Herpes Infections in Dogs - VeterinaryPartner.com - a VIN company!
Most of us are familiar with herpesviruses because we have heard of human herpes. Medications to suppress herpes outbreaks are advertised on television and educational programs are in place in schools and communities. In humans, there are two herpesviruses: herpes I, which causes facial sores and is spread by kissing or sharing food utensils; and herpes II, which causes genital sores and is spread by sexual contact. Herpesviruses have the ability to hide in the body's nerve ganglia, where they are safe from the immune system, periodically emerging and causing symptoms. Herpes infection is generally considered to be permanent with outbreaks of symptoms are generally associated with stress.
In fact, our pets must deal with their own herpesviruses. In cats, herpes is a respiratory virus accounting for nearly half of feline upper respiratory infections. Feline herpes is very contagious and is a common problem wherever cats are housed in groups.
Canine herpes is more of a reproductive problem than a respiratory one; in fact, most infected dogs do not appear to get sick at all or have mild conjunctivitis/upper respiratory symptoms. It is the unborn and newborn for whom the virus is most serious.
Any pregnant dog should be isolated from other dogs for the last three weeks of pregnancy and the first three weeks after birth. If she gets infected during this period, the litter is likely to be lost.
There are two syndromes experienced by puppies, depending on their age at exposure. If the puppies are infected after age three weeks, a kennel cough type of respiratory infection ensues. This can be serious and can progress to pneumonia given the vulnerabilities of a puppy so small and young, but overall this syndrome is far better than what is experienced by the much younger puppies.
Puppies exposed from birth to up to age three weeks develop a painful, rapidly progressive condition that typically results in death within 48 hours. Affected puppies are very vocal, show abdominal bloating, difficult shallow breathing, cold body temperatures, and weakness. Low platelet counts associated with infection result in speckles called petechiae, which may or may not be externally visible. The entire litter may be quickly lost.
The reason why three weeks of age seems to be a critical age is that this is the age where puppies begin to be able to maintain their own body temperature. The canine herpes virus depends on a cooler body temperature to replicate, with 95 degrees being optimal. A warmer body temperature greatly hampers the spread of the virus.
The necropsy (autopsy) is the only realistic means of finding out what happened. If you want to learn if the other litter members are at risk or if the mother dog can safely be bred again, the dead puppy should be examined.
Place the remains in a zippered plastic food bag and refrigerate until you can notify your veterinarian. If the placenta is available, it should be included.
Expect the mother dog and remaining littermates to be examined and the dead puppy to be necropsied.
There are many causes for the loss of a near term or newly born litter of puppies: coronavirus, parvovirus, toxoplasmosis, brucellosis, umbilical trauma, genetic disease, etc. Knowing what to do heavily depends on knowing what happened. Puppies that die from canine herpes have characteristic inclusion bodies in many tissues that can be seen under the microscope. Inclusion bodies are essentially areas of heavy virus reproduction that are actually visible and unique in appearance. The presence of herpes inclusion bodies confirms the diagnosis. Recently a PCR test (a test for herpesviral DNA) has been developed for dogs. This test is likely to become the diagnostic test of choice in a post-mortem puppy situation. In many individuals, the aforementioned speckling is on the kidneys. If this finding is detected, herpes is confirmed and microscopic tissue examination is probably not necessary.
The reason why puppies get into trouble with the herpes virus is twofold: cool body temperature and lack of protection from their mother. Body temperature can be managed by keeping the nest area heated but if the mother was never infected, then she has no antibodies with which to protect her puppies. If she is infected in pregnancy, the litter is vulnerable or if the litter is exposed before age 3 weeks (from their mom or from any visiting other dog), again, they are vulnerable.
Herpes is an extremely common canine virus and most social dogs who meet and greet other dogs will get infected. The mother dog who was exposed/infected a long time ago will have antibodies and her puppies should be protected regardless of her contact with other dogs. Herpes, however, is by no means the only infectious agent puppies must contend with so the recommendation for isolation stands even if herpes is not the virus in question. We do not want infectious agents attacking the litter before or after birth regardless.
So should you test the mother during pregnancy? It may not be necessary if you are going to isolate the mother and litter anyway.
Should you test her at breeding? Probably not because her infection status could change by the time she gets to the final three weeks of pregnancy.
Should you test the male? If he is being used a stud dog with any regularity, he has most likely been exposed already.
The test that is used to determine whether a dog is naive or has prior exposure is a blood test for herpes antibodies. The idea is that if there are antibodies, the virus was there at some point to generate them. The ability of an infected dog to maintain antibodies against canine herpes is variable. Some infected dogs show no antibodies after a couple of months have passed since infection and others have antibody levels persisting for years. This makes meaningful screening a challenge; it is safest to simply stick to the isolation of the mother dog and litter.
Canine herpes is very bad news for puppies less than three weeks of age. Often there is nothing that can be done to stop the sweep of this lethal virus. This does not keep us from fighting, however. If a seropositive nursing female dog is available (i.e. a nursing mother who is known to have been previously exposed), the litter at risk can be moved to her. Alternatively, serum from a recovered female dog can be separated and injected into the puppies as a source of anti-herpes antibodies. Warming the puppies may help as the virus cannot survive at body temperature. Antiviral medications such as Acyclovir may help.
As noted, canine herpes prefers a cooler body temperature around 95°F for maximum replication. Keeping the nest box warm enough that the puppies are consistently warmer is helpful but one should note that the virus cannot live in an environment where the temperature drops below 68°F. Herpes is readily killed by common household disinfectants.
Be sure the litter nurses from the mother during the first day after birth so as to maximize intake of colostrum (the special antibody-rich first milk). Isolate the mother and pups as described above. In Europe, a vaccine is available for use during canine pregnancy (one dose at the time of breeding and a second six to seven weeks later, to be repeated with each pregnancy) but it is not available in the U.S.
Herpes is most dangerous to the puppies when they are infected during pregnancy or shortly after delivery. Once the mother has been virus exposed, subsequent pregnancies should be unaffected as she will have made enough antibodies to keep the virus in check. Her antibodies will keep her from re-shedding virus to the puppies and will transfer to her milk to provide some protection to the puppies. While this means the mother dog should not be able to transmit the virus to her puppies, they can still be infected by other visiting dogs and the litter and mother must be isolated. Further, a mother dog with a prior exposure may be able to re-shed virus if she is stressed enough for the virus to break through her immunity.
Canine herpes only causes symptoms in unborn or newborn puppies and they usually do not survive infection.
The mother dog will not appear sick or may show mild cold/respiratory symptoms only.
Problems classically occur when an uninfected female becomes infected during pregnancy. Females infected long before pregnancy should not lose their litters to herpes as long the puppies are properly isolated.
Herpes is a common canine infection and is spread not only by sexual contact but through mouth and nose fluids.


Open tournament on Lake Cumberland, January 1st 2007. New Years Day.
60.00 entry fee: includes 10.00 per boat big fish. Big fish will be split. 5.00 per boat largemouth and 5.00 per boat big small mouth.
pays 1 place every 7 boats.
must be in no wake zone by 4:00pm. No one comming in late will be allowed to wiegh in.
no dead fish will be wieghed in.
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"Really" by National Sculptors' Guild Fellow Wayne Salge has been placed at the new City Hall by the Cherry Hills Village Art Commission.
"'Really' represents a contemplative pause, a step back, a second look at the state of contemporary life: its opinions and decisions."
Wayne will be present during the unveiling July 17th 5-7pm at 2450 East Quincy Avenue.
Look for this thoughtful sculpture on the Southwest corner of E. Quincy Avenue and Meade Lane.
Saint Louis Art Fair
John is headed to Saint Louis to Jury the 2019 Saint Louis Art Fair. Luckily DIA was clear for travel after yesterday's Spring Blizzard. We're honored by the invite; everyone involved has been terrific to work with.
Stay tuned for his take on the artists that will show this year, and save the date to go see for yourself....
September 6-9, 2019 in the heart of Clayton, MO. It looks like a terrific place to enjoy the Arts this Fall and hopefully find a piece to take home with you.
Every Word We Utter
Their Movement, Our Monument
Be Part of the Circle
Every Word We Utter bronze study
"Every Word We Utter" is a Monument to the Women's Suffrage Movement. The monument commemorates the largest nonviolent revolution in our nation's history — the movement for women's right to vote. Dedicated to Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the monument will mark the 100th Anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment, the women's right to vote.
DeDecker elected to depict multiple figures in the monument as a reminder that it took a whole group of women to accomplish this right. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are shown collaborating on the 19th amendment. Ida B Wells and Alice Paul are shown paying homage to the women before them; standing on the shoulders of giants(Sojourner Truth, Harriet Stanton Blatch, Anthony and Stanton, etc). Signatures of the group of women it took surround the monument. The immensity and scale needed to equal the magnitude of the movement. Bold and Beautiful just like those women who fought for our rights.
"Every word we utter, every act we perform … are wafted into enumerable other circles …" Elizabeth Cady Stanton reflecting on the life of Lucretia Mott.
"When we see them (historic female figures), we're reminded. It's important that we see these women, every day. Seeing them every day will help us to remember their goals and remember their aspirations. Sending a message to every woman that they do have a voice and they can use their voice. I hope the monument inspires young women..., little girls." - Jane DeDecker
Jane with the clay busts of the women being commemorated in the monument
Help build the Monument and Commemorate the Women's Movement and the Right to Vote..., 100 years on August 18, 2020. Be part of the circle, contribute to NSG Fellow Jane DeDecker's Every Word We Utter
DeDecker Studio is currently working on placing the 20-ft tall monument in Washington, DC. Once fully funded, this important bronze sculpture will be placed in a location of national prominence to inspire future generations. Track the progress of HR 473 (sponsor Congressman Joe Neguse) in the US Congress:
The 5-ft tall bronze and granite maquette will be placed as a limited edition in other appropriate spaces across the nation. Proceeds from these national sales of the maquette will help make the monument possible. Please contact the National Sculptors' Guild if your public art program has a site for this important piece.
Every Word We Utter 5ft version in clay
Sojourner Truth's portrait taking shape
Every Word We Utter study in bronze
DESCRIPTION AND SYMBOLISM OF THE MONUMENT:
Anthony and Stanton writing the Nineteenth Amendment is the nucleus, the beginning of the women's movement. To the side of the authors stands the elder Sojourner Truth, a beacon for the movement. The young Harriet Stanton Blatch represents the future. From them rises the next generation of the movement, the "daughters" who ratified the nineteenth amendment, represented by Ida B. Wells and Alice Paul. Standing on the shoulders of giants, these women were elevated by what came before. From this height, the ratification flag cascades to the innumerable circles that ripple outwards.
Sojourner Truth, an African-American abolitionist and women's right activist, was among the first voices of the women's movement. She propelled the movement in its early days because she was willing to speak at time when few women did so. I have depicted her standing on a pulpit to illustrate how she willingly projected her voice against injustices. Her gaze is to the future – to the horizon – looking to a place where women – together – will turn the world "right side up again." In my composition, I have sculpted her in her early 50's, around the time she would have delivered her seminal speech, "Ain't I a Woman?" Within the composition, she is a guardian of the belief that women should have the right to vote.
I used the same iconic photograph of the coauthors of the Declaration of Sentiments as inspiration for Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, but I depicted them at their age at the time of the writing of the Sentiments. The two women are physically connected in the sculpture, forming a unified force that truly speaks of the oneness of their purpose. Their words, speeches and wisdom launched a worldwide, peaceful revolution. Even today, these two women offer us the courage and the tools to be the stewards of human rights.
At a joint appearance for Hilary Clinton's campaign, Michelle Obama echoed Stanton's words: "With every action we take, with every word we utter, we think about the millions of children who are watching us, who hang onto our every word, looking at us to show them who they can and should be." Just so, Harriet Stanton Blatch hangs on the words of her mother. She has a look of intensity. She feels it. Blatch is nestled between her mother's hand that holds a pen and foot that breaks the conformities of the base. She holds onto a bonnet, a symbol of the suffragist she will become. Blatch literally grew up during the suffragist movement, and when it was her time, she absorbed the sentiments of her mother's words: "We've got to bring to the President, individually, day by day, week in and week out, the idea that great numbers of women want to be free, will be free."
Alice Paul and Ida B. Wells are at the peak of the coalescence, one in their mission. Although these two women would not have marched side by side, their juxtaposition at the height of the sculpture, symbolizes their shared vision of equal rights. Neither one of these women would take no for an answer. In the photos of the suffragist women marching, they are wearing elaborate hats, an announcement of their presence in the movement. I have depicted Alice Paul and Ida B. Wells wearing such hats. Both women also hold a flag.
The portrait of Alice Paul is inspired by the photo of her draping the ratification flag with its 36th star over the balcony of the suffrage headquarters in Washington D.C. I chose to depict Paul and this celebratory moment to capture the monumental triumph of the nineteenth amendment, an accumulation of the efforts of thousands of American women. She appears youthful and weightless in this monument, and yet she was militant in her efforts. She dedicated her life to the movement and after the vote continued until her death the work for the equal rights amendment.
Ida B. Wells began her career as an activist at a young age. She fervently rallied against the practice of lynching even with the threat of being lynched herself. Wells was known for using the pen and her voice to battle sexism, racism, and violence. In this sculpture Wells stands proudly with a flag of the United States, representing the hope for justice and the rights of every human being. The open gesture of her hand outstretched to the other women around her in this monument reinforces the invitation to join the cause.
Contributions to the monument may be made here. A 501(c)(3) status is pending. Proceeds from the sales of the maquettes make the monument possible. Please contact the National Sculptors' Guild to place the 5ft maquette in your public art program. #BePartOfTheCircle
Jane has begun work on the monument, below are studio images of the armature and early stages of adding clay, the 5ft maquette is used for reference as she sculpts the enlargement.
This post is an update to a previous one; see the original from 2018 here
Leaps and Bounds
Leaps & Bounds design for the Adams County Riverdale Animal Shelter
Daniel Glanz and the National Sculptors' Guild are happy to announce our design for Adams County's new Riverdale Animal Shelter was accepted and will be realized in the coming year. We will post updates here as the sculpture evolves.
Energetic and enthusiastically welcoming, this piece creates an immediate connection for the public with the shelter; becoming an iconic entrance piece for the Riverdale Animal Shelter.
A dog leaps in the air to catch a frisbee. Across the entry one sees the young child that threw the frisbee. In-between, a cat sitting on the provided bench has it's paw up in a futile attempt to intercept. The dog and cat will include sculpted details specific to Riverdale, including the names "River" and "Dale" inscribed on collars – reinforcing proper care of pets. The frisbee may include the Riverdale logo.
The sculptures will be cast in bronze and scaled at life-size, the frisbee and abstract element that the dog attaches to will be fabricated stainless steel. Patina on the bronze will be warm-browns. The breeds of the cat and dog will be nondescript for universal appeal. The child will be sculpted gender neutral and racially ambiguous for optimum inclusiveness of all visitors to the Riverdale Animal Shelter.
Utilizing the existing bench for the cat invites visitors to sit next to the sculpture and be part of the composition. The artwork provides multiple photo opportunities to capture happy adoption moments.
The term 'Leaps and Bounds' is used to emphasize that someone or something is improving or increasing quickly and greatly... this absolutely rings true for the animals that are sheltered and adopted here. The sculpture demonstrates the health and vitality that comes from our connection with our pets. It also sets the tone for visitors to the shelter; as one enters the facility; they know this to be a place where animals thrive.
Mockingbird Tree
We're thrilled to have another project in the works with the City of Southlake. Michael Warrick and the National Sculptors' Guild won their latest competition with the pictured design of "Mockingbird Tree".
The 18-ft tall stainless steel sculpture Celebrates the tree as one of Texas' natural resources; incorporates three mockingbirds (the Texas state bird) and creates a payful image that engages the public's imagination.
Once complete, it will be placed in a roundabout that will bring together and connect a residential, retail and medical space near Park Village in Southlake, TX. The three elements are represented in the sculpture by the gold-leafed birds.
Gene Bess Portrait
The National Sculptors' Guild and Gary Alsum have been selected to sculpt a full-figure portrait of Gene Bess; the coach of the men's basketball team at Three Rivers Community College in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Bess has been at Three Rivers since 1971. His career win-loss record was 1268-368, making him the all-time winningest college basketball coach.
The College is completing their fundraising for the sculpture, and Gary will work out the composition and begin sculpting this Spring.
We'll update this post as the project evolves. #WIP
Shakopee Sculpture Commemorating Rev. Pond
We are always honored to work with the Shakopee Mdewakanton Dakota Sioux community in Minnesota. We've had the great fortune of placing important artwork with them since 2004. The next sculpture NSG will be a part of is a portrait of Rev. Samuel William Pond by Denny Haskew.
Denny has started working through the composition in a clay sketch and will begin sculpting the enlargement this Winter/Spring.
We will post updates as the sculpture progresses.
Young Israel of North Beverly Hills Holocaust Memorial
Update 01/09/2019: Installation Day. The National Sculptors' Guild is at the Young Israel of North Beverly Hills installing a Holocaust Memorial. Designed by John Kinkade and Dee Clements. Installation is nearing the finish line as we post. We are honored to create such an important element for this beautiful Synagogue and its members.
Special thanks to Judith Garshofsky who has been assisting with coordination every step of the way. It was also wonderful working with Rabbi Pini Dunner on this important memorial.
3/15/17: The National Sculptors' Guild has been commissioned to create a Holocaust Memorial for Young Israel of North Beverly Hills. The memorial is planned to install this fall.
Imagery by Dee Clements will include prisoners behind barbed wire, a Shofar and a representation of the Horah, the Kotel with figures in prayer, along with the flag of Israel. Verse will accompany each theme.
In order to give the sculpture both mass and overall symbolism, we elected to use the Star of David. As we vision it now, the star will be assembled using six equilateral triangles with one edge of each triangle tightly fitted to the center hexagon. Although we are using the Star of David as a modern symbol of the Jewish community, the individual triangles were used to identify prisoners during the Holocaust. We have therefore separated them as a subtle reminder. The star will be made of stainless steel with a soft gold bronze patina. It will be mounted on the existing wall at an angle with a framework that will not be seen. The two points on the left side of the star will touch the wall and the two points on the right side of the star will be approximately 10 inches from the wall. This will give the overall sculpture additional dimension with the use of negative space. It also highlights the theme of taking darkness to light that is represented in both symbolism and color.
Three themes are depicted on the surface of the star: the Holocaust, the Liberation, and Creation of the State Israel.  Each will be silhouettes cut from stainless steel enhanced by relief sculpted cast bronze overlay. The color will go from matte charcoal grey and dark patina on the left (Holocaust) to medium grey and french brown patina in the center (Liberation) and finally polished stainless with a bright patina on the right (Creation). This graduation of value reinforces the symbolism of coming from darkness to light.
Reaching Our Goal
Update 12/6/2018: The Legacy Project is our 500th Public Art Placement!
More elements and finish work has been going in since placing the sculpture. We anticipate a great celebration once the plaza of The Foundry opens to the public.
A view of "Reaching Our Goal" from one of the narrative stones.
Update 11/20/2018: We were downtown completing the installation this afternoon.
The bronze is in! "Reaching Our Goal" by Denny Haskew and the National Sculptors' Guild is the final element to go in of The Rotary Club of Thompson Valley's Legacy Project at The Foundry
The Legacy Project is the National Sculptors' Guild's 500th Public Art Placement!
We are so excited to be celebrating this moment in Loveland, Colorado where we've been headquartered since 1992.
We have donated our portion of the project back to the placement to give back to the community that has supported us through the years.
#FullCircle #ReachingOurGoal
Denny Haskew and the National Sculptors' Guild crew align and level 2 of the monolithic stones for The Legacy Project
Update 11/16/2018: Today was a huge step in the installation of The Legacy Project. Over 68,000 lbs of Dakota sandstone was craned into the site and set by Denny Haskew and the National Sculptors' Guild. Next week the final stone and bronze element will be placed.
The Rotary Club of Thompson Valley's "Legacy Project" will activate the plaza of The Foundry, a new development that is transforming Loveland's historic downtown. The installation includes "Reaching Our Goal" bronze sculpture by National Sculptors' Guild Charter Member Denny Haskew
Tony Workman of Art Castings of Colorado drilling the stone.
Update 11/14/2018: Our 500th Public Art Placement is going in this week! Stay tuned to our social media posts for updates. We're so excited that we're celebrating this moment in Loveland, CO where we've been headquartered since 1992. #FullCircle
Pictured to the left is the top stone being drilled at Art Castings of Colorado where the bronze was cast. The bronze is cast and ready for patina.
The other stone monoliths are being loaded to deliver to the site. The installation will take a couple of days of craning in 34 tons of stone. The bronze is scheduled to go in next Tuesday to finish it off. #ReachingOurGoal
Denny Haskew at Art Castings of Colorado
Update 10/15/2018: The metal has been poured, time to put the pieces back together.
Pictured is artist Denny Haskew at Art Castings of Colorado where the bronze is being cast.
#ReachingOurGoal
NSG's 500th Public Art Placement
Update 8/23/18: Appropriately so, the National Sculptors' Guild anticipates this placement, which we are contributing our share to, to be our 500th public art monumental placement. What better place for such a milestone than in our backyard.
We are happy to share this pivotal moment with Lovelanders:
Denny Haskew - NSG Charter Member
The Rotary Club of Thompson Valley
The Foundry - downtown Loveland's newest development
Art Castings of Colorado - Foundry, since 1972
And all the other talented artists and subcontractors who make our creations come to life for the public to enjoy.
Rotary International Wheel
Update 8/20/18: We're working on some of the smaller details that will be part of the overall placement. Look for the Rotary wheel to be incorporated throughout The Legacy plaza. Some will highlight the contributors that are making this art placement possible. Thanks Rotary Club of Thompson Valley!
Stainless Steel Rotary Wheel
Template on second stone
Update 6/5/18: It may not look like much yet, but we have over 60,000 pounds of stone going into this art placement. Many of the sandstone monoliths will be etched with information about the successes of the Rotary Club of Thompson Valley.
This image shows laying out templates in preparation of sandblasting the narrative into one of the stones.
5/15/2018: Columbine Gallery and the National Sculptors' Guild are pleased to team up with the Rotary Club of Thompson Valley on their "Legacy Project" in Loveland, Colorado.
The Legacy Project celebrates the 30th Anniversary (2019) of the Rotary Club of Thompson Valley. The larger-than-life bronze sculpture depicts a woman helping a teenage boy surmount a stone precipice tying into the Rotary motto, "Service Above Self". Part of this service has been the club's support of Polio Plus, a major contributor to the eradication of Polio world-wide.
"Reaching Our Goal" by NSG Fellow Denny Haskew will be placed in the plaza of The Foundry, a new development that is transforming Loveland's historic downtown, set to open Fall 2018. The art placement will coincide with the opening.
The National Sculptors' Guild designed additional stone elements to activate the plaza and provide area's of recognition to donors and the club's efforts.
We have contributed $50,000 plus design work to the project, our way of giving back to community for all the support we've received over the past 26 years.
Haskew is a renowned figurative artist and a Charter Member of the National Sculptors' Guild. His work is in numerous prestigious collections including the Smithsonian Institution, DC; the Gilcrease Museum, OK; and the Boulder and Colorado Springs campuses of the University of Colorado.
Denny Haskew currently resides in Loveland, Colorado where he is actively engaged in the art industry as a sculptor. He received his degree from the University of Utah, then served two years in the United States Army during the Vietnam War.
Having spent numerous years as a guide and ski instructor, Denny has learned to love the rivers and mountains of the western states of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, and Utah. After moving to Loveland, a hub of successful working sculptors, he wasted no time in getting monumental sculpture experience through working with renowned sculptors including Fritz White and Kent Ullberg. Since 1987, Denny has created and placed dozens of monumental compositions; spanning the spectrum of the figurative genre.
The project budget is $180,000 of which 50% has been raised. Please help the Thompson Valley Rotary Foundation Reach their Goal. email for details.
Southlake Shield
The City of Southlake's iconic shield is being created by NSG's Joe Norman. The clay was rushed off to the foundry so that a number of these shields will be ready for city buildings this Winter. The finished product will be cast Stainless Steel, and Joe's sculpted the shield in a couple sizes.
#ArtfulLogos #MakeAStatement
JK Designs' Principal, John Kinkade, founded the National Sculptors' Guild in 1992 with a handful of sculptors who wished to find thoughtful public applications for their work. Representation has since grown to
over 40 contracted sculptors and painters, displayed year-round at Columbine Gallery; plus an extended network of over 200 artists that our design team works with on a regular basis to meet each project's unique needs.
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Barlock
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Caricof
Celebrity Tweet
ColorInTheWings
Governors Art Show
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The Anguimorpha is a suborder of squamates. The group was named by Fürbringer in 1900 to include all autarchoglossans closer to Varanus and Anguis than Scincus. These lizards, along with iguanians and snakes, constitute the proposed "venom clade" Toxicofera of all venomous reptiles.

Evolution
The oldest widely accepted member of Anguimorpha is Dorsetisaurus from the Late Jurassic of Europe and North America. In 2022, the genus Cryptovaranoides was described from the latest Triassic (Rhaetian) of England. Cryptovaranoides was recovered in the study as a crown-group Anguimorph, and therefore the oldest crown group-squamate, 35 million years older than any previously known crown-group squamate.

Families

Anguidae
There are 9 genera found within the Anguidae family. They are characterized by being heavily armored with non-overlapping scales, and almost all having well-developed ventrolateral folds (excluding Anguis). Anguidae members can, however, be somewhat difficult to identify in their family, as members can be limbed or limbless, and can be both viviparous and oviparous. Anguidae members have pterygoid teeth. Many members of this family have tail autotomy.

Anniellidae
There is only one genus within the Anniellidae family, comprising 6 species of American legless lizards. They are characterized as having no limbs, and can be found in California and Baja California. They have wedge-shaped heads and a countersunk jaw that allows them to bury themselves in sand or loose soil, which they can drink water from if the soil has a water quantity greater than 7%. They give live birth and usually have two offspring.

Diploglossidae
There are three genera in the Diploglossidae family. They are characterized by having very long, automatized tails, small and well-developed limbs, and no ventrolateral fold. They do have bicuspid posterior teeth. They give both live birth, and lay clutches, according to the genus.

Xenosauridae
There is only one genus, with 6 species, found in the Xenosauridae family. This family is both dorsally and ventrally covered in knob-like scales. Their tail is about 1.2 times the length of their body. They give live birth, with a litter usually consisting of two offspring, although they can have up to eight. Gestation takes eleven to twelve months. They are primarily insectivores.

Helodermatidae
The family Helodermatidae (beaded lizards) has only one genus with 5 species: the Gila monster (Heloderma Suspectum), Heloderma exasperatum, Heloderma horridum, Heloderma Alvarezi and Heloderma Charlesbogerti. This family is the only known family of lizards that have well-developed venom glands. In addition, they have non-automated tails (short in Gila monsters, while considerably larger the rest of the genus) in which they store fat. They have somewhat tubercular scales both dorsally and laterally, with their ventral scales being smooth, and being larger than the dorsal and lateral scales while much of their body is covered by osteoderms. They are oviparous, with clutch sizes averaging about 6 eggs per clutch. These lizards have a pectoral girdle, meaning that they must push their swallowed prey past it in order to eat. Despite this limitation, these lizards have been observed eating prey up to 33% of their body weight.

Shinisauridae
The family of Shinisauridae is only made up of one species, Shinisaurus crocodilurus, the Chinese crocodile lizard. This species is semiaquatic, found in forests along streams. These lizards can hold their breath underwater for up to thirty minutes at a time. . Found in southern China, this species is viviparous, with litters ranging from 2-7 individuals. This species has well-developed limbs and has a tail that is around 1.2 times the length of its body. Tail autonomy is not present in these lizards.

Lanthanotidae
The family Lanthanotidae consists of a single species, the earless monitor lizard (Lanthanotus borneensis). This species has thick skin, which is covered by small, rounded scales that appear in rows. The main defining feature that distinguishes this species from other monitors is its lack of a parietal eye and the lack of a hemibaculum. The species is presumed to be semiaquatic, but little is known about its wild habits, as most information and study comes from captive individuals. It is only found on a single island of off the coast of Singapore.

Varanidae
The Varanidae are a family of carnivorous and frugivorous monitor lizards, which contains one extant genus (Varanus) with 73 species, including the Komodo dragon. They can be characterized by their thick skin and small, rounded scales. The ventral scales are slightly larger than the dorsal scales. They have a parietal eye and a hemibaculum. This completely oviparous family has a clutch size that correlates with the body size. No members of this family exhibit parental care. They also have limbs that are relatively small for their body size. The family is also broken up into 9 distinct morphological subgroups. Some species of Varanidae, such as the Varanus komodoensis, or the Komodo Dragon, have been found to produce venom. Previous research has suggested that pathogenic bacteria may play an integral role in the predatory ecology of the Komodo Dragon, however, the inter-individual variability of oral flora in Komodo Dragons makes this unlikely. Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), a study in 2008 concluded that V. komodoensis have well-developed mandibular venom glands and that they use this venom to compensate for a weak bite force.

Classification
The following cladogram is based on the optimal results found by Reeder et al. (2015) in the largest-scale morphological+molecular phylogenetic analysis of extant and fossil squamates as of that year:

References

Vertebrate infraorders
Taxa named by Max Fürbringer

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Intravital microscopy is a powerful optical imaging technique that allows noninvasive monitoring of molecular and cellular processes in intact living tissue with 1 to 10 mm resolution. Sophisticated animal models, such as window models, are a prerequisite for this technique. With the use of appropriate tracers, optics, and analysis algorithms, a wide array of morphological and functional vascular parameters—such as blood and lymph vessel architectures, blood and lymph flow, vasomotion, vascular permeability, and leukocyte/platelet-endothelial interactions—can be determined by intravital microscopy. In addition, endogenous and exogenous probes, as well as genetically manipulated cells and animals, can provide other important parameters such as gene expression (promoter activity via GFP imaging), interstitial/intracellular pH, interstitial and microvascular pO2, interstitial diffusion, convection and bindings, and extracellular matrix structure (second harmonic generation of collagen fiber).
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I marvel at how resilient nature is at times. This has recently been demonstrated a few times by some of the invertebrates on the river Almond system. Iain has been out and about on both the Almond and Avon recently doing the ecological surveying for the RiverLife project. He found a selection of beasties along the river, some shown here in microscope images that allows him to identify them down to their biological family. Doing this also allows us to judge pollution issues on the rivers, as a lot of these bugs spend their juvenile life in the water before hatching at the surface and emerging as things such as mayflies, dragon flies and a maddening variety of other flies. Pollution events that reduce the dissolved oxygen in the water or has suspended particles, can lead to suffocation or smothering animals living in or on the river bottom. So a lack of a certain family can tell you of a past pollution event, and so biologists have given each species a score to allow this to be calculated.
However, I feel like a lot of beasties found recently show a good degree of resilience to what we'd perceive as grim bits of river and occasionally a bug turns up that surprise folks. Iain found a Siphlonuridae family of mayfly in the Harwood water above Limefield Falls (Polbeth), which he's not found in his time of surveying Scottish rivers before. Luke recently found several cased caddis fly larvae that had mad their home on a nylon sock in the Almond at the Rugby club weir. Scot and I were intrigued to discover a few stonefly larvae that had travelled back to HQ onboard a load of wet wipes from the RiverRubbish clean up at Whitburn. That clean up showed life on all kids of odd non-natural material items, from earthworms on wet wipes, caseless caddis fly on a plastic bottle, snails on wet wipes and spiders that had hitched a lift.
Wildlife on the small scale is all about and I can only imagine that they will be more plentiful and a lot happier when the rivers, hopefully, become less prone to pollution and societies discarded items.


Safari 4 — really the fastest browser on the planet?
The beta of Safari 4 has just been released, and at first sparkle it seems a worthy upgrade. It makes a good opening splash, too, taking Chrome's idea of having a mosaic of favourite pages as the starting point - only this being Apple, they're all curved into a Cinemascope-style 3D screen.
The beta of Safari 4 has just been released, and at first sparkle it seems a worthy upgrade. It makes a good opening splash, too, taking Chrome's idea of having a mosaic of favourite pages as the starting point - only this being Apple, they're all curved into a Cinemascope-style 3D screen. Which is nice, but not really revolutionary.
And it is faster than either. On the PC, which was a rather tired old HP workstation running XP, Chrome clocked in at 1340ms as the headline rate for the SunSpider tests; Safari 4 managed 1082, twenty percent faster.
On the much spiffier 24" office iMac, Safari 4 (after three reboots; it was fussy about the latest security updates to Leopard) managed 653ms: Firefox 3 could only crawl past the finishing line after 2555ms - making Safari some 75 percent swifter.
We'll be having a harder, longer look at Safari later - Apple goes on to make great claims about HTML 5 and CSS 3 - and we rather hope that such audacity will help focus the minds of those who may be bringing Chromium to Mac OS.


The Mill Road work site at Marcham is a few miles West of Abingdon, just off the main Road through the village of Marcham. The road is rather a quiet country lane and has a small stream to one side that serves as a tributary to the River Ock. The stream bed is largely dry during the summer months and has become rather infested with the non-native Himalayan Balsam plant in recent years.
Abingdon Green Gym visit the site during the summer to remove the Himalayan Balsam as far as possible in an effort to reduce its distribution in the area and to prevent the seeds from travelling downstream and causing further infestation along the Ock towards Abingdon.
The meeting point for the Mill Road site is outside Manor Farm along Mill Road where there is a farm shop.


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A27 closed after crash leaves two with serious injuries
The A27 is closed after a crash at lunchtime left two people with serious injuries.
The road closure has led to long delays for commuters returning home to Brighton and Hove and people heading out of the city to East Sussex.
Diversions have added to rush-hour congestion on the A259 between Brighton and Newhaven.
More than four hours after the pile up, Sussex Police said: "Police are continuing to respond to a multi-vehicle collision on the A27 just east of Beddingham Roundabout, near Lewes.
"Four vehicles – a Ford Transit, a delivery van and two cars – were involved in the incident, which occurred at around 12.24pm on Thursday 17 June."
The delivery van was a DPD van.
Sussex Police added: "Two people have been taken to hospital – a man with life-changing injuries and a woman with life-threatening injuries. No other injuries were reported.
"The A27 will remain closed in both directions between Beddingham Roundabout and Polegate for some time, to enable investigations and recovery work to be completed. This includes debris and damage to the road surface.
"The A26 remains open.
"In the meantime, motorists are advised to use the diversions which are signposted.
"HGVs in particular are urged to follow these diversions and not seek alternative routes, as this has already caused some vehicles to become stuck in nearby country lanes.
"Police are urging anyone who saw what happened – or anyone with relevant dashcam footage – to email collision.appeal@sussex.pnn.police.uk quoting Operation Craven.
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This morning a crash on the eastbound side of the A27 between the Devil's Dyke roundabout and the A23 London Road also caused queues and delays.
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An electronic macrame tapestry created around the concept of camouflage. Camouflage is a strategy. An attack or a defence created by a relation to your surroundings, conscious or unconscious strategies to reach certain goals. You don't need to be a chameleon to practise camouflage, a carnivore flower hides its intentions using strong colour and irresistible smell. The goal is to kill, by showing off.
Without a strategy its impossible to blend into your environment. Both visually and conceptually. Can a strategy be hidden into an object? With a build in mechanical strategy, the object is controlling the situation in the space. The visitors is a part of the process by acting due to their expectations based on the appearance and the context.
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It's a fact that discrepancies exist throughout the ad serving ecosystem from the advertiser's own server to the ad agencies'; the Gourmet Ads ad server to the Publisher's website. Find out why discrepancies exist, and how to minimize the discrepancies.
1. Are the ad tags on every page?
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Gourmet Ads' ad server is hosted at major data centers around the world and is backed on global content distribution networks (CDNs), thus providing quick loading of ads for Publishers. However, any lag in the connection between the actual ad request and the display of the ad on your site and in the user's browser can create differences in counts. A classic example is web pages heavy with images and content where the user may have navigated away from the site or the next page before seeing the advertisement load.
We recently had a complaint from a Publisher who was saying that ads on her site were not loading. A quick look from our Publisher Support Team found that the homepage consisted of 42mb of content and internal pages where approx. 2MB – 3MB. Our ad tags were the last element of the page to load. Most people were not waiting for the page to load before clicking off. As a guide our maximum size per ad unit is 40k or less.
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We also recommend that you place our ad tags at the top of the page code to ensure quick loading, thus maximizing revenue.
Modern day browsers are built to cache as much third-party code (like ad tags) as possible, thus reducing the need to call every element of the site. Add into the mix that some Publishers apply website caching (such as WordPress Plugins like W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache). When the advertising creative is cached in the browser or on a proxy server, no ad request is seen by the advertiser's server, which results in impression count differences.
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Not always the case, but discrepancies can be easily seen when ad servers operate on different time intervals or geographic time zones, which results in temporal differences. For example the Gourmet Ads server is set-up to report on the US East Coast (EST) however if your reporting is set-up on GMT or Pacific Time or another time zone – there will always be a natural discrepancies.
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Regardless of the gear you are currently using to perform your DJ set, you'd be hard-pressed to ignore the digital revolution that's taken place in the DJ World in recent years.
Performance moved from vinyl (somewhat reluctantly in some quarters…) to CDs, which offered a new level of performance control. Nowadays, the laptop, software and DJ controller has raised the bar for sheer power and versatility, once again.
If you have asked yourself that question, or are looking for ways to stamp your own signature onto your DJ set, read on. Here are 6 ways to invigorate your DJ set.
One of the first technological advances when CD decks started to appear was the ability to loop ections of audio seamlessly. The uses for this range from simple, and practical, to more creative.
At its most simple, looping intro or outro sections to provide more time to beat-match, or build into the next track. More creative uses can include using a section of one track as an intro to another, or a break from one to reinforce another.
One of the most commonplace modern uses is to decrease the loop length incrementally, to create a repeating, glitchy outro to segue into the next track.
Just about every DJ software package is equipped to provide some form of effects. By this, we mean echoes, chorus and modulation type effects, distortions and many more besides.
Whilst sample technology has been a part of the creative DJ set for some time (being included on some DJ mixers for well over a decade) it is only really in the last few years that it has 'come of age'.
Now, the major DJ software developers have adapted the sampling features of their software to embrace a new breed of performance DJ. DJs commonly create live remixes on the fly, with software geared up to enable it.
Far from the 'make some noise', 'hands in the air', air horn or crowd noise samples for which samples within a DJ set have become a little stereotyped, the new sample features can trigger anything from percussion loops, to vocal samples, acapellas, single hits.
For those who want to add a performance element to their set, themed sample sets are now available to buy.
Whether you want complete disassemble and rebuild a track live, or just add some fresh flavour, however, samples add enormous scope.
Thankfully, there are now countless DJ controllers aimed at providing accurate, hands-on control of DJ sets performed with computers. These range from familiar, twin platter designs, to more unique, live remix oriented designs, such as the Novation Twitch.
Native instruments has embraced this live performance movements with developments such as the F1 controller, whilst recently, Numark unveiled its innovative wireless controller, the Orbit- designed specifically to bring the performance to the audience.
This is so obvious that it often gets overlooked completely. If you want your DJ set to be fresh, new, exciting music is the means to do it.
Depending on the sets you play, having in-demand tracks clearly has a place. However, if you want to set yourself apart, it's better to be a tastemaker than a trend-follower.
So, how can you get ahead of the curve and find great tracks that no one yet knows about? Well, you need to go 'off-piste'.
One of the great things about music on the net is that there are thousands of independent music blogs. These tend to be incredibly honest as they don't have to answer to anyone, financially or otherwise, and so can be a great place to check out new and upcoming artists.
Whether you use all of the above, or none, remember that a great DJ set starts and ends with great music.
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In this white paper, describes a static analysis technique – taint analysis – that can be used to find how potentially hazardous inputs can flow through a program to reach sensitive parts of code, empowering developers to identify and eliminate these dangerous vulnerabilities much more effectively.
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Do you like being creative with paint and textile? Then this batik workshop is maybe your cup of tea. Everywhere you look in Gambia you see people wearing batik clothes. The Gambians love these colorful clothes. Geneba or one of the others will teach you all the ins and outs of batik painting. In order to be able to batik the textile needs to be treated with a specific wax first. As soon as the wax has dried the textile can be painted. The parts that have wax don't absorb any paint. In this way you can create beautiful patterns. Take home your own piece of artwork.
We (me and my 11 year old daughter) really enjoyed our Batik Workshop! De place of the workshop is very nice, the teacher was great. We had a good lunch, this is not included but for a few dalasi you can join the lunch. We wish we knew it before so that we could do more of the workshops they offer.


Just the built-in Windows Defender in windows 10, no other security software.
Nothing about Pale Moon in Reliability Monitor or Event Viewer.
I'm wondering if it's an issue with Nvidia graphics. I switched to integrated Intel graphics for PM and haven't had any more hangs yet. Did get a few slowdowns but no full hangs.
EDIT: Scratch that...it's back to frequently locking up.
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updated to 28.0.0.1 and also started with a fresh prefs.js. Still hanging.
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I've no idea of how to read the callstacks but I see 'C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes\Anti-Malware\mbae64.dll , Malwarebytes Corporation , Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit, Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit' loaded in all three snapshots.
Sorry if this comes off sounding a bit annoyed, but as I've said in all of my prior responses to you, I have already tried with Malwarebytes and all associated software fully uninstalled from my PC. It did not have any effect on the hangs. The hangs are unrelated to malwarebytes. I have already tested this. I reinstalled malwarebytes after confirming that it was unrelated, because the hangs happened with it fully deleted.
Then why didn't you submit a hang report in the state where malwarebytes is -not- installed?
....Because I sometimes miss the obvious, I guess. Sorry.
Will do that now, hold on while I wait for it to hang again. Sometimes it takes a few minutes.
OK, browsed for a while and collected a few hang reports after ensuring malwarebytes was totally gone.
I can get more if you want, this was just from about five minutes of browsing, so I can browse for a few more minutes if you want additional ones.
Please remove NoScript and see if that helps.
If not, restart the browser in Safe Mode and see if -that- helps.
Will do. Is there an alternative to noscript that works with pale moon? I looked at umatrix but apparently that's not compatible.
DarthVitrial wrote: Will do. Is there an alternative to noscript that works with pale moon? I looked at umatrix but apparently that's not compatible.
uMatrix 1.1.4 works fine. If you can't find it anywhere else, it's on github somewhere.
I've been running without NoScript for a day or so (cleared cache, fully deleted NoScript, rebooted, etc), and it seems more stable? I'm getting occasional stutters but no full-on hangs yet.
EDIT: Spoke too soon. Hung when using the back button.
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DarthVitrial wrote: I've been running without NoScript for a day or so (cleared cache, fully deleted NoScript, rebooted, etc), and it seems more stable? I'm getting occasional stutters but no full-on hangs yet.
Did you try 28.0.1 with a fresh prefs.js?
As a side note, not related.
I see you are already using uBlock. uMatrix works fine alongside uBlock. So far no problem.
However even Gorhill doesn't use them both alongside anymore (he uses only uBlock) because he considers it to be a bit of stretch.
Just sayin', after all it's up the user to decide.


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UAE records marks 2,369 new coronavirus cases over past 24 hours
Friday . January 28, 2022
Nyck de Vries kicks off Season 8 of Formula E with a win under the lights in Diriyah
Lebanon highlights drug seizures as PM 'smooths rough edges' of response to Kuwaiti initiative
Saudi and Egyptian forces continue mixed naval exercise
Lebanese government apologizes for mistaking Kuwait's flag for UAE
Lebanese government apologizes for mistaking Kuwait's flag for UAE /node/2004441/offbeat
The government said that an error occurred due to the confusion of an employee who had placed the flag of Kuwait next to the Lebanese flag instead of the UAE flag. (Twitter)
https://arab.news/ngvjr
The Lebanese government apologized on Thursday for mistaking the Kuwaiti flag for that of the UAE during the opening of the Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Hospital Center for treating coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the capital Beirut.
The apology, posted on the official Twitter page of the Lebanese prime minister's office, came after a picture of the incorrect flag circulated on social media.
The former Lebanese Ambassador to Jordan Tracy Chamoun slammed the government for the debacle, saying in a tweet: "Unfortunately, some people running the state today are without a brain."
وضع علم الكويت بدل الإمارات. هالشي لا بدو مازوت، ولا دولار، ولا اجتماع الحكومة، ولا طاولة حوار ولا استراتيجية دفاعيّة. بدّو مخّ. للأسف بعض يللي عم بيديروا الدولة اليوم بلا مخّ pic.twitter.com/drEclUMnJM
— Tracy Chamoun (@Tracy_D_Chamoun) January 13, 2022
Lebanon's Directorate of Protocols and Public Relations at the Presidency of the Lebanese Council of Ministers said in a statement that the incident "required clarification and apology."
It stated that the error occurred due to the confusion of an employee who had placed the flag of Kuwait next to the Lebanese flag instead of the UAE flag.
6 debacles and diplomatic goofs that happened
1. Bahrain welcomed Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi by playing the chords of Egyptian musician Raafat Al-Hagan instead of the Egyptian national anthem during his official visit in 2018.
2. The Egyptian military band mangled the Russian national anthem during President Vladimir Putin visit to Egypt in 2015. The performance went viral on social media and was labeled a "train wreck."
3. During the Rio Olympics in 2016, the wrong Chinese flag was used several times. The wrong flag used during the opening ceremony and two medal ceremonies. Chinese state TV posted this picture of the wrong flag's first outing with the caption: "The national flag is a symbol of a country! No mistakes are allowed!"
4. A group of Turkish demonstrators were mocked after a video of them setting what they thought was a Dutch flag on fire circulated online. Social media users were quick to reveal it was actually a French flag.
5. US President Bush took the podium in Nashville in 2002 to speak before a group of schoolchildren, parents and teachers where he gets a famous saying completely wrong. He says "There's an old saying in Tennessee," then after a series of awkward pauses he continues with: "I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee that says, 'Fool me once, shame on ... shame on you. Fool me... You can't get fooled again!'" For the record, the correct rendering of the aphorism is: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
6. British Prime Minister David Cameron and his delegation offended Chinese officials by wearing poppies during a visit in 2010. In Britain this is a symbol of those who have died fighting for their country. However, Chinese officials asked the delegates to remove the poppies before Cameron's official welcome at Beijing's Great Hall because the flower symbolises their defeat against Britain in the Opium War fought from 1839 to 1842. Awkwardly, the British officials refused.
Visiting British Prime Minister David Cameron (C) walks beside Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (L) while wearing a poppy on his lapel to honor British war dead at a review of the honour guard welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 9, 2010. (AFP)
Topics: Lebanon
Hospital patient without COVID shot denied heart transplant /node/2013621/offbeat
Hospital patient without COVID shot denied heart transplant
Brigham and Women's Hospital told the 31-year-old father of two that he was ineligible for the procedure because he hasn't been vaccinated against the coronavirus
D.J.'s mother, Tracey Ferguson, insists that her son isn't against vaccinations, noting he's had other immunizations in the past
MENDON: A Boston hospital is defending itself after a man's family claimed he was denied a new heart for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19, saying most transplant programs around the country set similar requirements to improve patients' chances of survival.
The family of D.J. Ferguson said in a crowdfunding appeal this week that officials at Brigham and Women's Hospital told the 31-year-old father of two that he was ineligible for the procedure because he hasn't been vaccinated against the coronavirus.
"We are literally in a corner right now. This is extremely time sensitive," the family said in its fundraising appeal, which has raised tens of thousands of dollars. "This is not just a political issue. People need to have a choice!"
D.J.'s mother, Tracey Ferguson, insists that her son isn't against vaccinations, noting he's had other immunizations in the past. But the trained nurse said Wednesday that he's been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation — an irregular and often rapid heart rhythm — and that he has concerns about the side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine.
"D.J. is an informed patient," Tracey Ferguson said in a brief interview at her home in Mendon, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southwest of Boston. "He wants to be assured by his doctors that his condition would not be worse or fatal with this COVID vaccine."
Brigham and Women's Hospital declined to comment on D.J. Ferguson's case, citing patient privacy laws. But it pointed to a response that it posted on its website in which it said the COVID-19 vaccine is one of several immunizations required by most US transplant programs, including a flu shot and hepatitis B vaccines.
The hospital said research has shown that transplant recipients are at higher risk than non-transplant patients of dying from COVID-19, and that its policies are in line with the recommendations of the American Society of Transplantation and other health organizations.
Patients also must meet other health and lifestyle criteria to receive donated organs, and it's unknown if D.J. Ferguson did or would have met them.
Brigham & Womens Hospital also stressed that no patient is placed on an organ waitlist without meeting those criteria, and rejected the notion that a transplant candidate could be considered "first on the list" for an organ — a claim Ferguson's family made in its fundraising post.
"There are currently more than 100,000 candidates on waitlists for organ transplantation and a shortage of available organs — around half of people on waiting lists will not receive an organ within five years," the hospital said.
Hospitals in other states have faced similar criticism for denying transplants to patients who weren't vaccinated against COVID-19.
In Colorado last year, a woman suffering from late-stage kidney disease said she was denied a transplant by her hospital because she was unvaccinated. Leilani Lutali, a born-again Christian, said she opposed immunization because of the role that fetal cell lines play in some vaccines' development.
There is a scarcity of donor organs, so transplant centers only place patients on the waiting list whom they deem the most likely to survive with a new organ.
"A donor heart is a precious and scarce gift which must be cared for well," said Dr. Howard Eisen, medical director for the advanced heart failure program at Penn State University in Hershey, Pennsylvania. "Our goal is to preserve patient survival and good outcomes post-transplant."
The United Network for Organ Sharing, the nonprofit that manages the country's organ transplant system, doesn't track how many patients refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine have been denied transplants, said Anne Paschke, an organization spokesperson.
She said patients who are denied organ transplants still have the right to go elsewhere, though individual hospitals ultimately decide which patients to add to the national waitlist.
According to the online fundraiser, D.J. Ferguson was hospitalized in late November for a heart ailment that caused his lungs to fill with blood and fluid. He was then transferred to Brigham and Women's, where doctors inserted an emergency heart pump that the family says is only meant to be a temporary stopgap.
"It's devastating," Tracey Ferguson said. "No one ever wants to see their child go through something like this."
Topics: Boston hospital Heart transplant COVID-19 vaccination
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Elephant in Uganda park kills Saudi tourist /node/2013456/offbeat
Elephant in Uganda park kills Saudi tourist
The attack happened on Tuesday at the Murchison Falls National Park
Park officials said police will investigate the tourist's death as they review security protocols
KAMPALA: A Saudi tourist was trampled to death by an elephant during a game drive at a popular park in Uganda, a wildlife official said Wednesday.
The attack happened on Tuesday at the Murchison Falls National Park when the man left the vehicle he was traveling in with friends, said Uganda Wildlife Authority spokesman Bashir Hangi.
"They stopped along the way and the deceased went out of the car, an elephant charged at him, killed him on the spot," Hangi said in a statement.
The victim was identified as Ayman Sayed Elshahany.
Park officials said police will investigate Elshahany's death as they review security protocols to "avoid repeat of such incidents."
Animal attacks are not unheard of in the East African country.
In 2018, a leopard snatched and ate the three-year-old son of a female game ranger at another park in the west of the country.
Topics: Uganda elephant park wildlife
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Women attend Iran-Iraq match in Tehran stadium /node/2013416/offbeat
Women attend Iran-Iraq match in Tehran stadium
"I am very happy. This is the first time I have attended a match at Azadi Stadium," said a 26-year-old civil engineer who gave her name only as Mahya
"I wished to have my husband beside me but they said men and women are segregated," said another female spectator, Golnaz Bahari
TEHRAN: Iranian women were allowed Thursday for the first time in almost three years to attend a football match of their country's national team in a Tehran stadium.
"I am very happy. This is the first time I have attended a match at Azadi Stadium," said a 26-year-old civil engineer who gave her name only as Mahya. She carried the national green, white and red flag, and covered her head with a grey scarf.
The Islamic republic has generally barred female spectators from football and other stadiums for around 40 years. Clerics, who play a major role in decision-making, argue women must be shielded from the masculine atmosphere and sight of semi-clad men.
World football's governing body FIFA ordered Iran in September 2019 to allow women access to stadiums without restriction and in numbers determined by demand for tickets.
A month later women were able to attend a 2022 World Cup qualifying match between Iran and Cambodia in Azadi Stadium.
For the first match since then, 2,000 of the 10,000 tickets were exclusive to women on Thursday for the 2022 World Cup qualifier between Iran and Iraq, ISNA news agency reported.
"I bought the tickets online and got an SMS confirming it," Mahya said, adding that "if we win, we will go celebrate the victory in the streets."
She got her wish, witnessing a 1-0 home side win over Iraq.
"There is nothing strange or complicated" about a woman going to the stadium, said Mahya.
"It should have happened earlier," she said. "I hope that this will continue."
The female fans entered through a special entrance via a car park, controlled by policewomen wearing black chador robes and red badges on their arms.
"I wished to have my husband beside me but they said men and women are segregated," said another female spectator, Golnaz Bahari, 24.
"It will be a lot better if families can come together," said Bahari, carrying her child in one hand and a vuvuzela horn in the other.
Iran's female fans sat behind the Iraqi goal.
Wearing thick coats against winter's chill, some had the national colors painted on their cheeks, and many carried Iranian flags or horns in the national colors.
They sat apart from the men but united with them in supporting their side, with shouts of "Iran! Iran!" drowning out the few fans from Iraq. The two countries were at war for years in the 1980s.
The 2019 FIFA directive, under threat of Iran's suspension, came after a fan named Sahar Khodayari died after setting herself on fire outside a court in fear of being jailed for trying to attend a match.
Dubbed "Blue Girl" because of the colors of the club she supported — Esteghlal FC — she had reportedly been detained in 2018 when she tried to enter a stadium while dressed as a boy.
Her death sparked an outcry, with many calling for Iran to be banned and matches boycotted.
Since Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979, women have borne the brunt of swift changes in the nation's moral codes.
Women are subject to a strict dress code, and while deemed more liberal than that of many Arab countries, Iranian legislation since the revolution has been criticized as detrimental to women in cases of marriage, divorce and inheritance.
Women may hold high positions, including in parliament and the government, but cannot serve as judges and have not been allowed to run for president.
FIFA had been pushing for years for Iran to open its stadiums to women, but Tehran had until 2019 only allowed a limited number of them to attend matches on rare occasions.
Since October 2019, when women last attended a national match, Covid-19 restrictions put an end to attendance by any fans — until Thursday.
Topics: Iran women football Iraq
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FIFA links more World Cups to averting migrant deaths at sea /node/2012571/offbeat
FIFA links more World Cups to averting migrant deaths at sea
In a speech to European lawmakers, Infantino said soccer was being dominated by the few who "have everything" and it needed to be more global and inclusive
"We need to give dignity, not by giving charity but by allowing the rest of the world as well to participate," Infantino told lawmakers
GENEVA: FIFA President Gianni Infantino linked his plan for biennial World Cups on Wednesday to giving more hope to Africans who risk their lives crossing the sea to Europe.
In a speech to European lawmakers, Infantino said soccer was being dominated by the few who "have everything" and it needed to be more global and inclusive.
"We need to find ways to include the entire world, to give hope to Africans so that they don't need to cross the Mediterranean in order to find, maybe, a better life but more probably death in the sea," Infantino told the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe at Strasbourg, France.
He spoke on the day Spanish authorities said at least 18 people died and more than 300 were rescued from several boats trying to reach the Canary Islands from North Africa.
"We need to give dignity, not by giving charity but by allowing the rest of the world as well to participate," Infantino told lawmakers at a session he attended with Arsène Wenger, FIFA's director of global development.
FIFA and Wenger have been strongly resisted across European soccer since launching a formal proposal in September to organize men's and women's World Cups every two years instead of four.
Infantino has said organizing more editions of the World Cup will lead to more countries qualifying and fuel interest there. It would also raise billions of dollars for FIFA and increase funding for its 211 member federations to develop soccer.
Though Infantino was a longtime staffer at UEFA before being elected to FIFA in 2016, a constant theme of his presidency has been countering Europe's dominance of the World Cup — Italy, Spain, Germany and France won the past four tournaments — and its clubs hiring the best players from other continents.
One of Infantino's first big projects at FIFA was adding 16 nations to the World Cup for a 48-team competition from 2026, when Africa will have nine entries instead of five. Europe will get 16.
"In Europe, there is no need for additional possibilities and events," Infantino told lawmakers at the 47-nation Council of Europe which promotes human rights, democracy and the rule of law.
Soccer must not effectively tell the world to hand over its money and best players "but watch us on TV," Infantino said. "We have to make (football) truly global, we have to make it truly inclusive such as the values that have built Europe and we are bringing as well all over the world."
Infantino acknowledged "maybe the World Cup every two years is not the answer."
FIFA's push for biennial World Cups has been uncertain since it stalled ahead of a December online meeting of its members where a vote had once been expected but was not called.
Leaders of UEFA and South American soccer body CONMEBOL have threatened to boycott biennial World Cups. They said more World Cups risk disrupting the balance between national and club team soccer and damaging continental competitions such as the Champions League, European Championship and Copa America.
Star players such as Kylian Mbappé, a 2018 World Cup winner with France, have said doubling the number of World Cups would dilute its prestige and overload them in an already congested fixture schedule.
The International Olympic Committee has also publicly criticized FIFA's plan which could put the World Cup in direct competition with the Summer Games by 2032.
The IOC also rallied other sports to challenge Infantino in December over soccer's plan to acquire more space and commercial income in the global schedule.
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Las Vegas's Wynn announces UAE resort with gaming facilities /node/2011856/offbeat
Wynn Resorts run luxury hotels and entertainment facilities worldwide, some of which have gaming facilities, with its flagship hotel in Las Vegas. (Shutterstock)
Multi-billion-dollar resort in Ras Al-Khaimah will offer world-class entertainment, dining options
New gaming regulation department launched to ensure global best practices
LONDON: Las Vegas hotel operator Wynn Resorts has announced plans to open a multi-billion-dollar resort in Ras Al-Khaimah, the UAE, in 2026.
The huge complex will have 1,000 rooms, at least 10 restaurants and a convention center on the man-made Al-Marjan island, according to a joint announcement by Al-Marjan, Wynn Holdings and RAK Hospitality.
The new resort "will offer a pristine setting with spectacular views of the Arabian Gulf as well as sandy beaches and a marina," they said.
It will also host a "gaming area," according to an announcement by Wynn Holdings and RAK Hospitality.
Wynn Resorts CEO Craig Billings said Al-Marjan island "is a pristine setting and an ideal greenfield location for us to create the one-of-a-kind guest experiences for which Wynn Resorts is renown.
"The region offers tremendous potential for the hospitality and tourism industry, and we are excited about the prospect of developing an integrated resort in Ras Al-Khaimah."
The resort will be developed with "significant" foreign direct investment by Wynn Resorts, and is the largest project of its kind in Ras Al-Khaimah's growing hospitality sector.
Wynn Resorts run luxury hotels and entertainment facilities worldwide, some of which have gaming facilities.
Wynn Holdings, Al-Marjan and RAK Hospitality said the resort "will create substantial value to the local economy by accelerating tourism, creating jobs, and energizing the growth of related sectors," and will be developed in accordance with the most rigorous sustainability practices.
Separately, the Ras Al-Khaimah Tourism and Development Authority has launched a new department for gaming that pledges to ensure "global best practices in the regulation of gaming that operate as part of integrated resorts across various jurisdictions worldwide."
Its key priority will be to create a framework for gaming, according to an announcement, which added that "the regulatory structure will address the entire gaming enterprise within integrated resorts, requiring compliance with all applicable laws and regulations (including financial crime laws) from operators, suppliers and employees."
Al-Marjan island, just 15 minutes from Ras Al-Khaimah International Airport, is already a leading tourism destination.
It offers nearly 8 km of sparkling beaches, 23 km of waterfront and a host of world-class hotels and residential developments.
Topics: UAE Las Vegas Wynn Resorts Ras Al-Khaimah


A year of fantastic fundraising by a logistics firm has raised nearly £17,500 for children and young adults whose lives are just too short.
From football competitions and fancy dress days, to 'gunge a manager' stalls and auctioned stock sales, employees at Wincanton came up with twelve months' worth of inventive ideas to raise as much as possible for Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice.
Shannon Ratcliffe, Finance Assistant, Wincanton, said: "It has been an absolute pleasure to support Bluebell Wood over the past year. The whole of the site at Wincanton in Sheffield have been amazing and their contributions and efforts are outstanding. We feel honoured to be in a position to support such a fantastic charity and to understand the difference this will make is both humbling and inspiring. We really do look forward to continuing to supporting Bluebell Wood in the future."


The Centre's spring programme takes you deeper into seasonal change & further into understanding our natural connections.
Beginning with the traditional festival of Bride in February (sometimes called Imbolc in other Celtic cultures), where our ancestors faced down the last throes of winter, we welcome an exhibition around Duncan Williamson's Wonder Tales, which heads up a series of family events for the school holidays.
By mid-February in the modern calendar, music, dance and love were on the horizon, preparing the way for full enjoyment of spring.
This year the Centre programme, supported by TRACS (Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland), offers a Love Springs Eternal Café Voices on Valentine's night, followed by Bothy Ballads in The World's Room song session at the Waverley Bar (Fri 15 Feb), A Story to Every Dance (Sat 16) and medieval tales of seduction in Fool for Love (Wed 20 Feb).
There are also opportunities to explore these creative nature themes through participatory workshops Narrative Art and Poetry (Fri 15 Feb) and Reconnecting with the Whole Story (Sat 23 Feb).
Seasonal change also provokes memories and hopes, captured in the poignant exhibition, A Child of the 60s in the Centre's Storytelling Court (20 Feb to 16 Mar), whilst something of the same reflective spirit breathes through Hebridean Treasure: Lost & Found (Fri 1 Mar), evoking the loss and rediscovery of an enchanted world, and Tales of Exile and Sanctuary (Sat 2 Mar), a global tapestry of stories exploring expulsion and refuge.
Traditionally, the spring season is associated in Scotland with female powers of regeneration, nurture and leadership. So, naturally, the Storytelling Centre is a key venue for the Audacious Women Festival (21-23 Feb), signposting a run of March events featuring Storytelling True Facts: Iconic Women (Tue 5 Mar) and Trailblazers! (Fri 8 Mar).
We hope you find many opportunities to engage with your own creativity and take inspiration and enjoyment from these events. Sometimes spring can be a high energy roller-coaster…!


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Kirsty Wilson
Herbaceous Supervisor at the Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh (RBGE)
Horticulture with Plantsmanship
Campus: SRUC King's Building, Edinburgh
"I have probably one of the best jobs in the world."
Beechgrove Garden's Kirsty Wilson shares more than just a passion for plants with the BBC's longest-running gardening presenter Jim McColl – both of them are graduates of SRUC.
Kirsty studied Horticulture with Plantsmanship, graduating with a first class honours degree in 2013 – and the prize for best dissertation.
The course is delivered by SRUC in partnership with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), with classes and practical work carried out in both places.
"It was the only place in the UK where you could gain a degree in horticulture with teaching from a world-renowned botanic garden," said Kirsty.
"The course really prepares you for going into the world of horticulture – it teaches you how to grow, maintain and identify plants and design future horticultural spaces."
After graduation, Kirsty worked for HRH Prince Charles as a production horticulturist in his garden at Highgrove.
She then undertook an international traineeship at America's top public garden, Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania, before returning to Scotland to work as a glasshouse supervisor at St Andrews Botanic Garden.
In 2018 she came full-circle, when she was appointed as Herbaceous Supervisor at RBGE, where she is responsible for the team looking after various areas in the garden, including the famous 165m-long herbaceous border, Queen Mother's memorial garden and Chinese Hillside.
She also completed a Diploma in Garden Design from RBGE and won a gold medal, Best in Show and People's Choice award for her first show garden – The Coffee Garden – at Gardening Scotland.
"I have probably one of the best jobs in the world," she said. "I work in an internationally renowned botanic garden engaging people with plants and developing areas for the future."
Kirsty's career has taken her overseas too. In 2018 she conducted her first botanical expedition to China, where she collected wild planted material.
Kirsty's love of plants started from a young age.
"When I was about 14, I begged my dad for a veg patch and used my mother's greenhouse," she said. "I have always been an outdoors kid – and passionate about plants and horticulture."
Her advice to current students is to take up every opportunity open to them and to travel the world using horticultural bursaries. As for herself, she wants to continue being highly professional in her field, inspiring people to grow plants, connect with nature and have a positive impact on the world.
Alumni profile: Kirsty Wilson
This course covers a wide range of horticultural skills, from botanical issues relevant to horticulture today to techniques for restoring historic gardens.
Horticulture with Landscape Construction
The course provides sound practical experience in a wide range of landscaping skills with the knowledge of construction principles and their application.