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"Just Another Day in Paradise" – A Tribute to Seppo
Whenever nostalgia causes long-time Whistler locals to reminisce about the old days, the conversation invariably leads to Seppo. It says a lot about this community that one of the most cherished figures in our history was not a politician or "founder" in the traditional sense, but a generous and warm-hearted Finnish logger. Few could keep up with Seppo's work ethic and zest for life, but countless people had a blast trying.
In commemoration of the remarkable impact that Seppo had on Whistler, both the mountain and the community, a new public art installation dedicated to Seppo will be installed this week. There will be an official unveiling ceremony this Thursday May 31st at 3pm, near the Passivhaus at the entrance to Lost Lake Park.
Seppo Jalmari Makinen was born December 6, 1928 in Vyborg, Finland, a small town near the Russian border. One world war and twenty-five years later, Seppo stepped off the plane in Gander, Newfoundland, never to return to Finland. In the summer of 1963, while visiting Vancouver's Pacific National Exhibition, he introduced himself to Franz Wilhelmsen. Wilhelmsen was selling shares for the fledgling Garibaldi Lifts Limited, a company he had formed to develop a ski resort on Whistler Mountain. Seppo was already familiar with the area so he proposed to Wilhelmsen that he would hire a crew to clear the ski runs. Eyeing up the burly Finn, Wilhelmsen didn't need a job reference.
It was the start of a highly successful, life-long partnership between the two Scandinavian transplants. Seppo was an unstoppable workhorse who helped clear virtually every run on Whistler Mountain. In 1980 Seppo cut his last run. The wild, off-camber descent quickly became a local's favourite on big snow days, and was named "Seppo's" in his honour.
Meanwhile, Seppo built himself a massive log house that quickly became an unofficial community hub and the venue for many legendary parties. Sadly, the house burned down in 1998, and Seppo froze to death the following December while living in his camper van. He was two days shy of his 71st birthday. Seppo's passing led to an unprecedented memorial service, with more than 800 people overflowing from the Whistler Conference Center to celebrate the gregarious Whistler icon.
The artist responsible for the new Seppo memorial, mixed-media sculptor Christina Nick, has fond memories of the local legend from attending some of the famous parties in his log home near Nesters, and serving him lunch at Auntie Em's Kitchen in Marketplace, where Seppo was a regular. "I sketched several different versions of Seppo for his memorial sculpture," Christina explains, "and I wanted to represent him with as much respect as possible."
Ultimately, this led her to favour a simpler design. For the piece, Christina has employed her innovative "drawing with light" technique to etch a portrait of Seppo into a large sheet of steel that will be framed in-situ by rough cedar logs–a reference to Seppo's long career as a logger. The thick steel panel has been cut with a plasma cutter, then ground down and finished with an acid and covered with a special penetrating protector to give it a beautiful sheen.
Christina Nick using her "drawing with light" technique on another piece.
With the sculpture's installation, Seppo–whose hospitality knew no bounds–will be welcoming visitors to Lost Lake Park for generations to come. Stop by this Thursday for the unveiling ceremony including a short statement by artist Christina Nick.
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SkiA Designs | October 15, 2012 at 8:18 pm | Reply
Rest in peace sir..Your memories will be treasured in our hearts.
Shawn Kampmann | October 26, 2014 at 2:45 pm | Reply
Seppo, you were one of a kind! Old school logger and woodman with the biggest heart of gold who worked hard and played hard. Old school in the way how he lived by the Honor System. Back in the late 1980's, I came down from Alaska one winter packing my telemark skis to check out Whistler. Froze my ass the first night camping out in 15° clear sky. Next day I met a lady on the lift and asked is she knew of a decent cheap place to stay. She told me to find Seppo at one of the Village locals bar, that he had a big "cabin" to crash at for $20 a night. Never ran into him but got directions to his "cabin" which turned out to be this massive 3 story hand built log lodge that he built with the biggest granite boulder lined hot tub that I'd ever seen in the basement! The place was packed and rockin', 3 pool tables, huge communal kitchen, everyone having fun, the ultimate ski lodge, with hundreds of pairs of skiis lined up out on the huge covered entryway. I couldn't believe it. I asked people where Seppo was so I could pay for the night and they just said "go find a bed somewhere (in one of the numerous bunk style rooms, nooks & crannies or wherever…) and Seppo will find you later. Well it was three days later before I finally ran into jolly old Seppo and when I told him I needed to still pay for staying, he told me to just go upstairs and put it in a jar in his room, no big deal, your word was good with him. The honor system of lore that doesn't exist many places in the modern world anymore. What a lovable character he was, always smiling and having a good time, would give you the proverbial "shirt off his back". I went back a few more times over the years and always loved to see him. About ten years ago I tried to get in touch with him but never got a reply. A few years later I looked for his place on google earth but it looked like the lodge was gone, replaced by condos or mega-mansions that had taken over the valley it appeared. Wasn't until I came across this this article forwarded by a ski buddy who stayed there once on a trip we took there, that Seppo was gone. Cheers to you Seppo! I'm glad your spirit still lives on in Whistler! You were a class act !!!
Shawn Kampmann
Mark Middleton | November 23, 2014 at 12:18 pm | Reply
I back packed across Canada in1991 and ended up at Seppos , originally for a week i stopped for 2 1/2 months , quick with a story and a beer he was a wonderful character , and will be sadly missed, i couldn't agree more with Shawn about his personality and what fun we had at the cabin . A legenda who i had the privilege of knowing , there were not many like him , top man.
Whistler Museum | December 1, 2014 at 11:57 am | Reply
Sounds like some wonderful memories you have of Seppo. Thank you for sharing!
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Q: sending multiple hex codes in delphi How can I send multiple hex codes in delphi?
for example, the hex codes I need to send to the serial port is 1B and 40. How can I send it to the serial port? I can send hex codes to the serial port already but just one hex code like 1B only, I am having difficulty sending multiple hex codes. Thanks in advance.
my code:
unit uSample;

interface

uses
  System.SysUtils, System.Types, System.UITypes, System.Classes, System.Variants,
  FMX.Types, FMX.Controls, FMX.Forms, FMX.Graphics, FMX.Dialogs,
  FMX.Controls.Presentation, FMX.ScrollBox, FMX.Memo, Winsoft.Android.ComPort,
  FMX.Edit, FMX.StdCtrls;

type
  TForm1 = class(TForm)
    AComPort1: TAComPort;
    Memo1: TMemo;
    Timer1: TTimer;
    Button1: TButton;
    Edit1: TEdit;
    Open: TButton;
    procedure Timer1Timer(Sender: TObject);
    procedure Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
    procedure OpenClick(Sender: TObject);
  private
    { Private declarations }
  public
    { Public declarations }
  end;

var
  Form1: TForm1;

implementation

{$R *.fmx}

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
     AComPort1.Active := False;
     AComPort1.DeviceName := Edit1.Text;
     AComPort1.Active := True;

     AComPort1.WriteUtf8(Memo1.Text);
     AComPort1.WriteByte(Byte($0A));
end;

procedure TForm1.OpenClick(Sender: TObject);
begin

end;

procedure TForm1.Timer1Timer(Sender: TObject);
var Text: string;
begin

end;

end.

A: According to the comments, this component contains a method with the following signature:
procedure Write(Buffer: Pointer; Count: Integer; WaitForCompletion: Boolean);

This presumably is the low level method through which all other write methods pass. You might wrap this up with a high level method that accepted an array of bytes:
procedure TForm1.WriteBytes(const Buffer: array of Byte);
begin
  if Length(Buffer) > 0 then begin
    AComPort1.Write(@Buffer[0], Length(Buffer), True);
  end;
end;

I'm assuming that you would pass True for the final parameter and make the call synchronous.
You could then call the method like this:
WriteBytes([$1B, $40]);

If you are comfortable with class helpers, you might add such a method as a class helper for TComport.
Do note that there was some confusion in the question over what hex really is. You are not attempting to send hex to the device. Hexadecimal is a representation of a value. And these values could equally be represented as decimal. So the code above is equivalent to:
WriteBytes([27, 64]);

Hexadecimal is just one of many ways to write down a number. The underlying value is the same. So, 16 = $0A. You can write the value as decimal, as hexadecimal, or indeed in other representations. You are not sending hex, you are sending bytes. Colloquially, you are sending binary data.

A: If you want to interpret string 1B40 as two bytes $1B and $40 and then send it to COM port. First you need to split string '1B40` into individual hex text such as '1B' and '40' for example (Code from this question)
procedure StrToStringList(const aSource: String;
                        const aList: TStrings;
                        const aFixedLen: Integer);
var
  idx: Integer;
  srcLen: Integer;
begin
  aList.Capacity := (Length(aSource) div aFixedLen) + 1;

  idx    := 1;
  srcLen := Length(aSource);

  while idx <= srcLen do
  begin
    aList.Add(Copy(aSource, idx, aFixedLen));
    Inc(idx, aFixedLen);
  end;
end;

Then you call
aHexStrings = TStringList.create();
StrToStringList(Memo1.Text, aHexStrings,2);

to split string into list of strings, each string consist of 2 character length. For each item in string list, you convert its hex string to its byte representation by using StrToInt() and write it to COM port. Note that StrToInt() will interpret string '$1B' as integer $1B.
for i:=0 to aHexStrings.count-1 do
begin
  AComPort1.writeByte(Byte(StrToInt('$'+aHexStrings[i])));
end;

This code is definitely not so fast because overhead of string split task and write a byte at a time.
If your input string is $1B$40 then you can avoid string concatenation with '$' during writeByte() as in the example above but you need to split string for each 3 character length.

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Over 58K students secure admissions in DU so far; special cut off on October 25
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Over 58,000 students have secured admissions in various undergraduate courses of the Delhi University so far under the three cut-off lists, according to official data.
The Delhi University has received nearly 1.70 lakh applications till now, it said.
The last day for colleges to approve applications was on Friday. Aspirants have time till Saturday to pay the fees.
The special cut-off list for students, who were not able to apply in the first three lists, will be released on Monday, while the fourth cut-off list will be released on October 30.
The Delhi University has received 1,70,186 applications till now while 58,406 students have paid the fees so far, according to data.
On Friday, nearly 9,614 applications were approved by principals of various colleges, according to data.
At Aryabhatta College, the total applications received under the third cut-off list were 491, of which 114 were approved and the rest rejected.
There are 199 students who have cancelled their admissions till now in this college.
Manish Kansal, admission convener at the Hindu College, said, "In the special cut-off, most of the courses are likely to remain closed for the unreserved category, while they might be open for the other categories.
"We will get to know the exact situation after the fee payment window closes on Saturday."
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Nine West Has Reportedly Filed for Bankruptcy
Don't worry, your prom shoes are safe.
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Nine West, the mall-based purveyor of shoes for debate tournaments and mock trials, has reportedly filed for bankruptcy. On Friday, according to Fortune, Nine West Holdings announced it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to deal with its almost $1.5 billion in debt.
Fortune reported that the company wants to sell off its brands, Nine West and Bandolino, while focusing on its more profitable brands, including Anne Klein, One Jeanswear Group, and the Jewelry Group. According to the outlet, Authentic Brands, the owner of brands like Juicy Couture and Aeropostale, has already bid on Nine West and Bandolino.
"This is the right step to address our two divergent business profiles," Nine West Holdings CEO Ralph Schipani said in a statement, according to Fortune. "We will retain our strong, profitable and growing apparel, jewelry, and jeanswear businesses and continue to operate them under a new capital structure so that we can leverage their existing strengths to drive even greater growth. Once we complete the reorganization process, our Company will have meaningfully reduced debt and interest costs and be well positioned for the future."
Nine West isn't the only company to file for bankruptcy recently. Last month, mall ear piercer Claire's also filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, announcing that it was almost $2 billion in debt. Thankfully, Claire's restructuring agreement allows the company to keep its Claire's and Icing stores across the nation open during the bankruptcy process, so stock up on those rainbow tattoo chokers and cubic zirconia rings while you can.
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Intellitonic Founders Give Back to Bellingham via Local Board Involvement
Joining a nonprofit board can be a great way to network and give back to your local community or industry of interest. All three of the Intellitonic founders – Alex Bruner, Courtney Rambo, and Jared Keller, hold seats on local nonprofit boards.
Both Courtney and Jared found their boards through The Whatcom Community Foundation's Board Match Program.
Learn more about the boards they serve on and why they chose them below.
Bellingham NonProfits We Support
Sustainable Connections partners with local businesses, government agencies, community members, and other nonprofits to create and implement impactful strategies for Whatcom community to thrive. For them, "thriving" means a clean environment, growing businesses that offer quality jobs, and a happier, healthier community. Their programs include Think Local First, Food & Farming, Green Building & Smart Growth, Energy Efficiencies & Renewables, and Toward Zero Waste.
Jared Keller was interested in joining a board to contribute to the healthy growth of the community we live in; Sustainable Connections seemed like a natural fit. "Interacting with other community members from diverse backgrounds who are invested in sustainable communities has been the most enjoyable and inspiring part of it all," he said.
Cloud Mountain Farms
Cloud Mountain Farms enriches the local market with a wide variety of healthy produce. Their farm, orchard, and nursery allow them to experiment with new varieties and educate everyone from home gardeners to aspiring farmers to commercial producers.
You can find their produce at local Bellingham restaurants, The Bellingham Farmers Market, and via the Puget Sound Food Hub.
"Access to healthy and local organic foods are what attracted me to Cloud Mountain," said Courtney Rambo.
"After I walked around the farm with then Executive Director, Tom Thornton, I knew it was an organization I wanted to dedicate time to. The farm was vastly different from my day-to-day work, employed passionate and hardworking people, and it was beautiful."
Oddly enough, Sustainable Connections accepted Cloud Mountain into their fold as an extension of their Food and Farming Program. This made both Courtney and Jared part of the existing Sustainable Connections board.
Northwest Youth Services & Sylvia Center for the Arts
Alex Bruner was interested in both Northwest Youth Services (NWYS) and Sylvia Center after the founders made the decision to make Bellingham the companies' base of operations. He knew both organizations would provide a direct tie into numerous Bellingham communities. Alex is interested in providing support to organizations whose mission statements are tied to creating new opportunities within Whatcom County. Northwest Youth Services was a compelling choice because they do great work in housing youth who would otherwise be homeless, and Sylvia Center provides one of the only community outlets for a myriad of artistic disciplines in Whatcom.
Alex knew these would be a good fit."I enjoy seeing the direct results of board work for both organizations, as well as the sense of camaraderie in working together with people of different skill sets and backgrounds in the board setting."
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Northwest Youth Services serves people ages 13 to 24 experiencing homelessness in Whatcom and Skagit Counties. Northwest Youth Services offers housing (short and long term), street outreach, and connections to mental health services. In addition to immediate services like housing, NWYS provides youth with support in job search, school enrollment, and LGBTQ programs. Overall, their support services help youth build skills to become independently stable.
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import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URLDecoder;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.ServletInputStream;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Request;
import org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ResourceHandler;

class PutHandler extends ResourceHandler {
	private final File resourceBase;

	public PutHandler(File repositoryDirectory) {
		this.resourceBase = repositoryDirectory;
		setResourceBase(resourceBase.getAbsolutePath());
	}

	public void handle(String target, Request baseRequest, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException, ServletException {
		super.handle(target, baseRequest, request, response);

		if (baseRequest.isHandled() || !"PUT".equals(baseRequest.getMethod())) {
			return;
		}

		baseRequest.setHandled(true);

		File file = new File(resourceBase, URLDecoder.decode(request.getPathInfo(),"iso-8859-1"));
		file.getParentFile().mkdirs();
		FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(file);
		ServletInputStream in = request.getInputStream();
		try {
			IOUtils.copy(in, out);
		} finally {
			in.close();
			out.close();
		}

	}

}

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UGA School of Social Work to Help Assess Support for Addiction and Mental Illness
For the next 16 months, researchers at the University of Georgia School of Social Work will be developing an assessment tool that the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities can use to tackle issues surrounding those in addiction or mental health recovery.
As reported in The Red & Black, the project helps state policymakers identify issues that cause people in recovery to end up back in hospitals, jails or homelessness.
"This will be the first statewide assessment to look at all the different ways peer support is provided throughout the state," said Orion Morbway, associate professor of social work and principal investigator for the project, in a news release. "We're collecting data on the current system and will provide advice on how to better evaluate the peer support program."
The DBHDD supports mental health and substance abuse prevention and intervention programs. Currently, over a thousand certified peer specialists help about 160,000 individuals.
Peer specialists are also in recovery but are "trained and certified by the state to assist others who face similar problems."
Research shows that people in recovery do better in society when they get help from someone who was in a similar situation.
Mowbray and his team will examine the impact of peer support, individual improvement and the efficiency of the programs.
In 1999, Georgia was the first state to put into effect statewide peer support. Since then, 42 other states have followed its lead in implementing the service.
"In terms of the delivery of peer support service, Georgia tends to be at the forefront nationally," Mowbray said. "There are not a lot of other states that I can think of that have peer support service integrated into multiple forms of public mental health services. That's very forward thinking."
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Man City to play pre-season games in China
Manchester City will play their pre-season matches in the Chinese cities of Nanjing and Shanghai in July as part of the Premier League Asia Trophy, the English champions said on Tuesday.
City is part of a four-strong contingent at the tournament, along with Newcastle United, West Ham United and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
City's first match is a semi-final at Nanjing's Olympic Sports Centre on July 17, which will determine whether they take part in the third-place playoff or final at Shanghai's Hongkou Stadium on July 20.
"We're delighted to return to China and take part in the Premier League Asia Trophy," City's chief operating officer Omar Berrada said in a statement.
"China is a special place for City – it's where (manager) Pep Guardiola began his City tenure in 2016 and we have a huge number of passionate followers across the country."
Last month, City Football Group (CFG) announced it had jointly purchased China League Two side Sichuan Jiuniu FC.
CFG is a holding company in which Abu Dhabi United Group own an 87 per cent stake with the remaining 13 per cent held by the China Media Capital consortium.
City announced last month that they would play a pre-season match in Japan for the first time as part of their Asian Tour, and are set to take on J League side Yokohama F. Marinos, in which CFG owns a minority stake, on July 27.
Guardiola's team are currently second in the Premier League table, two points behind Liverpool who have played one game more.
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The label Anna Wintour made sure to visit on her Australian tour began with a restricted range of white shirts. Now the local label has expanded into linen boiler suits, frilly crop tops and woven basket bags.
The white shirt is wearable starched propriety. It's relaxed minimalism. It's refined summer style. It's also a canvas for experimentation, which is why the garment was the foundation for the label founded by Melbourne's Fiona Myer in 2016.
White Story quickly won fans in Australia and overseas. Influential online stockists Farfetch and Matches added the luxury label to their platforms in January this year. And when Vogue America's editor-in-chief Anna Wintour was in town, she dropped by for morning tea.
White Story's first collection featured only shirts, and only in white. It was a brave move in a city where black clothing is the de facto uniform, and a risk to focus only on a single garment. But Myer was confident in the versatility of the pieces, and also understood the amount of work required to make one item expertly.
Myer recently opened her first Australian store in Armadale, in Melbourne's south-east. It marks the brand's transition from shirt-maker to fully-fledged fashion label, with elegant separates and accessories in muted colours. Previously, the only physical interaction you could have with the label was by appointment at its Projects of Imagination-designed warehouse.
Myer's clothing is made in Melbourne using luxurious Italian cotton pique fabric and a special Japanese cotton. The shirts' cuts ensure an easy transition from breakfast to work to dinner or a cocktail party. Myer's former life as a ceramicist is evident in the sculptural necklines, flared sleeves, classic ruffles, knife-sharp collars and interesting cut-outs.
The range currently features slouchy linen boiler suits, voluminous crop tops, capri pants and ruffled skirts and dresses. At the Melbourne store, you'll find handmade woven bucket bags with linen inserts – this season's cult item, which debuted at Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival.
But crisp shirting still anchors the collection.
"I also wanted to explore capsules of colour," says Myer, who originally targeted an older demographic interested in luxury clothing. She is now chasing younger customers with a wider range of prices, which start at $225 and stretch to $1200 for an oversized double-breasted blazer. "I found that the White Story woman was looking for complete outfits, and to play with options: matching tops with bottoms," she says.
Myer is involved in every aspect of the business, from picking up a pair of scissors with the crafters in the atelier, to sharing ideas on cut and fit. She now manages a team of 12.
Myer's design smarts were first honed as a trend forecaster for Myer (then Fiona Malley, she later married Sid Myer whose family founded the Myer department store.) She later started her own fashion consultancy business, Fashion Futures, where she pre-empted global trends across colour, fabric, design and prints, creating reports for retail groups and manufacturers. She also designed womenswear capsules for Australian label Wallis and Edwards, and worked with local artisans to design homewares during a stint in Malaysia. Back in Australia, she set up a ceramics studio in her own garage, where she made all-white sculptures to sell to friends and family.
"Art is always essential. It's been such an inspirational part of my life and forces me to think outside the box, and explore the spaces between the lines," she says.
Every season Myer travels to Première Vision in Paris to find rare yarns and fabrics, but she says she works off "a gut feeling" when she designs.


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CASS Overflow Homeless Shelter Closes In Phoenix
By Katherine Fritcke
Published: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 - 2:21pm
Central Arizona Shelter Services has housed its last occupants at its overflow building near 12th Avenue and Madison in Phoenix.
The overflow shelter was never meant to be a permanent solution according to Mark Holleran, CEO of CASS. The building, built in the 1890s, was only intended to be a temporary solution after an excessively hot summer in 2005 resulted in more than 30 deaths.
"That's what sort of drove the initial response to say, okay, we need to come up with something," Holleran said. "And we sort of reached out, working with some of our partners, and opened up a very temporary solution. And that first night we have over 100 people."
Maricopa County has previously cited multiple health violations, prompting the closure.
Holleran said they are now expecting an influx of individuals looking for shelter at their main campus.
"We're going to have somewhere, we estimate between 400-500 additional individuals that we've got to find a better solution for them," he said.
As Holleran additionally said, while the shelter was a good alternative for homeless, it was never meant to resolve the homelessness problem.
"Building more shelters, ultimately is not the solution," hollaran said. "Housing, affordable and accessible housing is what ends people homelessness. And hopefully the conversation will get to that particular area."
While the overflow building is now closed, the adjacent parking lot will remain open until May 15.


BELL GARDENS, Calif. – Neighbors are expressing disbelief over the news that a Southern California man was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a 15-year-old girl and holding her captive for a decade.
Police say 41-year-old Isidro Garcia forced the victim into marriage, fathered a child with her and used physical and emotional abuse to prevent her from fleeing.
But the pair's neighbors in Bell Gardens say the man they knew as Tomas Madrano was a devoted family man who treated his wife "like a queen" and doted on their young daughter.
They said the family was known in the community because they worked and worshipped near their home, and threw elaborate parties.
Neighbor Rita Salazar says she never saw any signs of trouble, and she is astounded the victim "waited so long to say something."


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Drilling into the mysteries of seismic activity
October 20, 2017 , University of Leeds
Drill ship Fugro Synergy. Credit: CCotteril@ECORD_IODP
An international expedition aims to better understand seismic activity through samples collected from one of the most geologically active areas in Europe.
More than 30 scientists, including Dr Richard Collier from the University of Leeds, will be participating in an expedition which will analyse data gathered from a tear in the ocean floor – the Corinth Rift.
The rift is caused by one of the Earth's tectonic plates being ripped apart causing such geological hazards as earthquakes.
The overall aim of the project is to gain insight into the rifting process by collecting sediment cores and compiling data from the samples on their geological history, composition, age and structure.
The research vessel, DV Fugro Synergy, will launch in late October to collect the cores at three different locations with drilling going to a depth of 750 metres below the seabed.
Dr Collier, from the School of Earth and Environment at Leeds said: "The Corinth Rift provides a unique laboratory in one of the most seismically active areas in Europe. It is a relatively young tectonic feature having only formed in the last five million years. It is an ideal location to learn more about early rift development and how tectonics affect the landscape.
Drilling Vessell Fugro Synergy will extract samples from 750 metres below the seabed. Credit: CCotteril@ECORD_IODP
"The cores will also allow us to determine the relative impacts of sea level change of and climate change through time on the transfer of sediment from the surrounding landscape to the basin floor.
"The opportunity to quantify these competing controls on rift sedimentation for the first time makes this project particularly exciting. By increasing our understanding of this particular rift we may be better able to predict seismic hazards in other areas and inform the hunt for sediment bodies in other parts of the world that might contain hydrocarbons. "
Researchers have been working in the Gulf of Corinth region for many decades – examining sediments and active fault traces exposed on land and using marine geophysics to image the basin and its structure below the seafloor. But there is very little information about the age of the sediments and of the environment of the rift in the last one to two million years.
The core samples collected and analysed by the team will help answer such questions as: What are the implications for earthquake activity in a developing rift? How does the rift actually evolve and grow and on what timescale? How did the activity on faults change with time? How does the landscape respond to tectonic and climatic changes? And what was the climate and the environment of the rift basin in the last one to two million years?
Co-chief scientist of the expedition, Professor Lisa McNeill from the University of Southampton, said: "By drilling, we hope to find this last piece of the jigsaw puzzle. It will help us to unravel the sequence of events as the rift has evolved and, importantly, how fast the faults, which regularly generate damaging earthquakes, are slipping."
The 33 scientists involved in the expedition are from Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Greece, India, Norway, Spain, the United States, and the United Kingdom and cover a range of different geoscience disciplines.
Nine of them will sail onboard the drill ship Fugro Synergy from October to December of this year. After the offshore phase in the Gulf of Corinth the entire team, including Dr Collier, will meet for the first time at the IODP Bremen Core Repository (BCR), located at MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, Germany. There they will spend a month splitting, analysing and sampling the cores and reviewing the data collected.
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International Pianist, Writer and Social Scientist Gilbert Gambucci Showcases Revolutionary Music Education Program with Free Concert on May 27, 2010
Acclaimed international pianist Gilbert Gambucci has announced an exciting return to The United States for a special American/Italian piano program at his alma mater, Valley View High School in Archbald, PA on Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public as a call for consciousness about art and ethics in society.
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Mr. Gambucci is teaching forty underprivileged students to play piano in the poor, rural village of Cambuquira in Brazil. Experts have observed Gambucci's students have achieved in six months what usually would take two to three years of study to accomplish.
This program is based on the social science of Analytical Trilogy developed by Dr. Norberto Keppe using universal principles. Mr. Gambucci explains it this way: "In our teaching method according to what we call Universal Knowledge, we recognize that the human being doesn't actually "learn" as such, that is, memorizing thousands of details in order to know something. But rather, he recognizes what he already knows in the structure of his being. So we go to the essence of things, we awaken what one has inside himself, and then all the details fall into place. The result is the acquiescence of true knowledge very quickly".
For more on the social science of Analytical Trilogy, please visit http://www.Trilogia.ws
Gilbert Gambucci is a published author and an international educator/lecturer on the social need for artistic development. Gambucci also publishes a popular blog focusing on the origin of our current economic crisis and offers a refreshing revisit with America's Founding Fathers at http://www.PromiseLand.info
Mr. Gambucci's concert is being sponsored by STOP the Destruction of the World Association .STOP was founded in Paris in 1992 by psychoanalyst and writer Dr.Cláudia Bernhardt de Souza Pacheco. Today, this vibrant organization is an international group devoted to the preservation of life and nature. To learn more about the organization, please visit http://www.usSTOP.org
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Forty Years Ago, February 20, 1979: Chinese Haltedhttps://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/editorials/forty-years-ago-february-20-1979-chinese-halted-5591825/
Forty Years Ago, February 20, 1979: Chinese Halted
The Indian Express' front page on February 20, 1979
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The Indian Express' front page on February 20, 1979
China's incursion into Vietnam has halted on February 19, about five to 10 km inside Vietnam, with Hanoi claiming that elements of 13 Chinese battalions have suffered 3,500 troops killed and 80 tanks have been destroyed. Western intelligence sources said in Bangkok that the intention of the Chinese invasion was to "teach Vietnam a lesson" and that elements of some Chinese units were possibly withdrawing to China.
India's stand
Prime Minister Morarji Desai reviewed the Vietnamese situation with the Minister of External Affairs Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who cut short his visit to China by a day after Chinese forces attacked Vietnam. The foreign secretary, Jagat Mehta, was also present at these discussions. Desai has already come out with a forthright statement calling for the immediate withdrawal of Chinese forces from Vietnam as a first step towards restoration of peace in Southeast Asia. And to make India's stand clear, a special paragraph was inserted into the President's address expressing India's grave concern on the Sino-Indian-Vietnamese border, and the President too asked for the immediate withdrawal of Chinese troops.
UP Drama
The meeting of the Janata Legislature Party scheduled for February 21 in Lucknow to elect a new leader for Uttar Pradesh has been postponed. The party's Central Parliamentary Board at its meeting tomorrow morning will fix a fresh date for the election of the leader, the Janata Party General Secretary Rama Krishna Hegde, said. The postponement has been necessitated to give the central leadership and various factions in the states more time to reach a consensus over the successor to UP Chief Minister Ram Naresh Yadav, who has lost the confidence of the party. Both the outgoing chief minister and the pro-changers had approached the high command to defer the election of the leader by a week or so.
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We had one technical Cinderella 9 seed make the ship, but that was probably an under-seed on my part. The 4 seed on the other side was always going to be a tough out – tacos in all of their forms are amazing. How did our Championship round fare? Remember all "scores" are in percentage.
We have had a pretty competitive tournament this time around, which was nice. Some of the favorites went down early and we had a few surprises along the way.
Pastries Region 9 seed Texas Style Kolaches journey to the championship game started with an 82-18 drubbing of their Polish/Czech style cousins. The Round of 32 was a tougher draw as they knocked out the 1 seed Glazed Donuts 58-42. The Kolaches then rolled through their Sweet 16 match-up against Danishes 86-14. The biggest surprise of the tournament happened when they took out a 3 seed Cinnamon Rolls in the Elite 8 that made it through the first 2 rounds with 100-0 victories and had only given up 4 votes the entire tournament via a 1 vote victory, 53-47. They had no problem with Lucky Charms in the Final 4, winning 62-38.
Our other contender had a remarkably similar path to the championship. Eggs/Meats/Fruits Region 4 seed Breakfast Tacos / Burritos came into the tournament hot, knocking off Fruit 91-9. The Round of 32 was a tight match-up on this side of the bracket as well, with a 58-42 win over Bacon. They went up against the Eggs/Meats/Fruits Region 1 seed Fried Eggs in the Sweet 16, winning easily 86-14. The Elite 8 was another breeze round for our 4 seed as they beat down their English Muffin and Bread based brothers Breakfast Sandwiches 82-18. Our Tacos and Burritos came up against their hardest competition in the Final 4, eeking out a 1 vote victory against a tough Pancakes squad 52-48.
I kept an eye on this championship game this weekend and it was back and forth early, but one of the competitors found their swagger and ran to the championship win. Texas Style Kolaches gave Breakfast Tacos / Burritos all they had, but the eggs, meat, and veggie filled tortillas were just too much as out Eggs/Meats/Fruits Region winner was victorious via a 75-25 margin.
Breakfast Tacos and Burritos will join our March Madness winners of the past The Beatles and The Sandlot.
Thank you all again for taking time to vote in this tournament. I hope this thing was as fun for you as it was for me. We'll do it again next year! I'm looking for ideas for next year's bracket and if you have any suggestions, feel free to get in touch with me on Facebook or Twitter.


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Intel registers new company, Core, and Evo logos
By E-Crypto News Staff On Jul 30, 2020
In a nutshell: Goodbye circles, hello squares. That seems to be the thinking behind Intel's new logos, which have just been spotted in the Justia Trademarks database. In addition to revamps for the Core and Inside brands, as well as the Intel name, there's also a new "Evo powered by Core" logo.
The logos, spotted by @momomo_us, drop the long-used ring around Intel's name and its traditional typeface for a more industrial, minimalist look. Squares are the theme of the day, with an external square sitting outside of the bottom right corner of the primary Intel logo. And while three of the logos go with a grey/black/white color scheme, the Intel Inside logo is shades of blue with white text.
The most interesting logo is "Evo powered by Core." The Evo part is likely a shortened version of evolution and could refer to the new hybrid CPUs. Much like Arm's big.LITTLE design, they combine efficient low-power cores with high-powered cores. Expect Evo to debut in the next-generation Alder Lake-S processors slated for arrival in the second quarter of 2021. If all goes to plan, the chips could massively improve the battery life of laptops.
As for the desktop Alder Lake chips, there's evidence that these 12th-gen processors will abandon the recently introduced LGA 1200 socket, which released alongside Comet Lake, in favor of a new LGA 1700 socket. Don't worry if you're planning to buy an 11th-gen Rocket Lake CPU next year, though—we know that the new 400-series motherboards support the chips.
Intel's current and older Core logos, courtesy of VideoCardz
It's worth remembering that companies do register trademarks that never get used, but it's been a while since Intel and its brands received a revamp, so don't be surprised to see the new logos drop sometime in 2021.
It's been a rough few weeks for Intel. After announcing that its 7mn process will suffer a six-month delay, processor rival AMD saw its share price overtake Chipzilla's. Additionally, the company is facing a class-action lawsuit for investors fraud.
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Did you know that post-dated cheques and stopped cheques can cause you considerable grief?
Yesterday, I discovered that my (current) bank, the Bank of Montreal, had processed and withdrawn funds from my account despite the fact that the cheque I had written was post-dated for about a week later. When I called the customer service line expecting some sort of redress for what I perceived to be BMO's negligence, I was told that they would do nothing, that they had done nothing wrong or negligent in any way, since the bank is under no obligation to prevent funds from being withdrawn early. If sufficient funds are in the account, then it is paid no problem. What if sufficient funds are not in the account I asked, would there not be NSF charges incurred? The answer unfortunately seems to be yes, I would be on the hook. If a had a problem I should speak to the cheque recipient who had presented the cheque early. Conclusion: the date you write has no significance and is no protection. Post-dated cheques are not a reliable or trustworthy hassle-free method of managing bank account cash inflows and outflows.
A Google search uncovered this Canadian Payments Association FAQ on Cheques that confirms the optional, non-obligatory, one might say at the convenience of the banks, nature of the usual practice to tell the recipient that it is only to be presented on the due date. Note the red highlighted weasel words should and may.
" Under CPA Rules, a post-dated cheque is not eligible for clearing and therefore should not be deposited before the due date. However, given the large volume of cheques and the degree of automated processing, some post-dated items may inadvertently slip through. Under Rule A4, Section 6(b), a payment item may be returned through the clearing by a CPA member financial institution for the reason "post-dated" up to and including the day prior to the due date."
Even granting there might be some unstated necessity to exempt the banks from the legal responsibility for their incompetence in providing the service a post-dated cheque is intended to do, the symptomatic attitude "if we at the bank screw up, it's you the customer's problem to fix" is, shall we put it politely, annoying. Unfortunately, I see no solution but to either harass the bank if material losses like NSF charges occur, or not to write post-dated cheques at all.
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"For future-dated bill payments, please ensure you have sufficient funds in the account you have selected at least 1 business day prior to the payment date." i.e. they may withdraw the payment a day early as I have seen happen. Not very impressive in the computer age I'd say.
The other problem I came across while looking for information on the above. When you put a stop payment on a cheque, you are still exposed to it being cashed and having to pay anyway. The simple version explanation of how this can happen is in Before you write a cheque, take note of this little known law that appeared in the Vancouver Sun. A more complicated nuanced explanation is Lost and Stolen Cheques, Bank Drafts and Trust Cheques: Some Modest but Partial Solutions in the March 2009 Advocate. As the title of the article states, problems can arise from cheques that are lost or stolen. The basic though not perfect solution is to a) cross all cheques, that is, draw two parallel diagonal or vertical lines across the cheque; b) add the words, "for deposit only by payee - non negotiable"; c) add the words "not payable more than X days after date". Or they suggest using a wire transfer since that puts the bank on the hook.
I wish it were possible to get protection by adding the words "not payable before date" to counter the prematurely expectorated post-dated cheque but I guess the Bills of Exchange Act that created this reality seems not to have contemplated the value of enabling people to pay with certainty only on a due date and not before.
You also have to the crossing by hand since it seems there aren't any companies in Canada offering cheques pre-printed with the crossing done. Surely the banks and cheque printing companies know the advantages. Why don't they begin offering pre-crossed cheques? In the UK, such cheques are commonly available.
I tried to explain this to my wife and she thought I was talking about hockey.
Unbelievable. What do banks do for their customers then? I'm having a hard time making a list that justifies the fees they charge.
Just wrote my first crossed cheque today. Of course that doesn't prevent the bank from screwing up, only makes them responsible if they do. Getting them to accept the responsibility and fix the error would be another hurdle, no doubt.
I found two followups done by Don Cayo, who wrote the "Before you write a cheque..." The May article said that the cheques were being refused because "the parallel lines confuse electronic scanners".
The June article suggests that you just have to write "for deposit to the account of the named Payee only" on the cheque without the lines.
I called Royal Bank and they told me that it might require an extra phone call but they would process a crossed cheque. I think I'll just write the above text as it will be easier to convince people that I'm giving it to.
I came across this exact problem with BMO about 4 years ago. In my case I didn't have sufficient funds and my account went into overdraft. When I queried the bank I was told the exact same thing. In fact, in their words I was told that "no one looks at the dates on cheques anymore". My problem with this statement was that a year previous I tried to deposit a cheque that was dated over a year old (The January hazzard of writing old year instead of new year). I never noticed, but the bank sure did and refused to process it.
Aolis, thanks for the very useful links.
Anon, funny how rules get applied randomly, huh? Probably more incompetence than viciousness is my guess.
I have had this exact same problem with the Royal Bank. I just tell them, I will have funds in the account to cover hte post dated cheque by the day it is writen, and not before. If your teller chooses to honour the cheque that's your institutions error, and as such I will not be paying any fee's as a result of said cheque being cashed. They are not legaly responsible for their own errors, but If they so much as hint that they won;t immediatly and always refund any fee's, I tell them I will take my bussiness elsewhere. With all the fee's they charge they always refund the 5$ overdraft fee cheerfully.


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London, 14 October 2016 – M7 Real Estate, the pan European investor and asset manager, announces that it has acquired approximately €213 million of assets in Finland, Germany and the Netherlands, on behalf of M7 European Real Estate Investment Partners IV ("M7 EREIP IV" or the "Fund"). These are the first acquisitions for the Fund, which at its first close, earlier in September 2016 received capital commitments totalling over €175 million, giving a total investment capacity in excess of €400 million.
As part of this investment, M7 has completed on two portfolios, one in Finland and one in the Netherlands which together provide a total of 85,758 sq m across 18 assets and generate a blended NIY of 9.3%.
The Finnish portfolio has been acquired from Real Estate Fund Finland I managed by OP Property Management Ltd and comprises three retail, two office and seven industrial assets totalling 63,935 sq m. The properties are located across Finland but with the majority in and around Helsinki. The void rate is 29% and WAULT is two years, providing a significant opportunity to drive income through asset management initiatives.
The Dutch portfolio comprises six urban logistics properties. The properties provide 21,813 sq m in locations across the Randstad region and have a blended occupancy rate of 94%.
In addition to completing on these two portfolios, M7 has exchanged contracts on the acquisition of a further 35 office, logistics and retail assets, for a consideration of €151 million, bringing EREIP IV's total phase 1 investments to approximately €213 million. The assets, which are located across Finland, Germany and the Netherlands, are being acquired by M7 in four further separate transactions at a combined NIY of 9.2%.
Richard Croft, M7's Chief Executive, said "We held the first close of EREIP IV at the end of September and, having achieved a total investment capacity of over €400 million, these acquisitions are a strong endorsement of M7's continued ability to raise capital and utilise our pan-European platform to quickly deploy funds into attractive, income producing investments across multiple sectors and geographies, where we see an opportunity to add value through asset management.
"Having put our first tranche of investor capital to work, we expect to have senior debt in place shortly to enable a second phase of acquisitions and will then be following this up with a further equity close later in Q4 2016."
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20 Iconic Photos From Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes film festival takes place every year in France, Cannes in late May for more than a half-century. Many actors, actresses, and celebrities from the silver screen appear in this iconic film festival.
Many big films also premier at this film festival. As this year's Cannes film festival will take place from 17 to 28 May 2022, we will look at some of the most iconic photos from the red carpet at Cannes film festival. From Sophia Loren's slim-brimmed hat, Jane Birkin's natural makeup and air-dried hair, Brigitte Bardot's artful flick of black liner to Angelina Jolie's pregnancy glow, Aishwarya Rai's beautiful traditional dress, Blake Lively's beautiful gown, here are 20 iconic photos from Cannes film festival for you.
Sophia Loren, 1959
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Angelina Jolie, 2008
Charlotte Gainsbourg, 2009
Léa Seydoux, 2013
Blake Lively, 2014
Lupita Nyong'o, 2015
Kate Moss, 2016
Kristen Stewart, 2016
Susan Sarandon, 2017
Selena Gomez, 2019
Margot Robbie, 2019
Jodie Turner-Smith, 2021
Bella Hadid,2021
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Make some fun family memories with your kids by watching community theater in your back yard! You'll find some great, inexpensive, and wonderful fun that your kids will love.
Remember when I told you that I come from a BIG family. There's a lot of us and we love to spend time together, even now that we are older and live far away.
I think that started when we were young.
Yea, during those times when we sat sullen in the car because we didn't want to go for Family time when we could be home on the phone with our friend. During those times when we were too old to go do silly things together. And even during those times when our parents dragged us to go to our brothers or sisters school activity.
I loved going to different performances with my family, seeing the joy in my kid brothers or sisters eyes when we cheered for him/her, and probably best of all---going out for ice cream after.
So we go see a lot of school performances that rank right up their with some broadway versions I've seen.
We recently got to see "Seussical the Musical". But we've also seen "Hello Dolly", "Beauty and the Beast", "Phantom of the Opera" and a lot more! All in our own backyard.
But if you look around you, you'll probably find some super good (and probably inexpensive) ones in your hometown. Where ever we've lived, there's been a drama program of some kind with some great shows, whether it's been a local college, a high school, or even a community theater!
So if you're looking for some great fun, call up your local community events office and find a fun school play to go watch as a family. You'll probably love it and make some awesome memories.
Just don't forget to go out for ice cream after!
What are some fun things you do to create fun family time together?


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Government pays compensation to 80 flu vaccine injuries and deaths
Wednesday, January 07, 2015 by: Natural News Editors
Tags: flu vaccine, medical deaths, injury compensation
https://www.naturalnews.com/048209_flu_vaccine_medical_deaths_injury_compensation.html
(NaturalNews) (Republished from VaccineImpact.com) The December 2014 report from the Department of Justice on damages paid by the U.S. Government to vaccine victims was recently published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources. There were 180 cases of vaccine injuries decided. 134 cases received compensation, while 46 cases were denied.
Most of the U.S. public is unaware that a U.S. citizen, by law, cannot sue a pharmaceutical company for damages resulting from vaccines. Congress gave them total legal immunity in 1986, and that law was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2011. There is a special "vaccine court" called the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program that is funded through a tax on vaccines. If you are injured or killed by a vaccine, you must hire an attorney and fight tax-funded government attorneys to seek damages, as you cannot sue the drug manufacturers.
As you can see from the report below, it can take years to reach a settlement. Therefore, this report probably only represents a tiny fraction of the actual number of people harmed or killed by vaccines, since it is so difficult to fight the government in court to win a settlement.
This report clearly shows that the flu vaccine is the most dangerous vaccine in America. 134 cases were awarded settlements for vaccine injuries, with 79 of the settlements being for the flu shot, including three deaths.
Most of the settlements for injuries due to the flu shot were for Guillain-Barre Syndrome. Other flu vaccine injuries included: acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, transverse myelitis, shingles (herpes zoster), neuropathic demyelination, seizures, neuropathy, brachial plexopathy, rheumatoid arthritis, optic neuritis, and Bell's palsy.
You didn't read about this in your local or national news, did you? Here are copies of the actual report:
Hundreds of People are Afflicted with Guillain-Barre Syndrome Every Year from the Flu Shot
As can be seen in this report and other reports of government payments for vaccine injuries, Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) is the most common side effect and injury due to the flu vaccination.
What is Guillain-Barre Syndrome? Here is the definition the CDC[1] gives:
Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) is a rare disorder in which a person's own immune system damages their nerve cells, causing muscle weakness and sometimes paralysis. GBS can cause symptoms that last for a few weeks. Most people recover fully from GBS, but some people have permanent nerve damage. In very rare cases, people have died of GBS, usually from difficulty breathing.
Compare this to the CDC[2] definition for Polio:
Polio is an infectious disease caused by a virus that lives in the throat and intestinal tract. Up to about 72% of susceptible persons infected with polio have no symptoms. However, infected persons without symptoms can still spread the virus and cause others to develop polio. About 24% of infected susceptible persons have minor symptoms such as fever, sore throat, upset stomach, or flu-like symptoms and have no paralysis or other serious symptoms. About 1-5% develop aseptic meningitis with stiffness of the back or legs, and in some persons increased or abnormal sensations a few days after the minor illness resolves. These symptoms typically last from two to ten days, followed by complete recovery. Less than 1% of polio cases result in paralysis of the limbs (usually the legs). Of those cases resulting in paralysis, 5-10% of the patients die when the respiratory muscles are paralyzed.
Here is one story of a man who nearly died from GBS[3] resulting from a flu shot, and here is a recent story of a nurse who was awarded $11.6 million after being paralyzed by the flu shot.[4]
The fact that GBS is one of the side effects of the annual flu vaccine is well known and documented. The package inserts[5] of flu vaccines even lists a warning regarding GBS:
"If Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) has occurred within 6 weeks of previous influenza vaccination, the decision to give AFLURIA should be based on careful consideration of the potential benefits and risks."
Did you know that? Are you screened and asked questions prior to receiving a flu vaccine to see if you have any risks based on pre-existing conditions?
How many people are injured with GBS due to a flu shot? According to the CDC,[6] "no more than 1 or 2 cases per million people vaccinated."
Is this rate accurate? We don't know. How many people might be afflicted with GBS and not make the connection to the flu vaccine? The CDC states[7] that "an estimated 3,000 to 6,000 people develop GBS each year," and "about two-thirds of people who develop GBS symptoms do so several days or weeks after they have been sick with diarrhea or a respiratory illness."
Let's assume the government's estimate of GBS injuries due to flu vaccines is accurate (1 or 2 cases per million people vaccinated). How many people does that translate to who are becoming injured (or killed) by GBS as a result of the flu vaccine?
According to the latest statistics (December 2014) listed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services here,[8] there were about 944 million doses of the flu vaccine distributed between 2006 and 2013.
So by the government's own statistics, the flu vaccine is causing about 269 people per year to become injured (including some deaths) with GBS. This is out of 3,000 to 6,000 cases of GBS in the U.S. per year. Could vaccines actually be responsible for a lot more?
Is the Flu Vaccine even Effective, and Worth the Risk?
This is the big question that needs to be answered to justify mass vaccinations and documented lives destroyed by the flu vaccine. Those marketing and pushing for the flu vaccine want you to believe that the minority need to be sacrificed for the greater good of the majority, and that the flu vaccine is effective.
Earlier this week (first week of December 2014), the CDC announced that this year's influenza vaccine was not a good match for this season's viruses. (See: CDC: Current Flu Vaccine Not a Good Match for This Season's Viruses, Ineffective[9])
But even in seasons when there is supposedly a "good match," is there evidence that the flu vaccine is effective? Is this a scientific fact, or simply a belief to support a billion dollar vaccine industry that cannot be sued for damages?
The media and most medical professionals often state that the flu causes anywhere from "3,000 to 49,000 deaths each year." The CDC's website,[10] however, states that this is just an estimate, and that they actually do not even know what this number is.
Actual text from the CDC website[11] regarding flu deaths (as of 7/18/2014).
Lawrence Solomon, the research director of Consumer Policy Institute[12] in Canada, wrote an article earlier this year in the Huffington Post questioning the accuracy of the CDC's estimates:
The numbers differ wildly from the sober tallies recorded on death certificates -- by law every certificate must show a cause -- and reported by the official agencies that collect and keep vital statistics.
According to the National Vital Statistics System[13] in the U.S., for example, annual flu deaths in 2010 amounted to just 500 per year - fewer than deaths from ulcers (2,977), hernias (1,832) and pregnancy and childbirth (825), and a far cry from the big killers such as heart disease (597,689) and cancers (574,743).
Even that 500 figure for the U.S. could be too high, according to analyses in authoritative journals such as the American Journal of Public Health[14] and the British Medical Journal. Only about 15-20] percent of people who come down with flu-like symptoms have the influenza virus -- the other 80-85 per cent actually caught rhinovirus or other germs that are indistinguishable from the true flu without laboratory tests, which are rarely done. In 2001, a year in which death certificates listed 257 Americans as having died of flu, only 18 were positively identified as true flu. The other 239 were simply assumed to be the flu and most likely had few true flu cases among them.
The CDC's decision to play up flu deaths dates back a decade, when it realized the public wasn't following its advice on the flu vaccine. During the 2003 flu season, "the manufacturers were telling us that they weren't receiving a lot of orders for vaccine," Dr. Glen Nowak, associate director for communications at CDC's National Immunization Program, told National Public Radio. "It really did look like we needed to do something to encourage people to get a flu shot."
The CDC's response was its "Seven-Step 'Recipe'[15] for Generating Interest in, and Demand for, Flu (or any other) Vaccination," a slide show Nowak presented at the 2004 National Influenza Vaccine Summit.
The CDC unabashedly decided to create a mass market for the flu vaccine by enlisting the media into panicking the public. An obedient and unquestioning media obliged by hyping the numbers, and 10 years later it is obliging still. (Source.)[16]
Many Doctors and Nurses Oppose Mass Vaccination
There is growing opposition in the healthcare field to mass flu vaccination. However, the pharmaceutical lobby is very powerful, exerting great influence over medical colleges and universities, as well as using politicians to accomplish their goals.
This includes mandatory flu vaccination policies increasingly being put into place at healthcare facilities as a requirement to get full reimbursement of Medicare and Medicaid benefits. Understanding the risks involved in taking a flu shot, many healthcare professionals, particularly in the nursing field, are refusing mandatory flu vaccines even at the risk of losing their employment. (See: Nurses Across the U.S. are Taking a Stand Against Forced Flu Vaccines[16] and Doctors Against Mandated Flu Vaccines.[17])
In the video above, Dr. Mark Geier explains the fraud behind the flu vaccine. Dr. Geier is NOT anti-vaccine. He is an MD and has a PhD in genetics. He spent 10 years working at the National Institute of Health, and was a professor at Johns Hopkins University as a geneticist. He is also the author of over 150 peer-reviewed publications.
He worked on vaccine safety and efficacy for more than 30 years. He was one of four scientists who worked to replace the DTP vaccine, a vaccine that caused every child to become sick with a high fever at the time of vaccination, with the DTaP vaccine, which is a more purified vaccine and causes illness due to fever in only 3% of those vaccinated.
In the video above, he explains that the flu shot causes Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and that the flu shot is not very effective in preventing the flu. He also explains that the CDC does not follow the law for vaccines in requiring long-term safety testing for the influenza vaccine like they do with other vaccines, as it is impossible to test a vaccine that changes every year. So the flu vaccine is basically an experimental vaccine that they want to give out to 300 million people every year. There are also no studies showing the safety of giving the flu vaccine to the same person every single year. However, Dr. Geier points out that the CDC is in the business of distributing flu vaccines, because they represent 300 million doses per year, whereas all the childhood vaccines together only number 20 million.
Dr. Geier goes on to explain that flu is "the wrong thing to vaccinate against" because you have to keep revaccinating against it every year, unlike childhood infectious diseases, such as smallpox, that are only vaccinated for once. Dr. Geier points out how ridiculous it is spend billions of dollars on a vaccine that might, at its best, save about 50 lives a year, when there are far more serious problems causing death which are more worthy of that kind of expenditure.
Be informed, don't become a statistic of those damaged or killed by the flu vaccine! There are many other less dangerous ways to protect oneself from influenza.
Read more at VaccineImpact.com.
[1] http://www.cdc.gov
[3] http://healthimpactnews.com
[5] http://www.fda.gov[PDF]
[8] http://www.hrsa.gov[PDF]
[9] http://vaccineimpact.com
[10] http://www.cdc.gov
[12] http://cpi.probeinternational.org
[13] http://www.cdc.gov[PDF]
[14] http://probeinternational.org
[16] http://www.huffingtonpost.ca
[17] http://healthimpactnews.com
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