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Dec 29, 2018 Posted by Heather Hastie on Dec 29, 2018 in Middle East, US Politics | 17 comments
Trump Fiddles While Rome Burns
The military might of the modern US has been compared to that of the Roman Empire. Donald Trump appears to imagine himself in the role of its emperor. If there is a way he can exercise power without abiding by his country's norms, he will use it. For example, despite constant and virulent criticism of Obama by both himself and the GOP every time Obama issued an Executive Order, Trump began his own presidency by issuing dozens.
It's always been clear he found any push-back against his personal will an affront. His fellow Republicans constantly make excuses for him. Their failure to stand up to him is daily having worse and worse consequences. Currently, the US government is shut down basically because Trump is holding his breath like a naughty child. This directly affects 800,000 federal workers. 380,000 of those workers have been put on leave without pay. Another 420,000, including border control, customs, and the Coast Guard, have to work without pay. Despite many of us saying before Trump even took office that it wasn't going to happen, the GOP still thought they could control his excesses. Besides, to admit otherwise would be to admit they were only in government for the power it gave them.
As the months go on, it's becoming more and more clear that another thing those of us who write and speak against him say is correct: he's likely the perpetrator of multiple crimes. The net appears to be closing in on him. There are currently at least seventeen different investigations into Trump entities by multiple agencies.
This video lists those investigations and which entity is making them:
One investigation that has almost run its course is that into the Trump charity. The charity itself is closing down. A significant consequence of the investigation is that Trump and his three eldest children can no longer sit on the board of any charity for several years. Just let that sink in. The President of the USA and Leader of the Free World isn't considered a suitable person to be on the board of any charitable trust. It's the result of the consistent pattern in the way the Trump charity was run over decades (since the 1980s). In far too many cases to be ignored, Trump made use of charity funds for things he shouldn't have.
Perhaps in an attempt to distract attention from the closing noose, Trump has just made his stupidest, shortsighted, and most dangerous decision yet. (How many times have I written that since his inauguration?) I refer, of course, to his announcement via Twitter (FFS!) that the US will pull all their troops out of Syria immediately. Even worse than announcing new foreign policy by tweet, no one, not even those closest to him let alone the US's allies, seem to have known about it beforehand.
We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency.
Before we go any further let's make one thing clear. DAESH/ISIS is not defeated in Syria or anywhere else. Here's an excellent short (2:12) video from the BBC explaining why:
As recently as August this year the Pentagon's assessment was that there were still 14,500 DAESH/ISIS fighters in Syria. It seems Trump knows this himself, as less than 24 hours later he sent this pair of tweets:
Does the USA want to be the Policeman of the Middle East, getting NOTHING but spending precious lives and trillions of dollars protecting others who, in almost all cases, do not appreciate what we are doing? Do we want to be there forever? Time for others to finally fight…..
….Russia, Iran, Syria & many others are not happy about the U.S. leaving, despite what the Fake News says, because now they will have to fight ISIS and others, who they hate, without us. I am building by far the most powerful military in the world. ISIS hits us they are doomed!
If DAESH/ISIS is gone, why will Russia, Iran, Syria and "many others" have to fight them? And what does, "ISIS hits us they are doomed!" mean? One of the reasons the US fights terrorists in the Middle East and elsewhere is to prevent them becoming strong enough to get to the homeland. It's cheaper and easier to try and stop them at the source.
In the US, the president is also Commander-in-Chief of the military, so his right to do this isn't the issue. The issue is his failure to discuss the matter with his generals, Secretary of State, and other advisors with expertise on the issue. Further, because it's an about-face in policy, it's a decision that he should explain to the people of the US.
Obama made a similar bad decision in relation to Iraq, but at least he went through the proper process of discussing how to handle it with all stakeholders, including allies. Then he went on TV to explain to his people why he was doing what he was doing. Trump sent out the appalling Stephen Miller to yell defensively at the camera instead.
Meanwhile, Trump sent out this tweet:
Farm Bill signing in 15 minutes! #Emmys #TBT pic.twitter.com/KtSS17xvIn
That tweet was where I got the inspiration for the title of this post.
The Consequences of the Trump Decision
Trump has made many appalling decisions, but this one has had a consequence that leaves the US and the world more exposed to his incompetence than ever. It's lead to the resignation of his Secretary of Defense, (former general) James Mattis. The last adult is leaving the building. As CNN's Don Lemon put it, "… he was the bulwark between impulse and stability."
(Remember that Mattis and soon to be ex-White House Chief of Staff John Kelly reportedly have a secret agreement that neither would be out of the country at the same time. Why? In order to try to curb the president's worst excesses.)
Being the pathological liar he appears to be, Trump couldn't even let the Mattis resignation happen without yet another untruth. The world was told, via Tweet as usual, that Mattis was retiring. It wasn't long before the Mattis resignation letter was in the public domain though, exposing Trump's lie.
So Mattis resigned…he didn't retire as POTUS stated in his tweet. In his resignation letter he says "Because you have the right to have a SECDEF. whose views are better aligned with yours on these. and other subjects, I believe it is right for me to step down from my position." pic.twitter.com/4MF334Ymjg
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) December 20, 2018
The letter is a brutal rebuke of Trump in what it doesn't say as much as what it does. For almost two years Mattis has been disagreeing with many of Trump's decisions regarding the military. Those disagreements include Trump's ban on transgender people serving in the military, his cancellation of military exercises with South Korea, Trump meeting Putin on his own, and Trump's sending of active-duty troops to the border with Mexico. It appears the move re Syria is the straw that broke the camel's back.
In his letter, Mattis pointedly does not say what is all but standard in such situations: that it was an honour to serve Trump. This is clearly not an oversight; the letter is well thought out. By giving no praise whatsoever to Trump, he's making a point. However, judging by Trump's initial public response to the letter (i. e. a tweet), it appears that he either didn't read it, or didn't understand the nuances. Given his prodigious television watching, he soon found out what the letter meant. Thus, once again White House staff were putting up with his Bear With A Sore Head impression.
Why Military Withdrawal From Syria is Not Advisable
So why is withdrawing US troops from Syria such a bad move? There are only around 2,000 of them after all. How much difference can that many personnel make?
This is where the Roman comparison is useful again. The reason the Roman army was so successful was not because their soldiers were braver, stronger, more committed, or had divine support. It was their training, their weapons, and their armour. These are the same things that make 2,000 US soldiers so important in the face of up to 30,000 (probably about half that) DAESH/ISIS troops. There may not be very many US troops, but, along with their air support, they can do a lot of damage.
Obama's premature withdrawal from Iraq, which received much justified criticism from the GOP, was one of the main reasons for the rise of DAESH/ISIS. It was also the reason for Trump's exaggeration at his rallies that Obama was the founder of DAESH/ISIS.
Now, Trump has made the Fake News declaration that he's defeated DAESH/ISIS. Quite apart from anything else, it's all but impossible to defeat an idea and that's what sustains DAESH/ISIS. They have a core belief that they are fighting for God/Allah.
As an aside, don't be misled by those telling you about people going to fight for DAESH/ISIS are buying books like 'Islam for Dummies' and that means they're not really fighting a religious war. You don't have to understand a religion to have a deep commitment to it. Most of us know the statistics in relation to religious knowledge in the US, but here they are again (right). Those who have the best knowledge of religion are atheists/agnostics, while some of those with the least knowledge of Christianity are its most fervent supporters. In fact, I'd go so far as to say it helps not to have a deep understanding of a religion to be blindly devoted to it.
There are multiple geopolitical reasons why leaving Syria at this point is wrong. It's why earlier this month General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, told The Guardian:
… US soldiers [have] only progressed 20% along the way towards its target of training up to 40,000 local fighters to keep Isis in check.
The US policy in relation to Syria until Trump's tweet was to stay there until Iran left.
The Role of National Security Advisor John Bolton in Trump's Decision
In September however, National Security Advisor John Bolton made the additional public statement:
… we're not going to leave as long as Iranian troops are outside Iranian borders.
That's a step further than the previous policy. Some administration officials are saying that it was Bolton's hawkish reaction to Iran that made Trump feel a need to push back. (I've been critical of Bolton's extreme anti-Iran stance myself.) However, this makes Trump's act of pulling out of Syria one of petulance. He wants to get Bolton to shut up about Iran, possibly because he knows he made a mistake in pulling out of the JCPOA , and Bolton had a lot to do with persuading him to do that.
As well as needing to be there as a bulwark against DAESH/ISIS, the US is doing its already bad reputation in the region untold damage. In many parts of the world, the US has a reputation for abandoning its allies. The Middle East is one of those as a result of the Gulf War. The current military leadership not only understands that this is justified, they want to change the impression.
However, once again the US is leaving an ally, this time the Kurds, to be slaughtered (by Turkey). This, after all the excellent work the Peshmerga (Kurdish military, aka YPG) have done in the fight against DAESH/ISIS. I heard reporting on CNN that the tweet about pulling out of Syria came directly after a phone call with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, president of Turkey. In addition, The Guardian is reporting:
Trump talked to the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, by phone on Friday, and Erdogan later said he had received some "positive answers" from his US counterpart on the tense situation in north-eastern Syria.
Turkey's goals in Syria are not the same as those of the US, or indeed most of the world. They see the Peshmerga as terrorists and would like them gone. If they can't do that, or at least leave them so weak the Kurds are no longer a political threat to him. The Peshmerga are currently under the protection of the US. This obviously makes it difficult for Turkey to launch an attack against them. However, if the US is no longer present that will no longer be the case. They cannot withstand an attack by the Turkish military, who have better arms and outnumber them.
(The Turkish military has conscription. It's estimated over 35 million men and women are physically fit enough to serve and in the correct age range at any one time. According to Wikipedia, "The estimated [worldwide] population [of Kurds] is 35 million. A rough estimate by the CIA Factbook has Kurdish populations of 12 million in Turkey, 6 million in Iran, about 5 to 6 million in Iraq, and less than 2 million in Syria, which adds up to close to 28 million Kurds in Kurdistan and adjacent regions.)
There are other people who approve of Trump's decision besides Erdoğan. The presidents of Russia (Putin), Iran (Rouhani), and Syria (Assad), are also praising the move. That alone should tell Trump something!
Incidentally, Trump is also trying to facilitate Erdoğan's long-time extradition request. Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen took refuge in the US in 2013. Erdoğan has been trying to get him back ever since. If this happens, the likely result for Gülen is death – judicial or extra-judicial.
As CNN diplomatic and military analyst John Kirby (former Rear Admiral, US Navy) says, Turkey cannot be trusted to look out for US interests in the region. Erdoğan has made the promise to Trump that he can wipe put DAESH/ISIS. However, Turkey's primary goal is wiping out the Kurds. That will always take precedence over attacking DAESH/ISIS.
The Results of Trump's Decision Are In …
… and it's bad. As I said above, the US withdrawal means the Kurds face slaughter at the hands of the Turks. Naturally they want to survive. It's been over a week since Trump's announcement and there are no signs he's changing his mind. (Once before he said he was leaving but that time was persuaded to change his mind.) Therefore, the Kurds are making the only decision they feel they can – they are reaching out to Assad and the Russians for protection.
Location of Manbij, Syria (Source: www.alaraby.co.uk Click pic to go to source.)
The showdown with Turkey is likely to take place in Manbij in northern Syria. The Kurds currently hold it, previously with US support. Turkey says it needs "liberating" from the Kurds, but previously did nothing about it. With the US decision to withdraw, their military began the move south to carry out that "liberation".
Now, suddenly, the Kurds are flying the Syrian flag in Manbij. The Turks, on the other hand, are allying themselves with the Syrian rebels in the area (far-right extremists). The Syrian Army are also on their way to Manbij, in their case from the south. They, of course, have support from the Russians.
The original reason the US military was in Syria was to support the moderate rebels. Those rebels wanted democratic elections. President Assad wasn't going to let those elections happen because he knew he and his Ba'ath party would suffer defeat. That's why the civil war broke out in March 2011.
The Kurds are part of the moderate opposition to Assad, which is why the US were allying themselves with them. However, as a result of Trump's appalling decision to desert the Kurds, they, in order to survive, have had to make the decision to go over to Assad. All the deaths of US and Kurdish soldiers over the last 7 years and nine months have gone to waste.
Trump says he trusts his gut more than his expert advisors. Specifically, he told the Washington Post (video) on 27 November this year:
… I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else's brain can ever tell me.
On that occasion he was speaking about the economy, but we've all heard multiple comments about his genius in multiple areas over the years. Towards the end of 2016, the Washington Post made a list of all the areas of knowledge in which Trump says he knows more than anyone else up until then. Three of them related to the military:
15) The military
"There's nobody bigger or better at the military than I am." — June 2015
16) ISIS
"I know more about ISIS [the Islamic State militant group] than the generals do. Believe me." — November 2015
17) Defense — and offense
"So a general gets on, sent obviously by Obama, and he said, 'Mr. Trump doesn't understand. He knows nothing about defense.' I know more about offense and defense than they will ever understand, believe me. Believe me. Than they will ever understand. Than they will ever understand." — July 2016
Alexander Pope's 1709 poem, 'An Essay on Criticism' is one Trump ought to read, or maybe someone could read it to him. That's where we find the gem:
A little learning is a dangerous thing;
drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
and drinking largely sobers us again.
When it's the Commander-in-Chief of the most powerful military in the world, and president of the strongest country in the world, whose brain is intoxicated by the shallow draughts of a little learning, it's the whole world that suffers.
People are literally dying because of Trump's failure to take advice from those who know what they're talking about, and not just in Syria. At this stage, all we can do is hope that the damage of yet another appalling decision will be limited.
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Thank you for the well developed summary on Agent Orange's latest activities.
Hope you are feeling well and enjoying the holiday season.
30th December 2018 at 3:53 am
The biggest fear now that Gen Mattis has left, is there is no barrier within the Nuclear Launch Chain of Command. Mattis inserted himself within that as a bulwark against the Orange one's likely issuance of a Nuclear Attack order. Let's hope that there's someone nearby prepared to prevent the implementing of such an order, by whatever means. It doesn't help when the Key posts in the chaotic Administration are held by people woefully underqualified or with extremist views, or both,e.g. John Bolton, or Pompeo a man who believes in the Rapture. Crazy doesn't come close.
30th December 2018 at 12:06 pm
Apparently there's a general who was sacked because he asked how would he know if the president was sane when he gave an order to launch a nuclear attack? I don't know whether that's urban myth or a real thing, but it could be argued that anyone who launches a nuclear attack is insane.
Here are a couple of YouTube videos. The first is about the US nuclear football. The second is a very sobering TED Talk about the effects of nuclear war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7hOpT0lPGI
Too bad his supporters still fall for his lies and the rest of us have to suffer. The GOP is a disgrace for caving in to him. Unless they gain a backbone this travesty will continue. One can only hope the Mueller investigation leads to his downfall.
Thank you for an excellent post.
However, the YPG and Peshmerga are very different. The latter is first and foremost a Kurdish Nationalist movement, with tribal affiliations, quite traditionalist and militarily speaking quite strong.
The YPG is a Kurdish socialist democratic movement, militarily much weaker (or should I say less well equipped in hardware), not traditionalist, very secular for ME standards, and predominantly found in Syria (the situation is much more complex, but as a broad picture I think this is fairly accurate).
As said earlier, I think this withdrawal from Syria is a way to serve Mr Putin, and his whole wall story and shut-down is a smokescreen to divert attention.
It was mainly the YPG who defeated the IS Caliphate as a 'territorial power' . Of course that does not mean they were destroyed or ceased to exist, they just don't have a 'state' anymore. In Syria the YPG was basically the US's only ally.
We'll have to see what happens, but this withdrawal gives Turkey a sign it can go ahead. A genocide waiting to happen.
The US is indeed notorious for abandoning it's allies, and with Mr Trump at the helm that impression, nay fear, is only increasing. Mr Trump's ways do untold damage to the 'Western Alliance' (a bulwark of stability the last 6 decades or so), exactly what Mr Putin, whose objective is to restore the Russian empire (cf former USSR), wants.
Mr Mattis was right to resign, but, as said, there is no more adult in the play-pen.
I cannot think of a more clear example of the Dunning-Kruger effect than Mr Trump.
The more I think of it, the more I think Mr Trump should be impeached. For domestic US purposes a president Pence maybe worse (Ms Omarosa: "If you think Trump is a bad president, wait until you have a president Pence"), but in international politics he would be better, at least not Russian shill.
Speaking of the Dunning-Kruger effect, I found this amusing video compilation, "The 15 times Trump bragged about his intelligence" https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/10/10/times-trump-bragged-about-intelligence-orig-alee.cnn.
Re the Kurds in Syria, I hear this a.m. (Sat, Dec. 29 in the US) the Syrians made a deal with the Kurds (which group?) and the Syrian army is massing at Manbij to defend the Kurds from the Turks. I don't know what to make of this. So very confusing.
I should have made it clear about the different Kurdish military groups and not lumped them all together. The group that's made the deal with Syria is the YPG.
The YPG is the armed wing of the PYD (Democratic Unity Party), which is allied to the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers Party, which has been outlawed in Turkey.
The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in Northern Iraq is dominated by the KPD, which is led by the Barzani clan (which are Iranian Kurds).
The PKK and the Barzanis (KPD) are not really lovebirds, to put it mildly.
Excellent review of the latest Trump disaster. The basket case we call Syria will continue downhill thanks to U.S. leadership and a lack thereof. Further proof there is nothing that Trump cannot screw up. I have to wonder what the folks in Israel think of this dummy now? They seem to not be saying but I notice they are making a few more missions to Syria. This is where we stand at the end of 2018 and we only know that it will get worse in the next.
The only light we have is a big change in congress and I think the beginning of the end for Trump LLC. As you covered, there are 17 different investigations going and some of these will hit the house of representatives soon. The Mueller investigation also continues and we should have more on this soon. If, and it's a big if, we are not taken into a misguided war by this idiot, I suspect we may get rid of him by the end of 2019.
I should have mentioned two of his latest moves in the wages area. He lied directly to the GIs saying they had not had a raise in ten years (they have had one every year) and they were going to get a 10% raise this year (another lie). Then to top it off he froze federal wages and that means the federal employees will not get the 2.6 percent raise they were going to get. So many federal employees not only are not getting paid at all during the shut down, they also get no raise.
This should be required reading for all Trump supporters. Heather's Homilies isn't known for quantity, but I can always count on quality.
And when it comes right down to it, I wonder if Trump even knows why he pulled the US out of Syria. Or perhaps it's as simple as Putin or Erdogan "asked" him to.
I'd like to add that Mattis was to leave at the end of February, but after Fox explained to Trump the implications of the letter, he ended Mattis' post Jan. 1.
I know Trump has said he likes chaos and likes to be the center of chaos, but I think the chaos is beginning to crack him like an egg. Add to his Syria debacle: Mueller, Individual 1, Pelosi, government shutdown, children dying at the border (which he is tweet blaming democrats for…wtf?), an unstable and perhaps bear stock market, a massive staffing problem, a massive lawyer problem (namely he can't get any good ones), no f'n wall ever, his lowest approval rating/highest disapproval since Charlottesville, Trump Foundation gone (will his ugly portrait end up in the WH?), Democratic House and the impending investigations (though I'm not sure Trump understands how screwed he is yet)…this is not going to end well for any of us,
President Trump sat on a wall,
President Trump had a great fall.
All his cult members
And all his henchmen
Couldn't put Trump together again.
Thanks for mentioning that about Mattis being told he has to go on 1 Jan. I meant to add it into the post and forgot.
I like the H-D version. I've got a cartoon somewhere with Trump as Humpty Dumpty and another version. The trouble is Trump is such a good target for the cartoonists I have literally thousands of cartoons saved now and finding it would be a mission in itself. I save them according to what they were about rather than what the pic is. I nearly couldn't find the one at the bottom of this post, then I remembered is was under "Mattis" (along with about 10 others on the subject).
As for Alexander Pope, I think it's time for me to reread the "Dunciad."
Since you mention executive orders, an interesting trivium (trivia?):
Who is the US president that issued the least executive orders per year since 1901?
Yes, you guessed it: Mr Barack Obama at just under 34.6 per annum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_executive_orders
31st December 2018 at 12:00 pm
I remember that statistic being repeated frequently by CNN every time a Republican complained about his EOs. The thing that annoyed me the most is that he was only using them because the GOP in general, and Mitch McConnell in particular, refused to negotiate with him because they didn't want him having any wins. I don't think I'll ever forget that McConnell speech about the GOP's primary job being to make sure Obama was a one-term president. Absolutely appalling. So much for governing the country!
1st January 2019 at 11:20 pm
Didn't know about CNN, thought I was posting something quite unknown.
If you hear his opponents, one would get the opposite impression, as if he issued more EO's than any other president. In fact I was shocked to learn it just because of these opponent telling blatant lies, something so easily checked as being false.
As I'm sure you already know, that's the problem so often, especially with those who use opinion journalists on Fox as their only news source. (The proper journalists on Fox are actually okay, but they don't get a lot of air time.) Someone like Tucker Carlson, Jesse Walters etc says something and their viewers assume it's true, and they repeat it. Because of the source, no one checks the facts. That's what makes Sean Hannity and Judge Janine et al so dangerous. They speak with authority and are trusted by those who listen to them. Often too the people who watch Fox talk amongst themselves and the false info gets reinforced that way.


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A dog owner was left shocked when his 'dopey' French bulldog dug up a Second World War shell on the beach.
Gary Wells, 37, said that Gus, four, is never usually interested in digging holes or picking up sticks, so he was surprised when he started scrambling in the sand on Studland beach, Dorset.
He was then left even more stunned when he realised the dog had uncovered an unexploded ordnance and immediately called the emergency services.
'For some reason Gus started digging on the beach, and this is the first time that has ever happened,' Mr Wells, a care manager from Langton Matravers, said.
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'He was almost protecting me, pushing his whole body against me. In the end I had to get hold of his harness and pull him back to see what he was digging up.
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'When I first made the call I was very dubious as I didn't want to be wasting people's time.
Studland coast was used as a main training ground six weeks before D-Day.
Soldiers used live ammunition to rehearse the operation, making it one of the largest practices of its kind during the war.
Studland Beach and Shell Bay, near Poole, were chosen because they resembled the beaches of northern France.
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'The Army bomb disposal unit found there was no risk and they removed the device from the scene,' he said.


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One of the first of these applications is PhantomAlert, a DUI checkpoint "app" released in 2009. It includes a database of roadblocks at more than 500,000 locations across the U.S. - including Union County - that users can reference to see whether roadblocks are set up where they will be driving. Users also can submit reports of roadblocks they encounter so the database is updated nearly in real time.
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Research in Motion, maker of BlackBerry smartphones, immediately pulled all DUI checkpoint apps for its phones, including PhantomAlert. Apple and Google, makers of other popular smartphones, also agreed later to change their policies. Apple's new guidelines ban future DUI checkpoint apps that contain information "not published by law enforcement agencies, or encourage or enable drunk driving." The company has not yet stated what it will do about existing roadblock programs.
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• 2-Ethoxyethanol and 2-methoxyethanol--developmental toxicity in Drosophila.
• 2-Methoxyethanol (2-ME) affects anterior neuropore closure and brain development.
• 2-Methoxyethanol (2-ME) teratogenicity following bolus and constant-rate administrations in mice.
• 2-Methoxyethanol metabolism, fetal distribution, and macromolecular adduct formation in the rat: the effect of radiofrequency radiation.
• 2-Methoxyethanol: a case study in the development of a physiologically based pharmacokinetic model for pregnant animals.
• A physiologically based pharmacokinetic model describing 2-methoxyacetic acid disposition in the pregnant mouse.
• A physiologically-based model of gestation in the monkey: framework for simulation of kinetics of reproductive toxicants.
• Addition of mammalian metabolic capacity to developmental hazard detection with Artemia nauplii (brine shrimp).
• An interlaboratory evaluation of five pairs of teratogens and non-teratogens in post-implantation rat embryo culture.
• Assessment of a short-term reproductive and developmental toxicity screen.
• Assessment of the toxic and potential teratogenic effects of four glycol ethers and two derivatives using the hydra regeneration assay and rat whole embryo culture.
• Attenuation of 2-methoxyethanol-induced malformations in mice by D- and L-serine.
• Attenuation of the developmental toxicity of 2-methoxyethanol (2-ME) in mice by probenicid (PR).
• Characterization of urinary metabolites produced following administration of (1,2-methoxy-13C)-2-methoxyethanol to male F-344 rats and pregnant CD-1 mice.
• Comparative developmental toxicity of urethane (URE), 2-methoxyethanol (2ME) and methotrexate (MTX) in Drosophila melanogaster obtained from two sources.
• Comparative in vitro study of the embryotoxic effects of three glycol ethers and their metabolites, the alkoxyacids.
• Confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) and its application for analysis of cell death in mouse limb buds.
• Development of a mathematical description for the disposition of 2-methoxyaceticacid (2-MAA) during mouse organogenesis.
• Development of a physiologically-based description of 2-methoxyethanol (2-ME) pharmacokinetics in the pregnant mouse.
• Development of a reproductive toxicity test using Xenopus.
• Development of proposed occupational exposure limits for selected glycol ethers using PBPK modeling and Monte Carlo simulation.
• Developmental toxicity interactions of methanol and radiofrequency (RF) radiation or 2-methoxyethanol (2ME) in rats.
• Developmental toxicity interactions of salicylic acid (SA) and radiofrequency (RF) radiation or 2-methoxyethanol (2ME) in rats.
• Developmental toxicity of 2-ethoxyethanol and 2-methoxyethanol in intact Drosophila.
• Developmental toxicity of bis(2-methoxyethyl)ether (DGDE), (2-methoxyethoxy)acetic acid (MEAA), and 2-methoxyethanol (2ME) in intact Drosophila.
• Developmental toxicity of triethylene glycol monomethyl ether (TEGMME) in intact Drosophila melanogaster.
• Differential effects of serine isomers on ME-induced limb dysmorphogenesis.
• Dosimetry-toxicity relationships in 2-methoxyethanol teratogenesis.
• Effect of environmental temperature on the interactive developmental toxicity of radiofrequency radiation and 2-methoxyethanol in rats.
• Effects of 2-methoxyethanol (2-ME) and methotrexate (MTX) on purine pools and cell cycle of mouse embryos.
• Effects of 2-methoxyethanol and L-serine on neural tube morphology, neuroepithelial cell kinetics and proliferating cell nuclear antigen immunostaining in CD-1 mouse embryos.
• Effects of diethylene glycol monomethyl ether and ethylene glycol monomethyl ether on in vitro chondrogenesis.
• Effects of glycol ethers on the reproductive health of occupationally exposed individuals: review of present day evidence.
• Embryo dosimetry and incidence of malformations in CD-1 mice following subcutaneous infusion of 2-methoxyethanol (2-ME).
• Embryonic incidences of limb bud defects after exposure of the pregnant rat to 2-methoxyethanol (ME) and to ME + serine.
• Enhanced teratogenicity of ethylene glycol monomethyl ether when administered dermally in solution with water.
• Evidence for synergistic teratogenicity of radiofrequency (RF) radiation and 2-methoxyethanol (2ME) in rats: external malformations.
• Exencephaly in CD-1 mice following a single administration of 2-methoxy-ethanol (2-ME).
• Experimental interactions of glycol ethers with chemical and physical agents: developmental toxicology.
• Extrapolation from pregnant mice to rats of a physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model describing 2-methoxyacetic acid disposition after 2-methoxyethanol administration.
• Extrapolation of a physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model describing 2-methoxyacetic acid disposition after 2-methoxyethanol inhalation at 5 ppm from pregnant mice to rats and humans.
• Final report on the reproductive toxicity of ethylene glycol monomethyl ether (CAS No. 109-86-4) in Sprague-Dawley rats, litter five.
• Final report on the reproductive toxicity of ethylene glycol monomethyl ether (CAS No. 109-86-4) in Sprague-Dawley rats, litter two.
• Gestational phase alters dosimetry-teratogenicity relationship for 2-methoxyethanol (2-ME) in mice.
• Glycol ether hazards to reproductive health: an update.
• In vitro embryotoxicity of glycol ethers and alkoxyacetic acids.
• Interactions of degree and duration of radiofrequency radiation-induced hyperthermia and 2-methoxyethanol teratogenicity in rats.
• Interactions of radio-frequency radiation on 2-methoxyethanol teratogenicity in rats.
• Interactive developmental toxicity of radiofrequency (RF) radiation and 2-methoxyethanol (2ME) in rats.
• Interspecies comparison of A/D ratios: mouse.
• Interspecies comparison of A/D ratios: Xenopus.
• Issues in the development of a physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model for 2-methoxyethanol (2-ME) and 2-methoxyacetic acid (2-MAA).
• Linking embryo dosimetry and teratogenic responses to 2-methoxyethanol at different stages of gestation in mice.
• Mechanistic studies of the attenuation of 2-methoxyethanol (2-ME) teratogenicity by serine isomers in mice.
• Oral or subcutaneous (SC) dosing with 2-methoxyethanol (2-ME): effects on 2-methoxyacetic acid (2-MAA) levels in single embryos and limb buds following concurrent oral serine (S) administration.
• Pathogenesis of 2-methoxyethanol (2-ME)-induced exencephaly (EX) in mice.
• Pharmacokinetics of 2-methoxyethanol-induced teratogenicity.
• Phase specificity (PS) and dose response relationship (DR) for the developmental toxicity of 2-methoxyethanol (2-ME) in rats.
• Physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling of ethylene glycol ethers and acetates in pregnant rats.
• Quantitative analysis of apoptosis induced by 2-methoxyethanol in CD-1 mouse embryos on gestation day 8.
• Quantitative assessment of cellular injury in mouse embryos by confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM).
• Rat epididymal sperm analysis using the Hamilton-Thorne IVOS analyzer: (3) sperm counts determined using an automated system.
• Refinement of a physiologically-based description of 2-methoxyethanol (2-ME) disposition in the pregnant mouse.
• Reproductive effects of glycol ethers in females -- a quantitative analysis.
• Risk assessment in developmental toxicology and public health/regulatory approaches.
• Scale-up of a physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model for 2-methoxyethanol (2-ME) and 2-methoxyacetic acid (2-MAA) from pregnant mice to rats.
• Serine attenuation of 2-methoxyethanol (ME) induced limb dysmorphogenesis in the rat: assessment of serine's action following its administration with and after ME treatment.
• Standardization of test protocol for reproductive toxicity testing by continuous breeding in CD rats.
• Studies on epididymal sperm parameters for detecting effects on male fertility.
• Supernumerary rib (SNR) length in mice: size distribution, dose response, and correlation with malformations.
• Synergistic teratogenicity of the industrial solvent 2-methoxyethanol (2ME) and radiofrequency (RF) radiation in rats.
• Teratological evaluation of rat fetuses after prenatal exposure to industrial chemicals.
• Teratology evaluation of three glycol ethers using the whole embryo culture method.
• The amino acid L-serine protects against 2-methoxyethanol-induced neural tube defects in CD-1 mice.
• The combined use of flow cytometry and automated sperm motility analysis as a screen for male reproductive toxicants.
• The effects of 2-methoxyethanol on developmental stage- and cell type-specific physiological cell death in CD-1 mouse embryos.
• The role of sarcosine in 2-methoxyethanol-induced developmental toxicity.
• Three in vitro toxicity/teratogenicity test systems validated by using twelve identical coded compounds.
• Toxicokinetics of 2-methoxyacetic acid in pregnant mice following 2-methoxyethanol inhalation exposure.
• Triethylene glycol ethers: evaluations of in vitro absorption through human epidermis, 21-day dermal toxicity in rabbits, and a developmental toxicity screen in rats.
• Urinary metabolites of 2-methoxyethanol determined by NMR spectroscopy.
• Usefulness of physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) data in the assessment of human risk for developmental and reproductive toxicity: a regulatory perspective.
• Validation of three in vitro toxicity/teratogenicity test systems using identical coded compounds. I. Aggregating brain cell cultures.
• Validation of three in vitro toxicity/teratogenicity test systems using identical coded compounds. II. Standardized in vitro culture of the whole chick embryo.
• Validation of three in vitro toxicity/teratogenicity test systems using identical coded compounds. III. The post-implantation rat embryo culture.
• Validation of whole chick embryo cultures, whole rat embryo cultures and aggregating embryonic brain cell cultures using six pairs of coded compounds.
• Validity of the Biel water maze for detecting developmentally induced learning impairments.
USES: Ethylene glycol monomethyl ether (EGME) is used as a solvent in the chemical synthesis of a variety of products and is widely used in manufacturing. It is also found in surface coats such as quick-drying varnishes, nail polishes, and wood stains and paints.
TOXICOLOGY: In overdose, EGME causes central nervous system, renal, and hematologic toxicity. It remains speculation that glycol ethers may undergo cleavage of the ether bond to produce ethylene glycol with subsequent metabolism to oxalate.
EPIDEMIOLOGY: Clinically significant exposure to EGME is uncommon. Severe toxicity is rare. Deaths have been reported.
MILD TO MODERATE TOXICITY: Eye and mucous membrane irritation may occur with inhalation exposure. Dermal irritation may occur with skin exposure. Headache, drowsiness, lethargy, fatigue, dizziness, and mild anemia or granulocytopenia may develop with relatively low level inhalation exposures.
SEVERE TOXICITY: ACUTE: Higher concentration inhalation exposures may cause ataxia, tremor, confusion, dysarthria, personality changes, and coma that generally and gradually resolve with cessation of exposure. Acute ingestions may cause agitation, confusion, CNS depression, coma (may be delayed with onset of 8 to 18 hours), metabolic acidosis, acute renal failure, proteinuria, hematuria, oxaluria, and hemorrhagic gastritis.


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GCSE and A-level pupils could sit mini exams to aid grading
By Katherine Sellgren
Family & Education reporter
duration 13 January
image copyrightPA Media
image captionPupils are currently learning remotely from home
A-level, AS and GCSE students in England could be asked to sit mini external exams to help teachers with their assessments after formal exams were cancelled last week.
In a letter to the exams regulator, Ofqual, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said this would help teachers to decide "deserved grades".
He promised not to use an algorithm which led to controversy last summer.
Head teachers said the "devil was in the detail" for these plans.
The letter was published on Wednesday morning, as Mr Williamson appeared before the education select committee to answer questions on the impact of Covid-19 on education.
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In the letter to Ofqual he said: "A breadth of evidence should inform teachers' judgments, and the provision of training and guidance will support teachers to reach their assessment of a student's deserved grade.
"In addition, I would like to explore the possibility of providing externally set tasks or papers, in order that teachers can draw on this resource to support their assessments of students."
Mr Williamson's pledge not to use an algorithm to determine grades comes after thousands of A-level students had their results downgraded from school estimates last summer - before Ofqual announced a U-turn allowing them to use teachers' predictions.
"We have agreed that we will not use an algorithm to set or automatically standardise anyone's grade," the letter says.
media captionGavin Williamson: "The top priority is for all those that work in schools"
"Schools and colleges should undertake quality assurance of their teachers' assessments and provide reassurance to the exam boards. We should provide training and guidance to support that, and there should also be external checks in place to support fairness and consistency between different institutions and to avoid schools and colleges proposing anomalous grades."
But he added: "Changes should only be made if those grades cannot be justified, rather than as a result of marginal differences of opinion.
"Any changes should be based on human decisions, not by an automatic process or algorithm."
A consultation on plans for this year is being launched later this week.
'Devil in the detail'
Geoff Barton, head of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the letter set out "broad and sensible parameters" for assessing GCSEs and A-levels after exams were cancelled.
"But, as ever, the devil will be in the detail of how this is turned into reality," Mr Barton said.
He welcomed confirmation that no algorithm would be applied this year "following last summer's grading debacle."
But he questioned how any system of externally set assessment would work and how it could ensures fairness for students whose education had been heavily disrupted.
"It is vital that the final plans not only provide fairness and consistency but that they are also workable for schools, colleges and teaching staff who will have to put them into practice," he added.
'Keeping school open'
National Education Union joint general secretary Dr Mary Bousted said: "Had the government listened to the NEU and put in place a contingency plan sooner we would be in a better position now to make sure grades could be awarded reliably and without creating severe workload issues for education staff and students.
She said the union would continue to work with the Dfe and Ofqual, but they needed to see the full details of the plans as soon as possible to ensure grades are fair and the process is manageable for staff.
Taking questions from MPs on the education select committee, Mr Williamson said he wanted to see schools re-opening at the earliest opportunity and that he would "never apologise for being the biggest champion for keeping schools open".
He said attendance rates of vulnerable and key worker pupils in schools since the start of term were higher than in the first lockdown.
Answering a wide range of questions, Mr Williamson said:
confirmed that a national food voucher scheme would be available to all English schools from next week
said he was "absolutely disgusted" after seeing pictures of food parcels delivered to families by food service provider Chartwells and that the government would "name and shame" companies not delivering to standard
defended his decision to keep nurseries open, saying that many families rely on early years education services and said there was "no intention" to close them
said he would "make no apology" for pushing to have all those who worked in schools prioritised for vaccination and said he was fighting "tooth and nail" to ensure they were vaccinated at the earliest opportunity
said mass testing would be rolled out for both teaching and support staff in primary schools by next week, adding that primary teachers and support staff would be able to self-administer tests at home with the help of a £78m support package
confirmed that the government was looking at a system where parents could test their children at home, saying it was "not appropriate or right" to ask staff to test primary-school pupils
defended the Department for Education's decision to order Greenwich Council in London to keep its schools open in the last week of the autumn term, saying that their Covid case numbers were far lower than many areas of the north of England and the Midlands, where schools had stayed open
the department had procured an additional 1.3 million digital devices for pupils and schools would have 750,000 devices by the end of this week.
Education Select Committee
Gavin Williamson


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Terrifying sign on notoriously dangerous Hawaii hike
It's no secret that Hawaii's Olomana Trail on the island of Oahu is extremely dangerous. Two people have already died this year after falling off the trail, one in April and one just last month. At least six people have died along the way since 2011, and that number would likely be higher if tourism to the islands hadn't declined in 2020-21 due to the pandemic.
Now local officials are trying to scare would-be hikers outright.
Within weeks of the latest fatality, a new harrowing sign had been put up, warning hikers of the dangers they might encounter.
"CAUTION: Olomana Trail users: Six people fell to their deaths after hiking the first peak," the sign reads. It then gives the year and approximate location of each death.
"I just said, 'You know what? We need something up here immediately because we've had two deaths this year,'" Honolulu Director of Emergency Services Jim Ireland said in a phone interview with SFGATE.
The hike traverses three peaks, but becomes significantly more dangerous after the first. To get to the second and third peaks, hikers must traverse a trail that has 150 to 400 feet of drop on either side. According to Ireland, 90% of falls from more than 84 feet are fatal.
All six of those killed were men, and three were visitors from Hawaii. Ireland says it remembers the names of everyone who died along the way. Hearing him say so, the sign is both a warning and a memorial.
"Each of these dates is a person who has been a vibrant adult and loved by their family and friends. And everyone has their own sad story," Ireland said. "If that prevents another death, maybe they didn't die in vain."
Two of the three peaks of the Olomana Trail on the island of Oahu in Hawaii.
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The Olomana Trail is part of a three-way system in the Kailua neighborhood that's unfortunately very familiar to local emergency response teams. Ireland estimates that Honolulu emergency services have to conduct a rescue on the Kailua trails every week.
May, an experienced hiker who spoke to KHON2, was one such rescue. In January, May tried the Olomana but fell and slipped over 100 feet. She sustained multiple injuries, including fractures in her spine, but considers herself lucky to be alive.
"One wrong move and you're dead," May told KHON2. "You asked me a while ago if it was worth it. No, it's not worth it, definitely not worth it."
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But as Ireland notes, the Honolulu Ambulance Service isn't telling people not to come to Olomana, but rather that visitors should understand the risks.
"We purposely didn't say do it or don't do it because it's a legal way," Ireland said. "But especially for the people who have never been up there, I hope that (the sign) is helpful to them."
Ireland believes that with the right, meaningful signage, the path can be made much safer. He also expressed his willingness to put up similar signs in other dangerous locations across Oahu.
"If we fast forward five years and there are no fatal falls. It's a success," said Ireland.
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Within larger companies, more than one person will usually need access to your application and internal security policies will discourage users from sharing login credentials. Instead, they'll need to allow multiple users to access them same content and/or service that your app is offering. The good news is, they won't paying more for the privilege.
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With so many web apps being hacked on a seemingly more frequent basis, privacy and account security is a hot topic these days. No one likes having their data compromised and it's no longer just the tech savvy user who will appreciate the extra layer of security that 2-step authentication provides.
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An izakaya (居酒屋) is a Japanese pub that serves food as well as drinks. Originally, an izakaya (which literally means I="to stay" and sakaya="sake shop") was just a place that allowed you to buy and drink sake on their premise. Since then, it has evolved into a drinking place that usually has an extensive menu of my favorite types of Japanese food: Japanese home-style soul food. Or at least that is what I think of izakaya food as: the type of food you eat at a summer festival, at home on the weekdays, or simple comfort food. Everything you want to eat with a cold beer, good friends and good conversation.
Izakaya menus usually have a lot of small plates, encouraging you to order a string of different nibbles to share while downing a pint. Grilling skewers of meat (yakitori), fried chicken, croquettes (korroke), and rice balls (musubi) are typical fare. Nasu dengaku, a plate I've already touched on, is a common dish found in izakayas.
Unfortunately, here in America it is much more likely to find a sushi bar than an izakaya, or perhaps a teppanyaki place where the food is secondary to the chef's antics. Changing the Japanese American dining scene is places like Honda-ya, a yakitori izakaya that is introducing the United States to the wonders of Japanese pub food.
Honda-ya has several restaurants all in Southern California: Tustin, Little Tokyo in Downtown L.A., City of Industry, and Fountain Valley. Their newest outpost is in Fullerton, just a couple blocks away from the Mochi's apartment. With Mr. Mochi, my brother and their friends in tow, I went to check out the new Honda-ya. This isn't really a review for review's sake, but trying to highlight a different type of Japanese American restaurant.
Izakaya Honda-ya specializes in charcoal grilled yakitori, but it has a huge menu outside of that. We immediately ordered a pitcher of Kirin Ichiban ($15) in which to better pour over the menu. One thing we really liked was the cooling core in the middle of the pitcher to keep the beer ice cold while waiting to be poured, especially good if you wanted to split a pitcher in a smaller group. Along with frosty glasses of beer, we got a tasty sampling of tsukemono: spicy cucumber pickles. They also have a good selection of sake, different beers, and shochu cocktails called chu-hi.
Mr. Mochi, as I knew he would, spied the festival food takoyaki ($4.50) and hastened to order his favorite. Second only to katsu-kare, he loves the molten hot pancake balls filled with bits of tempura and octopus and covered in tangy Japanese tonkatsu sauce. Mr. Mochi appreciated the Japanese mayo served here, which is much tangier and richer than the usual American mayo served with some takoyaki, as well as the proper crisp exterior and just cooked interior. These certainly did not disappoint, and the other boys liked them so much they got a second order. I am pretty sure Mr. Mochi will be getting me a takoyaki pan for my birthday so I can make them at home, that's how much he enjoys this dish.
Wanting to try their specialty, we also ordered a nice variety of yakitori skewers ($1.80-4.75). Unfortunately, some (most) got devoured before I could snap a picture. Standouts include the beef that was topped with green onions and chili daikon, the white meat chicken with wasabi, the pork belly, tsukune which is chicken meatball, and the chicken leg with naganegi. I was very impressed with the white meat chicken, because it is very easy to dry out white meat, especially when grilling, but the skewer was perfectly juicy.
We also ordered a variety of other dishes. The ika maru ($5.95), or grilled squid, was a nice textural contrast between its crisp outside and chewy innards and is another typical festival food. Honda-ya did well by this dish, not overcooking it and rendering the squid too tough. We did find ourselves dipping it in sauces from other dishes, however, since the preparation is pretty simple.
The agedashi mochi ($3.95) was good, but I think I prefer the original agedashi tofu better. The mochi chunks were too big, so the fried parts were delicious, but the majority was slippery melting mochi, and would not absorb the tasty tempura dipping sauce. I would make this at home with bite size pieces of mochi.
Rounding out our selection was the teriyaki salmon, yaki onigiri (grilled rice ball), and ramen. I loved the grilled rice ball, a homey comfort food, which came with a nice assortment of tsukemono for a very reasonable $2.95, but I didn't try the salmon or ramen so I cannot weigh in on their merits. The boys ate them too fast for me to sample, so I am assuming they were good.
If you notice, none of us had sushi or sashimi. Honda-ya does have a sashimi and sushi portion of the menu, but that is not what we wanted to try. After all, honda-ya is an izakaya, not a sushi bar. I am sure that the sushi and sashimi are good, but to me that is like going to a steakhouse and ordering a burger; it may be serviceable enough to put on the menu, but it is not what they focus on. After all, Americans still associate Japanese cooking with raw fish, and I am sure if they did not have it on the menu, some would be confused.