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OP-ED | 09-11-2019 12:11
A month is an even longer time in politics
His future Cabinet remains a mystery while his road map for a stricken economy does not go beyond a broad socio-economic agreement, with a 2020 wage and price ceiling of 35 percent widely floated but far from confirmed.
Eugenia Iglesias
Argentina's new elected president, Alberto Fernandez. | NA
If a week is a long time in politics, as then-British prime minister Harold Wilson observed half a century ago, so is a month of transition between governments (with 31 days still to go for the inauguration). Nor is president-elect Alberto Fernández exerting himself unduly to fill the vacuum – insofar as a favourite maxim of Juan Domingo Perón was: "When I define, I exclude," Fernández can be considered a true Peronist. His future Cabinet remains a mystery while his road map for a stricken economy does not go beyond a broad socio-economic agreement, with a 2020 wage and price ceiling of 35 percent widely floated but far from confirmed. But what we have seen from a president-elect spending most of last week in Mexico is some indication of his foreign policy, at least where this hemisphere is concerned.
During this visit Fernández announced a "strategic alliance" with Mexico and pronounced a vision of Latin American unity based on the Puebla Group of progressive leaders. To speak of these two countries as a cradle of integration is almost an oxymoron since Argentina is one of the world's most closed economies while Mexican presidents traditionally take pride in never leaving home soil, G20 summits etc. apart, with Andrés Manuel López Obrador yet to venture abroad after almost a year in office (just as no US president ever left the United States until the Treaty of Versailles a century ago). The generally nationalistic and protectionist leanings of Grupo de Puebla leaders are assumed to cement Latin American unity more firmly than the more open economy championed by their adversaries (as well as boost exports to pay off debt, as Fernández told a Russian television channel this week).
Nor is the Grupo de Puebla any more convincing as a basis for integration. Housing past, present and future presidents, it does not even attempt to bring together sitting governments, never mind states, with "progressive" being the one common denominator. And nor does it focus on the acute social and economic problems causing unrest in almost half the subcontinent beyond a blanket rejection of "neoliberalism" – the immediate priority would seem to be the personal legal complications of some of these leaders themselves, including previous two-term president and future vice-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. The discussions centred on the concept of "lawfare" whereby progressive populist leaders allegedly become the innocent victims of corruption trials. The Grupo de Puebla springs to the defence of prosecuted progressives in Brazil, Ecuador and Argentina, among other countries, but is curiously silent over Peru where just about every ex-president of the last generation is on trial on similar charges (or even the same in the case of Brazil's Odebrecht scandal with its continental fallout), with Alan García even committing suicide – these generally promarket leaders are considered to stand guilty as charged.
Meanwhile, the "lawfare" defence of Brazilian ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as the star victim is complicating relations with Argentina's biggest trade partner even before the new presidency has started. It would be impossible to say that all the fault lies on the side of Alberto Fernández when Jair Bolsonaro is on the other – the latter is largely responsible for making such an issue of the Brazilian presence at the inauguration – but the collision course is being gratuitously accelerated. Even allowing for the ideological incompatibility, if Fernández can manage to be on at least speaking terms with US President Donald Trump, why not work towards a minimal co-existence with the elected government of Brazil, which is (after all) a rather large part of the Latin America which the Grupo de Puebla seeks to unify?
Yet all this talk about foreign policy does not offer many clues as to domestic (and where it does in this case, they are often negative, such as a blind eye towards corruption). The president-elect's allergy to definitions is a luxury he can ill afford. Any elected politician should normally be entitled to the benefit of the doubt before they start to govern but these are not normal times and the doubts bring no benefit – Fernández cannot waste any more time in clarifying them.
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In this article the author puts forward an interpretation of Locke's famous chapter on primary and secondary qualities, chapter 8 of Book II of The Essay concerning Human Understanding. It is argued that the key to the distinction is the thought that the causal processes of perception must conform to what the author calls Locke's impulse principle. This principle, found at E.II.viii.11, as well as at many other places in the Essay, states that we can understand causation in nature only as operating by impulse, where impulse involves movement and contact. The author argues that, despite cosmetic changes to E.II.viii.11 as a result of his dispute with Stillingfleet, Locke still maintains the principle, and effectively rules out action-at-a-distance in perception, even in the final edition of the Essay he oversaw. The principle plays the same crucial role in chapter 8 as it did in the first edition of the Essay, distinguishing (primary) qualities, that reside in objects as they are perceived, from (secondary) qualities, which are merely powers of those objects to produce ideas in us.


Welcome to this visual archive curated by Assistant Professor Michael Bobo at Norco College.
As you enter, you will experience samples of art from the past three thousand years. I hope you will use this resource, consider the similarities in styles between cultures, and formulate your own opinions about which periods you like. It is a growing collection that I will keep to help you in your studies of the Humanities.
The titles of each work give you a general name and a century, or a specific dates are presented if available. Navigation links are broad historical categories typically used to refer to work in a given period.


Itchy dogs are a big problem in our practice. Recent reports suggest that up to 40% of non-routine veterinary patient visits are skin related, usually with scratching and irritation of the skin.
This page has been written to supplement a vet visit by giving information and background that can't possibly be given in one consultation. It has also been written to try and present some evidence based therapies for itchy dogs that have been proven to be beneficial in large scale studies so that owners are not tempted to try product 'abc oil' from farmers market 'xyz' even though John from the market said it worked for his dog.
We know that the 'lets give this a try' approach breeds confusion and frustration amongst owners and ends up with dogs not being treated properly because owners have 'tried everything and nothing works!'.
An uncomfortable sensation that generates the desire to scratch. Scratching in dog's may include rubbing, chewing, biting and licking.
Allergy occurs when a dog's immune system reacts to substances in the environment that are usually harmless to most dogs.
A genetically determined skin problem that results in inflammation and itching of the skin in specific areas that is associated with antibodies to environmental allergens.
An allergic condition of the skin that resolves once a hypoallergenic diet is exclusively fed.
An allergic condition of the skin (usually above the base of the tail) that resolves once fleas are eliminated from the dog's environment.
The simple answer is because they are itchy!
The complex answer is that itching is caused by an intricate interaction between inflammatory cells and the molecules they release whenever they are activated by the immune system.
Scratching is a physiological response that gives short term relief from itching by causing pain that then reduces the sensation of itch.
It puts our dogs' scratching in a different light if we think of it in terms of them willing to make themselves hurt just to alleviate the uncomfortable sensation of itch.
How much itching is too much itching?
It can be difficult as a dog owner to know when your dog is itching more than it should be. In general terms, if a dog scratches enough to cause redness of the skin or hair loss that can't be controlled by home treatments, then the dog should be seen by a vet. The following table also helps to define the level of itch that a dog is suffering from - any grade over 2 will need to be seen by a vet.
Normal dog: There is minimal itching. There is no more itching than before the disease began.
Very mild itching: There are occasional episodes of itching. There has been a small increase in itching compared with before the disease began.
Moderate itching: Regular episodes of itching are seen when the dog is awake. The dog occasionally wakes up because of itching but the itching stops when the dog is eating, playing, exercising or otherwise distracted.
Severe itching: Prolonged episodes of itching are seen when the dog is awake. The dog regularly wakes up because of itching or itches in its sleep. The itching can also be seen when the dog is eating, playing, exercising or otherwise distracted.
Extremely severe itching: Almost continuous itching which does not stop when the dog is distracted, even in the consulting room. The dog needs to be physically restrained from itching.
How is a vet going to help my itchy dog?
There are three aspects to the treatment that your vet will give.
Your vet will give some treatment to control the immediate discomfort that your dog is in. Most dogs are presented to vets for flares of their skin condition due to a phenomenon called the itch-scratch cycle - the act of licking, chewing, biting or scratching damages the skin and causes MORE itch. The dog will often require some infection control as well because infection with yeasts or bacteria is an important complicating factor in dogs with itchy skin problems.
If this is not the first episode of skin problems that your dog has had, your vet will talk about home treatments that should help to keep your dog comfortable and reduce the frequency and severity of flares in the future. These treatments will be mentioned later but it is most important that these treatments are performed when your dog's skin is looking good as most home treatments will not be able to control a flare once it has spiralled out of control.
If your dog has had more than a few episodes of skin problems or the itch is quite severe, your vet will discuss some diagnostics to try and narrow down the cause of your dog's itching.
What types of conditions make our dogs itchy?
The common causes of itch in dogs mainly boil down to parasitic, infectious or allergic skin disease. The most common causes of itchy skin in dogs are mentioned below. Obviously there are more causes but there is a truism in veterinary medicine that "common things occur commonly" and this is very true in dermatology. As long as we stick to a logical diagnostic process, most skin problems will be sorted out. If things turn out a bit unusual then there is always the option to refer to a specialist dermatologist.
So what itchy skin condition does my dog have then?
Itchy skin conditions in dogs are generally diagnosed by a series of rule outs. It is impossible to diagnose what skin condition your dog has on his/her first visit. We need to rule out conditions one-by-one and assess response to certain medications along the way to coming up with a definitive diagnosis. This can be frustrating for owners but there is not one test that we can do to eliminate all possibilities in one go.
Infections are relatively easy to rule out by some simple tests and then treated accordingly. Demodex mites are easy to rule out with skin scrapes and sarcoptes mites usually need a treatment trial - we use Revolution® at the recommended dose every two weeks for three treatments. Revolution will also help to rule out flea allergy as well.
Once parasites and infection are ruled out, we only have two culprits on the list of possible diagnoses - food allergy and atopic dermatitis. Food allergy is fairly easy to rule out but needs to be done in a very specific way. There are some special diets available from vets that can be used to rule out food allergy. Some examples of the diets we use are Hills Prescription Diet z/d and Royal Canin Hypoallergenic. Whilst on exclusion diets your dog must NOT receive any other type of food or the results will not be accurate.
In summary: If, after parasites and infection have been eliminated, and your dog's itch fails to improve significantly after a strict 6-week prescription diet food trial then your dog has atopic dermatitis.
A genetically-predisposed chronic inflammatory and itchy allergic skin disease with characteristic clinical features. It is associated most commonly with antibodies to environmental allergens.
Atopic dermatitis is usually the condition that people (and vets) are referring to when they say that a dog is allergic to grass, pollens, weeds, trees, dust mites etc. It affects 10-15 % of all dogs and together with flea allergy dermatitis, accounts for the majority of itchy dogs we see in practice.
This depends on the severity of the symptoms. For mild disease then home treatments may be all that is required. For moderate disease, steroids (cortisone, prednisolone, dexamethasone) may be used to control symptoms and allow itching to reduce to normal and stop the dog's self trauma. Steroids have side effects which mean that they are not useful for long term control of atopic dermatitis but they are very useful medications to help settle a flare up. If the itch recurs shortly after a course of steroids have reduced the itch level to less than grade 2 (remember our itch scale?) then your dog has moderate to severe atopic dermatitis and is a candidate for long term therapy.
Long term therapy is either desensitisation through allergy vaccines or the use of cyclosporin. If your dog has moderate to severe atopic dermatitis then these treatments will have to continue for the rest of the dog's life.
Cyclosporin and Apoquel are immunosuppressive medication which are effective at controlling the hypersensitive immune system seen in atopic dermatitis in dogs. They need to be given regularly (every day or every second day) and are reasonably expensive and probably not quite as effective as steroids at itch relief but they have less side effects and are certainly the medication of choice for long term control of moderate to severe atopic dermatitis. They can be dispensed by regular GP vets.
Desensitisation is a procedure that is performed by a veterinary specialist dermatologist who will do some allergy testing to determine the allergens that an atopic dog is reacting to. The dermatologist will then formulate an injection containing those allergens and this is injected into the atopic dog. The effect of having these allergens injected back into the dog is to reduce the atopic dog's 'allergic-ness' to the allergens. In principle this is the gold standard treatment for atopic dermatitis, though, like cyclosporin is reasonably expensive and owners must be OK with regularly injecting their dog for the rest of it's life.
What are the home treatments?
The home treatments that we recommend are ones that have shown some benefit in clinical trials. We know that there are lots of products in the marketplace that seem natural and have great testimonials but until there has been extensive testing we don't recommend them.
One of the jobs that normal skin performs is to protect us from our environment. It does this by forming a barrier that is made up of dead skin cells glued together and kept supple with fatty acids and other oils. One of the changes that happens in atopic dermatitis is that this barrier function is reduced and skin dries out and is unable to protect underlying tissues (and the immune system) from microbes and allergens. This barrier dysfunction seen in allergy effectively allows the immune system contact with allergens and could be responsible for the hypersensitivity seen in atopic dogs.
Home treatments basically try to repair the barrier function or to keep it as strong as possible and in a nutshell rely on either moisturising or fatty acid supplementation.
Other options are Alpha Keri or QV bath oil diluted 10 mls oil to 500 mls water and sprayed directly onto the skin. May be slightly oily.
Clinical trials prove that fatty acid supplementation helps to reduce the amount of steroids that an atopic dog requires to keep him/her comfortable. The dose of fish oil is approximately one 1000mg capsule per 10 kg per day. You can probably give one 1000mg capsule daily to a 5 kg dog, just check to make sure that there is no resultant diarrhoea.
The final word about home treatments is that they help to improve the skin function, not specifically control itch and they cannot be relied on to control itch in a dog that is having a flare up - these dogs need to be seen by a vet. The best way to use these home treatments is to use them most when the skin is looking good, NOT wait until a flare.
What about antihistamines - shouldn't they work?
Antihistamines are used for immediate type allergic reactions like hayfever in people. Atopic dermatitis is caused by a delayed allergic reaction so it is no surprise that antihistamines have not been found to be very beneficial in canine atopic dermatitis.
Canine atopic dermatitis is a frustrating recurrent and incurable condition that affects a large percentage of our canine pets. It is not unmanageable, however, and a good understanding of the condition can help us to improve the lives of our itchy dogs. After all, if your dog's scratching is keeping you awake, how do you think your dog is feeling?


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I have been learning and teaching Logo off and on for twenty-five years - since the first Terrapin Logo version became available for the Apple II computers in my classroom. Why? Partly because I have found it fun both for me and my students, who have ranged in age from five to fifty. Partly because I believe that the experience of programming is a valuable discipline in its own right.
Before Logo, I taught BASIC, and even wrote a book on the subject - Teach Your Computer To Think In BASIC. But mostly, I like to use Logo because, as its principal creator Seymour Papert puts it, learning to program enables me and my students to actually write for the computer.
As programmers, we are no longer constrained merely to accept the results of what others have written. Don't get me wrong. Lots of good programs have been written for us by others. Some programs, like word processors and geometrical explorers and drawing toolkits and data bases, give us a great deal of control over our computers and allow us to do things we could never accomplish otherwise.
But however much we feel in control of these programs, it's not the same feeling of control as if we had actually written the programs ourselves. By learning to write programs in an open-ended procedural programming language like Logo, you are truly in control of what appears on your computer screen and what goes on in the computer's unseen workspace. If you don't like something about what the computer displays or how the computer solves a problem, you can change it. If the creators of Logo left out a procedure you need, you can write one of your own. And in the process of learning how to write procedures for the computer, you learn something about "programming yourself" to become a better problem solver.
I firmly believe that every child should be exposed to Logo, preferably in primary or lower elementary school, with plenty of opportunities for informal exploration independently and in groups, with a sympathetic and knowledgeable guide in the background to provide start up challenges and assistance as needed. I also believe that children who are interested in moving beyond these early informal explorations deserve an opportunity in upper elementary and secondary school to truly master Logo and to experience the satisfaction of writing for the computer in a style that produces remarkable effects and that satisfies both the author and his or her audience of peers and adults.
There are many resources available to help primary and lower elementary teachers gain the knowledge and confidence to serve as "guides" for their children's informal explorations. The first three Units of this book provide such a background, as do many of the resources cited in the bibliography. However, there are not as many resources available to those who wish to move beyond early explorations into real mastery of Logo. This book is directed specifically to this audience: to teachers and parents who want to become fully literate in Logo for their own enjoyment and in order to assist young people to learn the language, and to secondary students who have the interest and ambition to pursue Logo literacy on their own.
This book is organized into fourteen sequential Units, each of which opens with a discussion of one or more new Logo concepts and closes with suggestions for exploring these in depth at the keyboard. As you go along, I urge that you stop reading whenever you come to a procedure, enter it into your computer, and analyze its effect. The text is designed to be used in conjunction with a Macintosh running LogoWriter 2.0, but the concepts apply to all versions of Logo and the explorations can be adapted to all implementations of the Logo language.
In Appendix B, I suggest an outline for using this material in a classroom or computer lab setting and summarize the strategies that I have found helpful in teaching this material to middle school students at Polytechnic School and to pre-service teachers at Pacific Oaks College. I hope that these comments will be useful both to those who use this book in a school setting and those who use this book in a pre-service or in-service course for teachers.
No matter what the educational setting, I think it is important for students and teachers to approach their work from the point of view that programming is a form of writing: Programmers and authors both work within the confines of their language. The "grammar" of Logo is extremely simple compared to the grammar of English, but it must be adhered to rigorously. Programmers and authors create their products for particular audiences. Two audiences are addressed simultaneously by the programmer: the Logo Interpreter that "reads" the program on behalf of the computer, and human colleagues who read the program for their own edification. The program must be intelligible to both audiences.
Programmers and authors choose from among all the words at their disposal those that will convey their meaning most effectively. Logo programmers have a big advantage here: they may create new words if their initial vocabulary is not rich enough to express their ideas clearly. Programmers and authors expect to revise their initial drafts in order to achieve the effects they desire. Programmers receive feedback from the Logo turtle in the form of lines drawn on the screen and from the Logo Interpreter in the form of error messages pointing out "bugs" in the original draft. Both programmers and authors receive feedback from their human audiences in the form of comments concerning clarity and effectiveness. In addition, programmers may choose to move a step beyond writing programs that are intelligible to the Interpreter and understandable by others; they may strive for "elegance" in their writing by designing programs that accomplish their purposes as simply and concisely as possible.
Logo is a programming language written by a team of computer scientists headed by Seymour Papert at MIT in the late 1970's. It is the first and only programming language written specifically with children in mind. Dr. Papert's goal was to provide children with a powerful "tool to think with," a tool that could be accessed easily by very young children but that was sophisticated enough to challenge learners of all ages. As more powerful microcomputers became available in schools, more powerful versions of Logo were developed to take advantage of their greater memory and more refined graphics capabilities.
LogoWriter, developed in the latter half of the 1980's, is a particularly user-friendly version of Logo. This book, written for use with Macintosh LogoWriter 2.0 (the last version offered) is finally complete after going through five field-tested revisions. LogoWriter uses the metaphor of a scrapbook containing pages of pictures (graphics) or writing (text). The scrapbook initially contains only three pages: the Contents page which is displayed when you boot LogoWriter, the Colors page which displays the 256 color choices, and the Help page which provides a few useful tips which you may modify for your own purposes. You add new pages to the scrapbook by selecting the "New Page" option from the contents page (click on New Page with your mouse or press < RETURN > ). There is virtually no limit to the number of new pages you may add to your scrapbook.
The scrapbook page is the top portion of your computer screen. It contains a text cursor in the upper left corner and a graphics cursor (in the shape of a Logo turtle) in the center. The text cursor is used when your are writing and the turtle is used when you are drawing. The phrase "turtle geometry" refers to creating geometric shapes by drawing consecutive sides (from the turtle's point of view) rather than by connecting points on a geometric grid.
The bottom five lines of the computer screen, below the heavy line, are called the command center. The command center is not part of the scrapbook page displayed above it. The command center is where you type the instructions that affect your scrapbook and move the turtle on the page above. The command center is also used to display error messages from the Interpreter.
Besides providing scrapbook pages and the command center, LogoWriter reserves a section of the computer's memory called the workspace, used by the Interpreter to implement the instructions that you write in the command center. The Interpreter is a program that translates your instructions from the Logo-Writer language into a simpler machine language to which the computer can respond. If the Interpreter finds an instruction that it cannot translate (called a "bug" in computer jargon) it prints an error message in the command center, explaining its problem. It is then up to you to revise the faulty instruction.
As you see, there is also a text cursor in the command center. Unlike the text cursor at the top of the scrapbook page, this cursor is blinking which means it is "active", waiting for you to type commands. Although you can view only five lines at a time, the command center will actually hold hundreds of lines of commands; you may scroll through lines of text in the command center by using the up or down arrow keys or by clicking the mouse on the up or down arrow symbols at the right.
Each LogoWriter page contains three "buttons" which you may activate by pointing and clicking the mouse. The square in the upper left corner is used to close the page when you are done with it. The triangle in the upper right corner (with the F in it) is used to "flip" to the other side of the page. The circle in the upper right corner of the command center (with the S in it) is used to stop a run-away program. The Menu Bar at the top of the screen has many features that are already familiar to Macintosh users.
When the Contents page is displayed, the only feature available is to pull down the File menu to Quit the program, but when other pages are displayed the Edit, Search, and Font menus enable you to perform the usual text processing activities. The File menu also is expanded to include many features in addition to Quit. New Page saves the page you are working on and turns to a new page. Get Page saves the page you are working on and turns to the Contents page, from which you may select a different page. Name Page allows you to name a new page. The question marks at the top of a new page mean that it does not yet have a name. Save Page saves what you have done so far and then returns to the same page. Close is the same as clicking on the "close page" button described above. Print Screen sends and text and graphics displayed on the monitor to a printer; Print Text sends text from the current page to a printer. Quit leaves the program after giving you the option of saving or not saving the page you are working on.
The turtle's starting location on the page is called her "home position." If you wish to move her to a new starting place, you may drag her with the mouse.


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– Everything started to turn. No top nor bottom. She thought she was going to fall in the sky sooner or later.
– She walked in the burning sand and she saw something scintillating on the top of a red hill. She climbed and handled carefully a stranger object that seamed to be a cosmic bubble level.
– After having walked for a long time in a red desert, she found a strange artefact. She turned the wheel and put the world into orbit. Everything started to turn.
– She washed her face with the holy cosmic water. The sand turned into the sky. She suddenly realised tha the sky was under her feet all the time and that all the mass of Earth was suspended in space, as if magic.
– The sky was everywhere. Under her feet, above her head. She was rediscovering the Earth's landscape. Rock and sand became porous, as if the sky was piercing through them. She was bathed in bluelight.
– She suddenly realised that she was surrounded by the immensity of the sky.
– She didn't know exactly how long she was on this planet, but she felt good about it. Everything seemed stable and peaceful. She decided to go sunbathing on the pink sand. Surrounded and blinded by all sorts of screens, she cut herself off from the outside world and she stopped thinking.
– That night, she called random numbers. She needed to hear voices against her cheek.
– And she watched the toothbrush and the toothpaste making love.


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37 d'Aquari (37 Aquarii) és una estrella de la Constel·lació d'Aquari. Té una magnitud aparent de 6,64. Es tracta d'una estrella hipergegant; posseeix una magnitud absoluta de 0,98 i la seva velocitat radial positiva indica que l'estrella s'allunya del sistema solar.

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Es tracta d'una estrella situada a l'hemisferi celeste austral, molt a prop de l'equador celeste; el que comporta que pugui ser observada des de totes les regions habitades de la Terra, exceptuant el cercle polar àrtic. A l'hemisferi sud sembla circumpolar només en les àrees més internes de l'Antàrtida, sent de magnitud 6,6 no és observable a ull nu, però és fàcilment visible amb uns binoculars petits. El millor període per a la seva observació és entre els mesos d'agost i desembre. El període de visibilitat és pràcticament el mateix en els dos hemisferis degut a la seva posició propera a l'equador celeste.

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Classic Vehicle Specialist Hagerty Selects LexisNexis Risk Solutions To Support U.K. Growth Plans
LONDON — Classic car and motorbike insurance specialist, Hagerty, has selected LexisNexis® Risk Solutions as its chosen data partner to support its growth ambitions in the U.K. under the direction of its new VP of International Insurance Products, Lee Mathewson.
Hagerty has seen solid growth in the U.K.; and plans to expand its customer base to include newer classic cars and younger drivers building on its strong reputation in collector vehicle insurance in the U.K. and in the U.S. The Hagerty Drivers Club is also set to expand to customers in the U.K. for the first time.
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Home Covid Treatments Coronavirus vaccine maker is also developing a promising COVID-19 drug – BGR
Written by Chris Smith |	Posted on June 10, 2020 |	Filed in Covid Treatments
Coronavirus vaccine maker is also developing a promising COVID-19 drug – BGR
A brand new type of coronavirus treatment is gaining more traction among researchers: Monoclonal antibody therapies that can be used to treat COVID-19 patients and provide limited protection against infection.
AstraZeneca is also involved in testing such novel drugs, and the company just released more news about its progress on the antibodies it licensed from Vanderbilt University to test against COVID-19.
A promising therapy consisting of two antibodies will be tested on humans after the antibodies proved to be effective at neutralizing the virus in lab settings.
The first coronavirus vaccines might be ready for public use in late 2020, assuming everything goes well during the last stages of human testing, but it will take years for pharmaceutical companies to manufacture enough of the vaccine to meet demand. Immunizing the global population might be even more challenging if COVID-19 immunity turns out to be short-lived. Dr. Anthony Fauci and other experts warned that protection could last between six and twelve months, which is the case for the four known human coronaviruses that cause common colds. If that turns out to be the case for SARS-CoV-2, then people could catch the disease again after the acquired immunity wanes.
However, researchers studying new COVID-19 therapies aren't placing all their eggs in the same basket. More than 130 teams are working on vaccines, but many hospitals are running trials with existing medicines that can be used to hasten recovery — remdesivir is one such example. More importantly, other researches are looking at brand new drugs that can combine the best of both worlds. They can both treat existing COVID-19 patients and provide limited protection to people who haven't contracted the disease.
The new drugs are known as monoclonal antibodies, which are drugs based on antibodies that can neutralize a pathogen. Several companies have identified human and animal antibodies that can prevent the SARS-CoV-2 virus from binding to the healthy human cells and invading them.
AstraZeneca announced on Tuesday that it's going forward with six promising coronavirus-neutralizing antibodies of the more than 1,500 variations it had tested in lab conditions. The company licensed the antibodies from Vanderbilt University and evaluated their ability to inhibit the coronavirus. AstraZeneca signed an exclusivity deal for the six compounds and will combine two of them in a clinical trial set to start in the coming months.
The purpose of using both antibodies is to potentially increase the effectiveness of the resulting drug. The antibodies will target parts of the receptor-binding domain of the spike protein seen in the following illustration.
Schematic showing the spike protein of the novel coronavirus. Image Source: AstraZeneca
By preventing the virus from interacting with cells via the spike protein, these drugs would stop a critical step in the replication of the coronavirus. Antibodies prevent the virus from creating hundreds of millions of copies of itself. As a result, monoclonal antibody therapies could help COVID-19 patients recover faster, and boost the immunity of patients who are likely to develop complications, including the elderly and people with existing health conditions.
Monoclonal antibodies are somewhat similar to vaccines when it comes to providing protection to people who have not been infected. The difference between the two is that vaccines teach the immune system to produce its own antibodies, and the immunity lasts longer. Monoclonal drugs only lend antibodies to a patient, and once they expire, the protection wears off. The protection would be shorter than vaccines, but it could still save lives.
AstraZeneca says that the candidates it chose for the human trial have an extended half-life, as they're "engineered using proprietary technology to extend their longevity in the body."
AstraZeneca infographic explains the process of developing monoclonal antibodies therapies for COVID-19. Image Source: AstraZeneca
These drugs may be enough to supplement vaccines and other therapies, and could very well replace them if vaccines aren't available. Not to mention that monoclonal antibody treatments might turn out to be easier to manufacture and distribute than vaccines. Before that happens, AstraZeneca and everyone else developing similar courses of treatment have to prove the drugs actually inhibit the virus. The company has signed agreements with academia and US government agencies on the project.
Separately, AstraZeneca partnered with the team behind the famous Oxford vaccine and plans to produce hundreds of millions of doses if the vaccine proves to be effective.
Photo taken on May 18, 2020 shows a logo in front of AstraZeneca's building in Luton, Britain. The Oxford University has confirmed a global licensing agreement with AstraZeneca, which will make 30 million vaccine doses available to Britain by September if the trials are successful, as part of an agreement for 100 million doses in total. Image Source: CHINE NOUVELLE/SIPA/Shutterstock
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The ugliest, most appalling spectacle in American politics
Members of North Carolina student chapters of the NAACP and opponents of voter ID legislation in the gallery of the House chamber of the North Carolina General Assembly in Raleigh in April 2013. (Gerry Broome/ASSOCIATED PRESS)
By Eugene Robinson
Columnist focusing on politics and culture
Every once in a while, the curtains part and we get a glimpse of the ugliest, most shameful spectacle in American politics: the Republican Party's systematic attempt to disenfranchise African Americans and other minorities with voter-ID laws and other restrictions at the polls.
If you thought this kind of discrimination died with Jim Crow, think again. Fortunately, federal courts have blocked implementation of some of the worst new laws, at least for now. But the most effective response would be for black and brown voters to send the GOP a message by turning out in record numbers, no matter what barriers Republicans try to put in our way.
The ostensible reason for these laws is to solve a problem that doesn't exist: voter fraud by impersonation. Four years ago, you may recall, a Republican Pennsylvania legislator let slip the real reason for his state's new voter-ID law: to "allow" Mitt Romney to win the state. In the end, Romney didn't. But Republicans tried mightily to discourage minorities, most of whom vote Democratic, from going to the polls.
Now, thanks to documents that surfaced in a lawsuit, we have an even clearer and more egregious example of attempted disenfranchisement, this time in North Carolina. As The Post reported, the documents show "that North Carolina GOP leaders launched a meticulous and coordinated effort to deter black voters, who overwhelmingly vote for Democrats."
The article continued, "The law, created and passed entirely by white legislators, evoked the state's ugly history of blocking African Americans from voting — practices that had taken a civil rights movement and extensive federal intervention to stop."
This year more states than ever will require potential voters to show photo ID in order to vote in the election. Here's why this is so controversial. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post)
Post reporter William Wan backed up that tough assertion by quoting from the documents.
In one email, written while the GOP-controlled legislature was crafting what has been called the most onerous voter-ID law in the nation, a staffer asked for a breakdown of the 2008 voter turnout showing whether blacks and whites differed in their preference for early voting. In another email, a Republican lawmaker wanted to know if Hispanic voters tend to vote outside their home precincts. In another, an aide to the House speaker asked for "a breakdown, by race, of those registered voters in your database that do not have a driver's license number."
Wan wrote that "months later, the North Carolina legislature passed a law that cut a week of early voting, eliminated out-of-precinct voting and required voters to show specific types of photo ID — restrictions that election board data demonstrated would disproportionately affect African Americans and other minorities."
Thankfully, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of the Appeals for the 4th Circuit recognized the legislature's discriminatory intent and struck down the law. Republican Gov. Pat McCrory tried to appeal, but the Supreme Court refused to stay the lower court's order — which means the law will not be in effect for this year's election.
Federal courts have also struck down new voting restrictions in Texas, Wisconsin, Kansas and North Dakota. In all cases, the laws were enacted by Republican legislatures and governors. And in all cases, discriminatory impact on minority voters is at issue.
GOP officials defend these laws as necessary to protect the sanctity of the voting process. The judge in the Wisconsin case, however, found that "a preoccupation with mostly phantom election fraud leads to real incidents of disenfranchisement."
Some might argue that these laws are a matter of politics, not racism — that Republicans may be trying to discourage Democrats from the polls but are not targeting minorities as such. That's a distinction without a difference, however, given the GOP's estrangement from minority voters.
And the North Carolina example clearly puts to rest any notion that these restrictions are colorblind. The law began as a simple 16-page bill mandating voter IDs. But in June 2013, while the legislation was still being worked on, the Supreme Court gutted Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which compelled Southern states with a history of voter discrimination to obtain Justice Department approval before making changes in election laws.
"Now we can go with the full bill," the Republican chairman of the state Senate's rules committee told reporters. The legislation grew to 57 pages, with new provisions that shortened early voting, eliminated same-day registration and took away counties' ability to extend poll hours to accommodate long lines, among other curbs.
Republicans claim they want support from African Americans, Hispanics and other minorities. They don't deserve the time of day until they stop this appalling effort to keep us from voting at all.
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J. Gerald Hebert and Danielle Lang: Courts are finally pointing out the racism behind voter ID laws
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Vanita Gupta: Defend democracy by restoring the Voting Rights Act
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Josh Barnett wants UFC gold again, and in order to do that he needs to beat the best.
The 'Warmaster' mentioned that he would like to fight former UFC heavyweight champion Junior Dos Santos in his next bout although nothing has been set in stone.
The heavyweight picture is pretty complicating right now with top contenders such as Stipe Miocic, Fabrio Werdum, Dos Santos, Travis Browne, and more.
With Barnett's name and a high profile win over Dos Santos, it is a good possibility that he closes the distance on a title shot.


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From Karachi to Bombay
My mother Indra's family. Karachi (now Pakistan). Circa 1930
My mother Indra's family. Karachi (now Pakistan). Circa 1930 Image and Narrative points contributed by Roma Mehta, Taipei Volunteer Assistance : Myra Khanna, New Delhi This is one of my favourite photographs of my mother Indra's family. It was taken in front of her family's home in Sindhi Colony in Karachi, almost a decade before the partition of India and Pakistan took place. It is difficult to pinpoint an exact date but I estimate it was the 1930s. It is possible this photo was taken on the occasion of my uncle (mother's brother) Moti's wedding but I cannot confirm it. Sitting in the middle are my grandfather, Gaganmal Jhangiani whom we fondly called Baba and grandmother, Laxmi Bai whom we called Ammi. Around them sit his children, his brother's children and a relative-in-law. Baba was a tall and dark complexioned man, and Ami was petite and fair. To me, they seemed like ebony and ivory. Ami and Baba used to play together as children and when Ami turned 12, the families got them married. It seems that my grandmother had basic elementary education but like most women of the time, she became busy with domestic matter and household duties. My grandfather was an architect by profession and had studied in England. I have been told that he was instrumental in designing and planning the Sindhi Colony in Karachi. Life was good for the family : they had a lovely home, a horse carriage, and a great love of music and culture. Each one of them knew how to play an Indian classical music instrument. The family would even sing together on many occasions. My mother, Indra always told us stories…
The Devadasi who became a Maharani
My maternal grandparents, the Maharaja & Maharani of Devas, my mother, uncle and great grandmother. Bombay. Circa 1931
My maternal grandparents, the Maharaja & Maharani of Devas, my mother, uncle and great grandmother. Bombay. Circa 1931 Image and Narrative points contributed by Cory Walia, Mumbai This picture is of my mother, the little girl in the center, and her immediate family taken around 1931 or 1932 in a British photo studio in south Bombay [maybe Kalbadevi]. There is no stamp on the photograph so I can't tell which studio it may have been. My grandfather in this picture brought his family to Bombay specifically for having a series of photographs taken in the studio. He was very fond of studio portraiture and would travel to Bombay often to get his pictures taken. My grandfather, His Highness Malhar Rao Narayan Rao Puar was a King of a small kingdom in now Madhya Pradesh, near Indore called Dewas. Originally his family were Rajputs who like several of the other Rajput nobility embraced the Maratha/Peshwa fold and began adopting the Maratha language and customs in addition to their Rajput heritage. His family claimed to be descendants of Vikramaditya, the legendary emperor in ancient India. I hope it's true. Seated on the extreme right is my maternal great grandmother, a lady called Krishna Rao Salgaocar. She was a commoner and belonged to the erstwhile Devadasi tradition from the Devadasi house of Saligao in Goa. In this photograph, she wears black (or navy blue) because she considered herself to be a widow of the father of her children, who while alive was a leading businessman of that time but refused to accept his children as legitimate - as was usual at the time when it came to relationships or children with Devadasis.…
"He was and still is, by all means, my hero"
My parents, Tarun Coomar & Indira Bhadury. Nagpur, Maharashtra. Circa 1940
My parents, Tarun Coomar & Indira Bhadury. Nagpur, Maharashtra. Circa 1940 Image and Narrative points contributed by Jaya Bachchan, Mumbai This photograph of my parents Taroon Coomar Bhaduri and Indira Bhaduri is by far one of my most favourite images of all, and while I have asked myself the reason so very many times, I am still not sure why. I had looked at and thought about it so often, that a few years ago my mother simply gave it to me as a gift. I think this photograph was taken right after their marriage. My mother whom I call Ma was 14 and my father, Baba was 20. One of the most striking parts of this photograph is Ma's black Georgette saree. I have wondered about that too. Georgette & Chiffons were expensive materials, meant only for the rich. We came from a middle-class income family, and affording Georgette would have been out of the question. But I think Baba had a role to play in that; he was very broad- minded and seemed to have kept in touch with the latest elegant fashions of the time. It must have made him very happy seeing a visionary image of himself and his family, even if the opportunities were far and few. I also remember another story within the family- when he went to Calcutta (now Kolkata) to buy his sister's wedding trousseau and insisted that his sister get married in a beautiful white saree. The family was aghast. Hindu women never got married in white, but red. The outcry against tradition was met with no avail, and it was to be his will or nothing. The family later complied and my aunt did get married in a beautiful white Banarsi Saree. Baba's family came from Krishnanagar, West Bengal…
The chosen NCC cadet of Punjab Contingent
Shavinder Kaur, New Delhi. 1967
Shavinder Kaur, New Delhi. 1967 Image and Narrative contributed by Shavinder Kaur, Mumbai. I was a 20 year old NCC Cadet (National Cadet Corps) of the Punjab Contingent and this picture in the ceremonial NCC Blazer was given to all the cadets who had been photographed for their participation in the Republic Day Parade and camp. I remember that cold January 26 - Republic Day of 1967 clearly. It was very cold, and we were all up at 4.30 am to get into our crisp khakis and shiny marching boots. Everyone glowed with pride and excitement, and were set for a 10 kms march from Rashtrapati Bhavan to India Gate via Rajpath. It was after all the Republic Day Parade and we were the chosen ones, representing our respective contingents. I was at that time a Senior Under Officer and led the Punjab, Haryana, Himachal and Chandigarh Contingent.
It was a very coveted position to be at. Among the thousands of countrymen and women who had flocked to see the celebrations, my mother too had traveled all the way from Jullundur, Punjab to watch me march. The NCC in those days was a very coveted organisation. Thousands of young people aspired to join the NCC, while in school and college. The Sino-Indian war of 1962 & Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 had brought about a renewed sense of national pride among the young. NCC also offered opportunities to engage in adventure activities, cultural and sporting events as well as traveling and seeing new places. The preparations for the Republic Day Parade began more than a month in advance - Three weeks at our regional headquarters in Chandigarh and three weeks at New Delhi. The camp…
The most infamous helicopter crash in our history
My grandparents Nalin and Sharda Nanawati. 1962. Bombay
My grandparents Nalin and Sharda Nanawati. 1962. Bombay Image & Narrative contributed by Diya Nanawati, Mumbai My paternal grandfather Nalin Kumar Dhirajlal Nanavati was born in Rangoon, Burma in 1915, during the British Raj. He was the second of three children born to my great grandfather, an Indian civil servant (ICS) from Gujrat. The family belonged to a trading community called Surati Baniyas. Nalinkumar Dhirajlal Nanavati, my grandfather, was a dashing soldier with the Allied Forces in the 1940's. He was a soldier in the British Eighth Army and a Major with the 5th Royal Maratha Light Infantry. When the forces were ordered to go and fight the wars of WWII, he left behind a beautiful wife of Bengali and French parentage and a young daughter. But the family back home didn't hear from him a long time and his beautiful wife assumed that he has passed away in war. But he did return to India, a battle scarred survivor, victorious from saving peninsular Italy from the German Nazis. Later, he was awarded a military cross for his bravery in the Battle of Monte Cassino. However, he had won the war but lost his family, his wife and daughter, to another man. His daughter later married into a Parsi Baronetcy in Bombay. As time passed my grandfather became Lt. Colonel in the Indian Army, and he met Sharada Ramaiah, the woman who would become my grandmother. My grandmother Sharada Ramaiah and my grandfather Nalin met over a game of tennis in New Delhi. He was charmed by her intellectual personality. Both my grandparents from my dad's side of the family came from educated families and had english governesses. Grandma Sharada (born in 1925)…


While we've had a lot about the bid by Bryant's Travis Wood to make a Major League roster for the first time with the Cincinnati Reds, there are several other former Bryant athletes still competing on a high level. Following is information about as many as I could track down but, first, a little more about T.Wood.
The latest from the Reds website is that the decision between Wood and last summer's No. 1 draft pick Mike Leake will be made Thursday after both pitch in split squad games on Wednesday. Leake, who hasn't pitched in the Minor Leagues yet, was pitching this afternoon against the Oakland A's. Travis, with four years of Minor League experience, will pitch this evening in Las Vegas against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Cuban Aroldis Chapman, who hasn't any Minor League experience either, has been set back by a bout of back spasms. It's been decided he'll start the season at AAA Louisville.
Wood is 23 years old. Leake and Chapman are 22.
If Wood gets the nod, indications are he would make his regular-season Major League debut on April 11, in Cincinnati against the Chicago Cubs.
Here's news about some more Bryant products. If anyone's missing, let me know at rob@bryantdaily.com or leave a comment below and I'll try to get more information.
• Ashley Grappe Chisum completed an injury-riddled basketball career in splendid fashion this spring as a senior guard for the Arkansas Tech Golden Sun which posted a 31-3 record, reaching the Elite 8 in the Division II National Championship tournament. In the finale on March 23, a loss to second-ranked Franklin Pierce, Ashley scored 17 points.
Starting 17 of the 23 games she played in, Chisum averaged 3.6 points and 2.1 rebounds per game with 99 assists and 41 steals. She hit 90 percent of her free throws (28 of 31).
• Also in basketball, Brandon Cowart, after earning All-TranSouth All-Freshman team selection in 2008-09, played in all 30 of Lyon College's games, starting 18. Former Hornet Hunter Sample, as a freshman, got into 17 games. Cowart averaged 6.5 points and 2.1 rebounds a game. He dished out 81 assists and made 19 steals.
Sample averaged 3.1 points and 2.7 rebounds with six assists, five steals and three blocked shots.
• In baseball, Wood is not the only professional player from Bryant. Aaron Davidson pitched in 13 games for the Arizona Giants Rookie league team last summer, posting a 1-0 record with a 4.05 earned run average. He got better every time out and was very effective late in the season.Minor League assignments have not yet been made as spring training continues this week. Davidson will likely end up playing for the Augusta (Ga.) GreenJackets or the San Jose (Calif.) Giants, both Class A teams in the Giants organization. The Giants have AA teams in Richmond (the Flying Squirrels) and Connecticut (the Defenders).
It looks like two of Bryant's Division I players will be sitting out this season.
• At the University of Arkansas, it's looking more and more like sophomore lefty pitcher Trent Daniel will be red-shirted. With just a few innings of work during the fall, he hasn't had any consistent work on the mound in game situations since last summer with the Bryant Black Sox American Legion team. According to his folks Tom and Kathy, Hogs head coach Dave Van Horn had told Trent he had plans to use him this season but, since it hasn't happened yet, and the UA pitching staff has been solid with a number of upper classmen, even Daniel's profile on the Hogwired.com web site mentions he's probably going to redshirt. The Daniels expressed their hope that he would at this point. He would start next season with three years of eligibility and would have a chance to be one of the mainstays of the staff with graduations and professional careers attracting this year's upper classmen.
Starting catcher Landis Wilson his hitting .296 with one homer and 24 RBIs but back-ups Tim Emmons and Myles Parma are each hitting .200 so there might've been room for Jobe to get some playing time, particularly at the plate.
• A couple of other Bryant alums are getting playing time at Division I schools including Joey Winiecki at Oral Roberts. After a stellar career at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith where he earned NJCAA All-America honorable mention as a freshman, leading the team in batting average (.444), hits (100, a school record), on-base percentage (.484) and stolen bases (30), he transferred to ORU.
He's leading the 11-10 Golden Eagles with a .371 average in nine games (13 of 35). He's stolen five bases in seven attempts, scored eight runs and driven in three.
The Golden Eagles just returned from a trip to Los Angeles where they played three games against UCLA. On Tuesday, they traveled to Austin and beat the Texas Longhorns, 3-2. Winiecki was on base four times with a hit and three walks. He scored one of his team's runs. ORU will visit Arkansas in Fayetteville on April 20.
• Through 24 games at Arkansas State, Danny Riemenschneider has gotten into 11 games including a couple of starts as a middle infielder. He's hitting .273 (3 of 11) with a .429 on-base percentrage, two runs scored and an RBI. The slick fielder has a 1.000 fielding percentage.
• In Arkadelphia, after suffering a severe injury last year, it looked like Richie Wood's baseball career might be over. But he has come back this season for the Henderson State Reddies and has started 26 of 27 games, posting a .320 average, a .456 slugging percentage and a .375 on-base percentage. He leads the team with 103 at bats, 33 hits and 16 stolen bases in 18 tries. He is second with 20 runs scored and eight doubles while driving in 18 runs and slugging two homers.
• Across the street, Michael Haydon has gotten into five games for the Ouachita Baptist Tigers with three at bats. He's been hit by pitches twice and scored a run.
• At Southern Arkansas, where the senior-laden Muleriders are 27-3, sophomore catcher Tyler Pickett has gotten into three games and batted once, working behind a pair of veteran receivers.
• A pair of former Bryant players are now at Crowder Junior College in Neosho, Mo. True freshman Tyler Sawyer has played in 11 games with six at bats and two hits for a .333 average. He's scored twice and knocked in a run. He's also helping the team on the mound. He's 2-0 with a save. In 10 innings, he's walked three and fanned three and has posted a 6.30 ERA so far.
Teammate David Guarno, a redshirt freshman, has played in 25 games. In 80 at bats, he's posted a .363 batting average with 14 RBIs and 24 runs scored.
• Former Bryant Lady Hornets softball players Hailey King and Christen Kirchner are now teammates at Central Baptist College. In 30 games, King is hitting .490 with 47 hits in 96 at bats. She's scored 35 runs, hit 13 doubles, three tripls and four home runs while driving in 26. Kirchner is hitting .495 with 47 hits in 95 at bats. She's scored 52 runs and driven in 49, both team highs, and leads the team with 14 home runs. She's also hit 12 doubles for a slugging percentage of 1.063.
• Bryant track star Spencer McCorkel spent two years at the University of Arkansas and scored in a number of events as a pole vaulter but has transferred to Liberty University in Virginia where, according to the preseason prospectus on the school website, he may red-shirt this season, however. But at the Big South Indoor Track and Field championship meet McCorkel competed in the men's heptathlon, finishing 11th to help the Flames win the meet.
• Mary Edwards is listed on the Arkansas State track roster. Her accomplishments in the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons are listed in the media guide but no mention is made of her 2008-09 campaign or results from this season.
• In football, Logan Cruse is continuing his career at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. Last fall, he played in six games and got in on three tackles.
• Jake Jackson had a second stellar season for Rhodes College in Memphis where he was named second team all-Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference at wide receiver. He was the team's second-leading receiver with 34 receptions for 436 yards and two touchdowns in 10 games. He also returned kickoffs for the Lynx. He also was named Academic All-Conference for the second year in a row.
• On the Ouachita Baptist University web site, Dijon Benton, Christian Brooks, Ethan Passmore and Taylor Masters are listed on the roster. Benton is the only one that recorded stats last fall. In seven games, he was in on 11 tackles and broke up two passes.
• Chad England was listed on the Henderson State football roster as a freshman linebacker in 2009.
• As a freshman transfer at the Southern Nazarene University, Jared Szabad got into one game last season and made a tackle.
• In addition, the University of Central Arkansas continues to be Bryant High School Dance North with the award-winning program. Bryant alums on the squad include captain Jennifer Gattin, Kathleeen Fricke, Elissa Honea, Jessica Maxey, Sarah Nation, Cecilee Pamplin, and Courtney Patton. The Honeybears took second in the collegiate pom division at the Universal Dance Association Nationals in Orando, Fla., in January.
Rob, Great article. Good to see all of the players continuing on.
Aaron is not going back to the Giants organization. I spoke with his parents last Saturday and he has decided to focus on work and a girlfriend here at home.
I know I won't ever forget the 17 strikeout performance against Fayetteville in the state quarters, then the follow up 12 strikeout win in the finals against them. For 3 weeks (including the Regionals and World Series), he was the most dominant pitcher I have seen.


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Part 4 of my documentary GROUNDSWELL: WHOSE NHS? A GRASSROOTS JOURNEY – The Bill That Can Save The NHS? – is now on YouTube.
Not without the support of the Labour Party it can't. And most of the Labour Party, including Shadow Health Secretary Heidi Alexander, don't support it. Yet.
The NHS (Reinstatement) Bill has its Second Reading in Parliament next Friday 11th. Sign and circulate the 38 Degrees petition for MPs to support the Bill at the Reading, which today has over 17,000 signatures. And write to your MP and/or the Shadow Health Secretary.
There's a letter in The Guardian today appealing for support for the Bill. The letter has over 300 signatures including a number of well-known figures.
Attend the forthcoming Day Of Action In Support Of The NHS Bill next Friday 11th in London and other cities. It's at 11.00 – 13.30 outside Parliament.
My new article Bad For Our Pockets, Bad For Our Health is in the new March issue of Kensington Chelsea & Westminster Today.


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The "Sisters of the Sun" episode of Cosmos featured stories about female scientists who helped us understand the composition and classification of stars.
Here's a snippet to whet your interest.
The two women scientists are Cecilia Payne and Annie Jump Cannon. They are given voice in the full section of the episode by Kirsten Dunst and Marlee Matlin.
Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin was a British-American astronomer and astrophysicist who, in 1925, proposed in her Ph.D. thesis an explanation for the composition of stars in terms of the relative abundances of hydrogen and helium.
Annie Jump Cannon was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification.
Neil deGrasse Tyson's delivery is so nonjudgemental on this series, but those raised eyebrows when he says, "Wonder why," do speak loudly.
In case you have not been watching this marvelous series, you can see past episodes on cosmosontv.com.


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Die Glocke (German for "The Bell") is the name of a purported top secret and highly sensitive Nazi scientific technological device. The only source of this theory are the books of Polish aerospace defence journalist and military historian Igor Witkowski, which claim it to be a secret weapon, or Wunderwaffe. The topic has been popularized by Nick Cook, Joseph P. Farrell and conspiracy theory websites, associating it with Nazi occultism and antigravity or free energy research. The device was first claimed to exist by Igor Witkowski, in his Polish language book Prawda O Wunderwaffe (2000, reprinted in German as Die Wahrheit über die Wunderwaffe), in which he refers to it as "The Nazi-Bell". Little was known or reported on regarding the device until it was popularized in the English-speaking Western world by Jane's Information Group's British aviation editor, journalist and author Nick Cook, in his book The Hunt for Zero Point. Interest grew, and Witkowski's book was translated into English in 2003 by Bruce Wenham as The Truth about the Wunderwaffe. Information about the device has been further spread and speculated on in works of American authors Joseph P. Farrell, Jim Marrs and Henry Stevens. [Wikipedia]
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The Bell is said to be an experiment carried out by Third Reich scientists working for the SS in a German facility known as Der Riese ("The Giant") near the Wenceslas mine. The mine is located 50 kilometers away from Wrocław near the village of Ludwikowice Kłodzkie (formerly known as Ludwigsdorf) close to the Czech border. Cook and Witkowski visited the site for the UK Channel 4 documentary UFOs: the Hidden Evidence (aka An Alien History of Planet Earth).
The device is described as metallic, approximately 9 feet wide and 12 to 15 feet high with a shape similar to a bell. It contained two counter-rotating cylinders filled with a highly radioactive, purple substance only known as Xerum 525, which has been speculated to be Red mercury. When active, The Bell would emit strong radiation, which led to the death of several scientists and various plant and animal test subjects. [Wikipedia]
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Nogometni klub JEDINSTVO osnovan je 1937.godine a osnpvala ga je radnička klasa predvođena Ćamilom Kadićem.
Nakon završetka drugog svjetskog rata 1945. godine ponovo je održana osnivačka skupština kluba, a za predsjednika je izabran Božo Popović. Godine 1946. Jedinstvo igra u Republičkoj ligi BiH zajedno sa sarajevskim Torpedom, mostarskim Veležom, zeničkim Čelikom, tuzlanskom Slobodom i dr. Dvije sezone igraju u Republičkoj ligi BiH da bi u sezoni 1948./49. godine ispali te natjecanje nastavili u Banjalučkoj regionalnoj ligi. Nakon skoro dva desetlječa igranja u regionalnoj ligi Jedinstvo u sezoni 1967./68. preko kvalifikacija postaje članom Druge nogometne lige Jugoslavije na čelu s tadašnjim predsjednikom Bekirom Kadićem. S većim ili manjim uspjehom u drugoj ligi Jedinstvo ostaje do početka 1980-ih kada počinje padati.

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On trend with Mary Jane Mucklestone
Since her books, "150 Scandinavian Motifs" and "200 Fair Isle Motifs" came out a few years ago (Published by...
On trend with Mary Jane Mucklestone Since her books, "150 Scandinavian Motifs" and "200 Fair Isle Motifs" came out a few years ago (Published by... Check out this story on mycentraljersey.com: http://mycj.co/2FDfZ12
Bridgewater Published 7:07 p.m. ET Jan. 14, 2018 | Updated 6:30 p.m. ET Jan. 21, 2018
My original post about my conversation with Mary Jane Mucklestone at Vogue Knitting Live had some errors that needed correcting. Here is my revised post. I am grateful to Mary Jane for sending me the corrections.
Since her books, "150 Scandinavian Motifs" and "200 Fair Isle Motifs" came out a few years ago (published by Interweave), Mary Jane Mucklestone has been recognized as one of the great experts on stranded knitting — sometimes referred to as Fair Isle knitting — in the USA and probably the world. She's from the Seattle area, but her ancestors go back to Norway, Wales, Scotland and the Isle of Man, so she has stranded knitting in her blood.
Here are Mary Jane Mucklestone's books of Fair Isle and Scandinavian charts, along with the beginning of my alpaca hat and the 3 skeins of co-op alpaca yarn I'm using. (Photo: Pamela MacKenzie/Staff photo)
READ: Book Review: '150 Scandinavian Motifs' by Mary Jane Mucklestone
READ: Southwestern or Fair Isle? Maybe a little of both
Stranded knitting is a technique in which the knitter creates pictures in their work, using at least two colors of yarn at once, working one color in the front of the fabric, while holding the unused color in the back.
I had a chance to sit down with her briefly on Friday at Vogue Knitting Live, just before she taught her 2 p.m. class. She said she'd come to New York many years ago for college, studying print making at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. After college, she branched out into other forms of art, including painting silk for Oscar de la Renta. That, in turn, led her to become a professional stylist.
After she got married, she moved to the midcoast of Maine, the Belfast-Camden area, and started knitting as a young mother.
Eventually, Mary Jane got to know Pam Allen, who invited her to be a stylist for Interweave. At the time, Pam Allen was editing Interweave Knits Magazine. Pam has since left Interweave to start Quince & Co., a yarn company, I misunderstood Mary Jane in our conversation and thought she was a stylist for Quince & Co., but she was not. She wants everyone to know this, because she is friends with Pam and doesn't want the world to think she (Mary Jane) is taking credit for her friend's success. I genuinely regret my error.
When I asked if there was a lot of travelling involved in that stylist job for Interweave,. Mary Jane said they did photo shoots in Maine, so it worked out extremely well for her.
Mary Jane's own knitting eventually led to her designing sweaters and other projects. She said that she likes to come up with designs based on tradition but with a twist, such as creating a Fair Isle sweater with a traditional construction, such as a lumber jacket or a yoke sweater, but with a different weight of yarn. She also loves creating accessories.
An example would be her Valenzi sweater, which is a lumber jacket created with Aran-weight yarn. In my original post, my spell check respelled this as the "Valentine sweater," and I didn't catch it. Me culpa, and I again humbly apologize.
I finished the alpaca Fair Isle hat using Mucklestone's graphs, just in time for a snow storm followed by warmer weather. (Photo: Pamela MacKenzie/Staff photo)
Mary Jane loves to teach, and she has two videos on Craftsy.com in which she shares her knowledge. She is keen on traveling throughout the world to learn new regional techniques. For example, she has traveled to the Andes to learn how the knitters there produce their amazingly colorful standed-knitting designs, knitting in a style similar to the Portuguese and Spanish knitters, although Mary Jane says "it's different" and that it's really purling, not knitting. And by the way, in the Andes method, as I understand it, the yarn bridges are on the outside as you purl, so it's essentially creating a garment inside out. She has also been to Shetland in Scotland — home of the Fair Isle knitting tradition, Argentina and Uruguay. She has taught in Amsterdam, Paris and Iceland.
Mary Jane and her good friend, Shetland-born designer Gudrun Johnston, lead tours to Shetland each year, focusing on knitting and walking, in 2017 they celebrated their 10th trip. Gudrun is expert of Fair Isle and lace design. This year, they will do two tours, and Mary Jane is working on some other opportunities as well. We can follow her as "mjmucklestone" on Instagram and visit her website, maryjanemucklestone.com for patterns and to see her original designs. And in addition to the books shown and mentioned above, she has books called "Geo Knits" and "Fair Isle Style" with some of her original designs.
We all can take encouragement from her parting words. "I want everyone to know, if they like a project, they can knit it. Break it down into small steps," she said, "and do it."
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Inter mirifica (IM) heißt, nach seinen Anfangsworten, das Dekret über die sozialen Kommunikationsmittel, das vom Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzil formuliert und am 4. Dezember 1963 von Papst Paul VI. promulgiert wurde.

Das Dekret beschäftigt sich mit modernen Kommunikationsmitteln und plädiert für die Pressefreiheit, aber auch für den Jugendschutz. Katholiken werden aufgefordert, sich mit den neuen Medien konstruktiv auseinanderzusetzen und Medienkompetenz zu entwickeln und (z. B. Kindern) zu vermitteln. Des Weiteren ermutigt es dazu, sich einerseits mit seinen Meinungen in den gesellschaftlichen Diskurs einzubringen, um christliche Auffassungen im öffentlichen Raum auch über die Medien wahrnehmbar zu machen, und andererseits eine speziell katholische Presse (z. B. Kirchenzeitungen) zu gründen bzw. zu fördern.

Das Dekret gilt "in der Rezeption als eines der schwächsten, weil deutlich vorkonziliar zu verortenden Konzilsdokumente." Es gehe "hinter die von Pius XII. geäußerte Anerkennung des Rechts auf freie Meinungsäußerung zurück", urteilte der Kirchenhistoriker Bock.

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Literatur
 Otto B. Roegele: Das Konzilsdekret Über die Werkzeuge der sozialen Kommunikation, in: Publizistik 9 (1964) 305–347.

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 Authentischer Text des Dekrets
 Deutsche Übersetzung auf der Homepage des Vatikans

Konzilsdokument des Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzils


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Why We Increased 2020 Budget Despite Low Revenue ― Presidency
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The Presidency at the weekend explained the reason behind the upward review of the 2020 budget, saying it was premised on the need to tailor funds to address critical infrastructure gap and the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic on the economy.
Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari, Friday, signed the Appropriation (Repeal and Amendment) Act, 2020 of N10.8 trillion, which has N216 billion higher than what was initially proposed in the 2020 Appropriation Act. into law. Speaking to State House correspondents on why the revision was made, Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives) Umar el-Yakub, said the budget was raised to N10.8 trillion after certain realities were considered. He pointed out that whereas the initial 2020 budget was benchmarked on $25 dollars per barrel of crude oil, the revised one had $28, which gave a bit of increased revenue.
According to him, "Some parameters were looked at, in any event, the 2020 budget was benchmarked at $25 per barrel of crude oil while the new amended budget is at $28 per barrel. "So because of that, you can see there is a bit of an increase in revenue and thank God also the price of oil from then even though the initial benchmark was at 53, there has been a leap recently in the price of oil and even though the production benchmark was reduced from 1.9 million barrels to 1.8 million barrels per day. "But certainly because of the increment in projections as far as the cost of oil is concerned, some monies were realized and projected to be realized.
"In addition to that, one needs to understand that the whole essence of the review is to prioritize government projects to the extent that projects that it will certainly address infrastructure and ginger the economy more as well as address health issues, concerns because of the pandemic. "Investments are made in those regards and certainly you know that there are palliatives that had been initiated by the federal government in the phases of implementation. "All those necessitated these new look at the budget, so as to free certain amounts of money hitherto appropriated for certain projects which in the circumstances are not as expedient to prioritize those but looked at other infrastructure that needs prioritization so as to address the pandemic and the difficulties that it has brought to the lives of Nigerians. "So to address those issues that was why the budget was looked at and amended." el-Yakub also spoke on the relationship between Executive and the 9th National Assembly, saying that it is a demonstration of the commitment of both sides to serve the people. It will be recalled that some people have described the current leadership of the 9th National Assembly as rubber stamps and Alleluia boys for the Presidency.
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