I have been thinking a lot about consistency lately, whether it be talking with my coaching clients about it or when it comes to my tennis game. About three years ago, I rekindled my love of tennis after a 20-year hiatus. And let me tell you, consistency is like a freaking unicorn in tennis. If you find it, you play effortlessly, almost magically. When you don't have it, you are like a drunk donkey running around the court.
When it comes to coaching my clients, consistency is what changes habits for the better. We have to re-commit to ourselves each and every day without fail until the new healthy habits become second nature. It helps when we have a day or weekend of celebratory eating and drinking so that we can reign it in the next day without effort and get back on track. Having your go-to, never fail healthy habits in place daily is like a guarantee for living well and feeling your best.
Here's five things I make sure get incorporated into each day, no compromises. It took some trial and error to find the things that serve me best. Other things that are healthy and good make their way into my routine, but just not every day. So take inventory on the next day that you feel your best. What did you do? What did you eat? What was your mindset like? Start experimenting to see how you can recreate that day, again and again.
1. Time to myself- I rise out of bed earlier than everyone else in my house about 6 days a week in order to have some moments of quiet to start my day right. I have learned that I am not a get up and go person. I have a hard time bounding out the door or dealing with breakfast and lunch prep if I don't have a few moments to get centered and wake up a bit. I also treat my cup of coffee like a ritual each morning (see #2). I usually make my cup of coffee, sit at the table, read a daily devotional and skim through email and the news (mostly of the celebrity type…guilty pleasure, don't judge). By the time my kids are up I feel better equipped to deal with whatever they, and the day, throw at me.
2. Collagen in my coffee- Collagen is a protein that is present in all of our organs and tissues and we lose it as we age. A little added collagen each day aides in healthy hair, nails, skin and benefits the health of your gut. I get my collagen in by adding it to my cup of coffee every morning. It is my little ritual. I get out my blender, pour in the hot coffee, almond or coconut milk, a scoop of collagen peptides, a little maple syrup and blend it up. It gets all frothy and delicious. Then I pour it in the mug and top with cinnamon. That may seem like a lot of work, but to me, it is a small joy that I look forward to each morning.
3. Eat one big salad- I know, B-O-R-I-N-G. Salad can be boring, but for me, it is an easy way to get several servings of greens and veggies in one sitting. And I have learned how to make it tasty. You know how a salad always tastes better when someone else makes it? I used to think that, too, but I now love the salads I make (future blog post, perhaps??? My salad secrets….sounds like a soap opera or something). Salads are a great meal prep item too!
4. Exercise- Our bodies are made to move! They are not meant to sit at a desk every day for 8 hours. Every day I do something that moves my body and induces a little sweat. I love a good HIIT workout, weight-lifting session, yoga burn class, walks or runs outside and tennis. This has become a non-negotiable in my life as it also doubles as my anti-depressant and helps with any anxiety to creeps up. Even the days I don't feel like getting a workout in, I make a deal with myself that I will do something for 20 minutes and by the time that 20 minutes passes, I usually feel pretty good and want to go longer. Try it! Make it a consistent part of each day, wherever you can fit it in. We are all given the same 24 hours. How you use it is up to you.
5. Drink loads of water- I know I have said it before, but this is one of the most important things you can do for your health, especially if water replaces any soda or sugary drinks during your day. Staying hydrated helps with maintaining a healthy weight, healthy digestion and beautiful skin, just to name a few benefits!
How about you? What are your daily habits that serve you the best? Comment below and share!


WOW! We are now preparing for our 7th Annual Raise the Roof Fundraiser!
Come join us for the fun and help us raise money for our cause!
Call or email for more information or for tickets.
Congrats to our Special Olympians!
Two individuals from the Renville County Rebels Special Olympics Team competed in state equestrian events.
For the first time, On August 19, two individuals from the Renville Country Rebels Special Olympics Team competed at Northwest Saddle Club in North Branch, Minnesota. Since this was the first experience with these events, the coaches and riders decided to keep things simple. The two athletes, Ryan Hern and Hunter Bahr, tried two events – western equitation and western working trail course. The two athletes have been practicing at Lee-Mar Ranch Equine Center for the summer. Bahr has been participating in therapeutic riding and Hern has been involved in riding lessons as well. Since joining the Rebels, they both have wanted to participate in the equine events but there was no horse activities until a group of individuals agreed to become coaches through Lee-mar Ranch. The seven individuals who attended level two coaches training included Keisha Louwagie, Sally Gniffke, Kayla Hegna, Diane Lecy, Crissy DeLong, Shery Parker, and Amy Fliflet. Hunters parent stated that Lee-mar Ranch helped make these athletes dreams come true.
In order to qualify for state competitions, athletes must put in at least 10 hours of training. The athletes trained one time a week throughout the summer. They worked on their riding skills, working through trail activities, leading the horses, and overall confidence gaining skills through riding horse. The two activities, Western Equitation and Western Working Trail each have different components that are judged. In Western Equitation, the riders walk the horses around the rail in the arena a number of times, the judges will tell the riders to stop and go in the opposite direction. The athletes are judged more on their own posture and performance in this event than the horses movement. Hern placed fifth in Equitation and Bahr placed second.
The second event, Western Working Trail, simulates various situations in which a horse and rider may have to work though on a trail in a natural environment. The horse and rider may need to go over a bridge, logs, weave through obstacles, complete a small turn and clean stop between objects. Hern placed fifth place and Bahr placed first.
Both of these riders did a great job considering this was their first year and they were using borrowed horses. Both of the athletes compete in other sporting events with the Rebels and have worked very hard this summer in their new adventure.
Our 2nd annual Healing Hearts Open took place on August 21st. It was a wonderful success and helped us raise funds to continue our therapeutic riding program. We would like to thank the following companies for sponsoring a horse per hole. These sponsorships help with the continued care and maintenance of our wonderful program horses.
D & D Schwerin Inc.
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We are excited to announce our 2016 spring therapeutic riding sessions!
We will be having 3 sessions a night on Wednesday nights.
For more information on participating in the program contact Keisha Louwagie.
For more information about becoming a volunteer please contact Kayla Hegna.
Spring is around the corner and that means we are once again getting ready for our therapeutic riding program. We are looking for volunteers wanting to make a difference in someone's life through equine therapeutic riding. Horse experience is not required. All volunteers (new and current) need to go through one of our volunteer training sessions.
Volunteer Training will be held on Wednesday, April 13 at 6 pm and on Saturday, April 16 at 10 am at the barn.
New, past, and prospective volunteers must attend one of the two scheduled trainings.
WOW! We are now preparing for our 6th Annual Raise the Roof Fundraiser!
A special thanks goes out to all who made our first annual Healing Hearts Golf Tournament on July 25th a success! We had a ton of fun while raising money for our therapeutic riding program. We also want to recognize our wonderful sponsors!
212 Seed and Ag. Inc.
Tickets are $30.00 and are available at Lee-Mar Ranch, board members and event committee members. Meal will be a 2 meat buffet with dessert.
All proceeds will go towards improving our facility to be able to provide therapeutic riding program for individuals with disabilities and other equine activities for our community.
Camp and trail ride for a great cause!
We are excited to announce our 2014 Fall Charity Trail Ride to benefit the Lee-mar Ranch Therapeutic Riding Program.
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The church and world desperately need leaders who will serve and servants who will lead. How can leaders be inspired with confidence, facilitate creativity, and preach and practice a costly discipleship? This article shows how local leadership in all its glorious diversity should be an enduring priority for the church.


The building of Kazakhstan Ministry of Defense comprises six towers to hold six ministry departments. The towers are connected by two horizontal elements: a massive stylobate, which seems to elevate the towers above street level, and a plinth floor at 51 m above ground.
Inside the stylobate, there are parking lots, a sports centre, a medical centre, and barracks,. The accessible roof of the stylobate serves as an open-air public space at the foot of the towers and includes military ceremonial grounds. The towers are conventional administrative buildings with a central staircase and elevator node. The plinth bringing together the top of the towers holds the infrastructure serving all ministry departments: a restaurant, a canteen, and auditoriums adapted for various purposes. An Officers' Club and the Military Glory Museum alternate with open courtyard terraces.
An ensemble of grandiose portals, porticos, and triumphal arches, the new Ministry of Defense building embodies the impregnable security mechanism and a friendly openness of the army towards the people.


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In Case of Emergency: Ferndale CERT program seeks to help residents be safer in times of crisis through education and training.
Story by Ingrid Sjostrand | Photos by Jeff Lilly
IN A CITY WITH A POPULATION GROWING TO OVER 20,000, combined with the unpredictable nature of Michigan weather, it can be hard to ensure the safety of all Ferndale's residents in an emergency situation.
Natural disasters, heat emergencies – even major city-wide events like the Woodward Dream Cruise – require first responders' attention, and some- times more help is needed than those available to offer it. In an effort to increase safety, there's no better way to protect the community than to involve its residents.
This need and desire resulted in the initiation of a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) to further support Ferndale's citizens. According to Ferndale's government web site, "The Community Emergency Response Team is a program that educates people about disaster preparedness and trains them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations."
Initiated in 2012, Ferndale's CERT is organized through the city's Fire Rescue team, and is always looking for new members. Anyone from the age of 16 to 60 can apply and no experience is required. All applicants receive training through various exercises and classes.
Since its creation in 2012, 45 of the original members are still involved and a variety of backgrounds and skills are encouraged. Some of the training CERT members receive include animal response, basic first aid, search and rescue and CPR. There is also the opportunity to help comfort individuals after disasters, documenting incidents, organizing trainings and other logistics tasks.
CERT is not limited to Ferndale, either. Over 1100 communities across the country have organized
teams, all of which receive funding from Congress and the Department of Homeland Security's
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
A pivotal example of Ferndale's CERT team playing a critical role was during the flood in August 2014. A state of emergency was declared and 4.57 inches of water poured into the streets and the homes of residents. An estimated 50 per cent of homes had some sort of damage. Catch basins collapsed, preventing
drainage, and roads experienced erosion. Along the way, however, CERT members were available
for assistance with cleanup and support for residents.
Ferndale Fire Chief Kevin Sullivan is heavily involved in the CERT team, and even conducts the trainings and classes for new members. According to Sullivan, the original concept for the CERT team was to help with emergencies that might not require as much training, so the fire rescue team is available for more serious issues.
"I don't want firemen who are well-trained, well-equipped and very experienced sitting on a
wire," Sullivan said in a 2012 Ferndale Patch article. "We can be free to handle bigger emergencies."
Not only does CERT provide relief to emergency responders, it also increases the community's knowledge and can prevent unnecessary damage from future emergencies.
The effects of this training extend past the community and into homes and the workplace. Even individuals who might not be interested in joining CERT should consider attending a disaster preparedness course.
For those looking to join Ferndale's CERT team or to learn more can contact the Ferndale Fire Rescue team at ferndalecert@ferndalefirerescue.org
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Personal and sensitive research data & the law
By Nazlin Bhimani, on 22 January 2016
Much research data about people – even sensitive data – can be shared ethically and legally if researchers employ strategies of informed consent, anonymisation and controlling access to data. However, researchers obtaining data from people are expected to maintain high ethical standards and comply with relevant legislation and duties.
This guidance is generally provided by professional bodies, host institutions and funding organaisations. The laws that govern the use of data, in addition to the duties of confidentiality, include the following Acts:
Data Protection Act (1998);
Freedom of Information Act (2000);
Human Rights Act (Article 8) (1998);
Mental Capacity Act (2005); and
Statistics and Registration Services Act (2007).
Duties of Confidentiality
Before I present the individual acts, it is important to note that every researcher has duty to maintain the confidentiality of a research participant. Although the 'duties of confidentiality' are not law (as they have not been established by statute but developed through case law), consent forms constitute a form of contract. As such, disclosure of confidential information is considered a breach of contract and therefore contravenes the duties of confidentiality. The only exception to this is if the disclosure is made 'in the public interest'.
Data Protection Act (1998)
Researchers collecting data must also be aware of the Data Protection Act (1998). It is advisable to consider whether you really need to collect personal data before you begin your research project because often information such as names and addresses are collected for administrative purposes but have no research value and therefore not collecting it in the first place will make it easier for you to manage and share your data.
If you do collect this information, you are advised to store it separately from the research data (which will inevitably be coded in some way for analysis). It is also important that research participants are aware of what data you are collecting about them, how it will be used, stored, processed, transferred and destroyed. You can only disclose personal data if explicit consent has been given to do so although again, there may be exceptions to this for legal reasons.
Article 8 of the Human Rights Act (1998)
Related to the Duties of Confidentiality and the Data Protection Act is Article 8 of the Human Rights Act (1998) which enshrines the right to respect for private and family life. Researchers should know that
Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.
There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.
Freedom of Information Act (2000)
The Freedom of Information Act (or FoI as it is commonly referred to) was established in 2000 to increase transparency in the public sector. It gives people the right to request access to recorded information held by public sector organisations. This includes requests for research data from universities and publicly funded research organisations. The exceptions to the FoI are:
personal data cannot be requested;
information that is accessible by other means e.g. via a website, cannot be requested;
information intended for future publication can be protected until it is published
information that is subject to a confidentiality agreement, such as in a signed consent form or sensitive data held under restricted access by a data archive.
Further information on UCL guidelines on data protection and FoI is available here.
Mental Capactity Act (2005)
Under the Mental Capacity Act (2005) any research that proposes to involve the recruitment of participants aged 16 and above who lack (or lose) capacity to consent to take part in the research must have ethical approval by a recognised appropriate body such as the Social Care Research Ethics Committee or certain National Research Ethics Service Research Ethics Committees.
University Ethics Committees are NOT recognised as appropriate bodies and so are unable to approve research. Further information and guidance for researchers can be viewed here. The Mental Capacity Act Code of Conduct is available here.
Statistics and Registration Service Act (2007)
And finally, the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007. This only applies to data designated as 'Official Statistics' including the statistics produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), central government, and devolved administrations. Section 39(1) of the Act states that it is a criminal offense for an 'Approved researcher' to enable the deduction of personal information from data used in research projects:
"If the identity of that person is specified, can be deduced from the information, or can be deduced from the information taken together with any other published information, then this will constitute an offence".
Further information on research data sources, ethical guidelines and legislation is available on the IOE LibGuide at http://libguides.ioe.ac.uk/researchdata.
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Home > "Organics IN Silver"
What started out as an experiment has turned into a glorious new collection!! When I began learning how to cast, I was trying to find natural elements that would echo the textures and colors I found in the minerals I wanted to set. I tried casting wax drops, tree bark, leaves, flower petals, mushrooms, and other assorted items. Each time I took our puppy around the block, I would collect specimens of different plants. The dog got a lot of exercise and I got a huge variety of casting fodder.
Well, I had lots of fun pairing up unusual mineral specimens with veined leaves, grooved petals, and all sorts of natural textures. Soon, however, I started to fall in love with the organic castings themselves. The iris petals especially drew me with all their furls and folds. Hydrangea blossoms looked like they could come back to life. Rather than being just the vehicle to display the mineral, the organic castings became the focus of some of my pieces. I found that I could use some of my smaller stones, and even my more precious stones, as good pairings with the organics.
The result of this evolution is my new collection "Organics IN Silver." This group lets nature speak by capturing the beauty of its organic creations -- primarily flowers and leaves. The original "Organic Silver" and "Organic Gold" lines let nature speak by having the forms and textures of the metal be driven by their physical properties and how they respond to the environment at the time they were melted. All three let nature speak by showcasing amazing mineral specimens in their natural state.
(Funny aside: My nine-year old son was worried that I would get in trouble for picking up leaves and petals from the sidewalk and that someone would stop me and ask what was in the plastic bag I was carrying. I explained to him that when you are walking a dog no one wants to know what is in the little blue plastic bag you are carrying :-).
How do we turn flowers into jewelry?
NEW! Detailed description with lots of photos to illustrate how I cast organic materials. For those of you who want to know details see Casting Organics in 13 Simple Steps.


Bruno Andres Doglioli tackled referee Maria Beatrice Welcome from behind, snapping her head back.
What the hell, man? Seriously, WHAT THE HELL?!
Who does this? How did a Serie A rugby match devolve into this?
Why would you possibly level some ref when she is not looking and try to knock her out? Note before you answer that it doesn't matter who the ref is, or what she has done. This wouldn't be acceptable if it was Joey Crawford after he gave you four technical fouls for getting in front of his TV close up. Actually don't feel compelled to answer the question at all. There is no answer for it.
Luckily, the ref, Maria Beatrice Welcome, is relatively unharmed. She suffered only whiplash, according to La Gazzetta dello Sport, and despite the nasty hit, she finished refereeing the match. The perpetrator, Bruno Andres Doglioli—captain of Rangers Rugby Vicenza—has been suspended for three years.
Condemning "a deliberate act of violence towards the match referee," the Italian rugby federation (FIR) said in a statement that Doglioli had been banned "from playing any competitive sport for three years".
The 33-year-old had already been suspended by his club in midweek.
"The Italian Rugby Federation would like to reiterate that this sanction—the heaviest in the last 20 years—underlines that when it comes to infringing the rules of the game and, above all, the fundamental values of our sport, we will show zero tolerance," the FIR said.
Due to his age, there's a chance he never plays again. Good.


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A journey through the Australian Outback
Bob Ramsay 22 September 2021
A road through a remote Australian region leads to glorious landscapes and insights into the nation's original inhabitants
We were lucky we got our flat tyre as we drove into the Mount Barnett Roadhouse on Western Australia's notorious Gibb River Road. Luckier still, three burly guys changed our tyre, with dire warnings to get to the Over the Range service station to fix it, pronto. Otherwise, well… I guess that's why our rented four-wheel drive came with a satellite phone, an emergency locator, and ten gallons of water.
My wife, Jean, and I had wanted to experience one of the English-speaking world's most remote places that non-explorers can navigate on their own: the Kimberley region, an area in the northwestern corner of Australia much bigger than Germany or Japan, with a population of just 34,000 people. And in May 2018, we got the chance to visit.
The Gibb is an iconic, tyre-ripping gravel road that runs 410 miles through the region along, as its name suggests, the Gibb River. In the May-through-October dry season, it's hot and desolate. Still, your four-wheel drive better have an air-intake snorkel so it can ford the dozens of rivers you'll cross.
"In the May-through-October dry season, it's hot and desolate"
Oh, and watch out for the "road trains," those linked trucks that can measure up to 176 feet—more than three times the longest standard truck allowed on European roads—and take two miles and clouds of blinding dust to pass. In the wet season, don't even think of driving the Gibb. You'll drown in the rain-flooded plains that for half the year are bone dry.
The only way to explore Kimberley is by this very bad road, or by air. That is, unless you're an Aboriginal. Young Aboriginal males still take part in a rite of passage called temporary mobility (it used to be referred to by the outdated, colonial term "walkabout"), which involves going into the wild as boys and returning up to six months later as men.
We did the latter first, taking the lay of the land from the sky before we set off down the Gibb on four wheels. To do that, we went to the jumping-off point for helicopter tours in Kimberley: the HeliSpirit hangar in Kununurra.
A jeep going through the Pentecost river
"You from Canada, mate?" asks James Bondfield, our young helicopter pilot. "Uh, yes, I am." When we Canadians open our mouths in Australia, we're almost always mistaken for Americans.
"I worked in Canada," says Bondfield, explaining that he had built up his flying hours in the oil sands in northern Alberta. He also flew in the forests of Papua New Guinea, Malaysia and Indonesia before returning home and rising to be, at age 30, the chief pilot of a company whose 25 helicopters are opening Kimberley to visitors drawn to the vast, dramatic, relatively untouched landscapes.
"When we Canadians open our mouths in Australia, we're almost always mistaken for Americans"
During the next two days, Bondfield, like any great guide, takes us where we want to go, then shows us his own secret places there. We first picnic atop King George Falls in the Balanggarra Indigenous Protected Area, a 1 million-hectare homeland of First Peoples in Australia and whose rock art, dating back to more than 40,000 years ago, is drawing global attention.
Bondfield lands us near some caves covered in the ochre images of ancient plants and animals. Their brightness is barely faded despite tens of thousands of years of torrential weather. We crawl into crevices all afternoon, snap photos and return with shots of paintings that are among the oldest made by humans anywhere in the world.
The Berkeley River Lodge is so remote that it can't be accessed by road—visitors have to be flown in
From there, we fly to the remote Berkeley River Lodge, a 20-cabin resort on the Kimberley Coast. Over dinner of grilled barramundi, Bondfield asks if we've had a chance to go fishing in Australia yet. No, we have not—not with local rivers filled with "freshies" and "salties": fresh- and salt-water crocodiles. The former may attack you, while the latter will.
"Well, if you want to get up before sunrise tomorrow, I can fly you to my favourite fishing hole," he tells us. And so, the next morning at dawn, we land on a ledge of a tributary of the Berkeley River, feeling safe in Bondfield's charge. And it doesn't matter that the one barramundi I hook gets away. What matters is the thrill of watching the sun rise over one of the most ancient landscapes on the planet. Later that day, Bondfield drops us back in Kununurra, the starting point for our journey on the Gibb.
"What matters is the thrill of watching the sun rise over one of the most ancient landscapes on the planet"
While drivers often carry two spares because tyres get shredded, not just flattened, on the Gibb, the rental company we hire our four-wheel drive from assures us we'll be fine with just one. Three days later, after we got our flat changed by those three burly men, we limp into Over the Range, the garage seemingly at the end of the universe, to get the tyre fixed. It looks like a junkyard, filled with hollowed-out tyres and skeletons of cars.
Owner Neville Hernon—who looks like the Mad Max of tyre repair—lives on-site with his wife. Their leaflet, pinned up at every roadhouse along the Gibb, says: "Drop in to our depot for advice, have a look at our Wet Season photos, or just to say hello."
A Camping with Custodians art class
As we wait for Hernon to fix our flat, we do have a look at those aforementioned wet season photos. All the scraggly desert surrounding us was underwater. Everywhere. Hernon soon approaches with a grim smile and bad news: the tyre has to be replaced.
It takes him 15 minutes to do just that, hand me the credit card machine and charge me $385 for a used replacement tyre. And so we continue to our next stop, happy as clams that we had to drive only 12 miles to reach the Over the Range garage, and knowing the law of supply and demand is working perfectly in the Outback.
When we arrive in the tiny settlement of Imintji, we are greeted by a man who appears to be the perfect Aussie Outback wrangler. John Bennett is tall, dust-tanned, with tall leather boots that even the fangs of the local, lethal king brown snake surely couldn't pierce.
From Canadian Geographic (September 10, 2020), Copyright © 2020 by Ramsay Inc.
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Ariana Grande has received her first Grammy Award – simply days after a public feud with the present's producer.
She received finest pop vocal album together with her file Sweetener.
Writing on Instagram, she stated her first Grammy win was "wild and beautiful" however confirmed she wouldn't be attending the ceremony.
"I know I'm not there tonight (trust, I tried and still truly wished it had worked out tbh) and I know I said I try not to put too much weight into these things…this is wild and beautiful. Thank you so much. I love u (sic)," she wrote.
On Friday, the singer accused the organiser of the Grammys of lying about her causes for withdrawing from performing on the ceremony.
The singer posted a number of tweets explaining her causes for not attending the present after Grammys producer Ken Ehrlich stated her absence was right down to not having the ability to organise her set in time.
Grande denied this, saying she may "pull together a performance overnight", and as an alternative stated Ehrlich had "stifled" her creativity.
Different winners of the night time included London-born singer Ella Mai, who received finest R&B music for her US primary hit Boo'd Up and Beyonce and Jay-Z, listed as The Carters, who received finest city modern album for Every little thing Is Love.
Infantile Gambino received finest music video for The Is America and a collaboration between Sting and Shaggy noticed them win finest reggae album for 44/876.
The late Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell, who died from suicide in 2017 aged 52, received a posthumous Grammy for finest rock efficiency for the music When Dangerous Does Good. His kids accepted the award on his behalf.
A second controversy across the awards broke in January when Grammy organisers were forced to deny that a "leaked" list of winners posted on social media forward of the awards have been real.


Sell annuity payments for cash? Things to consider.
An annuity is a type of insurance product where an insurance company will pay a guaranteed stream of future payments to beneficiaries named in the contract. Terms of annuity can be either monthly, quarterly, annually or even a lump sum payment at a specified date in the future. Depending on how the annuity was purchased by the insured, they could've been paid for with a single lump sum payment upfront or a set of periodic payments.
Annuities are meant to provide a steady regular income. Sometimes, for unforeseen reasons, the situation may occur that makes you contemplate selling your annuity payment for cash. You may have recently inherited a long-term annuity, or you could have won a lottery. Due to your individual circumstances, you might need cash now. If you have an annuity or structured settlement and you need cash now, selling annuity payments might be an option to consider. For some people, the prospect of buying a new home or starting a business as well is paying for education or some other debt requires access to the funds of your annuity or structured settlement. This is where annuitytrader.com can help.
The decision to sell your annuity or structured settlement is not a decision that should be taken lightly. The financial advisor you speak with may tell you that selling your annuity is a good idea while another financial advisor you speak with may tell you that selling your annuity is not recommended. It all comes down to what your personal situation is and what is right for you and that situation. Before you sell your annuity you should ask yourself the following questions, which will help you to determine if selling your annuity or structured settlement is the right thing for your personal situation.
Why are you thinking about selling your annuity or structured settlement?
If you are considering selling your annuity or structured settlement because you need cash now, the reasons you sell should be very important to you. Keeping in mind the reason you want to sell your annuity or structured settlement considering the possible financial loss you will incur over the long term, this should be a well thought out decision. For your sale to finalize a judge must approve the transfer. In the past, the following situations are some of the reasons that have been used by many people as a reason for a judge to approve the sale of their annuity or structured settlement.
Education – for many people getting a higher level of education is an investment in the future. Today more than ever, the cost of obtaining that education is higher than ever. From school tuition, room and board, books and transportation, the cost of obtaining schooling might be out of reach with the money you have on hand. Even if you add the periodic payments of your annuity or structured settlement you find that you simply do not have enough to cover your monthly expenses while you are in school. If you find yourself in this situation, then selling your annuity to cover your expenses while you are obtaining an education might be a good idea for you.
Start a business – if you have decided to become an entrepreneur and you have a business idea that you want to pursue you might be low on cash to start the endeavor. Depending on your situation, you might be able to get the money you need from a bank or another financial institution by getting a loan. Instead of going into debt you might think it is a better idea to get access to the money you need by selling your annuity or structured settlement as a way to fund your business idea. Depending on the value of your annuity or structured settlement you might be able to get all the money you need to get your business up and running, or at least most of it.
Real estate – buying a new house or fixing up your current residence can require large sums of cash. The down payment on a house alone can easily be 20% or more of the purchase value of the house. A leaky roof or faulty plumbing can become very expensive to fix very quickly. Investing in your place of residence can be a good idea in an atmosphere of rising real estate costs. Selling your annuity or structured settlement might be the right decision to keep and maintain the house of your dreams.
Eliminate debt – a poor credit score caused by debt can become a burden on moving forward with many of life's activities. If you want to get a home loan, an educational loan or even landing many jobs, having a good credit score is required. Many people find the best thing to do when deeply in debt it is to simply pay it off and start new. By selling your annuity or structured settlement you can get the lump sum of cash you need to eliminate your debt and satisfy creditors.
Why do some financial advisors recommend against selling your annuity or structured settlement?
The present value of an annuity is determined by using a discount rate to compute the value of the cash flows of the future into a monetary value of the money today. This present value will vary depending on the discount rate a.k.a. the rate of return. This discount rate will include both the expected inflation rate and a return that the buyer wants to make over the life of the annuity. Due to the discount rate, the amount of cash you receive today will not equal the amount of cash you would receive over the life of the annuity or structured settlement.
Because the amount of cash you will receive over the long-term is greater than the amount of cash you will receive today by selling some financial advisors will recommend against selling. As we have discussed in this article that all depends on your personal situation and what you expect to do with the money if you sell.


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Gardening for the masses 1820 - 1900
Lecture 1 - JC Loudon and his impact on gardens and gardening in Britain - 1820-1840
The rise of increasingly naturalistic style of landscape gardening had ground to a halt in the early part of the nineteenth century. Large landowners could not afford to undertake major improvements to their estates. Landscape designers following in the wake of Lancelot Brown, such as John Claudius Loudon, had to look for new types of clients and found them amongst the burgeoning middle class. Their modest urban villas and gardens required a new approach. Called 'gardenesque', this aimed to marry landscape design with earlier small formal garden styles. Loudon however did not create individual designs for garden owners but used books and the first gardening magazines to promote his ideas. This radical approach also extended to his campaign for the improvement of the ever-expanding urban environment through public green spaces.
Lecture 2 – The return to formality in search of a style - 1840-1860
By the 1830's, many 18th century gardens were starting to suffer from a period of neglect. Those with the resources looked for ways of reviving them. For the first time, historic gardens predating the English landscape revolution started to be appreciated – particularly the formal gardens of the 17th century that had survived the attention of Lancelot Brown et al.. Variously described as Italianate, French or Dutch style, they introduced a return to formality as typified by carpet bedding. Plants came to the fore, particularly new ones to Britain provided by the intrepid plant hunters. Ferns were especially popular and the craze for them rivalled earlier manias for plants such as tulips. It was not only the wealthy who could enjoy such delights, as the first freely accessible public parks started to open.
Lecture 3 – The High Victorian garden, the reaction to it and a changing Britain - 1860-1880
The High Victorian garden with its emphasis on order and man's control over nature reached its peak in the 1860's. Increasing wealth and technology allowed more and more spectacular displays of flowers and plants and the kitchen garden reached its peak of productivity. Even stone and rock was recreated using manmade materials such as Pulhamite to create enormous rock gardens. However it was not to everyone's taste. Many began to question the artificiality and the 'working against nature' of such gardens. The main protagonist in the debate was William Robinson, whose book 'The Wild Garden' influenced many later designers such as Gertrude Jekyll. Towns and cities across Britain vied with one another to create and develop sophisticated municipal parks, as a badge of civic pride.
Lecture 4 – The English flower garden at its height and a new respect for the past - 1880-1900
While Robinson advocated a return to informality (and in particular the removal of carpet bedding), he did not believe that only native plants should be used. Instead exotics should be naturalised in the main gardens and surrounding woodland. This new approach suited the new architectural style of the Arts and Crafts movement. Inspired by cottage gardens, this mixed style led to the popular gardens made by Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll. Others such as Thomas Mawson and Reginald Blomfield redefined the formal garden, as the desire to preserve historic gardens gained momentum. This was driven by the expanding socialist movement and championed by William Morris and the founder of the National Trust, Octavia Hill.


As a rough rule of thumb, it could be said that the work a court reporter does in public, at the deposition or hearing, is about one-half to one-third of the total time needed to prepare a transcript.
1. REPORTING – The first requirement is that a reporter be present at the event to be reported to take down what is said. The most common method is the use of a stenographic writer. The reporter is present for the entire proceeding. The reporter swears in the witness. The reporter is also responsible for any exhibits which have been presented and must mark and catalog these before leaving.
2. TRANSLATION – The reporter's notes have been made, but they are useless to almost anyone except the reporter in their raw form. Specialized court reporter software is used to translate the notes into English, using a dictionary that matches that reporter's writing style. Such translations are around 90 percent accurate. So what we have at this point is a rough translation of the text, with some raw steno markings in it, and none of the cover pages, index, and so forth expected on a finished transcript.
3. SCOPING – The process of editing this rough translation into a finished transcript is called "scoping." The programs used for this offer many tools specialized to doing this speedily, but it still remains that the entire text of what was spoken must be read, understood, and any questionable areas clarified.
4. PROOFREADING – Once the transcript is "finished," it is read through once again by the reporter and any errors noted for correction. The corrections are then made.
5. PRINTING – And, finally, the entire work is printed and bound.
You can see that someone has to "live through" the deposition or day in court three times over:– once at the actual event, once when scoping the job, and once again when proofing the transcript.
See the Glossary of Court Reporting Terms for more information on many of the topics mentioned here.


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Naming Shirehampton and the name Shirehampton
Coates, Richard
Professor emeritus of Onomastics Richard Coates Richard.Coates@uwe.ac.uk
Professor emeritus of Onomastics
Using the example of the place-name Shirehampton in England, this article explores (1) the complications involved in understanding the history of a particularly difficult place-name (an etymological and philological question) and in the history of the naming of the place in question (an onomasiological question), (2) some practical consequences of different understandings of the place-name at different points in history (a historiographical question), and (3) the historical transfer of this name into other onomastic categories (a semasiological question and a culturally and theoretically interesting question). Some new understandings of the name and its history are proposed. The article can be taken as an object lesson in the lexical-semantic and phonological difficulties of historical onomastics (and therefore as academically routine), and also in the pleasures of travelling unexpected byways in the history of onomastics and in cultural history. It endeavours to affirm, by example, the case for historical onomastics as a discipline which ranges more widely than establishing the etymology of a name, and explores finally some issues of theoretical and methodological interest.
Coates, R. (in press). Naming Shirehampton and the name Shirehampton. https://doi.org/10.34158/ONOMA.50/2015/1
https://doi.org/10.34158/ONOMA.50/2015/1
place-name, Shirehampton, local history, surname, name theory
https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/849143
https://onomajournal.org/naming-shirehampton-and-the-name-shirehampton/
Additional Information : This is the author's accepted manuscript. The published version is freely available online at https://onomajournal.org/naming-shirehampton-and-the-name-shirehampton/.
Shirehampton name superseded.docx (8.4 Mb)
Shirehampton name superseded (1).pdf (2.7 Mb)
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Bristol Centre for Linguistics
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Fetlar (2019)
Your City's Place-Names: Cambridge (2019)
Each p[?]son does it th[??] way: Rhoticity variation and the community grammar (2019)
Meaningfulness in literary naming within the framework of The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood (TPTP) (2018)


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Credible Designs
Tokyo Midtown Design Hub 5th Anniversary / 33rd Exhibition
Tokyo Midtown Design Hub (participating organizations: Japan Institute of Design Promotion, Japan Graphic Designers Association Inc., Musashino Art University Design Lounge) celebrates its 5th anniversary with the 33rd exhibition "Credible Designs" from March 30 to May 27. On the theme "credibility and design," 51 distinguished creators present their ideas of what constitutes credibility in design.
Since its opening in 2007, Tokyo Midtown Design Hub has connected people, activities and possibilities through design, expanding and nurturing the network. On the 5th anniversary, we strongly feel that the most needed factor in design today is "credibility" and "a sense of assurance in that specific design."
Our daily life is surrounded by shapes, colors, sounds, signs, brands, space, communication methods and all things that people created based on their concepts. They are, in fact, all different forms of design. We rely on design and its reliability is the base of our comfortable life and hopeful future.
"What kind of design do we put our trust in?
Why do we trust that specific design?"
Any design starts from consciousness, concept or point of view. In this exhibition, visitors can deepen their awareness of "credibility in design" through the creators' perspectives.
At the venue, 51 creators in design-related industries present their concepts of "credible design" with messages along with impressive illustrations by an artist. The visitors get to feel firsthand who believes in what kind of design. By questioning "what credible design is," we hope to shed light on different perspectives and give the opportunity to face the possibilities for "future of design."
51 creators in design-related industries such as designers, architects, photographers and researchers present their ideas of "credible design" with words along with illustrations by an artist.
Title: Tokyo Midtown Design Hub 5th anniversary / 33rd Exhibition
Date: March 30 (Fri.) – May 27 (Sun.) 11:00-19:00
Open everyday during the exhibition
Venue: Tokyo Midtown Design Hub
(5th floor, Midtown Tower, 9-7-1Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo)
Organizer: Tokyo Midtown Design Hub
(Japan Institute of Design Promotion, Japan Graphic Designers Association Inc., Musashino Art University Design Lounge)
Editing, Copy Writing: Ikuko Noda
Art Direction: All Right Graphics
Venue Design: Landscape Products
Illustration: Shohei Morimoto
Photography: Tomoki Hirokawa
Exhibitors (in hiragana order):
Katsumi Asaba (art director), Tomoko Azumi (product designer), Hisae Igarashi (professor at Musashino Art University), Junko Ishida (writer), Hiromi Inokuchi (professor at Musashino Art University), Soichi Ueda (producer), Yusuke Kakei (designer), Kaoru Kasai (art director / graphic designer), Mitsuo Katsui (graphic designer), Takashi Kawashima (editor), Caramelimagine (planning and design group), Yoshihiro Komuta (design producer), Yasuo Kondo (designer), Chiho Sasaki (experience design), Taku Satoh (graphic designer), Manabu Shiraishi (associate professor at Musashino Art University), Toshihiro Jinnouchi (professor at Musashino Art University), Norito Shinmura (graphic designer), Reiko Sudo (design director), TSUTTO TsutomuTakahashi (art director/designer), Manabu Tago (art director/designer), Masayuki Tanaka (professor at Musashino Art University), Kousuke Tsumura (professor at Musashino Art University), Yusaku Terayama (professor at Musashino Art University), Masamichi Toyama (corporate manager), Akiyoshi Totoki (professor at Musashino Art University), Kazufumi Nagai (art director), Kazumasa Nagai (graphic designer), Rikako Nagashima (art director / designer), Keisuke Nagatomo (graphic designer), Shunsaburo Nakahara (professor at Musashino Art University), Daisuke Nakayama (artist / art director), Noriko Hashida (product designer), Kazuhiko Hachiya (media artist), Kazunari Hattori (graphic designer / art director), Hideshi Hamaguchi (director), Kenya Hara (designer), Keiko Hirano (designer / visioner), Naoko Hirota (product designer), Masaaki Hiromura (graphic designer), Osamu Fukushima (art director), Masahiko Furukata (associate professor at Musashino Art University), Kentaro Kai (designer), Kozo Shimoyama (designer), Bandai Matsuo (designer), Tatsuya Matsui (robot designer), Shin Matsunaga (graphic designer), Takashi Mochizuki (photographer), Akiko Moriyama (professor at Musashino Art University), Ryo Yamazaki (landscape designer / community designer), Shinichi Yonetoku (professor at Musashino Art University)
■ Opening Reception: March 30 (Fri.) 18:30- (Open to all people)
■ Talking sessions by the exhibitors and more (For details, please refer to the Tokyo Midtown Design Hub website)


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We take care to ensure that your vehicle is disposed of in the right way. A lot of companies out there will sell on your scrap car and not even notify the DVLA that the vehicle is no longer yours. This can put you in a very awkward position as if there are any fines issued you will be liable to pay them. Scrap Car Elwick will always notify the DVLA that your vehicle has been scrapped, meaning you can rest assured that you are in the very safest of hands. Scrap Car Elwick can guarantee that whatever can be recycled is, this ensure that we are always doing our bit for the environment.
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It really is easy to scrap your car in Elwick. Our phone operators are on hand to answer any of your questions. If on the other hand you are not ready to book and would like to find out more about how to scrap a car please feel free to look at our guide to scrapping your car.


No-one get's out of this life, alive.
As a leader, a husband, a mother, a student we can choose to walk in our own footsteps and become all we are meant to be.
This, however demands that we are poured out and die empty.
You can't die with the music in you.
What you have to give, we need.
Your identity should be known by you.
Your life's purpose and all your passions are tightly woven into your identity.
All the potential is already present within you to become everything you are born to be.
God and the whole universe conspire with you to reach your full potential.


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How to Find Online Series Without Paying
August 30, 2022 by swsol
If you want to watch an online series without paying, you can find a lot of them on YouTube. Just go to the right category and search for the title you're looking for. For example, "Boy Meets World" is an old ABC sitcom that you can find several episodes of online. If you're looking for something more recent, you could look for "Grey's Anatomy" on YouTube.
Emotivci
Project Free TV
Watch-Series
GlobalTv
Emotivci is a website that enables viewers to rate television shows. It uses a Tinder-like interface to display recommendations and ask users to swipe right or left on titles they like or dislike. Users can read a brief blurb about the shows, view trailers and scroll through episodes. Users can also view photos of notable cast members.
Emotivci is currently only available on iOS and Android, but it promises to launch apps for other devices later this year. It also offers a social feature where users can text their favorite shows to their friends or fans.
Probably the most popular website for free TV series online is Project Free TV. This website is updated daily and has a well-developed user interface. It contains several popular TV shows, including the popular Skulls and Roses series. You can also find movies and other media on this website. The only drawback of this website is that there are often ads. However, if you're willing to put up with pop-ups, you'll be able to watch plenty of popular TV shows.
The new PFTV site is different than the old one. While you can still watch free TV series on the old site, the content is not the same. This new site is a good resource for episodes of shows that you've missed. Unlike the older site, it doesn't charge a subscription fee.
WatchSeries is a site that lets you watch TV shows and movies Online serije. The site offers many great features and has tens of thousands of titles to choose from. The videos are high-definition and have multiple subtitles, which makes them suitable for anyone who enjoys watching television. The site is also fast, offers ad-free streaming, and has 24/7 customer support.
One of the most unique aspects of Watch Series is that it allows you to watch full episodes of your favorite TV shows for free. There are several different video links provided, and most of them are of better quality than those provided by other sites.
If you want to watch TV shows online for free, there are several sites you can use. Many of them will let you register for free and allow you to watch all kinds of television shows. Some sites even let you stream movies, so you can enjoy your favorite movies while catching up on your favourite television shows. StreamM4u is an example of such a site. It has a large database of HD television series and allows you to watch them online for free. The website also includes a schedule of new episodes and movies.
Another good option is 123movies. 123movies has a wide selection of content, which makes it easy to find the one you want. There is no need to register for this service and you can watch the series without any problems. All you need to do is click on the titles of the shows you want to watch, and you can find a lot of them under each category. You can also filter by genre and country and use the search bar to find what you want.
If you are interested in watching new shows or movies, it is easy to find them on Global TV. This service is available through cable, satellite, and IPTV providers throughout Canada. You can access full episodes for free after the series or movie airs. You can even catch up on the latest news and weather.
However, you should keep in mind that Global TV content is only licensed for viewing in Canada. If you are attempting to watch this content from outside Canada, you should contact your internet provider. If you are receiving error messages and cannot play videos, the problem may be your IP address. If you jailbreak your device, you may have an IP address issue. This is a requirement by the television studios to protect their content.
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Legacy of Colonialism booklet
| 26 March 2019
This booklet (attached) provides information about PFC's 'Legacy of Colonialism' exhibition, including further details of the military and civilian costs in each conflict area.
Row over bid to extend centenary events to cover Ireland and India
Ben Quinn, The Guardian, 1st April 2019 | 10 June 2019
"Government board chair blocks effort to mark events in which Britain committed atrocities Members of the government's advisory board on the first world war centenary are at loggerheads over extending the commemorations to mark politically challenging events such as the Irish war of independence and...
India's Amritsar massacre bore the 'made in Ireland' mark
Ronan McGreevy, The Irish Times, 13th April 2019 | 10 June 2019
"After a long and tempestuous life in the service of British imperialism, Sir Michael O'Dwyer had got used to a quiet life. He endured years of recriminations over the Amritsar massacre which took place on April 13th, 1919. The episode in which British Indian troops opened fire on peaceful demonstra...
Churchill's policies contributed to 1943 Bengal famine – study
Michael Safi,The Guardian, 29th March 2019 | 10 June 2019
"Study is first time weather data has been used to argue wartime policies exacerbated famine The Bengal famine of 1943 was the only one in modern Indian history not to occur as a result of serious drought, according to a study that provides scientific backing for arguments that Churchill-era British...
Ireland v UK 2018
Judgement of ECHR | 20 March 2018
ECHR have rejected application by Irish Government to revise the original judgement in the Hooded Men case ROI v UK 1978. The 1978 judgement found that the treatment constituted inhuman & degrading treatment, but not torture. Today the ECHR has upheld that judgement 6-1 (Judge O'Leary dissenting- se...
Britain should stop trying to pretend that its empire was benevolent
May 13, 2016 | 10 October 2018
Interesting 2016 article from Alan Lester, Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Sussex on Britain's attitude to empire and the racist underpinnings of the view that the empire was benevolent. Published in The Conversation.
Breaking the silence on partition and British Colonial history (Published 31 July 2017)
Reflections 70 years after the partition of the Indian sub-continent | 11 October 2018
Many British south Asian families were caught up in the violence of 1947 when Britain partitioned India. Seventy years on, some are telling their stories for the first time. Kavita Puri is the editor of Our World and presenter of Partition Voices on BBC Radio 4
5 of the worst atrocities carried out by British Empire, after 'historical amnesia' claims
Samuel Osborne, The Independent | 06 March 2017
The British people suffer "historical amnesia" over the atrocities committed by their former empire , an Indian MP and author has claimed. Former UN under-secretary general Dr Shashi Tharoor said the British education system fails to tell the real story of empire .
Inglorious Empire: what the British did to India
Diarmaid Ferriter, The Irish Times | 07 March 2017
Book review: Shashi Tharoor's angry history of British rule in India is a timely response to empire nostalgia
Event to Mark International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
| 23 June 2017
26th June marks the International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture. The PFC, along with our colleagues in CAJ, Amnesty International and Matrix Chambers marked the day by outlining evidence of torture carried out by the RUC and British Army during the 1970's in the north of Ireland at an eve...
British Empire-Students should be taught history of colonialism say historians
The Independent newspaper 22 January 2016 | 03 July 2017
Article from the Independent with comments from various historians regarding the need to teach the history of colonialisation in British universities.
Event "Beating the natives"
Mon 14 Aug, Museum of Free Derry | 11 August 2017
"Throughout Britain's colonial history, in Kenya, Yemen, Malaya and elsewhere, London broke all accepted moral and legal standards by torturing its opponents. Ireland was no different with British 'water-boarding' detainee thirty years before the USA did the same in Guantanamo. Using statements made...
The Wrong Lesson (pub 2005)
Caroline Elkins- Article from The Atlantic magazine | 22 August 2017
What lessons can be learned from British counter-insurgency methods deployed in Kenya, Cyprus and elsewhere? Should the US follow suit? Counter-gangs and counter-insurgency.
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HBO's deal to license some of its prestigious back catalog to Amazon, announced Wednesday, was widely seen as a blow to Netflix. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has coveted HBO's content for as long as his company has been in business of streaming TV shows on-demand. And it was never in the running for this particular deal.
Calling Netflix a loser however—as the stock market did on Wednesday when it drove Netflix shares down by 3%—misses the point of the company's evolving strategy and the ways in which it's dramatically different from that of Amazon. Amazon may want to be more like Netflix, but Netflix wants to be more like HBO.
Reed Hastings. Photo by Bloomberg.
HBO sold non-exclusive access to high-profile reruns to an outlet willing to pay a lot for prestige while keeping the content away from a company that increasingly looks like a competitor.


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Fearmongering as a Business Model
Reporting on the link between palm oil and cancer is just one example of how the mainstream media avoids fair and balanced reporting, and squelches moderate voices. Some media, besides pushing an ideological agenda, try to make money by stirring up fear.
Pieter Cleppe
According to Francois Balloux, a prominent epidemiologist who led the first large-scale sequencing project of the Sars-CoV2 genome, "the pandemic has created a market for 'gloom and doom.'" Balloux, director of the Genetics Institute at University College London, calls himself a "COVID 'hope-monger'" because of his rather emotionally detached perspective towards the virus, despite the fact that he describes himself as someone with a generally "deeply pessimistic and cynical outlook on life."
"I don't filter out my most negative views for personal or financial gain," he says. "I believe a more pessimistic take on COVID would have been far more beneficial to my career, scientific standing, and public reach." Balloux went on to say that "[s]preading terror, doom, and gloom from a position of authority, however well intended the underlying objectives may be, is not something I can condone. There needs to be hope and clear endpoints for any public health measure to be justifiable."
Balloux's perspective is refreshing. It also challenges known dogmas. He recently, for example, provided information on the Omicron variant of COVID, showing that it accounts for only 1.7% of hospitalisations in South Africa—a minute number, even when we consider that South Africa has a much younger population than Europe and that this variant may have larger ripples among Europe's aging populations. According to Balloux, "Omicron's ability to (in part) bypass its host's immune recognition likely came at a cost in terms of replication ability and pathogenicity." He thus considers that the most optimistic scenario is coming true, whereby we are "very lucky" because the new variant is turning out to be less harmful than would have been possible.
This, of course, raises the question whether all kinds of extreme new COVID measures such as lockdowns are necessary. Proponents of lockdowns will of course insist that even with a very mild variant, hospital capacity will be stretched. Once again, as we have seen in the past, more moderate voices have been drowned out by alarmists of all stripes since, as in all matters (COVID and non-COVID alike), the media enjoy focusing on fear—either to make money or to promote a particular ideological preference.
Here's an example. The centre-left British newspaper The Guardian recently reported on a new scientific article in Nature, with a headline reading: "Fatty acid found in palm oil linked to spread of cancer." But the reader must persevere through half the article before he reaches the clarification that the fatty acid in question—palmitic acid—is not only found in palm oil but "also in a wide variety of foods such as butter and olive oil." It represents 50-60% of total fats in meat and dairy products, compared to only 44% of total fats in palm oil.
Yet The Guardian did not run with the headline "Fatty acid found in meat and dairy products linked to spread of cancer" because such a headline would not have served the newspaper's agenda. Highlighting palm oil, rather than dairy, in a negative way was meant to contribute to the campaign against deforestation by associating palm oil with cancer. (The campaign, incidentally, wholly disregards the fact that deforestation is only a problem for a limited part of global palm oil production.)
Moreover, conveniently ignored is the fact that the deforestation problem is fundamentally linked to poverty, inadequate property rights, and inadequate enforcement of rules to protect valuable natural resources. Soybean, timber, and livestock farming also pose environmental hazards—but the palm oil industry continues to take the brunt of the blame for deforestation. A policy response such as restrictions on the import of palm oil products, like those proposed by the EU Commission, could result in companies in the countries concerned simply switching to other crops, with no benefit to the environment, because palm oil itself is not the problem; the real problem is the plethora of ill-advised policies seemingly inspired by simplistic headlines like The Guardian's.
In the example of palm oil, NGOs would do much better to focus on better enforcement of existing property rights and legislation in the countries where palm oil production takes place, rather than bringing arbitrary restrictions against one industry. After all, economic development and care for the environment go hand in hand. But none of this is raised by the fearmongering media.
The case of palm oil is just one example of how the mainstream media avoids fair and balanced reporting, and squelches moderate voices. There are other ways, too. Some media, besides pushing an ideological agenda, actually try to make money by stirring up fear. It is part of the human condition, of course, that we are more interested in messages when something is going badly than when the message is that everything is actually fine. On the website called "Kill or Cure," a certain Paul Battley has meticulously documented all the times the Daily Mail—one of the most-read English-language news sites—has reported that various items, from antacids to yogurt, either cause cancer, prevent cancer, or sometimes do both (as in the case of the aspirin).
Similarly, Psychology Today has investigated a Los Angeles Times article which claimed that, according to one study, red wine would help kill cancer cells and make radiation therapy more effective for those battling cancer. Unfortunately, the article got it wrong, at least according to Psychology Today, which reported that the study "wasn't performed on humans or even mice—it was carried out on melanoma cells in a petri dish. It is a far leap to extrapolate results from a petri dish to the human body."
Another research paper, published by the British Medical Journal, puts some of the blame on the way academic research tends to be communicated. The study notes that press releases, often written by specialist agencies, often hype the findings of scientists; eager journalists then simply copy the words of scientists but do not always preserve context. The study suggests that a lot could be improved if journalists would simply add a link to the original study or mention the name of the researchers in their articles.
According to psychologist Tom Stafford, one of many who have come to this conclusion, the preference to focus on negative news is probably part of the human condition, too. Humans, he writes, have evolved into creatures that tend to react quickly to potential threats. Bad news could thereby be a signal that we need to change what we are doing to avoid danger.
That may well be the case. But as a civilizational matter, countering certain negative inner urges may be a good idea. There is, after all, more to life than merely avoiding danger.
Pieter Cleppe is the editor-in-chief of BrusselsReport.eu, an online magazine covering EU politics. He is on Twitter @pietercleppe.
Tags: COVID-19, health, media, science
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