There is a strong call within the international health cooperation to transform evidence based research into policy and action. Implementation research is often driven by the scientific community. In this side event, the organisers want to turn this argument upside down: NGO want to strengthen applied research in their projects and programmes. They argue that embedding implementation research in their programmes will create applied knowledge and evidence for the scaling up successful NGO interventions.
To strengthen implementation research within NGO programmes, there is a need for building up research skills and capacities within the organisations and for training programmes for NGO staff both at Headquarter and field level. Moreover, it is a challenge for many NGOs to find the necessary financial means. Implementation research should be stronger supported by donors. The organisers would like to launch the idea of an exchange platform for implementation health research.
With a key note of John Reeder (Director, Special Programme for Research & Training in Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva) and inputs of Jochen Ehmer (SolidarMed), Nicole Moran (Consultant), Ingrid Mason (FAIRMED), Thomas Schwarz (Medicus Mundi International), Susanna Hausmann (Agency for Swiss Development Cooperation), Kaspar Wyss (Swiss TPH) and Thomas Gass (Swiss Red Cross).
Here you can find further information about our speakers.
Next to the Side Event Medicus Mundi Switzerland will be present at ECTMIH during the whole days with an information booth where we present our member organisations and ourself.
FAIRMED, SolidarMed and Swiss Red Cross.
"How to bridge between health systems researchers and practitioners in the field of international health cooperation"
Our international Network Medicus Mundi International is responsible for the organization of another parallel session in the scientific program of the conference on "How to bridge between health systems researchers and practitioners in the field of international health cooperation" on Monday, 7 September 2015.


Attorney-General of Dominica and slave-owner there, and reportedly owner of The Villa on Antigua. Married first Anne Lindsey and secondly Anne Drosier (1773?-1836), with whom he had a son, Edward Thomas Daniell (1804-1842), who was a clergyman and amateur artist.
Will of Thomas Daniell of Snettisham Norfolk proved 16/11/1808. He began the will with a homily about the ingratitude of his son Earle. He left his estate called Paradise in Dominica (which he said he had purchased from ___ Lee Esq.) to his wife for life with the recommendation that she sold it and used the money to repay a mortgage on an estate [the Lot?] left to her by her uncle. He left a further unnamed estate on Dominica to his son Earle subject to an annuity of £300 p.a. to his [the testator's] widow and £2000 to 'my son' Edward; he also left 100 'negroes' to his wife and then to Edward Thomas [son], and £2000 to John Holmes jun. of Belfast. John Blackburn was one of the executors. The will is silent on The Villa. According to a tablet to his memory in Snettisham church, Thomas Daniell was 53 when he died, though according to the parish register he was 73.
Vere Langford Oliver, History of Antigua 'Daniel Family', Vol. I pp. 188-189.
1.PROB 11/1488/113; F.R. Beecheno, E. T. Daniell: A Memoir (privately printed, 1889), p. 5.
We are grateful to Dr Giorgia Bottinelli of the Norfolk Museums Service for her help compiling this entry.
Thomas Daniell was associated by Vere Langford Oliver with The Villa, which was later owned by his son Earle Lindsey Daniell, but Thomas Daniell's will is silent on the estate, identifying only Paradise and another unnamed estate, both on Dominica.
'Thomas Daniell', Legacies of British Slave-ownership database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146643847 [accessed 24th April 2019].


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If you're anxious to take the reins on your television production, you're probably also inclined to perform your own brain surgery. You're also probably not going to like it very much that we won't let you look through the camera lens or put make-up on an actress.
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THAT SAID... we do offer hands-on services (approval points), for clients who have contractual or legal needs in how their product or service is presented.
Script Concept Approval. If you really want to know in advance whether the Cheap TV Spots Team "gets it" about your product or service, and you want a formal description of how we plan to tackle your project, please order the Classic level or above.
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Storyboards. For clients who really want the full-on, hand-holding process, we offer a package that also includes storyboards (professionally drawn illustrations) of the main shots in your commercial. Due to the time and labor required for these drawings, we offer this type of service only through our Ultra-Spot and Cinematic levels.
The production may be made up of video, audio, graphics, and logos that you supply to us, combined with video, audio, performances, graphics, and written material supplied by us. You, the advertiser, retain all rights to any video, audio, images, graphics, or logos that you supply to us for inclusion in the production. We encourage you, the advertiser, to retain safety copies of any images, graphics, logos, and videos that you provide for use in the video production.
We warrant that any images, video, generated text, graphics, or audio (including music and voice performances) supplied by us for use in the production are properly licensed from their copyright holders; therefore we grant the limited sublicense to them (specifically for display in the finished video production), and for this reason you or your associates do NOT have the right to disassemble the ad or reutilize any video, audio, video effects, or images outside of the explicitly stated uses, except for any original material that was supplied by you, the advertiser.
All work is prepaid. Payment in full is required prior to commencement of work (or prior to commencement of the next stage in your project). We provide a time-intensive custom service and there are no refunds after purchase, as outlined in our Refund Policy.
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If you are ordering any services other than those available on our Order Form, you will receive an invoice. All invoices are due upon receipt. If the invoice is a PayPal invoice, you may pay via your PayPal account or credit card. We accept Cashier's Check, Certified Bank Check, Bank Wire, business check, or personal check. Please make checks payable to Academy Leader, Inc.
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We do not commence work on any video production project until the agreed upon payment is received from you.
Once work has started, there are no refunds. When payment is received, work on your production or consultation/research commences.
Creating a television commercial message is a time-intensive, custom service. For this reason, we do not offer refunds after purchase, which you are responsible for understanding at the time of payment for our services.
Cancellations - If, after purchase of our services, you desire to cancel, please note our refund policy. Under certain circumstances we can postpone your production work for a limited time.
Why? Two words: time and resources. Labor, materials. Lots of time (work hours) and resources (equipment & supplies) are expended to create even the most simple video production. Like you, our team members, contractors, and vendors expect to be paid for what they do, and pronto. One way we are able to do the magic we do is that we pay our bills promptly and fairly.
Producing video is not as simple as buying a shirt off the rack, or ordering a plate of spaghetti at your local eatery. If you sent us your spaghetti back, we'd be fine with a refund -- heck, we'd kick in a free drink next time you visit, just for your trouble. TV production, on the other hand, is what people in the Industry call "a giant pain in the *** ". Our Super Secret Streamlined System lets us jump through the hoops without making it tricky for you. Remember, we operate on a "bare bones" budget -- which is pretty tough for dogs. Once your ad is made, it's made.
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Uzbekistan Singapore Tourism Centre signs mutual cooperation agreement with three universities in Uzbekistan
Author: Theodore Koumelis / Date: Wed, 06/26/2019 - 09:47
This signing allows for more learnings and knowledge development between the three Universities of Uzbekistan and Universities in Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia.
Uzbekistan, Singapore – Uzbekistan Singapore Tourism Centre signs with Three Major Universities in Uzbekistan: Uzbekistan State World Languages University, Tashkent State University of Economics and Silk Road International University of Tourism.
Dr. of Economic Sciences, Professor-Vice Rector for Academic and Educational affairs of the Silk Road International University of Tourism, Bakhodir Turaev and Rudy Fang, Chief Executive Office, Uzbekistan-Singapore Tourism Centre (S.E.A. Business Centre Pte Ltd) have signed the agreement on 24 May 2019.
Dr. Professor Ganisher Rakhimov, Rector of the Uzbekistan State University of World Languages and Rudy Fang have inked the Memorandum of Understanding on 27 May 2019.
This signatory with Vice-Rector for Science Activities and Innovations of the Tashkent State University of Economics Sherzod Igamberdievich and Rudy Fang on 28 May 2019 is to promote mutual understanding between countries on tourism.
The signing of the Mutual Cooperation Agreement implies that the signatories will strive to reach the best of their ability following the objectives stated in the agreement.
This signing allows for more learnings and knowledge development between the three Universities of Uzbekistan and Universities in Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia, building and growing the tourism infrastructure through tertiary levels. The Uzbekistan-Singapore Tourism Centre brings the latest Tourism studies and builds opportunities for students from the three Universities in Uzbekistan for internships (in Singapore), translating knowledge back to the Tourism economy in Uzbekistan and Central Asia.
The objective is for the Uzbekistan students while in Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia to be able to return to their industry within the Tourism and Hospitality sector, and provide cross border exchanges and opportunities for lecturers in the three Universities to lecture in South East Asia, and likewise for Universities in the ASEAN region to lecture in Uzbekistan.
The Uzbekistan Tourism centre holds a wealth of information and data, a great asset for the students and lecturers in Uzbekistan and South East Asia. Additionally, it helps Singapore and regional countries in Asia to discover the beauty of Uzbekistan, and visit those locations not yet frequently journeyed before by other tourists.
About Uzbekistan Singapore Tourism Centre
On 20 November 2018, the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan On Tourism Development and Singapore company S.E.A. Business Centre Pte. Ltd.(SBC) signed Cooperation Agreement to establish Uzbekistan-Singapore Tourism Centre in Singapore and in Uzbekistan to promote Uzbekistan tourism to target markets in Singapore and neighbouring countries in South East Asia.
On 19 February 2019 S.E.A. Business Centre Pte. Ltd. (SBC) has the honour to announce that Uzbekistan-Singapore Tourism Centre is ready to start promoting Uzbekistan tourism and bring more tourists from Singapore and neighbouring countries in South East Asia to
On the offering side, Uzbekistan-Singapore Tourism Centre will promote the entire value chain and ecosystem of Uzbekistan tourism which include tour programs, attractions, places of interests, hotels, restaurants, transportation, money exchange, handicrafts merchants and so on.

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The 2019 Forbes 30 under 30 list, highlighting 600 "young stars" in 20 different industries, was recently announced, and College of Arts, Media and Design adjunct lecturer Seven Siegel was selected to be one of the 30 young professionals highlighted from the games industry.
For the past two years, Siegel has served as the executive director of Global Game Jam(GGJ), theworld's largest international game creation event. GGJ aims to encourage exploration and participation in the industry by creating a yearly event where people in an ever-growing list of participating locations have 48 hours to design a game. Northeastern University's Snell Library is proud to be one of these locations (read about last year's event here).
Under the careful management of Siegel and the rest of the GGJ team, the event has flourished and is rapidly increasing its impact. The 2018 event, held in January, had locations in 108 countries, with over 8,600 games created in 48 hours by over 42,800 participants. And while Siegel is incredibly honored by the recognition of being named Forbes 30 under 30 for their work at GGJ, they are also quick to point out how crucial the support of the entire GGJ team is.
Before joining Northeastern University, Siegel earned a Bachelor of Science in Game Design from Champlain College, and later attended Brandeis University, where they earned a MBA in Nonprofit Management and a Master's of Public Policy.
It was this experience that encouraged them to return to school to learn more about business management. Now here at Northeastern, Siegel teaches The Business of Games, a fitting course given their personal experiences with combining knowledge and passion for the games industry with business and nonprofit management. Their background allows them to provide students a foundation of business knowledge in a relatable, relevant, and effective manner.
Siegel provides students with a plethora of case studies based on real, current examples of financial transactions and situations in the games industry. Students are asked to determine if a game sale is a good choice – and why, or why not. Often, the cases have yet to be settled, allowing students to watch them play out in real time and make predictions about what will happen.
Whether it's here in the classroom at Northeastern, or at Global Game Jam (where Siegel has been developing new, year round events, including GGJ NEXT, aimed at introducing children to the industry, which successfully ran in 20 countries), Siegel's priority is creating environments and opportunities that promote creative practice, experimentation, and development for both veterans of the games industry and those who have little to no experience, but are eager to learn. Global Game Jam has been the ideal opportunity for Siegel to pursue this goal.
Siegel is excited about the recognition of Forbes 30 Under 30 for their work at Global Game Jam, but they remained focused on the future. As the event continues to expand (several new countries are participating this year, including the Ivory Coast, Kazakhstan, and Kenya), Seven hopes to continue creating more opportunities for those interested in the industry. Siegel points to the popularity of "Nanowrimo" (National Novel Writing Month) as an example of what Global Game Jam could become in the future.


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The Rock Wins People's Champion Award, Immediately Proves Why
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I've never met Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and you probably haven't either. But I bet you'd like to because he seems like a genuinely good dude, based purely on his social media posts and public persona, as well as the way he treats his fans.
I'm clearly not alone in admiration for the college football player turned wrestler turned Hollywood superstar because he was recently honored as the People's Champion at the 2021 People's Choice Awards. And then he showed everyone exactly why he's so deserving of it.
Jeffrey "You Did It!" Bezos, the CEO of Amazon and one of the richest men who has ever lived, presented The Rock with the award.
"His achievements are legend. His work ethic is unparalleled. He transcends all demographics. He is impossible not to like and he can sure put down a lot of pancakes," surprise presenter Bezos said. "But even with all that, the thing that really stands out the most? He's kind. … You see, kindness is a choice. And what I admire most in Dwayne is his choice to show unwavering kindness to everyone around him."
When he got on stage to accept the award, The Rock thanked "his drinking buddy" Bezos, then told a story about spending some time with "people's champ, boxing legend Muhammed Ali, at a Make-a-Wish Foundation even before using his platform to honor someone else: a Make-a-Wish recipient in the crowd.
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The actor closed with one last lesson he'd learned from Muhammed Ali: "Service to others is the rent you pay for the room you have here on earth," adding, "it's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice."


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Just over two months ago, Branch announced our acquisition of TUNE's Attribution Analytics. Since then, we've heard many questions (both from customers and others in the industry) about how the integration will work. Our team has been working hard on this project, and we'd like to share a few key details of our approach — and our progress so far.
Throughout this process, we've kept our initial commitment to our users to heart: Attribution Analytics customers will not need to make technical implementation changes to their TUNE setup.
We've made sure every user will be given the appropriate support through a system we've outlined below that ensures a seamless transition. This plan was built to ensure customers' TUNE SDK and server-to-server integrations will continue to work, and the data they receive from the TUNE postback system and export API will be fully backwards-compatible, both during the integration process and afterward.
Despite this commitment, we've continued to hear some doubts. How can we promise such a transparent solution? Will customers be forced to implement the Branch SDK once the integration is complete?
This post answers these questions and explains the entire process in detail, but here's the summary: our team has built behind-the-scenes infrastructure to seamlessly route all Attribution Analytics traffic via DNS to the Branch platform, without customers having to make changes.
In fact, we have already rolled out this infrastructure for some of TUNE's largest and most recognizable customers. For the last month, these customers have been receiving live attribution data (including via Facebook MMP) directly from the Branch platform, without needing to implement the Branch SDK or make any changes whatsoever to their pre-existing TUNE implementations.
Our team still has much left to do before we can say the platform integration is complete, but we want to share a few details about our plan, and how we're working hard every day to deliver on our commitment to a seamless customer experience throughout the process.
This would be a major initiative that we could not afford to underestimate.
Providing seamless, uninterrupted service to all customers throughout would be a non-negotiable requirement.
Branch's core platform is the most modern and most flexible in the industry, which allows us to iterate quickly and will set the stage for future innovation.
Maintaining a single platform ensures that all customers have the opportunity to work with the best-funded and healthiest attribution and deep linking technology partner long into the future.
One of the core Branch values is Customers First. That's why before we began this transition, we made an upfront commitment: we would not require technical implementation changes by Attribution Analytics customers. The only kind of required update we consider acceptable is minor configuration changes. For example: postback IP whitelisting, which could be necessary to meet a customer's own internal security policies.
Fortunately, the TUNE Attribution Analytics team joined Branch as part of the acquisition. This means our team now includes their years of industry knowledge and lessons learned. We have incorporated this experience throughout the integration process, building a combined product that will be far better than either of its ancestors.
Build the infrastructure needed to support seamless migration of customers from Attribution Analytics to the Branch platform.
Fill the few remaining feature deltas between Attribution Analytics and Branch, while also upgrading them to take full advantage of Branch's industry-leading People-Based Attribution engine.
Attribution Analytics is a mature product and offers a lot of powerful functionality. However, most customers do not use every feature, and we knew some features would be available via the Branch platform earlier than others. At the same time, we wanted customers to experience the power of the combined platform as quickly as possible.
To meet our commitment for seamless customer experience, we decided to migrate each customer as soon as all the Attribution Analytics features they rely on are fully replicated in the Branch platform.
We began by taking an inventory of the Attribution Analytics features used by each customer. Using that inventory, we loosely grouped customers based on the features they use and the complexity of their specific implementation. Internally, we call these migration groups 'tranches'.
Our next step was to estimate the dates by which our engineering teams expect to have each Attribution Analytics feature fully replicated within the Branch platform.
Working backwards, this allowed us to create a preliminary timeline for the entire migration project. We expect to have all Attribution Analytics customers fully transitioned to the Branch platform by the end of March, 2019.
Once the Branch platform is ready to accommodate the needs of each Attribution Analytics customer, what is involved in the migration itself?
Let's start with the basic data flow of an Attribution Analytics customer, before migration begins: traffic comes in from the TUNE SDK (or server-to-server integration), events are processed by Attribution Analytics, and then data is available via postbacks and the TUNE export API.
To migrate this flow to Branch, the first migration step is full data mirroring. This means we begin forwarding all traffic from the customer's existing TUNE SDK or server-to-server into our new, TUNE-compatible Branch API endpoints. This allows us to process all events in both Attribution Analytics and Branch simultaneously.
During this period, our team works with each customer to validate configurations, investigate any data discrepancies between the two systems, and help transition internal business processes from Attribution Analytics to the Branch dashboard. We've built internal, automated diagnostic tools to identify and resolve issues so that we all be confident that the mirrored data is processed correctly by Branch.
Once each customer's data mirroring period is over and validation complete, our team makes a DNS update so that traffic from the customer's existing TUNE SDK or server-to-server integration automatically flows into the new, TUNE-compatible Branch API endpoints. We stop processing events in the legacy Attribution Analytics system, and Branch becomes the customer's new system of record.
It's worth repeating one more time: all of these changes happen behind the scenes, with no impact on the customer's existing TUNE SDK or server-to-server implementation.
The final migration step relates to data exports and webhook postbacks. The infrastructure we've built provides backwards-compatible export and postback data, which means that the customer's existing downstream processes will continue to work without code changes. Customers will only need to swap the URL endpoint used for pulling from export API, and whitelist the Branch IPs used to to deliver postbacks (if postback whitelisting is part of their Security policies).
The process above is not just theoretical: Our team has completed end-to-end testing of the entire system, including successful migration of internal apps. Some TUNE customers are already using Branch to report on campaigns links and attribution setting originally defined in Attribution Analytics, while running Facebook campaigns defined in the Branch dashboard! That's right, Facebook campaigns have returned.
We're excited about rolling out the power of the Branch platform to even more users – and we'll be sharing more updates about our progress soon.
Ready to find out how Branch can help improve your attribution strategy? Contact our sales team, and we're happy to tell you more.


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The Passing of Dr. Theodore Bayless
It is with sadness that we share with you the passing of esteemed colleague Dr. Ted Bayless due to cancer on February 10, 2019.
His many accomplishments include being the first to recognize and identify the role of genetics in Crohn's Disease. Additionally, he served as the first director of the Meyerhoff Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center. His distinguished research and renowned clinical care have brought accolades to the Johns Hopkins Medicine Division of Gastroenterology.
For those wishing to pay their respects, funeral services for Dr. Bayless will be held on Sunday, February 17 at 11 a.m. at the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation:
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"Theodore M. Bayless, M.D., an expert in the field of inflammatory bowel disease and a retired professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, died Sunday at the Gilchrist Center in Towson. He was 87.
Dr. Bayless spent more than 50 years at Johns Hopkins, first as a fellow, then as a faculty member in the school of medicine's Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. A clinician, researcher and mentor, he had a vision for translational medicine. His colleague Francis M. Giardiello, M.D., called Dr. Bayless "a role model for the academic physician."
Much of Dr. Bayless' early research centered on the role of gluten in the diet of patients with celiac disease. After recognizing the association of low lactase levels in the mucosa of patients with milk intolerance, Dr. Bayless published and collaborated on numerous articles exploring clinical and physiologic studies of lactose intolerance. These studies and the subsequent development of commercially available lactase enzyme supplements helped millions of people tolerate dairy products.
Studies with Dr. Bayless' mentor, the late Thomas R. Hendrix, M.D., led to the understanding of both absorption and secretion sites in the small bowel mucosa. These studies on cholera toxin helped lead to the development of oral hydrating solutions that would become important treatments for acute diarrheal diseases.
Much of Dr. Bayless' work of the last 30 years has related to better understanding inflammatory bowel diseases. These include the findings that children with inflammatory bowel disease have suppressed growth several years before the disease is evident and that aggressive treatment can lead to resumption of normal growth.
Dr. Bayless was a co-author of the first paper showing the presence of susceptible gene mutations in the onset of Crohn's disease.
Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dr. Bayless graduated from Bucknell University, where he met Jaye Nides, his wife of more than 65 years.
Dr. Bayless graduated from Chicago Medical School in 1957. He completed his medical internship and residency in New York at the Cornell Division of Bellevue Hospital and Memorial Cancer Center.
Gastroenterology training followed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital under Dr. Hendrix's direction. Dr. Bayless authored more than 200 peer-reviewed papers and has both written and edited numerous books in gastroenterology, internal medicine and inflammatory bowel disease. He edited sections of the
Journal of Gastroenterology and served as an associate editor and board member of many scholarly journals.
Dr. Bayless received the Franklin Institute Medal for work on lactose intolerance. He was honored by the American Gastroenterological Association with its first Distinguished Educator Award, as well as its Distinguished Clinician Award. He served as a leader with the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation and was honored by Johns Hopkins with the Department of Medicine's David M. Levine Mentoring Award and the University Alumni Association award for excellence in teaching. He was a developer and director of the Meyerhoff Digestive Disease and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Johns Hopkins.
"Ted really loved what he did and he loved his patients," says his longtime colleague Marshall S. Bedine, M.D. "He was constantly attempting to correlate physiology with symptoms, seeking to avoid increasing potent anti-inflammatory medications."
Mark Donowitz, M.D., another colleague of Dr. Bayless agrees. "Ted could translate scientific findings into clinical observations and treatments that improved his patients' lives."
Dr. Bedine also notes that Dr. Bayless and Jaye traveled frequently to New York to attend the Metropolitan Opera. "They belonged to numerous book clubs and attended theater in both Baltimore and New York."
However, says, Dr. Bedine, Dr. Bayless' most remarkable characteristic "was his immense kindness to all who he encountered. There was no one more dependable or supportive."
Dr. Bayless and Jaye have three sons and four grandchildren. Dr. Bedine says, "Ted embodied that rare mixture of generous warmth and clear-headed observation. Those of us who were fortunate to be part of his life will truly miss him."
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RICHARD KRAVITZ
February 21, 2019	@ 10:51 am
From Bedside to Bench
For Ted Bayless
We celebrate an 87 year old man, a doctor
who could say of himself, I made a difference.
He was a geographer of the rich
and sullied canal that runs through our core,
an ethnographer of the matters
of children's taunts and adult euphemism.
He collected all the dirty stories he could,
decontaminating the shame of the tellers
by his gentle and exploratory attention.
He helped his patients before
any prescription or treatment plan.
His optimism threaded bright strands
through every dull garment of illness.
A maven of our most vital membrane,
he had a bird-like alertness to the possibilities,
in any clinical encounter, of cure or comfort,
a cogged persistence in the pursuit
of any scientific lead, some missing enzyme
perhaps, some disruption of absorption,
a dormant inflammatory volcano
suddenly come to life creating abscess or fistula
closure and diversion of ordinary nutritional transport,
cumulus or spasmodic flow.
His students watched and listened,
digesting and absorbing Ted's diet
of care, wisdom, and curiosity,
then circulated themselves
through the international reticulum
of medical institutions
easing the suffering of so many.
His collaborators speak gratefully
of this man, fluent in the language
of laboratory and clinic, of body
and body of knowledge, able
to lead and contribute.
They had made discoveries together,
discoveries that made all the difference
to the long suffering and the newly sick.
And they are here too, now grown,
or grown old, thanking the doctor
for saving their lives, for listening,
for knowing what to do.
Richard Kravitz, MD
Philip Bentlif MD
February 18, 2019	@ 8:15 am
Deepest condolences at the loss of a brilliant physician and friend and colleague.


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Effects of CDT treatment on growing cells. (A) Phase-contrast microscopy and (B) cell cycle distribution of Chinese hamster ovary cells treated with Ec-CDT-I. Microscopic examination reveals the dramatic increase in cell size following 48 h of CDT treatment. Control cells were treated with a cell extract from a non-CDT-producing E. coli strain. Cell cycle distribution analysis by flow cytometry reveals that CDT cells are completely blocked at the G2/M boundary whereas control cells exhibit a normal distribution for cycling cells.
T7 expression and exclusive radio-labeling of CDT polypeptides. The Ec-CDTII genes were separated by cloning and expressed under a T7 promoter in the presence of rifampicin and 35S-methionine/cysteine. Total cell extract and supernatant fractions were then prepared and analyzed by SDS-PAGE and autoradiography. The expressed forms of Ec-CDT-II migrated with molecular sizes of approximately 32, 30, and 20 kDa. These results coincide with the calculated molecular sizes for CDT. As expected, CdtA, CdtB, and CdtC also appeared in the supernatant fraction of the cell culture.
Homology of CdtB to mammalian type I DNase. (A) PSI-BLAST alignment of Ec-CDT-II was performed through the National Center for Biotechnology Information BLAST site (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/). Iterations were repeated until the sequences converged. Shaded residues correspond to catalytic or metal ion-binding residues. The underlined sequence represents the phosphohydrolases-related motif found in all CdtBs, mammalian type I endonucleases, and sphingomyelinases (B). The CdtBs aligned are designated as shown in Table 1 . Hum. DNaseI, human DNase I; B.c. SMase, Bacillus cereus sphingomyelinase; S.a. SMase, Staphylococcus aureus sphingomyelinase.
Mitotic checkpoint pathway following DNA damage. DNAdamage following exposure to IR, UV light, or genotoxic chemical is sensed by either ATM or the ATM-related kinase ATR. Once activated, ATM and ATR phosphorylate several substrates that affect growth arrest. Chk2 (Cds1) is phosphorylated by ATM, which in turn phosphorylates the Cdc25 phosphatase on Ser-216. Phosphorylation of Cdc25 on Ser-216 creates a binding site for a 14-3-3 protein that binds to the phosphatase and escorts it to the cytoplasm. Cdc25 is required by the cell to mediate the transition between G2 and M phase by activating Cdc2. Cdc2 is dephosphorylated (activated) by Cdc25 in a cycle-regulated manner to allow formation of the active Cdc2/cyclin B complex, thus directing the onset of mitosis. The persistent phosphorylation of Cdc2 following CDT treatment is a result of the Chk2-dependent inactivation of Cdc25 ( 13 ). ATM activation also is responsible for stabilization of the tumor suppressor p53. Both direct phosphorylation of p53 and phosphorylation of MDM2 (a protein that normally escorts p53 to the cytoplasm for degradation) result in a dramatic elevation and activation of p53. Activation of p53 in turn induces expression of p21, a cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor that blocks activation of Cdc2, thus enforcing the G2 arrest. In addition, p53 activation results in apoptosis in some cell types (see text and suggested reading for additional background).
Model for CDT action. According to the current understanding of CDT action, CDT appears to bind to a receptor on the surface of sensitive cells, enters the cell by receptor-mediated endocytosis, and traffics through the cell through early and late endosome, and following involvement of the Golgi, CdtB enters the nucleus. Nuclear CdtB is then responsible for imparting a damaging effect on chromosomal DNA, resulting in growth arrest either by the mitotic checkpoint cascade or DNA damage-mediated apoptosis.
1. Bates, S.,, and K. H. Vousden. 1999. Mechanisms of p53-mediated apoptosis. Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 55: 28– 37.
2. Cortes-Bratti, X.,, E. Chaves-Olarte,, T. Lagergard,, and M. Thelestam. 2000. Cellular internalization of cytolethal distending toxin from Haemophilus ducreyi. Infect. Immun. 68: 6903– 6911.
3. Cortes-Bratti, X.,, T. Frisan,, and M. Thelestam. 2001. The cytolethal distending toxins induce DNA damage and cell cycle arrest. Toxicon 39: 1729– 1736.
4. De Rycke, J.,, and E. Oswald. 2001. Cytolethal distending toxin (CDT): a bacterial weapon to control host cell proliferation? FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 203: 141– 148.
5. Elwell, C. A.,, K. Chao,, K. Patel,, and L. A. Dreyfus. 2001. Escherichia coli CdtB mediates the cytolethal distending toxin cell cycle arrest. Infect. Immun. 69: 3418– 3422.
6. Elwell, C. A.,, and L. A. Dreyfus. 2000. DNase I homologous residues in CdtB are critical for cytolethal distending toxin-mediated cell cycle arrest. Mol. Microbiol. 37: 952– 963.
7. Hassane, D. C.,, R. B. Lee,, M. D. Mendenhall,, and C. L. Pickett. 2001. Cytolethal distending toxin demonstrates genotoxic activity in a yeast model. Infect. Immun. 69: 5752– 5759.
8. Lara-Tejero, M.,, and J. E. Galan. 2000. A bacterial toxin that controls cell cycle progression as a deoxyribonuclease I-like protein. Science 290: 354– 357.
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The jury is the American people.
We thought that President Trump had exhausted every angle to attack Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's 2016 election meddling.
In a separate television appearance, Giuliani said Trump was "adamant" about wanting to agree to an interview, saying, "If he wasn't thinking about it and it wasn't an active possibility, we would be finished with that by now and we would have moved on to getting the investigation over with another way".
Giuliani said. "They're not civil servants as far as I know".
The idea that something is a "perjury trap" is a term Trump's legal team has been throwing around for weeks, claiming that Mueller simply wants to set Trump up to lie. "Democrats I would suggest for their own self interest, this is not a good issue to go into the midterms".
It'd be a political death wish, something Rubio wouldn't dare do unless he'd already resolved not to run again for reelection or for president.
"We're more convinced as we see it that this is a rigged investigation", Rudy Giuliani said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Nation". That would explain his surprise admission last night about Trump reimbursing Michael Cohen for the Stormy Daniels payment. If an interview is to take place, however, the lawyer suggested Mueller's team "would probably limit it" to two key topics: potential collusion with Russia and obstruction of justice. Trump said on Twitter Sunday morning. On Sunday, Trump fired off two tweets that decried the Mueller probe as a "rigged investigation" and complained about "the young and beautiful lives (and others) that have been devastated and destroyed by the phony Russia Collusion Witch Hunt", although it was unclear whose lives the tweet was in reference to.
Trump has recently accused the FBI of using an informant to spy on his 2016 presidential campaign, though no evidence has emerged to support the president's assertion. "He is the most political CIA director I have ever met".
"The whole thing was a mistake and should never have happened", Giuliani told the Associated Press, adding that the Justice Department should acknowledge the error.
A second meeting, on Capitol Hill, was held with members of the "Gang of Eight", which includes the top leadership in the House and Senate plus the top Republicans and Democrats on the intelligence committees.
Sin embargo, Trump añadió que Kim no debe "vacilar en llamarme o escribir" si cambia de parecer sobre la cumbre . Fue una declaración muy agradable la que emitieron", dijo Trump .
En diciembre de 2017 le diagnosticaron cáncer terminal y en menos de 6 meses la enfermedad ha acabado con su vida. Ayer mismo, sábado 26 de mayo, se hizo oficial la muerte de Ted Dabney a los 81 años.


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Twitter's Least-Bad Option for Dealing With Donald Trump
Every plausible configuration of social media in 2020 is unpalatable.
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump began his day as he usually does—by tweeting.
In this case, Trump fired off a threat of using "serious force" against hypothetical protesters setting up an "autonomous zone" in Washington, D.C. Twitter, in response, hid the tweet but did not delete it, requiring readers to click through a notice that says the tweet violated the platform's policy "against abusive behavior, specifically, the presence of a threat of harm against an identifiable group."
Twitter's placement of such a "public interest notice" on a tweet from the president of the United States was just the latest salvo in the company's struggle to contend with Trump's gleefully out-of-bounds behavior. But any response from Twitter is going to be the least bad option rather than a genuinely good one. This is because Trump himself has demolished the norms that would make a genuinely good response possible in the first place.
The truth is that every plausible configuration of social media in 2020 is unpalatable. Although we don't have consensus about what we want, no one would ask for what we currently have: a world in which two unelected entrepreneurs are in a position to monitor billions of expressions a day, serve as arbiters of truth, and decide what messages are amplified or demoted. This is the power that Twitter's Jack Dorsey and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg have, and they may well experience their own discomfort with it. Nor, though, would many of us wish for such powerful people to stand idly by when, at no risk to themselves, they could intervene to prevent misery and violence in the physical world, by, say, helping to counter dangerous misinformation or preventing the incitement of violence.
Many American institutions that broadly serve the public ask the people who work within them to separate their own opinions from their work, in the name of serving a larger professional cause, or representing and accommodating people who might disagree with them personally. This is certainly the case across the military, the media, and even Wikipedia, and it's likewise the general position espoused by social-media giants such as Twitter and Facebook. Historically, it has also been the stance of one of the country's core institutions: the presidency. The president has long been expected—by the public, and by the Constitution—to act in America's best interest, not his or her own narrow ones.
But Trump appears unable to conceive of a national interest apart from his personal ones. He not only fails in this regard, but does so utterly and unapologetically. His actions have abused the baseline deference and respect typically accorded the platform of the presidency by adjacent public and private institutions. As a result, any norms attempting to separate institutions from the personal inclinations of its members have been stretched or dispensed with. And that puts companies such as Twitter in a particularly tricky position, stuck between violating their own norms or maintaining them at the expense of saying and doing nothing about the transgressions by others.
As my colleague Evelyn Douek observes, when Trump has a personal grudge and lashes out with the power of the state, there's only so much compensation the rest of our institutions can lend. In other words, when an oncoming car careens across the yellow line, the traffic it endangers can't and shouldn't stay in its own lane. At this point, even the frozen-food company Steak-umm has disapprovingly subtweeted the president's repeated misinformation about vital subjects. Many companies may feel obliged to signal when they think that unprecedented statements and actions by prominent leaders are out of bounds, and thus not to be treated as normal. The alternative is to contribute to the normalization of dangerously abnormal behavior.
The social-media platforms themselves, by contrast, play a unique role in this dynamic, in that the people who run them are not only able to personally call out the president's posts, but are both the vessels for and moderators of them. So what should social-media platforms such as Twitter or Facebook do if their respective CEOs think the president is engaging in behavior that would, and should, result in deletion or suspension for a regular account with 10 followers? Is it better to call out the behavior and respond to it with power that greatly exceeds that of, say, Steak-umm, or is it better to let it stand, treating Trump—and other politicians—differently?
Twitter has, in the case of Trump's false tweets about voting by mail, appended a link for people to "get the facts about mail-in ballots," which leads to a point-by-point refutation, authored by Twitter, of the president's falsehoods. The platform has specific policies about unsubstantiated claims aimed at undermining faith in the integrity of balloting, and Dorsey has made clear that the application of those policies, as with a typical company, rests with him. "There is someone ultimately accountable for our actions as a company, and that's me," Dorsey tweeted last month.
Consider the case of Trump's tweet saying, "When the looting starts, the shooting starts"—a verbatim throwback to a '60s-era phrase used by a white police commissioner who also said, "We don't mind being accused of police brutality." Trump tweeted this in light of mass protests over the police killing of George Floyd. Twitter, as it did this week, hid that tweet but stopped short of deleting it, requiring readers to click through a notice that read: "This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence."
Trump, as is his wont, hit back. He has previously said that he thinksthe company disrespects him and his supporters: "Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives [sic] voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen."
After Twitter's labeling of Trump's tweets, the White House announced a new executive order about "Preventing Online Censorship." In a press conference about the order, Trump said of Twitter: "If it were able to be legally shut down, I would do it." Perhaps some heart may be taken from the fact that it's a conditional threat—he's precisely not trying to shut down Twitter, because he acknowledges that would be illegal. The order is a jumble—requiring experts to try to make sense of it—because it's attempting to throw the kitchen sink at Trump's perceived enemies of the moment, rather than identifying a particular public-policy problem, then attempting to grapple with it in a consistent way. The Department of Justice and several Republican senators have since proposed legislation to find ways to limit immunities that Twitter, Facebook, and other websites that amplify users' content enjoy.
Those proposals can be analyzed and judged on their own terms as if they simply appeared on Congress's docket out of nowhere, and I'd normally offer here some thoughts on their details. But I can't stay in my academic lane. The executive order, and the push for more legislation, is part of a larger pattern in which the president appears to seek vengeance against those who even mildly criticize him, retaliating in any way he can, including by using the powers of his office. When, for instance, he didn't like The Washington Post's reporting about him, he made it clear—on Twitter, fittingly enough—that, because the paper is owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, he would like to disadvantage Amazon however he can, including by demanding that the U.S. Postal Service raise its shipping rates. Here, the executive order is so scattershot, and the legislation so crudely sweeping, that it's important to recognize that it conveys more than its text says. What it really says is: We can make you hurt unless you do what we want, and what we want is what helps the president personally.
To be sure, one can welcome Twitter's stepping into the breach here by labeling or limiting some posts, while still being troubled by how powerful that platform has become, in terms of both its outsize voice in the political conversation and its ability to control the virality of the voices of others.
Over time, Twitter's and Facebook's interventions have gone from nothing, to wholly arbitrary, to feeling their way to some kind of process. For example, both Dorsey and Zuckerberg have made good points in their now-crystallized disputes about the proper role of social-media platforms in identifying truth and falsehood, particularly in the speech of elected officials. At different times, each has wanted to be more hands-off in the name of protecting democracy while also standing ready to ban or label certain content in the name of protecting democracy.
Their disagreements are perhaps overplayed. In fact, both see dangers in the platforms assessing political advertising; they diverge largely in what they think should follow from that. Facebook, with some exceptions, allows political advertising to stand, even if "demonstrably false"; Twitter simply doesn't allow the advertising at all. And for posts such as those of Trump's that have threatened extrajudicial violence, both platforms have policies that could apply, perhaps differing primarily in how much they want to involve independent third parties to review decisions or perform fact-checking. Zuckerberg has since indicated he's considering policies that would bring Facebook more closely in line with Twitter.
In the past three years, both companies have increasingly restricted what people can post when the posts amount, in the eyes of the companies and many users, to harassment or dangerous falsehood. Facebook has established an independent review board that will have the last word, short of law itself, on whether the company has been true to its rules when taking down certain posts. It's a way of intervening to prevent misery and violence while avoiding the arbitrariness of a CEO's morning mood determining what sorts into what category—a delegation itself made possible by the CEO's power to unilaterally transfer some of the enormous power he holds. And Facebook has experimented with the use of outside fact-checking organizations to label sketchy posts—splitting the difference between tech companies weighing content and leaving users entirely to their own devices. (Of course, controversy then arose around which fact-checking organizations should be trusted.)
If I were writing this in a world where Donald Trump were not president, I might now toss out an outlandish hypothetical or two of the sort that law professors use to anchor a conversation at one extreme to challenge the resolve of people's positions. For example, to help students test out their own views about the merits and boundaries of a policy prohibiting the glorification of violence, maybe I'd ask what, if anything, Twitter and Facebook should do if the president of the United States seriously, baselessly, and repeatedly accused a prominent media figure of murder.
It might be hard to think of Twitter's "civic integrity" policy as controversial, when it simply precludes such behavior as sharing "false or misleading information intended to intimidate or dissuade people from participating in an election or other civic process." So maybe I'd ask students to indulge the question of whether the platforms should enforce this policy if the president himself impugned the integrity of multiple states' ballot-by-mail systems as "substantially fraudulent," using a flatly inaccurate description of a state's registration-by-mail system. But here we are, in both cases lacking the comfortable distance that comes with hypotheticals.
In the near term, the simplest solution is to vote Trump out of office. In the longer term, the most promising path for online content moderation lies in taking up unavoidable decisions by the largest companies in ways that respect the gravity of those decisions—likely involving outside parties in structured, visible roles—and, even more important, in decentralizing the flows of information online so that no one company can readily change the map.
So when Twitter tempers its deference and wades into a fraught zone by fact-checking in its own voice, still judged in the public sphere by its attention to the real facts, I respect its decision. One way to try to break what is raging behavior even—and especially—by a president is to create policies to deal with it, policies that would collect dust if the rule of law and the institutions designed to reinforce it were not under such extraordinary and explicit attack.
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Tufts Archival Research Center Records
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This collection contains the office records of the Tufts Archival Research Center (formerly Digital Collections and Archives). The records document the administration and activities of the department and its projects, including the "Fedora and the Preservation of University Records" project and the Tufts Accessioning Program for Electronic Records (TAPER). Included are annual reports, accession logs, description and policy documents, correspondence, publication material by and about DCA, administrative planning documents, and material relating to grants and grant-funded projects. The majority of digital objects in this collection are materials digitized by DCA. The bulk of the material dates from 2001-2012.
Majority of material found within 2001 -- 2012
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Transferred by DCA, 2008-2018. 2018 accession: UA-2018-061.
This collection is organized into six series: Collection documentation; Administrative files; Publications; Grants and project records; Digital objects; and Exhibit related materials.
15.55 Linear Feet (15 boxes and 1 oversize folder.)
561 Digital Object(s) (Of the 581 digital objects in the collection, 1 represents a zip file of CIDER comprising 40.7 MB of data.)
This collection contains the records of the Tufts Archival Research Center (formerly known as Digital Collections and Archives), including administrative records, collection documentation, grant documents, exhibit materials, and publications.
Tufts Archival Research Center is the Tufts University steward for all archival records and materials of significant and historical relevance to the college.
The collection began as the University Archives, which were incorporated in 1965 by the Tufts University Board of Trustees (Annual Reports 1965-1988). Previously, the position of archivist was loosely created in 1959 as a means of processing and acquiring important university and student records for preservation. This role was filled by Tufts history professor and historian Russell L. Miller, who also wrote the Tufts University history "Light on the Hill." The archives were considered a department of the University Library (known as Eaton and then Wessell at that time), overseen by the College of Arts, Sciences and Engineering.
The university's archives were first kept in Eaton Library, but moved to the Wessell Library building in 1965. Originals of some records were sent to vaults in Ballou Hall for storage. In 1991, due to budget issues, the university archivist was laid off. When the office was reopened in 1997, it was as the University Archives and Special Collections, also located as a department within the Tisch Library.
In July 2001, Digital Collections and Archives (DCA) was created when the University Archives was tasked with developing a Tufts Digital Library. The department moved from the College of Arts, Science and Engineering to the Central Administration, directed by the University Provost. The Special Collections department remained under Tisch Library.
In January 2023, DCA was renamed Tufts Archival Research Center (TARC) to better reflect the mission and services offered by the department.
TARC is currently physically housed in the Tisch Library building.
This collection is processed. The Administrative files, Publications, and Grants and other projects records series were processed by Archives and Reference Assistant Allison Maier in Spring 2019 under the supervision of Adrienne Pruitt, Collections Management Archivist. Materials were foldered, labeled, and in some cases rehoused in archival boxes. The subseries-level description, series-level description, and finding aid were updated at the time of processing. CIDER was processed by Leah Edelman in 2018. The zip file was bagged using Bagger and ingested to the Dark Archive. An item-level record was created, and the series-level description and finding aid were updated at the time of processing.
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The Tearaways ft. Clem Burke
The Tearaways have been a longtime California staple from their simple origins in the Santa Barbara indie scene back in 1981 to their current status as a touring and recording act.
With Five major releases over the last five years, the band continues to push the boundaries both creatively and through sheer stamina and their latest release "Esquire" (for short) has taken the band to a new level showing that age is only a number.
With a legion of fans who range from major celebrities Tom Hanks and Piers Morgan to comedians Tom Green and Carrie Keagan to Radio disc jockeys ranging from the legendary LA Dee Jay Rodney Bingenheimer from KROQ's famous Rodney on The Roq and now Sirius/Xm's "Underground Garage" to MIke Rogers from Japan's InterFM897 "What the Fun Day" and JoJo Wright from KIIS-FM's "JoJo on the Radio" the Tearaways are showing no sign of slowing down.
The band is comprised of John Finseth vocals, guitar, bass, Greg Brallier vocals, guitar and harmonica, John Ferriter vocals, Bass, guitar & David Hekhouse on Guitars and Vocals. The band combines the influence of the British Invasion with the California Sound to create a driving brand of Pop and rock that appeals to fans from 6 to 66!
Recent TV appearances include NBC, CBS, FOX, ABC, Tribune and The Arsenio Hall Show. The band has backed up everyone from The Archies to Badfinger and even young up and comer Millie Courtney from Liverpool.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Drummer Clem Burke from Blondie toured with the Tearaways in 2016 and 2017 and will be back for the band's UK tour in fall 2017 and Summer 2018.
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Finding good Halloween music is harder than you might think. The Internet is overrun with tons of hokey, half-baked, knock-offs. And, Spotify is no help either. If you want a great playlist of Halloween-themed music – then you need Now That's What I Call Halloween. Featuring 18 haunted classics, it's sure to keep the goosebumps going and your party rocking.
What makes this such a great collection is the excellent mix of obvious choices, like "Monster Mash" by Bobby "Boris" Pickett and "Werewolves of London" by Warren Zevon, alongside lesser-known material like "Ghost Town" by the Specials, and "Dead Man's Party" from Oingo Boingo.
A couple of big surprises are "Ghostbusters" – not by Ray Parker Jr, but RUN-D.M.C., and Jace Everett's "Bad Things," which became popular as the theme from HBO's True Blood series.
There's also a decent amount of soundtrack music – from the super-recognizable opening "Halloween Theme" from the original Halloween movie, to "This is Halloween" from the Nightmare Before Christmas, and the "Beetlejuice: MainTitle/End Title." A nice inclusion is the very creepy "O Fortuna," a classical piece which has been used in too many movies and TV shows to count.
The disc closes with a couple of danceable tracks – "A Nightmare on My Street" by DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, and "Somebody's Watching Me" by Rockwell with a cameo from Michael Jackson.


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Trans-Speciesism: The Next Moral Boundary To Be Crossed
The U.K.'s Standard reports on the now burgeoning trans-speciesism movement, composed of people who feel they are actually dogs, cats, penguins, etc, who will most certainly be pushing for full legal rights in the near future.
The slippery slope is more like a cliff whose edge goes straight into chaotic darkness. The Bible was 100% correct to predict that the last days would be characterized be lawlessness (Matthew 24:12, Revelation 9:21, 2 Thessalonians 2:7, 2 Thessalonians 2:3, Daniel 8:23, Matthew 13:41). Complete governmental control of all amoral aspects of life (education, taxes, guns, farming, monetary policy, etc) and virtually no government control of truly moral issues (abortion, marriage, obscenity, pornography, euthanasia, narcotic abuse, religious freedom, etc).
Mid-1800s: Uniformitarianism and Darwinian Evolution take root, institutional church largely fails to respond.
In the late 1800s / early 1900s leads to Social Darwinism, which destroys the traditional Judeo-Christian moral market structure.
Early 1900s: uniformitarian thought begins taking over most places of higher learning in the West, the institutional church again largely fails to respond.
In the 1920s/30s/40s leads to eugenics and ultimately the secularization of Europe. Tens of millions are killed including Jews, the mentally ill, the handicapped, and other "undesirables". The institutional church responds too late.
Mid-1900s: the institutional church remains as impotent as ever and the rapid secularization of the United States ensues (Scopes, McCollum, Engel v. Vitale, Abington).
In the 1970s leads to legalized murder (Roe v. Wade), which had already been spreading around the world (i.e. in the Soviet Union). Since then there have been nearly 60 million unborn murders in the U.S. and nearly 1.5 billion worldwide.
1980s: having largely abandoned the historicity of Genesis, the institutional church begins questioning other doctrines including the exclusivity of the Gospel, the physical resurrection of Christ, inerrancy, and basic Biblical morality (divorce, homosexuality, etc).
In 1990s leads to rapid growth of inter-faith organizations, global governance, and universalism. The Church finally becomes politically sidelined around the world.
2000s: so acutely influenced by culture, the institutional church enters terminal-apostasy phase. Rapid succession of denominations endorsing gay marriage, theistic evolution, no-fault divorce, and other vices. Gay marriage becomes legalized in a number of countries.
2010s: the slippery slope becomes unstoppable, except by an act of God Himself (and He will act, I guarantee it). A slue of countries and states legalize gay marriage, including the United States. Polls and surveys show a large plurality of "Christians" in the West endorsing universalism, abortion, gay marriage, transgenderism, and every vice. Top Christian leaders begin calling subtly and sometimes blatantly for universalism and acceptance of abominations (Pope Francis, Brian McLaren, Tony Campolo, Rick Warren, Rob Bell, and innumerable others). Outright Christian persecution begins in the West, outside of the 10/40 Window. Christians and pastors losing their jobs and businesses, mocked at work, mocked at home, and even mocked at their local churches. Threatened with jail and sometimes even jailed. Legalization of gay marriage and mind-altering narcotics, leads to any kind of moral law being derided. Biological and gender norms begin being abolished. Transgenderism encouraged and accepted. And now... trans-speciesism. We are now staring into an abyss where nothing can be distinguished, with no order, no beauty, no intrinsic value to anything, where everything is the same, entirely relative, and equally corrupted and worthless.
This is the slippery slope. Welcome to the kingdom of antichrist. The temporal and eternal consequences will be more than you can possibly imagine.
...But thanks be to a good God in Heaven who provides you with a means of escape.
Topics Christian persecution, Convergence, Lawlessness, Slippery Slope, trans-speciesism, transgenderism, Tribulation
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