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I've been trying unsuccessfully for several days to do a blog post. I don't know what the problem is, but for whatever reason the computer isn't cooperating at all. We'll see how this goes today. If I'm lucky I'll actually have some pictures to go with this post.
Yesterday Brian and I went out to pick a halibut set that we had made the day before. On the way out we saw huge numbers of Bald Eagles on top of the breakwater. The cold storage must have been grinding some black cod and the pieces were floating on the water and washing up on the shore. I think I've mentioned before that black cod is a very oily fish, so it has a tendency to float on top, which of course the birds love.
About a week ago Jan came into the bedroom to wake me up and told me to hurry to look out back. My neighbor in back has recently taken to starting fires in a burn barrel and I assumed maybe the fence separating the property was on fire or some such thing. Fortunately it wasn't anything so dramatic. She wanted me to see the eagles that had gathered in the woods out back. Apparently the guy down the street was tossing halibut carcasses to the eagles and one of the young ones had grabbed it up and brought it to our back yard. Of course- why not. All the dogs use our yard for a toilet, why not turn the back yard into a cafeteria for the birds. There were six of them gathered around a stump squabbling over some bones. Our place seems to attract quite a number of birds, primarily because of the small woods I suppose. The ravens are constantly picking up trash and depositing it in our yard. We went out to clean up the garden last Sunday and found a king crab leg, a Pepsi can, a container of some kind of cheese whiz stuff, some deer bones and a yellow funnel. I don't know why they grabbed the funnel, but Jan looked out in time to see it bounce off the roof and into the garden. I don't know how it is that we are so fortunate to end up with garbage from all around town, but I kept the funnel. I just wish they would bring me some gold bullion or twenty dollar bills or something to show that they appreciate me cleaning up after them.
Not long ago we had another person dump a bunch of table scraps on the road so the ravens could chow down. Frankly, I think it's against the law to feed the birds for various reasons- sanitation being the most obvious one. When I looked out the window I saw dozens of ravens making a mad dash for the scraps. It looked like a Black Friday event at a Walmart. The noise was overwhelming- they were all squawking at once, kind of like the ladies on the View. Then they decided to take up residence on top of my roof. It was reminescent of a Michael Flatley Riverdance performance. For whatever reason they weren't content to just stand on the peak, they were hot- footing it all over the place. It sounded like they were all wearing tap dance shoes- the ones with the metal plates on the bottom. It was like sitting inside a drum- very noisy. Being birds, they did what birds do, and took a crap on the roof. Salvadore Dali couldn't have done a nicer job of creating a lovely design. The white of the bird crap has such a nice contrast with the brown of the roof. I don't know why they don't take up residence elsewhere and leave a deposit where they've gotten the food from, I guess even in the animal kindom you don't bite the hand that feeds you.
This isn't an optical illusion or trick photography- this is a picture of a real shrimp or prawn I guess it would be called when it's this big. Something this large should have a regal name, so I'm calling it King Tom, after the person who caught it- me. This is from a picture I took several years ago when I was out long lining in October for some halibut. I couldn't believe how large it was. If I'd had time and had known that I was going to do a blog about it, I might have made a little crown to put on it's head. As it was, I just cooked and ate it and I have to admit, it was tasty.
My son Brian is here this week helping me get the boat ready for the upcoming season. Last week when I started the engine and turned on the hydraulics, both hydraulic motors, which run the gurdies, started leaking oil. Lovely. Then when I tried to turn the steering wheel, I could barely budge it. Hallelujah! The season is starting off with a bang. I can hardly wait to see what else is going to happen. For those who may not be familiar with marine terms, the acronym for BOAT is Bring Out Another Thousand. That's pretty much an understatement. If a part has the word marine in front of it, it's going to cost about two times or more what an equivalent part would be for, say, a car. It's always interesting to hear other boat owners describe the diverse ailments that their holes in the water are experiencing. No matter what problems you may be having with your money pit, someone else always has it worse. For some reason, I get a small sense of pleasure in knowing that others are at least as miserable as me. I really need to examine my heart a little closer at church I think.
While I would like to continue on blathering non-sensical hoo-ha, Nightline is just now signing off, and it's been a long day. Brian has held my feet to the fire today so I'm tired. So, I'll bid whomever a good night and God Bless.
I probably shouldn't be writing a blog post right now. I've been tired and crabby all day. I'm sure it's at least partly my fault, but frankly, I didn't sleep well last night. A few weeks ago I reluctantly agreed to replace our freezer for a new, modern one that is frost free. There was some money set aside just for that purpose so there wasn't much I could say. Of course the idea was that we would save money on electricity. Well, I found out today that the frost free models use 40% more power than the one we replaced. Lovely. To make matters worse, the freezer is located on the wall opposite of where my bed is, and it doesn't shut off- ever. When I go to bed it's running and this morning when I awoke at 4: 30 it was still running. Now, I don't know how it is that for the majority of the day I can' only hear half of what is spoken to me. Sometimes I'll be talking to someone and nod and smile when I think I should, without hearing exactly what they said. I got reprimanded once because I smiled and said good to a guy who was telling me about his wife being in the hospital or some such thing. Anyway, for some reason my hearing is selective. When I would like to hear something I can't really, and when I would like to have quiet so I can sleep, my ears are so fine tuned I could pick up radio waves from space. What gives? Anyway, in an effort to keep from getting a call from a demanding audience, I'm writing a blog post.
Of course none of this has anything at all to do with Magpies. I just needed a picture to put up here and anyone who has never seen one, I thought they might be interested. I did a little research on these guys a few weeks ago, but I've pretty much forgotten what I read. What I remember, or think I remember, is that these are Western Magpies. Their tails make up half of their body length, they are scavengers and I think I read that they mate for life. They are certainly a beautiful bird.
When I was a kid there used to be a cartoon about two magpies named Heckel and Jeckel. It wasn't my favorite cartoon- they were always picking on this poor farmer, eating his corn crop and so on. I don't know why I got so upset over a cartoon, but I had a strong sense of justice, even when I was young. I couldn't very well change the channel either, we only had three to choose from and you might end up with The Edge of Night soap opera or some other depressing hoo-haa. If you waded through the two magpies, usually Popeye would come on or Howdy Doody or some other worthwhile kid-friendly program. Nowadays, most of the cartoons don't seem funny at all, with the exception of Sponge Bob Squarepants- now that's a cartoon! I wish it would have been on when I was a kid. Shoot, if it had been my idea, I could buy a house with a garage so I could stick that noisy freezer out there.


Economists are debating whether this current recession is deepening to become the great Depression of the 21st Century. I suppose economists do not know that just as the Depression of the 1930's was planned by the usury bankers, so is this 12stCentury Depression being planned by the same usury bankers.
Popular polls indicate a steady sagging of public confidence in our orthodox, economic system of usury-based, debt money. Perhaps some perspective of the design flaw of usury is in order.
The fact of the matter is that we-the-people in Canada, the United States, and in the entire world, have been victims of lies, deceit and deception in regards to how, when, where and why the debt-money portion of any loan or mortgage is created by the creditor (based on the signature of the debtor on a promissory note) while the usury or interest portion of any loan or mortgage is never created and put into circulation by the creditor. Neither is the usury or interest on any credit card ever created and put into circulation by the issuer of the credit card - the creditor.
During the 20th Century, much wealth and prosperity was stolen by creditors from debtors than ever before in recorded history. Unfortunately, as John "The Engineer" Turmel says this is "the biggest lie never exposed." It is time now to expose the big lie of usury, and to promote/advocate the usuryfree, community currency movement as the catalyst that will usher in the new age of usuryfree living for everyone on planet earth.
Since the early 1980s, we have been experiencing the birthing of the usuryfree, community currency movement as the optimal strategy to implement that will free us from the ugly iron grip of usury which has been shackling debtors for generation after generation.
Michael Linton with financial support from John "The Engineer" Turmel launched the usuryfree LETS (Local Employment Trading System) software program in the deep recession of the early 1980s when interest or usury rates spiked a 21% in Canada. Since that time the usuryfree, community currency movement has been evolving and expanding at a steady rate. As this current recession deepens to become the grand-daddy Depression of recorded history, the usuryfree community currency movement is fast gaining popularity as the "economic lifeboat" of choice.
While "the biggest lie never exposed" is the incredible, economic story of the 20th Century, the "greatest opportunity not yet understood" has the potential to become an even greater economic story of this 21st Century. Indeed, it is working models from the usuryfree, community currency movement that offer the "greatest opportunity not yet understood" to individuals, families, small-to-medium-sized businesses and governments (local, provincial/state, and federal) as well as countries.
Peace, abundance and prosperity for everyone on planet earth will be possible when the design flaw of usury is abolished forever from our orthodox, economic system of debt-money. This will be possible because eventually usury will be replaced with a simple service charge (fee) which can be created and put into circulation simultaneously when any loan or mortgage is issued by any creditor.
In light of this new experience of financial freedom which leads to the reality of usuryfree living, it is now exciting to become a usuryfree creative and actively participate within the usuryfree, community currency movement.
The answers to these questions are still unknown, but the expectation is that debtors (and there are many more debtors than creditors) will be highly motivated by their new knowledge that exposes the design flaw of usury for the big lie that it is. The creditors may very well realize the need to take action to shift the economic paradigm if they wish to remain as significant players in future games of co-operative finance where there will be mutual benefit for all who choose to participate as creditors and debtors.
As one who has been proclaiming the benefits of usuryfree living for 30+ years, I'll admit it is becoming easier to explain to audiences why their stock portfolios are diminishing while "the biggest lie never exposed" is finally exposing that the creditor has no credibility as the emperor has no clothes.
As we progress into this 21st Century, we can expect the number of committed, usuryfree creatives to expand exponentially. With newly acquired knowledge they will assume their moral obligations to present the 'truth' about modern money creation as it has been hijacked by the usury bankers. Then they will explain what economic freedom will become when the design flaw of usury is taken out of the equation.
I leave debtors with this small but powerful quote that proves usury contracts are impossible to be fulfilled. The quote is taken from the Introduction of the book "War Cycles, Peace Cycles" authored by Richard Kelly Hoskins.
"If there is only $10.00 in existence, and you lend it to someone under the condition that he repay $11.00, and if he agrees to this, he has agreed to the impossible."
From this simple quote it is easy to understand that if the debtor borrows $10.00 and is forced to pay back $11.00 (at a usury rate of 10%), then sooner or later the creditor (the usurer) will steal the debtor's property.
Debtors are encouraged to join a usuryfree community currency group in your local area OR otherwise take a leadership role and launch a usuryfree community currency to encourage consumers to shop locally. DO IT NOW!
Usury is the original sin of the world's monetary and economic systems.
Contracts based on any interest/usury are NULL AND VOID. It's time for a universal debt Jubilee so that the People have abundance in 2012!
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Let's Celebrate UsuryFree Living Now and Beyond!!


The Kansas City and Platte County health departments issued notices last week, warning Northland residents about a recent bout of Cryptosporidiosis cases in the area. The Platte County Health Department said its working with operators to take cautionary measures for treatment of swimming pools known to have contact with infected individuals. That includes the Park Hill District Aquatic Center in Kansas City, Mo.
The Park Hill and Park Hill South swim teams have experienced a rash of sick individuals, possibly related to the protozoan Cryptosporidium parvum. The protozoa leads to gastrointestinal sickness with symptoms that include severe, watery diarrhea, abdominal cramps, fever, nausea and vomiting.
Individuals with symptoms are asked not swim in pools until two weeks after the symptoms subside. Symptoms take two to 10 days to show up, which means more cases could be reported in the coming weeks.
Public health officials want swimmers to take proactive steps to protect themselves and other swimmers.
The most important prevention measure is careful hand washing with soap and warm running water. Alcohol-based hand gels and sanitizers do not kill Crypto so they do not help stop the spread.
Swimmers are also warned to avoid swallowing pool water, change diapers often and in a restroom at facilities and make time for frequent restroom breaks for children.
Crypto is chlorine-resistant and can live for days in chlorine treated water, although local affected pools are "shocking" the water in an attempt to help eliminate it.
Transmission of Crypto primarily occurs through contact with contaminated water. Occasionally food sources may serve as a vehicle for transmission.
Last week, the Park Hill School District closed the pool at its aquatic center — located on the campus of Park Hill High School — for three days. The Kansas City Health Department inspected the pool and declared it safe for swimming on Friday, Aug. 28.
The precautionary measures were taken after numerous swimmers became sick.
"We do not know if the students got ill from our pool, and we do not know what their illness is, but we took these steps to prevent spreading illnesses like cryptosporidium, which is common in swimming pools," the district said in a release.
The aquatic center hosted the Northland Invitational, which featured swimmers from across the area, on Saturday, Aug. 22. Warning emails were sent to the schools which competed in that event to be on the lookout for symptoms, but it is not known if any other swimmers were affected.
Platte County High School's team also competed in the event and is aware of and monitoring the situation. No known illnesses related to Crypto have been reporter, according to superintendent Dr. Mike Reik.


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Ghent Altarpiece Mystic Lamb is mystical again
The formal name of what has become known as the Ghent Altarpiece is the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb. The central panel of the massive 18-panel polyptych painted by Jan and Hubert van Eyck for the Saint Bavo Cathedral depicts the Lamb of God on an altar, encircled by kneeling angels. A symbol of the sacrifice of Christ, the Lamb has a wound on its chest which gushes a thick stream of blood into a chalice. Adoring the Lamb in four distinct groups are prophets, apostles, saints, popes and assorted church figures, martyrs, the Righteous Judges and Warriors of Christ.
It is the only panel on the altarpiece that is horizontal and at 134.3 x 237.5 cm (4'5″ x 7'10"), it is as wide as the three vertically oriented panels above it.
As with the other panels in the altarpiece, the Adoration of the Lamb was awkwardly overpainted. First some small wanna-be restorations to areas of the panel were done and then, in the middle of the 16th century, just over a hundred years after the masterpiece was completed in 1432, a more ambitious refurbishment was undertaken to correct the earlier interventions and fill in paint loss. The result of this was that 45% of the central panel was overpainted. The Lamb was the primary victim of this well-meaning assault. The background landscape — the sky, the hills and the spires of New Jerusalem — and the altar cloth and draped robes suffered most of the remaining blows.
A 1951 restoration removed some of the overpaint on the head of the Lamb, but again the good intentions wound up as pavers on the road to Hell. When the green overpaint around the head was removed, the original smaller ears of the Lamb were revealed and since restorers didn't remove the 16th century Dumbo ears, the poor fella looked to have four ears.
Overpaint, faulty restorations, the misfortunes of war, fire, moisture, climate and everything else that can possibly happen to a giant icon of late medieval art had left all of the panels in dire need of thorough conservation. A major conservation and restoration project saw the first eight panels removed to the Ghent Museum of Fine Arts in 2012 where experts from the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) began the slow, painstaking process of returning the Ghent Altarpiece as close as possible to its original splendor.
That project continues today, and KIK-IRPA conservators are now working on the central panel, the very core of the altarpiece. Thankfully, they found that despite all the interference over the years, almost all of the original Van Eyck paint layers remained intact under the mess. Only 3% was lost. That allowed them to painstakingly remove all of the later overpaint and reveal the panel as the Van Eycks originally created it.
After intensive research, the restoration team of the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA, Brussels) has removed the old overpaint that masked the main figure of the Ghent Altarpiece for nearly five centuries. As such, the well-known Lamb – an impassive and rather neutral figure, with a wide forehead and large ears – has given way to Van Eyck's original. With its intense gaze this medieval Lamb, characterized by a graphically defined snout and large frontal eyes, draws the viewer into the scene of His ultimate sacrifice.[…]
While removing the overpaint – a delicate operation carried out under the microscope with surgical scalpels – the restorers discovered a subtly shaded sky with streaks of clouds above graceful mountains. The original buildings, overpainted with greyish layers, were painted in a variety of colours, with a beautiful play of light. Even previously hidden buildings are emerging from beneath the much simpler overpaint at the horizon. Solid-coloured garments make place for luminous draperies with complex folds defined by delicate highlights and deep shadows.
The seemingly bizarre choice of making the Lamb of God look like an expressionless animal was a function of the 16th century tastes in painting. The powerful gaze directed straight at the viewer of Van Eyck's original humanized the Lamb, conveying its identification with Jesus. The more realistically lamb-like overpainted version, its entrancingly human eyes replaced with small prey animal eyes on the sides of its head, was more in keeping with 16th century conventions.
The restoration is ongoing so it's only on view to the public at the Ghent Museum of Fine Arts during the weekends. On weekdays conservators get full custody of the panel. It needs to be laid flat for this stage of the conservation, so it can't be seen by visitors to the museum.

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10 Ways to Practice Civic Engagement From Home
Civic engagement is taking responsibility for improving your community. It's any activity that works to address a public concern. Many people start by connecting with others who share the same mission and values. It can be as simple as starting a conversation about local issues (in-person or on social media), or you can take some action. You can work together to provide value and improve the quality of life for the public.
How do you engage with your community? There are many ways to stay up to date with current events, like mobile news apps and podcasts. There are also tons of ways to participate in your community and advocate for the causes you believe in. You can contact local officials to voice your concerns. Or, you can vote in local, state, and national elections. Many others prefer to volunteer around their communities. What is your style of civic engagement? Take this quiz to find out:
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Young adults are innovators, change-makers, and believers. From racial inequality to climate change to fiscal policy, Millennials and Generation Z are shaking the scene and shaping the social and political landscape.
47% of youth and young adult voters participated in the 2018 midterm election. With civic engagement at an all-time high, Millennials and Generation Z are participating in social activism in a multitude of ways. Despite high voter turn-out, many young Americans felt unsure of how their actions could create change. 55% of Generation Z stated that uncertainty in actions stopped them from participating in various causes.
Check out these ten ways you make a difference in your community (in addition to voting in your local election!)
Become a Community Leader
The world is full of different causes and movements ranging in topic, size, and exposure. In fact, 95% of young people believe that collaborating with other young people has the ability to create positive change. Creating a dialogue with other youth, elected officials, and professionals can provide the mobility necessary for change.
Get involved in the local government: By attending local city council and town hall meetings and taking part in efforts at headquarters for political and social movements, young adults can begin the process for change by interacting with local officials.
Start conversations: From speaking 1-on-1 to individuals about issues and current events to organizing groups to meet and discuss different movements, change can start through something as simple as a conversation.
Canvas for a cause you believe in: A person's words can speak volumes. Whether it be participating in conversations on Twitter, endorsing a political candidate or movement through an Instagram story, or handing out flyers and brochures and starting conversations in public spaces, young adults have the power to canvass through different mediums.
Volunteer your time: Giving time can be the best way to interact with others, receive education on issues, and be an active part of a movement. Find an organization or institution that aligns with your beliefs and spend time building your opinion.
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82% of Generation Z use various forms of online media to become informed about issues and current events. With news readily available in the hands of young adults, it has become increasingly important to create spaces to learn, listen, and talk.
Subscribe and follow: Finding a reliable source of news can help to solidify your ideas about what is going on in the world. Media news sources, influencers, politicians, celebrities, and foundations and institutions have an important role in shaping opinions.
Learn the other side: Your beliefs are shaped by factors like your culture, education, community and community, but it is also important to look beyond that and hear varying ideas. Talking to people with opposing views or researching statistics and viewpoints can diversify and solidify your own thoughts.
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Only 13% of millennials have considered running for office, but this younger generation understands that there is power behind their voice. 69% of young Americans stated that they believed voting will lead to changes. By believing in the power of one's voice, young adults can help to shape the future.
Get in touch: Utilize your words to inspire change. Write to local official officials and candidates about what's important to you or participate in phone or social media campaigns for political issues.
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It's never too late or too early to begin advocating for what you believe in. The economy and fiscal policy trickle down and affect every aspect of our government. Up to Us allows young adults to discuss and find solutions for the national debt issue. Get involved and see what other young adults are doing to initiate change.


Would you believe machines can now read love, laughter, surprise, sadness and as many as 20 other emotions? EMRAYS are at the forefront of developing and stressing the importance of augmented emotional intelligence.
We got to speak to Ilia Zaitsev, Co-Founder of EMRAYS, who discussed with us EMRAYS' use of the largest affective neural model in order to understand and optimise any content read by AI. We also spoke about the future of augmented emotional intelligence and what exciting impacts its presence has made.
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Bigger, Better, Faster, More: Welcome to the New Motor Trend
What the new MotorTrend.com has to offer
by Words: Edward Loh March 15, 2018
Notice anything different about our homepage? Hope so, because we have reimagined it with a focus on the things we do best: exciting automotive entertainment, the freshest new car reviews, and the latest car-shopping tools and research.
As you might have heard, we recently joined forces with Discovery Inc., a global leader in real-life entertainment and a specialist in broadcast automotive content. With this new partnership, we're able to offer the Motor Trend original programs you know and love alongside popular automotive shows from The Discovery Channel and Velocity via our on-demand video service.
How? Well, if you subscribe to Hulu or Crackle, you'll be familiar with how this works. The new MotorTrend.com homepage gives you direct access to free Motor Trend original programs. You pay nothing to access thousands of hours of original automotive entertainment, including* the back catalog of our Motor Trend YouTube Channel and past seasons of Roadkill, Hot Rod Garage, Dirt Every Day, Engine Masters, Head 2 Head, Ignition, Modified, House of Muscle, and Epic Drives. In addition, viewers can watch select episodes of Chip Foose's Overhaulin', Diesel Brothers, Fast N' Loud, Chasing Classic Cars, Bitchin' Rides, and Graveyard Carz. These shows will be free to binge watch on demand, but with advertisements.
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Johnson spots an opportunity over state aid – and it may work
If he wants working-class Labour votes the PM can't promote the rightwing post-Brexit ideal of Singapore-on-Thames
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Economic orthodoxy states that state aid helps inefficient companies and stifles competition. Photograph: Niklas Halle'n/AFP via Getty Images
Hugely disturbing, said the Adam Smith Institute. A recipe for cronyism and pure protectionism, said the Institute of Economic Affairs. A bad solution in search of the wrong problem, according to the Institute of Directors.
No, this was not the verdict on Labour's manifesto from three organisations that played a pivotal role in Margaret Thatcher's revolution after 1979 but their horrified reaction at Boris Johnson's betrayal of free-market principles.
The IEA and the ASI have a vision of the sort of Britain that might emerge after Brexit. It does not include a state aid regime that makes it quicker and easier to help struggling companies or a buy-British procurement policy.
The backlash from the free-market thinktanks suits Johnson just fine because he wants to dispel the idea that departure from the EU means a fresh wave of deregulation and privatisation. If your strategy is to win Labour seats in the Midlands, Wales and the north of England that have been scarred by de-industrialisation and voted leave in the 2016 referendum, it is best to steer clear of any notion that the UK will become Singapore-on-Thames.
Most capital cities are well off, but London is like another country | Larry Elliott
Johnson's entire campaign has been based on the notion that these seats – despite suffering disproportionately from the austerity and the welfare cuts of the past nine years – are there for the taking, because they know what they want: Brexit; and they know what they don't want: Jeremy Corbyn.
The Conservative thinking is that Labour is now two parties joined by the slenderest of threads: a middle-class, white-collar, socially liberal, remain-supporting party of London, the metropolitan cities and the university towns; and a blue-collar, working-class, socially conservative, leave-supporting party of the towns and smaller cities in the regions distant from the south-east.
As a result, there is little mileage in Johnson going to seats in the east Midlands or Lancashire armed with a bunch of IEA pamphlets calling for a bigger role for the market in the provision of healthcare or explaining why the gig economy is a good thing.
Instead, the calculation has been that the swing voters in marginal seats are, when it comes to the economy, to the left of where the Conservative party was under David Cameron and George Osborne but not as far left as the Labour party is under Corbyn. Hence the decision to steal a few of Labour's clothes: a higher minimum wage; extra money for the NHS; modest increases in infrastructure spending.
None of which was necessarily inconsistent with the idea that the Singapore-on-Thames model would emerge from the shadows once the UK had actually left the EU. The state aid and procurement commitments are different: they suggest a willingness to intervene that is at odds with leaving the economy to the tender mercies of the free market.
As Corbyn knows full well, since he used to make precisely these points in the days when he was on the backbenches railing against the EU's neoliberal tendencies, and even since the referendum. The Labour leader accepts the case for more generous state aid and a change to procurement policy but would struggle to offer them under the sort of deal he would negotiate with the EU if he became prime minister.
With an election less than two weeks away, it is possible that the Conservative pledges are just for show, and that they have no real intention of putting in place state aid or procurement rules that would antagonise Brussels. There is already justifiable scepticism about whether the UK can agree a free-trade deal with the EU during 2020: a more protectionist state aid and procurement regime would complicate matters.
If Johnson is serious, he would be challenging economic orthodoxy, which says that state aid and preferential procurement policies feather-bed inefficient companies, stifle competition and lead to higher prices for consumers. In the UK's case, the IEA or the ASI would say eschewing protectionism has allowed the economy to specialise in things it does best – financial and business services – rather than things it does less well – manufacturing. Better to have tech startups in London's Shoreditch than prop up companies that can't hack global competition.
All of which sounds fine. It assumes, though, all state intervention in the economy, any sort of industrial policy, distorts the market and is therefore a bad thing.
But historically, as the economist Ha-Joon Chang has said, all countries have used protectionism as a means of building up their industrial strength, with Britain the first.
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The experience of east Asia shows that it is a fallacy to assume that state aid is only about providing support for lame ducks: Japan and South Korea are examples of countries that identified sectors where they wanted to be competitive and used financial support and trade policy to give them infant-industry support.
Nor is it the case that there has been no state aid for the financial sector, just that it has been delivered in a less overt way. The Docklands Light Railway and the Jubilee line extension that link Canary Wharf to central London are either infrastructure projects or state aid, depending on your point of view.
The final point is this. It is now almost 40 years since the heart was ripped out of Britain's industrial regions, 40 years of waiting for the free market to deliver its promised renaissance. Instead, the well-paid secure jobs in manufacturing have been replaced by low-paid jobs in call centres and warehouses.
So, yes, Johnson may simply be playing politics. It would not be the first time he has been guilty of opportunism. But his argument that the status quo has not worked in Labour's heartlands is correct. Which is why it may strike a chord.
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In conversation with Alexander Briger
Photo by Jimmy Pozarik.
Alexander Briger, Founder and artistic director of the Australian World Orchestra (AWO), sees the conductor as both an artist and a craftsman whose role is to shape sound. The audience observes a figure in black, carving crescents in the air with a baton in hand while raising, lowering and flourishing the other. But the orchestra, poised before the maestro, is alert to their every movement—from the tilt of the torso to the arch of a brow. "Each movement, each gesture is directed at shaping the music," Briger explains. "Conducting is body language taken to extremes."
Shaping, an action usually associated with constructing, sculpting and fashioning physical objects, is the core of the process. "Once the conductor has managed to get everybody together—that's the first part—their job is to interpret the music in an individual way and to shape that interpretation for an orchestra that may have played the piece many times before and undoubtedly has its own interpretation," says Briger. Briger is the nephew of the renowned Australian conductor Sir Charles Mackerras, who won the first prize at the 1993 International Competition for Conductors.
Conducting is body language taken to extremes.
The idea for the AWO had been kicking around for a decade and was raised whenever Australian instrumentalists working in European orchestras collided at performances, airports and bars. In 2010, after one of many European gigs, Briger returned home resolved to 'make it happen'. And he did. In 2011 Briger managed to reel in around 100 Australian instrumentalists for a grand Australian musical reunion at the Sydney Opera House. The inaugural season saw Briger and Hamburg-based Australian, Simone Young, take up the role as guest conductor; two years later Briger enticed the evergreen Zubin Mehta to the stage. Mehta was to lead the orchestra in the Sydney and Melbourne performances of Ivor Stravinsky's sprightly Rite of Spring and Gustav Mahler's magisterial Symphony No. 1.
The AWO had its first rehearsal in 2011 with Young and it was immediately clear that the orchestra of peripatetic Australians, sharing little other than nationality, had a clearly definable sound. "The tension in the room was unbearable," recalls Briger. "They were all sitting next to their peers, and every member of the orchestra knew just how good the other players were, and who they played for. They were so nervous." Young looked around and joked: "I feel like I'm looking at the Australian Youth Orchestra with wrinkles". "They really gave it their all during those rehearsals," says Briger, who conducted Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in that inaugural year. "It was no small thing. They'd been dreaming of this and had finally pulled it off." Most of the instrumentalists are based in the German-speaking music-sphere—one tenth of the AWO is Vienna-based—and that rich, fluid and robust sound was to dominate the newly established orchestra. "I remember during that first year a violinist from the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra came to me and confessed that for some inexplicable reason she'd changed her sound to match the orchestra and it had become more beefy and romantic," Briger recalls. "She couldn't work out why but it had, almost beyond her control. Bizarre. It was one of those mysteries of human nature."
Briger, as the AWO's artistic director, chief conductor and founding impresario, was acutely aware of the artistic risks involved in establishing a new orchestra comprised of an ensemble of top-flight instrumentalists who had been shaped by their own distinguished careers. However, since its inception, the AWO has become such an uplifting ensemble that Mehta has been promoting the company as one of the best in the world. In August 2015, star conductor and Artistic Director of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle, will lead the AWO in a program with Anton Bruckner's heavy-duty Symphony No. 8 as the centre piece.
Briger is expecting wonderful things from Rattle's collaboration with the AWO. "The eighth symphony, which was later known as The Apocalyptic, is the perfect choice" he says, "the symphony is so big and beefy. Bruckner works in big brass sections all in harmonic unison, and it's the same with the strings and winds; Rattle is superb at building that kind of sound."
Conductors bring their own distinct personality to the podium and Briger has studied a few as a keen student of the craft. "Mehta is pretty diplomatic when he works and his focus is on rhythm; he likes it to be incredibly tight. Rattle is a lot more about colours and sounds, and he can be very funny. I've heard him announce to the Berlin Philharmonic that he wants the sound to be 'a little more blue'."
"But somehow the orchestra gets it as soon as he starts to conduct. They watch his eyes, and his movements, and his eyebrows, and every little movement in his body. They know they have to adapt and allow themselves to be moulded. This is the mark of a truly great conductor. The body shows everything, expresses everything. Every movement means something."
Rattle's predecessor at the Berlin Philharmonic, the late Claudio Abbado, was the most kinetic conductor Briger has observed at work. "He was a terrible rehearser," Briger recalls. "He just had no clue what to say to the orchestra. Rehearsal, according to the musicians, was a free for all. Once it came to the performance, his small stature would transform to cover and command the orchestra. It was as if the music was coming out of his baton. His performances were second to none." However, he adds as an aside, it is not absolutely necessary to conduct with a baton. The French conductor Pierre Boulez famously only used his hands—"gorgeous hands" as Briger describes them.
In speaking to students about the qualities of a good conductor, Briger preaches the virtues of a good ear and baton technique to penetrate into the heart of the score, to understand the composer and his time; and true to testament and on the day of this interview, Briger was brushing up on Mahler's Symphony No. 9 for a performance with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.
For a conductor to scale the heights of his art, Briger believes experience in conducting opera, with its great array of musical forces, is essential. "All the greatest conductors come from opera." The greats, in his view, all possess an innate quality that can't be taught: charisma.
"If you want to go far, it's important that people are drawn to you. That's a mysterious quality. Maybe it's some force around the body—an aura. An orchestra will make its mind up about a conductor before they have even lifted their arms. When you are walking out onto a podium for the first time the orchestra is looking at you, forming an opinion. They can sense by the way you are moving, by your arms, your eyes—some kind of electricity—whether or not you'll be able to do something interesting. They've worked this out even before the first downbeat. It's all about personality."
The Australian World Orchestra will open its 2015 Season in Sydney, Australia on 29 July 2015.
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The doctrine of Alexander Campbell was a protest against laying an unscriptural emphasis on emotional states as evidences of regeneration ? a protest which certain mystical and antinomian exaggerations of evangelical teaching very justly provoked. But Campbell went to the opposite extreme of practically excluding emotion from religion and of confining the work of the Holy Spirit to the conscious influence of the truth. Disciples need to recognize a power of the Holy Spirit exerted below consciousness in order to explain the conscious acceptance of Christ and of his salvation.
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African Entrepreneurs in the new Millennium: Can the "Cheetah Generation" Transform Africa?
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In the last decade and half, there has been a resurgence of interest by the media as well as academia in African entrepreneurs. This revival of interest has been sparked largely by the persisting challenges of transforming Africa from a continent specialising in the export of predominantly commodities to a continent with a diverse export base. In the context of this challenge, debates around the role of African Entrepreneurs have featured strongly after analysts realised that although most African countries experienced decent economic growth between 2002 and 2015, this growth has not translated into real job creation and significant reduction in poverty levels. Given the challenge of creating jobs and constructing inclusive economies, most policymakers and politicians in many African countries are now focusing on promoting entrepreneurship, targeting the African youth. While in the past the existence of an entrepreneur class in Africa was doubted by many analysts, today the discourse has moved beyond the 'existence debate' focusing more on trying to understand the key features of what is sometimes referred to as the "new generation of African entrepreneurs" (McDade and Spring, 2005) or more generally as the "Cheetah Generation" (Ayitteh, 2005). I argue in this paper that although there have been many studies conducted in the last decade and half on African entrepreneurs (Brixiova, 2010; Baumol, 2010; Gelb et al, 2008; Ncube, 2015), this part of the African society remains under-theorised with scanty scholarly literature that provides insights into what constitutes this group, the different sub-groups, and how they navigate the African socioeconomic and political milieu. Drawing on case studies conducted in South Africa, Zambia, Uganda and Ghana, I argue that the role African entrepreneurs will play in the transformation of the continent will be largely determined by African governments approach to and relations with this group. In this paper I focus on the composition of African entrepreneurs and how they relate with African States.
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Quiz of the Month: What's the difference between flauted and flaunted?
(Last month's quiz: What does the thesaurus bird eat for supper? Answer: A synonym roll)
Tip of the Month: Ya gotta do research. Of course, some things are undiscoverable now—the color of your grandmother's dress on May 15, 1959, or what your best friend said to you that night when you were both 15, lying out on the beach. In these cases, trust your memory. But you must research what is discoverable—only because there's that one reader somewhere, sometime, who was there, and knows it wasn't "Woodale," but "Wood Dale," knows that the runway designator for John Wayne Airport is 20, not 18. You lose credibility, especially if the careful reader blabs about your mistake. Dorothy Sayers, after writing The Nine Taylors, her great novel about bellringing in English cathedrals, confessed that she had made 31 mistakes about the art of bellringing! (Somebody outed her.) So, the rule is, do your research.
English is a crazy language
Let's face it – English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, two geese. So one moose, two meese? One index, two indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
P.S. Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick'?
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Multiengine Multitasking
At Moody Wood Dale Airport, humid summer arrived with her long, languid days. I relished the cut grass smell , and I loved seeing the tethered training aircraft rocking in the wind. We constantly eyed the skies. Sometimes a squall blew through, erasing the heavy humidity and bringing a bracing breeze. and strong, whipping winds that beat the windsock into a frenzy, The towering cumulus transformed into black thunderheads that unleashed their tremendous downpours.
Multiengine at Moody
Then something wonderful. Moody needed somebody to install radios and instruments in a borrowed Apache. So during that summer of 1963, John Gettman (the brains behind the operation), Norm Hamilton and I spent many hours upside-down under the Apache instrument panel amidst a maze of wires. We cut holes in the panel, mounted and tested radios and instruments, wired and rewired. Then we got to fly the Apache. Mr. Berry agreed to instruct the three of us, and in return for my instruction time, I repainted part of his car. Looking back, he gave us such a generous gift.
Mr. Berry would sit in the copilot seat, each of us took turns in the pilot's seat and the other two sat in the rear. The day I first took the left seat, I started the right engine first because the right had the airplane's only generator. I loved opening the small pilot's window and yelling, "Clear right!" Then I started the second engine and taxied out to the runway for the preflight check. At the end of the check I pulled the prop control back to verify that it went into feather.
Mr. Berry said, "If the prop won't feather, it's a no-go item, because even with full power on the other engine, you can't maintain altitude with the dead prop windmilling."
Then the takeoff. A thrill to apply full power and feel the plane leap forward.
We climbed up to 3,000 feet and leveled off. After months of bouncing around in the Cessna 150 trainer, the Apache felt like an airliner —- solid, less at the mercy of wind gusts.
Piper Aircraft built this plane in the mid-1950s and equipped it with two 150 HP Lycoming engines (on later models, these upgraded to 160 HP). Bereft of grace, Apache N1137P had a bulbous nose, and wings as fat as air mattresses. You dealt with more complexity than in a single, paid more attention to procedures and checklists. Its recalcitrant gasoline-fired heater was almost as hard to operate as the plane itself. Mr. Berry told us, "Prime it only a couple of times; you don't want a fire in the air."
Mr. Berry says, "There're only two kinds of pilots —- those who have already landed gear up and those who are going to."` Every pilot obsesses about retractable landing gear. The Apache checklist says "gear down," but it's easy to get distracted and busy with all the tasks of landing. One pilot I highly respect landed an Aero Commander, then pulled the gear out from under it. (The gear lever is in the same position as the flap lever in the more familiar Cessna 180 he usually flew.) A month later, another pilot did the same thing. So when I flew retractable years later, I would always tell the passenger in the right seat: "See that little green gear-down light?" If it isn't green when we land you'll hear a harsh, scratchy sound. Scratchy's bad, and it'll take lots more power to taxi up to the terminal…" So in the Apache, I focused on those three little green lights. Once I put the gear down and only two lights came on. I recycled the gear; same thing. When we scrambled to switch the burned out bulb, the welcome green light came on.
After we got used to flying the airplane, Mr. Berry would shut down one engine in flight. The day he first pulled the power back on me and said "engine failure," the airplane yawed severely to the right. I caught my breath, trying to determine which engine had failed ("strong foot on the rudder equals good engine; limp foot equals dead engine"). I pulled the right throttle back, then pulled the prop control back to feather. The right prop blades slowed, twisted parallel to the wind, then stopped. Feathering reduced the drag and we maintained altitude with full power on the left engine. Mr. Berry said, "You still need strong pressure on the left rudder to keep the airplane straight."
Most critical is an engine failure on takeoff. Once, Mr. Berry pulled the left throttle back just as I was lifting off the runway. As I scrambled to overcome the yaw to the left and shut the bad engine down (simulated), he said, "Keep the speed at 90 or above. If you drop below 85 mph, the plane will slowly roll over on its back."
I thought that might be counterproductive, and we were barely gaining altitude on one engine.
If an engine fails, you lose more than thrust and directional control. The Apache had only one generator (right engine) and one hydraulic pump (left engine). If you lose the right engine you soon run out of electrical power. And once when Mr. Berry shut down the left engine we lost hydraulic power and had to pump the gear down by hand. So much for redundancy.
One clear, dark night we were airport-hopping across Illinois when suddenly silence—both engines quit. Each wing contains one main and one aux fuel tank. We were crossfeeding both engines from the left main, and had exhausted the fuel in that tank. I swallowed hard, then reached down and switched to the right main.
After visiting several airports, we began a long, gradual descent into DuPage with air calm as stone and so clean it quivered. You could see the runway lights 20 miles out. I tried to judge my descent by the trapezoid of the runway boundary lights —- longer and narrower means you're overshooting; wider and fatter means you're undershooting. I felt like I was at the controls of a great airliner piercing the darkness, gliding down a silver trail in a large aluminum cocoon.
I looked over at Mr. Berry —- asleep. Does that mean he trusted me? Or more likely, he was sleep-deprived. Moody didn't pay much, and he drywalled nights and weekends to make ends meet. Terse, soft-spoken, he never smiled, and gave you feedback only after you were back on the ground—we all liked him.
After about twelve hours of instruction we all flew over to DuPage Airport for our multiengine checkrides. As with all my other checkrides, I felt uneasy, wondering what the FAA examiner would demand. But it all seemed familiar, just a repeat of what we learned in practice. After some stalls, some single-engine work, and a couple of landings, I walked away with a fresh multiengine endorsement on my commercial license. To celebrate, I filled out an application for a hot air balloon pilot rating because, at the time, you didn't even need a checkride. I've never gone up in a hot air balloon, but I still proudly carry the license.
Those years at Moody Wood Dale, with that strange mix of piety and technology—a few earnest young men seeking to save the world through mission aviation. Two years of anxiety and comradery. What a beautiful experience —- excellent instruction, good friends, great flying experiences.
The multiengine training that summer was the last act at my beloved Moody Wood Dale—when I left for California, I never saw the airport again. Years later I searched it out, but the airfield had sprouted large industrial buildings. The little grass airport had disappeared.
Down to Baja
A year after leaving Moody, I worried that I would have no chance to get more multiengine experience. I was enrolled at Cal State Fullerton, and in the afternoons mechanicked at Chino airport for "Hank" —- a garrulous galactico who ran a tiny maintenance operation modestly named "United California."
Hank deposited an irrational trust in me —- I was basically on my own, a novice mechanic who worked all day alone, including work on replacing all the fabric on a Taylorcraft.
I did not reciprocate Hank's trust —- he seemed too casual. He told me about when he'd forgotten to take the control locks off a DC3, and had to put both feet up on the instrument panel to pull the elevators up enough to land.
He raced around with his ears back, and bragged that he could take off and land an Apache on one engine. I guess you would just slowly advance the power on takeoff so the yaw wouldn't pull you off the runway, then rotate after you reached 100 mph or so. Still, who would ever want to try that?
One day Hank said, "I need you to do a 100-hour inspection on my red Apache." I stood with a wrench poised in the air staring at this beautiful red and white machine. I enjoyed working on it, but even more, I longed to fly it.
One Thursday in May, 1964, I got my miracle. Hank was brokering with some guys, stalling them until I arrived that afternoon. He said to me, "Hey; some guys here want to charter my Apache for some Baja marlin fishing. Wanna' take 'em down?"
How could I say no? But I'd never flown in Mexico; never been to Baja California, and I had less than 20 hours in the Apache. I mentally cancelled my weekend plans, searched for the aeronautical charts and began to plan the trip.
I asked Hank, "What about customs at the border?"
"No problem; just land in Mexicali and clear Mexican customs. Give 'em a tip and they won't check through your baggage."
The clock already said 1:00 pm. "What if we can't make it down in daylight?"
"Don't worry; there's lights at the airport."
I stuffed the three fishermen in the plane with all their gear and we took off about 2:00, so heavy that the bulbous nose of the Apache rode high, like a speedboat. The summer heat beat backwards beneath our wallowing wings.
At Mexicali, the Mexican customs guy sniffed around the plane until one of the guys gave him fifty cents. He waved us through.
We took off headed south. The panel clock nibbled away at the daylight, and we still had a long flight ahead. Our destination, Buenavista, lay on the eastern coast of the Baja peninsula, only about ninety miles north of Cabo San Lucas.
The westering sun sunk lower as we landed at Bahia de Los Angeles to gas up.
As we hurtled along at 150 MPH, I looked off east at the darkening, wind-wrinkled waves, and wondered about Hank's, "it's a lighted field." Embarrassing if Buenavista had no lights and we crashed in the desert. Did I mention I had some trust issues with Hank? I told the passengers, "We'll land at Bahia de Los Angeles and overnight there; I don't want to fly at night over territory I've never seen before, so we'll head down to Buenavista early tomorrow morning." We landed at about 7:00, and taxied toward the buildings. I felt completely rendered.
That evening we had a great roast turtle dinner with rice and beams, then sat on the veranda and watched the thin moon rise over the bay with her upturned horns.
Early next morning they served us salchicha and huevos a la ranchera for breakfast. We rolled out a couple 55-gallon drums and serviced the airplane with red 87 octane av gas. I drained each of the four tanks to check for water, then flung the cup of gas onto the sand.
We flew the hour and twenty minutes to Muleje, our last fuel stop. As we slowed, the plane's small wheels sank in the sand and I had to add power to keep going. As we fueled up and taxied back out I wondered, how will we ever take off in this sand?
The wind dictated a north takeoff over some low bluffs, so we pulled the aircraft way back into the sandy soil at the south end of the airstrip. As I maneuvered into position, we got stuck. We pushed and pulled, but no luck. At last, a passing stake truck tied a rope to the nose wheel strut and pulled us out. My guys gave them a good tip.
Finally we started the takeoff roll, barely building speed in the soft sand. Halfway down the strip we got airborne, but the bluffs loomed ahead of us. Too late to think of turning. As we skimmed over the bluff I could count the cacti. After we cleared, I looked down and realized I was so preoccupied with the takeoff I'd forgotten to turn on the auxiliary fuel pumps. With each hour, I was gaining more respect for the Apache's complexity.
We flew the 260 miles to Buenavista. Circling above the airport, I saw no runway lights along the airstrip—Hank must have been selling smoke. I was glad we'd overnighted in Bahia. We landed, parked, gassed the plane up and then walked over to the buildings.
One of the guys said, "Do you want to go out marlin fishing with us?
"I guess not… I think I'd better stay ashore and study for my classes."
"Okay. Order whatever you want to from the bar."
They fished for two days. I ordered meals and a couple of cokes, eschewing the alcohol, then moodled about people-watching in the lazy heat, inhaling the hot air of human perspiration.
The night before we flew back, one of my fisherman guys asked, "Can we take our marlin back with us?"
"I don't think so… we're as loaded as when we came down."
"Okay. At guess we'll just cut off the sword nose and take it with us."
That Sunday morning the sun rose hot, with just a cloud or two in the sky. I preflighted the mud-mottled Apache and we took off, as heavily loaded as when we had left home.
We stopped for fuel in San Felipe, cleared customs again in Mexicali and then flew back home to Chino.
That evening I sat in my Cal State dorm room, reflecting. The Apache had felt pretty familiar, but I could have used more experience in it before a long, international flight. I had no time to plan and wasn't familiar with the route. We were landing on sandy, dirt strips and we had the pressure of failing daylight.
I had a new respect for the complexity of a twin engine airplane —- single-engine procedures, fuel tank system, and especially emergency procedures.
Later I would fly other twins—Cessna 310, Twin Comanche, Aztec. But my heart still clings to that pudgy red and white Apache that carried us down to the tip of Baja.


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Transcranial direct current stimulation for depression and aphasia. A health technology assessment
The aim of this health technology assessment was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of tDCS for depression and aphasia. We also conducted a cost-analysis.
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By: Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Authors Gaustad J-V, Kleven L, Kornør H, Harboe I, Flatby AV, Aakhus E, Bystad M, Røste .
ISBN (digital): 978-82-8406-287-7
Transkraniell likestrømsbehandling for depresjon og afasi
Depression and aphasia reduce quality of life and increase the risk of disability. Standard care for depression is psychotherapy and antidepressants, and language therapy is used for aphasia. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a mild form of neuromodulation. tDCS may be combined with standard care for depression and aphasia or may be used alone for depression. The aim of this health technology assessment was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of tDCS for depression and aphasia. We also conducted a cost-analysis.
We identified relevant randomized trials in systematic reviews, and in additional systematic literature searches. We included 25 trials on tDCS for depression, 27 trials on tDCS for poststroke aphasia, and two trials on tDCS for primary progressive aphasia.
The results showed that tDCS is well tolerated and:
probably reduces depressive symptoms in patients with moderate to severe depression
probably improves functional communication in patients with poststroke aphasia when combined with language therapy
The evidence on tDCS for primary progressiv aphasia is highly uncertain.
A 4-week tDCS treatment for depression costs about 16,000 NOK in a home-based setting, and about 81,000 NOK in an outpatient-setting. Home-based tDCS treatment combined with language therapy costs about 33,000 NOK for poststroke aphasia, and about 31,000 NOK for primary progressive aphasia. In outpatient care, the costs are about 74,000 NOK for poststroke aphasia, and about 56,000 NOK for primary progressive aphasia. The largest costs are those associated with hospital staff.
It is estimated that 20 % of persons in Norway will experience depression during their lifetime, and depression is ranked fourth among disorders that reduce both quality of life and life years. About 9000 persons in Norway are affected by stroke every year and roughly 30 % of those affected get aphasia. The occurrence of primary progressive aphasia is uncertain, but a prevalence of 3-4 per 100 000 has been suggested.
Standard care for depression is psychotherapy and antidepressants, and for aphasia, language therapy is given. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a mild neuromodulation technique. During treatment, electrodes are placed on the patient's scull and deliver a weak direct current which affects the cortical regions beneath. tDCS may be combined with standard therapy for depression and aphasia or may be offered to depressive patients that are unable or unwilling to use antidepressants.
The objective of this health technology assessment was to investigate the efficacy and safety, and to perform an economic evaluation of tDCS for depression, poststroke aphasia, and primary progressive aphasia.
We did a simple literature search for systematic reviews, and a systematic search for randomized trials published after the searches in the reviews were conducted. We included one systematic review on tDCS for depression and one on tDCS for poststroke aphasia. The review on tDCS for depression only included trials comparing tDCS with sham-tDCS (placebo). We therefore conducted a separate systematic search for randomized trials comparing tDCS with antidepressants and for studies reporting quality of life and health economic evaluations. All searches were conducted in September - December 2021.
The entire group evaluated and selected the most relevant and updated systematic reviews with the highest methodological quality. Two researchers read the titles, abstracts, and full texts of all relevant publications from the systematic searches. One researcher extracted and analyzed data from the included trials, and another verified the data extraction. We made our own judgements of the risk of bias in trials identified in the systematic searches and used the authors judgements in trials that were included from the systematic reviews. The entire group and the clinical experts evaluated our certainty of each result using GRADE.
We also conducted a cost-analysis of tDCS treatment for depression, poststroke aphasia, and primary progressive aphasia in Norway.
We included 25 trials on tDCS for depression, 27 trials on tDCS for poststroke aphasia, and 2 trials on tDCS for primary progressive aphasia.
Effects of tDCS were observed at the end of treatment and were even more prominent after a period of follow-up in both depression and poststroke aphasia. Compared to sham-tDCS, tDCS increased response rates and probably improved depression scores and remission rates for patients with moderate to severe depression at 2-7 weeks follow-up (Summary of findings table). Small or no differences were found between patients given tDCS and patients given antidepressants. Compared to sham-tDCS, tDCS probably improved functional communication and naming of nouns, and may have improved naming of verbs for participants with poststroke aphasia at 1-6 months follow-up (Summary of findings table).
Summary of findings: tDCS for depression and poststroke aphasia
Anticipated absolute effects
Relative effect
Number of participants
Certainty (GRADE)
sham-tDCS
tDCS
tDCS for depression
Depression score
SMD 0.60 SD lower
(0.81 lower to 0.38 lower)
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Moderate a
237 per 1 000
(350 to 672)
RR 1.99
(1.48 to 2.67)
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Drop-out
89 per 1 000
(45 to 110)
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Low b,c
tDCS for poststroke aphasia
Functional communication
SMD 0.29 SD higher
(0.11 lower to 0.69 higher)
Moderate b
Naming of nouns
(0.27 higher to 1.12 higher)
Naming of verbs
Low b,d
Drop-out and serious adverse effects
(25 to 95)
The outcomes were measured at 2-7 weeks follow-up in patients with depression and at 1-6 months follow-up in patients with poststroke aphasia.
Broad confidence interval including large and small effects
Broad confidence interval including no effect and both positive and negative effects
High risk of bias in multiple studies
Few participants (low statistical power)
tDCS probably resulted in small or no differences in the proportion of drop-out and serious adverse effects, but mild and transient side effects such as skin redness, tingling, and itching under the electrodes were reported in most of the included trials.
The evidence on tDCS for primary progressive aphasia was highly uncertain.
A 4-week tDCS treatment for depression costs about 16,000 NOK in a home-based setting, and about 81,000 NOK in an outpatient setting. The costs of home-based tDCS combined with language therapy are about 33,000 NOK for poststroke aphasia and about 31,000 NOK for primary progressive aphasia, in which the additional costs of tDCS are about 15,000 NOK and 12,000 NOK respectively. tDCS combined with language therapy in an outpatient setting costs about 74,000 NOK for poststroke aphasia and about 56,000 NOK for primary progressive aphasia, in which the additional cost of tDCS is about 2500 NOK. The number of tDCS treatments needed each year, is estimated to be 1-2 for depression and 1-4 for aphasia.
The evidence on tDCS for depression and poststroke aphasia addresses all the research questions of this health technology assessment. The trials on depression mainly included patients with moderate to severe depression. The treatment-induced effects reported here are therefore valid for this patient group but are not necessarily valid for patients with mild depression. The evidence is also less comprehensive for bipolar than for unipolar depression. However, subgroup analysis did not indicate that patients with these indications differed in the response to tDCS treatment. For poststroke aphasia, most trials combined tDCS with language therapy and we do not know whether tDCS can provide similar effects if applied alone. Nevertheless, one will probably combine tDCS with language therapy also in Norwegian practice. The number of participants in the trials of primary progressive aphasia was too low to detect clinically important differences (low statistical power). Novel studies investigating the effect of tDCS for primary progressive aphasia are therefore warranted.
To conduct a cost-analysis, we had to make several assumptions on how tDCS may be applied in a home-based and an outpatient setting. The assumptions were made by consulting clinical experts and suppliers of tDCS devices, but are, despite these efforts, to some degree uncertain. The costs may thus have been both over- and underestimated.
tDCS treatment probably reduces symptoms of depression in patients with moderate to severe depression. The effect of tDCS is probably not greater than antidepressant effects. tDCS treatment probably reduces language impairment in patients with poststroke aphasia when combined with language therapy. tDCS treatment did not increase the proportion of drop-out and serious adverse effects, but mild and transient side effects must be expected. The evidence on tDCS for primary progressive aphasia is highly uncertain. Based on the current evidence it is impossible to estimate whether tDCS is cost effective, but we have estimated approximate costs based on certain assumptions. The largest costs are those associated with hospital staff, and home-based treatment is thus less expensive than outpatient care.
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