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Jack C. Askins, M.D.: Patents, Players, and Plandemics 4.5 (2)
Posted on November 13, 2021 by AmLib1	Leave a comment
by Jack C. Askins, M.D.
We have all been on quite a ride during the past two years. Lockdowns, arresting people walking alone on a beach, disinfecting the surfaces of everything including boxes arriving from Amazon ("leave them on the porch in the sun for 2 days before bringing them inside"). Going to church or singing in the choir became "illegal". High school kids forced to wear masks while outside running track. Outdoor church services disrupted by police. Daily White House press briefings, "case" numbers, hospitalization numbers, death numbers. Boarded up exercise gyms but wide-open Walmarts and Costcos.
As a physician, it is important to remain un-biased when reviewing medical literature and research papers. But during the past year, it seemed much of the medical data presented was biased. It is best to avoid becoming invested in "conspiracy" theories. Write a couple of papers suggesting one or another conspiracy, and you are immediately "canceled" as a tin-foil-hat-wearing nut case. But why is there such a frantic coercion coming from the government to put this mRNA substance into every American? Old, young, high-risk, low-risk, pregnant, natural immunity – it makes no difference. One size fits all. Everybody gets it. Don't want it? Too bad, you're going to get the shots anyway, or lose your job and livelihood. No going to a restaurant or flying on an airplane for you.
Doesn't that make you stop and wonder what is going on? As we have descended further and further into this and have been besieged with so many conflicting and erroneous opinions coming from the CDC, the NIH, and the World Health Organization, I began widening my thoughts and reading about the history and origins of the corona viruses That led to stumbling into what has been written about the corona virus patents that have been filed dating back to 1999.
Patents? What does that have to do with Covid-19 and all that we have been through since January 2020? What do patents have to do with public health? It is understandable that if a drug company invests time, money, and research into developing and manufacturing a drug or vaccine for the treatment or prevention of a disease, they should be able to patent their discovery and receive a financial reward. The capitalist system encourages and promotes innovation that can enrich our lives.
But how can you patent a virus that occurs in nature? How can you patent a gene sequence on a portion of a virus? How can you own that? Is the answer that it represents "intellectual property" owned by the discoverer or, more specifically, the entity who altered that gene sequence? Well, the government apparently answered those questions in 35 US Code Section 101. That section defines what qualifies for a patent. Look it up; it's easy to on-line search.
The Section states: Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Now go to Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) 2105 which deals with patent eligibility of living subject matter. Prior to 1980, it was widely believed that living subject matter was not eligible for patenting. However, in 1980, a Supreme Court decision (Diamond v. Chakrabarty) ruled on a dispute involving a genetically engineered bacterium, and stated "the question of whether an invention embraces living matter is irrelevant to the issue of patent eligibility. Living subject matter with markedly different characteristics from any found in nature, such as the claimed bacterium produced by genetic engineering, is not excluded from patent protection". In other words, if the living matter has been synthetically or artificially altered from that which occurs naturally, the modification can be patented.
So, I guess that answers the question of how the players in the recent history of the Covid virus could patent a 3 gene sequence alteration in the s spike protein of the Covid virus and look forward to the development of the "vaccine" to "solve" the problem perhaps created by their genetic engineering. After all their hard work, they could then sit back and enjoy the resulting cash bonanza amplified by pandemic fear and vaccine mandates, all for a respiratory virus with an overall infection fatality rate (IFR) of 0.2% (WHO data). I know, high risk groups (ie old folks) have a higher mortality rate when infected (CFR or case fatality rate). But the overall rate is estimated at 0.2% when you factor in the estimate of the denominator (total number of infections in the community).
So, who are the "players"? Apparently, there are a lot of players as there have been over 4,000 patents issued around the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Coronavirus. Opportunity attracts money, or rather, taxpayer money attracts opportunists. In 2005, a British Medical Journal article was critical of Dr. Tony Fauci and his deputy Clifford Lane when it was revealed the NIH had received $56 million in royalties for its discoveries. The NIH said that was put back into research (probably true) but taxpayer funded grants and research royalties pay salaries and bonuses and those can often be generous.
M-Cam International Innovation Risk Management is the world"s largest underwriter of intangible assets in 168 countries and has also monitored biological and chemical weapons treaty violations on behalf of the US government following the anthrax scare in September 2001. This company audited much of the 4,000 patents related to SARS-Covid and found that knowledge of the gene sequence of the s spike protein goes back to the year 2000.
Anthony Fauci and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) found the malleability of Coronavirus to be a potential candidate for HIV vaccines. Fauci holds patents on 4 products related to the HIV taxpayer funded research and the technology in those patents was utilized in the mRNA development. In 1999 he funded research at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. In 2002, the NIAID succeeded in developing an infectious replication-defective Coronavirus (it could infect but not replicate) that was specifically targeted for human lung epithelium. In other words, they made SARS and US Patent 7279327 was issued on 4/19/2002. Several months later, the first SARS outbreak occurred in Asia.
From an interview with Dr. David Martin (CEO M-Cam): So in 2002, US Patent 7279327 "clearly lays out in very specific gene sequencing, the fact that we knew that the ACE receptor, the ACE 2 binding domain, the s1 spike protein, and other elements of what we have come to know as this scourge pathogen, was not only engineered , but could be synthetically modified in the laboratory, using nothing more than gene sequencing technologies, taking computer code and turning it into a pathogen or an intermediate of the pathogen".
In April, 2003, after the SARS outbreak in Asia, the CDC tried to file a patent for the entire gene sequence for the SARS coronavirus (Patent no. 7220852). This was a violation of 35 US Code Section 101, which states you cannot patent a naturally-occuring and unmodified substance. The CDC had also filed a patent to have the means to detect the virus using RT PCR testing. This was a cunning attempt to not only control the origin of the virus but also its detection, meaning the CDC would have the entirety of the science and the message control. The U.S. Patent Office rejected the patent on the gene sequence as unpatentable because it was 99.9% identical to a coronavirus that was already in the public domain. The CDC would not take no for an answer, and overode the patent examiner's rejection and obtained the patent in 2007. There are lots of other players involved in the past 20 years leading up to the pandemic onslaught of the past 2 years. Besides the CDC there is the NIH, the NIAID, the FDA, and who knows how many other 3-letter agencies. Not to be left out of the financial action, 50 members of the US House and Senate own large stock positions in Pfizer worth tens of millions of dollars.
Dr. Ralph Baric of University of North Carolina deserves dubious mention as he is credited with much of the gain-of-function research that has taken place. Both he and Dr. Peter Daszak (head of the EcoHealth Alliance) have worked with the Wuhan Lab in China and funneled millions of dollars to that lab for research including gain-of-function which they and Dr. Fauci have subsequently lied about.
The full truth of the origin and the political exploitation of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the global disaster it has caused is only beginning to be told. The paper trail of patents enlighten and provide some transparency to the story. It is now recognized the virus did not jump to humans from the Wuhan wet market and it appears it did not develop in any natural, biologic and evolutionary way. It is disturbing that the same government that has ownership and financial profit interest in the intellectual property of the Covid virus and the development and sale of the "vaccines", is the same government that is now coercing, mandating, and enforcing (via OSHA) that all Americans receive the mRNA shots. What is the precedent for this? Is there not a conflict of interest problem in there somewhere?
If you can not get your head around all this, think of it this way. The federal government buys (confiscates) either part or all of Tesla from Elon Musk. The Feds then mandate that if you want to drive on the highways, you must purchase an electric vehicle from Tesla and that will be enforced by the Department of Transportation. This is all necessary and required because of the public health issue of climate change. If you don't have a Tesla, you will be calling Uber, and they will be driving a Tesla. See how that works? The Feds and the various players get richer and you lose more of your liberty and freedom.
So what is the take-away from all this? If you are employed or invested and live in the virology research world, then patents on the gene sequences of viruses that occur in nature are all in a day's work. But for all of us potential vaccine recipients out here, the filing of more than 4,000 patents on corona viruses is evidence there is a whole lot of money to be made when the researchers, the CDC, the NIH, the WHO and the FDA team up with Big Pharma and mandate we take into our bodies what they brewed up in their labs. Engineer it so we need boosters every 6 months and also mandate it for our children, and there will be bountiful income streams for years to come (Pfizer is already up $85 billion). Share some of that revenue with the politicians and the legal community, and this cabal of collaborators will be untouchable. Bring along the media and suppress, intimidate, and cancel any rational objections. The uninformed and the misinformed will become the "useful idiots" to further promote this malicious, self-serving nonsense. Submit, and take the shots. Or, as an alternative, you can just say no and tell them all to stick it somewhere else.
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Jack C. Askins, M.D.: Vaccine Status or Immune Status? 4 (1)
Posted on November 3, 2021 by AmLib1	Leave a comment
What is more important, vaccine status or immune status? Most people believe a vaccine is to establish immunity to a pathogen. Prior infection has resulted in immunity throughout human history. If a person is immune to a virus, clinical infection is avoided and replication and transmission of the virus is prevented. Simple question with a straightforward simple answer based upon known science. With the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the answer is not quite so simple. Natural immunity has always been the gold standard to which vaccine development has been compared….. until the past 18 months. There has been a full-court press to promote the mRNA inoculations, unlike anything I have ever seen. Government and big business have taken over what has always been the responsibility of known science, researchers, and physicians.
Prior infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus results in natural immunity. At least 75 years of virology and immunology has established the fact that natural immunity is at least as good and usually better than vaccine immunity; true in the past and true now. Natural immunity is broad, robust, and durable and usually will last years to a lifetime. Conversely, the mRNA vaccines appear to wane after 5-6 months. Even the CDC and the NIH agree they do not know how long the mRNA vaccines will provide "protection". The CDC even went so far as to redefine a vaccine as a drug that provides "protection" but not immunity in the historic and traditional meaning of the word.
I compiled bullet point facts with references on natural immunity and that provided by the "vaccines".
Bullet point facts concerning what is known about natural immunity:
• Natural immunity recognizes the full complement of SARS-CoV-2 proteins and thus provides protection against a broad array of variants. [1-4]
• Studies have demonstrated prolonged immunity with respect to memory T and B cells, bone marrow plasma cells, spike-specific neutralizing antibodies, and IgG+ memory B cells following naturally acquired immunity. [1-4]
• People who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 typically generate T cells that target at least 15-20 different fragments of coronavirus proteins. [12]
• The current vaccines result in the creation of antibodies against one specific virus spike protein programmed by the mRNA injection. [12]
• The spike protein on the virus is prone to mutate to escape the vaccine; the other myriad proteins targeted by T cells in natural immunity patients do not appear to be involved in the rapid mutation into the variants that are reducing vaccine effectiveness. [12]
• Multiple studies have confirmed that reinfections are rare in patients with natural immunity and are less severe than first-time infections. [5,6]
• Recent Israeli study included 187,549 unvaccinated persons with natural immunity: only 0.48% were reinfected; 0.02% were hospitalized; 0.008%were hospitalized with severe disease; only one died and he was over 80 years of age. [7]
• Based upon such evidence, many scientists and clinicians have concluded natural immunity and protection against COVID following recovery from infection is long-lasting. [8, 38]
• 1359 Cleveland Clinic employees previously infected, unvaccinated: no occurrence of re-infection in a 10 month follow-up from time of infection. [20]
• There is a growing body of literature supporting the conclusion that natural immunity not only confers robust, durable, and high-level protection against COVID-19, but also better than vaccine induced immunity. [13-17,19, 39]
• 23 patients who had recovered from SARS-CoV-1 still possess CD4 and CD8 T cells 17 years after infection during the 2003 epidemic. [9]
• A paper in Nature from 2008 found that 32 people born in 1915 or earlier still retained some level of immunity against the 1918 flu strain – 90 years later. [10]
• Robust durability of natural immunity is well established. Narrowly focused vaccine immunity appears to be waning at 6 months. [11]
• Natural immunity is the gold standard for effectiveness and durability to which researchers compare during vaccine development. [11]
Bullet point facts concerning what is known about the mRNA injections:
• The mRNA vaccines cause our cells to produce a specific Covid virus spike protein to which our immune system produces IgG and IgM humoral antibodies.
• IgA mucosal defense antibodies are not produced and durable T cell immunity is questionable following vaccination.
• Antibody Dependent Enhancement can increase the lethality of the Covid infection when non-neutralizing antibodies are produced by the vaccine and as the virus mutates to variants. [26]
• Although initial claims of Pfizer efficacy was 90-95%, that is down to 39% in the Israel study and 42% in the Mayo Clinic data. [27, 36]
• Approximately 30% of people who receive the mRNA shot may not develop adequate protection against the Covid-19 virus. [31]
• Duration of effectiveness appears to be 5-8 months.
• Necessity for boosters has been claimed by the CDC.
• Both Pfizer and Moderna vaccines currently appear to reduce the severity of illness and mortality rate but not prevent replication within the body or reduce viral nasal load and transmission (infectivity). [CDC declarations, multiple news reports]
• Vaccine immunity only targets the spike-protein of the original Wuhan variant, whereas natural immunity recognizes the full complement of SARS-CoV-2 proteins and thus provides protection against a greater array of variants. [Hooman Noorchasm noorchasm.medium.com]
• Canadian study reported 9/16/2021 the "incidence of myopericarditis overall was approximately 10 cases for every 10,000 inoculations with mRNA vaccine. [22]
• This year's Covid surge numbers are larger than last year due to emergence of variants defeating the current mRNA vaccines.
• Israel and the UK were highly vaccinated and their recent hospitalizations and deaths have been mostly in the vaccinated population.
• UK Public Health data from 9/23/2021: Current Covid-19 deaths are over 3,000% higher than this time last year. 80% of those dying had the Covid vaccine. [21]
• Mass vaccination in the midst of a pandemic has not been recommended by virologists and immunologists due to the promotion of variants as the virus works to escape the vaccine and replicate within the vaccinated host.
• A recent large Japanese study predicts the virus will mutate itself to be completely immune to the vaccine and will likely become more virulent. [24]
• None of the vaccines in current application have been systematically or adequately tested for safety or efficacy in individuals who have previously been infected and recovered from SARS-CoV-2. In fact, Covid survivors have overall been largely excluded from Phase III vaccine clinical trials. [37]
• People with natural immunity are at increased risk for vaccine injury to include thrombosis and multisystem imflammatory syndrome. [25, 28, 29, 32]
• Mandated vaccination represents baseless DISCRIMINATION against already immune but unvaccinated persons being treated as inferior to the "fully vaccinated". [30]
[1] Jennifer M. Dan, et al., Immunological memory to SARS-CoV-2 assessed for up to 8 months after infection, SCIENCE (Feb. 5, 2021) (finding that memory T and B and B cells were present up to eight months after infection, noting that "durable immunity against secondary COVID-19 disease is a possibility for most individuals").
[2] Jackson S. Turner, et al., SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans, NATURE (May 24, 2021) (study analyzing bone marrow plasma cells of recovered COVID-19 patients reported durable evidence of antibodies for at least 11 months after infection, describing "robust antigen-specific, long-lived humoral immune response in humans"); Ewen Callaway, Had COVID? You'll probably make antibodies for a lifetime, NATURE (May 26, 2021), https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01442- 9 ("The study provides evidence that immunity triggered by SARS-CoV-2 infection will be extraordinarily long-lasting" and "people who recover from mild COVID-19 have bone-marrow cells that can churn out antibodies for decades").
[3] Tyler J. Ripperger, et al., Orthogonal SARS-Cov-2 Serological Assays Enable Surveillance of Low-Prevalence Communities and Reveal Durable Humoral Immunity, 53 IMMUNITY, Issue 5, pp. 925-933 E4 (Nov. 17, 2020) (study finding that spike and neutralizing antibodies remained detectable 5-7 months after recovering from infection).
[4] Kristen W. Cohen, et al., Longitudinal analysis shows durable and broad immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection with persisting antibody responses and memory B and T cells, MEDRXIV (Apr. 27, 2021), https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.19.21255739v1 (study of 254 recovered COVID patients over 8 months "found a predominant broad-based immune memory response" and "sustained IgG+ memory B cell response, which bodes well for rapid antibody response upon virus re-exposure." "Taken together, these results suggest that broad and effective immunity may persist long-term in recovered COVID-19 patients")
[5] Nabin K. Shrestha, et al., Necessity of COVID-19 vaccination in previously infected individuals, MEDRXIV (preprint), https://www.medrxiv.org/content
10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v3. ("not one of the 1359 previously infected subjects who remained unvaccinated had a SARS-CoV-2 infection over the duration of the study "and concluded that those with natural immunity are "unlikely to benefit from covid-19 vaccination").
[6] Laith J. Abu-Raddad, et al., SARS-CoV-2 reinfection in a cohort of 43,000 antibody-positive individuals followed for up to 35 weeks, MEDRXIV (Feb. 8, 2021), https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.15.21249731v2 (finding that of 129 reinfections from a cohort of 43,044, only one reinfection was severe, two were moderate, and none were critical or fatal); Victoria Jane Hall, et al., SARS-CoV-2 infection rates of antibody-positive compared with antibody-negative health-care workers in England: a large, multicentre, prospective cohort study, 397 LANCET: 1459- 69 (Apr. 9, 2021), https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33844963/ (finding "a 93% lower risk of COVID-19 symptomatic infection… [which] show[s] equal or higher protection from natural infection, both for symptomatic and asymptomatic infection"); Aidan T. Hanrah, et al., Prior SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with protection against symptomatic reinfection, 82 JOURNAL OF INFECTION, Issue 4, E29-E30 (Apr. 1, 2021), https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7832116/ (Apr. 1, 2021) (examined reinfection rates in a cohort of healthcare workers and found "no symptomatic reinfections" among those examined and that protection lasted for at least 6 months).
[7] Yair Goldberg, et al., Protection of previous SARS-CoV-2 infection is similar to that of BNT162b2. vaccine protection: A three-month nationwide experience from Israel, MEDRXIV (pre-print), https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.20.21255670v1
[8] Chris Baranjuk, How long does covid-19 immunity last? 373 BMJ (2021)
[9] Nina Le Bert, SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell immunity in cases of COVID-19 and SARS, and uninfected control, NATURE (Aug. 2020).
[10] Xiaocong Yu, et al., Neutralizing antibodies derived form the B cells of 1918 influenze pandemic survivors, NATURE (2008)
[11] Heidi Ledford, Six months of COVID vaccines: what 1.7 billion doses hove taught scientists, 594 NATURE 164 (June 10, 2021), https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01505-x (study notes that "Six months is not much time to collect data on how durable vaccine responses will be…. In the meantime some researchers are looking to natural immunity as a guide."
[12] Tarke, A. et al. Cell Rep. Med. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrm.2021.100204 (2021).
[13] Sivan Gazit, Roei Shlezinger, Galit Perez et al. Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity: reinfections versus breakthrough infections
[14] Hall VJ, Foulkes S, Charlett A et al. SARS-CoV-2 infection rates of antibody-positive compared with antibody-negative health-care workers in England: large, multicentre, prospective cohort study (SIREN). Lancet. 2021
[15]Harvey RA, Rassen JA, Kabelac CA, et al. Association of SARS-CoV-2 Seropositive Antibody Test With Risk of Future Infection. JAMA Intern Med.
[16] Turner, J.S., Kim, W., Kalaidina, E. et al. SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans. Nature 2021
[17] Wang, Z., Yang, X., Zhong, J. et al. Exposure to SARS-CoV-2 generates T-cell memory in the absence of a detectable viral infection. Nat Commun 12, 1724 (2021).
[18] CDC.gov/mmWave/volumes/70/wr/mm7021e3.htm
[19] BMJ 2021; 374 doi: VACCINATING PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD COVID-19: WHY DOESN'T NATURAL IMMUNITY COUNT IN THE U.S.? BMJ 2021;374:n2101
[20] Nabin K. Shrestha, et al. NECESSITY OF COVID-19 VACCINATION IN PREVIOUSLY INFECTED INDIVIDUALS. MedRxiv June 19,2021. CLEVELAND CLINIC STUDY OF 1359 UNVAXXED AND PREVIOUSLY INFECTED EMPLOYEES REVEALING NO RE-INFECTION DURING 10 MOS FROM TIME OF INFECTION.
[21] theexpose.uk. Sept. 23, 2021. British publication reporting on data from British and Scotland Public Health
[22] Kafil, Lamacie, Chenier, et al. mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination and Development of CMR-confirmed Myopericarditis. MedRxiv September 16, 2021
[23] Gazit, Shlezinger, Perez, et al. COMPARING SARS-CoV-2 NATURAL IMMUNITY TO VACCINE-INDUCED IMMUNITY: REINFECTIONS VERSUS BREAKTHROUGH INFECTIONS August 24, 2021
[24] The SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is poised to acquire complete resistance to wild-type spike vaccines.
BioRxiv. August 23,2021. Very detailed Japanese study showing how the Covid virus is mutating toward complete resistance to current mRNA vaccines.
[25] Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome after SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19 Vaccination
Mark B. Salzman, Cheng-Wei Huang, Christopher M. O'Brien, Rhina D. Castill
Emerging Infectious Diseases • http://www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 27, No. 7, July 2021
[26] ANTIBODY-DEPENDENT ENHANNCEMENT SCIENCE 18 DEC. 2020. Good review of ADE, mechanism and history of its occurrence in other infections (Dengue fever, HIV, Ebola).
[27] COMPARISON OF TWO HIGHLY-EFFECTIVE mRNA VACCINES FOR COVID-19 DURING PERIODS OF ALPHA AND DELTA VARIANT PREVALENCE. medRxiv. August, 08, 2021
This is the Mayo Clinic study revealing the Pfizer vaccine effectiveness against the Delta variant at 42%.
[28] A LETTER OF WARNING TO THE PENNSBURY SCHOOL BOARD IN PENNSYLVANIA: MANDATING VACCINATION OF COVID-RECOVERED AND ALREADY IMMUNE PERSONS IS HAZARDOUS. Hooman Noorchasm noorchasm.medium.com
[29] Krammer, et al, ROBUST SPIKE ANTIBODY RESPONSES AND INCREASED REACTOGENICITY IN SEROPOSITIVE INDIVIDUALS AFTER A SINGLE DOSE OF SARS-COV-2 mRNA VACCINE,
medRx (Feb 1, 2021)
[30] WHY I BELIEVE SCOTUS SHOULD ADJUDICATE ZYWICKI VS. GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: ITS NOT ABOUT INDIVIDUAL AUTONOMY, ITS ABOUT BASELESS DISCRIMINATION AND EXECUTIVE OVERREACH! Hooman Noorchasm noorchasm.medium.com
[31] A SEVERE ERROR IN FEDERAL PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY: ANTIBODY TESTING IS CRITICAL FOR DETERMINATION OF COVID-19 VACCINE NECESSITY AND EFFICACY IN EVERY AMERICAN.
Hooman Noorchasm noorchasm.medium.com
[32] Fabio Angell, SARS-CoV-2 VACCINES: LIGHTS AND SHADOWS, 88 European J. Of Internal Medicine 1-8 (2021)
[33] James f. Childress, et al., Public Health Ethics: Mapping the Terrain, 30(2) J. Law & Med. Ethics 170 (2002).
[34] N. Kojima, NK Shrestha, JD Klausner. A Systematic Review of the Protective Effect of Prior SARS-CoV-2 Infection on Repeat Infection. medRxiv 8/27/21 Dept of Medicine, UCLA.
Findings: Weighted average risk reduction against reinfection was 90.4% and observed for up to 10 months.
[35] N. Kojima, A Roshani, M Brubeck, A Baca, JD Klausner. Incidence of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 Infection Among Previously Infected or Vaccinated Employees. Dept of Medicine, UCLA.
Findings: No difference in the infection incidence between vaccinated individuals and individuals with previous infection.
[36] newsnetwork.MayoClinic.org
[37] VACCINE INFORMATION FACT SHEET FOR RECIPIENTS AND CAREGIVERS ABOUT COMIRNATY (COVID-19 VACCINE, mRNA) AND PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE TO PREVENT CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019 (COVID-19). 9/22/2021 fda.gov55
[38] LASTING IMMUNITY FOUND AFTER RECOVERY FROM COVID-19. NIH January 26, 2021
[39] REINFECTION RATES AMONG PATIENTS WHO PREVIOUSLY TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVD-19: A RETROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY. Sheehan, Reddy, Rothberg CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES 3/15/2021
Six months after infection, protection against symptomatic disease exceeded 90%.
Jack C. Askins, M.D.: SOMETHING ISN'T RIGHT 4 (1)
Posted on October 27, 2021 by AmLib1	Leave a comment
Something isn't right in this entire vaccinated vs unvaccinated argument and division taking place in our country. On one side, the proponents of vaccination are labeling the unvaccinated as the cause of the current surge in the Covid case numbers ("a pandemic of the unvaccinated"). Overflowing hospitals and Covid deaths are all the fault of the unvaccinated, so the story goes. President Biden says his "patience is wearing thin". Vaccines will be mandated and private businesses and government will be the enforcers. Life will be difficult for the unvaccinated. Some have said the unvaxxed should not be treated in hospitals if they become ill.
On the other side, the unvaccinated state vaccines and mandates are about freedom to choose and liberty; "my body, my choice". They point to an overall Covid survival rate of 99% and cite data regarding complications and side effects from the vaccines. They call attention to how the CDC recently re-defined a vaccine from providing "immunity" to providing "protection".
They also have concerns about the unique mRNA mechanism of action and how the approval process was incomplete and abbreviated. "If the vaccines work, why aren't they working?"
For the sake of national unity and promoting confidence in this new technology of the mRNA shots, this should have already been sorted out by the vaccine developers and researchers. Apparently, animal studies were not done and the phase 3 trials were prematurely "completed" last December and the control group offered the mRNA shot. Completion of phase 3 trials was originally scheduled for 2023. The politicians in charge, the CDC, and the NIH have hardened their recommendations into mandates, threats, and penalties which includes loss of employment and financial destruction. Federal regulatory agencies will be turned loose on the unvaxxed.
But all of this confusion and division and rancor and hate could be mostly avoided by truthfully answering one question. One question backed up by 75 years of immunology and virology science and research. The same immunology and virology we all studied in college and medical school and have called upon to diagnose and treat patients in our practices. The same immunology and virology being ignored by the politicians and the armchair doctors at the CDC.
The one important question is "What is more important, vaccine status or immune status?" It is a very simple and obvious question but the fact it is not being asked or explained goes to the issue of honesty and transparency. If a vaccine provides immunity, then the targeted virus will not infect or replicate within a person and thus not be spread to others.
The CDC has admitted the mRNA vaccines do not provide immunity but rather "protection" against serious infection and death. Dr. Fauci has recently stated that in Covid infected patients, nasal viral loads available for transmission to others are similar between the unvaccinated with no prior infection and the vaccinated. Based on this, one could argue the mRNA shots are a "therapy" and not a "vaccine". This "therapy" may not be all that effective – Israel hospitals have been filled up with sick vaccinated patients and 2/3 of recent Covid deaths in the UK have been in the vaccinated. In both countries, most of the population have been vaccinated and that did not stop the Delta variant surge. Pfizer "effectiveness" is calculated to be down to 39% in the Israeli data and 42% in a Mayo Clinic study.
But here is the salient point about vaccine status vs. immune status: the issue of natural immunity. Natural immunity occurs following an infection with a viral pathogen. Prior to the politics of 2020 and 2021, natural immunity was widely recognized as the most robust and broad immunity one could have. Natural immunity produces mucosal IgA antibodies (stops the infection at the mucosal barrier – nose, mouth, eyes). If the pathogen makes it past the mucosal barrier, internal B cells produce humoral antibodies (IgG and IgM) and cellular immunity is initiated with CD4 and CD8 T cells. The CD4 cells coordinate an immune response and the CD8 T cells are the "killer" cells and attack and destroy cells in our body which have been infected with the virus. Your own cells are destroyed to prevent the virus from using them to make more copies of itself.
And here is the really interesting and important part: after a period of time the B and T cells can transition into a "sentry" mode lasting years to perhaps a lifetime and re-activate if challenged by the virus. Statements that natural immunity is only of a few months duration are ignorant, biased nonsense.
The mRNA shots turn a person's cells into viral spike protein factories that provoke the immune system to produce humoral antibodies to the specific spike protein encoded by the mRNA. There are no mucosal barrier IgM antibodies produced and the data on CD4 and CD8 T cells is murky at best. One would think all this would have been studied and known in detail prior to unleashing the mRNA injections on an uninformed world. Consequently, we are now having surging Delta variant infections, the appearance of the Mu variant, recommendations for 3rd and 4th and beyond boosters, and thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of injuries attributed to the mRNA shots in our CDC VAERS data and the European monitoring data.
Now that we know all of this, why are we now dividing the country and creating social and financial chaos with vaccine mandates? The "unvaccinated" are not a monolithic group but rather comprised of those who were previously infected and now have natural immunity and those who are infection-naive (no prior SARS Cov 2 infection). Efforts at vaccine encouragement (not mandates) should be directed at the infection-naive who are at risk and have co-morbidities. There now is evidence the mRNA shot, when given to Covid survivors with natural immunity, places them at a several times higher risk for vaccine injury and death. Arterial and venous thrombosis and cytokine storms have been observed. To not recognize those with natural immunity and proceed with discrimination and penalties against them does not acknowledge the science and is illogical, unethical, and immoral.
Hospitals are making the argument that taking the mRNA shot is necessary to prevent over-burdening hospitals with Covid patients. The Israel and UK data mentioned above argue against that and those countries may be a prequel to what is beginning to happen in the U.S. However, educating and encouraging at-risk individuals within the community to take the Pfizer or Moderna shots may lessen the severity of illness presenting to the hospital.
In addition, perhaps hospital administrators and medical staffs could provide bold leadership rather than dutifully following the same CDC "guidance". There are published studies and protocols from experienced academic and frontline physicians who have demonstrated 85% decrease in hospitalizations and death utilizing re-purposed medications per protocol (see Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance; America's Frontline Doctors). What if it were only a 25-30% decrease in hospitalizations? Would that not be worthwhile (what do we have to lose)? Why not do an informal observational study with these protocols, including informed consent, on perhaps 25% of Covid patients presenting to the hospital? Expand the percentage if the results are favorable. Following CDC "guidance", hospitals have been on defense for the past 21 months. How has that been working out? Why not go on offense and try a different therapeutic approach which appears to benefit patients? What do we have to lose?
Reasons given for not trying these protocols have included the drugs are not FDA approved for Covid purposes and there is no CDC approval. Drugs are frequently given "off label" if in the best interest of the patient. As far as CDC protocol "approval", the CDC provides "guidance" but does not have regulatory power to deny physicians acting in the best interest of a sick patient ("right to try"). In regards to "first do no harm", the antiviral and anti-inflammatory drugs
re-purposed in these protocols have been given millions of times around the world with virtually no significant complications ("what do we have to lose?").
Hospitals around the country are also mandating mRNA shots for all their employees and staff.
The uninformed and misinformed might assume that is for the protection of the patients. However, there is no evidence health care workers have been a significant source for Covid spread within a hospital. The CEO at a local hospital recently stated there has been no confirmed case of staff infecting a patient during this pandemic. Temperature assessment and early self-quarantine seems to have been effective.
Also, a high percentage of health care workers are Covid-recovered and have natural immunity. A study by the Cleveland Clinic this year revealed that in approximately 1350 health care workers within the Cleveland Clinic system who had prior infection and no vaccination, there was not a single incidence of SARS-CoV-2 re-infection in a 10 month follow-up. The CDC recently analyzed blood from blood banks and calculated that 83% of the country have antibodies to the Covid virus from either the mRNA shots or from natural immunity. Those with only natural immunity comprised approximately 25% of the total in this study. What happened to the concept of herd immunity?
Mandating mRNA injections in hospital employees and staff will obviously not reduce the number of sick patients presenting to a hospital for diagnosis and treatment. Some within the hospital think it is a symbolic and manipulative gesture aimed at the community and will influence the unvaxxed to obtain the mRNA shot. However, polls have suggested this will be counter-productive as both vaxxed and unvaxxed people in communities realize this mandate will not reduce the surge of Covid patients presenting to a hospital. It will, however, reduce the availability of staff to care for them.
The past 21 months have been a difficult and destructive assault on most of our society but politicians have exploited it for their political benefit. To not recognize that is naive. Most would agree this virus and the global response to it is very fluid and dynamic. What was thought to be true 6 months ago is not true now, and 6 months (or 3 or 1) months from now, it will probably evolve into something else. In the midst of all this dynamic change, at a very fundamental level it does not seem ethical or moral to mandate this drug be injected into our bodies. That precedent and the effects of the drug will be forever; the virus probably will not.
Jack C. Askins, M.D.
1. This paper is not written as an anti-vaccine statement and should not be taken as such. High-risk people who have not been previously infected with the Covid virus should be encouraged (not mandated) to take the mRNA shot as it may reduce the severity of an infection and help avoid death, if infected. Mandates and not recognizing the immune status of those previously infected are issues contributing to the mistrust and division within our country. A very large portion of this nation feels like they have been enrolled into a vast experiment involving masks, vaccines, and mandates without their informed consent. Medical science is strongest and innovation occurs when diversity of opinion and criticism are encouraged. That is why Morbidity & Mortality conferences and peer review of journal articles are the historical norm within the practice of medicine. Critical analysis and alternative thought and opinion are now being persecuted and silenced. No matter how one feels about vaccines and mandates and alternative treatments, the silencing and persecution of critical thought and opinion will strangle medical innovation and further divide our country.
2. This was written in a simplistic and conversational style as one would have when speaking with a patient or a poorly informed physician colleague. Considerable technical detail was excluded and references were not formally listed as this obviously is not intended for submission to a journal. The Israel and UK data are easily found with an on-line search and the original papers and articles are available. The same is true of the Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic studies and statements by Dr. Fauci and Rochelle Walensky and the CDC.
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It may be recalled that a query on when the Rs 15 lakh promised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his 2014 election campaign would be transferred to peoples bank accounts, does not come under the definition of "information" under the RTI Act and so cannot be answered, the PMO has told the Central Information Commission.
However, the reply given by one of the government's own senior ministers has put a question mark on the same. Senior BJP member and Union Minister for road and surface transport Nitin Gadkari's comments on a television show has given Congress and other opposition parties to take on PM Narendra Modi. In an interview with a Marathi news channel, Nitin Gadkari has reportedly said, "We were confident that we would never come to power, so we were advised to make tall promises. Now that we are in power, the public reminds us of those promises made by us. However, these days, we just laugh and move on."
Congress was quick to take on BJP. All India Congress Committee President Rahul Gandhi also tweeted the video, stating, "You are right. Even the people now starting thinking that the government used their aspirations and faith for satisfying party needs."
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Q: Keycloak Custom User Storage Provider (assigned roles set / effective roles empty) I am writing a custom UserStorageProvider for Keycloak against a HTTP-Service which contains only user information but no role information.
I want to accomplish that all users from this service are assigned to a composite role which is already existent in keycloak. As you can see I am resolving the the aggregated roles for composite role manually which is not really keen.
Main problem is, that the roles I assign here in the following AbstractUserAdapter are visible in the admin console in Keycloak under "assigned roles" but not in the "effective roles". Consequently they are not mapped into my bearer token.
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Das Treffen war ein voller Erfolg!
Wir hatten eine Menge Spaß. Grillfest direkt unter der Burg Hohenzollern, Kneipenbesuch in unserer Tripods-Stammkneipe, Besuch der Burg Hohenzollern mit Tour und der Besuch in Tübingen/Altstadt und Stuttgart.
Ich möchte hier nochmal allen Fans danken, die so bereitwillig ausgeholfen haben. Sei es nun mit Autos, Unterkunft, Informationen oder anderen Mitteln. Auch natürlich allen, die einen weiten Weg hatten, um Jim und uns kennenzulernen. Wir sind stolz auf euch! VIELEN DANK!
Bilder und Videos wird es in knapp 1-2 Wochen geben, da wir erst alles zusammensuchen müssen und auf die Post warten Aber keine Sorge, ihr werdet 'ne Menge zu sehen bekommen.
Vielleicht ergibt sich eines Tages erneut die Möglichkeit!
Hat Jim derzeit Kontakt zu Ceri und John?
japp, die haben alle untereinander kontakt.
I must admit to finding it a little strange that this week was described as "another relatively quiet week on THE TRIPODS front"
For those that may have been unaware I flew to meet the German Fan Club on Friday 7th and spent a truly magical weekend with them.
I was given the use of a modern 2 bedroom apartment, furnished in a modern style with all the comforts of home, and a fridge full of drinks and snacks and a laptop to go online and keep in touch with people at home etc.
The first day was spent travelling really. Upon arrival at Sven's home town I was introduced to all the locals and taken to a BBQ in the shadows of a truly magnificent castle, this went on into the small hours as we chatted and ate German sausages and salad and drank beer.
The following day was a little rainy and relaxed but the morning was filled by recording commentaries for the official German DVD release of series one and two. I recorded commentaries for 5 episodes. Along with all the other extras I think the German release will be the full and rounded box set the English fans had hopped for. In the evening I attended the official fan meeting where people as far as Munich and Berlin had travelled to meet me, we ate, drank beer and chatted about Tripods for hours, it was a very warm and relaxing atmosphere.
On the Sunday we walked around the castle "Burg Hohenzollern" close to Sven's home town. (google it) A really lovely old castle which had all the hallmarks of a classic German building. We ate "mouse-bags" in the evening, which are far nicer than they sound! and the conversation strayed to all subjects, life, art, music and I learned more about my hosts.
The Monday was taken up by travelling to Tubingen which is a 15th century town with a central market. And then on to Stuttgart where we strolled around the centre of town window shopping and absorbing the atmosphere. On the way back to the airport we stopped in Baden Baden and had an early evening meal. Baden is an old spa town with classic German architecture and it was the perfect backdrop to close a perfect weekend.
I had an absolutely wonderful time and made friends with many people and cemented relationships that I never want to loose. I was made to feel so welcome, and treated with warmth and kindness at every step. The main core of the German fan club were the people who joined us in Brighton.
All of whom bent over backward to make me feel welcome and looked after me so well. Thank you.
Thanks also to the locals from Sven's home town of Hechingen, who were all friendly and welcoming and of course the others who attended the meeting on Saturday, with a special mention to Thomas who must be the most dedicated fan as he collected my signature about 30 times I think!
For those on Facebook, pictures and comments about each day will follow over the next few days, so for me this was an extremely interesting and exciting week on the Tripods front.
Ich möchte mich hier auch nochmal öffentlich allen Danken. Besonders allen Helfern und Helfershelfern, ohne die das nie möglich gewesen wäre. Danke an die Fans, die so weite Strecken auf sich genommen haben. Danke auch ans Hexle, die uns königlich bewirtet haben und wirklich jeden scheiss mitgemacht haben.
The following day was a little rainy and relaxed but the morning was filled by recording commentaries for the official German DVD release of series one and two. I recorded commentaries for 5 episodes.
Hört sich so an als ob er das bei dir aufgenommen hat, Sven?!
Bist du tatsächlich in die Produktion der deutschen Version involviert oder hab ich da was in den falschen Hals bekommen?
das haste schon richtig erkannt wir haben die kommentare für 5 episoden aufgenommen und an koch_media weitergeleitet.
scheint so als wenn die Deutsche Box etwas dicker wird als die englische Box.
Yet again our membership numbers are holding at 431 as it has been nearly a full month since any new additions came knocking at our door!
The main news this week has to be the trip to Germany by Jim Baker (Henry Parker) to record commentary for five different episodes to be included as just one of the Bonus Features in THEIR version of THE TRIPODS DVD Boxed-Set.
The German TRIPODS Fan Club, fronted by Sven Vucenovic and based in the beautiful town of Hechingen were the perfect hosts, providing a two bedroom flat for Jim to stay in and ensuring that every moment of his stay was full of wonderful memories to treasure forever.
When the German fans attended our first costume and prop exhibition in Brighton in 2007, they stunned Jim by presenting him with a specially commissioned painting entitled "Henry's Finest Hour," depicting Jim in the role of Will's brave cousin, sitting on the dome of The City Of Gold, clutching the bomb that would ensure the end of the Tripods' rule over our planet. (a scene that, as you all know, regrettably never got played out).
To return the compliment, Jim took with him an original TRIPODS poster from the first ever print-run in the 1980s and a beautiful publicity shot of himself with John Shackley and Ceri Seel (Will Parker and Beanpole) which he had colourised and printed on canvas at his own expense. (you can see this beautiful gift in our Photo Files, accessable through our home page).
Over the next few days Jim will be chronicling his glorious weekend for Facebook subscribers to read.
We would like to extend our thanks to the German TRIPODS Fan Club for their wonderful hospitality and for taking such care of someone who (to us), is a true National treasure.
Wherever you may be and whatever you may be doing, have a wonderful weekend.
Könnte das Treffen bei euch nicht am besten einmal im Monat sein?
Ich finde es wirklich sehr interessant das mit den Audio-Kommentaren für die deutsche DVD-Box zu lesen. Darauf bin ich mal gespannt. Habt ihr alle mit Jim gemeinsam einen Kommentar gesprochen oder nur er selber?
Auf die nächsten Bilder und Videos bin ich mal sehr gespannt. 2009 ist schon jetzt das perfekte Tripods-Jahr.


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Q: how to set the data in second component based on first component selection in UIPickerview I am using a UIpicker with three components. I want if I select a row in first component on the basis of selected component it shows the value of the corresponding data in second component.
i used array for first component value like @"UK",@"US",@"EU".now i want if user selected UK in first component then i want to load  UKsize1=[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"1",@"2",@"3",@"4",@"5", nil]; in second  component , if user selected US in first component then i want EUsize2=[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"11",@"22",@"33",@"44",@"55", nil]; load in second component. same like for EU value then i want to load USsize3=[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"111",@"222",@"333",@"444",@"555", nil];. i want second component value changed based on the first component , third component value is fixed.
this code i tried but i am not getting exact value.
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A: It seems like you are not reloading the picker....Every time you need to change the data in the picker you need to reload the picker just like UITableView.
// Reloading whole view or single component
- (void)reloadAllComponents;
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A: just check this method .it will work .
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The 2021 World Press Photo Category Winners Used These Cameras
The 2021 World Press Photo Category Winners have been announced. And here's a look at the gear they used to get the work done!
Today, the 2021 World Press Photo Category winners are being announced. These journalists risked their lives in a pandemic to tell lots of different stories. Some of them are pandemic-related. But depending on where you are in the world, you probably haven't seen these images. I know here in America that much of these photos haven't made the rounds. And that's part of what makes this even more fascinating.
A Quick Analysis of the 2021 World Press Photo Category Winners
Pablo Tosco (No Camera Information Shown)
Jérémy Lempin
Vaghinak Ghazaryan
Alexey Vasilyev
Maya Alleruzzo
Zishaan A Latif
Ralph Pace
Hkun Lat
K M Asad
Lalo de Almeida
Ciril Jazbec
Aitor Garmendia
Mads Nissen
Joshua Irwandi
Valery Melnikov
Roland Schmid
Laurence Geai
Antonio Faccilongo
Karolina Jonderko
Last year, we did a fuller analysis of the overall winners. And right now, we're looking at category winners. This seems to be a much more narrow selection, but still an important one. So this is sort of an Apples to Oranges comparison. In contrast to last year's winners, there are more phones for sure. This could be a sign of the times. I'm not sure if phones are just getting better, or they're becoming more accepted. The winners who used their phones aren't using the latest and greatest. And of course, we shouldn't forget about the photojournalistic stance on no-editing.
First and foremost, these folks deserve major congratulations. No matter the gear that they used, they're risking their lives. As I went through the images, I found myself screaming, "Jeez!" It probably upset my neighbors who think I'm a crazy man at 8AM EST when I'm writing this. But one must consider that we are privileged enough to be able to see these experiences. We're shielded behind a screen and fiberwire. Then there is the culling process that both the photographers and editors did. To my knowledge, no one is using AI yet to make edits. And no AI I think can replace or replicate the human reaction. When a robot can genuinely react as if its heart is racing or let out a sincere gasp, I think we'll change a bit.
And overall, the point of this is to remind folks that cameras of all types can do great things in anyone's hands. So here are some major points:
Canon DSLRs remain great tools. So too do Nikon DSLRs.
The Leica M mount system should absolutely never be discredited. Lots of reviewers like to scoff at it. So too do photographers. But the images it can create are fascinating.
DJI's drones are powerful tools.
The Fujifilm GFX series is gaining ground. I personally never thought that it was fast enough for photojournalism, but that's changing with firmware updates. X series is also still strong.
Not a single Sony, Olympus, Panasonic, or Pentax camera is on this list.
Mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras weren't in much use. Fujifilm, Canon, and Leica remain top dogs there despite sales numbers.
Adapting lenses is still sort of popular.
As far as lenses go, folks tend to like the first party gear. However, Sigma was used in one instance.
The Nikon D700 is a camera that's over a decade old, and still does a great job.
Now here's a list of the cameras used. We're using this section to link back to our previous reviews of these cameras for your further research.:
Fujifilm XT1
Fujifilm X100F
Canon 5D Mk III
Canon 5D Mk IV
Nikon D700 (this camera came out even before I started The Phoblographer over 11 years ago.)
Fujifilm GFX 50R
Now, let's take a deeper look at the photos and the gear used!
Nahed (no quiere dar su nombre completo): tiene 9 hijos (6 niñas y 3 niños) y se dedica a la pesca como medio de vida. Tiene una embarcación que pudo comprar gracias a que tuvo ingresos vendiendo su pescado. Gracias a Oxfam pudo comprar las herramientas para trabajar en el mar (una red, boyas, etc). Sale todas las mañanas a pescar, se levanta sobre las 3 de la madrugada y sale al mar, a veces va sola porque prefiere que sus hijos se queden a hacer otras actividades durante la mañana. Es una mujer fuerte pero a veces cuando el mar está agitado o hay tormenta siente miedo. Cuenta que es la única mujer que se atreve a ir a lo más profundo de la orilla para encontrar pescado. También bucea para conseguir conchas y otros moluscos que crecen en la profundidad. Fue su padre quien le enseñó a pescar y explica que depende totalmente de lo que pesca. A causa del conflicto, los precios del combustible aumentaron y eso le dificultó poder pagarlo.
Región de Khor Omeira, asentamientos de Ras Al Ara y Al Mudaraba, Gobernación de Lahj
Es una zona árida a unas dos horas de Aden, en la costa oeste, justo al lado del mar. La mayoría de sus habitantes se dedica a la pesca. En ella viven 3.000 personas en situación muy precaria. No hay servicios básicos. Las personas que viven en esta zona tienen muchas dificultades para tener agua para cubrir sus necesidades básicas, incluso para beber. La suelen coger directamente del mar o de pozos que se encuentran en la zona, pero a medida que han ido usándolos y son más profundos el agua sale salada. Muchos de ellos usan directamente la del mar.
La forma que tradicionalmente han usado para obtener agua es comprarla a los comerciantes de agua que la proporcionan con camiones cisternas. La comunidad compraba 200 litros de agua por unos 1.000 riyals yemeníes. El coste es muy alto comparado con lo que ganan las familias (de media formadas por 7 personas). Además, a causa del conflicto que estalló en 2015 el precio del agua
France-Calais 11/30/2020 Palliative care center at the Calais hospital. Manon, 24, suffering from metastatic cancer embraces her 7-year-old son Ethan in the presence of Peyo who accepts to be touched and caressed by her alone. "With Peyo, we try to recreate life at the end of life, in order to fight, and create an energy to accompany families and caregivers," Hassen says.
Canon 5D Mk III with Sigma 24-35mm f2 along with a 50mm and 35mm lens.
The second part shooting of the first in the history of Yakut fairy tale film based on the Yakut folk tale "The Old Beyberikeen With Five Cows." The film's director Konstantin Timofeev says: "I want to present this film to all Yakut children. Our generation grew up on Russian fairy tales. I hope this picture will become an impulse and motivation for local directors to start shooting tapes about our Yakut fairy tales!"
Twins Semyon and Stepan starred in the fairy tale "The Old Beyberikeen" in the roles of mythical creatures living in the swamps – dulgancha. It is the first experience of participation in cinema for them. They got to the cinema, thanks to the casting in Yakutsk, they specially came to it from their small village in Amginsky ulus a few hundred kilometers far away.
An actress of the Sakha theater Isabella Nikolaeva in the dormitory is preparing to be shot in the historical comedy "Hasty" based on the classic drama of the same name Yakut writer Nikolai Neustroev. Isabella-honored artist of Russia and Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), on stage since 1974.
The director of the drama "Khara Khaar" ("Black Snow") Stepan Burnashev (on the right) rehearses the upcoming scene with the performer of the main role in the film Fedot Lvov. Stepan says: "This picture is not only about the ordeals that lot of ordinary residents of the North have to overcome, but also about the problems of modern society, in which people's relationships deteriorate due to the desire to earn more money, constant competition with each other, one can not survive in the North with this approach towards life."
Canon 5D Mk III with 35mm f1.4 L, 50mm f1.2 L II, and 24-70mm f2.8 L II.
In this Sept. 9, 2019, photo, Yazidi Layla Taloo poses for a portrait in the full-face veil and abaya she wore while enslaved by Islamic State militants, at her home in Sharia, Iraq. Taloo's 2 1/2-year ordeal in captivity underscores how IS members continually ignored the rules the group tried to impose on the slave system. "They explained everything as permissible. They called it Islamic law. They raped women, even young girls," said Taloo, who was owned by eight men. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
In this Sept. 12, 2019, photo, pictures of Yazidis slain in 2014 by Islamic State militants are found in a small room at the Lalish shrine in northern Iraq. When Yazidis were seized alive by the militants, top commanders registered them, photographed the women and children, categorized them into married, unmarried and girls, and decided where they would be sent. Initially, the thousands of captured women and children were handed out as gifts to fighters who took part in the Sinjar offensive, in line with the group's policy on the "spoils of war." (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
In this Sept. 14, 2019, photo, Yazidi youth, dressed in traditional clothes, take part in a program to reacquaint them with their religion and culture at Khanke IDP Camp, northern Iraq. The ancient sect is rebuilding, nearly six years after Islamic State militants launched its coordinated attack on the heartland of the Yazidi community at the foot of Sinjar Mountain in August 2014. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
In this Aug. 30, 2019, photo, Layla Taloo visits the Ninewa Palace Hotel, where she was once brought by her Islamic State militant captor in Mosul, Iraq. She was abducted by the extremists along with her husband and children — but once her husband was taken away, Taloo was sold to an Iraqi doctor, who three days later gifted her to a friend. Despite the rules mandating sales through courts, she was thrown into a world of informal slave markets run out of homes. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
Nikon D850 with 28-70mm.
California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) playing wiht KN95 mask in Monterey, CA.
Canon 5D Mk IV with 35mm f1.4 L II
In the morning woman collects drinking water from a wet dew-damp cloth at coastal hanging village Kalabogi close to the Bay of Bengal in Dacope, Sundarban Bangladesh on 27 September 2020. Where people mostly affected by climate change. Everyday people struggle for sweet water because of the growing salinity in the river water in Shatkhira.
Canon 5D Mk IV with 24-70mm f2.8 L II along with a DJI Mavic Pro 2
A dead deer lies in a pasture burned by wildfires in an area of the Pantanal devastated by a wildfires from which even the swiftest of animals could not escape.
In 2020 the Pantanal faced the largest destruction by burning in its history. From January to October, fires burned 4.200.000 hectares of the Pantanal, which corresponds to 28% of the entire biome, killing a vast amount of the region's wildlife.
Firefighters combat a fire outbreak at the São Francisco de Perigara farm, which is home to one of the largest populations of Hyacinth macaws ( Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus ) in the world. About 95% of the farm area, mostly dedicated to preservation, was destroyed by the fires.
The burnt landscape alongside the Transpantaneira park road near Porto Jofre, in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso. With 15 million hectares, the Pantanal is recognized by UNESCO as a World Biosphere Reserve, and it is one of the most important Brazilian biomes.
Volunteer searches for fire spots under a wooden bridge on the Transpantaneira road in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso. The road, which has 120 bridges, most of them made of wood, is the only access to the community of Porto Jofre and to several farms in the region.
Leica M10 with 35mm f1.4 Summilux, Leica 50mm f1.4 Summilux, and a Leica R lens adapted.
Gya Ice stupa. (90 kms from Leh towards east)
https://goo.gl/maps/g44QnJ2VTBQ2
Gya Village is the first Village settlement of Ladakh. The village is still not been influenced by the modernization and it still works on old sustainable lifestyles. The youth association Gya is one of the most active group in Ladakh and they provide platforms for upcoming youth of their village through workshops and education coaching camps.
This Ice stupa is been built by the youth of Gya and is India's first Ice Cafe. The Ice stupa is made near a stream, although unlike others this Ice stupa won't provide water for irrigation but they are planning to use this water for plantation.
This winter Gya has been main attraction for winter destination for both locals and outsiders as an alternative to Phyang ice stupa last year.
NAME – NAWANG PHUNTSOG
AGE – 27 yrs
OCCUPATION – ELECTRICTION
" I heard about the ice stupa competition and thought would be nice to buid ice stupa. I told my friends about the competition and not many showed interest in it. So finally we three agreed to make ice stupa. I visited Phyang ice stupa last year and I have seen lots of people are visiting there, so I thought our ice stupa at Gya would be a tourist attraction in winter"
NAME – JIGMET TUNDUP
OCCUPATION – FARMER
" Initially when i heard about the ice stupa making competition from my friends I got excited as i would get an opportunity to learn new work in winter."
TECHNICAL CHALLENGES
The main challenge was to build the dome and we gathered all the information from others how they are making dome. We don't want to our dome to be weak unsuccesful. Finally we built our dome with 20ft GI pipe and it was quite strong.
IDEA ABOUT ICE CAFE ?
There were lots of visitors at ice stupa and since Gya is quite far from Leh, they were asking about restaurants nearby. Finallly some people started asking about tea and snacks. Then one day bus full students manjushri school came to visit
Karith Kargil Ice Stupa. (230kms from Leh towards west)
https://goo.gl/maps/T4zekySfgEU2
Headmaster, Teachers, students along with village community of beautiful village Karith Kargil have been making ice stupa for last two years.
Apart from theoretical classes teachers of this school wants to give their students a hands on experience to get the real sense of climate change and how to cope against this melting glaciers.
This village is also a great example for community based working and learning, where school, villagers and youth all join hand for this initiative.
The teachers and students of the Government Middle School project from Karith village had been so inspired by the Ice Stupa project that they decided to built their own. They followed the YouTube tutorials and built already the third Ice Stupa. The headmaster is trying to involve his school in the programs that encourage critical thinking and sustainability. Like Wangchuk he is also the member of the educational reform group.
Ice Stupa in upper valley of Leh in Ladakh. It was built by Ice Stupa team and some locals.
80 feet height
Ganglas village, Leh
Shara Ice Stupa ( 80kms from Leh towards east)
https://goo.gl/maps/rmxqF1GCAR82
The 110 feet Giant ice stupa by ice stupa team Shara Phuktse is the highest ever ice stupa recoded so far.
To resolve the shortage of water faced by Shara, Sharnos and Phuktse village ice stupa team Shara Phuktse came up with this giant ice stupa.
Apart from this one can experience outdoor sport like ice climbing to the top.
NAME – SKARMA TSERING
" Since we have shortage of water in our village and I'm hopefull ice stupa will help us to overcome this problem"
NAME- SONAM PALBAR ( red cap)
NAME – TSERING URGAIN (holding ice)
NAME – TSEWANG DORJAY ( blue hat)
NAME – STANBA GYALSON
" One night the pipe got frozen and I tried to open the pipe and all the water got spilled on me and I was all wet and then frozen at cold midnight. I thought of giving up on the project but next day we were able to fix the pipe"
" our viillage is a long one and we have three Gobas (nambardar). Since the ice melts very slowly which creates shortage of water at spring time when we need the water most. So we get water only after 7 days on our fields and it dies"
What will you do with money from competition?
" With the competition money we would like to again invest in ice stupa next year and also would like to invest in solutions involve in water related problem. We are sure that the next year we can build bigger than this year "
Why they climb up the Ice stupa?
" We climb twice a day . once in the morning and once in the evening to change the pipe or to titghten or loosen the sprinklers"
Nikon D850 with 35mm f1.8, 24mm f1.8, and 24-70mm f2.8.
85-year-old Rosa Luzia Lunardi is embraced by nurse Adriana Silva da Costa Souza. The first hug she receives in five months.
Nikon D4 with 24-70mm f2.8
Indonesia, 18 April 2020
The body of a suspected coronavirus victim, wrapped in yellow infectious waste plastic bags and wrappers, lies on the patient's deathbed awaiting a body bag in a hospital in Indonesia. The wrapping of the patient, which takes two nurses a full hour to complete through three layers of plastic and nine times of disinfection, is intended to suppress the spread of coronavirus. As mandated by the Indonesian Ministry of Health, the wrapping of the body is a standard procedure for every suspected, comorbid, and positive confirmed COVID-19 death. This process continues until today. As is the case with most victims, family members were not allowed to say goodbye.
After the image was published by National Geographic, the image sparked denial and uproar across social media. Many who saw the image declared it to be a set up intended to spread fear.
By the end of the year, 563 medical workers in Indonesia have perished due to the pandemic, with the country's coronavirus toll reaching over 800,000 cases and 20,000 deaths.
(Off the record: due to privacy reasons, I am legally bound not to identify the patient, the identity of the hospital, or indicate the hospital's local geographic location e.g. city, town, etc. The most detail I can include about the hospital would be the country location.)
Fujifilm GFX 50s with 45mm f2.8
I woke up to the news. At first I couldn't believe it. I had planned a trip with friends outside of Tehran and after deliberating we all decided to head out to a house at the foot of Mount Damavand, the highest peak in the Middle East. In times of uncertainty, like most people in the world, Iranians like to huddle together. We were all very worried about the future and checking our cell phones constantly.
A day later, when I returned, the city had transformed. Billboards and posters with Soleimani's face were everywhere. The Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had declared three official days of mourning. Before the burial in his hometown, Kerman, Soleimani was to have a giant funeral procession in Tehran.
Iranian women at a mosque in Tehran, on Jan. 5, mourn the major general's death.
Nikon D810 with 24-70mm f2.8 and 35mm f2.
Part of a rocket after the shelling of the city of Martuni, Nagorno-Karabakh
Azat Gevorkyan and his wife Anaik before leaving their home in Lachin, Nagorno-Karabakh
Abovyan Hasmik (69) cries at the door of her house in the village of Nerkin Sus, Nagorno-Karabakh
A local resident of Areg sits outside a burning house in the village of Karegakh, Nagorno-Karabakh. Some residents burned their houses before leaving.
Leica M with a 35mm f2
Riehen, 25th April 2020 – A Swiss-German couple meets at the closed border on Lettackerweg.
For the first time since World War II, Switzerland has closed its borders due to the Corona-pandemic. Borders, which in recent decades had hardly been noticed by the population, invisible lines that could be crossed freely by the inhabitants of both sides.
The Corona-pandemic caused the authorities to put up fences again, barrier tapes signalled the boundaries of what could be crossed and retraced the border that had been reinforced with barbed wire during the Second World War.
For us Europeans, accustomed to freedom, they were a clear disturbance of the familiar.
The fences towards Germany became a meeting place for those people who were geographically separated by the Coronavirus. They pressed against the fence to talk to each other or, where possible, to exchange caresses. Love cannot be locked away.
The borders were closed from 16th March to 15th June 2020.
During the border closure, I several times travelled along the Swiss-German border. There I met the people who met at the border fence. I asked if I could photograph them, inquired about their life during the pandemic and stayed with them for a while. The pictures were not posed.
Kreuzlingen, 30th March 2020 – Josephina H. from Arbon (Switzerland) and Josef B. from Singen am Hohentwiel (Germany) have been a couple for 30 years. Now the lovers meet three times a week at the closed border between Kreuzlingen and Konstanz to at least be allowed to look at each other.
Kreuzlingen, 4th April 2020 – Leonie H. in the white top stands on the Swiss side and talks to her friend Janina W. on the German side over a fence.
Riehen, 25th April 2020 – For their first meeting since the outbreak of the pandemic, the three friends Sergio C., Sami K. and David C. settled on both sides of the border on a sunny meadow on Bischoffhöhe near Riehen.
Canon EOS R with a 35mm f1.4 L II adapted and a 24mm.
April 1st, 2020. In the 2nd arrondissement of Paris. Civil protection maraud in central Paris. This evening Anne-Sophie and Elisabeth, both volunteers, will distribute around 60 meals donated by the City of Paris. The two women are checking ah homeless man. Because of the confinement, the homeless have almost no income. This man seems to be sleeping. They make sure he's breathing.
Operation « Chardon ». April 10,th 2020. 45 victims of Covid_19 from all over Paris and around, are transferred in two TGVs in the direction of Bordeaux and Poitiers. The objective is to relieve congestion in the hospitals of Ile de France saturated with patients sick of covid-19. The operation is coordinated by the SAMU. (And the SNCF). On the train to Bordeaux :: the patients are placed on the ground floor of the train. To enter, you have to equip yourself. They are 4 per train. All are intubated. Electricity in a train is discontinuous. They are all connected to a generator that takes over when the electricity goes out.
Tuesday, April 28th, 2020, at the Les jardins de la Voulzy Ehpad home in Ormes sur Voulzy. Here are living 75 residents. Today they are all confined. This afternoon, Yves, 75 years old comes to see his wife Josiane, 82 years old. She lives in the residence, in a protected unit. They meet behind a plexiglass window. Communication is not easy. Coralie help them to communicate.
April 23th, 2020. Pantin, Santilly funeral directors, based in 93. There are approximately 4 times more deaths than normal due to the coronavirus. They have to adapt. Baptiste, a business manager, has rented 3 refrigerated trucks which allow him to store. He wanted to avoid storing them at Rungis. Here is one of them. 14 coffins are undertaken.
Fujifilm XT1, Fujfilm XT2, 18mm f2, GFX 50r with 45mm f2.8. He also used an X100F.
Beit Rima (Palestine), 20/12/2018.
Lydia lying on a sofa in her home. She is Majd's mother, who was born thanks to in vitro fertilization.
Lydia's husband, Abdel Karim, has been arrested since June 2001 and sentenced to 25 years for involvement in the 2001 murder of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi.
This photo shows the loneliness of a woman who alone has to face all the difficulties of life, and the sadness that pervades these women for the absence of their husbands.
I've known Lydia and her family for a long time. I had been invited for a lunch and in this occasion I took this portrait.
Beit Seira (Palestine), 11/26/2017.
Some of the wives, mothers and children of Palestinian prisoners while they reach the checkpoint on the day of the visit to prison.
These families on the day of the visit to prison must face a long journey, covering a long distance from their villages to the Israeli prison. Along the way, the support that women give each other is essential, without which they would not be able to face the innumerable difficulties they encounter on the road.
Thanks to the permission of the International Red Cross, I was able to follow these women until the Israeli checkpoint during their trip.
Gaza city (Palestine), 01/18/2015.
A newborn inside an incubator born few hours earlier at Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital.
This photo shows the innumerable difficulties that these children have to face since their birth and in growing up in a complex territory full of contrasts.
I took this picture when I visited the neonatal unit at Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital.
Tulkarem (Palestine), 01/25/2015.
Amma Elian is the prisoner Anwar's wife. He was arrested in 2003 and sentenced for life imprisonment. They have 2 twins born through IVF.
Initially, Palestinian women and their families were afraid to declare that they had carried out in vitro fertilization because they could not know the consequences of their choice.
At that time religious authorities in Palestine had not clarified their position on IVF. The procedure is now accepted in specific circumstances. In April 2013, issuing a religious edict, the Palestinian Supreme Fatwa Council detailed the restrictions, limiting the process to those men with a long sentence, a marriage consummated before imprisonment, and no other way for pregnancy. The husband and wife also need to fill out paperwork, and families are expected to provide multiple witnesses confirming that the sample belongs to the man. As a result, a greater degree of openness now exists for those who have had children in this manner.
During our meeting I asked Amma to take a portrait. I did not ask anything to her, I just got the camera and took this picture.
A portrait of Mazen Rimawi. He is a former Palestinian political prisoner but he is also Majd's uncle, who was born through in vitro fermentation.
He's the brother-in-law of Abdel Karim who has been arrested since June 2001 and sentenced to 25 years.
This image tries to show that despite the physical absence of prisoners in their homes, their emotional presence is still alive.
I have known the Rimawi family since 2015 and I constantly go back to visit them.
Lydia Rimawi with her son Majd, who was born through IVF, during their journey to reach the prison to visit her husband.
She lives in a West Bank village called Beit Rima, between Ramallah and Nablus. She leaves home at 5:00 a.m., taking a taxi to the main road, where she boards a bus to Ramallah. She goes on a second bus, organized by International Red Cross in partnership with the Prisoner's Club, to the Israeli checkpoint, where she crosses on foot the border after the checks. From there, she rides a third bus to the prison gate. After several controls, she'll meet her husband for 45 minutes.
Lydia's husband, Abdel Karim (44), has been arrested since June 2001 and sentenced to 25 years for involvement in the 2001 murder of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi.
This picture helps to understand the difficulties that these women face with their children every day, especially on the day of the visit, facing a long journey that sometimes takes 18 hours for a visit that lasts only 45 minutes.
I shared Lydia's trip to visit her husband in prison, on this occasion I took this picture.
Nikon D700 with 24-70mm f2.8
23/07/2015 Warsaw, Poland. Katarzyna with her doll and children in the play park. Most of the time when Katarzyna takes her kids out the doll comes too. People approach her to admire the newborn baby. Not being able to tell the difference once told their reactions vary – from excitement to shock. I didn't set or influance the scene
09/02/2015 Gdansk, Poland. Baby album. Magdalena loved to dress her doll up. Before she gave birth to her son she used to change Lorcia's [the doll's] outfit everyday and take a photo for her baby album. I didn't set or influance the scene
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17-04-2019 This week I had a blast with my workshop. This time I had 50 students! They are the volounteers from Museum Veenendaal. I had the pleasure to teach them a bit about pencil realism.
10-03-2019 Finally! Once again, finished a huge drawing! Measurements are 1.520 x 1.200 mm!
11-01-2019 During 'De Nederlandse Portretprijs' (The Dutch Portrait award), my winning portrait 'Robijn' from 2017 will be on show during the 2019 edition. I feel honoured to have my drawing 'Robijn' assured to the exhibition. Later this year the exhibition will take place from september until november at Slot Zeist.
28-12-2018 - Today i've heard the great news that for the third year in a row I won myself a place in IAC competition on A.R.T. 2019. I will attend the fair in april next year with two of my works, one drawing one painting.
24-10-2018 - 'Ruki' is my newest painting I just finished. This beautiful subject fascinated due to conversations I have lately about hands. 'Ruki' is Russian for 'Hands.
14-09-2018 - Big success at Museum Veenendaal, in the first weekend in september, 600 people visited my exhibition at Museum Veenendaal. Together with my students we had lovely weekend.
14 feb 2017 - I organised an exhibition toghether with five other artists from around Zeist. The exhibition will be in the 'Gehoorzaal' of the former Willem Arntz hoeve which is a historic place with a beautiful landscape.
1962 series. A serie of two Audrey Hepburn drawings have been completed!
20 jan 2017 - Two beautiful photo's from Aurdey in Paris (june 1962) have been drawn and modified by Martijn Versteeg. These two drawings measure 750 x 750 mm, and will be on display soon.


Do you have a brilliant project idea ? an idea that you want to turn it into reality but you don't know how to make it real because you need a lot of money if so this article is for you. We will give you information about the Different stages of Startup Funding, Before you start raising funds in the project, the main thing is to understand the various stages. This will help determine what way (or combination of methods) you take to obtain startup financing.
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There are advantages and disadvantages for funding by using credit cards, for starters it doesn't take to long to get the approval for the for a business credit card, and minimum payments are generally pretty low. If you want to set up your business quickly and you do not have enough money, credit cards can be an attractive option.
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An angel investor is a rich person with a high level of income, and he invests his money in a lot of things in exchange for a share in it from their owners. Business angels invest in the startup at its early when it just an idea and they ready to take risks.
The crowdfunding platforms are witnessing growth in the last period such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo, they provided the founders of startups a unique opportunity to implement their ideas and deliver them directly to consumers. Crowdfunding is a great method to empower your project and good proof to investors that people are interested in your project.
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Grabbing your favorite Chinese takeout on your way home is easy, convenient, and (I'll admit) tastes really, really good. But next time you're craving some cashew chicken or sweet and sour chicken, check out these easy Chinese chicken recipes.
These recipes are so good that you may never go out for Chinese food again!
Sweet and sour chicken is without a doubt a crowd favorite, and this easy to make at home version can be made as healthy as you wish!
This easy Chinese chicken recipe brings a great twist on soup to your kitchen. Give it a whirl when you're craving some delicious Asian soup.
Orange chicken is the dish that built the Panda House empire. Now you have an even better version that you can make in the comfort of your own kitchen.
Simple, yet tasty. There's no better way to describe chicken fried rice. Try adding a bit of chili powder to spice things up!
This easy Chinese chicken recipe is an all time favorite! I've heard that Cashew Chicken was created in America and not even really a Chinese dish! Whatever. It's flavorful and simply amazing!
Hot Pots are awesome! It's something I've always been hesitant to make at home, but there's no doubt that I'll be firing up this recipe very soon!
Lemon chicken is W A Y out of my comfort zone. But I bet it's pretty good. So if you're in to citrus and chicken combinations, then this is for you!
Sweet chicken with a hint of garlic? What could be better! The great thing about making this at home is that you can make a ton of it for leftovers!
This easy Chinese chicken recipe is a fan favorite in my house! A sweet honey sauce on top of crispy chicken? Sign me up!
I grew up unwilling to try many new foods. General Tso's holds a special place in my heart because it was one of the first different foods that I liked!
Well that's it! I hope you found some easy Chinese chicken recipes because I sure found a few that I am super excited to try!


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For a change of pace, serve a buffet brunch of seafood salads and savories for Easter. These recipes are from National Seafood Educators. For more free recipes write National Seafood Educators, Box 60006, Richmond Beach, Wash. 98160.
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Wash broccoli and peel stems (if fresh); slice. Steam broccoli until tender-crisp. Cook macaroni shells according to package instructions until just tender; drain. In a medium bowl, combine onion, garlic, lemon juice, Italian seasoning, olive oil, Parmesan cheese and pepper.
Toss with cooked macaroni shells and broccoli. Chill. Add imitation crab just before serving; toss. Makes six to eight servings.