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\section{Introduction}
Antikaon-nucleon dynamics close to threshold ($\sqrt {s^{thresh}}$=1.43 GeV) appears rather complex.
The $\bar KN$ channel in that regime couples both to inelastic channels
($\Lambda \pi$ and $\Sigma \pi$) and to baryon resonances located below
and above threshold.
The baryon resonances present below threshold [$\Sigma$(1385) and $\Lambda$(1405)]
are strongly coupled to the hyperon-pion channels.
The $\Sigma^0(1385)$ decays primarily into the
$\pi^0\, \Lambda$ channel [($88\pm2)\,\%$] and less significantly [($12\pm2)\,\%$]
into the $\pi\, \Sigma$ channel \cite{Hagiwara}. The $\Lambda(1405)$ decays
entirely into the $\pi\, \Sigma$ channel \cite{Hagiwara}. We propose
to study the $K^- p \rightarrow \pi^0 \Lambda$ and $K^- p \rightarrow \pi \Sigma$
amplitudes below threshold, in the region where they are dominated by the
$\Sigma$(1385) and $\Lambda$(1405) resonances, by isolating a specific term
arising from $K^-$ t-channel exchange in the $\gamma p \rightarrow K^+ \pi^0 \Lambda$
and $\gamma p \rightarrow K^+ \pi \Sigma $ reactions induced by 2 GeV photons.
This term is characterized by its analytic structure, a double pole
linked to the $K^-$ propagator [1/$(m_K^2-t)^2$], fulfills
the requirement of gauge-invariance and seems to be important.

This work is largely motivated by a new generation of experiments in which
multihadron final states can be measured exclusively.
 Section 2 is devoted to a brief review of
these experimental projects.
We describe in Section 3 the calculation of the t-channel
K$^-$-exchange contribution
to the $\gamma p \rightarrow K^+ \pi^0 \Lambda$ and
$\gamma p \rightarrow K^+ \pi \Sigma $
reactions using the $K^- p \rightarrow \pi^0 \Lambda$
and $K^- p \rightarrow \pi \Sigma$ amplitudes obtained
in Ref. \cite{Lutz1}.
We extract the gauge-invariant double $K^-$ pole contribution for both processes.
A few numerical results for the
$\gamma \, p \rightarrow K^+ \, \pi^0 \,\Lambda(1116)$ and
$\gamma\, p \rightarrow K^+\, \pi\, \Sigma(1192) $ reactions based on the double K$^-$ pole term
are presented in Section 4. We conclude briefly in Section 5.

This talk is based on a recent paper \cite{Lutz2} to which we refer
for a more extensive account of our calculation and a broader presentation of the results.

\section{Experimental studies of the $\gamma \, p \rightarrow K^+ \, \pi^0 \,\Lambda(1116)$ and
$\gamma\, p \rightarrow K^+\, \pi\, \Sigma(1192) $ reactions}

Very little is presently known on the $\gamma \, p \rightarrow K^+ \, \pi^0 \,\Lambda(1116)$ and
$\gamma\, p \rightarrow K^+\, \pi\, \Sigma(1192) $ reactions induced by real photons
in the region where the invariant mass of the $\pi \Lambda$ or $\pi \Sigma$ pairs is
close to the $\Sigma$(1385) or $\Lambda$(1405) mass. The only
published data of relevance for these processes were obtained at DESY thirty years ago with
space-like photons, in electroproduction
experiments where the scattered electron and the produced K$^+$ were detected
in coincidence \cite{Azemoon}. The differential cross sections for the $e\, p\rightarrow e\, K^+\,Y$
reaction in these measurements characterize globally strangeness production processes
for hyperon mis\-sing masses ranging from 1.35 until 1.45 GeV. The
$\Sigma^0(1385)$ and $\Lambda(1405)$ channel cannot
be separated, so that the published cross sections are associated with the production of both resonances.
An interesting
trend of these data is that the t-dependence of the cross section, for given
photon energy and virtuality, seems to show a sharp drop as would be expected
if the dynamics were dominated by t-channel exchanges. It is best fitted
precisely by the double kaon pole [1/$(m_K^2-t)^2$] \cite{Lutz2}. The Mandelstam variable t
is defined as the square of the
4-momentum transfer from the proton target to the $\Sigma^0(1385)$ or $\Lambda(1405)$.
We caution that these electroproduction data have very large error bars and should be viewed as
an mere indication that our suggestion is not in contradiction with existing experimental information.

There are on the other hand ongoing and future programs pertaining directly
to the study of the $\gamma \, p \rightarrow K^+ \, \pi^0 \,\Lambda(1116)$ and
$\gamma\, p \rightarrow K^+\, \pi\, \Sigma(1192) $ reactions, where the resonances will be separated. The
$\Sigma^0(1385)$ decays into neutral ($\pi^0 \Lambda$) and charged ($\pi^+ \Sigma^-$,
$\pi^- \Sigma^+$) channels; its decay into a $\pi^0 \Sigma^0$ pair is forbidden.
The $\Lambda(1405)$ decays into all $\pi \Sigma$ channels ($\pi^+ \Sigma^-$,
$\pi^- \Sigma^+$, $\pi^0 \Sigma^0$).
The $\pi^0\, \Sigma^0$ decay is
therefore a unique signature of the $\Lambda(1405)$. The
measurement of the $\gamma \, p \rightarrow K^+ \, \pi^0 \,\Sigma^0$ reaction is intended at
ELSA (Bonn) where the $\pi^0\, \Sigma^0$ pair could be detected through
a multi-photon final state ($\pi^0\, \Sigma^0 \rightarrow \pi^0\,\Lambda(1116)\,\gamma \rightarrow
 \pi^0\,n \,\pi^0\,\gamma \rightarrow n \, 5\gamma$) with the Crystal Barrel \cite{Schmieden}.
Similarly the $\Sigma^0(1385)$ could be studied by its $\pi^0\, \Lambda$ decay into the
$n \, 4\gamma$ channel. The charged channels were also studied at ELSA with the
SAPHIR detector. The $\gamma \, p \rightarrow K^+ \, \pi^+ \,\Sigma^- \rightarrow
K^+ \, \pi^+ \,\pi^-\, n$ and the $\gamma \, p \rightarrow K^+ \, \pi^- \,\Sigma^+ \rightarrow
K^+ \, \pi^- \,\pi^+\, n$ reactions (where all charged hadrons are detected)
have been investigated in the energy
range 1.3$\,<E_\gamma<\,$2.6 GeV \cite{Schulday}.  The charged channels are also
presently studied at SPring-8/LEPS with incident photon
energies in the range 1.5$\,<E_\gamma^{Lab}<\,2.4$ GeV \cite{Ahn}. The analysis
of both the SAPHIR and LEPS data is in progress. These data are dominated by
effects arising from the presence of the $\Lambda(1405)$ resonance.

We expect these data to be quite accurate and to unravel the dynamics
underlying the $\Sigma^0(1385)$ and $\Lambda(1405)$ production for
photon laboratory energies ranging from threshold kinematics until
the 2 GeV region addressed in this work. Angular or t-distributions
in successive energy bins should carry that information.

\newpage

\section{Dynamics of the $\gamma \, p \rightarrow K^+ \, \pi^0 \,\Lambda(1116)$ and
$\gamma\, p \rightarrow K^+\, \pi\, \Sigma(1192) $ reactions}

The dynamics of the $\gamma \, p \rightarrow K^+ \, \pi^0 \,\Lambda(1116)$ and
$\gamma\, p \rightarrow K^+\, \pi\, \Sigma(1192) $ reactions
in the region where the invariant mass of the $\pi \Lambda$ or $\pi \Sigma$ pairs is
close to the $\Sigma$(1385) and $\Lambda$(1405) masses reflects the
nature of these resonances.

The $\Sigma$(1385) arises as a member of the ground state decuplet of baryons in the large N$_c$ limit of QCD.
 It is well described by quark models \cite{Isgur,Glozman} and has a Breit-Wigner
shape \cite{Barreiro}.

The $\Lambda(1405)$
is a complex baryonic state. Its mass, in particular the large
splitting between the $\Lambda_{1/2^-}(1405)$ and the $\Lambda_{3/2^-}(1520)$,
cannot be understood in the constituent quark model with residual quark-quark interactions
fitting the other low-lying baryonic states \cite{Isgur,Glozman}.
Sizeable $q^4\bar q$
components seem required \cite{Jaffe}. The $\Lambda(1405)$ has been
described as a bound kaon-nucleon system
\cite{Dalitz1,Siegel}, in particular
as a kaon-soliton bound state \cite{Callan,Blom}.
The $\bar K N$ nature of the $\Lambda(1405)$ was also inferred from the
SU(3) cloudy bag model description \cite{Veit1,Veit2}. Extensive studies
of the $\Lambda(1405)$ based on chiral Lagrangians
\cite{Lutz1,Garcia-Recio}
suggest that this resonance
is generated by meson-baryon interactions. The spectral shape of the $\Lambda(1405)$
departs from a Breit-Wigner \cite{Hemingway}.
It depends strongly on the initial and final states through which it is measured,
emphasizing the need for a full understanding of the coupling of the $\Lambda(1405)$
to its different decay channels.

We study the $\gamma p \rightarrow K^+ \pi^0 \Lambda$ and $\gamma p \rightarrow K^+ \pi \Sigma $
reactions with the idea of using future accurate data on these processes (mainly
t-distributions) to gain understanding of the $K^- p \rightarrow \pi^0 \Lambda$
and of the  $K^- p \rightarrow \pi \Sigma$ amplitudes below the $\bar K N$ threshold,
where they are dominated by the $\Sigma(1385)$ and $\Lambda(1405)$ re\-sonances.

This procedure requires that these reactions be significantly driven by the process
in which the ingoing photon dissociates
into a real K$^+$ and a virtual K$^-$, the off-shell K$^-$ scattering subsequently
off the proton target to produce the $\pi^0\, \Lambda$ or $\pi\, \Sigma$ pair.
The corresponding diagrams are displayed in Fig.~1.
Such dynamics would show in a sharp drop of the differential cross sections $d\sigma/dt$
with increasing $|t|$ (as suggested by the scarce data available \cite{Azemoon}).
This drop can have both a double pole component behaving like 1/$(m_K^2-t)^2$
and a single pole dependence going like 1/$(m_K^2-t)$.
The new data expected in the near future
should make it possible to separate these terms by
expressing the differential cross sections $d\sigma/dt$ as a superposition of
double and single K$^-$ pole terms and less singular contributions.
To support further our t-channel approach, it should be noted that there are no
reasons to expect significant
s-channel contributions to the $\gamma p \rightarrow K^+ \pi^0 \Lambda$ and
$\gamma p \rightarrow K^+ \pi \Sigma $ reactions at E$_\gamma\simeq2$ GeV.
The corresponding total center of mass energy is
$\sqrt s= 2.15$ GeV. There are no baryon resonances in that mass range
known to decay into the $K^+ \pi^0 \Lambda$ or $K^+ \pi \Sigma $ channels.
Effects from u-channel contributions are not expected at low t.
\begin{figure}[h]
\vglue 0.4 true cm
\noindent
\begin{center}
\mbox{\epsfig{file=F1aerice.eps, height=6 true cm}}
\end{center}
\begin{center}
\mbox{\epsfig{file=F1berice.eps, height=6 true cm}}
\end{center}
\vskip 0.4 true cm
\caption{K$^-$-exchange contribution to the
$\gamma \,p\rightarrow K^+ \pi^0 \Lambda$ amplitude (upper graph) and to the $\gamma \,p\rightarrow K^+ \pi \Sigma$ amplitude (lower graph). The $\pi \Sigma$
symbol stands for $\pi^- \Sigma^+$, $\pi^0 \Sigma^0 $ or $\pi^+ \Sigma^-$ in the latter case.}
\end{figure}

We have computed the K$^-$-exchange graphs of Fig. 1 using
the chiral coupled-channel approach of kaon-nucleon scattering
develo\-ped in Ref. \cite{Lutz1}. The different nature of the $\Sigma(1385)$
and of the $\Lambda(1405)$ resonances
is part of that picture. The baryon
resonances belonging to the large N$_c$ ground state baryon mutiplets
(hence the $\Sigma(1385)$) are introduced explicitly as fundamental fields
of the effective Lagrangian. The other baryon resonances (in
particular the $\Lambda(1405)$) are generated dynamically by meson-baryon
coupled-channel dynamics.
This effective field theory achieves an excellent description of the available data
on $K^-\,p$ elastic (direct and charge-exchange) and inelastic ($\pi^0\,\Lambda$,
$\pi^+\,\Sigma^-$, $\pi^0\,\Sigma^0$, $\pi^-\,\Sigma^+$) processes up to
laboratory $K^-$ momenta of the order of 500 MeV. The interest of the
present work is to offer the possibility of testing the amplitudes
below the $\bar K N$ threshold, in the region
where they are dominated by the $\Lambda$(1405) and the $\Sigma$(1385).
The specific spectral shape of these resonances is a particularly
meaningful prediction
of the description of Ref. \cite{Lutz1}
\newpage
We calculate the cross section for the $\gamma \, p \rightarrow K^+ \, \pi \,Y$,
where Y represents either the $\Lambda(1116)$ or the $\Sigma(1192)$. The 4-momenta
of the photon, the proton, the K$^+$, the pion and the hyperon are denoted
by $q$, $p$, $\bar q_K$, $\bar q_\pi$ and $\bar p_Y$ respectively.
The photon, proton and hyperon polarizations are indicated by the
symbols $\lambda_\gamma$, $\lambda$ and $\bar
\lambda_Y$. The total
cross section reads
\begin{eqnarray}
\sigma_{\gamma \,p\rightarrow K^+ \, \pi \,Y}&=&
\frac{1}{|{\vec v}_\gamma-{\vec v}_p|}\,\frac{1}{2\,q^0}\,\frac{m_p}{p^0}
\int \frac{d^3 \vec{\bar q}_K}{(2\pi)^3}\,\frac{1}{2\,{\bar q}\,^0_K}\,
\int \frac{d^3 \vec{\bar q}_\pi}{(2\pi)^3}\,\frac{1}{2\,{\bar q}\,^0_\pi}\,
\int \frac{d^3 \vec{\bar p}_Y}{(2\pi)^3}\,\frac{m_Y}{{\bar p}\,^0_Y}\,
\nonumber\\
&&(2\,\pi)^4\,\delta^4(q+p-{\bar q}_K-\bar q_\pi-\bar p_Y)\sum_{\lambda_\gamma,
\lambda ,\bar
\lambda_Y }\frac{1}{4}\,|M_{\gamma \,p\rightarrow K^+ \, \pi \,Y}|^2.
\label{eq1}
\end{eqnarray}
Factorizing  the full amplitude
$M_{\gamma \,p\rightarrow K^+ \, \pi \,Y}$ into the
photon-kaon vertex and the $K^-\,p\rightarrow \pi \,Y$ amplitude,
we can express the ${\gamma \,p\rightarrow K^+ \, \pi \,Y}$
cross section in terms of the $K^-\,p\rightarrow \pi \,Y$ cross section \cite{Lutz2}.
The latter is frame-independent and calculated for simplicity in the $K^-\,p$ center of mass.
It is useful to define the invariant mass $\sqrt{{\bar w}^2}$ of the final $\pi\,Y$ pair by
\begin{eqnarray}
{\bar w}^2 = (p+q-{\bar q}_K)^2
 = s+ m_K^2- 2\,\sqrt{s}\,\sqrt{m_K^2+{\vec{\bar q}_K}^{\,2}}.
\label{eq2}
\end{eqnarray}
\newpage
The expression for the total $K^-p \to \pi\,Y$
cross section is given by
\begin{eqnarray}
\sigma_{K^-\,p\rightarrow \pi \,Y} &=&
\frac {1} {\sqrt{{\bar w}^2} \, |\vec q_{K^-p}|} \, \frac{m_p}{2}\,
\int \frac{d^3 \vec{\bar q}_\pi}{(2\pi)^3}\,\frac{1}{2\,{\bar q}\,^0_\pi}\,
\int \frac{d^3 \vec{\bar p}_Y}{(2\pi)^3}\,\frac{m_Y}{{\bar p}\,^0_Y}\,
 \nonumber\\
&&\mkern 90 mu(2\,\pi)^4\,\delta^4({\bar w}-\bar q_\pi-\bar p_Y)\,
\frac{1}{2}\,
\sum_{\lambda ,\bar
\lambda_Y }\,|M_{K^-p \to \pi\,Y}|^2,
\label{eq3}
\end{eqnarray}
in which $q_{K^-p}$ is the $K^-$ momentum in the $K^-p$ center of mass,
\begin{eqnarray}
|\vec q_{K^-p}|^2=
\frac{1}{4\,{\bar w}^2}\, {\{{\bar w}^4-2\,{\bar w}^2\,(m_p^2+m_K^2)+(m_p^2-m_K^2)^2\}},
\label{eq4}
\end{eqnarray}
and the amplitudes $M_{K^-p \to \pi\,Y}$ are taken from Ref. \cite{Lutz1}.

In the energy range under consideration
(E$_\gamma\simeq2$ GeV), there are many possible diagrams contributing to the
$\gamma \,p\rightarrow K^+ \, \pi \,Y$ amplitudes and involving poorly known
couplings and hence large uncertainties.
The amplitudes $M_{\gamma \,p\rightarrow K^+ \, \pi \,Y}$
obtained by calculating the graphs of Fig. 1 are not gauge-invariant.
To obtain the full gauge-invariant amplitudes, a large class of diagrams of order $\alpha$ leading
to the same final state should be added.
We do not attempt to calculate these graphs and resort instead to the pole scheme
method \cite{Veltman}.
The idea of the method
is to decompose the amplitude according to its pole structure and to expand
it around the pole. To any order in perturbation theory, the residues
of the poles are gauge-invariant.
We apply this method to derive the gauge-invariant cross section
correspon\-ding to the double K$^-$-pole term.
The key point is that the graphs of Fig. 1 are the only process
which can contribute to the
double K$^-$-pole term. We will therefore decompose the corresponding cross section according to
its pole structure, keep only the double K$^-$-pole term and extract the
gauge-invariant cross section associated with that pole structure by
calculating the residue at the pole.

According to this procedure, the gauge-invariant cross section
corresponding to the double K$^-$-pole term reads
\begin{eqnarray}
\frac{d\sigma_{\gamma\,p\rightarrow K^+\,\pi \,Y}} {dt\, d{\bar w}^2} &=&
\frac{\alpha}{2\, \pi}\, \frac{({\bar w}^4-2\,{\bar w}^2\,(m_p^2+m_K^2)+(m_p^2-m_K^2)^2)^{1/2}}{(s-m_p^2)^2}\,
\nonumber\\
&&\mkern 150 mu\frac{m_K^2\,}{(t-m_K^2)^2}\,\sigma_{K^-\,p\rightarrow \pi \,Y}({\bar w}^2).
\label{eq5}
\end{eqnarray}
\par
We stress that the double pole term is the only one which can be determined
this way, because it does not get contributions from any other graph but the
t-channel kaon-exchange diagram.

In order to be able to extract the double pole term from accurate
t-distributions, it has to be reasonably large. We speculate so in
view of the numerical results displayed in the next section. As mentioned earlier
and discussed more thoroughly in Ref. \cite{Lutz2}, the double pole
behaviour is also compatible with the few data points available.

\section{Numerical results}

We show first the quantity $4\,|\vec q_{K^-p}|\sqrt{{\bar w}^2}$
$\sigma_{K^-\,p\rightarrow \pi \,Y}({\bar w}^2)$
as function of the total center of mass energy in the $K^- p$ system, renamed for clarity
$\sqrt{s_{K^-p}}$ ($\equiv{\sqrt{{\bar w}^2}}$). The interest of displaying our results
this way is to exhibit the behaviour of the ${K^-\,p\rightarrow \pi \,Y}$ cross section
across threshold. We recall that the $\bar K N$ threshold is at $\sqrt{s_{K^-p}}\,\approx\,$1.435 GeV.
We present for example in Fig. ~2 our predicted cross sections for the
${K^-\,p\rightarrow \pi^0 \,\Sigma^0}$ and
${K^-\,p\rightarrow \pi^0 \,\Lambda}$ reactions. They are compared to the data
available on these processes above threshold \cite{Mast1,Ciborowski,Armenteros,Humphrey}.
\par
\begin{figure}[h]
\noindent
\begin{center}
\mbox{\epsfig{file=F2erice.eps, height=10 true cm}}
\end{center}
\caption{$K^- \, p \rightarrow \pi^0 \,\Sigma^0$ and $K^- \, p \rightarrow \pi^0 \,\Lambda$
cross sections below and above threshold. The length of the $K^-$ 3-momentum is defined
by Eq. (4) and $\sqrt{s_{K^-p}}$ ($\equiv{\sqrt{{\bar w}^2}}$) is the total center of mass energy
of the  $K^- \, p$ system. The dashed line represents the contribution from $K^- \, p$
relative s-wave only.
The data above threshold are from Refs. \cite{Mast1,Ciborowski,Armenteros,Humphrey}.}
\label{f2}
\end{figure}
\par
We recall that the $\pi^0 \,\Sigma^0$ channel reflects the $\Lambda$(1405)
and the $\pi^0 \,\Lambda$ channel the $\Sigma$(1385).
The properties of the spectral functions of the $\Sigma$(1385) and $\Lambda$(1405)
resonances are very apparent in Fig.~2. The shape of the resonant behaviour
of the ${K^-\,p\rightarrow \pi^0 \,\Lambda}$ cross section below threshold is quite symmetric and close
to a Breit-Wigner form. The s-wave contribution is small as expected for a
process dominated by a p-wave
resonance. In contrast, the spectral form of the ${K^-\,p\rightarrow \pi^0 \,\Sigma^0}$
cross section is asymmetric and largely given by
s-wave dynamics, reflecting the $\Lambda$(1405) dominance.

We display in Fig. 3 the
double kaon pole term contributions to the
differential cross sections for the $\gamma p \rightarrow K^+ \pi^0 \Lambda$ and
$\gamma p \rightarrow K^+ \pi \Sigma $ reactions
as functions of the $\pi\, Y$ total center of mass energy $\sqrt{s_{K^-p}}$ at
$E_\gamma=2.1$ GeV.
\par
\begin{figure}[h]
\noindent
\begin{center}
\mbox{\epsfig{file=F3erice.eps, height=9.5 true cm}}
\end{center}
\caption{Double kaon pole term contribution to the
differential cross sections for the $\gamma p \rightarrow K^+ \pi^0 \Lambda$ and
$\gamma p \rightarrow K^+ \pi \Sigma $ reactions
as function of the $\pi\, Y$ total center of mass energy at $E_\gamma=2.1$ GeV
}
\label{f3}
\end{figure}
We see clearly the dynamical features discussed in commenting on
Fig. 3. It is also interesting to note the absolute values of the
double kaon pole cross sections.
They are large on the scale of what is expected from other theoretical approaches.
If we compare our results to the predictions of the model
of Ref. \cite{Nacher} at $E_\gamma=1.7$ GeV, we notice that our calculated
cross sections at that energy are roughly twice larger for the $\pi\,\Sigma$
channels \cite{Lutz2}.
It is not easy to trace the origin of this effect. Our gauge-invariant
double kaon pole term contains contributions which cannot be mapped easily
onto the Feynman diagrams computed in Ref. \cite{Nacher}.
The cross section we obtain for the $\pi^0\,\Lambda$ channel is about
an order of magnitude larger than the result displayed
in Ref. \cite{Nacher}. A substantial part of this effect should be
ascribed to the neglect of the $\Sigma$(1385) resonance in that work.
\newpage
\section{Conclusion}
We have studied the $\gamma p \rightarrow K^+ \pi^0 \Lambda$ and $\gamma p \rightarrow K^+ \pi \Sigma $
reactions in the kinematic region where the $\pi^0 \Lambda$(1116) and $\pi\Sigma$(1192) pairs
originate dominantly from the decay of the $\Sigma$(1385) and $\Lambda$(1405) resonances.
We focus on laboratory photon energies around 2 GeV, significantly above the threshold
for producing the $K^+\,\Sigma$(1385)
(E$^{thresh}_\gamma$=1.41 GeV)
and the $K^+\,\Lambda$(1405)
(E$^{thresh}_\gamma$=1.45 GeV)
final states. We have calculated the t-channel $K^-$-exchange contribution to these reactions
using the ${K^-\,p\rightarrow \pi \,Y}$ amplitudes of Ref. \cite{Lutz1}, which
have been shown to describe the data available at low kaon momentum. Based on the pole
structure of this contribution, we determined the gauge-invariant double kaon pole contribution to the
$\gamma p \rightarrow K^+ \pi Y$ cross sections by calculating the residue at the pole.
The relevance of our work stems from the advent of detector systems able
to measure exclusively multiparticle final states with great accuracy.
Three complementary experiments in the photon energy range considered in this paper
are planned with LEPS at SPring-8 \cite{Ahn}, SAPHIR at ELSA \cite{Schulday}
and  the Crystal Barrel at ELSA \cite{Schmieden},
dealing for the first two with the charged [$\pi^- \Sigma^+$ and $\pi^+ \Sigma^-$] channels
and for the latter with the neutral [$\pi^0 \Sigma^0$ and $\pi^0 \Lambda$] final states.
These accurate measurements
should make it possible to extract the contribution of the double kaon pole
and hence to study kaon-nucleon dynamics
below threshold.

\section{Acknowledgement}
We acknowledge very stimulating discussions with Takashi Nakano and Hartmut Schmieden.
One of us (M.S.) is grateful to the Erice School for supporting her participation
to a most fruitful course.

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Academic Credentials of Conservative Canadian Leaders Questioned
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Top leaders of a conservative activist group often quoted in Canadian media as representing Judeo-Christian moral values pad their resumes with degrees from unaccredited schools.
EthicsDaily.com reported last month that Charles McVety, identified as one of Canada's leading culture warriors in the fight against gay marriage, received his doctorate from California State Christian University, an unaccredited extension of a Korean seminary affiliated with Victory Bible Colleges International.
Robert Parham of the Baptist Center for Ethics said advertising degrees that require little or no academic work, like Southern Baptist Convention President's Johnny Hunt's listing two honorary doctorates from non-accredited seminaries in an on-line resume, helps lend credibility to diploma mills, businesses that sell bogus degree titles for profit.
McVety is president of the Canada Family Action Coalition, a grassroots citizen's group formed in 1997 with a "vision to see Judeo-Christian moral principles restored in Canada." Recently the Calgary-based group made news with a formal request asking that Canada's highest civilian honor be revoked for a supporter of abortion rights.
The organization's co-founder and executive director is Brian Rushfeldt, a former pastor who acquired his theology degree by correspondence from Canada Christian College. McVety is president of Canada Christian College, which works closely with Liberty University and Oral Roberts University in the United States.
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Madden got his master of divinity degree from Victory Bible Colleges International and a doctorate from the Evangelical Order of Certified Pastoral Counselors, which awards degrees through Victory Bible College in Canada and California State Christian University in the United States. California State Christian University, an American extension of Tae Han Theological Seminary and College in Seoul, South Korea, is not listed in a Council for Higher Education Accreditation database of institutions recognized by U.S. accrediting agencies. One of the contacts listed for the EOCPC is Stephen Hambly, who is dean of psychology and counseling at Victory Bible Colleges International.
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Robert Parham, executive director of the Baptist Center for Ethics in Nashville, Tenn., said Southern Baptists have a widespread problem with diploma mills, which he labeled "a significant problem of moral integrity."
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Members > Awards > Meritorious Service Awards > Bill Nickerson - 2005
Bill Nickerson - 2005
CSEG Meritorious Service Award Recipient Citation for Bill Nickerson
by Bill Goodway
The CSEG has recognized Bill Nickerson for his significant contribution to Continuing Education in Geophysics through its 2005 Meritorious Service Award. This award is given to members of the CSEG who have made a prominent and/or lengthy contribution to the Society and/or the industry as a whole and Bill is a most deserving recipient.
As a Geophysicist Bill is widely known both in Canada and internationally as the founder and driving force behind the CSEG's DoodleTrain week. This highly successful initiative that continues to draw a large audience to an increasing variety of courses, also generates significant revenue for the CSEG that helps to reduce its dependence on the annual convention. Furthermore the DoodleTrain is the envy of other societies such as the SEG, as shown by their interest and effort in trying to generate similar Continuing Education opportunities. Bill has also served the CSEG as Technical Chairman for the CSEG convention in 1999, as Chairman of the "Pitfalls in seismic interpretation" workshop at the CSEG convention in 2001 and as Past Chairman of the CSEG Continuing Education Committee. This service to the CSEG goes well beyond a more standard level of volunteering and reflects both Bill's life long passion with the science and education of Geophysics, as well as his intrinsic ability to be able to change the context of endeavours that he undertakes, to the benefit of all.
It is this passion that uniquely defines Bill and this aspect of his character is recognized throughout industry, distinguishing him as the expert to go to for advice in the widest range of applications. This expertise encompasses not only mainstream seismic applications such as acquisition, processing and interpretation but also potential field and geotechnical methods.
Through his wide ranging technical ability, Bill has been extremely successfully in the exploration and delineation of significant oil discoveries, in excess of a billion barrels. However he is not restricted to just the technical aspects of Geophysics as is evidenced by his business acumen that recently helped EnCana realize a $2 billion asset sale in the Gulf of Mexico.
One of the most striking aspects of Bill that I have come to know through having worked with him for over the years is his ability to explain the complexities of our science with clarity through his intelligence and understanding of Geophysics and its applications in the exploration business.
This technical prowess stems from Bill's academic credentials having obtained a B.Sc. and Ph.D. from Memorial University as well as a M.Sc. from the University of British Columbia. Furthermore his teaching experience both at university and EnCana has allowed him to stay abreast of emerging technology and determine its practical usefulness. Bill has had a varied and successful career having started work at NORDCO/Geonautics as a Geophysicist involved in marine engineering hazard surveys followed by a short stint as a consultant. For the majority of the last 11 years he has been at PanCanadian and EnCana where he rose steadily through the ranks to senior positions as the Manager of Geophysics for PanCanadian's vast Palliser block, to his final position as Senior Staff Geophysicist in the Gulf of Mexico group. Bill is currently President of his consultancy firm, Global Geosolutions Inc.
Bill's character is distinctively captured in a quote from the brother of Brian Hoffe, a colleague at EnCana and a fellow Newfoundlander who has known Bill from his roots:
"Bill always seemed a queer hand to me, but certainly not a stookawn. He was fierce at the science, no slinger for sure," which freely translated goes "Bill always seemed unusual to me, but certainly not of lowly intelligence. He was strong at the science, no idler for sure."
In conclusion, I believe that Bill is a most deserving recipient of the Meritorious Service Award, having made significant contributions to both the CSEG and the geophysical industry as a whole. Bill shares his passion, expertise and enthusiasm for geophysics through his work, his teaching, and his CSEG efforts. This has been significantly shown through his introduction and chairmanship of the CSEG DoodleTrain week, and effort that has dramatically enhanced the continuing education opportunities for CSEG members, and raised the technical profile of the society.
2005 CSEG Meritorious Services Award for Bill Nickerson
(L to R: Bill Nickerson, Doug Uffen (Chair for the 2005 CSEG
Honours and Awards Committee) and Bill Goodway who read
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Creepy sculptures by Misty Gamble
July 19, 2016 by pcarvalho
Misty Gamble's work is inspired by the human figure and its infinite capacity for communication. Some of her creations consist in creepy sculptures.
As a child, Misty was immersed in her father's world of puppetry and the performing arts. Traveling to many parts of the world as a young girl and later as an adult has also made an indelible impact on her life and work. In 1998, Misty was invited to be the first American to perform in Iran (since 1979) at the 7th International Puppet Festival in Tehran. Gamble's current work, life-size ceramic figurative sculptures and installations of multiple figurative fragments, focuses attention on issues surrounding femininity and challenges conventional standards of morality, normalcy and propriety.
Gamble is an Assistant Professor in the School of Foundation at the Kansas City Art Institute. Before receiving her MFA from San Francisco State University in the visual arts, she worked as an agent, publicist, and event producer in music and the performing arts. She has been widely published and her work is exhibited both nationally and internationally. Misty is the recipient of a number of honors including many worldwide awards.
Discover the creepy MOSS PEOPLE BY KIM SIMONSSON HERE!
The artist is influenced by her continued interest in, not only figuration, but ornamentation, hair and naughtiness. Misty Gamble is interested in women and their role in society. Among the questions she asks are, "How do power and beauty relate to women in a patriarchal world? How do woman empower or disempower themselves…"
Meet also Contemporary sculptures by Christina West HERE!


Where's the Best Leaf Peeping this Autumn?
Lemmings go back to Capistrano and swallows run off cliffs — or something like that. All I know is everybody loves to go for a drive in the country to see where the leaves are most colorful.
You don't have to do a lot of work to find the best leaf peeping, thanks to the efforts of our friends with the Georgia State Parks & Historic Sites.
Their Leaf Watch is always on the lookout for where the colors are the best around our magnificent state.
It won't be long before gorgeous red, gold and yellow leaves blanket our forests. Only Mother Nature knows when color will peak, but the most vibrant color is usually mid to late October through early November.
Leaf Watch lists the Top 10 Georgia State Parks for fall color, autumn events, cabins and campsites and beautiful hikes.
It's easy to drive 100-miles to a place where you once saw pretty leaves … and only find bare branches this year. Save time, gas and a lot of fussing for leaf peeping. It's as simple as clicking on the link below.
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Rat people are born under the sign of charm and aggressiveness. They are expressive and can be talkative sometimes. They like to go to parties and usually spend quite some time chatting with their friends. Although the Rat can be quiet sometime, it is rare to catch a Rat sitting quietly.
Rat people usually have more acquaintances than real friends and they revere and cherish those close to them. Once you become their real friends, they will treat you as their family. Rats are self-contained and keep problems to themselves. And even though they can be talkative sometimes, they never confide in anyone. Sometimes mean, narrow-minded and suburban in outlook, Rat people are nevertheless honest.
They can always make a success of their lives as long as they manage to master their perpetual discontent and their insistence on living for the present moment. The Rat is quick-witted. Most rats get more accomplished in 24 hours than the rest of us do in as many days.
They are confident and usually have good instinct. Stubborn as they are, they prefer to live by their own rules rather others. It won't be an easy task to work with Rat people, why? Simple, because they are also 100% perfectionists. They are very organized and talented, perhaps that is why the Rat makes a good businessman or politician.
Unfortunately, as soon as the Rat earns money, they spend it. Maybe that explains why the Rat is so careful when they lend money to others. If you ever borrow money from the Rat, don't be surprised by the high-interests.
The Rat is not romantic, but they are sensual and loving. Rat people could be hard to see through at first glance, because they are also very protective, but even though they are not easy but they are worth it - ask anyone who has a Rat for a lover, parent, child or friend. They are very loyal and devoting to their families.


Its getting hot out and we are starting to crave something cold. Here is one of my favorite Orange Creamsicles I have ever found. Not only is this recipe tasty, but also healthy!
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Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, world leader in 3D design software, 3D Digital Mock Up and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced that the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth has expanded its implementation of SOLIDWORKS. Powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, the application is now introduced to all engineering majors as part of the core curriculum in the school. The expansion is an integral part of recent enhancements made to the school's innovative engineering programs, integrating SOLIDWORKS into more courses and research programs at all levels each year. One of America's oldest professional schools of engineering, Dartmouth's Thayer School has a long history of educating innovators who use their engineering talent to solve important problems. To achieve the college's educational objectives, professors strive to integrate a sense of curiosity, technical skill development and practical learning to channel the students' passion for engineering in ways that make it fun, productive and rewarding. An important prerequisite to this approach is design software that is easy to learn and use, which led Thayer School to standardize on SOLIDWORKS five years ago.
Students in Thayer's Computer-Aided Design Lab use SOLIDWORKS and other design software to create precise drawings of their project components.
For students, use of SOLIDWORKS applications starts during freshman or sophomore year in the school's Introduction to Engineering course, which is open to all students whether they are engineering majors or not. Students are introduced to engineering through participation, as a member of a team, in real-world engineering problem solving. Engineering principles of analysis, experimentation and design are applied to a real problem that the students identify and study in the field, then propose solutions, build prototypes, test and refine their solution, and present final recommendations to a panel of faculty. Students not only consider technical aspects but also must examine the social, ethical, financial, and business aspects of implementing their solution.
SOLIDWORKS applications are also helping Dr. Diamond and his doctoral students conduct breakthrough research in Dartmouth's Multimodal Neuroimaging Laboratory. As part of the college's innovative research into brain disorders, graduate students used SOLIDWORKS to create a magnetically shielded room for noninvasive studies of human brain function in the lab. The shielded room is necessary for measuring the minute magnetic fields that come from neural activity in the brain. The biomagnetic fields are monitored simultaneously with noninvasive measurements of cerebral blood oxygen levels, using near-infrared light to provide assessments of neurovascular physiology.


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How will California ever recover from Ben Shapiro taking all 75 of his employees to Nashville? | Source: Photo by Mark RALSTON / AFP
Does Ben Shapiro Seriously Think That California Will Miss Him?
September 23, 2020 UTC: 2:30 PM. September 16, 2020 UTC: 9:58 PM. by Aaron Weaver
Ben Shapiro just announced that he is leaving California for Nashville.
He will take his show, The Daily Wire, with him, citing California's "terrible governance."
Does Shapiro not realize that he's doing California a favor?
Ben Shapiro is leaving California. And California does not care.
Someone, apparently, forgot to tell the host of The Daily Wire, as he made a big to-do of his decision. It reeked of some kind of punishment to the Golden State, but California is feeling lighter already.
Tennessee Will Have to Put Up With Ben Shapiro Now
Nashville is already excited. | Source: Twitter
Have you ever had a housefly buzz around your ear? You try to knock it away, and it might shut up for a second, but it quickly returns to annoy you once again. That fly is Ben Shapiro to most Californians.
California is a historically liberal state, and Shapiro's conservative viewpoints don't mix. Worse, the Sunshine State is known as a fun, laid-back place.
Ben Shapiro is the epitome of stiffness.
He revealed the extent of his rigidity not long ago when he tried to scientifically break down Cardi B's fun, hit song "WAP." In the process, he basically labeled his wife as having a "DAP," in 2020's biggest self-own.
What will California do without the fun-sucking, Islamaphobic commentator who publically opposes the #MeToo movement?
It will continue to be a beautiful state. Tennessee, on the other hand, is about to have a fly problem.
Shapiro Is Not the First Person to Leave
Ben Shapiro is not the first person to leave, or threaten to leave, California because it didn't change for him. And he's definitely not the first contrarian with a strange, cult following to do so.
Bro-Jesus Elon Musk threatened to move Tesla's headquarters after California wouldn't allow his workers back on the line during the height of the pandemic.
Shapiro's friend, and perhaps the of his kind, Joe Rogan, just moved to Texas. Watch him 'clown' Shapiro on his podcast:
Rogan's friend Joey Diaz fled California just as his creepy behavior was coming to light.
In fact, as wildfires continue to rage on, more people are leaving California than ever before.
LA could use a few more parking spots. And California could definitely use one less Ben Shapiro.
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Company: GB Sciences
Job title: Chief Science Officer
Dr. Andrea Small-Howard leverages broad biopharmaceutical industry knowledge and contacts in her current dual roles as the Chief Science Officer and member of the Board of Directors at GB Sciences, Inc. Dr. Small-Howard has more than 15 years' experience studying cannabinoids and the endocannabinoid system, immunology and cancer treatments; as well as executive experience in the biopharmaceutical industry where she supervised research and development, manufacturing and quality control divisions. She took the lead in obtaining regulatory approvals from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("US FDA") and multiple international regulatory agencies, and has assisted state jurisdictions in developing medical cannabis regulations. She brings to GB Sciences a passion for advancing clinical research on medicinal applications of cannabinoid compounds in cannabis plants, clinical experience in conducting cannabinoid research, strategic vision for creating a vertically integrated biopharmaceutical pipeline, and a track record of successes in the management of biopharmaceutical companies.
Dr. Small-Howard originally received her AB from Occidental College (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa), in addition to receiving both an MBA (Beta Gamma Sigma) and a PhD (USC All-University Merit Fellow) in biological sciences from the University of Southern California. As a post-doctoral fellow at the Queens Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, Dr. Small-Howard led a project group dedicated to the study of cannabinoids in the immune system and published peer-reviewed papers on the subject. At the John A. Bums School of Medicine – University of Hawaii, she led a productive research team as a Research Assistant Professor. Dr. Small-Howard has held management positions at AMDL, Inc. (a small public biotech company), where she took the lead in every stage of product development from discovery through commercialization. As Vice President of Scientific Oversight at Radient Pharmaceuticals Corp. (RPC), she provided strategic technical and regulatory oversight for global product development in multiple international business divisions. At RPC, she also played an active role in creating collaboration agreements with development partners and research institutions, and she contributed to critical licensing and distribution agreements. For a four year term, she served on the Board of Directors for the Center for Healthcare Innovation, a nonprofit, non-partisan, and independent organization based in Chicago that is committed to serving as a catalyst for stimulating ideas, people, companies, and institutions to collaborate and achieve excellence in healthcare innovation.
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About this journey The average travel time between Poitiers and Toulouse is 5h15 minutes. The quickest route is 4h09 minutes. The first train leaving Poitiers is at 07:44, the last at 20:44. There is an average of 13 trains a day between Poitiers and Toulouse, leaving approximately every 52 minutes.


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I've been making these since my kids were ….kids. About 40 years.
My family really likes them!
Since moving from Michigan to near border (about 17 years now), where I've learned & ate authentic Mexican foods; from phx/tucson to border towns (from Texas, New Mexico, Nogales to Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico Hermosillo, MY FAVORITE →→♥ *San Carlos ← Nuevo Guaymas*! ♥ , Kino Bay & Puerto Peñasco) …. we still like these. But hey, although we love ethnic foods, we are still gringos.
I have also made choices for them; a batch of regular & a batch of "wet burritos". Actually my version is authentic. I learned it from a very popular little Mexican dive in Michigan, Mexicali's?
I start by "seasoning" both sides of a large beef roast.
Brown/sear on all sides in hot pot with couple tbs of oil. Add enough water (I use my homemade beef stock) to come halfway up meat, not covered. Bring to boil, reduce to simmer & cover. It took this one 5 hours, 🙏.
Add & whisk in about a cup of taco sauce to very flavorful stock concentrate. Yumm!
But I'm sure there's tons of recipes.
I make a little slurry (couple tbs of cornstarch with about equal water, stir/whisk) & add to stock.
3. green chillies or sometimes I mix chillies into beef before preparing burritos.
The ones not covered with sauce do not need to go in oven; everything's already cooked. I just did it because i could serve all just as hot, with tortillas & all equally hot & done.
I mixed some updated pics in here with the old. This last time I only made 'wet' burritos. My family loves em that way.


The way customers and employees think and act has changed, and it is impacting how businesses behave too. There is more to a company than 'good' products or services these days. It's about the company as a whole, it's people, their values, and how they demonstrate that. We are seeing the younger generation expressing their ambitions for a better world, and making choices on purchasing and employment based on the alignments and activities of the company. This shift in thinking has resulted in businesses listening, and making a change, and the ones doing so are securing their own future.
Companies who carefully consider their alignments are leading the way in how corporates behave and in doing so, are ahead of the game and are becoming preferred employers, providers, and companies – which is beneficial for not only their brand, but their future.
Considered sponsorship that demonstrates care, aligned vision with a dynamic, non-political, impactful community partner, protects and grows their relationship with both potential and current employees and customers.
Take advantage of being an early adopter, and have your choice of potential community partners. Select the more partner ready community organisation(s) who understand the win-win upside of partnership.
Engage with your audience – both internal and external. Involve them in the discussions and decisions around partnership. Encourage these audiences to guide you in reaching a decision on who to support in your local communities. This will foster buy in with the selection of an authentic partner that can be easily attributable to your business purpose.
Invest in goodness to fall back on. When something goes wrong – which it often can, and when you least expect it. The media and the public are less likely to bag a champion who supports their local community.
The 2017 Cone Communications Corporate Social Responsibility study shares that "Companies must now share not only what they stand for, but what they stand up for". Cone records in the US that "87% will purchase a product because a company advocated for an issue they cared about and 76% will refuse to purchase a company's products or services upon learning it supported an issue contrary to their beliefs".
So with all these pointers it would be careless to miss your opportunity at being a leader of change in the way of positive and meaningful partnerships.


I focus on holistic care and your overall well-being during pregnancy.
A typical appointment lasts one hour and includes a foot massage, a complete physical assessmentand counseling on nutritionexercise and emotional self-care.. Your blood pressure, weight, urine, fundal growth, baby's heartbeat and position can tell us a lot about how things are going but in order to fully support your journey we will take time to explore both the joyful and the challenging aspects of pregnancy.
Prenatal care is personalized to fit each woman's health history, social and religious beliefs and current pregnancy standards. This means you are informed and included in decisions regarding genetic testing, lab work and ultrasounds. Our visits will be once a month until 28 weeks, every 2 weeks until 35 weeks, and then weekly until the birth. One of these will be a home visit to learn where you live, check your supplies, and meet others whom you wantat the birth. I encourage and welcome your partner and family to attend prenatal visits.


The domain stretches over 27 hectares : Chablis Premier Cru (Côte de Lechet, Vaillons and Lys), Chablis and Petit Chablis.
For many years yet, we have moved towards a sustainable and more ecological farming. Organic farming is the logical result of all this work.
The maintenance of the soils is made ploughing exclusively. We always make a winter ploughing, more or less deep according to the situations. We also try to earth some vines up as our parents and grand-parents used to do. It consists in digging a furrow in the middle of the row so as to bring back some earth at the base of the vine plant and make a little mound. The point of this work is to aerate the soil deeply and to bury the weeds. However, both earthing-up and de-earthing are delicate to do as they need good weather conditions. Moreover, in the sloping plots, it can increase the erosion. Then, during the season, the ploughing is being done at different times, according to the weeds sprouting.
For the vineyard's protection, only the spraying products like sulphur and cupper are authorized. Therefore we have to use them as properly as possible in order to reach the best efficiency without spraying too much nor too often. This is a very concrete and an interesting approach of vine-growing, yet it is also very constraining and stressful to follow up.
Considering this new context, we completely rethink our way to work the vine, helping the plant to get back to its central role and helping it to fight against parasites. Some signs of research on products that boost the natural defence system are coming up. However, at present, they don't seem to be as efficient as expected. We are also using various preparations for a biodynamic approach: the 500P (horn manure) for the soils vitality, the 501 to stimulate the foliage and the photosynthesis as well as other "herb tea".
In this context, we are getting closer to the working situation of our grand-parents and then of our parents when they started, yet with two important advantages. On the one hand, we use a much higher-performance material as well for working the soils as for spraying. On the other hand, we now have forecast tools for the weather and for the pressure of diseases that were not available then.


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Home Medical Marijuana Good Newws for patients with OCD
Good Newws for patients with OCD
Medical marijuana for ADD? State considers it
By VANESSA HO, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF
State officials will consider a request to allow medical marijuana for people with ADD and OCD, nearly two years after denying the drug to depressed and bipolar patients.
The petition is the latest attempt to add a mental illness to Washington's list of qualifying conditions for medical cannabis. Three other petitions, for depression and other mental health disorders, have been denied.
Passed by voters in 1998, Washington's law allows patients with terminal or debilitating conditions to use marijuana. Qualifying conditions include cancer, HIV, multiple sclerosis, glaucoma and "intractable pain." It also includes anorexia, as a disease that results in nausea, vomiting and wasting away.
The latest request involves an Edmonds man who petitioned authorities in September to include attention deficit disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder, conditions he said he has suffered from for years.
The man said he had seen a psychologist regularly with little relief. He said various medications — stimulants, depressants, anti-psychotics, anti-depressants and anti-convulsants — have not helped.
"At this point, my psychiatrist … has recommended that I write a letter asking for an opinion on medical marijuana, as other options have been exhausted," the man wrote.
The Medical Quality Assurance Commission and the Board of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery will consider the man's petition at a hearing on Jan. 11.
"What they're looking for is some clinical and scientific basis for adopting it," Blake Maresh, the osteopathic board's executive director, said Tuesday.
'Incredibly complex issue'
In February of 2010, the medical commission denied a request from a man who had suffered from a social anxiety disorder since the fifth grade. He said cannabis had helped him more than any other treatment.
Other patients with bipolar disorder, severe depression and other anxiety disorders also told the commission that pot was the only thing that helped.
But the commission found insufficient scientific evidence that showed pot helped patients with those conditions. It found that no rigorous, controlled, randomized, peer-reviewed and published trial had been done on the issue.
That denial followed the rejection of two other similar requests. In 2001, the commission denied medical marijuana for patients with manic or chronic depression. In 2004, they again denied it for people with depression and severe anxiety.
The issue has raised unanswered questions for mental health advocates and health-care providers. While many patients report feeling better with marijuana, many doctors say the drug's mood-altering qualities can mask and worsen symptoms.
"Marijuana usage among individuals who live with serious and persistent mental illness is an incredibly complex issue," said Christine Lindquist, executive director of the local National Alliance on Mental Illness chapter.
"Many people who self-medicate with marijuana report significant relief from their symptoms, although for others, complete abstinence from drugs or alcohol is necessary for stability in their health."
The last qualifying condition added for medical marijuana in Washington was chronic renal failure in 2010.
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The Origins and Ultimate Purpose of ISIS
This is a report which attempts to detail a history of the rise of ISIS and to explain its true relations to the actors involved in the war theatre. It attempts to show how and why ISIS has been exploited while attempting to answer the question: what has been the groups' ultimate purpose in relation to the dominant powers manipulating the proxy conflict. Then, given what is known historically, it hopes to shed light on what the motivations are behind the current actions against the group and what purpose they serve […]
The Macedonian Name Deal Threatens to Erase European Identity
The Liberal-Globalists are carrying out another socio-political experiment in the Balkan petri dish, this time using the Macedonians as lab rats for testing how to most effectively erode a people's identity before rolling out their weaponized model for replicating this on a continental scale, which they hope will enable them to erase the various nationalisms of Europe in their quest to transform the EU into a "federation of regions". The Republic of Macedonia and Greece reached a tentative deal to change the former's constitutional name to the so-called "Republic of North Macedonia" as a "compromise" for Athens agreeing to Skopje's membership ...
The Origins of Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian Nations
"The main part of the population of Baltic cities up to the 19th century consisted of ethnic Germans, and also Poles and Jews, but not at all Baltic people. In fact, the "old" (pre-revolutionary) Baltic region was completely built by Germans. Baltic cities were German cities – with German architecture, culture, and system of municipal management. ... in the cities of the Baltic region there were almost no Estonians and Latvians." Now, the Baltic states consist of three countries – Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, which received sovereignty in the course of the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Each of these states position themselves, respectively, ...
Russophobia and the Dark Art of Anti-Russian Magazine Covers
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Video: The Dirty War on Syria – Prof. Tim Anderson on GRTV
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Twisted History Against Russia and Serbia
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Bismarck, the United States and the Pomeranian Grenadier
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Wherever primitive men created a word they thought they had made a discovery. How different the truth is! they had come upon a problem and while they thought they had solved it they had in reality placed an obstacle in the way of its solution. Now with every new piece of knowledge we stumble over petrified words and mummified concepts and would rather break a leg than a word in doing so.


Yehuda Glick wants to go back to the Temple Mount.
Glick, an Israeli lawmaker with the ruling Likud party, has filed a petition with the High Court to allow parliament members to visit the politically explosive site holy to both Jews and Muslims.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blocked parliament members from visiting the Temple Mount since November 2015 in order to calm violence in Jerusalem over Muslim fears of a Jewish takeover of the site.
In 2015 and 2016 a spate of car rammings, stabbings and shootings at the hands of Palestinians against Israeli Jews were linked to Temple Mount tensions.
Glick, Israel's foremost activist for Jewish prayer rights at the Temple Mount, hasn't been able to ascend the site since last May, when he was sworn in as a member of the Israeli parliament.
He called the ban "insufferable," in a press conference outside the High Court, the Times of Israel reported.
The Temple Mount, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, is administered by a Muslim religious organization. Jews can visit but can't pray there, a rule that Israel enforces in order to maintain the fragile status quo at the site.
This story "Yehuda Glick Petitions Court To Ascend Temple Mount" was written by Naomi Zeveloff.


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When Cindy Gallop met Phoenix Perry
By The Drum-25 December 2019 15:19pm
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As we wave goodbye to the 2010s, The Drum takes a look back through some of the best interviews to have graced the pages of our print magazine over the last decade. Here we go back to our October 2014 issue, which was guest-edited by MakeLoveNotPorn founder Cindy Gallop who spoke to games designer and self-confessed 'lunatic extraordinaire' Phoenix Perry (pictured) about how brands can unlock 'The New Creativity'.
This interview first appeared in The Drum's print edition in October 2014. You can subscribe to The Drum magazine here.
You're in a neon-lit room. Through your headphones, you hear a simple, steady, bass line. As you interact with others in the space, your fellow 'players', the beat changes, becoming more complex. You sync your motions to theirs and are rewarded with more lines of audio. Motion trackers sense where you are and as you engage with different objects they light up. The space around you fills with an erratic rhythm and flickering lights as the collective network comes together. This is NightGames. An installation (and a sound/puzzle mobile app for solo players) which looks to bring an awareness that individuals can impact and form the environment around them.
Created by Phoenix Perry – a self-described punk, gamer, academic, programmer, artist, activist and "lunatic extraordinaire" – this game is just one example of her exploration into the intersection between the body and digital experience.
Perry, with an eclectic career which has led her to a senior lecture post at HKU, is guest editor Cindy Gallop's personal source of inspiration but also an example to the wider marketing community of what The New Creativity looks like.
Born in Colorado, Perry recalls herself as a weak and nerdy kid with curiosity issues. "If I could take something apart, stand on it, flip it open, bust it up I would," she laughs.
Her parents, at a loss, bought their seven-year old daughter a subscription to a game developer magazine, a robotics kit and a Casio keyboard – three things Perry says formed who she is now.
"I got really into technology, not just a little bit but I was one of those cyber-punk, upload me now, Donna Haraway is my hero women," she tells Gallop. Both laugh hysterically as Perry reveals her first steps into that cyber world were as a fetish model, working in a drag club, while making cable films about gender and identity in her spare time.
"Have you ever been to Manchester?" – Perry asks. "You know Affleck's Palace [a vintage warehouse]? It was me in full latex on the sign above the door for many years."
Jobless, "because I look like I'm from a dystopian future", she spent most of the 90s on the internet – much to the dismay of her mother – talking to other people about her ideas, coding games, and making films about the nature of creativity in a digital world.
Against the odds, she landed a position as an art director at Artist Television Access – a nonprofit organization that cultivates and promotes underground media and experimental art – before joining social planning website Evite as employee number eight.
Unbeknown to Perry, she was putting an immense physical strain on her body as she worked round the clock on various projects and it ultimately led to a "cataclysmic disaster" in 2000.
Out of work for four years suffering 20 per cent nerve damage to her hands and crippling repetitive strain injury, she says it was one of the darkest periods in her life.
However, what she had done to her body through her use of technology left her fascinated by the ways in which humans physically interact with digital experiences. Exploring the intersection, and how gaming fits in that space, Perry ended up teaching at NYU before moving to the Netherlands, where she currently resides studying a PHD on the ways to bring sound and haptics into the digital world.
"I really want to help unlock new forms of interaction and I went back to the body as the primary modality in which this occurs. If we're typing we're using the body, if we look at a screen we're using our bodies. I want to see the ways we could suggest new interaction though the bodies."
Projects like NightGames, Yamove – an augmented face-to-face dancing game – and Game Over – where a user's entire skeleton is mapped into the game, creating an in-game body double – are all part of Perry's ongoing experiments and just a few ideas that have come into fruition. It's abundantly clear as she excitedly bounces off Gallop that plenty more are locked away.
Gallop – unconventional by any standard but nonetheless from a traditional advertising pedigree – proclaims: "I bloody love this."
Perry admits that how it could be harnessed commercially is still a mystery but believes the most engaging brand projects aren't the ones based on just throwing print, TV or banner ads out to the world.
"Brands do well when they get behind something and help innovation emerge. That's when they look the most interesting, that's when they build the social contract and facilitate trust," she explains.
"But this is exactly what I mean by The New Creativity," says Gallop. "Historically for brands, advertising and communications have been anchored to media channels. And this is still true in the digital realm. But what you're talking about is removing brands from being anchored in media channels and creating opportunities in the physical world where they could be responsible for positive interactions that have very little to do with any other media channels.
"It's about the real world, and making things happen that enhance people's experiences and lives. That's enormously interesting for brands that deal in the every day."
Perry, through her own gaming company, Dozen Eyes, is currently working with the Center of Applied Linguistics to create a simulation game that increases refugees' understanding of life in the United States to prepare them for real-world situations.
She explains: "If the player makes less optimal decisions they can simply replay, learning as they improve at the game. Hopefully, this will make real world problems more manageable as refugees encounter them outside of the game."
This article is about: World, Cindy Gallop, Digital, Creative, Brand


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