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Entertainment Zombie Meets Reality: The Coronavirus Reaction vs. Zombie Films
Zombie Meets Reality: The Coronavirus Reaction vs. Zombie Films
Paul Lebowitz
The Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) is certainly no joking matter. Still, there are moments of levity to be had in the way people are reacting to what is about as close as society has come to a genuine zombie apocalypse so far.
With the popularity of zombie films and television shows that speculate on the societal breakdown amid the rise of the undead and vicious, virus-infected humans for whom any semblance of reason and rationality has been extinguished, comparing these characterizations may yield some interesting facts of fiction vs. reality.
Note: World War Z is not mentioned because it was little more than a capitalizing on the popularity of the genre and was a Brad Pitt vehicle that none other than Pitt himself thought was barely mediocre after it had substantial changes due to its previous terribleness.
The first few seasons of The Walking Dead were willfully dedicated to the zombies themselves and how the survivors navigated the new world while seeking to regain some sense of normalcy and basic rules of decorum. As time passed, the zombies receded into the background as scenery while humans retreated to their baser instincts and fought each other with personal beliefs and ethical, moral quandaries moving to the forefront.
As the Coronavirus spreads across the globe and the woefully unprepared authorities try to enforce curfews, lockdown orders and various mandates to try and prevent people from making it worse, this is the initial stage of "What's happening here?" and "Wow, this is real, what do we do?"
The Walking Dead had a leadership void where some mostly well-meaning people took charge in certain instances with Shane Walsh and Rick Grimes generally – generally– thinking about others even if it was in the context of their own interests. Of course, self-interested dictators took charge in other areas framed under the guise of "evil" with The Governor and Negan. The Governor was simply sociopathic and brutal; Negan at least had some sense of order. Rick eventually degenerated closer to their level than they elevated to his.
The pandemic has not reached the point of a leadership void where elected officials are concerned about their own future any more than they usually are, and law enforcement has not abandoned its post in the flight stage of fight or flight.
There will inevitably be the rise of cult leaders and demagogues such as there are now in worldwide governments and hucksters trying to get money from desperate people in a more egregious way than they do during "normal" times.
The generally useless Fear the Walking Dead gave a strangely better version of how people ignore what is happening around them as they seek to maintain their mundane routines with basketball games ongoing as zombies with blood dripping down their chins are walking toward them. This dovetails with a significant amount of disbelief that it was really happening until the lights went out and the TV and internet no longer worked. Coronavirus has not gotten to that point…yet.
Night of the Living Dead is about as close to being the biological parent to The Walking Dead as anything in the genre, so its somewhat condensed version of a zombie apocalypse applies despite differences in how it happened.
28 Days Later/28 Weeks Later
Yes, the 28 Days Later/28 Weeks Later infected were more rabid human than zombie. That aside, the way in which the rage virus started, was passed on from one human to another, and how fast England devolved into chaos was a well-researched and inherently realistic narrative of how humans behave when the constraints of consequences are removed and the survival instinct takes hold. This is applicable for any fast-spreading virus that eliminates a person's ability to reason and turns them into bloodthirsty entities for whom scratching and biting is their prime directive.
The virus started, predictably, with scientists infecting monkeys with the "rage" virus in the guise of research. Animal activists sought to free the monkeys and unwittingly unleashed the virus on the human population. This could be equated with the perceived start of Coronavirus in which someone allegedly decided it was a good idea to eat exotic animals – urban legend says it was a bat – in Wuhan.
With the rage virus, it happened so quickly and infected people indiscriminately with a 15-to-30-second incubation period that society took no time to gradually break down – it simply collapsed.
If the spread of Coronavirus occurred with such wanton rapidity, the downfall would likely mirror what happened with the rage virus. Every person for him or herself; endless destruction; other countries willing to help but focusing on their own interests and safety; and a blockade, especially if the country of origin was an island like Britain.
Whereas 28 Days Later first centered around fighting off the infected, then spun into a human vs. human fight for survival and ended on a hopeful note, 28 Weeks Later indulged in no such ambiguity.
Once the infection was supposedly eradicated and people were repatriating to Britain, the outlier of a person who was immune to the virus but could carry it led to the country being re-infected and a clear scenario of how military order and decision-making results in the need to serve the needs of the many over the needs of the few through extermination as a means of containment.
A decision on the part of the helicopter pilot at the film's conclusion in taking a child who, like his mother, was immune to the virus but was a carrier is the exact type of selfless and stupid act of kindness that gets exponential people killed.
People who are getting on airplanes now knowing they have either been exposed to or outright have the Coronavirus just so they can "get home" is tantamount to slipping through the cracks of an overwhelmed security system and lack of checks and balances to prevent it from spreading.
That helicopter pilot wittingly violated protocol because there was no one left to answer to and unwittingly allowed the virus to reach France and mainland Europe, dooming the entire continent. That could easily happen with the Coronavirus when people are largely left to their own judgment and that judgment is rarely based on fact, but on emotion.
The Night Eats the World
A lesser known zombie film that was not overtly meant to capitalize on the popularity of zombie horror, but focuses on the aftermath rather than the evolution, The Night Eats the World is probably as close to viable in the zombie context as was 28 Days Later/28 Weeks Later.
How does a human survivor move forward knowing that civilization no longer exists? How long can one maintain sanity?
The Night Eats the World asks and answers the question of what happens after the catastrophe has already done most of the damage it could do and people have come to grips with the new world realizing they can no longer fantasize about a return to "before."
The running zombies are attracted to sound. The protagonist basically accepts the turn of events and tries to create a sense of normalcy with music and staying occupied with rudimentary forms of time-killing entertainment. The basic needs of water and heat are solved relatively obviously with rainwater and building a fireplace. He becomes delusional like someone trapped in a desert without water and loses interest with an increasingly self-destructive "I don't care anymore" attitude. Life becomes little more than a moment to moment enterprise with nothing to do other than live as an end unto itself.
People being forced to remain indoors during Coronavirus leaves them with little alternative but to interact in close quarters with their housemates whether that is blood relatives, spouses and children, or roommates. Even those who live alone must learn to accept a certain level of isolation. Contrary to the zombie apocalypse, there are outlets for human contact with the internet and telephones, so there will not be a person who is simply trapped in his or her own head. Eventually though, tensions will rise to the surface whether they were previously present or not.
Retreating to the primordial instinct for survival, the "new world problem" of awareness and memory sabotages an attempt to move forward for the more cerebral people. Survivalists or people who are accustomed to fending for themselves will have a better time of it, at least from the outset.
From The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror III, there's also a likelihood that people would use the opportunity to take lawlessness and an absence of consequences to carry out personal vendettas with slightly better nuance than Homer Simpson did below.
The key point is that in zombie movies, there seems to be a greater acceptance of the new daily life, sooner. With Corona, people are still clustering in groups, going to beaches, going to parks, waiting for their food order and disbelieving the repeated reports of the potential severity of the outbreak.
Part of that is the ineffectual response of those in power. People are advised to stay in their homes and go out only when they need medicine, groceries or other basics…and they can also go out to exercise. During a deadly pandemic, outdoor exercise is not a priority. This is a concession to "people are gonna do it anyway," but many laws are in place to prevent "people from doing it anyway."
The preposterousness of fist-fighting over toilet paper and hand sanitizer might make a viral video that is undeniably funny, but it is also a sign of what will be prioritized. Water, canned goods and first-aid supplies come before toilet paper.
These priorities and that people react better in fictionalized versions of a global meltdown is somewhat terrifying. With the current pandemic, the virus itself started out as the enemy that some took seriously and warned about while others cavalierly dismissed. There is still a long-range and selfish tilt to how supposed leaders and agenda-based political commentators and reporters are treating it with partisanship taking precedence over safety. Perhaps it takes the finality and unambiguous nature of a zombie apocalypse to change that. The sense, however, is that people would still be standing in line at Starbucks and be thrilled when the person in front of them is bitten by a zombie or a virus-infected human just so they don't need to wait as long for their Caffè Americano.
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Richard Henry "R.h." Polk
Powell - Richard Henry "R.H." Polk, 89, retired construction worker for A.B. Long Construction died Friday, November 29, 2019 at his residence in Powell, Tennessee.
A graveside service will be conducted Tuesday at 2:00 P.M. at Gibsonville Cemetery with Reverend Bob Rush officiating. The family will visit with friends Tuesday from 12:00 P.M. - 1:30 P.M. at Oakes and Nichols Funeral Home. Condolences may be extended online at www.oakesandnichols.com.
Born August 24, 1930 in Williamson County, Tennessee he was the son of the late Phillip Z. Polk and the late Marie Thompson Polk. On March 5, 1955, he married Helen Juanita Daniels Polk who preceded him in death January 28, 2013. Mr. Polk was a member of Bell's Campground Baptist Church in Powell, Tennessee.
Survivors include several nieces and nephews.
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CURUYE's AUGUST CUBAN SALSA TIMBA DANCE PARTY!
LET's KEEP THE SUMMER CUBAN MUSIC & DANCE FLOW HAPPENING SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, at CURUYE's CUBAN SALSA TIMBA DANCE PARTY with DEEJAY WARAPO kicking off YEAR 9 of sharing his love and knowledge of Cuban dance music with L.A. & Southern California! In August CURUYE commits to DONATING SCHOOL MATERIALS to students in the community. This year part of the proceeds from Curuye's August Salsa Timba Cuban Dance Party will be donated to the students of the Covenant House SHELTER for HOMELESS YOUTH in Los Angeles. By coming out to dance with your friends, you'll be helping out a student or two! The ever-popular MARITZA BAÍDA will be back in L.A. to teach a RUEDA de CASINO class at 5:30 PM! Pa' La Orilla dancers CAMILLE RAY, and JEANNIQUE PROSPERE will be leading their fun and funky reggaetón line dances throughout the night! So far, IVONNE ROMERO, RUBY ROJAS, KAREN POWELL JENNIFER FLANZER, AMY HARTENDORP, GRACE OSBORNE are celebrating their August birthdays with Curuye! Contact Curuye if you have an August birthday you'd like to celebrate! Share a meal from The Granada's kitchen! Chef Israel has entrees, sandwiches, and salads to fill up and energize hungry dancers. ALL AGES ARE WELCOME! $10 cover includes the dance class. FREE PARKING in the parking structure across from The Granada!


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namespace System.Data.SqlClient.ManualTesting.Tests
{
    [Trait("connection", "tcp")]
    public static class ParallelTransactionsTest
    {
        #region <<Basic Parallel Test>>
        [CheckConnStrSetupFact]
        public static void BasicParallelTest_ShouldThrowsUnsupported_Yukon()
        {
            BasicParallelTest_shouldThrowsUnsupported(DataTestUtility.TcpConnStr);
        }

        [CheckConnStrSetupFact]
        public static void BasicParallelTest_ShouldThrowsUnsupported_Katmai()
        {
            BasicParallelTest_shouldThrowsUnsupported(DataTestUtility.TcpConnStr);
        }

        private static void BasicParallelTest_shouldThrowsUnsupported(string connectionString)
        {
            string expectedErrorMessage = SystemDataResourceManager.Instance.ADP_ParallelTransactionsNotSupported(typeof(SqlConnection).Name);
            string tempTableName = "";
            try
            {
                tempTableName = CreateTempTable(connectionString);
                DataTestUtility.AssertThrowsWrapper<InvalidOperationException>(
                    actionThatFails: () => { BasicParallelTest(connectionString, tempTableName); },
                    exceptionMessage: expectedErrorMessage);
            }
            finally
            {
                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(tempTableName))
                {
                    DropTempTable(connectionString, tempTableName);
                }
            }
        }

        private static void BasicParallelTest(string connectionString, string tempTableName)
        {
            using (var connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString))
            {
                connection.Open();
                SqlTransaction trans1 = connection.BeginTransaction();
                SqlTransaction trans2 = connection.BeginTransaction();
                SqlTransaction trans3 = connection.BeginTransaction();

                SqlCommand com1 = new SqlCommand("select top 1 au_id from " + tempTableName, connection);
                com1.Transaction = trans1;
                com1.ExecuteNonQuery();

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                com2.Transaction = trans2;
                com2.ExecuteNonQuery();

                SqlCommand com3 = new SqlCommand("select top 1 au_id from " + tempTableName, connection);
                com3.Transaction = trans3;
                com3.ExecuteNonQuery();

                trans1.Rollback();
                trans2.Rollback();
                trans3.Rollback();

                com1.Dispose();
                com2.Dispose();
                com3.Dispose();
            }
        }

        #endregion

        #region <<MultipleExecutesInSameTransactionTest>>
        [CheckConnStrSetupFact]
        public static void MultipleExecutesInSameTransactionTest_ShouldThrowsUnsupported_Yukon()
        {
            MultipleExecutesInSameTransactionTest_shouldThrowsUnsupported(DataTestUtility.TcpConnStr);
        }

        [CheckConnStrSetupFact]
        public static void MultipleExecutesInSameTransactionTest_ShouldThrowsUnsupported_Katmai()
        {
            MultipleExecutesInSameTransactionTest_shouldThrowsUnsupported(DataTestUtility.TcpConnStr);
        }

        private static void MultipleExecutesInSameTransactionTest_shouldThrowsUnsupported(string connectionString)
        {
            string expectedErrorMessage = SystemDataResourceManager.Instance.ADP_ParallelTransactionsNotSupported(typeof(SqlConnection).Name);
            string tempTableName = "";
            try
            {
                tempTableName = CreateTempTable(connectionString);
                DataTestUtility.AssertThrowsWrapper<InvalidOperationException>(
                    actionThatFails: () => { MultipleExecutesInSameTransactionTest(connectionString, tempTableName); },
                    exceptionMessage: expectedErrorMessage);
            }
            finally
            {
                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(tempTableName))
                {
                    DropTempTable(connectionString, tempTableName);
                }
            }
        }

        private static void MultipleExecutesInSameTransactionTest(string connectionString, string tempTableName)
        {
            using (var connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString))
            {
                connection.Open();
                SqlTransaction trans1 = connection.BeginTransaction();
                SqlTransaction trans2 = connection.BeginTransaction();
                SqlTransaction trans3 = connection.BeginTransaction();

                SqlCommand com1 = new SqlCommand("select top 1 au_id from " + tempTableName, connection);
                com1.Transaction = trans1;
                com1.ExecuteNonQuery();

                SqlCommand com2 = new SqlCommand("select top 1 au_id from " + tempTableName, connection);
                com2.Transaction = trans2;
                com2.ExecuteNonQuery();

                SqlCommand com3 = new SqlCommand("select top 1 au_id from " + tempTableName, connection);
                com3.Transaction = trans3;
                com3.ExecuteNonQuery();

                trans1.Rollback();
                trans2.Rollback();
                trans3.Rollback();

                com1.Dispose();
                com2.Dispose();
                com3.Dispose();

                SqlCommand com4 = new SqlCommand("select top 1 au_id from " + tempTableName, connection);
                com4.Transaction = trans1;
                SqlDataReader reader4 = com4.ExecuteReader();
                reader4.Dispose();
                com4.Dispose();

                trans1.Rollback();
            }
        }
        #endregion

        private static string CreateTempTable(string connectionString)
        {
            var uniqueKey = string.Format("{0}_{1}_{2}", Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("ComputerName"), Environment.TickCount, Guid.NewGuid()).Replace("-", "_");
            var tempTableName = "TEMP_" + uniqueKey;
            using (var conn = new SqlConnection(connectionString))
            {
                conn.Open();
                SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(string.Format("SELECT au_id, au_lname, au_fname, phone, address, city, state, zip, contract into {0} from pubs.dbo.authors", tempTableName), conn);
                cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
                cmd.CommandText = string.Format("alter table {0} add constraint au_id_{1} primary key (au_id)", tempTableName, uniqueKey);
                cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
            }

            return tempTableName;
        }

        private static void DropTempTable(string connectionString, string tempTableName)
        {
            using (SqlConnection con1 = new SqlConnection(connectionString))
            {
                con1.Open();
                SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("Drop table " + tempTableName, con1);
                cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
            }
        }
    }
}

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Provincial capital of the Liguria region, Genova is located at the farthest inmost part of the Gulf of Genova, along the foothills of the Appennines and is well connected to the most important Italian cities, like for instance Milano, Pisa, Torino, Roma, and Napoli, by highways and railways.
Since 1962 Genova has had an international airport, named Cristoforo Colombo after one of the most famous sons of the city, which was built on a wide landscaped area obtained by reclaiming a stretch of sea facing Sestri Ponente.
The city name comes from the Latin janua - gate. And indeed, Genova used to be and still is the gateway of the reach northern Italy to the sea, to far horizons, exotic beaches, the fabulous markets of the Orient. A gate that also closes behind it a wealth of treasures: the arts, history, society and culture, the Genoese folk rooted in age-old traditions, loth to parade their possessions, yet more than ready to render what they receive.
A commercial port, genteel seaside resort, fine 16th century palaces in a town proud of its history and legend. The oldest part of the urban center, a maze of tiny alleyways leading to the old port and old palaces in which people speak the impenetrable Genoese dialect, form a striking contrast with the modern part, spread out on the nearby hills and stretching for c. 25 km. along the coast and c. 15 km. inland up the Polcevera and Bisagno river valleys.
The streets of Genova are filled with medieval cathedrals, glorious palaces, and Renaissance fountains. To savour an experience unique of its kind, just walk through the gate into Genova "Superba", Genoa the proud, not through arrogance but by sheer majesty of image.
The epithet "superba" (proud) that the city has carried down through the centuries was first given by Francesco Petrarca. Writing of a visit to Genoa in 1358 the poet described the city, in Latin of course, as follows:
you will see a regal city on the side of a rugged hill, proud in its menfolk and city walls The aspect of the place alone tells you the city is mistress of the seas.
The venues chosen for ETAPS include spaces and auditoriums situated in the historical center of Genova very near one to the other (at most two minutes by foot) and belonging to the Architecture Faculty, "Teatro della Tosse" and Sant'Agostino.
More information about Genova, its history, touristic attractions and not a few pictures of the city may be found at
Touristic Information 1 Touristic Information 2
Touristic Information 3 La Lanterna
The Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno Palazzo Ducale (home of the next G8 meeting)
Web cams over Genova Tourism in Liguria
What to do in Genova
http://www.genovagando.it/ What is on in Genova (in Italian)
Some tips on restaurants in Genova
Food places


Oscar Monaghan is a Murri man from Far North Queensland. He is a queer law student, who has been an active organiser on campus and in Sydney, centring his work on community-building endeavours and consciousness building. He enjoys bringing up, and organising around, decolonisation, feminism, race, and other forms of structural oppression. When not pretending to study, he is most likely to be found in a dance class, trying to coax affection from cats on the street, or occasionally standing in as a tennis partner for his boyfriend.


The Amiga received an awful conversion of Bomb Jack, courtesy of Croatian based Paradox Software and published by Elite. Paradox were the in-house development team of UK-based Eidersoft, not to be confused with the famous Amiga cracking group.
Paradox converted many games from the Atari ST, and just about all of them are straight Atari ST ports. Bomb Jack was no exception, with an ugly 16 colour palette, moving objects stored in the native Atari ST screen format and awful sound too! How Elite thought this pile of excrement was worth £25 at the time of release is anyone's guess!
Here are the entire set of graphics extracted from the game for your pleasure (or horror). The most sad thing about this is that the Amiga was capable of a 100% perfect conversion of the arcade game, yet we ended up with this mess.
The last sentence is very true, I proved it with the Beer Edition.
If the sprites in the Elite version had been drawn 16x16 instead of 32x32, or Tehkan had supplied the coin-op graphics then I think we would have seen an altogether much better version of the game released back in the day.


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Andrew J. Fabiano
Dr. Fabiano is a Buffalo Spree Top Doctor! See all of our physicians who made this year's list.
Brain Tumors Spinal Tumors Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Complex Spinal Surgery Radiation Necrosis Meningiomas Computer-Assisted Surgery
Special Interests:
Spinal Metastatic Disease Cerebral Edema Management of Brain Tumors in Eloquent Cortex Spinal Neuronavigation
About Andrew J. Fabiano
Andrew J. Fabiano, MD, FAANS is a Professor of Oncology at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center (Roswell Park) and a Clinical Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at SUNY at Buffalo. His practice is based at Roswell Park and focuses on the treatment of tumors of the brain and spine. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery and was selected to the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Central Nervous System Guidelines Panel.
Dr. Fabiano is the Director of the Spinal Oncology Center at Roswell Park and has special expertise in spinal tumor removal and complex spinal reconstruction. He utilizes intraoperative neuroimaging and spinal neuronavigation to enhance patient safety and surgical outcomes. He has lectured extensively on the surgical management of spinal tumors and was selected for the North American Spine Society's Robotics & Navigation Committee.
A major component of Dr. Fabiano's practice is the treatment of benign and malignant brain tumors. He has a special interest in minimally invasive techniques for the treatment of brain tumors including Gamma Knife Radiosurgery, Intracranial Endoscopy, Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery, and Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy. He has served as expert faculty for the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons on the management of brain tumors.
Dr. Fabiano's areas of research interest include novel therapies for cerebral edema and radiation necrosis and innovations in spinal surgery. He has published over 100 journal articles and abstracts and leads multiple clinical research studies. Dr. Fabiano has been selected to numerous leadership positions at Roswell park including the Surgical Services Executive Committee (Chair), Medical Staff Executive Committee, and Peer Review Leadership Committee (Chair). He is the Roswell Park site director for the SUNY at Buffalo Neurosurgery Residency Program.
Dr. Fabiano is a native of Buffalo, NY. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago in five semesters with Highest Departmental Distinction and from SUNY at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences with Thesis Honors. He completed a neurosurgical training program with the SUNY at Buffalo Department of Neurosurgery. During his training, he was awarded an Alpha Omega Alpha Research Fellowship and a Thomas F. Frawley Research Award.
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Professor of Neurosurgery and Oncology
Director, Spinal Oncology Center
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo
Clinical Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Education and Training:
BS – University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
MD – SUNY at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, NY
Residency:
SUNY at Buffalo Department of Neurosurgery, Buffalo, NY
Board Certification:
Neurological Surgery, American Board of Neurological Surgery
Professional Memberships:
American Association of Neurological Surgeons
Congress of Neurological Surgeons
Society of Neuro-Oncology
AANS/CNS Section on Tumors
AANS/CNS Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves
AOSpine Society
Guest Examiner - American Board of Neurological Surgery (ABNS)
2019, 2021 - American Board of Neurological Surgery Guest Examiner
2019-2021 - Buffalo Spree Top Doctor
2020 - Top Neurological Surgeon
2019 - North American Spine Society (NASS) 20 Under 40 Spine Surgeon
2016 - Buffalo Business First 40 Under 40
2017, 2018 - America's Top Surgeons
Surviving a Pancoast tumor: Mark's story New Spinal Center Improves Quality of Life Understanding Spinal Tumors: From Diagnosis to Treatment
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New Spinal Center Improves Quality of Life
Understanding Spinal Tumors: From Diagnosis to Treatment
1. Drakhshandeh D, Miller JA and Fabiano AJ. Instrumented spinal stabilization without fusion for spinal metastatic disease. World Neurosurgery 111:e403-409, 2018.
2. Miller JA and Fabiano AJ. Comparison of operative time with conventional fluoroscopy versus spinal neuronavigation in instrumented spinal tumor surgery. World Neurosurgery 105:412-9, 2017.
3. Fanous AA and Fabiano AJ. Surgical management of spinal metastatic disease. Journal of the Neurosurgical Sciences 61(3):316-24, 2017.
4. Fabiano AJ and Qiu J. Post-stereotactic radiosurgery brain metastases: a review. Journal of the Neurosurgical Sciences 59(2):157-67, 2015.
5. Fabiano AJ and Alberico RA. Laser-interstitial thermal therapy for refractory cerebral edema from post-radiosurgery metastasis. World Neurosurgery 81(3):652-4, 2013.
Make an appointment by calling 1-800-ROSWELL (1-800-767-9355)
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People wait for a subway at a Manhattan station in New York City. The city has been experiencing a rash of high-profile incidents involving individuals being hit by trains in suicides, accidents and people being pushed to their deaths.
"Think of this as a back up plan from the White House. It's also sort of the White House poking Congress in the shoulder and telling Congress if you don't come up with a bill we're going to have one waiting."
"They say that the reasons they are specifically doing this is because of Western aggression, Western meddling in Afghanistan and Mali in particular... What's striking about this recent spate of kidnappings... is that they have not demanded any ransoms."


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Lovell Telescope
The Lovell Telescope /ˈlʌvəl/ is a radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory, near Goostrey, Cheshire in the north-west of England. When construction was finished in 1957, the telescope was the largest steerable dish radio telescope in the world at 76.2 m (250 ft) in diameter;[1] it is now the third-largest, after the Green Bank telescope in West Virginia, United States, and the Effelsberg telescope in Germany.[2] It was originally known as the "250 ft telescope" or the Radio Telescope at Jodrell Bank, before becoming the Mark I telescope around 1961 when future telescopes (the Mark II, III, and IV) were being discussed.[3] It was renamed to the Lovell Telescope in 1987 after Sir Bernard Lovell,[4] and became a Grade I listed building in 1988.[5][6][7] The telescope forms part of the MERLIN and European VLBI Network arrays of radio telescopes.
The Lovell Telescope
250 ft telescope
Bernard Lovell
European VLBI Network
Cheshire East, United Kingdom
53°14′11″N 2°18′30″W / 53.2365°N 2.3084°W / 53.2365; -2.3084Coordinates: 53°14′11″N 2°18′30″W / 53.2365°N 2.3084°W / 53.2365; -2.3084
Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
5 GHz (5.0×109 Hz)
3 September 1952 –1957 (3 September 1952 –1957 )
Telescope style
Parabolic reflector
Radio telescope
Collecting area
4,560 m2 (49,100 sq ft)
22.9 m (75 ft 2 in)
Altazimuth mount
www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk
Location of Lovell Telescope
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Both Bernard Lovell and Charles Husband were knighted for their roles in creating the telescope.[8] In September 2006, the telescope won the BBC's online competition to find the UK's greatest "Unsung Landmark".[9] 2007 marked the 50th anniversary of the telescope.
If the air is clear enough, the Mark I telescope can be seen from high-rise buildings in Manchester such as the Beetham Tower, and from as far away as the Pennines, Winter Hill in Lancashire, Snowdonia, Beeston Castle in Cheshire, and the Peak District. It can also be seen from south-facing windows of the Terminal 1 restaurant area and departure lounges of Manchester Airport.
ConstructionEdit
Conception and construction of the Mark IEdit
Bernard Lovell built the Transit Telescope at Jodrell Bank in the late 1940s. This was a 218 ft (66 m)-diameter radio telescope that could only point directly upwards; the next logical step was to build a telescope that could look at all parts of the sky so that more sources could be observed, as well as for longer integration times. Although the Transit Telescope had been designed and constructed by the astronomers that used it, a fully steerable telescope would need to be professionally designed and constructed; the first challenge was to find an engineer willing to do the job. This turned out to be Charles Husband, whom Lovell first met on 8 September 1949.[10][11]
The Mark 1 under construction.
Credit: Jodrell Bank.
Two circular 15" turret drive gear sets and associated pinions from 15-inch (38-cm) gun turrets were bought cheaply in 1950; these came from the World War I battleships HMS Revenge and Royal Sovereign, which were being broken up at the time[12]. The bearings became the two main altitude rotator bearings of the telescope, with the appropriate parts of the telescope being designed around them.[13] Husband presented the first drawings of the proposed giant, fully steerable radio telescope in 1950. After refinements, these plans were detailed in a "Blue Book",[14] which was presented to the DSIR on 20 March 1951;[15] the proposal was approved in March 1952.[16]
Construction began on 3 September 1952.[17] The foundations for the telescope were completed on 21 May 1953 after being sunk 90 ft (27 m) into the ground.[18][19] it then took until Mid-March 1954 to get the double railway lines completed due to their required accuracy.[20][21] The central pivot was delivered to the site on 11 May 1954,[22] and the final bogie in mid-April 1955.[23]
The telescope bowl was originally going to have a wire mesh surface to observe at wavelengths between 1 and 10 meters (3.2 and 32 feet), so frequencies between 30 and 300 MHz;[24] this was changed to a steel surface so that the telescope could observe at the 21 cm (8 in) hydrogen line, which was discovered in 1951.[25] Also, in February 1954 Lovell and the Air Ministry met to see if funding could be made available for improving the accuracy of the dish so that it could be used on centimetre wavelengths, for research at these wavelengths for the Ministry as well as "other purposes". Although the funding was not ultimately made available from the Air Ministry, the planning process had already progressed too far and so this improvement was made anyway.[26]
The telescope was constructed so that the bowl could be completely inverted. Originally, it was intended to use a movable tower at the base of the telescope to change the receivers at the focus.[27] However, the movable tower was never built, due jointly to funding constraints and the fact that much of the receiver equipment was placed at the base of the telescope rather than at the focus.[27] Instead, receivers were mounted on 50-foot (15-m) long steel tubes, which were then inserted by a winch into the top of the aerial tower while the bowl was inverted. The cables from the receivers then ran down the inside of this tube, which could then be connected when the telescope was pointed at the zenith. Associated receiver equipment could then be placed either in the small, swinging laboratory directly underneath the surface; in rooms at the tops of the two towers; at the base girders, or in the control building.[28]
The telescope moved for the first time on 3 February 1957: by an inch.[29] It was first moved azimuthally under power on 12 June 1957;[30] the bowl was tilted under power for the first time on 20 June 1957.[30] By the end of July the dish surface was completed,[31] and first light was on 2 August 1957; the telescope did a drift scan across the Milky Way at 160 MHz, with the bowl at the zenith.[32] The telescope was first controlled from the control room on 9 October 1957,[33][34] by a purpose-built analogue computer.[25]
There were large cost overruns with the telescope's construction, mainly due to the steeply rising cost of steel at the time the telescope was constructed. The original grant for the telescope's construction came jointly from the Nuffield Foundation and the government; this amounted to £335,000.[16] The government increased its share of the funding several times as the cost of the telescope rose; other money came from private donations. The final part of the debt from the construction of the telescope, £50,000, was paid off by Lord Nuffield and the Nuffield Foundation on 25 May 1960[35] (partly due to the telescope's early, very public role in space probe tracking; see below), and Jodrell Bank observatory was renamed to the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories. The final total cost for the telescope was £700,000.[36]
Upgrade to Mark IAEdit
Shortly after the telescope was originally completed, Lovell and Husband started contemplating the idea of upgrading the telescope so that it had a more accurate surface, and was controlled by a digital computer. Plans for this upgrade were created by Husband and Co., and were presented to Lovell in April 1964.[37] Their plans became more urgent when fatigue cracks were discovered in the elevation drive system in September 1967. The telescope was only expected to have an operational lifespan of 10 years, and Husband had been warning about the decay of the telescope since 1963. The appearance of fatigue cracks was the first of these problems that threatened to stop the telescope working; had they not been put right the elevation system could have failed and perhaps jammed.[38] The telescope was therefore repaired and upgraded to become the Mark IA; the £400,000 of funding to do this was announced on 8 July 1968 by the SRC.[39][40] The upgrade was carried out in three phases, phase 1 lasting between September 1968 and February 1969,[41] phase 2 between September and November 1969[42] and phase 3 between August 1970 and November 1971.[43]
The first phase saw the addition of an inner railway track, which was designed to take a third of the weight of the telescope.[41][44] The outer railway track, which had been decaying and sinking over the previous years, was relaid in the second phase. Four bogies and their steelwork were added on the inner track, and the existing bogies on the outer track were overhauled.[42][44]
The third phase saw the biggest changes; a new, more accurate bowl surface was constructed in front of the old surface, meaning that the telescope could be used on wavelengths as small as 6 cm (5 GHz),[24] and the central "bicycle wheel" support was added. A new computer control system was also installed (reusing the Ferranti Argus 104 computer from the Mark II); fatigue cracks in the cones connecting the bowl to the towers were repaired, and the central antenna was lengthened and strengthened.[43][44] Tragically, in January 1972 the hoist carrying two engineers to the central antenna broke, gravely injuring two engineers and causing the death of one of them.[45]
The Mark IA upgrade was formally completed on 16 July 1974, when the telescope was handed back to the University of Manchester. Due to increases in the cost of steel during the upgrade, the final amount for the upgrade was £664,793.07.[46]
The Lovell telescope mid-resurfacing in 2002.
Later upgrades and repairsEdit
The Gale of January 1976 on 2 January, brought winds of around 90 mph (140 km/h) which almost destroyed the telescope. The towers bowed, and one of the bearings connecting the dish to the towers slipped. After an expensive repair, diagonal bracing girders were added to the towers to prevent this happening again.[44]
By the 1990s, the telescope surface was becoming badly corroded. In 2001–2003, the telescope was resurfaced, increasing its sensitivity at 5 GHz by a factor of five. A holographic profiling technique was used on the surface, meaning that the surface works optimally at wavelengths of 5 cm (compared to 18 cm on the old surface).[47] A new drive system was installed, which provides a much higher pointing accuracy. The outer track was relaid, and the focal tower was strengthened so that it could support heavier receivers.[48]
In 2007 the telescope needed a new drive wheel, as one of the 64 original wheels had cracked; in 2008 another new steel tyre was needed after a second wheel cracked. These are the only two wheel changes needed since the telescope started operation in 1957.[49]
The presence (as at 2010) of two breeding pairs of wild peregrine falcons (nesting one in each of the telescope's two support towers) prevents the nuisance of pigeon infestation (by droppings fouling, and their body heat affecting sensitive instrument readings) that some other radio telescopes suffer from.
StatisticsEdit
Mass of telescope: 3200 t[50]
Mass of bowl: 1500 t[50]
Diameter of bowl: 76.2 m = 250 ft[50]
Surface area of bowl: 5270 m² = 1.3 acres[50]
Collecting area of bowl: 4560 m² = 1.127 acres[50]
Height of elevation axis: 50.5 m = 165.68 ft[50]
Maximum height above ground: 89.0 m = 292 ft[50]
Radius of wheel girders: 38.5 m = 126.31 ft[50]
Outer diameter of railway track: 107.5 m = 352.690 ft[50]
Amount of paint for 3 coats of the bowl: 5300 L[50]
Azimuthal drive power Two 50 horse power electric motors, one at the foot of each tower.[51]
Maximum drive rates 15 degrees per minute in azimuth
10 degrees a minute in elevation.[51]
Telescope dish
Work on the supports of the Jodrell Bank radio telescope, 12 August 2010
Space probe trackingEdit
Sputnik and artificial satellitesEdit
A model of Sputnik 1.
The telescope became operational in the summer of 1957, just in time for the launch of Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite. While the transmissions from Sputnik itself could easily be picked up by a household radio, the Lovell Telescope was the only telescope capable of tracking Sputnik's booster rocket by radar; it first located it just before midnight on 12 October 1957.[52][53][54][55] It also located Sputnik 2's carrier rocket at just after midnight on 16 November 1957.[56]
The telescope also took part in some of the early work on satellite communication. In February and March 1963, the telescope transmitted signals via the moon and Echo II, a NASA balloon satellite at 750 km (466 mi) altitude, to the Zimenki Observatory in the USSR. Some signals were also relayed from the US to the USSR via Jodrell Bank.[57]
The race to the MoonEdit
Pioneer 5 mounted to its Thor Able launcher.
The Lovell Telescope was used to track both Soviet and American probes aimed at the Moon in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In terms of American space probes, the telescope tracked Pioneer 1 from 11 to 13 November 1958,[58][59] Pioneer 3 in December 1958,[60] and Pioneer 4 in March 1959.[61] The telescope tracked Pioneer 5 between 11 March and 26 June 1960, and was also used to send commands to the probe, including the one to separate the probe from its carrier rocket and the ones to turn on the more powerful transmitter when the probe was 8 million miles (12.9 million km) away. It also received data from Pioneer 5, and was the only telescope in the world capable of doing so at the time.[62] The last signal was picked up from the probe at a distance of 36.2 million kilometers on the 26 June 1960.[60]
The telescope also tracked the Soviet moon probes, including Lunik II from 13 to 14 September 1959 as it hit the moon; this was proven by the telescope by measuring the effect of the moon's gravity on the probe,[63] and Luna 3 around 4 October 1959.[64] Also, the telescope tracked Luna 9 in February 1966, the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon. The telescope listened in on its facsimile transmission of photographs from the moon's surface. The photos were sent to the British press – the probe transmitted, likely intentionally to increase chances of reception, in the international format for image transmission by newswire – and published before the Soviets themselves had made the photos public.[65]
The telescope tracked Luna 10, a Russian satellite put into orbit around the Moon, in April 1966,[66] and Zond 5 in September 1968, a Russian probe that was launched at the moon, around which it sling-shotted before returning to Earth.[67] The telescope did not track Apollo 11, as it was tracking Luna 15 in July 1969. However, a 50 ft (15 m) telescope at Jodrell Bank was used at the same time to track Apollo 11.[68][69]
Venus probesEdit
The telescope possibly detected signals from Venera 1, a Russian satellite en route to Venus, during 19–20 May 1961. However, it was not possible to confirm the origin of the signals.[70] A few years later, in December 1962, the telescope tracked and received data from Mariner 2.[71] On 18 October 1967, the telescope received signals from, and tracked, Venera 4, a Russian probe to Venus.[72]
Mars probesEdit
The telescope tracked Mars 1 in 1962–3,[60] and Mars 2 and Mars 3 in 1971 (amidst the upgrade of the telescope to the Mark IA).[73] In more recent years, it has also searched for several lost Mars spacecraft, including NASA's Mars Observer spacecraft in 1993,[9] Mars Polar Lander in 2000,[74] and the Beagle 2 lander on Mars in 2003. However, it did not succeed in locating any of them.
ICBM watchdogEdit
As a stopgap measure while RAF Fylingdales was being built, the telescope was on standby for "Project Verify" (also known by the codewords "Lothario" and "Changlin") between April 1962 and September 1963. During strategic alerts, a 'pulse transmitter, receiver and display equipment' could be connected to the telescope to scan known Russian launch sites for indications of launches of ICBMs and/or IRBMs.[75][76] During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, the telescope was discreetly turned towards the Iron Curtain to provide a few minute's warning of any missiles that might have been launched.[77]
Scientific observationsEdit
When the telescope was proposed, a series of objectives for the telescope's observations were set out. These included:[14]
Surveys of galactic and extragalactic radio emission
Observations of the sun
Radar echoes from the planets
Investigation of meteor detections
Observations of the Gegenschein
Studies of the Aurora
Detections of radio reflections from cosmic ray ionization in the atmosphere
However, the actual observations made with the telescope differ from these original objectives, and are outlined in the following sections.
Solar systemEdit
In Autumn 1958, the telescope was used to bounce "Hellos" off the Moon for a demonstration in Lovell's third Reith Lecture.[78] The telescope was also used to receive messages bounced off the Moon (a "moonbounce") as part of the 50th anniversary First Move festival.[79] In April 1961, a radar echo from Venus was achieved using the telescope while the planet was at a close approach, confirming measurements of the distance of the planet made by American telescopes.[80][81]
21cm hydrogen lineEdit
Further information: Hydrogen line
The 21 cm hydrogen line was discovered during the telescope's construction; the telescope was subsequently redesigned so that it could observe at that frequency. Using this line emission, hydrogen clouds both in the Milky Way galaxy and in other galaxies can be observed; for example, the telescope discovered a large cloud around the M81 and M82 galaxies. The motion of these clouds either towards or away from us either redshifts or blueshifts the line, allowing the velocity to the cloud to be measured. This provides a probe of the internal dynamics of galaxies, and can also provide a measurement of the rate of expansion of the universe.[82]
MasersEdit
See also: Astrophysical maser
In 1963, the telescope discovered OH emissions from star-forming regions and giant stars; the first astronomical masers.[83] OH masers emit on four frequencies around 18 cm (7 in), which are easily observable on the telescope. As part of MERLIN, the telescope is regularly used to construct maps of maser regions.[82]
PulsarsEdit
An artist's impression of the double pulsar, PSR J0737-3039.
See also: Pulsar
In 1968, the telescope observed the coordinates of the recently discovered pulsar, confirming its existence and investigating the dispersion measure.[84] It was also used to make the first detection of polarization of the pulsar's radiation.[85] This marked the start of a substantial amount of work investigating pulsars at Jodrell, which is still ongoing.[86] In the 30 years following the discovery of pulsars, the telescope discovered over 100 new pulsars (and astronomers at Jodrell Bank discovered around 2/3 of the total number using the Lovell and other telescopes). 300 pulsars are regularly observed using either the Lovell, or a nearby 42-foot (13-m) dish.[87]
The telescope was involved in the discovery of millisecond pulsars,[87] and also discovered the first pulsar in a globular cluster in 1986[83]—a millisecond pulsar in the Messier 28 globular cluster. In September 2006, the results of three years of observing a double pulsar, PSR J0737-3039, with the Lovell telescope, as well as with the Parkes and Green Bank Telescopes, were announced — confirming that the general theory of relativity is accurate to 99.5%.[88]
Gravitational lensingEdit
An illustration of a gravitational lens.
See also: Gravitational lensing
Between 1972 and 1973, the telescope was used for "a detailed survey of the radio sources in a limited area of the sky … up to the sensitivity limit of the instrument". Among the objects catalogued was the first gravitational lens, which was confirmed optically in 1979[89] after its position was found to coincide with a pair of faint blue stars by using the Mark I as an interferometer with the Mark II.[90] The telescope was also involved in the detection of the first Einstein ring in 1998, in conjunction with observations made with the Hubble Space Telescope.[91]
Quasars and interferometryEdit
See also: Quasar and Astronomical interferometer
The early investigation into the size and nature of quasars drove the development of interferometry techniques in the 1950s; the Lovell telescope had an advantage due to its large collecting area, meaning that high sensitivity interferometer measurements can be made relatively quickly using it. As a result, the telescope featured heavily in the discovery of quasars.[8]
A model of the Mark I telescope at the Science Museum, London
Interferometry at Jodrell Bank started before the Lovell telescope was constructed, using the Transit Telescope with a 35 square meter broadside array to determine the size of radio-loud nebulae.[92] Once construction of the Lovell telescope was complete, the broadside array was put on a steerable mount and the pair were used as a tracking radio interferometer. This was then used to determine the 2D shape of quasars on the sky.[93] In the summer of 1961, a 25-foot (8-m) diameter paraboloid telescope was constructed (it was made of aluminium tubing and was mounted on the rotating structure of an old defence radar). This was then used as a steerable interferometer with the Mark I, with a resolution of 0.3 arcseconds, to determine the sizes of some high-redshift (z~0.86) quasars.[94]
The Mark II telescope once constructed was also used as an interferometer with the Lovell telescope.[3] This has a baseline of 425 m (1,394 ft) (meaning that it can synthesize a telescope with 425 m diameter), giving it a resolution of around 0.5 arcminutes. This telescope pair has been used to carry out survey work, and to determine the positions of faint radio objects.[95] Also, one of the drivers behind the construction of the Mark III was to use it as an interferometer with the Mark I to carry out a survey of radio sources.[96]
The telescope took part in the first transatlantic interferometer experiment in 1968, with other telescopes being those at Algonquin and Penticton in Canada.[97] It was first used as an interferometer with the Arecibo radio telescope in 1969.[83]
In 1980, it was used as part of the new MERLIN array[83] with a series of smaller radio telescopes controlled from Jodrell Bank. With baselines of up to 217 km (135 mi), this gave a resolution around 0.05 arcminutes.[95] An upgraded version of this became a national facility in 1992.[83] It has also been used in Very Long Baseline Interferometry, with telescopes across Europe (the European VLBI Network), giving a resolution of around 0.001 arcseconds. Around half of the telescope's observing time is now spent doing interferometry with other telescopes.[95] It is planned that the telescope will work as part of an interferometer with the Radioastron (Russian) and VLBI Space Observatory Programme (Japanese) orbital radio satellites, providing yet larger baselines and higher resolutions.[95]
Other notable observationsEdit
The telescope was used as a follow-up instrument for possible SETI detections made at Arecibo between 1998 and the end of 2003.[98][99] No signals were detected.[100] In February 2005, astronomers using the Lovell Telescope discovered the galaxy VIRGOHI21 that appears to be made almost entirely of dark matter.[101]
A 1:200 scale model of the telescope, made in 1961, resides in the Science Museum, London.[102]
In 1962, the telescope was mentioned in a sci-fi novel A for Andromeda, by Fred Hoyle and John Elliot.[103]
The 1981 Doctor Who episode Logopolis, which was filmed at Crowsley Park,[104] used a model of the Lovell Telescope as the Pharos Project, from which the Doctor played by Tom Baker fell and regenerated. The model was based on the Mark I telescope, but it also featured some modifications from the Mark IA telescope such as the rim around the edge of the dish.[105]
Actress Sophie Aldred portrayed the Seventh Doctor's companion Ace, standing on both the superstructure and dish in the 1990 Doctor Who educational special, "Search Out Science: Search Out Space".[106]
In 1992, the telescope was featured on the cover of Sub Sub's "Space Face" single.[103]
The telescope also made a brief appearance in the film version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in 2005.[107]
Three bands have shot music videos in the bowl of the telescope: D:Ream in 1995 ("Party Up the World"), Placebo in 2003 ("The Bitter End"), and Public Service Broadcasting in 2015 ("Sputnik"). Long shots of the telescope feature in the music video of "Secret Messages" by Electric Light Orchestra.
The Royal Mail depicted the telescope as "J for Jodrell Bank" in their alphabetical landmarks stamp series;[108] it has also previously featured on stamps from Haiti, Hungary, Ascension Island, Barbuda, Liechtenstein and Tanzania.[109]
In an August 1981 episode of Coronation Street the telescope was seen. Len and Rita Fairclough brought the boy they were fostering to see the telescope.[citation needed]
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Journal articlesEdit
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Rowson, B. (1963). "High resolution observations with a tracking radio interferometer". MNRAS. 125 (2): 177. Bibcode:1963MNRAS.125..177R. doi:10.1093/mnras/125.2.177.
Spinardi, G. (August 2006). "Science, Technology, and the Cold War: The Military Uses of the Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope". Cold War History. 6 (3): 279–300. doi:10.1080/14682740600795428. [permanent dead link]
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Former federal deputy chief medical officer, Dr Nick Coatsworth was interviewed on Sky News and in a response to the question 'so who are the people to listen to, Nick?' from Peter Stefanovic, he replied: "Well, I think when you hear your leaders speak; I mean, there's a difference between experts and leaders, Pete. I think that experts, sure, give the view as you see it, that's fine, within your swim lane, because some experts work in a very narrow sphere, Pete, but they've had a sort of creep in terms of what they're asked to comment on, and they don't seem to mind swimming outside a swim lane. So, my advice to people is listen to the leaders, primarily. I've got some very, very close colleagues on ATAGI [Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation], but we've got to keep in mind, that not a single one of them ever had to make a decision like this [on who gets AstraZeneca] in a pandemic before."1
I am over 60 and have had my first AstraZeneca vaccination, and have the second one in a few weeks2. Why did I get it when there are clearly risks of clotting with the AstraZeneca vaccine? Because it was recommended by ATAGI for people my age.
I have two children who are in their thirties and I am deeply concerned for their and their spouse's health should they be forced to get the AstraZeneca vaccine. They may have to get this vaccine if the spread of the Delta strain gets further out of control in Sydney. That we are in this position where people have to choose between a vaccine with very rare fatal side effects or a very dangerous virus, is solely because of the monumental mishandling of the vaccination 'strollout' by the federal government. If the government had taken the offer of 40 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine for delivery in January 2021 we would be in a much better position, and Morrison would not have felt like he needed a brain-fart in an attempt to make himself look good, by foisting the AstraZeneca vaccine on people who ATAGI recommended should get the Pfizer vaccine3. The number of people who have died because of Morrison's incompetence is yet to be fully calculated, because we probably still have many months of the pandemic to go, especially in Australia. If Coatsworth was thinking about Morrison and not some state premiers when he was talking about 'leaders', then he is sadly mistaken or delusional. If it came to a choice between listening to Morrison or the experts of ATAGI, give me ATAGI every time. In addition, if I had the opportunity, I'd ask Coatsworth how many deaths of those under 60 from blood clots, are an acceptable cost to speed up the bungled vaccination 'plan'?
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Yes Minister says:
I believe much of the reluctance of wrinklies to get vaccinated stems from lack of confidence and even contempt for the PM and his associates. That includes medical éxperts' close to 'Morrison. Certainly I am more cynical of the grub than most although I suspect only far right tragics have any confidence in him. My sources of information include a trusted GP who is anything but an establishment drone, and in her opinion I would be at greater risk from vaccination than I would be without it. Mind you I do not live or spend much time in a high density environment and that is a very different situation than most folk encounter. Further to that point, it is evident that high density living encourages virus transmission, particularly in respect of the delta variant. I have always contended that covid-19 constitutes a warning that if not taken seriously, will inevitably result in more and more transmissible variants and soaring death rate in cities. We've already seen much higher than average infection rates in London, New York, China, Sydney, Victoria and many other cities than towns in the sticks like Longreach, Cloncurry, Mt Isa etc. This disparity is certain to become even more obvious with new variants and probably even more so with new viruses. One thing is certain, we won't ever be going back to the old 'normal'. Social distancing is here for the long term, lockdowns will become more and more frequent / lengthy, and the economic consequences will send an increasing number of businesses to the wall. International travel as we used to know it is a thing of the past. On the bright side, it is only a matter of time before the need for population reduction can no longer be ignored. How neo-liberalism deals with that will be extremely interesting.
YM,
I think you are probably right about us old farts. We have been around long enough and have seen enough malevolent, narcissistic spivs like Morrison to know what his ilk are like. Nothing matters to them except themselves. Everything they do is for their benefit. Nobody else matters, and if some should die when he decides on something for his benefit, he would be completely unconcerned. He is a carbon copy of Trump, except that he is a little more articulate. The word salads are longer, but just as meaningless and self-serving.
Coatsworth and Murphy types are a worry. But you can understand why they pull in the big bucks. I think it is called arsemosis and bullshite.
The below Guardian article reveals more bullshite.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jul/28/vaccine-advisory-group-urged-australian-health-department-in-2020-to-get-as-much-as-you-can
Warren,
I watched Murphy a fair bit and he struck me as a time-serving duffer, beholden to his political masters for his position. His inability to follow the rules (on Insiders) on which his group advised the government was bizarre.
I've said it before and I'm happy to repeat it – Coatsworth's public statements show he's little more than a conservative lackey and apologist. Why the SMH keeps giving him column space is a mystery. If I was interviewing him I'd ask him why Morrison etc got Pfizer while exhorting others to get AZ and whether this was setting a good example, why we're near the end of the queue wrt vaccination, why we have inadequate stocks >12months on from vaccines being available, whether he thinks Morrison's messages (it's not a race, it's free choice, lockdown not vaccination is the key etc) have been appropriate from a "leader" at a time of national crisis, whether Christensen's comments should be condemned, and why he thinks that being party to ads with false messages about community safety is a reasonable thing to do.
I have seen only a few of Coatsworth's utterings, but what I have seen makes me wonder what is wrong with him. I suspect he is a conservative lackey as there is a photo going around social media showing a bunch of mates at some shindig. In the group with Coatsworth are Christian Porter and Peter van Onselen. Telling.
He has also undermined public confidence in medical experts by (falsely) claiming that ATAGI experts aren't qualified for the job – because they refused to bow to Morrison's requests to change the AZ advice. In doing so Coatsworth put himself above the combined knowledge and wisdom of this group (members and their qualifications are in the link) who quite obviously weigh up and debate all data, knowledge and risk as circumstances change: https://www.health.gov.au/committees-and-groups/australian-technical-advisory-group-on-immunisation-atagi. Apart from his obvious conservative bias, it appears Coatsworth has become a victim of his own ego.
It is a common problem, being a victim of your own ego. Maybe he has the hump that ATAGI has the profile and he was only second muppet to Brendan Murphy, and his vaccination ad was a bit of a flop.
Mark Dougall says:
Well my response to Coatsworth is they are not my leaders. In most part I didn't vote for them. In most part I find them unbelievably stupid about most issues. In most part I distrust them. So I listen to Nicola Spurrier, Raina MacIntyre, Peter Doherty and few others, and I rely on widely available, properly evaluated, trustworthy, scientific information, on this matter, and when it comes to other, even more important matters, like climate change, I also listen to real experts, and not these dills. Then I make my own mind up because, quite frankly, I despise most of these so called leaders.
Ditto. As I said to someone the other day: many politicians hate scientists because they show that the political dogma of the age is bullshit or dangerous. This has got worse in recent years.
The political and leadership drought in this benighted land started two decades ago at least, when Hoary Howard's Liberal Party began to drag up into its ranks many many greenhorn conservatives whom I suspect came mostly from well-heeled private college backgrounds and benefited from social connections of their parents in very blue ribbon Liberal areas. It would have amazed earlier Liberals that some of the most extreme cases of white picket fence thinkers now came out of Catholic families once traditionally tending to support social justice and equity in Australia. Not so the "80s crew of Pynes, Bernardis, Porters, Vanstones, Leys etc. And many new Liberal MPs were the sons/daughters of old anti-communist, anti-socialist European immigrants, people from places like Poland, Russia, the Baltic states.
These brats and prats, many being beneficiaries of (Whitlam's) free higher education years, saw their natural political home as the right wing faction of either of the main parties. By the late nineties university fees came back, and equality of opportunity was all but destroyed. Open equal access to university qualifications was severely curtailed, leaving many capable young people out of the race where entry into politics was concerned.
Since then young lawyers, MBAs, real estate bosses and accountants have flooded the Liberal Party, not with the noble aim to be leaders in society but to extract as much as they could personally and financially from becoming MPs, especially federal ones. Very few highly capable, very intelligent leader types have emerged from that cohort of weird Ayn Rand fans, Thatcher endorsing MPs. That swing resulted in a very low number of possible Liberal Party "star politicians" to choose from as high office holders. Witness precisely the abysmal Scott Morrison. Witness the intellectual rubbish, the weak-kneed time servers now in the federal ministry; insufferably arrogant, poorly educated in anything but a narrow speciality, and too many of them beingfailures as decent human beings. It's a tragedy that's seriously ruined this country for twenty years now.
And quite a number of Labor apparatchiks too are of the same extraction as younger Liberals. None of them will ever be true leaders in the sense of earlier politicians with broad, deep humanistic education and honest concern for the people's welfare.
All of that explains much of why we are in the abysmal mess we are with this "strollout" of the vaccines.
Russell,
Their inability to do much of anything is astonishing. Still, that is why they were installed; to do absolutely bugger all, and keep the status quo for the wealthy. We are heading toward a 1789 again. The wealthy never learn.


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Reports Claim Russia Sending Troops To Venezuela As Guaido Promises Military Will Turn On Maduro
Reports are claiming that two Russian air force planes transported dozens of troops and equipment to Venezuela's main airport over the weekend, as opposition leader Juan Guaido tells the media that he is closer than ever to taking control of the country.
As the United States continues to push for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to resign, one of the leader's most important allies is now reportedly sending in reinforcements.
Reports claim that two Russian military planes landed at Venezuela's main airport on Saturday, carrying around 100 troops and 35 tons of equipment.
Diplomatic sources in Caracas said that Russian military personnel arrived to take part in bilateral consultations, as Russia and Venezuela have a number of contracts that are being implemented, including contracts on military and technical cooperation. Russia's Ministry of Defense has yet to comment.
This comes as opposition leader Juan Guaido tells the media that he believes Maduro's administration has reached its final stage because it has lost the opportunity to quote "finance political blackmail."
Although Venezuela's military has stood by Maduro, Guaido claimed that around 80 percent of military members are "convinced of the need for a change in Venezuela," and that his team has been meeting with higher-ranking members, in an attempt to gain their support.
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New Database: NEHGS Membership Applications, 1845-1900
Acceptance letter dated 1 August 1845 from the first member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, former President John Quincy Adams.
We are very happy to announce a new database that is part of celebration of the 175th anniversary of the founding of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS); NEHGS Membership Applications, 1845-1900.
American Ancestors and New England Historic Genealogical Society is America's founding genealogical organization and the most respected name in family history. Since its founding in 1845, NEHGS has had a written membership process that typically includes written biographical and genealogical information about each new member. As part of the 175th anniversary of its founding, American Ancestors has indexed the membership application forms and correspondence for those who joined between the years 1845 and 1900. The first member was former President John Quincy Adams, and the database contains membership information for several other Presidents and other famous individuals.
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We'd like to thank out dedicated team of volunteers including; Shaune-Marie Berg, Kim Bonner, Nancy Borman, Loretta Brown-Aldrich, Erin Canzano, George Carter, Becki Clarke, Tom Clements, Fran Danico, Amelia Devin Freedman, Elizabeth Handler, Nancy Johnson, Michelle Kearns, Arlys LaFehr, Toni Lattimer, Don LeClair, Jan Lundquist, Eileen McCarthy, Maureen McCarthy, Marilyn Moffitt, Matt Murphy, Angela Napolitano, Nell Nies, Liz Odell, Jane Papa, Margaret Parker, Julie Roffo, Kay Sencabaugh, Wendy Sheppard, Renda Smith, Sara Stinson, Sam Sturgis, Charlie Watson, Ross Weaver, Judy Welna, Bill Wolfendale, Rich Wood, and Mary Alice Yost. Their efforts made this update possible. If you would like to become part of the team working on rewarding genealogical projects, please contact Rachel Adams, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator via email at rachel.adams@nehgs.org.
April 10, 2020 Don LeClair
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Akeredolu Arrested Over $217,000 Fraud
Akeredolu is part of a gang that creates fake accounts on social media lures people through the accounts and then dupes them under the pretext of sending gifts.
A 48-year-old Nigerian man identified as Joseph Akeredolu, has been arrested in India.
The man was nabbed for duping a diamond broker from south Mumbai of Rs 1.16 crore or $217,000.
According to Indian police, Akeredolu is part of a gang that creates fake accounts on social media lures people through the accounts and then dupes them under the pretext of sending gifts.
Indian Express reports that the gang approached the diamond broker, who resides in Girgaon and has an office at Bharat Diamond Bourse in BKC, through one of the fake accounts on Instagram on October 10, 2020.
The police said that Akeredolu created a profile under the name of a non-existing woman, Alex Zendra and claimed to be a captain at a ship in the UK.
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