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El Capità Planeta (Captain Planet and the Planeteers) és una sèrie de televisió de superherois ambientalista d'animació nord-americana creada per Ted Turner, Barbara Pyle i Robert Larkin III, i desenvolupada per Pyle, Nicholas Boxer, Thom Beers, Andy Heyward, Robby London, Bob Forward i Cassandra Schafausen. La sèrie va ser produïda per Turner Program Services i DIC Enterprises i es va emetre a TBS des del 15 de setembre de 1990 fins al 5 de desembre de 1992. Una sèrie següent, The New Adventures of Captain Planet, va ser produïda per Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc., distribuïda per Turner Program Services i emesa des de l'11 de setembre de 1993 fins a l'11 de maig de 1996. Ambdues sèries continuen avui en dia en sindicació. El programa és una forma d'educació, propugna l'ambientalisme en llur guió i destaca per tenir diversos actors famosos que donen veu als dolents en la versió original. L'espectacle va generar una franquícia formada per una organització benèfica, videojocs i una barreja amb la sèrie de televisió OK K.O. Let's Be Heroes.

Desenvolupament

Concepció
Segons Barbara Pyle, la inspiració dels cinc Planetaris provenia de persones reals que va conèixer durant la preproducció del programa el 1989. En una entrevista el setembre de 2012 amb Barbara Pyle i el co-desenvolupador Nicholas Boxer, es va afirmar que l'illa Hope era situada a prop de les Bahames.

Etapa de la productora DIC (1990–1992)
La sèrie original fou la segona més llarga de la dècada dels noranta de les produïdes per empreses d'animació estatunidenques, amb la suma de 113 capítols. Va romandre durant tres temporades sota el nom de Captain Planet and the Planeteers (produïda per TBS Productions i DiC).

El tema d'introducció de l'espectacle va ser compost per Tom Worrall. El tema final (mantingut per les versions de DIC i Hanna-Barbera) es considera una de les parts més memorables de la sèrie a causa del seu atractiu cor de veus i ritme de rock ("Captain Planet, he's our hero, gonna take pollution down to zero"). La lletra fou escrita pel productor de la sèrie Nick Boxer i està interpretada per Murray McFadden i Timothy Mulhollan. Durant els crèdits finals, James Coburn, que interpreta la veu del personatge Looten Plunder, pronuncia la línia "Pagaràs per això, Captain Planet". A continuació, té lloc un rap dels actors de veu dels Planeteers. S'assembla al "Step by Step" de New Kids On The Block.

Etapa de la productora Hanna-Barbera (1993–1996)
El 1993, el xou va canviar de companyia productora, canviant el títol per The New Adventures of Captain Planet (produït per Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, que va ser adquirida per Turner el 1991). Durant aquest temps, es va emetre com a part del bloc del Sunday Morning Front Of The TV de TBS, al costat d'altres sèries com ara SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron (H-B toons) i 2 Stupid Dogs. Aquesta sèrie va revelar més del passat de cadascun dels personatges i el va expandir de forma espectacular. El to d'aquests episodis era més madur que la sèrie inicial. L'estil d'animació es va modificar.

La banda sonora del rock sintètic de les temporades DiC va ser substituïda per un gran nombre de peces orquestrals i, tot i que es conservava el tema dels crèdits finals, la seqüència final ara mostrava imatges dels episodis de Hanna-Barbera. Els actors de veu completa van substituir la majoria de les grans celebritats que feien parlar Gaia i els Eco-dolents durant les temporades de DiC. David Coburn (Captain Planet) parlava en la narració inicial en comptes de fer-ho LeVar Burton (Kwame) i, a la darrera temporada, aquesta va ser substituïda per un rap cantat per Fred Schneider de The B-52.

Llegat
La Fundació Captain Planet (CPF) va ser fundada el 1991, quan la productora de sèries Barbara Pyle va negociar un percentatge dels ingressos de marxandatge de l'espectacle per apoderar els joves. El concepte permetia a escoles i organitzacions de tot el món presentar els seus projectes mediambientals a la Fundació i rebre "diners de sembra" per fer créixer les seves idees. El 2001, Time Warner va decidir inactivar el CPF a causa d'una desafiant fusió amb AOL. Laura Seydel i el seu marit Rutherford Seydel van treballar amb Time Warner per orquestrar la transició de la fundació corporativa a una organització benèfica pública - la Captain Planet Foundation. El 2007, CPF va adquirir els drets d'exposar episodis anteriors de Captain Planet i els Planeteers en línia i a l'aire, per la qual cosa "permetia que aquest valuós recurs arribés a la llum i eduqués als nens d'avui!"  A partir del 2017, el consell de l'organització està presidit per Laura Turner Seydel, filla de Ted Turner; el consell inclou Barbara Pyle.

Objectius educatius
Es van crear diversos episodis per tocar temes rellevants per a un públic modern.

 "Mind Pollution"

L'episodi titulat originalment "Mind Pollution" (1991) va ser notori  per tractar el tema del consum de drogues. Això s'explicava pel fet que els personatges pensaven en la drogodependència com una "contaminació de la ment". L'episodi va girar entorn d'una epidèmia d'una droga de disseny coneguda com a "Bliss" creada pel dolent Verminous Skumm (Skumm el Vermellós, meitat humà, meitat rata, representatiu de totes les lacres urbanes). Incloïa una escena de Borka, cosí de Linka, saltant per una finestra i morint per causa d'una sobredosi de droga.

 "A Formula for Hate"

L'episodi titulat "A Formula for Hate" (1992) també era inusual per a la sèrie, ja que es tractava del primer episodi d'una sèrie d'animació infantil nord-americana per tractar directament la pandèmia del VIH / SIDA. En l'episodi, Skumm renta el cervell d'una comunitat local pensant que el virus es pot propagar a través d'un contacte casual i provocant així a les persones que odien i tinguin por a un jove, infectat amb VIH, anomenat Todd Andrews (amb veu de Neil Patrick Harris, amb la seva mare parlada per Elizabeth Taylor).

Argument
Narració d'obertura original:
Narració d'obertura en la versió catalana de TVC:

Cada episodi es fa amb almenys un avís d'«Alerta planetària», sovint connectat amb la trama, on es discuteixen qüestions político-ambientals i político-socials i com l'espectador pot contribuir i formar part de "la solució" en lloc de "la pol·lució".

Personatges

Gaia
Gaia (expressada per Whoopi Goldberg el 1990–1992, Margot Kidder el 1993–1996), és l'esperit del planeta que envia cinc anells màgics - quatre amb el poder de controlar un element de la natura i un de controlar l'element del cor - a cinc joves escollits a tot el món. Afirma haver estat adormit durant tot el segle XX i en despertar va veure un món més contaminat que quan va ser despert per última vegada, però es contrasta amb un episodi de flashback dels anys vint, on la gent va rebre orientació de Gaia.

La seva aparença sembla una barreja de dones atractives de totes les races, i sovint és vista com un esperit intangible. Tanmateix, en casos de problemes greus, Gaia adquireix forma corpòria, cosa que la posa en perill de mort. En un episodi on la seva rival Zarm l'havia derrotat, Gaia es va mostrar com una vella i fràgil dona, amb Zarm explicant que, tenint en compte la existència de milers de milions d'anys d'existència de la Terra, tindria sentit que Gaia tingués aparença de «superjubilada».

Capità Planeta
En situacions que els Planetaris no poden resoldre sols els reptes, poden combinar els seus poders per convocar el Capità Planeta (que dona títol a la sèrie i expressat per la veu de David Coburn), que és un androide superheroi hologràfic que posseeix tots els seus poders magnificats. Un cop finalitzat el seu treball, el Capità Planeta torna al planeta i s'acomiada dels espectadors amb el missatge: "El poder és teu!"

Planeta normalment només es manifesta per fer front a la crisi més gran i després se'n va, però algunes històries l'han mostrat existent més enllà d'aquests moments, com quan va ser apel·lat mentre Kwame i Ma-Ti estaven a l'espai, amb el resultat que l'energia dels seus anells que van crear Planet no van poder tornar al seu origen, i Planeta es va veure obligat a operar a nivell humà, tot requerint una palanca i claus d'unes manilles per rescatar la resta de l'equip.

Planetaris
 Kwame (veu, LeVar Burton) - Natiu de Ghana, Àfrica, Kwame posseeix el poder de la Earth. És la líder no oficial dels Planetaris.
 Wheeler (veu, Joey Dedio) - de Nova York, Wheeler controla el poder del foc.
 Linka (veu, Kath Soucie) - de la Unió Soviètica (en episodis posteriors de Rússia després de la desaparició del règim comunista), Linka és capaç de reproduir el poder del vent.
 Gi (veu, Janice Kawaye) - de Corea de Sud, Gi controla el poder de l'aigua.
 Ma-Ti (veu d'Scott Menville) - del Brasil Ma-Ti maneja el poder de l'amabilitat.
 Suchi (efectes vocals produïts per Frank Welker) - és un mico, mascota de Ma-Ti.
Aquests cinc personatges són batejats amb el nom de "Planetaris" i tenen l'encàrrec d'ajudar a defensar el planeta dels desastres ambientals i fer esforços per educar la humanitat per evitar l'autodestrucció. Al començament dels episodis, Gaia utilitza el seu "Planeta-Visor" a la cambra de cristall per descobrir on es produeix la destrucció més devastadora (en la majoria d'episodis un o més dels Eco-vilans que hi ha al darrere) i envia els planetaris per ajudar a aturar-la i solucionar el problema. Els Planetaris utilitzen el transport (normalment una màquina voladora anomenada Geo-Creuer) basat en energia solar per evitar ells mateixos contribuir-hi a la contaminació.

Dolents
Els Eco-vilans són un petit grup d'antagonistes que causen perill al planeta a causa de la contaminació, la desforestació, la caça furtiva i altres activitats ambientals indesitjables. Gaudeixen de la destrucció que causen al planeta i del perjudici que causen per obtenir riquesa, terra o poder. Solen treballar sols la major part del temps, tot i que estan disposats a treballar els uns amb els altres quan s'adapti als seus plans. Només a l'episodi de dues parts "Summit to Save Earth" tot el conjunt d'Eco-vilans funcionava en equip, amb Zarm com a líder. Cadascun d'aquests malfactors representa una forma de pensament específica que pot causar problemes ecològics.

 Hoggish Greedly (veu: Ed Asner) – Un ésser humà semblant al porc que representa els perills del consum excessiu i de la cobdícia, Hoggish és el primer dolent que el Capità Planeta i els Planetaris s'encontren. A l'episodi "Smog Hog", es revela que Hoggish té un fill anomenat Hoggish Greedly Jr. (amb veu per Jacob Doughty) que apareix una sola vegada. A l'episodi "Hog Tide", es revela que té un avi anomenat Don Porkaloin (retratat com a paròdia de Vito Corleone d'El Padrí) que en el passat va ser derrotat per un altre grup de Planetaris. A diferència de Hoggish Greedly, Porkaloin es va fer respectuós amb el medi ambient com es mostra a l'episodi "El fantasma del passat de Porkaloin".
 Rigger (veu: John Ratzenberger) - És el principal col·lega de Greedly. Va afirmar una vegada que la raó principal per la qual treballa per Greedly és perquè ningú més el voldria llogar. Alguna vegada qüestiona les ordres de Greedly i mostra preocupació quan les accions de Greedly perjudiquen el medi ambient tot i que mai té cap efecte sobre la consciència del seu líder, i Rigger, en la majoria d'ocasions, continua sent fidel a Greedly. Rigger fa tota la feina de cames mentre Greedly sol estar al voltant i menjant.

 Verminous Skumm (veu: Jeff Goldblum en 1990, Maurice LaMarche en 1991–1995) – El segon vilà que apareix a la sèrie, és una criatura part-humana i part-rata; ell representa la decadència urbana, la malaltia i el consum de drogues. Skumm pot controlar les rates i té el seu propi helicòpter personal anomenat The Scum O'Copter. Skumm és el responsable de la mort del cosí de Linka, Boris, per drogues a l'episodi "Mind Pollution".
 Rat Pack - Un grup de rates humanoides que treballen per Verminous Skumm.
 Duke Nukem (veu: Dean Stockwell en 1990–1992, Maurice LaMarche en 1993–1995) – Era un metge que es va convertir en un mutant radioactiu que representa el mal ús de l'energia nuclear i apareix el tercer vilà. És un dels pocs Eco-vilans, juntament amb Zarm i el capità Pollution, capaç de lluitar contra el capità planeta. Nukem genera radiació per disparar explosions radioactives de les seves mans i posseeix visió de raigs X. L'empresa Apogee va reanomenar temporalment el personatge homònim de la franquícia de jocs informàtics de Duke Nukem a "Duke Nukum" per evitar possibles reclamacions sobre marques que poguessin formalitzar els productors de Captain Planet. Més tard es va trobar que el personatge de la sèrie de dibuixos animats no tenia marca registrada, i es van restablir els títols originals dels videojocs.
Leadsuit (veu: Frank Welker) - El company fidel del Duke Nukem, el nom de Leadsuit defineix la seva aparença ja que porta un vestit de plom de cos sencer per resistir la radiació alliberada pel cos de Duke Nukem. Va revelar que treballa per al duc Nukem perquè quan Nukem es faci càrrec del món, arribarà a ser segon en l'escalafó d'autoritat. Leadsuit és tímid, poques vegades discuteix amb Nukem (i sempre perd si s'oposa a qualsevol cosa). Leadsuit té por a la foscor i sol doblegar-se davant dels més petits problemes.

 Dra. Blight (veu: Meg Ryan en 1990-1991, Mary Kay Bergman en 1992–1996, Tessa Auberjonois en OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes) – La quarta vilana revelada, la doctora Blight és una científica boja que representa els perills de la tecnologia descontrolada i de l'experimentació científica poc ètica. Com a resultat de l'autoexperimentació, la meitat esquerra del seu rostre està horrorosament deforme; aquesta sol estar amagada pels cabells. A l'episodi "Hog Tide", es revela que la doctora Blight tenia una àvia anomenada Betty Blight que va ajudar Don Porkaloin en la seva trama. A l'episodi "Hollywaste", es revela que la doctora Blight té una germana anomenada Bambi (expressada per Kath Soucie). Bambi anomena Blight amb el seu primer nom "Babs", una forma escurçada de "Barbara".
MAL 9000 (veu: David Rappaport en 1990, Tim Curry en 1991-1996) - Marit i assistent amb intel·ligència artificial de la Dra. Blight. Té la capacitat de piratejar altres sistemes informàtics, fer-los seus i reprogramar-los gairebé sempre segons les especificacions de la doctora Blight. MAL és sovint el control i principal font d'energia de tots els laboratoris de Blight, així com els vehicles on viatja.

 Looten Plunder (veu: James Coburn en 1990–1992, Ed Gilbert en 1993–1996) – Un empresari ric i caçador de diners sense escrúpols que representa els mals de les accions empresarials poc ètiques. Looten és el sisè vilà que apareix a Capità Planeta en el setè episodi, "The Last of Her Kind". També es desvetlla que té un nebot anomenat Robin Plunder. El seu nom era una obra de teatre amb el terme "Loot and Plunder", i sempre va estar en els crèdits finals de cada episodi quan el cantant proclamava "Bad guys who like to...loot and plunder!" (Maleïts els que els agrada ... saquejar i espoliar!), Tret d'una escena d'un episodi on un espoliador alterat veu els seus plans en ruïnes i crida "Pagaràs per això, capità planeta!"
Argos Bleak (veu: S. Scott Bullock) -El principal compare i guardaespatlles de Looten Plunder, també exerceix de mercenari i du a terme la major part del treball brut de Plunder. Sembla que té antecedents militars, ja que es veu en molts episodis pilotant helicòpters o altres avions, i és capaç de manejar armes de foc. Argos fins i tot va tenir el seu propi episodi "The Preditor", on va aparèixer sense el seu cap caçant taurons. Una altra vegada que Plunder va conspirar amb Hoggish Greedily, es va veure a Argos Bleak discutint amb Rigger sobre qui era el millor eco-vilà.
 Pinehead Brothers (veus de Dick Gautier i Frank Welker) – Oakey i Dokey són dos germans llenyaters sobredimensionats ajudants de Looten Plunder en la temporada final de "The New Adventures of Captain Planet."
 Sly Sludge (veu: Martin Sheen en 1990–1992, Jim Cummings en 1993–1995). Un deixaller sense escrúpols que representa la mandra, la ignorància i els perills de l'apatia i el pensament a curt termini. No obstant això, ja que molts dels seus esquemes impliquen la gestió de residus, que és una qüestió mediambiental legítima, sovint ho utilitza per obtenir una respectabilitat aparent. Slay Sludge és l'últim vilà que es va revelar. També és l'únic principal vilà al qual els Planetaris li van permetre executar un programa de reciclatge seu que el fa guanyar molts diners en el capítol "No Small Problem", que permet a Sludge proposar plans per produir en massa d'una manera assequible, ecològica, de manera segura desfent-se dels residus d'una forma poc contaminant.
 Ooze (veu: Cam Clarke) - És un ajudant d'Sly Sludge.
 Tank Flusher III (veu: Frank Welker) – És l'ajudant i servidor més atlètic i fort d'Sly Sludge. Feu el seu debut en la sèrie "The New Adventures of Captain Planet" episodi "A Mine is a Terrible Thing to Waste", primera part.
 Zarm (veu: Sting en 1990–1992, David Warner en 1993, Malcolm McDowell en 1994–1995) – És un antic esperit del planeta que abandonà Gaia en busca d'altres mons i va acabar castigant altres planetes poblats per arruïnar-los, aprofitant l'absència de Gaia per explotar els seus mètodes. Zarm representa la guerra i la destrucció. Tot i que Zarm no té cap amic propi, sovint manipularia a altres persones per fer el seu pensament. Va unir Hoggish Greedly, Looten Plunder, Sly Sludge, Duke Nukem, Verminous Skumm i la Doctora Blight, sota el seu lideratge en l'episodi de dues parts "Summit to Save Earth". Altres vegades recluta i manipula d'altres, fins i tot els Planetaris, perquè treballin per ell. Zarm és el cinquè Eco-Vilà que apareix a la sèrie, amb la seva primera aparició al sisè episodi. Fora de la guerra i la destrucció, Zarm promou l'odi i el totalitarisme, que creia que eren els contaminants més perillosos per a la humanitat, com ho demostra la seva actuació com a favorit d'un dictador anomenat Morgar. Zarm admet que ha estat una força directora per a tots els dèspotes del , però admet que un d'ells realment ha denegat la seva ajuda, i desafia els Planetaris a endevinar qui, dient "crec que us sorprendrà gratament".

Altres vilans
Els Slaughters: Són una família de caçadors furtius que van debutar a "Les noves aventures del capità planeta". Els Slaughters representen la posada en perill dels animals i els mals de la caça furtiva i sovint estan en competència directa monetària amb Looten Plunder. Mame i la seva família van col·laborar amb Looten Plunder i Argos Bleak en l'episodi "Horns A'Plenty" quan els Planetaris van arruïnar la caça furtiva de rinoceront de cadascun dels tres socis.

Mame Slaughter (expressada per Theresa Saldana a la primera aparició, Mitzi McCall a la segona). És la líder dels Slaughter.

Stalker Slaughter (veu: Charlie Adler): un dels fills de Mame i el seu segon comandant.

Capità Contaminació
Un homòleg contaminant del capità planeta anomenat Captain Pollution en anglès (expressat per David Coburn, com el seu bon homòleg) apareix a l'episodi de dues parts "Missió per salvar la Terra" quan el doctor Blight roba els anells dels Planetaris, crea duplicats contaminants d'ells i distribueix els duplicats a la majoria dels altres eco-vilans. Cada Eco-vilà va rebre un anell específic que tenia el poder contrari dels Planetaris:

 Duke Nukem té un super anell de Radiació (contrapartida de foc).
 Looten Plunder té un Anell de Desforestació (contrapartida de la Terra).
 Sly Sludge té un Anell de Boira (contrapartida de l'anell de Vent).
 Verminous Skumm té un Anell de Tòxics (contrapart d'Aigua).
 El doctor Blight té un Anell d'Odi (contrapart del Cor).

Cadascun dels anells malvats té rostres malèvols, en contrast amb els anells Planetaris, amb icones referides als elements. El capità Pol·lució s'afebleix quan està en contacte amb elements purs com l'aigua neta o la llum del sol, mentre que guanya energia al contacte amb contaminants, sent capaç d'absorbir contaminants i emetre rajos radioactius (i després es demostra que obté energia il·limitada en contacte amb contaminants després de la seva resurrecció). Quan és invocat diu "Com a combinació de les vostres potències contaminants, jo sóc el capità Contaminació ! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!", I quan desapareix, declara "El poder contaminant és teu!"

En la seva primera aparició, és enviat pels Eco-vilans a destruir els Planetaris, però és perseguit pel comandant Clash i després d'una baralla amb el Capità Planeta, torna als anells malvats fent-los explotar. A l'episodi de dues parts "Una mina és una cosa terrible de malbaratar", el capità Pol·lució és ressuscitat per les toxines dels cinc anells malvats que s'escolen cap a l'interior del planeta.

El capità Pol·lució és el pol oposat del capità Planeta en la personalitat i el poder. En contraposició a la naturalesa generosa i altruista de Planeta, Pol·lució és mandrós, venjatiu i arrogant, veient-se com un déu i als seus creadors com a servents ans que socis. El Capità Planeta determina la diferència en les seves perspectives durant la seva primera batalla amb Pol·lució per evitar que els Planetaris no tinguin cap, són un equip, i per això el Capità Pol·lució sempre perdrà.

El capità Pol·lució s'assembla a Capità Planeta, però amb pell de color groc pàl·lid i cobert de lesions marrons. Té els cabells vermells, celles, ulls vermells i el cabell li creix a la manera de Widow's peak, amb la línia de naixement del cabell amb forma de ve (V) sobre el front. El seu vestit és del mateix color i estil que el de Capità Planeta, però el globus terrestre del pit està partit en dues meitats mitjançant un llamp. La seva veu té un ressò potent de sociolecte parlat a la Vall de Califòrnia que va estar de moda entre els anys vuitanta i noranta;  El capità Pol·lució és derrotat dues vegades pel capità Planeta; primer a "Missió per salvar la terra" pel fet de ser arrossegat a través de la terra, lava, l'aire i l'aigua, i després de nou a "Una mina és una cosa terrible de malgastar" en ser enganyat a entrar a una cambra de magma subterrània.

Doblatge al català
La sèrie s'emeté primer en valencià al Canal Nou entre els anys 1991 i 1996. El doblatge, dirigit per Ximo Solano i Miquel Gil, fou realitzat als AC Estudis de València. L'any 1995 es doblà al català central per la TVC, amb la traducció de Susanna Fosch.

Creació de franquícies
Pyle i Boxer van exigir que el marxandatge de la sèrie es fabricàs de forma sostenible; per això, diverses de les empreses productores de diversos productes de temàtica Capità Planeta van haver de revisar completament els seus mitjans de producció per fabricar productes reciclats i reciclables.

Joguets
Com en molts dibuixos populars populars, Capità Planet tenia una línia de figures i vehicles d'acció. Llançada per Tiger Toys el 1990, la línia va funcionar durant diversos anys, el temps suficient per lligar-se a la sèrie New Adventures. Les joguines van ser reembalades i venudes per Grand Toys al Canadà i Kenner a tot Europa. Les joguines tenien una maniobrabilitat mitjana, amb els cinc punts comuns: coll, muscles i malucs.

Trobar una llista completa del que es va comercialitzar és difícil, ja que no totes les joguines mostrades al catàleg inicial del detallista no van ser publicades. El mercat del col·leccionista és petit, les joguines són una mica rares a eBay. La Captain Planet Foundation encara ven un petit nombre d'elles en línia, però. També hi pot haver altres variacions estrangeres de certes joguines que poden ser encara més difícils de catalogar. Tanmateix, les joguines de les Noves Aventures són poc conegudes.

Els cinc Planetaris, cinc Eco-Dolents, Commander Clash, i diverses versions de Capità Planeta, cadascun amb un disseny estètic o pintures adaptades als dibuixos, van ser llançats, juntament amb diversos vehicles. També es va estrenar un anell de joguines amb llums i so i lents intercanviables per als cinc elements. Quatre vehicles petits també es van vendre mitjançant una promoció de Burger King.

Videojocs
Un joc de vídeo basat en la sèrie fou desenvolupat per Mindscape com encomanda de Nintendo Entertainment System. L'anomenaren Captain Planet. El joc, que comportava una gran quantitat de trets, va rebre crítiques negatives per part dels crítics de jocs, i per aquesta causa una primera versió del joc per Sega Mega Drive fou avortada. Novalogic va desenvolupar un joc de desplaçament lateral separat per al Mega Drive, però només es va llançar a Europa i Austràlia.

David Perry i Nick Bruty van desenvolupar un joc per ZX Spectrum i Amstrad CPC usant la llicència, un llançament de tres nivells. El 1990 es va llançar un joc per a la Commodore Amiga i Atari ST, escrits per Tony Crowther. Es tractava d'un joc de plataformes i es va incorporar breument amb el paquet Amiga 500 "Cartoon Classics" llançat el 1991.

Un joc de Commodore 64 estava en desenvolupament, però no es va llançar mai. Tiger Toys, propietari de la llicència de figures d'acció, també va crear un joc per miniconsola de mà amb pantalla LCD.

Captain Planet apareix com un personatge jugable al joc de lluita Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion per a Nintendo 3DS, Wii, PS3 i Xbox 360.

Mitjans domèstics
Turner Home Entertainment va publicar originalment cintes VHS de la sèrie, que contenien un únic episodi en cadascuna. El principal distribuïdor de vídeos domèstics de DIC, Buena Vista Home Video, també va distribuir cintes VHS d'un sol episodi.

Existeix un DVD amb quatre episodis i funcions de bonificació, però només estava disponible com a part del "Pack Planeteer" comprat a la Captain Planet Foundation. Aquest DVD promocional contenia els episodis "A River Ran Through It", "A Perfect World", "Gorillas Will Missed" i "The Big Clam Up". També s'inclou un breu clip titulat "Planeteers in Action", que tracta sobre la Fundació Captain Planet. El "Planeteer Pack" especial ja no està disponible.

Shout! Factory sota llicència de Turner i Warner Home Video va llançar un set de DVD de la primera temporada completa als EUA el 19 d'abril de 2011. Les fundes del DVD estan fabricades amb paper reciclat 100%.

Madman Entertainment llançà el conjunt de la primera temporada el sis de juliol de 2016 i la col·lecció completa el vint-i-cinc d'octubre de 2017 en Austràlia.

Des del vint-i-cinc de març de 2017 és disponible en iTunes per la seua compra. La sèrie completa també es va posar a disposició dels compradors en Amazon Instant Video.

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U.S SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND
Harris Corp., RF Communications, Rochester, New York, has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a $255,000,000 maximum ceiling value to provide the Special Operations Forces Tactical Communications Next Generation Manpack (STC NGMP) Radio system in support of U.S. Special Operations Command to conduct a Capital Equipment Replacement Program, replacing legacy manpack radios such as the AN/PRC-117F and AN/PRC-117G. The STC NGMP will provide Special Operations Forces teams with the ability to communicate utilizing a two-channel manpack radio. The NGMP will provide a capability to receive and distribute intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data in the form of full motion video, and support simultaneous dual channel line of sight and/or beyond line of sight operation utilizing legacy, and advanced waveforms. The majority of the work will be performed at the contractor's location in Rochester, New York, and is expected to be completed by June 2023. Fiscal 2017 procurement funds in the amount of $1,050,000 are being obligated at time of award. This contract was competitively awarded using Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 15 procedures and one proposal was received. U.S. Special Operations Command, Tampa, Florida, is the contracting activity (H92222-17-D-0021).
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, Grand Prairie, Texas, has been awarded a $108,322,712 single award, fixed-price-incentive-firm and firm-fixed-price contract for Advanced Radar Threat System Variant 2 (ARTS-V2). Contractor will provide the development and test of an ARTS-V2 production representative article and options to produce up to 20 systems. Work will be performed at Grand Prairie, Texas; Syracuse, New York; Orlando, Florida; Palmdale, California; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Newark, California; Northridge, California; Batavia, Ohio; Clintonville, Wisconsin; Huntsville, Alabama; Austin, Texas; San Luis, California; Atlanta, Georgia; Middletown, Rhode Island; Virginia Beach, Virginia; Scottsdale, Arizona; and Tallman, New York. Work is expected to be complete by June 30, 2027. This award is the result of a competitive acquisition with two offers received. Fiscal 2017 research, development, test, and evaluation funds in the amount of $24,700,000 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, is the contracting activity (FA8210-17-C-0001).
MRM Construction Services Inc, Phoenix, Arizona, has been awarded a $46,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for base and airfield paving services. Contractor will provide repair, alteration, maintenance and new construction of roads, parking lots and airfield taxiways, runways and aircraft parking areas including markings and rubber removal from runways. Work will be performed at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona; Gila Bend Auxiliary Air Field, Arizona; and Barry M. Goldwater Range, Arizona, and is expected to be complete by June 11, 2022. This award is the result of a competitive acquisition with four offers received. Fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $68,633 are being obligated at the time of award. The 56th Contracting Squadron, Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, is the contracting activity (F4886-17-D-0003).
Spalding Consulting Inc.,* Lexington Park, Maryland, is being awarded a $59,332,822 cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-reimbursable contract for services in support of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division's Ship and Air Integrated Warfare Division. Services to be provided include technical, systems engineering, project management, organizational management, administrative and acquisition support. Work will be performed in St. Inigoes, Maryland. The ordering period is expected to be completed in September 2022. No funds are being obligated; funds will be obligated on individual orders as they are issued. This contract was competitively procured via an electronic request for proposals; two offers were received. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity (N00421-17-D-0035).
Moog Inc., Elma, New York, is being awarded a $49,978,647 five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price requirements contract for the repair of 26 items in support of the F-18 aircraft. Work will be performed in Torrance, California (45 percent); San Diego, California (25 percent); Jacksonville, Florida (25 percent); and Elma, New York (5 percent). Work is expected to be completed by June 2022. No funds will be obligated at the time of award. Fiscal 2017 working capital funds (Navy) will be provided through individual delivery orders, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was a sole-source pursuant to the authority set forth in 10 U.S. Code 2304(C)(1), and Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1. The requirement was posted to the Federal Business Opportunities website, with one offer received. Naval Supply Systems Command Weapon Systems Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the contracting activity (N00383-17-D-BH01).
Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Connecticut, is being awarded a $25,100,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-17-C-2100) for additional Long Lead Time Material (LLTM) associated with fiscal 2019 Virginia Class Submarine (SSNs 802 and 803). This contract provides LLTM for steam and electric plant components, the main propulsion unit efforts and ship service turbine generator efforts, and miscellaneous hull, mechanical and electrical system components. Work will be performed in Coatesville, Pennsylvania (19 percent); Spring Grove, Illinois (15 percent); Windsor Locks, Connecticut (15 percent); Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (9 percent); Manchester, New Hampshire (6 percent); Jacksonville, Florida (6 percent); Groton, Connecticut/Quonset Point, Rhode Island (5 percent); Manassas, Virginia (3 percent); Monroe, North Carolina (3 percent); Newport News, Virginia (2 percent); South Windham, Connecticut (2 percent); and other efforts performed at various sites in the U.S. (15 percent) and is expected to be completed by January 2018. Fiscal 2017 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in the amount of $25,100,000 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity.
Lyme Computer Systems, Lyme, New Hampshire, is being awarded a $10,561,225 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity supplies contract for industrial-grade networking hardware and components manufactured by Siemens/Ruggedcom in support of hull, mechanical and electrical networks installed onboard various ship classes and land-based test sites. Supplies will be delivered to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and work is expected to be completed by June 2020. Fiscal 2017 other procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $224,675 will be obligated at the time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Federal Business Opportunities website, with two proposals received. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the contracting activity (N64498-17-D-0002).
Insitu Inc., Bingen, Washington, is being awarded $8,029,090 for modification P00008 to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-16-C-0054) to exercise an option for the procurement of one full rate production Lot I RQ-21A Blackjack Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for the Marine Corps. The UAS consists of air vehicles, ground control stations, launch and recovery equipment, air vehicle support equipment kit, and systems engineering and program management. Work will be performed in Bingen, Washington (70 percent); and Hood River, Oregon (30 percent), and is expected to be completed in January 2018. Fiscal 2017 aircraft procurement (Marine Corps) funds in the amount $8,029,090 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
WMR-532 LLC, Decatur, Alabama, was awarded a $46,000,000 firm-fixed-priced contract for operation, maintenance and technical support for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise. Bids were solicited via the Internet with three received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of June 11, 2022. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile, Alabama, is the contracting activity (W91278-17-D-0068).
DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY
Chimera Enterprises International Inc.,* Edgewood, Maryland, was awarded a cost-plus-fixed-fee, single award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (HDTRA117D0002) with a five-year ordering period and a contract maximum of $45,000,000 for advisory and assistance services (A&AS). This contract provides non-personal services and technical support services to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Operations, Readiness, and Exercises Directorate. The overall tasks include supporting researching, planning, designing, developing, implementing, integrating, applying, and developing transitioning capabilities dealing with weapons of mass destruction to DTRA and its customers. Work will be performed at DTRA Headquarters (DTRA-HQ), Fort Belvoir, Virginia, with an expected completion date of June 11, 2022. Task Order 0001 (full task order number to be determined after contract award, on the same day) will be issued on or around June 12, 2017 for A&AS for the operations, readiness, and exercises; building partnerships; Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Preparedness Program; and the CBRN Military Advisory Teams Support. Fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $1,824,196 are being obligated on task order 0001 at time of award. This task order will be incrementally funded. This contract was a competed as a total small business set-aside acquisition and six offers were received. DTRA-HQ, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, is the contracting activity.
M&M Manufacturing LLC,* Lajas, Puerto Rico, has been awarded a maximum $25,552,591 modification (P00129) exercising the third one-year option of a one-year base contract (SPE1C1-14-D-1048) with four one-year option periods for various types of Navy working uniform blouses and trousers. The modification brings the maximum dollar value of the contract to $61,761,001 from $36,208,410. This is a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Location of performance is Puerto Rico, with a Dec. 31, 2018, performance completion date. Using customer is Navy. Types of appropriation are fiscal 2017 through 2018 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
King Nutronics,* Woodland Hills, California, has been awarded a maximum $20,631,188 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the manufacture and supply of heavy-duty pressure calibrators. This is a three-year base contract with two one-year option periods. This was a sole-source acquisition using justification 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1) from the Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1, only one responsible source and no other suppliers or services will satisfy agency requirements. Location of performance is California, with a June 11, 2020, performance completion date. Using military service is Navy. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2017 through 2020 Navy working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania (SPRMM1-17-D-CG01).
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June 2013 Issue [Miscellany]
The Separating Sickness
How leprosy teaches empathy
by Rebecca Solnit,
Eddie Bacon was a forklift operator at Trident Seafoods in Akutan, Alaska. In the summer of 1999, he developed mysterious rashes on his hands, arms, and legs. He visited a doctor, who gave him a variety of ointments, but they did nothing. He grew weak, lost weight. He had trouble seeing. No longer able to earn a living, he moved in to his parents' house in central California. There, at a New Year's Eve party in 2000, he passed out, and his parents took him to the emergency room. He had green blisters on his hands, his weight had dropped to ninety pounds, and he couldn't stand up by himself. The medical staff at the hospital regarded Eddie with puzzlement and dread, asking his parents to put on gloves, masks, and gowns when visiting him. Finally, after four weeks, an infectious-disease specialist solved the mystery. Eddie had leprosy. Although a quarter million new cases of leprosy were diagnosed worldwide in 2011, only about 173 of those were in the United States; it's no surprise Eddie had a hard time getting a diagnosis. Once his symptoms were explained, though, his doctors could prescribe a venerable course of treatment: in June 2001, they sent him to the nation's largest leprosy clinic, which had recently relocated to Baton Rouge from its historic home in Carville, Louisiana.
The Louisiana Leper Home was founded in 1894. Infected residents were provided free room and board and medical care, but for the first fifty years of the home's existence, until the rules progressively relaxed in the late 1940s and early 1950s, they were denied the right to vote, to marry, to live with an uninfected spouse, or to leave the grounds. Children born to residents were taken away shortly after birth and put up for adoption. The Carville facility has been federally run since 1921, and the government allowed for the construction of a golf course and a lake, but there was also a cyclone fence topped with three rows of barbed wire and a jail to punish those who left the grounds without permission. In the 1950s, even after a cure for the disease had been found, escapees were still brought back in iron shackles.
Leprosy is really two diseases: the physical effects and the social response to them. In Hawaii, where leprosy was endemic in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it was called the "separating sickness." Once diagnosed, Hawaiian sufferers were hunted down like outlaws and offered a choice of exile or death. Those who chose exile were sent to a bleak camp built below the great cliff at Molokai (the leper colony there didn't close until 1969). And Hawaii wasn't alone. For centuries, from India to Iceland, people with leprosy — most don't like being called lepers — were ostracized. Only in the past sixty years have even a minority of leprosy patients received truly humane care.
The change started when doctors realized that leprosy, contrary to long-standing belief, is very nearly the least contagious contagious disease on earth: in more than a hundred years of Carville's operation, no employee ever caught leprosy from a patient. Ninety-five percent of us are naturally immune to the disease, and the rest have a hard time catching it. If you contracted leprosy at any point before 1941, your illness would not have been treatable, but your prognosis would not necessarily have been dire. If you were very lucky, your immune system might eradicate the bacterium on its own, or you might manifest only skin problems — lesions, eruptions, thickenings, numb spots — and little more. (Then as now, many with untreated leprosy live decades beyond diagnosis, into old age.) If you were less lucky, you might endure the collapse of the cartilage in your nose, an infection of the throat that could require a tracheotomy, or a permanent swelling of the face called leonine facies. Worst of all, you might suffer peripheral neuropathy — an absence of sensation that can cause patients to lose fingers, toes, and feet; blindness; and a host of other problems.
In 1941, a highly toxic tuberculosis drug, Promin, was shown to eradicate the bacterium that causes leprosy. Promin was tested on patients at the Leper Home, who improved dramatically; it was called the miracle at Carville. Painful Promin injections were followed by dapsone pills, and by 1981 an even more effective multiple-drug solution was found. The disease is universally curable now with a year or two of treatment. If you are diagnosed early in countries such as the United States, you're likely to be disease free and left with no evident disfigurement or damage. The problems of leprosy now lie elsewhere — in the lasting stigma against sufferers, in the lack of resources for treatment in the developing world, and in the very rarity of the illness in the developed world, where doctors may not diagnose it in time to prevent permanent harm.
Eddie Bacon was unlucky. He had no natural immunity. But he was also lucky: he was sent to Louisiana at a time when he could be treated for both the bacteriological and the social effects of his disease. After his initial treatment, Eddie returned to Baton Rouge regularly for therapy to teach him how to take care of his body, which has suffered some irreversible damage.
"It was a nice place," he recalled when I spoke with him in 2010. "I was scared they were going to treat me bad, but when I went there, those people were touching me, they were hugging me, those doctors and nurses." That physicality made him feel less like an outcast. At the clinic in Baton Rouge, he said, "it's like I have a second family." Eddie told me he's known as a "miracle guy" because he survived one of the worst modern cases of leprosy recorded in the United States, one that struck harder and moved faster than the disease usually does. He's had to have both feet amputated, has scarring on his hands and arms, lost an eye (it went blind and scared his nieces, so he had it replaced with a prosthesis), and, like many others with the disease, lost his eyebrows. But he is alive and he is free — and in December 2010 he got married.
To get to Carville, you drive northwest from New Orleans, leaving the highway after an hour for back roads through swampland where people live in trailers and old wooden shacks. Chemical-manufacturing plants line the road, fenced-off palaces several stories high, wreathed in cold lights, giving off emissions that sharpen the smell of the air. Past a few of these plants, the road dead-ends at a T junction near a gas station, a Baptist church, and a cemetery — all there is of the townless town of Carville. If you turn right and drive along the high levee that hides the Mississippi, you arrive after a couple of miles at what is now called the Gillis W. Long National Guard facility, set on 350 acres of flat green land dotted with handsome old oak trees. Near the entrance is a cluster of white buildings — a colonnaded plantation manor surrounded by houses, chapels, and industrial structures. A few patients still live at the center, and there is a museum of memorabilia from the days when hundreds of people lived and died here.
Many relics of the Leper Home remain: the covered walkways from building to building on which patients traveled on foot, on bike, and by wheelchair; the 1930s-era hospital that became a hotel (in which I was lodged); the cemetery. The museum displays ledgers and registry books; long, hand-knit bandages from the Ladies Auxiliary; antiquated medical equipment; a wheelchair made up as a Mardi Gras float; a pair of iron shackles; and numerous photographs of the residents at work and play.
On my first visit to the museum, in late 2009, I met a small, vibrant octogenarian with twisted, shortened fingers. Mr. Pete, as Simeon Peterson likes to be called, came to Carville as a patient in 1951, when he was twenty-three, and has lived here ever since. After years as a caretaker for those sicker than he, Peterson now greets visitors to the facility. He couldn't imagine leaving Carville. Where would he go? Most of his immediate family had died, and he was hardly ready to venture out into the world on his own.
It was lonely now, he told me. He thought the best time was his first decade as a patient. Back then, Carville had its own movie screenings, a newsletter, a baseball team, and enough patients to support a number of other clubs and activities. After the disease was rendered a fully treatable, outpatient disorder, the community dwindled. Most of those who remained were older patients damaged by the disease earlier in life, and then by years of isolation.
A few decades ago, there were hundreds of patients at Carville, along with the nuns, medical staff, cooks, janitors, and others. When I first visited, sixteen residents remained; by the time I returned in early 2010 it was down to ten, and today there are six. The silence at Carville is profound. Only the occasional squadron of National Guard recruits marching and roaring in unison, the bugles for reveille, and the songbirds in the trees made any noise. As I wandered the grounds, I saw the name stanley stein on the sign for a U-shaped entry drive. He has his own exhibit in the museum, one that makes clear both the power of the community and the depth of isolation at Carville.
Stein worked as a pharmacist in Texas until, in 1929, he saw a doctor about some mysterious lesions he'd developed. The doctor reported him to the state board of public health. Although his symptoms were mild, he was locked up in a hospital isolation ward for several weeks, then packed, under escort, onto a train for New Orleans. An automobile took them the rest of the way, along the rutted road to the former plantation tucked into one of the Lower Mississippi's bends.*
Stanley Stein was the pseudonym that Sidney Levyson took upon entering Carville. "Have you decided on your new name, young man?" a nun named Sister Laura asked him when he arrived, in early 1930. "I was not just a sick man entering a hospital," Levyson recalled in his memoir, Alone No Longer. "I was a lost soul consigned to limbo, an outcast, and I must spare my family from any share in my disgrace." He stayed at Carville for thirty-seven years, the remainder of his life, starting a newsletter, the 66 Star, that advocated for the rights of those with leprosy in the town and around the world, and he persuaded the government of Louisiana to repeal its forcible-quarantine law. Levyson also campaigned to have the name "leprosy" replaced with the less fraught "Hansen's disease," after the scientist who first identified Mycobacterium leprae — a change that has since caught on among scientists and doctors, if no one else. When he died, in 1967, he was buried not in Carville but in San Antonio, in his family plot.
Thomas Gillis, a researcher at the National Hansen's Disease Programs (NHDP) in Baton Rouge, told me he thinks of M. leprae as something of an invalid itself. "Most geneticists feel it's going through a degenerative process, losing parts it doesn't need," he said. The bacterium is delicate and slow. Because it doesn't cause symptoms until years or decades after it's contracted, patterns of transmission are still obscure. Unlike almost all other bacteria, M. leprae cannot be grown in the laboratory, putting ordinary research methods out of reach. Whereas some bacteria reproduce every twenty minutes, this one reproduces once every two weeks or so, and it dies shortly after being taken from living tissue. You can get it to infect the hind feet of laboratory mice, but the only naturally susceptible animal is the nine-banded armadillo, whose low body temperature is an encouraging home for the fragile bacterium; as many as 10 percent of all the nine-banded armadillos in southern Louisiana and Gulf Coast Texas may be infected. A necessity of leprosy research in the United States involves paying trappers or sending out lab personnel to drive along the levees at night to scoop up armadillos in big nets. Dozens of the creatures reside in the armadillo quarters at the NHDP's research center, waddling along as naïvely oblivious as any vector could be.
Today, most leprosy research focuses not on the bacterium but on patient care. The disease can ravage the skin, but more devastating are its effects on the nerves, particularly those in the hands and feet, which it can cause to swell in their sheaths and strangle from lack of blood, leading to numbness. The eyes may be damaged if the nerves that cause blinking or those that relay pain and irritation fail. Without blinking, the eyes are not kept lubricated and clean; without pain, irritants are not felt, or a hand rubbing at the eye can scratch the cornea.
It used to be thought that tissue damage was a mysterious aspect of the disease itself, "bad flesh" that was somehow self-destructive, a belief so entrenched that the Wikipedia entry for leprosy featured the bizarre and unscientific phrase "auto-amputation," as though digits fell off like antlers or autumn leaves, until I changed it — twice. But in the 1950s, not long after Promin and then dapsone began changing everything at Carville, a doctor named Paul Brand noticed something unusual about the boys with leprosy he had treated in Vellore, India, while working as a missionary: patients were showing up with further injuries even after they had been cured.
Brand soon discovered that they were injuring their hands and feet in the course of everyday activities that the rest of us survive unscathed. A young carpenter he'd operated on, happy to be able to hold a hammer again, was oblivious to a splinter on the handle that ate into his palm all day. A farmer was hurt by his hoe, whose handle had a jutting nail. (At Carville, Levyson once badly burned his hands in scalding water from the tap.) Feet, Brand found, were even more prone to injury: without the little adjustments we make in gait and shoe fit, sores arise and then become infected. And in a truly awful discovery, Brand and his Indian patients found that fingers and toes that inexplicably vanished overnight had been gnawed off by rats. From then on, the doctor gave each of his departing patients a cat.
For Brand, all this was revelatory: although his findings were grisly, they suggested that leprosy was far more treatable than previously thought, not only by bactericides but by training and educating patients on how to cope with the long-term effects of the disease. In his book The Gift of Pain, Brand writes about arriving at
the theory that painlessness was the only real enemy. Leprosy merely silenced pain, and further damage came about as a side effect of painlessness. . . . If we were right, the standard approach to leprosy treatment addressed only half the problem. Arresting the disease through sulfone drug treatments was not nearly enough; health workers also needed to alert leprosy patients to the hazards of a life without pain. We now understood why even a "burnt-out case" with no active bacilli continued to suffer disfigurement. Even after leprosy had been "cured," without proper training patients would continue to lose fingers and toes and other tissue, because that loss resulted from painlessness.
Brand went on to become the director of rehabilitation at Carville, where he worked from 1966 until his retirement in 1986. He continued his work as a surgeon there, pioneering tendon transfers that would restore function to "claw hands," a common effect of leprosy, but he also taught patients about the dangers of insensibility and the ways to compensate for it. He wrote that he felt like he was "introducing the boys to their own limbs, begging their minds to welcome the insensitive parts of their bodies. . . . They lacked the basic instinct of self-protection that pain normally provides." Pain is what we feel when something has gone wrong, when our body has been neglected or mistreated. The people at NHDP today talk about "protective sensation," the feeling that allows healthy people to take care of themselves and warns them before sensation slides over into pain. Just as we relace our shoes before we get a blister, let alone an open wound, so we feel before we feel pain. The NHDP doctors teach their patients to take care of themselves with an empathy born of imagination and intention: to love their own now alienated bodies as they might the body of someone else entrusted to their care.
Brand concluded that "shared pain is central to what it means to be a human being," but we are a society that values the anesthetic over pain. We hide our prisons, our sick, our mad, and our poor; we expend colossal resources to live in padded, temperature-controlled environments that make few demands on our bodies or our minds. We come up with elaborate means of not knowing about the suffering of others and of blaming them when we do.
Choosing not to feel pain is choosing a sort of death, a withering away of the expansive self. When Robert Jay Lifton went to investigate the psychology of survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he coined the term "psychic numbing" to describe the survival strategy of dissociation and apathy — "a diminished capacity or inclination to feel." In such extreme circumstances it was necessary or at least understandable, but even there Lifton called it "dehumanization" and cautioned that it "comes to resemble what has been called 'miscarried repair.' " He compared it with immune disorders that begin by eradicating outside elements and then turn on the body itself. Decades later, when he looked at the numbing of those who used the atomic bombs and those of us in whose name they were used, he reverted again to medical metaphor: the cordon sanitaire, "a barrier designed to prevent the spread of a threatening disease, the 'illness' we block off in this case being what we did in Hiroshima."
We think of kindness as an emotional quality, but it's also an act of imagination, of extending yourself beyond yourself, of feeling what you do not feel innately by invoking it. This is pretty instinctive when we watch a child skin her knee, perhaps less instinctive when we read statistics on Haiti or Syria and have to translate them into feeling. You could call this feeling love, for we suffer with and for those we love and we seek to protect them from suffering.
Imagination enlarges us — as though our nervous systems could be made vast and at home in the world, if not at ease with its cruelties and losses. Comfort is dangerous. You can be overwhelmed by suffering, as relief workers sometimes are, and your ability to imagine and engage is finite — as anyone who deletes all those emails urging us to act for prisoners or polar bears or disaster victims knows.
Daniel Ellsberg decided that stopping the war in Vietnam, whose hundreds of thousands of deaths became real to him after he saw some of them firsthand, was more important than his own well-being, and so he risked his freedom and gave up his government career to expose the truth. In a 2009 documentary film about his actions as a whistle-blower, Ellsberg said that after he released the Pentagon Papers in 1971, his co-workers at the RAND Corporation treated him "like a leper." In his memoir, Secrets, Ellsberg recounts one of his colleagues' telling him that he agreed with the leak in principle but not in practice. Publicly supporting Ellsberg, he said, would have forced him to "renege on . . . my commitment to send my son to Groton." The colleague had weighed many sons' violent deaths against his son's prep-school education and his own career, and the latter remained realer and more compelling than the former.
Up close, aggressive measures are required to be impervious to suffering; you have to convince yourself that people deserve what they're getting, that their suffering has nothing to do with you. Our capacity for empathy is why the reality of war is usually kept from us or delivered in measured, manipulative doses — our wounded, perhaps, but not theirs, or those of our wounded who make for uplifting stories, but not those who are severely mutilated. And we face choices about how we live, because we are implicated.
Sometimes I'm tempted to bemoan the abundance of suffering in the world and leave it at that. But there is also a constant supply of kindness in circulation — or so I came to believe after spending time in January 2010 at the Hansen's disease clinic in Baton Rouge where Eddie Bacon went to be treated. The clinic occupies the fluorescent-lit, fake-wood-paneled second floor of a medical building, a labyrinth of rooms that wrap all around the elevator bank and are abuzz with activity.
Since treatment of the bacterium is now simple, the bulk of the clinicians' work involves teaching the patients how to take care of themselves after they are cured. Pam Bartlett, a social worker, meets with those just beginning therapy — she's had to talk several out of suicide — and then keeps track of them throughout their treatment. There's a surgeon on staff, Ronnie Mathews, a pupil and disciple of Paul Brand. Many patients get fitted for special shoes, built or adapted to protect their feet from their own insensibility — a shy young man named Jonathan Starks was in the shoe-making room on the day I visited, preparing to take over a trade his grandfather had started. All treatment is free.
I also met Barbara Stryjewska, the clinic's chief medical officer, a merry redhead in high heels who tends to touch and hug and tease her patients. She showed me an astounding photo album of them and their afflictions before and after treatment, along with images of an amputation. (She seemed not to consider at all how this might look to an outsider.) When I met her she was visiting with the Thompsons, a Cajun couple who told me how frightened they had been when Vicky Thompson was diagnosed with a disease they knew only from the Bible. They ended up demonstrating some swamp-pop dance steps for me in the office of the staff epidemiologist. Stryjewska told me that forming long-term relationships with patients was the only way to treat them effectively. Part of her job is to figure out what habits contribute to poor health — in the case of Vicky Thompson, it was six-hour dance sessions that were hard on her feet.
It's what one might call a new form of holistic medicine: they teach patients how to take care of wounds, how to look for injuries, how to avoid burning their hands when cooking. It's an empathy factory, and it bustles. While there I met an octogenarian doing physical therapy to strengthen a numbed leg, a shy teenager from Micronesia who looked like he had nothing more than a bad case of acne, a sturdy middle-aged Latino guy from Los Angeles with a persistent foot sore who reclined on his hospital bed like a Roman emperor. Staff members stopped by to lay hands on his bare shin and chat, or to look at his feet — one of his big toes was swollen to the size of a potato. Ronnie Mathews came by on a sort of improvised walker — he's disabled himself — and whittled at the toe a little, casually, like a man giving a pedicure with a scalpel. (An advantage of working on leprosy patients is that you can often skip the anesthesia.)
I met Dane Hupp, a physical therapist who told me he sometimes chewed out the patients because "I treat them like my family." He was worried about a patient who, if he didn't get over some bad habits, could lose his leg — though, he told me, they lost a lot more legs at the diabetes clinic where he used to work.
Irma Guerra, who runs the outpatient clinics from an office across the parking lot, told me she still thinks about Eddie Bacon. "We learn so much from people like him because they suffer. You can see how beautiful his personality is, what courage it takes to be like that. The people I've met I'll never forget." Mathews told me he thought about Eddie, too. "I wake up some nights and wonder how he's doing."
Captain John Figarola, of the U.S. Public Health Service, is head of rehabilitation at Baton Rouge. He is a tall, earnest New Orleanian with brown eyes and a beige uniform with small metal insignias on the collar tips. He talked to me at one end of a long table while Mathews delicately pared the infected finger of a nervous young man from Latin America. The surgeon was trying to cut away all the dead tissue on the finger before a bone infection further shortened the digit. "My friend," he said, "I'm afraid if I send you home, the tip of the bone will get reinfected."
Figarola told me that he loved his job because he and his staff are allowed to give care without measure — they can act on empathy. As Mathews worked, a little crescent of fingertip landed on the table between Figarola and me. "I work in utopia," he told me, and threw the scrap away with a bit of paper tissue.
Rebecca Solnit
is a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine. Her most recent book is The Faraway Nearby (Viking).
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In Theistic Evolution when do the genealogies in Genesis become real?
In Genesis there is the genealogy of Adam to Noah, then the account of the flood. After that is the genealogy of Noah to Abraham. The accounts of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jacob's sons then follow. After that is an unspecific number of persons to Moses.
Theistic Evolution, I would think, must reject the creation account as literal, therefore, the created Adam was not a real person. I would also think that Theistic Evolutionists reject the Flood as factual, at least in its scope being global, but the point is that I would bet there are many who say that Noah was not a real person, either. After that I have not heard much discussion from Theistic Evolutionists.
So, moving down the genealogy in Genesis, when is there majority consensus among Theistic Evolutionists that the persons become real and are no longer figurative? Seeing as how the Theistic Evolution movement is not really unified perhaps this question is too broad, but Catholicism has a stance that is very close to it so I would accept answers from that perspective, if there are any.
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I don't really know why you ask about "theistic evolution", which is purely about human origins. It seems like you are searching for a shorthand for "people who do not believe in a historical Adam" (which some theistic evolutionists do and some don't). – James T Apr 5 '13 at 1:31
@JamesT Yes, I know that some do and some don't. It seems the large majority don't. I am looking for 'majority consensus'. – fгedsbend Apr 5 '13 at 6:58
This would be a better question if "theistic evolution" were replaced with modern critical scholarship or an equivalent phrase. You're really asking about more than evolution. – Bruce Alderman Apr 6 '13 at 4:36
@BruceAlderman I disagree. Other criticisms may not have this issue at all. Theistic Evolution (Christian flavor, obviously) inherently has the issue of deciding when the stories in the Bible stop being myth and start being fact. You are right. The question is not at all about Evolution. It is about the majority consensus among Christian Theistic Evolutionists on the stories in Genesis and Exodus. – fгedsbend Apr 6 '13 at 4:42
FYI, 6 generations pass from Abraham to Moses and the line is recorded. I have researched this subject intensely. Jesus is the 64th generation of man from Adam (or 63rd using Septuagint in place of Masoretic) traced by Joseph's ancestry. – khaverim Apr 30 '14 at 10:09
Traditionally, many liberal theologians (e.g. Walter Bruggeman) have separated Genesis into two parts - Genesis 1 - 11 and Genesis 12 - 50. The dividing point begins with Abraham, and the tone of Genesis does change significantly at that point.
In the first 11 chapters, Adam through Noah and Babel represent nearly 2000 years of human history. A broad sweep of characters, tied by chronology of "kings" that closely corresponds with Sumerian and Babylonian myth, places Genesis in a worldwide perspective. Beginning with Abraham, however, the narrative slows down dramatically and focuses on just one guy - Abraham, and three generations of his descendants.
It is thus, for this reason that liberal scholars, having divided the book in two, tend to mythologize the first - the table of nations included - but lend more credence to the geneologies beginning with Abraham. The link summarizes Unger's conclusion that Abraham fits well with what we "know" of the Middle Bronze Age
Interestingly, Matthew's genealogy of Jesus also begins not with Adam, but with Abraham. While Matthew may have simply been trying to show Jesus' Jewish identity, it is also possible that he believed Abraham was simply far enough.
Due to the widespread popularity of Abraham (Muslims, Christians, and Jews all claim lineage), most scholars do not doubt that there was "an Abraham," although there is nothing extra-biblical to pinpoint him to a specific date.
Moses, likewise, is such a revered figure that very few scholars doubt there was "a Moses" but again, pinning him down to an exact date is still an inexact science. Primarily scholars tend to settle on one of two dates - either 1440BC (more closely matching the traditional genealogy) or 1290BC, which tends to be preferred by secular historians. Between Moses and the Kingdom of Israel, however, genealogies would still be expected to be more problematic, as there was no one 'leading authority' at the time. (In any event, neither Aaron nor Moses was in Jesus' line, so for Christians, the point would be a little bit moot.)
The earliest recorded person attested to by name in extra-bibilical authority, however, is David - roughly 1000BC. Beginning with the Tel Dan Stele, mentioning his name, theistic evolutionists become sufficiently convinced to pronounce dates with something approaching "certainty" - although even David's historicity was questioned until the end of the 20th Century.
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So the majority consensus is Abraham was real? The others maybe or maybe not, but there is no majority consensus? – fгedsbend Apr 5 '13 at 18:48
To refute the idea that the first 11 chapters are "sweeping" over 2000 years of history is oversimplifying the stories of the Creation, Adam and Eve and the Fall, Cain and Able, then Noah with the Ark and his sons. Saying it is "sweeping" implies that it lacks quality details that the stories of Abraham have when that is simply not the case. – fгedsbend Apr 5 '13 at 18:51
@fredsbend (a) I tend to accept Gen 1 - 11 as real :) (b) By 'sweeping' I mean that 2000 years are encapsulated by Chapters 1 - 11, and less than 100 by 12 - 50. One is necessarily placing less detail in between events by picking from such a large amount of history. (Nephilim, anyone? Enoch - what did he do? etc...) – Affable Geek Apr 5 '13 at 19:05
But yes, majority consensus would be far more kind to a literal Abraham than a literal Adam, Cain, Enoch, Noah, or Nimrod. – Affable Geek Apr 5 '13 at 19:07
I've understood old Abe to be the "breaking point" of history-to-myth for the TE's as well. My problem, however, is that...Abraham must have had a father. And in fact there is a bit more than just Terah's name to boot. Well then he must of had a father...and well hey, so must have that guy...And oh. Gosh. As another note -- I visited an archaeological dig known as "Abraham's gate" in Israel where it is believed Abraham passed through the Canaanite city on his way to rescue Lot (and coming back). If true it would be the oldest Biblical account verification. – khaverim Apr 30 '14 at 10:11
Even if Theistic Evolution does require rejection of the creation account as literal, this does not require either that the Flood be fictional (many ancient civilizations record a great flood event), nor that Adam be fictitious.
Whether one is a literal-creationist or a Theistic Evolutionist, there must be a legitimate First Man in the genealogy. If legitimate does not mean "literally the first human ever", then it can certainly mean "the first ancestor of record" or perhaps even "God's first person of interest".
Semantics aside, neither geological nor other scientific or historical evidence are sufficient to discredit Adam's status as a literal Ancestor in the Genesis genealogy.
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Ok. So you are saying that there is no reason not to think that Adam in the genealogy was real, however, in the creation account, Adam can't be literally the same to Theistic Evolution because that Adam was molded from dirt and made to live. That Adam must be figurative, right? Maybe the question is better as "When does the Genesis story stop being figurative and start being literal?" – fгedsbend Apr 5 '13 at 6:15
"From the dust" does not have to mean scooping dirt out of a mud puddle. Cosmology holds that the majority of matter on the Earth was in the form of a cloud of dust LONG before there was a solid sphere. So, within the bounds of Theistic Evolution and commonly accepted science, we are very literally made from the same dust that makes up the ground. Trying to find a well-defined boundary between the figurative and literal, can be compared to asking, "Where do I stop being water and start being the other 30%?" – Jeff Wolski Apr 5 '13 at 12:30
This really doesn't answer the question. It seems, instead, to be questioning the premise of the question. It's not clear that it's even written from a Theistic Evolution perspective. It seems to be arguing that Adam was the first, literal, human being. But the premise of the question is that Theistic Evolutionists do not see Adam as the first literal person. – Lee Woofenden Dec 26 '15 at 21:59
@LeeWoofenden It does answer the question. It is saying the first genealogy that they accept is...Adam. The more conservative TEs I know would agree with this and say that evolution got man to the point of Adam physically whereupon God stepped in spiritually. To say it crudely, there was an Adam, but he had an ape for a father. Not to say I agree, but that's how a conservative TE gets around the issues of messing with Adam scripturally. – Joshua Dec 28 '15 at 13:10
@JoshuaBigbee Though it could be made into a real answer to the question in the way that you suggest, as it stands it does not even say that any actual group of TEs believes this. It only provides some speculation about what people can or should believe whether or not they are TEs. And it concludes with a general defense of Adam as a literal ancestor, which was not what the question asked. So as currently written, it really doesn't answer the question. – Lee Woofenden Dec 28 '15 at 13:23
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The singles chart top ten features an unchanged top four, a debut and three singles creeping up into it for the first time. The albums chart top ten features three debuts within the top five, plus one album that jumps thirty places to place within it. Who could they all be? Your patience will be rewarded and questions answered in this week's Chart Watch.
Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, Eric Nally, Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee and Grandmaster Caz all remain wedged together in the No.1 spot on this week's ARIA singles chart with their single 'Downtown'. It's the third successive week in pole position and once again, they're holding off a still-strong Justin Bieber with 'What Do You Mean?' (No.2), Ellie Goulding's 'On My Mind' (No.3) and Robin Schulz' 'Sugar' (No.4).
Drake's 'Hotline Bling' buzzes its way into the top five, right ahead of the week's highest debut, which belongs to 'X Factor' star Cyrus Villanueva and his cover of judge Chris Isaak's 'Wicked Game', which was a standout on the show a couple of weeks back. Staggeringly, Cyrus' cover of the track has charted higher than the original did all the way back in 1991 (it peaked at No.15). There's plenty of air between him and the second best 'X Factor' contestant to chart this week, Mahalia Simpson (more about that later).
Rudimental's into the top ten – alongside Ed Sheeran – with 'Lay It All On Me' (No.11 to No.7), Dawin's 'Dessert' sweetens the deal, edging from No.17 to No.8, while The Weeknd's 'The Hills' tips over to No.10 from No.12.
A performance of the track on this week's 'The X Factor' does wonders for Jess Glynne's single 'Don't Be So Hard On Yourself'. It bullets from No.24 to a new peak of No.12, while her album also improves (see the albums section below).
Omi's 'Hula Hoop' is down from No.8 to No.13, but manages a gold certification and Taylor Swift's 'Wildest Dreams' slides six to No.15. But the slide's a little bigger for Jessica Mauboy's single 'This Ain't Love', which drops a worrying 14 places from last week's No.5.
With their new single 'Perfect' now doing the rounds (and rather nicely indeed, it would seem), One Direction's previous single 'Drag Me Down' drops nine to No.25, but Fetty Wap's '679' is picking up the pace – and how – bulleting from No.70 to No.27 in its 13th week on the charts.
Birds Of Tokyo's 'I'd Go With You Anywhere' is up eleven (No.42 to No.31), The 1975's 'Love Me' is new at No.35 and after almost stalling last week, an 'X Factor' performance and Aussie promotional visit sees Little Mix' latest single 'Love Me Like You' rescued from chart oblivion, bulleting from the precipice of No.100 to No.36.
Jarryd James' 'Do You Remember' re-enters at No.39 after Jess & Matt's sublime 'X Factor' cover, Selena Gomez' 'Same Old Love' is back in the top 50 and just two shy from its No.42 peak thus far (No.76 to No.44), but P!nk's 'Ellen' theme, 'Today's The Day' tumbles 17 to No.49.
Diplo's 'Be Right There' improves eleven places, but not quite enough to re-enter the top 50 (No.62 to No.51). Conrad Sewell similarly just misses a top 50 berth, though on debut with his new single 'Who You Lovin', which enters the countdown at No.52.
Shawn Mendes achieves his highest Aussie chart position to date with 'Stitches', which improves from No.77 to No.55, but Matt Corby's return to the musical sphere hits a chart snag, dropping from No.45 on debut to No.58.
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Cyrus Villanueva's cover of Chris Isaak's 'Wicked Game' on 'The X Factor' pays dividends for the original this week too. It re-enters the countdown at No.69 24 years after it was released.
It's a worryingly low No.70 debut for the new 5 Seconds Of Summer single 'Hey Everybody'. It could be, however, that the fans are instead holding onto their cash and waiting for the release of the album this Friday.
James Bay's 'Hold Back The River' is back in at No.78, Violent Soho's 'Like Soda' is fresh and new at No.81, but there are drops for Major Lazer's 'Powerful' (No.56 to No.83), Peking Duk's 'Say My Name' (No.50 to No.84) and Ellie Goulding's 'Love Me Like You Do' (No.55 to No.85).
Lost Frequencies' new single 'Reality' debuts at No.86 and there are two more 'X Factor' debuts… Mahalia Simpson's cover of 'Hello' (No.88) and Louise Adams' 'People Help The People' (No.91).
The Vamps' 'Wake Up' is gone from the top 100 after just one week in – at No.65.
Champagne corks will be popping for Aussie indie outfit Boy & Bear, with their new album 'Limit Of Love' following on from the No.1 debut of 2013's 'Harlequin Dream' by premiering in the top spot on the ARIA albums chart.
They edge Triple J's 'Like A Version Vol.11' from the No.1 position, though it's only down to No.2, leaving Selena Gomez to claim the No.3 position on debut with her new album 'Revival'. It's her highest Aussie chart position to date – singles or albums, bettering the No.8 peak for her 2013 album 'Stars Dance'.
Canada's City And Colour makes it three top five albums on the trot with 'If I Should Go Before You', which is new at No.5.
Jess Glynne's emergence in the Aussie market for a promotional visit, along with an 'X Factor' performance, sees her debut album 'I Cry When I Laugh' re-enter the top ten, bulleting from No.40 to No.10. It's just three places shy of the LP's No.7 peak thus far.
Reece Mastin's new album 'Change Colours' misses the top ten on debut (No.12), but we're pretty sure he'll still be over the moon with the chart position, as the album is one he's much prouder of as a body of work.
Cold Chisel's best-of jumps six to No.15, but Rudimental's 'We The Generation' drops 15 from last week's No.4 debut.
The Rubens' 'Hoops' jumps 13 to No.21, but Bryan Adams' 'Get Up' drops 16 to No.22. Also up this week are Ed Sheeran's '+' (No.84 to No.26) and James Bay's 'Chaos And The Calm' (No.36 to No.28).
Mayday Parade scores a top 40 debut at No.32 with 'Black Lines', Trivium's 'Silence In The Snow' tumbles 28 from last week's No.7 debut and Avicii's 'Stories' suffers a drop of the same magnitude; No.10 to No.38.
Little May pick up some top 50 chart love for their album 'For The Company' – a debut at No.40, followed by new entries by Toby Keith's '35MPH Town' (No.43) and Sol3 Mio's 'On Another Note' (No.45).
The rest of the top 50 is highlighted by a big drop (NWA's 'Straight Outta Compton' down 29 to No.46), a big jump (the 'Guardians Of The Galaxy' soundtrack up 24 to No.49) and a debut (Art vs Science's 'Off The Edge Of The Earth And Into Forever, Forever' at No.50).
Just missing the top 50 on debut this week is The Dead Daisies' newbie 'Revolucion' (No.52 on debut), but Janet Jackson's 'Unbreakable' suffers quite the second week fall. After debuting handsomely at No.11 last week, Ms Janet finds herself a worrying 45 places lower this week at No.56.
Though Hurts' new album 'Surrender' debuts at No.57, it's actually the British duo's highest Aussie album chart to date. And it's followed by debuts from Slum Sociable's 'TQ' (No.58) and R City's 'What Dreams Are Made Of' (No.59).
Kendrick Lamar's 'To Pimp A Butterfly' leaps (No.97 to No.60), but Fleetwood Mac's 'Greatest Hits' (No.43 to No.61), Dr Dre's '2001' (No.32 to No.62) and Clutch's 'Psychic Warfare' (No.23 on debut to No.64) all fall.
The new self-titled St.Germain album premieres at No.67, Maroon 5's 'Singles' drops 33 to No.71, 'Faithless 2.0' boots up in the No.73 spot and Kurt Vile's album title couldn't be more apt… 'B'lieve I'm Going Down'. (No.51 to No.79).
Creedence Clearwater Revival's best-of slumps 40, British band Lawson, who are supporting Robbie Williams on tour, see their album 'Lawson' premiere at No.84, but there are plenty of big drops to follow…;
Albums from Courtney Barnett (down 20), New Order (down 24), Keith Richards (down 35), Drake & Future (down 41), Jimmy Barnes (down 31) and Eagles Of Death Metal (down a staggering 70) all tumble.
Dylan Joel's 'Authentic Lemonade' falls greater than 72, however. From a No.28 debut last week all the way out of the top 100.
For a full run down of the ARIA top 50s, head over to the ARIA CHARTS WEBSITE every Saturday from 6:00pm AEDT.
Filed Under: ARIA Chart Watch
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