filed an amended complaint against his former client in U.S. District Court last Thursday as he claimed the county owed him $1.448 million. Madison County said "we see you one lawsuit and raise you one lawsuit" as it sued Mr. Warnock and his firm in Madison County Circuit Court yesterday.
Editorial: Legislature should say no to lottery.
Will a state lottery become the pied piper of Mississippi as it plays a catchy tune but leads to ruin? The creation of a state lottery appeared in the legislature this week as two amendments were attached to other amendments to bills that are still alive. Slipping such amendments into bills at the last minute when no one is looking is how Mississippi wound up with bad ideas such as the beef plant. The creation of a state lottery is no exception but it will continue the tradition of Mississippi yet again shooting itself in the foot.
When the 77th NCAA Tournament Final Four is completed next Monday, 308 teams will have competed in college basketball's ultimate showcase.
And here's what you need to know about that. Of those 308 teams, only one has been from the Magnolia State: the 1995-96 Mississippi State Bulldogs.
Doesn't this guy get it although it is San Francisco. Video says it all.
Update: Copy of termination letter is posted below.
Representative and Constable's wives busted for shoplifting spree.
Lottery amendments appear at the 11th hour.
Two amendments that would create state lotteries were slipped into Senate bills that were passed by the Mississippi House of Representatives yesterday. One amendment creates a state lottery and directs the proceeds into a scholarship fund for college students. Who could be against education, right? The other amendment mandates half of the funds (after expenses) are spent on education while the other half is spent on "infrastructure improvements". Will the Senate concur or will the bill go to conference?
The Mississippi Court of Appeals overturned a contempt of court ruling against State Auditor Stacey Pickering today. Harrison County Chancellor Jennifer Schloegel ruled he was in contempt of court after the State Auditor subpoenaed DMR records during the course of the DMR investigation in 2012. Gulf Publishing, the owner of the Sun-Herald, sought the records.
Tinseltown presents Tuskegee Airmen tonight at 7:00 PM. Many people gripe about the poor quality of movies now served up by Hollywood. This is a good one to see.
The Mississippi Board of Medical Licensure is changing the maximum distance a nurse practitioner can operate under a supervising physician's supervision from 15 to 75 miles. The Board filed an amendment to its current regulations yesterday with the Secretary of State. The Board held up its end of an agreement made with the legislature last month after a bill with similar language passed the Senate Committee on Public Health.
Where the hell have you been, Jimmy Braddock?
Representative Kim Campbell stood up on her own two feet and swung at the Republican monolith last week on the floor of the Mississippi House of Representatives. She is normally one of the more quiet members of the house, as the black Democrat has gained a reputation for avoiding racial politics while working with members of both parties and races. However, the airport takeover bill was more than she could stomach so she spoke out against the airport bill during debate. No punches were pulled as she crucified Republicans who had come to her for help in past years. Watch the video. It's always the quiet ones you have to watch out for and Ms. Campbell is no exception.
Belgian catch & release program gets people killed.
Blue family seeks help for burial expenses.
It seemed fitting to post this plea for help on Easter Sunday. The family of Lonnie Blue, Jr. set up a Gofundme page to assist with burial expenses. Mr. Blue was killed by a suspect fleeing police last week.There has been a heated debate over police chases since Mr. Blue lost his life but regardless of fault, a family lost their boy and a child lost his father. The goal is $3,000. Please donate. Link to Gofundmepage.
Several thugs physically attacked Madison County Sheriff Randy Tucker and his son at Shuckers a few weeks ago. The police incident report and mug shots are posted below. The narrative is on page 4 and the mug shots are on pages five and six.
Supremes to Dems: Not so fast.
The airport bill passed the Mississippi House of Representatives this afternoon on a vote of 74-46. It is currently being held on a motion to reconsider. The votes are posted below. All Jackson representatives voted against the bill- except Bill Denny. He just couldn't help himself.
Vance defends JPD on Clinton police chase.
Jackson Police Chief Lee Vance called out the media for "erroneous" reports about JPD's participation in a Clinton police chase of a shoplifting suspect into Jackson Monday night. The chase ended when the suspect crashed into a car driven by Lonnie Blue, Jr. at the intersection of Tennessee and Capitol Street. Chief Vance held a press conference yesterday to dispute Clinton PD's statements that JPD participated in the case. It was also announced at the press conference that JPD will charge driver Donald Jones with second degree murder once he is released from UMMC for the death of Lonnie Blue, Jr.
Hinds County Circuit Judge Winston Kidd issued a temporary restraining order against the Mississippi House of Representatives. House Democrats have used the age-old tactic of asking for the reading of each bill before a vote is taken in an effort to slow the operations of the House to a crawl, or reduce it to the pace of the Jackson City Council in making decisions. Representative Jay Hughes, The Oxford Don (although it is Oxford, Mississippi and not Oxford & Cambridge, although in Mr. Hughes' mind he probably does not distinguish between the two Oxfords), petitioned the court to stop the House leadership from using a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious speed reader that can make twoallbeefpattiesspecialsaucelettucecheesepicklesoniononasesameseedbun seem but a blur.
Basketball Hall of Fame coach Van Chancellor drawls on and on in superlatives when asked about Geno Auriemma and his Connecticut women's basketball juggernaut.
Clinton police released videos of a chase that ended in a fatality early this morning of an innocent bystander. A controversy has arisen since the chase began in Clinton but ended in West Jackson. Clinton officials and JPD dispute whether JPD was notified of the chase or participated.
Shooting suspects arrested in Rankin.
Gun rights advocate Rick Ward filed several Freedom of Information Act requests in January with the city of Hattiesburg to provide him a list of all the guns seized by its police department since 1991. Some of those guns, Ward says, were taken in violation of state law.
He was told that the information would cost him more than $5,000, at $5 per page. Ward threatened a lawsuit and the city later reduced the price of the records to $78. Now the Mississippi Legislature is considering creation of a free, searchable databases of all seized property maintained by the state.
JJ discovered this video of a 1975 party in Belhaven that was shot by none other than Jim Dollarhide. Many people are bracing themselves for the official news about what happened when his house burned down last week. However, enjoy this video shot by a young Jim Dollarhide who was obviously enjoying life at the time.
Jackson Rising: "True monarchs groom their successors."
Jackson Rising is back. The "progressive" group advocating the Jackson-Kush plan posted a video online spelling out their views in no uncertain terms. June Hardwick and her partner call for a boycott of all businesses in all of the cities surrounding Jackson. You can't make this up. Blacks who disagree with this crowd are internalizing "white supremacists". Everything is a Klan plot. Kali Akuno produced the video. Watch it for yourself. A roadmap of sorts is posted below if you don't want to watch the whole video. Pour a drink and enjoy.
A Hinds County grand jury indicted Dr. Michael Molleston in December for felony malicious mischief. The good doctor is a neurosurgeon. He was arrested in December 2014 for allegedly using a golf club to smash the windows of an Audi belonging to Dr. John Davis in the parking lot of the Manship restaurant. The incident allegedly occurred on October 1 although it was not reported to police until October 31.
SOS shuts down cancer "charity"
Update: Judge Priester bound Butler over to the grand jury today. His bond remains at $500,000.
Complete transcript of hearing is posted below. Verrrry interesting reading.
Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith clashed with the Mississippi Attorney General in Judge Melvin Priester's courtroom two weeks ago over convicted drug dealer Christopher Butler. The AG is prosecuting Butler for alleged consumer fraud. However, Mr. Smith showed up unannounced and unexpected at a preliminary hearing and tried to take control of the case. It was a rather colorful hearing as Judge Priester allowed Mr. Smith to have his say and then shut him down. The District Attorney also announced that he had subpoenaed the AG's prosecutors before a grand jury over the case as well and accused Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics agents of doctoring videotapes and trying to frame Butler in a separate case. Mr. Smith even argued that the Attorney General can not prosecute a case for anything in Hinds County without his consent. Judge Priester postponed the preliminary hearing until today "Because of the raucous and unprofessional behavior by Mr. Smith, District Attorney.."
Video of incident and the police report are posted below. The police report provides more details about this incident.
The fight against domestic violence in Mississippi suffered a blow this week as a simple assault domestic violence charge was dismissed against former JPD Deputy Chief Brady Hightower. Ridgeland police arrested Hightower in January in a bank parking lot as he (allegedly) assaulted a female.
Lumumba tries to remove Weill from case.
Chokwe Antar Lumumba, Jr. tried to remove Hinds County Circuit Judge Jeff Weill from a case because Judge Weill allegedly filed a bar complaint against his father. Lumumba sued attorney Toney Baldwin in Hinds County Circuit Court for allegedly interfering with his representation of several clients in Stonewall (Clarke County). Judge Weill denied his motion.
Discount Hunting & Fishing closing.
DJP sues former secretary for embezzlement. She fires back.
The Ben Allen indictment dominated the news last week. Most readers know the story. Linda Brune provided several boxes of Downtown Jackson Partners documents to the State Auditor and the Clarion-Ledger in 2014 while she was employed as a secretary by DJP. Reporter Jerry Mitchell had a field day and garnered several front page headlines for his scoop. However, the media has not reported that DJP and its former employee have been facing off in several courtrooms.
Downtown Jackson Partners sued Linda Brune on December 10, 2014 in Madison County Court for allegedly embezzling $40,439. The lawsuit also states she was "terminated on July 25, 2014 for sharing confidential corporate information with a reporter from the Clarion-Ledger." Ms. Brune is a resident of Madison County.
First Bowie, then George Martin, and now Keith Emerson. A true rock and roll legend died a few days ago, one who was a true virtuoso of the keyboards. His fingers produced magic. No piece was sacred nor safe from his creativity. He produced his own masterpieces and re-worked others. He combined an unmatched talent with an equally unmatched flair for showmanship.
Meet the Dukes, Jackson's own Murder, Inc.
Nothing like seeing a trash-talking, cheating hustler get hustled, except this time, it didn't happen in a pool hall or on the basketball court.
There is some good news to report in this era of government austerity. The Jackson Municipal Airport Authority Welfare Program for lawyers continues to expand. Lawyers billed JMAA $130,530 on the January and February claims dockets. The average monthly bills of $65,265 are an increase of 12% over 2015. The May Firm and Walker Group send four lawyers to each monthly work session and board meeting as well.
Update: Clinton PD has pending charges against this guy: auto theft, possession of a stolen auto, and auto burglary. He is not going anywhere.
Is (alleged) New Stage Theatre carjacker and attempted cop killer Suava Blair going home? A Hinds County grand jury indicted him on December 10 for carjacking, attempted aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, and armed robbery.
Jackson Mayor Tony Yarber made quite a stir when he penned some of his frustrations to paper and posted them on Facebook Friday. Copy of Mayor's remarks. Sales Tax Commission member Pete Perry responded to his comments in a column submitted to JJ that is posted below*.
Jackson native and nationally-renowned recording artist David Banner expressed his thoughts on the Mississippi state flag in an eloquent yet colorful manner. It was not quite to the level of poetry once expressed by Deacon Jones but was much better than the rhyme expressed by Huggie Bear. . Start at 3:50.
The Pearl River Valley Water Supply District issued the following press release.
Dum-dom's partner charged with capital murder.
Update: Harris turned himself in to JPD. He is charged with two counts of capital murder.
JPD issued the following statement about the arrest of Anthony Harris. He is charged with capital murder in a double-homicide that took place last weekend.
Someone's mutts got out during the rain. A lady posted on Facebook "HELP! I need to find their owner!!!!!!! Please call 601-624-5592. Found in pouring down rain! I have them out running errands with me!!!"
The City of Jackson issued the following list flooded streets.
Representative Andy Gipson (R-Glock) submitted the following column to JJ.
A Hinds County grand jury indicted Andre Kennedy on February 26 for kidnapping, armed robbery, and burglary. Kennedy and his accomplice Edwin "Guttalife" Robinson kidnapped a doctor from his Ridgewood home early on a Saturday morning, May 16, 2015. A doctor who just happened to be a competitive shooter. The indictment states the charges are terror-enhanced.* The case is assigned to Judge Jeff Weill.
Ennis Proctor this July will become only the eighth Mississippian inducted into the National High School Sports Hall of Fame. Trust me: No administrator, here or anywhere, could be more deserving.
Lock & load in Jacktown. Murder suspect on the loose.
Lock and load. A murder suspect is on the loose. Consider him to be armed and dangerous. JPD issued the following press release and mug shots.
Update (6:45 PM): Copy of Ben Allen indictment.
Pickering fires back at Robert Shuler Smith, D.A. signed for "receipt of audit case file"
Update (6:46 PM): District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith texted Howard Ballou "This is an ongoing investigation and he (Mr. Pickering) is welcome to come testify under oath."
Original post (3:03 PM): State Auditor Stacey Pickering defended two employees indicted by a Hinds County grand jury in a press release that is posted below. Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith is prosecuting them for allegedly obstructing an investigation of Ben Allen and his use of funds as Executive Director of Downtown Jackson Partners. Pickering minced no words and provided several documents with the statement. Earlier post with copy of indictments.
Update (10:38 AM, 3/11/16): Cases is assigned to Judge Winston Kidd. Judges Jeff Weill and Tomie Green recused themselves.
Update (6:40 PM): Copy of indictment is posted below. The indictment charges him with ten counts of embezzlement and mishandling of Downtown Jackson Partner's funds. The indictment also charges him with spending DJP money on Mayor Tony Yarber's inaugural gala.
Original post (10:40 AM) Multiple sources have confirmed to JJ that Ben Allen was indicted on ten counts. It is not yet known what the specific charges are but sources say they are related to this Jerry Mitchell story that appeared in the Clarion-Ledger in 2014. More information will be posted when available.
Update from Facebook: Thank you for the continued support & prayers for officer Abe Gines Jr. He was treated & released. Thank God for protection.
A JPD officer was shot while responding to a robbery call at 220 Edgewood Terrace. He arrived at the scene and saw a door was breached. He announced himself and entered. A man stepped out of a room and began shooting. The officer was grazed but suffered no serious injuries. JPD and k-9 units are now searching for suspect in surrounding area.
Will Trump crush Cruz? Will Cruz pull off the upset? Can Bill replace Will or will the ex-Champeen take back the title? Stay tuned. Election night is upon us.
Copies of indictments are posted below.
Update (10:44 AM, 3/10/16): Attorney Hiram Richard Davis, Jr. represents both defendants.
A Hinds County grand jury indicted David Huggins and Karei McDonald for "first degree hindering prosecution by obstruction" on February 26, 2016. Mr. Huggins is the Deputy State Auditor and Mr. McDonald is an investigator for the Office of the State Auditor. The indictment states the two acted together to "hinder the prosecution" of Ben Allen.
St. Andrew's getting the lead out.
The water at St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Jackson has "higher than normal" amounts of lead. The school announced the test results in a letter sent to parents of lower school students last week. The letter is posted below.
A Hinds County grand jury indicted Deputy State Auditor David Huggins and Investigator Karie McDonald. The Clarion-Ledger reported the indictments were related to an investigation about Downtown Jackson Partners.
We got ourselves a Senate race tomorrow in Northeast Jackson and Madison County as Bill Billingsley and Walter Michel face off tomorrow at the polls. Feel free to comment below.
Nancy Reagan passed away. She will be missed.
It's time for a document downpour for the weekend. JJ posted several emails written by members of the Mississippi Board of Medical Licensure yesterday. JJ does not want to be accused of cherry-picking so here is the entire batch of emails JJ received from the Board after submitting a public records request. Read through all 683 pages to your heart's content. The batch includes emails, transcripts of the telemedicine hearing, and other correspondence pertaining to the telemedicine issue. 683 pages, although much of the documents are duplicates. However, do not fear, for the Kingfish provided a road map for you to navigate through the batch.
Secretary of State Gigbert Hosemann issued the following press release.
The Jackson Public School District has no records or invoices for professional services that were provided during the $118 million refinancing of bonds that took place in 2015. The District paid $1.2 million in fees to lawyers, financial advisers, and other parties to conduct the transaction. The same issue only generated nearly $550,000 in fees when it was sold back in 2007. JJ tried to obtain the invoices for the professional service fees through a public records request. However, JPS claimed it had no copies of invoices or other records for such services. Earlier post.
The Senate recommitted the bill expanding the "Nurse Practitioner radius" from 15 to 75 miles in Mississippi. Nurse Practitioners had not been allowed to work more than 15 miles from their supervising physician. Senator Terry Burton announced the Board of Medical Licensure agreed to change its regulations to the 75-mile radius. He said the new regulation will appear on the Board's website in 28 days. Senator Burton also said there is currently no limit on how many Nurse Practitioners can be supervised by a physician. There had been a common assumption that state law imposed such a limit but Senators Burton and Dean Kirty said the actual laws did not have a limit. Burton's bill was a committee substitute for a similar one sponsored by Senator Angela Hill.
Update: Bill Clinton will be in town this afternoon.
The Presidential race moves to Mississippi next week and Mississippi is actually getting some attention. For all the gnashing of teeth over protracted nomination fights - elections can be soooo messy - it is nice to actually have a voice in the primary fights. It's much better than in elections past when the fight was over after South Carolina. Here are some updates.
A fight over the use of telemedicine rages behind the scenes at the Mississippi Board of Medical Licensure. Telemedicine is used by tens of thousands of patients in Mississippi as its growth has exploded over the last few years. However, emails and other correspondence show the Board has been waging its own war on telemedicine as it seeks to control the market and limit its use. One board member even calls his employer "shameful" for offering telemedicine to its employees. The Executive Director chews out the board attorney for daring to offer an opinion whether some forms of telemedicine are legal. Other emails show the lengths the board has gone to to regulate the market while avoiding the rules it must follow in doing so. JJ obtained emails through a public records request.
Dilbert: Democrats screwed it up.
It seems our fearless leaders in the Mississippi House of Representatives voted to expand the vaccine exemptions available to children today. The measure passed nine votes and had thirty-three sponsors. The bill will allow parents to obtain vaccine exemptions from out of state-doctors.
Far be it from me to become involved in the Academy Awards controversy about the lack of nominations for African American actors. I hope the people voting know more about it than I do.
Fact is, I only know what I like and what touches me. And one of the 2015 movies that touched me most was "Concussion" – a film starring the immensely talented Will Smith, which dealt with the catastrophic effects of repeated concussions for professional football players.
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Civil Functions, Department of the Army Appropriations, 1955, Hearings ...
By United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee
Senator HAYDEN. Would there be any difficulty in getting the equipment and generators manufactured to go into the dam?
Colonel WHIPPLE. Not in this case, sir. Those contracts have come along well and are on schedule at the present time.
Senator HAYDEN. I know that in other instances there have been delays on the part of the manufacturer of generators and other equipment in the East. But you are sure that would not happen in this case ?
Colonel WHIPPLE. You are correct. sir. That has happened in a number of cases. But those contracts are on schedule as far as this project is concerned.
Senator ELLENDER. Mr. Chairman?
Senator KNOWLAND. Yes, Senator Ellender,
Senator ELLENDER. A moment ago you stated that the initial installation was for 16 units, and intermediate 20 units.
Colonel WHIPPLE. Yes, sir.
Senator ELLENDER. And an ultimate 27 units.
Senator ELLENDER. I notice down here you state that provision is being made for the ultimate installation of 27 units. As I understood you a while ago, you said that something in addition to the installation of the machinery would be necessary in order to provide the 27 units. What is that additional? Why could it not be done now?
POWERHOUSE CONSTRUCTION
Colonel WHIPPLE. Sir, on that I will have to refer you to the peculiar
way in which this project is laid out. If you will turn to page 692 in the justification book and look in the upper left hand corner where the plan is shown you will see that the powerhouse does not extend across the river. The powerhouse required is too long and the river is so narrow at that point that the spillway is placed in the river channel and actually the powerhouse is built by excavating a portion of the bank. It is not necessary to build all of the powerhouse at this time in order to get across the river. The question that you asked is answered by the rather unusual circumstances in connection with the construction of the powerhouse in this particular case.
Senator ELLENDER. I see. Well, now, the powerhouse that you are now erecting or that you propose to erect, will that take care of the intermediate number, that is, the 20 units!
Colonel WHIPPLE. Yes, sir. The structure of the powerhouse will include minimum provisions for the 20, but not for the 27.
Senator ELLENDER. That is what I am saying, just the 20.
Senator ELLENDER. And the remaining 7, you would have to build a complete extension.
Colonel WHIPPLE. Build a complete extension of the powerhouse, on which nothing is being done at this time.
Senator ELLENDER. I see. Thank you. I wanted to clear the record, Mr. Chairman, because I had misunderstood it a moment ago.
Senator KNOWLAND. I think that completes the projects. We now have the advance planning.
General CHORPENING. I would like to make a very brief general statement on advance planning before we get into detail on the projects. The total of the budget request for advance engineering and design, advanced planning, is $2,500,000. The general criteria that we have used in selecting projects under this request is on the continuation of planning projects of good benefit to cost ratio that are already in a planning stage, and, second, to broaden the base of our planned projects by picking up other small projects of high economic benefits-cost ratio.
Of the $2.5 million that is herein included, we have allotted $1,564,000 to 30 flood-control projects, $521,000 to 7 multiple-purpose projects, and $415,000 will go to 8 navigation projects. Colonel Whipple will first testify on the amount we are requesting for the seven multiple-purpose projects.
Senator HAYDEN. Mr. Chairman, I would like to inquire as to what was the request made by the Corps of Engineers of the Bureau of the Budget for this total purpose on which less than $3 million was allowed. How much did you ask for?
General CHORPENING. The total request of the Corps of Engineers within ceiling was $3 million, and over ceiling $3.5 million. We were allowed $2.5 million, sir.
Senator HAYDEN. That is, in your judgment, in the judgment of the Corps of Engineers, $3.5 million could be profitably and well expended on investigative work.
General CHORPENING. $3 million we asked for within ceiling, sir, and $3.5 million over ceiling, or a total of $6.5 million. That was our request to the Bureau of the Budget.
Senator CORDON. Mr. Chairman?
Senator KNOWLAND. Senator Cordon.
Senator CORDON. It occurs to me that if this committee receives all the facts in connection with this appropriation, that we ought to have in front of us, furnished by the Corps of Engineers, a statement, itemized, to indicate what the corps feels should be done with respect to advance planning, whether in connection with a project that has already had some planning, or with respect to one where the planning should start.
If the greater amount requested for planning were available, I believe it would be helpful if we could have in the record a list of the recommendations the corps feels at this time proper if we were to increase the amount to the amount that was originally requested of the Bureau of the Budget.
Senator KNOWLAND. Will you furnish us with that information!
General CHORPENING. We have those lists which we can furnish to the committee, sir.
Navigation projects:
Alabama: Jackson lock and dam...
Halfmoon Bay Harbor
Redondo Beach Harbor
San Francisco Bay, drift removal
San Joaquin River, Stockton deepwater channel
Hawaii: Kawaihae Harbor.
Indiana:
Markland locks and dam, Indiana, Kentucky, and
Ohio..
Calumet Sag Channel.
Kentucky: Greenup lock and dam, Kentucky and Ohio..
Louisiana;
Mississippi River, Baton Rouge to Gulf of Mexico..
Plaquemine-Morgan City, alternate route.
Michigan: Detroit River, Amherstberg channel..
Texas: G. I. W. W. Guadalupe River Channel to Victoria
West Virginia: Hildebrand lock and dam..
Total, navigation projects......
Flood-control projects:
Arizona: Painted Rock Reservoir
Arkansas: Millwood Reservoir --
Carbon Canyon Dam and Channel
Hogan Reservoir
Russian River Reservoir
San Antonio and Chino Creeks.
San Joaquin River and tributaries.
Success Reservoir.
Colorado: Chatfield Reservoir
Connecticut: Hartford (Folly Brook)
Idaho: Columbia River local protection projects.
South Beloit, Rock River.
The Sny Basin.
Greenfield Bayou levee..
Mansfield Reservoir.
Mason J. Niblack levee..
Kentucky:
Buckhorn Reservoir..
Massachusetts: Buffum ville Reservoir.
Missouri: Pomme de Terre Reservoir..
Montana: Billings..
Mathews Canyon Reservoir
Pine Canyon Reservoir
New Mexico: Chamita Reservoir.
Allegheny River Reservoir
Dansville.
Davenport Center Reservoir.
Oregon: Pendleton
Pennsylvania: Bradiord.
Rhode Island: Woon socket
Utah: Spanish Fork River.
Vermoni: Victory Reservoir
Washington:
Collax.
Eagle Gorge Reservoir.
Pullman.
West Virginia: Summersville Reservoir.
Wyoming:
Jackson Hole.
50.000 25, 000 75,000
Total, food-control projects..
Advance engineering and design, fiscal year 1955–Continued
Senator ELLENDER. In that connection, do you have such a list for those 7 multiple-purpose projects on page 36?
General CHORPENING. You have only a list of those within the amount being requested.
Senator KNOWLAND. Senator Cordon's request goes beyond that.
Senator ELLENDER. I understand. I am wondering why it was that
you did not do for others as you did for these seven. General CHORPENING. Information has been furnished on all projects for which we are asking funds, Senator, within the Budget allowed amount of $2.5 million. But I think Senator Cordon is referring to what was asked of the budget under the $6.5 million.
Senator CORDON. That is right.
Senator ELLENDER. I know what Senator Cordon asked for, but do you have in this record the same information as to other projects that you have on page 36 !
General CHORPENING. Yes, sir.
Senator ELLENDER. All right.
General CHORPENING. I should make this clear that of that $6.5 million, 11/2 million was requested to review those projects that we have recommended as deferred for further study in our consideration of the overall backlog, and which General Sturgis discussed at some length in his opening statement before this committee. So, actually, only 5 million of the 612 was for what we can normally consider advance planning.
Senator CORDON. Mr. Chairman, I recognize that this country is faced with a necessity of reduction in expenditures. I want to do what I can to help achieve that aim. I also recognize that we have here, as a result of the critical situation which the country found itself in in 1950, at the time of the Korean debacle, when we followed a program which we have followed since and are following substantially today, of carrying forward only those projects that had already been under construction, and holding to the very minimum any new construction. We are now rapidly getting to a place where a backlog of planned projects becomes far more necessary than it has been in the past when we had a reasonable number of new projects going in each year. For that reason, it seems to me it is particularly essential at this time that we make a careful review of that situation. I would still want to hold the amount to a sound minimum, but I am not certain that this has not let it go below that.
Senator KNOWLAND. I think it is certainly appropriate to have the information the Senator has requested, and the engineers will supply it to the committee.
In furtherance of my statement, of the $521,000 that we are requesting for 7 multiple-purpose projects, all of them have had some planning money in prior years, and the requested funds will place 6 out of the 7 in a position where they could go on into construction should it be desired and directed.
Senator KNOWLAND. Could you give us in each of those seven that are listed there the benefit-cost ratio?
Colonel WHIPPLE. Yes, sir. Do you want that first ?
Senator KNOWLAND. Yes. Give it first so that we can see what they are.
BENEFIT-COST RATIO
Colonel WHIPPLE. Fort Gaines, benefit-cost ratio 1.16 to 1.
Senator CORDON. 1.16?
Colonel WHIPPLE. 1.16 to 1.
Senator ELLENDER. Fort Gaines?
Colonel WHIPPLE. Yes, sir. For Hartwell, 1.48 to 1; Fort Peck, 1.82 to 1; for Libby, 1.82 to 1; for Carthage, 1.55 to 1; for Hills Creek 2.04 to 1, and Ice Harbor 1.19 to 1.
Senator Cordon. What is Carthage ?
Colonel WHIPPLE. Carthage is 1.55 to 1.
Senator ELLENDER. In your original request, the amount asked for multiple-purpose projects was how much above $521,000?
General CHORPENING. The total amount-
Senator ELLENDER. Just for the multipurpose, now.
General CHORPENING. The total amount asked for in our original request on multiple purpose within ceiling was $1,185,000. Over ceiling
Senator ELLENDER. One million what?
General CHORPENING. $1,185,000. Our over ceiling request for the active multipurpose projects was $220,000, making a total of $1,405,000.
Senator ELLENDER. In your within ceiling request, how many more projects had you recommended than the seven that you have mentioned on page 36 of this report?
General" CHORPENING. We asked for only eight projects.
Senator ELLENDER. One more than this?
General CHORPENING. One more than this.
Senator ELLENDER. Which one was left out?
General CHORPENING. Booneville Reservoir in Kentucky.

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"Normally, when telomeres get critically short, the cell commits suicide as a means of protecting the body," says Carol Greider, Ph.D., the Daniel Nathans chair of molecular biology and genetics at Johns Hopkins. Her study, appearing online this month at Cancer Cell, uncovers an alternate response where cells simply - and permanently - stop growing, a process known as senescence.
In an unusual set of experiments, the research team first mated mice with nonoperating telomerase to mice carrying a mutation that predisposed them to Burkitt's lymphoma, a rare but aggressive cancer of white blood cells. Telomerase helps maintain the caps or ends of chromosomes called telomeres, which shrink each time a cell divides and eventually - when the chromosomes get too short - force the cell to essentially commit suicide. Such cell death is natural, and when it fails to happen, the result may be unbridled cell growth, or cancer.
The first generation pups born to these mice contained no telomerase and very long telomeres. These mice all developed lymphomas by the time they were 7 months old. The researchers then continued breeding the mice to see what would happen in later generations. By the fifth generation, the researchers discovered that the mice had short telomeres and stopped developing lymphomas.
When the researchers blocked the suicide machinery in these fifth-generation mice, they were very surprised to find that the mice still remained cancer free.
"We were confused as to what was going on; we thought for sure that blocking the cells' ability to commit suicide would lead to the cancer's returning," says Greider. A closer look showed microtumors in the mice's lymph nodes that had begun the road to cancer, but stopped, falling instead into a state of senescence.
"They don't die, they don't divide, they just sit there in permanent rest," says Greider.
Greider, who won the Lasker Award in 2006 for her discovery of telomerase, says further study of the road to senescence should suggest new ways of preventing or treating cancer by interfering safely with telomerase and the cell-suicide system.
Authors on the paper are David Feldser and Carol Greider, both of Johns Hopkins.


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Syrian refugee families who've resettled in Lambeth gathered for a discussion hosted by SHP with leading politicians about how the borough has worked to provide a welcome to those fleeing the brutal civil war that has torn apart their homeland.
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So far, Lambeth council and SHP have welcomed 23 refugee families, many of whom gathered at the event where the discussion also covered the politics surrounding the refugee's arrival in the UK, and the support they had received since arrival. Lord Dubs told them about his own experience having fled the Nazis and arriving in the UK as a six-year-old boy.
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Cllr Lib Peck, Lambeth council leader, said: "Lambeth is an open, tolerant and compassionate borough – and the way that people have stepped up to help those in need is absolutely testament to that. The crisis in Syria is of such a scale that as a borough we felt we have to act to help those most in need, despite the challenges and the slowness of the UK government to accept refugees."
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Le général Muhammed Akbar Khan (ourdou : محمد اکبر خان), né le  et mort en 1993, est un militaire pakistanais.

Akbar Khan est issu d'une famille rajput, et est né à Chakwal, dans le Pendjab, à l'époque situé dans l'Inde britannique. Il fait une formation militaire puis rejoint l'armée indienne britannique en 1914 pour service militaire, puis obtient un titre permanent en 1920. Il est décoré de l'ordre de l'Empire britannique en 1930. Il est promu major en 1938 puis participe à la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Après la partition des Indes, Akbar décide de rejoindre le Pakistan nouvellement indépendant et son armée. En 1949, alors que le chef de l'armée pakistanaise Douglas Gracey, de nationalité britannique, doit laisser place à un Pakistanais, Akbar Khan est cité parmi les favoris, tout comme son frère Iftikhar Khan. Akbar a notamment pour avantage d'être le plus âgé des généraux pakistanais. Cependant, son frère décède le , et c'est finalement Muhammad Ayub Khan qui sera nommé à ce poste. Akbar sera aussi impliqué dans la « conspiration de Rawalpindi », tentative de coup d'État visant le Premier ministre Liaquat Ali Khan.

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 The ideologies in conflict, 1967, 217 p.
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 The choice of the Arabs versus Zionists cult, 1967, 68 p.
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The Sonic the Hedgehog experience has always been a platform design that more focused on running blazingly fast through the environments. Sonic Rush adds a "boost" element where players can now counterattack enemies waiting in off-screen blindspots. This boosting element is limited, and players will have to build up the power in order to use it, but when it's in stock it becomes incredibly handy and almost necessary to utilize. The new design also introduces a very "extreme games" style move system where players can pull off special moves to score additional points and to boost power. These moves can be pulled off with button and D-pad combinations while leaping in the air as well as grinding on some rails. And, of course, there's the dual screen aspect. The development team use the two screens as one display to give more of a viewable area.


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Astorino spoke to students about this belief on Oct. 16 at an NYU College Republicans event in the Kimmel Center for University Life.
Astorino, who is running against incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo to be the 57th governor of New York State on Nov. 4, said he believes that he and the incumbent should participate in a debate about term limits.
He then opened the floor for questions from an audience of students and faculty. An audience member asked how he might pass term limits without the backing of the state legislature. Astorino said he was willing to go as far as a constitutional convention to ensure a lasting change.
CAS senior and president of NYU College Democrats Sophie Tunney, who attended the event, spoke about the bipartisan nature of term limit reform.
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Crisis counselors, the 'paramedics of mental health,' wage a wrenching battle on the coronavirus front lines
By Gabrielle Glaser
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Missouri crisis counselor Lauren Ochs was just starting her overnight shift one night last month when a man called from a distant state hard-hit by Covid-19. With slurred, incoherent words — and a heavy Upper Midwest accent she could barely make out — he told Ochs he had tried to kill himself earlier in the evening.
She knew she had to act fast, so put the man on hold while she Googled the town where he said he lived. She could not find it. Staving off her own anxiety, she called emergency services in his state and pronounced the name of the place just as the man had. Fifteen minutes later, the dispatcher told Ochs that her team had located the caller and was taking him to the hospital.
The most iconic images of the coronavirus pandemic are, by now, familiar: the exhausted doctors peering from behind a 3D-printed face protector; the nurses covered in garbage bags; the brave first responders who arrive, sirens blaring, to help yet another person who is gasping for air. But there is a much less visible group of professionals, people like Ochs, who are on the front lines of a mental health crisis every bit as wrenching as medical battles waged every day in hospitals.
In ordinary times after an adrenaline-charged call with someone so distraught, Ochs would have been able to take a breath and turn to her colleagues in nearby cubicles at the basement offices of Provident Behavioral Health in downtown St. Louis. But like most people in America, she's working from home — specifically in her 4-year-old daughter's basement playroom.
Suicides of two health care workers hint at the Covid-19 mental health crisis to come
When the crisis center shuttered its doors in April, Ochs had no time to set up the ideally ergonomic home office. She plugged her old-style black console phone into a dedicated phone line that forwards calls from all over the country, and she pulled a couch behind the hanging ice-blue sheets of the TV fort she, her husband, and daughter had created for movie nights.
The 26-year-old St. Louis woman, who was issued a provisional counselor's license in November, is among the thousands of counselors taking calls from fearful Americans trying to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic. And Ochs, like her colleagues around the country, is doing it at a breakneck pace.
Crisis counselor Lauren Ochs and her dog at the home work station she created behind the fort in her daughter's basement playroom. Courtesy Lauren Ochs
The St. Louis hotline, which provides backup service to several other crisis lines including the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, has seen its call volume rise from 557 calls in February to 2,150 in March, a 285% increase. It reflects a national trend: Frances Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for Vibrant Emotional Health, a behavioral health nonprofit that administers the federally funded Disaster Distress Helpline, said that there has been a 338% increase in call volume between February and when the nationwide lockdown began in March.
In the last three weeks of March, the St. Louis hotline recorded 396 callers with suicidal thoughts, of which 65, or 16%, mentioned Covid-19, said Amanda Galloway, a spokeswoman for the center. In April, the number of suicidal callers who were distraught over the coronavirus quintupled. Of 1,018 suicidal callers, 346, or 34%, named the virus as their main reason for calling.
The overwhelming majority of callers are struggling to contain their anxiety, said Jessie Vance, a licensed counselor who is Ochs' supervisor. Often, it is the first time they have asked for help with their mental health (only a small fraction, 15%, of U.S. adults received mental health care in 2018, according to federal data).
Some are worried about their jobs, or going to the grocery story. Others are concerned about their substance use. Many are health care providers or workers who are fearful for their own health, and the safety of their families. Others call out of grief for loved ones who died from the virus, sorrow often deepened by being unable to attend funeral services.
"You never know who's going to be on the other end of the line," said Vance. "Crisis counselors are the paramedics of the mental health world."
Yet they tend to get a lot less attention than other emergency responders, said Jessi Gold, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis. "They are the unsung heroes in a lot of ways, especially now," she said. "We refer to them a lot — yet we don't even know who they are, or how they got into this field."
Some, like Ochs, came from a family that has dealt with alcohol and gambling addiction. She has lost friends to suicide and overdoses, and felt a calling to the field of crisis counseling. "The adrenaline rush suits me," she said.
This crisis is even more overwhelming than the opioid addiction epidemic, and not just because of the volume of calls. Ochs and other crisis counselors are experiencing the same worries and difficulties of social distancing, isolation, and juggling work with child care as their callers. They are helping others navigate the pandemic at the same time they themselves are.
That produces some challenges.
"When I've had suicidal callers before, I've always been able to check in with my co-workers. Then I could decompress on the drive home," said Ochs. "But now everything is blurred together. There's no transition. After taking 30 or 35 calls in a shift, I step over my daughter's 'Frozen' Jenga game and go upstairs to the kitchen for a bowl of cereal."
Often, Ochs feels many of the same emotions as her callers. "They're tired of being home, and we're tired of being home. Behind the scenes, we're having a lot of the same reactions as our callers," she said. "Our job is to be empathic, to listen and be strong. I can't show weakness at work."
"But it's a lot all at once, and this pandemic is sucking a lot of energy out of us," Ochs said.
Meanwhile, her normal coping mechanisms have disappeared, too. She's a regular weight lifter, but her gym is closed. For now, she brings her dog, a pug, to sit next to her during her shift — and hopes she doesn't snore. She puts ocean-scented wax melts in a warmer next to her to help her remain calm. "Little things can add up," she said.
Licensed counselor Nicole Meier, Ochs's colleague, makes a point of taking walks during breaks from her work station at home, and tends to her yard work. The time helps her remain focused.
"It's a lot of pacing ourselves," Meier said. "We're so busy, once we hang up the phone, it rings again right away. And if we get burned out, we can't help other people."
She can spot the exhaustion in her callers. One, for example, told her about becoming enraged after losing a place in line at the gas station. "'OK, so you didn't get the gas pump you wanted, so you started screaming,'" Meier said. Her questions often shift to remind people to add structure to their disordered routines. "I ask, 'Are you eating regularly? Are you drinking enough water? Are you exercising? If not, then get up and stretch, and go get some fresh air. Your mental health is severely impacted by your physical health.'"
Meier, 32, is perhaps more prepared than most to discuss the existential fears the pandemic is creating. She has cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that affects the respiratory and digestive systems, and can often shorten life spans. Her illness has required hypervigilance about germs her whole life, and she has always carried antiseptic wipes and hand sanitizer.
"I've had to deal with death my entire life, knowing I was going to die early," she said. "It's my reality. It doesn't scare me."
The mental health repercussions of Covid-19, experts say, will likely be felt for years to come. "This is traumatic to the nation, it's traumatic to callers, and there's vicarious trauma for the counselors who are hearing these calls day in and day out," said Matt Kudish, executive director of the New York office of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. "They're trained to deal with it, but it's important that they process what it is they're hearing."
At the St. Louis office, Vance is making sure they do, in regular checkins. Ochs, for her part, makes a point of calling friends and family, and is in frequent contact with her colleagues.
"Oh, yes," she said during a recent FaceTime call. "You can't let it build up like the pressure inside a bottle of soda, or you'll explode. And if you explode, there'll be a sticky, sticky mess."
If you or someone you know is considering suicide, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 (Español: 1-888-628-9454; deaf and hard of hearing: 1-800-799-4889) or the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741.
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Nicholas J Levintow says:
Even before the pandemic, there was a mental health crisis in the US. the suicide rate has increased over 30% just since 2001, according to NAMI. Many persons who desperately need mental health services fail to access them due to cost, stigma, lack of information, or other reasons. People struggling with mental illness and disorders also suffer a higher rate of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. The pandemic has only poured more fuel on what was a very hot fire.
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I am an acute psychiatric RN working in California. So many people already struggle with anxiety, fear and panic so, naturally, this epidemic has increased these concerns. If only the media would add mental healthcare
directives with each report I am sure it would create some emotional balance.
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There will be no going back to the OLD NORMAL IN ALL ITS ASPECTS.
The sooner that we can rethink new solutions & routines for taking care of the regular tasks of living, as well as carving out time for thinking new thoughts, the better.
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So much of the fear people are experiencing is generated by media outlets trying to attract eyeballs and clicks. Completely immoral. If people would refuse to watch TV news of any kind, delete any news aggregator apps off their phones, cancel subscriptions to NYT, WaPo, etc., their blood pressure would go down, fear would subside, sleep would improve. And calls to emergency centers would plummet. We've got a pandemic sensationalist headlines! A couple of days ago I followed a STAT link to an article in "The Atlantic" on why the coronavirus is so hard to understand. Not a bad article. But another headline in the magazine was about reopening the economy in Georgia, and actually included the phrase "human sacrifice". I pictured the governor of Georgia on top of Stone Mountain cutting the beating hearts out of state employees.
My belief is there is really no information given by the news about the Virus.
I just looked up the fatality rate it is actually around 4%.
Shame on people for not giving people any information!
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Larry David Kicks COVID to the Curb
The new season is strangely silent on the ultimate social-manners struggle of our time
December 3, 2021 Neal Pollack 1 Comment COVID-19, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David
When HBO announced the new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, everyone–well, not everyone, but anyone who still cares about Curb Your Enthusiasm–said, "I wonder what Larry David is going to do with COVID?" Was he going to be quarantining with Leon? How would Jeff find ways to sneak away from Susie for a round of golf, or a round with his mistresses? Would Larry be a mask shamer? A mask shamee? With a vast raft of new social codes and potential faux pas, this seemed like ripe ground for David's unique brand of angry social-foible humor. How would he respond?
The surprising and disappointing answer? Barely at all. The first episode, revolving around a still-alive Albert Brooks throwing a funeral for himself, ended with a joke where someone thought they were going to the toilet in Brooks's house and instead opened up a closet full of Purell and toilet paper. "He's a COVID hoarder!" Larry David screamed, a full year and a half after COVID hoarding was an issue, and was never really an issue among the rich. So far, there has one other reference to COVID, in passing, and that's it. What a cop-out!
Post-COVID, or mid-COVID endgame, TV shows have taken one of two approaches. They've made COVID central to the storyline, like The Conners or those lousy but popular NBC Chicago dramas, or they've chosen to present a COVID-free reality entirely. The current season of Succession, shot during COVID, doesn't mention COVID at all, and it doesn't factor into the storyline. But Curb doesn't do that. It mentions COVID and then basically ignores it, and that makes the show kind of hard to watch.
In Larry David's Los Angeles, COVID restrictions don't exist. People saunter in and out of restaurants and private homes maskless, without conflict or restriction. I don't know if you've been to Los Angeles during the pandemic, but masking is very much ubiquitous, everywhere you go, even sometimes outside. Larry and pals are constantly dining out, taking meetings, sauntering around, with nary a mask or swab to be found.
Last week's episode began with Larry and Jeff deplaning at LAX and walking through an airport, totally maskless, and so was everyone else. We are literally in an era where people, particularly the bourgeois special people that David likes to satirize, quarantine for three days, or more, after a simple business trip. But in Curb Your Enthusiasm, the only airport travel drama is that Larry doesn't want a short female chauffeur carrying his luggage.
It's not that Larry David is blithely unaware of COVID protocols. As journalist Michael Tracey pointed out (and got raked for) on Twitter this week, the show is paying a dozen people salaries to adhere to COVID compliance standards.
Look at all these COVID personnel required for a single episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, not exactly the most labor-intensive show on HBO. Good luck ever getting rid of this bureaucracy! pic.twitter.com/c90N8GFl8o
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) November 30, 2021
So all the extras in the airport scene had to test multiple times to get onto the set, mask until the cameras rolled, and mask and maybe shielded afterward. But the biggest drama for Larry was an argument at the baggage claim. It's annoying, jarring, and kind of weird.
The new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm is funny in parts. The running gag of Leon trying to find someone named Mary Ferguson to join him on a trip to Asia is especially hilarious. But even that feels discordant. Bopping off to Asia feels like an extreme act of privilege or leap of faith in a world that establishes massive travel restrictions the second someone sneezes in Africa. And yet, ha ha, Larry doesn't like his (unmasked) chiropractor because he has gross underwear.
I don't care what Larry David's point of view is on COVID. If he wants to be a mask enforcer, let him enforce. If he wants to flout the rules, let him flout. If he wants to hypocritically do both at the same time, even better. But in a show that's essentially the ultimate comedy of manners, to deny the manners of the COVID era is to deny reality.
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The currently airing South Korean drama Happiness has a fairly novel take on COVID-19. The basic premise is a zombie outbreak that happens a year or so after COVID-19 is finished, whenever that might be. And much of the story is from a public health response perspective, of people who have lived through COVID-19, and refer to those experiences as a guide for what to do. A lot of the perspective is critical too, with characters pushing for certain procedures not in the interest of public safety but just to exert power over others under the pretext of public safety. Other decisions are portrayed ambiguously, with no clear right or wrong answers. Overall a much more nuanced approach than the lightning rod issue COVID-19 has become in English language discourse.


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Barbados, The Caribbean Nation, Is Now A Republic
by Susan Sun Nunamaker · November 30, 2021
Barbados Parliamentary building at Bridgetown (Attribution: regani, Presented at: WindermereSun.com)
Barbados is holding a ceremony to mark the island's transition to a Republic, with the Queen removed as head of state. The Barbadian government said the time had come to fully leave the Caribbean island's colonial past behind. Barbados gained its independence from the UK in 1966 and has since been a Commonwealth realm. Now it has cut its ties with the British royal family. Its membership of the Commonwealth will continue. Sandra Mason, a Barbadian who has served as the island's governor general is becoming the country's first president. Huw Edwards presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Celestina Olulode in Barbados, in the video published on Nov 29, 2021, "Barbados removes Queen as head of state to become Republic – BBC News", below:
Barbados has become the world's newest republic, officially removing Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state. In an overnight ceremony in the capital, Bridgetown, Dame Sandra Mason was sworn in as president. The Prince of Wales and Barbadian singer Rihanna attended the event, which coincided with the country's 55th anniversary of independence. In a speech, Prince Charles acknowledged the "appalling atrocity of slavery" the Caribbean island had suffered, in the video published on Nov 30, 2021, "Barbados becomes republic removing Queen Elizabeth II as head of state – BBC News", below:
The Queen's realm is smaller tonight. Prince Charles watched on as Barbados removed Her Majesty as head of state, replaced by its first President. One of the new republic's first acts: naming singer Rihanna as a national hero, in the video published on Nov 30, 2021, "Prince Charles in Barbados to see the Caribbean nation become a republic | 7NEWS", below:
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I originally posted this in the other blog but thought it may help here!
What a nice day!It was so good to see both of them for some quality time. Now that we're feeling more settled in the house it was easier for me and for them to relax. I picked them up early from daycare. The first thing we did was come back to the house and walk down to the water. I'll have to look for some pics to post but we're living directly on Lemon Bay. And it's beautiful:o) We sat on the bench and simply watched the boats. The boys were a bit mischievous and were wanting to dangle their feet over the seawall but I wasn't at all comfortable with that. But we ran around the grass and played tag. We watched birds and Noah saw two dolphins.
Then we came back to the house and they were thrilled! I was worried because yesterday didn't go so well....Adam picked out a chair as if he was an explorer and staking a claim. If he had a flag I'm sure he would've planted it in the chair. He's like that. He has his spot. No one else is allowed in it. He'll be playing with a truck having a good time but stop immediately if he sees you sitting in his spot! He gets quite indignant and upset.
Noah kept saying things like "Grandma! you brought our blocks!" then "Grandma, you brought our train!" then "Grandma, you brought our ambulance!" then "Grandma, you brought our movies!" I replied with "of course!"
Then I said to Noah "I even brought mommy's picture!" I hadn't unpacked it yet so we went to the box and we unwrapped and unpacked all Denise's picture. He was thrilled! He held it very delicately. I said "she was so pretty!" and he said "Yeah!" I allowed him to pick the place for the special one we always kept at eye level. Adam later accidently knocked it over and Noah jumped up and instead of scolding Adam, he said "I'll fix it" and gingerly placed it back where it needed to be.
Then we took another walk down to see the boats and sit on the bench.
It was truly a precious time. I was so thrilled to see them happy. Adam is usually always happy unless he's not feeling well. But, Noah is moody. Today was a good mood.