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Briquette entre Poteaux
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If you've followed this blog over the past year, I'm sure you have seen me write about the historical, vernacular architecture on display in both The Cajun Village and The Cabin Restaurant. Al Robert and his family have saved over 50 buildings in the last 40+ years. Most of them originated on the great River Road, in and around Convent, Louisiana. One such building is the Cantrell House, built in 1820, which now resides in The Cajun Village and is home to C & C Treasures.
The Cantrell House is unique among the other preserved and restored buildings around it, in that it was built using the old French Creole construction method of briquette entre poteaux, or "brick between post." This method, and architectural style, flourished in New France, i.e. the Mississippi Valley, from first arrival of the French in early 18th century into the late 19th century (although it was mainly found in the vernacular architecture after 1830s, once the Greek Revival and Italianate styles took hold amongst the wealthy).
This is the basic description of the French Creole style according to the Louisiana Architecture: A Handbook on Styles produced by the state's Historic Preservation division of the Office of Cultural Development:
"Creole cottages can be defined by the features they shared. Heavy braced timber frames and Norman truss roof systems formed the structure, with bricks or a confection of mud and Spanish moss called bousillage filling the space between the timbers. Houses were raised several feet off the ground on piers or blocks. The earliest Creole houses had broken pitch roofs. Later, straightly pitched gable or hipped roofs were preferred in both urban and rural areas. Despite the large attic space available beneath the high rooflines, the Creoles almost never utilized the attic for daily living. Most Creole houses had generous galleries set beneath their broad, spreading rooflines. Depending upon the weather, the gallery might serve as a sitting or dining room, with curtains hung from iron rods between the columns to provide shade. Thus, the Creoles decorated their galleries as outdoor rooms with chair rails, wainscoting, and cornices. Multiple French doors opened from the gallery into the rooms.
"The floor plans of Creole houses varied greatly in size. The plan always consisted of at least one range of rooms typically paralleled by a front gallery. This range included a nearly square salle (parlor), with at least one narrow chambre (bedroom) located next to it… The houses usually lacked hallways; instead, the rooms opened directly into each other.
"Decorative elements preferred by the Creoles included turned or chamfered gallery columns, exposed beaded ceiling beams, the use of a French diamond shaped parallelogram called a lozenge, and wraparound mantels. The latter centered upon boxed chimney flues located on interior walls."
To the left is the wraparound mantle and central briquette entre poteaux wall that was not replaced
You'll notice in the pictures that the Cantrell House displays many of the French Creole tradition: multiple French doors that open from the gallery into the main room, a range of rooms paralleling the gallery, hipped roof, wrap-around fireplace mantels, and briquette entre poteaux walls, although the interior walls have been removed to create more of an open floor plan. The briquette entre poteaux plan was sturdy, put together with local materials (cypress beams and bricks or bousillage), and a surprising good way to insulate a building, especially if a layer of plaster or stucco was applied on either side of the wall. Yet another fantastic example of vernacular Creole architecture, preserved and restored into a tribute to our wonderful architectural heritage in south Louisiana!


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Special Event at Spa-Francorchamps forms part three of the 'Grand Slam' on iRacing powered by VCO.
Field made up exclusively of GT3 cars.
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Munich – The countdown is on to the next iRacing Special Event powered by VCO. Following the two virtual endurance classics at the Nürburgring and Le Mans, Virtual Competition Organisation this weekend presents the next highlight of the 'Grand Slam' on the iRacing platform: the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. Drivers and teams in virtual GT3 cars are battling it out for victory in one of the most iconic Esports racing events on iRacing.
The virtual Spa-Francorchamps racetrack was the venue for the very first iRacing 24h race back in 2014. Wil Vincent, RaceSpot TV's COO & Head of Broadcast Operations was in the commentary seat back then, as he will be this weekend. Together with the commentary team at Radio Show Limited, and in collaboration with VCO, Vincent will provided comprehensive coverage on the VCO livestream of both the iRacing 24h Spa-Francorchamps and the endurance race at Road Atlanta, which forms the fourth and final part of the 'Grand Slam' powered by VCO on iRacing at the start of October.
Although Vincent can already look back on roughly 1000 appearances as a commentator on Esports racing events, the marathon at Spa-Francorchamps is still a real highlight for the 32-year-old. "Spa-Francorchamps has always been a circuit very close to our heart at RaceSpot TV," said Vincent, who is also involved in preparing and implementing the broadcast. "The iRacing Spa-Francorchamps is probably the most unique of all the season's 24-hour races, as there is only one class of car. The teams all race in GT3 cars, making it a level playing field. That makes the race all the more interesting and the circuit is also particularly challenging for us commentators and producers – especially at night. Spa has only lighting from the Bus Stop chicane to the end of Eau Rouge, after which it is dark. You've got to be inventive with regard to the broadcast and camera angles used. Furthermore, it is obviously often difficult for the commentator to recognise the cars."
Since the endurance race made its debut in 2014, Vincent has commentated on every edition of the iRacing 24h Spa-Francorchamps. He has particularly vivid memories of last year's race. "Max Verstappen and Lando Norris drove together for Team Redline and were leading the race by a big margin until shortly before the finish, when the physical brake pedal broke on Verstappen's sim rig. At first, his team members thought it was just a little joke, until they realised that it was serious and had to scramble to make sure that someone could takeover that car. That was probably the craziest thing I've experienced in all my years."
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The iRacing 24h Spa-Francorchamps powered by VCO starts at 15:40 (CEST) on Saturday. The fourth and final leg of the iRacing 'Grand Slam' powered by VCO is scheduled to take place on the virtual Road Atlanta track on 3rd/4th October. After Philipp Eng, Laurin Heinrich and Alexander Voß from the BS+COMPETITION team took victory in the iRacing 24h Nürburgring powered by VCO at the end of April, Team Redline won the 2020 iRacing 24h Le Mans powered by VCO in 2020, with drivers Dominik Färber, Tom Michelmore, Patrick Wolf and Matt Farrow.
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Sridevi honoured
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By: PTI | Cannes | The Indian Express
Filmmaker Subhash Ghai and producer Namrata Goyal received the award on behalf of Sridevi's family.
Veteran Bollywood actor Sridevi was honoured with the TITAN Reginald F Lewis Film Icon Award at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival.
The award traditionally celebrates women of the film industry all over the world and also salute the multi-cultural impact on the world of cinema.
Recently, the late actor Sridevi was also posthumously honoured with the Best Actress award for her performance in MOM at the 65th National Film Awards.
Boney Kapoor said he is overwhelmed with the recognition and tributes and love of millions of Sridevi's fans being showered on her.
Filmmaker Subhash Ghai and producer Namrata Goyal received the award on behalf of Sridevi's family. "Janhvi, Khushi and I are overwhelmed with the recognition and tributes and love of millions of her fans being showered on her. Her work and life has touched so many hearts across the world and she has been an inspiration to millions. She will live forever, thanks to her body of work," the actor's husband, producer Boney Kapoor, said in a statement.
Recently, the late actor was also posthumously honoured with the Best Actress award for her performance in Mom at the 65th National Film Awards. This was Sridevi's first National Film Award.
Mom was her last feature-length film where she co-starred alongside Akshaye Khanna and Nawazuddin Siddiqui. The film was directed by Ravi Udyawar.
Also, Subhash Ghai announced at Cannes that his banner Mukta Arts will co-produce a biopic about the controversial Indian guru Osho in collaboration with Rome-based Navala Productions.
He said his involvement with the upcoming project was inevitable. "I have been reading Osho's writings critically for over 30 years," he told PTI in an exclusive interview in the India Pavilion of the 71st Cannes Film Festival.
Sridevi passed away on February 24 in Dubai.


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36-Patterson: Central to much of the literature and thinking on nation-building are issues of citizenship. With the knowledge that most of the terrorists involved in the September 11 attacks entered the U.S. under legitimate circumstances, a new concern with citizenship and assimilation has emerged along with the increased surveillance and regulation in place at our international borders and airports. In addition to the increasingly difficult process of securing entry into the U.S. for non-citizens in general, and citizens of the so-called "rogue states" in particular, this new belligerence has manifested itself in the relations between the U.S. government and many Arab communities in the United States.
There is now a sense that along with unfinished nations, unfinished citizens (or false ones, for that matter) threaten the nation. Much attention has been paid to the fact that it was not merely a group of al Qaeda members who made the terrorist attacks possible but also a broader network of funders and supporters, some of whom are based in the United States.
In his recent article on otherness and identity in Arab Detroit, Andrew Shryock offers an interesting counterpoint to this discussion of unfinished nations by using a more localized unit of analysis, namely Arab citizens residing in the United States. In many ways, the events of September 11 and the national response to them served to "undo" the citizenship of the members of these communities, for some in a quite literal way and for others more figuratively. [35] The imagined or idealized endpoint of the finishing process for immigrants to the United States is often conceived of and marked in terms of "assimilation." Not all of the markers of this finishing/assimilation process are achievable through action. They include the language one speaks, place (country) of birth, dress, religion, and what may be described as one's politics, views, or ideology.
As Shryock writes, "On September 11, 2001, Arab Detroit entered its own state of emergency. Its image as 'an immigrant success story,' as 'the capital of Arab America,' changed within hours of the attacks; suddenly, it wasPage 90 a scene of threat, divided loyalties, and potential backlash" Literally overnight, "a resurgent imagery of Otherness and marginalization, increasingly Muslim in focus, is now the backdrop against which Arabs in Detroit are struggling to (re)define themselves as 'good citizens.'" [36] The markers of assimilation were sought and read with a new suspicion, not only by government agents, but by accepted American publics whose citizenship or loyalty to the United States was not questioned.
37-Gebert: The use of the English term "nation," which can designate both "ethnic group" and "State," is the source of much confusion in the writings on historical and political events. Its current usage is embedded in the political development of the United States, where a nation of immigrants built a non-ethnic state. This confusion is currently seen in the debate on "failed nations," in which often the correct diagnosis of some states (e.g. Somalia, Afghanistan, at a point Albania, etc.) to function as such, is followed by the ambiguous postulate of "nation-building" as a remedy. This implies not only the reconstruction—or construction—of a functioning state, but also the development of a "nation," made of one or several ethnic groups, of which that state would be the institutional expression.
This latter postulate, however, is one that most probably can never be implemented. The experience of colonialism shows that such "nation-building" (admittedly, never a primary objective of the colonialist enterprise) not only fails to meet its mark, but often is in fact counterproductive. Later non-colonialist ventures, such as trusteeship (say, Britain in Palestine) or, more recently, international community administration (e.g. Bosnia) seem to validate that conclusion, though in this last case it is arguable that it is yet too early to tell. What does seem to be possible is the reconstruction of states, through the reimposition of a state's primary attribute: the monopoly of legitimate violence. This has in fact been seen in Bosnia and Timor, and might prove true also in Kosovo. The objective here would not be the construction of democracy (though in Bosnia this goal seems well within reach), but the elimination of plural agents of violence, by enforcing a uniform system of obligations, safety and compliance. In other words, it is preferable for inhabitants to live under a predictable system of rewards and punishments rather than under one in which these dramatically vary from place to place and over time.
Needless to say, such a system almost certainly can be neither just norPage 91 fair, nor will it be permanent. Its main objective is to ensure that most people can be reasonably sure to be safe from arbitrary detention, violence or death if they abide by a relatively clear system of rules, uniform for all. By the same token, a monopoly of violence in the interest of one (usually ethnic) group alone would fail to meet the test. Once the power of warlords is abolished, a modicum of safety established, democratic development may, though by no means must, follow.
In particular, it does not seem to be useful to export the American model of "nationless nation" to countries where the state has failed, the civic bond is weak or nonexistent, and ethnic or tribal bonds are dominant. Such an attempt is usually doomed to failure, and thus may in fact compromise the very ideals on which it is based. This is not to endorse of the spurious concept of non-universality of human rights, but to admit that human rights implementation is a process, not a one-time act. Furthermore, it is feasible only in places where people can be reasonably sure their lives are not routinely under threat, and where basic solidarity exists between all or most of the inhabitants. Failed states meet neither of these criteria; rebuilding "nations" (as opposed to "states") does not help either. For the process to begin, a state needs to be able to function again. International intervention cannot be expected to achieve much more, at least in the short run.
38-Patterson: Several critics have suggested that the contemporary United States may be best understood as an empire among nations, increasingly exerting its disproportionate power through the use of force to consolidate, extend, and maintain its influence over the rest of the world. [37] United States involvement in shaping and determining the outcome of nations is very selective, however. The nation building process is now seen as one that not only leads to secularism and democracy (including cases in which the United States puts a leader in power), but the establishment of favorable trade relations and economic ties to the United States.
In his article "The Arrogant Empire," Fareed Zakaria examines the character and consequences of the United States' unique position in the world. [38] Prior to the outbreak of war in Iraq, he noted that "in its campaign against Iraq, America is virtually alone. Never will it have waged a war in such isolation. Never have so many of its allies been so firmly opposed to its policies. Never has it provoked so much public opposition, resentment and mistrust.Page 92 And all this before the first shot has been fired." He argues that the war has much larger ramifications for the United States than regional concerns: "The debate is not about Saddam anymore. It is about America and its role in the new world. To understand the present crisis, we must first grasp how the rest of the world now perceives American power." The unilateralism that now defines U.S. foreign policy has undoubtedly impacted the way that Americans are perceived and treated. But it has also had and will continue to have devastating consequences for many Afghanis, Iraqis, and Americans. Responding "on a scale that was almost unimaginable" to the September 11 attacks, the United States demanded international compliance. As Zakaria observed, "Suddenly terrorism was the world's chief priority, and every country had to reorient its foreign policy accordingly." Arguably, however, the world is now less secure and less amenable to rule by law than before the tragic events of September 11.


File Photo: Somali government soldiers run to position during an ambush by al Shabaab rebels.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Central Mogadishu was shaken on Saturday by a car bomb blast at a government ministry building, with Islamist group al Shabaab claiming responsibility for the attack in the Somali capital.
"The first blast took place at the Ministry of Labor … there are also other ministry buildings near the scene. It was a suicide car bomb followed by gunfire," police officer Major Mohamed Hussein said, adding there had been a second explosion.
Al Shabaab, which is fighting to establish its own rule based on a strict interpretation of Sharia law, said one of its fighter had rammed the ministry building with a car bomb, allowing others to enter it.


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No, 'Wokeness' Isn't Why 'Strange World' Flopped at the Box Office
Strange world is on its way to turning into one of Disney's biggest box office bombs in the company's history, and heated debates are raging over why the animated film has had such a disastrous reception.
There's a corner on the internet that pins the movie's failure down to the fact that Strange world has an openly gay character in Ethan Clade, because of course there is.
The more obvious and common sense answer to why Strange world its bombing is that the film received little to no marketing prior to its holiday weekend release. As someone who writes about the entertainment industry like my 9-5, admittedly I've heard little to nothing about this movie.
I love how someone with half a brain cell can piece together that Strange World bombed at the box office because Disney barely marketed it, and yet there are still morons out there who think it only bombed because it was "awake " is. It never ceases to amaze me how willfully stupid homophobes are
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Admittedly, the movie isn't exactly a runaway success in terms of audiences and critics who got around to it, but it's certainly not terrible. With a critic score of 74 percent on Rotten tomatoes and an audience score of 61 percent, it certainly doesn't paint a picture of a hundred million dollar bomb.
Many have been quick to point the finger at Disney for burying the company's first true LGBTQ+ representation milestone.
Disney is 100% going to blame STRANGE WORLD's inevitable bad box office on the fact that there's an openly gay character in the movie, when in reality it's going to flop because they didn't market it at all. They will use this as an excuse to never have queer rep again. pic.twitter.com/diD7It4Bk4
— Jordan Woodson #GlassOnionSweep (@jordanjwoodson) November 17, 2022
what happened to #Strange world it's a tragedy.
A Disney CEO who cared little for creativity posted this over a holiday weekend while booking ABSOLUTELY NO promotion for it.
And with Chapek getting fired from the Disney Board, this is getting a 'lame duck' label it doesn't deserve. https://t.co/dhHnvHPcfj
— Kevin D. Grüssing (pronounced Grew-sing) (@KevDGrussing) November 28, 2022
Disney's reasoning behind the minimal effort the company put into marketing Strange world remains unclear. Still, one can't help but raise an eyebrow as this should have been a giant leap forward for the world's largest studio in terms of representation.
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Of course, the mind behind the film didn't want the character in question, Ethan Clade, to be reduced to his sexuality.
Perhaps it may come down to Disney's obvious lack of focus on animated projects, instead its eyes on big-budget live-action spectacles.
The film's poor performance doesn't bode well for other animations the company should be working on, including Spider-Man: Freshman Year, but it ultimately blamed itself for failing to allocate an appropriate advertising budget for a movie that cost $180 million to make.
At the moment of writing, Strange world is on track to make a loss of more than $100 million, having made a measly $18.6 million during its first five days in cinemas.
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Hotter days don't affect Connecticut residents equally. These maps show how.
Connecticut Public Radio | By Ali Oshinskie
Connecticut Institute for Resilience & Climate Adaptation at the University of Connecticut
This heat map shows in dark red the areas most vulnerable to extreme heat as well as negative side effects. Lighter areas are expected to experience lower temperatures and be able to handle it better. Cities fare the worst in terms of temperature as well as ability to cope with the impacts of heat. The Climate Change Vulnerability Index measures how hot an area will get and how prepared its population is to handle it.
Climate change is happening. In Connecticut, it looks like hotter summers and flooding, according to experts at the Connecticut Institute for Resilience & Climate Adaptation, or CIRCA, located at the University of Connecticut.
But heat doesn't affect everyone equally. Dr. Yaprak Onat, the assistant director of research at CIRCA, said the question now is how the effects of rising temperatures can be mitigated equitably.
"It is happening no matter what, so we need to plan for it," Onat said. "Otherwise, there's a lot to lose, especially [in] disadvantaged communities."
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VIEW: CIRCA's interactive Climate Change Vulnerability Index Map
Cities are hotter because of air quality, dense buildings and impervious surfaces, like pavement, Onat said. Cities also lack something she calls "breathing pockets," like shade or green spaces.
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This map shows warmest areas in terms of temperature, with the darkest purple areas the hottest. Dr. Yaprak Onat, assistant director of research at the Connecticut Institute for Resilience & Climate Adaptation, said heat isn't the only factor to consider. Another is a population's ability to withstand heat and bounce back from negative side effects.
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You Need Me . . .You Really Do!
There's been a lot of debate about the role of the medical writer in world of journal articles. The "g" word (ghostwriting) has been tossed about like salt on a Rachel Ray set. I'll get into that debate in a later post, but for now I just want to say something about medical writers and why doctors need us: Doctors. Can't. Write.
Ok, before you start lobbing your stethoscopes at me, let me explain. I know there are some doctors out there who are not only wonderful at writing journal articles and other medical pieces, such as CME programs, but also fiction and nonfiction. Two of my favorite authors–Perri Klass and Abraham Verghese–are physicians.
But let's be honest here: you didn't become physicians because of the narrative power of your pen (or keyboard). You haven't spent 8 or 9 hours a day for the past 25 years turning a blank computer screen into a 4,000-word article or a 60,000-word book. You probably don't have an AMA Manual of Style holding down a stack of papers on your desk, Endnote reference database on your computer, and carpal tunnel from misusing a mouse for too many years.
I know this because I just finished a first-pass edit on several articles written by physicians, very, very outstanding physicians in their field. These articles are part of a CME program I was originally slated to write (with the doctors' guidance, of course), but the doctors decided that they could write it themselves. The client wisely hired me to, at the very least, go through the six sections (each written by a different doctor) and make them sound as if they were written by one person. She told me to expect them in early August. I got them in late October, and even then two of the six parts were missing.
Now you'd think that after all my years as a medical writer I would have been in this position before–editing copy that doctors wrote. And sure, once or twice a doctor or PhD has hired me to whip their copy into shape because they knew they couldn't write.
Normally, however, I work with the doctor to determine the direction of a piece, including any specific references. I do additional research, write an outline, send it to the doctor for approval, then start writing. I send the first draft to the doctor for review and approval, integrate their changes, get it reviewed again, etc. This way the doctor is doing what he/she does best–providing clinical expertise and judgment–and I'm doing what I do best–writing. I've written entire books for doctors in this manner.
Let me tell you; it's a process that works a lot better than the one I'm in the midst of. After struggling to bring clarity to these articles, including adding numerous comments such as: "Do you have a reference for this?" "Can you also tell me about the side effects of this medication?" "Can you provide a P value for this result and what's the confidence interval?" rewriting run-on sentences, explaining studies, reorganizing the document, identifying discrepancies, and trying to remain true to the learning objectives identified for the program, I understand more than ever why medical writers are important.
My message here is that it's OK to admit that writing is not your strength. Listen, I admitted a long time ago that diagnosing and treating a heart attack was not mine :-). It's also ok to admit, as too few people (doctor or otherwise) do, that writing is not only hard, it's hard work! It is not something that comes to naturally to many people and it is not something that most people enjoy. If I had a dollar for every time someone came to me with a project and then, when I told them what it would cost to have me do it, muttered, "I can't believe you charge that much for writing! I'll just do it myself!" only to return in a few weeks and gladly pay my fee, I could take that Mediterranean cruise.
One other thing and then I'll step off my soapbox. In the long run, giving a writing project to someone who is not a writer (or who is a bad writer) will not save you money. Remember: money is time. The time you spend trying to fix what you get can get quite expensive, not to mention the cost of the stress from missing your deadline.
So what do you think? Whether you're a writer or a physician or someone else who hires writers, join in the discussion.
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11 Responses to "You Need Me . . .You Really Do!"
Deb Gordon
Good point, Mark!!
Thank you!! When I'm describing what I do to people and explaining the need for medical writing, I don't emphasize that doctors are often bad writers. I say, even if they are good writers, writing a journal article is days or even weeks of work as a writer. Do you really want top researchers spending this amount of time writing papers or do you want them doing their research and treating patients?
Thanks, Pat!!
Pat French
Thank you so much for writing this, Debra. The people who ask "You charge that much just to WRITE?" truly don't understand what we do. We help researchers and others get complex information across in the most succinct, accurate, and effective ways possible, allowing the information to be incorporated into practice when warranted. And isn't that the point?
Let the researchers do what they're trained to do, let the communicators do what we're trained to do, let's all be open about it, and everybody wins.
Jaclyn, you are most definitely NOT the only one; the only thing we can is remain professional, refuse to accept rates that don't fairly compensate us for our experience and expertise, and wait for them to realize the true cost of hiring based on dollars.
Jaclyn Landon
As a fellow freelance writer, I can totally relate to people's reaction of "You charge that much just to WRITE?" It's been a frustrating obstacle that I didn't expect to encounter when I entered the freelance world two years ago, but it's nice to know that I'm not the only one who experiences it.
-Jaclyn Landon
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Michael S. Altus, PhD, ELS
Re: Toni Goldfarb, Nov. 23, 2009; 12:56 AM:
In circumstances like these, it's helpful to follow the money by asking, "Who is paying whom to do what?"
There's a big difference between a politician's hiring a ghostwriter to prepare speeches and a pharmaceutical company's preparing a ghost-authored article for the signature by a guest author.
A politician's hiring a ghostwriter to work closely with the politician to present the politician's opinions is analogous to hiring a medical writer to work with the researchers to present their results and conclusions. Each relationship is ethical. The ethical concern about medical ghostwriting arise when a pharmaceutical company, often through a medical education and communications company, develops (ghost authors) an article and then shops the article for signature by a key opinion leader (guest author), leaving concealed the roles of the pharma and the MECC.
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Debra, I just posted a comment but the only way I could get it to be accepted was to enter it as "anonymous." I'm still getting that hang-up with entering a name/URL.
Debra, I just posted a Tweet similar, but shorter, than your comment here. The real issue people have been reading about in the news is the implication that any researcg reoirt prepared by a freelance medical writer is slanted to favor some predetermined favorable outcome. For example, a drug company or researcher wants to "push" a new drug or new finding, so they hire a medical writer to prepare a dishonest favorable report. Wrong! Ethical medical writers try to determine "the truth" and work with the actual researchers to explain that truth clearly and honestly in accepted journal format.
Politicians who have complained about ghostwriting that fails to credit to the "ghost," should look to themselves first. Many politicians never think twice about hiring ghostwriters. Even Presidet Obama, a talented, eloquent writer, often delivers ghostwritten speeches.
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You are so right! Thanks for posting!
Andy T
It takes time and effort to get respect as a medical writer! 🙂
I'd like to add two things:
– the term writer does not really cover all the extra value that an experienced medical writer can provide (backgrond research, statistics, verifying citations…)
– a second pair of eyes is ALWAYS useful.
Good luck with the blog!
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Priyanka Chopra reveals why she wanted to date Nick Jonas
Los Angeles, Indian actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas has revealed what moved her to date American pop singer Nick Jonas.
A little over a year after tying the knot with Jonas, Priyanka shared that the beginning of their romance has a lot to do with his steamy scene in his music video for "Close", reports aceshowbiaz.com.
The 37-year-old actress spoke when she took Harper's Bazaar through the 24 hours in her life for the magazine's February issue.
"The first thing I do in the morning is put on music. My life has always been pretty musical, and now with Nick it's completely musical. I decided to date him after seeing the video for 'Close', where his shirt comes off… So that song is my favourite," she said.
In the feature piece, Priyanka also said that she and her Nick knew little about each other before they began dating.
She said: "So we used to do a show-and-tell at night where it would be like, 'This is my first song!' or 'This is my first movie!' or 'This is the first song I wrote myself,' things like that. And actually that's how we're still getting to know each other."
"The Sky Is Pink" actress shared that she doesn't google herself or Nick.
"There's so much information about us – it's overwhelming," she said.
Though she doesn't mind looking at his works in the acting world.
"I'm happy to watch Nick's (movies)… I've never seen 'Camp Rock', and everyone makes fun of me about that, so maybe soon we'll have a 'Camp Rock' viewing party. I bet it will be great."
Priyanka also touched on her on-going literary project.
She said: "I'm meant to be writing a book. It's called 'Unfinished', but it's also literally unfinished because my life's been so crazy. It takes a lot of introspection on my part because it's a memoir of my last 20 years in entertainment, so I like to sit on my couch or lie down on my bed with a journal or a piece of paper.
"I need a pen and paper to think."
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According to Forbes Travel Guide, only properties that meet its hospitality standards – the most stringent in the industry – achieve a Five Star, Four Star or Recommended rating. Forbes Travel Guide's professional inspectors check into every property it regularly rates, evaluating more than 500 criteria to determine a Star Rating.
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Harrisvaccines Receives Production Platform Vaccine Licensure First of its Kind Granted by USDA
New York City, Press Releases
15 March 2016 – Merck Animal Health today announced that its recent acquisition, Harrisvaccines, has been granted licensure of its Prescription Product, RNA Particle (RP) vaccine platform from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). This first-of-its-kind USDA license approves the company's innovative production platform and allows for the manufacturing of herd-specific, custom vaccines prescribed by a licensed veterinarian.
"This platform license validates a decade of work – and the technology – that has enabled us to respond so quickly to emerging diseases," said Jodi French, Regulatory Affairs, Merck Animal Health. "It also enables our team to provide customized solutions to meet the ever-evolving needs of our customers."
The RP technology platform is used to make vaccines for swine, bovine, equine, avian, companion animal and farmed aquaculture diseases. Pathogens are collected from a farm and specific genes are sequenced and synthetically inserted into the platform creating RNA particles, making safe, potent vaccines able to provide herd-specific protection. This system was instrumental in producing the first conditionally licensed vaccine to help control Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDv), a deadly virus that has killed more than eight million piglets since suddenly emerging in the United States in 2013. It also was utilized to produce a conditionally licensed vaccine against H5 Avian Influenza, which was subsequently awarded a USDA Stockpile in October 2015.
"Merck Animal Health has a long-standing history of developing innovative, high-quality vaccines," said Rick Sibbel, D.V.M., Executive Director, Food Animal Technical Services, Merck Animal Health. "Bringing on board this technology and production platform serves to further support and enhance our ongoing commitment to the science of healthier animals."
About Merck Animal Health
Today's Merck is a global healthcare leader working to help the world be well. Merck Animal Health, known as MSD Animal Health outside the United States and Canada, is the global animal health business unit of Merck. Through its commitment to the Science of Healthier Animals™, Merck Animal Health offers veterinarians, farmers, pet owners and governments one of the widest range of veterinary pharmaceuticals, vaccines and health management solutions and services. Merck Animal Health is dedicated to preserving and improving the health, well-being and performance of animals. It invests extensively in dynamic and comprehensive R&D resources and a modern, global supply chain. Merck Animal Health is present in more than 50 countries, while its products are available in some 150 markets. For more information, visit www.merck-animal-health.com or connect with us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to, general industry conditions and competition; general economic factors, including interest rate and currency exchange rate fluctuations; the impact of pharmaceutical industry regulation and health care legislation in the United States and internationally; global trends toward health care cost containment; technological advances, new products and patents attained by competitors; challenges inherent in new product development, including obtaining regulatory approval; the company's ability to accurately predict future market conditions; manufacturing difficulties or delays; financial instability of international economies and sovereign risk; dependence on the effectiveness of the company's patents and other protections for innovative products; and the exposure to litigation, including patent litigation, and/or regulatory actions.
The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Additional factors that could cause results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements can be found in the company's 2014 Annual Report on Form 10-K and the company's other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) available at the SEC's Internet site (www.sec.gov).
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On June 2, 2012, TBDJ was honored by the visit of HaRav Yisrael Meir Lau, and Mrs. Adina Bar-Shalom of The Charedi College.
During our Shabbaton, Rav Lau shared words with the community that were of great value and inspiration, and will be remembered for years to come.
We thank our sponsors, Sylvia and Ben Levitt, as well as all those who helped ensure the dinner and the entire Shabbaton were a success- efforts led by Stephanie Steinman, Iris Levitt, Leon Monaker, Martha Benisty, Esther Huttman, Howie Steinberg, Stuart Steinberg, Rabbi Steinmetz and Yakov Lev.
We also thank Malca & Louis Drazin for hosting Rav Lau, and Nellie & Sander Wasser for hosting Adina Bar-Shalom.


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Socinianism
The body of doctrine held by one of the numerous Antitrinitarian sects to which the Reformation gave birth. The Socinians derive their name from two natives of Siena, Lelio Sozzini (1525-62) and his nephew Fausto Sozzini (1539-1604). The surname is variously given, but its Latin form, Socinus, is that currently used. It is to Fausto, or Faustus Socinus, that the sect owes its individuality, but it arose before he came into contact with it. In 1546 a secret society held meetings at Vicenza in the Diocese of Venice to discuss, among other points, the doctrine of the Trinity. Among the members of this society were Blandrata, a well-known physician, Alciatus, Gentilis, and Lelio, or Laelius Socinus. The last-named, a priest of Siena, was the intimate friend of Bullinger, Calvin, and Melanchthon. The object of the society was the advocacy not precisely of what were afterwards known as Socinian principles, but of Antitrinitarianism. The Nominalists, represented by Abelard, were the real progenitors of the Antitrinitarians of the Reformation period, but while many of the Nominalists ultimately became Tritheists, the term Antitrinitarian means expressly one who denies the distinction of persons in the Godhead. The Antitrinitarians are thus the later representatives of the Sabellians, Macedonians, and Arians of an earlier period. The secret society which met at Vicenza was broken up, and most of its members fled to Poland. Laelius, indeed, seems to have lived most at Zurich, but he was the mainspring of the society, which continued to hold meetings at Cracow for the discussion of religious questions. He died in 1562 and a stormy period began for the members of the party.
The inevitable effect of the principles of the Reformation was soon felt, and schism made its appearance in the ranks of the Antitrinitarians--for so we must call them all indiscriminately at this time. In 1570 the Socinians separated, and, through the influence of the Antitrinitarian John Sigismund, established themselves at Racow. Meanwhile, Faustus Socinus had obtained possession of his uncle's papers and in 1579 came to Poland. He found the various bodies of the sect divided, and he was at first refused admission because he refused to submit to a second baptism. In 1574 the Socinians had issued a "Catechism of the Unitarians", in which, while much was said about the nature and perfection of the Godhead, silence was observed regarding those Divine attributes which are mysterious. Christ was the Promised Man; He was the Mediator of Creation, i.e., of Regeneration. It was shortly after the appearance of this catechism that Faustus arrived on the scene and, in spite of initial opposition, he succeeded in attaching all parties to himself and thus securing for them a degree of unity which they had not hitherto enjoyed. Once in possession of power, his action was high-handed. He had been invited to Siebenburg in order to counteract the influence of the Antitrinitarian bishop Francis David (1510-79). David, having refused to accept the peculiarly Socinian tenet that Christ, though not God, was to be adored, was thrown into prison, where he died. Budnaeus, who adhered to David's views, was degraded and excommunicated in 1584. The old catechism was now suppressed and a new one published under the title of the "Catechism of Racow". Though drawn up by Socinus, it was not published until 1605, a year after his death; it first appeared in Polish, then in Latin in 1609.
Meanwhile the Socinians had flourished; they had established colleges, they held synods, and they had a printing press whence they issued an immense amount of religious literature in support of their views; this was collected, under the title "Bibliotheca Antitrinitarianorum", by Sandius. In 1638 the Catholics in Poland insisted on the banishment of the Socinians, who were in consequence dispersed. It is evident from the pages of Bayle that the sect was dreaded in Europe; many of the princes were said to favour it secretly, and it was predicted that Socinianism would overrun Europe. Bayle, however, endeavours to dispel these fears by dwelling upon the vigorous measures taken to prevent its spread in Holland. Thus, in 1639, at the suggestion of the British Ambassador, all the states of Holland were advised of the probable arrival of the Socinians after their expulsion from Poland; while in 1653 very stringent decrees were passed against them. The sect never had a great vogue in England; it was distasteful to Protestants who, less logical, perhaps, but more conservative in their views, were not prepared to go to the lengths of the Continental Reformers. In 1612 we find the names of Leggatt and Wightman mentioned as condemned to death for denying the Divinity of Christ. Under the Commonwealth, John Biddle was prominent as an upholder of Socinian principles; Cromwell banished him to the Scilly Isles, but he returned under a writ of habeas corpus and became minister of an Independent church in London. After the Restoration, however, Biddle was cast again into prison, where he died in 1662. The Unitarians are frequently identified with the Socinians, but there are fundamental differences between their doctrines.
Fundamental doctrines
These may be gathered from the "Catechism of Racow", mentioned above and from the writings of Socinus himself, which are collected in the "Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum". The basis was, of course, private judgment; the Socinians rejected authority and insisted on the free use of reason, but they did not reject revelation. Socinus, in his work "De Auctoritate Scripturae Sacrae", went so far as to reject all purely natural religion. Thus for him the Bible was everything, but it had to be interpreted by the light of reason. Hence he and his followers thrust aside all mysteries; as the Socinian John Crell (d. 1633) says in his "De Deo et ejus Attributis", "Mysteries are indeed exalted above reason, but they do not overturn it; they by no means extinguish its light, but only perfect it". This would be quite true for a Catholic, but in the mouth of Socinian it meant that only those mysteries which reason can grasp are to be accepted. Thus both in the Racovian Catechism and in Socinus's "Institutiones Religionis Christianae", only the unity, eternity, omnipotence, justice, and wisdom of God are insisted on, since we could be convinced of these; His immensity, infinity, and omnipresence are regarded as beyond human comprehension, and therefore unnecessary for salvation. Original justice meant for Socinus merely that Adam was free from sin as a fact, not that he was endowed with peculiar gifts; hence Socinus denied the doctrine of original sin entirely. Since, too, faith was for him but trust in God, he was obliged to deny the doctrine of justification in the Catholic sense; it was nothing but a judicial act on the part of God. There were only two sacraments, and, as these were held to be mere incentives to faith, they had no intrinsic efficacy. Infant baptism was of course rejected. There was no hell; the wicked were annihilated.
This point was particularly interesting, as on it the whole of Socinianism turns. God, the Socinians maintained, and rightly, is absolutely simple; but distinction of persons is destructive of such simplicity; therefore, they concluded the doctrine of the Trinity is unsound. Further, there can be no proportion between the finite and the infinite, hence there can be no incarnation, of the Deity, since that would demand some such proportion. But if, by an impossibility, there were distinction of persons in the Deity, no Divine person could be united to a human person, since there can by no unity between two individualities. These arguments are of course puerile and nothing but ignorance of Catholic teaching can explain the hold which such views obtained in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. As against the first argument, see St. Thomas, (Summa I:12:1, ad 4); for the solution of the others see Petavius. But the Socinians did not become Arians, as did Campanus and Gentilis. The latter was one of the original society which held its meetings at Vicenza; he was beheaded at Berne in 1566. They did not become Tritheists, as Gentilis himself was supposed by some to be. Nor did they become Unitarians, as might have been expected. Socinus had indeed many affinities with Paul of Samosata and Sabellius; with them he regarded the Holy Spirit as merely an operation of God, a power for sanctification. But his teaching concerning the person of Christ differed in some respects from theirs. For Socinus, Christ was the Logos, but he denied His pre-existence; He was the Word of God as being His interpreter (interpres divinae voluntatis). The passages from St. John which present the Word as the medium of creation were explained by Socinus of regeneration only. At the same time Christ was miraculously begotten: He was a perfect man, He was the appointed mediator, but He was not God, only deified man. In this sense He was to be adored; and it is here precisely that we have the dividing line between Socinianism and Unitarianism, for the latter system denied the miraculous birth of Christ and refused Him adoration. It must be confessed that, on their principles, the Unitarians were much more logical.
Redemption and sacraments
Socinus's views regarding the person of Christ necessarily affected his teaching on the office of Christ as Redeemer, and consequently on the efficacy of the sacraments. Being purely man, Christ did not work out our redemption in the sense of satisfying for our sins; and consequently we cannot regard the sacraments as instruments whereby the fruits of that redemption are applied to man. Hence Socinus taught that the Passion of Christ was merely an example to us and a pledge of our forgiveness. All this teaching is syncretized in the Socinian doctrine regarding the Last Supper; it was not even commemorative of Christ's Passion, it was rather an act of thanksgiving for it.
The Church and socianism
Needless to say, the tenets of the Socinians have been repeatedly condemned by the Church. As antitrinitarianists, they are opposed to the express teaching of the first six councils; their view of the person of Christ is in contradiction to the same councils, especially that of Chalcedon and the famous "Tome" (Ep. xxviii) of St. Leo the Great (cf. Denzinger, no. 143). For its peculiar views regarding the adoration of Christ, cf. can. ix of the fifth Ecumenical Synod (Denz., 221). It is opposed, too, to the various creeds, more especially to that of St. Athanasius. It has also many affinities with the Adoptionist heresy condemned in the Plenary Council of Frankfort, in 794, and in the second letter of Pope Hadrian I to the bishops of Spain (cf. Denz., 309-314). Its denial of the Atonement is in opposition to the decrees against Gotteschalk promulgated in 849 (cf. Denz., 319), and also to the definition of the Fourth Lateran Council against the Albigensians (Denz., 428; cf. also Conc. Trid., Sess. xxii., cap. i. de Sacrificio Missae, in Denz., 938). The condemned propositions of Abelard (1140) might equally well stand for those of the Socinians (cf. Denz., 368 sqq.). The same must be said of the Waldensian heresy: the Profession of Faith drawn up against them by Innocent III might be taken as a summary of Socinian errors. The formal condemnation of Socinianism appeared first in the Constitution of Paul IV, "Cum quorundam", 1555 (Denz., 993); this was confirmed in 1603 by Clement VIII, or "Dominici gregis", but it is to be noted that both of these condemnations appeared before the publication of the "Catechism of Racow" in 1605, hence they do not adequately reflect the formal doctrines of Socinianism. At the same time it is to be remarked, that according to many, this catechism itself does not reflect the doctrines really held by the leaders of the party; it was intended for the laity alone. From the decree it would appear that in 1555 and again in 1603 the Socinians held:
that there was no Trinity,
that Christ was not consubstantial with the Father and Holy Spirit,
that He was not conceived of the Holy Spirit, but begotten by St. Joseph,
that His Death and Passion were not undergone to bring about our redemption,
that finally the Blessed Virgin was not the Mother of God, neither did she retain her virginity.
It would seem from the Catechism that the Socinians of 1605 held that Christ was at least miraculously conceived, though in what sense they held this is not clear.
APA citation. Pope, H. (1912). Socinianism. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14113a.htm
MLA citation. Pope, Hugh. "Socinianism." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14113a.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Janet Grayson.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. July 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.


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