Your realization is to be lived here and now in society where you touch and are touched by other people. Let us bring our realization to the marketplace. But you think realization is so holy and sacred that it must be kept separate, kept apart. That means you cannot live it. If you want to live it, it should be lived everywhere, at all times. Your perfection is a perfection for all time, not just for the church on Sunday. If you are perfect now you should be perfect in everyday life, too.
Politics, obviously, is a prime example of maya. What looks so real is a fiction imagined by paranoiac people and amplified in multiple directions by media propaganda. Despite this, things get done—for better or for worse—and life goes on.
The current moment in American politics looks dire, and yet, who knows? There are so many good and talented people spread across the globe that plenty of upside is possible. Many of them are already waking up to a greater or lesser extent from the complacency that so often sets in where life is relatively secure and comfortable.
It is early morning as I sit here in my living room after my daily meditation. The whole house is quiet other than the sounds of the keyboard as I type this. It was a longer than usual meditation. It is the day after the US election and I'm still trying to understand what it means to have Donald Trump as President of the most powerful nation on this planet. I sense a shift in the course of human consciousness – one that is seemingly headed in the wrong direction. Yet somehow I trust that all these events are leading to the awakening of our species to our true nature, because without that we will be the cause of our own extinction. Life will continue, of course, just in forms that don't include humans.
So my prayer as I type this, is that all of us who uphold the values of peace, justice, equality, love and freedom – all expressions of our true nature – will continue to keep our hearts open to everyone (including Donald Trump supporters) to see how we can share these values in a way which doesn't create "otherness". Wherever there is fear, pain, suffering, there is a natural tendency to resort to our baser instincts of hate, selfishness, anger, revenge, separateness. We've seen this play out in this country during the course of this election. The results of this election say that there are enough people in this country who are suffering in this way. The only way to counter this is with true compassion.
Here's what the Dalai Lama says on compassion – "True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment based on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism you develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome their problems." So let's keep working to ease the suffering of those who don't have enough food to eat, who don't have the opportunities to make a good living, who don't have access to education, who are living in oppression and fear, who don't have access to good healthcare... Let's keep fighting the good fight for truth, goodness and beauty in our world. God knows we need it now more than ever.
This response is likely to be one more of those that doesn't speak directly to the current set of mantras, because I would like to document and share the insights from my recent 10-day silent meditation retreat. I read the commentaries only a couple of days ago and it's always so uncanny how the commentaries almost always resonate with my experiences/imperiences/insights from the preceding days even if I don't read them ahead of time.
As was the case the previous two times, my 10-day retreat in beautiful Spirit Rock was a time of deep silence, peace, reflection, meditation, restoration, spontaneous joy, gratitude, beautiful insights and wonder. It also included times of fatigue, frustration, physical discomfort and pain. Our days began at 5:30 a.m. and ended at 9:30 p.m. and included about 9 hours of sitting and walking meditation, two sessions of Qi Gong (which I loved), three delicious and nutritious meals, an hour-long dharma talk every evening by one of the teachers (which I always looked forward to because all the teachers were so fabulous), and some free time after meals which I used for a hike in the hills and to do the work meditation I was assigned (cleaning two showers in the residence hall where I was staying).
1) The body is not a solid thing. I had this understanding a few times over the course of the ten days when I experienced my body as an aggregate of sensations with no distinct boundaries – a movement of breath experienced as a sensation in some part of the body, a tingling here, a pulsation there - a distinct feeling of being just another organism through which life was flowing creating these various sensations. It was an experience in which the solidity of the body seemed to dissolve into something much more nebulous.
2) The self is not a solid thing. This understanding too was reinforced over a few meditation sessions. It was very clear to me that when my mind was identified and caught with the stories that my thoughts were generating, the sense of self felt very solid and rigid. Then there would be times when my mind was very spacious, vast and still. During these times, Gayathri became very soft and smoke-like. Gayathri could be solid like ice, liquid like water or gaseous like steam depending on the state of mind. When I was walking in nature, the sense of self became very wide and open, and when I went to sleep there was no Gayathri at all. So the self is not a well-defined "thing". It morphs and shifts moment to moment.
3) In those times when the mind was very still and spacious, I could witness a thought arising and Gayathri (self) arising at the same time. One doesn't exist without the other. The self needs a counterpart to give it form/existence. I concluded that it's not so much that the mind needs to think all the time, it's that the self wants to persist. In order to do so, thinking needs to happen and worlds need to be created.
4) The world is not a solid thing. It's many, many worlds arising moment by moment. Each world is uniquely constructed by us and delivered through us to be experienced by us. Each world is a culmination of countless, zillions of causes and conditions that went before – all non-governable by us. I also had the distinct sense that this world-generating phenomenon (or non-phenomenon) is a benevolent, loving one that wants us to know our true nature. It is the Guru. All our worlds, even the ones steeped in sorrow, anger, fear, loneliness and confusion, are all brought to life so that we can discover who we really are. I had a new understanding of the mantra Guru Brahma Guru Vishnu Guru Devo Maheshwara. The Guru in the form of Brahma creates a momentary world for us, Vishnu holds it together for that moment and Shiva comes along and dissolves it so that the next world can be created. Guru Sakshaat Para Brahma Tasmai Shree Guruve Namaha. The Guru is none other than pure awareness/consciousness/the Absolute from which all worlds arise and into which they all merge. Hail to that Guru! It is all-loving.
Atmo verse 33 came to life for me. Each world is one instant of the movement of the glowing twig. We, with our memories and minds, create the figure-of-eights by putting all those instants together.
like a glowing twig it is ever turning.
5) One morning when I was on my hike along one of the trails on the hills, I saw an incredibly beautiful spider web precariously balanced between blades of grass, dancing in the breeze and shimmering with dewdrops. A large spider sat right in the middle, the Lord/Lady of his/her mansion. The web was so perfectly constructed, each thread precisely distanced from the next. The threads running across were also so perfectly spaced in a design of impeccable symmetry. In that instant, my heart broke open and I was overcome with a sense of unspeakable joy and wonder at just how beautiful this gift of life is. The web took on the form of Indra's net in my mind, the dewdrops turning into jewels, each one reflecting all the others in an assembly of profound interconnectedness. It was a moment filled with grace and beauty. ("the indescribable glory of Sri" page 449).
6) This last insight was the most interesting. It felt very ordinary when it came (nothing like the one I had a year-and-a-half ago when my whole body felt like it was in some drug-induced state of ecstasy and I was laughing and crying, etc.). There were a series of events that led up to this moment, but it's too long to write it all up. I experienced for just a few moments the feeling of "no self". I wasn't even in a seated meditation at the time. I was walking from the meditation hall to my room. I had my eyes open. There was "seeing" happening but there was no "I" who was seeing. It was a strange experience that I'm not able to describe exactly. During the seated meditation just before this happened, I understood conclusively that awareness is non-local. I was fully contained in awareness - my body, my thoughts, feelings, sensations, everything. Awareness was not just located somewhere in the recesses of my brain, which is how I usually experience it. And then when this happened, I understood that there are different kinds of "seeing" and that there is a form of seeing that is non-dual. The eyes were definitely operating, meaning there were trees and the floorboards beneath me at the entrance of the residence hall. I could see everything, but there was no "I". It was like my center had collapsed or dropped somehow and there was a kind of pure witnessing.
After "I" came back (it was only for a few seconds that the self "dropped"), I was momentarily confused and thought I had imagined the whole thing. How could I be registering what I was seeing if there was no "I"? So I clarified this experience with one of the teachers and he validated it for me. He told me it was a form of pure witnessing that is different from a subject seeing an object. It was a taste of the non-local nature of awareness, independent of the self.
To summarize, the body is not real, the self is not real, the world is not real. Neti, neti, neti. Yet every ounce and inch of the worlds we inhabit is infused with satyasya satya, the Truth of truths.
Onward! There is no end to this journey. It is so wonderful to be on the path. Whether or not there is a destination at the end seems irrelevant.
Every molecule has an in-built consciousness. Each conscient being has a muffled articulation replete with the memory of everything it has passed through. However molecular it is, each one has a repository of the grand tales of life that are recorded and passed on from one transit to the next over several lives through millennia. What is it?—a specificity of conditioning. Is it a mutant, mechanical fixation? No. Each fragment of it has in it the appropriate knowhow to relate itself to what precedes it and what follows it. The most ingenious performances have their blueprint already maintained in a teleologic causal expression. That means every vasana is born of vijnana. From where do they come in such an orderly way that they have a sequence in their system and an efficiency in their manifestation?
We had a very nice discussion afterwards, and it might have gone late into the night if we were younger and less busy, but we had to cut it off in full flood. Hopefully these ideas will continue to stir in us for a long time.
I appreciate Gayathri's last statement about using compassion and love as guiding lights. My daughter, who is just becoming independent in life, is going through some housing issues and is deciding how she wants things to be in the future, just as we are all worrying about the election and obsessing over predictions and assessments. Gayathri's idea reminds me that there can be different outcomes than we anticipate, and to trust in the rightness of how things unfold and not be so rigid. I am not saying that we should roll over and not fight for what is right, just that there needs to be more space between our mind's many thoughts (those that insist on who we are, as Gayathri said) and what is real. Love and compassion are also very real.
I felt I should state the obvious, as usual, in case it wasn't obvious to everyone yet. Maya is not something we can or should simply shrug off—it has a bite, and it matters to us very much. It is life, after all. Yet somehow we are learning to stay steady in a grounded state even as we soar with the wonder or recoil in fear from the looming jaws of hatred. How fortunate we are to even know that a balanced state is possible and actually advisable! The "heavy" emotions like anger, fear and hatred are very alluring, and tend to be self-reinforcing. They build toward an explosion, and that may well be in the works here in the US. But the class witnessed the calming power of wise words as we meditated together, leading us as they do to a quiet place where words are not necessary, and our souls could be refreshed. If we are going to act, it is best to do so from just such a grounded condition.
This is why the gurus are inviting us to move toward subtle values and away from those heavier ones that can entrap and hold us fast. We can even stop all activity, and yet we continue to exist. In fact, the quality of our existence is enhanced by sitting in emptiness for a time. This kind of wisdom—or really, basic knowledge—is very much outside the box, unfortunately. Because people are taught to fear emptiness rather than welcome it, they are always seeking ex-amples—outward pulls—to give them the appearance of existing. I reprised my favorite personal observation of people who never stop talking. I realized after working with a few of them (for years in fire stations, where it was impossible for me to escape) that silence carried with it the fear of ceasing to exist for them, so they talked to prove to themselves that they were still alive. They didn't even need an audience much of the time, only to generate some kind of vibration that they could incontrovertibly perceive. Anger and hatred of the 'other' serves the same purpose, and as we so often see, such emotions drag those who rely on them into dire excesses. As Deb said, one way to feel solid is to have something to fight against.
Eugene noted how people play up their victimization for the same reason, which is a very helpful insight. In a way it's the flip side of anger and rejection of the other—anger and rejection, usually exaggerated, of our self. He added in our talk after class, how he could hear the ugliness behind the laughter and gaiety of his friends' drinking parties, for instance. An ebullient exterior hides our true feelings, just so long as no one really pays attention to them. Feeling like a victim resembles the nostalgia we talked about a while back, where the intensity of the emotion creates a sense of aliveness. It doesn't matter if it's positive or negative, just so something is there. Again, who will dare to try to see what remains when all the superficial glamour is discarded? When the noise dies down? When the guns have been locked up in their cabinets?
Deb agreed with Gayathri that the self wants to persist and the self needs thoughts. This makes it stable. She wondered how we can do two opposite things at the same time? We want to be aware and attentive and have the courage and presence to stand up to what is destructive, and we want to be in a place of compassion and acceptance. Being in both with clarity is not easy. This is the conundrum we repeatedly find ourselves in.
I recalled that on a run earlier in the day I had been musing on the terrible possibilities of having Not-sees in power in my own country. Anger and vindictive thoughts surged up here and there, reminding me that yes, I have those levels of reptilian behavior embedded in me too. Despite a lifetime of caring and gentleness, they haven't completely gone away. The difference was I didn't cling to them. I didn't decide on an explosive course of action because of them. I watched and accepted them, but then let them go. I didn't even beat myself up for having them—they were perfectly natural. And while apparently there are many saintly people in this world who don't have such layers of ancient conditioning, those of us who do should not consider ourselves hopeless cases. The gurus teachings are for us, not for already realized beings. What would they need? But for those of us with flaws, we should not go along with the religious tendency to consign ourselves to hell. We have work to do, that's all. We aren't quite ripe yet.
Jan concurred, admitting that intense reactions can be raised by difficult situations, and this is where we have to be compassionate to ourselves. We need our own compassion. We need to find a deeper place within ourselves where we are centered. Again, this is the exact opposite of the extroverted attitudes enshrined in our society, of blaming the other and trying to wipe them out. Somehow we have to stay active, but not reactive. It's a very subtle business.
Nancy recalled a talk she and Bill attended by the Dalai Lama, where he said that compassion wasn't about fixing things. We want to make the other more like us, but that leads to conflict. True compassion is identifying with our common humanity, of joining the other instead of pushing them away. We think we know what moves them, but we only delude ourselves. Bill added that pity was totally different from compassion. As Nitya often pointed out, there is an implied sense of superiority in such attitudes, which pushes the other person away. We seldom listen, and instead instruct. Then we feel superior and disdainful—certainly a failed strategy.
Bill agreed that the current political situation was most distressing. We hold to certain basic human values—love, compassion and all that—and to see them publically challenged so severely is disheartening. It makes him resolve to be the clearest he can be, to stand up for those worthy values. I think there are a lot of people feeling the same way.
Andy resonated with Gayathri's verse 33 affirmation, that all this, all the ups and downs, was how the universe exposes us to our true nature. The key for Andy was a deep connection with a central element, the central rightness of it all. In any highly polarized situation we think, "How do I fix it; how do I make it right?" We have to understand that the other person is okay, that they share the commonality of this life that is pouring through us. That was my favorite line of all Gayathri's essay, in her first insight: "a distinct feeling of being just another organism through which life was flowing." That change of perspective from being the doer-in-charge to being like an instrument through which life is pulsating, can make a huge difference, initiating a quantum evolutionary leap. In the Karma Darsana upcoming, it is said that "remaining actionless, the one alone beats, murmurs, and pulsates in the nerves." We really will be moving in the direction indicated by Andy and Gayathri, if we can ever get ourselves out of the Maya Darsana, which seems to be drawing example after example to electrify us. Will it ever end? Maybe.
Scotty agreed, and gave the example of his adult children: whenever he tries to be a role model to them, they reject him out of hand. He has to be confident that he is already an example, and not try to hit them over the head with it. Just be. I am already That.
I repeated that we need to turn the arrow of interest back toward ourselves. Where we have an urge to preach to the other, to show them the errors of their ways, we should use the encounter to look deeply into our own psyche. We should listen carefully, taking what is happening as a learning situation provided by the flow of life, rather than an invitation to show how smart we are. It goes against so much of our developmental training in school. Yet it seems to be the only way out of our panoply of dilemmas.
Deb summed up that we keep trying to make reality heavy, but in essence it is light, utterly expansive. One way to make things heavy and solid is to have something to fight against. Moni suggested that if instead of fighting the system you walk with it, eventually it will reveal itself. She may have meant the political system, but it could just as well have referred to the universal system with its all-embracing maya. Thinking of it, in the midst of tragic conditions, not as an enemy but as a guiding principle is our challenge. As Nitya concludes That Alone verse 95: This is a happy day for us, being with maya.
Let us welcome the opportunity to wake up in the new ways that life is always kind to offer us. Our challenges are reflections of what is in us, not chimeras we must escape from. Of course, we have to stay safe in a dangerous environment—there is no reason not to be cautious and wary—but we need to be courageous as well. The universe invites our expert participation. Aum.
For myself, I could only add Friedrich Schiller's famous bon mot: "Against stupidity even the gods struggle in vain." It makes me wonder if there is an alternative way out of ignorance, other than bumping into its disastrous consequences….


Jan van Schaik will be a keynote speaker at "Cultivator" - Regional Creative Conference, October 2012.
Jan will be speaking about the creative motivations behind the the work of Minifie van Schaik Architects, especially that in Mildura.
Other speakers include: Graham Rendoth, Ros Moriarty, Russell Kerr and Frost Design.
This years theme is "Social Inclusion Through Creative Thinking" and will be conducted on Friday, October 12, 2012.


The Spyder Hangang Championship, held in Seoul a few days ago, was the first Korean Deep Water Soloing (aka. psicobloc) competition ever.
It is quite impressive to see Jongwon Chon performing at this level, and risking nasty falls, after his accident in Colorado (he broke a hold and fell 6 meters, but luckily he walked away with just a few stitches).
Thanks to Derek Larm for the info about the event (and for the videos, of course!).


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Dawes County Journal: Chadron man remembered as a "Real Character"
Chadron man remembered as a "Real Character"
Davenport , 70, died of injuries received in a morning highway accident east of Chadron.
Davenport was actually several characters during his five decades on radio, television and stage. He was "on stage 24 hours a day" said Don Huls, Dawes County Extension Agent, and one of several who have played "straight man" to Davenport's trademark "Cuzzin Ed". "He was always developing different characters in his imagination," said Huls.
An early interest in all things mechanical and electrical led Davenport into a career in communications. He made his first radio appearance on station KOBH, later KOTA in Rapid City in 1939, playing piano accompaniment while his father, George, played and talked about the violin he built as a hobby.
Davenport was inducted into the U.S. Army in 1945, serving first as a military policeman, then as battalion radio repairman. After his discharge in 1947, he enrolled in the Electronics Radio and Television Institute in Omaha, obtaining his Federal Communications Commission first class radio telephone license that fall.
In 1948, he owned Davenport Radio and TV service on Chapin Street in Chadron. He began his on-air radio career as an engineer-announcer with KCOW in Alliance in 1949. "Cuzzin Ed" made his radio debut as a humorous sidekick to announcers Harley Hanson, Gene Taylor, Verne Sheppard and Art jones on "The Country Store" on KOTA in 1954.
He and KOTA moved into the television era in 1955. Davenport helped engineer a new transmitter and tower for the first TV broadcasts in western South Dakota. Davenport was seriously injured in 1957, falling 17 feet when a Rapid City tower, being dismantled for a new radio station in Pierre, S.D., collapsed. After months of recuperation from a broken back and hip, Davenport moved to Pierre to help the new station, KCCR, begin broadcasting.
He sold his interest in that station and returned to Chadron in 1960. Later that year he was chief engineer for KDUH TV in Hay Springs.
Benton respected Davenport's engineering know-how in those early days. "He was such a wiz at keeping the station going with tubes and tape, alligator clips and paper clips." Although semi-retired in his later years, Davenport continued his engineering duties at KCSR until his death. He helped install a new broadcast control room at the station, said owner Dennis Brown.
Belle Lecher, of the Dawes County Historical Society, praised Davenport's dedication to the Society. "His engineering expertise and ability to utilize and improvise often made the difference between spending funds we did not have to spend," said Lecher. "I still recall the time we needed to move the old Chadron Record linotype machine (which weighed a ton) from the original museum to the Card Farm addition. With a set of blocks and rollers, he managed to relocate the machine practically single-handed in a matter of minutes. Davenport donated the Alpha Schoolhouse, a Fordson Tractor, a wagon from the Chadron Brickyard and countless smaller items to the Museum," said Lecher. He also provided his own column of witticisms, "Cuzzin Ed's Almanac" for the senior publication, Golden Age Courier.
He helped form the Northwest Vintage Car Club and was active in the Chadron Prep Alumni and the Veterans Honor Guard of Chadron. He served as Master of Ceremonies for a couple of Chadron's annual Ugly Pickup Contests. Former Chadron Record Publisher, Les Mann, founded the contest in 1987. Mann heard reports that Davenport was at the wheel of a well-used 1964 Ford pickup at the time of his fatal accident. "He was an ugly pickup owner to the end," said Mann.


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Dance of the Mosquitos
Dance of the Mosquitos is a track made for the compilation"Two Minutes Left" on Linear Obsessional. All tracks are exactly two minutes long, and all used microphones somewhere along the line. As you probably have guessed, mine is made from voice sounds.
Listen at https://linearobsessional.bandcamp.com/track/dance-of-the-mosquitoes
A bit more about the track:
Dance of the Mosquitoes was created in response to a request by Richard Sanderson (Linear Obsessional label) to contribute a 2 minute long track for his x-mas compilation Two Minutes Left. Premise was that it should be exactly two minutes long, and use microphones somewhere in the process. As I am working with voice, a microphone always is an integral part of the work.
I sometimes like to throw the spanner in the works and use "bad quality" equipment – which on the face of it is a bit counter-productive when trying to capture the qualities of a voice in as much detail as possible. But you can always look at things the other way round and see what limitations add to the equation, or what changes happen by using different numbers to start with.
Also, I find it intriguing that, when using extended vocal techniques to create more "abstract" sounds, many audiences will move towards identifying an animal source such as monkeys or insects, with the sounds they hear. In this instance, I turned this around and provided a specific animal clue in the title. I also used digital processes to mutate some of the sounds, and hence a (very tenuous) connection with the dance format.
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Q: Calculate distance from Polygon to Point in MongoDB I can calculate distances in MongoDB from Point to Point, using 2dsphere index.
However, now I need the calculate the distance from a given point to a Polygon.
I'm using the following code :
  Document commandNoIntersect = new Document("geoNear", "Location")
                            .append("near", new com.mongodb.client.model.geojson.Point(new Position(Longitude, Latitude)))
                            .append("spherical", true)
                            .append("query", new Document(new Document("location", locationId)))
                            .append("distanceMultiplier", 0.001);

database.runCommand(commandNoIntersect);
My 2dsphere index is the coordinates of the Polygon. The results are not consistent as in Point to Point distances.
I appreciate your feedback,

A: I solved the issue using mongo driver:
mongoTemplate.geoNear(
                            NearQuery.near(new Point(new Point(pin.getDinamycPoint().getPointId().getY(), pin.getDinamycPoint().getPointId().getX()))).spherical(true)
                                    .inKilometers().query(new Query().addCriteria(Criteria.where("locationId").is(locationId))),
                            Location.class);
This gives me the correct distances from a Point up to the closest Point in a GeoJsonPolygon.
A 2dsphere index must be created in GeoJsonPolygon field in the collection.

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Q: Django MySQL Raw So I want to get data from my mysql database.
I want to get the street, name,... All my database data. So I want to make a django-mysql-raw query but I don't get my data instead I get: Data object (1)
Can anybody help me?
So and this is my code if you need it:

# Create your models here.
class Data(models.Model):
    userid = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
    name = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True, null=True)
    firstname = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True, null=True)
    age = models.IntegerField(blank=True, null=True)
    street = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True, null=True)
    country = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True, null=True)
    postcode = models.IntegerField(blank=True, null=True)

print("\n\n\n-----------")

for p in Data.objects.raw('SELECT userid FROM Data'):
    print(p)

print("-----------\n\n\n")```

A: It is returning the object that has all the fields so you have to print them individually.


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The microbiome has anti-tumor effects
Bifidobacterium eriksonii (Public Health Image Library, CDC, Image ID:3082 )
The microbiome does not only have a role in maintaining a healthy gut environment but has been found in a recent study to also have anti-cancer effects. The microbiome consists of microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses and fungi which inhabit the human body and have a symbiotic with the host.
These microorganisms are not harmful to the host. The microbiome has been shown to play an important role in human health and disruption of a normal microbiota frequently results in the development of certain conditions and diseases depending on where the disruption occurred. For example, a microbiota imbalance in the female genital tract may result in bacterial vaginosis while a gut-microbiota imbalance has been associated with having a higher risk of obesity and diabetes.
Currently, there are a variety of cancer immunotherapies available but they are not very effective as the success rates differ greatly between patients. In a study published by a team led by Thomas Gajewski from the University of Chicago, the researchers show that there is a definitive link between cancer immunotherapy and the microbiome.
The researchers investigated why some cancer patients are able to elicit strong immune responses against tumours while others can not. They reasoned that the differences could be due to a number of reasons including genetic factors, the environment the patient is in, as well as the type of tumour the patient has.
The team used mouse models to investigate the role the microbiome plays in anti-tumour immune responses. They found that mice with different microbiomes reacted differently when they were implanted with melanoma tumours. The mice that did better also had better anti-tumour T cell responses. Co-housing the mice led to the differences disappearing – as they were now "sharing" their microbiota. To further prove this, the group conducted fecal transplants between the mice and found that the group which previously had low immune responses towards the tumour now had robust anti-tumour T cell responses. Sequencing of the gut microbiome revealed that the Bifidobacterium species was responsible for the anti-tumour effects seen in the mice.
The researchers also looked at how an antibody against PD-L1 could work as a cancer immunotherapy. The antibody reduced the rate of tumour growth and combining the therapy with a fecal transplantation enhanced its effect.
Altogether, these results show that the microbiome is an important component in the treatment of cancerous tumours. Using strategies that control and favour certain bacterial species such as Bifidobacterium may result in better control of cancerous tumours.
Journal Article: Sivan et al., 2015. Commensal Bifidobacterium promotes antitumor immunity and facilitates anti–PD-L1 efficacy. Science
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Dr. Paul Farmer, an infectious diseases expert and a medical anthropologist, is known worldwide for helping to bring quality healthcare to some of the most impoverished areas of the globe. More than 25 years ago, Farmer helped found the charity Partners in Health to provide free medical care in central Haiti. Today, Partners in Health teams up with local groups to treat people with HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other conditions in Haiti and countries around the world. The South African Nobel Peace laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, calls him "One of the great advocates for the poorest and sickest of our planet." Farmer's previous book, "Haiti After the Earthquake," describes the massive suffering and ongoing recovery effort after the devastating January 2010 earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands of people. His latest, "To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation," collects a series of commencement addresses that Farmer has delivered to graduating college students going back more than a decade. Throughout, Farmer urges them to confront global problems through an approach that has long guided his work: a tireless commitment to social justice and solidarity with the world's poor. Farmer joins us to discuss why he thinks a community-based health approach can help fix the U.S. healthcare system, how Rwanda's model has drastically improved the lives of its citizens, and how to tackle the massive health problems in post-earthquake Haiti.
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AARON MATÉ: For the rest of the hour, we are joined by a doctor whose name has become synonymous with global health and social justice. Dr. Paul Farmer is known worldwide for helping bring quality healthcare to some of the most impoverished areas of the globe.
More than 25 years ago, Dr. Farmer helped found the charity Partners in Health to provide free medical care in central Haiti. Today, Partners in Health teams up with local groups to treat people with HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other conditions in Haiti and countries around the world, including Rwanda, Russia, Peru, Mexico and Guatemala. Partners in Health recently finished construction on a new hospital in Haiti that, when fully operational, will be largest solar-powered hospital in the world.
Dr. Farmer is also chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. In 2009, Dr. Farmer was appointed the U.N. deputy special envoy for Haiti working under former President Bill Clinton.
AMY GOODMAN: Dr. Paul Farmer's longtime commitment to Haiti was chronicled by the author Tracy Kidder in the book Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World. The South African Nobel Peace laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, calls Dr. Farmer "One of the great advocates for the poorest and sickest of our planet."
We last had Dr. Farmer on to speak about his previous book, Haiti After the Earthquake, which describes the massive suffering and ongoing recovery effort after the devastating January 2010 earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands of people. His new book is called To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation, a collection of a series of commencement addresses that Dr. Farmer has delivered to graduating college students going back more than a decade.
Dr. Farmer, I'm actually giving the commencement address at Hampshire College on Saturday, really looking forward to going up there, so I found this book very, very helpful. And the last speech you give, you talk about—I think it was to the Harvard Kennedy School of Government—you talk about accompaniment. What does that concept mean?
DR. PAUL FARMER: You know, I first got the idea—I heard it from Haitians 30 years ago. And we were trying to set up a decent tuberculosis treatment program. And we knew tuberculosis is a chronic disease, like diabetes. It has a cure, so it's not like diabetes, but it takes many months to do so. And we thought we had free care at the clinic that we'd built there, and yet we had poor outcomes. Why? Well, we found out the reason was, of course, we needed to move the treatment out to the patients and their families, and that there were many hidden barriers just to get to the clinic.
So we started working with community health workers, who were called "accompagnateurs" in the local parlance. And we thought, "Wow! This is a great idea for other problems that would go on beyond, you know, a short amount time in a hospital, in a clinic," which is to say most of them, right? And so we started pushing for that model, brought it back to Boston, you know, to say, "We need this in Boston, too." We have great hospitals like the Brigham, where I work, but in the shadow of the Brigham and the other Harvard teaching hospitals, people facing other problems—not the ones in Haiti, but housing instability, poverty, you know, racism, the problems that have made it difficult for some people in our cities—they need this, too.
So, that particular speech is to say, "Well, what about foreign aid? Do you think this ADD approach that we've seen after Haiti is a good way to approach foreign aid, where everything is so short-term, where there's so much conditionality? Or might a more solidarity-inspired endeavor, like actually walking with your partner, be more relevant to the world we live in, riven by inequalities but by people who do want aid to work on both sides of that equation? That was a longer answer than you thought, but—
AMY GOODMAN: No, no, I expected that we wouldn't get in another question. But—but that issue of accompaniment in a healthcare model—
DR. PAUL FARMER: Yeah.
AMY GOODMAN: —from Haiti to Rwanda, to here in the United States, what is wrong with our system? How would we change it to be the model you're talking about?
DR. PAUL FARMER: Well, what's wrong with our American system is that we don't have—or there are many, maybe many, problems that are, some of them, being addressed. We have so much money going into the system, so we ought to have a good—we ought to have a good system. But one of the problems, and one I've obsessed with, is: How do you reach from a hospital to a community-based health center, and then on into people's homes? That's what we've had to learn in treating chronic disease. You know, when people said you couldn't treat AIDS in Africa, you know, we said, "Well, that's not true. I mean, here's a model that would give you better results than in a sprawling American city. Or—and you could do it in a rural area. This is a model that could help you treat major mental illness, diabetes, etc."
So, I think we made progress, and now what we need to do in the United States is find a way to train and license and reimburse laypeople who are community health workers to work in the home and with—or with patients wherever they live. Make it convenient for the patients. These treatments for one or two diseases at a time that people with chronic illness face, including elderly people, they're difficult and annoying, and you have to go back and forth. Then you go to other countries, like China, which I don't know very well, but when I was visiting hospitals in China, they were asking people with chronic disease to go get their prescriptions filled every two weeks, and they would come back and stand in long lines. And imagine if you're frail or sick, and you're asked every 14 days to go back to, you know, this overcrowded hospital to get your prescription filled. It makes no sense at all. And that's the basic pathology of the American healthcare system. It doesn't have a good community-based or home-based component. There are other pathologies, too, and they're being addressed, I hope, increasingly.
AARON MATÉ: Well, you've lived and worked in Rwanda for a long time, and I'm wondering if you could talk about your work there and what you think we can learn from how Rwanda has transformed their healthcare system.
DR. PAUL FARMER: Well, you know, the work in Rwanda has been very uplifting for Partners in Health, for me, for our partners from Harvard, in part because we made a bet almost 10 years ago that if we could, as a collective, take this model—and I'll call it accompaniment, but I'm not just talking about community-based care; I'm talking about rebuild a system that has hospitals, clinics and community-based care—if we could go to a place with great need, in terms—especially maybe in terms of infectious pathologies like malaria, TB, HIV, which we know a lot about in our team, post-conflict setting, maybe one even written off as hopeless, but with a government committed to rolling out basic services in health and education to poor people in rural areas, if we could find all that, we would see something miraculous happen in the course of a decade. And we did. That's why we went to Rwanda. We went with the Clinton Foundation and other partners and worked with the Ministry of Health of Rwanda. And that—and it's been the most rewarding decade in my life as a doctor just to see how—the reversal of fortune, how quickly it could happen.
Just to give you some numbers, the life expectancy in Rwanda has probably doubled over the last 10 years. And the declines in mortality, especially among children, women in childbirth, declines in mortality among those who already have tuberculosis, malaria and AIDS, these are the steepest declines ever recorded in human history. Something—
AMY GOODMAN: So explain exactly what you did.
DR. PAUL FARMER: Well, we worked with the Rwandans, as did many other people, and I'm not suggesting that, you know, we were—there are many other groups. But the key is working with the public sector. After all, eventually, if people have a right to healthcare, it will be the public sector and not non-governmental organizations or universities from the United States that will confer those rights. So we worked to build a system. And the system stretched, as I said, from community health workers to clinics, where the majority of care is given—those are run by nurses—to having in every district a hospital. Partners in Health ended up building or rebuilding three of the 30 district hospitals, and including even starting a cancer center, probably the first cancer center in rural Africa anywhere.
But it all fit into a system, and the vertical—they're called vertical programs in public health. So, an AIDS program or a family planning program, those are vertical programs. What the Rwandan government and authorities said is: "We want those vertical programs to strengthen our health system, our Rwandan national health system." And we did do that. And we were pushed to do that. And the result is—I think that's why that decline is more steeper in Rwanda than in other places and why it's the only country in sub-Saharan Africa on track to meet all of the health-related Millennium Development goals.
AMY GOODMAN: We're going to break and then come back to this discussion, and of course we'll go south to look at Haiti. This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. Back in a minute.
AMY GOODMAN: Our guest is Dr. Paul Farmer. He's been working in Haiti and around the world for decades. Twenty-five years ago, Dr. Farmer helped found the charity Partners in Health, which provides care to those living in poverty in central Haiti as well as other places around the world. And he's written a new book called To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation. Dr. Paul Farmer is the department chair of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where many of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings were brought. Can you talk about the significance of that? And then we'll talk about Haiti.
DR. PAUL FARMER: Well, I think, in my view, they're related topics, and not just because I work at both the Brigham and in Haiti. First of all, there's a reason that everyone who made it to a hospital, like the Brigham, survived. You have in a place like that an incredible set of options to help people who are seriously injured or seriously ill. You have redundant systems, in the sense that—if you have, as happens with an earthquake or a bombing, everybody shows up at once, you need redundant systems, meaning you need backup teams and backup teams. So you can't have, like we have all over the Third World, the power suddenly goes out. You know, the generator dies. You know, that's never going happen at a place like the Brigham. There is so much capacity there that it's no wonder—in my experience, it's no wonder that people did really well, the patients did really well, once they got there.
And it's a reminder. You know, every time something like this happens in our country, in our affluent country, we get a chance to think how much humans need safety nets. And that's what we're trying to build in Rwanda and Haiti. And if you don't have—you know, if you have only a community health system and no hospitals, and someone is injured, then that—the person who's injured is out of luck. Or that could be a minor injury, you know, a minor injury that could be fatal because there's no hospital. If you only have the hospitals and no community-based care, you don't do well with chronic disease management. And so, what we've been trying to do in Haiti, Partners in Health and the Ministry of Health and many partners, has been to rebuild some of the destroyed capacity for hospital care and teaching in the rural area, decentralizing from Port-au-Prince and the quake zone, and we've done that.
AARON MATÉ: Can you compare, though, Haiti to Rwanda? I mean, is it safe to say that your group is an exception to the rule in Haiti? In which—in your case, you work with community groups. Money actually goes to Haitians. But, overall, so much aid goes into the hands of foreign workers and foreign NGOs.
DR. PAUL FARMER: Well, there—we may be not unique, but we're trying to be different in two ways: yes, that the money goes to Haitians, meaning Haitian employees, but we're also working to support the Haitian public authorities. You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education. So the privatization that we talk about in our writings or on shows like this, it happens insidiously, too, when NGOs work with contractors, as you suggest, only, but also when they don't work with the government, the public sector. And that happens even more insidiously, because people think, "Well, I work with a community organization or community groups. That should do it." Well, really? Not to build a safety network or social protection—it really requires working with both sides.
So, yeah, we're trying to bring—to bring ourselves, to make ourselves do work that way, to build local capacity, even if we're doing something grand like building a teaching hospital. And that teaching hospital—if I could just mention one example that isn't straightforward, we did not have in Haiti the skill to build a lot of the guts of the hospital—you know, how you would have wall gas in the walls—or the finishing work. If you want a table to look like this one, you know, or the machinery that you guys are—contraptions you're using here, that production capacity doesn't occur in Haiti. We went back to the unions—for example, the electrical workers, the painters, the carpenters—in the United States, and they came down and helped build the hospital as volunteers. But they helped transfer skills to Haitian craftsmen and craftswomen, too. So it really was a teaching hospital before we ever saw the first patient.
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to ask you about the cholera outbreak that erupted in Haiti in October 2010 that killed about 8,000 people, sickened about 620,000 people. Most independent studies say the outbreak originated with a battalion of Nepalese troops who were part of the U.N. peacekeeping mission after Haiti's devastating 2010 earthquake. But the United Nations has never formally acknowledged responsibility or apologized. Attorneys for thousands of Haitian cholera victims announced a lawsuit against the U.N. in 2011. And earlier this year, the United Nations finally responded by announcing its refusal to pay compensation. A U.N. spokesperson cited immunity under the U.N.'s own rules.
MARTIN NESIRKY: In November 2011, a claim for compensation was brought against the United Nations on behalf of victims of the cholera outbreak in Haiti. Today the United Nations advised the claimants' representatives that the claims are not receivable, pursuant to Section 29 of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations. The secretary-general again expresses his profound sympathy for the terrible suffering caused by the cholera epidemic and calls on partners in Haiti and the international community to work together to ensure better health and a better future for the people of Haiti.
AMY GOODMAN: The U.N. spokesperson. Dr. Paul Farmer, your response?
DR. PAUL FARMER: Well, I mean, my response is probably going to be as a physician and an anthropologist, as we did immediately after the earthquake, as my colleagues and I did, saying, "What are the complementary steps that we could take to slow cholera and then eradicate it? And how are we going to save lives in a setting with this kind of water insecurity?" And there are important—it is important to understand that we haven't really succeeded in achieving even those complementary steps in the public health and medical arena, to say nothing of the water and sanitation arena, which is going to require building massive municipal water capacity across that country, like we have in this one and like the Rwandans are trying to do in theirs.
Those projects are also part of reparations. You know, when I talk to patients—I kind of think of everybody as a patient or potential patient, so watch out—but when I talk to patients who are living in poverty, they really do talk about reparations. "We need housing. We need healthcare. We need water. We want our kids in school." And, you know, I think that among the various interventions we could make, we've got to remember that—those pragmatic—
AMY GOODMAN: So, should the U.N. be responsible for that?
DR. PAUL FARMER: I think the U.N. is responsible. I think the world is responsible. I think that everybody who in the past tried to move Haiti out of the fraternity of nations during the 19th century and failed to recognize its legitimacy as a nation, I think the French who made extorted money from Haiti, are responsible. I think—I could go right through the list, you know? And I do think—I do believe, as you've read in this book and others, that I believe in that kind of assessment of responsibility.
The question is, again: What are the mechanisms by which we may offer reparations? And some of them have to involve transfer of resources to do those tasks that have not yet been done. And in doing that, obviously, we further the goals of public health and medicine in Haiti, but also education, building businesses, etc. You can't, you know, really hope to have investment, local investment from local—I'm just going to say business, but as you know, I mean micro-enterprise, etc., if people are sick and if people are always living in fear of the next epidemic and want. And so, I think we're all responsible. Anyway, I hope to be involved in this long term.
AARON MATÉ: Well, on this issue, the parties of the U.N. in Haiti spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year on a foreign military occupation, is it time for that foreign occupation, and given that there's no war there, there hasn't been for a century?
DR. PAUL FARMER: I'll say again, as I did on the show last time, that that's not the approach to human security that I would adopt, were I the architect. I would not have a militarized approach, but rather investments in basic social and economic rights for poor people, including the right to healthcare, the right to education. Those investments have not yet occurred in Haiti. Haiti will need rule of law and, you know, a police force, just like any other nation, but we need to shift the focus towards building up capacity in these arenas. And that is—that's what we believed when there was a Haitian army, as well, that had no non—was founded during the U.S. occupation and never had a non-Haitian enemy.
AMY GOODMAN: Five seconds.
DR. PAUL FARMER: So, it's still truth.
AMY GOODMAN: We're going to leave it there. Paul Farmer, the author of To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation.
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At top-ranked public courses, are those posted green fees for real?
Despite an increase in rounds played last year, golf-course owners are hardly rolling in dough these days. One measure of their oversupply: The average number of rounds per 18-hole course is down by 20 percent from its high in the 1980s, according to the National Golf Foundation.
climbed by $11, to $204, over the past two years. Eleven of them list fees of $350 and up.
Obviously these courses have something special. Their excellence (and, yeah, the media attention they get) gives them far more pricing power than the average course. But still, I wondered: In this economy, how's it going for them? Can their tee sheets really be full?
in Las Vegas. Its $500 green fee is "a tremendous amount of money," acknowledges general manager Mark Brenneman. "There are clubs you could join for that much."
But then, Shadow Creek is an unusual place, where ordinary supply-and-demand rules don't apply. The lush course was built as an amenity for high-rollers, and originally those "invited casino guests" were the only ones who could play it.
For the last 15 years or so, Shadow Creek has allowed limited public play. Only two foursomes of $500-paying MGM hotel guests get out on the course each day, and just Monday through Thursday. The rest of the time it's invitees only. Says Brenneman: "We're really not looking for more rounds."
gets $495, unchanged since 2007. One exception is mid-December and part of January, when members of certain local groups sometimes get special discounts.
"The tee sheet is full," says David Stivers, an executive vice president. That, and the fact that repeat business is strong, makes him confident the price is right. "Yes, it's a lot of money, but at the same time we hear from our customers that it's worth it: the location, the service, the history, and the chance to walk in the footsteps of champions."
don't pay the $420 peak-season rack rate. "That's not how we want to fill up the course," says Tom Pashley, the resort's executive vice president. Pinehurst would prefer guests stay in its lodging and eat in its restaurants—so it creates package pricing to encourage that. In the summer you can get two nights at The Manor Inn, two breakfasts, and two rounds of golf, one of them on No. 2, for $723. Or visit midweek during the peak fall or spring seasons and you get a $300 gift card.
Pinehurst weighs a number of factors when setting prices, including economic conditions and other resorts' fees. "In challenging years we try to add value," Pashley says. "In 2009, we offered unlimited golf. We were able to maintain our rates but added something to make them more attractive."
and the Pete Dye Course at French Lick Resort ($350).
"We give every group a unique gift," Harner adds. "A bottle of special bourbon, four cigars and four shot glasses. We want you to sit up on our porch and enjoy it after your round."
"Oh, it is," Harner says.
"See, we're in the entertainment business ... "
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Business Impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Survey, expectation responses over time, UK
Business Impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Survey, expectation responses over time, UK: 1 June to 23 August 2020 (Waves 6 to 11)
Turnover expectations of the same businesses over time, using the final results of Waves 6 to 11 of the voluntary fortnightly Business Impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Survey (BICS), covering the period 1 June to 23 August 2020.
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Overview of expectations analysis
Expectations on turnover
Comparing expected and reported changes
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Between early June and mid-August 2020, the proportion of businesses expecting an increase in turnover gradually fell from 27% to 18%, while the proportion of those expecting a decrease also fell, from 16% to 10%.
The likelihood of a business's turnover turning out to be lower than they predicted two weeks prior was 48% between early June and mid-August.
Businesses in the accommodation and food service activities industry were consistently the most optimistic sector (that is, turnover turned out to be lower than they expected two weeks prior).
Smaller-sized businesses in this sample (those with fewer than 250 employees) correctly predicted their turnover 39% of the time, compared with 34% for larger businesses.
2. Overview of expectations analysis
This article covers the results of responses on the expectation for turnover, using the final results of Waves 6 to 11 of the voluntary fortnightly Business Impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Survey (BICS),covering the period 1 June to 23 August 2020. In each Wave, businesses are asked to provide a qualitative estimate of what their expectations of the next two weeks will be for certain business dynamics. We are then able to compare that expectation to their outturn, as reflected in their response in the following Wave.
This analysis compares results based on a panel of 1,565 businesses that responded to all Waves between Waves 6 to 11. Wave 6 was chosen as a starting point to see how businesses' expectations have changed from the peak of the pandemic (May 2020) through to the easing of lockdown restrictions in the following months.
This subset of businesses is not necessarily completely representative of the wider BICS samples, but this has allowed us to track this panel of firms over time to see how the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on their business have evolved. For further information on the type of businesses included in this sample, please see the accompanying dataset.
Despite the efforts made to allow for robust Wave by Wave comparison, caution should still be taken when analysing these results as businesses might interpret the expectation questions differently, with some answering the questions in terms of the next two weeks relative to the previous two weeks or the next two weeks relative to their normal expectations for this time of year. The expectation questions ask "what are your expectations in/for the next two weeks?".
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3. Expectations on turnover
Only businesses that were trading in Waves 6 to 11 are included in the following analysis. This equates to 1,326 businesses out of the total 1,565 that responded to all six Waves.
According to this panel of businesses, more than half of businesses expected turnover to stay the same in the two weeks after responding, increasing from 51% in Wave 6 to 67% in Wave 11. Further, 28% of businesses reported they expected turnover to stay in the same in every questionnaire response from Waves 6 to 11.
Of those that expected a change, more businesses expected an increase in turnover (an average of 25%) than a decrease (an average of 13%) across the selected Waves. Over time, the proportion of businesses expecting turnover to increase fell from a high of 28% in Wave 8 to 18% in Wave 11. Meanwhile, the proportion of businesses expecting a decrease in turnover gradually fell from 16% in Wave 6 to 10% in Wave 11. The rest were unsure on what to expect.
Figure 1: More businesses expected an increase in turnover than a decrease, in the following two weeks
Percentage of responding businesses currently trading, broken down by Waves, UK, 1 June to 23 August 2020
Source: Office for National Statistics – Business Impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Survey
Final results of Waves 6 to 11 of the Office for National Statistics' (ONS') Business Impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Survey (BICS) panel (n = 1,326).
Businesses had to respond they were trading in Waves 6 to 11 to be included in the analysis. This equates to 1,326 businesses that responded out of the total 1,565.
Bars might not to sum to 100% because of rounding.
For this question, businesses may respond based from the point of completion of the questionnaire (that is, the two weeks after the point of completion).
"Expect turnover to decrease a little" and "Expect turnover to substantially decrease" categories have been combined for presentational purposes to "decrease". Meanwhile, "Expect turnover to increase a little" and "Expect turnover to substantially increase" categories have been combined for presentational purposes to "increase".
Download this chart Figure 1: More businesses expected an increase in turnover than a decrease, in the following two weeks
While most industries followed similar patterns of expectations across the selected Waves, there were notable cases where patterns were different in certain industries, reflecting moments of significant easing of lockdown measures.
Wholesale and retail trade businesses in this sample reported their highest percentage of businesses expecting turnover to increase in Wave 7, at 41%. This reflects businesses expecting an increase in turnover when non-essential shops in England reopened from 23 June 2020. After Wave 7, the expectations for turnover to stay the same for this sector increased from 41% in Wave 7 to 62% in Wave 11. Meanwhile, businesses in accommodation and food service activities reported their highest percentage expecting turnover to increase in Wave 9, at 56%. After Wave 9, the expectations for turnover to stay the same for this sector increased from 30% in Wave 9 to 60% in Wave 11. These changes in expectations reflect the restrictions in this sector being lifted from 4 July 2020 in England.
Industry and workforce breakdowns of businesses' expectations in turnover can be found in the dataset.
4. Comparing expected and reported changes
Figure 2: Businesses have consistently been optimistic in their turnover expectations between Waves 6 and 11
Percentage of responding businesses currently trading, broken down by previous Wave expectations and following Wave actual responses, UK, 1 June to 23 August 2020
For this question, businesses may respond based from the point of completion of the questionnaire (that is, the two weeks after the point of completion). 5."Expect turnover to decrease a little" and "Expect turnover to substantially decrease" categories have been combined for presentational purposes to "decrease". Meanwhile, "Expect turnover to increase a little" and "Expect turnover to substantially increase" categories have been combined for presentational purposes to "increase".
Actual turnover responses have also been combined for presentational purposes to "increase" and "decrease".
Download this chart Figure 2: Businesses have consistently been optimistic in their turnover expectations between Waves 6 and 11
Figure 2 shows how this panel of businesses have consistently been optimistic in their turnover expectations. On average, between Waves 6 and 11, 13% of businesses expected a decrease in turnover in the two weeks after responding and when compared with the reported changes to turnover of those same businesses two weeks later, 54% reported a decrease in turnover. In contrast, on average, while 26% of businesses expected an increase in turnover in the two weeks after responding, only 12% reported an increase in turnover when asked two weeks later.
Optimism in this sample of businesses changed over Waves 6 to 11. These businesses were most optimistic about an increase in turnover in Wave 8, when 28% expected an increase in turnover, compared with only 11% reporting an increase in turnover in Wave 9 – a difference of 17%. This reflects the further easing of restrictions impacting several industries in England and the lifting of travel restrictions in Wales at the beginning of July. By Wave 10, the difference in expected increase in turnover and an increase in turnover response in Wave 11 was at its lowest, at 10%. Businesses' expectations of a decrease in turnover have been more consistent with their actual responses over Waves 6 to 11, with the difference between percentage of businesses expecting a decrease in turnover and reporting a decrease in turnover in the following Wave steadily decreasing over time.
Figure 3: There is positive correlation across Waves of businesses expecting turnover to stay the same and reporting turnover is unaffected
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"Expect turnover to decrease a little" and "Expect turnover to substantially decrease" categories have been combined for presentational purposes to "decrease". Meanwhile, "Expect turnover to increase a little" and "Expect turnover to substantially increase" categories have been combined for presentational purposes to "increase".
Figure 3 shows there is no correlation between this sample of businesses' expectations of an increase in turnover and reporting turnover has increased in the following Wave. However, across the Waves, fewer businesses have expected turnover to decrease and then reported a decrease in the level of turnover. As the percentages for expectations and actuals for a decrease in turnover reduced, the percentages for turnover staying the same and turnover being unaffected increased.
All industries were optimistic with their expectations on turnover. Businesses in the accommodation and food service activities industry were consistently the most optimistic. This sector often reported a much higher percentage of businesses expecting an increase in turnover in Waves 6 to 10 than a decrease in turnover, yet it consistently reported one of the highest percentages of businesses responding they had a decrease in turnover relative to normal for that two-week period.
Businesses in the human health and social work activities sector have consistently reported a high percentage expecting to stay the same. However, these businesses have also responded that a high percentage of their reported turnover had not been affected in the following two-week period.
For more information on the sample size of the different industries, see the accompanying dataset.
Figure 4 is a bubble chart where the bubble size represents the proportion of the sample that responded with expectation option in a previous Wave and the corresponding response they provided in the following Wave. The counts of each business's expectation and actual responses have been combined for Waves 6 to 11 to provide an overall picture for this time period.
Figure 4: Businesses that expected turnover to stay the same and responded that turnover was not affected was the largest matched pairs combination count
A combination of Waves 6 to 11 responses, count of responding businesses currently trading, broken down by previous Waves expectations and following Wave actual responses, UK, 1 June to 23 August 2020
Bubble size represents the size of the count for each option combination.
Counts have been calculated adding option response counts for Waves 6 to 11. For example, there are 183 businesses in this sample that expected their turnover to stay the same in Wave 6 but then reported that their turnover was substantially lower than normal in Wave 7. For subsequent Waves, these number were: 171, 148, 143 and 134. These were summed to create the value for the "Expected turnover to stay the same" and "Turnover was substantially lower than normal" bubble, shown in Figure 4.
Bubbles might not be shown as counts less than or equal to three have been removed for disclosure purposes.
If businesses had perfect foresight, then all the bubbles would be on the 45-degree line, as indicated in Figure 4. Bubbles below the line represent those business responses that were optimistic, compared to the ones above, which represent pessimistic business responses.
The likelihood of expectations being met across all five Waves was 36%, where 25% of this sample of businesses correctly expected their turnover to be unaffected.
Nearly half of this sample of businesses were optimistic. The likelihood of these businesses' true turnover response being worse than expected was 48%. On the other hand, 10% recorded a higher turnover than they expected, with the remaining businesses either reporting they were not sure on their expectations or that they were not sure on their turnover response.
Smaller-sized businesses in this sample (those with fewer than 250 employees) had a higher percentage meeting their expectations at 39%, compared with 34% for larger businesses. Businesses with 250 employees or more were more optimistic, as 50% of the actual turnover responses were worse than expected, compared with 43% for the smaller-sized businesses. There was little difference seen for turnover responses being higher than expected.
For more information on sample size of the different sized businesses and how their optimism differed, see the accompanying dataset.
Across Waves 6 to 11, 16% of this sample correctly predicted their turnover expectations for each Wave, compared with 33% that consistently predicted their turnover for the next two weeks incorrectly. The remaining 49% either predicted their expectations correctly for at least one Wave but not all or reported they were unsure at some point in either their expectations or turnover responses.
Of the businesses with 250 employees or more, 36% incorrectly predicted their turnover in the next weeks for all six Waves, compared with 28% of the smaller-sized businesses.
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Business impact of coronavirus, analysis over time, UK: Waves 2 to 5 panel
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The indicators and analysis presented in this article are based on selected responses over time from the new voluntary fortnightly business survey, which captures businesses responses on how their turnover, workforce, prices, trade and business resilience have been affected in the two-week reference period. These data relate to the period 23 March to 17 May 2020 (Waves 2 to 5).
Insights of the Business Impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Survey: 23 March to 5 April (Wave 2) to 1 to 14 June (Wave 7) 2020
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Coronavirus and the experiences of UK businesses, textual analysis: March 2020 to July 2020
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There is a significant correlation between online adult dating and the economic repercussions it can have on you. Put simply, it can save you money. And lots of it.
As of the writing of this post, the dollar is weak, and only getting weaker. The markets are weakening as they go through their respective "corrections". The price of heating oil and fuel has been skyrocketing. Foreclosures are on the rise and things are beginning to look a little bleak for the winter months. What does this have to do with online adult dating?
It costs money to date. Not only that, it costs money to meet. And this is where I will start. If you want to meet other singles, normally you would consider a bar or club the starting point for your adult dating endeavors. As you already know, when you go to a bar, it is not an automatic truth that you will meet a potential dating partner every time you frequent your establishment of choice. It may take several visits of patronizing such establishments before you ever even meet someone. What do most people do at bars? People consume. People consume beverages, whether alcoholic or not, and eat food. Well, this stuff costs money and it can add up very quickly. One night at such an establishment can cost $30 to $50 for one person. That's a lot of dough to dish out for one night if your intent is to meet someone in the adult dating scene, let alone if you go out on Friday and Saturday night every weekend. See where I'm going with this?
So you are spending all of this money to meet an interesting single. What happens when you do meet a potential dating partner at such a place? How conducive to forming an adult dating relationship is the establishment that you are at? Are you able to speak naturally, without the need to yell? Are you offered the ability to have a meaningful one on one conversation? See Why I Hate The Bar Scene for more on this topic.
Let's say that you do meet a potential dating partner after a few visits to these establishments. By this time, you've already spent a good amount of money. You've had a brief phone conversation or two and you decide to go on a date, because traditionally, this is how the progression of the traditional dating scene works. You go on your date and it does not work out between you and what you thought may have been your new adult dating partner. Guess what? You just spent more money and now you are back to square one. The entire process starts over. Rinse and repeat.
Now, think about the alternative that is readily available to break this cycle and save you money. For a little less than one night at the bar you could have joined an online adult dating site for one month. You could have been corresponding to other singles with the same mindset as you and meeting potential dating partners every day of the week, not just a night or two on the weekend.
I hope you can see the amount of money that you can save by simply joining an online adult dating site. Not only that, these sites are highly targeted places to meet people. It's a dating site, that's why people are there. They are not there to eat, they are there to meet like minded individuals. Not only that, the channels available for correspondence are much more conducive than waiting until you go out to dinner and needlessly spend more money, only to find that you are not a good fit.