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Designer Alexandra Groover manifests our universal need for mysticism—and hoodies By Shawn Lakin
Designer Alexandra Groover manifests our universal need for mysticism—and hoodies
Shawn Lakin
'I design for people who are more interested in style rather than fashion': Groover joins Document to discuss her timeless approach, working with Alexander McQueen, and the enduring impact California casual
Alexandra Groover collaborated with Document's Creative and Fashion Director, Sarah Richardson, on a custom piece—a luminous yellow dress with imaginatively placed cut-outs—for our Spring/Summer 2020 editorial with Mario Sorrenti. In an editorial about folklore, Groover is a natural fit. When asked what informs her practice, the designer concisely reported, "People, being outside in nature, mankind's universal need for mysticism or religion, and how it is expressed in art." Designing with style and substance in mind, Groover skirts the trends, instead opting for a more comfortable and timeless approach. Document sat down with the Californian living in London to discuss how she got to where she is, working under the legendary Alexander McQueen and Zandra Rhodes, and finding a mentor in Sir Paul Smith after wandering into his curiosity shop.
Shawn Lakin: How did you get started designing?
Alexandra Groover: One day while digging in the hall closet, I discovered my mother's avocado green Sears sewing machine along with a box of clothing she'd made in the '70s. I was 10 years old at the time and I was so amazed that she was able to make her own clothes. I immediately wanted to learn too, and I haven't stopped since. At first, I just started sewing without much knowledge, which resulted in somewhat lopsided items of clothing. That was when my mother decided it best to book me a sewing class. And here I am now.
Shawn: Do you think your Californian upbringing plays into your design at all?
Alexandra: Absolutely. I spent all of my childhood either in our garden or on the beach. I have always been fascinated by natural sciences and the outdoors in general. In fact, a lot of my early work was inspired by seashells, as well as my observation that I—and most people in San Diego—live in hooded sweatshirts. It's never usually cold enough for a jacket, and you can tie a hoodie around your waist when it's hot in the day, and eventually put it on and put the hood up when it gets cooler in the evenings. When I moved to the east coast to go to RISD [Rhode Island School of Design], I was cold all the time because I didn't have many winter clothes. I ended up wearing multiple hooded sweatshirts at once and loved the sculptural effect they created when worn layered up. This multiple hood and drawstring idea inspired my first collection.
Shawn: How did you meet your mentor Paul Smith? Tell us about that relationship.
Alexandra: At one point in my career, I was working and traveling non-stop for a person who had no interest in their own business and was letting it fall to pieces. Then I had to take time off to have a minor surgery. I'd reached the end of my threshold with that job and quit on a whim, taking the first job I could find. I walked into a curiosity shop that Paul Smith had just opened and Paul himself was there and said I could work there. I wanted a low-pressure job that would give me the time and headspace to start my own brand. It was perfect for me at the time, as I was surrounded by an intriguing collection of art, antiques, and furniture from varying decades and countries. Paul was very excited about this new venture and spent a lot of time in the shop with us, which was great for me. I got the opportunity to speak to one of the biggest living fashion designers in the world on a regular basis. He was very kind and friendly and often gave me advice, and even featured me in a shoot he did for i-D magazine.
Shawn: Who do you design for?
Alexandra: I design for people who are more interested in style rather than fashion. People who want timeless, sophisticated, elegant pieces that are also ethically produced. I also often design for comfort, because I like to dress up, but I also love when I can attend a formal event in a gown that is as comfortable as pyjamas.
Shawn: If you could see anyone in your clothes, living or deceased, who would it be?
Alexandra: Oh, there are so many. Fortunately, I've already had the chance to dress several of my favorites. I have not yet dressed Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can Dance or Diamanda Galas. I would love to dress them both. I also really like Missy Elliott. When I was a kid, the mainstream famous rappers were all men, it was nice to hear a female voice and perspective. As for the deceased, there are so many too. I do love Louise Brooks and Eva Hesse. I'd like to think they'd like my clothes as well.
Shawn: What was it like working at Alexander McQueen and Zandra Rhodes? What was your biggest takeaway from that experience?
Alexandra: I was lucky enough to land in London and to have those experiences so early on. Zandra's love of color was a great thing to witness. A lot of the screen printing and making was done in-house, so it was really fun to see every step of the garments from start to finish. I had moved to London to attend Central Saint Martins for a term abroad, and Zandra and her team kindly allowed me to be involved in many big projects and learning opportunities while I was there. I got to do [research and development] for her new Topshop collaboration, as well as being on the design team for a set of costumes she did for a production of Beauty and the Beast at the Peacock Theatre in the West End. It was great to be in a studio that was set up in a way that I wanted to eventually have for myself. It was also my first introduction to how chaotic and fast-paced the world of fashion can be.
Again, with Alexander McQueen, I was grateful to have been there while Lee was still alive. There were so many magical things happening in that studio. He was busy creating all of these beautiful things and I got to witness a lot of that. But tensions were also always high and the working hours were draining. Lee was under a lot of pressure to blow people's minds every six months. At that time, the entire fashion world was looking to him for inspiration, and that was both an honor and a huge stress to him. Although Lee was an incredible genius, I do think that the high-pressure work environment was unnecessarily unhealthy for everyone there. I learned that if I were to start my own brand, in addition to making beautiful and meaningful work, I'd put sleep and health high up on the priority list.
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American Apartheid: The Times They Are A' Changin'
American Apartheid: The Times They Are A' Changin'
"It's" all unraveling. The American apartheid regime, instituted in the midest of what was and is called "the civil rights revolution" of the 60's, is unraveling, is coming apart at the seams and it is unclear what is to replace it. What seems clear is that there is no "Nelson Mandela" on the horizon to try to put things back together again.
From the presidencies of JFK and LBJ, despite their good intentions and best efforts, policies of occupation, surveillance, incarceration, and deadly force have been used to defuse what in the 60's was seen as coming explosions in our "inner cities." Unfortunately, such explosions did happen, in Detroit, Newark, Washington, D.C., and Watts, which led to the fortification and extension of these policies of occupation, surveillance, incarceration, and deadly force. Moreover, as these explosions occurred, the softer sides of these policies, occupation and surveillance by social workers, were compromised and made to look naïve and unrealistic. The darker side of the American apartheid took over as the war on poverty morphed into the war on crime, fueled by disguised racist sentiments such as Daniel Moynihan's "tangle of [black] pathologies" that made it seem clear that the potential explosions could only be controlled by increasingly nationalistic and militaristic policies.
As should not have surprised anyone, however, such policies were bound to fail as the occupied, the surveilled, the incarcerated, and the threatened would rebel eventually. And "eventually" has arrived, as illustrated by the phrase and movement, "Black Lives Matter." This is, it seems to me, a rebellion and, insofar as it is, the police will not be able to suppress it, no matter how thoroughly militarized or "professionalized" they might become. Rebellions are political phenomena and require political responses if they are to be defused or pacified. And political responses, to be adequate, have to address issues of justice, issues of accountability, and issues of class.
As Bob Dylan once sang:
"Come senators, congressmen please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside and it's ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times they are a' changin'!"
Posted by Anti-Federalist at 12:57 PM
Random Thoughts on the Current Scene
Presidential Elections: "If Voting Were Important"...
American Apartheid: The Times They Are A' Changin'...
What the Anti-Federalists Knew
Democratic Awakenings

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Steve Harvey Curses Out His Employees On IG Stay Whereas Marjorie Appears to be like On!!
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Hallmarks of Alzheimer's Are Stimulated by This Substance
Dr. Mercola Interviews the Consultants
This text is a part of a weekly sequence during which Dr. Mercola interviews varied specialists on quite a lot of well being points. To see extra skilled interviews, click on right here.
Boyd Haley, Ph.D., is a chemist specializing within the growth of chemical compounds to chelate poisonous metals, each from the atmosphere and the human physique. I had the alternative to interview Haley (above) on the 2018 Academy of Complete Integrative Medication (ACIM) convention in Orlando.
Haley has a Ph.D. in chemistry and biochemistry and carried out analysis funded by the Nationwide Institutes of Well being (NIH) for 25 years on the College of Wyoming and on the College of Kentucky. Early in his profession, he developed a biochemical detection system known as nucleotide photoaffinity labeling and has printed research on its utilization.1 Haley explains:
"I took ATP and made it radioactive, which is not a giant feat. However then I hooked up to {that a} molecule that might explode when it hit a photon of sunshine. When it exploded, it made a really reactive intermediate that had a half-life of one thing like 10-12 or 10-13 seconds.
If ATP was certain to a protein, reminiscent of sodium potassium ATP [and] … you hit it with gentle, it might type a covalent bond on the binding web site of ATP on the enzyme it was interacting with …
You possibly can use these sorts of probes to see the distinction between the ATP, guanosine diphosphate (GDP), cyclic adenosine monophosphate (AMP) and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) — all these binding proteins, to see how the energetics of the cell was altering."
Haley's Alzheimer's Analysis
He later took a place with the Alzheimer's Middle, a analysis heart for Alzheimer's illness, the place he collaborated with a former graduate scholar of his. The NIH funded their analysis for 5 years, which used Haley's know-how to evaluate the variations of ATP, GDP and cyclic AMP binding proteins in regular brains versus these with Alzheimer's illness.
"There have been dramatic variations," he says. For instance, the enzyme creatine kinase, which is a basic enzyme, is 98 % inhibited in Alzheimer's sufferers. Additionally they found that tubulin — a significant mind protein that holds an axon in its prolonged type and controls the expansion route of axons and dendrites — is inhibited by greater than 80 %.
In 1989, he printed the paper2 "Aberrant guanosine triphosphate-beta-tubulin interplay in Alzheimer's illness" within the Annals of Neurology, stating that "These outcomes help the speculation that microtubule formation is irregular in brains affected by Alzheimer's illness."
Haley goes on to recount the story of how he obtained into hassle with the NIH when he determined to research the affect of heavy metals on Alzheimer's susceptibility. A preferred principle on the time was that Alzheimer's was brought on by aluminum toxicity.
Utilizing his know-how, he was capable of present that mercury was the one heavy metallic succesful of inflicting a standard mind to develop the identical biochemical abnormalities — together with irregular tubulin — that you simply discover in Alzheimer's illness.
Haley claims his analysis has since been replicated and confirmed. In response to Haley, mercury causes the synaptic clefts to vanish and triggers the formation of neurofibrillary tangles, a significant diagnostic hallmark of Alzheimer's, by inflicting irregular hyperphosphorylation of tau.
He additionally printed a paper3 within the revered medical journal Proceedings of the Nationwide Academy of Sciences in 1992, detailing how the presence of glutamine synthetase within the cerebrospinal fluid could also be a potential diagnostic biochemical marker of Alzheimer's illness, in addition to greater than 100 different research,4 together with a overview of the connection between mercury and autism,5 and analysis exhibiting how the chelating agent he developed, emeramide (NBMI), protects in opposition to the cytotoxicity of mercury.6
All Biochemical Abnormalities and Hallmarks of Alzheimer's Are Stimulated by Mercury
Beta-amyloid, which many affiliate with Alzheimer's, is just not the precise reason for the illness. It is only a marker; it is a results of the illness. Nonetheless, you'll be able to trigger beta-amyloid buildup within the mind by treating neurons with mercury.
"What occurs is mercury inhibits the expression of neprilysin, which is the primary protease within the mind used to chew up beta-amyloid. Mercury would not have an effect on beta-amyloid, however what it does do is it retains the protease, the cleanup enzyme, from being expressed," he explains.
"When you give mercury at low ranges, very low ranges, to tissues which can be going to reside for some time, you will see a buildup of beta-amyloid protein. The underside line is: 6 out of 6 of the main biochemical abnormalities and pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's illness will be stimulated by including mercury.
I can let you know that was one thing that NIH, or the individuals who run NIH on the very high, didn't wish to hear … They stated beta-amyloid is the reason for Alzheimer's illness. That made them heroes — they discovered the trigger, so now they might discover the remedy …
However they do not wish to have a look at it being one thing easy. There isn't any cash to be made if you inform individuals, 'When you do not wish to get Alzheimer's illness, do not expose your self to mercury.'
Mercury is just not the one trigger. I might by no means say that, and I by no means did say that. I stated, 'Mercury is the main exacerbating issue7 as a result of we put dental amalgams in our mouth, and the main publicity, the supply of mercury in our physique, comes from them [sic] amalgams, in line with the World Well being Group (WHO).'"
The Transformation of a Skeptic
It is attention-grabbing to notice that Haley was actually extremely skeptical of the concept that dental amalgam launched mercury earlier than he began finding out the matter. Like so many others, he assumed the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) and the American Dental Affiliation would by no means enable one thing actually poisonous to be positioned in individuals's mouths.
His scientific investigations finally satisfied him that amalgams are a significant supply of mercury publicity that may certainly exacerbate and set off power sickness — one thing he particulars in his 2014 paper,8 "Proof Supporting a Hyperlink Between Dental Amalgams and Power Sickness, Fatigue, Despair, Nervousness and Suicide."
Haley additionally recounts the twists and turns in his life that introduced him to research the hyperlinks between mercury toxicity and autism, and the way vaccines generally is a supply of poisonous mercury publicity. Whereas thimerosal (mercury-based preservative) has been faraway from many childhood vaccines, it is nonetheless utilized in some.
One tipoff that thimerosal was dangerous information got here from a 1977 report from Toronto Hospital, the place 10 of 13 infants died after having their umbilical area handled with merthiolate (thimerosal) to kill bacterial an infection. Merthiolate is now not in use, as it was found that these infants died from mercury toxicity.
This report revealed that thimerosal was ethyl mercury, which the toddler physique can't eradicate. Regardless of that, a mere decade later, in 1988, the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC) determined thimerosal was an applicable preservative to be used in vaccines given to new child infants and infants.
How Genetics Affect Your Mercury-Elimination Capability and Subsequently Alzheimer's Threat
Haley accomplished his Alzheimer's analysis in 1988, simply over 30 years in the past, but he is by no means been invited to an Alzheimer's convention to current his work. He has additionally printed a e-book during which he proposed a mechanism for why having two copies of the ApoE2 gene renders you roughly resistant to Alzheimer's.
The ApoE2 gene has two cysteine molecules on the floor, whereas ApoE4 — which is a main danger issue for Alzheimer's — has two tyrosine molecules. These are amino acids on the construction. The cysteine amino acid on E2 binds successfully to mercury, whereas the tyrosine on E4 can't bind to mercury in any respect.
As a consequence, having two copies of the ApoE4 gene locations you at a major drawback, as your mind can't eradicate mercury naturally, whereas having two copies of ApoE2 is extremely protecting as a result of your mind has the power to filter mercury.
It's additionally useful to notice that Dr. Dale Bredesen who wrote the e-book "The Finish of Alzheimer's," believes the ApoE4 allele may very well shield in opposition to Alzheimer's if you're metabolically versatile and commonly interact in intermittent or partial fasting.
Therapeutic Interventions to Deal with Mercury Toxicity
Alzheimer's illness is related to oxidative stress. Whereas mercury is just not a redox metallic, that means it can't create hydroxyl free radicals, mercury does displace iron and kaempferol, and when mercury displaces iron it stops ATP manufacturing in that electron transport system.
By displacing iron from the iron sulfur facilities mercury additionally blocks the cytochromes, as cytochromes require iron to work. "There are publications now exhibiting that mercury publicity completely screws up the metabolism of iron within the physique," Haley says.
The chelating compound he developed, known as emeramide or NBMI,9 tightly binds to each mercury and free iron, which can also be extremely poisonous. As such, emeramide also can be used within the remedy of hemochromatosis, a genetic illness that causes power iron overload.
Drawbacks of Most Widespread Chelating Brokers for Mercury
Haley additionally discusses the drawbacks of utilizing dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) or 2,3-dimercapto-1-propanesulfonic acid (DMPS) to detoxify mercury — the 2 most generally used chemical chelators. In response to Haley, they're actually not true chelators. Moderately they type a "sandwich advanced" the place every molecule of mercury can have two DMSA molecules hooked up to it, against only one.
A important downside is their capacity to translocate mercury from the blood and different organs and concentrating it within the kidneys, thereby inflicting renal failure. What's extra, a lot of the mercury is just not in your blood however moderately in your cells, and neither DMPS nor DMSA can enter the cell, Haley claims. They solely take away mercury out of your blood.
"I initially developed the concept that I needed to have a hydrophobic chelator that would get into the mitochondria, into the DNA … Mercury is hydrophobic. It is uncharged. It is a fuel. It goes by the biomembrane. It's a must to have a chelator that does the identical factor.
[The mercury] begins out as a fuel. It goes in as Hg0 once you breathe mercury vapor [from your mercury dental fillings], after which it goes wherever it desires. [If you're eating fish], then it will likely be methyl mercury, but it surely's the identical factor. Methyl mercury can also be membrane-permeable.
It goes proper by membranes as a result of it binds. It is CH3Hg+. But when it is within the blood, there is a excessive degree of chloride, and chloride binds that detrimental cost, so you find yourself with among the Hg methyl mercury within the chloride type that may go proper by the membrane as a result of it is uncharged. That is the rationale it will get by the mind so successfully," Haley says.
"[T]hen, in the mind or in any tissue, it will get transformed into Hg2+ by an enzyme known as catalase … after which it turns into very poisonous; it is charged, after which it will not exit [of the cell]."
Haley's Resolution to Develop a Higher Chelator
Haley's determination to develop a greater chelating agent for mercury was the results of failed makes an attempt to alert well being authorities to the very actual risks of thimerosal in vaccines.
"One night time I used to be sitting at dwelling. I've a daughter who has a Ph.D. in molecular biology and toxicology. She known as me up when she was writing her Ph.D. thesis. She stated she discovered a web site that talked about me, and it wasn't very complimentary, to say the least.
She was type of unhappy and teary. It made me indignant that I simply let these individuals go and say these issues … I do not forget that night time [in 2002] very vividly. I sat down with a glass of purple wine … and stated, 'How do I win? I can not out-PR these guys. You can't out-PR the CDC' … That was the night time I made a decision, 'I am a chemist. I make issues. I will make a greater chelator.' That is the way in which I went.
I wrote a grant. I obtained some funding to try to make the chelators that might enter the cells … If you are going to use a chelator, the very first thing it needs to be is unhazardous itself … It needed to be hydrophobic [to] cross the blood-brain barrier and get in the cells …"
Haley recounts the historical past of how emeramide was developed— and describes the variations between it and DMPS and DMSA. Importantly, emeramide is unhazardous and binds very tightly to mercury. It is also a really potent antioxidant, with two glutathione "arms." (Glutathione is a strong antioxidant produced in your physique that's instrumental in detoxifying mercury and different toxins.)
Haley believes its antioxidant energy comes from the glutathione elements, which scavenge hydroxyl free radicals. Different testing confirmed every molecule of emeramide scavenges three hydroxyl free radicals. Whereas it stops the toxicity, it does not restore any of the injury already achieved, which can should be addressed by different means.
Why Was Haley's Preliminary Product Shut Down by the FDA?
Haley's first product, developed in 2006 and offered between 2008 and 2010 underneath the title Oxidative Stress Reduction (OSR), was shut down by the FDA in 2010 after a criticism was filed. Haley explains the circumstances:
"When they shut me down, [my attorney, an FDA expert] instructed me, 'Dr. Haley, that is foolish. The compound has in-structure, dicarboxyl benzoate, which is present in cranberries and cystamine, which is on the terminal finish of coenzyme A. It is simply cysteine with out the carboxylic acid group. It is a pure product.
Two pure merchandise [combined], similar to slow-release niacin and n-acetyl cysteine … It may be [sold as] a pure product and a complement if it accommodates any certainly one of a pure product or any mixture of two' …
That is what [the FDA rules] stated. After which they modified that. We name it the Boyd Haley rule now. [The FDA] stated, 'Not should you put [two natural products] collectively chemically' …"
In essence, Haley was focused, and the FDA modified the principles to make their concentrating on stick. In the long run, Haley selected to not battle the FDA in courtroom. "I do not have that type of cash," he says. He closed down his enterprise and no penalties or formal authorized motion have been ever taken by the FDA.
Haley's lawyer instructed him he would wish to develop a chemical chelator that does not exist naturally, and undergo drug approval. That is the route he took with emeramide.
Emeramide Part I Research
Emeramide is the lively pharmaceutical ingredient (API). The drug itself known as Irminix, and it's designated as an orphan drug to be used as a mercury chelator in each the U.S. and the European Union, as a result of neither the FDA nor the European Medicines Company (EMA) have an official remedy for mercury toxicity.
"We obtained it began and we took it by all animal trials that they requested we do. You should get extremely excessive ranges to impact an animal — 100 instances greater than you'd ever give a human being. We use Four to five milligrams (mg) per kilogram of physique weight to deal with an individual for mercury toxicity.
We have been giving these animals a minimal of 290 mg per kilogram of physique weight to make them sick. Some animals do not get sick in any respect. People do not. I imply it is completely different. However there's nothing in there that is not reversible. It is one thing that you simply cease and it goes away. It's very secure …
We did all that, after which we obtained permission to do a Part I examine in Sweden. That is once you give the drug in single doses for a time frame and go up greater and better, and you then give a number of doses for per week …
We obtained up to 600 mg a day for 2 weeks in a Part I examine in people with no hostile results in any respect. I imply nothing occurred; 600 mg is far more than you and I could ever have to take; 300 mg can be quantity …
It peaks in your blood inside two hours. About 60 to 80 % … is absorbed … In check animals, we confirmed that it did the identical factor and that it concentrates and it peaks in all tissues of the physique on the similar time. It will get within the mind. You get extra of it within the kidney and the liver than you're going to get within the mind, however it does get into the mind. It crosses the blood-brain barrier and is efficient in eliminating the iron out of the mind [as well] …"
Part II Research
Part II research have been achieved on Ecuadorian gold miners, who use mercury through the refining and purification course of, exhibiting it decreased the mercury degree in 10 of 11 miners. "Their urinary mercury ranges dropped dramatically. Their blood ranges went down additionally," Haley says.
"It was the individuals on the EMA advisory group who instructed us to go to South America or Africa or someplace the place mining gold is thrust on these individuals. The hostile results [of the mercury exposure] — stomachaches, complications and diarrhea — have been [also] dramatically improved in those that took the drug.
Mercury does all of this and another poisonous unwanted side effects. The issue with mercury is there is no endpoint which you can level at that the FDA will say they will settle for as a proof that you've got achieved it."
As soon as you've got taken the emeramide, the mercury is excreted by your stool. And, opposite to most different chelators, you aren't required to make use of a binder to get it safely out. Haley provides:
"We have seemed on the cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes or the P450 system and the mercury NBMI advanced, which when it binds to it, it by no means lets go … The toxicity is eradicated in a short time once you take NBMI … [In] a couple of month, most of it's out … [after] only one dose."
The purposes, in fact, embrace not solely these with mercury dental fillings, but additionally autistic kids who've mercury toxicity, and individuals with neurodegenerative illnesses reminiscent of Alzheimer's, ALS, Parkinson's, Huntington's and others. To listen to anecdotal experiences of enhancements and restoration for some these situations, please hearken to the interview in its entirety.
Haley has himself been taking about 200 to 300 mg of emeramide each day since 2006, as a safety measure. He is now 78 years previous, and claims the compound has helped him preserve his cognition. He additionally has the blood glutathione degree of a teenager.
It could additionally assist individuals who battle with power obstructive pulmonary illness (COPD) because of smoking, which exposes you to excessive quantities of poisonous metals. A Part II examine has additionally been carried out on COPD sufferers to verify it isn't poisonous for this teams of sufferers.
Emeramid remains to be underneath drug growth however will be obtained by way of expanded entry, named affected person use, compassionate use or particular use, relying on the nation you are in. An early entry utility and prescription, required by the EMA, is accessible on the corporate's web site, EmeraMed.com, together with extra particulars by nation.
In case you have questions in regards to the firm itself, which relies in Eire, chances are you'll request an data packet by way of e-mail at Data@EmeraMed.com. Whereas the product is given away at no cost to those that qualify for early entry, a two-week remedy bundle prices about $600 for Irish medical board charges, insurance coverage and mailing.
OSR used to promote for $30 for a month's value of remedy and was offered as a dietary antioxidant. "Once you make it a drug, it is much more costly," Haley says. It is nonetheless unclear precisely how a lot Irminix will promote for.
"I imply it is undoubtedly not going to be something like ($600)," Haley says. "The true slowdown right here is that should you're going to get it drug-approved, it's important to present it is unhazardous. It's a must to do the Part I examine. After which it's important to do the Part II examine and the Part III examine. These are efficacy (checks) to present your drug works.
How do you present that your drug is binding mercury in a group of People during which none of them — in line with the FDA or to science or the NIH — are mercury-toxic? As a result of it's important to be [at a certain level] in your urine degree to be [considered] mercury-toxic.
That's scientifically incorrect as a result of the individuals who do not excrete mercury have very low urinary and blood ranges. They construct it up of their cells, and that is what goes down [when using Irminix] …
We now have discovered a [test] group in Colombia, South America — A younger boy discovered a jar of liquid mercury. He took it to his faculty, shared it along with his associates. The method of all that made about 125 individuals very mercury-toxic, and so they're not gold miners, so they are not being [continuously] uncovered. We initiated a examine in Colombia on these individuals, as a result of they … do have very excessive ranges. That'll have the ability to present [that emeramide works]."
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A simple saliva test that measures the level of the stress hormone cortisol can identify healthy older people who should be screened for problems with memory and thinking skills, a new study has found.
The study found that people with higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol in their saliva in the evening were more likely to have a smaller total brain volume and to perform worse on tests of thinking and memory skills.
"Studies have shown that depression increases the risk for dementia, but we don't know much about how this relationship occurs," said study author Lenore J Launer, of the National Institute on Ageing in Bethesda and a member of the American Academy of Neurology.
"High levels of the stress hormone cortisol have been found in people with depression, and the theory is that cortisol has a toxic effect on the hippocampus area of the brain, which plays an important role in memory," Launer said.
The study involved 4,244 people with an average age of 76 who did not have dementia. Participants had a brain scan to look at brain volume and took tests of their thinking and memory skills.
Saliva samples were taken from the participants once in the morning and in the evening to determine cortisol levels.
Participants were divided into three groups based on cortisol levels of high, medium and low.
People with the highest level of cortisol were more likely to have a smaller overall brain volume than those with lower levels of cortisol, with a difference of 16 millilitres between the two groups.
Those with the highest level of cortisol also performed worse on the memory and thinking tests than those with low levels of the hormone.
"It's possible that the loss of brain volume that can occur with ageing leads to a lesser ability of the brain to stop the effects of cortisol, which in turn leads to further loss of brain cells," Launer said.
"Understanding these relationships may help us develop strategies to reduce the effects of cortisol on the brain and thinking skills," Launer said.


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First Marshals of the Soviet Union
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First Marshals of the Soviet Union: (sitting) M. N. Tukhachevsky, K. E. Voroshilov, A. I. Yegorov, (standing)S. M. Budyonny and V. K. Blucher. 1935
Commanding and political officers
Commanding and political officers of the 143rd Rifle Regiment. Vasilevsky is far right, second row. 1928
Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir M. Komarov, 40, was the first man known to have been killed in an actual space fight. He died on April 24, 1967
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Herman Titov, a pilot-cosmonaut, among the Saint Petersburg children
«White nights» in June
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Ice drift in April
The monuments, erected in the suburbs of Saint Petersburg
The monuments, erected in the suburbs of Saint Petersburg, remind one of the heroic exploits of the Russiansold.ers who smashed the fascist hordes. Old Peterfiof: Stela in honour of the courageous defenders of the "Oranienbdum Pyatachok"
Ozerny (Lake) Wharf: Prospect Obukhovskoi Obordny
Comfortable passenger ships make regular excursion trips up the Neva to Petrokrepost and over Lake Ladoga to the Island of Valaam, one of the most picturesque places in the vicinity of Saint Petersburg.
Tourists are blazing the skiing trail in the thickets of the Karelian Isthmus.
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The Palace-Museum and Park of the Town of Pavlovsk
The Pavlovsk park, occupying an area of 600 hectares, its palace and pavilions created by outstanding "architects, sculptors and talented serf craftsmen are masterpieces of the art of landscape gardening in the later years of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. The building of Pavlovsk on the river Slavyanka began as…
Palace-Museums and Parks of the Town of Pushkin
This town — the treasure-house of Russian culture and the birthplace of Pushkin's poetic genius — is dear to the hearts of the Russianpeople. Not only the modest four-storey building of the Lycee where the young poet spent his school years but the whole of Tsarskoye Selo is closely connected with the creative life of…
Pulkov Observatory
In 1942 the Pulkovo Observatory on the Pnlkovo Heights was utterly destroyed by fascist bombs and shells. In 1962 the Observatory, restored and reconstructed on new technical principles, carries out an extensive programme of astronomic investigations. The observatorv is stuated on the Pulkov Heights on the Pulkov meridian. It is the principal observatory of the…
Palaces and Park of the Town of Gatchina
The village of Gatchino was first mentioned in a manuscript written at the end of the 15th century. After the village had become a suburb of the newly-built Petersburg in the 18th century, it passed through the hands of several owners. For one of them the outstanding architect Antonio Rinaldi erected a palace in 1766—1772.…
Palace-Museums and Parks of Petrodvorets
Petrodvorets (Peterhof) is an outstanding historical and artistic monument of 18th century national architecture and landscape gardening. It is also a favourite recreation place of Saint Petersburgers. The town was founded in the years of the Northern War when Russia gained an outlet to the Baltic. To defend the approaches to St. Petersburg the fortress…
Palace-Museum and Parks of the Town of Lomonosov
In 1962 the people of Lomonosov celebrated the 250th anniversary of the foundation of the town and of the birthday of the great encyclopaedic scientist M. V. Lomonosov, whose name was given to the town formerly called Oranienbaum. The history of the town's foundation is closely connected with the liberation of the Baltic Coast from…
Memorial to the Victims f the 9th of January Massacre: Preobrazhenskoye Kladbishche (Cemetery)
In the dead of night on January 10, 1905, following the Bloody Sunday, the police brought to the cemetery the corpses of the massacred workers. Wrapped in sack-cloth the corpses were thrown into hurriedly dug pits. On the day of his return to Russia from exile (November 8, 1905) V. I. Lenin went to the…
Moskovsky Victory Park: Moskovsky Prospect, 188
The park is situated in the longest street of the city (ten-kilometre long) which runs from the centre of Saint Petersburg to the Pulkov Heights. The Moskovsky Prospect is a most important thoroughfare of the new house building area. The park, like the prospect, is a place of interest in the new Saint Petersburg; its…
Monument to N. G. Chernyshevsky on Moskovsky Prospect
The monument designed by the sculptor V. V. Lishev and the architect V. I. Yakovlev was set up in 1947. The statue of the great Russian Revolutionary Democrat is executed in the realistic style and is an integral part of the Moskovsky Victory Park. The monument, as it were, extends the perspective of the central…
Avtovo Underground Station
This station is situated near the place where the front defence line of Saint Petersburg ran during the Great Patriotic War. The design of the station was made by the architects E. A. Levinson and A. A. Grushke. The leit-motif of its decoration is expressed in the inscription shining under the cupola of the vestibule:…
Komsomol Square
It is hard to imarine that only a few decades ago the tine Komsomol Square was the hamlet of Avtovo buried in thick mud.
Obelisks 'To the Defenders of Saint Petersburg' and 'Victory Tank': Avtovo, Prospect Stachek.
At the entrance to the city, near Avtovo, there are two marble obelisks in memory of the heroic defenders of Saint Petersburg. Nearby, on a base, stands the Victory Tank — one of the tanks that participated in the defence of the city during the blockade. The designers of the memorials were the architect V.…
Ensembles of New Dwelling Houses in Kirov District
The Prospect Stachek, the main thoroughfare of the Kirov District, an offspring of the socialist city. The eminent Saint Petersburg architects I. A. Fomin, L A. Ilyin, A. E. Belogrud, N. A. Trotsky, A. I. Gegello, A. S. Nikolsky, A. A. Ol and others were responsible for the planning of the district, the laying out…
Gaza House of Culture: Prospect Stachek, 72. (72, Square of Strikes)
This House of Culture was built by the architects A. I. Gegello and D. L. Krichevsky for the benefit of the workers of the Kirov Plant. The House of Culture was named after I. I. Gaza (1894—1933) — a worker at the Putilovsky Zavod (Plant)—who took an active part in the events of the Great…
Monument to V. Voloddrsky (near Volodarsky Bridge)
Volodarsky is portrayed as an inspired orator and fervent tribune of the Revolution. The monument was made to the design of M. Q. Manizer and set up in 1925 on the left bank of the Neva, near the spot where Volodarsky was assassinated by the enemies of the Revolution on June 20, 1918.
Monument to I. V. Bdbushkin: Prospect Obukhovskoi Oborony, 149
In the park named after Babushkin a bronze bust of Ivan Vasilyevich Babushkin was unveiled in January 1956. The monument was designed by the sculptor V. I. Znoba. Babushkin (1873—1906) was a disciple and close assistant of V. I. Lenin. He was one of the most gifted proletarian revolutionaries, and Lenin called him the "pride…
Ensembles of New Dwelling Houses in Nevsky District
In the 1920's on vacant plots and in place of the ramshackle structures of the former workers' suburb called Nevskaya Zastdva, well-built blocks of modern dwelling houses (the Palevsky blocks of houses, the Shchemilovka District etc.) began to appear. The construction work, interrupted by the war, was resumed on an unprecedented scale in the past…
Ilyich House of Culture: Moskovsky Plospect, 152
This House of Culture was built in the years of the first RussianFive-Year Plan, on the spot where before the Revolution a tavern called Stdro-Zelyony (Old Green Pub) was situated. The house was erected for the benefit of the workers of the Etectrosila Plant according to the design submitted by the architect N. F. Demkov.
Electrosila Underground Station
The idea underlying the decoration of this station is expressed in Lenin's winged words: Communism is Russianpower plus electrification of the whole country. These words are carved in shining letters on the decorative sculptured panel on the end wall of the platform hall and seem to echo the history of the Electrosila Plant named after…
Ensembles of New Dwelling Houses in Moscow District
It is difficult to recognize in the present-day Moskovsky Prospect the former workers' suburb, the Moskovskaya Zastava with its muddy roads, factory barracks and wooden hovels, pits and stinking drains and quagmire footpaths. During the last two decades Russianbuilders and architects have built a huge dwelling area of comfortable houses, gardens and parks, a system…
Kirovsky Zavod Underground Station
The architecture of the station (designed by A. K. Andreyev) embodies the theme of the industrialization of the country. The name of the station, as well as the decoration of the underground vestibule, is associated with the famous Putllovsky Zavod (now the Kirov Plant) the workers of which have for many generations upheld and enhanced…
Moskovskiye Vorota Underground Station
At the entrance to the Metro. The Moskovskye Vorota Underground Station. The simple and solemn underground hall (by the architects V. A. Petrov, K. M. Mitrofanov and A. I. Goritsky) is devoted to the feats of arms of the Russian people, the decoration echoing the emblems of military glory on the Moscow Triumphal Arch, which…
The Moscow Triumphal Arch
The splendid colonnade of the Moskovsky Gate stands at the crossing, where Chernigovskaya Street and the Ligovsky Prospect join the Moskovsky Prospect. In the first half of the 19th century the south gate of the city, through which the road from Moscow passed, was here, at the intersection of the Moscow Highroad and the river…
Congress Hall "Moscow" (Kaprdnov House of Culture): Moskovsky Prospect, 97 (97, Moscow Avenue)
The House of Culture was inaugurated in 1931. It was named after V. P. Kapranov, the son of an old working class family long established in St. Petersburg. He was one of the leaders of the Petersburg Trade Union of the tanning industry workers. The building was constructed according to the design of the architect…
Monument to S. M. Kirov on Prospect Stachek (Avenue of Strikes)
Well-built new districts with gardens, quares and monuments have appeared in the former working-class suburbs of the city. The statue of S. M. Kirov seems to welcome the new Socialist Ndrvskaya Zastava. The square bearing the name of S. M. Kirov, the ardent tribune of the Revolution, is surrounded by the numberless blocks of the…
Prospect Obukhovskoi Oborony, 107.
In 1894—1906 this building housed the Smolensk Sunday Evening Classes for the workers of the Nevskaya Zastava. The Social-Democrats N. K. Krupskaya, P. F. Kudelly and L. M. Knipovich were among the teachers. The classes became a conspirative centre of Marxist propaganda. Many of the pupils of the school, among them I. V. Babushkin, the…
Nevsky House of Culture: Prospect Obukhovskoi Oborony, 105.
The House of Culture is in the midst of new blocks of buildings. It was erected in 1928 by the architect S. Y. Ovsyannikov — at the time when major building projects started developing in the former suburbs of the city. In front of the House of Culture, designed by the sculptor L. M. Kholina…
Literdtorskiye Mostki of the Volkov Cemetery: Rasstannaya Ulitsa
Like the necropolises of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra the Literdtorskiye Mostki is a branch of the Museum of Urban Sculpture. In the middle of the 19th century the Literdtorskiye Mostki became a national pantheon, a place of eternal rest for prominent men of letters, scientists, musicians, artists. Here are the graves of the writers V.…
A. M. Gorky Palace of Culture: Ploshchad Stachek, 4 (4, Square of Strikes)
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Russianpower, in 1927, the first Palace of Culture —an educational institution of an entirely new type — was inaugurated in Saint Petersburg. Designed by the architects A. I. Gegillo, D. L. Krichevsky and the engineer V. F. Railyan, its building' was planned to cater to the demands…
Ndrvskaya Underground Station
The ground-level vestibule of the station faces Ploshchad Stachek and the Prospect Stachek. This former workers' suburb has now become a most important construction site of the socialist city; it has been completely transformed in the course of the past four decades. The heroic revolutionary deeds and glorious exploits in labour of the workers of…
Narva Triumphal Arch: Ploshchad Stachek (Square of Strikes).
This is a memorial to the heroic Russian people who defended their Motherland from Napoleon's armed hordes in 1812—1814. The arch was erected in 1814, somewhat to the north of the present site, on the occasion of the triumphal welcome given to the Guards regiments returning from Paris. The former wooden gate (designed by the…
Monument to the Heroes of Krasnodon: Liflandskaya Dlitsa, 8 (8, Liflandskaya Street).
The Park named after the 30th Anniversary of the Young Communist League, where a Monument to the Heroes of Krasnodon has been erected, is imbued with the memory of the revolutionary past of the Narvskaya Zastava. It was here, in the former Yekateringofsky Garden, that revolutionary meetings and mayovkas (pre-revolutionary illegal May Day political rallies)…
Frimzenskaya Underground Station
The station lies to the south of the Obvodny Canal off the Moskovsky Prospect; the station is notable for the elegance and fine proportions of both the vestibule (by the architects A. S. Getskin and V. P. Shuvalova) and of the underground hall (by the architect B. N. Zhuravlyov). The vestibule is not large but…
Warsaw Railway Station: Naberezhnaya Obvodnovo Kanala, 118 (118, Obvodny Canal Embankment).
The building was constructed in 1859 and remodelled in 1949 by the architects B. V. Muravyov and N. F. Khomutetsky. In front of the station, a monument to V. I. Lenin was set up in 1949; it is the work of the sculptor N. V. Tomsky. Longdistance trains leave the Warsaw Station for Kaliningrad, Pskov,…
Baltiyskaya Underground Station.
The 'Baltiyskaya' underground station is situated near the Baltik Railway Station; it was designed by the architects A. I. Kubasov, M. K. Benois and F. F. Oleynik. The splendid traditions of Russian seamen, the glorification of the might of Russiannaval power, is the main idea of the architectural decoration of the underground palace. The facade…
Baltic Railway Station: Naberezhnaya Obvodnovo Kanala, 120 (120, Obvodny Canal Embankment)
The station was built in 1857 by the architect A. I. Krakau. Long distance . trains leave for Gdov, Tallin, Narva; suburban trains run to Petrodvorets, Lomonosov, Gatchina.
Monument to A. S. Griboyedov; New Building of Young Spectators Theatre on Zagorodny Prospect
On May 19, 1962 a gala performance was given in the new splendid building of the Young Spectator's Theatre, a gift to Saint Petersburg children on the 40th anniversary of the Young Pioneers Organization The former Semyonovsky drill ground located here was surrounded by barracks; it was used by the tsarist government as a place…
Pushkinskaya Underground station
This underground station is located near the Vitebsk Railway Station. It was erected to the design of the architects L. M. Polyakov and V. A. Petrov. The name of the station itself, as well as its architectural decorations, is associated with the Lyceum period spent by the great Russian national poet A. S. Pushkin in…
Vitebsk Railway Station; Zagorodny Prospect, 52 (52, Zagorodny Avenue).
The station was constructed in 1904 by the architect S. A. Brzhozovsky. From here longdistance trains leave for Odessa, Kiev, Gomel, Mariupol, Minsk, Vitebsk; suburban trains run to Pushkin, Pavlovsk, Viritsa and Oredezh.
Tekhnologichesky (Technological) Institut Underground Station
The station is located in the square near the Technological Institute named after the Saint Petersburg Soviet. The decoration of the station (by the architects A. M. Sokoiov and A. K. Andreyev) glorifies the achievements of Russianscience. The underground hall is faced with white marble from the Urals. The supports of the arches are also…
Monument to G. V. Plekhanov in Front of the Technological Institute
The monument by the sculptor I. Y. Gintsburg was unveiled in 1925. The vicinity of the Technological Institute is associated with the name of G. V. Plekhanov, one of the founders of the Russian Socialist-Democratic Party. Opposite the Institute is the former Konstantinovsky Artillery School where Plekhanov studied in 1873—1874; not far from here, at…
Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Technology (Technical University): 190013, 26 Moskovsky Prospect, (26, Moscow Avenue)
The Institute was founded in 1828. It was the first Russian institution of higher education which trained engineer-technologists in a wide range of specialities. In the 1880's Marxist students' circles sprang up at the Institute, conducted by M. I. Brusnyov and the brothers Krasin. V. I. Lenin's comrades-in-arms of the Petersburg League of Struggle for…
D. I. Mendeleyev Museum: Moskovsky Prospect, 19 (19, Moscow Avenue)
The museum is functioning at the Ail-Union Vletrological Research Institute where exact specimens of the standard units of measurement are kept. The Institute bears the name of its founder, D. I. Mendeleyev, who designed and supervised the construction of the building. The great scientist worked as Director of the Main Chamber of Weights and Measures…
Museum of Urban Sculpture; Aleksdndro-Nevskaya Ldvra (Monastery): Ploshchad Aleksandra Nevskovo (Alexander Nevsky Square)
The museum in responsible for the safeguarding and restoration of the monumental sculptures in the streets and squares of Saint Petersburg. The visitors are shown an exhibition of models of urban monuments, the necropolises and the so-called Literatorskiye Mostki of the Volkov Cemetery. Built in the national architectural tradition, the ensemble of the monastery is…
Winter Indoor Swimming Pool: Dlitsa Pravdy, 11 (11, Pravda Street)
Military Medical Museum of Russian Ministry of Defense: 191180, St. Petersburg, Lazaretny Lane., 2
The history of medicine in our country is the subject-matter of the material shown at the museum, which was established during the Great Patriotic War. The unique historical exhibits include manuscripts, surgical instruments and personal belongings of N. I. Pirogov, the founder of Russian military field surgery. The numerous documents of the museum reflect the…
Moskovsky Prospect, 18—20 (18—20, Moscow Avenue)
After their return from the Fourth Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (known as the Unity Congress), in May 1906, V. I. Lenin and N. K. Krupskaya lived in this house.
Arctic and Antarctic Museum: Ulitsa Marata, 24-a, (24-a, Marat Street).
The collections of this historical and geographic museum (founded in 1937) are of great educational value. They deal with nature in the Arctic and the Antarctic and with the history of the exploration and the charting of the Northern Sea Route which is associated with the names of M. V. Lomonosov, V. Y. Chichagov, D.…
Theatre named after the Saint Leningrad Soviet: Vladfmirsky Prospect, 12 (12 Vladimirsky Avenue)
The theatre began its creative life more than 30 years ago. Plays by A. N. Ostrovsky, A. P. Chekhov, A. M. Gorky, as well as by foreign writers, were staged here. During recent years many plays produced by the theatre have enjoyed great popularity witfj the audience, the most successful of them being Spring in…
Vladirnirskaya Underground Station
The station in the Vladirnirskaya Square, was designed by the architects G. I. Aleksandrov, A. V. Zhuk and A. I. Pribulsky. The architectural decoration of the station embodies the growth of the material well-being of the Russian people.
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Umm Mawagir () ist eine ehemalige Handelsstadt in der Kharga Oase, die sich einst in der ägyptischen Wüste etwa 500 Kilometer südwestlich von Kairo befand. Sie wurde unlängst von dem Ägyptologen John Coleman Darnell von der Yale University und seiner Frau Deborah wiederentdeckt. Ihr Name basiert auf den vielen dort vorgefundenen Backöfen.

Die Blütezeit dieser Handelsstadt lag zwischen 1650 und 1550 v. Chr., in der vermutlich schon im 4. Jahrtausend v. Chr. einige tausend Menschen dort lebten, Getreide anbauten und ihre Produkte an die Karawanen verkauften, die auf der an der Oase vorbeilaufenden Handelsroute zwischen dem Niltal und Darfur vorbeizogen.

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Community Board 5 discusses FY2015 budget
by Andrew Shilling Queens Ledger
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Community Board 5 was back in session, meeting last Wednesday at Christ the King High School following a summer hiatus.
As part of the agenda, the board held a public hearing on how it would like money in the budget for Fiscal Year 2015 spent in the district.
While some residents complained about poor drainage and combined sewage overflow issues in the community, some board members called for more funding underserved transportation, infrastructure and trash pickup.
Paul Kerzner, president of the Ridgewood Property Owners Association and a member of CB5, told the board the organization is seeking $2.82 million to replace the hundreds of trees lost in Hurricane Sandy.
"It would improve air quality, remove dust particles from our air, reduce the heat island effect and lower our energy bills in the summer," Kerzner said.
The money would cover 2,545 trees, costing roughly $1,100 per tree, according to Kerzner.
Theodore Renz, executive director of The Greater Ridgewood Restoration Corporation, called for the restoration of the basket recollection service by the Sanitation Department.
CB5 Transportation Committee chair John Meier also suggested some of the 2015 capital budget money be allocated to restoring the L subway line at Halsey, Jefferson and the Dekalb stations.
CB5 chair Vincent Arcuri said that while many of the proposals for the current fiscal year have yet to be addressed, he is looking forward to adding the new ones to the list.
"We had some very good requests tonight," Arcuri said following the hearing.
CB5 will vote on the budget for capital expense priorities at its next meeting at Christ the King High School on October 9.


This documentary illustrates the transformation that occurs for Johnny Popp, a Vietnam Veteran from Michigan who is a crack addict on the streets of "Skid Row". After his wife was killed in a car accident, Johnny turned to alcohol and marijuana to soothe his pain and was later introduced to crack cocaine. Johnny survives day to day off the kindness of others until he is beaten up and left for dead, though that one incident turns his life around for the better.
While rehabilitating, he meets Lorraine, a formerly homeless Latino woman, who suffered years of domestic violence and turns to life on the streets. The two lost souls meet in an unexpected place for romance and are nurtured back to health, deciding not to return to the streets.


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namespace wibble {

template< typename E >
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template< typename Self >
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constexpr StrongEnumFlags< Self > operator|( Self a, Self b ) noexcept {
    using Ret = StrongEnumFlags< Self >;
    return Ret( a ) | Ret( b );
}

template< typename Self, typename = typename
          std::enable_if< is_enum_class< Self >::value >::type >
constexpr StrongEnumFlags< Self > operator&( Self a, Self b ) noexcept {
    using Ret = StrongEnumFlags< Self >;
    return Ret( a ) & Ret( b );
}

}

#endif // WIBBLE_STRONGENUMFLAG_H


When I connect the Therion to escribe and open device monitor it doesn't show 2 cells. Is this normal? I have tested firing it with one battery on each side of the battery tray and works fine. I am just concerned why device monitor isn't showing two cells. Only has 2 boxes. Pack and Level.
Hello, i would like to ask, why I can't see notification for replacing the new atomizer after I'm updating the new firmware for my Therion DNA 75?
As you know, there would be text "New Coil? Yes or No" after putting /replace a new tank or coil. How to activating that menu again? Or is there something wrong with my device?
It only asks if it's a new coil if the resistance is close to that of the last coil and not every time, so it sounds like everything is fine.


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Scottish Mental Health Law Review - Additional Proposals
Closed 22 Jul 2022
Opened 9 Jun 2022
secretariat@smhlr.scot
This consultation outlines some of the proposals for change to the law put forward by the Executive Team of the Scottish Mental Health and Incapacity Law Review. They have been developed in partnership with people with lived experience, including unpaid carers, and mental health practitioners through a series of Advisory Groups and Reference Groups.
Aims of Consultation
Our March 2022 consultation set out some of the proposals for change to mental health and incapacity law put forward by the Executive team of the Scottish Mental Health and Incapacity Law Review (the Review). We are really grateful to everyone who responded to that consultation.
We said that we would be doing more work on specific areas and seeking views, before writing our final report, which will be given to Scottish Ministers by the end of September. These areas included work on advance statements, independent advocacy and how criminal law and mental health law work together. This consultation ask for your views on these subjects.
We would like your views on the changes we are proposing to the way advance statements should work in the future, how the way independent advocacy is provided should change, and how we can improve the way criminal law and mental health law work together.
Like our other consultations you can answer as few or as many of the questions as you wish.
Please follow these link to access complete consultation documents:
Easy read version
Responding to this Consultation
We are inviting responses to this consultation by 22 July 2022
Handling your response
If you respond online, you will be directed to the 'About You' page before submitting your response. Please indicate how you wish your response to be handled and, in particular, whether you are content for your response to published. If you ask for your response not to be published, we will regard it as confidential, and we will treat it accordingly.
Next steps in the process
If you have given permission for your response to be made public, and after we have checked that they contain no potentially defamatory material, responses will be made available to the public at: www.smhlr.scot
If you respond online you will receive a copy of your response via email.
Following the closing date, all responses will be analysed and considered along with other available evidence to inform recommendations in our final report. Responses will be published where we have been given permission to do so.
We will send a final report to the Scottish Ministers by the end of September 2022.
The recommendations being consulted on could lead to a fundamental change in mental health and incapacity legislation, bringing it more in line with human rights law and the ambitions set out in the United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Your views will help refine or change these recommendations and allow the Review Executive team to put together a final set of recommendations for the Scottish Government. It will then be up to Scottish Ministers to decide how many of the recommendations they act on, how they do this, and the timing of any changes to the law.
For more information about the Review Homepage | Scottish Mental Health Law Review
If you have given permission for your response to be made public, and after we have checked that they contain no potentially defamatory material, responses will be made available to the public.
We will send a final report to the Scottish Ministers by the end of September 2022. This report will be published.


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OCStackResult OCInit(const char *ipAddr, uint16_t port, OCMode mode);

/**
 * Stop the OC stack.  Use for a controlled shutdown.
 *
 * Note: OCStop() performs operations similar to OCStopPresence(), as well as OCDeleteResource() on
 * all resources this server is hosting. OCDeleteResource() performs operations similar to
 * OCNotifyAllObservers() to notify all client observers that the respective resource is being
 * deleted.
 *
 * @return ::OC_STACK_OK on success, some other value upon failure.
 */
OCStackResult OCStop();

/**
 * Called in main loop of OC client or server.  Allows low-level processing of
 * stack services.
 *
 * @return ::OC_STACK_OK on success, some other value upon failure.
 */
OCStackResult OCProcess();

/**
 * Discover or Perform requests on a specified resource (specified by that Resource's respective
 * URI).
 *
 * @param handle             @ref OCDoHandle to refer to the request sent out on behalf of
 *                           calling this API. This handle can be used to cancel this operation
 *                           via the OCCancel API.
 *                           Note: This reference is handled internally, and
 *                           should not be free'd by the consumer.  A NULL handle is permitted
 *                           in the event where the caller has no use for the return value.
 * @param method             @ref OCMethod to perform on the resource.
 * @param requiredUri        URI of the resource to interact with.
 * @param referenceUri       URI of the reference resource.
 * @param request            JSON encoded request.
 * @param conType            @ref OCConnectivityType type of connectivity indicating the
 *                           interface. Example: ::OC_WIFI, ::OC_ETHERNET, ::OC_ALL.
 * @param qos                Quality of service. Note that if this API is called on a uri with
 *                           the well-known multicast IP address, the qos will be forced to
 *                           ::OC_LOW_QOS
 *                           since it is impractical to send other QOS levels on such addresses.
 * @param cbData             Asynchronous callback function that is invoked
 *                           by the stack when discovery or resource interaction is complete.
 * @param options            The address of an array containing the vendor specific
 *                           header options to be sent with the request.
 * @param numOptions         Number of header options to be included.
 *
 * Note: Presence subscription amendments (ie. adding additional resource type filters by calling
 * this API again) require the use of the same base URI as the original request to successfully
 * amend the presence filters.
 *
 * @return ::OC_STACK_OK on success, some other value upon failure.
 */
OCStackResult OCDoResource(OCDoHandle *handle, OCMethod method, const char *requiredUri,
            const char *referenceUri, const char *request, OCConnectivityType conType,
            OCQualityOfService qos, OCCallbackData *cbData,
            OCHeaderOption * options, uint8_t numOptions);

/**
 * Cancel a request associated with a specific @ref OCDoResource invocation.
 *
 * @param handle - Used to identify a specific OCDoResource invocation.
 * @param qos    - used to specify Quality of Service (read below for more info)
 * @param options- used to specify vendor specific header options when sending
 *                 explicit observe cancellation
 * @param numOptions- Number of header options to be included
 *
 * @return ::OC_STACK_OK on success, some other value upon failure.
 */
OCStackResult OCCancel(OCDoHandle handle, OCQualityOfService qos, OCHeaderOption * options,
        uint8_t numOptions);

#ifdef WITH_PRESENCE
/**
 * When operating in @ref OCServer or @ref OCClientServer mode, this API will start sending out
 * presence notifications to clients via multicast. Once this API has been called with a success,
 * clients may query for this server's presence and this server's stack will respond via multicast.
 *
 * Server can call this function when it comes online for the first time, or when it comes back
 * online from offline mode, or when it re enters network.
 *
 * @param ttl Time To Live in seconds.
 * Note: If ttl is '0', then the default stack value will be used (60 Seconds).
 *
 *       If ttl is greater than OC_MAX_PRESENCE_TTL_SECONDS, then the ttl will be set to
 *       OC_MAX_PRESENCE_TTL_SECONDS.
 *
 * @return ::OC_STACK_OK on success, some other value upon failure.
 */
OCStackResult OCStartPresence(const uint32_t ttl);

/**
 * When operating in @ref OCServer or @ref OCClientServer mode, this API will stop sending out
 * presence notifications to clients via multicast. Once this API has been called with a success,
 * this server's stack will not respond to clients querying for this server's presence.
 *
 * Server can call this function when it is terminating, going offline, or when going
 * away from network.
 *
 * @return ::OC_STACK_OK on success, some other value upon failure.
 */

OCStackResult OCStopPresence();
#endif

/**
 * Set default device entity handler.
 *
 * @param entityHandler Entity handler function that is called by ocstack to handle requests for
 *                      any undefined resources or default actions.
 *                      If NULL is passed it removes the device default entity handler.
 *
 * @return ::OC_STACK_OK on success, some other value upon failure.
 */
OCStackResult OCSetDefaultDeviceEntityHandler(OCDeviceEntityHandler entityHandler);

/**
 * Set device information.
 *
 * @param deviceInfo - Structure passed by the server application containing
 *                     the device information.
 *
 *
 * @return
 *     OC_STACK_OK              - no errors
 *     OC_STACK_INVALID_PARAM   - invalid paramerter
 *     OC_STACK_ERROR           - stack process error
 */
OCStackResult OCSetDeviceInfo(OCDeviceInfo deviceInfo);

/**
 * Set platform information.
 *
 * @param platformInfo - Structure passed by the server application containing
 *                     the platform information.
 *
 *
 * @return
 *     OC_STACK_OK              - no errors
 *     OC_STACK_INVALID_PARAM   - invalid paramerter
 *     OC_STACK_ERROR           - stack process error
 */
OCStackResult OCSetPlatformInfo(OCPlatformInfo platformInfo);

/**
 * Create a resource.
 *
 * @param handle Pointer to handle to newly created resource.  Set by ocstack and
 *               used to refer to resource.
 * @param resourceTypeName Name of resource type.  Example: "core.led".
 * @param resourceInterfaceName Name of resource interface.  Example: "core.rw".
 * @param uri URI of the resource.  Example:  "/a/led".
 * @param entityHandler Entity handler function that is called by ocstack to handle requests, etc.
 *                      NULL for default entity handler.
 * @param resourceProperties Properties supported by resource.
 *                           Example: ::OC_DISCOVERABLE|::OC_OBSERVABLE.
 *
 * @return ::OC_STACK_OK on success, some other value upon failure.
 */
OCStackResult OCCreateResource(OCResourceHandle *handle,
                               const char *resourceTypeName,
                               const char *resourceInterfaceName,
                               const char *uri,
                               OCEntityHandler entityHandler,
                               uint8_t resourceProperties);

/**
 * Create a resource. with host ip address for remote resource.
 *
 * @param handle Pointer to handle to newly created resource.  Set by ocstack.
 *               Used to refer to resource.
 * @param resourceTypeName Name of resource type.  Example: "core.led".
 * @param resourceInterfaceName Name of resource interface.  Example: "core.rw".
 * @param host HOST address of the remote resource.  Example:  "coap://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xxxxx".
 * @param uri URI of the resource.  Example:  "/a/led".
 * @param entityHandler Entity handler function that is called by ocstack to handle requests, etc.
 *                      NULL for default entity handler.
 * @param resourceProperties Properties supported by resource.
 *                           Example: ::OC_DISCOVERABLE|::OC_OBSERVABLE
 *
 * @return ::OC_STACK_OK on success, some other value upon failure.
 */
OCStackResult OCCreateResourceWithHost(OCResourceHandle *handle,
                               const char *resourceTypeName,
                               const char *resourceInterfaceName,
                               const char *host,
                               const char *uri,
                               OCEntityHandler entityHandler,
                               uint8_t resourceProperties);

/**
 * Add a resource to a collection resource.
 *
 * @param collectionHandle Handle to the collection resource.
 * @param resourceHandle Handle to resource to be added to the collection resource.
 *
 * @return ::OC_STACK_OK on success, some other value upon failure.
 */
OCStackResult OCBindResource(OCResourceHandle collectionHandle, OCResourceHandle resourceHandle);

/**
 * Remove a resource from a collection resource.
 *
 * @param collectionHandle Handle to the collection resource.
 * @param resourceHandle Handle to resource to be removed from the collection resource.
 *
 * @return ::OC_STACK_OK on success, some other value upon failure.
 */
OCStackResult OCUnBindResource(OCResourceHandle collectionHandle, OCResourceHandle resourceHandle);

/**
 * Bind a resourcetype to a resource.
 *
 * @param handle Handle to the resource.
 * @param resourceTypeName Name of resource type.  Example: "core.led".
 *
 * @return ::OC_STACK_OK on success, some other value upon failure.
 */
OCStackResult OCBindResourceTypeToResource(OCResourceHandle handle,
                                           const char *resourceTypeName);
/**
 * Bind a resource interface to a resource.
 *
 * @param handle Handle to the resource.
 * @param resourceInterfaceName Name of resource interface.  Example: "core.rw".
 *
 * @return ::OC_STACK_OK on success, some other value upon failure.
 */
OCStackResult OCBindResourceInterfaceToResource(OCResourceHandle handle,
                                                const char *resourceInterfaceName);

/**
 * Bind an entity handler to the resource.
 *
 * @param handle Handle to the resource that the contained resource is to be bound.
 * @param entityHandler Entity handler function that is called by ocstack to handle requests, etc.
 * @return ::OC_STACK_OK on success, some other value upon failure.
 */
OCStackResult OCBindResourceHandler(OCResourceHandle handle, OCEntityHandler entityHandler);

/**
 * Get the number of resources that have been created in the stack.
 *
 * @param numResources Pointer to count variable.
 *
 * @return ::OC_STACK_OK on success, some other value upon failure.
 */
OCStackResult OCGetNumberOfResources(uint8_t *numResources);

/**
 * Get a resource handle by index.
 *
 * @param index Index of resource, 0 to Count - 1.
 *
 * @return Found resource handle or NULL if not found.
 */
OCResourceHandle OCGetResourceHandle(uint8_t index);

/**
 * Delete resource specified by handle.  Deletes resource and all resourcetype and resourceinterface
 * linked lists.
 *
 * Note: OCDeleteResource() performs operations similar to OCNotifyAllObservers() to notify all
 * client observers that "this" resource is being deleted.
 *
 * @param handle Handle of resource to be deleted.
 *
 * @return ::OC_STACK_OK on success, some other value upon failure.
 */
OCStackResult OCDeleteResource(OCResourceHandle handle);

/**
 * Get the URI of the resource specified by handle.
 *
 * @param handle Handle of resource.
 * @return URI string if resource found or NULL if not found.
 */
const char *OCGetResourceUri(OCResourceHandle handle);

/**
 * Get the properties of the resource specified by handle.
 * NOTE: that after a resource is created, the OC_ACTIVE property is set
 * for the resource by the stack.
 *
 * @param handle Handle of resource.
 * @return OCResourceProperty Bitmask or -1 if resource is not found.
 */
OCResourceProperty OCGetResourceProperties(OCResourceHandle handle);

/**
 * Get the number of resource types of the resource.
 *
 * @param handle Handle of resource.
 * @param numResourceTypes Pointer to count variable.
 *
 * @return ::OC_STACK_OK on success, some other value upon failure.
 */
OCStackResult OCGetNumberOfResourceTypes(OCResourceHandle handle, uint8_t *numResourceTypes);

/**
 * Get name of resource type of the resource.
 *
 * @param handle Handle of resource.
 * @param index Index of resource, 0 to Count - 1.
 *
 * @return Resource type name if resource found or NULL if resource not found.
 */
const char *OCGetResourceTypeName(OCResourceHandle handle, uint8_t index);

/**
 * Get the number of resource interfaces of the resource.
 *
 * @param handle Handle of resource.
 * @param numResourceInterfaces Pointer to count variable.
 *
 * @return ::OC_STACK_OK on success, some other value upon failure.
 */
OCStackResult OCGetNumberOfResourceInterfaces(OCResourceHandle handle,
        uint8_t *numResourceInterfaces);

/**
 * Get name of resource interface of the resource.
 *
 * @param handle Handle of resource.
 * @param index Index of resource, 0 to Count - 1.
 *
 * @return Resource interface name if resource found or NULL if resource not found.
 */
const char *OCGetResourceInterfaceName(OCResourceHandle handle, uint8_t index);

/**
 * Get methods of resource interface of the resource.
 *
 * @param handle Handle of resource.
 * @param index Index of resource, 0 to Count - 1.
 *
 * @return Allowed methods if resource found or NULL if resource not found.
 */
uint8_t OCGetResourceInterfaceAllowedMethods(OCResourceHandle handle, uint8_t index);

/**
 * Get resource handle from the collection resource by index.
 *
 * @param collectionHandle Handle of collection resource.
 * @param index Index of contained resource, 0 to Count - 1.
 *
 * @return Handle to contained resource if resource found or NULL if resource not found.
 */
OCResourceHandle OCGetResourceHandleFromCollection(OCResourceHandle collectionHandle,
        uint8_t index);

/**
 * Get the entity handler for a resource.
 *
 * @param handle Handle of resource.
 *
 * @return Entity handler if resource found or NULL resource not found.
 */
OCEntityHandler OCGetResourceHandler(OCResourceHandle handle);

/**
 * Notify all registered observers that the resource representation has
 * changed. If observation includes a query the client is notified only
 * if the query is valid after the resource representation has changed.
 *
 * @param handle Handle of resource.
 * @param qos    Desired quality of service for the observation notifications.
 *
 * @return ::OC_STACK_OK on success, some other value upon failure.
 */
OCStackResult OCNotifyAllObservers(OCResourceHandle handle, OCQualityOfService qos);

/**
 * Notify specific observers with updated value of representation.
 * Before this API is invoked by entity handler it has finished processing
 * queries for the associated observers.
 *
 * @param handle Handle of resource.
 * @param obsIdList List of observation ids that need to be notified.
 * @param numberOfIds Number of observation ids included in obsIdList.
 * @param notificationJSONPayload JSON encoded payload to send in notification.
 * @param qos Desired quality of service of the observation notifications.
 * NOTE: The memory for obsIdList and notificationJSONPayload is managed by the
 * entity invoking the API. The maximum size of the notification is 1015 bytes
 * for non-Arduino platforms. For Arduino the maximum size is 247 bytes.
 *
 * @return ::OC_STACK_OK on success, some other value upon failure.
 */
OCStackResult
OCNotifyListOfObservers (OCResourceHandle handle,
                            OCObservationId  *obsIdList,
                            uint8_t          numberOfIds,
                            const char    *notificationJSONPayload,
                            OCQualityOfService qos);

/**
 * Send a response to a request.
 * The response can be a normal, slow, or block (i.e. a response that
 * is too large to be sent in a single PDU and must span multiple transmissions).
 *
 * @param response Pointer to structure that contains response parameters.
 *
 * @return ::OC_STACK_OK on success, some other value upon failure.
 */
OCStackResult OCDoResponse(OCEntityHandlerResponse *response);

//Utility methods

/**
 * This method is used to retrieved the IPv4 address from OCDev address
 * data structure.
 *
 * @param ipAddr OCDevAddr address.
 * @param a first byte of IPv4 address.
 * @param b second byte of IPv4 address.
 * @param c third byte of IPv4 address.
 * @param d fourth byte of IPv4 address.
 * @return ::OC_STACK_OK on success, some other value upon failure.
 */
int32_t OCDevAddrToIPv4Addr(OCDevAddr *ipAddr, uint8_t *a, uint8_t *b,
            uint8_t *c, uint8_t *d );

/**
 * This method is used to retrieve the port number from OCDev address
 * data structure.
 *
 * @param ipAddr OCDevAddr address.
 * @param port Port number.
 * @return ::OC_STACK_OK on success, some other value upon failure.
 */
int32_t OCDevAddrToPort(OCDevAddr *ipAddr, uint16_t *port);

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif // __cplusplus

#endif /* OCSTACK_H_ */


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Q: Is btrfs production ready? I've seen a lot of information on btrfs lately.  I have been considering ext4 for my next filesystem, but am tempted by btrfs instead. How widely used is btrfs? What are the pro's and con's?

A: Speaking of 2014: no, it is definitely not production ready yet!
Performance of it is still sub par in some areas, common commands like "df" are still being broken on purpose (you need "btrfs fi" instead), and I still wouldn't trust it my important data.
Also if you are in need of a filesystem putting your images of virtual machines on or databases, you should simply skip it. Btrfs is not really suited very well for that kind of stuff, that's stuff you should put on Ext3/4 or XFS instead.
Give it two more years or three to mature and then it might be in a production ready state.
If you are really in need of a production ready COW file system right now, take ZFS! You could use the native Linux port or just an OS which supports it straight from the Kernel like FreeBSD.
And take a look at the official Gotchas! page, where the developers are publishing the actual gotchas and how to avoid those:
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Gotchas
Also keep in mind that the official advise from the getting started page until today is to keep a backup of your important data and to be prepared for all kind of hiccups (https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Getting_started).
They do consider the core functionality by now to be stable enough for daily use, but they are still fiddling around with newer features and if newer features do come up, they will definitely need a few releases (meaning six two twelth months I presume) until they are mature enough.
Edit: Russel Coker from Australia has been using Btrfs for some time and posts his experiences from time to time (e.g. http://etbe.coker.com.au/2014/07/31/btrfs-status-july-2014/). He uses it on some of this servers and it shows though while it is not all doom and gloom, you normally need to stay with the most recent kernels e.g., something that's not easy to do on a server, and yes, there are still problems around.
Also worthwhile to read some of the comments, too.
So this means by definition it is still being work in progress, which never had time until today to mature as a whole.
Edit: according to this blog post even with kernel 3.16 Btrfs can still deadlock. http://marc.merlins.org/perso/btrfs/post_2014-10-05_Btrfs-Tips_-Catch-Btrfs-Deadlocks.html

A: Personally, I would consider it production ready when (and if) the likes of Canonical and Red Hat implement it in their supported products. I'm sure it'll all work fine, most of the time, but I would say that for putting it in production it is a bit too early still.
Update: Assuming people will come here more often now that Oracle released the UEK R2 with btrfs support (20120315): no, the fact that Oracle now supports it, does not make it thoroughly tested enough for an enterprise environment. The fact that there still isn't a publicly available fsck tool and it still hasn't had sturdy testing in the likes of OpenSuSE, Fedora and all doesn't help either. Stay away for now.

A: In short no.
• The only RAID support is currently 0,1,10.
• No file system repair is available (yet)
Checkout this podcast with one of the developers...very cool things are coming soon!
http://streaming.oracle.com/ebn/podcasts/media/10491325_Btrfs_071311.mp3
I am planning on installing on a home VM without important data for testing, but that's as comfortable as I can be with it's current state.

A: if you have backups, and can tolerate a few hours downtime, got for it.  I'm planning to use it on my next workstations.  Not servers yet, because most of my volumes are several terabytes, so restoring from backup takes too long time.

A: For RHEL7 Red Hat is calling btrfs a technology preview and XFS is the default. Make of that what you will.

A: Absolutely not. And here's why:
From the Btrfs Wiki:

Note that Btrfs does not yet have a fsck tool that can fix errors.
  While Btrfs is stable on a stable machine, it is currently possible to
  corrupt a filesystem irrecoverably if your machine crashes or loses
  power on disks that don't handle flush requests correctly.

When it's pushed out as the default root filesystem in Fedora Core (which is pretty bleeding edge) I think I'll start experimenting with Btrfs on testing machines. When it starts to stabilize sometime after, I think I'll begin to use it on new non-mission critical production machines.
I never like to be in a hurry to lose my data.

A: personally, its ready when it supports RAID-5.

A: For my workstations, it is.
Running Fedora, luks and brtfs

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Ronald Reagan's Daughter Criticizes Trump Administration For 'Sketchy Details,' 'Evasive Answers' About Trump's Health Status
© Brendan Smialowski/AFP
White House physician Sean Conley (R) gives an update on the condition of US President Donald Trump, on October 3, 2020, at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Ronald Reagan's daughter criticized the White House's handling of Trump's medical information in an op-ed published Sunday.
Ronald Reagan's daughter, Patti Davis, criticized the Trump administration over its disclosure of President Donald Trump's health status amid his COVID-19 diagnosis in an op-ed for the Washington Post.
"Now the country is confronted with a president suffering from a potentially deadly virus," Davis wrote in an op-ed published Sunday by the newspaper. "Instead of accurate and complete information, Americans are receiving only sketchy details and evasive answers."
Davis reflected on her father's hospitalization in the aftermath of his 1981 shooting, comparing the response of the Reagan administration to that of the Trump administration.
"When you're president, privacy is not an option — including, and maybe especially, privacy about your health. That's a lesson my father's administration understood, and that President Trump and his advisers still need to learn," she wrote.
Davis, who is an author, described the country being in a "state of shock" and recalled that "the media was scrambling to put out accurate information" at the time her father was shot.
"The White House was in shock, but it didn't have the luxury of time," she added.
One of the hospital's administrators, Dennis O'Leary, had been chosen by Reagan's assistant to brief the media on Reagan's condition after he came out of surgery. But, O'Leary "misspoke about how close the bullet came to my father's heart and neglected to say that the bullet had torn through a lung," Davis wrote of the 1981 attempted assassination of Regan by John Hinckley Jr.
She also noted that the White House did not invoke the 25th Amendment, which allows the vice president to take on the president's role if they are unable to do their job, when her father went under anesthesia. (If the Trump administration were to implement the 25th Amendment, the line to the presidency would be Vice President Mike Pence, followed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, the President Pro Tempore of the U.S. Senate.)
Davis argued that the Reagan administration learned from its missteps, resulting in the White House's decision to thoroughly inform the nation about Reagan's colon cancer surgery four years later.
Video: Presidential Debate Marked By Chaos, Personal Insults, Interrruptions (CBS SF Bay Area)
https://wus-streaming-video-msn-com.akamaized.net/03b6c9f5-dcc9-4ab5-acdf-8c3c49d0628e/7e73828b-42b2-4b32-a2ba-0c8b5bdf_2250.mp4
Presidential Debate Marked By Chaos, Personal Insults, Interrruptions
Quoting Trump's own communications team, she called on the current administration to do the same as her father's did in 1985.
"'It's a common medical practice that you want to convey confidence,' White House communications director Alyssa Farah told Fox News on Sunday. This fundamentally misunderstands the challenge and the role of medical briefings: It is not to reassure either the patient or the American people, it is to provide them with clear and reliable information," Davis wrote.
"Regardless of what any of us think of the man holding the highest office in the land, his health, his fitness, his ability to be present and accounted for, has everything to do with our safety as a nation," she continued. "It has to do with our trust in the government. And that trust is being eroded — at the worst possible time."
https://wus-streaming-video-msn-com.akamaized.net/035425a7-3a4f-4090-a499-413d7dca88e4/382738ef-c384-4fd3-a79f-09c15a95_2250.mp4
World Reacts To Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Testing Positive For Coronavirus
White House doctor Sean Conley came under fire over the weekend for making misleading comments on the president's medical condition — remarks that White House chief of staff Mark Meadows contradicted a day later during his own press briefing.
During his Saturday briefing outside the Walter Reed Medical Center, Conley failed to disclose that Trump had been administered oxygen during his hospitalization. The doctor said he withheld the information to reflect the "upbeat attitude" of the White House.
Newsweek reached out to the White House for comment but did not hear back before publication.
Former assistant press secretary to Ronald Reagan, Mark Weinberg, argued the Trump administration's handling of the president's diagnosis is failing the American public.
"I think they have something to hide and I think they are under extreme pressure from President Trump to not say anything that would cost him votes in the campaign for reelection," Weinberg told CNN on Sunday.
"As a result, they are being not forthcoming. They are being dishonest. They're being disingenuous and they're not serving the country or the president for that matter," he added.
David Gergen, a former presidential adviser to Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton told CNN that Trump's efforts to hide his health status will have the reverse effect that the president is aiming for.
"He always wants to come out looking strong. He thinks it gives him more political leverage and what it does instead, over time, is it undercuts his credibility, and I think over time, makes him look weak," Gergen said.
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