It must have taken almost a year for me to read this book, but then I started it at the same time as Pynchon's 1000-page "Against the day" and both of them are weighty tomes. The Gombrich was actually written in English, but I read the French translation, all five hundred pages of it. Another no mean feat in itself.
Gombrich's book comes in many editions. There is the heavy coffee-table version, with colour reproductions of famous artworks interleaved with the text. I had bought the "edition de poche" which I carried with me during many months. In this edition, the plates are all at the back, and there are two bookmarks so one can find one's way easily from the text to the illustrations. The green paper cover on my copy is now pretty worn, but all the pages are still there. The illustrations are a judicious selection of works of art spanning thousands of years of human civilization, from the caves in Lascaux to David Hockney. Deep underneath Paris, wedged between three other people in the tiny narrow seats of the line four metro, I felt more than a bit relieved to gaze at reproductions of Vermeer, Carvaggio, El Greco, Piero della Francesca, or to stare at pictures of famous buildings from Rome or Naples. I'm kind of disappointed to have finished the book, to no longer have those images with me wherever I go.
Gombrich is "old school": he believes, unfashionably for today I suppose, that there is such a thing as art, that there are absolute standards of excellence which can be divined by any intelligent person and which endure over the centuries. Every plate is discussed and placed into context. I learned more than a little about each painter and architect but what was most interesting was the historical context. You see, at the start, thousands of years ago, there was not even the notion of "the artist": there were artisans, who created objects on commission. Monuments for tombs, sculptures for public buildings. The renaissance in Italy, in Rome, in Florence: frescos for altars, paintings for churches. The best artists, like Caravaggio (I've just read a recent biography of him, maybe I will find time to write about it) could became very wealthy from their work. The next century, however, everything had changed. The commissions dried up; the reform in Northern Europe meant that displaying images in churches was proscribed. Artists could paint whatever they liked, but they lived a poverty-stricken existence; the best might be able to make a living from drawing portraits.
In the last chapter, Gombrich makes some interesting comments about art and creation today. In our time, he says, it may be too early to distinguish between fashion and real movements in art which will still be talked about in a hundred years. But the initial rejection of the impressionists by the critics of their epoch has led to a gross overcorrection. Today, the most important aspect of any work of art is if it's new; the search for novelty has become the most important aspect of creation. The public suffers from the same malady: the tradition of the new has rendered irrelevant all other traditions. This, added to the fact that artists today have an incredible freedom which has never existed in any time in history has led to some very strange effects indeed. Everyone is a revolutionary these days.
I'm not sure I completely agree with this. After all I spend more time at Beaubourg than I do at the Louvre; perhaps I am a sufferer as well. But it's interesting to realise to what extent attitudes have changed over the centuries. I think after reading Gombrich's book I do have a better appreciation of what constitutes a work of art, although it is not easy to put into words; the excellence with which the work has been executed perhaps, or the purity of the form, whatever that means. In the end it is perhaps better to look at the plates. Especially whilst making journeys through subterranean Paris, staring out the window from time to time at the utter blackness.
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Chi-Yuan Wang
A native of Wujin, Jiangsu Province, China, Wang Chi-Yuan was among the first generation of Western-style painters and a key figure in the New Art Movement to revolutionize tradition. Fleeing the war within his country, he landed in San Francisco in 1942. That summer he visited the Yosemite area, a "stupendous place of great vistas and tremendous beauty." He continued, "In these mountains I found the qualities of peace and beauty to which I could respond, and in the great quiet and calm I could work again." In November 1942, he moved to New York, which became home to him. After the Metropolitan Museum of Art borrowed one of his paintings for a traveling exhibition, he decided to make good of this increased interest in Asian art and established a school where Chinese brushstroke would be taught. It was here that his new beliefs became evident: "A new joining of Eastern materials and Western hands to form not just a mixture of old things, but a wholly new art-a language which both East and West understand-and to which both contribute."
Chi-Yuan was equally proficient in oils, watercolors, and ink, but in New York City he mainly painted in the latter two media and practiced calligraphy. His return to traditional painting was central to the formation of his Chinese identity in the United States. In time, he developed a hybrid style ranging from classical Chinese to conservative realism. Since he was unable to return home, his ashes were scattered over the Taiwan Straits after his death.
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  **Part 1 - Startup**

1.  Stop ALL of the services that you may have running from previous exercises.  If using an IDE you may also wish to close all of the projects that are not related to "lab-9".

2.  Start the common-config-server and common-eureka-server.

3.  Lab 9 has copies of the word server.  Start 5 separate copies of the lab-9-word-server, using the profiles "subject", "verb", "article", "adjective", and "noun".  There are several ways to do this, depending on your preference:
  - If you wish to use Maven, open separate command prompts in the target directory and run these commands:
    - mvn spring-boot:run -Drun.jvmArguments="-Dspring.profiles.active=subject"
    - mvn spring-boot:run -Drun.jvmArguments="-Dspring.profiles.active=verb"
    - mvn spring-boot:run -Drun.jvmArguments="-Dspring.profiles.active=article"
    - mvn spring-boot:run -Drun.jvmArguments="-Dspring.profiles.active=adjective"
    - mvn spring-boot:run -Drun.jvmArguments="-Dspring.profiles.active=noun"
  - Or if you wish to run from directly within STS, right click on the project, Run As... / Run Configurations... .  From the Spring Boot tab specify a Profile of "subject", UNCHECK live bean support, and Run.  Repeat this process (or copy the run configuration) for the profiles "verb", "article", "adjective", "noun".

4.  Check Eureka at [http://localhost:8010](http://localhost:8010).   Any warnings about running a single instance are expected.  Ensure that each of your 5 applications are eventually listed in the "Application" section, bearing in mind it may take a few moments for the registration process to be 100% complete.

5.  Optional - If you wish, you can click on the link to the right of any of these servers.  Replace the "/info" with "/" and refresh several times.  You can observe the randomly generated words.

  **Part 2 - Start and Examine Existing System**

6.  Open lab-9-gateway.  This is a simple Spring Boot web application.  We will modify it to be a simple API gateway with Zuul.

7.  Examine the templates/sentence.html page.  Notice that it contains JavaScript for making AJAX calls to obtain the different parts of the sentence.  There are 5 separate calls to make, each on a different server.  How can the JavaScript make these calls without encountering cross site scripting restrictions?

8.  Run lab-9-gateway.  Access [http://localhost:8080](http://localhost:8080).  You should encounter errors as the various AJAX calls cannot be completed successfully.  We will fix this next.

  **Part 3 - Implement a Zuul Reverse Proxy**

9.  Stop the lab-9-gateway application.

10.  Convert this application to use Spring Cloud:  Open the pom.xml and change the parent to org.springframework.cloud / spring-cloud-starter-parent / latest stable version (Camden.SR5 at the time of this writing).  If you prefer to use a dependency management section instead of altering the parent, you may do so.

11.  Add the dependency for the config client.  org.springframework.cloud / spring-cloud-config-client.

12.  Add the dependency for Eureka-based service discovery.  org.springframework.cloud / spring-cloud-starter-eureka.

13.  Add the dependency for Zuul.  org.springframework.cloud / spring-cloud-starter-zuul.

14.  If using Eclipse, the M2E plugin may require you to update your project at this point.  Right click on the project / Maven / Update Project

15.  Setup the application to obtain configuration from the config server on startup.  Do you remember how to do this?  Open bootstrap.yml and add the location of the configuration server.  For a reminder how to do this, consult the configuration of the word server.

16.  Open the main application class and add the annotation to enable Zuul proxy.

17.  Save your work.  Run the application.  Access [http://localhost:8080](http://localhost:8080).  The sentence should build correctly with no errors.

  **Part 4 - Add a service prefix**  Our web page expects JavaScript and CSS resources to be located under "/js" and "/css" respectively.  Let's adjust our system so that all calls to the back-end microservices are under "/services".

18.  Open the templates/sentences.html page.  Find the TODO comment around line 30.  Change the prefix variable to "/services".  Notice how the variable is used in the next few lines.

19.  Refresh the page in the browser.  We should get errors at this point.  Do you understand why?

20.  Open application.yml.   Set the zuul prefix to "/services".  Save all work and restart.

  **Part 5 - Add ETag Support**  At present our server is sending back individual word values for the AJAX requests even if the browser already has the value being sent.  ETags can be used to eliminate the need to send a payload to the client when nothing has changed.

21.  Within your browser, open Developer Tools (Internet Explorer / Chrome), Firebug (Firefox), Web Inspector (Safari), refresh the web page, and examine the network activity.  The browser is receiving a 304 code instead of 200 for the JavaScript and CSS files since they are unchanged.  Let's add similar support for the word AJAX calls if they are unchanged.

22.  Open your main Application class and add this Bean:

    ```
    @Bean
    public Filter shallowEtagHeaderFilter() {
        return new ShallowEtagHeaderFilter();
    }
    ```

23.  Save your work and restart.  Refresh the browser several times.  Notice that we randomly receive 304s for the AJAX requests instead of 200s.  Do you understand why this is random?

**Reflection**

1.  How does the application know where the individual word services are?  Zuul automatically uses Eureka service discovery.

2.  How did this application know how to contact Eureka?  We used Spring Cloud Config, and the server / repository we are using knows the location.

3.  Why do we get 304s randomly on the AJAX requests?  Since the word values are randomly generated, 304s only occur in the unlikely event that the server returns an identical value to what it returned in the previous request.

4.  ETags are a great way to optimize web / REST applications, but the ETag usage demonstrated here is impractical for two reasons.  1) the values we are receiving are intended to be random, 304s only occur because our set of seed values is relatively small, and 2) the ETag itself is far larger than any of our words, so we actually consume more bandwidth than we save!

5.  This web site uses Thymeleaf, JQuery, and Bootstrap, though the usage of each is very rudimentary.  The application.properties file has a setting that allows the Thymeleaf template changes to be loaded immediately, which is useful in development.

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New mental health services one step closer to opening
Service providers have been appointed to operate the Mid-West, Goldfields and Pilbara community mental health Step Up/Step Down services
Mid-West and Goldfields services to open early next year
Three regional community mental health Step Up/Step Down services are one step closer to opening with non-government organisations appointed to operate the services.
Neami National has been awarded the tender to operate the 10-bed service that will be located in Geraldton and the 10-bed service that will be located in Kalgoorlie.
Today, Parliamentary Secretary for Mental Health Alanna Clohesy and Agricultural Region MLC Laurie Graham inspected the progress of the Geraldton site.
In the last Mid-Year Review, the McGowan Government provided an extra $2.4 million to fast track the Mid-West service so it could open 12 months earlier than expected. Both the Mid-West and Goldfields services will open early next year.
Richmond Wellbeing has also been appointed to operate the six-bed Pilbara service which is expected to open later in 2021.
The WA Country Health Service will provide clinical supports as part of each of the services.
Community mental health Step Up/Step Down services provide a vital service for people with mental health issues, aiming to support people in the community, close to their personal support from family and friends.
The McGowan Government has invested over $87.6 million in capital and operational funding to progress the establishment of community mental health Step Up/Step Down services to better support local communities. Along with Mid-West, Goldfields and Pilbara, these include the Kimberley (six beds), South-West (10 beds) - which opened this year - and the Great Southern (6-beds) which opened in 2018.
Mental health, alcohol and other drug services in your local area can be found at http://www.myservices.org.au
"This year, with the COVID-19 pandemic impacting all of us, wellbeing has become more important than ever and the McGowan Government is committed to helping ensure people can access help and support when they need it, close to their homes.
Our commitment to establishing regional community mental health Step Up/Step Down services has not wavered because we know people recover from mental health issues when they can receive care, support and treatment within their own community.
By appointing the service providers, we are one step closer to opening the services for the community."
Comments attributed to Parliamentary Secretary for Mental Health Alanna Clohesy:
"I am pleased that these operators have been appointed and will soon start their transition for the service.
I look forward to seeing Neami, Richmond Wellbeing and the WA Country Health Service work together with communities to help improve mental health and wellbeing in our regions."
Comments attributed to Agricultural Region MLC Laurie Graham:
"This much-awaited service in Geraldton will be of such a great benefit to the people of Geraldton and surrounds.
Many people I talk to highlight that mental health issues are an increasing concern, so this service will be opening up at the right time to provide more support in the community."
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A mathemagician is a mathematician who is also a magician.
The name "mathemagician" was probably first applied to Martin Gardner, but has since been used to describe many mathematician/magicians, including Arthur T. Benjamin, Persi Diaconis, and Colm Mulcahy. Diaconis has suggested that the reason so many mathematicians are magicians is that "inventing a magic trick and inventing a theorem are very similar activities."
A great number of self-working mentalism tricks rely on mathematical principles. Max Maven often utilizes this type of magic in his performance.
^ Albers, Donald J. "Art Benjamin - Mathemagician." Math Horizons, November 1998, 14-18.
^ Diaconis, Persi. Quoted in: Albers, Donald J. "Professor of Magic Mathematics." Math Horizons, February 1995, 11-15.
^ "MatheMagician". mathemagician.tudelft.nl. Retrieved 2018-06-19.


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The Tribune Democrat has reported that the family of a recently deceased man, whose body never left the hospital and another was presented at the viewing, has filed a personal injury lawsuit against both the hospital and the funeral home seeking over $50,000 in damages.
The family of R.T. has named the Harris Funeral Home and the Memorial Medical Center for their failure in providing the correct body and not discovering their error until the scheduled public viewing.
The suit has been filed on behalf of R.T.'s widow, a resident of Geistown, and two children, residents of Johnstown and New Florence. Pittsburgh-based attorney, Kevin Lomupo, is representing the family.
Compensation, unspecified but over $50,000, is sought for the family's emotional distress, depression and humiliation.
The suit states, that after R.T.'s death, in the hospital on November 23, the family made arrangements with Harris Funeral Home. There was to be a visitation on November 25 and the funeral mass and burial on November 26.
On November 24 the family brought clothes to the funeral home for R.T. to wear – but, according to the suit, did not see him at that time.
In trying to help the funeral home identify their loved one properly, the family described a tattoo T.T. had on one of his upper arms. Representatives from the home removed the clothing from the upper torso of the deceased and instead of finding a tattoo – the man had staples in his chest indicating a possible heart surgery.
A viewing was held, but only a brief one, the next day.
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Bringing woo to disaster areas
By oracknows on January 26, 2010.
Almost two years ago, I discovered something that disturbed me greatly. Basically, I learned the story of an Air Force officer named Col. Richard Niemtzow, MD, PhD. Col. Niemtzow is a radiation oncologist who has over the last decade fallen deeply into woo. Specifically, he has become known for a technique that he has dubbed "battlefield acupuncture," a technique that he has promoted energetically (word choice intentional) and ceaselessly, to the point where, sadly, the military is starting to take it seriously even though the evidence Col Niemtzow has presented in favor of the technique is at best the thinnest of gruel, with no controls and no blinding. He's even managed to convince the military to deploy acupuncturists to Iraq to take care of wounded soldiers. No doubt soon he'll manage to get acupuncturists deployed to Afghanistan too, since that's where the fighting increasingly is. As I pointed out, that's just what our wounded heros need: Quackery instead of medicine. I was thoroughly disgusted.
War, disaster, violence, if there's one thing I've noticed about quacks, it's that they labor under the delusion that they are real health care providers and that what they do will actually help people in dire straights. That's why they think their woo can contribute whenever disaster strikes.
And few disasters can rival the scale of the earthquake in Haiti two weeks ago.
True to form, the woo-meisters have invaded. We have Homepaths Without Borders planning a trip to Haiti in order to bring quackery to the injured, homeless, and starving masses. Just as bad, if not worse, and as if the Haitian people didn't have it bad enough already, they also have Scientologists invading their devastated island to bring Xenu to cure them of their injury and disease in the wake of the earthquake that killed at least 150,000 people:
Amid the mass of aid agencies piling in to help Haiti quake victims is a batch of Church of Scientology "volunteer ministers", claiming to use the power of touch to reconnect nervous systems.
Clad in yellow T-shirts emblazoned with the logo of the controversial US-based group, smiling volunteers fan out among the injured lying under makeshift shelters in the courtyard of Port-au-Prince's General Hospital.
A wealthy private donor provided his airplane to fly in 80 volunteers from Los Angeles, along with 50 Haitian-American-doctors, in a gesture worth 400,000 dollars, said a Parisian volunteer who gave her name as Sylvie.
"We're trained as volunteer ministers, we use a process called 'assist' to follow the nervous system to reconnect the main points, to bring back communication," she said.
"When you get a sudden shock to a part of your body the energy gets stuck, so we re-establish communication within the body by touching people through their clothes, and asking people to feel the touch."
What the heck is that supposed to mean, "reestablishing communication," "reconnecting the nervous system"? It's faith healing, and faith healing doesn't do much good for broken bones, crushed spleens, fractured skulls, and severed spinal cords. Actually, it doesn't do much good for anything that can't be improved with a placebo. Yet, this is what Scientologists are bringing to the suffering masses in Haiti. As one of the real doctors snorted, "I didn't know touching could heal gangrene."
Speaking of healing gangrene, surgeons are desperately needed in Haiti, surgeons who can debride dead tissue and amputate gangrenous limbs. They're getting them, too, but unfortunately, they're also getting surgeons who carry a bit of baggage with them in the form of woo. True to form, it would appear that acupuncturists are planning on joining the homeopaths. I know this because Lisa Marcucci, MD, trauma surgeon and medical acupuncturist, wrote an astonishingly brain dead defense of Col. Niemtzow's "battlefield acupuncture." Worse, it was published on a blog that is normally a reliable source of medical information, Inside Surgery. In an article entitled Battlefield Acupuncture (Niemtzow Technique) and No Needle Battlefield Acupressure (Marcucci Technique) for Pain Control in Acute Traumatic Injury in Haiti:
One of the more distressing items being reported out of the developing medical catastrophe in Haiti is the lack of even rudimentary anesthesia and analagesia for the treatment of amputations and severe acute traumatic injuries.
One possible strategy for treating patients in pain that is rapidly effective, and has little mortality or serious morbidity risk is the use of battlefield acupuncture, a technique pioneered by Air Force Col Richard Niemtzow, MD PhD in 2001.
Because Dr. Niemtzow's battlefield acupuncture technique is most effective when using specialized small, gold-plated needles that are not always readily available, I have adapted his work to a technique I call battlefield acupressure.
It is truly horrific the level of medical catastrophe going on in Haiti right now. Thousands of people have died; thousands more are injured, many seriously. The medical infrastructure is utterly inadequate to the needs of the people right now, and, despite the outpouring of good will and aid from the rest of the world, it will still be quite a while before international aid reaches levels that begin to address the suffering of the Haitian people. Many will die of their injuries and disease before things get better; many will remain homeless for a long time; some will even die of violence, given that desperate people will do desperate things. The scale of the devastation and human suffering is beyond the ken most people. It's only human nature to want to help, and Dr. Marcucci wants to help.
But first she wants to whine about how badly advocates of science-based medicine treat acupuncture:
Despite the fact that acupuncture has been in use for the treatment of pain for 3000 years, its' use today still remains somewhat controversial and has many reputable critics in the medical establishment.
These authorities point out the lack of compelling, unimpeachable level 1 evidence to support its' use and cite existing studies concluding the effect affect of acupuncture is no better than placebo.
Well, yes. That's true. I've documented it time and time again right here on this very blog. Just search for "acupuncture" in the search box in the left sidebar if you don't believe me. Basically, acupuncture doesn't work better than a placebo. Indeed, sham acupuncture works just as well as "real" acupuncture, and neither of them are more than elaborate placebos. Contrary to claims of any specific actions due to acupuncture or any clear mechanism, we know that it doesn't matter where the needles are placed, and it doesn't even matter if the needles penetrate the skin. Toothpicks produce the same result. I do like how Dr. Marcucci whines about how there is no "unimpeachable" level 1 evidence. Actually, it's a lot more than that; the totality of the evidence supports the conclusion that acupuncture is no more than a placebo. Small, pilot projects produce seemingly positive results, but the bigger and better designed the study, the less the effect, and apparent effects due to acupuncture disappear completely in the largest, best-designed studies using the best acupuncture placebos.
Not that this stops Dr. Marcucci from making a classic argumentum ad populum and an even more classic appeal to authority, logical fallacies both:
What remains inconvertible, however, is that acupuncture is widely sought by the public and its' use has now been adopted by major academic medical centers such as Harvard University, Stanford University, UCLA Medical Center and the University of Maryland where it is used in the oncology and trauma units.
It is also widely used in the Veterans Administration and throughout the United States Military, where it is now being taught to special operations forces, medics, nurses, and physicians alike for use literally on the battlefield as well as in fixed medical facilities.
Therein lies the danger of the infiltration of woo into academia and the military, promoted by men like Col. Niemtzow. "Authorities" that should know better are coopted by quackery. How are lay people supposed to know that these authorities don't know what they're talking about when it comes to various forms of pseudoscience? After all, medical authorities are using it! There must be something to it, right?
Wrong. As we have seen, academia has been coopted. Quackademic medicine has infiltrated medical schools and hospitals.
Then, Dr. Marcucci launches into a totally disingenuous rationale for why to her it's appropriate to bring acupuncture to suffering Haitians:
And, in judging whether this would be an acceptable treatment modality for Haitian patients, what is also irrefutable is the complete absence in many situations of any modern level 1 evidenced care currently being practiced in Haiti.
As an example, some practitioners are being forced to amputate limbs on awake patients placed on bare wood tables under dirty bedsheets (i.e., Civil War era medicine).
In this situation, perhaps the lack of a wide body of level 1 evidence for acupuncture use and the ongoing academic dispute about its efficacy is a nicety that the medical community and Haiti can not now afford.
In other words, to boil it down to surgeonspeak - it may work, likely won't hurt, but you gotta try something because we are cutting off people's legs without narcotics or anesthesia.
In other words, because the destruction of Haiti's medical infrastructure has led doctors to be forced to operate under primitive conditions without adequate medicine or surgical supplies (i.e., forcing them to use techniques with less than "level 1 evidence"), then we should abandon all scientific pretense! Send in the woo!
Yes, it is horrible that amputations are being done without anesthesia. People are suffering. However, if you can send acupuncturists in, why can't you send real doctors in with real anesthetics, or at least with real morphine? Morphine's cheap and abundant. It may not by itself serve as adequate anesthesia for an amputation, but it can do a hell of a lot more than placebo medicine like acupuncture. Heck, just calmly holding a patient's hand can do at least as much as acupuncture, no woo needed.
Sadly, though, Dr. Marcucci can do nothing but lay down the woo:
All pain signals in the body reflex through one or both of the earlobes on its way to the brain.
In many patients, there are 5 main points that can be stimulated through needles or pressure on each earlobe that will partly or totally block this reflex, thus diminishing or eliminating patients awareness/experience of pain.
This is nothing but the purest nonsense. There is no physiologic or neurologic basis to make such a claim. That a surgeon--a trauma surgeon, no less!--would make such a claim and actually believe it is profoundly disturbing. It turns out that Dr. Marcucci is actually the person who founded Inside Surgery. Clearly, I haven't been paying enough attention to this blog; so I did some searches. I didn't find anything about acupuncture other than this post or links to this post. Apparently disaster finally got Dr. Marcucci to let her woo flag fly on her blog. Before that, she had not mentioned that she is a medical acupuncturist.
Remember how I used to joke (well, not exactly joke) that I wanted to put a paper bag over my head like the unknown comic and then later a Doctor Doom mask over our "favorite" creationist neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Egnor? I think it may be time to get the metal mask out again. I've found a surgeon who embarrasses the profession and, through the profession of surgery, me just as much Dr. Egnor does.
The Haitian people deserve better. Much better.
Lisa Marcucci
Richard Niemtzow
WTF even I know enough anatomy to know this is ridiculous. This person is a doctor - this is like an engineer pimping a perpetual motion machine.
Wouldn't an injection of saline be a better placebo if morphine is not available. Of course as Orac points out, if you can send acupuncturists you can send morphine.
By Militant Agnostic (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
How about ketamine for the "battlefield anesthesia"? When my better half worked in anesthesiology she used to tell me ketamine was very popular in settings (like battlefields and distant developing world settings) where they didn't have anesthesiologists and fancy monitoring. The main point was that it didn't depress respiration and blood pressure the way the opiates did. Or maybe ketamine for operations
and then opiates for post-op pain relief.
I've had my own say about the homeopaths and their rather self-centred view that homeopathy is what Haiti needs on my blog. See: Money is better disaster aid than homeopathy
Like you say, though, it is especially depressing to see real doctors joining the "Woo for Disasters" gang.
By Dr Aust (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
So, then, if you amputated both earlobes, you'd never again experience pain of any kind?
By DT35 (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
@ Dr Aust:
Ketamine; precisely so.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/health/2010/0126/1224263113573.html
By Jen (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
More comment on the Scientologists' efforts: Don't panic Haiti, the Scientologists are coming!
By Mojo (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
Sigh. Inside Surgery needs to hire an editor, in addition to considering the scientific validity of its content. "Its' " doesn't make any sense. She should have used "its" throughout. Think "hers' ' or "ours' " or whatever.
Sorry, pedantic...but argh.
By military wife (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
I think the "wealthy private donor" is John Travolta. I heard a news story this morning saying that he had flown his 707 from Florida to Haiti, bringing 4 tons of medical supplies and a number of people; I would imagine that those 80 people mentioned are the one in question.
By Dave (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
Acupuncture is interesting. You'd think it might work due to the same mechanism that, say, a bruise might hurt less if you rub it, but nope! I guess that's why toothpicks are just as effective, though. :P
By muteKi (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
Does this mean if you cut off your earlobes, you'll never feel pain again??
By doctorgoo (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
I'd rather see Travolta out there than Cruise. Travolta still has a good head on his shoulders (more or less), but Cruise has lost the plot.
By Jeff Read (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
"I think the "wealthy private donor" is John Travolta. I heard a news story this morning saying that he had flown his 707 from Florida to Haiti, bringing 4 tons of medical supplies and a number of people; I would imagine that those 80 people mentioned are the one in question."
Unfortuntely for any good this might have done, those 80 people are scientology volunteer ministers, and they left 70 doctors and nurses behind (Non-Scilons) who asked to go on the flight.
By Chance Gearhea… (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
@Jeff Read #11
What difference does it make which movie star is bringing in people to do the woo?
Orac, This is the post I have been waiting for. It's fine to expose the Mike Adams' of the world, but the serious problem of medical professionals adopting woo is scarier to me. I can choose not to involve myself with a woo practitioner, but now I have to screen my MD for woo tendencies! My pregnant internist informed me that she was going to "look into it more" before she would get the H1N1 shot because "they didn't have any without thimerisol and what if.....?" Arghhhhh, she is very sweet, but I nearly went ballistic as I bit my tongue and gently reminded her that she is a trained scientist who knows better than to listen to such nonsense. She blushed and countered that she just didn't want anything at all to harm her baby. I give up!
I also had a number of female gyn's try to get me try all sorts of herbal crap for years before I (finally) found a woo-free MALE gyn to do what was really in order--a hysterectomy!
I was referred to a neurologist (for some routine testing to rule something out) who "prescribed" fish oil supplements. I asked for some evidence and was sent a clipping from a local newspaper column written by an "herbal healer".
Lest you think I live in some hippy-dippy enclave (and I have), this all happened in the midwest at mainstream clinics.
I think the underlying tolerance of religion that is so integral to our national makeup makes it difficult to question the practice of woo without seeming to be "intolerant" or "narrow minded". It is definitely up to doctors to police their own numbers and purge the woo from the profession. I realize that the words "police" and "purge" may conjure negative images, but I use them to urge strong action from within. The public simply does not have the basic skills to sort it all out--they see MD and figure it must be "true".
By Anthro (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
By Rev. BigDumbChimp (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
What Anthro said. Gogogo Orac!
Homeopaths without borders? Lets be honest, they're sociopaths. I don't know how anyone with a conscience could go to Haiti and tell them that all they need to do is drink some water and that will fix their problems. And convincing large groups of people that water will cure them is a clear example of antisocial behavior. Truthfuly, call a spade a spad: 'Sociopaths Without Boarders'
By John Harrold (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
Homeopaths without borders?
Well - they do not recognize the border between fantasy and reality.
Even after all the scandal of the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project post 9/11, and the same routine after the London bombings, for some reason Scientologists continue to push their worthless and dangerous Purification Rundown (TM). They put together a Utah Meth Cops program http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRtx6FppyN0 that received public funding. It is also the method used for their drug rehab company Narconon.
And now Travolta plans to start up The Ocala Detoxification Project. Fundraising will begin at the Ocala premiere of his new film. Why this method is even legal is beyond me.
"Detoxification treatments include daily doses of immediate-release niacin, aerobic exercise, intermittent sauna, cold-pressed oils to prevent toxins from being re-absorbed by the intestines, and vitamin and mineral supplements, according to the International Academy of Detoxification Specialists."
http://www.ocala.com/article/20100123/ARTICLES/1231016/1001/NEWS01?p=1&…
Eek. He plans to inflict this on yet more rescue workers!
Here is a question- If the real medical aid is not available, is it harmful to provide placebo help to people in pain? I am fully against this woo when it prevents people from seeking real help, or when the woopeddlers are charging for nothing. But it is well documented that placebos can help some minor healing, e.g. when soldiers get shot and know they get to go home, they heal faster and need less painkiller than civilians who have similar injuries. The damage here I can see would be to give legitimacy to the woo. Just wondering.
By Jesse P. (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
More comment on the Scientologists' efforts: Don't panic Haiti, the Scientologists are coming!,/blockquote>
Like Haiti doesn't have enough problems...
I'm sure the earthquake was caused by island thetans.
By OleanderTea (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
What hogwash. Combat Woooo.
If I was able to train and deploy "combat acupuncturists" to the combat area ( aka the "sandbox") I should be able to, oh say just for example, provide some extra training in actual proven therapy to advanced practice combat medics/Independent Duty Corpsmen and or the deployed nurses of the US Army and Air Force and Navy. Actual proven therapy would be weird things like digital nerve block/regional anesthesia or systemic analgesics... and or some general relaxation and distraction techniques.... you might know them as "nursing interventions" or psychological counseling techniques. Wacky huh?
I recall having read about this a while ago.. seemed almost like a prank story it was so weird. They were actually researching shortened acupuncture needles that could be inserted and enable continued wear of helmets, and if I recall accurately, continue to "go out and patrol" sort of thing. and no doubt they were going to tint the needles green or tan, and enclose in some sort of a camo-colored nylon case.
The troops need REAL CARE, REAL MEDICINE, REAL PAIN RELIEF. I might assign some sort of value and benefit from a "combat acupuncturist" having spent time focusing on the needs, comfort, and pain issues of a patient in the military medicine system. If the time and money is there for the training... TRAIN with actual medicine/nursing. If the money is there to deploy more health professionals... SEND REAL ACTUAL professionals that can add enhanced pain management techniques to their 'toolkit' and arrive with many skills.
just my thoughts. only 26 years experience in military medicine and nursing.
By BLueMaxx (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
"The damage here I can see would be to give legitimacy to the woo."
That's what the acunpuncturists and homeopaths most desperately want.
The problem is that they're taking up space and resources needed for critical, life-saving medical care. What happens when parents with a sick or injured child go to the first practitioner they happen to see, and it's a homeopath?
Societies with readily available, quality medical care and abundant resources can withstand having quacks operate. Haiti can't.
By Dangerous Bacon (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
As one of the real doctors snorted, "I didn't know touching could heal gangrene."
It can't, but I find it very effective against erectile disfunction.
By Smrt Newfie (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
From yesterday:
"Cedar Rapidsâ Peter Teahen â disaster specialist, funeral director and recent candidate for the U.S. Congress â is flying into disaster-hit Haiti this evening with actor John Travolta and a medical contingent in Travoltaâs jet.
Teahen, who is not a Scientologist, said the church has come to play a bigger and bigger role in disaster relief both internationally and in the United States."
http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/82636077.html
Scientology: can't make this stuff up.
I can't find the article on SBM where this was discussed, but isn't the claim that "acupuncture has been in use for the treatment of pain for 3000 years" also about as full of it as it gets? I was under the impression that the documented history of accupuncture was only a couple of hundred years at most. But hey, why let pesky facts get in the way of a good Ancient Whizdom™ narrative, huh?
By realinterrobang (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
Jesse P. asks:
"Here is a question- If the real medical aid is not available, is it harmful to provide placebo help to people in pain?"
If it were truly a choice betweeen nothing and placebo, then it would be better to give a placebo.
However, the real question is:
"Given a finite amount of aircraft space and a finite number of landings at Port-au-Prince, is it better to send placebos (e.g. homeopaths, Scientologists, acupuncturists) or real medicine (e.g. surgeons, anesthesiologists, antibiotics, analgesics, etc.)?"
In this case, ethics demands that we send real help to people in need, not placebos.
Hasn't Haiti suffered enough?
By Prometheus (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
So I don't normally comment, but I'm going to go out on a limb and speak for the homeopaths. If they could in fact dilute all the stuff in the water out to the point of non-exisitence, wouldn't that make them unusually useful for a change? I mean, if they were to provide clean drinking water, that might actually save lives. For once, I think they might unwittingly be on to something.
By Robin (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
@Robin
Only if they give liter+ size megadoses, I suppose, with solutions in an aqueous form (i.e., no pills, no alcohol-based concoctions).
By Todd W. (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
So how about the following arguments
Despite the fact that stone hand axes has been in use as tools for 500000 years, heir use today still remains somewhat controversial and has many reputable critics in the engineering establishment.
Despite the fact that clay tablets has been in use as writing implements for 5000 years, their use today still remains somewhat controversial and has many reputable critics in the information technology establishment.
I never understand this type of argument.
By MartinB (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
I suppose that Homeopaths without Borders will at least bring much-needed water to people in need...
By Ash (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
Didn't the Pentagon learn its lesson from its Iraq and Afghanistan coalition partner's experience with bogus bomb detectors?
By Phoenix Woman (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
Its absolutely disgusting in Haiti. They have one runway which is being run from a converted trailer. Its gone from 5 flights a day to 24 hour service. Not enough space on the ground to get enough supplies and personel in, there's a nice waiting list to land.
And somehow revolta got his private jet in with 80 hacks that will undermine the actual work being done, as well as delaying actual help. The scientologists are even complaining about how they're being scorned, thinking it was because they wear yellow t-shirts (I'm glad they do, I'm sure most people in Haiti are happy its easy to spot a scientologist and go the other way... if they're able to move.)
We could so easily have had farmers in Afghanistan growing poppies for more morphine, just to help handle emergencies like this (we probably already have a large enough emergency supply, i don't know.)
By evinfuilt (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
@Prometheus:
"If it were truly a choice betweeen nothing and placebo, then it would be better to give a placebo."
I seldom disagree with you. However, if you receive nothing because nothing is available, you'll realize that and try to do what you can to help yourself. This is better than the false hope of a placebo (or, something touted as having a benefit when it has none).
"Hasn't Haiti suffered enough?"
In light of its history since the first revolution in 1803, probably not (not that things were better before 1803, unless you were a planter). What is truly amazing is how different a place the Dominican Republic is.
By wfjag (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
Homeopaths Without Borders should work according to the principles of homeopathy. Dilute the homeopaths with more and more doctors until no homeopaths are going. People will get well. Don't forget to strike the homeopaths - very important!
By t_p_hamilton (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
An untrained lay person would be better than a homeopath. They would spend their time trying to help out in some manner that actually did something. They wouldn't claim you were miraculously healed. They wouldn't sit around doing nothing but lying to patients. Maybe they'd just end up doing manual labor. It'd be better than nothing. Homeopaths and scientologists aren't worth the jet fuel. Leave the seat empty if you can't fill it with somebody useful.
By gopi (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
@t_p_hamilton
Don't forget to strike the homeopaths - very important!
No, no. It's shake, not strike. Succuss, not concuss.
I realize that the lack of infrastructure and government is part of the problem when it comes to disasters, but who gets to decide who comes? I mean, do they have to accept everyone who shows up?
By k8 (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
'All pain signals in the body reflex through one or both of the earlobes on its way to the brain.'
On the planet of the Ferengi maybe.
By Shatterface (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
I have no words with which to express my contempt for these miserable lousy no-good sons of dogs who would send people to point their gods-damned fingers at people and smile instead of offering real help. they should be conscripted into doing actual useful work, and made to pay their own way home.
Don't let them have a blasted vacation, pointing their fingers at people and chanting happy verse, put them to work!
Let them see the devastation first hand, and then ask them if they would have been willing to give up their seat on the plane to an actual doctor or nurse. Unfortunately, most of them will say "but we *are* helping! we really are! "
As for the homeopaths... perhaps they too could help by clearing away rubble and debris, and by using their happy homeopathic skill to bury the dead. I'm sure there's more than enough of that latter chore to keep them all busy.
By DLC (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
PS: My heartfelt apologies to dog lovers everywhere for comparing those Scientology cretins to dogs.
It's an insult to the canine species.
I would compare them to slime, but slime actually serves a useful purpose.
Bless Agence France-Presse for staying on top of this.
Travolta flies aid, Scientology to Haiti
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jeF5ussei3k0K7yvLch5…
"A number of young Haitian men, desperate for work, and food, were being taught the technique by volunteers and were encouraged to make "touching" rounds themselves.
Carol Delva, 29, suffered a crushed knee when her house collapsed on her, and lay inert on damp sheets in the courtyard while LA-based Scientologist Dave McGregor touched her feet, legs and torso, thanking her with a "merci" after each poke."
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_assist )
I guess I have to thank Travolta for bringing extra publicity and scorn to junk science. Wouldn't it be great if we could have Dawkins do something like "The Enemies of Reason" on US TV? PBS used to be about Carl Sagan, not Wayne Dyer. We've gotta fix that. This could be a way for them to become relevant again. (Yeah, I think about this a lot. I also think we need more Brian Cox in People Magazine.)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4720837385783230047&ei=trxfS-2…
Though I don't care for Scientology but at least they are willing to do something, more than most who post on this forum including myself :( I used to be fundamentalist leaning but now consider myself a rational deist. One of the wise sayings I heard was "what a fundamentalist cannot understand he deems as evil", I think I am hearing this from the fundamentalists of Skepticism. At least the people care enough to help someone (albeit in a method that the Skeptics do not understand) and are not scoffing at those who hold differing viewpoints.
By patrick (not verified) on 26 Jan 2010 #permalink
Multiple info dump, I know.... What else can I do.
Apparently Scientology supporter Peter Teahen, (post #24), is a national media spokesperson for the American Red Cross. Teahen has been interviewed on âLarry King Live,â âGood Morning America,â âOprah,â the Weather Channel, Fox News, The BBC and Al Jazeera Broadcasting Company. He has his own website. Teahen met Travolta during Hurricane Katrina.
Patrick @ 42 :
What, pray tell, are the scientologists actually doing ?
go back and read through. They are not in fact doing anything useful, not even donating money. What they are doing is sending people out for a Public Relations gimmick to practice "Energy Medicine." Do you really believe such works ?
Do you ? If it doesn't work, why then are they doing it, and how is this helping the people whose lives have been blasted by this disaster ? They aren't delivering food, water, medicine, shelter or other supplies. They are simply pointing their fingers at people or touching them and then expecting them to get better. Patrick, doing the wrong thing is worse than doing nothing. In this case, they are doing harm by omission, and deliberately doing so.
Donating money would have at least eventually helped the people of Haiti to some small extent.
patrick # 42:
The "something" they are doing is worse than nothing. If they were doing nothing, a plane full of doctors, surgeons, and medical supplies, or even just volunteers to help clear away rubble / do whatever else is needed could have landed. Instead, you have a bunch of people who are going to actually interfere with medicinal aid (through methods such as telling people they don't need medicine, teaching other volunteers how to properly "poke" patients instead of useful skills like sterilizing water and bandages, etc.)
By darius (not verified) on 27 Jan 2010 #permalink
Homeopaths Without Borders should work according to the principles of homeopathy. Dilute the homeopaths with more and more doctors until no homeopaths are going.
What about throwing the homeopaths in the middle of the ocean and letting them dilute from there?
(Yes, the behaviour of these people brings out my misanthropic side... why do you ask?)
By has (not verified) on 27 Jan 2010 #permalink
John Harrold: I've no problems with homeopaths handing out water that "remembers" all sorts of things as a cure for whatever ails folk. I just hope they're boiling the water before they give it to people. It would be horrible if the water "remembered" things like the bacteria which cause cholera, or typhoid, or any number of other water-borne diseases. Particularly if the water "remembered" them in sufficient quantity to cause an epidemic. I mean, call me picky, but I figure disease epidemics are right up there on the (long) list of things the people of Haiti don't need at this point.
By Meg Thornton (not verified) on 27 Jan 2010 #permalink
At least the people care enough to help someone (albeit in a method that the Skeptics do not understand) and are not scoffing at those who hold differing viewpoints.
define help in the way that Scientologists are helping
The video footage is kind of heartbreaking. I think John knows he's not doing the right thing.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/travolta-flies-more-sciento…
I know Scientology gossip isn't the purview of this blog, but as some background you should know that the cult is getting into deeper and deeper doo-doo these days.
http://tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1067720.ece
(Futher - Nick Xenophon and the Australian senate, Californian labor violation and human trafficking class-action lawsuit, last autumn's fraud conviction in France, wrongful death suit in Italy, federal charges in Belgium, etc etc)
Meg Thornton @47: homeopaths always make a big point of insisting they use "double distilled water" (this, in their Parallel Universe, is supposed to "wipe" the memory of all the other s**t the water has had dissolved in it).
Of course, if you had ddH2O in quantities in a disaster area the most therapeutic thing you could do with it would be to use it to prepare oral electrolyte solutions for people with diarrhoeal diseases, and/or use it in medical procedures if you don't have sterile water to hand, or just give it to give it to people to drink (since it should be microbiologically clean). No need to shake it homeopathologically first for that last one.
Anyway, there would be A LOT more useful uses for ddH2O than making homeopathic remedies. And given this, I am 99% certain the "homeopathic first aiders" WON'T be giving out aqueous remedies. They will, I confidently predict, be dishing out placebo sugar pills. Which contain no water - only the "memory" of it, ho ho.
As to Patrick @42's comment - first, as dlc@44 and darius@43 noted, the Xenoids are actually getting in the way of the real relief effort.
Second, they could instead have done some good by raising funds from their supporter network to give to the main relief agencies. And as I said in my blogpost on "Money is better disaster aid than homeopathy", the very best thing you can do, as a member of the public, is to send money. It may feel like nothing, but it isn't. It will be used to provide the disaster relief. Read this excellent post from a British Red Cross worker describing why the money is what they need the most.
If they are amputating without anesthesia, perhaps they are at least using broad tourniquets to cause mechanical anesthesia? Please?
By stewart (not verified) on 27 Jan 2010 #permalink
Thanks, Jen, for all of your posts--I think we are on the same page.
As to the scientologists--are they going to "point" to the amputation stumps and cause new limbs to grow? Why not, if the method is valid? At least this is a phenomenon that can happen in the natural world, unlike their touchy-healy nonsense.
Patrick: You need to read up on skepticism. Arguing reason against magic is not the equivalent of disagreeing over a "viewpoint".
k8 @ 37 - I believe it's different in every disaster, depending on a lot of different factors.
There was an existing force of UN peacekeepers in Haiti before the earthquake, but from what I understand they were mostly concentrated on the search for survivors and are now coordinating aid efforts. The US military has been controlling the airport and thus deciding who gets to land and who doesn't. I believe the seaport was destroyed and is largely unusable.
From what I can tell from news agencies, the Scientologists were allowed to land in Port-Au-Prince, rather than having to land in the Dominican Republic and truck themselves over to Haiti. One article mentioned that they brought drinking water and an x-ray machine, so the military might have decided to allow them to land for those supplies alone.
By Natalie (not verified) on 27 Jan 2010 #permalink
The television news broadcasts from Florida report as follows: JT's was the only civilian aircraft permitted to land, and it arrived with 4 tons of medical supplies, 24 doctors, and 3750 MREs. There was no mention of anyone returning back to Florida with John and Kelly.
WESH, WFPS
National Red Cross media spokesman Peter Teahen got the call to accompany (probably read: arrange) this trip over the weekend. He specified that he was doing it as a private individual and not as a representative of the Red Cross, but the news report identified him as such nonetheless. JT footed Teahen's bill for the trip.
"Teahen, who is not a Scientologist, said the church has come to play a bigger and bigger role in disaster relief both internationally and in the United States."
but now consider myself a rational deist
Patrick, you may want to look up the meaning of the word "rational".
By T. Bruce McNeely (not verified) on 27 Jan 2010 #permalink
Someone just showed up in the NY Times Lede discussion of Scilon VMs in Haiti with this plug:
"After Katrina, we set up the Common Ground Health Clinic which offered free western and alternative health care. The value of alternative health care like massage, acupuncture or herbalism to me - a western trained nurse - is that the practitioners take time to be with the patient. The patient relaxes and focuses on their health. That human element of being present for someone who is suffering, is a valuable compliment to the western medical offerings people like me can give."
Common Ground Health Clinic
http://www.commongroundclinic.org/j15/index.php?option=com_content&view…ã=en
The website features many human/civil rights-type quotes, and text such as this:
"The practice of herbalism in a clinical setting is a many-faceted form of healing. In general, herbalism is a non-invasive, holistic practice, meaning that instead of and/or in addition to focusing on isolated ailments, the herbalist works with clients to treat the underlying causes and the whole person. Herbalists work primarily with whole plant medicines such as medicinal teas, tinctures (plant extracts made with alcohol, glycerin or vinegar), topical applications such as salves and ointments, and an array of others. Often, seemingly unrelated imbalances may all be improved with herbs that support entire body systems. In addition, characteristics such as body type, occupation and family life are often clues for the herbalist as to how best to help clients succeed in the healing process.
Herbalism is a practice that encourages, and indeed often requires, people to participate in their own healing. In this way it is an empowering modality, allowing people to become more self-reliant and informed about their bodies and their health."
The site also features many "donate" buttons.
This Mother Jones article from 2006 describes them as creating a new model of community health care. Extra points for vaccinating (!) Halliburton subcontractors, Acupuncturists Without Borders reference, and the overarching sense that they saw themselves not as medical providers as much as activists.
http://motherjones.com/politics/2006/03/street-samaritans
(Think the clinic recommends vaccinations now?)
This "participate in their own healing," "empowering modality," and "allowing people to become more self-reliant" thing really sticks in my craw(fish).
I just got an email from Ticketmonster informing me of a charity concert at the House of Blues starring Colbie Caillat, Brett Dennen plus others. Proceeds go to Real Medicine for Haiti.
The name set off my woo-dar, so I hit teh Googlz. Here's what I found: http://www.realmedicinefoundation.org/about/team_whole_health.asp
And lest I get caught in the url-trap, I encourage you to snoop through the rest of the site.
It's a good thing I don't like Colbie Caillat (or other milquetoast musics).
By Rogue Epidemiologist (not verified) on 28 Jan 2010 #permalink
A slight O/T to pay my respects
Robert Minton, anti-Scientology Activist
Some comments observed via Twitter, from an infectious disease doctor named Megan Coffee:
"There is still a need for docs and nurses in Haiti. I hope people keep coming."
"The most common NGO shirt I see in Port Au Prince: Scientology"
"still confused why most common t shirt in hospital among health care workers is scientology."
"The ID doc in me is amazed: filariasis, tetanus and TSP. those were the first three diseases I was asked about today."
Gawker - Scientologists in Haiti - A Firsthand Account
"We've spoken to someone who traveled to Haiti on a Scientology plane â and witnessed firsthand the ineptitude, quackery and irresponsibility of the church's minions in a disaster zone. Here's his account."
By Anonymous (not verified) on 02 Feb 2010 #permalink
London Times - Scientologists promise to stay after Port-au-Prince aid operation
Quote mine:
"Ms Harney said that the Scientologists were able to offer their own healing method in the hospital and in the clinic established by the University of Miami. âA person can be hurting and medical assistance does not work,â she said. âWe help people to locate themselves.â
The method, known as âassistâ might involve touching parts of the body or asking a patient to stare at a wall. âItâs a special Scientology technique developed by Mr Hubbard,â said Ms Harney, referring to the science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, who founded the church in 1954.
Reports suggest that many injured Haitians have been grateful but bemused: an incomprehension that the Scientologists have attributed occasionally to the trauma that they are suffering."
By Not the crazy one (not verified) on 02 Feb 2010 #permalink
Apologies for reviving an olde thread, but acupuncture anaesthesia is discussed in the above post, and this same subject came up in conversation recently. According to a friend acupuncture has been used as anaesthesia during c-section deliveries. I thought this sounded pretty unbelievable, but while investigating came across this abstract in pubmed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7431353
"The application of acupuncture anesthesia in obstetrics is discussed and reviewed. Of 14 patients delivered by cesarean section under acupuncture, 8 (57%) felt no pain, and 6 did not go through the entire procedure without other supplementary anesthesia. The failure and success rates are reviewed. It is suggested that the technique be evaluated further because with acupuncture the fetus and mother are completely protected from the secondary effects of general regional anesthesia."
I can't access the rest of the article myself and don't have the expertise to ascertain a good study from bad even if I could. All other references to acupuncture anaesthetic during c-sections refer back to this same study. Can anyone else access the study? Is it legit?
By Hinterlander (not verified) on 26 Feb 2012 #permalink
bump ^
My first reaction is that without the full article, it's impossible to evaluate meaningfully.
My second is that it's from 1980, so if it was really something it would have been more extensively followed up on long ago.
By Beamup (not verified) on 27 Feb 2012 #permalink
The current best data suggests that acupuncture is no more effective than tapping the skin in random locations with a toothpick. That said, there's supposedly research ongoing about using acupuncture for pain in battlefield scenarios. I find that disgraceful, myself, but if they find useful evidence I'd be willing to change my mind.
By Mephistopheles… (not verified) on 27 Feb 2012 #permalink
"My second is that it's from 1980, so if it was really something it would have been more extensively followed up on long ago."
Thanks Beamup, my thoughts exactly.
Studies like this tend to hang around as legends amongst the believers, however. To the person I was speaking with, this study lent real weight to acupuncture's supposed efficacy.
Given the time and place I can't help but wonder if the women were willing subjects (if the study did take place as described in the abstract).
Mephistopheles O'Brien:
"The current best data suggests that acupuncture is no more effective than tapping the skin in random locations with a toothpick. That said, there's supposedly research ongoing about using acupuncture for pain in battlefield scenarios. I find that disgraceful, myself, but if they find useful evidence I'd be willing to change my mind."
I agree. IMO the methods used in acupuncture for pain management are more or less pain distraction, couched in mystical descriptions of qi stagnation, etc. (I flirted with acupuncture in my 20s)
One of the points almost universally used for headaches is located in between the first and second metacarpal bones. If you massage in there you'll feel an achy spot along the [insert name of nerve here]. Imagine both these points being needled and stimulated (via acupuncturist or electroacupuncture) to the point where you can just tolerate it, for about 20mins along with whatever other points are selected. You pretty much forget about whatever other pain you have and just focus on the needles. The endorphin release leaves you feeling happy for a while after, until the pain comes back.
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Here's a brief update on the move, announced last week. Things are progressing, and most of my old material has been transferred to the new blog, which is located at respectfulinsolence.com. Of course, there are still some things to tweak and fix, which is why, given how insanely busy this week is…
A change is gonna come. Respectful Insolence is moving.
Well, QEDCon is over, and this box of blinky lights is on its way back across the pond to its home in the US, having had an excellent time imbibing skepticism from its (mostly) British and European partners in skepticism. Before I left, I made a somewhat cryptic remark about "major changes" to this…
And the box of blinky lights has arrived in Manchester for QEDCon
As you probably noticed, I didn't manage a post yesterday. Nor did I manage one today, other than this. That's because I was busy preparing for QEDCon, where I will be on a panel and giving a talk, and, of course, putting together my talk. As I write this, I'm horrendously jet lagged; so I probably…
On the "integration" of quackery into the medical school curriculum
QEDCon is fast approaching (indeed, I can't believe I have to leave for Manchester tomorrow night), and because my talk there will be about the phenomenon of "integrative medicine," I've been thinking a lot about it. As I put together my slides, I can't help but see my talk evolving to encompass…


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Five former Ghanaian players who are coaches abroad
More often than not, many footballers enter into coaching after they hang their boots and even with some of them, they undertake coaching courses getting to the twilight of their careers so that when they retire, they start their new adventure.
Coaches like Zidane, Laurent Blanc, Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard and others played soccer to the highest level and they have also veered into coaching.
Currently in Ghana, we have Ibrahim Tanko, Maxwell Konadu, Michael Osei, Charles Akonnor, Godwin Attram, as well as Winfred Dormon who are former national team players and are carving a niche for themselves in coaching.
Edmund Okai Gyimah of Ghanacrusader.com brings to you five former Ghana national team players who are coaches abroad.
5.Edward Ansah (Churchill Brothers, India)
The ex Ghana Black Stars number one goalkeeper joined his former club Churchill Brothers in India in May, 2019 as the Head Coach of the club.
The soft spoken Ansah has enormous experience in the coaching field having handled the Black Leopards of South Africa and also as Deputy Coach for Accra Hearts of Oak and Dreams FC.
He has the support of the board and has been tasked to bring the glory days back.
4. Baba Adamu Armando (Forceis FC, Dubai UAE)
Arguably the most talented footballer of his generation and one of the most naturally gifted players Ghana has ever seen, Armando spent most of his playing career in Dubai (UAE) where he featured for Al Nasr and Shabaab Al Ahli. He also attained cult status with Krylia Sovetov and Locomotive Moscow in Russia.
Armando who was staying in Russia was appointed the technical director of Amateur league side, Forceis FC in Dubai. He is also a scout for Pro League clubs Al Jazira and Al Nasr.
3. Sebastian Barnes (Bayer Leverkrusen, Germany)
Barnes was an integral part of the Black Starlets team which won the 1991 FIFA Under-17 World Cup in Italy and also captained the side to second place in 1993 in Japan.
An attacking player who was turned into a right-back by coach Isaac Paha, Barnes spent almost all his playing time in Germany where he featured for Leverkrusen, Mainz O5, Oberhausen and a couple of lower division teams.
He was appointed as Under-14 Coach for Leverkrusen in 2013 and has been very key in their youth development programme.
2. Christian Saba (Bayer Munich, Germany)
In the history of Bayer Munich, no foreign player has lasted so long at the club than the Ghanaian. He joined the Bavarians at the age of 16 in 1995 and spent 16 years at the club with the second team.
He retired at Bayer in 2011 and in 2012, he was appointed as their Under-17 Coach after he attained his coaching license.
1.Otto Addo (Dortmund, Germany)
Born in Hamburg, Addo chose to represent and was part of the Ghana team which played in the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
After retiring from football in 2008, he undertook coaching courses and has worked as Assistant Coach for Hamburg, Nordsjaelland and Monchengladbach. He was also a scout for the Black Stars from 2013 to 2015.
Addo is one of the Deputy Managers for Lucien Favre at Dortmund senior side and also takes charge of the youth team as Head Coach.


Pontsho Bruce Mantlhakga, born 10 July 1992 in Polokwane, Limpopo Province. Matriculated at Hoërskool Noorderland in 2010 and completed Journalism Diploma at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) in 2016.
Pontsho grew up playing football in the dusty fields of Lebowakgomo a township in Limpopo. His dream was to be a football superstar but life had other ideas. Since he didn't make it in football; he told himself he wants to remain in the football fraternity. During his years in high school, he always spoke about football games and his friends suggested that he should be a football commentator.
Pontsho loves music, he was a house DJ in high school, he played during school events for a year. He pursed his love for DJ'ing even at tertiary level playing at exclusive club venues. In 2014, he gave DJ'ing a break to focus on his journalism diploma.
In 2015, Pontsho decided to give acting a try. His first TV appearance was in April on Rhythm City as an extra playing a role of a security guard at Kilowatt. Later that year in September he appeared as a featured extra on Mzansi Magic's The Road as a journalist. Pontsho has an acting certificate obtained in December 2015.
Pontsho has worked at Capricorn FM as an intern (news reporter and compiler).
Although Pontsho is a football enthusiast, he also loves tennis. His favorite tennis player is Raphael Nadal.
His dream is to work in the UK for a media agency.


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A delightful mix of new music for your weekend
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Category: Folk, Indie Pop, Playlist, Pop
Matt Van – "Gossamer girl"
-I appreciate the relaxed acoustic style of this track. It is a soothing style. The familiar vocal style of Matt Van feels like someone you've heard before but I can't quite think of any specific comparison. It's a relaxing vibe overall, which I think is the perfect way to ease into a new weekend under these unique circumstances in 2020.
Jenny Plant – "Coming home"
-The phrasing of this track is excellent. Jenny Plant's vocal stands out from the crowd in a clear, genuine way. The orchestral background gives a perfect canvas for Plant's artistic vocal lines. The entire composition, which surrounds a lyrical ethic about returning to home not as a physical place but rather a personal identifier, has a calming, zen-like presence about it. This is a song for all of the seekers out there who are using the quarantine as a time to ask good existential questions. This is powerful.
House Above the Sun – "Time I got goin'"
-The easy going folk energy of this track is really rewarding. I think the easy comparison here is probably Dylan. The song rings true of a lot of the 60s Greenwich Village style folk music. I appreciate the balance between the vocal and the string work. The whole composition is a thoughtful and approachable style.
Belle Shea – "Art of Years"
-This is a remarkable little acoustic song. At first it seems like "just another" strummed acoustic tune, but then Belle Shea's vocal fills the room with warmth. The combination of a relaxed guitar element and a quality lead vocal goes a long way. By the time the more avant garde elements enter into the track, there's a distance between the sweet and melodic parts with the plinking in the background. I appreciate that it ends up being so very different than my first impression — in a good way.
Outsourced Feelings – "Outsourced feelings"
-This is a love song of a sort. It's also a blues song of a completely different sort. The chord structure and overall style all defy typical genre definitions. But what I like about the song most is that it seems to capture an aesthetic. If you're looking for something a bit off the beaten path but still holds a core bit of lyrical truth, give this a spin.
Willow Robinson – "Cold"
-A few years ago I found an artist called Alexander Wolfe who blew me away with this kind of atmospheric yet still grounded sound. Willow Robinson has captured that same kind of energy in this new song "Cold." I don't know if it's some magic in the recording or if Robinson's vocal really has this powerful resonance. I like the poetic message of the lyrics as they pair with the energy of the acoustic and vocal. This is so good.
Jack Burn – "Timezones"
-I sent this track to a friend and told him it was "Mumford-esque." I think that comparison makes a lot of sense, especially given the feel-good hand claps on the chorus especially. I appreciate the connection between the distance and intimacy of the lyrics. I think it's about being restricted at a distance, but maybe I'm just reading the current circumstances into it. No matter, the song has a bright energy that I'm happy to support.
Abi Farrell – "The only way I learn"
-I've been a fan of neosoul music for a long time, so I was thrilled to get this quality submission from Abi Farrell. The vocal is outstanding! The whole composition echoes those tried and true gospel roots of soul music. You can hear the expression in Farrell's vocal here. The vibrato is just perfect. The song's about telling yourself the truth. We could all use that message right now!
Henry Black – "Too Old to Count the Ways"
-I've covered Henry Black several times in the past few years. He's an old soul, creating some really fascinating timeless folk music. His lyricism blazes an incredible trail in the Dylan and Townes Van Zandt way. This is no hand clapping excitable modern folk music. This is thoughtful, evocative, put it on and sip a fine beverage kind of folk. And I am absolutely HERE for it.
Karin Fransson – "Sister soul"
-I am not quite sure what genre to call Karin Fransson's music, but it definitely stands out in a crowded overall music scene. Fransson's vocal alone makes it really interesting. There's a dash of another Karen in her sound, that is Carpenter. The pure quality just drips from each vocal line. The unconventional melody definitely bounces between vintage 70s sounds into even some modern pop/R&B sensibilities. If you're looking for a mixed aesthetic with a great lead vocal, spin Fransson's latest "Sister Soul."
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Dutch heavy haulage company Te Kloeze-Bruyl has recently taken delivery of one of the first new generation five-axle Scania V8 S 730 tractors following an earlier delivery of a three-axle Scania V8 S 520 tractor.
The Scania S 730 is configured as a 10×4*6, which signifies two steered front axles, two driven axles and one steered tag axle. Adapted for heavy haulage, the tractor has a rack behind the cab with fuel tanks, AdBlue tank and trailer hydraulic system. These adaptations are factory-assembled.
The cab is no less impressive. Because these transports are usually scheduled for nights, drivers are away from home during long periods. Te Koeze-Bruyl therefore ticked nearly every option box. Drivers can enjoy leather upholstery, a premium driver seat and rotatable passenger seat, an infotainment system with navigation on a 7-inch screen, refrigerator, coffee maker, microwave and TV. To enhance safety, the company has equipped the truck with a side-view camera system with a quadruple split screen so that the driver at a glance can see four positions around the vehicle.


The days are getting shorter and your horse's coat is getting longer. You've pulled sheets and blankets out of storage and are ready for the first cold nights. You find yourself studying the weather 10 days out: Is it time to clip yet? If so, what type of clip? And then, which blanket? Of course, you're concerned about your horse's optimal comfort at rest and at work as well as how to maintain his healthy skin and general well-being once he's been clipped. Here, top international horse-care experts Alan Davies, international traveling groom for British Olympians Carl Hester and Charlotte Dujardin, and Carmen Thiemann, who oversees care for all of German Olympian Ingrid Klimke's horses, share their insights on clipping and blanketing.
Davies has been a professional groom for his entire adult life and has been with Hester, Dujardin and their horses since 2011. He has been recognized by Team Great Britain as Groom of the Year in 2015 and by Horse & Hound magazine as 2016 Groom of the Year. When it comes to providing exceptional care and, in particular, to clipping and blanketing, Davies emphasizes the importance of tailoring his approach to each horse as an individual.
Generally speaking, Davies begins to clip horses sometime in September, which is in accordance with England's climate and the intention that the horses will compete internationally throughout the winter season.
For Thiemann, the type of clip depends on the horse's workload, turnout schedule and whether or not the horse will be showing. Thiemann explains, "At our stable, the horses are still turned out daily all winter long. I have to think about this when it comes to clipping and blanketing because they will need more protection and warmth on their backs and in the kidney area in order to be comfortable and maintain wellness when turned out." Therefore, for young horses and horses who do not compete much, Thiemann prefers a blanket-clip pattern, which keeps the horse cool at work but also provides hair coverage along his complete topline for turnout.
For horses who do compete regularly throughout the winter, Thiemann does a full-body clip, leaving only a patch of hair in the shape of a saddle in the saddle area.
Davies says he prefers a full-body clip for horses schooling and competing throughout the winter. Removing all the hair simply makes it easier to maintain cleanliness and keep the horse comfortable before, during and after work. Hester's and Dujardin's horses get turned out daily in most weather, so choosing the right blankets becomes crucial once the horses are clipped. Davies also mentions that Hester's stable is designed with a traditional courtyard, so each stall has a window that allows the horses to look out into the area. The stalls also have a window at the back that is opened during the day, which increases ventilation and offers the horses an alternate view. Because of the open design, the horses are exposed to and enjoy a lot of fresh air even when they are inside.
The flip side of this is that horses who have been body-clipped will need to regulate their own temperature against the elements 24 hours a day, so Davies needs to blanket accordingly.
When it comes to clipping legs, faces and ears, Davies and Thiemann both strive to match common-sense considerations with the aesthetic requirements of the competitive dressage arena. Thiemann says, "I always shave the pasterns because they stay cleaner that way. Also, horses can easily develop scratches [a fungal infection] under a long coat in the pastern area, especially if they are regularly turned out on wet grass." Thiemann prefers to clip horses' heads and ears, but only externally, so the horse appears tidy and does not sweat as much under the bridle.
Germany has passed legislation that bans the shaving of the inside of horses' ears as well as the long hairs on the muzzle and around the eyes. The basis for the law is that horses need this hair (technically called vibrissae) in order for them to have optimal spatial awareness and discretion about what they ingest and for insect protection. Therefore, competitors at equestrian competitions in Germany can be fined if these hairs are clipped, a policy that Thiemann adheres to and supports because she believes the facial hair does have an important function for horses and leaving it in place promotes overall well-being.
Thiemann says she cannot identify a specific temperature at which blanketing becomes relevant as this varies greatly from horse to horse. She explains, "Some horses run warm and never need as heavy a blanket. Others may grow a coat faster and require a thicker blanket to prevent it from coming in so fast." She says horses in Klimke's barn use all types of blankets: stable blankets of every weight, anti-sweat sheets, rain sheets for turnout. Yes, she's a fan of neck covers for horses who have been freshly clipped, both with their regular blankets and anti-sweat coolers.


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Q: Convert Excel RTD library to Excel-DNA while retaining =RTD( interface (64 bit Excel) I have written an IRTDServer in C# and it works fine.
I'd like to convert the code to use Excel DNA (for various reasons, but the most important being that I'd like to have multiple addins loaded each in their own appdomain).
However, in the short term, I'd like to preserve the "old" way of calling, i.e.
    =RTD("ProgId",,"MyCoolFunction","Arg1").
I'm using this sample project to get started with:
https://github.com/Excel-DNA/Samples/tree/master/RtdClocks/RtdClock-ExcelRtdServer
I have it working so that I can use =dnaRtdClock_ExcelRtdServer() in Excel and it gives me time updates every few seconds.

*

*Is it going to be possible to call it via =RTD(" ...

*If so, am I correct that the function to enter into Excel would be =RTD("RtdClock.ClockServer",,"dummy/ignored").

*And then mainly:

What do I need to do to be able to call that same function via =RTD("RtdClock.ClockServer",,"dummy/ignored")
I guess I should also ask a fourth question:
If I am able to successfully access the IRTDServer via the =RTD( function call, will Excel/Excel-DNA be loading the implementing DLL into the FullyTrustedSandbox or the DefaultDomain? [after all, the whole reason I'm doing this conversion to Excel DNA is to get the AppDomain feature].
Things I've tried:

*

*I added a GUID to RTDClockServer project.

*I ran %SystemRoot%\Microsoft.Net\Framework64\v4.0.30319\RegAsm.exe RtdClock-ExcelRtdServer.dll /codebase.  Initially it complained about ExcelDna.Integration being missing.   So I changed the reference to that package to be CopyLocal=True.

*I checked the registry.  It does have all the COM registration entries that I would expect from registering an RTD server.

*I've tried adding =RTD("RtdClock.ClockServerRTD",,) as  function call.  I see that it does load my DLL and hits a break point, but ONLY the ServerTerminate breakpoint (so, not the ServerStart for example).  I also see that the AppDomain in this case is DefaultDomain, not the "FullyTrustedSandBox: ..."

*I've tried running c:\windows\system32\regsvr32 against the DLL, against all of the *.xll files in the following directory: [note: I started with the RtdClock-ExcelRtdServer-AddIn64-packed.xll and RtdClock-ExcelRtdServer-AddIn64.xlls as they seemed most logical too me.]  These consistently fail silently from the command line, but in the EventViewer I see an error:
Application: regsvr32.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.InvalidOperationException
   at ExcelDna.Integration.RunMacroSynchronization.Register()
   at ExcelDna.Integration.SynchronizationWindow..ctor()
   at ExcelDna.Integration.SynchronizationManager.Install()
   at ExcelDna.Integration.DnaLibrary.Initialize()
   at ExcelDna.Integration.DnaLibrary.InitializeRootLibrary(System.String)
     Directory of C:\Users\xxxx\source\repos\ExcelDna-Samples\RtdClocks\RtdClock-ExcelRtdServer\bin\Debug

    02/01/2020  10:38    <DIR>          .
    02/01/2020  10:38    <DIR>          ..
    02/01/2020  10:38           629,248 RtdClock-ExcelRtdServer-AddIn-packed.xll
    02/01/2020  08:31               939 RtdClock-ExcelRtdServer-AddIn.dna
    09/09/2015  22:49           751,104 RtdClock-ExcelRtdServer-AddIn.xll
    02/01/2020  10:38           539,136 RtdClock-ExcelRtdServer-AddIn64-packed.xll
    02/01/2020  08:31               939 RtdClock-ExcelRtdServer-AddIn64.dna
    09/09/2015  22:49           660,992 RtdClock-ExcelRtdServer-AddIn64.xll
    02/01/2020  10:38             6,144 RtdClock-ExcelRtdServer.dll
    02/01/2020  10:38            17,920 RtdClock-ExcelRtdServer.pdb

namespace RtdClock_ExcelRtdServer
{
    [Guid("2838E6F0-B2CA-4FC9-A9AF-7F834CBC595C")]
    [ComVisible(true)]                   // Required since the default template puts [assembly:ComVisible(false)] in the AssemblyInfo.cs
    [ProgId(RtdClockServer.ServerProgId)]     //  If ProgId is not specified, change the XlCall.RTD call in the wrapper to use namespace + type name (the default ProgId)
    public class RtdClockServer : ExcelRtdServer
    {
        public const string ServerProgId = "RtdClock.ClockServer";

        // Using a System.Threading.Time which invokes the callback on a ThreadPool thread
        // (normally that would be dangerous for an RTD server, but ExcelRtdServer is thread-safe)
        Timer _timer;
        List<Topic> _topics;

        protected override bool ServerStart()
        {
            _timer = new Timer(timer_tick, null, 0, 1000);
            _topics = new List<Topic>();
            return true;
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A: I think you will need to run RegSvr32.exe RtdClock-ExcelRtdServer-AddIn64-packed.xll or something similar, to register the .xll file as the COM library serving up the RTD server. Doing Regasm.exe on the .dll file makes a mess, causing the COM registration to go against mscorlib which hosts the .dll in the default AppDomain as you see.

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UCLA's Offense Sputters In 4-0 Loss To Cal
By Ryan Rosenblatt May 20, 2011, 10:56pm PDT
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Gerrit Cole was strong, but the offense was nowhere to be found (Photo Credit: Official Site)
UCLA has had issues on Friday nights of late, but this one played out differently than it has recently. Gerrit Cole had been struggling in recent weeks and it's put the Bruins in a bit of trouble. Playing from behind is not UCLA's forte considering their inconsistent offense, and having to do so against other teams' aces only makes it tougher. On this Friday night, Cole got behind, but not by much. He pitched well, but the offense was nowhere be found and the Bruins fell to Cal, 4-0. The loss leaves them at 29-20 on the year and 14-8 in the Pac-10, three games behind conference leading Oregon St.
Tough starts to games have been Cole's problem and he had a little bit of that problem against the Golden Bears, giving up a run in the first, but he was dominant from then on. By the time he exited the game after seven innings he had given up only six hits, struck out six and only one run had come across. Zack Weiss gave up one run in a third of an inning of relief, Mitchell Beacom gave up two in two-thirds of an inning and Brandon Lodge threw a scoreless ninth.
As has been the case too often this season, the UCLA offense was nowhere to be found. Beau Amaral, Cody Keefer and Pat Valaika each picked up a hit in the ballgame, but those three hits were the only ones for the Bruins all game. Dean Espy walked twice and the Bruins drew four walks as a team, but they also struck out 10 times and struggled to mount rallies all game.
Five pitches into the game, Cal had a man on base thanks to a lead off walk. A sacrifice bunt moved the runner to second then a single back up the middle plated the runner to give Cal a 1-0 lead.
A two-out hit by pitch by Jeff Gelalich in the third gave the Bruins a chance. He proceded to steal second to put a man in scoring position, but a ground out ended the frame.
The Golden Bears almost added to their lead in the fourth. Consecutive one-out singles put two on then a passed ball moved them both into scoring positon. The next batter grounded to third and Cody Regis got the runner caught between third and home for the out to keep UCLA down just 1-0.
In both the fifth and seventh innings the Bruins put runners in scoring position. The runners stayed in scoring position though as UCLA couldn't bring them in.
Cole came out of the game after seven innings and was replaced by Weiss. Weiss didn't last long though, surrendering a single then a sacrifice bunt before head coach John Savage turned to Beacom. The left-hander got a strikeout against the first man he faced, but then consecutive walks loaded up the bases. A double followed, scoring all three runners and putting the Bruins behind 4-0.
The eighth and ninth innings both began with Bruins reaching base, but once again they were left on base. The Golden Bears finished off the Bruins and now UCLA will have to grab the final two games of the weekend if they're to grab the series.


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