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Joplin Carnegie Library – Photographs
Last summer, Historic Joplin wandered about downtown with a camera and one of the stops was the Joplin Carnegie Library, the former home of the Joplin Public Library. Below are a few of the photographs from that visit. Previously, we've brought you the history of the library building (here and here), as well a glance at how the library has changed or not changed over the century since its construction. Enjoy!
Modern telephone and electric wires mar the view of the library today.
Brown, September 11th 2011 | Tags: Andrew Carnegie, historic building, History of Joplin Missouri, Joplin Carnegie Library, Joplin Downtown, joplin history, Joplin Public Library, library, library building, photographs
Posted in Buildings of Joplin, Photographs of Joplin
Downtown Areas Up For Historic Designation
Today's Joplin Globe features an article on the Missouri Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and its consideration of several areas in downtown Joplin for historic district status. The two areas that the city wants to join the Sunshine Lamp District include an area located between Joplin and Wall and 1st and 3rd streets and would be known as the Joplin and Wall Historic District, the other would be the South Main Street Historic District, an area on the west side of Main Street between 1st and 2nd Streets. If the Missouri Advisory Council on Historic Preservation signs off on these nominations, they would then be forwarded to the Federal Register of Historic Places. If placed on the register, buildings in the districts could qualify for Federal and state tax credits.
Here's a link to a draft of the Joplin and Wall Historic District nomination.
The draft describes the historic area:
""The Joplin and Wall Avenues Historic District (Photos 1‐11) consists of an approximately three square‐block 5‐acre area in the northern reaches of the central business district of Joplin, which is in Jasper County, in southwestern Missouri. The district is topographically flat and contains a total of 13 buildings dating from c. 1900 through the 1930s, all of load‐bearing masonry construction, flat‐roofed, and ranging in height from one story to five stories; no residential buildings are in the district. (continued below…)
Joplin Supply Company building is included in the Joplin and Wall Historic District
"(continued…) The nominated area is located along a grid of three blocks of Joplin and Wall Streets which run north‐to south and are intersected by West First, West Second, and West Third Streets and unnamed alleys running both north‐south and east‐west. Of the 13 buildings in the district one, the Joplin Supply Company (Resource No. 13; Photos 3, 6), was previously listed in the National Register (NR 2007). Of the remaining 12 unlisted buildings, 11 contribute to the character of the district and one is a noncontributing element with reference to the district as a whole. The overall appearance of the district is entirely commercial, lacking landscaping and characterized by a grid of paved streets and alleys, concrete sidewalks, with most buildings built flush with one another. Some buildings have associated surface parking; the largest vacant parcel is associated with a 1936 former bus depot (Resource No. 5); this parcel was used historically for bus parking."
Hulbert Chapel, next door to the Joplin Supply Company building is also part of the nominated Joplin and Wall District
The draft provides a list of the properties, a brief description of each, as well some history. Such recognizable buildings are the Joplin Supply Company building, the Greyhound Bus Depot across from the library, and the old court house post office building.
Here's the link to the draft for the nomination of the South Main Historic District.
The draft describes the area as:
"The South Main Street Historic District (Photos 1‐8; Figs. 1‐4) is located in the City of Joplin, Jasper County, in southwestern Missouri. This one‐block long linear district encompasses less than one acre and occupies all of the west side of South Main Street between West First and West Second Streets and consists entirely of commercial architecture dating from the turn of the twentieth century through c. 1910. The district is located at the northern periphery of the central business district and contains ten buildings of one and two stories in height, all of load‐bearing masonry construction. Two buildings are non‐contributing elements within the context of the district as a whole and the remaining eight are contributing.
The district retains the characteristic dense concentration of development which typifies most downtown areas, with all buildings constructed without front‐lot setback. Rear‐lot setbacks vary
from building to building, and surface parking is provided behind most properties. All but two of the district's buildings are built flush with one another; two adjacent buildings are separated by a narrow walkway. The district fronts on South Main Street, West First and Second Streets form the district's north and south boundary, respectively, and an unnamed alley establishes the district's western boundary. New construction and vacant lots are immediately adjacent to the nominated district, and the Joplin and Wall Avenues Historic District, nominated concomitant with this district but distinct in its own right, is to the west."
The Miles Block as it appeared around 1902.
The district primarily concerns the strip of beautiful buildings on the west side of Main Street from 2nd street up that include the striking Miles Block.
The Miles Block, as it appears today, is included in the South Main Street District nomination
For those of you interested in learning more about the architecture used in the construction of these buildings, as well as for some brief histories, we encourage you to read the drafts in greater detail. The Council will meet this Friday to discuss the nominations.
Brown, August 11th 2010 | Tags: Allen Shirley, buildings, downtown Joplin, Federal Register of Historic Places, historic district, historic preservation, History of Joplin Missouri, joplin buildings, Joplin Downtown, Joplin Globe article, joplin history, Missouri Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, preservation, renovation
Posted in Buildings of Joplin, City Government of Joplin, History in the News, Photographs of Joplin
Joplin Museum Complex Proposal Shot Down
We would be remiss if we did not mention the recent Joplin Museum Complex proposal that was defeated at the polls.
Yesterday, Joplin held its spring election and arguably the most contentious item on the ballot was Proposition A, which if passed would have created a sales tax to fund a $7 million dollar renovation of Memorial Hall to serve as the new home of the Joplin Museum Complex. The sales tax would have indefinitely continued at a lower rate to perpetually support the museum. The proposal was voted down.
Memorial Hall - At least for now, remaining Memorial Hall.
According to the Joplin Globe, the vote was 3,882 to 928, a four to one margin. While we here at Historic Joplin believe that the museum complex could do with a new home, we agree with the result of the vote. There are several reasons why.
First, it was a poor decision to spearhead a sales tax proposal during the recent recession. Although many economists believe the country is recovering from the recent economic downturn, folks on Main Street are still feeling the pain of difficult times. A new museum complex is the least of someone's worries who is struggling to pay for healthcare, food, and other necessities. Simply put, it's hard to justify passing a new tax on people who are struggling to survive on a daily basis.
Second, the PR campaign was mediocre at best. The Globe, which seemed to support the museum proposal, attempted to publicize both sides of the debate. The museum, however, failed to articulate to the public why it matters. Talking about the museum's multi-million dollar collection of lead and zinc samples does not translate with folks. It does not inspire passionate debate. In the end, the museum failed to carry its message to the people, let alone sell it.
Third, the museum awkwardly proposed taking over Memorial Hall. Why? It appears that "museum representatives" decided upon Memorial Hall and drew up plans without even consulting the public. Some of the endorsements on its website are questionable, even dubious at best, such as the "National Cookie Cutter Historical Museum," and the "Joplin Historical Society." It is our understanding that the National Cookie Cutter Museum is part of the Joplin Museum Complex as is, or was, the Joplin Historical Society. Essentially, two organizations that are part of the museum were supporting the museum proposal – isn't that a conflict of interest?
Fourth, we here at Historic Joplin have conducted research in many of the finest archives and libraries in the world such as the Bodleian Library at Oxford; National Archives I and II in Washington, D.C. and College Park, Maryland; the Library of Congress; the special collections of the University of Oklahoma, the University of Missouri, and the University of Arkansas; numerous state archives and county courthouses; as well as small town libraries and museums. We can say that we have always had a pleasant experience save for interactions with the Joplin Museum Complex.
The Joplin Museum Complex does not allow members of the public access to its collections which is extremely unfortunate. Excuses are made that the museum is simply unable to accommodate visitor requests for access to the museum's collection. This is unacceptable. Dorothea B. Hoover is rolling in her grave. Years ago, the University of Arkansas Museum was shuttered and the multi-million dollar collection placed in storage. Although housed in a very small space, the university museum collection is readily accessible to the public and is cared for by professional museum staff.
We cannot say the same of the Joplin Museum Complex (JMC). The photo in the recent Globe article on the museum shows that the Joplin Museum Complex collection has not been taken care of by the museum staff. Even if the conditions are not ideal, there is no excuse for sloppy storage methods, although the JMC staff members are not professionally trained curators or archivists. Out of the many libraries, museums, and archives we have visited over the years, this is the first time we encountered such an unhelpful staff. It is unacceptable that members of the public are denied access to museum collections when it is funded by taxpayer money.
So here are our suggestions for improvement:
First, the next time the Joplin Museum Complex embarks on a fundraising campaign, it must articulate its message. Tell the public why its collections matter. Sell it like Sam Walton sold cheap underwear back in the 1970s.
Second, the Joplin Museum Complex should get rid of collections that have nothing to do with the history of Joplin such as the Cookie Cutter collection in order to create adequate storage space. In the museum world, this is called "deaccessioning." Every museum will deaccession something in its lifetime, particularly items that do not fit with the museum's mission. Is the Cookie Cutter collection relevant to the history of Joplin? Probably not. So get rid of it. Focus on the real treasures in the collection. This should alleviate some of the storage problems.
Third, please change exhibits as time and money allows. The Joplin Museum Complex has not changed since I was in the third grade. Consider not allowing an animal to run around the museum as they can damage and ruin museum artifacts. No museum staff worth its salt lets live animals have free reign inside of a museum.
The Joplin Union Depot not long after being built.
Fourth, consider the Union Depot. We realize it is a shell of a building. We have read that the basement has water problems. It is, however, an architectural jewel waiting to be reclaimed. The Joplin Museum Complex could have gotten a lot of support from the numerous voters who want to see the Union Depot restored to its former glory. Forget the basement. Pour concrete in the basement for all we care. Any architect worth his or her drawing board can come up with architectural additions that will compliment Union Depot's fabulous design. Incidentally, it was in the Kansas City Bottoms where Union Depot sits, where some of Joplin's first lead mines were established. Think of how relevant that is to the history of Joplin – what better location to preserve and explain the history of Joplin and its rough and tumble beginnings? Plus, the Joplin Museum Complex would be a hero for saving the depot.
Fifth, contemplate hiring someone to serve as museum director who has demonstrated experience in fundraising, community relations, and who preferably has a master's degree in museum studies.
Comments? Thoughts? Let us know.
Brown, April 7th 2010 | Tags: current Joplin politics, history of joplin, Joplin Downtown, joplin history, Joplin Memorial Hall, Joplin Missouri, Joplin Museum Complex, Joplin Union Depot, Memorial Hall, museum, opinion piece, Southwest Missouri
Posted in Buildings of Joplin, City Government of Joplin, History in the News, Resources for Joplin's History
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A proposed concept for Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles reimagines a transformation from 10-lane car traffic into a multi-transit space with wider sidewalks, benches, planters, bike lanes, dedicated bus lanes, and lanes for shared self-driving cars.
Below: Wilshire Boulevard today.
(Images: Perkins+ Will)
Unpaving Paradise
The Joni Mitchell song "Big Yellow Taxi" got it right: An enormous amount of land is paved for parking. "Most people don't realize the dominance of space for cars in cities today," notes Karlin-Resnick. A website called "What the Street?!" breaks down the square footage designated for cars, trains, and bicycles in 23 cities; for example, San Francisco is a city of seven square miles, and two-thirds of a square mile is devoted to parking—space that could ostensibly go towards parks, open space, more housing, and other uses.
An oft-cited statistic is that the average car spends 95 percent of its time parked and only 5 percent of its time in use. If the future AV is a rented vehicle that is always on the go, parking needs could be reduced as much as 90 percent, speculates Kara Kockelman, professor of transportation engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. Furthermore, AVs could make more efficient use of existing roadways since they wouldn't need to maintain the same following distance or buffer between lanes.
To help visualize the best-case scenario, Perkins+Will and Nelson/Nygaard were commissioned by Lyft to reimagine a section of Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. The conceptual design includes a lane for autonomous buses and another for autonomous cars, along with a broad, landscaped sidewalk and a protected bike lane. In the design team's analysis, the utopian version would be able to move more than twice the number of people than the current situation—going from 29,600 people to 77,000 people per hour. "This is a street where you reclaim about 40 percent of the asphalt, and it's actually more efficient," says Tierney. NACTO's "Blueprint for Autonomous Urbanism" posits that roads other than highways should have only one lane in each direction, and that speeds should be limited to 20 miles per hour.
In a pick-up/drop-off culture, the curb becomes very significant. In the short term, the city of San Francisco is converting some parking spots into designated stopping areas for Lyft and Uber in order to prevent double parking and blocked bike lanes. In the long term, cities could manage curb use based on real-time needs throughout the day. "When there's much more pressure on the drop-off and pick-up area, how do we make sure that it's not like the airport?" asks J.F. Finn, III, a principal in Gensler's Boston office. "Lobbies are also going to change dramatically since people are acting in a pedestrian mode and coming through the front door instead of driving into a garage."
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If anything should give studios pause for thought in their headlong rush to acquire and produce whatever super hero or comic book titles are available, it's the troubled and distinctly patchy success rate of 'young adult' fiction adaptations.
The film of Veronica Roth's novel "Divergent" is, like "The Maze Runner", one of the recent few to have actually succeeded in delivering sufficient profit to produce a sequel. "The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones" and "Beautiful Creatures" were not so fortunate, and it's hard to see why this limp and nonsensical dystopian adventure was spared their fate.
In a post-apocalyptic future, a dystopian society is divided into castes, in a walled city, where each caste is responsible for a particular aspect of society. There are a small minority who are casteless and left to fend for themselves. Beatrice (Shailene Woodley) is due to be tested to find out where her future lies – only to discover that she has a rare and dangerous affinity for any and all of the factions. Choosing a faction, Tris starts to uncover a dangerous conspiracy and has to strive to prevent one faction from coming to dominate them all.
There's very little original in the world-building of "Divergent", indeed the factions and their naming conventions seem to have more to do with flicking through the thesaurus to see what words haven't been trademarked yet than for any linguistic or narrative value. Although the factions are named Abnegation (the selfless), Amity (the peaceful), Candour (the honest), Dauntless (the brave), and Erudite (the intelligent), their behaviours seem to have little connection to their supposed natures. Dauntless, especially, seem less brave and more like reckless, irresponsible adrenaline junkies. The whole foundation of the society is so nonsensical as to critically undermine any suspension of disbelief and, unfortunately, for a so-called action movie, not enough happens to keep you distracted from the plot holes and contrivances needed to keep the story moving. Unfortunately, archly allegorical storytelling which works on the page often doesn't translate so well to the screen.
The cast is adequate but bland, Theo James plays the square-jawed hero well and Woodley essaying her very best 'Katniss-lite' as the dull and uninspiring heroine. Jai Courtney, with his usual subtlety, scowls and pouts his way around a set which looks like a half assembled Lego model of Zion's dance cave from "The Matrix" while Kate Winslet provides the most fun as you try to spot all the camera tricks they used to disguise the fact she was pregnant during the filming.
Director Neil Burger brings it all together on screen in decent fashion, but it's too similar to a half a dozen other films for it to feel anything but tired and drab. It may be that "Divergent" suffered from 'Pilot Episode syndrome' and the unfolding of the story in following instalments will have more substance, action and cohesiveness to them, but after this drab an opener they've got a lot to do.


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Psychiatry > General Psychiatry
First Schizophrenia Patch OK'd; Dementia-Related Agitation Therapies
— News and commentary from the psychiatry world
by Kristen Monaco, Staff Writer, MedPage Today October 16, 2019
The first once-daily transdermal patch for schizophrenia -- containing the atypical antipsychotic asenapine -- gained FDA approval this week and will be sold under the name Secuado, said Noven Pharmaceuticals.
Kids with autism spectrum disorders were at 41% increased risk for developing obesity, according to a meta-analysis. "Neurobehavioral abnormalities related to autism, and more importantly, our treatment decisions may contribute to excessive weight gain in children with autism," said lead author Chanaka Kahathuduwa, MBBS, PhD, of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. (Obesity Reviews)
Rent supplements combined with mental health services helped homeless adults increase the number of days they were stably housed per year. (The Lancet Psychiatry)
People in cardiac rehabilitation with depression, anxiety, or reporting high stress were far more likely to drop out. "People with anxiety may underestimate their abilities -- for example, to walk on a treadmill during a rehabilitation class," said study author Angela Rao, of the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. (European Journal of Preventive Cardiology)
Over 75% of global suicides take place in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). "Despite the huge toll of deaths, suicide prevention in LMIC has been relatively neglected to date," said senior study author Nav Kapur, MD, of the University of Manchester. (PLOS Medicine)
As soon as government incentives ended for alcohol-related risk screening and advice, general practitioners in England stopped giving it. "Scaling-up our findings to the English population, we estimate that by the end of 2016 alone, 27,000 fewer patients received brief advice as a result of terminating the alcohol incentive scheme," said lead author Amy O'Donnell, PhD, of Newcastle University in England. (Addiction)
When it comes to treating dementia-related agitation, non-pharmacological approaches including outdoor activities, massage, and touch therapy may be better than drugs. (Annals of Internal Medicine)
Keeping hope of recovery alive is vital for patients managing anxiety, one researcher suggested. (ScienceDaily)
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Event Description: The competition is scheduled to be a one day event. About 10 senior high school students within ghana would be competing amongst themselves on space related topics. Each high school would bring 45 students to the programme which includes 6 representatives for their school in the competition. They would do a power point presentation on space related topics which they willingly chose from the list of different topics presented to them. Their performance would be assessed based on depth of research, content, organization , of presentation, delivery skill, timing and ability to fetch and fend questions. The programme is scheduled to run from 10am to 3pm.
Report on the Results: The 10th of October 2018 was the only world space week event that happened in Ghana, live at the premises of All Nations University College Koforidua. In celebration of the world space week, a powerpoint research based competition was hosted between senior high schools and there was a huge number in attendance. This competition was the first of its kind in the eastern region of Ghana and in Ghana at large. The students were given different lists of space related topics, from which they chose two and did a research on it which was backed up with their PowerPoint presentations. The competition was graced and judged by 6 renowned judges from different career paths, engineering and space science related. This competition promoted three sustainable development goals such as quality education, innovation, infrastructure and industry and gender equality. It also broadened the minds of the students for in-depth research, taught them proper use of the internet and boosted their confidence level and presentation skills. The All Nations University-Space Science Technology Laboratory Ghana, is glad to have hosted this research programme and we look forward to celebrating more of its kind with exciting packages in the coming years.


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by LEM ADMIN 1 | Oct 24, 2022 | Newletters
From a Global Death Economy to an Ecological Civilization
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How do we stop the unrelenting evolution of the Economic Hit Man Strategy?
The riveting third edition of this New York Times bestseller blows the whistle on China's EHM strategy, exposes corruption on an international scale, and offers much-needed solutions for curing the global Death Economy.
In this shocking exposé former economic hit man (EHM) John Perkins gives an insider view into the corrupt system that cheats and strong-arms countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars.
A third EHM wave is infecting the world and at the peak of the devastation sits China with its modified version of the U.S. EHM strategy. This new model has proven even more dangerous and successful at enticing lower-income nations into its claws. However, all is not lost. Perkins provides a source of hope for transforming the Death Economy into a Life Economy and inspires readers to participate in a new era of global cooperation.
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John Perkins has written eleven books that have been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than seventy weeks and translated into over thirty languages. As a former chief economist, he advised the World Bank, United Nations, Fortune 500 corporations, and governments around the world.
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We are delighted to announce that the 2022 CHINA Town Hall program will be held on Wednesday, November 16, at 7:00 p.m. EST, and will feature former U.S. ambassador to Russia, China, and Singapore, Jon M. Huntsman Jr.
Living Earth Movement will produce a related event through our participation as a partner for this program. Details will be provided in the next few days.


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Debbie Stabenow facing pressure to approve Trump's next Supreme Court pick
By Violet Ikonomova
A right-wing group has launched a digital ad campaign pressuring Sen. Debbie Stabenow to support whoever Trump nominates to the Supreme Court to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy.
The ad, by the Karl Rove-connected group One Nation, urges Stabenow to "say no to the left" and "help put another great justice on the Supreme Court." Stabenow is one of nine Democrat senators who've been targeted. All are up for re-election in states won by Trump.
"This is merely the first step in our full-fledged advocacy campaign for the nomination and confirmation of a constitutional conservative to the U.S. Supreme Court," One Nation President and CEO Steven Law says in a statement posted to the group's website.
Some Democrats are calling on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
to delay a vote until after the midterm elections, when their party could take the Senate and have a better shot at blocking a nominee. Stabenow does not appear to be among them.
In a statement issued this week, Stabenow signaled she would only support a moderate Supreme Court nominee. Because the justice will replace Kennedy, a moderate conservative who served as the court's swing vote, a conservative pick could turn the court into a rubber stamp for the right-wing agenda for years to come.
"This Supreme Court vacancy represents a very serious and consequential moment for our country," Stabenow says in the statement. "We have two choices. We can take this opportunity to make progress on health care, women's reproductive health, voting rights, workers' rights, marriage equality, environmental protections, and so many more issues that affect our quality of life in America; or we can turn the clock back on these critical issues.
"Given the importance of the decisions before the Supreme Court, the U.S. Senate must come together in a bipartisan way to fill this vacancy with a mainstream Justice. What we do at this moment will have a lasting impact on Michigan families."
Stabenow voted against Trump's last Supreme Court nominee, the conservative Neil Gorsuch. She appears poised to win re-election, meaning there's not much incentive for her to break from her party on the issue.


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Remove the dough from the bread pan, divide into 6 pieces and roll into balls. Place the buns on a greased baking tray. Cover and leave them to rise in a warm place at 35 degrees celsius to 40 degrees celsius for 20 minutes or until doubled in size.
Prepare the mixture for the crosses by mixing the flour and oil into a bowl and adding a small amount of water to get a thick, stiff paste. Use a piping bag to draw the crosses onto the buns.
Prepare the glaze by boiling milk and sugar together until syrupy.
Bake the buns in a preheated oven at 200 degree celsius for 15 to 20 minutes or until golden brown. Spread the glaze over them.
The dough of the crosses should have a thick consistency like mayonnaise, so that it sticks firmly to the bun.


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UAMPS Awards Idaho Falls Councilman Tom Hally Elected Official of the Year
Published online: Dec 20, 2021 Articles, Business, East Idaho Business
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IDAHO FALLS - Idaho Falls City Councilman Tom Hally was recognized today in Salt Lake City, Utah, as the Elected Official of the Year by the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems, or UAMPS.
The award recognizes an elected official who has shown vision and unusual devotion in the performance of their duties, and who has made exceptional contributions to enhancing services from their local utility, public power or UAMPS.
Hally was first elected to the Idaho Falls City Council in 2004 and during his tenure has served as the City Council President as well as the liaison to Idaho Falls Power. A member of the Idaho Falls Power Board for more than 20 years, Hally's nomination cited his talents in economics on the Idaho Falls Power Board for helping make sound long-term decisions and proper capital planning for the organization.
"Tom has always been a vocal voice and supporter of public power and Idaho Falls Power," said Idaho Falls Power General Manager Bear Prairie. "Tom has an Economics degree and always brought business sense to the council and promoted Idaho Falls Power…[he] is a deep thinker on macro and micro economic principles. He reads, listens and actively participates to promote public power."
Hally was presented with the award for Elected Official of the Year today during the UAMPS 2021 Annual Member Meeting.
UAMPS provides comprehensive wholesale electric-energy, transmission, and other energy services, on a nonprofit basis, to community-owned power systems throughout the Intermountain West. UAMPS members are located Utah, California, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico and Wyoming.


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Swimming Teddybears
This game is made by us. From the idea through the development to the shipping at Google Play, App Store, and Windows Store.
Swimming Teddybears is an action, not-so-fast-paced 2D mobile game with a sweet look and chilling climate. The player taps on teddybears swimming in the water, in order to rescue them from drowning.
There are 3 game modes. Most fascinating and competitive is the hot seat. One has to rescue as many teddybears as he can in a limited time, and then next one takes his turn. It is really fun experience for up to 4 players on one device. Great for parties because it keeps you together, is easy to learn, and puts you in a good mood.
Online mode is a quick match between two players. Global ranking is an interesting part of it.
Last but not least, single player mode takes player to Teddylake. Rules are simple: try to rescue all teddybears, while camera is moving up the lake.
More info at: Swimming Teddybears pressKit page
Sweet little colourful action 2D mobile game. Save animals, don't let them drown!
Top Tap Robot
Casual mobile game from Raba Games.
Mars Force
Multiplayer Third Person Shooter for mobiles with an amazing space theme and skill-based competitive multiplayer.
Space Battle VR
Space Battle VR is an action shooter set in space. It supports VR controllers to give you a real feel how it is to be a spaceship pilot.
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Q: How can I keep the state from reseting even after I change the url with Router? I´m trying to build a react NavBar that has a switch button that changes the theme of the page. The theme is a bootstrap theme that is passed in a  element to a helmet component, all within the navbar for now.
This switch button changes the state, and then a function, according to the state returns one of two  elements with different hrefs (bootstrap themes) that then it gets rendered in the helmet element.
The problem is, when I change between pages with Router, the state resets and so does the theme. Can you think of a solution? How do I keep the state even after changing pages?

A: You can access state via props when pass in to you link.
<Link to={{
   pathname: '/yourpath',
   state: {
    yourObj
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To access props.location.state.yourObj

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If you've ever wondered what it feels like to be a beer glass (no? me either), the video for Kidstreet's "Birthday Boy" will give you the answer. The entire thing is filmed from the bottom of just that, and pretty much proves that house parties make humans look ridiculous. It's a kickass song, though, and certainly an interesting vantage point.


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Q: What qualifies a string to be considered an Internet suffix? Generally, most people would consider compute-1.amazonaws.com to be the compute-1 subdomain on amazonaws.com
But apparently that's not the case at all.  According to the Public Suffix List, compute-1.amazonaws.com is a suffix just like com or net.
Why is this and how does this make sense?  Is it completely arbitrary and just dependent on whether or not it is included in the Public Suffix List, or is there more to it?

A: this subdomain exist just as SOA entry.
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; <<>> DiG 9.8.4-rpz2+rl005.12-P1 <<>> @dns-external-master.amazon.com compute-1.amazonaws.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
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;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
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;; Query time: 4 msec
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What is Art? Dada!?
In this unit, we will explore opinions, views and preconceptions about art, develop vocabulary for talking and writing about art, begin learning elementsand gain a broader perspective of the world of art. By studying the Dada art movement and techniques, we will experiment with photography, ready-made art, collage, photo-montage, over-painting, and write our own Manifestos about what matters to each of us.
Artist Comparison
40 to 9 Photography
Manifesto and Final Pieces
What is "Dada?"
"A movement originating in Zurich in 1916 as a reaction both to the chaos of Western society in the wake of World War I and to bourgeois society, which was seen as having produced the war. It is characterized by the rejection of old forms of artmaking in favor of an anti-art that asserts art's irrelevance and explores new forms of creation. Dadaists are usually divided into two camps: those creating from anger and frustration and those embracing the absurd. Prominent adherents include Francis Picabia and Marcel Duchamp, both of whom sought in their work to destabilize artistic dogmas, particularly traditional formal strategies and concepts of artistic meaning. From Zurich, Dada spread across Europe—most notably the German cities of Berlin, Cologne, and Hannover—and eventually into the United States, particularly New York City. Its emphasis on the bizarre had a major influence on Surrealism, founded in 1924."
- Art.sy
Man Ray Cadeau, c. 1947 Mixed media
Marcel Duchamp L.H.O.O.Q. Mona Lisa, 1919 Retouched readymade (reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa with added moustache and beard).
Hannah Höch Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, 1919 Collage 44 9/10 × 35 2/5 in 114 × 90 cm
Marcel Duchamp Fountain (Third version, replicated under the direction of the artist in 1964 by the Galarie Schwarz, Milan.), 1917/1964 White earthenware covered with glazed ceramic, paint 24 4/5 × 18 9/10 × 13 4/5 in 63 × 48 × 35 cm


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2016 ISEF Scholarship Winners Announced
By Brian Kirschner
USciences sponsors a winners breakfast each year as part of its sponsorship of the Delaware Valley Science Fairs.
As part of its sponsorship with the Delaware Valley Sciences Fairs, University of the Sciences has the opportunity to extend scholarship offers to select students who participate in the Intel International Science and Engineering Festival (ISEF) 2016. This year, five students from across the nation were chosen to receive tuition scholarships toward their entry into the fall 2017 term at USciences.
ISEF, sponsored by the Society for Science & the Public and the Intel® Corporation, was held between May 8-13, 2016, at the Phoenix Convention Center, in Phoenix, Ariz. ISEF provides the "opportunity for the best young scientists from around the globe to share ideas, showcase cutting-edge science projects, and compete annually for more than $5 million in awards and scholarships."
As a Special Award Organization, USciences awards five scholarships each year to rising high school seniors who show great potential in the science and healthcare fields, and who exemplify the University's mission.
Megan O'Briant, one of the USciences award winners from the 2015 Intel ISEF, will join the ranks of USciences' talented student body as a physical therapy student in the fall of 2016. The goal of her project last year was to "work on understanding how and why an ACL" tears, and to work towards "creating a solution that would prevent an ACL from tearing." She produced a prototype of a brace that "could theoretically prevent an ACL tear from occurring during a lateral impact to the leg." O'Briant, participated in the ISEF during this year's competition focusing her efforts on the creation of a 3D-printed prosthetic arm that could be affordable, lightweight, neutrally-controlled, and that incorporated haptic feedback.
2016 USciences Scholarship Winners
Tanisha Joshi (San Jose, Calif.)
Project: Self Driving Pharma: A Novel Cognitive Knowledge Harvesting Approach to Train a Self-Learning System For Drug Predictive Models through Multi-Dimensional Bio-Entity Feature-Vector Topological Data Analyses. Category: Computational Biology & Bioinformatics
James Grow (Princeton, N.J.)
Project: Testing Valproic Acid and Surfactant Regulation as Potential Therapeutics for Nitrogen Mustard Injury. Category: Cell and Molecular Biology
Justin Kim (Jericho, N.Y.)
Project: Enhancement of Beta-Iactam Antibiotic Susceptibility by Tannic Acid through Beta-lactamase Inhibition. Category: Microbiology
Lavanya Sai Kanneganti (Louisville, Ky.)
Project: An Effective Drug-Delivery-Mechanism-Based Approach to Clinical Radiosensitization. Category: Translational Medical Sciences
Brandon Michael Muncan (Howard Beach, N.Y.)
Project: Alternative Preservation Methods in ex-vivo Bovine Liver. Category: Translational Medical Sciences
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Lost Lace Project
Share your story of loss
The launch of the Lost Lace art installation and poetry project will be officially opened by the Minister Catherine Martin on the 15th of October 2022 at 15:00 at the Iveagh Gardens, Dublin. Miriam McConnon's art installation Lost Lace will remain in Iveagh Gardens until Saturday 22nd of October.
On Wednesday the 19th October 2022 at 18:30 the opening of Miriam McConnon's drawing exhibition Lost Lace and a poetry reading by Jessica Traynor will take place at the Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin 1. The exhibition will continue until the 30th of October.
Both events are open to the public and entrance is free.
This is the Home Page for Lost Lace, a project which seeks to engage the public in a major new art installation to commemorate those we've lost to Covid 19. In the 'Share your story of loss' section, we'll ask members of the public to share messages for those we've lost, and stories to honour their lives.
Concept of the project
The project 'Lost lace' is a collaborative project between the visual artist Miriam Mc Connon and the poet Jessica Traynor with the engaged participation of the families who have lost loved ones to covid 19 in Ireland.
Miriam Mc Connon's outdoor installation 'Lost Lace' is made up of approximately ten thousand white roses made by the artist from individual white handkerchiefs. The artist proposes to place the roses around the two fountains at Dublin's Iveagh gardens. The handkerchief roses will form a delicate pattern of traditional Irish Lace. Each Handkerchief rose symbolizes a life lost in Ireland and Northern Ireland due to the Coronavirus Pandemic.
Each single handkerchief rose in this installation references the small cloths or 'clooties' that were hung traditionally on trees near the site of holy wells in Pagan Ireland. The handkerchief was believed to drive illness away by absorbing it. The artist has chosen to place them in a floral lace pattern hinting at the concept of the man-made object imitating nature in an attempt to find resolve.
The single rose is a symbol of devotion. Here this devotion becomes collective, signifying the national and personal loss. This installation urges the public to not lose sight of the individual life, the single rose. In this installation Mc Connon emphasises the solitary path of individual grief in unison with the national and collective loss and urges the people of Ireland to unite in grief and in the commemoration of the lives lost to Covid 19.
Collaboration with the Poet Jessica Traynor.
The poet Jessica Traynor will be commissioned to write a series of four poems, taking as a guiding principle the ambition to honour those things we have lost in the past two years – people, skills, art, connection. She will explore and respond to themes such as the lost art of Irish lacemaking, the ancient practice of tying 'clooties' at holy wells, and the words and messages submitted on the projects website by those who have lost friends and relatives to covid 19 in Ireland. She will weave these themes together through poetry that will also be accessible to the public through the use of QR codes allowing visitors to the Iveagh Gardens access to a transcript of the poems, and a recording of the poet reading them.
Presentation of artwork and poetry
The launch of the project will take place at Dublin's Iveagh Gardens in October 2022. The installation will remain in place for two weeks. At the launch of the project in October 2022, the Families of the victims of Covid 19 will be invited to view the installation and to hear the four poems that will be read by Jessica Traynor. The event will provide a setting for the people of Ireland alongside the families of those who have died from Covid 19 to come together and collectively support each other and mourn the individual and the collection loss.


Jonathan joined me for a fantastic chat about his new book, How To Live a Good Life, Soulful Stories, Surprising Science, and Practical Wisdom (to be published on Hay House on October 18), in which he steps out from under the entrepreneurship umbrella and into the realm of the subject that truly fuels him, a broader exploration of human potential. The book is a practical and provocative modern-day manual for the pursuit of a life well lived.
We also talked about the incident at age 17 that planted the seeds for his work with the Good Life Project; the art of a great interview; vulnerability; Elizabeth Gilbert's "secret"; Camp GLP; the book's concept of the three buckets; teaching that thing we each need to learn most; how 9-11 influenced him; and MUCH more!
NOTE: for every copy of How to Live a Good Life that is pre-ordered before the October 18th publication date, Good Life Project will plant a tree! "We're on a mission to plant a 10,000 tree Good Life Forest! Through our partnership with the One Tree Planted foundation." For more information, visit: http://www.goodlifeproject.com/book/.
A dad, husband, serial entrepreneur, growth strategist and award-winning author, Jonathan Fields inspires possibility.
He currently runs mission-driven media and education venture, Good Life Project®, where he and his team lead a global community in the quest to live more meaningful, connected and vital lives.
They produce a top-rated podcast and video-series with millions of listens and views in more than 150 countries, where Jonathan regularly shares conversations with the world's leading voices, like Sir Ken Robinson, Elizabeth Gilbert, Milton Glaser, Brene Brown, Grethcen Rubin and hundreds more.
Along the way, Jonathan has built a number of community-driven ventures or, as he calls them, Businesses of Belonging™, taught everything from yoga and mindfulness to entrepreneurship, branding and innovation to thousands.
Along with his world-class faculty, he now offers a growing catalog of events, trainings and courses that range from mission-driven entrepreneurship to building innovative cultures and living good lives. He begins with cracking open the often long-closed window to possibility, then offers strategies and tools for action and progress.


btw, that is documented in the wiki.
The triclestar Z-Wave USB-Adapter is now available in the onlinestore http://www.zwave4u.de/.
Will this adapter work with the LMCE Z-Wave libary?
Yes is the answer to will it work... but you must us the new ZWave drive being developed by Hari and not the one shipped with LinuxMCE-0710. The Tricklestar Zwave products are very nice indeed and very well priced too... we like them a lot.
As to the Tricklestar USB stick being available... I doubt that they will have them in stock yet as I know that the first production units are only just about to arrive.
Thanks for explanation, guys. I have another question. Does somebody know is there some Z-Wave Door / Window Sensors for European standards?
In my next install I want to try SIS mode with a tricklestar inclusion remote and Danfoss thermostat (Xmas is coming fast .
Would you mind sharing the steps required to install such a setup ? I guess I will reset my network completely and the use the MessageSend CLI to re-include all nodes and create the necessary associations, but I'm not sure which DCE commands are available, and in which order it's best to use them?
Are there commands to test the quality of a link, or to view the routing table ?
there are some z-wave commands for that, but not yet available via DCE. As this driver is a replacement for the original one, I did not change the template to add new commands. 0810 will prolly provide some new commands for network repair and a few other things..
i am trying to understand some basic things about z-wave devices from the source code (zwaveapi.h and zwaveapi.cpp).
they go to sleep and whatever i send never wake up..
do i need to send some commands to wake them up? is there a special command to put them in ALARM mode?
what is the process i must follow to have some events from these sensors? i am confused!
you need to set the wake-up interval right after inclusion. The node sending this will be the destination for wake up notifications.
To download the source code it must be written first :-) I just want to control a PIR , a door windows and some binary switches for an alarm system i am developing.
if i understand you correctly, i will setup a wake-up interal for a sensor.... lets say... 5 mins.... and then every 5 mins the sensor will wake up... send me a signal.. and i will have some time? to send whatever command i want before it goes to sleep again?
but what about if a thief enters my house.. the sensor will wait for wake up time and then send me the event??
because whatever i do to the Door/window sensor for example... its not sending me anything only if i press the switch behind.
Is there anything like ALARM mode i must set the sensor to send me events in realtime??
yeah, that part is a bit tricky sometimes.
5 min is quite short, that will drain your batteries fairly quick. You usually send a "wakeup_no_more_information" when the device shall go to sleep again (do that asap). Some like the HSM100 will empty their battery if you don't make them sleep again.
button pressing usually triggers the sending of a node information frame. The wake-up time is set so that you can reach the devices periodically to do configuration stuff or whatever. To receive "events", you have to associate the your controller into the proper groups on the device. PIRs usually use group 1 for trigger events. The Seluxit Multisensor e.g. has distinct groups for all sensor inputs.
you're welcome. Maybe you want to share your code, I think this is quite interesting and I'm working on a standalone z-wave library as I'm rewriting our stack..
Good idea, there seems to be plenty of interest from outside lmce, and that way it will be easier for other people to contribute that aren't (interested in being) a part of this project.
yup! The dunkkis.org guys are working on sth for the openwrt based on my code. Combined efforts on z-wave would be great as the protocol is huge.
i will be in touch, great work!


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Bad science misled millions with chronic fatigue syndrome. Here's how we fought back
By Julie Rehmeyer
Eros Dervishi for STAT
If your doctor diagnoses you with chronic fatigue syndrome, you'll probably get two pieces of advice: Go to a psychotherapist and get some exercise. Your doctor might tell you that either of those treatments will give you a 60 percent chance of getting better and a 20 percent chance of recovering outright. After all, that's what researchers concluded in a 2011 study published in the prestigious medical journal the Lancet, along with later analyses.
Problem is, the study was bad science.
And we're now finding out exactly how bad.
Under court order, the study's authors for the first time released their raw data earlier this month. Patients and independent scientists collaborated to analyze it and posted their findings Wednesday on Virology Blog, a site hosted by Columbia microbiology professor Vincent Racaniello.
The analysis shows that if you're already getting standard medical care, your chances of being helped by the treatments are, at best, 10 percent. And your chances of recovery? Nearly nil.
The new findings are the result of a five-year battle that chronic fatigue syndrome patients — me among them — have waged to review the actual data underlying that $8 million study. It was a battle that, until a year ago, seemed nearly hopeless.
Why we shouldn't call it 'chronic fatigue syndrome'
When the Lancet study, nicknamed the PACE trial, first came out, its inflated claims made headlines around the world. "Got ME? Just get out and exercise, say scientists," wrote the Independent, using the acronym for the international name of the disease, myalgic encephalomyelitis. (Federal agencies now call it ME/CFS.) The findings went on to influence treatment recommendations from the CDC, the Mayo Clinic, Kaiser, the British National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, and more.
But patients like me were immediately skeptical, because the results contradicted the fundamental experience of our illness: The hallmark of ME/CFS is that even mild exertion can increase all the other symptoms of the disease, including not just profound fatigue but also cognitive deficits, difficulties with blood pressure regulation, unrestorative sleep, and neurological and immune dysfunction, among others.
Soon after I was diagnosed in 2006, I figured out that I had to rest the moment I thought, "I'm a little tired." Otherwise, I would likely be semi-paralyzed and barely able to walk the next day.
The researchers argued that patients like me, who felt sicker after exercise, simply hadn't built their activity up carefully enough. Start low, build slowly but steadily, and get professional guidance, they advised. But I'd seen how swimming for five minutes could sometimes leave me bedbound, even if I'd swum for 10 minutes without difficulty the day before. Instead of trying to continually increase my exercise, I'd learned to focus on staying within my ever-changing limits — an approach the researchers said was all wrong.
A disease 'all in my head'?
The psychotherapy claim also made me skeptical. Talking with my therapist had helped keep me from losing my mind, but it hadn't kept me from losing my health. Furthermore, the researchers weren't recommending ordinary psychotherapy — they were recommending a form of cognitive behavior therapy that challenges patients' beliefs that they have a physiological illness limiting their ability to exercise. Instead, the therapist advises, patients need only to become more active and ignore their symptoms to fully recover.
In other words, while the illness might have been triggered by a virus or other physiological stressor, the problem was pretty much all in our heads.
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By contrast, in the American research community, no serious researchers were expressing doubts about the organic basis for the illness. Immunologists found clear patterns in the immune system, and exercise physiologists were seeing highly unusual physiological changes in ME/CFS patients after exercise.
I knew that the right forms of psychotherapy and careful exercise could help patients cope, and I would have been thrilled if they could have cured me. The problem was that, so far as I could tell, it just wasn't true.
A deeply flawed study
Still, I'm a science writer. I respect and value science. So the PACE trial left me befuddled: It seemed like a great study — big, controlled, peer-reviewed — but I couldn't reconcile the results with my own experience.
So I and many other patients dug into the science. And almost immediately we saw enormous problems.
Before the trial of 641 patients began, the researchers had announced their standards for success — that is, what "improvement" and "recovery" meant in statistically measurable terms. To be considered recovered, participants had to meet established thresholds on self-assessments of fatigue and physical function, and they had to say they felt much better overall.
But after the unblinded trial started, the researchers weakened all these standards, by a lot. Their revised definition of "recovery" was so loose that patients could get worse over the course of the trial on both fatigue and physical function and still be considered "recovered." The threshold for physical function was so low that an average 80-year-old would exceed it.
In addition, the only evidence the researchers had that patients felt better was that patients said so. They found no significant improvement on any of their objective measures, such as how many patients got back to work, how many got off welfare, or their level of fitness.
But the subjective reports from patients seemed suspect to me. I imagined myself as a participant: I come in and I'm asked to rate my symptoms. Then, I'm repeatedly told over a year of treatment that I need to pay less attention to my symptoms. Then I'm asked to rate my symptoms again. Mightn't I say they're a bit better — even if I still feel terrible — in order to do what I'm told, please my therapist, and convince myself I haven't wasted a year's effort?
Many patients worked to bring these flaws to light: They wrote blogs; they contacted the press; they successfully submitted carefully argued letters and commentaries to leading medical journals. They even published papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
They also filed Freedom of Information Act requests to gain access to the trial data from Queen Mary University of London, the university where the lead researcher worked. The university denied most of these, some on the grounds that they were "vexatious."
Critics painted as unhinged
The study's defenders painted critics as unhinged crusaders who were impeding progress for the estimated 30 million ME/CFS patients around the world. For example, Richard Horton, the editor of the Lancet, described the trial's critics as "a fairly small, but highly organised, very vocal and very damaging group of individuals who have, I would say, actually hijacked this agenda and distorted the debate so that it actually harms the overwhelming majority of patients."
Press reports also alleged that ME/CFS researchers had received death threats, and they lumped the PACE critics in with the purported crazies.
While grieving for my fellow patients, I seethed at both the scientists and the journalists who refused to examine the trial closely. I could only hope that, eventually, PACE would drown under a slowly rising tide of good science, even if the scientific community never recognized its enormous problems.
But with the National Institutes of Health only funding $5 million a year of research into chronic fatigue syndrome, it seemed like that could take a very long time.
To keep science honest, study data must be shared
Then last October, David Tuller, a lecturer in public health and journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, wrote in Virology Blog a devastating expose of the scientific flaws of the trial. Tuller described all the problems I had seen, along with several more. The project was a remarkable act of public service: He isn't a patient, yet he spent a year investigating the trial without institutional support, legal backing, or remuneration.
And, at last, the criticisms gained traction.
Racaniello and 41 other scientists and clinicians published an open letter to the Lancet calling for an independent investigation into the trial and saying "such flaws have no place in published research." Rebecca Goldin, the director of Stats.org, an organization that works to improve the use of statistics in journalism, eviscerated the trial's design in a 7,000-word critique.
In the meantime, a Freedom of Information Act request from Australian patient Alem Matthees was making its way through the legal system.
Matthees had asked for the anonymized data necessary to analyze the study using its original standards for success, but Queen Mary University of London had refused the request, arguing that malicious patients would break the anonymization and publish the participants' names to discredit the trial. It again cited the death threats.
The court rejected these claims a month ago, calling them "wild speculations" and pointing out that the researchers themselves acknowledged in court that neither they nor PACE participants had received death threats.
Startling results from a re-analysis
Just before releasing the data,Queen Mary University of London did its own re-analysis on the question of how many patients got better, at least a little bit. Their data showed that using the study's original standards, only 20 percent of patients improved with cognitive behavior therapy or exercise in addition to medical care, not 60 percent as claimed in the Lancet.
And even the 20 percent figure might be misleading, because the re-analysis also found that 10 percent of participants improved after receiving only standard medical care. That suggests that 10 percent in each of the treatment groups would likely have improved even without the exercise or therapy, leaving only 10 percent who were significantly helped by those interventions.
As for the claim that 22 percent of patients who received either treatment made an actual recovery? That went up in smoke when Matthees analyzed the raw data with the help of his colleagues and statisticians Philip Stark of the University of California, Berkeley, and Bruce Levin of Columbia University.
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Their analysis showed that had the researchers stuck to their original standards, only 4.4 percent of the exercise patients and 6.8 percent of the cognitive behavior therapy patients would have qualified as having recovered, along with 3.1 percent of patients in a trial arm that received neither therapy.
Importantly, there was no statistically significant difference between these recovery rates.
The PACE researchers, the editor of the Lancet, and the editors of Psychological Medicine (which published the follow-up study on recovery) all declined to comment for this article.
Simon Wessely, president of the UK Royal College of Psychiatrists, defended the trial in an email exchange with me. He argued that some patients did improve with the help of cognitive behavior therapy or exercise, and noted that the improvement data, unlike the recovery data, was statistically significant. "The message remains unchanged," he wrote, calling both treatments "modestly effective."
Wessely declined to comment on the lack of recovery. He summarized his overall reaction to the new analysis this way: "OK folks, nothing to see here, move along please."
'A classic bad study'
But it doesn't appear that outside researchers are ready to "move along."
After reviewing the new analysis, Jonathan Edwards, a professor emeritus of medicine at University College London said he was unconvinced that these small subjective improvements indicated the patients genuinely felt better. "They've set this trial up to give the strongest possible chance of there being a placebo effect that you can imagine," he said.
"This is a classic bad study," said Ron Davis, director of the Stanford Genome Technology Center and director of the Science Advisory Board of the End ME/CFS Project. He emphasized an additional problem: The study used such a broad definition of the disease that it likely included many patients who didn't truly have ME/CFS at all.
"The study needs to be retracted," Davis said. "I would like to use it as a teaching tool, to have medical students read it and ask them, 'How many things can you find wrong with this study?'"
Retractions are rare, however, and erasing the impact of this flawed research will take much work for years to come.
Why is it so damn hard to get a paper retracted?
After a sustained effort by ME/CFS advocates, the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, just changed its recommendation to read that there is insufficient evidence to justify cognitive behavior therapy or graded exercise. But many more public health agencies continue to point patients toward them.
And efforts to propagate this approach continue: A trial of graded exercise in children with ME/CFS has recently begun, and patients are protesting it.
Watching the PACE trial saga has left me both more wary of science and more in love with it. Its misuse has inflicted damage on millions of ME/CFS patients around the world, by promoting ineffectual and possibly harmful treatments and by feeding the idea that the illness is largely psychological. At the same time, science has been the essential tool to repair the problem.
But we shouldn't take solace in the comforting notion that science is self-correcting. Many people, including many very sick people, had to invest immense effort and withstand vitriol to use science to correct these mistakes. And even that might not have been enough without Tuller's rather heroic investigation. We do not currently have a sustainable, reliable method of overturning flawed research.
And rectifying PACE will take more than exposing its flaws. The lingering doubt it has cast on the illness will only be fully dispersed when we've finally figured out what's really going on with the disease.
For that, we need to invest in some serious, good science. The kind I continue to love.
Julie Rehmeyer is a math and science writer. Her memoir "Through the Shadowlands," describing the science and politics of chronic fatigue syndrome and other poorly understood illnesses, will be published by Rodale in May.
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Garrett Glover says:
Excellent read! The unfolding of this story highlights human and institutional fallability in science – such as in rationalizing a dogged pursuit to save face.
kon joo lee says:
CFS/ME fix
1. Detect the pathogenic source
2. Remove the pathogenic source
3. Reboot the body control systems.
Reserch cannot solve the CFS. Treatment is only possible if you have the superpower to look for an invisible cause. Science can't study superpowers yet.
Diane Urbanec says:
Bless you. I'm printing this out to hand to every doctor that ever had or ever will tell me I need to do "graded exercise" without being able to explain exactly what that entailed and despite my dermatologist report that says sweating gives me hives. Swimming laps makes me happy but gave me eczema at 55. I went out for groceries today. I likely will be in bed for the next two days.
cynthia rumlow says:
Interesting you mentioned eczema. Prior to various physical issues I was a swimmer, 72 laps at least 5 days a week. I also had bad eczema. One doctor called it a type of eczema that in medical terms means "allergic to water", I don't remember the word.
I rarely swim now and although obviously water is on my body it's not immersed as much as with swimming and I've not had an eczema breakout for a couple years.
Perhaps something to ask your doctor
Elizabeth Edwards says:
Brian Hughes in his book Psychology in Crisis – of which I've only managed to read the chapter he devotes to ME/CFS – IIUC suggests serious problems like in the PACE Trial are endemic in psychology research; that it often uses very low grade science that as you describe, has preconceived outcomes with trials set up with only one possible outcome allowed – to prove the authors' hypothesis, and that this situation has somehow gone unchallenged for who knows how long, by top academic institutions, journal editors, peer reviewers and Cochrane reviews.
It's possible that for anyone involved in this situation to admit the PACE Trial along with other psych based exercise trials and their reviews have been so severely flawed, would in effect be to admit that very poor science by psychologists, that would not be accepted in any other branch of science, has been accepted by them many times in the past, not just in ME/CFS related research.
It would be an Emperor's New Clothes moment that would be in effect admitting the inadmissible – their own history of lack of rigor and scientific scruples. Since their whole stock-in-trade is their high professional reputation and the level of trust put in them, any such admission could destroy them and/or their organisations.
I tend to think these people are not so much money motivated as motivated by defending their beliefs and reputation. I think they believe they're right and that they're genuinely trying to help, and simply don't understand why we're not all more grateful. There's a cognitive dissonance issue that doesn't allow them to consider the reality that their fundamental belief system is deeply flawed and the careers some have pursued for decades, have been worthless, and done great harm.
I agree that a thorough high level investigation of this whole issue is warranted, but it has to be done by someone with a lot of official influence in government and health/ medicine yet who's not themselves part of the mutually supporting old boys' club problem.
I'm sorry this is not better argued/ expressed – battling brain fog…
Great job from all involved in debunking this bad science. What troubles me however is that this PACE study seemed to be intentionally constructed in a way as to reach a predetermined conclusion. What were the intentions of the PACE researchers, Queen Mary University of London and the Lancet? What motivated them in this?
Scientists have taken this as far as they can – I would love for someone else to pick this up and delve deeper into this saga, perhaps starting by following the funding trail.
Jill Brook says:
Wow, what an infuriating but inspiring story! Just unbelievable how hard patients need to work to get respect, help, or even just justice. You might be interested in this cartoon tribute to the patients who fought to expose the PACE Trial flaws: https://www.doodlethru.com/217
Thanks for your article,
Sarah LaBelle says:
@Katharine Keeling Spann, your story breaks my heart. I so wish that you could find useful help. As to the timing, right after Sharpe's announcement that he will leave the field, after publishing more of his harmful nonsense, I hope he does leave. He has proved to be unable to accept that his expensive study did not show what he expected, meaning that he needed to change direction and follow the facts. Instead he is blind to the damage of GET, which is what you tried under a doctor's direction. When I could work, we ran into a similar situation, our hypothesis was not supported by the data we collected from people, but the difference is that we tried another hypothesis that did work. My field was transportation, not medicine – – why were our standards higher than those in psych research?
Katharine Keeling Spann says:
@Sarah LaBelle
I have suffered with ME/CFS for 25 years. Several years ago, a new doctor (specializing in ME/CFS & Fibro) told me that my deconditioned state was what was making me so fatigued….not the other way around. So I began his graded exercise program with a therapist who came to my home. After the first appt. I was so exhausted and in pain. By the third visit, I really thought I couldn't make it through the 20 min session of arm windmills, leg lifts, and arm stretching. But I knew if I quit-my doctor would say I wasn't trying, etc. The fourth time the therapist came I literally couldn't roll over in bed. I cried out when they tried helping me sit on the side of the bed. I began to feel something between fainting and a panic attack. They took my pulse and it was 135. My blood pressure was going crazy. The therapist immediately laid me back in bed and said he believed from the 2nd appt that I had been getting worse. I never saw the therapist or that doctor again.
From that one incident I became bedridden. It was over the course of 3 months ; but just standing to brush my teeth was too much. All specialists of any kind are over 90 miles away. And since we can't afford an ambulance to take me to and from appointments-I have been unable to receive any healthcare.
PACE was more than bad science. It was outright harmful! Post exertional malaise is the hallmark of ME/CFS. What did they think would happen?
Thanks, Katharine
(Typed by spouse over 2 days)
Heather Gail Quinn says:
On why graded exeercise doesn't usually help, why "…swimming for five minutes could sometimes leave me bedbound, even if I'd swum for 10 minutes without difficulty the day before…", and that ME may be related to fluoroquinolone toxicity effects, I have a thought or two I'd like to share with you. However, not being a scientist or researcher, I don't know the best way, or if you'd welcome hearing from me. If interested, please let me know. I wouldn't share in an open place, since the thoughts derive from recent FQAD-related personal health experiences. Ty.
I wish someone had contacted me. Dx'ed with CFS around 2000 when I was a Personal Trainer and Fitness Instructor I was asked by an endocrinologist how I could teach aerobic classes if I was so tired. I responded "not well".
I was also pursuing a degree in psychology and knew about CBT, tried it and felt it wasn't an effective therapy for me. I still believe CBT can be effective for some and not others, condition not being the factor.
I was brought to tears as I read your article. The doctor (researcher ?) who stated that some who were dx'ed with CFS may have been misdiagnosed; today I am physically disabled with a motor neuron disorder doctors have yet to decide what to call. The closest they've agreed on is hEDS, I think because I take the Beighton scale to new levels and could long before fitness was a part of my life. Can't everyone rest their forearms on the floor when they stand up straight?
I wonder if one doctor had taken my concerns seriously; one doctor hadn't patted my head and dismissed me with "oh sweetie it's just stress"; just one doctor…
I know doctors spend many years studying and learning. I have a son in med school now and I rarely see him because he is always studying for the next big test.
That said, I know my body better than any doctor can memorize words in a textbook. Can doctors decide to be partners in health and take both banks of knowledge and we work as a team to help find answers?
My oldest son is afflicted with schizophrenia (one reason some doctors dismiss my illness today, I'm just "stressed" about my son. News flash, I've also learned how to work through my stress). In the early stage of his illness during a lucid moment he angrily stopped me and said, "Mom, you study this! Why didn't you know this was happening?"
Because what they teach you in textbooks is completely different than the real world.
Thank you for exploring this, for writing this article and for sharing your gift.
Cindy Rumlow
Sara Marks says:
Cindy, have you ever considered mold biotoxin illness/CIRS? The original CFS patient, Erik Johnson, figured out that mold is behind CFS. My daughter suffers from CIRS and mold avoidance is saving her life. Your own story correlates very closely with many in the mold groups I'm in. Check out the website Surviving Mold, get a naturopath to order the urine mycotoxin test from Great Plains Labs, and please consider reading "break the mold" by Dr. Jill Crista as a great introduction, and then "Toxic" by Dr. Neil Nathan as a very detailed follow-up. Thankfully, many more are waking up to the dangers of mold – it might even be behind your son's schizophrenia. Please, please read up on it and look into it.
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Happy National Pancake Day! Let's celebrate with a batch of these Perfect Buttermilk Pancakes.
Pancakes aren't new here. We make them at least once a week (which isn't a surprise since I am the mother to a seven year old with a serious sweet tooth) and have tried SO many variations. A few of our favorites? I'd say top three are the Cornmeal, Gingerbread, and Chunky Monkey versions with the cornmeal being my go-to (seriously, it's a salty sweet combo that needs to be in your life).
When I gave this buttermilk version a try my son wasn't too thrilled. I almost always make wacky flavors or out of the box versions so how was he supposed to settle for a plain ol' boring pancake??? Good news is that one bite in and he proclaimed these "the best every" and even says they beat out McDonald's (Don't judge. You know there breakfast is irresistible). That's about the highest compliment I've received in the history of his short life.
The secret to these fluffy and flavorful breakfast cakes are in the ingredients. I have seen people use substitutes in place of buttermilk but this is not the time for one of those. You want to use the real stuff and don't reach for the fat free. Another secret is to make sure you don't over mix. Use a gentle hand while stirring to avoid your pancakes from falling flat. OH, and try to use a cast iron skillet but that isn't required.
Whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl and set aside.
Combine the buttermilk, milk, eggs, butter, and vanilla in a large measuring cup and mix to combine. Pour and fold into your dry ingredients until just combined being careful not to over mix.
Scoop 1/2 cup of your batter onto a preheated skillet. Cook over medium/low heat until bubbles begin to form. Flip and cook an additional 2-3 minutes or until golden brown.
Serve with syrup, jam, or fresh fruit.
Use room temperature ingredients for fluffy pancakes. I take my eggs and milk out of the refrigerator 20 minutes before starting. Do not over mix the batter. This recipe turns out best if you gently fold the ingredients together. Clarified butter is what I use when greasing my pan. It tends to brown less quickly and gives my pancakes a beautiful golden color.
This post is part of a Holiday Recipe Round Up I participate in with some other crazy talented food bloggers so make sure you scan down the list and bookmark some of these other delicious ideas! I know I can't wait to try each and every one!
These buttermilk pancakes totally win over McDonald's pancakes for me any day 🙂 They look perfect – so fluffy and delicious!
You seriously can't beat a fluffy buttermilk pancake! These look perfect!
I love a good buttermilk pancake! Yours look perfect!
dit :Quand j'étais petite et que je volais sur Concorde en Business Class… on me donnait du caviar à la petite cuillère.Ca calmait mes angoisses.Tu crois que c'est pour ça que j'ai la peau douce ?
Hi Samantha, found it… They come off easier if you leave them to cool first but you can tell as soon as you take them from the oven if they are not ready the whole middle stays on the paper. Yes it is the balance between making sure they are done but not letting them brown. Sometimes it is just a couple of minutes difference. I often have them a little brown if I get distracted with kids – see the nut free recipe for example.