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Dodgers Vs. Mets Recap: Greinke Allows 3 Runs In 5 IP During 5-3 Loss
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Jon Niese took the mound for the Mets, and Chone Figgins hit a leadoff single to begin the game. After Yasiel Puig struck out, Hanley Ramirez hit a line drive to put runners on the corners. Adrian Gonzalez followed with a sacrifice fly to send Figgins home and put the Los Angeles Dodgers on the board right from the start. Zack Greinke retired the batters in order during his first inning of work.
Heading into the second, Niese gave up a double to A.J. Ellis for his first scoreless inning of the day. Curtis Granderson began the inning with a double as well but made it to third after Matt Kemp bobbled the ball before attempting to throw the runner out at third. Eric Campbell followed with a sacrifice fly as the Mets tied it up at ones. Greinke had an uncharacteristic rest of the inning allowing two walks but was able to finish the inning with a strike out.
The score remained 1-1 during the third as Niese tossed a fast 1-2-3 inning. Greinke gave up a base hit to David Wright, but the third baseman was caught stealing second. Both starters followed up with a hitless fourth inning. Justin Turner drew the walk to begin the fifth inning, but Ellis grounded into a double play as Zack Greinke flied out for the final out.
Greinke struggled in the bottom of the fifth giving up back-to-back doubles to Anthony Recker and Niese to push the Mets to a 2-1 lead. Niese advanced to third after Juan Lagares grounded out, and with two outs, Turner had the opportunity to close out the inning but dropped the ball on a routine grounder. With the error, Niese was sent home and the Mets lead the Dodgers 3-1.
The sixth inning included a challenge from the Mets, but the call on the field was upheld allowing Puig to remain on first after due to an error from Daniel Murphy as Figgins, who walked during the previous at bat, advanced to second. Both runners were left on base as Hanley Ramirez and Adrian Gonzalez both grounded out. Jamey Wright replaced Greinke in the bottom of the sixth and quickly retired the batters in order.
Justin Turner tied the game up in the seventh after hitting a two-run home run off of Niese to tie the game 3-3. Chris Perez, who replaced Wright, blew the tie in the bottom of the inning. After allowing a leadoff single to Wilmer Flores, Perez threw a wild pitch as Flores advanced to second. The Dodgers reliever managed to retired the next two batters, but Flores reached third and was driven home after a Juan Lagares single. The Mets lead 4-3 heading into the eighth inning.
Daisuke Matsuzaka took over the mound for Niese. The reliever struck out Figgins to beginning his outing. Although he gave up a double to Puig, Ramirez hit into a double play to end the inning. Chris Perez gave up a leadoff single to Wright, and Granderson followed up with a triple to send Wright home with the Mets increasing their lead to 5-3.
After striking out Campbell, Perez was replaced by Paul Maholm to finish the inning. The former starter gave up a hit to Lucas Duda as Granderson was thrown out at home for the second out. Maholm struck out Flores to end the inning. Jenrry Mejia replaced Matsuzaka to finish out the game and retired the batters in order. The New York Mets defeated the Dodgers 5-3.

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Easy work, poor pay, and no compensation for gas.
Easy work, poor pay, and no compensation for gas. You create your own schedule (turning on the app whenever you want to go "on shift") which can be freeing if you have a busy schedule.
I liked the fact that I could make extra money on the side when needed. I liked being able to work independently with out being supervised as well as being able to explore the city.
How much does a Courier Driver make at Postmates in the United States?
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What would I be delivering? Varied items?
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Washington, DC, January 26, 2021— The Aspen Institute announced today that Kara Gustafson has joined the Institute as the new Executive Director of the Aspen Finance Leaders Fellowship. In this leadership role, Gustafson will build on the strong foundation laid since the Fellowship's launch in 2016 and expand its focus on industry and societal impact through Fellow-led initiatives and cross-industry action.
"We are delighted to welcome Kara Gustafson with her proven leadership in advancing social impact, corporate philanthropy, and environmental responsibility in finance," said David Langstaff, the Executive Vice President of the Leadership Division at the Aspen Institute. "Building on our proven model for cultivating values-based, purpose-driven leadership, Kara will undoubtedly build on the foundation set for the Fellowship over the last five years to advance the network's impact on the world."
"Kara's deep expertise in social impact through global finance, coupled with her experience working across a range of industry, policy, and community stakeholders, gives her unique insights into how our Fellowship network can reach greater levels of individual and collective influence," said Ranji Nagaswami, Founder of the Finance Leaders Fellowship and Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.
Gustafson has worked across a $2 billion portfolio of social impact programs that have delivered transformative results. She joins the Institute from Palais Impact Advisors, a social impact advisory firm she founded to support Fortune 500 and Pre-IPO companies. Before Palais Impact, Gustafson served as the first Head of Community Impact at SoulCycle, leading the design and launch of a new impact platform and diversity and inclusion initiatives. She also worked for 15 years at Goldman Sachs as a senior vice president in the Executive Office, where she helped launch and scale initiatives to drive economic growth, inclusion, and opportunity through the firm's impact investing business and corporate engagement programs.
"I am thrilled to join the Aspen Institute and lead the Finance Leaders Fellowship to its next great horizon," said Kara Gustafson. "We are at a transformational moment where business leaders understand and are moved to make authentic commitments on behalf of their employees and other stakeholders to better their communities. This is an industry with deep wellsprings of talent, innovation and ability to positively shape the world."
Gustafson is also the host and producer of "Impact Studies with Kara Gustafson," a leading interview series committed to sharing best practices and original research in the social impact space and is the Director on the board of Paid Leave for the United States. She earned her BA from Fairfield University, where she is an Advisory Council Member for the Management Program at the Dolan School of Business.
The Aspen Finance Leaders Fellowship is building a global community of effective and enlightened leaders to chart the course of the global finance industry. Grounded in the Aspen Institute method of text-based dialogue and leveraging the Institute's commitment to values-based, purpose-driven leadership, the program inspires selected Finance Fellows to consider values and perspectives necessary for effective, enlightened leadership in finance—and in society at-large. Fellows also undertake a leadership venture of their own, designed to challenge themselves and advance the role of finance in society. The program has fostered a network of 82 Finance Leaders committed to creating a more just, free, and equitable society in 20 countries. For more information, visit https://agln.aspeninstitute.org/fellowships/financeleaders.
The Aspen Global Leadership Network (AGLN) is a growing, worldwide community of more than 3,000 high-integrity, entrepreneurial leaders from over 60 countries who share a commitment to enlightened leadership and to using their creativity, energy and resources to tackle the foremost societal challenges of our times. Fellows convene annually at the AGLN's flagship event, the Resnick Aspen Action Forum. For more information, visit agln.aspeninstitute.org.
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Hôtel Le Germain Québec in Québec City exudes warmth, from their front line staff, to the carefully crafted decor. The hotel is made up of two adjacent historic buildings that add to the atmosphere of each room. Each room is styled and situated a bit differently offering a unique view of either the river or the other historic buildings that surround Le Germain.


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Il singolare  del Grand Prix Hassan II 2013 è stato un torneo di tennis facente parte dell'ATP World Tour 2013.

Pablo Andújar era il detentore del titolo, ma è stato battuto al primo turno dal connazionale Pablo Carreño.

Tommy Robredo ha sconfitto in finale Kevin Anderson per 7-66, 4-6, 6-3.

Teste di serie
Le prime 4 teste di serie hanno ricevuto un bye per il 2º turno

  Stanislas Wawrinka (semifinali)
  Kevin Anderson (finale)
  Martin Kližan (semifinali)
  Benoît Paire (quarti di finale)

  Jürgen Melzer (primo turno)
  Daniel Gimeno-Traver (primo turno)
  Robin Haase (quarti di finale)
  Grega Žemlja (quarti di finale)

Tabellone

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Collegamenti esterni

Grand Prix Hassan II 2013
ATP World Tour 2013

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SubUrbia is a play by Eric Bogosian chronicling the nighttime activities of a group of aimless 20-somethings still living in their suburban New Jersey hometown and their reunion with a former high school classmate who has become a successful musician. The musician Pony's return strips away illusions and excuse to reveal the meaningless dead-end existences of everyone.

Productions
The play was originally produced at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater of the Lincoln Center Theater from April 27 through August 28, 1994, featuring Martha Plimpton (Sooze), Josh Hamilton (Jeff), Firdous Bamji (Norman), Tim Guinee (Tim), Wendy Hoopes (Bee-Bee), Zak Orth (Pony), Babette Renee Props (Erica), Samia Shoaib (Pakeesa) and Steve Zahn (Buff).  The director Robert Falls won a 1994-1995 OBIE Award for the production.

The Boston Premiere was held at the Speakeasy Stage Co. in March and April 1997, with DavidLee Wilson (Jeff), Willy O'Donnell (Buff), Valerie Stanford (Sooze), Michael McLaughlin (Tim), Rik Sansone (Pony), Sims McCormick (Erica), Amir Darvish (Norman), Shonali Banerjee (Pakeeza), and Kate Luhr (Bee Bee). Directed by Steven Maler, the production won two Eliot Norton Theater Awards, and appeared on the "Best Of 1997" lists in The Boston Globe, Boston Herald and Boston Phoenix.

The play was presented in 2006 at Second Stage Theatre with Kieran Culkin (Buff), Gaby Hoffmann (Sooze) and Jessica Capshaw (Erica), Daniel Eric Gold (Jeff), Michael Esper (Pony), Halley Feiffer (Bee-Bee), Manu Narayan (Nazeer) and Diksha Basu (Pakeeza) and was directed by Jo Bonney.

Steve Zahn and Samia Shoaib reprised their original roles in the 1996 film version, which also included Parker Posey and Giovanni Ribisi.

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Plays by Eric Bogosian
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Plays set in the United States
American plays adapted into films


For those of you interested in learning how to leverage the power of Python Seaborn and Matplotlib libraries to build high-quality professional visualizations that answer many relevant Data Science questions, my new course entitled Data Visualization and Descriptive Statistics with Python 3 is the solution. The course uses a set of real-world data sources from the United Nations, sport, government to showcase the visualizations. In addition to data visualizations, the second part of the course is focused on how to effectively analyze and compute Descriptive Statistics in Python 3.
It shows how to leverage each of the libraries numpy, statistics, scipy and pandas to effectively compute descriptive Descriptive statistics in Python 3.


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Dystopia est un one shot manga d'anticipation allemand de Judith Park.

Synopsis
Dionne Hawking, 17 ans, s'entend très bien avec son frère ainé Lyon, 19 ans, ainsi qu'avec son amie, Shikku Koryo, 16 ans.

La vie de Dionne change brutalement quand Lyon décède, écrasé par une voiture. Alors qu'ils venaient d'apprendre sa mort, celui-ci réapparaît devant elle. Dionne apprend alors de ses parents qu'ils avaient jadis fait faire un clone de Lyon, car celui-ci avait eu une grave maladie et qu'il avait peu de chances d'y survivre. Dionne a du mal à supporter la présence du clone de Lyon, Gabriel, qui lui supporte mal que toutes les autres personnes ne voient en lui qu'un substitut de Lyon, et non comme une personne ayant sa propre identité.

Publication
Dystopia a été pré-publié mensuellement de janvier à juin 2004 dans le magazine allemand de mangas . Il est sorti en France le .

Liens externes

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 Présentation sur Manga news

Album de bande dessinée sorti en 2004
Bande dessinée influencée par le manga


The second of our project meeting (April 22nd, 2015) was dedicated to presenting and analysing the results of the questionnaires which had been distributed to students, teachers and non-teaching staff belonging to the partener schools.
We observed that adults had more prejudgements than teenagers, but knew more about the culture, history and geography of the project countries.
The Turkish team also presented a very nice and original PowerPoint presentation on stereotypes and moral values of the Turkish people. To see this project product, please click on MORAL VALUES PRESENTATION.


Home Our News Part 2: E-commerce a way forward for small businesses? … Lets find some solutions!
Do SMEs actually know that these are issues? And if not, what can you do or what can you suggest for SMEs and MSMEs to identify issues like these?
That's a great question. You are absolutely right, the key issue is that SMEs are not even aware of all the boxes that must be ticked in order to engage in e-commerce transactions with international buyers. Indeed, it is not on the radar of many SMEs that to sell into, for instance, the European Union, they would need to look at product requirements, trade preferences schemes, health and safety regulations, privacy laws, data protection regulations, etc. And this is logical, as most SME founders and owners are artists, or businessman and women, but not experts on the international legal and regulatory environment.
There are a number of resources out there that aim to help SMEs from developing countries to engage in international e-commerce. To start, the export promotion agencies of various governments have adopted programs to facilitate international e-commerce by SMEs. Moreover, some SMEs have set up associations amongst themselves to address these issues. For instance, during a visit to Nairobi last month for a SheTrades workshop, I met a number of women, all SME business owners, who established the Ubunifu Kenya Association. The association, which focuses on garment and textile SMEs, organizes trainings and webinars about, inter alia, export markets, to bridge the information gap.
Moreover, international organizations have various initiatives that are ensuring SMEs become market-ready. One program that comes to mind is the International Trade Center's SheTrades initiative, which provides women entrepreneurs with a unique network and platform to connect to markets. Another is Connect Americas, from the Inter-American Development Bank, an online platform that helps SMEs in Latin America grow their business.
For a small brand, what could you suggest as reference?
There exist numerous online resources that provide a good starting point to get a better understanding of the basic legal and regulatory requirements that must be met to sell into the European Union or US market. For the EU, a very useful resource is the Trade Helpdesk. Another useful tool is the CBI, the Centre for the promotion of imports from developing countries, which is an initiative by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The CBI provides comprehensive market information and also helps developing country businesses identify and meet the requirements of European buyers.
Moreover, becoming a pro bono client of Sidley's Emerging Enterprises Pro Bono Program is a great way to find out about the legal and regulatory requirements that must be complied with when selling into high value markets like the European Union or the United States.
Can you suggest or do you know of a very simply written information guideline for small brands and artisans who want to enter digital trade ?
A tool kit would be a great idea! This exists for e-commerce more generally, but I have yet to encounter a simplified written guideline focuses on the legal and regulatory issues SMEs in developing countries that want to enter international e-commerce should think about it. Developing this tool would enable SMEs from around the world to know what boxes they must tick, and help them begin ticking these boxes.


Chimney and fireplace upkeep during the off months, and before you use your chimney is vital for the overall maintenance of your home. It's important you properly inspect and clean your chimney before you use it. Beyond that, fireplace maintenance is very important during the winter months, when it is in use.
Only burn what you are supposed to burn in your fireplace. Plastics and other synthetic materials should not be used in your fireplace. Also, don't use fire starters that aren't recommended for indoor fireplace use. Between fireplace uses, be sure to properly sweep out your fireplace. By regularly cleaning your fireplace you are eliminating a potentially hazardous and messy situation inside your home. Use a cage to protect your family, and your fireplace. Some types of wood may crackle and sputter while burning, so a cage will make sure nothing (and no one) gets burned. Enjoy your fireplace all winter long, and do so with the utmost safety and care. Maintain your fireplace throughout the winter to keep it in proper working order.


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For folks of a certain age (ie, approximately my age), set your "Nostalgia" dial to 11. Nathan Friend has created an addictive, online version of the spirograph called Inspirograph. Enjoy.
According to Friend, a mobile app is in the works.
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Spend some time at Stone House Cottage Gardens and experience the beauty of nature.
You may have seen many gardens but you probably haven't experienced anything quite as wonderful as those of Stone House Cottage Gardens. This is truly a hidden gem that demonstrates how an English cottage garden and its buildings can become a natural work of art.
If you're looking to take a few ours out of a busy day and recharge then you should definitely pay a visit to this exceptional garden. Relax, get some fresh air and enjoy.
The Stone House Cottage garden was developed in 1975 by Louisa and James Arbuthnott and built within what was once a walled kitchen garden. Although the garden is just one acre, it seems to be much bigger with hidden treasures tucked away around every corner. The hedges of the garden divide it into various partitions creating a multitude of varied habitats in which many rare species of plants are grown.
In amongst the plants, and sometimes covered by them, are a host of old brick follies including two towers, gazebos and secluded lookouts. There is something wonderful and mysterious about this garden that captures your imagination. During spring it is a riot of colour as the flowers come into bloom. During the hotter summer months it's a tranquil green oasis with splashes of brilliance as the later flowering shrubs take centre stage. If you love to see unusual and rare plants then this garden is the perfect place to visit. Some of the plants in the garden include Allium hollandicum, Anthriscus sylvestris, Tamarix gallica, Actinidia kolomikta, Cilanthus puniceus and many more.
This wonderful cottage garden is approximately two miles east of Kidderminster located on the main road to the market town of Bromsgrove. The access driveway can be found next to Stone Church and leads up to the parking area. The gardens are usually open Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday from the start of April until the end of August between the hours of 10.00am and 5.pm. The gardens also feature a nursery from which you can buy many beautiful plants.
There's plenty of parking at the venue. We look forward to your visit.


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The Triumph of Hindu Majoritarianism
A Requiem for an Old Idea of India
By Kanchan Chandra
Participants light earthen oil lamps on the banks of the Sarayu river on the eve of Diwali, Ayodhya, November 2018.
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In August, former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee died at the age of 93. India's first prime minister from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Vajpayee is often held up as an exemplar of moderate Hindu nationalism, especially in contrast to the current prime minister, Narendra Modi, who espouses a more strident ideology. Vajpayee's obituaries have been written as obituaries not only of the man but also of that ideological moderation.
Yet what has gone unnoticed in Vajpayee's death is the passing of an older, pluralist idea of India. In 1997, the historian Sunil Khilnani described "the idea of India," usually attributed to the country's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, as an imagined secular, pluralist, polity that belonged to all Indians and not to any one group. In particular, India did not belong to the Hindu majority, which constituted 80 percent of the country's population according to the last official census. It was this secular idea that created India in 1947, not as the Hindu mirror of a Muslim Pakistan, but as the pluralist opposite of majoritarian nationalism.
Now, things have changed. With the BJP's rise to become India's governing party, the idea of India is being redefined to mean a Hindu polity. Through acts of violence as well as words and laws, India is debating not whether the country's political system should recognize Hindu identity, but the precise way in which it should be recognized.
MODERN NATIONALISTS
The BJP, which has for decades called upon the government to recognize the special rights of Hindus in a Hindu majority country, has been the single most important force in shifting the terms of debate. But that call now goes beyond the BJP. It has become part of a zeitgeist that animates a diverse collection of Indians, from global professionals looking for an identity to arm themselves with in a world where everyone else seems to already have one; to the small town graduates who see themselves reflected less in an Anglicized elite than in politicians who use Hindu religious metaphors; to the young rural men who take part in spectacular, mass, synchronized religious rituals, oddly reminiscent of the megachurches of the American South.
These are not backward-looking citizens lost in the glory of an imagined past. They are people concerned with the future, searching for an identity to help them navigate a modern, globalized world in which India is on its way to becoming an economic superpower. Many of them find that identity in a reimagined Hinduism, which serves both winners and losers in India's new economy.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi participates in a yoga session to mark International Day of Yoga in New Delhi, June 2015.
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The winners—a cosmopolitan elite, as comfortable in London or New York as in Chennai or Delhi—need cultural references that place them on a par with their counterparts in the West to mark their arrival on the world stage. Hindu symbols, refurbished for the twenty-first century, often provide those references. Diwali (a festival of lights, popular among Hindus in north India) becomes an answer to Christmas and the Ramayana (one of the many texts associated with Hinduism) become the answer to the Bible. For many of the losers—in particular young men in India's small towns and villages for whom globalization and economic growth have brought greater aspirations but not new jobs or a better education—the mass rituals now associated with Hinduism offer communal solidarity.
The idea that some form of Hinduism should be recognized in some way by the Indian state resonates among both the cosmopolitans and the dispossessed. What is at issue is how it should be recognized. The BJP is the main political party addressing this concern. Prominent leaders in the party and its parent organization, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), have offered four proposals, all of which raise the crucial questions not just of what place non-Hindus should have in India's political system, but also of who counts as a Hindu, and what counts as legitimate Hinduism. The label "Hindu" encompasses a great range of communities, beliefs, practices, and languages. If Hinduism is to be recognized by the state, whose Hinduism should it be?
WHOSE HINDUISM?
The first argument on offer holds that the Indian state should recognize Hinduism as at least symbolically pre-eminent, while guaranteeing equal rights to all citizens, including those from religious minorities. This first-among-equals view calls for India to recognize Hindus in a way that is roughly comparable to the way in which the United States recognizes Christians, for example: by privileging Christmas as a national and official holiday while not privileging the rights of Christians as a religious group.
This soft pro-Hindu view, often found among those who have joined the BJP directly (that is, not by way of the RSS or its affiliated organizations), challenges the Nehruvian idea of a state equidistant from all religions. That idea is currently enshrined in law: the Indian state does not privilege Hindu religious holidays. Government offices close for the holidays of all major religious groups.
If the first-among-equals view were to become law, it would not necessarily entail inequality in legal or material rights and entitlements, but it would leave non-Hindus lesser owners of their country in a symbolic sense. In addition, it would place those Hindus who do not follow whichever branch of the religion the state ended up recognizing in the same position. If the state is going to mark Hindu holidays, for instance, it would have to decide whether to privilege Diwali (the biggest festival of the year for many north Indian Hindus), Durga Puja (the major festival of Hindus in West Bengal), Ganesh Chaturthi (for those in the west of India), or Onam (the major Hindu festival in Kerala). The pluralist idea of India avoided this problem entirely.
The second argument—call it majoritarianism—goes further. India, it holds, should adopt laws that privilege its Hindu majority while giving non-Hindus diminished legal status. This is the standard position the BJP and many of its leaders have articulated over the last two decades. If majoritarianism were to prevail, India's non-Hindu minorities would become second-class citizens. Many Hindus might become second-class citizens, as well.
To see this, consider the BJP's position that the Indian state should ban the slaughter of cows because the cow is sacred to Hindus. This idea has assumed a new urgency following a recent spate of lynchings of those, often Muslims, accused of killing cows. Some senior BJP leaders have openly backed the killings. But as with most beliefs associated with Hinduism, some Hindus hold cows sacred and others don't. There are many perfectly traditional beef-eating Hindus, especially in southern and northeastern India. It should be no surprise that many of those lynched for cow slaughter have been Hindus. A rough count conducted by the Hindustan Times of 50 cases of "cow-terrorism attacks" since 2010 in which the identity of victims was discernible found that in at least one out of every four cases, the victim was Hindu, including Dalits (mostly Hindu groups who were once treated as untouchable). There are also many non-traditional atheist Hindus who do not hold the cow sacred. A ban on cow slaughter would discriminate against these Hindus and non-Hindus alike.
According to the third argument, Hindus constitute not only a religious majority but also a nation in themselves. This nationalist view has long been the position of the RSS and of RSS traditionalists within the BJP. It is also the position reflected in the Citizenship Amendment bill, a proposed law introduced by the BJP in 2016 and now under consideration by parliament, which seeks to covertly privilege Hinduism through amendments to India's citizenship laws. This position would demand the assimilation of India's non-Hindu minorities and has already been by used by the RSS and its affiliates to justify forcing Muslims to convert to Hinduism, a process euphemistically termed "ghar wapsi" or "homecoming." It would require the assimilation of many Hindus, too, into whatever interpretation of Hinduism the state espouses.
The fourth argument is the most extreme. Its proponents believe that not only should Hinduism form the basis of the nation but India should be a theocratic state with a religious leadership. The BJP and the RSS are not sympathetic to this view. But in 1964, as part of an effort to mobilize the Hindu majority, the RSS created the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, or "World Hindu Council," whose professed goal is to unite the Hindu clergy on a single ecclesiastical platform. Although this is not part of the official platform, many in the VHP espouse a theocratic idea of the Hindu nation and have now developed an independent popular base. Last year, Modi appointed the religious leader and VHP member Yogi Adityanath to be the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state. The selection demonstrated the degree of pressure that this theocratic tendency and its constituency exert on the RSS and BJP.
NATIONALISM ASCENDANT
Viewed along this spectrum, Vajpayee, an advocate of the majoritarian view, was no moderate. He sought to privilege Hindus over other religious groups, in a radical departure from India's founding ideology. Only the emergence of even more extreme versions of Hindu nationalism allowed Vajpayee's position to come across as middle-of-the-road.
Take Vajpayee's reaction in 1992, when a mob aligned with the BJP destroyed a sixteenth-century mosque in the town of Ayodhya, in North India. The BJP had previously campaigned to replace it with a Hindu temple. Unlike some BJP leaders, Vajpayee was not present at the demolition and apologized in the days that followed. But he apologized only for the spontaneous and uncontrolled destruction of the mosque, not for the original position that a temple should replace the mosque. He had always supported that view and made a speech saying as much just the day before the mosque was demolished.
Vajpayee's "moderation," such as it was, came from his personality and his love of poetry, which often overcame his ideology. He had a large heart, a poet's eloquence, and a poet's indiscipline in sticking purely to ideological matters. These traits helped him build and sustain relationships across ideological lines. They also allowed him to connect instantly with a crowd. I have stood at his rallies, mesmerized by his turns of phrase. At one, he told stories of the Emergency imposed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi between 1975 and 1977, during which many opposition leaders were jailed. Vajpayee had been one of them, and he spoke of undergoing surgery in prison that had permanently injured his back. "Now," he said, "I am incapable of genuflection, even if Mrs. Gandhi were to order me to bow before her." The crowd roared with laughter. They liked and respected him. I did too. But eloquence and an affable personal style do not add up to ideological moderation. Vajpayee's words and actions often transcended ideology. But when he did take an ideological position, it was unswervingly majoritarian.
Vajpayee's lack of moderation does not mean that there is no moderate way of responding to the search for a Hindu identity in the symbols of state. The pluralist idea of India that Khilnani wrote about contains the ingredients for such a moderate response, since it offers equal respect not only to India's non-Hindu minorities but also to the many different ways of being Hindu.
But Nehru's successors gave up on that pluralist idea long ago. His daughter, Indira, stoked the anxieties of the Hindu majority in her election campaigns in the early 1980s. His grandson Rajiv Gandhi courted the Hindu majority by launching his 1989 election campaign from the town of Ayodhya and calling for "Ram Rajya," the rule of Lord Ram. Now, his great grandson Rahul Gandhi, the current leader of the Congress Party, has begun to flash his own pro-Hindu credentials. During regional elections last year, he made conspicuous visits to temples. In September, in anticipation of the 2019 parliamentary elections, he set off on a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash in Tibet, which many Hindus consider to be the home of the deity Shiva. On the way, he tweeted that "Shiva is the universe," and published Fitbit data showing each of his steps along the pilgrimage route, turning what could have been a private visit into a political spectacle. Days later, the Congress party put upelection-related posters declaring Gandhi a devotee of Shiva. This half-hearted attempt at beating the BJP at its own game ensures that some form of Hindu majoritarianism will win in India's 2019 parliamentary elections—no matter who loses.
CORRECTION APPENDED (November 26th, 2018):
The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh is Yogi Adityanath, not Mahant Avaidyanath. The article has been updated.
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There is no magic cover crop formula. There is no guarantee that cover crops will "work" every time. The way to make cover crops deliver their best possible potential to your operation is to treat them the same way you treat your cash crops: with trial, error and a great deal of attention.
That was the message delivered by cover crop "coach" Steve Groff, a Pennsylvania farmer and cover crop expert credited with the development of the tillage radish. Groff shared his knowledge with members of the Cheney Lake Watershed conservation group in an Aug. 21 workshop and field day in Reno County.
"Mindset matters," Groff told the overflow crowd that toured cover crop demonstration plots at Kaufmann Seed in the morning and gathered for lunch and afternoon speakers at the Journey Activity Center in Yoder. "Think about everything you do to prioritize your cash crops: plant on time, use the proper seeding equipment and consistently observe the progress of the crop during the growing season."
Groff warned farmers that there will be "off" years in a 10-year cover crop management plan. Some years there will be weather, disease or insect issues that mean the crop does not do well, just as there are bad years for cash crops.
SUCCESSFUL FORAGE: Forage sorghums and sudangrass are among the cover crops that have been shown to produce a beneficial amount of biomass in a single growing season.
"Just remember that this is an investment in your future," he said. "You are building long-term value into your soil."
Successful cover cropping begins with understanding soil and how it functions, Groff told the group.
"One of the important things to realize that all of our soils started out with multiple species that had living roots in the soil at all times," he said. "That diversity of growing plants is essential and something that we have only recently begun to understand."
Groff said he is a third-generation farmer and started his no-till operation in 1982. Two years later, he did his first planting into green cover crops. He was one of the first cover crop growers to use a crimper and roller to terminate his cover crop, rather than spraying with herbicide.
"After developing the tillage radish in 2001, I started the first cover crop seed company and I won the no-till product of the year three years in a row. That was my start. Then, after a problem with my partners, I came within 18 hours of losing the farm. I was able to work it out, and I got out of the seed business and into cover crop coaching," he said.
Groff said his eventual goal is to be able to eliminate the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, replacing them with cover crops that provide the nutrients for cash crops, keep the soil shaded to prevent weed seed from germination and attract beneficial insects that feed on cash crop pests.
"My goal is to have living roots in the soil 100% of the time," he said. "My use of fertilizer is down 39% and my use of pesticide is down 57%. Yields are the same to higher. That's so far. But I want to warn you that this is no guarantee of results. You can't just throw on cover crops and expect miracles. All the good comes from the right management."
Groff showed slides of a dust storm rolling across the horizon, blackening the skies behind a field of heavy residue and cover crops — a field in which no soil was moving in the face of the rolling dust storm.
"This photo was taken in Colby in the spring of 2018," he said. "This is not the Dust Bowl. This is now, here. It's time to think differently. Now is the right time to embrace making a difference."
Groff urged farmers to always consider planting cover crops into the stubble of wheat harvest, especially in years when there is sufficient moisture to sustain their growth. He said cover crops, especially in a mix that includes legumes, often make more sense than a double-crop such as soybeans.
MEET THE COACH: Steve Groff is a third-generation Pennsylvania farmer who is credited with the development of the tillage radish. He shared some of his experiences and advice with members of the Cheney Lake Watershed conservation group at a field day in August.
"Cover crops make next year's cash crop better by making fertilizer more efficient and preventing erosion," he said. "We actually took soil samples from "snirt" — the soil-infused snow blowing off fields — and determined that the nutrients in the eroded material are higher than in the soil left on the field. It's the good stuff that blows away or washes away in runoff."
He said cover crops can help control resistant weeds by preventing their germination and crowding out their growth. He recommended terminating the cover crop early using a crimper and roller in dry years and letting it grow longer to help dry out soil for planting in wet years.
"I'm also starting to do a lot of work on companion crops," he said. "We're discovering that peas and hairy vetch pair well with oilseed rape (canola)."
Looking to the future, he said the latest piece of equipment is a planter that can adjust cover crop mixes on the go to put the best plants in the right places.
"We are getting close to the day when we can have a field prescription for the right cover crops the way we have a map now for variable rate nutrient application," he said. "The planters of the future will be able to adjust on the go and give us a precision cover crop mix."
He said he also sees a future with expanded direct sales of food from farmers to consumers and he thinks that the day is rapidly approaching when the public will weigh the nutritional value of the foods they are buying and opt for more nutrient rich produce grown on higher-quality soils.
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Although winter is already in full swing, you can still prep your car to prevent any future corrosion. Typically this is preformed in late autumn, but if the weather warms up, consider these steps.
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Pay specific attention to your vehicle's undercarriage, especially the brake line and fuel line. Spray these with an anti-corrosion product.
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The Internet plumbs new depths: anti-vaxers harass parents who lose children
This article from CNN (click on screenshot below) shows about the worst Internet behavior I've seen—behavior that makes the Young Adult Fiction Police look like saints. Read and weep copiously:
What happens here is that parents who lose children from disease, and mourn for them online, are viciously attacked on social media by antivaxers. The reasons are various, but none come from those who favor vaccines. Parents are either accused of killing their children with vaccines, of spreading the "false gospel" of vaccination, or are simply attacked when, if their child died because he/she couldn't be vaccinated, they campaign for other children to be vaccinated. Those campaigns really get the trolls exercised. Here are a few examples:
On May 6, 2016, Promoli put her toddlers Jude and his twin brother Thomas, down for an afternoon nap in their home. Jude had a low-grade fever, but he was laughing and singing when he went down for his nap.
When his mother went to check on him two hours later, he was dead. Promoli said the next few weeks were "a living hell."
"Having to go in and plan a funeral and find the ability somehow to even take steps to walk into a funeral home, to make plans and decide whether to bury or cremate your child — it was just all so horrifying," she said.
When an autopsy came back showing Jude had died of the flu, Promoli started her flu prevention campaign.
That's when the online attacks began.
Some anti-vaxers told her she'd murdered Jude and made up a story about the flu to cover up her crime. Others said vaccines had killed her son. Some called her the c-word.
The worst ones — the ones that would sometimes make her cry — were the posts that said she was advocating for flu shots so that other children would die from the shots and their parents would be miserable like she was.
"The first time it made me feel really sick because I couldn't fathom how anybody could even come up with such a terrible claim," Promoli said. "It caught me off guard in its cruelty. What kind of a person does this?"
Serese Marotta lost her 5-year-old son, Joseph, to the flu in 2009, and is now chief operating officer of Families Fighting Flu, a group that encourages flu awareness and prevention, including vaccination.
In 2017, she posted a video on the eighth anniversary of her son's death to reinforce the importance of getting the flu vaccine.
"SLUT," one person commented. "PHARMA WHORE."
"May you rot in hell for all the damages you do!" a Facebook user wrote on another one of her posts.
She says a Facebook user in Australia sent her a death threat"She called me a lot of names I won't repeat and used the go-to conspiracy theories about government and big pharma, and I responded, 'I lost a child,' and questioned where she was coming from, and she continued to attack me," said Marotta, who lives in Syracuse, New York.
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One more:
Grieving mothers aren't the only targets of anti-vaxer abuse.
Dorit Reiss, a professor at UC Hastings School of Law, has received countless vile messages, and as with the mothers, many of the messages are gender-oriented. Over the years, she's become pretty blasé about it.
"'Whore' is pretty normal," said Reiss, a pro-vaccine advocate who has written extensively about vaccines. "I've also been called a [c**t]."
Sometimes Reiss, who is Jewish, receives comments that mention the Holocaust.
One Facebook user made a meme with a photo of her father with "Proud Supporter of the Vaccine Holocaust." Reiss says her father has nothing to do with vaccines.
Another meme shows a photo of Reiss holding her infant son and it says that Reiss is "FORCE-injecting" her baby with vaccines.Below the photo is written: "Because one holocaust wasn't enough."
There are threats on the lives of pro-vaccination doctors like Paul Offit, messages far more hateful than anything I've ever gotten. I don't even want to repeat them here, but you can see them in the article.
Facebook is trying to moderate this debate, and I heard on the news that although they're not going to ban anti-vaxers, they will "moderate" discussion. I am conflicted about banning, as these morons are urging actions that can cause widespread and near-immediate harm; but on balance I think they should be allowed to speak, for that sparks a debate in which their claims can be refuted. (Harassment of individuals, and the use of threats, however, are not protected speech and can be prosecuted.) Facebook did say they would give anti-vaxer comments a lower profile on their pages, which I guess is a decent solution. They will, however, try to prevent targeting of individuals like those above.
Finally, there's some interesting material about "spies" who infiltrate anti-vaxer groups like Stop Mandatory Vaccination and find out that, despite the denials of that group's officials, the members urge each other to harass parents whose children have died.
This is one reason why I don't like anonymity on the Internet. Even if we don't ban anti-vaxer discussions, at least the people involved should be required to give their real names, and thus held accountable for their statements. And their actions are disgusting: this onslaught of harassment of grieving parents is the lowest to which our species can sink. All we can do is educate ourselves about the benefits of vaccination and keep arguing.
The CNN article ends on a sad note: this made me tear up a bit:
When she sees anti-vaxers talking about parents in their closed groups, [Erin] Costello, the online pro-vaccine spy, gets in touch with those parents to warn them they may be getting nasty messages from the anti-vaxers.
When Costello reached out to the mother in the Midwest, she explained why she was contacting her.
"I know you're likely getting many horrible messages on Facebook right now," Costello wrote to the mother. "Children such as [yours] are the reason why I do my part to fight for overwhelming acceptance of vaccines as well as fight against the lies and misinformation that are recklessly spread around against vaccines."
The mother wrote back.
"I appreciate the strong role you take in helping protect families like mine," she said.
After hundreds of Facebook comments from anti-vaxers, the mother turned off comments on her page, and deleted many of the ones she received.
Some are still in her head, though. She weeps as she remembers the one that was hardest to read.
"The ones that said this was a fake story. That he wasn't real. That my child didn't exist," she said. "Because when your child dies, that's the biggest fear — that he will be forgotten."
That's how low these jerks will sink.
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In other anti-vaxer news, Kentucky's Republican governor Matt Bevin bragged in a radio interview yesterday that he has eschewed having his nine (!) children vaccinated against chicken pox, and has instead intentionally exposed them all to the disease.
darrelle
I saw something just the other day about a new hip thing among anti-vaxers. Chicken pox parties. Yep. Groups get their children together with at least one infected child in hopes that they'll all get chicken pox. "Just go ahead and get it out of the way" seems to be the sentiment.
These people are nucking futs.
Paul Topping
We had chicken pox parties when I was a kid. They were called schools. 😉
No kidding! It sure seemed that way.
Diana MacPherson
I heard of those parties back before there was a chicken pox vaccine but now they continue. Good grief.
Suffering's good for the constitution, donchya know?
Yeah, I recall when I was a kid, parents would purposely expose their offspring to chicken pox while the kids were young. The fear, as I recall, was that if males didn't contract the disease until they were adults, it could lead to sterility.
Why anyone would still do it now, when there's an available vaccine, I don't understand — unless it's that those were the days of Levittown and Leave It to Beaver and Ozzie & Harriet, and if it was good enough for them then, it should be good enough for us now. Those are the days the "Make America Great Again" crowd idealizes.
Nicolaas Stempels
The sterility thing is with mumps, not with chicken pox. Note that possible sterility is not strictly limited to adults contracting mumps.
JezGrove
There's even a Wikipedia article on the phenomenon, naturally: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pox_party. I first heard about "chickenpox parties" through my (pro-vaccine) sister in Oregon. Italy, where her husband was born, has just introduced a strict new law banning unvaccinated children: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47536981
Yes they are, now chickenpox is and benign, you only expose your children to get shingles later, and apart from excruciating pain, if in the eye, just a possible loss of the eye. But hey shingles is only unilateral, so they still have the other one…
Measles is much worse, if your child survives it apparently unscathed, it sets back their immune system for several years, significantly increasing their chances to die from other diseases.
Fucking nuts -and criminally negligent- indeed.
jblilie
Shingles is only usually unilateral. I've read of many cases of bilateral. And many people who have it come back again and again.
There are now two shingles vaccines. I recommend getting both of them.
Shingles and chickenpox is the very same virus, Varicella zoster. a herpes virus. After chickenpox, the virus remains dormant in a ganglion.
Shingles is generally limited to a single dermatoma, occasionally 2, eg trigeminal nerve 1 and 2, but even then unilaterally. A unilateral rash makes any dr immediately think of shingles.
Shingles is common in people with compromised immunity (elderly, HIV, etc), but even in those, bilateral involvement is extremely rare, so I do take issue with you there, it is not 'usually', but 'virtually exclusively' unilateral.
Some patients with shingles do get a kind of generalized chickenpox, but I would not call that bilateral shingles. They generally die within a few days, btw.
As for a shingles vaccine, I'd guess it is the same as the chicken pox vaccine.
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I read about Poe's account of such a party in "Masque of the Red Death".
Intentionally exposing kids to chickenpox is not merely an antivaxxer phenomenon. People forget sometimes that the chickenpox vaccine is barely two decades old. And it is a disease that is more dangerous for adults than children.
Now we have a vaccine it's completely unnecessary, but it's not something the antivax movement invented.
So, this was true when I was very small: When parents heard of a kid with chicken pox, they brought their kids by to be infected (young). Rather than get it as an adult, which is apparently much worse. This was just normal practice, sort of informal vaccination. (Of course now, with vaccine, why would you? We had our sons vaccinated.)
I can attest the the shingles is serious and something to assiduously avoid. Get your shingles vaccines! One of my nurses in 2017 was permanently deafened in one ear by shingles. A friend of one my local pharmacists (she told me) was blinded in one eye by shingles.
I still (> 2 years later) have some residual post-herpetic neuralgia.
There are now two shingles vaccines. I recommend getting both.
Growing up pretty much everyone did get chicken pox and mumps sometime before 12 years of age, but I never heard or knew of parents intentionally getting their kids infected.
I understand the reasoning but I'm not entirely convinced that even prior to vaccines this was a good idea. I'd want to see statistics about bad outcomes in adults vs bad outcomes in children. "Folk wisdom" like this is quite often not accurate. Even if the disease is more dangerous for adults in some way that doesn't necessarily mean the over all odds favor intentionally infected kids. I've no doubt that some number of children suffered serious repercussions, permanent debilitation and even death due to this practice. While the majority of kids who contract these diseases recover just fine there is always some percentage who don't.
Chickenpox is more severe if you contract it as an adult and adults are more likely to suffer complications. It is recommended that if an adult has not had chickenpox that they get vaccinated.
Yes, not only giving them a disease that will be extremely uncomfortable while in its "itch" phase, but offers the interesting possibilities of pneumonia, encephalitis, and skin infections (though fortunately it is rarely fatal), plus the thrill of getting shingles later in life.
And hopefully those kids grow up, see the errors of their parents' ways & get the shingles vaccine.
Everyone (older than 50 at least) should get the shingles vaccines — there are two of them now.
I got mine last year and I'm under 50. Too many people my age and younger were getting shingles. I opted for Shingrix.
Ted Burk
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the connection between having chickenpox early in life and having shingles later. Since his kids didn't get the chickenpox vaccine now, let's hope they have enough sense to get shingles vaccination when they grow up.
Ha – I just said the same thing. Jinx!
Jinx! Ha, haven't heard that in a long time!
Deodand
It gets worse, if you go looking you will find that Anti-Vaxxers have tried to do the same thing with the measles.
And if you wonder about the involvement of Facebook in all of this matter, take a look at this one
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/2/7/18214351/facebook-myanmar-rohingya-muslims
I's likely that approx. 9000 people were persecuted – ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar from Aug. to Dec. 2017 due to hate speech on Facebook.
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This is so crazy and over the top. A "vaccine holocaust"? The statistics on vaccine safety are readily available, as are the statistics about what percentage of children and adults died of diseases before we had vaccines for them, and it's plain to see that while vaccines do kill or harm some people they're far better than the alternative. Even if we take their word that vaccines cause autism, the incidence of autism is still much lower than the incidence of harm caused by the diseases vaccines prevent! I really don't understand how these people can get so far from reality and reason.
The only thing I'd agree with is that many pro-vaccine sites do "lie" about vaccine safety by portraying them as perfectly safe when in fact they're only very safe.
Oh but those stats are false and put out by the government which is corrupt and trying to kill you. /sarcasm
It is so sad and frustrating. It doesn't matter if you bring evidence and reason to the discussion as these morons only take that as indicative of which side you're on.
Yep and they just assert over and over that "big pharma" and the government can't be trusted.
Of course, government and Big Pharma can't always be trusted but it doesn't mean everything they say is false or that truth can't be found.
In Western Europe most vaccines were made by the Pasteur Institutes, They are definitely not 'Big Pharma', but non-profits. I'm not sure about the present situation though.
I think it took a similar trajectory here in the US. Vaccines used to be created by academics who didn't seek to profit monetarily from their discoveries. Now Big Pharma does most of it. This is not my area so perhaps this is overly simplistic.
Of course. 😛 I just think that, you know, we'd notice if there was a holocaust going on. We'd all know people who lost a kid to vaccines. Maybe we're all in on it!
vierotchka
It has been established by several researches and projects that vaccines do not cause autism. Autism starts in utero and is largely genetic.
Here is what an excellent website about autism says:
https://www.autismspeaks.org/what-causes-autism
I posted about the woman who lost her twin on FB a few days ago and commented that "people are the worst". It's so horrible out there that these people can harass, bully, and silence others (I believe the woman closed her FB account and was then harassed via text and email) but to bully people who are going through something like losing their child for the fact that the bullies don't like that the child's death contradicts their ideology – that's just sick and reminds me of the false flag accusations hurled against parents whose kids were killed in shooting rampages.
It's horrible that people can be so nasty to others. I really don't understand it. Even if you truly think somebody is an agent of an evil conspiracy, it's doesn't justify calling them a bitch, cunt, and whore. They're just so angry!
That said, maybe I'm unusually insensitive or have too much toxic masculinity, but I can't imagine having my feathers ruffled by a comment from an unknown person on the internet, no matter my circumstances or what they said (as long as it didn't go beyond "words on the internet"). It seems like too many people, especially young people and young girls in particular, put themselves out on the internet and get badly hurt by internet bullies, sometimes committing suicide. In this modern age, I wonder if it's possible to teach kids to be more self-confident and resilient, but I guess there are no easy answers there.
I used to be called all those things regularly as a 20 year old working at a park. It was the response to people not wanting to pay the $5/car entry fee.
jeremy pereira
Response of… surely?
Yes, response of. I must've been thinking what I wanted to do to them for their abuse.
As the kids say, "smh". I really don't get it. I don't think my parents put any special effort into teaching me good manners – I was mostly left to raise myself – but it seems like you'd have to make a special effort to be so nasty. I wonder if they're born like that or if they saw their relatives being mean to people and learned it.
Sociologists sometimes talk about a phenomenon called " forward panic," in which a tense situation simmering resentfully within a crowd suddenly bubbles up and boils over into violence. People suddenly do horrible things which would otherwise horrify them — vandalize, or beat someone to death, or commit gang rapes. Steven Pinker discussed it in one of his books.
I wonder if such attacks on grieving parents might be the result of an Internet form of forward panic. Some internet communities held together by conspiracy and anger can become very personal and all-consuming to the people in them. A few folks slip a bit further … and the madness of crowds takes over.
I didn't expect such monstrosity even from antivaxers!
Yes, I noted to a friend of mine that I tend to be fairly cynical and expect nasty behaviour but even I was, if not shocked, outraged.
There are threats on the lives of pro-vaccination doctors like Paul Offit,
Shouldn't all doctors be pro vaccine? Even Andrew Wakefield (who I think is technically no longer a doctor) isn't anti vaccine in general.
Wakefield is definitely no longer a doctor. Sadly, he became an anti-vaccine campaigner. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield
Not just no doctor anymore, but basically a mass murderer.
Lewis Black did a Back in Black on The Daily Show last week on how measles came back recently.. There was a kid who defied his parents and got vaccinated. It's on YouTube.
Another interesting part of the Lewis Black bit was a mother who was declining vaccination – but only one specific vaccine. I'd have to listen again. She had a problem with a particular vaccine for some reason.
It doesn't help that the CIA ran a fake vaccination campaign in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, of course. https://www.nature.com/news/2011/110714/full/news.2011.418.html
The doctor involved was jailed for more than 30 years, but by then the damage had been done.
Yeah, I saw this a couple days ago.
So online harassment of this sort is 'moderated'. Deleted, and maybe the perps get banned.
But what about criminal charges? The distress this must cost the victims should be similar to being physically threatened. The human psyche cannot parse the difference between the two, so why should one result in no criminal charges while the other is charged?
How many of them are Russian trolls I wonder.
Oh get over the 'Russian trolls' thing. Unless you can show evidence that there's a group of Russian anti-vaxxers who are as batshit insane as the American ones, why should any Russian bother with this?
But I guess 'Russian trolls' is a convenient excuse for anything from Donald Trump to Brexit to the 737MAX.
answersingenghis
There doesn't need to be any Russian anti-vaxxers, just the realisation that any dissent or lack of trust in government/elites/science disrupts Western society. Of course, it's easy to blame the Russians for fomenting all public disaffection and become just a copy of the the Global Jewish conspiracy. But hey, the Russians started that one as well.
None at all. Russians are not against vaccines, neither is Putin.
Rowena Kitchen
How quickly we forget. In my mother's generation, it was common for children to die of diseases that children don't die from now if they've received vaccinations.
My Mom's younger sister died of measles in the 8th grade. A brother who had measles at the same time developed such a high fever that it damaged his brain. He became the butt of local small town boys' humor. It turned my Mom into a protector and defender of individuals like her brother.
SA Gould
They are cut from the same cloth as the Sandy Hook 'Truthers,' who claim it never happened, and murdered children never lived.
mirandaga
Something very fishy here. This is currently a huge issue here in Oregon because of pending legislation, and I've followed arguments from both sides carefully. The so-called "anti-vaxers" (that CNN uses this term betrays a bias from the get-go) are essentially libertarian types who might also oppose seatbelt or bicycle helmet laws. They don't really care if you want to buckle up or wear a helmet or vaccinate your kid; they just don't want to be told that they have to. On the vaccination issue they're basically pro-choice. The pro-vaccine camp, by contrast, is militant and won't rest until everyone vaccinates their kids, whether voluntarily or because they're forced to by law—they don't really care which. Hence, they are far more likely to demonize than be demonized. In short, I'm not sure I buy a word of this a word of this.
Libertarian types have trouble understanding the nature of the common good. There is no reason for the rest of us to be subject to ill-informed decisions of anti-vaxx libertarians. They should not have the "choice" to expose the rest of us to increased health risks.
Rita Prangle
Exactly, GB.
Right on GB!
The anti-vaxxers who don't want to be told that they should buckle up will be the same people who have their children riding in cars without seatbelts. In the past, that is how things were done (I am old enough to know). But things are different now, and for the better.
If the pro-vaxxers are demonizing anyone, it is in some proportion to the gravity of the situation. Like not having children wear seatbelts, not vaccinating children endangers them and causes some to die needlessly. Pressure and shaming seems a fairly mild response.
There are also those who can not be vaccinated. Very young infants, the elderly, and the immune-compromised. Thru herd immunity those individuals are far better protected from these diseases.
What are you insinuating, Mirandaga? Do you think it is an 'undercover' operation by pro-vaxxers to undermine anti-vaxxers by giving them a bad name?
Or am I reading more in your words than you meant?
'False flag' is the right term, not 'undercover', before my morning coffee.
Are you suspecting a false flag operation by the 'pro-vaxxers'?
In a word, yes.
That is an extremely serious accusation, do you have any evidence other than your impression (an impression I do not share, btw) that pro-vaxxers are more militant than anti-vaxxers?
[Note, the comparison with seatbelts is a bad one, a comparison with DUI is more appropriate. After all, anti-vaxxers -often vaccinated themselves- threaten not just the health and lives of their own children]
Peter Ruark
Herd immunity. The decision to not vaccinate your child is not just an individual decision.
Why don't we just pull up all the stop signs? What right has the government to tell us when and where to stop our vehicles?
scuba602
Somewhere I remember reading something about,"for the common good…" In reference to government's involvement with our daily lives, including stop signs. I mean, take one stop sign away and ppl won't stop and the. Head into concoming traffic and die (or kill) and I'd say that stop sign is there "for the common good." Or do you not think that sorta thing isn't good?
"Pressure and shaming seems a fairly mild response."
I'm not arguing for or against mandatory vaccinations, simply pointing out–as the replies tend to confirm–that it's the pro-mandated-vaxxers who are more likely to engage in pressuring and shaming than the other way around. I think the CNN report is bogus.
What are you saying–that they made all these reports up? I doubt it. It seems as if you're accusing CNN fabricating news because what they report doesn't conform to your expectations of how anti-vaxers should behave. Well, it's not my job to check CNN's accuracy, so be my guest. You're accusing them of wholesale fabrication, and I doubt that highly.
"Well, it's not my job to check CNN's accuracy, so be my guest."
I didn't mean to suggest that you were remiss posting this without fact-checking it. Nor do I have any evidence for my suspicion other than my extensive experience with the two mind-sets involved: pro-vaxers are far more likely to accuse anti-vaxers of being responsible for the death of their children than vice versa. Because they consider the science to be settled and the stakes to be huge, they feel morally justified in using any tactics whatever to silence/discredit the opposition. Just my take. I wouldn't be unhappy to be proved wrong on this.
The science on this is settled.. Stronger, in case of the measles vaccine, it appears now that the 'immunodeletion', a kind of immunodepression really, caused by measles can last for several years. Children contracting measles are not just at a much higher risk of dying or being debilitated by measles itself than having a rare adverse reaction to the vaccine, measles destroys the immunity they had against other diseases. They have a much higher mortality rate from other diseases (such as eg. staphylococcal pneumonia) compared to those vaccinated or not having had measles. Double whammy.
yiamcross
This is the vanguard of the Idiocracy and the idiot army is growing. Look at the rise of flat earth believers. I though they were mostly trolling the internet for fun but now I realise many of them are sincere and no among of reasoning works. They are able to deny reality even when it's staring them in the face, belief conquers all. They grow in numbers because they can unite in their belief and form what amounts to a virtual lynch mob. Things can only get worse I fear.
I'm not sure what the opposite of the "better angels of our nature" is – the worse demons? At any rate, I think the internet brings this out in spades. And the sad thing is, I'm not convinced that it's a matter of mistaken ideology first and craven bullying impulses second – I think people may simply seek out ideologies as a thin veneer to act on their preexisting craven bullying impulses.
That this aspect of the human psyche even exists causes me a tremendous amount of existential angst, but like it or not, it rears its ugly head eon after eon. I think we clearly evolved in a world where cooperation and competition were of roughly equal value, in a yin yang sort of way, and they both have their shadow side when applied lazily and selfishly – bullying and petty tyranny in the case of our competitive instinct; and mindless conformity and groupthink in the case of cooperation. The internet allows people to feel a sense of power over others in a completely unproductive and antisocial manner (out in the real world this wouldn't work, as any sense of sadistic power a person felt upon engaging in vile bullying would be quickly dissolved by the social repercussions,) and it's disheartening to see how quickly many people go this route when it's available to them. (On the positive side, I do think it's worth remembering that the internet can facilitate movement away from groupthink in productive ways – discussion of atheism in particular is an example of something that people may never consider without at least some initial anonymity.)
Dennis Mitton
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As a child, I almost died from the measles. It affected my heart (one of the rarest negative effects of measles). I was so weakened that I was sent to spend several months with a family in the mountains. I missed school for these months, catching up was hard work. Ever since then, heart problems have plagued me all my life. Here's an article I found a few weeks ago when trying to reason anti-vaxxers with scientific facts:


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MLS preseason this week ...
by Soccer America , Feb 29, 2012
[SCOREBOARD] Eleven MLS teams will be in action Wednesday in the four tournaments being played across the country. In addition, the Seattle Sounders will host Jaguares of Mexico in a friendly. For all the preseason schedules and results ...
Chicago Fire (MLS record: 1-3-1)
Jan. 29: 0-0 D.C. United in Naples, Fla.
Feb. 1: 3-0 FGCU in Ave Maria, Fla.
Feb. 4: 3-1 Real Espana in New Orleans
Feb. 11: 1-0 Chivas USA in Oxnard, Calif.
Feb. 15: 0-2 Portland Timbers in Carson, Calif.
Feb. 18: 0-2 San Jose Earthquakes in Ventura, Calif.
Feb. 25: 0-1 D.C. United (Carolina Challenge Cup) in Charleston, S.C.
Feb. 29: Columbus Crew (Carolina Challenge Cup) in Charleston, S.C.
March 3: Charleston Battery (Carolina Challenge Cup) in Charleston, S.C.
Chivas USA (0-3-0)
Jan. 27: 0-1 Ventura County Fusion in Oxnard, Calif.
Feb. 3: 5-0 FC Hasental in Carson, Calif.
Feb. 7: 0-1 Colorado Rapids in Carson, Calif.
Feb. 11: 0-1 Chicago Fire in Oxnard, Calif.
Feb. 16: 2-3 Los Angeles Galaxy in Carson, Calif.
Feb. 22: 2-5 Tijuana in San Diego
Feb. 24: 4-0 Loyola Marymount Univ. in Carson, Calif.
Feb. 27: 0-2 AIK Stockholm (Portland Timbers Tournament) in Portland, Ore.
March 1: Portland Timbers (Portland Timbers Tournament) in Portland, Ore.
March 4: San Jose Earthquakes (Portland Timbers Tournament) in Portland, Ore.
Colorado Rapids (1-1-1)
Feb. 5: 0-0 Ventura County Fusion in Oxnard, Calif.
Feb. 7: 1-0 Chivas USA in Carson, Calif.
Feb. 10: 1-2 San Jose Earthquakes in San Luis Obispo, Calif.
Feb. 11: 1-0 Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, Calif.
Feb. 21: 2-1 Hawaii Pacific Univ. in Honolulu, Haw.
Feb. 23: 1-2 Yokohama FC (Hawaiian Islands Invitational) in Honolulu, Haw.
Feb. 25: 1-0 Melbourne Heart (Hawaiian Islands Invitational) in Honolulu, Haw.
Columbus Crew (0-1-0)
Feb. 8: 1-2 Malmo FF in Bradenton, Fla.
Feb. 11: 6-0 U.S. under-17 national team in Bradenton, Fla.
Feb. 15: 0-2 Seattle Sounders in Bradenton, Fla.
Feb. 25: 2-2 Charleston Battery (Carolina Challenge Cup) in Charleston, S.C.
Feb. 29: Chicago Fire (Carolina Challenge Cup) in Charleston, S.C.
March 3: D.C. United (Carolina Challenge Cup) in Charleston, S.C.
D.C. United (1-1-2)
Jan. 29: 0-0 Chicago Fire in Naples, Fla.
Feb. 2: 1-1 Malmo in Sarasota, Fla.
Feb. 11: 1-2 Sporting KC in Casa Grande, Ariz.
Feb. 14: 1-1 Real Salt Lake in Casa Grande, Ariz.
Feb. 25: 1-0 Chicago Fire (Carolina Challenge Cup) in Charleston, S.C.
Feb. 29: Charleston Battery (Carolina Challenge Cup) in Charleston, S.C.
Mar. 3: Columbus Crew (Carolina Challenge Cup) in Charleston, S.C.
FC Dallas (0-1-0)
Jan. 28: 5-1 Houston Baptist Univ. in Frisco, Texas
Feb. 2: 1-0 Inter Playa del Carmen in Playa del Carmen, Mexico
Feb. 7: 0-2 New York Red Bulls in Cancun, Mexico
Feb. 11: 1-1 River Plate reserves in Frisco, Texas
Feb. 12: 6-0 Univ. of Memphis in Frisco, Texas
Feb. 15: 4-0 SMU in Frisco, Texas
Feb. 18: 5-1 Univ. of Tulsa in Frisco, Texas
Feb. 22: 1-2 U.S. under-23 national team in Frisco, Texas
Feb. 25: 1-1 BK Hacken (Disney Pro Classic) in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
Feb. 28: 4-0 Orlando City (Disney Pro Classic) in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
March 1: Toronto FC (Disney Pro Classic) in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
March 3: placement game (Disney Pro Classic) in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
Houston Dynamo (2-2-2)
Jan. 28: 3-0 Houston Dynamo academy in Houston
Feb. 1: 4-0 San Jacinto Junior College in Houston
Feb. 4: 4-0 Houston Baptist Univ. in Houston
Feb. 8: 2-0 Montreal Impact in Carson, Calif.
Feb. 18: 4-0 SMU in Houston
Feb. 24: 0-0 Sporting KC (Disney Pro Classic) in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
Feb. 26: 0-1 Vancouver Whitecaps (Disney Pro Classic) in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
Feb. 29: Montreal Impact (Disney Pro Classic) in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
Los Angeles Galaxy (2-4-0)
Feb. 3: 7-2 Los Angeles Blues in Carson, Calif.
Feb. 7: 1-4 Portland Timbers in Carson, Calif.
Feb. 10: 0-1 Houston Dynamo in Carson, Calif.
Feb. 14: 0-3 Montreal Impact in Carson, Calif.
Feb. 16: 3-2 Chivas USA in Carson, Calif.
Feb. 17: 0-0 UCLA in Carson, Calif.
Feb. 17: 3-1 Ventura Country Fusion in Carson, Calif.
Feb. 22: 2-3 New England Revolution (Desert Diamond Cup) in Tucson, Ariz.
Feb. 25: 2-0 Real Salt Lake (Desert Diamond Cup) in Tucson, Ariz.
Feb. 29: New York Red Bulls (Desert Diamond Cup) in Tucson, Ariz.
March 3: Placement game (Desert Diamond Cup) in Tucson, Ariz.
Montreal Impact (1-2-2)
Jan. 22: 0-0 vs. Guadalajara XI in Guadalajara, Mexico
Jan. 24: 1-0 Estudiantes Tecos XI in Guadalajara, Mexico
Jan. 25: 7-0 Iteso XI in Guadalajara, Mexico
Jan. 26: 1-1 Atlas XI in Guadalajara, Mexico
Feb. 8: 0-2 Houston Dynamo in Carson, Calif.
Feb. 10: 0-0 Los Angeles Blues in Carson, Calif.
Feb. 29: Houston Dynamo (Disney Pro Classic) in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
New England Revolution (2-0-0)
Jan. 29: 2-1 FC Tucson in Casa Grande, Ariz.
Feb. 10: 3-0 Boston College in Foxboro, Mass.
Feb. 22: 3-2 Los Angeles Galaxy (Desert Diamond Cup) in Tucson, Ariz.
Feb. 25: 2-0 New York Red Bulls (Desert Diamond Cup) in Tucson, Ariz.
Feb. 29: Real Salt Lake (Desert Diamond Cup) in Tucson, Ariz.
New York Red Bulls (1-2-0)
Feb. 7: 2-0 FC Dallas in Cancun, Mexico
Feb. 11: 1-1 Merida in Cancun, Mexico
Feb. 14: 1-1 Estudiantes Tecos in Guadalajara, Mexico
Feb. 23: 0-0 UNAM in Phoenix, Ariz.
Feb. 29: Los Angeles Galaxy (Desert Diamond Cup) in Tucson, Ariz.
Philadelphia Union (0-0-0)
Feb. 11: 1-1 FGCU in Deltona, Fla.
Feb. 15: 5-0 UCF in Deltona, Fla.
Feb. 18: 1-1 Orlando City in Orlando, Fla.
Feb. 26: 0-1 Municipal Perez Zeledon in San Jose, Costa Rica
Feb. 28: 3-0 Costa Rican under-20 national team in San Jose, Costa Rica
March 1: Belen in San Jose, Costa Rica
Portland Timbers (3-0-2)
Feb. 7: 4-1 Los Angeles Galaxy in Carson, Calif.
Feb. 15: 2-0 Chicago Fire in Carson, Calif.
Feb. 23: 1-0 Oregon State Univ. in Portland, Ore.
Feb. 27: 1-1 San Jose Earthquakes (Portland Timbers Tournament) in Portland, Ore.
March 1: Chivas USA (Portland Timbers Tournament) in Portland, Ore.
March 4: AIK Stockholm (Portland Timbers Tournament) in Portland, Ore.
Real Salt Lake (1-1-2)
Feb. 10: 1-1 Vancouver Whitecaps in Casa Grande, Ariz.
Feb. 14: 1-1- D.C. United in Casa Grande, Ariz.
Feb. 29: New England Revolution (Desert Diamond Cup) in Tucson, Ariz.
San Jose Earthquakes (2-1-3)
Feb. 4: 1-2 Sporting KC in Tucson, Ariz.
Feb. 10: 2-1 Colorado Rapids in San Luis Obispo, Calif.
Feb. 14: 2-2 Houston Dynamo in Ventura, Calif.
Feb. 27: 1-1 Portland Timbers (Portland Timbers Tournament) in Portland, Ore.
Seattle Sounders (1-0-1)
Feb. 6: 1-1 Vancouver Whitecaps in Casa Grande, Ariz.
Feb. 13: 1-1 Orlando City in Bradenton, Fla.
Feb. 15: 2-0 Columbus Crew in Bradenton, Fla.
Feb. 16: 3-0 U.S. U-17 national team in Bradenton, Fla.
Feb. 19: 5-0 FGCU in Bradenton, Fla.
Feb. 22: 5-2 Atlante in Cancun, Mexico
Feb. 29: Jaguares in Seattle
Sporting KC (2-0-2)
Feb. 4: 2-1 San Jose Earthquakes in Tucson, Ariz.
Feb. 11: 2-1 D.C. United in Casa Grande, Ariz.
Feb. 14: 5-1 FC Tucson in Tucson, Ariz.
Feb. 24: 0-0 Houston Dynamo (Disney Pro Classic) in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
Feb. 26: 1-1 Montreal Impact (Disney Pro Classic) in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
Feb. 29: Vancouver Whitecaps (Disney Pro Classic) in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
Toronto FC (0-0-0)
Feb. 17: 5-1 USF in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
March 1: FC Dallas (Disney Pro Classic) in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
Vancouver Whitecaps (2-0-2)
Feb. 6: 1-1 Seattle Sounders in Casa Grande, Ariz.
Feb. 19: 2-1 Univ. of Victoria in Victoria, B.C.
Feb. 29: Sporting KC (Disney Pro Classic) in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
March 4: Carolina RailHawks in Cary, N.C.
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