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St. Louis Blues Broadcaster John Kelly Donates Blood to COVID-19 Antibody Research & Donates Plasma for Patients
Photo Credit: Bill Greenblatt
By Kathleen Berger, Executive Producer for Science & Technology
St. Louis Blues announcer John Kelly is among many recovered COVID-19 patients donating plasma for patients fighting COVID-19 and donating blood to be studied in research laboratories through the plasma transfusion program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
Through the program, a few tubes of blood from each plasma donor will be sent to research labs so investigators can analyze the immune response to the COVID-19 virus and potentially develop new tests and treatments for the disease.
Kelly donated his plasma in hopes of saving the lives of COVID-19 patients and he hopes his donated blood for science can help researchers in their effort to treat future patients as well as prevent infection through the development of immunizations.
"I'm not a hero. The heroes are the front line workers, and the doctors and nurses. This is a very small price to pay for me to help. I'm happy to do it and I'll do it as long at they want," said Kelly. "We all want to help people. It's such a simple thing to do, to donate blood."
The Blues play-by-play announcer tested positive for COVID-19 in March.
"I would describe it as worse than any flu you've ever had," said Kelly.
Once recovered, Kelly wanted to help patients fighting the disease. Since antibodies in the blood of survivors target the virus, plasma from recovered patients is transfused into people fighting COVID-19. Because it's not a proven therapy, the plasma is being made available under the FDA's "compassionate use" guidelines.
Dr. Jeffery Henderson is an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Washington University School of Medicine. Henderson is an infectious disease physician and scientist involved in coordinating a network of physicians in the United States who are interested in using convalescent plasma for Covid-19. He's leading the effort at Washington University to study the immune response and develop new therapies.
"We can understand better by studying blood specimens from people after they recovered to see what kind of antibodies are available and what kind of antibodies are produced to the virus," explained Henderson. "Are their antibodies able to prevent the virus from invading a human cell? What kinds of proteins on the virus do all of those antibodies recognize?"
Henderson said donations from COVID-19 survivors are needed for the development of antibody therapies.
"For antibodies that are manufactured and given to people, they (scientists) need to know what characteristics those antibodies should have in the design of monoclonal antibodies that are targeted against the virus, purified antibodies from donors or antibodies produced in a culture system that are basically industrially produced," said Henderson.
The hope is to develop therapies that could prevent or effectively treat COVID-19.
"To prevent illness as a temporary vaccination, almost. Or it can be used as a treatment in replace of, or along with, a drug like remdesivir," explained Henderson. "And they'll help us identify possible antigens that can be used in a vaccine."
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COP21: Three perspectives on the Paris climate deal
In Paris, the world's powers have come together and agreed a global climate deal. Unfortunately, it is a deal that has short-changed the poorest and most vulnerable people as they struggle with the reality of rising sea-levels, floods and drought.
As the talks end, we speak to three people from around the world to get their highlight of COP21, their views on the outcomes of the climate talks, and what they think the next steps for the climate movement are after Paris.
Chloe Bourguignon, Oxfam France volunteer from Strasbourg, France.
While there were many inspirational moments this year, the biggest one for me came ahead of the COP because it made me realise how the movement really was growing. The highlight was being part of the alternative village; in my city over 10,000 people and 130 organisations participated and it was one of the first times when I saw so many people working on different projects come together for the fight against climate change.
For me, the Paris deal is a disappointment but not a surprise, and it only makes me feel like we must push on with the work we've started. As part of a local group in France, I feel we have a really strong dynamic with our volunteers and also with lots of organisations across France. This year, although we know we may have different focuses, it's really clear that overall we can come together and we need to continue this fight.
Chloe here as part of the Oxfam France demonstrations on the streets of Paris
As for what comes next, the aim for me is that we stay focused and together. We need to work out how we keep putting pressure on some topics and continue to bring more people into the movement - to keep it as international as possible, standing in solidarity and working with those being hit hardest by climate change to ensure we can help them to raise their voices on their experiences and solutions. In Strasbourg we'll continue to work together and use climate change as the single fight that exacerbates all others - especially inequality.
Dorah Marema, from GenderCC Southern Africa
The greatest moment for me this year, after many years of work on climate change, was hearing that our Sustainable Livelihoods project won an award at the Women and Gender Constituency for a gender-just solution to climate change. This means a lot for our communities and partners where we are implementing the project. It also encourages the communities to understand that they too are part of the solution to climate change.
The Paris deal has the potential to provide a framework within which our country could start tackling the issue of climate change. It will help facilitate the finance desperately needed to adapt to the already massive disasters arising from a changing climate and to cut the greenhouse gases that are causing this runaway problem. It is an important agreement because even though we all experience climate change differently, it affects everyone.
As a result, it has to be tackled by the broader global community. Our communities are facing so many climate disasters, for example the drought and heatwaves ravaging my country South Africa. There is little hope of growing anything this year, there are the frustrations of water shortages, the many diseases and sicknesses brought by the heatwave and lack of water...I could go on and on. I know that we need to do something urgently but I don't know how this Paris agreement could translate into immediate relief for many of these communities, villagers, smallholder farmers and millions of women and children who are the majority of the victims of these disasters.
Dorah speaking to camera inside the conference centre at COP21
Since I have been here in Paris, it seems there is really little or no commitment and political will from the developed nations to make sure that this agreement is bold in its intention and ambitious in its targets in terms of the finance.
What was not very present for me in these global negotiations is the human side or the human face of the climate change problem. The tension here amongst countries is largely about the economic implications and they forget that if people or humans are wiped off the face of the earth, there will be no countries or nations to develop.
For us the fight will continue at the national level where we will continue to work with communities to lobby our government. They have to be the ones that are pressurised so that they can in turn pressurise the global community to act. We need to see the political will to facilitate access to funds, we need to see small-grants for the smallholders farmers, particularly women. We need to hear immediately when they come back from COP21 what happened there, what is it that we can expect from them in terms of financial assistance and programmes to build capacity of women and grassroots communities to facilitate adaptation.
Shubert Ciencia, Economic Justice Policy and Campaigns Manager with Oxfam in the Philippines
Being from one of the countries that is being hit hardest by climate change and being part of the biggest climate march ever in the country was inspirational and helped affirm Oxfam's leadership in the climate change discourse in the Philippines. In Paris as part of the Philippines government delegation we continued to fight for the poorest and hardest hit - pushing hard to limit warming to 1.5 degrees, calling for money for the poorest to adapt their lives to climate change, and also pushing hard for the loss and damage part - which is calling for money and support for people who lose livelihoods and lives to climate change and cannot adapt.
Shubert with Riza (from the Oxfam East Asia team) with their tuktuks under the Eiffel Tower
The Paris deal should provide assurance to all the vulnerable communities of the world that they are not being forgotten; it should be a beacon of hope to those who are suffering most from the adverse effects of climate change; it should be the moment when the world set aside their parochial interests and take that one big bold step for humanity.
But the deal is mere paper at this point in time. It should go beyond political postures to concrete and progressive action and implementation. Also after running the TuktukToParis campaign that brought, a tuktuk all the way to Paris (albeit a toy one!) carrying over 5,000 people's voices, it was really an amazing moment for me to see this under the Eiffel Tower.
Where to from here? In the words of the Singaporean minister: "let us stop scaring each other", and the Brazilian minister: "let us start with the green lines instead of the red lines".
Read Oxfam's full post COP21 analysis
Oxfam's Storify from the COP21 talks and related climate marches around the world
COP21 is over but Oxfam will continue to work on climate change and to fight for the action needed to support the poorest and most vulnerable people around the world. Stay up to date with our work by joining us on Facebook and on Twitter.
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"It is possible that the higher levels could be reinstated retroactively to January 1, 2012. In fact, the House-passed payroll-tax bill extended 100% bonus depreciation through 2012, even though the Senate bill did not," said AHC president Jay Hickey. "The negotiations between now and the end of February on the one-year extension of the payroll tax reduction could include other changes to the tax code, such as the expense deduction or bonus depreciation. But this is speculation at this point." [post_title] => American Horse Council Explains Changes in Tax Benefits for Horse Owners [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => american-horse-council-explains-changes-in-tax-benefits-for-horse-owners [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2015-10-11 05:27:00 [post_modified_gmt] => 2015-10-11 10:27:00 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.horsecouncil.org/?post_type=press-release&p=271 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => press-release [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )  => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 272 [post_author] => 2953 [post_date] => 2015-10-11 05:30:37 [post_date_gmt] => 2015-10-11 10:30:37 [post_content] => Despite the low approval ratings for Congress, Americans are still interested in what Congress is doing. Why? Because what Congress does - or does not do - impacts the horse industry. This is true regardless of your breed or discipline, whether you are an individual owner, run a track or show, own a horse business, work in the industry as a service provider or ride for recreation.
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On December 18, 2015, an omnibus appropriations bill that will fund the government was passed by Congress and signed by the President. This bill is a package of all 12 annual appropriations bills and will fund all government agencies and programs until the end of the fiscal year, September 30, 2016.
"The bill contains vital funding for the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS,) which is responsible for protecting and responding to contagious equine disease outbreaks. The bill also includes funding for enforcement of the Horse Protection Act (HPA). Adequate funding for APHIS, equine health, and the HPA are important for the welfare of U.S. horses and the economic health of the horse industry," said Hickey.
No horse slaughter facilities are operating in the U.S. and this bill would effectively prevent any such facility from opening before September 30, 2016.
The language was included in the omnibus bill because the Senate Appropriations Committee adopted an amendment that prohibited funding for inspectors at horse slaughter facilities when they debated and approved their version of the FY 2016 USDA appropriations bill. The Senate amendment was offered in committee by Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) and passed by a voice vote.
The bill will also reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) for three years with funding of $450 million for the coming FY 2016, a nearly 50 percent increase over the previous level. LWCF provides funds and matching grants to federal, state and local governments for the acquisition of land and water for recreation and the protection of natural resources.
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Currently, 86 percent of investment advisors are men, which translates into a clear lack of the female perspective in a field that affects the sexes equally. Krawcheck founded Ellevest to fill a clear need in the investing market, and the firm has gone back to the very basics to carefully examine, question, and alter the status quo. Along the way, they've discovered that women don't care about outperforming the market, which is the traditional investing goal. Instead, they care very deeply about planning for their goals and investing to reach them.
Susan Conrad, the chief client experience officer and an advisor at Plancorp, has worked in the investment space for 25 years and is particularly knowledgeable about goals-based, purpose-built investing. She agrees with Krawcheck regarding a woman's investment goals versus a man's.
"Women want to feel secure, to know that they are not going to outlive their money. We often set family related goals, such as paying for children's college or assisting with a down payment for their first home and leaving a legacy for the next generation. Men, in contrast, are often focused on investment performance and trying to hit a number that they think reflects success," she said.
A woman outliving her retirement fund because an investment manager assumed a man's lifespan, or didn't account for other female-driven variables, can be catastrophic. And the fact that women are investing less than men, on average, is a sign that the industry hasn't been doing a great job serving the female market. Clearly, real change in the investment world is needed, and we're on the cusp of a tidal shift thanks to female-driven companies like Ellevest, and advisors like Conrad.
In addition to taking into account obvious changes (such as longer life spans, pay disparity, and salary peaks), subtle findings are being accounted for.
"[For example], women won't invest in what they don't understand, while men will. Women are not more risk averse — as so many believe — but are more 'risk aware.' That means they want to understand the risks they are taking, and once they do, we have found that they are willing to take them," said Krawcheck.
Conrad added, "Over the next decade the largest wealth transfer in American finance history will occur. It will affect women, their children and millennials more profoundly than any other demographic.


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Two anglers who took to South Shields Pier during strong waves have been criticised by an angling club.
The Gazette yesterday showed an image of two men who had fished on South Shields Pier, while waves were crashing over either side of it on Monday.
Their actions were criticised by rescue groups, who said they had put themselves, and others who may have had to step in to save them, in danger.
The anglers in question are not members of South Shields & District Sea Angling Club, and committee member Andrew Nickerson has insisted no one from the club would consider taking to the pier in such conditions.
Instead, they would take advantage of more safe areas along the coastline if they wanted to fish.
Mr Nickerson said: "I would like to state that as a Shields club member, we take safety as priority, with none of our members being allowed to fish the pier when the pier gates are closed.
"The anglers pictured were taking a great risk being where they were. I have seen many an angler have their rod or fishing box or bag washed off the pier in those conditions.
"They are lucky to have not lost more than that.
"The anglers pictured are not members of the club, which in respect is a good thing, as we are a good club and respect the conditions we fish in.
"There is a lot of coastline and river marks to fish when such conditions make the pier unsafe.


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Knowing the Spirit of revival has to do with the personal reception of the Holy Spirit. It is a matter of the mind, first of all, and then of the heart. The mind is confronted by the Word of God and the heart believes.
We continue our reflections on the work and person of the Holy Spirit as revealed in the Gospels. In this section we place special emphasis on that work in us.
Revival will be blessed by regeneration of people. Unless the Spirit causes new birth, there can be no belief, true repentance, spiritual life and eternal hope.
Historical revivals, such as occurred among the Reformers, the Puritans, and in the Great Awakening, were associated with the Calvinist doctrines of the total depravity of natural man and the complete salvation through faith in Christ alone based on the grace of God. They understood that regeneration precedes faith. This is also the example which the Gospel of John presents to us. Let us take a closer look at John 3 and 4, where we have the parallel accounts of Nicodemus and the Samaritan woman.
Nicodemus and the Samaritan woman are presented in a parallel context. Nicodemus is a covenant person, the Samaritan woman is not. Both have to be born again by the Spirit of God.
Let us first observe what is said about Nicodemus. He was a covenant person. He was in the old covenant God had made with Israel. He was a leader. He was a teacher as well as a ruler among the Jews. He was orthodox. He believed in God, in miracles, that Jesus came from God, and he saw the need to seek the truth. Why, he could have become a member in many of our churches! Usually we simply ask people to affirm the truthfulness of certain statements and they can become a member, office bearer and even a pastor. However, are they born again? Nicodemus was not. as we see from his inability to understand what Jesus was saying.
The Samaritan woman was the opposite of Nicodemus. She was not a covenant person. In fact. the covenant people traditionally despised the Samaritans because they had been part of the covenant but had left it. They were former "church" members. She was not a leader but had servant status. Anyone familiar with ancient cultures would recognize that only children and servants carried water. She had been married; she was advanced in age and yet she had to carry her own water. She did not have children or servants to do that. Nor was she orthodox. Her lifestyle was in shambles. Five marriages, divorces, and living common law with a man whom the Lord said was not her husband.
Nicodemus and the Samaritan woman had one thing in common: they were both spiritually dead. Both replied in the same way to the teachings of Jesus about spirituality. They did not know what Jesus was talking about.
The response of Jesus to both persons was according to their need. Jesus rebuked Nicodemus for being a teacher of Israel and not knowing about the need for spiritual rebirth. He pointed Nicodemus to the crucified Christ for salvation. Nicodemus did not really submit to that until Jesus was crucified. We have no record that he received the baptism of John. However, we do know he identified with the crucified Savior at the time of His death.
While Nicodemus was reprimanded for being a teacher of Israel and not knowing about spiritual rebirth, the Samaritan woman's marital life was exposed. However, it was the Samaritan woman who believed that Jesus was the Messiah, and she witnessed to the villagers. Nicodemus and the Pharisees did not submit to the baptism of John, but Jesus stayed with the Samaritans for several days speaking about the kingdom. The Samaritan woman entered the kingdom prior to Nicodemus.
Revival is not only a knowledge that the Spirit exists but the fruits of repentance and transformation are to be evident.
The Roman Catholic view, according to John Gerstner in Primer on Roman Catholicism, is that regeneration starts at the time of water baptism. But invisible regeneration based on liturgical correctness or theological presuppositions is notconclusive. "By their fruits you shall know them," says the Lord. Nicodemus had all the covenantaland external religious qualifications to assume rebirth...but he was not reborn until he was reborn. The Samaritan woman confessed that Jesus had told the truth about her life and she confessed Christ as Savior.
John 3:6: "That which is born of Spirit is spirit." Only the Holy Spirit can make us spiritual. Non-Christian religions have highiacked the term spirituality and identify it with spiritism, supernaturalism and religiosity. Revival can only be identified with true spirituality.
When spiritism, supernatural occurrences and religious behavior which is counter-Biblical occur, they must not be identified with revival. For that reason, revivalists such as Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield spoke against the excesses which occurred during reviva I times. For that reason, Christians are reasonably wise not to add a lot of human emotion, custom and personal opinion to worship and Christian service. Christian living, in all of its dimensions, must be true spirituality.
John 3:8: "The wind blows wherever it pleases, You hear its sound, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit." He knows best!
Yet, more miraculous than the conversion of men who later lived and learned to tell about it, is the conversion of the sinner's heart who cannot tell the time or date, but confesses that he believes! That the vile Augustine, a legalistic Luther, the slave-trading Newton and Anglican Wesleys were converted is impressive, but what about the Christians who did not live such rebellious lives? Regardless of who we are, we will find out that in the presence of a holy God, "all our good deeds are but glorious sins." It is God who must abide in us and work through us to His honor and glory.
God either gives His Spirit or He doesn't. We receive different gifts but no one receives half measures of the gifts. It is probable that we do not exercise the gift as we ought, but we cannot blame God for half-gifts. There are no half-filled Christians (which places the emphasis on God not doing His part), but there are many "less than spiritual" Christians (which places the emphasis on our lack of exercising spirituality). We grieve the Holy Spirit or resist Him, due to our own sin, not because God has shortchanged us.
Revival will not increase the measure of the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives but rather, by God's grace, the extent of God's working is broadened to include others.
John 4:24: "God is Spirit and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." The Spirit is not to be separated from the Word nor the Word from the Spirit.
Revival will be conducive to worship in which the Spirit uses the Word of God to cause His people to truly worship. Revival without Biblical preaching and practice is a Spiritless exercise.
A greater miracle than the presence of great preachers is the mUltiplication of great hearers. Are our churches filled with members and visitors who hunger and thirst for God's Word, or do they have itchy ears to hear what they want to hear? "What do you believe?" someone was asked. "I believe what the church believes," was the answer. "What does your church believe?" "The church believes what I believe." And so, multitudes go where they hear their own philosophies pontificated.
Where must you go to find great hearers? I suggest that we go among people who most experience the misery of sin. After all, the Samaritan woman and her community responded with more joy than Nicodemus and his fellow Pharisees.
Revival must be centered around the Biblical message of Christ and the life which He offers. Fleshly attempts to produce revival are counter to the Spirit of God.
Christians are to be well-trained in discerning the work of the Spirit. We do that with our eyes and Bibles open. Let us be careful not to quench the Spirit.
A childhood friend of mine went off to the army and after living a less than desirable lifestyle, was soundly converted to Christ. When he came home, he excitingly shared his conversion experience with the local church elders. They said that it was of the devil. Disappointed, the young man joined another church and now 25 years later, he continues to serve the Lord with much spiritual fruit. The church elders have not publicly expressed their repentance although it would be Biblically proper if they would.
John 7:39: "The Holy Spirit was not yet given because jesus was not yet glorified." The giving of the Spirit is based on the finished work and heavenly reign of Christ.
Revival causes us to be dependent on the heavenly reign of the glorified Christ rather than the earthly reign of men.
The Reformation was a great Revival. One can discern the sovereign will of God, especially in hindsight. Luther had made his confession at the Diet of Worms in 1520 and he was ready to give his life for the cause. He knew that when he made his confession that he could only follow the Word of God and his conscience, there was a price on his head. However, as he traveled through the forest, he was kidnapped by friends and taken to the Castle of Wartburg. There he translated the German New Testament in a record 19 days. It was the translated Word which spiritually radicalized Germany. God intervened in His sovereignty. Luther did what his conscience dictated according to the Word of God, and God did the rest. God would have been glorified in the martyrdom of Luther or in keeping him alive.
God chose to use the "wild boar" and his incredible energies to further equip the saints in Germany.
We will pause at this important juncture. Scripture and Christ Himself have been teaching us that the primary work of the Holy Spirit is to witness to and apply the benefits of the salvation we enjoy in Christ jesus. This is the sign of true revival, when the glorified Christ shows forth His rule and reign, His kingdom glory.
Revival, in order to be revival, must be directly representative of and bear witness to the Biblical and glorious King.
1. R.C. Sproul et ai, Classical Apologetics (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1984).
4. Frank Farrell, "Augustine's Early Life and Conversion: A Woman's Prayer" TableTalk (June, 1996). pp 5–7.
7. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preachers and Preaching (London Lowe and Brydone, 1981).
Dr. Neal Hegeman is Associate Pastor of the Cornerstone United Reformed Church in London, Ontario, Canada. He also serves as Executive Director of Ligonier Ministries of Canada.


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The Global Elite Are Showing No Signs Of Wanting To Stop Brexit
by Tyler Durden
Friday, Dec 20, 2019 - 3:30
Authored by Steven Guinness,
Many content creators and consumers of independent media have insisted since 2016 that Brexit would not be allowed to happen. They first predicted that remain would win the referendum as this was supposedly what the establishment wanted. When it turned out to be the leave vote that prospered, the belief continued that globalists would put a stop to Brexit and the UK would forever be a member of the EU.
Since then, however, events have transpired which to my mind work against the theory that Brexit was never the desired outcome.
We first saw attempts to prevent the invocation of Article 50 thwarted in parliament, curiously by the very same MP's who later went on to either campaign for a second referendum or to revoke Article 50 entirely.
This was followed by a general election from which the Conservative Party remained in office under Theresa May, maintaining Brexit within the bounds of the 'right wing' element of the political paradigm.
Article 50 was subsequently extended several times under May's leadership, allowing Nigel Farage's Brexit Party to win the UK round of the EU elections and prompting May to resign as Prime Minister. This paved the way for a 'Brexiteer' to take the reigns as PM.
Step forward Boris Johnson, the so called 'populist' candidate. Johnson has overseen one further extension to Article 50, which coincided with parliament supporting his calls to hold a snap general election before Christmas. In the months beforehand Johnson had been fashioning the narrative of a 'Great Brexit Betrayal' against the British people, led by the remain sect of parliament. This set the stage for an early election to take place.
The election was effectively the last opportunity for the establishment to show its hand against Brexit prior to January 31st. If they were so set against the UK departing the EU, surely the system they preside over would offer up a united remain alliance to fight against the threat of a 'no deal' Brexit. Surely a Lib-Lab-SNP coalition government led by Labour would set the course for a second referendum and be the catalyst for stopping Brexit in its tracks.
As it turned out, none of this materialised. The remain side of the argument was fractured from the outset, with some advocating for the immediate revocation of Article 50 and others endorsing a second referendum with a remain option on the ballot paper. As for Johnson, he dedicated his entire election campaign to the slogan of 'Get Brexit Done'. A clear and decisive message in the minds of voters and one that ultimately proved successful, especially in leave supporting Labour heartlands who felt betrayed by their parties refusal to respect the referendum result.
Originally I had given credence to the possibility of a second referendum as a vehicle for pushing a no deal exit from the EU over the line. What has become clear now is that the whole drive towards a second vote was a fake out, utilised primarily to keep remain supporters invested in the hope that Brexit could be stopped and to whip up a fervour amongst leave supporters that the establishment was betraying the will of the electorate.
The election result last week – a significant majority of 80 seats for Johnson's Conservatives – not only renders the prospect of another referendum obsolete, but strengthens the prospect of a 'hard' Brexit eventuality over the next twelve months.
Prior to the election I predicted the Conservatives would remain in office either through a majority government or a hung parliament, and that any further extensions to Article 50 would be unlikely to occur. The scale of the Tories victory means that parliament no longer has the numbers to prevent passage of Johnson's withdrawal bill, and affirms that the UK will complete phase one of departing the EU on January 31st 2020.
Phase two of Brexit will begin immediately after January 31st when the UK enters a transition period with the EU, which lasts until the end of December 2020. The Conservatives included as part of their manifesto a pledge that the transition would not be extended into 2021. Sure enough, the government have since announced that they intend to amend their withdrawal agreement to make this pledge legally binding. Most importantly, it would keep the prospect of a 'no deal' exit from the EU firmly alive as we head into the new year.
Looking at the transition period briefly, when the UK has left the EU (symbolically at first) Britain will still be bound by EU law as stipulated in the withdrawal agreement. That means the UK will remain part of the single market and customs union. Whilst current trading arrangements will persist, the UK will no longer be represented on EU bodies, meaning that the country will have no right to vote on changes to EU law between now and the end of 2020. The UK will also still be subject to the rulings of EU courts.
One of Johnson's tagline's since the election has been to 'let the healing begin' and for the country to unite behind Brexit. In reality, the notion that the transition period will offer lasting stability is, at best, misguided. Johnson's government insist that they can negotiate a free trade agreement with the EU within twelve months. But trade agreements of this complexity have a record of taking several years to complete. The hope is that talks on a deal will begin in early 2020, leaving little time for a deal to be agreed and ratified by both parties. If it feels like the transition period is destined to fail, I would argue that this is by design.
For many months I have contended that the point at which the UK fully departs the EU will manifest from a political decision made by Johnson's administration. The EU will position themselves as ready and willing to extend the transition in the name of preventing a 'hard' Brexit outcome. The EU have already raised the idea of prolonging the transition, on the basis that the current deadline does not leave enough time to agree a trade deal. From the EU's perspective negotiations would have to prioritise the areas of goods and access to fishing waters, with sectors such as financial services not included in any initial agreement.
In short, if and when the UK leaves the EU completely, the EU will not be held culpable for the moment of exit. It will fall entirely on Johnson and his brand of 'populism'. Assuming the transition period is not extended and no trade agreement is reached, the UK would revert to World Trade Organisation terms.
Where this starts to get more interesting is the role that the United States, and Donald Trump in particular, will play in the second phase of Brexit. Just the other day it was revealed that Johnson and Trump spoke about preserving the 'special relationship' between the nations by negotiating a UK-U.S. free trade agreement post Brexit.
The problem, as reported on by Reuters, is that the EU will demand as part of a free trade agreement with the UK provisions that prevent Britain from offering the likes of agricultural and food products on the single market at cheaper prices. This would put the UK into conflict with the U.S., who as part of their own free trade agreement with the UK would want unencumbered access to these sectors and the ability to offer goods more cheaply. For the EU this would be crossing a red line. All indications are that they would restrict access to the single market from foreign competitors in order to protect their own producers.
The stage is set for a substantial break out of global trade conflict in 2020. I would not be surprised if Donald Trump exacerbates tensions with the EU by imposing further tariffs on the union, just as the UK is negotiating a trade deal with the bloc.
Trump is of course up for re-election in November 2020, a matter of weeks before the transition period is due to expire. It is feasible that the culmination of phase two of the Brexit process – a no deal event – may directly coincide with the election and a possible second term in office for Trump. The fallout from this would span the next four years under the banner of what opposition politicians call 'resurgent nationalism', led by its poster children Johnson and Trump.
Here in the UK, the day after Johnson was victorious in the election, a theme played out in the mainstream media was that it represented a victory for 'populism'. I have long since reasoned that global institutions and central banks have been preparing to use a perceived rise in protectionism / populism as scapegoats for an impending economic downturn. The narrative of 'resurgent nationalism' being a danger to the post world war two 'rules based global order' has only intensified since the EU referendum and Donald Trump's presidency.
Sadly, this is a connection which few in the independent media have taken seriously or spent any real time investigating. Instead they have argued that because the UK has yet to leave the EU nearly four years after the original referendum, it is proof that the elite do not want Brexit to happen.
What I believe they are overlooking is how globalists traditionally work towards medium and long term goals – goals that can span years, sometimes decades. It is what author David Icke referred to as the 'totalitarian tip toe'. Rather than advance straight from point A to point Z, it is necessary to move in incremental steps so the transition from one state to another appears more natural than deliberate. The idea is that significant change is seen as originating out of political incompetence rather than manufactured conspiracy. In this respect the Article 50 process and the upcoming transition period serve this purpose perfectly. With Johnson at the helm the eyes of the world will be on him and not on global economic institutions like the Bank for International Settlements and the International Monetary Fund.
Right now globalists have a variety of self stated goals, with two of the most prominent being Innovation BIS 2025 and the UN's Agenda 2030. By 2025 banking elites want the completion of new payment systems designed to work in conjunction with the issuance of central bank digital currency through distributed ledger technology. It was the BIS who began the whole narrative of 'money in the digital age' after the Brexit referendum. They, the IMF and the central banks beneath them are targeting the gradual abolition of tangible assets in favour of the intangible.
Complementing this vision is the UN's drive for sustainable development. Their policies (notably the 'Green New Deal'), which are now being picked up by national governments and placed at the forefront of political discourse, aim to transform the use of energy and land in society and ultimately transfer powers away from sovereign states and into the hands of global technocrats.
What the elite are seeking to achieve will inevitably cause severe instability throughout the world. Which is why they require an ample level of distraction within the geopolitical sphere.
When actions stemming from the likes of Brexit and Trump trigger an economic downturn, as I believe they will, and with it the rupture of the 'rules based global order', globalists will be in a prime position to provide solutions.
The post world war two edifice is I believe in the process of being dismantled to make way for what bankers such as Mark Carney have coined as an 'economic new world order.' Rather than tear up the system, globalists have adopted the model of gradualism. It is disintegration over outright implosion. The end result is the same, but appears to the unsuspecting eye to be less orchestrated.
Instigating chaos and bringing about subsequent order – in most cases the increased centralisation of power – is essentially the modus operandi of globalists.
And it is they who now speak of Brexit as though it is a done deal. The language has shifted notably in recent months to a financial system 'beyond Brexit', and preparedness for what has been termed as the 'post Brexit architecture'.
Brexit is happening. And when it does it will not be by accident.


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The BBC Monitoring desk reports that one of the most anticipated annual registries among Icelandic shepherds (and we suppose among eligible sheep as well) has just been published with profiles of the country's most sought-after ram bachelors, continuing a tradition of two decades of showcasing sires and obituaries for those who passed away since the last issue.
Seeing these impressive sets of horns reminded me that the release of the catalogue is coinciding with a plebiscite—direct democracy in action—taking place in Switzerland over the weekend on animal welfare, with voting finally taking place after an eight-year struggle to hold the referendum. At stake is the right for cow and goat farmers to receive special dispensation and compensation (due to the accommodations and bigger stalls required to safely rear the animals) who choose not to dehorn their herds. About a quarter of Swiss livestock are of the horned variety. The referendum's human champion wants to take the question of economics out of the decision—which sounds rather ghastly and traumatising—and calls for subsidies instead of indignities.


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Q: subprocess.Popen with a unicode path I have a unicode filename that I would like to open.
The following code:
cmd = u'cmd /c "C:\\Pok\xe9mon.mp3"'
cmd = cmd.encode('utf-8')
subprocess.Popen(cmd)

returns
>>> 'C:\Pokיmon.mp3' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

even though the file do exist. Why is this happening?

A: Your problem can be solved through smart_str function of Django module.
Use this code:
from django.utils.encoding import smart_str, smart_unicode
cmd = u'cmd /c "C:\\Pok\xe9mon.mp3"'
smart_cmd = smart_str(cmd)
subprocess.Popen(smart_cmd)

You can find information on how to install Django on Windows here.
You can first install pip and then you can install Django by starting
a command shell with administrator privileges and run this command:
pip install Django

This will install Django in your Python installation's site-packages directory.

A: It looks like you're using Windows and Python 2.X.  Use os.startfile:
>>> import os
>>> os.startfile(u'Pokémon.mp3')

Non-intuitively, getting the command shell to do the same thing is:
>>> import subprocess
>>> import locale
>>> subprocess.Popen(u'Pokémon.mp3'.encode(locale.getpreferredencoding()),shell=True)

On my system, the command shell (cmd.exe) encoding is cp437, but for Windows programs is cp1252.  Popen wanted shell commands encoded as cp1252.  This seems like a bug, and it also seems fixed in Python 3.X:
>>> import subprocess
>>> subprocess.Popen('Pokémon.mp3',shell=True)

A: I think windows uses 16-bit characters, not sure if it's UCS2 or UTF16 or something like that. So I guess that it could have an issue with UTF8.

A: >>> subprocess.call(['start', u'avión.mp3'.encode('latin1')], shell=True)
0

There's no need to call cmd if you use the shell parameter
The correct way to launch an associated program is to use the cmd's start built-in AFAIK.
My 2c, HIH.


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The Dalai Lama on Reincarnation, Part 3
By The Dalai Lama
Continued from The Dalai Lama on Reincarnation, Part 1
The system of recognizing reincarnations in Tibet
Past and future lives were asserted in the indigenous Tibetan Bon tradition before the arrival of Buddhism. And since the spread of Buddhism in Tibet, virtually all Tibetans have believed in past and future lives. Investigating the reincarnations of many spiritual masters who upheld the Dharma, as well as the custom of praying devotedly to them, flourished everywhere in Tibet. Many authentic scriptures, indigenous Tibetan books such as the Mani Kabum and the Fivefold Kathang Teachings and others like the The Books of Kadam Disciples and the Jewel Garland: Responses to Queries, which were recounted by the glorious, incomparable Indian master Dipankara Atisha in the 11th century in Tibet, tell stories of the reincarnations of Arya Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of compassion. However, the present tradition of formally recognizing the reincarnations of masters first began in the early 13th century with the recognition of Karmapa Pagshi as the reincarnation of Karmapa Dusum Khyenpa by his disciples in accordance with his prediction. Since then, there have been seventeen Karmapa incarnations over more than nine hundred years. Similarly, since the recognition of Kunga Sangmo as the reincarnation of Khandro Choekyi Dronme in the 15th century there have been more than ten incarnations of Samding Dorje Phagmo. So, among the Tulkus recognized in Tibet there are monastics and lay tantric practitioners, male and female. This system of recognizing the reincarnations gradually spread to other Tibetan Buddhist traditions, and Bon, in Tibet. Today, there are recognized Tulkus in all the Tibetan Buddhist traditions, the Sakya, Geluk, Kagyu and Nyingma, as well as Jonang and Bodong, who serve the Dharma. It is also evident that amongst these Tulkus some are a disgrace.
The omniscient Gedun Drub, who was a direct disciple of Je Tsongkhapa, founded Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in Tsang and took care of his students. He passed away in 1474 at the age of 84. Although initially no efforts were made to identify his reincarnation, people were obliged to recognize a child named Sangye Chophel, who had been born in Tanak, Tsang (1476), because of what he had to say about his amazing and flawless recollections of his past life. Since then, a tradition began of searching for and recognizing the successive reincarnations of the Dalai Lamas by the Gaden Phodrang Labrang and later the Gaden Phodrang Government.
The ways of recognizing reincarnations
After the system of recognizing Tulkus came into being, various procedures for going about it began to develop and grow. Among these some of the most important involve the predecessor's predictive letter and other instructions and indications that might occur; the reincarnation's reliably recounting his previous life and speaking about it; identifying possessions belonging to the predecessor and recognizing people who had been close to him. Apart from these, additional methods include asking reliable spiritual masters for their divination as well as seeking the predictions of mundane oracles, who appear through mediums in trance, and observing the visions that manifest in sacred lakes of protectors like Lhamoi Latso, a sacred lake south of Lhasa.
When there happens to be more than one prospective candidate for recognition as a Tulku, and it becomes difficult to decide, there is a practice of making the final decision by divination employing the dough-ball method (zen tak) before a sacred image while calling upon the power of truth.
Emanation before the passing away of the predecessor (ma-dhey tulku)
Usually a reincarnation has to be someone's taking rebirth as a human being after previously passing away. Ordinary sentient beings generally cannot manifest an emanation before death (ma-dhey tulku), but superior Bodhisattvas, who can manifest themselves in hundreds or thousands of bodies simultaneously, can manifest an emanation before death. Within the Tibetan system of recognizing Tulkus there are emanations who belong to the same mind-stream as the predecessor, emanations who are connected to others through the power of karma and prayers, and emanations who come as a result of blessings and appointment.
The main purpose of the appearance of a reincarnation is to continue the predecessor's unfinished work to serve Dharma and beings. In the case of a Lama who is an ordinary being, instead of having a reincarnation belonging to the same mind-stream, someone else with connections to that Lama through pure karma and prayers may be recognized as his or her emanation. Alternatively it is possible for the Lama to appoint a successor who is either his disciple or someone young who is to be recognized as his emanation. Since these options are possible in the case of an ordinary being, an emanation before death that is not of the same mind-stream is feasible. In some cases one high Lama may have several reincarnations simultaneously, such as incarnations of body, speech and mind and so on. In recent times, there have been well-known emanations before death such as Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje and Chogye Trichen Ngawang Khyenrab.
Next week will be part 4, the final part of this reincarnation blog series.
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Medical Research Coordinating Committee
Health research coordination in Tanzania is under the Medical Research Coordinating Committee (MRCC). MRCC is the national health research coordinating body that ensures all health research follows the national health ethics requirements. The Committee functions include coordination of health research conducted in Tanzania. The MRCC has delegated functions of registering, ethical review, approving and monitoring of research to be carried in Tanzania to the National Health Research Ethics Review Sub-Committee (NatHREC).
National Health Research Ethics Committee
The day-to-day activities of the MRCC are carried out by the National Health Research Ethics Sub-Committee (NatHREC) established in 2002. NatHREC is responsible for ensuring health research proposals are reviewed to safeguard the dignity, rights, safety and well being of research participants. Institutions carrying out or hosting health research are encouraged to have institutional review committees to safeguard their image by ascertaining the quality of the research output. The Sub-committee is also responsible for overseeing all issues pertaining to health research data and material transfers. Over the years, the Sub Committee has supported a number of research institutions in Tanzania to establish their own Institutional Ethics Review Committees (IREC) or Institutional Review Boards (IRBs).
The Committee consists of up to 15 members who collectively have the relevant qualification and experience to review and evaluate the science, medical aspects, and ethics of health research proposals. It is composed of both scientists and non-scientists with varying backgrounds to promote a complete and adequate review of health research proposals commonly received by NIMR. The NatHREC includes the following category members:
Clinical scientists;
Biomedical scientists;
Social scientists;
Unaffiliated community representatives;
Representatives of religious/Faith-Based Organizations
The Committee members are appointed by their respective institutions. Members are appointed based on knowledge, qualification and interest on matters of health research and research ethics. The NatHREC chairperson is non-affiliated to the National Institute for Medical Research whereas the Secretary is affiliated.
The Sub-Committee has guidelines, regulations and standard operating procedures for ethics review, as well as evaluating, monitoring and controlling new, ongoing and approved health research. These documents include:
Brochure for Investigators
Standard Operating Procedures for the National Ethics Committee for use by Other Institutional Research Ethics Committees
Guidelines for Insuring Health Research Participants in Clinical Trials
Principal Investigators and Reviewers Guide
Oversight Monitoring Tools for Researchers and Participants
Data Transfer Agreement
Approval to conduct health research in Tanzania
The whole process of receiving, reviewing and approving the protocolstakes a maximum of 6 weeks. NatHREC carries research monitoring by on-site visits in collaboration with district and regional medical authorities. In this regard, copies of certificates of cleared research proposals are sent to respective District and Regional Medical Officers where research is to be carried out. Research certificate approval is renewed annually and PIs are required to submit progress reports biannually. To publish the findings, the principal investigator will have to seek permission from the National Institute for Medical Research. Copies of the final publications must be made available to NIMR and the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children.
All proposed health research in Tanzania must get an Institutional Ethical approval at the host institution where the research will be based. In case there is no any Institutional Ethics Committee, the approval will be sought from the NatHREC. For all health research involving external collaborators (non-Tanzanians), the researchers must apply for the Institutional Ethical Clearance as well as the National Ethics Clearance. Non-Tanzanian researchers are required by law to get Research Clearance and Research Permit from the Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH) (www.costech.or.tz).
Protocols for Clinical trials to be conducted in Tanzania are reviewed by another specialized sub-committee, Clinical Trials Sub-Committee. This sub-committee has nine members, and meets monthly and reports to the NatHREC. Clinical trials are required to also obtain a Clinical Trials Certificate from Tanzania Food and Drug Authority (www.tfda.or.tz) before the commencement of the study.
The Standard Operating Procedures for health research ethics review have been articulated to give guidance to health research review committees in the protection and furtherance of the rights of research participants while taking cognizant of the key roles of relevant health research in improving the welfare of humankind.
The Standard Operating Procedures
The MRCC Guidelines
Guidelines of Ethics for Health Research in Tanzania
Application form for ethics approval
Checklist for ethical Clearance Application Submission
Data transfer agreement for Researchers/organizations
Material transfer agreement for Researchers/organizations
NatHREC Bank Details
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Q: Problems when compiling Objective C with Clang (Ubuntu) I'm learning Objective-C language. Since I don't have a Mac, I'm compiling and running my code within Ubuntu 11.04 platform.
Until now, I was using gcc to compile. I've installed GNUStep and all was working. But then I started to try some Objective-C 2.0 features, like @property and @synthesize, that gcc does not allow.
So I tried to compile the code with Clang, but it seems that it is not correctly linking my code with the GNUStep libraries, not even with a simple Hello world program.
For example, if I compile the following code:
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

int main(void) {
  NSLog(@"Hello world!");
  return 0;
}

The output of the compiler is:
/tmp/cc-dHZIp1.o: In function `main':
test.m:(.text+0x1f): undefined reference to `NSLog'
/tmp/cc-dHZIp1.o: In function `.objc_load_function':
test.m:(.text+0x3c): undefined reference to `__objc_exec_class'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
clang: error: linker (via gcc) command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

The command I'm using to compile is
clang -I /usr/include/GNUstep/ test.m -o test

with the -I directive to include the GNUStep libraries (otherwise, Clang is not able to find Foundation.h).
I've googled my problem, and visited both GNUStep and Clang web pages, but I haven't found a solution to it. So any help will be appreciated.
Thanks!

A: The problem was that the library gnustep-base was not being used by the linker. So the solution to this was using the option -Xlinker, that sends arguments to the linker used by clang:
clang -I /usr/include/GNUstep/ -Xlinker -lgnustep-base test.m -o test

The statement "-X linker -lgnustep-base" made the magic. However, I had problems with this command related to the class that represents a string in Objective-C:
./test: Uncaught exception NSInvalidArgumentException, reason: GSFFIInvocation:
Class 'NXConstantString'(instance) does not respond to forwardInvocation: for
'hasSuffix:'

I could solve it adding the argument "-fconstant-string-class=NSConstantString":
clang -I /usr/include/GNUstep/ -fconstant-string-class=NSConstantString \
-Xlinker -lgnustep-base test.m -o test

In addition, I've tried with some Objective-C 2.0 pieces of code and it seems to work.
Thank you for the help!

A: You can try gcc compiler:
First of all install GNU Objective-C Runtime: sudo apt-get install gobjc
then compile: gcc -o hello hello.m -Wall -lobjc

A: You are not able to use ObjC 2.0 features because you're missing a ObjC-runtime supporting those. GCC's runtime is old and outdated, it doesn't support ObjC 2.0. Clang/LLVM doesn't have a acompanied runtime, you need to install the ObjC2-runtime from GNUstep (which can be found here: https://github.com/gnustep/libobjc2 ) and reinstall GNUstep using this runtime.
Here are some bash scripts for different Ubuntu versions, that do everything for you:
http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/GNUstep_under_Ubuntu_Linux
And please don't try to reinvent GNUstep make, instead, use it:
http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/Developer/Make/Manual/gnustep-make_1.html
If you really don't think so, here is some excerpt from there:
1.2 Structure of a Makefile
Here is an example makefile (named GNUmakefile to emphasis the fact that it relies on special features of the GNU make program).
#
# An example GNUmakefile
#

# Include the common variables defined by the Makefile Package
include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/common.make

# Build a simple Objective-C program
TOOL_NAME = simple

# The Objective-C files to compile
simple_OBJC_FILES = simple.m

-include GNUmakefile.preamble

# Include in the rules for making GNUstep command-line programs
include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/tool.make

-include GNUmakefile.postamble

This is all that is necessary to define the project.
In your case replace all occurrences of simple with test and you're done
1.3 Running Make
Normally to compile a package which uses the Makefile Package it is purely a matter of typing make from the top-level directory of the package, and the package is compiled without any additional interaction.