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Councilman Mike Bonin Addresses Various Concerns
Councilman Mike Bonin took questions from residents in the tightly-packed Palisades Library community room last Thursday.
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The Pacific Palisades Community Council met on June 27 in the Palisades Library community room.
Before Councilman Mike Bonin spoke, there were two important announcements.
1) Howard Robinson, chair of the PPCC Land Use Committee, said his group met earlier in the day regarding the five-story, 60-ft.-high, mixed-use project proposed at the site of the former Jack-in-the-Box on Sunset near Pacific Coast Highway. The project, as presented, was opposed by the LUC and will be brought to the PPCC's July 25 meeting for a motion and discussion.
2) Council President George Wolfberg reported that future PPCC meetings will start at 6 p.m. (instead of 7 p.m.) and must be finished by 8 p.m. to accommodate the library's new closing schedule.
Circling the News asked Wolfberg on June 28 if any other venues such as the Woman's Club and the American Legion had been pursued for meetings, since an early start time will make it harder for commuters and parents with children to attend.
He said that the executive committee (comprised of Wolfberg, Richard Cohen, Chris Spitz, David Card and chair emeritus Maryam Zar) agreed that council meetings generally require two hours, and that other venues would pose their own challenges.
"They were virtually unanimous in choosing 6 to 8 p.m. and I am going with that," Wolfberg said.
Zar added, "We thought the library venue was perfect for meetings and that members have such diverse lives that any time would inconvenient/convenient for some."
The new time was presented as a fait accompli and the remaining members of the PPCC board were not polled as to their opinion.
Councilman Mike Bonin answered numerous questions submitted by council members and residents, while also hearing various concerns.
CTN highlights some of Bonin's answers (below) and will address his comments about the proposed dog park on Temescal Canyon Road, recycling at the Recreation Center, proposed fencing around Potrero Canyon Park and enhanced strategies for fighting and responding to future brush fires approaching Pacific Palisades in future articles.
QUESTIONS/ANSWERS/COMMENTS:
1. Verbal Racial Attack.
Former Lutheran Pastor Kenneth Davis and his daughter were the subjects of threats.
Regarding the incident at Ralphs grocery store when a woman shouted racists remarks and threats at former Palisades Lutheran Pastor Kenneth Davis and his daughter, Davis left the ministry after 30 years. His last sermon was June 23. "I was touched to see the outpouring the community gave him," said Bonin, who added that he's looking forward to working with Davis, in whatever capacity he can, regarding race relations. Davis and his twin daughters now live in West L.A. The woman who verbally assaulted and threatened the Davis family has not been found. Allegedly the same person assaulted a second person in the same Ralphs.
2. Renaming a Street.
Bonin said that if the community wants to name a street after the late Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Arnie Wishnick, he could facilitate the campaign. The block under consideration is Antioch, between Via de la Paz and Swarthmore, where the Chamber office is located.
3. SB 50 in Sacramento.
Someone asked why the City doesn't "stand up" to state legislators regarding "home rule," more specifically Senate Bill 50. (An April article in Curbed L.A. cited a report stating that "SB 50 would create new incentives for developers to build apartments and condos near train and bus stations, even in areas zoned strictly for single-family homes—and the report finds it has the potential to reshape 43 percent of developable land in the city. Nearly half of all developable land citywide is currently reserved for single-family homes.")
Bonin explained that we all need to understand that there is a tremendous housing crisis in California and that state legislators will continue to pursue legislation that would take away local control in an effort to build more multi-family housing, unless the L.A. City Council acts.
"We need to require affordable housing in anything over six units," Bonin said, noting that he has proposed a vacancy tax, which means that if a homeowner has an empty house and is not renting it out, he could be fined.
Bonin said he supported the upcoming Martin Expo Town Center (at Olympic and Bundy), which will provide more housing on the Westside, close to the Expo line.
4. Residential Sidewalk Repair.
Bonin was asked who's responsible for residential sidewalk repair and who's liable if someone trips and falls on a raised sidewalk and decides to sue.
"Whose fault depends on the lawyer, the judge and the jury," Bonin quipped. "They tend to go after the City first."
He explained that most cities require homeowners to repair the sidewalk in front of their homes. In the 1970s when the City was flush with revenue, it took responsibility for residential sidewalks, but after a few years, City officials realized they couldn't afford the repair costs.
In the 1990s, the unofficial policy adopted by the City was to settle lawsuits because it was cheaper than repairing sidewalks. Then a class-action lawsuit was filed in 2010 on behalf of those with disabilities. In the 2015 Willits settlement, Los Angeles agreed to spend $33 million every year for 30 years to repair sidewalks.
A January 2018 Curbed L.A. story ("Los Angeles Isn't Keeping Up with a Flood of Requests to Fix Broken Sidewalks") reported that the City receives about 700 requests monthly for repairs. "The city is inundated—and it can't keep up. In the last fiscal year, which ended in July, the bureau repaired 482 sites. In other words: The city receives more requests for sidewalk repairs in one month than the number of sites it was able to mend in 12 months."
In April, a CBS News report revealed that nearly 40 percent of L.A.'s sidewalks have a D or F rating and more than 8,700 miles need fixing.
"We will fix the sidewalk and then the liability reverts back to the homeowner," Bonin said at the PPCC meeting. "If you have called in something and if a person in the family has a disability, make sure the City knows."
In May, longtime Pacific Palisades resident Dick Littlestone reported that someone in a wheelchair could not navigate the north side of Antioch (between Via de la Paz and Swarthmore) because the sidewalk has curbs at the alley. He reported this to the City, but nothing has been fixed, yet.
5. Vacated Streets.
Via de las Olas was vacated by the City decades ago. Councilman Mike Bonin said the City is now responsible for vacated streets again.
There are 39 streets in Pacific Palisades that were "abandoned" or pulled out of use, starting in 1936, because they were deemed too expensive to repair.
City Councilman Bob Blumenfield (District 3, in the Valley) brought "street vacation" to the City's attention in March 2018 when his constituents sought help in getting streets repaved—some had not been touched in 80 years.
In a May L.A.Times story ("Some L.A. Streets Aren't Being Repaved Because of a Law Dating from the Depression"), Blumenfield said, "Many residents have no idea that their street is withdrawn until they try to get it fixed. The reality is, whether we like it or not, we're liable for these streets anyway."
"These streets are back on the roster," Bonin said, but that doesn't mean they are being fixed or are on the list for repairs, yet.
6. Dockless Scooters.
After Corpus Christi Monsignor Liam Kidney was hit by a dockless scooter on Toyopa and sent to the emergency room, the scooter company refused to release the name of the person operating the scooter to law enforcement. The person ran off, saying "I'm out of here!"
PPCC members Steve Boyers and Chris Spitz wrote a resolution regarding the operation of scooters in Los Angeles. It was approved by the Community Council and sent to Mayor Eric Garcetti and the City Council.
The resolution asked the City to deny, suspend or revoke business licenses to companies that refuse to cooperate with law enforcement. (Visit: pacpalicc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/PPCC-re-dockless-scooters.pdf.)
"We spoke to the city attorney," Bonin said. "Police officers said they couldn't reach the company." He explained that the standard for dockless scooters would be the same as for a rental car company.
7. Highlands Eldercare Facility.
Bonin was asked why he approved a controversial eldercare facility in the Highlands, when so many residents opposed it and even filed a lawsuit to stop the project. "Seniors need a place to live in a residential area," he said. There was no further discussion.
8. Library Bookstore.
Inside the Palisades Library is a patio bookstore that sells used books and earns about $800 a month. The nonprofit Friends of the Library operates the store with volunteers and donates all proceeds to the library to purchase books and CDs.
In July 2015, the Friends received a substantial bequest that would enable the group to pursue building an enclosed bookstore at the library, utilizing unused land. An architect drew up plans and the City approved these plans last November, but the final contract has yet to signed, despite persistent inquiries by the Friends.
Friends representative Bill Bruns asked Bonin, "Can you help us resolve this issue? We've had the money to build this little store for nearly four years." Bonin replied, "I'm happy to jump in. I'm always eager to see any bookstore, used or new." He promised to work on getting the contract signed so that construction can begin.
5 Responses to Councilman Mike Bonin Addresses Various Concerns
Hi, I am actually surprised that you didn't have more to say about the dog park and that the majority of the people at the PPCC meeting were there in support of this popular project. It would have been fun to have elected to use a picture that showed the full DOG PARK NOW sign behind Mr. Bonin. I was also disappointed that they only allowed one of our questions on this subject and therefore we didn't got much of an answer. Thank you…
I felt that the topic of the dog park warranted a full story, not just a short mention. Look for that story after the Fourth of July. I was also distressed to hear that there was at least one other question about the dog park to Bonin that was not asked. (For those that did not attend, residents were allowed to write questions down and submit them. Then PPCC Chair George Wolfberg read the questions to Bonin. If other "dog" park people have questions that they would like me to include in a story, please send them over and I'll try to get answers.
Diane Bleak says:
Why no further discussion regarding the proposed eldercare building next to a state and national park where numerous mountain lion sightings have occurred?
The Edge ( guitarist For U2 ) lost his bid to develop a portion of the Santa Monica Mountains.
Please HEAR the residents of Los Angeles (past and present),
The preservation of the Santa Monica Mountains comes first .
It's not about the elderly, it's about the preserving the Santa Monica Mountains.
Don't enclose the national park like it's a zoo.
Diane,
The evening's format was: a question was asked of Councilman Mike Bonin, he replied and then the next question was asked. There was no discussion. On several of the topics, such as the sidewalk Bonin chose to elaborate.
Paula H Deats says:
Another great newsletter. Curious: Where did Edge want to build? Maybe thinking a possible lion-safari park experience?


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Tiny 'Nanoflares' May Solve Sun Mystery
By Jesse Emspak 13 August 2014
Small "nanoflares" erupting from the sun might be the key to unlocking a cosmic mystery, according to a new study.
Scientists have found that the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, can reach temperatures 1,000 times higher than those at the surface of the star, but solar physicists previously had no explanation for why this temperature discrepancy is so great. Now, researchers think the relatively tiny flares may be the "smoking gun" that explains this mysterious cosmic occurrence.
The new study provides the first direct proof that nanoflares keep the sun's corona at a temperature of millions of degrees, far hotter than the sun's visible surface, which is about 6,000 degrees Kelvin (10,000 degrees Fahrenheit). [The Biggest Solar Flares of 2014: Photos]
Scientists think that smaller solar flares called "nanoflares" are responsible for the extreme heating of the sun's outer atmosphere. (Image credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)
"The nanoflare model has been around for a while," said Jeffrey Brosius, a solar physicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland "With better instrumentation, we were hoping to find the evidence that was predicted by the model."
Nanoflares happen because of huge magnetic fields located throughout the sun's corona. These loops are anchored in the photosphere, the sun's visible surface, but move around due to turbulence in the photosphere. Sometimes the field lines cross, and they become twisted and tangled.
When this happens in the presence of plasma, current sheets form, and the "stress" builds until the magnetic field "breaks," releasing lots of energy very quickly. This kind of crossing of magnetic fields can happen thousands of times a second over the whole solar surface, and this transfers energy to the plasma in the corona. That energy transfer could explain the corona's extra heat.
Earlier evidence for this, though, was indirect. While other models didn't fit observations, the model based on nanoflares was still missing a piece of the puzzle. That missing evidence came from the Extreme Ultraviolet Normal Incidence Spectrograph mission, which picked up light emitted by a special kind of ionized iron, called Fe XIX. (The Roman numeral describes how highly ionized the iron is, and thus the temperature of the plasma, which was about 8.9 million degrees Kelvin, or about 16 million degrees Fahrenheit.)
The EUNIS instruments also spotted another form of ionized iron, Fe XII, which occurs at a temperature of 1.6 million degrees Kelvin, or about 2.9 million degrees Fahrenheit.
The ratio of the two ions showed that the corona is heated by short bursts, rather than a continuous input of energy, because that ratio -- the brightness of Fe XIX relative to its cousin Fe XII -- would only occur under certain physical conditions. "One of the predictions of the nanoflare model is there should be fairly widespread but faint emission of plasma at about 10 million Kelvin [18 million degrees Fahrenheit]," Brosius told Space.com.
One reason for this doubt is that the emission from the ionized ironwas so hard to see because it was faint. Another is that the corona is "optically thin," meaning that at some wavelengths, it's basically translucent, like stained glass. So the nanoflares, many occurring simultaneously and overlapping, tend to "wash out."
The study appears in the August issue of the Astrophysical Journal.
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iPhone XR 2019 renders leaked online
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In recent days we have seen a lot of information related to the upcoming releases of Apple, and obviously one of the most anticipated products of these releases is the new iPhone. It is expected to launch 3 new models such as the iPhone XI, XI Max and XR 2019.
iPhone XI could be the first Apple phone with the triple rear camera. However, a new leak reveals that the iPhone XR 2019, or XRs will also increase their number of rear sensors, it would have a dual camera.
This has been revealed by Benjamin Geskin, who in turn has taken as a reference a render created by OnLeaks and Pricebaba. These 3D models have been created based on information from people who work directly in the development of the new iPhone.
Something that must be emphasized is that although Apple already has several phones on the market with a dual camera, the new iPhone XR will not be similar to these models. The camera module has a strange protuberance that we also saw in the model with the triple rear camera.
With the iPhone XI three cameras, Apple is including components dedicated exclusively to improve the pictures of their next phones. For that, they will have to make a bit thicker part of the cameras.
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For now, there is nothing to do but wait for the company to announce when it will be the presentation of its new products, although all this is expected to happen in the month of September.
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Q: Representation of linear functionals I have always seen the linear functionals in $R^n$ expressed at $\ell(x) = \sum_{i=0}^n a_ix_i$ And in an countable metric space $\ell(x) = \sum_{i=0}^{\infty} a_ix_i$. I guess that this follows directly from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesz_representation_theorem, for Hilbert spaces.
But what if we are not in an Hilbert space or if the space is uncountable.
If X was a 1 dimensional space I would get $f(x) = f(1)x$ by continuity and linearity (by derivation and integration) and by partial derivation it would look like $f(x) = \sum_{i=0}^n f(1)x_i$
for the n dimensional case

A: In general, linear functionals can be very different than that.
The easiest example of a functional not of the form you claim, is probably there case where you take $X=C[0,1]$ and consider functionals like $\ell(f)=f(0)$ (or any other point, for that matter).
Note also that when you consider infinite-dimensional spaces, they most often come with a topology, and one considers bounded (i.e. continuous)  linear functionals. Unbounded linear functionals exist but are a lot tricker to deal with.

A: I can think of a nice representation theorem that holds in a non-Hilbert space.  It goes by the name Riesz-Kakutani-Markov:
Let $X$ be a compact Hausdorff space and $(C(X),\|\cdot\|_\infty)$ the space of continuous real valued functions on $X$ endowed with the maximum norm.  Then, every bounded linear functional $F$ on $C(X)$ can be written as an integral against a signed, finite Borel measure $\mu$ on $X$:
$$
F(f)=\int_X fd\mu
$$
with norm
$$
\|F\|=\int_X\vert d\mu\vert
$$ where $\vert d\mu\vert$ is the absolute variation of $\mu$.
A good resource for this theorem is Lax: Functional Analysis.  Granted, this is more sophisticated than the Riesz representation theorem on Hilbert spaces, but that's to be expected.

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Pen and Paper Versus Laptop: Is There a Clear Winner in the Note-Taking Olympics?
While both pen and keyboard have been put through contrived trials by scientists, it remains to be seen which is best for note-taking in class.
Jonathan Jarry, MSc | 20 Sep 2019
Is the pen really mightier than the keyboard? I know a professor who begins each semester by pointing out that, according to this one study, students perform better on tests when their notes were taken by hand rather than on a computer. It bears repeating that a single study is almost always never enough. Studies are all flawed in slightly different ways—their sample size, their data analysis, even how closely they attempt to echo reality in a laboratory setting—but analyzed together, these studies can give us a meaningful answer as we account for their unique flaws.
Note-taking and note-reviewing have a substantive benefit on student performance. Why is that? Scientists have narrowed it down to two possible answers. The process of noting something down could itself be beneficial, although the evidence on this is mixed. What is clear however is that the product (the notes) does boost academic achievement substantially, even if the notes were borrowed from someone else and not written by the student being tested. The product is important while the process of note-taking may or may not be.
But what does the scientific literature have to say about the best way to take notes in class? We have so many more options available to us since my parents' generation, like laptops, tablets, smartphones, and apps designed for note-taking. Should we scribble or type away?
The answer is not intuitively obvious, as there are both advantages and disadvantages to each method. Humans on average type faster than we write with a pen, which allows for the recording of more information, even verbatim transcripts. But computers are host to a number of distractions in class, including alerts, YouTube, and social media. A Word document is also a poor medium for information that goes beyond sentences, like charts and graphics. With regards to the pen, its relative slowness means the student often has to decide on the spot what's important and what's not, and how best to rephrase the information and organize it. This sounds like a boon for comprehension… but it requires more brain energy, which may mean important details spoken by the professor end up ignored while the brain wrestles with the information.
The study I mentioned at the top—literally called "The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard" —is really interesting. It's a series of three experiments involving university students watching short lectures or TED Talks and being quizzed about them almost immediately after. Two of these experiments did not allow the students to review their notes (a situation that does not reflect midterms and finals) and both "pen" and "keyboard" groups did equally well on questions pertaining to facts. When it came to understanding concepts, though, the keyboard group did worse. The final experiment allowed half the students in each group to study their notes for ten minutes, and the pen users who had studied were the clear winners. So death to the laptop; all hail the ballpoint! Right?
Not so fast. I had to, appropriately enough, hand-write notes on this topic and review them before writing this, because the few studies that exist on this important academic question—and there are indeed few of them—are conflicting and obsessed with dissecting this question into tiny fragments. There's Luo's study which looked at how good students were at remembering images versus text, and which tried to tease out contributions from the process of note-taking from those having to do with the notes themselves, and overall the conclusion was that pen was best. But there's Bui's study that reported that the students who took verbatim notes on a computer did better than those who hand-wrote… when no time was given to study the notes. And in their last computer-only experiment, they pitted students who were told to take verbatim notes against others who were told to organize their notes according to concepts, and divided those two groups into "study" versus "no study". The result? Students who took verbatim notes and were allowed to study them did better on the quiz the next day than those who had studied their much leaner, concept-driven notes. And there's a final study, this one by Fiorella, which presented the course material on, wait for it, flashcards. In this rather strange scenario, the computer note-takers outperformed the pen wranglers.
My take-home message from reading and re-reading these studies (now's the time to whip out your pen or keyboard, as this is exam material) is that scientists seem more interested in learning about how we learn by devising highly controlled (and contrived) scenarios than in answering the more pragmatic question on the minds of every student: what kind of notes should I take? And since asking for research funds, recruiting participants, analyzing results and publishing papers takes time, research is always a step or two behind reality. Case in point: none of these studies looked at tablets, which seem like a great way of combining the advantages of both pen and keyboard.
And here's an extra headache for researchers who investigate note-taking: a 2019 survey of a few hundred undergraduate students revealed that 74% took notes differently depending on the class. Organic chemistry may benefit from the freedom of the pen, while history's torrent of dates and facts may be better captured by nimble fingers tapping keys. Throw in physical disabilities, which may prevent the efficient use of pens for some, and the note-taking landscape becomes a "Choose Your Own Adventure" book.
What we can say with good certainty is that notes are beneficial even if the act of taking them may or may not be, and that reviewing them before a test really helps. That's an important point to make in this age of online courses. In that 2019 survey, while 96% of students reported taking notes often or always, the percentage dropped dramatically to 49% when the courses were available online.
Beyond stating the importance of having notes, we're left with preference. Although technology has changed dramatically since my parents' youth, I can't say the science-based advice on note-taking has followed suit.
Take-home message:
•The process of taking notes during class may or may not be beneficial to the student, but the notes themselves and being able to review them before an exam have been shown to be highly valuable
• It is unclear at this point which method of taking notes (pen, laptop, or tablet) is best, and it may be that different subjects lend themselves more to one method over the other
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Caregiver Alleges Deceptive SEIU 775 Email was Unfair Labor Practice
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As recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings have ended mandatory union dues requirements for workers paid by the government, unions have developed new tactics to try and maintain their members. While some have responded by working to improve and better market the value of their services, far too many have resorted to unsavory tactics designed to coerce or deceive employees into authorizing nearly irrevocable union dues deductions from their wages.
One of the worst offenders in this regard has been the Seattle-based Service Employees International Union Local 775 (SEIU 775), which represents individual provider home care aides (IPs) serving Medicaid-eligible clients in Washington state.
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Even simple trickery is not beneath the union.
On Sept. 10, 2019, SEIU 775 emailed a group of IPs who had resigned their membership or never signed up in the first place. The subject line of the email read, "Time to update your information." The body of the email read,
"It's time to update your SEIU 775 member records and contact information. It only takes a few minutes, and will ensure you're getting all the caregiver information you need. Click here to update your membership information."
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First, although it was sent to IPs who were not union members, the email clearly implied the recipient was already a member by asking them to "update your SEIU 775 member records and contact information." Simply updating your contact information for an organization you're already a member of requires less consideration than whether to sign up for membership in the first place.
Second, SEIU 775 wasn't actually requesting updated contact information at all, but soliciting membership.
Clicking on the link provided in the email led to an online form on SEIU 775's website. While the first page of the form asked the IP to provide his or her contact and personal information, the subsequent pages all contained authorizations for the union to collect dues and political contributions from the IPs' wages and/or bank account. There was no way for an IP to provide contact information only and complete the form without agreeing to membership.
Third, SEIU 775 has set up a series of independent trusts under the banner of the SEIU 775 Benefits Group to administer certain state-funded employment benefits for IPs. These benefits are available to IPs regardless of their membership status with SEIU 775. Although SEIU 775 and the trusts are all legally distinct entities, they deliberately share similar branding and even use the same call center in SEIU 775's headquarters building in downtown Seattle.
As a result, nonmember IPs are often confused about whether a communication is coming from SEIU 775, in which case their guard is up to avoid signing up for membership accidentally, or from the SEIU 775 Benefits Group, which may require legitimate action on the IPs' part regarding their state-funded benefits.
To discourage such deceptive behavior in the future, the Freedom Foundation has filed an unfair labor practice complaint against SEIU 775 with the Public Employment Relations Commission (PERC) on behalf of one of the IPs who received the email.
The complaint alleges that, by attempting to mislead IPs into signing up for union membership, SEIU 775 violated IPs' statutorily protected right to refrain from joining a union or paying union dues.
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QLK Case Study: Larry Blocher
QLK Docking Station Helps Disabled Veteran Enjoy Freedom of Mobility
After fighting to protect freedom around the world, a retired U.S. Army sergeant had no intention of letting the incomplete spinal cord injury he suffered parachuting into Grenada keep him from enjoying his own freedom back home. Thanks to a QLK wheelchair docking station and then auto-retractors in his minivan, Lawrence Blocher of South Florida says "I have a good life. And one of the reasons is being able to get out and about."
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Disease relevance of SLC11A1
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SLC11A1 - solute carrier family 11 (proton-coupled...
Synonyms: LSH, NRAMP, NRAMP 1, NRAMP1, Natural resistance-associated macrophage protein 1, ...
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OBJECTIVE: The SLC11A1 (formerly called NRAMP1) gene is important in natural resistance to a variety of intracellular infections mediated by macrophages and has been proposed as a candidate gene for autoimmune disease susceptibility [1].
The aim of this study was to examine susceptibility in Finnish patients with persistent oligoarticular and polyarticular rheumatoid factor (RF)-negative juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) due to the presence of the SLC11A1 locus on chromosome 2 [1].
Different association studies have shown that the SLC11A1 gene affects susceptibility to infectious diseases and autoimmune inflammatory diseases [2].
Genetic analysis of SLC11A1 polymorphisms in multiple sclerosis patients [3].
Association of functional polymorphisms of SLC11A1 with risk of esophageal cancer in the South African Colored population [4].
Candidate gene association study of solute carrier family 11a members 1 (SLC11A1) and 2 (SLC11A2) genes in Alzheimer's disease [5].
This gene is the strongest candidate among the 42 genes in the Idd5.2 region; a naturally occurring mutation in the protective Idd5.2 haplotype results in loss of function of the Nramp1 protein [6].
In vivo RNA interference demonstrates a role for Nramp1 in modifying susceptibility to type 1 diabetes [6].
Slc11a1 encodes a phagosomal ion transporter, Nramp1, that affects resistance to intracellular pathogens and influences antigen presentation [6].
We typed polymorphisms in NRAMP1 in a case-control study of tuberculosis in the Gambia, West Africa. METHODS: Sequence-specific oligonucleotide hybridization and microsatellite analysis were used to type NRAMP1 polymorphisms in 410 adults (mean age, 34.7 years) with smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis and 417 ethnically matched, healthy controls [7].
Subjects who were heterozygous for two NRAMP1 polymorphisms in intron 4 and the 3' untranslated region of the gene were particularly overrepresented among those with tuberculosis, as compared with those with the most common NRAMP1 genotype (odds ratio, 4.07; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.86 to 9.12; chi-square= 14.58; P<0.001) [7].
The NRAMP proteins of Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli are selective manganese transporters involved in the response to reactive oxygen [8].
The inbred LSH/Se LAK strain of hamster can be infected with Treponema pallidum Bosnia A, the causative agent of endemic syphilis [9].
A naturally occurring glycine to aspartic acid substitution at position 169 (G169D) within the transmembrane domain 4 (TM4) of Nramp1 makes mice susceptible to Leishmania donovani, Salmonella typhimurium, and Mycobacterium bovis [10].
Human SLC11A1 mRNA contains an AU-rich element (ARE) within the 3' untranslated region; however, its role in the regulation of SLC11A1 gene expression has not been elucidated [11].
We also observe that down-regulation of HuR expression by RNA interference (RNAi) results in a decrease in SLC11A1 expression which can be restored by the addition of recombinant HuR protein to the RNAi-treated cells [11].
Finally, we show that HuR overexpression in HL-60 cells significantly increases the SLC11A1 mRNA stability [11].
This SLC11A1 haplotype also had an additive effect with DRB1*JIASE in those with polyarticular, but not those with persistent oligoarticular, disease (P = 0.06, OR 2.9 [95% CI 0.9-9.2] versus P = 0.5, OR 1.6 [95% CI 0.4-6.0]) [1].
Extent and distribution of linkage disequilibrium around the SLC11A1 locus [2].
Northern blot analyses indicate that NRAMP mRNA expression is tightly controlled in a tissue-specific fashion, with the highest sites of expression being peripheral blood leukocytes, lungs, and spleen [12].
Additional RNA expression studies in cultured cells identified the macrophage as a site of expression of human NRAMP and indicated that increased expression was correlated with an advanced state of differentiation of this lineage [12].
Here we report on (1) the physical mapping of NRAMP1 close to VIL in chromosome region 2q35 by PCR analysis of somatic cell hybrids and YAC cloning and (2) the identification of nine sequence variants in NRAMP1 [13].
Expression and subcellular localization of NRAMP1 in human neutrophil granules [14].
Finally, immunofluorescence studies of Candida albicans-containing phagosomes formed in neutrophils indicate that NRAMP1 is recruited from tertiary granules to the phagosomal membrane on phagocytosis, supporting a role for NRAMP1 in the antimicrobial defenses of human neutrophils [14].
The missense mutations were a conservative alanine-to-valine substitution at codon 318 in exon 9 and an aspartic acid-to-asparagine substitution at codon 543 in the predicted cytoplasmic tail of the NRAMP1 protein [13].
In macrophages, Nramp1 (Slc11a1) is expressed in lysosomes and restricts replication of intracellular pathogens by removing divalent metals (Mn(2+) and Fe(2+)) from the phagolysosome [15].
These results identify YGSI as a tyrosine-based sorting signal responsible for lysosomal targeting of Nramp1 [15].
This lysosomal targeting was abolished by single alanine substitutions at Tyr(15) and Ile(18) of a (15)YGSI(18) motif present in the amino terminus of Nramp1 [15].
Bacterial lipopolysaccharide or interferon-gamma did not appear to stimulate the level of Nramp expression in PBL [16].
Here we analyze the expression of SLC11A1 in human monocytes and HL-60 cells and then use HL-60 cells as a model to determine whether RNA-binding protein HuR is associated with the ARE and involved in SLC11A1 mRNA turnover [11].
The membrane topology and transport properties of Nramp1HA and Nramp2HA were indistinguishable, suggesting that Nramp1 divalent-metal transport at the phagosomal membrane is mechanistically similar to that of Nramp2 at the membrane of acidified endosomes [17].
SLC11 family of H+-coupled metal-ion transporters NRAMP1 and DMT1 [18].
In conclusion, NRAMP1 gene promoter polymorphism could influence the radiological severity of rheumatoid arthritis and disease susceptibility, particularly in individuals lacking HLA-linked risk factors [19].
These data therefore confirm the importance of SLC11A1 in tuberculosis susceptibility in humans and suggest that SLC11A1 influences tuberculosis susceptibility by regulation of interleukin-10 [20].
Both the reduction in labile iron pool and the up-regulation of HIF-1alpha were suppressed by RNA interference-mediated down-regulation of the iron transporter natural resistance-associated macrophage protein 1 [21].
The Nramp1 protein is expressed at the phagosomal membrane of macrophages and neutrophils and is a paralog of the Nramp2 (Slc11a2) iron transporter [17].
Thus, positive association with SLC11A1 should be interpreted cautiously, and IL8RB should also be considered as a potential candidate susceptibility gene unless proven otherwise [2].
Our results demonstrate a binding of HuR to the SLC11A1 ARE in phorbol myristate acetate (PMA)-differentiated cells dramatically increased compared to that in undifferentiated cells [11].
Stratification of the haplotype data suggested that susceptibility to JIA in the haplotype spanning the SLC11A1 locus is independent (P < 0.01) of an association with a DRB1 JIA shared epitope (DRB1*JIASE) that includes well-characterized strong susceptibility to DRB1*08 and *11 alleles [1].
SLC11A1 regulates macrophage functions that are of potential importance in the induction and/or maintenance of autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, type I diabetes and Crohn's disease [3].
We found no evidence of association between SLC11A1 polymorphisms and MS susceptibility in the Spanish population [3].
Four SLC11A1 gene polymorphisms (5'GT repeat, D543N, 1729 + 55del4 and 1729 + 271del4) were analysed in a case-control study of 195 patients with MS and 125 control subjects [3].
Functional polymorphism in Z-DNA-forming motif of promoter of SLC11A1 gene and type 1 diabetes in Japanese subjects: association study and meta-analysis [22].
Stratification by BCG vaccination unmasked a potential genetic risk factor for atopy in the region of the SLC11A1 locus, and point to the importance of genotype by environment interactions in determining disease susceptibility [23].
Subcellular fractionation of granule populations together with immunoblotting studies with granule-specific markers indicate that NRAMP1 expression is primarily in tertiary granules [14].
Immunogold studies by cryoelectron microscopy with primary neutrophils confirm that a majority (75%) of NRAMP1-positive granules are also positive for gelatinase, but they also suggest further heterogeneity in this granule population [14].
Association of SLC11A1 (NRAMP1) with persistent oligoarticular and polyarticular rheumatoid factor-negative juvenile idiopathic arthritis in Finnish patients: haplotype analysis in Finnish families. Runstadler, J.A., Säilä, H., Savolainen, A., Leirisalo-Repo, M., Aho, K., Tuomilehto-Wolf, E., Tuomilehto, J., Seldin, M.F. Arthritis Rheum. (2005) [Pubmed]
Extent and distribution of linkage disequilibrium around the SLC11A1 locus. Yip, S.P., Leung, K.H., Lin, C.K. Genes Immun. (2003) [Pubmed]
Genetic analysis of SLC11A1 polymorphisms in multiple sclerosis patients. Comabella, M., Altet, L., Peris, F., Villoslada, P., Sánchez, A., Montalban, X. Mult. Scler. (2004) [Pubmed]
Association of functional polymorphisms of SLC11A1 with risk of esophageal cancer in the South African Colored population. Zaahl, M.G., Warnich, L., Victor, T.C., Kotze, M.J. Cancer Genet. Cytogenet. (2005) [Pubmed]
Candidate gene association study of solute carrier family 11a members 1 (SLC11A1) and 2 (SLC11A2) genes in Alzheimer's disease. Jamieson, S.E., White, J.K., Howson, J.M., Pask, R., Smith, A.N., Brayne, C., Evans, J.G., Xuereb, J., Cairns, N.J., Rubinsztein, D.C., Blackwell, J.M. Neurosci. Lett. (2005) [Pubmed]
In vivo RNA interference demonstrates a role for Nramp1 in modifying susceptibility to type 1 diabetes. Kissler, S., Stern, P., Takahashi, K., Hunter, K., Peterson, L.B., Wicker, L.S. Nat. Genet. (2006) [Pubmed]
Variations in the NRAMP1 gene and susceptibility to tuberculosis in West Africans. Bellamy, R., Ruwende, C., Corrah, T., McAdam, K.P., Whittle, H.C., Hill, A.V. N. Engl. J. Med. (1998) [Pubmed]
The NRAMP proteins of Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli are selective manganese transporters involved in the response to reactive oxygen. Kehres, D.G., Zaharik, M.L., Finlay, B.B., Maguire, M.E. Mol. Microbiol. (2000) [Pubmed]
LSH hamster model of syphilitic infection. Schell, R.F., LeFrock, J.L., Chan, J.K., Bagasra, O. Infect. Immun. (1980) [Pubmed]
HFIP-induced structures and assemblies of the peptides from the transmembrane domain 4 of membrane protein Nramp1. Xue, R., Wang, S., Wang, C., Zhu, T., Li, F., Sun, H. Biopolymers (2006) [Pubmed]
RNA-binding protein HuR is required for stabilization of SLC11A1 mRNA and SLC11A1 protein expression. Xu, Y.Z., Di Marco, S., Gallouzi, I., Rola-Pleszczynski, M., Radzioch, D. Mol. Cell. Biol. (2005) [Pubmed]
Human natural resistance-associated macrophage protein: cDNA cloning, chromosomal mapping, genomic organization, and tissue-specific expression. Cellier, M., Govoni, G., Vidal, S., Kwan, T., Groulx, N., Liu, J., Sanchez, F., Skamene, E., Schurr, E., Gros, P. J. Exp. Med. (1994) [Pubmed]
Identification of polymorphisms and sequence variants in the human homologue of the mouse natural resistance-associated macrophage protein gene. Liu, J., Fujiwara, T.M., Buu, N.T., Sánchez, F.O., Cellier, M., Paradis, A.J., Frappier, D., Skamene, E., Gros, P., Morgan, K. Am. J. Hum. Genet. (1995) [Pubmed]
Expression and subcellular localization of NRAMP1 in human neutrophil granules. Canonne-Hergaux, F., Calafat, J., Richer, E., Cellier, M., Grinstein, S., Borregaard, N., Gros, P. Blood (2002) [Pubmed]
Identification of a Tyrosine-based Motif (YGSI) in the Amino Terminus of Nramp1 (Slc11a1) That Is Important for Lysosomal Targeting. Lam-Yuk-Tseung, S., Picard, V., Gros, P. J. Biol. Chem. (2006) [Pubmed]
Identification of natural resistance-associated macrophage protein in peripheral blood lymphocytes. Kishi, F., Nobumoto, M. Immunol. Lett. (1995) [Pubmed]
Iron, manganese, and cobalt transport by Nramp1 (Slc11a1) and Nramp2 (Slc11a2) expressed at the plasma membrane. Forbes, J.R., Gros, P. Blood (2003) [Pubmed]
SLC11 family of H+-coupled metal-ion transporters NRAMP1 and DMT1. Mackenzie, B., Hediger, M.A. Pflugers Arch. (2004) [Pubmed]
Association of NRAMP1 promoter gene polymorphism with the susceptibility and radiological severity of rheumatoid arthritis. Rodríguez, M.R., González-Escribano, M.F., Aguilar, F., Valenzuela, A., García, A., Núñez-Roldán, A. Tissue Antigens (2002) [Pubmed]
Interleukin-10, polymorphism in SLC11A1 (formerly NRAMP1), and susceptibility to tuberculosis. Awomoyi, A.A., Marchant, A., Howson, J.M., McAdam, K.P., Blackwell, J.M., Newport, M.J. J. Infect. Dis. (2002) [Pubmed]
Normoxic stabilization of hypoxia-inducible factor-1alpha by modulation of the labile iron pool in differentiating U937 macrophages: effect of natural resistance-associated macrophage protein 1. Knowles, H.J., Mole, D.R., Ratcliffe, P.J., Harris, A.L. Cancer Res. (2006) [Pubmed]
Functional polymorphism in Z-DNA-forming motif of promoter of SLC11A1 gene and type 1 diabetes in Japanese subjects: association study and meta-analysis. Nishino, M., Ikegami, H., Fujisawa, T., Kawaguchi, Y., Kawabata, Y., Shintani, M., Ono, M., Ogihara, T. Metab. Clin. Exp. (2005) [Pubmed]
Atopy in children in relation to BCG vaccination and genetic polymorphisms at SLC11A1 (formerly NRAMP1) and D2S1471. Alm, J.S., Sanjeevi, C.B., Miller, E.N., Dabadghao, P., Lilja, G., Pershagen, G., Blackwell, J.M., Scheynius, A. Genes Immun. (2002) [Pubmed]
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The altarpiece, a high relief depicting "St. Francis in Ecstasy": detail of the heads of both angels supporting St. Francis, as well as the three cherub faces in the upper left part of the relief; Bernini had earlier made an organic unity of the interior architecture of the Raimondi Chapel (1640-1647) at S Pietro in Montorio. Guido Ubaldo Abbatini assisted Bernini with the painting of the vault of the Raimondi Chapel (1642-1644). [Grove] "The Tomb of Monsignor Francesco is designed by Bernini but executed by members of his studio. The tombs face each other across the chapel and "in both cases the deceased is shown alive and praying in the niche above but also as a corpse in the sarcophagus, a device common in northern Europe in the late Middle Ages, but extremely rare in Italy, particularly in the 17C" Source: Blunt, Anthony; Guide to baroque Rome, London ; New York : Granada, 1982 (0246117621) (accessed 12/2/2007)
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According to an article from the Hampton Roads Pilot Online, a private company signed a 50-year lease with the Navy in 2005 to privatize housing for military families in the region; however, nearly two dozen cases have been filed against the company alleging they have been negligent in failing to respond to claims of mold in the housing facilities. Complaints claim the mold is the result of "damp indoor spaces" that lack proper ventilation.
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Mass Murder is Capitalist Misery: Economy Meets Psychology
BY HARRIET FRAAD | JULY 1, 2017
Economic conditions, social conditions and personal mental health are as intimately connected as Siamese twins. There is clear evidence of their interpenetrating connection. Unmistakable signs point to the fact that the mass of US citizens are economically, socially, and psychologically in bad shape. I will briefly look at each area: economic conditions, social conditions and emotional conditions, and how they relate to each other. I will also look at how those factors play out in the everyday lives of Americans.
Let's look briefly at economic conditions.
The new word for the proletariat in America is the "precariat."
In their economic lives and in their personal and family lives Americans live on the brink of disaster. A majority, 63% of Americans do not have $500 to cover a life emergency.
Almost ½ of us cannot cover an emergency that costs $400. If we break a tooth or get picked up for a misdemeanor crime like stealing a pair of sneakers, we cannot cover the bail cost and could end up in jail. The minimum recommended to cover emergency expenses is at least 3 months of living expenses to cover losing a job, having a divorce, getting sick, things like that. Most Americans are nowhere near such security. In fact, most Americans are 1 paycheck away from the street.
Now let's look briefly at social conditions.
In our social connections, we Americans are not doing much better. We cannot necessarily turn to a friend in an emotional emergency, no less turn to them to borrow money. Families also can no longer necessarily help. They too live on the brink. Americans are increasingly isolated. According to Robert Putnam's book Bowling Alone (2009), there are fewer Americans connected to any group at all from PTAs to blood drives to political organizations than were in bowling leagues alone in 1970. Unfortunately, social and personal isolation is now worse.
The economic and social anchor cables which tied American personal life to a secure foundation are now frayed to breaking.
Personal life is fraying as well.
Americans fastest growing new life style is living alone. If they marry the fastest growth is in couples without children. Most children will grow up without their two biological parents. Fully 42% of US kids are born to unmarried mothers. Family connection was American's most basic institution for close personal connection. Families cannot hold together. If American single mothers and their children had the social supports that all other wealthy industrialized nations give their citizens, this would not be the disaster from which US mothers and children suffer. However US single mothers and their children are the most poverty stricken, deprived Americans. Poverty does not predict happiness now or in the future.
In brief-In the 1970s, highly sophisticated multi-national communications systems allowed US corporations to outsource highly paid, often unionized jobs to poor nations with no protections or feeble protections for both workers and the environment. Corporations outsourced millions of jobs to China, India, Pakistan other nations. US companies thus reaped huge profits. For example, Chinese workers making Ivanka Trump's apparel earn about 44 cents a day. Apparel makers in Pakistan earn just about $2.00 a day.
By the mid 1970s, American capitalists had the whole world to exploit. They no longer had to pay American white men 2 bonuses, one for being white and another for being male in what was then a scarce, racist, sexist labor market.
Without the well-paying family waged jobs that used to be available to white men, the structure of US middle class life began to fracture. Minorities and women were never given the wages that could support a middle-class family life. Once white men's wages froze, millions of women entered the workforce alongside of their minority sisters. Even with 2 incomes wages were too low to make it into the formerly possible American dream of a better life for each generation. Women who worked outside the home were no longer willing nor able to do the full second shift of caring for men, home and children alone. They were no longer willing, and economically could not afford to be the full-time home based personal servants that white men were accustomed to. Home life splintered. These are the results of corporate capitalist outsourcing, computerizing, mechanizing and robotizing to make more money. The mass of the American people now suffer lower paid jobs, with worse job conditions.
With the huge profits US corporations made, they bought our media and our politicians. Those servants of the wealthy disguised the roots of American middle class collapse. In 1970, we were the most egalitarian nation in the Western industrialized world. Now we are the least egalitarian nation in the Western industrialized world. That powerfully effects our emotional and mental health.
According to meticulously researched reports on the fruits of economic inequality (See: Wilkensen and Pickett, Stuckler and Basu as well as the World Health Organization's report by their Mental Health Foundation) inequality is terrible for mental health.
There are 9 scourges of inequality. They are:
The erosion level of trust between people.
Lack of trust leads to disconnection from others and the breakdown of social bonds.
The increase in certifiable mental illness including addictions which are a form of mental problems
Eating disorders and obesity
Lower life expectancy
Homicides including mass murders, a dramatic form of murder
Imprisonment rates and
The loss of social mobility.
The US leads the Western developed world in all of these areas. We are in trouble. I will look at 3 areas which present dramatic new developments in America.
One is mental illness and addiction. Another is homicides. A third is lack of trust. Each presents a uniquely American development.
One in five Americans is taking at least 1 psych drug. We are only 5% of the world population but we use 66% of the world's psych drugs. There are at least three reasons why. One is that people's hopes of economic and personal stability and happiness are dashed and they are lost and understandably sad. A second is that instead of reaching out to join with others and share collective hopes and work to realize them, we have become depoliticized and isolated A third is capitalist marketing of psych drugs. We are the only Western industrial nation that allows direct to consumer drug advertising. We also lead the world in the kind of market driven health care that rewards doctors with money for prescribing brand name drugs.
Another way that people look for a refuge for their misery is with self-prescribing, also known as addiction. At this time America is in the throes of a serious problem with heroin and opiates. Drug overdose is now the leading cause of accidental death in the US. There are even more opiate and opioid deaths than deaths from car accidents. Who is using and dying now? Drug addiction used to be an epidemic disproportionately effecting African Americans in the inner city. Now the epidemic is white. It effects just those people most devastated by the loss of the American dream, suburban people who are, or used to be in the middle class and rural whites whose local communities are taken over by corporations and agribusinesses. Typical addicts are the young man who planned to inherit his parents Mom and Pop diner which is now McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Friendly's, etc. - the couple who planned to take over their parents' shoe or clothing store or grocery which are all now huge Walmarts. The blue collar rural workers, painters, roofers etc. whose livelihoods are stolen by corporate capitalist conglomerates running huge businesses. The middle aged white man who planned to retire and was fired because his capitalist boss outsourced his factory. The workers in the US Rust Belt who counted on decently paid jobs at factories like GM. Another part of the scourge of US addiction is the huge and highly profitable pharmaceutical industry. Most heroin users begin with prescriptions for pain killers opioids which are aggressively marketed to doctors. Prescribing rates for pain killers have doubled in spite of the addiction warnings. There are enough prescriptions for opiates to give every American his/her own bottle of pills. Fully 48,000 American women have died of pain reliever overdoses.
Since these pills are expensive many switch from their prescribed pain pills that got them hooked, over to heroin which is cheaper.
Americans are suffering. Advertising giants and a corrupt market driven healthcare system converts their suffering into profits. Pills do not solve problems. They can effect brain chemistry, but so does psychotherapy and social connection. Therapy and social connection do not leave people comfortably numb. They do not usurp the brain's powers to self soothe and solve problems. They do make a profit. Here again capitalism shows its bloody hand.
A second area of the cost of inequality and mental health breakdown which I will briefly consider is homicide. Here again we are the leaders among all of the western industrialized nations. Part of the deluge of US violence is from our uniquely unchecked gun sales. Americans are 20 times more likely to die from gun homicide than the people of any other OECD nation.
The marketing agents for big gun corporations had the smart idea of marketing guns as emblems of manhood and proof of 2nd amendment rights at a point when male gender provider roles are challenged by low wages and basic rights are challenged by corporate dominion over America. Manhood and rights assertions are certainly smarter advertisements than "Buy guns. Make us rich." The NRA lobby allows the daily slaughter.
Mass murder is a uniquely frequent American specialty. It involves killing several people who are strangers. It does not count the many men who kill their families, girlfriends, etc. The US had 30 mass killings in the last month I studied Sept. 2017, In that month no other wealthy industrialized nation had any mass killings, NONE. The killers were all American men who were either disappointed in love or fired from work, or both. Gun violence was their way to reclaim their manhood in a blaze of murderous glory. Gun manufacturers are the richer for it. These murders began under Reagan in the 1980s when inequality had its presidential champion and corporations were boosted over the rest of us through lower taxes and anti-union drives. They are a symptom of American inequality and corporate capitalist domination.
A third area of American mental health tragedy and capitalist inequality is lack of trust. Any collective action requires trust. One area where Americans have lost trust is trust in government. A good way to explore this is to look at the minimum participation wealthy nations offer, voting. Among the wealthy nations, the US has the lowest number of eligible voters turning out for presidential elections. In our last presidential election, The US had 55% a little more than half of eligible voters believe enough to trust that their participation in our government counted to cast their vote. In contrast, in Belgium, 87 % voted. In Denmark, Sweden and Norway, 80% voted. In other wealthy nations like France, Germany, Sweden, over 70% voted. The US is the only one of these nations that allows private and corporate donations in elections.
Almost half of Americans may perceive that their government is bought and they no longer have a voice. They have given up the little influence left to them. That was clearly illustrated during the Bernie Sanders campaign when a majority of millennials mobilized to vote for Bernie with whom they felt they would be empowered. Fully 175,000 volunteers turned out in the first week of Bernie's campaign. For that moment, their trust that they counted allowed them to be active. When he was betrayed by the established Democrats, half of them didn't bother to vote.
People lost the trust that they made a difference.
Americans became disconnected when corporate America took over in the 1970s. Robert Putnam in his book, Bowling Alone showed us that there were more Americans in bowling leagues alone in 1970 than there were in all organizations in America in 2009. People need to trust their collective power and they need to trust their own agency to join any group. Too many Americans have lost their trust.
One aspect of our lost trust is trust in ourselves, and in our own judgement. Our trust may be eroded in part because because we are barraged by lies. Advertising is everywhere promising benefits of beauty and happiness it does not deliver. Beer adds show you connecting to handsome young people and making romantic connections which beer cannot bring. The Coca Cola promising good social times rots your teeth and does not connect you. The medications showing relief from stress do not mention that you can become dangerously addicted. The cars show you as the power in the metaphorical driver's seat but you are not. Adds lie. They erode our trust.
We have lot our trust in even the closest relationships. The fastest growing kind of US household is people living alone (See: Eric Klinenberg's Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone).
For the first time in US history the majority of US women are single by choice. They do not trust that they can be safe and thrive in marriage. More Americans now remain unmarried. Half of them marry and then divorce. They cannot accomplish a co- respective, sustaining connection. Of those who do marry, the fastest growing kind of couple is those without children. People cannot trust that they can provide for themselves no less children, in their precarious lives in capitalist America.
There is an even more damaging lack of trust which is closely related to mental illness. Americans have lost trust in themselves to make the kinds of work and love and politics that are hopeful and positive. Capitalist advertising thrives on shaming us about our looks, our smells, our personal adequacy. Do you feel X, buy Y, and then Y does not deliver. Magazines and most television presents touched up faces and bodies of people with bouncy surface personalities and trivial problems, not those from which Americans seriously suffer. I am convinced that one reason Lena Dunham's TV HBO series, "Girls", was so popular is that the women presented were neither beautiful nor necessarily thin, nor free of mental problems. "Girls" presented a relief from goals we cannot achieve and standards we cannot meet.
Self-confidence is eroded for the at least 80% of us for whom the possibilities of basic economically stable and fulfilling careers, marriages and relationships are precarious and difficult. People become afraid to even try. They lack trust cross the board.
What can we do in the light of American economic, social and personal pain? How can we restore basic trust in ourselves, each other and our power to shape the future?
There are many things we can do. As connections have withered since 1970, one kind of organization has burgeoned. In every little town across America there is one kind of organization that keeps growing, the 12-step program. We can learn from these programs [5] which range from OA, Overweight Anonymous, to SA, Sex Abuse Anonymous, to GA, Gamblers Anonymous, ACA, Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families, on and on. They thrive outside of the money economy. They have no authoritarian leaders. Every voice counts.
Why does the 12-step model attract so many? It works, either long-term or temporarily, because everyone has a voice that is heard. It works because people acknowledge that they have a problem that can only be solved with the support of a group. It also works because people find a sponsor that supports them in their struggle. The "spirit" they invoke for is sometimes referred to as God, does not have to be a deity but the open inquisitive spirit of a child reaching out to the world, a biophilic spirit, rather than the necrophilic spirit of rigid unlistening, hierarchical and un accountable authority. Twelve Step programs do not allow for social, political, or economic contributions to personal pain and addiction. That is why so many leave after initially attending. The social, political and economic factors of life are as salient as the personal. Uniting the causes of American's pain is something the Left must do. However, the twelve steps have a lot to teach us.
We can adapt the 12 step programs to the context of a Left movement. Below, I state each of the 12 steps and a variation that we can use to build a powerful Left that extends across our nation:
1a. We admitted that we were powerless against alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.
1b. We understand that one person alone cannot solve the chronic societal and personal problems that are making our lives very difficult to manage.
2a. We came to believe that only a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
2b. We have come to believe that only a collective, which is a power greater than our individual selves, can move us and our nation forward to a healthier, more democratic place.
3a. We made the decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.
3b. We decided to commit time and energy, will and belief in the future to work together for change.
4a. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
4b. We took a serious and thorough moral measure of ourselves, noting the ways we collude with societal forces in our own exploitation, and noting our embrace of practices and beliefs about ourselves and others that make us vulnerable to being manipulated and exploited. This is an important step. We need to be aware that we are not just victims or victimizers, we are also collaborators. We are not helpless. We can also act…-for better or for worse. What we need to do now is unite around basic principles and create programs to achieve goals for the benefit of all.
5a. We admitted to God and to ourselves and to other human beings the nature of our wrongs.
5b. We have admitted to ourselves and out loud to others, the ways we have collaborated in our own victimization and the victimization of others.
6a. We are ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
6b. We are working to move beyond certain dysfunctional behaviors by taking action to better our own and other's lives. Some members of our collective take support from their religious or spiritual beliefs, as a private matter. Everyone's contributions enrich our group's development and efforts to create a broad unified movement.
7a. We humbly ask HIM to remove our shortcomings.
7b. We ask for, and are ready to give, the much-needed support that will help us unlearn collusion and internalize the new knowledge and wisdom that comes to us through our efforts, and which is so necessary for our growth. We also ask for, and will give, support to help us rebound from the disappointments likely to occur among our triumphs.
8a. We will make a list of all persons we have harmed and become willing to make amends to them all.
8b. We are studying to fill the gaps in US history, the better to grasp both the similar and different realities lived by the diverse peoples who have populated our nation from the very beginning. We are studying the systemic arrangements: economic, political, social and psychological; the terrains of class and color, poverty and wealth, privilege and persecution, the marvelous and shameful, the horrible and the beautiful. We do this not just to discover, learn and acquire knowledge for its own sake, but to more inform our thoughts about the dignity of life, creating change and building the future.
9.a We will draw up a list of all persons we have harmed and make amends directly to them wherever possible, except if to do so would injure them or others.
9b. We continue to take a moral measure of ourselves, as individuals and as a nation. When we are wrong, we admit it.
10a. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
10b.We work to promote and to demand from our government-federal state and local- fair and just domestic policies that support American's efforts to live heathy and productive lives. We also work to promote and demand humane and non-exploitative foreign policies that encourage peaceful relations between nations and the well-being of all humanity and our planet earth.
11a. We seek through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understand Him, praying only for knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry that out.
11b.We seek- through experience, study, meditation, imagination, discussion, and listening to each other- greater understanding, knowledge and consciousness of the human condition and all life, the better to connect with others in developing a well-functioning, life-affirming, democratic society.
12a. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we try to carry this message to alcoholics, drug abusers, sex abusers and those abused, etc. and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
12b.Having come to realize, by taking these 12 steps, that certain structural characteristics of US society hinder American's pursuit of happiness; having also realized the ways in which some of our own actions reinforce those hindrance, we have experienced an invigorating, moral, ethical, political, and personal awakening. Feeling the changes within ourselves, we are motivated to reach out and engage sympathetically and supportively with whomever we can. We ask each other here to do the same. Our collective plans hope and cultivate action. Our collective is powerful. We can and will reap a sustainable future
Of course, there are many ways to proceed. We need the courage to trust that we can reach out, connect, form groups that are democratic and try to rescue ourselves and our country from the economic, social and personal pain from which the majority of Americans suffer.
Dr. Harriet Fraad is a licensed mental health counselor and hypnotherapist in private practice in New York City. She is a founding member of the feminist movement and the journal Rethinking Marxism. For 40 years, she has been a radical committed to transforming US personal and political life.
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Helena Evans commented 2017-12-28 05:01:06 -0500
For me, this is 24 steps.
https://igviewer.org/
Gino Palmeri commented 2017-07-10 07:07:11 -0400
I never heard a more on-target explanation of 12-step recovery than Richard Wolff's interview of this Dr Fraad. She explains the why the culture of the twelve steps, invented by the founders of AA as an antidote to life under capitalism many decades ago, has been so successful.
Liam Scanlan commented 2017-07-01 23:03:34 -0400
Didn't you mean Mass Murder, and not Mass Muder?


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ATENEO DEBATERS BRING PHILIPPINES & ASIA TO GRAND FINALS OF GLOBAL CAMBRIDGE SCHOOLS DEBATE CHAMPIONSHIP
AHS Debaters
The teams of Julia Ocoma & Matti Tan, and Luigi Alcañeses & Hans Gonzalez represented the Philippines and Asia in the Finals Day of the Cambridge Schools Debate Championship 2017. It was the first time that teams from outside the United Kingdom were allowed to compete in one of the most competitive high school debate competitions in the world. And on their first try, both Ateneo teams excelled and were the only non-Western teams to qualify for the final rounds of the Finals Day.
Six hundred teams comprised of 1200 debaters have competed in regional heats since September 2016. The champions and top teams from Asia, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales, and other regional legs competed for 50 slots on the Finals Day held in the historic Cambridge Union Building for the most difficult and prestigious final stage of the global competition.
In the Final Day, the team of Ocoma & Tan reached the Final Four of 600 teams and debated the Grand Finals against powerhouses from around the world. Team Canada--comprised of two students with vast international debating experience--took home the trophy and championship. The other two teams in the final were British teams Dulwich School (including Team Captain of the World Champion 2016 Team England) and Eton College (comprised of two debaters who have won multiple championships all over Europe)--two of the world's most elite and famous academic institutions.
Tan & Ocoma debated the finals motion, "This house rejects all laws that restrict any kind of speech." But more importantly, they debated in the Main Chamber of the 200-year-old Cambridge Union Building, the world's oldest debating society, and the venue where the original rules of debating were written over two centuries ago. The podium in which they spoke is the same podium in which Presidents, Prime Ministers, Supreme Court Justices, Nobel Prize Winners, Athletes, Authors, Military Generals, the Pope, the Dalai Lama, and more have all spoken in.
The team of Alcañeses & Gonzalez also qualified for the final rounds in terms of team points, but were listed as a reserve team on the basis of speaker points. At one point in the tournament, they were in contention for being the top breaking team overall with a near-perfect debate record Nevertheless, both Ateneo teams were the only Asian teams to come close to breaking. Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka were also in the competition.
The World Universities Debate Championship Best Speaker in the World 2016 Michael Dunn Goekijan from Cambridge University observed both Ateneo teams throughout the competition. Fondly known as MDG, he praised the Ateneans as being "brilliant," and said that the Ateneo Debaters were as competitive as top teams in the United Kingdom, where British Parliamentary Debating is a required subject in several schools from a young age. As a result, Ateneo has been invited to several other tournaments in the UK, such as in Oxford and Cardiff. The Ateneans are pioneers in breaking barriers, proving that teams in the Philippines and Asia--when given the opportunity--can stand with the best high school debaters in the world who have far more experience and resources.
On top of debating, the UK experience of the team has been comprised of fun and learning in tours around London, Oxford University, Stratford-On-Avon, Bath, Cottswold, and many more.
The Ateneo Debaters would like to thank sponsors Pru Life UK for their generous sponsorship of the team without whose financial assistance the trip would not have been possible. The team would also like to thank Dr. Carmela Oracion and the ASHS and AJHS administrations for their continued support of the team. The ASHS and AJHS teams are moderated by Mrs Fe De Jesus and Mr Joel Falgui respectively. They were accompanied in the UK by coach Henry Fernando, and were also trained by Mahar Mangahas, Miguel Ventura, and Tres Yap.
Cheers to the four Ateneans who have changed perceptions and transformed expectations of the rest of the world! The team is honored and privileged to represent the school, country, and continent in this truly global competition.
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[Ukraine / Dniepr River] Lectori S. Hunc...
Willem Janszoon Blaeu
[Ukraine / Dniepr River] Lectori S. Hunc Borysthenis tractum ut ad nostrum Geographiae tabulam . . .
Amsterdam / 1640 circa
Monumental Map of the Lower Dniepr River
Striking 2-sheet map of the Dniepr River, engraved by Hessel Gerritsz.
The map was originally issued as the eastern part of Blaeu's 6-sheet wall map of Lithuania. The map shows the course of the Dnieper River from Cherkasy to the estuary on the Black Sea. The map is in strip style with two vertical maps following the course of the river, each decorated with cartouches and compass roses and including numerous lengthy notations describing the cataracts, cities, salt mines, fortresses, and the historical traditions of the Kozaks. Putti flank a large cartouche at bottom.
This map is based on an inset map from the important Radziwill-Makowski map of the Duchy of Lithuania (1613). The map was engraved by Hessel Gerritsz from original drafts prepared under the instructions of Prince Nicolas Christophe Radziwill, and first issued in 1613 by Willem Blaeu, under his original imprint by Guilhelmus Janssonis. This is one of the earliest maps published by Blaeu, who did not incorporate this map into an atlas until approximately 1630.
The Radziwill map is one of the most important works of European cartography from the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century and is an important contribution to the progress in the mapping of the whole continent. The map had its beginning in 1586 when Prince Michael Radziwill commissioned M.Strubicz to survey the entire Lithuanian state which then included Poland. Strubicz's map was so accurate and detailed that it provided the basis for all subsequent maps of the area during the 17th and 18th centuries. In addition to the usual topographical details, there is considerable historical information also provided.
Old Color.
Willem Janszoon Blaeu Biography
Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) was a prominent Dutch geographer and publisher. Born the son of a herring merchant, Blaeu chose not fish but mathematics and astronomy for his focus. He studied with the famous Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, with whom he honed his instrument and globe making skills. Blaeu set up shop in Amsterdam, where he sold instruments and globes, published maps, and edited the works of intellectuals like Descartes and Hugo Grotius. In 1635, he released his atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, sive, Atlas novus.
Willem died in 1638. He had two sons, Cornelis (1610-1648) and Joan (1596-1673). Joan trained as a lawyer, but joined his father's business rather than practice. After his father's death, the brothers took over their father's shop and Joan took on his work as hydrographer to the Dutch East India Company. Later in life, Joan would modify and greatly expand his father's Atlas novus, eventually releasing his masterpiece, the Atlas maior, between 1662 and 1672.
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Listen: New Beauty and the Beast Soundtrack
Disney finally released the new Beauty and the Beast soundtrack on Friday after teasing us with Ariana Grande and John Legend's remake of the title song.
The official soundtrack includes classics from the original (like "Be Our Guest") and brand-new songs (like "How Does a Moment Last Forever").
You can already download the original soundtrack sheet music, but stay tuned for releases from the remake, which hits theaters on March 17.
Listen to the full playlist here.
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