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Beyond Abortion
By W. James Antle III • September 12, 2005
Opponents of abortion have grown accustomed to ridicule from the other side. While placard-sized taunts like "get your rosaries off my ovaries" are easy to dismiss, Congressman Barney Frank's famous quip that antiabortion activists "believe life begins at conception and ends at birth" stings. Charges of indifference to life outside the womb have helped force a debate on what it truly means to be pro-life.
Pro-lifers often face hostile questions about the depth of their commitment to the unborn children they wish to protect from abortion. Do they favor free prenatal care? Do they support using their tax dollars to provide health insurance for mother and child? A similar litany of questions comes up when discussing opposition to euthanasia at the other end of life. Who is going to care for all these sick old people—the National Right to Life Committee?
The interrogation inevitably turns to the movement's alliance with proponents of low taxes and limited government on the Right. Syndicated columnist Mark Shields, a pro-life liberal, complained to U.S. Catholic magazine, "We've got people who are against abortions, but, given a choice between funding Women and Infant Care (WIC) and cutting taxes, would choose to cut taxes."
Some pro-lifers have concluded that the best answer is to get new allies. The case against abortion and euthanasia rests on certain premises about the intrinsic value of the human person that are applicable to other issues as well. Those engaged in rethinking the right-to-life label range from antiabortion liberals to neoconservatives making a pro-life case for war.
Thus, Mark Noll and Carolyn Nystrom, writing in Books and Culture (essentially an evangelical New York Review of Books), concede "pro-life is often shorthand for a stand against abortion" but contend that "thoughtful pro-life Christians (both evangelical and Catholic) also advocate care for the aging, medical care for the poor, adequate housing for all, and compassionate standards for immigration." The group Consistent Life lists poverty and racism as pillar concerns alongside abortion, advocating "a coherent social policy which seeks to protect the rights of the weakest and most vulnerable in our society, the unborn, the infirm, the refugee, the homeless, and the poor."
Immigration, housing, and health care aren't issues usually associated with the conventional Left-Right abortion debate, but some see them as cutting-edge topics for a new pro-life movement shorn of its conservative image. Feminists for Life—an organization in the news lately because Supreme Court nominee John Roberts's wife has been an advisor—promotes the idea that women's equality and public compassion are necessary to move the debate beyond "making abortion illegal to making it unthinkable."
Many pro-lifers who seek to expand their focus beyond abortion subscribe to what is called the "consistent life ethic," which folds antiabortion views into a larger context of nonviolence, espousing "social justice" and opposition to most wars. Its adherents include columnist Nat Hentoff, actor Martin Sheen, and the Dalai Lama.
The late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin in 1983 began arguing that opposition to war, capital punishment, euthanasia, and abortion fit together in a "seamless garment" of pro-life issues. The seamless garment concept was popular with Catholic and Protestant thinkers who mixed theological conservatism with political liberalism but has not gained universal acceptance within the pro-life movement. One of the rare politicians who championed the idea was the late Pennsylvania Gov. Robert Casey, an economically progressive Democrat who argued that protection for the unborn was consistent with the "widening circle of democracy" that extended rights to the poor, women, and racial minorities. Some more socially liberal seamless-garment exponents would include gay rights in this list.
As a practical matter, it is easy to see how such views would drive a wedge between pro-lifers and their conservative allies. Critics of the seamless garment ideal argue that it gives liberal Democrats a pass on abortion by elevating other issues. Therefore, the argument goes, pro-life Catholics would still feel justified in voting for pro-choice Ted Kennedy because of his opposition to the Iraq War and the death penalty.
Perhaps the most audacious and improbable attempt to re-brand the pro-life movement was undertaken by Joseph Bottum in First Things, the highbrow religious-conservative journal of which he is now editor. Bottum inverted the logic of the nonviolent consistent life ethic to argue that the "new fusionism" in American politics inextricably linked pro-lifers to supporters of the Iraq War and neoconservatives more generally.
In terms of electoral politics, Bottum's portrayal is certainly closer to the mark than the Seamless Garment Network's. The so-called values voters, most of whom are pro-life, and people who favored President Bush's interventionist post-9/11 foreign policy together formed the basis of the 2004 Republican majority. Social conservatives are the largest mass constituency on the Right; any dominant conservatism, like the supply-siders of the 1980s and budget-balancers of the 1990s, needs their support. But Bottum does not stop with this uncontested political reality. He argues for the ideological compatibility of opposition to abortion and what he calls "the remoralization of foreign policy."
"The opponents of abortion and euthanasia insist there are truths about human life and dignity that must not be compromised in domestic politics," Bottum wrote. "The opponents of Islamofascism and rule by terror insist there are truths about human life and dignity that must not be compromised in international politics."
Juxtaposing Cardinal Bernardin's consistent life ethic with Bottum's seamless garment of moral interventionism, one can begin to appreciate the limitations of the otherwise admirable tendency to apply pro-life principles to an ever-widening number of debates. The additional issues can end up undermining the pro-life project rather than reinforcing it.
Opposition to the shedding of innocent blood is a moral question, but attempts to order society and international relations justly often turn on prudential questions. One can agree that if human life is too sacred to be snuffed out by the abortionist that there is also an obligation to care for the children who thus enter the world. But it doesn't necessarily follow that the welfare state, especially as constituted before the mid-1990s welfare reform in this country, is the best means to this end.
Similarly, the dignity of human life that is violated by abortion and euthanasia is also affronted by tyranny and oppression. But it does not follow that the proper corrective is U.S. war on a massive scale to effect regime change in oppressive countries.
In recent years, pro-lifers have awakened to the fact that opposing abortion requires more than lobbying for legal restrictions. It also requires compassionate treatment of women and children and efforts to make the horrible option of abortion seem unnecessary. This is a weighing of means and ends.
But as pro-lifers have tried to broaden their focus to issues far removed from abortion, they have often sidestepped questions about means in pursuit of noble ends. Food, health care, and employment for all are each worthwhile goals. But serious thought is required about the means, especially given decades of evidence regarding the failures of welfare statism and socialism.
Let's go back to the skeptical questions people tend to direct toward pro-lifers. In each case, the possibility that people may be a burden on the taxpayer is implicitly raised as a reason to allow them to die. The critics may be asking about pro-life consistency, but they aren't offering to bear these burdens themselves. To put it another way: would taxing such people to finance health care produce more Terri Schiavos or fewer?
The shortcomings of Bottum's pro-life case for pre-emptive war are more obvious. Even the best-intentioned military conflicts, aimed at dethroning the worst despots and undertaken with scrupulous efforts to avoid civilian casualties, exact a significant cost in innocent life. The human cost of trying to bring democracy to the Middle East —if democracy would even be the outcome—could be staggering.
What has the Iraq War taught Americans about the sanctity of human life? Perhaps foreign-policy intellectuals and magazine writers favored the overthrow of Saddam Hussein because of some deep concern for Iraqi human dignity. But many voters backed the invasion because they saw the Twin Towers fall and the Pentagon burn, and they wanted to avenge the victims. As Bottum himself described a comparable sentiment in a subsequent First Things piece on capital punishment, "blood cries out from the ground." It's difficult to imagine any significant public support for the war apart from the Sept. 11 attacks.
The conflict has hardly lent itself to humanizing Iraqis. The images of brutalized naked men being forced into human pyramids at Abu Ghraib, persistent allegations of torture that have sullied the reputations of our men and women in uniform, and even casual talk at home from some quarters about bombs and the use of nuclear weapons—if this constitutes the "remoralization of foreign policy," one shudders to contemplate the less moral alternative.
If the near-pacifism of seamless garment seems divorced from the reality of our dangerous world, the idea of war as a life-affirming event is divorced from certain realities of human nature. Wars can be necessary and just, but they seldom end up promoting the human dignity of the enemy, much less fostering a recognizably pro-life ethic.
The welcome realization that pro-lifers must focus on more than the enactment of abortion restrictions is likely to enhance the movement's moral credibility. So would allowing prudence to assume a larger role in pro-life strategic and social thinking.
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3 Responses to Beyond Abortion
Siarlys Jenkins says:
I'm constitutionally pro-choice. I believe the ultimate call should lie with the woman concerned, not the police powers of the state. This would also be the case if the shoe were on the other foot: if a government came to power legislating mandatory abortion in certain circumstances, for various reasons, the most powerful constitutional argument for nullifying such legislation would be Roe v. Wade. If the state has no jurisdiction, it has no jurisdiction, period.
This also puts the pro-life cause in what I believe is the most appropriate posture for pro-lifers to work from. Go ahead, reach out to pregnant women considering abortion, offer them whatever they need to decide to carry their pregnancy to term, build a reputation for delivering on such promises, reshape the domestic landscape so women do not view abortion as their best option. Promote stable marriage, if possible, but stable marriages are voluntarily embraced.
Nothing in Roe v. Wade said abortion was a good choice, a wise choice, or a morally superior choice. It just said, it is the pregnant woman's choice.
There is a reason the loudest and best-funded portions of the pro-life movement are closely associated with certain brands of conservative politics: some of the anti-abortion sentiment is indeed dismissive of women. Likewise, there is a reason certain liberal, feminist, socialist, and other circles continue to have a pro-life component. Abortion cannot be described as a compassionate measure, even if it may at times seem less uncompassionate than the visible alternatives.
Juan campos says:
The problem of legal abortion is that we are dealing with an absolute: death inflicted on a powerless and guiltless human being. Other issues about war, free market or statism, etc…are really of a different nature, where prudence, doubt and flexibility play a part.
But abortion, like the prohibition of infanticide, of which it was and should be an early version,demands an absolute answer.
It is extraordinary how so many talk as if the social concern for the born should be only a requisite for prolifers. What about prochoicers? They also have to be measured by what they do socially, and I see no evidence whatsoever, that they are actually more socially active, generous or whatever tan prolifers.
Tony Powell says:
Anyone who opposes VOLUNTARY euthanasia has less compassion than Al Qaeda.
At least the 9/11 hijackers got to die inetantly!


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Q: How to trigger animate.css on page load I am using Dan Eden's animate.css to animate my slideshow elements. This is how I trigger animations on page load:
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First I delay all animations 60s. Which should be enough to load any site.
Than I remove .loading from body on page load, so that the default .animated delay and duration of 1s is being used.
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This was working like a charm until I updated Google Chrome a couple of days ago. It is still working fine in all other browsers. Just Chrome is giving me a headache here. Looks like the 60s delay is still being used, though the class of .loading has been removed from body.
I would like to know if anyone has a working solution to trigger animate.css on page load.

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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - FEBRUARY 15: Callum McGregor of Celtic and Miha Mevlja of Zenit St. Petersburg during UEFA Europa League Round of 32 match between Celtic and Zenit St Petersburg at the Celtic Park on February 15, 2018 in Glasgow, United Kingdom. (Photo by Mark Runnacles/Getty Images)
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Celtic have announced that influential midfielder Callum McGregor has signed a new five-year deal that will see him stay at the club until 2023.
A product of the club's Youth Academy, McGregor has been one of the most consistent performers for Celtic over the past few seasons and made his 200th appearance in the 2-0 defeat to Hibs at the weekend.
Speaking to the official Celtic website, McGregor said: "I'm absolutely delighted to sign until 2023. It was all pretty smooth. The club gave me a call and I was desperate to get it done straight away.
"The gaffer has been brilliant with me, too, and there was no question on my mind that I wanted to sign straight away and get it done. I've got to thank the club for that, it was very seamless, and of course, I've got to thank the manager as well.
"Since the manager has come in, my game has improved an awful lot. That's due to him coming in, changing a few things, and getting me playing with confidence. In the last 18 months, I think I've been able to emerge as a bigger character. I just want to keep doing that, keep learning every day, and continue becoming a better player for this club.
"At Celtic there's a massive demand to win, and, coming through the system, you've got to be a winner. That's a massive part of it – the fact that you want to win things as a professional footballer. Celtic is the best platform for that.
"This is an amazing place to play football, and the fans are amazing. Celtic Park is one of the best arenas in world football, and the fans are amazing. To actually get to play your football here every second Saturday is an incredible thing.
"For the fans, it's just about me trying to be here for as long as I can, and trying to give them some special moments."
McGregor has won four Premiership titles, three League Cups and two Scottish Cups since making his first-team debut in 2014 against KR Reykjavik in a Champions League qualifier.
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND – OCTOBER 31: Callum McGregor scores for Celtic during the Champions League group B match between Celtic FC and Bayern Muenchen at Celtic Park on October 31, 2017 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Steve Welsh/Getty Images)
Overall he has scored 34 goals in 201 appearances for the Scottish champions and was an integral part of Brendan Rodgers' invincible side that won the domestic treble and secured back to back trebles last season.
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Elaine Lui on Why We Need to Talk About Oral Sex
Our culture, and our language, has turned cunniligus into something dirty—and it's time to change that
By Elaine Lui November 17, 2016
I was 16 the first time a guy went down on me. And I really loved it—for the first three minutes. Then I started to feel guilty: guilty that my boyfriend wasn't being pleasured; guilty, specifically, because I wasn't doing anything to give him pleasure. So I pulled him up and went down on him instead. It wasn't until I was well into my twenties, after a lot of practice, that I was able to let go and just enjoy it. Many women I know have had similar experiences, and some are still uncomfortable with receiving without providing any service in return.
Artist Alexandra Rubinstein argues one of the reasons women—and men—prioritize male pleasure in heterosexual hookups is because it's usually the man's erotic perspective that's represented in pop culture. Even Fifty Shades of Grey, a movie that was supposedly about female fantasy, only showed Anastasia Steele's climaxes and never Christian Grey's. My biggest complaint about that film—and I have many—was that I never got to see him come. What does his orgasm face look like? Will they show me in the second movie? Over time, that dominant male perspective has conditioned us to believe that sex is a man's domain, that sex belongs to men. Which, obviously, is bullshit. To challenge that norm, Rubinstein is creating a series of paintings called A Dream Come True: Celebrity Cunnilingus (2015–), depicting, as explained on her website, "the work of the male eating pussy." These pieces are not particularly lifelike, but they are still more convincing than anything I saw in Fifty Shades. There's Robert Pattinson, his mouth buried in a bushy vulva, his eyes dark and intense, looking up at his partner. Also Justin Bieber, his full lips prepared to lick some labia, with three fingers pulling aside her underwear, his expression beseeching, as if to say, "Let me do this. I want to do this so bad." And then there's everyone's imaginary BF, Ryan Gosling, his top lip curled up against a fair-haired mound, unquestionably committed to the act of devouring pussy.
Gosling also devoured Michelle Williams' pussy in the 2010 film Blue Valentine. It ended up with an NC-17 rating because of that scene. He protested the decision, pointing out that "there's plenty of oral sex scenes in a lot of movies, where it's a man receiving it from a woman—and they're R-rated. Ours is reversed, and somehow it's perceived as pornographic."
Since then, the Motion Picture Association of America has relaxed somewhat; Ben Affleck got Rosamund Pike off in Gone Girl and Michael Fassbender did the same to Penélope Cruz in The Counselor, with both films rated R. At the same time, Shia LaBeouf and Evan Rachel Wood's Charlie Countryman was hit with an NC-17 until the scene in which his character went down on her was cut. So cunnilingus still often remains less acceptable than fellatio at the movies. Even in slang, male oral seems to have the upper hand. A blowjob combines two uncomplicated words. A "blowjob" should really be a "suckjob," but blowing is a lot more benign than sucking, an act that immediately conjures audiovisual effects in your mind, so we've never bothered to correct it. The term "blowjob" is still widely used and understood, legitimizing the act of fellatio in everyday language.
Female oral, however, does not have a counterpart. There is no one word in the vernacular that describes it, that takes away its foreignness. Instead, we have expressions, many of them ridiculous—muff diving, box licking, clam digging—all of them turning cunnilingus into a joke. And if the act is not described farcically, it's phrased in graphic terms: eating her out, eating pussy. Like a blowjob, technically no one's eating anything, but this inaccuracy has the opposite effect: instead of making the act more benign and less intimidating, it attaches an explicitness to cunnilingus that feels personal and messy.
Even though our culture and our language have turned it into a dirty secret, many men do truly love eating pussy. They should admit it and celebrate it as enthusiastically as they talk about getting it. And women also need to ask for head as often as they are asked to give head. Because if it's happening more in real life, then it will happen more on-screen. And the more we see it on-screen, the more we'll do it in real life.
I have a guy friend who told me that back in high school, he was part of an unofficial club called The Clit Guys. I asked him whether it was kinda gross and sexist for a group of boys to walk around calling themselves that. His reply? "Whatever. We wanted to let girls know we were down with going down and we felt good making them feel good," he said. "So if you want to call that sexist, go ahead." It wasn't sexist or gross: they were being good oral advocates. If only my younger self had listened and had known—really known—that guys wanted, and should want, to indulge my pussy. It would have been a lot happier, a lot sooner.
Elaine Lui appears on The Social and eTalk, is the founder of Lainey Gossip and the author of Listen to the Squawking Chicken.
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Neverita duplicata, common name the shark eye, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.

In 2006, a paper was published which made it clear that a second, very similar, species with a smaller range of distribution also lives in part of the range inhabited by Neverita duplicata. The second species had previously been considered to be simply a form of N. duplicata, but it is now recognized as Neverita delessertiana.

Distribution
This is a common western Atlantic species. It is found from Massachusetts and other parts of New England, south to Florida and other states on the Gulf of Mexico, south to Honduras.

Description
The shell has a flattened globular shape, and reaches about  in maximum dimension. The color of the shell is variable, but is often a greyish brown. The central apex of the shell is often a dark blue in fresh shells, which can make the shell somewhat resemble an eye. On the underside, there is a large brown callus which partly blocks the umbilicus of the shell.

The maximum recorded shell length is 82 mm.

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Habitat
This moon snail is found on sandy shores just below the low tide line. In most of its range, the empty shell is very commonly washed up on beaches, as also is the operculum and the sand collar.

The minimum recorded depth for this species is 0 m; the maximum recorded depth is 58 m.

Feeding habits
The shark eye (like all moon snails) is predatory, feeding mainly on bivalves buried in the sand. This snail drills a neat "countersunk" circular hole through the shell of its prey species, and then feeds on the soft tissue within.

References

Further reading
 National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Seashells

External links

 Neverita duplicata at Jax Shells
 Neverita duplicata, Gastropods.com, accessed 16 January 2011

Naticidae
Gastropods described in 1822

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Olfactory neuroblastoma. Cytodiagnostic features in a case with ultrastructural and immunohistochemical correlation
C. A. Ferris, V. J. Schnadig, F. B. Quinn, L. Des Jardins
In a case of olfactory neuroblastoma, originally misdiagnosed as an undifferentiated carcinoma, cytologic examination of material scraped from the superior nasal vault revealed tumor cells suggestive of neuroblastoma. The most significant cytodiagnostic feature was the presence of a fibrillary cytoplasm with ill-defined borders. Also noteworthy were the smudged hyperchromatic nuclei and structures resembling rosettes or pseudorosettes. The diagnosis was confirmed by electron microscopy, which revealed the presence of dense-core neurosecretory granules, clear vesicles, neurotubules and neurofilaments, and by immunohistochemistry, which showed positive staining for neuron-specific enolase but negative staining for keratin and glial fibrillary acidic protein. Since olfactory neuroblastoma has a relatively good prognosis and aggressive surgical resection may be curative, it is important that this tumor be distinguished from other small cell malignancies arising in the nasal cavity. The present case shows that the diagnosis can be made by the cytologic examination of scrapings from the tumor.
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Ferris, C. A., Schnadig, V. J., Quinn, F. B., & Des Jardins, L. (1988). Olfactory neuroblastoma. Cytodiagnostic features in a case with ultrastructural and immunohistochemical correlation. Acta Cytologica, 32(3), 381-385.
Olfactory neuroblastoma. Cytodiagnostic features in a case with ultrastructural and immunohistochemical correlation. / Ferris, C. A.; Schnadig, V. J.; Quinn, F. B.; Des Jardins, L.
In: Acta Cytologica, Vol. 32, No. 3, 01.01.1988, p. 381-385.
Ferris, CA, Schnadig, VJ, Quinn, FB & Des Jardins, L 1988, 'Olfactory neuroblastoma. Cytodiagnostic features in a case with ultrastructural and immunohistochemical correlation', Acta Cytologica, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 381-385.
Ferris CA, Schnadig VJ, Quinn FB, Des Jardins L. Olfactory neuroblastoma. Cytodiagnostic features in a case with ultrastructural and immunohistochemical correlation. Acta Cytologica. 1988 Jan 1;32(3):381-385.
Ferris, C. A. ; Schnadig, V. J. ; Quinn, F. B. ; Des Jardins, L. / Olfactory neuroblastoma. Cytodiagnostic features in a case with ultrastructural and immunohistochemical correlation. In: Acta Cytologica. 1988 ; Vol. 32, No. 3. pp. 381-385.
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Q: Convert Array of Base64 Strings to Audio file I am using a ESP32 with a inmp441 device to send audio via bluetooth. The esp is sending float values converted to std::strings so they can be read as Base64 over bluetooth. I am able to receive the Base64 values and I store them in an array like so
base64Array = ['LTMwMi4xMjUwMDA=','MzkyLjM3NTAwMA==','MTY3My4zNzUwMDA=', ...]

Here is my questions, to create an audio file like mp3 or wav, do I need to encode all of the Base64 string in the array back to ASCII then concatenate them together and then decode them back to Base64 to get one long Base64 string. Or can I write every Base64 value in the array to a file (creating a new line for each value) and save that as an audio file?
I am using react native to create an app and need the bluetooth device recording functionality.


Nails, nails, nails! Drs. Courtney, Kirkpatrick, and Frey-Stephenson talk all about nail health in this month's episode of Kids Healthcast. They even give tips on how to cut your child's nails. This is no small task! Tune in!


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Q: jquery select2 case insenstive search by first character I have a dropdown using 'Select2' as follows:
  <option value="1">Banana</option>
    <option value="2">Apple</option>
    <option value="3">Orange 2</option>
    <option value="4">Mango</option>
    <option value="5">Pomegranate</option>

My implementation is as follows:
$(document).ready(function() {

      //Search method modification
     // Single select example if using params obj or configuration seen above
      var configParamsObj = {
            placeholder: 'Select an option...', // Place holder text to place in the select
            minimumResultsForSearch: 3, // Overrides default of 15 set above
          matcher: function (params, data) {
      // If there are no search terms, return all of the data
      if ($.trim(params.term) === '') {
        return data;
      }

      // `params.term` should be the term that is used for searching
      // `data.text` is the text that is displayed for the data object
      if (data.text.indexOf(params.term) > -1) {
        var modifiedData = $.extend({}, data, true);
        modifiedData.text += ' (matched)';

        // You can return modified objects from here
        // This includes matching the `children` how you want in nested data sets
        return modifiedData;
      }

      // Return `null` if the term should not be displayed
      return null;
    }
        };

    //Search method modification
            //Changepicker disable
            $(".selectspy").select2(configParamsObj);
});

But when I search letter a I need the output which is starting with a  which is Apple. But I am getting Banana.
I am expecting when I search by 'a'->
Apple, Banana, Mango
I need case insensitive search by first letter.
Fiddle
version : Select2 4.0.0

A: Here is a way to sort returned results : https://jsfiddle.net/jEADR/2317/
Also, update to the last previous version 3.5.4. This function has been renamed as sorter in version 4.
$('#e1').select2({
    width: '200px',
    sortResults: function (results, container, query) {
        if (query.term) {
            // use the built in javascript sort function
            return results.sort(function (a, b) {
                if (a.text.length > b.text.length) {
                    return 1;
                } else if (a.text.length < b.text.length) {
                    return -1;
                } else {
                    return 0;
                }
            });
        }
        return results;
    }
});

UPDATE

function permute(input, permArr, usedChars) {
  var i, ch;
  for (i = 0; i < input.length; i++) {
    ch = input.splice(i, 1)[0];
    usedChars.push(ch);
    if (input.length === 0) {
      permArr.push(usedChars.slice());
    }
    permute(input, permArr, usedChars);
    input.splice(i, 0, ch);
    usedChars.pop();
  }
  return permArr;
}

$("#singleSelectExample").select2({
  matcher: function(term, text) {

    if (term.length === 0) return true;
    texts = text.split(" ");

    allCombinations = permute(texts, [], []);

    for (i in allCombinations) {
      if (allCombinations[i].join(" ").toUpperCase().indexOf(term.toUpperCase()) === 0) {
        return true;
      }
    }
    return false;
  }
});
.selectRow {
  display: block;
  padding: 20px;
}
.select2-container {
  width: 200px;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/select2/3.5.2/select2.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/select2/3.5.2/select2.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />

<body>Single select example
  <div class="selectRow">
    <select id="singleSelectExample">
      <option></option>
      <option value="1">Apple 1</option>
      <option value="2">Orange 2</option>
      <option value="3">Banana</option>
      <option value="4">Mango</option>
      <option value="5">Pomegranate</option>
      <option value="6">Apple 2</option>
    </select>
  </div>
</body>


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Life was better eight centuries ago; the medieval serf at least had the advantages of an integral social order and an integral worldview.
Declan Leary
The Reactionary Mind: Why "Conservative" Isn't Enough, by Michael Warren Davis, (Regnery Gateway: October 2021), 256 pages.
Getting into the reactionary mindset, I decided to start this book at the end, with the appendices, and work my way back to the beginning.
The first appendix is a list of reactionary leaders, "men who sought to preserve the balance between charity and independence, and to maintain the harmony between freedom and duty." It is, Davis admits, an eclectic group: Teddy Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan, Hilaire Belloc, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Dorothy Day. Here, I take it, is that Big Tent we all have heard so much about.
The second is a list of reactionary pastimes, exercise or leisure that actually makes a man more useful, paired with an opposite list of no-nos. Weightlifting, "a waste of time and energy," makes the latter list, while "strength training with objects found in nature" makes the former. For the life of me I can't muster an explanation for the difference, but I have decided to accept it.
Next we get a list of reactionary dogs, again divided by usefulness or lack thereof. I'm not sure where my dachshund-chihuahua mix (don't ask) falls, given his split constitution between a reactionary and a useless breed; but I'm not too bullish on the little guy's chances.
Reactionary drinks is a mostly solid catalogue, though I can't understand in the slightest why anyone would dilute a fine glass of chartreuse with tonic or any other mixer. Reactionary books, both literature and non-fiction, are two fine if inexhaustive lists.
Reading the entire thing in reverse would have been a bit laborious, so from here I went back to page one. Or page xi. Modern pagination has always rubbed me the wrong way. Somebody write a book about that. There's a counterrevolution I can get behind.
I read the introduction, and nodded vigorously along to every word, then put down the book to watch a cop procedural on Amazon Prime as I fell asleep. Evening came, and morning followed; I went straight for the cell phone, and as I scrolled through a Twitter account called "cats with jobs" (@catworkers, for the morbidly curious), I found myself condemned by Michael Warren Davis:
In your pocket, there's a little black box. Using that little black box, you can read every known work of Seneca, Euclid, Xenophon, Aquinas, Pascal, Shakespeare, Milton, Montaigne, Donne, Johnson, and Dickens. But you probably won't. You'll use it to look at pictures of strange-looking cats and watch videos of men hitting each other in the groin.
You got me there, Mike. Back to the book it is.
The Reactionary Mind is in some way an answer to Russell Kirk's similarly titled 1953 opus, one of the founding documents of the postwar American right. It is not enough to be merely conservative, says Davis, when there is so little left of the order we should conserve and so much imposed that must be rooted out. We cannot be defenders of the status quo; we must rebel and rebuild.
This makes the project fundamentally revisionist, intent on rewriting centuries worth of the West's understanding of itself. Enemies of progress denounced by the modern right must be reevaluated in light of the reactionary worldview. Champions of progress, meanwhile, even those who have called themselves conservative, must be held to account for the destruction they have wrought.
The argument at the center of the book is that life was just better eight centuries ago; the medieval serf, for all his technological primitiveness, at least had the advantages of an integral social order and an integral worldview. "The major catastrophes in Western history…the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution," dissolved both and gave us the iPhone as consolation.
Another of the founding texts of the contemporary "conservative" movement warns that governments might set us on a road to serfdom, reimposing the premodern conditions of the medieval serf on his 20th-generation descendants. Davis is ready to hit the road, to ride back past modern catastrophe to the happy life of our faithful forebears.
He makes his case with a startling simplicity, recasting modern humanism as anti-humanism, and holding up the modern state in contrast to medieval government—a comparison that reflects none too kindly on our own temporal rulers. What good have these centuries of revolution done, besides strip men of their religion and their land and substitute the iron fist of the liberal state for a free life under a Christian king?
Though I must admit I am predisposed to agreement, it is hard not to be struck by just how obvious the book's lines of reasoning appear.
Of course the reorganization of society around the individual at the expense of mediating institutions necessarily leads to increased state responsibility, and thus increased state authority. Of course social contract theory legitimizes the expansion of governmental power in a way medieval theory never could. Of course a modern bureaucratic leviathan is both more vulnerable and better suited to the development of tyranny than any old feudal system. Of course the transformation of the taxpaying small farmer into a deracinated wage slave made him less free, not more. Of course the abolition of public religion has done exactly what any sensible person before about a century ago could have warned you it would do.
The reactionary knows all these things, and yet the question remains: How do we go back? This is the question guiding the book's second part, "a handbook for would-be reactionaries…in open revolt against the modern world."
In the first part, Davis quotes Tolkien's famous letter to his son voicing a draw towards anarcho-monarchy, a kind of return to the free kingship of the middle ages. Like most who quote from the letter, Davis omits the latter parts, which have some bearing on the second half of his book:
But the special horror of the present world is that the whole damned thing is in one bag. There is nowhere to fly to. Even the unlucky little Samoyedes, I suspect, have tinned food and the village loudspeaker telling Stalin's bed-time stories about Democracy and the wicked Fascists who eat babies and steal sledge-dogs. There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as 'patriotism', may remain a habit! But it won't do any good, if it is not universal.
"Dynamiting factories and power-stations" is radical action, and even most diehard reactionaries would forswear it today. I myself am obliged to tut-tut it, lest our friends in Langley place me on another watchlist.
And yet there is a profound wisdom in Tolkien's negativity: There is nowhere to fly to. The modern economic order, just like the modern political order, is all-encompassing, all-consuming, inescapable.
Davis, a fellow Bay State native who has crossed the border northward, takes his epigraph from that great New England poet, Robert Frost: "Well, if I have to choose one or the other I choose to be a plain New Hampshire farmer." But he admits readily that he cannot be a farmer. He could not even afford the land. Nor could any but the richest among us.
It is likewise impossible, once the die has been cast, to return to a social-economic order of single-income families. (For this argument, Davis draws on that great Senate reactionary, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.) We find ourselves in an ever worsening situation of concentrated capital and cratering property ownership, declining real wages, less meaningful work that nonetheless rarely becomes less demanding, and a market ever more hostile to the institution of the family.
It seems that humane economy, once lost, is—to borrow from one of our great living novelists—"a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again." (I am not sure if Davis would call Cormac McCarthy a reactionary, but I think he should.)
Davis notes, rightly, that we have to "fix the economy." It must be reordered toward the primacy of the family, the valuation of real craft, rootedness in place and community—all the things that constitute the political vision of Nazareth. Davis highlights the value of 20th-century distributist thought. He calls for protective tariffs and tax incentives for reshoring labor.
These are all sound ideas, and well worth implementing. But I hardly find myself convinced that they will succeed in conquering either Mammon or Leviathan. This may be an indelible problem of the reactionary mind. The person whose natural tendencies incline him to recognize the failures of modernity does not, as a rule, have also the ability to meet system-level problems with system-level solutions. The kind of thought and action required to reshape society is, in the end, antithetical to the reactionary's character.
Maybe the reactionary cannot defeat modernity. But neither can modernity defeat the reactionary. He believes Stein's Law: "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop."
Near the end of The Reactionary Mind, Davis predicts:
Christendom—a Christian society and culture, reflected in life and law—may be dead beyond any hope of resurrection. The American republic may fall. It may be succeeded by some techno-oligarchic tyranny, or it may be swept into the sea by a Chinese invasion. The whole industrial capitalist system may collapse and plunge our nation into anarchy, hunger, and war. Christians may once again become an openly persecuted sect. We may very well be headed for a new Dark Age.
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This seems, at first glance, bleak. But we ought to remember that the last Dark Age birthed the thousand years of Christendom on whose goodness this book meditates. Nothing is permanent except for the things that are.
For a note of muted hope, as the battlefields of late modernity set themselves up and the Christian prepares for the coming turmoil, we might turn to a reactionary poet who did not quite make Davis' list:
…But as the turf divides /
I see in the slow progress of his strides /
Over the toppled clods and falling flowers, /
The timeless, surly patience of the serf /
That moves the nearest to the naked earth /
And ploughs down palaces, and thrones and towers.
This article appears in the November/December 2021 issue
Declan Leary is a contributing editor of The American Conservative. His work has appeared in The Lamp, National Review, and Crisis Magazine, among other publications.
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As part of a new five (5) year agreement, the Scotiabank Blue Nose Marathon has named BOYNECLARKE LLP the title sponsor of the brand new 15KM event, to be known as the BOYNECLARKE LLP 15KM.
Since the firm was founded in 1972, BOYNECLARKE LLP has grown to become one of Atlantic Canada's largest full-service law firms. They pride themselves on their commitment to the community and are thrilled to be a title sponsor of one of the largest community events in Nova Scotia.
The BOYNECLARKE LLP 15KM, which celebrates the 15th annual Scotiabank Blue Nose Marathon, is a new addition to the roster of races at the event. This route will take participants on journey through the streets of both Halifax and Dartmouth – with approximately 9KM of the course occurring in Dartmouth. Organizers expect about 800 people to participate.
Participants interested in registering for the BOYNECLARKE LLP 15KM can visit bluenosemarathon.com to register.
Known as 'the people's marathon', the Scotiabank Blue Nose Marathon welcomes all ages, abilities and fitness levels to the start line. With the help of more than 1,400 volunteers, the event hosts seven fitness events (Lifemark 5KM, GoodLife Fitness 10KM, BOYNECLARKE LLP 15KM, Blue Nose Half Marathon, Scotiabank Full Marathon, Killam Marathon Team Relay and the Doctors Nova Scotia Youth Run-2KM and 4KM), and the largest Active Living Expo in Atlantic Canada. Through the Scotiabank Charity Challenge, over 70 local charities raise more than half a million dollars annually. The event takes place annually during the Victoria Day weekend (May 18-20, 2018) in Halifax and expects to welcome 13,000 participants in 2018.


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Dwayne Johnson teases a future Black Adam vs Superman clash
"There's a battle that's going to go down one day."
By Stephanie Chase
Dwayne Johnson has teased that there could be a clash on the horizon between Black Adam and Superman.
Johnson will play the DC anti-hero in an upcoming standalone movie as the character is finally set to make his big-screen debut after originally being scheduled to appear in 2019's Shazam!.
Speaking to Total Film, Johnson explained how he wanted to make sure that his version of Black Adam is a hit with DC fans – and added that he can see Black Adam taking on Superman in the future.
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"We can do anything if we keep the audience first," Dwayne said. "So to me, there's a battle that's going to go down one day, between Black Adam and Superman. I don't know who that Superman is going to be, and I don't know who's going to play him. That's OK. I don't need to know right now.
"But I'm confident in knowing that. And that's based out of what fans want. We worked backwards from there."
The star also explained that he wants to make sure that his take on the character stays true to the DC comics original, saying that the filmmaking team have learned from some of the "pitfalls" of other DC movies.
"You get one shot out of the gates to build these characters properly," he continued. "We paid attention to some of the pitfalls that other films had experienced in the past, in the world of DC, and what, rightfully, got a lot of fans unhappy and pissed – and, as a fan, I was one of them.
"So, let's make sure we respect tradition and mythology, but let's not be handcuffed creatively."
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Filming on Black Adam wrapped up back in July, and Johnson marked the occasion with a tweet. "[That's] a wrap on BLACK ADAM. Incredible journey. Hardest undertaking of my entire career physically and mentally. Worth every second," he wrote at the time.
"Boundless gratitude to my 1,000+ crew members, actors and director, Jaume Collet-Serra. The hierarchy of power in DC Universe is changing."
Alongside Johnson, the film also stars Pierce Brosnan as Doctor Fate, To All the Boys I've Loved Before's Noah Centineo as Atom Smasher and Straight Outta Compton's Aldis Hodge as Hawkman.
Black Adam is scheduled to release on July 29, 2022.
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Fruit & Vegetable Farmer Speaks on what Immigration Reform Means
Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says his idea of comprehensive immigration reform would have to secure the border, create opportunities for an earned pathway to citizenship for those already here and focus on specific aspects of the economy such as agriculture, that are dependent on an immigrant workforce. Wilsack says more farmers and growers across the US are beginning to pull back due to the uncertainty of the immigration policy.
Sarah Marie Frey-Talley, owner of Frey Farms Produces says many growers have reduced their operations because they have been unable to secure an adequate harvest workforce:
"We really need to remain unified and get the message out to the public as to how this impacts their lives and food supply. With such a focus on locally grown commodities, and consumers really wanting to support local farms, its important that growers have access to an adequate workforce. What we have seen, on both a small and large scale, is that many produce companies have actually moved outside of the US, for instance into Mexico where they do have an adequate labor supply. We are importing more of our fresh fruits and vegetables now because of the lack of access to an adequate work force."
Frey-Talley says immigration reform would allow current ag workers to transition to the blue card program and also increase the number of visas for guest workers into the US:
"Given a larger workforce to pull from, we could expand our acres in several states and grow more fruits and vegetables, thus expanding our business and hiring more domestic workers. If we are able to produce more, that means we are creating jobs that the domestic workforce really looks for."
Frey-Talley says ultimately a variety of job opportunities would become available.
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How to be a Travel Writer 4
by George, Don
Publisher: Lonely Planet
How to be a Travel Writer 4 > ISBN13: 9781786578662
Online: 1825 Days
Downloadable: Lifetime Access
The eBook copy of this book is not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.
Bursting with invaluable advice, this inspiring and practical guide, fully revised and updated in this new edition, is a must for anyone who yearns to write about travel - whether they aspire to make their living from it or simply enjoy jotting in a journal for posterity.
You don't have to make money to profit from travel writing. Sometimes, the richest rewards are in the currency of experience. How to be a Travel Writer reveals the varied possibilities that travel writing offers and inspires all travellers to take advantage of those opportunities. That's where the journey begins - where it takes you is up to you.
Let legendary travel writer Don George show you the way with his invaluable tips on:
The secrets of crafting a great travel story
How to conduct pre-trip and on-the-road research
Effective interviewing techniques
How to get your name in print (and money in your bank account)
Quirks of writing for newspapers, magazines, online and books
Extensive listings of writers' resources and industry organisations
Interviews with established writers, editors and agents
About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. The world awaits!
Lonely Planet guides have won the TripAdvisor Traveler's Choice Award in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016.
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I'm particularly interested in performance metrics and statistics and how they are used and manipulated. One of my favorite terms from The Wire was "juking the stats" — manipulating the crime statistics for political reasons, usually be reclassifying felonies as lesser crimes to make the felony rate appear lower. Any quantitative system for measuring progress toward a goal provides the opportunity for juking the stats, and the challenge for creators of such systems is to be aware of these methods and account for them.
Michael Froomkin posts about a statistic law schools are measuring — attrition of students after their first year, and how that statistic can be interpreted. In his comments, he describes the incentive for top tier law schools to admit fewer first year law students and accept more students as transfers after the first year. This enables them to cherry pick the best students and increase their bar passage rate, which is one of the metrics applied by the all important (but dubiously accurate) US News rankings.
Expect more posts on juking the stats in the future.


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Q: On-prem and Cloud Consolidated Data in Report I have  Teradata  database that sits on on-premise and data is on ADLS Gen2. I need to show that in
Tableau report that should dynamically show consolidated data in the dashboard. What is approach should I follow. Appreciate your help.Thanks

A: I'm not sure I understand your question.
Do you want to connect to a Teradata DB? This link should help: https://help.tableau.com/current/pro/desktop/en-us/examples_teradata.htm
Do you want to connect to Azure data lake directly? This link should help: https://help.tableau.com/current/pro/desktop/en-us/examples_azure_data_lake_gen2.htm
Do you want to understand how link data from two source in the Tableau Datamodel?
Multiple options, all explained here and depending on your need, one or the other should be used (or a combination!): https://help.tableau.com/current/pro/desktop/en-us/datasource_prepare.htm
--> Do be aware that the data mixing & connecting capabilities of Tableau are somewhat limited compared to some other tools
Do you want to understand how to create reports? There are plenty of tutorials available, a quick google search should help you out.


What some people forget these days is that science is not an industrial force driven solely to solve obviously applicable problems. Discovering something new about the microscopic world has the same excitement for a physical chemist as stumbling upon a hidden socio-economic trend has for an economist or a honing in on subtle theme has for a scholar of literature.
"Perhaps we do a disservice by saying the sciences aren't humanities," he says, highlighting the unfortunate dichotomy of study in academia. Intellectual discovery is a driving force across all these fields. We can't forget that there is more value to sciences than the immediate service to society we have come to expect from many modern fields. In fact, as the fate of Stratt's research has shown, even when science is at the most fundamental level a study of some esoteric curiosity, it can lead to applications in other fields that we never expected.
Stratt, Richard M. Interviewed by: Michael Golz. 2013 Oct 7.


When it comes to promotional planning for the year people usually start with the key retail seasonal highlights. Of course Christmas is a huge period for most, and the January sales, but what about the rest of the year?
As consumers come to expect deals and offers around specific holidays and therefore competition tends to increase, you may find yourself struggling to compete with the bigger brands out there. This is where knowing your customer well comes in handy, doing something different can often see you changing the landscape with what your key online trading periods actual are.
Sometimes opportunities just present themselves and it's those retailers and their marketing teams that can make big gains here. Take the weather for example, if you have the ability to run a promotional campaign on a product (snow shovels in March anyone?) that could be unexpectedly in high demand all of a sudden, then you will likely be successful.
Ok weather is a typical one, but think of other overnight changes or trends that can happen. Some hot celeb or royal decides that he/she's going to wear a certain style of coat, or boots or lipstick or baby accessory and suddenly demand goes through the roof.
Lot's of businesses aren't able to respond in the way they need to in time and will miss out. Flexibility in your promotional planning is critical to gaining advantage over your competitors.
Promotional planning is absolutely critical in marketing and not only helps inform the business on a number of levels, finance, product, people, distribution etc. It is also about how the budget will be spread across all the different channels used for promotion over that financial year. Our advice is to create a flex in your budget that can be used to deal with unexpected or last minute opportunities. Have plans in place should this happen so that your marketing team can react and be creative without restrictions and delays usually caused by process. Talk about it with your internal team or external agencies so that everyone is aware of this flexibility, communication is at the heart of all of this.
Choose a good cause and promote them with a donation on each sale – this is not only doing good and helping to raise awareness but can also give you access to a bigger database (if they'll jointly promote) to gain brand awareness you don't already have.
Partner up with another brand – you sell hand cream, they sell gloves? double up on the database and exposure as well as sales.
National awareness days can get large volumes of search traffic and masses of social conversations – can you align your business with one of these and come up with a good offer to celebrate? Here's a website that has most international awareness days detailed.
What about celebrating the opposite – Anti-Valentines Day for example?
Align your business with a community concern, look at your customer profile – do they care about recycling? or fair trade shopping, or veganism?
Life events – consider what is happening in your target audiences lives at specific times. Are they getting ready to leave for university, travelling around the world, buying a house/car, getting divorced, getting fit? (not necessarily in that order). Can you find out and offer something that hits the spot timing wise?
Remember that Dove campaign? real women in white underwear ring any bells? It was over 15 years ago now but the impact of that campaign in identifying that women did not want to be portrayed as stick thin super models in advertising any longer is still felt today. Or the 'Wasssup' beer campaign that tapped into the nonsensical language we use when we're saying hello to friends. Have a look at this site; Adage Top 15, the videos don't appear for us but the content is great and the stories of how these ad campaigns came about are inspiring, insane and brilliant.
Taking a new approach to promotions can be pretty nail biting. The important thing here is to remember that you have tried something new to engage your audience. As long as a campaign can be monitored closely and changes made if and when necessary then you have lots you can learn. This kind of activity can also help you open up dialogs with your audience giving you the perfect opportunity to ask for feedback and input into what they actually want from your promotions.


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Advanced manufacturing refers to the use of cutting-edge skills or technologies to generate efficiencies and improvements in production processes.
From advanced robotics to 3D printing, the sector has significant growth potential and is estimated to contribute £162 billion to the UK economy.
Why Glasgow?
With a skilled workforce, research expertise and strong manufacturing base, the Glasgow City Region has much to offer the engineering and advanced manufacturing sector. The University of Strathclyde's Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC), is a globally recognised centre of excellence in innovative manufacturing technologies, R&D, and metal forming and forging research.
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The University of Strathclyde's Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) was established in 2009 as a collaborative venture with Scottish Enterprise, the Scottish Government, and founding industry members Rolls-Royce, Boeing and Timet. It was one of the founding centres of the UK Government's High Value Manufacturing (HVM) Catapult, and remains the only centre of its kind in Scotland. The AFRC is working with the Scottish Government, its agencies and Scottish industry to help deliver its manufacturing action plan, 'A Manufacturing Future for Scotland'.
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Honda recalls 1.4 million cars to replace air bag inflators
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© AFP/Getty Images Degradation of the inflator propellant means metal fragments could shoot out in an accident, putting occupants at serious risk of injury, even death.
Honda says it will recall 1.4 million U.S. cars to replace Takata front passenger air bag inflators. The company says the recall, which covers Honda and Acura vehicles, is part of an attempt to get ahead of a government mandated schedule of recalls on the Japanese-made air bags.
Honda says owners of the vehicles should schedule the free repair at authorized dealerships as soon as possible.
The Honda recalls are the fourth part of a five-phase plan announced by the National Highway and Transportation Safety Administration in May of 2016. Honda says it is ahead of schedule with more than 77 percent of existing recalls repaired.
The inflators have resulted in the largest series of auto recalls in U.S. history, covering 37 million vehicles and about 50 million inflators.
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Drug Manufacturer Trying to Cut off Ingredient Supply of the Cheaper, Nontoxic Version!
Would you take a mass-marketed drug with toxic ingredients to prevent premature childbirth that costs 6,800% more than the ten-dollar compounded nontoxic version? You may not have a choice. Two Action Alerts!
As we reported last year, KV Pharmaceutical manufactures Makena, a $13,800-per-pregnancy* synthetic form of progesterone prescribed for women with high-risk pregnancies to help prevent pre-term births. Compounding pharmacies have been making a safer and far less expensive version of the medicine for over a decade. Now KV has filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission (ITC) in an attempt to stop the supply of the ingredients for the compounded version. Since the entire supply of its active ingredient is imported, this move would effectively keep compounding pharmacies from making and selling this important medicine—and would completely eliminate the competition.
One of the biggest factors is cost—the compounded version costs only $200 per pregnancy, less than one percent of the price that Makena is now selling for. Who knows what Makena will cost if it gets the monopoly it wants? Eliminating the compounded version would make the drug cost prohibitive for many, many women, and some of the available supply of the drug would be eliminated, which could cause a mother to lose her child.
On top of that, sensitive women simply can't take the commercial drug because it contains the toxic preservative benzyl alcohol. Benzyl alcohol has been linked to "gasping syndrome" in infants and, according to the CDC, has caused six neonatal deaths. Doctors can prescribe a compounded version of 17P without the benzyl alcohol, but if the ingredients are banned to compounders, only the version with the benzyl alcohol is left.
As you may remember, two years ago, KV Pharmaceutical received "orphan drug" status for 17P, the successful progesterone-based drug, and immediately tried to ban the sale and production of the compounded version of 17P in an attempt to secure a monopoly. This caused an outpouring of grassroots protest, prompting FDA to officially state that compounding pharmacies could continue to provide 17P.
In KV Pharmaceutical's new attempt to eliminate compounded 17P, they've filed a section 337 case with the ITC asking that the active pharmaceutical ingredient, called API, be banned from import, creating a monopoly for the amount KV produces! The company is actually claiming that KV is the entire domestic industry for 17P, and that imports of 17P for use by compounding pharmacies will thus destroy the domestic industry.
Just think about that for a second. "We are the only domestic industry for the ingredient"—meaning, in effect, that there is no domestic competition—"so other companies shouldn't be allowed to receive the ingredients because it's a threat to the industry"? Seriously? They're not competition for you, but their competition hurts you?
In addition, they are shamelessly trying to eliminate competition using Makena's orphan drug status to support its actions, when the whole entire point of orphan drugs is to provide incentives to manufacture drugs because there is a shortage!
In their complaint, KV accuses compounding pharmacies of having an "unlawful drug manufacturing and distribution enterprise…which proceeds under the fiction of individualized drug 'compounding.' " They are essentially claiming there is no difference between compounding and drug manufacturing—an underhanded attempt to remove from the market compounded drugs that are exempt from the FDA drug approval process. Even worse, KV is riding the wave of the political backlash against compounding pharmacies due to the recent meningitis outbreak we reported on last month, and specifically mentions that tragic case as a major justification for its claim.
Needless to say, if the ITC rules in favor of KV, it would set a terrible precedent for active pharmaceutical ingredients imported for other compounded drugs.
The very latest twist in this is that KV Pharmaceutical has filed for bankruptcy protection. If KV wins their ITC suit banning the supply of API for 17P, then actually goes bankrupt, the drug could be lost to women forever. It is unlikely other pharmaceutical companies will try to spend the money to manufacture the drug, given its history.
Compounding pharmacies are already regulated through state pharmacy boards. But now, after the meningitis debacle, Representative Ed Markey (D-MA)—despite his statements to those involved that he would hold off and work with others—has introduced legislation to give FDA greater enforcement powers over compounders, usurping state authority.
Rep. Markey's bill, HR 6584, would empower FDA to create a list of drugs that cannot be compounded. Who would set the standard? It would be at the FDA's own discretion—which means that anything can be on the do-not-compound list.
Furthermore, one of the ways the FDA can consider whether to include something on the list is if the drug is "reasonably likely to cause an adverse effect on safety and effectiveness." Of course, FDA's standard of safety and effectiveness is usually code for "double blind random-controlled studies"—which compounded drugs are specifically exempt from. Therefore any compounded drug could be deemed unsafe and ineffective and might therefore appear on the list—especially considering how strongly FDA is influenced by pharmaceutical interests.
More to the point, it's an inapplicable standard: compounded drugs are by definition medicine that is individualized for the needs of the patient. How can you run a drug trial on one person? Not only that, but compounded drugs are substantially similar to approved drugs or already have a USP monograph, so safety is demonstrably not an issue.
The bill limits compounding to a per-patient prescription basis. This could completely eliminate "office use"—that is, when a practitioner administers a medicinal preparation directly to a patient, in his or her office or other treatment area, for the immediate treatment of a problem. In these instances a doctor would need to have a reserve supply on hand without a prescription. And pharmacies might need to start production on various compounded formulations in advance of a prescription—especially if they know they have a standing order on certain formulations.
The registration and inspection exemptions for compounders would be eliminated if the FDA determines that a compounding pharmacy is in "in effect manufacturing." What does that phrase actually mean? This, too, is for the FDA to decide. And it needs watching, since the FDA may try to use it as a club against compounding.
We are working with key members of the Senate to ensure that any new legislation is not used as a back-door mechanism by Big Pharma to eliminate compounding pharmacies, which would secure a monopoly for commercial drugs.
TWO Action Alerts!
The ITC is accepting public comment on the complaint, but only through this Friday. Please send your message today, and tell the ITC how important it is to protect the imported supply of API for 17P, and especially how important it is to preserve the compounded version, which is much more affordable for most women and may be significantly safer! Send your message to the ITC now!
Rep. Markey needs to understand his legislation is both superfluous and harmful. FDA can already move against compounding pharmacies that engage in activities more akin to drug manufacturing—as it appears was the case with the New England Compounding Center. Giving FDA greater authority won't address the agency's lack of resources and its inability to carry out its current mandate. Send your message to Rep. Markey now!
* Editor's Note: The initial price of Makena was $1,500 per dose, costing $30,000 over the course of a pregnancy, as the original version of this article noted. However, after the drug's debut, KV Pharmaceutical cut the price of their drug to $690 per dose, or $13,800 over the course of a pregnancy, still a far cry from the $10 per treatment the compounded version of 17P sells for. 11/27/2012
4 responses to "Drug Manufacturer Trying to Cut off Ingredient Supply of the Cheaper, Nontoxic Version!"
earthmama says:
I would never take drugs in my pregnancies irregardless of the reasons. If I "needed" drugs to prevent preterm birth, I would first look in to alternative options, and if that did not help, then maybe I was not meant to have a child, or maybe something much bigger is missing. For example a complete diet change, a detox prior to pregnancy, etc. There are so many things to consider, and a drug is not the answer.
Rebecca Magliozzi says:
Good luck finding something safe and "natural" that would truly prevent early term births, especially if you have some sort of immune or genetic defect possibly causing it. I really believe modern medicine does have its place and can save lives in emergency situations for example, or in extreme cases. What if you try all the natural stuff and it doesn't work? My son did a complete diet change, supplements, therapies, the works. He still had dangerous rage and high anxiety that no amount of NAET, accupuncture, chiropractic treatments, supplements, diet changes or elimination diets would fix. It is only on medications, a beta blocker and an immune modulator, and antibiotics for his autism and PANDAS that we've been able to make any changes. Sure, we did the magnesium, exercise, ashawaganha, B vitamins, meditation, massage, OT therapies. It just didn't help enough. If I had been pregnant with either of my kids and in danger of early labor, you bet I would have taken the progesterone. I just would have made sure it was the safer, compounded version.
Jakh Heremia says:
natural – full bed rest – the natural way is the only way – some DRUGS are purported to assist. – throws hands in a W shape – OT EVA
MamaRoy says:
This is a touchy subject that I have first hand knowledge. I found myself in a very high-risk pregnancy due to extreme complications from Crohn's disease. The doctor gave me a medication at the time called Tributaline to prevent pre-term labor and to enable my baby's lungs to develop. I had to be on that nasty stuff and total bed rest for a month. As much as I would have preferred a natural solution or no drugs at all, my baby's life and health was far more important to me and my husband. My baby is now 22 and in college. Moral of my story: Make the best decision armed with as much information as possible. Sometimes a drug can be beneficial and save a life.
But I really am dismayed at how the pharmaceutical companies are operating these days. The FDA does not have our safety or best interest anymore, so definitely do your own research with valuable source information knowing all the risks and side affects.
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