1-2The fundamental fact of existence is that this trust in God, this faith, is the firm foundation under everything that makes life worth living. It's our handle on what we can't see. The act of faith is what distinguished our ancestors, set them above the crowd.
3By faith, we see the world called into existence by God's word, what we see created by what we don't see.
4By an act of faith, Abel brought a better sacrifice to God than Cain. It was what he believed, not what he brought, that made the difference. That's what God noticed and approved as righteous. After all these centuries, that belief continues to catch our notice.
5-6By an act of faith, Enoch skipped death completely. "They looked all over and couldn't find him because God had taken him." We know on the basis of reliable testimony that before he was taken "he pleased God." It's impossible to please God apart from faith. And why? Because anyone who wants to approach God must believe both that he exists and that he cares enough to respond to those who seek him.
7By faith, Noah built a ship in the middle of dry land. He was warned about something he couldn't see, and acted on what he was told. The result? His family was saved. His act of faith drew a sharp line between the evil of the unbelieving world and the rightness of the believing world. As a result, Noah became intimate with God.
8-10By an act of faith, Abraham said yes to God's call to travel to an unknown place that would become his home. When he left he had no idea where he was going. By an act of faith he lived in the country promised him, lived as a stranger camping in tents. Isaac and Jacob did the same, living under the same promise. Abraham did it by keeping his eye on an unseen city with real, eternal foundations—the City designed and built by God.
11-12By faith, barren Sarah was able to become pregnant, old woman as she was at the time, because she believed the One who made a promise would do what he said. That's how it happened that from one man's dead and shriveled loins there are now people numbering into the millions.
13-16Each one of these people of faith died not yet having in hand what was promised, but still believing. How did they do it? They saw it way off in the distance, waved their greeting, and accepted the fact that they were transients in this world. People who live this way make it plain that they are looking for their true home. If they were homesick for the old country, they could have gone back any time they wanted. But they were after a far better country than that—heaven country. You can see why God is so proud of them, and has a City waiting for them.
17-19By faith, Abraham, at the time of testing, offered Isaac back to God. Acting in faith, he was as ready to return the promised son, his only son, as he had been to receive him—and this after he had already been told, "Your descendants shall come from Isaac." Abraham figured that if God wanted to, he could raise the dead. In a sense, that's what happened when he received Isaac back, alive from off the altar.
20By an act of faith, Isaac reached into the future as he blessed Jacob and Esau.
21By an act of faith, Jacob on his deathbed blessed each of Joseph's sons in turn, blessing them with God's blessing, not his own—as he bowed worshipfully upon his staff.
22By an act of faith, Joseph, while dying, prophesied the exodus of Israel, and made arrangements for his own burial.
23By an act of faith, Moses' parents hid him away for three months after his birth. They saw the child's beauty, and they braved the king's decree.
24-28By faith, Moses, when grown, refused the privileges of the Egyptian royal house. He chose a hard life with God's people rather than an opportunistic soft life of sin with the oppressors. He valued suffering in the Messiah's camp far greater than Egyptian wealth because he was looking ahead, anticipating the payoff. By an act of faith, he turned his heel on Egypt, indifferent to the king's blind rage. He had his eye on the One no eye can see, and kept right on going. By an act of faith, he kept the Passover Feast and sprinkled Passover blood on each house so that the destroyer of the firstborn wouldn't touch them.
29By an act of faith, Israel walked through the Red Sea on dry ground. The Egyptians tried it and drowned.
30By faith, the Israelites marched around the walls of Jericho for seven days, and the walls fell flat.
31By an act of faith, Rahab, the Jericho harlot, welcomed the spies and escaped the destruction that came on those who refused to trust God.
32-38I could go on and on, but I've run out of time. There are so many more—Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, the prophets. . . . Through acts of faith, they toppled kingdoms, made justice work, took the promises for themselves. They were protected from lions, fires, and sword thrusts, turned disadvantage to advantage, won battles, routed alien armies. Women received their loved ones back from the dead. There were those who, under torture, refused to give in and go free, preferring something better: resurrection. Others braved abuse and whips, and, yes, chains and dungeons. We have stories of those who were stoned, sawed in two, murdered in cold blood; stories of vagrants wandering the earth in animal skins, homeless, friendless, powerless—the world didn't deserve them!—making their way as best they could on the cruel edges of the world.
39-40Not one of these people, even though their lives of faith were exemplary, got their hands on what was promised. God had a better plan for us: that their faith and our faith would come together to make one completed whole, their lives of faith not complete apart from ours.


Since 2005, the University of New Hampshire has celebrated the region's rich agricultural heritage with its annual Local Harvest Dinner, gaining fans and patrons for its gourmet preparations of local produce, seafood, meats and cheeses. Building on its popularity, this year's dinner, on Thursday, Sept. 20, has moved to Holloway Commons, UNH's largest dining hall. The Local Harvest Dinner runs from 4:30 to 9 p.m. and is offered to all students on the UNH meal plan, as well as to the general public (adults, $12.50 plus tax; children under 10, $6.25).
The meal showcases the diversity of foods from the region, with a menu that includes organic vegetables from UNH's Organic Garden Club and Tuckaway Farm in Lee; beef and chicken from Lasting Legacy Farm in Barrington; buffalo from Yankee Farmer's Market Natural Meats in Warner; tea from Portsmouth Tea Company; and cheeses from Full Moon Farm in Rochester, Boggy Meadow Farm in Walpole, and Silvery Moon Creamery in Westbrook, Maine. Honey from Bee Rich Apiary in Hudson, apples and squash from UNH's Woodman Farm, and cider from Carter Hill Orchard in Concord provide a more traditional taste of autumn in New Hampshire.
Beneath a tent outside Holloway, local producers and food-related organizations such as NH Made and Seacoast Slow Food will educate diners about the impact of eating locally. In addition, Barrington photographer Charter Weeks will display photographs documenting a barn-raising at Lasting Legacy Farm. The photos, shot earlier this summer, include interesting portrayals of several Amish volunteers who requested that their faces not appear in the photos.
This year, UNH Dining hosts several other Local Harvest events during the week of the Local Harvest Dinner. Vegan chef Norma Koski, of Susty's Café in Northwood, is guest chef in Elements at Philbrook dining hall Wednesday, Sept. 19. Koski has partnered with the UNH Organic Garden Club to bring "radical vegan foods" to student diners and guests that evening. And for the entire week (Sept. 17-21), Panache, the bakery-style sandwich shop at Holloway Commons, will feature local foods, including Portsmouth Tea Company teas and Fogarty's cheesecake.
For more information, visit www.unh.edu/dining/localharvest.htm or www.sustainableunh.unh.edu.


Instilled by the Cadet Honor System with a fundamental, longstanding respect for truth, we graduates of the United States Military Academy believe that honor is a basic attribute of character. That we are no longer cadets is irrelevant. We stand appalled by the deceitful behavior of the government of the United States and, in particular, its widely known malefactors. Lying, cheating, stealing, delivering evasive statements and quibbling not only has demeaned these deceivers and the United States of America, but has placed vast numbers of innocent people in deadly peril. We will not serve the lies.
The war in Iraq was launched illegally. It has since killed tens of thousands of innocents, causing incalculable damage to Iraq and the Iraqi people, as well as the reputation of the United States of America. We will not serve the lies.
When we West Point graduates took our commissioning oath of office one past June morning, we swore to protect our nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic. The deceitful connivances of the current administration have resulted in a war catastrophic to our nation�s interests, both politically, economically, militarily, and morally. We now stand to protect our nation from these deceivers. We will not serve their lies.
We seek justice for all victims of this illegal war, both servicemen and servicewomen, and the citizens of Iraq.
We demand an immediate withdrawal of all Coalition Forces from Iraq.


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Messi explains his struggle with Corona | Football
The Argentine star, Lionel Messi, player of the Paris Saint-Germain team, said that his recovery from the emerging Corona virus infection took longer than he expected.
Tests revealed that Messi had contracted the infection during the mid-season vacation, and he missed the ranks of Saint-Germain in the match that ended with a 4-0 victory over Vans in the French Cup on the third of this month.
The tests that Messi underwent a few days ago came with negative results, and he became available to participate in the match that was held against Lyon last Sunday in the French League.
But Paris Saint-Germain announced at the time that Messi would continue his recovery program for another few days after recovery.
Messi, through his account on "Instagram", which is followed by 300 million people, expressed his gratitude for the support he received during his recovery period, and he hoped to return soon to the competitions.
"I got infected with Covid, and I would like to thank you for all the messages I received and tell you that the recovery took longer than I expected, but I have almost recovered, and I am really looking forward to getting back on the field," Messi said.
He added, "I am training these days to get back to my condition 100%. This year is witnessing huge challenges and I hope we meet again soon."
Messi has contributed to scoring a total of 10 goals in 16 games in all competitions since joining Saint-Germain from Barcelona, as he scored 6 goals for the team and made 4 other goals.
Messi created 32 chances for his teammates, and his scoring rate was one goal every 219 minutes.
However, Messi has scored only one goal in 11 matches in the French league so far under the leadership of his compatriot Maurizio Pochettino, coach of Saint-Germain.
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Coronavirus may cause Germany to trigger the next Eurocrisis
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The economic as well as human costs of the Covid-19 virus across Europe have led many to believe that we live in a completely new era. Yesterday's burning issues are forgotten. After years of divisive debates about the EU, and not just in Brexit-Britain, there is a certain comfort in the "We're all in this together" mindset.
But, a new Brussels story may be emerging, one where the coronavirus global crash triggers a Eurocrisis even more serious than the last.
This week's ruling by the German Constitutional Court questioning the legality of the European Central Bank's massive bond-buying after the crash of 2008 put a spoke in the wheels of plans to print vast new funds to subsidise the cost of Covid-19 lockdowns across the EU.
Mrs Merkel's government has three months to justify letting Germany's Bundesbank participate in the old scheme. But Covid-19 is not going to give the EU, its members and Central Bank three months to decide how to pick up the pieces of economies and government budgets wrecked by lockdowns.
There was a sting in the tail of the German court's statement that it was only ruling on the last splurge in ECB bond-buying. The German judges stuck to the complaint registered before the virus, but they hinted that since the EU treaty ruled out the ECB subsidising "member state's budgets" it would be unconstitutional for Germany to join a scheme to share the costs of the lockdowns.
After the crash of 2008, central banks acted to stimulate their economies by buying up bad debt from their own commercial banks as well as by slashing interest rates, but today the ECB, like our Bank of England, is directly purchasing government debt on a vast scale. In 2009, central banks were lenders of last resort, now they are funding governments to be paymasters of last resort.
The EU Commission dismissed the German Constitutional Court saying EU law took precedence over national laws and constitutions. But it is precisely the fact that the EU is playing fast and loose with its own treaty obligations which alarms so many Germans.
"Take back control" could translate easily into German. The priority of its constitution is embedded in Germany's civic education. Germans are only too well aware of how Hitler argued that necessity in the great depression of the 1930s meant enabling his government to do what it liked and to hell with the constitution.
People may well say that surely the economic black hole provoked by Covid-19 lockdowns requires extraordinary action. After all hasn't a Eurosceptic government here thrown financial caution to the winds too to fund millions of people and thousands of companies rendered effectively bankrupt?
This is where Covid's economic impact is very different for a sovereign country with its own central bank like ours, compared with the very different economies joined together by the single currency. In Italy, with its population shocked by the lack of EU solidarity in the early weeks of the contagion, the opposition was already questioning membership of the Euro. With austerity rather than stimulus likely to be imposed as a condition for any German bailout, the downturn caused by the virus could be prolonged in the Mediterranean members of the EU.
A one-size fits all economic and monetary response to the economic impact of crisis is likely to misfire. It will probably satisfy no-one outside the EU Commission and ECB. Pooling debt will worry German and Dutch savers but not do enough to re-float Italy or Greece.
The EU was planning to celebrate next Monday, 9 May – "Europe Day" – as the seventieth anniversary of its founding charter, the Schuman Plan of 1950. Covid-19 is raining on that party as it casts its ominous shadow over European project's life-expectancy.
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A brave mother-of-five with terminal cancer has celebrated her dream wedding after discovering she may only have months to live.
Sharon Heazle and new husband Mark said their vows in an emotional ceremony attended by close friends and family next to a waterfall in New Zealand.
The wedding was part of a 20,000 dream round-the-world trip with their five children.
The family jetted off to Hong Kong before carrying on to Los Angeles and Walt Disney World in Florida to celebrate Christmas and bring in the New Year.
Sharon, 42, and Mark, 32, pooled together enough money for the memorable getaway by using their savings, selling belongings on eBay and kind donations from loved ones.
The pair, from Norwich, insisted it was worth every penny for what could be their last holiday as a family.
Sharon, who had her three eldest daughters during a previous relationship, said: "It was the most magical day – one of the happiest moments of my life.
'We've created a memory my family will cherish forever.
'This trip is a massive deal for us and very expensive. We even used the kids' savings we'd set aside for university or a first car. But I'm convinced it's worth it.
'What I hate most about this cancer is what it could do to my family.
'It was devastating. I was happy they were talking about it, but thought, 'oh my God, my youngest two are not only going to lose me but they might lose their sisters too'.
'My youngest don't even know I have cancer yet – it would only upset them.
Sharon was diagnosed with cancer this spring. She has the same rare type of incurable tumours that killed Apple boss Steve Jobs – neuro endocrine tumours, known as NETs.
It started with a tumour in her bowel. More have developed in other parts of her body including her liver. And Sharon recently discovered the cancer has spread to her bones.
The sad turn of events prompted doctors to give her anywhere between a few years and just months to live.
So serious is her condition, Sharon was unable to purchase any travel insurance for her trip but it didn't take long to decide it was worth the risk.
Sharon, a former assistant director of a housing association, said: 'Finding out I had cancer was horrifying. It was the worst moment of my life.
'When I finally told my older daughters one of them said 'so you might not be here to see your grandchildren' I burst into tears.
Sharon and Mark wed at the Centennial Gardens in Napier, on New Zealand's North Island.
Sharon wore a strapless ivory gown and older girls Ellie, 16, Keira, 15, and Georgia, 13, were in teal blue dresses.
Mark and Albie, four, were in matching cream-coloured suits, while youngest Orla, three, looked adorable in mini version of her sisters' outfits.
Brave Sharon added: 'Mark and I said our vows promising to be supportive through all that lies ahead.
'We pledged to be there for our children and they said vows promising to love and support each other.
'I surprised Mark with a reading about my love for him which brought him to tears. It expressed my gratitude for all he's done for me and the kids.
They celebrated with dinner at a local restaurant joined by Mark's parents and a few relatives and friends.
As one of five kids growing up in the tiny village of Ketton, Rutland County, Sharon always wanted to see the world.
She spent her first pay-packet from Barclays bank on a last-minute trip to Ibiza, at 17.
It was at the bank she met her previous husband Darren Perks. But the couple split in 2005 after a decade together.
Despite their struggles, Sharon managed to gain a psychology degree and an MBA through the Open University, all while holding down a full-time job in senior management at Melton Mowbray Council in Leicestershire.
And that's where she met Mark – a handsome young sports development worker.
She said: 'I thought he was cute, but never in my wildest dreams did I think anything would happen as he is ten years younger than me.
'We first spoke at a work Christmas party in 2006. We clicked and ended up sharing a cheeky kiss.
'Soon afterwards, Mark asked me out and I was hesitant – I had my girls and work to think of. But he persisted and eventually I agreed to meet him at the pub. We were dating soon afterwards.
'My girlfriends would tease me about my 'toy boy' and I'd say they were just jealous.
Neuroendocrine tumours, also known as NETs, are rare.
that produce insulin, adrenalin and the 'happy hormone' serotonin.
can appear all over the body.
Neuroendocrine tumours occur most commonly in the digestive system but can occur in other parts of the body.
They can be non-cancerous (benign) or cancerous (malignant).
NETs are silent killers. Most don't have any symptoms until the cancer is critically advanced.
recent years, of up to 500 per cent, according to some research papers.
The potential therapy, a cancer-busting virus, can't be tested for lack of 2million.
development and make a profit.
'In the end, Mark turned out to be the man of my dreams.
'He has taken on so much. Mark's only 32 and now he's got five kids and a wife with cancer.
Mark, who now works for South Norfolk Council, moved in with Sharon in the summer of 2007 after admitting he not only wanted to be part of her kids' lives, but to have more children.
He proposed to Sharon on a weekend getaway in Rome that November – the day before Sharon found out she was pregnant with Albie.
But life quickly got too busy for wedding planning.
Sharon fell pregnant with Orla just two months after giving birth to Albie.
Then in the autumn of 2010 Sharon's health started failing.
She explained: 'After Orla, I started feeling unusually emotional. At first I put it down to post-pregnancy hormones.
'But then there were more symptoms. I started gaining weight and by November of last year I had put on three stone. I got spots on my chest and back.
Sharon was diagnosed with Cushing's Syndrome – her adrenal glands were producing too much cortisol, effecting the functioning of her organs and bone strength.
Doctors made plans to remove Sharon's adrenal glands, hopeful it would return things back to normal.
But in February things took a turn for the worse as doctors found evidence of tumours in Sharon's liver.
At the beginning of March her fears were confirmed when she was told they were cancerous.
In August more tumours were discovered including the primary one in her bowel.
Sharon said: 'I was shocked. It was like being punched in the face.
'I thought they'd tell me I needed to start chemotherapy, but it turned out there is no cure.
'All they can do is monitor the progression of the cancer with regular scans, and manage any pain. Eventually the cancer will take over, and that will be the end.
'Mark's been a lifesaver. He tries not to get upset in front of me.
Mark, who also has two part-time jobs to bring in extra money, does many of the household chores. And the older girls help their mum when they can.
Mark added: 'Sharon's illness has turned my world upside down.
Sharon has planned to write some memoirs for her kids, and put together photo albums.
She is also going to raise funds for a campaign called iCancer – in honour of Steve Jobs – raising money for the development of a NETs treatment that would allow sufferers to live a normal life while tumours are held at bay.


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Q: How to get the post id (of the parent custom custom type) in a loop inside a widget? Below there is a widget with a Wordpress loop inside.
It works as expected. The only problem is this part:
'post_parent' => $post->ID,

The widget is not getting the post->ID of the parent of the current topic custom post type (with is another custom post type called forum).
It does work when I place the loop in a template file.
This:
<?php $current_post_id = $post->ID; ?>

<?php echo $current_post_id; ?>

Outputs a post id (the forum custom post type which is the parent of the topic custom post type).
/**
 * Most voted topics widget
 */
class MostVotedTopics extends WP_Widget {
    /** constructor */
    function MostVotedTopics() {
        parent::WP_Widget(false, $name = 'Most Voted Topics');
    }

    /** @see WP_Widget::widget */
    function widget($args, $instance) {
        extract( $args );
        $title = apply_filters('widget_title', $instance['title']);
        ?>
          <?php echo $before_widget; ?>
              <?php if ( $title )
                    echo $before_title . $title . $after_title; ?>

                <?php // Display the top topics of current forum
                    $args = array(
                        'post_type' => 'topic',
                        'posts_per_page' => '3',
                        'post_parent' => $post->ID,
                        'gdsr_sort' => 'thumbs',
                        'gdsr_ftvmin' => '1',
                        'gdsr_order' => 'desc',
                        'order' => 'DESC'
                    );
                ?>

            <?php query_posts( $args ); ?>
                    <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

                <?php $current_post_id = $post->ID; ?>

<?php echo $current_post_id; ?>

<a href="<?php bbp_topic_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php bbp_topic_title(); ?>"><?php bbp_topic_title(); ?>

                                <?php printf( __( 'Started by: %1$s', 'bbpress' ), bbp_get_topic_author_link( array( 'size' => '14' ) ) ); ?>

        <?php echo get_avatar(get_the_author_meta('user_email'), 64); ?>

            <?php the_author_meta('nicename'); ?>

Last modified on the: <?php the_modified_date(); ?>. by: <?php the_modified_author();?>

Time last modified: <?php the_modified_time(); ?>

        <?php echo time_ago(); ?>

<?php wp_gdsr_render_article_thumbs(); ?>

                                    <?php preg_match( '!
(.*)
!si' , wp_gdsr_render_article_thumbs(0, false, "", 0, "", false) , $n );
                                    $thumbs_number = strip_tags( $n[1] ); ?>

                                    <?php if ( $thumbs_number == 1 || $thumbs_number == -1 ) : ?>
                                        <?php _e( 'vote' ); ?>
                                    <?php else : ?>
                                        <?php _e( 'votes' ); ?>
                                    <?php endif; ?>

<?php bbp_topic_reply_count(); ?>

                                    <?php if ( bbp_get_topic_reply_count() == 1 ) : ?>
                                        <?php _e( 'reply' ); ?>
                                    <?php else : ?>
                                        <?php _e( 'replies' ); ?>
                                    <?php endif; ?>

<?php bbp_topic_freshness_link(); ?>

                                            <?php bbp_author_link( array( 'post_id' => bbp_get_topic_last_active_id(), 'size' => 14 ) ); ?>

                <?php $most_voted[] = get_the_ID(); // get the id of the most voted post ?>

                    <?php endwhile; ?>
            <?php wp_reset_query(); ?>
            <?php print_r($most_voted); ?>

              <?php echo $after_widget; ?>
        <?php
    }

    /** @see WP_Widget::update */
    function update($new_instance, $old_instance) {
    $instance = $old_instance;
    $instance['title'] = strip_tags($new_instance['title']);
        return $instance;
    }

    /** @see WP_Widget::form */
    function form($instance) {
        $title = esc_attr($instance['title']);
        ?>

<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('title'); ?>"><?php _e('Title:'); ?> <input class="widefat" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('title'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('title'); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo $title; ?>" />

        <?php
    }

} // class FooWidget

// register FooWidget widget
add_action('widgets_init', create_function('', 'return register_widget("MostVotedTopics");'));

Any suggestion to fix this?

A: Don't use query_posts. As noted in the Codex:

Not for Secondary Loops You should not use query_posts() to create
  secondary listings (for example, a list of related posts at the bottom
  of the page, or a list of links in a sidebar widget).

You should use WP_Query instead. E.g.
$args = array(
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Date: 04.10.18 Written by: Thomas Tyrrell Posted in: Reviews, Film & TV
Cinema | The Little Stranger
It is a truth universally acknowledged (or so Pride and Prejudice would have it) that the ideal marriage is between an ingenuous young woman and a really expensive piece of property. The Little Stranger, an adaptation of the novel by Sarah Waters, flips the script on this. It's the 1950s, and Hundreds Hall has been crippled by death duties and the aftermath of war. No longer the bustling Pemberley it was in the roaring twenties, the place is swathed in ivy, filled with abandoned rooms and leaking like a sieve. It is inhabited only by Mrs Ayres (Charlotte Rampling), still the imperious matriarch from an earlier age, Roderick (Will Poulter), physically and mentally broken by the war, and Caroline (Ruth Wilson), hauled home from military service and charged with keeping the house together. Where once they were attended by a full domestic staff, they now have only a single young maid.
Into this household comes Dr Faraday (Domhnall Gleeson), representative of a rising middle class. As one of the doctors whose mouths Aneurin Bevan offered to stuff with gold in the creation of the NHS, his prospects are far brighter than those of the declining aristocracy. A budding romance with Caroline seems to offer him a giddy ascent, becoming master of the household where his mother once worked as a maid. With her as his Darcy, he seems within reach of a more brilliant marriage than even Elizabeth Bennet ever attained. But Faraday's interest in the household begins to take on the character of an obsession, and following a mysterious spate of mysterious deaths and fires, the remaining Ayres begin to believe the house is home to a supernatural force.
In tone and content this film could not be more different to the last screen adaptation of a Sarah Waters novel, 2016's The Handmaiden, which transposed the plot of Fingersmith to 1930's Korea. That film was a riot of octopuses, Japanese erotica and lesbian sex, but here starched upper lips, brylcreemed hair and woolly cardigans abound. There's barely so much as an onscreen kiss. Even Waters's trademark exploration of lesbianism in history is here relegated, uncharacteristically, to the subtextual. We are told Caroline had a brilliant wartime career in the Women's Auxilary Air Force, and the only time we really see her come to life is when she meets an old WAAF friend at a dance. They Charleston energetically, while Faraday watches from the sidelines with a look of excruciating jealousy. Sadly, this friend is never seen again, and when Caroline later agrees to be married to Faraday, the relationship is predicated on a mutual misunderstanding. He thinks he's marrying the house, while she thinks he's offering to take her away from it. When this becomes clear, she breaks the engagement and resolves to set off for Canada on her own.
She is the most sympathetic character in the film, but if her emotional frigidity makes it hard to warm either to her or to Faraday, the erstwhile romantic hero, that's partly a function of the time period, with the repressive conformism of the fifties setting the scene for its overflow in the actions of the poltergeist. None of these rattling and bangings come anywhere close to threatening the film's 12A certificate, however, and the film's unimaginative cinematography fails to add any pizazz to the proceedings.
At times there's a failure to properly foreshadow a later event — I am still unsure what exactly happens behind the drawing room curtains in one of the key scenes of the first part of the movie. At other times, it's all too obvious. We know, almost from the moment we see the house's central stairwell, that someone will fall down it, and a nightie-clad tumbler is duly sent flying through the air in the film's final scenes.
Hundreds Hall itself doesn't truly have the air of a gothic mansion, more of a middle-of-the-road National Trust property with the edges scuffed up a bit. The final twist is judicious and satisfying, if not particularly surprising, but I found myself wishing that the poltergeist posed more of a threat to the film's stifling propriety, longing for at least some of the Grand Guignol touches that enlivened Crimson Peak (2015) — or indeed The Handmaiden. That film, at least, provoked animated discussion. Was it condemning pornography, or was it, in itself, pornographic? What did it have to tell us about the similarities between British and Japanese colonialism? With The Little Stranger, it's all to easy to imagine a general murmur of approval, a brief discussion of class, a reference to lesbianism, and then a long, cool, starched silence.
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Dear All , it has been reported in the usa that scientists are developing a vaccine for mrsa .
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UNDATED (WJRT) - (04/20/07)-- It used to only be that MRSA struck sick patients in the hospital, but now, this killer infection is popping up everywhere.
MRSA is a type of staph infection resistant to most antibiotics and is affecting more and more healthy people as a new strain emerges in the general community.
Typically, MRSA doesn't get worse than a skin boil, but it can lead to severe problems and sometimes death.
"My husband and I both cried a little while over it. Just prayed. It's the worst thing you want to hear when you have a new baby," Matthews recalled.
Doctors saved Cameron with the strongest antibiotic available, but others haven't been as lucky. MRSA infections are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics as a new, more potent strain emerges outside the hospital, especially among athletes who come in close contact.
"It hits healthy people. It actually seems to be much more virulent, and it can produce toxins and actually make people very sick, very quickly," said Dr Tom Talbot, an epidemiologist at Vanderbilt University.
That's why scientists are developing a vaccine to stop MRSA in its tracks. In one study, Staphvax appeared to protect 94 percent of people. Another study wasn't as promising, but doctors hope to perfect it, ideally by wiping out staph bacteria that normally live in the nose.
"Staph is like an M&M candy. What Staphvax targets is components of that shell," Talbot explained.
Until a vaccine is widely available, be sure to wash hands often. Don't share towels or other personal items. Look out for signs of infection, like redness, swelling, and warmth.
While antibiotics still sometimes work, doctors hope a vaccine will wipe out this potential killer for good.
What to look for? MRSA community strains most often appear on the skin as a boil or pimple that can be swollen, red and painful, and have discharge.
See your doctor if you have those signs and it's not healing.
One study showed doctors prescribed an antibiotic that was resistant to m-r-s-a in 57 percent of cases. It is now the most common cause of ER skin infections in the country.
If this is a development that works it has to be good news. However the article points out that strict infection prevention measures are still necessary. It would be interesting to find out if there are any trials going on in the UK with this vaccine.
These press articles are quite dated. So not sure what the latest is on this. Everything takes such a time. We want to see results now, but I suppose the vaccine needs to be trialled properly.


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The casual observer might never even have known the nation was at war. The sun had fallen off the world's edge more than an hour ago, and still the streets were, if not bustling, certainly a far cry from abandoned. Men and women scurried about their business, wrapped in gaudy coats and vibrant gowns against winter's insidious caress. Most were human, but the occasional fabric-swaddled figure, too short for the Ryn ethnic majority but too broad of shoulder for errant children, suggested a late-night dwarf. They tromped across a carpet of fresh snow, their finery gleaming in the radiance of wrought iron streetlamps. Some of those flickered with gas-fed flame, others with an alchemical luminescence far steadier yet somehow less comforting.
Each citizen nodded, curtsied, waved, or exchanged brief witticisms with the next, all dependent on the passerby's social status—or at least, the social status implied by the quality and cleanliness of his attire. Voices swirled overhead, blown by the winds, kicked into flurries almost choral in their harmonies. One might have overheard discussion of the Lord Regent Glabryn's latest scandals, the squabbling amongst the Council of Nobles, the winner of last week's derby, or the recent performance of Oswinne Muir's newest opus, An Orgoth Goes a'Courting.
One would not have heard mention of the expanding western front, of the shadow of Khador slowly darkening the face of Llael. One would have seen nobody acknowledge the brittle edge to jests, the tremor in the laughter, or the occasional reverberating clang from beyond the outer walls, the ponderous step of a patrolling warjack.
No one spoke of the war. No one acknowledged their fears.
It would have been gauche.
One particular couple, elbows intertwined, shuffled quickly, seemingly eager to catch the misty plumes they exhaled with every breath. He was regal, buttoned up tight in high-collared greatcoat atop an emerald vest, his iron-gray hair swept back in a style that not only acknowledged the receding hairline, but haughtily dared anyone to comment on it.
She was wrapped in brilliant scarlet and gleaming gold, a beacon as radiant as any of the streetlamps. A fox-fur stole was her only concession to the nighttime chill. Hair the hue of a lion's pelt fell in perfectly curled ringlets around a face that was just too round to be called classically "patrician."
She was also, at best, half the gentleman's age. That, along with the fact that she gazed at him adoringly with eyes like dark-brewed ale when she wasn't busy laughing at his witticisms, might have gone a long way toward explaining his obvious fervor to reach their destination.
They drifted past several structures, each boasting a magnificent façade of stately columns and arched windows—all deliberate modern echoes of the architecture of centuries past. And then they arrived, ducking through one deep doorway to stand in a hall of lush carpeting and glowing chandeliers. Some herbal treatment of the fixtures—or, perhaps, of the pipes, or the gas itself?—imbued the burning fumes with a vaguely floral aroma.
The gentleman beamed, even puffing his chest out, at the dazzled coo wafting from his companion's lips. "This is just a taste," he offered. "The actual amenities are even more impressive. My suite occupies a full half of the fifth floor."
"I can hardly wait to see it," she said in a breathy tone. His own breath caught in his throat, as he wondered if her offhand comment might suggest what he hoped it did. Placing his free hand on the slender arm resting in the crook of his elbow, he led her toward, and then up, the sweeping stairs.
"Goodman Tolamos," she began right around the third floor.
"Please, please. 'Lyrran,' dear Garland, by all means."
"Lyrran," she corrected, paying for his given name with another heart-stopping smile. "I don't think I quite understand ... This place is marvelous, but why keep an apartment? Surely a man of your success and your means could afford a home—an estate!—of your own?"
"I could," Lyrran admitted. They'd reached the fourth floor, now, and he struggled to hold up his end of the conversation and continue walking without sucking in ragged gasps between. Not as young as you used to be, old fool.
"I could," he repeated after what he hoped was a discreet wheeze. "But I often spend late nights in my workshop, and I'm no great admirer of the dormitories the Crucible makes available. I decided that living within a few minutes' walk of Thunderhead was worth the inconvenience of dwelling in a building I don't own."
Of course, had I known then that the only deluxe suite available was on the fifth bloody floor ... !
They stepped from the landing, Lyrran again leading, and stopped at a massive door of hardwood, intricately inlaid with abstract leaf patterns.
"Just a moment, my dear."
Lyrran tugged a small chain, setting off the faintest tinkling beyond. The butler—a tall, thin, dark-haired fellow who more or less resembled every other butler the world over—had barely opened the door before his master was whispering instructions. The manservant glanced over at the woman, back at his employer. Then, with neither expression nor gesture, he squeezed past them and headed, at a stately saunter, toward the staircase.
"He keeps a small private chamber on an upper floor," Lyrran explained. "And my other servants rarely work this late. We should be able to converse undisturbed."
"Oh, my. Goodman Tolamos, do you feel that's entirely proper?"
"I ... Ah, I ..."
"Your man is discreet, at least?"
"Of course!" Lyrran hoped he didn't sound as relieved as he felt.
"Well, that's all right then, isn't it?" Garland breezed past him with a faint giggle. "Wine?" she asked.
"My dear, please! I'm your host, you should allow me to—"
"Nonsense! Sit, rest. I'll be just a moment." Then, her voice slightly more distant, "Um, perhaps two moments, then. My, this is a big place ..."
Still, he breathed a silent lungful of relief what she reappeared, a wine goblet in each hand. "No trouble finding anything?" he asked, half-amused, half-chiding.
"Oh, no! Your home is laid out so sensibly, I felt like I knew where to look for everything!"
Lyrran smiled and accepted the libation. "To Llael," he offered, raising his goblet—the closest he meant to come, tonight, to acknowledging the war.
"But then," Garland was saying as she daintily wiped at her own lips with a kerchief, "I suppose you'd have to be meticulously organized, working with all those awful tinctures and powders and whatnot. I don't imagine you'd want to grab the wrong one of those!"
"No," Lyrran agreed with a chuckle. "You really wouldn't."
"For instance," Garland continued, "can you imagine if I'd chosen the wrong powder to mix in your wine? Or just dropped in a pinch too many? Why, you could be dying right now, instead of just growing sleepy. That would be a tragedy, wouldn't it?"
"I ... What?" Why was his tongue suddenly so thick, as though it wore its own winter coat? He blinked, and now not only were there two Garlands, but they—and the room around them—ran like a wet watercolor.
"Now, then," Garland said, "we haven't a great deal of time, have we?" Hiking up her skirts so she could sit, she settled in Lyrran's lap. The old alchemist knew he should be excited by that—would have been, only a few moments before—but he was having trouble remembering why.
"So," she continued, tapping a finger almost playfully against his lips and peering into his blinking, unfocused eyes. "Before you're off on your little snooze and forget that this entire evening ever happened, let's discuss Thunderhead Fortress. And the Golden Crucible.
"And, if you happen to have made the fellow's acquaintance, a gentleman by the name of Idran di Meryse ..."
This time, Garland stepped alone into the light flurries, her stole wrapped tight about her chest and shoulders. She'd never have admitted it aloud, but she was grateful that the morrecaine salts had proven so efficacious. A small minority of people proved resistant to the stuff, and Lyrran Tolamos was a nice enough man. She'd have found it unpleasant to extract his knowledge the hard way.
All was well, though, or at least as well as could be hoped. The alchemist lay at home, bound and snoring rather than whimpering and bleeding, and Garland was out in the cold, prepared to break into the single most fortified structure in this heavily fortified city.
Again she smiled or waved or nodded to those she passed, though it had grown late enough that pedestrians were scarce. The night drifted in silence, save for those same mechanical footsteps occasionally ringing in the distance, or the crack of small ice floes along the banks of the Oldwick.
Garland checked the sky, even though she knew she'd find no guidance there. Between the bulk of Mount Borgio, blocking out a broad slice of the heavens, and the lowering clouds obscuring the rest, she was more likely to spot a lurking ghost than any star.
She knew her way; no hesitation showed in her stride. Still, for all she'd studied Leryn's streets, she was a newcomer here. She'd have preferred the stars to confirm her course.
Then the gusting breeze thickened, not merely with the stinging cold, but the biting, eye-watering stink of the Rynyr Red and the sharp tang of spent blasting powder. Garland couldn't help but smirk. Where even the stars and the heavens fail, trust in the absolute worst stench you can imagine.
Garland rounded a final corner and stared into what might almost have been another world.
The bulk of Leryn—indeed, much of Llael entire—was designed for form as devoutly as function. Sharp spires, magnificent archways and flying buttresses, columns of marble and walls of rounded brick, festooned with wreaths and snapping banners, all meant to draw the eye as much as to repel the weather. Llaelese architecture was, for the most part, not merely a science but an art.
Then there was Thunderhead Fortress.
A fat, drab toad, the citadel squatted in the center of the rock garden that was Leryn. Blockish, ugly, short, heavy, and standing out like a troll in an elven finishing school, Thunderhead boasted a façade that not even an architect could love.
It was also the heart of Leryn's military power and, quite arguably, of scientific advancement throughout all of Western Immoren.
And would be guarded accordingly.
Nearer the fortress, the snow darkened from off-white to ugly gray, painted, polluted, and plagued by the thick fumes of the installation's many smokestacks. The faint crunching under Garland's feet transformed into a discomfiting squelch. Steadily, casually, she strode past Thunderhead Fortress, waving cheerfully to soldiers marching atop the wall or standing post in the recessed gateways.
A few nodded back. Most made no reply at all. But all watched with professional vigilance until she'd passed them by.
As she'd heard, then. The Crucible Guard were not to be taken lightly.
Officially, these men and women were a security force loyal to the Golden Crucible, protecting the alchemists and their works, at home or abroad. Unofficially, albeit quite openly, they were Leryn's private army. When Khador had advanced beyond Llael's borders, when their hidden operatives assassinated most of the local mages—including a few of the nation's already scarce war-casters—the Crucible Guard became one of the final hopes of the nation entire.
On the one hand, then, she needn't deal with very many of them; not when the bulk of their forces were deployed across the city or at the front, their explosive elixirs and expertly engineered firearms scattering the enemy like toys, their alchemical tinctures bringing relief to the wounded. On the other, those who did remain, standing sentinel for the heart of the Golden Crucible, were far more formidable than the average watchman.
She saw rifles and other long guns above, heavy armor and seemingly heavier pistols below; and those were only the visible accoutrements. Morrow alone knew how many hidden blades they might have stashed, or what sorts of herbs and elixirs might keep them swift and alert after long hours of vigil. No, these Crucible Guard were prepared to repel a small army, let alone a single intruder.
Then again, armies are a bit rubbish at sneaking, aren't they?
Several streets from the fortress, Garland ducked into a narrow throughway. In defiance of the cold, she unlaced her bodice and stepped out of her gown. The flimsy silken blouse thus exposed was to be expected; the trousers of lightweight, rust-brown canvas rather less so.
Next she delved into the heap of fabric that had, a moment before, been the skirts of her gown. From one of several large pockets sewn within, she drew tunic, gloves, and soft boots of that same canvas, and slipped them on. From a second, she removed two tiny ceramic vials. Finally, she wadded the skirt into a rough bundle and turned the fox-fur stole inside out to reveal a coarse woven backing. After checking to make certain she knew which vial was which—wouldn't do at all to get those confused!—she settled down, hunched in the shadows of the alley.
Now it was just a matter of waiting. Hopefully not for too long; it was bloody freezing out here!
Caje hated the midnight delivery.
Yeah, yeah, he understood why it was necessary. Thunderhead was the greatest producer of blasting powder in Western Immoren, and now Llael was at war, that portion of the operation ran day and night. At any hour of the clock, wagons of refined powder trundled out, other wagons of red powder, black powder, and various components clattered in. All absolutely necessary.
He understood all that. He really did.
But why the hell am I always the guy stuck making it?
The frosty conditions and long hours must have weighed on the young driver even worse than usual tonight. He'd halted, briefly, to let Dondy and Nosli catch their breath, shake the snow from their manes and tails and dappled coats—and had fallen asleep, Morrow help him!
"Yah!" A quick snap of the reins, followed by two longsuffering equine snorts from Dondy and Nosli, and the wagon resumed rattling and clumping over snow-dusted pavers.
At the portcullis of alchemically-hardened iron, he was met by two men in ornate armor and armed with locharns—brutal pole-arms with a long slashing blade at one end, a heavy bludgeon on the other. The armor's gothic inlays, and the brightly-dyed fabric that concealed the mail at the joints, might have fooled some into believing it—and the guards—purely ceremonial.
Ceremonial. Right. Caje knew a whole lot better.
"Factory delivery," he announced, hoping they'd take the heaviness in his words for boredom rather than lingering traces of sleep. As always, the guards studied him unflinchingly from broad-visored helms and demanded a sequence of pass-phrases, all of which he dutifully offered.
Excerpted from IN THUNDER FORGED: IRON KINGDOMS CHRONICLES by ARI MARMELL. Copyright © 2013 Privateer Press, Inc.. Excerpted by permission of Prometheus Books.
In Thunder Forged: Iron Kingdoms Chronicles (The Fall of Llael Book One) 4.4 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 5 reviews.
A very enjoyable read, although I felt Laddermore was under utilized and only included because she had to be.
Really enjoyed reading this book. Glad to have lore based novels for the Iron Kingdoms universe. Hopefully there are many more to follow. The descriptions given for combat are easily followed and visualized. You're never left wondering what just happened or "what did i just read?" There are also a great descriptions of how the game's mechanics are reflected back into the books, such as jack masharling and the gun mage's abilities.
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Swollen feet, also known as chilblains, is a common problem that arises during the winter or when you are exposed to very cold temperatures. People living in cold and humid regions are very well aware of the condition.
In most cases, chilblains take 1-3 weeks to heal on its own if further exposure to cold is avoided. Meanwhile, you can try natural ways to reduce swollen feet in winter.
While this is not a disease, the condition is a result of sudden warming of the skin after prolonged exposure to cold temperatures.
This sudden change in temperature causes quick expansion of the blood vessels, leading to leakage from the blood vessels and blood flowing into the nearby tissues.
The leakage from the blood vessels gives rise to symptoms like intense itching, a burning sensation, pain, redness and swelling in the affected area, dryness and inflammation. In severe cases, the condition may also lead to blisters, infection, and ulceration.
Chilblains mostly affect the feet, toes, fingers, hands, ears, earlobes and nose. While anyone of any age may develop the condition, it is most common among children and older adults.
The most important and effective treatment for swollen feet is to improve the blood circulation in the area. In most cases, chilblains heal on their own within one to three weeks. However, the severity of certain cases demands remedies to reduce the intense discomfort.
Some simple home remedies can help improve the blood circulation to the affected area, thus reducing the swelling and discomfort.
Here are six simple ways to reduce swollen feet in winter (chilblains).
Poor blood circulation and sudden warming of the feet after continuous exposure to cold temperatures is the major cause behind swollen feet. So, elevating the feet is one of the best remedies to reduce swollen feet in winter.
Place your feet on a few pillows to elevate them.
Leave the feet elevated for 1 hour, then rest for 30 minutes.
Repeat 4 or 5 times a day until you get rid of swollen feet in winter.
Another excellent remedy for swollen feet is an oil massage. It helps warm up your blood vessels and reduces swelling and inflammation.
Rubbing and massaging with oil also creates pressure in tense muscles to improve circulation and stimulate drainage of excess fluid to reduce swelling in the feet.
Throw 1 teaspoon of peppercorns into 2 tablespoons of mustard oil.
Warm up the oil in the microwave for 1 minute.
Gently rub and massage the oil blend on your swollen feet for 5 to 10 minutes.
Repeat the process twice daily, in the morning and at night before going to bed, until you get relief from swollen feet in winter.
Alternatively, you can use olive oil or coconut oil for this massage.
Note: Do not use this remedy if your skin is abraded or bruised, as this leads to a burning sensation, inflammation, and pain.
Epsom salt contains magnesium sulfate, a compound that is easily absorbed into the skin and works to reduce swelling and improve circulation.
Moreover, it helps alleviate pain, discomfort, redness, and puffiness of the swollen feet, while also relaxing tense muscles.
Add ⅓ to ½ cup of Epsom salt.
Mix well to dissolve the salt in the water.
Soak your feet in the footbath for 15 minutes.
Do this twice a day for quick relief from swollen feet in winter. Continue doing this for 3 to 5 days until it treats your chilblains.
Moreover, ginger and peppermint essential oil boast anti-inflammatory properties that work to reduce swelling and discomfort, while also improving the flow of blood.
Throw in peeled and diced pieces of 4 or 5 chunks of ginger.
Blend in 8 to 12 drops of peppermint essential oil.
Repeat the process 2 times each day until you treat chilblains on feet.
While warm water improves blood circulation, the cold water helps reduce swelling and inflammation.
Fill 2 foot tubs with water – one with warm water and the other with cold water.
Soak your feet in warm water for 2 to 3 minutes.
Immediately, put your feet in the cold water and soak for about 1 minute.
Alternate continuously for 15 minutes.
Do this twice a day to get fast relief from swelling. Repeat until you heal chilblains.
The simplest natural remedy for swollen feet is to wear socks and limit your exposure to the cold. For added benefits, use compression socks specifically designed for reducing swelling and pain in the legs and feet.
Grab and put on a pair of socks.
Repeat the treatment until you get relief.
The anti-inflammatory and healing properties in the essential oils reduce swelling, while also providing warmth to your feet.
Note: Essential oils are harsh on skin and need to be diluted with base oils for better application and results.
Pour 1 tablespoon of olive oil into a bowl.
Heat the oil in a microwave for a few seconds.
Squirt 4 or 5 drops each of lavender and tea tree essential oils into the olive oil.
Massage the oil blend on your swollen feet for 5 minutes and leave it on overnight. This allows the oil to better absorb into the skin.
Repeat the process every night until it reduces your swollen feet.
Keep your entire body warm at all times. Avoid long periods of exposure to cold or damp weather.
Wear several layers of clothing rather than one bulky layer to trap body heat more effectively.
Wear socks to help keep your feet warm and maintain blood flow. To allow free flow of air to the feet, wear wool or cotton socks.
Wear comfortable shoes that do not squeeze your toes.
Avoid scratching the affected skin, as it can damage the skin.
Drink hot drinks several times a day to keep your entire body warm.
Practice gentle exercises like walking or jogging every day to improve peripheral circulation.
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Good information as it is a common problem with most of the people. I have given my view as I feel problem with my body during winter.


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Ambry GC Melissa Truelson Advances Qualified Genetic Counseling in Minnesota
Taylor Leigh
*Editor's Note: For this article, we interviewed one of Ambry's genetic counselors, Melissa Truelson, MS, CGC, who was instrumental in passing local healthcare legislation in her home state of Minnesota.
One of Ambry's genetic counselors, Melissa Truelson, MS, CGC, continually strives to advance qualified genetic counseling in her home state of Minnesota and beyond.
Over the past three years, Truelson and fellow Ambry genetic counselor, Ashley Deckman, MS, CGC, were instrumental in pushing legislation that requires licensure of all genetic counselors in the state, as co-chairs of the Minnesota Genetic Counselors Association's public policy committee.
Recently, Truelson and Deckman co-authored an article that was featured on the April cover of Minnesota Physician magazine. Their article explained the importance of the recent licensing requirement for genetic counselors.
"Genetic Counselors: Board Licensure and an Expanding Role" details the positive impact of the new licensing legislation for everyone involved in genetic testing. Requiring genetic counselors to be licensed increases the ease and confidence with which physicians and insurers can locate and recommend qualified GCs to their clients.
As a result of this new law, licensed genetic counselors in Minnesota are now legally able to order genetic tests, shifting the burden away from physicians. In addition, this licensing requirement holds GCs accountable for the care they provide by creating a formal complaint investigation system facilitated by the Board of Medical Practice. For genetic counselors, requiring state licensing strengthens their title and qualifications, as falsely using titles such as "genetic counselor" or "genetic specialist" can now result in disciplinary action.
Truelson explains that licensing genetic counselors supports Ambry's mission to understand all human disease by empowering patients to understand their results and the impact those results may have on their healthcare and family members in the future.
"It all comes back to who is understanding the disease," Truelson said. "Licensing genetic counselors is a piece of that. It's getting accurate information back to patients so they can act on it, so they can do something tangible with that information."
Truelson's involvement does not stop there – she continues to advocate for the advancement of genetics in healthcare, as the only genetic counselor to participate in the 47th Session of the Minnesota Health Care Roundtable.
At the 47th Minnesota Health Care Roundtable, Truelson and six prominent figures in the genetics community weighed in on important industry topics. Precision medicine, which aims to find specific treatments for specific patients, was a central theme this year. When asked how precision medicine is already present in the medical world, Truelson cited Ambry's EpiRapid 16-gene panel as an example, as results from this test can provide therapeutic indications for epilepsy. Truelson also praised Ambry's cardiology and neurology tests that are geared toward determining specific treatments. She touched on Ambry's paired testing options, saying "Our TumorNext tests are so exciting; you are able to look at a tumor and determine if a person's cancer is inherited or acquired. There are a lot of patients treated as if they have an inherited condition when it's not, and they don't need to be screened excessively."
Melissa, along with other licensed GCs, play a critical role in the expansion of precision medicine through accurately interpreting results and recommending the most effective treatment for patients based on these results. Truelson notes:
"Interpreting genetic test results in the context of a patient's personal and family history is rarely straightforward. Having access to licensed genetic counselors who are dedicated not only to identifying the most efficient and appropriate genetic test but also to explaining complex results in an understandable and sensitive manner will be advantageous for physicians less familiar with rapidly changing genetic testing menus and insurance requirements for testing coverage."
Ambry's genetic tests analyze mutations that can occur in as little as a single gene, but can still cause consequential phenotypic changes. The proper analysis of these mutations by qualified GCs can drive effective, precise treatment.
Scientific collaboration was also an important topic of debate in the symposium. Participants lamented the lack of collaboration in the industry, and how this remains a significant obstacle to integrating precision medicine in healthcare. Truelson explains "It's important for people to realize that as we get smarter, the way we interpret test results and what we do with them may change. Again, collaboration is key."
Truelson is not only an influential representative of her local community in the field of genetics, she exemplifies Ambry's mission to understand all human disease through our data-sharing platform, AmbryShare, and the advancement of the field of genetics through collaborative research. Ambry looks forward to seeing how her contributions to the field of genetics shape the future of the industry!
Read the July edition of Minnesota Physician for coverage of the Minnesota Health Care Roundtable here.
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