EAGAN, MN – The Eagan Convention and Visitors Bureau presented the city council with a 19 percent, $200,000, increase in spending for 2019.
Most of the bureau's $1.2 million budget, which will spend all of a projected $1.18 million in room taxes, will be spent on advertising and marketing, primarily for the Minnesota Vikings, according to a budget released on the city's website. The 2019 visitors bureau budget is higher than the amount the city recently approved for firefighting equipment, which the city borrowed money to buy.
The visitors bureau budget includes $444,750 for advertising expenses, an increase of more than 20 percent from 2018. The next highest expense in the budget is personnel, with $343,000 budgeted for salaries and health insurance, a 3.8 percent increase from 2018. The budget also includes a 50 percent increases for a non-detailed category labeled promotion -- from $100,000 in 2018 to $150,000 -- and legal expenses, to $1,500.
Much of the budget, according to comments made at a recent meeting on the issue, will be used to promote Vikings training camp and Viking Lakes, a luxury apartment and office development being built by billionaire New Jersey real estate developer and Vikings owner Zygi Wilf. Wilf's 2017 net worth was reported to be $5.3 billion.
To protect franchise territories, National Football League rules restrict the reach of where football team franchises, such as the Vikings can advertise. There are no such restrictions on the city's advertising on behalf of the Vikings. Under the guise of promoting tourism to Eagan, the city can advertise the Vikings facility far beyond the territorial restrictions imposed by the NFL.
According to statements made by the bureau's director to city council, the bureau has been advertising and entertaining far beyond the city, seeking to attract visitors from Canada and Iceland.
Despite a massive effort to promote Vikings training camp when it moved to Eagan in 2018, there appeared to be little growth in the rate of rentals of Eagan's hotel room rentals last August. The bureau's director described it to city councilors as "a modest uptick," but did not present specific data. The director made no mention of another sporting event that came to Eagan at the same time, a women's professional bowling tournament, which brought visitors and media from across the country, or corporate visitors.
City council members did not question the bureau about increased city expenses and crime related to Eagan's hotels, which have been the site of criminal activity necessitating police and paramedic response. A recent criminal investigation discovered a Detroit woman captured for identity theft at a local retailer had flown into Minneapolis and stayed at an Eagan hotel. In another case, a Vikings player was arrested for a domestic assault occurring at a hotel near the Vikings facility.
After committing to what the director of Eagan's Convention and Visitors Bureau called "a very aggressive partnership" with the Minnesota Vikings, the bureau's website was revamped to feature the Vikings facility as the primary reason to visit the city.
Two men and a 17-year-old are facing felony charges after being captured by police following a series of armed robberies in Eagan, Apple Valley, and Burnsville.
The men were captured after they rammed a car believed to have been carjacked at gunpoint in Minneapolis Oct. 9 into an Apple Valley police cruiser, injuring a police officer.
Daiquawn Burrell-Smith, 21, of 1559 Germain Landing, St. Paul; and Jared Washington, 27, of 3419 Bryant Ave. No, Minneapolis, were charged with nearly a dozen felony counts in connection with a string of gunpoint robberies and an attempted robbery on Oct. 10, according to criminal complaints. The Dakota County Attorney's office will seek to charge a third suspect, identified only as a 17-year-old, as an adult. The third suspect's name was not released because he is a minor.
Criminal complaints released Friday detail a series of robberies, and one attempt --thwarted by the intended target's locked car doors and her pounding her car's horn – in which armed gunmen surrounded victims and took iPhones and cash. The tracker on an iPhone stolen from one of the victims led police to the suspects in an Apple Valley parking lot. Police tried to corner the suspects, who rammed into a police cruiser head-on in an apparent attempt to flee, according to court records.
The juvenile, from Minneapolis, was charged with a weapons violation, in addition to the robbery and assault charges, for being a minor in possession of a firearm. Prosecutors allege a loaded handgun fell from his waistband during his arrest. Police found three more handguns in the car used by the suspects. Two of those guns had been reported stolen from Nashville, where Washington previously lived.
Investigators believe the first of the robberies occurred in Apple Valley shortly before 5 p.m. Oct. 10. The victim was sitting in his car near an unnamed retail store when two men approached the victim's car. One robber opened the driver's side door and put a handgun to the victim's ribs. A second man entered the passenger side and held a handgun to the victim's shoulder. One of the robbers took the victim's iPhone, keys and wallet before the two robbers fled in a white car. The robbery was filmed by surveillance cameras, according to court records.
The second robbery occurred in Eagan about an hour later, according to a criminal complaint. Eagan police were called to the scene of an armed robbery at Palisade Way and Cochrane Ave., a residential area near Blackhawk Road. The victim was walking toward Cochrane Ave. when the suspects' car, which had been parked at the side of the road with hazard lights on, pulled up along side the victim. Two men approached the victim. One of the robbers pressed a gun into the victim's abdomen and told him to "give me everything you have," according to court records. The robbers pushed the victim to the ground, stole a backpack and the victim's iPhone and wallet. The robbers then fled in a white car.
Less than a half hour later, Burnsville Police were called to the scene of a robbery attempt on Portland Avenue South. The victim was waiting in her car when she was approached by two men who attempted to "yank on the car door handles" on both sides of her car. One of the suspects tapped on the driver's side window with the barrel of a gun and told her to "get out or I'm going to kill you." The victim instead sounded banged on the car horn and the suspect's fled in the white car.
Less than 15 minutes later, Apple Valley police were called to a report of an armed burglary on Freedom Lane. The victim had been followed home by a white car. When the victim pulled into his garage, two men entered the garage with handguns. One man held a gun to the victim's head while the other held a gun to his stomach. The robbers took his cell phone and keys before a third man entered the garage and demanded the suspects return the victim's property, according to the criminal complaint.
Within 20 minutes of that robbery, police had found the suspects' car using a tracking device on the second victim's iPhone. Police attempted to corner the car in a parking lot. Instead of stopping, police said, Washington, the suspected driver of the car, sped in the wrong direction for traffic towards a marked police cruiser. The suspect's car struck the cruiser head on, injuring a police officer.
The 17-year-old then got out of the suspect car, laid on the ground and began to crawl forward, according to a criminal complaint. While he was crawling forward, police allege, a loaded handgun, with a round in the chamber and a magazine with four additional rounds of ammunition, fell from his waistband onto the ground.
Police searched all three suspects at the scene and allegedly found property stolen from the first two victims. Police searched the car and found three more guns, two of which had been reported stolen from Nashville on Sept. 22.
Washington and Burrell-Smith were being held at the Dakota County jail.
A District 196 school board member has urged parents to change their child's race classification on school enrollment forms to so schools can qualify for more federal funding.
School board member Art Coulson, whose daughter teaches elementary school in the district, accused the federal government of trying to "erase Indian people," and urged parents to reclassify their children's racial designations so the district can qualify for more federal funding. Coulson made his remarks during a discussion of student demographics during a recent school board meeting. School officials claimed federal race classifications, which include a multi-race classification, make it difficult to track student demographics.
"This has really been a particularly bad problem and it's just another in a long line of steps the federal government's taken to erase Indian people," Coulson said.
For those who don't want to wait for Nov. 6 to cast their ballots, Eagan's Fire Safety Center, off Yankee Doodle Road, is open for early voting. Click for the following link for SampleBallot.pdf. In addition to state and federal offices, Eagan voters can vote for two of three city council candidates. The mayor is running unopposed on the ballot. School board candidates are not included on the November ballot. The most recent school board election was in 2017, with a smaller voter turnout resulting in union-supported candidates retaining control of the board.
In a rare display of division among the District 196 school board, members split over elimination of a traditional four-day weekend in October. After a 6-1 vote at the school board's meeting this week, one of the major travel weekends for many families with children in school, the four-day mid-October holiday known as MEA weekend, will come to an end in 2020.
School board member Mike Roseen raised concerns about the elimination of the four-day weekend and suggested more study on the issue. Some teachers and coaches rely on the long weekend to schedule projects, practices, and other activities, according to discussion at Monday night's board meeting.
The MEA, meanwhile, includes the date of Oct. 15 for the 2020 conference. The conference sponsor, however, notes on its website that the conference has been cut back to one day, a Thursday, and will be restricted to dues-paying members. The U.S. Supreme Court decided last June that public employees could not be compelled to pay union dues.
Despite a recent warning that increased school enrollments might lead to budget crisis, official school enrollment figures released this week show relatively steady enrollment at District 196 schools.
The October 1 figures, the date by which official school enrollments are calculated, showed enrollments at most District 196 schools remained about the same or declined slightly in 2018. The largest increase was at East Lake elementary school. Even with a double-digit increase at that school, total elementary school enrollment across the district increased only slightly, by 27 students, or less than one-quarter of a percent.
The total number of students enrolled in the district this year is 28,871, an increase of 227 students, or about .79 percent from last year.
Enrollment at most of the district's elementary schools, 11 out of 19, decreased in 2018, according to the district's comparison figures. The number of students attending District 196's newest elementary school, Lakeview's East Lake Elementary, which opened last year, increased by almost 16.5 percent. This year's East Lake enrollment of 631 students is still about twelve percent below that school's capacity of 710 students.
Enrollment also declined at three of the district's six middle schools. Enrollment at the high school level, which includes adult basic education, increased by four students, from 8,525 students in 2017 to 8,529 students this October, according to the school district. Enrollment at Eagan High School declined by 52 students, more than 2.5 percent of last year's enrollment.
At a meeting last month, the District 196 school board discussed the potential for rising enrollments to cause budget problems. School board members said they would not likely increase class sizes and would, therefore, likely need to hire more staff in the case of rising enrollments. The school board also recently made a $6 million speculative land purchase on the grounds it might soon need to build a new elementary school in Rosemount.
Enrollment at Rosemount elementary school increased by 26 students this year, but still remained under the school's capacity, according to district enrollment figures. Enrollment at Rosemount's other elementary school, Shannon Park, declined by 11 students, or nearly two percent. The decrease brought Shannon Park to less than 90 percent of the school's capacity.


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Halloween 2020: Trick-or-treating still on, but county recommends precautions
Emily DeLetter
LAFAYETTE – Even with rising cases of coronavirus in Tippecanoe County, some places are determined to provide a fun and memorable trick-or-treating experience for children, as safely as they can.
In Lafayette and West Lafayette, trick-or-treating is still on this year. Some cities around the state, including Indianapolis, have advised against traditional trick-or-treating, but the cities of Lafayette and West Lafayette do not normally impose formal trick or treating hours or an age limit for participation and are encouraging people to listen to local and CDC guidelines.
Krist Karloff, owner of Evil Genius Tattoo in downtown Lafayette, is planning to distribute individual bags of candy to children on Halloween. Each bag will be prepared by the shop's staff, wearing masks and gloves, in a sanitized station. Staff will make efforts to minimize contact and maintain social distancing.
The goodie bags will contain candy, temporary tattoos and a sanitizing wipe and will be passed out at the shop, 420 Main St., from 4 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31.
Earlier in October during a weekly coronavirus briefing, Indiana State Health Commissioner Dr. Kristina Box gave several recommendations for people to follow for Halloween activities, based on guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC's guidance for trick or treating and other Halloween-themed activities during the pandemic is separated into low, moderate and higher-risk activities.
Lower risk activities include carving or decorating pumpkins with members of your household, decorating your living space and virtual Halloween costume contests. It classifies trick-or-treating with individually wrapped goodie bags, visiting pumpkin patches or orchards and costume parades as moderate risk. Traditional trick-or-treating, indoor costume parties and indoor haunted houses are classified as a high risk.
Some Greater Lafayette Halloween annual attractions are open this year, including Evil on Erie, a haunted house on Lafayette's Erie Street. According to Evil on Erie's Facebook page, masks are required at all times, hand sanitizer is required before entering and temperatures are taken prior to getting tickets.
During a county health department briefing Sept. 23, Dr. Jeremy Adler, Tippecanoe County health officer, said his guidelines and advice for Halloween will be similar to what the CDC advised.
"The guidance is very consistent with the same sort of approach we've taken toward other community events," Adler said.
Among those:
Staying home if you're sick.
Not participating in in-person activities, like handing out candy, if you're sick.
Using face coverings.
Hand washing frequently.
Thinking about ways to make the trick-or-treating process contactless. One way: Line up the treats on the porch or the driveway so kids can pick them up, rather than having them get candy directly from a household member.
One family at a time at a house.
Don't leave a big bowl of candy on the porch "where you have kids reaching into it over and over again." Distribute things one at a time.
Instead of a traditional trunk or treat, the Tippecanoe County 4-H is holding a drive-thru event Oct. 31 for children in grades K-12 in the parking lot Lafayette Jefferson High School, 1801 S. 18th St. The 4-H drive thru will last from 10 a.m. to noon, and children and their families can receive candy, take home activities and 4-H information.
Here's what other cities surrounding Greater Lafayette and Tippecanoe County plan to do this year:
Battle Ground: Battle Ground's town website has trick-or-treating hours listed as 6-9 p.m. Oct. 31.
Crawfordsville: The city's board of works and public safety set trick-or-treating hours from 5-8 p.m. Oct. 31. A post on the city's Facebook page emphasized that the decision to participate or not participate should be made by parents based on their own individual comfort level. The same goes with the decision to participate or not participate in handing out treats. Those wishing to participate in handing out candy should turn on their outside lights, and those not participating should leave their outside lights off.
Delphi: The city's official trick-or-treating day will be held 6-8 p.m. Oct. 30. Those wishing to participate in handing out candy should leave their porch lights on. The Carroll County Health Department is recommending treats to be individually wrapped and masks to be worn by everyone.
Frankfort: Trick-or-treating will be held 6-8 p.m. Oct. 31. Any homeowner interested in participating is asked to leave their outside lights on.
Monticello: Monticello will hold trick-or-treating 6-8 p.m. Oct. 31 for those that wish to participate. The Streets of Monticello Association will host a trunk or treat event 3-5 p.m. Oct. 31.
Emily DeLetter is a news reporter for the Journal & Courier. Contact her at (765) 201-8515 or via email at edeletter@jconline.com. Follow her on Twitter at @EmilyDeLetter.

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Applications for the MPhil course are welcomed from those who have or expect to obtain a good first degree (at least a high 2.1 or the equivalent) in Modern European Language/Culture. Other humanities degrees are also considered.
By "comparative literatures and cultures", we do not mean the study of any or all literatures in English translation, and we would expect our students to have reading competency in at least one of the language areas covered by the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages (i.e. European languages other than English, which includes the development of these languages in other parts of the world, e.g. Spanish and Portuguese in Latin America). Students sometimes have this competency in more than one MMLL language, but many students use the MPhil to work solely on primary material from one particular language (e.g. working on Russian primary material alone for all of their written work here). It is sometimes possible to develop your knowledge of one of these MMLL languages whilst you're here (e.g. via the University Language Centre), though not plausible to do so from scratch. In addition to writing on the ELAC MPhil about material in the languages covered by MMLL, you can also write about English language material (e.g. someone working on 19th century literature in the second term might write an essay comparing Madame Bovary and Jane Eyre). But students who wish to work solely on texts written in English or translated into English will find relevant MPhils in the English Faculty. It is possible on the ELAC programme to use conceptual and theoretical material in English translation.
Applicants for the MPhil by Thesis should already have a substantial level of familiarity with the study of literary texts or other cultural material in the relevant culture, and who already know the area they wish to research for their thesis. To be eligible for consideration for the 'By Thesis' MPhil, a student will need (a) an appropriate level of linguistic and/or cultural expertise and (b) a clear idea of the area in which the thesis will be written.
If you are not a native English speaker we would expect you to have passed an English Language Proficiency test at the required level. The following examinations with minimum scores are accepted: IELTS 7.5 (with a minimum of 7 in each unit); TOEFL iBT 110 (with at least 25 in each individual element); CAE Grade A or B (with at least 193 in each individual element) plus a language centre assessment; CPE Grade A, B or C (with at least 200 in each individual element).
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Once you have submitted your Applicant Portal application online and paid the application fee, you will later receive an email which will grant you access to your Applicant Self-Service. At this stage you will be able to upload your supporting documents.
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Applicants who apply for US Gates funding by the October funding deadline may normally expect to receive an admissions decision in December. All other applicants who apply by the funding deadline in January may normally expect to receive a decision before the end of March, and the majority of offers are made in February and March. Following the funding deadlines, applications are processed on a rolling basis and applicants may normally expect a decision within 12 weeks following the submission of their completed application and required supporting documents. Occasionally, applicants may not receive a decision within the normal timeframe due to being placed on a reserve list. If this is the case then the Faculty will be in touch to let applicants know. Normally the latest date for decisions to be communicated is the end of June.
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Иван Акимович Задорожный — советский хозяйственный, государственный и политический деятель, Герой Социалистического Труда.

Биография
Родился в 1909 году в Харькове. Член КПСС.

С 1925 года — на хозяйственной, общественной и политической работе. В 1925—1969 гг. — техник, старший техник, производитель работ строительного участка Октябрьской железной дороги, на строительстве паровозовагоноремонтного завода в городе Улан-Удэ, заместитель начальника дистанции пути станции Бологое, начальник службы пути, заместитель начальника дороги, начальник политотдела на Омской и на Свердловской железных дорогах, начальник Оренбургской железной дороги, начальник Казахской железной дороги.

Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 1 августа 1959 года присвоено звание Героя Социалистического Труда с вручением ордена Ленина и золотой медали «Серп и Молот».

Избирался депутатом Верховного Совета СССР 6-го и 7-го созывов. Делегат XXI и XXII съездов КПСС.

Умер в Москве в 1990 году.

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Умершие в Москве
Депутаты Верховного Совета СССР 6-го созыва
Депутаты Верховного Совета СССР 7-го созыва
Делегаты XXI съезда КПСС
Делегаты XXII съезда КПСС
Депутаты Верховного Совета Казахской ССР 5-го созыва

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A one-way journey from Istanbul to Rhodes of antiquities & islands, travelling in a small group, land and cruise.
Abu Dhabi based airline reportedly expanding its Indian reach.
With Oneworld partners QF/BA/CX from Australia fares start from AUD$1099 gross plus taxes for departures 1Jan-30Jun13 and 16Aug-31 Oct13.
The 650-passenger Azamara Journey escaped a suspected pirate attack 15 nautical miles off the coast of Masirah island, Oman.
This will give Turkish Airlines Europe's youngest and most modern fleet as it works towards its goal of having the largest global network of an airline.
Turkish Airlines has made the mobile application Fly Turkish compatible with Passbook to take its place among the first airlines that offer Passbook supported mobile boarding passes.
But southern region is concerned by recent disputes.
Marriott International and The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, sailed ahead to win the best hotel group employer in the United Arab Emirates.
Dubai's success is in Abu Dhabi's sights as emirate awaits fourth terminal for Abu Dhabi airport.
A merger between Emirates and Qatar Airways "will never happen", says Emirates President.
The 650-passenger Azamara Journey has escaped a suspected pirate attack 15 nautical miles off the coast of Masirah island, Oman.


– Went on a holiday to Sydney to go to the inaugural RTX Australia with Chris! We had an awesome time and we got to meet a few guests in the days before the convention around Sydney. They're all so lovely!
– Two words: red wine.
– Got some seriously lovely feedback from a couple of ladies I made custom cross stitches for over Christmas. It's so wonderful to hear that they love what I've made them!
– Discovering Newtown, which is definitely my new favourite holiday place! It's incredibly funky with lots of little coffee joints and vintage shops, and the people are so unique. There's even a book – check it out!
– Went camping for a couple of days at the very start of the year with wonderful people. There was no power or mobile phone reception, but it was awesome. Seriously, how great is camping!?
– Started doing yoga again after being incredibly slack, and I feel great!
– Got my hands on a new kombucha SCOBY (after my old one tragically died), along with water kefir grains, so I'm now a fermenting queen.
– Babysat my dog Coco in our flat while my parents were away in Sydney, and having puppy cuddles in bed in the morning is the best thing in the world.
– Finding this Tumblr blog which has absolutely made my Wednesdays.
– Seeing my favourite person in the world, Nick Offerman, live last week in Hobart.
– Not being able to figure out the trains in Sydney at 11pm while trying to get home, so walking from platform to platform for half an hour before realising we actually needed to be where we started. Fail.
– There are currently bushfires burning all over this beautiful state, destroying homes and hundreds of hectares of incredibly special land. It's heartbreaking.
– Getting off the aeroplane in Sydney and it being 39 degrees C… yikes!
– As I mentioned above, my kombucha SCOBY dying. It was a tragic day.
– The Bulletin has decided to keep the Doomsday clock at three minutes to midnight.
– Two words: Donald Trump.
– Coming home from Sydney and realising we had no cheese in the fridge. Which basically equates to my worst nightmare.
– I was in the op shop trying on some clothes. When I was finished, I went to open the curtain… only to realise that the last minute that I didn't have my shirt on. It was far too close to a large disaster.
– I was on a walk with mum the other morning when we passed a house that had – I'm not joking – the fattest cat I have ever seen in my life. It was grey and white and basically a basketball. I'm not sure it could walk. I squealed out to mum "oh my God mum, there is the FATTEST CAT EVER here, come have a look!" As mum was walking over, a lady behind us said "are you talking about my cat?" Needless to say, I nearly died. I just spluttered "I meant it in a good way! I swear! It's so fat but it's soooo adorable!" Thankfully, the lady just laughed and said it was fine. I felt terrible.


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Covid and the Marginalised
Date: July 27, 2021Author: udayaprabhu
Doing the Deeds to Make Our Words Credible
By Rudi Heredia, SJ
From the Great Flood in Noah's time to the ten plagues of Pharao's Egypt, from the terrible wars that built up and brought down great empires and civilizations, from climate change and continental environmental degradations that brought famines, floods and fires, natural disasters and human engendered ones, all these have been embedded in our history. The present pandemic is one more, this time on a global scale.
Human responses to such social disasters have been as varied as their societies and cultures and the search for a meaning, both personal and collective, when such tragedies strike has been a constant in human life. What can such injustice and suffering mean in the context of a divine Providence? Religious believers have interpreted this as a punishment from God, as Gandhi did the 1934 Bihar earthquake as a punishment for caste. This other-worldly response was quite unconvincing to rationalists and atheists and even very problematic to believers.
Moreover, such disasters often precipitate a poplar response to charismatic demagogues with simplified analysis and instant solutions. However, their mass appeal and their authoritarian regimes have left underlying issues unresolved and compound an already bad situation.
Moreover, addressing such traumas with scientific expertise has its limitations. For as Max Weber argued, science was about instrumental rationality, not value rationality and hence unequal to the problem of finding meaning. Not that science should be ignored, but by itself it cannot give a comprehensive and meaningful vision to human life. The present Covid pandemic forces us to confront these head on: "what's it all about": why us, why me, why now,… How do we respond to these continuing social traumas? How do we prepare ourselvesto face the next one?
To begin will numbers as a reality check on which to base a viable response to this present pandemic: the most reliable statistics, come from a highly regarded data journalist, Rukmini S. Her seminal work in many states has been widely reported. In an interview with Karan Thapar for the Wire on 10 July this year, she claimed that the most reliable estimate of total COVID-19 deaths in the country since the start of the pandemic in March 2020 is 2.5 million. She used three separate estimates premised on three different ways of calculation to come up with this figure.
During the second wave, between February-March and May-June best estimate of COVID-19 deaths this year, are probably around 1.5 million. Shockingly, the official figure as of 10 July is a mere 407,145. This is more than a gross under estimation. Many deaths in remote areas of the country go unreported and in many cases even in urbanised India, the cause of death has been deliberately omitted although this is a statutory requirement.
Yet the pavements crowded with funeral pyres and the bodies floating in the Ganga negate the official narrative regarding Covid deaths. People have watched their near and dear ones die gasping for breath because oxygen cylinders and ventilators were unavailable. These shearing images can't be wished away. Some state governments' response was a complicit denial and filing FIRs on those who dared to report or complain about the deficiencies as being anti-national!
Even after the Court finally intervened this continued for a while, until the Central Government also intervened. Surely we need some honesty and transparency in this matter if we are to show a minimal respect for the dead. Official denial of the scale of this tragedy is a vain attempt to hide the incompetence of governments devoid of any compassion but intoxicate with their own hubris.
After the empty boasts of stemming the first wave with an abrupt and cruel lockdown, giving people just four hours' notice, there was little sign of preparedness for the devastating second wave. This catastrophe has been caused by the arrogance and incompetence of the government and its political leadership, which allowed religious melas and elections rallies to proceed unhindered. No one can belie the spread effect these had on the Covid virus.
Moreover, the structures of inequality and injustice, of prejudice and discrimination that cause the social impact of any negative change to weigh more heavily on those with the least resources to buffer it. Thus while the Covid pandemic was a global disaster, the affluent countries were better able to cope than the poorer ones with more limited resources. And among these and within them it is always the marginalised who are the worst off in such a disaster.
A study by the Azim Premji Institute in Bengaluru estimated that some 230 million fell below the poverty line since the pandemic struck India in 2020. These added to the millions already there, some 20.9 percent, or 273 million according to the World Bank data, April 2020. These are all part of the marginalised population of our country, the most vulnerable to any socio-economic set back: the Schedule Castes and Tribes, the OBCs, and others in the informal sector of the economy, self -employed or daily wage earners. If the statistics given by Rukmini S. were to be subdivided by such categories these marginalised would be grossly over-represented.
We need to take to heart the indelible images of the hundreds of thousands of people, who had lost everything in the cities to which they had migrated to find work, walking hundreds of miles, after the first lockdown, carrying their meagre belongings, hoping to reach their rural homes. There was no alternative means of travel, no trains or buses. A petition in the Supreme Court on 15 May 2021 to direct the government to provide some assistance to these migrant labourers after months of government inaction, was not entertained. Many senior lawyers remarked on this as a failure of the Court and so later it did take notice of the migrants' plight, but to no real effect.
A global disaster like a pandemic doesn't by itself make for a level playing field. Justice, however, demands that we provide the have-nots access to the means of empowerment: the social and physical infrastructure, the technology and information, the care services and security to help them help themselves, and thus to better their life options and bargaining power. They can then better enable to face such social disasters. This is more effectively done as a cooperative effort together, respecting differences and diversity. Only then will it bring structural not merely positional change, a circulation of elites with new ones displacing the older ones and so reiterating the cycle.
Further we must demythologise the religious nationalism that has engendered a divisive hate politics that marginalises the minorities. Such majoritarianism hollows out our democracy, making ineffective all countervailing institutions, like the judiciary, universities, trade unions, making them appendages of an incompetent authoritarian state, focused only on perpetuating its power and suppressing dissent, dismissive of any compassion for Gandhiji's last and least.
A just society no longer seems to be the first priority of our ruling elite. Since Independence these have pursued a hidden agenda focused on growth in a none-too-subtle, self-serving, self-justifying manner. Little wonder our society is riddled with corruption and self-promoting political leaders who pay mere lip service to the imperative of good governance.
In this scenario of internal colonialism, where do we position ourselves?If we are to commit ourselves to an option for the poor and the promotion of justice,then we must be a committed to their liberation from injustice and repression, not to promote any partisan ideology or a fundamentalist faith or even institutional power.We need a viable agenda and pursue it with discerning prudence and vigorous courage.
Highly stratified and divided societies are prone to populist politics and charismatic demagogues with over-simplified answers and instant solutions.For when our society is stratified into haves and have-nots, the powerful and powerless, the elite and the subaltern, then the exploitation of the consequent inequalities intensifies, and perpetuates these divisions. To reverse this drift we must confront some hard questions.
How do we incarnate and renew our vision and mission for the future that is crashing in on us? How can we come together to become prophetic witnesses to a community of sharing and caring, focused on the common good of all but especially the marginalised poor? Do we want to be a happy people or would we rather be a powerful nation – an inclusive and tolerant society or just a rich and affluent one? Do we want our multicultural and pluri-religious heritage to be displaced by majoritarianism and extremism, our political secularism by religio-nationalism?
Out response to the crises and challenges confronting us today must becomethe prophetic agenda for our contribution. This paper raises questions to help the readers to construct their own agenda, hoping that then they will then be better able and more seriously committed to owning it.
But first we must do the deeds that will make our words and witness credible.
Fr. Rudi Heredia, SJ is an author and researcher. He can be reached at: rudiheredia@gmail.com.
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Eurocopter Greases Palms
By STICKJIGGLER,
November 12, 2003 in General Helicopter Operations
STICKJIGGLER
Read a story in the Vancouver Sun the other day about Eurocopter exec's being investigated by the RCMP for paying 1.2 million in "commissions" (READ BRIBES) to win a contract to sell 12 MBB bolkows to the Canadian Coast Guard, several years ago. Kind of a slimy way to do business, but I guess they have to sell the product somehow.
-And wasn't it around the same time, or shortly there-after that Eurocopter made a killer deal with the Mountie's on a couple of Astars. It was almost a two for one deal on the brand new B3's. Now I wonder why they would have done that....
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The company in question was MBB that has become Eurocopter. Kind of like blaming the Trudeau government for the shortcomings of the incoming Martin one.
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Was journalist RCMP informant?
By KIRK MAKIN and PAUL WALDIE
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
A lawyer for German deal-maker Karlheinz Schreiber named prominent journalist Stevie Cameron as a confidential RCMP informant last year during two dramatic days of secret hearings over a helicopter-procurement case.
"Tell me that Stevie Cameron was not part of some kind of police investigation," lawyer Edward Greenspan demanded of Crown counsel Michael Bernstein. "Tell me that she wasn't. Tell me that she has no status with the police. Tell me that! Just tell me that she doesn't."
Ms. Cameron, the author of several hard-hitting exposés about the case, vehemently denied Mr. Greenspan's assertion Friday that she is the mysterious informant.
"That theory is absolute horseshit," Ms. Cameron said in an interview. "I was a reporter working for The Globe and Mail on this story years and years ago. I wrote a book about it. Anything I have to say about Mr. Schreiber is in my book. It's all there."
Mr. Greenspan nonetheless has called for a full public inquiry to root out how the entire investigation of deals for purchase of aircraft from Airbus Industrie and Eurocopter during the tenure of prime minister Brian Mulroney was launched - and which federal ministers were privy to details.
"There should be a royal commission now," Mr. Greenspan said in an interview. He said he intends to subpoena Ms. Cameron to testify in a libel suit Mr. Schreiber has brought in Alberta against the federal government. That trial is to resume in the near future.
"In a different forum, I'm confident I will get a ruling that identifies him or her - and I underline her," Mr. Greenspan said of the informant. "I have absolutely no doubt who it is, and I have no doubt this is an enormous scandal. It will all come out."
Mr. Greenspan said it would have been highly irresponsible for the government to act on information provided by Ms. Cameron, saying she had a negative bias toward Mr. Mulroney.
"My big question is, did Prime Minister Jean Chrétien - who also despises Brian Mulroney - know and allow it to go forward?" Mr. Greenspan added.
In his impassioned submission to the secret hearing, Mr. Greenspan questioned how a major investigation could have been launched on the say-so of a journalist, and noted that Herb Gray, solicitor-general of Canada from 1993 to 1997, knew about it.
In an interview Friday, Mr. Gray said the RCMP never told him that it was relying heavily on a confidential informant in its investigation into the Airbus-Eurocopter affair.
He said he was well aware that Ms. Cameron was deeply involved in researching the affair for her books, but he never heard that she might have also acted as an informant for the RCMP.
"Stevie Cameron's role in raising these issues was, I think, widely reported," Mr. Gray said. "I think she has books out in which she made these kinds of allegations."
He said that if Ms. Cameron ever signed a deal with the RCMP to act as an informant, it would be news to him.
"I don't recall being informed about any confidential informant," Mr. Gray added. "Generally, I would be informed about investigations only to the extent that the RCMP considered it appropriate to enable me to answer questions from the press."
Mr. Gray refused to comment on the appropriateness of the RCMP's decisions in the affair, such as reliance on a confidential informant. He said it was up to the police force to conduct its own operations.
"The solicitor-general never got involved in operational matters with respect to starting or carrying out investigating or decisions on the laying of charges," he said. "That's an important point to note."
The investigation into allegations of improper payments in the purchase of jets from Airbus Industrie self-destructed after the Department of Justice sent a letter to Swiss authorities referring to Mr. Mulroney as a suspect. The department later apologized to Mr. Mulroney and paid $2-million to settle a libel suit.
The three-year secret hearing was held to determine whether information underlying RCMP search warrants in connection with allegations that improper payments were made by the aviation firm Messerschmidt-Bolkow-Blohm (now called Eurocopter) in a deal to sell helicopters to the Canadian Coast Guard ought to be released. During the proceedings, Mr. Greenspan mounted a furious assault on what he viewed as a political tinge to the case.
"You would have yourself, in my respectful opinion, an enormous scandal," Mr. Greenspan told Mr. Justice Edward Then. "That would lead to an abuse of power of the worst kind imaginable, where it is possible that a reporter - a political enemy of Brian Mulroney - co-opted a national police force and they have entered into some confidentiality agreement with that writer. . . ."
Mr. Greenspan said such a development would do far more than simply lead to the Eurocopter search warrants being quashed.
"If the RCMP did use a writer - particularly one with a professed dislike for Mr. Mulroney - as a confidential informant, and proceeded to protect her identity to ensure she cannot be rooted out or questioned, what an unbelievable scandal this would be," he said.
"The RCMP would never want that to come out, because if it came out, you have got a scandal on your hands that is, in my respectful submission, bigger than the powder keg I was talking about."
The RCMP allege that shell companies controlled by Mr. Schreiber channelled commission fees in a $26.8-million deal for Eurocopter to supply 12 helicopters to the Canadian Coast Guard.
In late 2002, midway through the secret proceeding, fraud charges were laid against Eurocopter and two top executives: Kurt Pfleiderer and Heinz Pluckthun. Neither Mr. Schreiber nor any Canadian official was charged.
The charges allege that Eurocopter paid more than a million dollars in commissions to help land the contract and that Mr. Pfleiderer and Mr. Pluckthun were its "controlling minds."
However, it emerged yesterday that the two men stand virtually no chance of ever being tried. Eurocopter lawyer Paul Schabas said the German government simply does not extradite its citizens for the category of offence the two executives face.
"I've been told by the the Crown they cannot be extradited," Mr. Schabas said in an interview.
He described the sole charge against Eurocopter as targeting innocent executives of a Canadian subsidiary who actually protested against any consideration of commission payments.
"There is no evidence that the coast guard paid too much," Mr. Schabas said. "We are now down to one charge against a company relating to events that happened 17 years ago - when the company was under different ownership and different management - over something where there is no suggestion that any commission was actually paid to the Canadian government."
Thousands of pages of documents, letters and transcripts that were part of the secret proceeding were unsealed late Thursday, after Judge Then decided the need for public access superseded the privacy rights of those involved.
They reveal that Giorgio Pelossi, a shadowy figure who acted as Mr. Schreiber's accountant and right-hand man until they fell out in 1991, began funnelling information to the RCMP in 1995.
The information included a 1986 letter from the German parent company, Messerschmit-Bolkow-Blohm, to a Schreiber-controlled company discussing the figure of $1.12-million as a potential "agent fee" for International Aircraft Leasing.
The RCMP claims the final agreement included a $6,000 monthly retainer to be paid to the lobbying firm Government Consultants International, an 8-per-cent commission on the sale price of helicopters and 15 per cent on the cost of equipment.
Police believe $93,506 was ultimately paid out in commissions per helicopter. Multiplied by 12, the total commissions equalled the $1.12-million MBB and IAL allegedly discussed.
Commission fees are not illegal in many other countries. But in Canada, they are viewed as an inducement to underhanded dealing and possible corruption in the procurement of government contracts.
The untendered 1986 helicopter contract had a specific provision prohibiting commission fees that, if violated, meant that the coast guard unwittingly signed a contract it likely would not have otherwise entered into.
Ms. Cameron said yesterday that she has not covered the Airbus saga since a book she co-wrote with CBC reporter Harvey Cashore, The Last Amigo, came out in 2001. She is working on a book about the Robert William Pickton murder case in British Columbia.
Mr. Cashore too denied being the confidential informant yesterday. He said he actually had no idea there was a confidential informant in the case until he heard of it in 2002.
"I was as surprised as anyone else that there was a secret informant," Mr. Cashore said in an interview. "I've been a victim of false speculation, so I wouldn't want someone else to be as well. I do not know who it is."
Mr. Cashore said he was so worried about the RCMP trying to seize his notes and documents several years ago that he took them all to his aunt's home in Scarborough, Ont., and hid them in the basement.
Mr. Cashore said it has bothered him for years that despite groundbreaking work he did for the CBC program the fifth estate on the case, the rest of the Canadian media have remained obsessed with tangential angles.
"This is a bit of a sideshow," Mr. Cashore said. "The big unanswered question in all of this is: Where did the money go? That's what Greenspan and Schreiber want us to forget about. My guess is they are enjoying the way this story is being covered. I think they are sitting back and having a good chuckle."
An RCMP document filed in the secret hearing last year stated that the confidential informant would come forward publicly only if Mr. Mulroney were charged in connection with the case.
"That's just weird," Mr. Cashore said Friday. "I can guarantee that it isn't me, because I don't dislike Mulroney."
Mr. Cashore said he was unable to rule out Ms. Cameron categorically as the confidential informant. He said he has not spoken to her since the existence of a confidential informant became known last year.
People should keep in mind that reporters deal with sources all the time without falling into compromising relationships, Mr. Cashore added.
"On one level, you are trying to get any information you can for a story," he said. "I remember, years ago there were questions raised about why I would even want to talk to the RCMP. That's absurd. Of course I would want to get information out of the RCMP. You talk to Karlheinz Schreiber; you talk to Eddie Greenspan; you talk to anybody who can give you information.
"But if you are deliberating giving information to the RCMP so they can act on it - and they do something with it - I think that is inappropriate," Mr. Cashore said. "Our job is not to be furthering investigations. It is not my job, nor should it be, to give the RCMP information."
In his submission to Judge Then in February, 2002, Mr. Greenspan said he twigged to the probability of Ms. Cameron being the informant on account of events surrounding the departure of Staff Sergeant Fraser Fiegenwald from the RCMP.
Staff Sgt. Fiegenwald, a prime investigator in the Airbus affair, resigned after it became public that he had leaked information about the investigation to Ms. Cameron.
Mr. Greenspan noted that in The Last Amigo, Ms. Cameron described Staff Sgt. Fiegenwald as "an honest cop" who ended up being victimized in the incident.
If Staff Sgt. Fiegenwald actually was honest, Mr. Greenspan reasoned, then he surely could not have breached the RCMP Act when he leaked information to Ms. Cameron.
That led him to the logical deduction that Staff Sgt. Fiegenwald had leaked the information to someone he was authorized to inform, namely, a confidential informant, Mr. Greenspan said.
"All I can say to myself is that if he did not breach the RCMP Act - according to Cameron - it means she was in a category of persons that could be told - and that's an informant," he told Judge Then.
Staff Sgt. Fiegenwald, who now works for a private security firm, declined to comment on the case yesterday. "I've got nothing to say on that," he said. "I'm not saying anything about it."
Mr. Greenspan also stated that the fact that Mr. Cashore could find the courtroom where the secret hearing was being heard in early 2000 showed he was receiving leaks from someone very close to the case, probably the RCMP.
However, Mr. Cashore said yesterday that he learned indirectly about the secret proceeding through Mr. Greenspan's own client, Mr. Schreiber.
"I wasn't going to tell Greenspan, but I'm willing to tell a fellow journalist that without Karlheinz Schreiber's information, there is no way I would have ended up in that hearing," he said.
Mr. Cashore explained that a German journalist he knows had forwarded him a copy of the search warrant, saying it had come directly from Mr. Schreiber. Helpful clerks in the Ottawa courthouse directed him to a Toronto courthouse where the secret proceeding was under way, Mr. Cashore said.
He said he simply went to the courthouse, found the courtroom and walked in.
Mr. Cashore insisted the RCMP did not help him discover the proceeding. "Absolutely not," he said. "The RCMP have been so tight-lipped on this thing."
With a report from Daniel Leblanc.
Smells like "fish" to me !
Location:YOW
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"And on the flip side, I wonder who got greased for the 412 Griffon deal?
Nobody. There's no need to bribe Canadians into buying a Canadian built aircraft, nor should there be.
Protectionist? You bet your sweet arse. See what would happen if the Gendarmerie tried to buy Jet Rangers.
MAG, The article that I just posted WAS from the Globe and Mail, and furthermore, the Vancouver Sun is not one of the "Sunshine Girl" papers. It is the class act on the west coast, the Tabloid style paper on the wet coast is the Vancouver Province.
Hey, I'm thinking of buying an Astar, do you mind sending me $100,000 in small unmarked bills to convince me??
LongRanger
If you don't get that cash 407 I'll send you one of the ballcaps they gave me...oops, cats out of the bag now!!
By the way ####....tell the crew we are quite pleased with the new ride. Job well done by everyone at the plant. :up: As for that bribe, Bank of Switzerland, account # 6 9. Wait now, the new ride is metric, make that account number 1 8 1!! And hurry up, I need some cash to buy soap to get rid of this grease on my palms!!
WHAT ? FREE Ball Caps, I'm calling the RCMP on this one, obviously a KICKBACK ! :angry: What's the number for 9-1-1 ?
Ball caps? Don't they cause baldness?
Maggie - there is no real Canadian option for that project, just J-Vs with Canadian companies. In that case, I think they should get the aircraft that suits them the best.
I'm not saying Canadian at all costs, but if there is a Canadian option that can successfully does the job, like 407 vs. 350, or Embraer vs. CRJ, or Bombardier rail cars vs. some Japanese version, I think it's a no-brainer.
Hey 407, I tried making the emergency call for you, but I couldn't find '11' on the phone...
widgeon
what is Can Content on 407 ? , the fuselage and final assembly ?. I would guess less than 25% of the selling cost .
Design, experimental flight test, initial certification, fuselage, empennage, all interior panels and upholstry, electrical, full assembly from scratch, all production flight test, and Canada is listed as the State of Design and Manufacture. In addition, world-wide product support is done from Mirabel.
Blades, and transmission come from the US parent, and the engine on this model comes from a vendor, as do all EC engines. As an aside, the Pratts on the 212, 412 and 427 come from Canada...
What's your point? Don't most of the new EC fuses come from China now? Is there one shred of Canadian manufacturing other than final assembly?
If you can't tell the difference between a full-on design and manufacturing facility with 1200 - 1700 employees, and a glorified paint shop, then there isn't much point in this arguement.


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COVID super-immunity: one of the pandemics great puzzles
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Around a year ago — before Delta and other variants entered the COVID-19 lexicon — virologists Theodora Hatziioannou and Paul Bieniasz, both at the Rockefeller University in New York City, set out to make a version of a key SARS-CoV-2 protein with the ability to dodge all the infection-blocking antibodies our body makes.
The goal was to identify the parts of spike — the protein SARS-CoV-2 uses to infect cells — that are targeted by these neutralizing antibodies in order to map a key part of our body's attack on the virus. So the researchers mixed and matched potentially concerning mutations identified in lab experiments and circulating viruses, and tested their Franken-spikes in harmless 'pseudotype' viruses incapable of causing COVID-19. In a study published this September in Nature 1, they reported that a spike mutant containing 20 changes was fully resistant to neutralizing antibodies made by most of the people tested who had been either infected or vaccinated — but not to everyone's.
Those who had recovered from COVID-19 months before receiving their jabs harboured antibodies capable of defanging the mutant spike, which displays much more resistance to immune attack than any known naturally occurring variant. These peoples' antibodies even blocked other types of coronaviruses. "It's very likely they will be effective against any future variant that SARS-CoV-2 throws against them," says Hatziioannou.
As the world watches out for new coronavirus variants, the basis of such 'super-immunity' has become one of the pandemic's great mysteries. Researchers hope that, by mapping the differences between the immune protection that comes from infection compared with that from vaccination, they can chart a safer path to this higher level of protection.
"It has implications on boosters and how our immune responses are primed for the next variant that emerges," says Mehul Suthar, a virologist at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. "We're flying by the seat of our pants trying to figure this stuff out."
Hybrid immunity
Not long after countries began rolling out vaccines, researchers started noticing unique properties of the vaccine responses of people who had previously caught and recovered from COVID-19. "We saw that the antibodies come up to these astronomical levels that outpace what you get from two doses of vaccine alone," says Rishi Goel, an immunologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia who is part of a team studying super-immunity — or 'hybrid immunity', as most scientists call it.
Initial studies of people with hybrid immunity found that their serum — the antibody-containing portion of blood — was far better able to neutralize immune-evading strains, such as the Beta variant identified in South Africa, and other coronaviruses, compared with 'naive' vaccinated individuals who had never encountered SARS-CoV-2 2. It wasn't clear whether this was just due to the high levels of neutralizing antibodies, or to other properties.
The most recent studies suggest that hybrid immunity is, at least partly, due to immune players called memory B cells. The bulk of antibodies made after infection or vaccination come from short-lived cells called plasmablasts, and antibody levels fall when these cells inevitably die off. Once plasmablasts are gone, the main source of antibodies becomes much rarer memory B cells that are triggered by either infection or vaccination.
Some of these long-lived cells make higher-quality antibodies than plasmablasts, says Michel Nussenzweig, an immunologist at the Rockefeller. That's because they evolve in organs called lymph nodes, gaining mutations that help them to bind more tightly to the spike protein over time. When people who recovered from COVID-19 are re-exposed to SARS-CoV-2's spike, these cells multiply and churn out more of these highly potent antibodies.
"You get a sniff of antigen, in this case of mRNA vaccine, and those cells just explode," says Goel. In this way, a first vaccine dose in someone who has previously been infected is doing the same job as a second dose in someone who has never had COVID-19.
Potent antibodies
Differences between the memory B cells triggered by infection and those triggered by vaccination — as well as the antibodies they make — might also underlie the heightened responses of hybrid immunity. Infection and vaccination expose the spike protein to the immune system in vastly different ways, Nussenzweig says.
In a series of studies 5, Nussenzweig's team, which includes Hatziioannou and Bieniasz, compared the antibody responses of infected and vaccinated people. Both lead to the establishment of memory B cells that make antibodies that have evolved to become more potent, but the researchers suggest this occurs to a greater extent after infection.
The team isolated hundreds of memory B cells — each making a unique antibody — from people at various time points after infection and vaccination. Natural infection triggered antibodies that continued to grow in potency and their breadth against variants for a year after infection, whereas most of those elicited by vaccination seemed to stop changing in the weeks after a second dose. Memory B cells that evolved after infection were also more likely than those from vaccination to make antibodies that block immune-evading variants such as Beta and Delta.
Health-care workers receiving the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. People who get the vaccine after infection are less likely to test positive for COVID-19 than individuals with no history of infection.Credit: Paula Bronstein/Getty
A separate study found that, compared with mRNA vaccination, infection leads to a pool of antibodies that recognize variants more evenly by targeting diverse regions of spike 6. The researchers also found that people with hybrid immunity produced consistently higher levels of antibodies, compared with never-infected vaccinated people, for up to seven months. Antibody levels were also more stable in people with hybrid immunity, reports the team led by immunologist Duane Wesemann at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.
'Not surprising'
Many studies of hybrid immunity haven't followed naive vaccine recipients for as long as those who recovered from COVID-19, and it's possible their B cells will make antibodies that gain potency and breadth with more time, additional vaccine doses, or both, researchers say. It can take months for a stable pool of memory B cells to establish itself and mature.
"It's not surprising that people infected and vaccinated are getting a nice response," says Ali Ellebedy, a B-cell immunologist at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. "We are comparing someone who started the race three to four months ago to someone who started the race now."
There is some evidence that people who received both jabs without previously being infected seem to be catching up. Ellebedy's team collected lymph-node samples from mRNA-vaccinated individuals and found signs that some of their memory B cells triggered by the vaccination were gaining mutations, up to 12 weeks after the second dose, that enabled them to recognize diverse coronaviruses, including some that cause common colds7.
Goel, University of Pennsylvania immunologist John Wherry and their colleagues found signs that six months after vaccination, memory B cells from naive individuals were continuing to grow in number and evolve greater capacity to neutralize variants 8. Antibody levels fell after vaccination, but these cells should start cranking out antibodies if they encounter SARS-CoV-2 again. "The reality is you have a pool of high-quality memory B cells that are there to protect you if you ever see this antigen again," Goel says.
Booster benefits
A third vaccine dose might allow people who haven't been infected to achieve the benefits of hybrid immunity, says Matthieu Mahévas, an immunologist at the Necker Institute for Sick Children in Paris. His team found that some of the memory B cells from naive vaccine recipients could recognize Beta and Delta, two months after vaccination9. "When you boost this pool, you can clearly imagine you will generate potent neutralizing antibodies against variants," Mahévas says.
Extending the interval between vaccine doses could also mimic aspects of hybrid immunity. In 2021, amid scarce vaccine supplies and a surge in cases, officials in the Canadian province of Quebec recommended a 16-week interval between first and second doses (since reduced to 8 weeks).
A team co-led by Andrés Finzi, a virologist at the University of Montreal, Canada, found that people who received this regimen had SARS-CoV-2 antibody levels similar to those in people with hybrid immunity10. These antibodies could neutralize a swathe of SARS-CoV-2 variants — as well as the virus behind the 2002–04 SARS epidemic. "We are able to bring naive people to almost the same level as previously infected and vaccinated, which is our gold standard," says Finzi.
Understanding the mechanism behind hybrid immunity will be key to emulating it, say scientists. The latest studies focus on antibody responses made by B cells, and it's likely that T-cell responses to vaccination and infection behave differently. Natural infection also triggers responses against viral proteins other than spike — the target of most vaccines. Nussenzweig wonders whether other factors unique to natural infection are crucial. During infection, hundreds of millions of viral particles populate the airways, encountering immune cells that regularly visit nearby lymph nodes, where memory B cells mature. Viral proteins stick around in the gut of some people months after recovery, and it's possible that this persistence helps B cells hone their responses to SARS-CoV-2.
Researchers say that it is also important to determine the real-world effects of hybrid immunity. A study from Qatar suggests that people who get Pfizer–BioNTech's mRNA vaccine after infection are less likely to test positive for COVID-19 than are individuals with no history of infection 11. Hybrid immunity might also be responsible for falling case numbers across South America, says Gonzalo Bello Bentancor, a virologist at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Many South American countries experienced very high infection rates earlier in the pandemic, but have now vaccinated a large proportion of their populations. It's possible that hybrid immunity is better than the immunity from vaccination alone at blocking transmission, says Bello Bentancor.
As breakthrough infections caused by the Delta variant stack up, researchers including Nussenzweig are keen to study the immunity in people who were infected after their COVID-19 vaccinations, rather than before. An individual's first exposure to influenza virus biases their responses to subsequent exposures and vaccinations — a phenomenon called original antigenic sin — and researchers want to know if this occurs with SARS-CoV-2.
Those studying hybrid immunity stress that — whatever the potential benefits — the risks of a SARS-CoV-2 infection mean that it should be avoided. "We are not inviting anybody to get infected and then vaccinated to have a good response," says Finzi. "Because some of them will not make it through."
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•Main
•Experience Chart
•Frescoes
•Hacking List
•Information
•Locations
•Map
•Objects
•Obstacles
•Shadows
•Tips
*Click on the name of a Location to view an example of that area's terrain.
**Sometimes the enemies of a section overlap into another section (the dining room, eastern most room of East Wing). In these cases, I just said that the enemies in these areas belong to the next area over (so Graves are technically found in the East Wing, but since they're enemies native to the Garden, I just lump them into the Garden exclusively).
***In case you're wondering: here's a bit of my logic: the dining room is part of the 2nd Floor, the hall connecting the 1st Floor and the East Wing is part of the 1st Floor, and the small southern end of the East Wing you can reach at the beginning of the game is part of the 1st Floor, because they have more similarities to that area than the one they're at.
****The Locked Doors refer to how many doors can be unlocked using the different keys in the game in each section.
3 frescoes
Doll, Worms, Wisp
LOCKED DOORS
3 Key, 1 Gold Key, 1 Two Keys (connects with Courtyard), 1 Iron Key (connects with Dungeon)
The area you start in. Stretches all the way from beginning room, up to the dining room to the north. Pretty much anywhere you can reach at the beginning of the game. Acts as a "hub", connecting many of the other parts of the mansion.
1 Fresco, Mallet
Worms, Bats, Skull, Zombie
1 Key, 1 Gold Key (connects with Inner Sanctuary)
A small area, stretching from the Dining room north to the room with the two Armors. Nothing much here, other than a mallet.
4 frescoes, Flashlight, Armor Spear
Wisp, Bats, Skull, Zombie
3 Key, 1 Gold Key
The area east of 1st Floor. It's all dark here, but there's nothing too important. Its main purpose is to lead you to the Garden.
Generator, Gas
Grave, Hound, Skull
The area outside of the mansion to the east. All there is to do here is to get the Gas and turn on the Generator.
1 Fresco, Ladder, Diary
Bane, Hound, Man, Armor, Wall
5 Key, 1 Low Key (connects with Inner Sanctuary)
Area north of room on 2nd Floor with the two Armors (I didn't have much of a better name to call it then the Northern Region). This area is full of a sticky surface that you'll get stuck in if you take more than four steps in succession. Anywhere from the room with the diary to the area with the Rope Ladder is part of the Northern Region.
3 frescoes, Pail, Tool, 1 Blue Candle, Photo, Iron Key
Bane, Hound, Maniac
3 Key, 2 Two Keys (1 of them connects with 1st Floor)
Area directly below 3rd Floor. The mirrors on the wall will attack you if you get close to them. When you first reach here, other than a few frescoes, this place is fairly empty. Its purpose is to lead you to the Garden. However, later in the game, you can explore new sections that have important items.
Low Key, Ax, Shovel
Maniac, Corpse, Ghoul (1)
The area east of the Courtyard near the lake. Thorns cover the ground, and wood blocks the way, so pack an Ax and some Gloves. Certain parts of the lake must be crossed using logs. Get the Low Key and leave.
Northern Courtyard
Area just north of Courtyard. Only accessable after going through Lake, and has same enemies as lake.
2 frescoes, Gem, Incinerator, Diary Key
Wraith, Ghoul (1), Madman, Skeleton
4 Key, 2 Low Key
Area covered in fire (until you extinguish it). Mamiya hides a terrible secret in the incinerator.
Inner Sanctuary
4 frescoes, Ruby Ring, Jade Ring, 2 Blue Candles, Pulley, Dress, Two Keys, Gold Key
Knight, Wolf, Ghoul (2), Skeleton
6 Key, 3 Two Key, 2 Gold Key (1 of them connects with 2nd Floor)
A central area of the mansion where Mamiya lives. Rocks fill the passageways, and if you're not careful, ice can slide you right to your doom. But, there are several important and valuable items to be found.
2 frescoes, Coffin
Ghoul (2), Giant, Ghost
3 Iron Key (2 of them are gates, and the third is a door connecting to the 1st Floor)
A cavern under the mansion. Lava flows here, and it can push you into spikes. But you should be especially careful of the sand traps (if someone gets caught, get somebody to pull them up with a Rope). This is a dangerous area, but you must explore it to get a very important item.
Final area
Clones of all your characters, Mamiya
A demonic place, hidden behind the Inner Sanctuary. Shadows constantly follow you, and if they touch your character, it'll take him/her out of the area, so proceed with caution. The Pulley definately helps. Make it through your evil clones, defeat Mamiya, and the game is over.


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