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Plastic film used in food packaging kills coronavirus: Study
All this while we have been relying on kitchen ingredients like turmeric, cinnamon, ginger and garlic to help protect us from the deadly COVID19 virus, but the real solution is something else. According to a recent research conducted by scientists on food packaging may come as great relief for those who cannot help ordering food from outside during the pandemic and those in the hospitality industry. As per a study, transparent stretchable plastic (PVC) film used in packaging food, meats and vegetables may deactivate the coronavirus! Marketed by Brazilian plastics manufacturer Alpes, the material contains silver and silica nanoparticles, a technology developed and licensed by Nanox.
In tests conducted at the University of Sao Paulo's Biomedical Sciences Institute (ICB-USP), the PVC film proved capable of eliminating 79.9 per cent of the particles of SARS-CoV-2 in three minutes and 99.99 per cent in up to 15 minutes. According to the study author Lucio Freitas Junior, elimination of the virus by the material was extremely effective and fast.
The film was tested against ISO 21702:2019, the technical standard governing the measurement of antiviral activity on plastic and other non-porous surfaces, and requiring demonstration of this capability within four hours. Samples of the material with and without silver-silica nanoparticles were kept in direct contact with SARS-CoV-2 for varying amounts of time. After the stipulated periods, the viral particles found in the material were removed and placed in contact with Vero cells to measure the infection and replication rate after exposure to the film. Vero cells are derived from the kidney of an African monkey and widely used in microbiological cultures. The viral genetic material was quantified by PCR, showing a reduction of almost 100 per cent in copies of SARS-CoV-2 after 15 minutes of exposure to the film.
Fonte: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/food-news/plastic-film-used-in-food-packaging-kills-coronavirus-study/photostory/79319954.cms
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At 3800 m (12500 ft) elevation, lake Titicaca is the highest navigable lake in the world. We were wondering what the term "navigable" referred to. According to Wikipedia, there are a few other lakes that are at higher elevations but they are much smaller and shallower, and so there are no commercial boats on them – hence they are not "navigable".
The native populations of this area belong to two different tribes – the Quechua and the Aymara. Depending on which language you pick, Lake Titicaca means either "grey puma" or "stone puma". 60% of the lake belongs to Peru, and 40% belongs to Bolivia. Today, we toured two of the islands on the Peruvian side – the floating islands of Uros and the natural island of Taquile.
The floating islands of Uros are man-made out of mud and bundled reeds called totora. The people of Uros built them as a defense mechanism against the Incas and other tribes. Apparently, the people of Uros initially retreated to the lake on their reed boats, but then decided to build a more permanent settlement.
The floating island we visited this morning was the home of 23 people, all of whom make their living off the tourists who come to visit. Once we disembarked, our tour guide sat us down in a circle and introduced us to the chief of the island, who demonstrated how the floating island was built.
As I looked around at the little straw huts around the island, Nathalia pointed out to me a solar panel right next to one of the huts. The rest of their life may be somewhat primitive, but the people of Uros use solar panels to get electricity – imagine that! They even used it to power a small TV to watch the Euro 2012 final on!
After we learned a bit more about the people of Uros, each one of us got invited by one of the inhabitants to visit their hut. It wasn't much more than a square room with a bed against one of the walls. I couldn't imagine how cold it gets at night, or how wet in the rainy season, yet the people of Uros were happy to show us around and enjoyed the looks of astonishment on our faces. We even got to try on their traditional clothing – colorful skirts and jackets made of alpaca wool. Afterwards, we got to ride a reed boat to one of the other small floating islands, where our boat picked us up and we continued on to our next destination – the natural island of Taquile.
Taquile is home to about 2000 people, all of them Quechua. They live on the Incan principle of "do not steal, do not lie and do not be lazy", and so there is no police on this island. After a short climb, we got to the main plaza on the island, where we enjoyed amazing views of the lake and the other islands, and admired the locals and their colorful traditional clothing.
We ate trout and drank Inca Kola at a small restaurant that was basically a couple of tables in someone's backyard.
Afterwards, we descended over 500 steps to the other side of the island to the main harbor, where our boat picked us up. We enjoyed great views of the harbor.
The two-and-a-half hours we spent on this beautiful island went by very quickly, as we were all immersed in the tranquility and in the completely different way of living all around us.
When we finally got back to Puno, it was just before dusk. We walked around the main square in town and got dinner at a place that overlooked the plaza and the cathedral of Puno. There isn't much to do in Puno other than tour Lake Titicaca, but having an early night was all right with us, as tomorrow we have to get up early yet again to head to Arequipa. As much as we've enjoyed the Andes, we are both excited to go back to moderate temperatures and lower altitude!


Sammy Carter matched his uniform number with seven goals and he added three assists to lead Indian Creek to a 15-13 win and the MIAA C Conference lacrosse crown.
Sophomore attackman Samuel Carter scored three consecutive third quarter goals to spark Indian Creek School to a thrilling comeback victory as they finished off their Anne Arundel County neighbors, Annapolis Area Christian School, 15-13, to capture the 2018 MIAA C Conference lacrosse championship, Friday afternoon at Towson University's Johnny Unitas Stadium.
Carter accounted for seven goals and three assists, and senior attackman Langston Sheppard contributed four goals and an assist for Indian Creek. The two schools split their two regular season games, and it looked like AACS was going to run away with the championship as they dominated the first half and led 11-6 halfway through the third quarter.
Senior attackman Jay Jenkins scored a team-high six goals and had three assists, and junior midfielder John-Gaga Collier netted four goals and added two assists, but it was not enough to hold off ICS.
Indian Creek (14-5) crept within two after three quarters and pulled even in the decisive fourth quarter, behind goals by Sheppard and Carter, before bursting in front when senior midfielder Sam Homick found a wide open senior Michael Troese who tickled the twine with a right-handed rocket from 15 yards out.
Carter gave credit to Indian Creek's senior leadership for the comeback.
Coach Werner reflected on all of the hard work his team put in to turn the season around.
"This has been the most fulfilling season coaching wise. We are a different team than we were in March. Getting a nice win over Beth Tfiloh last week and winning in double overtime against Annapolis Area the week before, we knew we could come and challenge for a championship.
AACS first-year head coach Bob Sturgell, although not happy with the outcome, had high praise for his young team and their two seniors Jay Jenkins and Cole Vazquez.
The Indian Creek faithful erupted with joy when their team finally went on top in the fourth, but the lead proved to be short-lived, as Jenkins fed sophomore attackman Mason Fortlage who tied the game at 13-13 with 7:22 remaining.
The game-winner came quite unexpectedly when Hornick gobbled up a loose ground ball right in front of the crease and deposited an underhand quick-stick with 6:32 left in the game.
Indian Creek fended off several assaults by AACS, played a few minutes of "keep away," and Carter provided the icing on the cake with his seventh and final goal with just 51 seconds remaining.
GOALS: AACS-Jay Jenkins 6, John Cage-Collier 4, Ben Sturgell 2, Mason Fortlage; ICS-Samuel Carer 7, Langston Sheppard 4, Sam Homick 2, Michael Troese, Jonah Amin.
ASSISTS: AACS-Jay Jenkins 3, Ben Sturgell 3, John Cage-Collier 2; AACS-Samuel Carter 3, Sam Homick 3, Jonah Amin, Ronan Fanning, Langston Sheppard, Michael Troese.
SAVES: AACS-Cole Vazquez 16; ICS-Shaun Gerety 5.
GROUND BALLS: Indian Creek, 46-34.
FACE-OFFS: Annapolis Area Christian, 17-15.


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The if statemnt boolIsOnTheGround is not working. What I'm trying to do is check whether the cube is on the ground so I kno when you can jump. The cube just bounces infinitely by pressing space.

A: In your code you have two if-blocks where you jump:
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Venus Just Missed Hosting Life Like Earth?
If conditions had been just a little different an eon ago, there might be plentiful life on Venus and none on Earth, according to a hypothesis by Rice University scientists.
The researchers maintain that minor evolutionary changes could have altered the fates of both Earth and Venus in ways that scientists may soon be able to model through observation of other solar systems, particularly ones in the process of forming, according to Rice Earth scientist Adrian Lenardic.
Lenardic and his team suggested that habitable planets may lie outside the "Goldilocks zone" in extra-solar systems, and that planets farther from or closer to their suns than Earth may harbor the conditions necessary for life.
Earth vs Venus?
Matt Weller, left, and Adrian Lenardic are shown. CREDIT:Jeff Fitlow/Rice University
The Goldilocks zone has long been defined as the band of space around a star that is not too warm, not too cold, rocky and with the right conditions for maintaining surface water and a breathable atmosphere. But that description, which to date scientists have only been able to calibrate using observations from our own solar system, may be too limiting, Lenardic said.
"For a long time we've been living, effectively, in one experiment, our solar system," he said, channeling his mentor, the late William Kaula. Kaula is considered the father of space geodetics, a system by which all the properties in a planetary system can be quantified.
In expanding the notion of habitable zones, the researchers determined that life on Earth itself isn't necessarily a given based on the Goldilocks concept. A nudge this way or that in the conditions that existed early in the planet's formation may have made it inhospitable.
By extension, a similarly small variation could have changed the fortunes of Venus, Earth's closest neighbor, preventing it from becoming a burning desert with an atmosphere poisonous to terrestrials.
The paper said the idea that plate tectonics is a critical reason Earth harbors life is questionable. "The Earth in its earliest lifetimes, let's say 2-3 billion years ago, would have looked for all intents and purposes like an alien planet," Lenardic said. "We know the atmosphere was completely different, with no oxygen. There's a debate that plate tectonics might not have been operative…The Earth itself could have transitioned between planetary states as it evolved."
Even Venus, if it had the chance would have evolved a new life on its surface, they suggested.
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If you've run up $20,000 or more in credit card debt you probably know how this happened. On the other hand if you're in pretty good shape so far as your credit card debt is concerned, you might be wondering how people fall into credit card debt … or how they could end up owing $50,000 or more.
Experts say there are basically seven reasons that cause people to fall into credit card hell.
Some people let themselves get into a position where their expenses exceed their incomes and are left with no option except to run up credit card debt.
If you're not aware of this, more than 50% of American marriages now end up in divorce and with this comes problems with personal finances. For example, if one party demands too much, the other may have to go into debt for attorneys' fees as well as paying their ex-partner whatever the court orders.
Poor budgeting almost always means debt. People must track their expenses to see where their money's going. When people don't do this they can easily end up spending more than their incomes – which leads to big debt.
Many people found themselves underemployed as a result of the Great Recession. While they might believe this is just temporary it can have a lasting effect on their lives as they may then have to go into debt to make ends meet. If you find yourself underemployed, calculate your expenses and then think about looking for a second job. This could stop you from running up more debt.
This is one of the most popular forms of entertainment for many Americans. In reality, it is just a way to move money from their wallets to the "house." Plus, loans are very easy to get these days. People who become addicted to the idea of "striking it rich," can end up mortgaging their futures as they try to win back what they lost.
Medical bills are actually the number one reason why people get into big debt these days. Medical treatments can be very expensive and everything that has to do with medicine costs money and usually a lot of it. If you don't have the money to pay for a visit to the hospital or clinic, it's just easy to put it on a credit card or even take out a loan – which can mean big debt.
People with little or no savings have nothing to fall back on when they run into unexpected expenditures. Most experts say that you should have the equivalent of six months' earnings to cover emergencies such as a job loss, an auto accident or divorce.
Here's an infographic that illustrates the steps that lead to credit card debt hell.
If this were a perfect world both partners in a marriage or relationship would be interested in finances. However, this is not always the case. Some people care about finances while others don't. Sharing your life doesn't mean that you share everything or do everything together. So, what can you do if your partner just doesn't care about or isn't interested in finances?
The next step is to forget about your partner and dive into the details of personal finances on your own. You should read personal finance blogs and forums. If you want to become really knowledgeable, get and read some books. Make a plan. Then track your spending and create a budget that will allow you to meet the goals you've established in your plan.
Make sure that the budget you develop is not about deprivation. It should be about what both you and your partner realistically want and how you would work towards it through a planned approach. Your partner may find it's important to buy things that you find unnecessary like an iTunes Season Pass to Real Housewives or the newest Grand Theft Auto. When this is the case, try to work it into your plan. If there's not enough money to cover this, you will need to demonstrate why. Show your spouse or partner what you could do with the money instead such as paying your electric bill on time. You might be doing the hard work but your partner needs to sign on to your plan.
Next, you will need to settle down one evening and present your high level plan to your partner. In the event that he or she wants more details, you've won. You might find that your partner isn't much concerned with the details unless it pertains to the amount of money you're saving up for something such as a vacation. If he or she questions your budget, provide answers and then if necessary make tweaks.
The final step is to go live. Start executing your plan. Keep your partner updated as necessary. In the event something gets out of whack or you've accomplished something really awesome like paying off the loan, update your partner. Otherwise, just keep rolling along.
Could you make personal finances fun?
Finally, one tactic that has worked well for many families is to make personal finances fun. For example, you could turn your budget into a game where the objective is to stay on budget. Your partner who just isn't interested in finances might dive right in if you made things competitive. You could award prizes to the family member that comes up with the best ideas for cutting your natural gas bill or ways to reduce your grocery bill. Your partner might take much more of an interest in family finances if you were to make it a "race" to get to the next paycheck with the most money left over that could be saved or invested. To make this a real game, you could put up a "racetrack" chart showing how you're doing on a day-by-day basis.
How about a contest to see who could find the most free stuff over, say, a thirty-day period? If you're struggling with debt, you might make a game out of finding ways to cut your living expenses so you could get it paid off faster – with a prize to the person who comes up with the most.
The net/net is that if you have a partner who just isn't interested in family finances, it's okay. You can be the family's vice president of finances, make a plan, develop a budget and then relax knowing that you have things under control.


Prolong your Summer with the Heartbeats mixtape!
Brian Shimkovitz, the person behind Awesome Tapes From Africa, has compiled a mixtape that is sure to prolong your Summer! It consists of musical gems which are hard-to-find for audiences outside of Africa. Enjoy!
Using a hefty stock of cassette tapes acquired while studying hip-hop in Ghana in 2004-2005, Brian Shimkovitz launched Awesome Tapes from Africa (ATFA) in 2006. ATFA is first and foremost a blog devoted to sharing these hard-to-find musical gems with audiences outside of Africa. ATFA has music you won't easily find anywhere else - except, perhaps in its region of origin.
After five years of spreading world music to the masses, ATFA is launching a label. Starting this October, ATFA will re-issue select recordings. Kicking off with an album from Malian singer Nâ Hawa Doumbia called La Grande Contatrice Malienne Vol 3, ATFA plans to distribute LP, CD, and MP3 formats via SC Distribution - with 50% of profits going to the artists (!!!).


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As MPs prepared to vote, they had no shortage of advice from the different factions gathered outside Parliament.
The man was detained after the incident on Tuesday.
Scotland Yard has slammed criticism of deputy commissioner Sir Craig Mackey's actions during the Westminster attack as "abhorrent".
The close protection officer shot Khalid Masood as he neared officers armed with knives.
The close protection officer's colleague shot Khalid Masood when he approached them armed with knives.
Sir Craig Mackey said his instinct had been to get out of the car during the incident at the Palace of Westminster last March.
The widow of Pc Keith Palmer says her husband was left in a "vulnerable location with no protection to die".
None of the graphic CCTV or pictures shown at the Old Bailey inquest were released to the public.
A women whose husband died pushing her out of the way of Westminster Bridge attacker's car says she feels only pity for the attacker.


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El Salvador's Police Kill and Lie Again
The official story of El Salvador's police department fell apart again in the face of testimony from direct witnesses. The police say they killed four pandilleros (gang members) in a shootout in a house in Villas de Zaragoza. Two witnesses say that when they left the house, the four were alive and had surrendered. One of the dead is a worker who was sleeping when three pandilleros, fleeing from the police, entered his house from the roof. Even one of the police agents on the scene refuted details of the official version offered by the Deputy Police Chief.
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Minutes before the police killed him, José Armando Díaz Valladares was sleeping in his house. Armando, as he was called by family members, had worked all night in a plastics factory. He had begun work Sunday night and returned home, tired, at 8 am on Monday. He had something to eat, put on an orange-colored pair of sports pants, and went to bed. His life partner, Dayana, and their three-year-old child, Aaron, were also in the house, along with Sofía, Armando's thirteen-year-old sister.
Dayana was frightened when, around midday, she heard shots. She ran toward Armando. Judging from the shouts she heard outside, it seemed to be a shootout between pandilleros and the National Civilian Police (PNC). Dominated by the Barrio 18 Sureños gang, the neighborhood is surrounded by others controlled by the Mara Salvatrucha. Police raids are frequent, and Dayana figured that perhaps the people she heard running across their roof were police agents. "Armando's sleeping, they won't do anything to him," she thought.
But the first ones to enter the house from the roof weren't police agents but three pandilleros, all of them minors. Dayana saw that at least one of them was wounded. The racket had awakened Armando. Still in bed, he asked the pandilleros several times to leave. But then "the police got to the door, and they (the pandilleros) couldn't leave," Dayana recalls.
Policías custodian la casa 33 de Villas De Zaragoza, donde ocurrieron las cuatro muertes. Foto:Fred Ramos
On Monday, February 8, a communiqué on the PNC's website said that five pandilleros had been killed in two armed clashes in the town of Zaragoza, in La Libertad province. Deputy Police Chief César Baldemar Flores Murillo spoke about the incident while the crime scene was still being processed. In 1991, in San Miguel province, Flores Murillo was tried and acquitted of having covered up for La Sombra Negra (The Black Shadow), a death squad which targeted pandilleros.
He said that on the morning of the killings, "subjects" had attacked "a vehicle with merchandise" at a place in the town center known as "La Fuente". When agents of the local police station intervened, the pandilleros fired at them. One pandillero died in the exchange –some agents say he was 15 years old, others say he was 24, or 18– and "the rest fled." He also said that a sergeant had been wounded. According to the official version, the police were told that the pandilleros who fled had taken refuge in a house in the Villas de Zaragoza neighborhood, about five minutes from where the shootout took place. When the police went to the site, the pandilleros tried to flee over the roofs to the neighboring house, where another "exchange of fire took place, in which four members of the criminal structure died."
This version said that the operation was carried out by members of the regional Police Reaction Group (GRP) and the local police precinct.
The police said they found a shotgun and a 9 mm pistol at the scene. Flores Murillo told reporters they also found "military knapsacks, telescopic sights, and other items which, it can be presumed, they were going to use in their criminal acts."
The police at the scene of the crime only gave reporters the alleged names and nicknames of three of the dead: Carlos Vladimir Nerio Andrade a.k.a. Queco, 13; Edwin Manuel Lemus Aldana a.k.a. Pinki, 16; and Miguel Ángel Ponce a.k.a. Gazú, 17.
They said nothing about Armando, who was 23.
Un policía sin identificación ni número de ONI se paseaba entre los espectadores y los periodistas tras un operativo policial que devino en la ejecución de cuatro jóvenes en Zaragoza, La Libertad, en febrero de 2016. Foto:Fred Ramos
"Mom, they're saying that four people were killed. Armando was in the house. He stayed there, they took us out," says a girl to a woman who has just arrived at the crime scene.
She is far from the journalists when she says this, and does not realize that I'm overhearing her.
It's 4 p.m. on February 8. The police say they clashed with some pandilleros and killed four of them in this neighborhood in Zaragoza. The girl is Sofía. She's 13, and lives in the house where the bodies are. She says that when the police removed her, Armando and the other three were alive. The woman is Ana del Carmen, mother of Armando and Sofía. Holding her daughter's arm, she walks toward the police line which circles the block around the house. But the police, wearing black ski masks, aren't letting anyone –even the people who live there– approach house #33. The woman breaks down and cries out, "They've killed him!" The press films her. The girl moves her away from the cameras. Mockingly, a police agent shouts, "Oh, my little boy, he was taking a bath!"
La madre y la hermana menor de José Armando Díaz esperan que la policía las deje entrar a su casa, donde están los cadáveres. No las dejaron entrar hasta pasadas las 9 de la noche. Foto:Fred Ramos
The woman receives a phone call: "I don't know. I don't know. They say they've killed four, and Armando was in there... I don't know. I don't know."
The girl sits on the sidewalk, the mother holding her arm. Four other mothers have arrived, asking about their sons, but from the other side of the yellow line, no one answers them.
"They killed them in cold blood," says the girl, when I ask her what happened. She and her mother have again moved away from the reporters and the police. The girl weeps. "There were lots of them (those who entered the house). They (the three pandilleros) jumped in from the roof, and the police were right behind them. They pointed their guns at us and took me and Dayana and the child outside. Armando stayed inside. It was around 1 p.m."
After that, the girl only recalls that "every minute there was another gun shot."
The mother receives another call. It's her other son, Armando's brother, calling from the United States, where he's living without papers. "They went into the house, son. I don't know anything... They took the others out of the house. Armando stayed inside."
Employees from five low-cost funeral homes, who've arrived before the press, are trying to convince the mothers, who don't even know if their sons are among the dead yet, to buy their services. The lowest price is $200: "It's not a luxury service, mother, but it will be dignified. Others will try to take advantage of your pain. All we want to do is help. So, Christian or Catholic?"
It's 5 p.m. The police don't let the mother enter the home until 9 p.m., when, without the press being able to observe it, the bodies have been removed in white bags and taken to the morgue in Santa Tecla.
2015 was the year when the pandilleros and the police confronted each other. Sixty-three agents were killed last year, most of them while they were off-duty. So far in 2016, more than 15 family members of police agents or soldiers have been murdered. The agents and soldiers have gotten the message; more and more, they are acting as if they were parties to a conflict, and not as government authorities. In 2014, 40% of the complaints received by the human rights ombudsperson were against agents or soldiers; in 2015, it was 74%.
The scene in Villas de Zaragoza is similar to what happens every week in El Salvador today. The police report a shootout in which two or three or eight pandilleros died. They say a police agent was injured but is out of danger or, in the worst –and less frequent– case, that the agent died. The report says weapons were found, but says nothing about ballistics examinations or other information about where the arms came from. They don't let anyone see the crime scene, except in cases where there's no way to hide it. The police Internal Affairs Department doesn't go to the scene, nor does it, in most cases, do an investigation if the press hasn't mentioned the case. As members of the Attorney General's office have informed El Faro, their office doesn't provide more information on the case. The police report is regarded as true, as happened after the massacre at a farm in San Blas –just three kilometers from Villas de Zaragoza– on March 26, 2015. The police killed four people who were labeled as pandilleros. La Prensa Gráfica reported last October on the case of five alleged pandilleros killed in Panchimalco. Again the police and army claimed the deaths were the result of a shootout, but the forensic evidence and the testimony of witnesses suggested that the victims had been murdered.
Nevertheless, rather than questioning the official story, the press tends to accept what it's told when it reports on such stories. In the case of Villas de Zaragoza, La Página reported that "the police were able to end the lives of four more antisocial types;" El Diario de Hoy said, "Five pandilleros die in shootout with police;" and Diario1 wrote "Four pandilleros of the Sureños wing of the 18th Street gang died Monday afternoon in a confrontation with the police in Brisas de Zaragoza."
The financial officer of the plastics factory where Armando worked answered the phone. "He was very friendly. He didn't have anything to do with the gangs. He worked Sunday night; he came in at 7 and left at 7 in the morning. There's no instance of misconduct in his personnel file. He began working here about four years ago; he was recommended by a sales executive who's been working here for 35 years."
Armando's boss, the production manager, also spoke about him by phone. "He was one of the best workers. We've had suspicions about some of our workers, but he was young and really wanted to work. We played together on the soccer team. There'd been an opening, and he was hoping to be promoted. When he got home, he hadn't slept. I believe what his mother says. He has workmates who live in that area and they confirm what she said."
A police inspector who was at the scene answers the phone: "At first, they (the pandilleros) weren't in the house where they were killed. They only went there when they saw the police coming."
An investigator who gathered evidence at the scene said by phone, "I never saw those military knapsacks that the officials say they found in the house. And the telescopic sight they're talking about was like a toy; it wasn't something you'd use with a gun. We didn't even take it with us."
On Tuesday at 3 p.m., some questions were sent to the PNC's head press officer. He was asked, if only two guns were found, how can you claim that all four had participated in a gun battle? He was also asked if the dead had records, and how the police knew that Armando was a pandillero. A few minutes later, he answered: "This case is now in the hands of the attorney general's office. They're the only ones authorized to provide information about it. I suggest you ask them." The attorney general's spokesperson said that, for the moment, he had nothing to say.
En la tarde del crimen, la Policía acordonó toda una manzana para procesar la escena en la que murieron cuatro personas en Villas de Zaragoza. / Foto: Víctor Peña
It's midday on Tuesday, February 9. The families are waiting for the bodies of their sons outside the morgue in Santa Tecla.
"They had surrendered. They killed my son with so much hate that parts of his face are missing," says one mother. She doesn't deny that her son was a pandillero.
I asked her, "Was Armando a pandillero?"
"He wasn't part of that. He was simply resting in his house."
"All he did was work. He was resting," said Armando's father, an electrician. Later, during the wake, he had to lie down because he has heart problems and began to have strong palpitations in his chest.
The first corpse emerges from the morgue. It is Armando. His life partner, Dayana, gets on the microbus and goes to the low-cost funeral home that will prepare the body.
The document that the forensics office gave the family says Armando died of "gunshot wounds in the thorax and abdomen." But when his body was examined at the funeral home, another entry wound was found. He had a hole in his right ear, an abrasion on his neck and a hole in the collar bone, as if a bullet had broken, caused a wound and then broken again. It appeared to be a gunshot fired from above.
As she awaits the body at the funeral home, Dayana is weeping. Nevertheless, she says she'll answer a question.
"What happened yesterday?"
"I don't know how they turned up on the roof... The police entered and I don't know what they did to the other boys... The police pointed their guns at us. Armando threw himself on the floor like this (she puts her hands on her neck), and said to me, 'Be calm. Be calm.' The policeman said to me, 'Come over here right now.' I said to him, 'Look, he (Armando) isn't involved in all this, he's just come home from work and he hasn't slept. I don't know how these other guys got here. Here's his wallet, take it.' He said, 'We'll look at that later. Go over there.' I said, 'Look, here are his papers, look at them (his I.D. card from the plastics factory).' He said, 'Go outside,' and pointed his gun at me... Sofia went running to where my mother was, with the child. I said to them, 'He isn't a gang member. Please, just look at his papers.' There were lots of police there... The policeman said to Armando, 'Get over there,' beside one of the youths who was bleeding, I suppose from bullet wounds... Then I went running to where my mother was. And then I heard the shots. I felt badly, my heart hurt when I heard the shots, the last shots."
The testimonies of the two direct witnesses coincide. They say not only Armando but also the other three alleged pandilleros were on the floor, some of them wounded. Dayana doesn't remember if they were all bleeding. "I was looking at Armando. I was thinking about him. He put his hands on his head and threw himself on the floor," she says. She's certain that there was no armed clash inside the house; rather, there were three alleged pandilleros, 17, 16 and 13 years old, sitting on the floor, and her husband lying there face down. There were no shots when she was trying to negotiate with the police. There were no shots when Sofia and Aaron, Armando's sister and brother, went running out of the house. There were no shots when the police finally forced Dayana to leave.
The gunshots came later.
Por qué recordaremos 2019
Mujeres que migran
Fred Ramos y Víctor Peña
Soyapango ya no es SoyaBronx
Roberto Valencia
La Policía mata y miente de nuevo
Nuestra propia guerra de Vietnam
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Creative and Intellectual Life
Plays and playwrights
Story: Plays and playwrights
From romanticised views of Māori to activist plays by Māori playwrights, from verse dramas to collectively devised experimental works, New Zealand plays have taken a broad range of forms. In the 2000s the art of playwriting was flourishing.
Story by Murray Edmond
Main image: John Leigh and Tim Balme in Ken Duncum's 2010 comedy Horseplay
First New Zealand plays
Plays of the mid- and later 20th century
Theatrical explosion: 1960s and 1970s
Māori and Pacific theatre
Social issues on stage
Theatre into the 2000s
The land of the moa, 1895
The tree, 1959
Father's Day, 1966
Poster for Purapurawhetu, 1997
Hens' teeth, 1988
The first original play staged in New Zealand may have been Marcilina, or the maid of Urmindorpt, performed in Wellington in 1848. In the later 19th century a few plays included local content.
In 1933 the New Zealand branch of the British Drama League ran a competition for one-act plays. However, few of these plays were ever performed. Radio broadcasts were a more reliable source of money for playwrights than the theatre.
Mid- and later 20th century
In the 1950s and 1960s Frank Sargeson, Allen Curnow and James K. Baxter (the latter two better known as poets) wrote a number of plays. The tree, by Stella Jones, was performed in England and by the New Zealand Players in New Zealand. Later literary authors who also wrote plays included Witi Ihimaera and Albert Wendt.
From the mid-1950s till the early 1980s Bruce Mason was New Zealand's dominant playwright. His work included the Māori-themed The pohutukawa tree and the monologue The end of the golden weather.
Professional theatres opened in the 1960s and playwrights had more regular work. Roger Hall's first play, Glide time, was performed in 1976. Hall went on to have a long career writing comic plays.
In the 1970s some theatre companies wrote plays collectively.
The first play by a Māori writer was Te raukura by Harry Dansey (1972), about the Taranaki prophets Te Whiti and Tohu. In 1979 theatre group Maranga Mai made a splash with their play about Māori land-rights protests.
In the 1980s new Māori playwrights made an impact, including Rawiri Paratene, Riwia Brown and Apirana Taylor. From 1990 Taki Rua theatre focused on Māori theatre. It encouraged playwrights including Hone Kouka and Briar Grace-Smith.
Te Haumihiata Mason translated Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida into Māori for performance in London.
In the 1990s Pacific authors also began writing drama.
In 1973 Playmarket was set up to support playwrights. Its workshops fostered important new playwrights, including Greg McGee (who wrote the 1980 play Foreskin's lament, about rugby and masculinity) and the feminist writer Renee. In the 1980s theatre explored feminist issues including rape, childbirth, homosexuality and striptease.
Into the 2000s
Ken Duncum, Michelanne Forster, David Geary, Vivienne Plumb and Duncan Sarkies all began writing plays in the 1990s and continued in the 2000s. Jacob Rajan and Justin Lewis created dramas focusing on Indian culture. Companies continued to write plays collectively, and some included circus and puppetry.
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Murray Edmond, 'Plays and playwrights', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/plays-and-playwrights (accessed 23 January 2020)
Story by Murray Edmond, published 22 Oct 2014
Kapa haka – Māori performing arts
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In 1923, Frank Sailer Sr., who came to America from Austria at the age of 17, opened a Jack Sprat Food Store on Main Street in Elmwood. He decided to settle in Elmwood because he said the hills reminded him of home in Austria. Besides being a meat market, they also carried a full line of groceries. A few months after opening the new meat market, Frank Sr., and Marie had a baby boy named Frank Jr. that would eventually take over the business from his father.
Frank Jr. and his wife Lorena put many long hours into the store making it an ever growing business. By that time it was a full service locker plant with a slaughtering area, doing custom processing for many local farmers. Frank Jr. and Lorena had two sons, Ric and Greg. Both sons worked with their parents for many years learning the business.
In 1995, Ric and his wife Mary along with their son Jake took over the business. At that time, they made the decision to no longer carry a line of groceries, and to mainly concentrate on custom processing and sausage making. By 2006 the business had outgrown the building, so Jake and his father Ric decided that they either had to build a new facility or quit. They Built!
The new locker plant is located at 600 W Winter Ave. Jake designed the new plant with much more room, bigger coolers, and also a welcoming retail area. Besides staying busy with the new business, Jake and his wife Leslie also welcomed the 6th generation into their family, with a daughter in 2006 and a son in 2009. Both kids love to come down and help whenever they can.
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Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir: Peace
17 February, 2022–9 April, 2022
« Messíana Tómasdóttir: Erkitýpur og vængjaðar verur
Creation of Childhood 2022 »
i8 Gallery is pleased to announce Peace, an exhibition of new work by Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir. The show, Birgisdóttir's second with the gallery, includes installations, prints, and sculptures by the artist. A major new publication highlighting ten years of Birgisdóttir's work will be released to coincide with the opening of the show.
Throughout her nuanced practice, Birgisdóttir explores ideas of beauty, utility, and context, continually questioning the balance between perception and reality. For Peace, Birgisdóttir presents five bodies of work, including both singular objects and connected installations. This exhibition examines banal items such as computer buttons, plastic clips, and textile sprays, each of which is considered by the artist for its simplicity and sheer existence. By presenting prosaic objects in new mediums and scales, Birgisdóttir overemphasizes their familiarity, while also challenging their functionality. These shifts highlight the sculptural value of the original item and celebrate the aesthetics of objects that are normally overlooked.
Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir (born 1980, Iceland) lives and works in Reykjavík. In 2021, she was included in shows at Iceland's Reykjavik Art Museum; the GES-2 House of Culture, V-A-C Foundation in Moscow, Russia; and H2H in Athens, Greece. Her work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Iceland, the Reykjavík Art Museum, and Iceland's Living Art Museum, among others. Birgisdóttir graduated from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2003.
Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir, i8 gallery
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Redcar and Cleveland Council
Landmarkclocks up a £60,000 bill
Redcar Town Clock needs £60,000 worth of repairs to it.
The clock, a landmark in the town standing at the junction of the High Street, Queen Street and West Terrace, has been out of action for months.
But contractors asked to repair the clock's mechanism could not get access to the structure because of safety concerns.
Access ladders and an access hatch are in a poor condition and the inside of the clock tower also requires attention.
Areas of concrete on the outside of the tower are being eroded by the weather and there is no lightning conductor on the tower.
Redcar and Cleveland Council's Executive is to consider on Tuesday, January 8, the future of the clock tower, which is one of only 15 listed buildings in Redcar listed as of special architectural or historical importance.
Paul Kirkham, Director of Neighbourhood Services, reports to the Executive that the costs for repairing the structure, installing a lightning conductor, repairing the clock movement and repairing the access and interior will cost £60,000.
"Due to the prominent landmark status that both the residents and business community place on the clock tower, repairs would be in keeping with the council's vision to make the borough an attractive place to live, work and invest," he says.
Mr Kirkham says the council only has £1,750 allocated in its budget this year for public clocks but council officers were looking at the possibility of outside sources of cash. Erected by public subscription in 1913, the King Edward VII Memorial Clock was designed by Middlesbrough architect William Duncan.
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Middlehaven
Multi-million pound road and bridge to be unveiled in Middlehaven as official name revealed
Middlesbrough Council says the £10m project will pave the way for work to start on the proposed £30m snow centre
James CainLocal Democracy Reporter
A major multi-million-pound road and bridge is to be unveiled and have its official name revealed on Friday.
The Middlehaven Dock Bridge project forms the latest phase of Middlesbrough's £700m investment programme and will be known as Priestman Road and Priestman Road Bridge.
They are named after a 1910-built dredger which was the first vessel built at South Bank by the legendary Smith's Dock Company
Middlesbrough Council says the £10m project – funded through a £6.1m capital investment from Middlesbrough Council plus a £3.9m grant secured by Tees Valley Combined Authority from the Local Growth Fund initiative - will pave the way for work to start on the proposed £30m snow centre.
Middlesbrough snow centre finally has a name - and even more activities are being considered
The new access also opens up around 25 hectares of mixed-use commercial and residential development land on the wider Middlehaven site and links to industry at Riverside Park, including the TeesAMP development.
This Friday, Middlesbrough Mayor Dave Budd will welcome invited guests including Middlesbrough MP Andy McDonald and Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen, to the Hudson Quay site for the official unveiling ceremony.
During the 69-week project, main contractor Balfour Beatty installed a 95-tonne steel bridge, supported by 120 tonnes of steel reinforcement and 159 tonnes of pre-cast concrete units.
Works also included the removal of the existing footbridge and demolition of former office buildings on site.
Mayor Budd said: "The new bridge and relief road are major milestones in the transformation of Middlehaven, and will further unlock the area's huge potential, as the established city heart of the Tees Valley.
A new £9m road bridge is planned to improve traffic flow in central Middlesbrough and boost a key regeneration site (Image: Evening Gazette)
"They are potent symbols of the ambition we have for Middlesbrough, and add further momentum to the regeneration that is taking place across the borough.
"The Priestman name points to a proud industrial past which helped lay the foundations for future growth, jobs and prosperity."
Mr McDonald, who will be carrying out the official ribbon cutting duty, said: "I am delighted to be officially opening the new Dock Bridge.
"It will provide crucial infrastructure for the developments at Middlehaven, such as the Snow Centre, and help ease congestion for local commuters by providing another link to the A66.
Big name shops that could open at empty Sainsbury's store are finally announced
"Middlesbrough Council's plans for regenerating Middlesbrough are expansive and ambitious and the Dock Bridge will ensure that they can deliver on the huge potential for sites in Middlehaven.
"The dramatic, transformational change that is taking place across the city centre is a tremendous credit to the council and I am proud to be involved with this latest example of the mayor's vision being delivered."
Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen said: "It may only be a bridge, but this is the final piece of the jigsaw to fully regenerate the Middlehaven area and it's great to see it now being delivered.
"With our £3.9m commitment, we can now unlock a huge amount of brownfield land near the Riverside Stadium and bring even more investment and jobs to the site, such as the game-changing Subzero snow centre."
The Priestman was the first ship built at South Bank by Smith's Dock Company.
In 1907/8 The Smith's Dock Co shipyard and associated drydocks and repair facilities were developed on a completely new site fronting the River Tees at South Bank, a little way downstream from Middlesbrough.
In 1910 The Yard made its first dredger the Priestman.
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There's a fine distinction between a good speech and a great one – but in the end it largely comes down to one thing. A week, a month or even a year on, will the audience remember it? Will they still be talking about it and recalling the wonderful speaker who so 'wowed' them that day?
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The 18th Century English poet, Edward Young, famously warned that procrastination is the thief of time. It makes a great quote and – more to the point – when it comes to speech writing, never were there truer words! Writing that killer speech is a bit like growing a prize-winning vegetable; it's just not something you can rush, so give yourself plenty of time.
Very few of us can sit down and write the perfect speech straight off; mostly it's something that develops gradually over the course of a few drafts, a lot of tweaking and a whole load of practice runs – and that's more than a five minute job. When it comes to polishing your prose and your performance, you can never have too much time; the big day will dawn much faster than you think.
Research is central to a great speech. Even if you really know your subject matter, there'll always be another fascinating fact to find and add in, or a really spot-on quote to include, but if you're talking about something or someone that you're less familiar with, then good background work becomes essential.
When you are doing your research, it's always worth trying to get things verified by two independent sources if you possibly can – whether that's the structure of the uranium atom or which regiment Uncle George was with when he stormed the beach on D-Day. Nothing ruins the credibility of a speech so much as getting some simple and eminently check-able fact, wrong. Make sure you don't trip yourself up.
If you're going to do one thing absolutely right, then write an opening that will knock their socks off from the start! Grab your audience's attention at the outset and make them realise that if they lose their focus for even a single second, then they'll risk missing something really important – and then they'll be sorry.
How do you do it? Inevitably, much of that depends on the nature of your speech, the occasion, the subject matter and the group you're addressing, but there are two techniques which stand out as great 'killer' openings – the question and the bold statement. Intrigue your audience, pique their interest with your opening words, and you'll be well on the way.
Nobody likes a muddled speaker, so decide early on what you want your speech to achieve and stick to it. Are you going to inspire your audience to do something, change the way they view some part of their lives, commiserate with them for some loss or celebrate with them some success or major milestone in life?
Much of this is dictated by circumstances, but focus remains a key element in any great speech, so don't try to make too many points – a simple message is always a memorable one. Ramble and you will lose your listeners; stay relevant and they will be with you to the end.
The trick to ensuring clarity is to approach your speech like a wine-maker tending vines; careful pruning will always produce the best fruit – so cut out anything that clutters what you're trying to say.
Many speeches have specific things to do, whether it's thanking particular people for coming, mentioning everyone who contributed to success or supporting the family in its time of need. Make sure your speech ticks all the necessary boxes – and whatever you do, don't miss anybody out!
If the opening makes people want to listen, then the closing makes them remember what they've heard – so make yours a good one! Leave your audience uplifted and inspired and you can be assured that they'll still be thinking about what you've said long after you've sat down. Even the saddest of occasions will benefit from a few well chosen words of hope and encouragement and although no one would deny that it's a difficult thing to do, a thoughtful and sensitive ending can be an unforgettable comfort to those who grieve.
Now you've written your great speech, all you've got to do is practise, practise, practise until the delivery is every bit as glittering as the words you've just penned. Good luck!


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Throughout the Department of Medicine, talented faculty are developing innovative, cost-effective technologies that have the potential to significantly impact patient care. The Medicine Innovation Program (MIP) at Massachusetts General Hospital was launched in 2015 to support and advance these innovations. Over the past four years, MIP has provided seed funding to a diverse portfolio of projects in the artificial intelligence and digital health spaces, as well as to the development of novel therapeutics and medical devices. In 2017, MIP launched the ROCK STARt-up Associate Program with Third Rock Ventures, a leading biotechnology venture firm in Boston. This program gives faculty, interested in entrepreneurship, the opportunity to build successful and translational scientific ventures from the ground up. MIP is led by Christiana Iyasere MD, MBA.
Christiana Iyasere, MD, MBA is the director of the Medicine Innovation Program. She is an established leader in developing innovative platforms focused on improving patient care. A graduate of Yale University, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Harvard University Business School, Christiana served as a Howard Hughes Research Fellow in HIV Immunology for the Laboratory of Immunoregulation at the National Institutes of Health. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Mass General and served for a year as an Administrative Fellow alongside Dr. Peter Slavin, leading a series of projects related to optimal technology adoption and utilization. She has served in prominent roles such as Co-Director of the Mass General Innovation Support Center; Associate Director of "The Sandbox," a clinical innovation site; Technology Assessment Coordinator for the Council for Technology, Adoption, Innovation, and Promotion; and Chair of the MassGeneral Innovation Collaborative. She is a member of the Mass General Brigham Innovation Council and the Mass General Brigham Epic Innovation Council. Christiana is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Michelle Tagerman, MS, MPH, is the Program Administrator for the Medicine Innovation Program. She coordinates the annual RFP and supports MIP awardees throughout the duration of their grants. Michelle holds a Master of Public Health in Health Policy and Management from Columbia University, and a Master of Science in Management Studies from Boston University. Michelle has experience consulting for Fortune 500 companies including AT&T and Quintiles (now IQVIA). Before joining the Department of Medicine at MGH as a Project Coordinator, Michelle worked at a healthcare start up, in mental health research, and as an EMT.
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Kimberly Blumenthal, MD, MSc, 2016 MIP Awardee
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Martha Gray, PhD, Director, Madrid-MIT m+vision consortium
Steve Grinspoon, MD, Chief of the MGH Metabolism Unit
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Mark Lindsay, MD, PhD, 2018 Third Rock Ventures, Rock Star Associate
Thomas McCoy, MD, 2017 MIP Awardee
Paula McCree, Managing Director, Healthcare Transformation Lab
Joshua Metlay, MD, PhD, Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine
Larry Miller, MD, MPH, President, Apnimed, Inc.
Kristian Olson, MD, Director, CAMTech
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The Medicine Innovation Pilot Grant Awards take research projects with the potential to transform medicine and provides them with the needed resources to move forward to the next inflection point in successful solution development. Resources provided include structured project management support, milestone based stewardship of resources, focused mentorship and access to networks that can move the project to the next step in development. The goal is to move from a project to a product that can be consumed and used by patients and providers.
MIP actively supports projects for one year to 18 months depending on the needs of the project and project team. Many of MIP's projects have gone on to attain follow-on grant funding, industry partnerships, or successful adoption into the existing healthcare infrastructure.
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At least two projects will be funded for direct costs of up to $75,000 for the 2021-22 cycle. Projects must demonstrate a new way of thinking about an existing challenge that falls within one of the following four categories:
Technology and Equity: Technologies that directly address issues of health care inequity via promoting access, improving quality or creating enabling tools for communities at risk
General Innovation (Device, Therapeutic, IT, Digital Health): Any project that has the potential to transform how we deliver patient care
Digital Health: Any project that applies modern digital technologies to improve health care
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Any project that explores opportunities to further enhance physician effectiveness, patient diagnosis/treatment or reduction of administrative burden via enhanced decision support or machine learning
RFA Announcement: September 1, 2021
Office Hours: September 15, 2021 & October 5, 2021
Applications Due: October 12, 2021
Finalist Presentations: November 2021
Winners Announced: Winter 2021
Anticipated Funding Start Date: Early Spring 2022
The primary PI must have an appointment in the Department of Medicine. Previous applicants who have made significant progress are encouraged to apply. Funding may also be used for ancillary support of a larger project if it works to support key questions that derisk a novel idea.
If you have questions or want to learn more about the MIP Innovation Grants, email Michelle Tagerman (mtagerman1@mgh.harvard.edu) to schedule a 15-minute informational session on the following dates:
Wednesday, September 15th, 4-5:30 pm; in person (DOM, Gray Bigelow Suite 730, Bazari Conference Room [Room 735]) or virtual
Tuesday, October 5th, 5-6 pm; virtual
Please see the RFA document for full details on how to apply, and learn more in our MIP Report.
2021 MIP Innovation Pilot Grant RFA (PDF)
2020-2021 MIP Report (PDF)
ROCK STARt-up Associate Program
The ROCK STARt-Up Associate Program is a 2-year associate program in which Mass General DOM faculty will be immersed in the biotech start-up environment at Third Rock Ventures (TRV) in Boston, MA. The Boston Biotech community is one of the most robust in the world and TRV is one of the leading venture capital groups in the country. Consequently, the potential for Mass General DOM faculty to actively participate in and build translational opportunities is unparalleled.
TRV has a unique translational model: the group builds companies from the ground up, starting in an area defined by clinical need and scientific opportunity. As a result, they represent an entrepreneurial environment in which Mass General DOM faculty can participate in the process of building a successful scientific venture from its early beginnings.
Learn more about Third Rock Ventures.
Program Goals:
Experience/exposure of Mass General faculty to the translational, entrepreneurial environment of early biotech start-ups and company creation
Faculty career development: scientific idea translation, concept de-risking, company formation*
Broadening of the translational expertise of the Mass General Department of Medicine
The associate will participate in the entrepreneurial environment at 3rd Rock
The program does not include the development of personal ideas or inventions from participants lab and/or experience at Mass General
Christiana Iyasere, MD, MBA
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Amy Sarma, MD, MHS
Virtual Cardiac Rehabilitation Program Following Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy
Dr. Amy Sarma is a cardiologist in the Mass General Women's Heart Health program and a co-investigator on a multidisciplinary, funded study of postpartum telemonitoring in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP). Her innovation project investigates the acceptability of a virtual cardiac rehabilitation program and its impact on weight, lifestyle modifications, cardiometabolic health, patient engagement and outcomes following HDP, as compared to a strategy of BP telemonitoring alone.
Allergy Passport
Digital Application for medication and food allergies
Kimberly Blumenthal, MD, MSc
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Digital Application for support of patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Areej El-Jawahri, MD
Smartphone App for Ascites Management
Mass General Brigham Connected Health application to facilitate outpatient management of cirrhotic ascites
Patricia Bloom, MD
PROE PCI
Risk assessment for patient and physician prior to cardiac catheterization for improved decision making
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Clinical Data Visualization and Machine Learning
Deep learning to extract useful information for clinical decision making
Tom McCoy, MD
Natural Language Processing in the Evaluation and Diagnosis of Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Kyle Staller, MD, MPH
SHERLOCK for STIs
Novel, CAS13-based point-of-care detection of STIs and antimicrobial resistance
Robert Goldstein, MD, PhD
Day Zero Diagnostics
Diagnosis of bacterial species and sensitivities within hours
Douglas Kwon, MD, PhD
Therapeutics and Medical Devices
Long Acting Parathyroid Hormone
First in class drug for treatment of Hypoparathyroidism
Michael Mannstadt, MD, PhD
Laser Therapy for Treatment of Resistant Urinary Tract Infections
Novel treatment of urinary tract infections with light based therapy
Jeffery Gelfand, MD
Allergy Tolerance
Laser therapy to induce immune tolerance to food allergens
Satoshi Kashiwagi, MD, PhD
Novel Osteoporosis Therapy
New oral therapy for osteoporosis
Mark Wein, MD, PhD
Digital device for porphyria management and diagnosis
Smartphone-based digital devices for measuring photosensitivity in porphyria
Amy Dickey, MD, MSc
Mass General Healthcare Transformation Lab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology IDEA² Global
Duke Clinical & Translational Research Institute
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Challenging bite mark evidence in courts
Watch Devina Malaviya and Shreya Rastogi explain how lawyers can challenge bite mark evidence in their case
In this video, we will discuss how lawyers can examine and challenge the use of bite mark evidence in their case. The lessons have highlighted that the two assumptions on which bite mark comparison evidence is based are not scientifically supported. These
assumptions are: First, that the human dentition, particularly the front teeth involved in biting, are unique to all individuals. Second, that the unique features of the teeth are recorded in the bite mark. Despite this, bite mark evidence has been used for conviction and sentencing in criminal cases in various jurisdictions. So, how did that happen? Historically, bite mark comparison has been used as a tool for investigation and subsequently as evidence in court. However, its underlying premise to link specific individuals to suspected bitemarks has been rigorously tested more recently, especially after the report of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States in 2009.
This Report noted that there was no evidence of a scientific basis for identifying an individual to the exclusion of all others.Despite the lack of any scientific basis, experts have overstated the certainty of their results through various terms such as - match between the accused's dentition and the suspected bite mark. The bite mark is "without a doubt inflicted by" the suspect. That there is a "one in a million" chance that someone other than the suspect bit the victim. Or there is "reasonable medical certainty" that the bite mark is caused by the accused.The judges and trier of fact accepted such evidence by experts believing it to be scientifically accurate.
Once such evidence was accepted and relied on, courts generally looked at precedents while examining the evidence in their own case rather than scrutinising it from a scientific lens. However, research in bite mark comparison has revealed its lack of scientific validity. In 2016, a group of eminent scientists constituting the US President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology reviewed literature relating to seven forensic disciplines including bite marks. With respect to bite marks, the Report found that examiners cannot even consistently agree on whether a patterned injury is a human bite mark, let alone identifying its source. Based on review of such scientific studies, the PCAST Report concluded that the prospects of developing bitemark analysis into a scientifically valid method were low.
They even advised against devoting significant resources to such efforts. Despite this, the law has been slow in keeping up with these changes. Challenging such evidence in Court may lead to resistance from the Bench. For decades, judges have reposed faith in expert forensic evidence due to the intuitive belief in the infallibility of science. This belief rests on the assumption that forensic disciplines such as bite mark analysis are indeed "scientific". Even though there may be some resistance from the Bench, it is essential for lawyers to critically examine and challenge this belief. Not only is this important for your case, but it will also promote the use of scientifically reliable techniques in the legal system.
So, how can a lawyer challenge bite mark evidence in their case?
In a case involving bite mark evidence, the bite mark impression of the accused may be present on the victim, the victim's bite marks may be found on the accused or such marks may be found on an object at the crime scene. In challenging such evidence, the first step is to ensure that you have access to all the relevant documents in the case. These include- Colour copies of the photographs of all the injuries including suspected bite marks on the victim. The scans of the dental models of the suspect and the laboratory documentation and notes of the odontologist. It is possible that these documents are not provided to you along with the bite mark report.
In this scenario, you must file an application specifically seeking these materials in order to understand the process of bite mark comparison followed by the expert and whether it complies with the established protocols. Also, these materials will be important in case you wish to seek an opinion from an independent expert on the report. In the coming weeks, the lessons on expert evidence will deal with when and how lawyers can engage a defence expert. Now, for developing a strategy to challenge bite mark evidence in a particular case, two aspects must be considered.
Firstly, to challenge the scientific validity and reliability of bite mark comparison as a forensic discipline and secondly, to challenge the manner in which the expert has carried out the bite mark comparison in your case. The argument on scientific validity of bite mark comparison may be explored as a challenge to the admissibility of such evidence.
Since the evidence of a forensic odontologist is admitted as scientific evidence, the foundations of bite mark comparison must be considered by courts. You may submit arguments citing scientific studies and literature, that there is a lack of data to firstly, support the claim of uniqueness of human dentition. Secondly that distinctive features are recorded in the bite mark impression and thirdly, that these three-dimensional features can be reliably examined by an odontologist through two-dimensional photographs and compared to the suspected dentition. Further, if your case involves a suspected bite mark on skin, you may also submit scientific evidence on skin as a poor impression material Next, the technique followed by the odontologist in your case must also be challenged.
For this, you must consider the following aspects. First, how was the evidence collected from the victim and the suspect? In case of a deceased victim, it is important to consider how the crime scene was managed, the handling of the deceased's body, when the photographs were taken and whether they were taken before or after the post mortem procedures. Second, how have the injuries been photographed and whether the correct method was followed. Third, who prepared the dental casts of the suspect? This question is important because issues of bias can arise if the same odontologist collects the evidence from the suspects and thereafter examines it.
Fourth, what are the qualifications of the person who conducted the bite mark analysis? Are they "specially skilled" in the area of forensic odontology and satisfy the criteria of an expert? Fifth, was a dental line-up of persons other than the suspects created in order to avoid issues of confirmation bias? Sixth, how was the bite mark examined? The expert must first examine the characteristics of the injury to determine if it is a bite mark and whether it is a human bite mark. If the expert is satisfied that the bite mark is of human origin, they must identify the individual characteristics visible from the bite mark and record their findings. This analysis must be done before it is compared to the suspect dentition.
Seventh, what method was used in comparing the bite mark to the dentition? The expert report should clearly specify the method of analysis and comparison. Depending on the technique followed, it is important to consider the known error rates for such a method and submit it to court for consideration. Eighth, how have the conclusions been stated by the expert? The conclusions of the expert cannot be stated in terms of a definitive match, to indicate that it is to the exclusion of all other individuals. Remember, such a conclusion is scientifically inaccurate. And finally, has there been any independent verification of the results? As far as possible, the findings must be independently verified by another odontologist, before they are reported.
By now you have gained an understanding of the serious concerns surrounding the scientific validity and reliability of bite mark analysis. With this understanding, how can you apply these learnings to casework? In this video, Devina Malaviya and Shreya Rastogi from Project 39A discuss how lawyers can challenge bite mark evidence.
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Books that Changed Me: Sasha Wasley
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BOOKS THAT CHANGED ME
Sasha Wasley started her writing career at the age of five – with a poem she read in the family kitchen in Perth. She has written crossover young-adult mysteries, paranormal fiction and commercial fiction. Her debut rural romance, Dear Banjo, is published by Michael Joseph.
Sasha Wasley: Would love a room of her own in which to write. Credit:Bob Litchfield
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I grew up on a literary sweet-tooth's diet of sentimental historical fiction such as What Katy Did, Little Women, and Anne of Green Gables. So you can imagine my astonishment – and enlightenment – when I read a book in which the girl, by her own choice, did NOT end up with the hero. Plus, it was Australian! This book inspired plenty of feverish, late-night scribblings, and took my writing in an entirely new direction.
At one stage, I could flawlessly recite all the poems in this book. At a point in my life when I was reading copious amounts of social and linguistic theory, the Alice books became the equivalent of donning a comfortable pair of bedsocks before going to sleep at night. I did eventually turn my analytical eye on Alice, however, and couldn't resist writing a third-year critical essay on the subversion of great British institutions in Carroll's books.
A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN
This book was the key to the door of feminist history for me. It clearly and succinctly explained why men's writing dominates history and literature. The narrative also fed into my passion for unpicking the politics of everyday life and, unsurprisingly, this book featured strongly in my doctoral thesis. With two school-aged children and a part-time job, as well as my writing career, I still find myself occasionally wishing for Woolf's two must-haves for writing success: the means to live independently and a room of one's own in which to write.
My favourite Austen novel! The structure of this book is pretty near perfect, and the characterisation breathtaking in its execution. But more importantly, it's a beautiful, beautiful love story. Writing Tom and Willow's story in Dear Banjo, I often thought about Persuasion and thanked Jane Austen for inspiring my own story about patient, loyal love.


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Genetic engineering could stop the spread of mosquito-borne illnesses – but should we use it?
By Lauren Puckett An epic battle has been growing for decades: Human versus mosquito. Humans attack with poisons, insecticides, vaccinations and medications, but more than one million people worldwide still die from mosquito-borne illnesses every year. Today, we have the technology to fight these diseases, and it's called genetic modification. Gene technologies, developed by mosquito…
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Draining dengue: Alexander Franz uses genetically engineered mosquitoes to fight arboviruses
By Lauren Puckett Alexander Franz stands before a row of perforated metal boxes. He surveys each one, peering at the contents, before stepping forward and taking a box into his arms. In it is a swarm of mosquitoes – over 400 of them. At the sudden movement, they swell like a black gust of wind.…
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Film Review: Life, Animated
By Lauren Puckett In the eyes of 23-year-old Owen Suskind, Disney movies are a window to the world. For Owen, who was diagnosed with autism at age 3, the movies help him understand emotions. They help him make friends. They even help him speak. Screened at the True/False Film Fest in Columbia, Missouri this March, the…
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Newly detected gravitational waves are window to the universe, LIGO spokesperson says
By Lauren Puckett WASHINGTON, D.C – Colliding black holes have a heartbeat. It just took scientists 1.3 billion years to hear it. Fresh from the announcement Feb. 11 that researchers had detected gravitational waves, ripples in spacetime itself, a triumphant Gabriela González appeared at the AAAS Global Science Engagement in Washington, D.C. February 12. González, spokesperson…
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'The Martian' author Andy Weir injects science fact in science fiction
By Lauren Puckett Andy Weir is a huge geek. He said so himself. Weir participated in an on-air Google Hangout with students from universities across the country at a Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) meeting on Jan. 26. The MU branch of SEDS, a group of space enthusiasts that build rockets…
February 14, 2016 in People, Science Journalism.
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