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Longitudinal multimodal imaging and clinical endpoints for frontotemporal dementia clinical trials
Adam M. Staffaroni, Peter A. Ljubenkov, John Kornak, Yann Cobigo, Samir Datta, Gabe Marx, Samantha M. Walters, Kevin Chiang, Nick Olney, Fanny M. Elahi, David S. Knopman, Bradford C. Dickerson, Bradley F. Boeve, Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini, Salvatore Spina, Lea T. Grinberg, William W. Seeley, Bruce L. Miller, Joel H. Kramer, Adam L. BoxerHoward J. Rosen
Frontotemporal dementia refers to a group of progressive neurodegenerative syndromes usually caused by the accumulation of pathological tau or TDP-43 proteins. The effects of these proteins in the brain are complex, and each can present with several different clinical syndromes. Clinical efficacy trials of drugs targeting these proteins must use endpoints that are meaningful to all participants despite the variability in symptoms across patients. There are many candidate clinical measures, including neuropsychological scores and functional measures. Brain imaging is another potentially attractive outcome that can be precisely quantified and provides evidence of disease modification. Most imaging studies in frontotemporal dementia have been cross-sectional, and few have compared longitudinal changes in cortical volume with changes in other measures such as perfusion and white matter integrity. The current study characterized longitudinal changes in 161 patients with three frontotemporal dementia syndromes: behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (n = 77) and the semantic (n = 45) and non-fluent (n = 39) variants of primary progressive aphasia. Visits included comprehensive neuropsychological and functional assessment, structural MRI (3 T), diffusion tensor imaging, and arterial spin labelled perfusion imaging. The goal was to identify measures that are appropriate as clinical trial outcomes for each group, as well as those that might be appropriate for trials that would include more than one of these groups. Linear mixed effects models were used to estimate changes in each measure, and to examine the correlation between imaging and clinical changes. Sample sizes were estimated based on the observed effects for theoretical clinical trials using bootstrapping techniques to provide 95% confidence intervals for these estimates. Declines in functional and neuropsychological measures, as well as frontal and temporal cortical volumes and white matter microstructure were detected in all groups. Imaging changes were statistically significantly correlated with, and explained a substantial portion of variance in, the change in most clinical measures. Perfusion and diffusion tensor imaging accounted for variation in clinical decline beyond volume alone. Sample size estimates for atrophy and diffusion imaging were comparable to clinical measures. Corpus callosal fractional anisotropy led to the lowest sample size estimates for all three syndromes. These findings provide further guidance on selection of trial endpoints for studies in frontotemporal dementia and support the use of neuroimaging, particularly structural and diffusion weighted imaging, as biomarkers. Diffusion and perfusion imaging appear to offer additional utility for explaining clinical change beyond the variance explained by volume alone, arguing for considering multimodal imaging in treatment trials.
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Staffaroni, A. M., Ljubenkov, P. A., Kornak, J., Cobigo, Y., Datta, S., Marx, G., Walters, S. M., Chiang, K., Olney, N., Elahi, F. M., Knopman, D. S., Dickerson, B. C., Boeve, B. F., Gorno-Tempini, M. L., Spina, S., Grinberg, L. T., Seeley, W. W., Miller, B. L., Kramer, J. H., ... Rosen, H. J. (2019). Longitudinal multimodal imaging and clinical endpoints for frontotemporal dementia clinical trials. Brain, 142(2), 443-459. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awy319
Longitudinal multimodal imaging and clinical endpoints for frontotemporal dementia clinical trials. / Staffaroni, Adam M.; Ljubenkov, Peter A.; Kornak, John et al.
In: Brain, Vol. 142, No. 2, 01.02.2019, p. 443-459.
Staffaroni, AM, Ljubenkov, PA, Kornak, J, Cobigo, Y, Datta, S, Marx, G, Walters, SM, Chiang, K, Olney, N, Elahi, FM, Knopman, DS, Dickerson, BC, Boeve, BF, Gorno-Tempini, ML, Spina, S, Grinberg, LT, Seeley, WW, Miller, BL, Kramer, JH, Boxer, AL & Rosen, HJ 2019, 'Longitudinal multimodal imaging and clinical endpoints for frontotemporal dementia clinical trials', Brain, vol. 142, no. 2, pp. 443-459. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awy319
Staffaroni AM, Ljubenkov PA, Kornak J, Cobigo Y, Datta S, Marx G et al. Longitudinal multimodal imaging and clinical endpoints for frontotemporal dementia clinical trials. Brain. 2019 Feb 1;142(2):443-459. doi: 10.1093/brain/awy319
Staffaroni, Adam M. ; Ljubenkov, Peter A. ; Kornak, John et al. / Longitudinal multimodal imaging and clinical endpoints for frontotemporal dementia clinical trials. In: Brain. 2019 ; Vol. 142, No. 2. pp. 443-459.
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Record Breaking Gospel Singing
A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to sing with London Community Gospel Choir as part of their 30th Anniversary celebrations and World Record Breaking largest Gospel choir attempt.
I've written a little bit previously about joining an amazing gospel choir when I wrote about about being on The X Factor with them. I really enjoy the weekly rehearsals and getting to know lots of people who love singing.
We left Manchester very early on a Sunday morning after holding a big summer concert on the Saturday. There were rather a lot of tired faces as we set out at 6.30am. After arriving at The Southbank Centre and changing into our uniforms we went straight on for a short performance in one of the bar areas.
The afternoon was filled with rehearsals for the evening concert and grabbing a quick bite to eat at The Good Food Festival also happening at The Southbank Centre.
The concert was amazing! We were seated in the choir stalls directly at the back of the stage and got to sing behind amazing gospel singers such as Jocelyn Brown, all of London Community Gospel Choir and Jahmene Douglas who we'd already sung with on The X Factor.
We were also part of a Guinness World Record Challenge for the largest ever gospel choir and are now all record breakers!
This is the song we sang with London Community Gospel Choir. I'm on the front row and I messed up the moves, so annoyed with myself but it sounds amazing!
Gillian Roe 21 May 2013 at 22:13
Amazing! It sounds fantastic, how cool to be part of that. Well done! x
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Walter Martin is an American musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of the New York City indie rock bands The Walkmen (co-writer, lyricist, multi-instrumentalist 2000–2013) and Jonathan Fire*Eater (co-writer, organist 1994–1998). Following the Walkmen's break-up in 2013, Martin launched a critically acclaimed solo career and has subsequently released seven studio albums.

In addition to his solo work, Martin composes original music for film, television, and commercials.

Early life
Martin was born and raised in Washington, D.C., United States. He formed his first band at age 11 with future Jonathan Fire*Eater singer Stewart Lupton. He played organ, guitar, and drums in various bands throughout high school with Lupton, Matt Barrick, and Paul Maroon as well as with future members of NYC band French Kicks. His band, The Ignobles, opened for many national touring performers at DC's 9:30 Club including: Lenny Kravitz, Fugazi, the Selecter, and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones.

Martin attended and graduated from college where he studied art history.

Career

Jonathan Fire*Eater (1993–1997)

Martin formed Jonathan Fire*Eater with high school friends Paul Maroon, Stewart Lupton, Matt Barrick, and Tom Frank from Washington, DC. As co-writer and multi-instrumentalist, Martin played a Farfisa organ and a Gretsch lap steel guitar. The band played at clubs in lower Manhattan until being courted by major labels and eventually signed by DreamWorks Records. They released a series of EPs and singles and a full-length for DreamWorks before breaking up in 1998.

Marcata Studios (1998–2001)
In 1998, Martin, Paul Maroon, and Matt Barrick built Marcata Recording, an analog recording studio in Harlem in upper Manhattan. Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend was their sole employee, an unpaid intern. The Walkmen recorded at Marcata on and off until the studio closed in 2006.

The Walkmen (2001–2013)

Martin, Paul Maroon, and Matt Barrick formed the Walkmen with Martin's younger cousin Hamilton Leithauser and his friend Peter Bauer. Martin was lyricist, co-writer, and multi-instrumentalist for the Walkmen. On stage Martin played organ, piano, and bass guitar but his main contributions to the Walkmen were as composer, arranger, and lyricist.

Solo career (2014–present)
Martin began writing his solo debut album We're All Young Together during the final days of the Walkmen. It released on May 13, 2014, and was self-described as a family-friendly album geared towards kids. It was met with critical acclaim from Pitchfork, NPR's All Things Considered, USA Today, and The New York Times who called it, "An album of joyful children's music that is also sophisticated enough for grown-ups to appreciate." It featured guest vocals from Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Matt Berninger (The National), and Alec Ounsworth (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah). The album won a Parents' Choice Silver Award and it's songs have been featured in commercials for iPhone 6, iPhone 7 plus, Google Android, and Cox Communications.

Arts & Leisure, Martin's second album, released on January 29, 2016. The songs took inspiration from his years as a touring musician and his background in art history. It was featured in many major press outlets, including NPR Music, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Pitchfork. The Washington Post stated, "Walter Martin is giving art history a fun and lively tone" while All Music said, "Arts & Leisure reveals Martin as a first-rate storyteller who captures the joys of new sights and new ways of thinking in songs full of life and humor."

Martin released his third solo album My Kinda Music on May 5, 2017. It was the second installment of his family album series and would go on win a Parents' Choice Gold Award. The song "It's a Dream" was featured in a Casper Mattress Commercial in 2018–2019. On the album's release, NPR Music said, "[Martin's albums] celebrate the best of humanity; love, innocence, joy, empathy and the wonder of existence itself. It's the kind of music that can bring tears to your eyes from marveling at all the beauty in the world."

During a surprise performance at NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concert in December 2017, Martin announced his fourth solo album Reminisce Bar & Grill. It was released early the next year on February 18, 2018, and is considered Martin's most adult-focused compilation to date. He has self-described it as his "mid-life crisis album."

Martin's fifth solo album The World at Night was released on January 31, 2020. It was dedicated to his late Jonathan Fire*Eater bandmate Stewart Lupton who died in 2018 of suicide after years of battling addiction, depression, and schizophrenia. Noisey said, "The World at Night is a shockingly good record. It will give you goosebumps; it will make you gasp; it will make you cry. The album feels, above all else, real." Vogue Magazine raved "The World at Night might just be his masterpiece" while All Music said, "The album radiates so much care, empathy, and genuine emotion, listeners can't help but be touched by it." It was also praised by Pitchfork who stated, "Martin isn't naive; he's just a romantic. At its best, The World at Night evokes the strangest part of mourning: when your eyes fill with tears but they catch the light, making everything look brighter anyway."

Film and television work
Martin wrote and performed the original song, "Do-Dilly-Do (A Friend Like You)" for Laika Studios' Missing Link, The Golden Globes' 2020 WINNER for Best Animated Feature. He co-wrote and performed on the song "Walking on a String" alongside Phoebe Bridgers and the National's Matt Berninger for Zach Galifianakis' Netflix film Between Two Ferns. His song "Let the Tall Ships Sail," from his 2020 album Green Beans and Tangerines was featured in season two, episode two of the Netflix original series Hilda.

Martin's songs have also been featured in commercials for iPhone 6, iPhone 7 plus, Google Android, Casper Mattress, and Cox Communications.

Awards
Martin received a Clio Silver Award, a Bronze Award at Cannes, and a Gold Award at The One Club for songs he wrote and performed for four films produced for a Cheerios campaign called "Right On Track" that focuses on teaching kids about empathy, inclusion and kindness.

Personal life
Martin lives in upstate New York, with his wife and two daughters.

Discography
Solo
We're All Young Together (2014)
Arts + Leisure (2016)
My Kinda Music (2017)
Reminisce Bar & Grill (2018)
The World at Night (2020)
Green Beans & Tangerines (2020)
Common Prayers (2020)
The Bear (2022)

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Alternative rock bass guitarists
Alternative rock keyboardists

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Forget Free Speech: Rushdie's Fatwa Is Winning
by Giulio Meotti
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18815/free-speech-rushdie-fatwa
"If only more people could follow his example, instead of taking the path of appeasement in the name of cultural sensitivity, the long years of murder and mayhem wrought by the Islamists on the West might come to an end." — Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Unherd, August 7, 2022.
[A] terrible and different reality: the fatwa is gaining ground...
Islamic extremists in 2012 published a terrifying "most wanted list", like those of the FBI. Title: "Yes we can. A bullet a day keeps the infidel away.... " What happened to the faces and names on that list? They have been killed, left the public arena to protect themselves, or died under police protection.
We do not even know they exist: our fearful conformist press never tells their amazing stories. They live among us, in Paris, London, Oslo, Copenhagen, Berlin, Amsterdam and all the other European capitals. They live according to a strict security protocol: they have to tell the police in advance what they will do during the day, who they will see and where they will go and, if any place is not considered safe, these victims are forced to change plans.
"Anyone who criticizes Islamism must expect to be violently attacked in this country and without anyone being offended." — Jan Aleksander Karon, journalist, Tichys Einblick, August 20, 2022.
"Give us his head," Islamists shouted outside a British school in Batley. They wanted to murder a teacher whose name we do not even know and who was forced to leave the school after heavy death threats. What was he guilty of? Having shown in class some of the Mohammed cartoons during a lesson on freedom of expression.
All decent people should stand with Salman Rushdie and against his persecutors. Is it now a little bit clearer that radical Islam is today one of the biggest threats to Western culture and that we are not winning, but instead becoming like turkeys celebrating Thanksgiving?
"Salman Rushdie is a champion of free speech, bravely standing up for Western ideals when so many shy away from the fight. If only more people could follow his example, instead of taking the path of appeasement in the name of cultural sensitivity, the long years of murder and mayhem wrought by the Islamists on the West might come to an end." — Ayaan Hirsi Ali (pictured). Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images
"Salman Rushdie is a champion of free speech, bravely standing up for Western ideals when so many shy away from the fight. If only more people could follow his example, instead of taking the path of appeasement in the name of cultural sensitivity, the long years of murder and mayhem wrought by the Islamists on the West might come to an end... I know all too well the threat Islamism poses. After I came out as an apostate, I was forced into a bubble of protection that still surrounds me to this day. I have 24-hour security. I still receive death threats. My friend, the sweet, vulgar, brilliant Theo Van Gogh was murdered simply for making a film with me. His attacker used a knife to stab a letter into Theo's chest: it said that I would be next".
That is how Ayaan Hirsi Ali reacted to the attempted murder of Salman Rushdie in Chautauqua, New York.
Many of the slogans, paraphrases on "free speech" and demonstrations of solidarity to the author of The Satanic Verses hide a terrible and different reality: the fatwa is gaining ground, and more and more people have to live under protection due to criticism of Islam. In the words of the Algerian writer Boualem Sansal writing for L'Express last week:
"[T]o speak only of France, the police will soon no longer be enough, it will be necessary to recruit battalions or form a new body of bodyguards, who know Islam and can recognize under which dress it is presented."
Islamic extremists in 2012 published a terrifying "most wanted list", like those of the FBI. Title: "Yes we can. A bullet a day keeps the infidel away..." What happened to the faces and names on that list? They have been killed, left the public arena to protect themselves, or died under police protection.
The Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks died with his police guards in a terrible car accident. As journalist Douglas Murray explained:
"Lars Vilks was a man and artist of enormous courage. He should never have been in this situation, and if other artists and others across Europe hadn't been so cowardly then he never would have been".
Carsten Juste, who as editor of the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten published the cartoons on Muhammad in 2005, apologized and left journalism. Flemming Rose, the editor of the Jyllands Posten who commissioned the cartoons (the Taliban put a bounty on his head), resigned and published a book with the eloquent title The Tyranny of Silence. "The drama and the tragedy is that the only ones to win are the jihadists," Rose told the Danish newspaper Weekendavisen.
Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist of the most famous of the Danish cartoons, passed away in his "bunker house" where Islamists had tried to assassinate him.
Molly Norris, a Seattle Post cartoonist, became a "ghost". She changed name and disappeared. Nothing is known about her after the FBI put her in the witness protection program.
Geert Wilders is alive only because he is protected by a military unit of the Dutch army generally assigned to ensure the security of the embassy in Afghanistan. Wilders still lives in safe houses and must wear a bulletproof vest during televised debates.
Stéphane Charbonnier, editor-in-chief of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, was murdered along with eight of his colleagues.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali left the Netherlands and sought asylum in the United States, where she is under around-the-clock protection.
Now there was the attempt to assassinate Salman Rushdie. "The lesson of this story is atrocious: Rushdie is alive, but the camp of the killers has not completely lost, it has even won a little", wrote Etienne Gernelle, the editor of French weekly Le Point. British columnist Kenan Malik told the BBC that if Salman Rushdie's critics "lost the battle", they "won the war".
The Egyptian-German scholar Hamed Abdel-Samad just recalled his meeting with Rushdie:
"'So, you are the Egyptian Salman Rushdie everyone is talking about?', Salman Rushdie said with a smile during our first and only meeting in Berlin three years ago. It was a celebration of the thirty-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and coincided with the 30th anniversary of the fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini against Rushdie. 'Thirty years ago, there was a single Salman Rushdie in the world, today there is at least one Salman Rushdie in every Islamic country not to mention those in the western countries. That should please you', I replied".
We do not even know they exist: our fearful conformist media never tell their amazing stories. They live among us, in Paris, London, Oslo, Copenhagen, Berlin, Amsterdam and all the other European capitals. They live according to a strict security protocol: they have to tell the police in advance what they will do during the day, who they will see and where they will go, and if any place is not considered safe, these captives are forced to change plans. Often, if there is a not a new threat, they change homes, and disappear for a while to be protected by anonymity. They are not "repentants of the Mafia", mobsters turned into witnesses for the state prosecution. No, they are academics, activists, writers, journalists, intellectuals. We are talking about more than a hundred personalities in Europe. Their "fault"? They criticized Islam. Their precautions to protect themselves are never too many. Rushdie had ceased to be protected for many years.
A professor of Iranian origin and a critic of Islam, Afshin Ellian, works at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, where he is protected by bodyguards. On the second floor of the Law Department, where he teaches, Ellian can be reached through a corridor with electronic access and armored glass. The place looks more like a bank vault than a normal law department.
In Denmark, Lars Hedegaard, director of the International Free Press Society, who miraculously survived an attack at his home, is under police protection. An assassin dressed as a postman came to Hedegaard's front door in Copenhagen and shot at his head, missing him only narrowly.
The Turkish writer Lale Gül is under protection for having denounced Koranic schools in the Netherlands.
French journalist Zineb El Rhazoui has more bodyguards than many Macron ministers. "Zineb El Rhazoui must be killed to avenge the Prophet," reads a fatwa.
The new address of the Charlie Hebdo newspaper offices is secret and it has six armored doors and a safe room that the journalists can enter in case of attack. The entire editorial office of Charlie Hebdo is now protected by 85 police officers. Former Charlie Hebdo director Philippe Val lives in a house with bulletproof windows, police officers and an armored safe room where there is a special telephone line to call for help. Each Charlie Hebdo employee is always accompanied by a car with two policemen. If the need arises, another police motorcycle or armored car should arrive.
Mina Ahadi, who founded the Council of Former Muslims in Germany, does not move without an escort, and like the novelist Fatma Bläser, who was the victim of a forced marriage, is protected by the police.
Turkish-born lawyer Syran Ates, in Berlin, is protected by six police officers. "She receives three thousand threats," her lawyer said.
When Can Dündar, the bravest Turkish journalist, who as the director of the newspaper Cumhuriyet expressed solidarity with Charlie Hebdo, left Turkey for Germany, he would never have imagined that he would need the police protection. The biggest difference is that in Turkey, policemen searched his house looking for items to compromise him, while in Berlin they are guarding his home.
"Critics of Islam must fear for their lives: death threats and attacks," notes the German website Tichys Einblick.
"Anyone who criticizes Islamism must expect to be violently attacked in this country and without anyone being offended," said journalist Jan Aleksander Karon. "In Germany it is increasingly dangerous to criticize Islam".
In Denmark, the editorial office of Jyllands Posten today resembles a military bunker. With a razor wire barrier, bars, metal plates and cameras that surround the newspaper for a kilometer, the office is now protected by the same mechanism as river locks. A door opens, a car enters, the door closes and the one opposite opens. Journalists enter one at a time, typing in a personal code (a measure that did not protect Charlie Hebdo reporters). The Jyllands Posten cartoonists have escaped numerous attacks, including at home. Even after the January 7, 2015 massacre in Paris at the Charlie Hebdo office, which was targeted partly because it had republished the Danish Mohammed cartoons, Jyllands-Posten announced that, out of fear, it would not republish its own cartoons, saying:
"We have lived with the fear of a terrorist attack for nine years, and yes, that is the explanation why we do not reprint the cartoons, whether it be our own or Charlie Hebdo's. We are also aware that we therefore bow to violence and intimidation."
Also under protection is the French-Algerian journalist Mohammed Sifaoui. His photograph and name are published on jihadist websites next to the word "apostate". Many people under protection are women, such as Marika Bret, a Charlie Hebdo employee who was "exfiltrated" from home, and the French television presenter originally from Turkey, Claire Koc. Or the journalist Ophélie Meunier, the reporter from Zone Interdite who reported on the Islamization of Roubaix in prime time with the French politician Amine Elbahi, of the Républicains Party, who received threats of beheading.
Threats and intimidation demonstrate the tenacity of the journalistic work done by these courageous people. They demonstrate a commitment to show the Islamization by force and terror of sectors of French society, while the Islamists answer them: Do you disagree with me? Do you criticize me? I will kill you, slit your throat, behead you.
Meanwhile, the states and institutions, which find themselves trying to protect dozens of people, prove to be paper tigers. Terrorism works. Nobody wants to live between two cops or see his name on the internet. Meanwhile, the journalistic class goes looking somewhere less hazardous.
The French state has to protect simple teachers such as Fatiha Agag-Boudjahlat, who reproached some students for not respecting the minute of silence during the homage to Samuel Paty, a high school teacher who was beheaded by an Islamist.
Imams such as Hassen Chalghoumi are included in "Uclat 2", the protection program enjoyed by the ambassadors of the United States and Israel in Paris. Chalghoumi, protagonist of many battles in favor of the French Republic and against Islamic fundamentalists, told BFMTV that he has not slept more than three nights in the same place and that he wears a bulletproof vest during prayer:
"I never talk about it, but I have been wearing it for years. I take care of my life. I have responsibilities towards my family and myself. I continue to fight at a very high price. I cannot be at my mosque every day, it is impossible".
Professor Didier Lemaire recounted his last visit to Trappes for a TV documentary:
"I was only allowed a five-minute filming in front of the police station, surrounded by a dozen officers. The rest of the time I had to stay hidden in the car. One of the policemen told me: 'If they bring out the Kalashnikovs, we have nothing to answer with, so we won't stay long.' The reporter wanted me to say a few words in front of the school, but the police refused for security reasons. I was allowed to pass by without stopping. I was escorted to a hotel, whose entrance was guarded by four police officers, to conduct the interview".
"Give us his head," Islamists shouted outside a British school in Batley. They wanted to murder a teacher whose name we do not even know and who was forced to leave the school after heavy death threats. What was he guilty of? Having shown in class some of the Muhammad cartoons during a lesson on freedom of expression. He now lives in a safe house with his wife and children, out of fear of being killed. The threat is deemed so serious that not even the family's relatives know where they live. "The windows of the house where the teacher lived for more than eight years are covered with white sheets".
Giulio Meotti, Cultural Editor for Il Foglio, is an Italian journalist and author.
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Hamish MacDonald • Aug 23, 2022 at 06:45
Muslims are increasing in number and in aggressiveness; yet the non-Muslims in Europe and elsewhere don't seem to appreciate what is happening, and Muslim birthrate is increasing faster than anywhere else.
Only China has been successful in preventing this political ideology with religious motif from spreading, and diffusing its jihadists.
Good article.
Michael Hamish MacDonald • Aug 24, 2022 at 14:20
China has been successful because of the government's unshakeable conviction that there is no God and that it is a crime to challenge the status of atheism as public truth.
Unless we in the West substitute "Christianity" for "atheism" in the above, Islam will keep on winning and will finally win.
Hamish MacDonald Michael • Aug 25, 2022 at 00:07
You are correct in your assumption of atheism in the west- the U.S. "state religion" is apostate. This apostasy has spread along with legalising of abortion.No country in Europe has a birthrate of 2 or more. Canada 1.6, USA 1.7. NZ 1.8, Aust 1.65. Terminal cancer. But not Islam with a birthrate of near 3 or more- Afghanistan is 4.0
China has a long history of controlling through brainwashing- known for decades. They don't want anyone who counters the status quo- even Hong Kong. Taiwan is also on their list. Using media, psychology, law they undermine like white ants, the culture they wish to overcome. They make articles so cheaply, they run opposition out of business.
Islam will win via birthrate. To counter that non-Muslims must be family builders. Currently western views are about feathering their nests.
Tks.
Hoppe • Aug 22, 2022 at 07:21
What a bleak role-call of a terrorised intelligentsia. If our woke (and incessantly moralising) MSM had any genuine liberal principles this list and its significance would be widely publicised. But, as Ayan Hirsi Ali said recently in Unherd, in spite of denials, we are in the midst of an inescapable clash of civilizations. How does that sit with the woke virtues of diversity and inclusiveness – urged on us daily by the political and media class? Will it end in anything more than capitulation to the culture and beliefs of those migrant communities we have welcomed and 'included' for decades? This is almost like a society-wide version of the Stockholm syndrome. Unable or unwilling to fight back against those who have (in a sense) captured us, we allow ourselves to be convinced of the rightness of their cause and of their dubious claims of victimhood.
As for fighting back – the erosion of our willingness to fight began with the feminist revolution of the late 1960s. Contempt for traditions of masculinity began in that era and have persisted to this day, evolving into the absurd concept of toxic masculinity.
Cedar Hoppe • Aug 24, 2022 at 13:25
Feminism is not responsible for masculine cowardice & complicity. Women are as ready as men to defend the principles of democracy, as we see from the examples of Zeineb el Rhazoui and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. I recommend you read Houellebecq's novel Submission for an insight into the mind of a man who sees the advantages for Western men in complying with this bullying ideology.
Hoppe Cedar • Aug 24, 2022 at 21:28
Oops! Looks like I hit a nerve with my final paragraph.
Cite the best examples of female courage if you will (non-Western, I note) but that will not change the fact that Western men (the now despised "white males") have been undermined for decades by feminists who follow their own power-seeking agenda – an agenda that seeks to create the widest possible rift between the sexes, that strives relentlessly to dis-empower men – the better to "empower" women.
I recommend that you take a long, clear-eyed look at what is happening in the world around you rather than assuming truth can only be found in fictional musings of a member of the professional intellectual class. I would have recommended you read Ayaan Hirsi Ali's piece on this very issue in The Spectator, 8 August 2022 but surely you must have already seen (and discounted) it.
By the way, are Western feminists responsible for that feminine cowardice and complicity we so often see in their conspicuous failure to campaign against the Muslim treatment of women? But hey! Who are we to criticise other cultures? Anyway, with a little bit of sophistry I feel sure a determined feminist can place that failure at the door of the contemporary scapegoat: white Western man.
It's not a question of nerves. I simply don't recognise your unbalanced & aggrieved version of what you call feminism. Social power should not be the exclusive preserve of either men or women: it takes listening to both for society to be healthy. If a man feels undermined because a woman can earn as much as he, or do the same job, he needs to engage in a little self-reflection. Only men with small minds need to bully & repress women in order to make themselves feel big.
I do think that the white working class, in both the USA & UK, have been badly affected by globalisation & the consequent loss of jobs, & a pernicious identity politics has fractured any opposition to that. Recent legislation in the UK has also contributed to the suppression of dissent, since our laws, which were objective in that they tended to penalise measureable actions such as theft or murder, are now fuzzily worded. They include phrases such as "likely to" cause offence. Interpretation of likelihood is individual & arbitrary, which in my view makes for very bad law.
As for white feminists supporting Muslim women, the response has gone through several stages. Initially western feminism did campaign against FGM, & the Islamic repression of female agency. But Muslim women objected: they are struggling to reconcile what can be preserved of their culture, & the freedoms they can claim in Western society, & need to do that work without the help of white saviours.
As a secular feminist, I'm not in the least afraid to criticise religious totalitarianism. However, The British Council of ex-Muslims is a more plausible vehicle for that as far as Islam is concerned: they can speak to Muslims in their own languages, & unlike white people, cannot be accused of racism. I spend a good deal of my time defending freedom of speech, as that is a foundational principle of my own western culture, & as a lecturer, always made my student groups understand the difference between respecting persons, which is a requirement in civilised society, & showing respect to an unpleasant ideology, which is not compulsory as all ideas are, & should be, subject to critical analysis.
The problem in the UK is that the Left is steeped in anti-Americanism. The USA's foreign policy is often unwise, but it's rather provincial to suppose that the ideologies & aims of Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran etc. are bound to be better. So we have a regrettable alliance of white people who support America's enemies, and purposeful Muslims who are happy to have useful idiots running interference for them.
Andy Paul • Aug 22, 2022 at 07:12
The Western political classes and too many of their friends in the commentariat have clearly decided it is in their interests to submit to Islam; their moral cowardice is quite apparent for all to see and it is now time to call them out for it and insist that they understand Islam, in its unreformed state, Has no place in a non-Muslim nation.
Percy Bauri • Aug 21, 2022 at 17:36
-- The truth is that as long as the leftists are appeasing the Muslims there will never be any peace in this world.
Eliot Schickler • Aug 21, 2022 at 14:10
We need to make all the culprits involved in this heinous act pay dearly for what happened to Salman Rushdie! This is proof that we need to implement regime change in Iran, which is responsible for 99 percent of the terrorism and evil in the world! Remove the ayatollahs from power and the financial backing of the terrorists dries up immediately!
Yuval Brandstetter • Aug 21, 2022 at 11:56
All of us in Israel live in a state of permanent emergency with bomb shelters with battalions of troops with constant harassment and sentence of death issued by a million fatwas.
JohnB • Aug 21, 2022 at 10:55
The biggest threat today to western culture is the liberal left 'useful idiots' who either make excuses for, facilitate the import of incompatible cultures, suppress the truth about said cultures and oppress any who dare tell the truth to the public about these cultures. Our western leaders and the liberal left despise our culture, so why would one expect them to defend it? Perhaps its about time the silent majority stopped voting for more of the same?
Harvey Radnor • Aug 21, 2022 at 09:40
Sadly this is the result of decades of allowing an alien culture to live in a Judeo Christian society. Why? Quite simply to make sure corrupt socialist politicians are kept in power by ever increasing numbers of these so called immigrants from North Africa and ME countries. As the late colonel Gaddafi said, " Europe will be conquered without a shot being fired." How true and how sad.
Percy Bauri Harvey Radnor • Aug 21, 2022 at 17:30
Harvey your comments are very true and valid.
Cedar Harvey Radnor • Aug 24, 2022 at 13:27
Earlier than Ghaddafi, Yasser Arafat remarked "By the wombs of our women we will conquer" . Erdogan thinks along the same lines.
Morris Givner • Aug 21, 2022 at 08:35
The Western media with very few exceptions refuse to report on a wide range of subjects:
-the cost of wars in deaths, injuries and the economy
-the enormous costs of cars to all nations in economic burdens,injuries and deaths
-the devastation and costs of alcohol to individuals and society
-the torture, jailing and murder of non-conformists by Saudi Arabia, Turkey, China etc.
-the antisemitism of many Christian denominations and Muslims
-how Russia, U.S., the Ukraine, U.K,etc. risk a nuclear disaster affecting the world by their foreign policies and storage of vast nuclear arsenals.
Maria Dreyfus • Aug 21, 2022 at 08:21
If it is winning it is because YOU LET IT WIN.
Start with sending families and close friends of people who kill here in the name of their religion HOME. Without letting them appeal . Just send them back to where they came from. There is no excuse NOT to do this:
Percy Bauri Maria Dreyfus • Aug 21, 2022 at 17:25
-- Maria, I totally agree with your idea to send them back from where they and or their families came from.
-- The other thing is to tell all the Islamists to move to the about 50 countries where the majority of the population is Muslims where they can easily get to live under the word "Uma" which allows them to get a visa for being a Muslim.
-- Soon the Western world will see a change in the Muslims.
David Simonim • Aug 21, 2022 at 07:54
The episode concerning Rushdie is a classic comment on Islam. Does anything more need to be said?
Human Rights and Sharia • Aug 21, 2022 at 07:51
Just saying we must protect free speech isn't enough, it requires positive action to defend it from the sharia vigilante squads.
We propose the following steps which we hope as many people as possible will promote on social media, to media outlets and to their elected representatives in government.
1. Get the European Court of Human Rights ruling that sharia is "incompatible with democracy and human rights" taught as a compulsory part of the curriculum in ALL schools.
This follow-up report adds considerable detail to the original judgement summary
http://www.assembly.coe.int/Committee/JUR/ajdoc282016.pdf
2. Ask your government to publish the data behind paragraph 6 of Council of Europe resolution 2253 that shows exactly which parts of sharia law contravene the human rights convention.
http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/Xref-XML2HTML-en.asp?fileid=25353
3. Get this statement of principle from the Council of Europe resolution(1804 – 2007) implemented via legislation with strong teeth:
"Nor may states allow the dissemination of religious principles which, if put into practice, would violate human rights.
If doubts exist in this respect, states must require religious leaders to take an unambiguous stand in favour of the precedence of human rights, as set forth in the European Convention on Human Rights, over any religious principle."
https://pace.coe.int/en/files/17568/html
Terry Taylor • Aug 21, 2022 at 06:26
Socialist Europe denies the right to bear arms and self defense. Let the Islamists come to my home town in midwest USA... where someone in the crowd would have stopped Rushdie's attacker. Oh we forgot that guns are the problem!
JohnB Terry Taylor • Aug 21, 2022 at 21:37
Rushdie was actually attacked in the USA, not weaponless Europe. Hope you can see the irony in your comment. The issue is a global one.
Jeff Page • Aug 21, 2022 at 06:03
This is a sickening situation solely created by the caving into pressure from Islamists. And it's all over Europe, thanks to the total appeasement and blatant cowardice by the authorities and politicians who care only for their own safety. Whatever else happens they don't care, and to whom it happens, they don't care, just as long as they are safe. It now amounts to the tail wagging the dog in most European countries. The governments have refused to combat the threats posed to their citizens, especially when it comes down to free speech, criticism of Islam and the crazy situation where a teacher was sacked, his life threatened because of "cartoon" images used in the classroom. Children went home and complained to radical parents who subsequently demonstrated outside the school to demand the head of the teacher. Police and local authorities caved in, as happened with the grooming gangs when they also turned their backs instead of combatting the vile criminal activities of mainly Muslim men raping girls as young as 11 years old. The excuse used by the majority of cringing cowards was "community relations or cohesion". A cop-out!! The politicians and enablers within local authorities stood and watched and ultimately ignored what was going on and they are still ignoring it. Steps must be taken to rid the authorities of the appeasers in their ranks and all who were guilty of turning a blind eye. All over Europe, young girls have been failed, even when the people that could have helped them were too cowardly to do so. There has to be a good clear out, they haven't done the jobs they were all paid to do and so they should also forfeit their entitlement to a pension. They don't deserve a penny, because they simply didn't bother to earn it. The European approach to accepting these Muslims has been extremely naive. And any US, Canadian, or any other citizen who thinks this will never happen to them, need to think again. It's a matter of time!
JAN HELLSUND • Aug 21, 2022 at 05:56
I think much of the problem has to do with inbreeding. View any listing of consanguinuity worldwide statistics and you'll you'll see Muslim countries topping the list: Afghanistan with 55%, Pakistan with 62%. It's no wonder they have mental health problems that are expressed in violence.
Deena JAN HELLSUND • Aug 21, 2022 at 18:15
No Jan, Islamism is the problem. It's a supremacist religion. Ever read the Koran? or the Hadiths?
Ian MacDougall • Aug 21, 2022 at 05:53
Your average, run of the mill Islamist sincerely believes that if he takes the life of only one infidel, he will go straight to Paradise and score the eternal company of 72 virgins. If he is happy to believe that, then have I got the deal for him! I have a massive bridge across Sydney Harbour that I would like to sell him, and at a special discount rate exclusively for him, of course. He could thereafter charge every car going across it whatever toll he chose. It would set him up for life, after which, 72 virgins! How could he possibly refuse?
Solomon • Aug 21, 2022 at 05:46
Cherchez la femme! In this case find the centre of gravity! Competing Sunni and Shia for leadership of all Islam . Bin Laden, Zawahiri, Ikhwan versus the mullahs of Iran. The latter have everything to prove but have been empowered by Obama and his third term hangers-on. The Sunni Muslims seem tired of the radicals on their side. Breaking the absolute dictatorship of the Mullahs should go a long way to reduce the terror.
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Mr President, Corruption Didnt Start With PPE Corruption
By Pinky Khoabane
Presidency spokenperson Khusela Diko and her husband at their wedding in 2018. He benefitted from R125m PPE tender Picture: Twitter
Dear Mr President
YOU seem to have woken up to the rampant theft of public monies by civil servants – to a point of action, that is – since the revelations by the Sunday Independent of runaway looting of the Covid-19 relief fund, in particular the corruption involved in the procurement of personal protective equipment (PPEs) by the husband of your spokesperson Khusela Diko and others close to the political party you lead, the African National Congress.
You may have been moved – to the point of establishing a structure to investigate those who got tenders for PPEs – on the basis that this act of corruption, unlike others which have cost the country billions, was an exploitation of a "grave medical, social, economic crisis", as you put it.
The truth Mr President, is that all corruption, in the lead-up to the democratic dispensation and beyond, have been to the detriment of citizens. You don't have to be reminded of the devastating impact of the corruption that took place between ANC leaders and the apartheid government, on one hand, and private companies, on the other.
On December 1, 1993, for example, the Transitional Executive Council (TEC), which prepared South Africa for the country's first non-racial election in April 1994, accepted an $850 million loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The ANC signed off on this deal in return for the following:
* Lower import tariffs;
* Cuts in state spending,
* Large cuts in public sector wages;
* Free trade routes;
* Excessive flight capital off the borders of SA;
* Privatisation of state owned enterprises;
* Fiscal controlled economy; and
* Moving away by ANC from its historical radical position of nationalisation, including expropriation of land.
In 2013, former Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils reflected on the ANC's economic policy in Faustian terms. "What I call our Faustian moment came when [South Africa] took an IMF loan on the eve of our first democratic election. That loan, with strings attached that precluded a radical economic agenda, was considered a necessary evil (Kasrils 2013)….".
He was referring to massive debt the ANC took including the repayment of the US $25 billion apartheid foreign debt. Money that was used to shoot, maim and kill activists, internally and in the Frontline States.
Kasril's usage of "Faustian Pact" in his analysis is exactly what the ANC government did: sold its soul to attain short-term satisfaction of riches, fame, pleasure. In the process the image of the ANC as a revolutionary organisation whose mandate was to capture the state to advance democracy by overturning colonialism and the legacies of apartheid, changed. In addition, it was meant to pursue radical socio-economic transformation for the Black majority. Instead the ANC adopted neoliberal policies.
In an analysis of the ANC by Dr Khanyisile Litchfield-Tshabalala, she writes:
"No wonder, under the Neoliberalist Reformation Project, the ANC furthered its controversial policy actions:
Reappointing Apartheid's Finance Minister, Derek Keys, together with Reserve Bank Governor, Chris Stals, to oversee the new Neoliberal Reformation Project.
Joining the then ANC's long-life enemy, the World Trade Organisation (WTO), for that matter on the most adverse terms, viz. as a transitional economy vs a developing. This has killed multiple local industries, like the clothing and textiles, appliances and other labour-intensive firms. (It is a house joke that under the ANC, 'made in SA' label has vanished – we like them foreign and imported).
Agreed to a repayment of the US $25 billion apartheid foreign debt. Money that was used to shoot, maim and kill activists, internally and in the Frontline States, or in the war against the Southern Angola against South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO), both inside Namibia and Southern Angola. However more concerning, this was money that the 'new' Mandela government was supposed to use for socio-economic recovery; for delivering the promises made to Black people, especially Afrikans, in the 1994 Elections.
Granted the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) formalised freedom, resulting in autonomy its officials from democratic accountability. This led to the high interest rates of those years, coupled with deregulation of exchange controls.
Limiting the redress potency of the Constitution by prioritising embedding property rights. Hence to date, 'the SA Constitution is acclaimed as the most democratic in the world'. But the question is: democratic for who?
Permitting most of South Africa's ten biggest companies to move their headquarters and primary listings oversees. Herein lies the recipe for illicit financial flows (IFFs), as in loopholes for both tax evasion and avoidance, profit shifting and misinvoicing – resulting in a massive base erosion scheme."
I see in your letter to your comrades, penned over the weekend, that you speak of transparency. As you would know, transparency has not been a strong point of the ANC nor yours, Mr President. Issues of how the top brass in the ANC managed to drive in posh cars while MK soldiers in camps didn't have basic supplies; the execution of MK soldiers by other MK soldiers; torture and brutal rape of women soldiers; are issues hidden deeply in ANC history.
Allegations that the death of Chris Hani, two weeks before a hearing scheduled for Joe Modise to account for allegedly having sold MK arms without consulting proper official channels remains another matter buried in ANC history.
The multi-billion rand arms deal was shrouded in secrecy. Many ANC leaders bemoaned the fact that the decision was taken undemocratically and was only unveiled to Parliament as a fait accompli. In his book "Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the ANC", William Gumede writes that the presidency at the time, which was under the administration of former President Thabo Mbeki, made the final decision to go ahead with the arms deal and "Mbeki chaired the cabinet subcommittee that gave final approval for the contracts".
The ANC's position before coming to power was to cut defence spending, which had characterised the apartheid era, in favour of social services. Citizens of this country have had to suffer cuts in social spending as a result of a concocted explanation that the billions spent on the arms would help South Africa in peacekeeping missions on the continent.
The arms deal has been mired in allegations of corruption which years later, have come to haunt the ANC with the truth nowhere in sight. The transformation project of the ANC – to build houses, water infrastructure, healthcare, and an education system – has suffered as a result.
In recent times, your application in a court of law to seal contents of the CR17 bank statements which would identify the funders of your campaign to the high office, is testament that we cannot take your word when you call for transparency. The legal wrangle over the interpretation of the Executive Ethics Code aside, we know that donations to political parties, be it in internal or external campaigns can have a major impact on the outcome of the election and the direction of the party.
Media reports stemming from the release of some of the bank statements showed hundreds of millions of rands from private companies that went into your campaign. What was the payoff? Some of these "donors" have found their way on your administration. What does it mean for the citizens of this country? Another Faustian moment?
Government's Economic Sabotage of SMMEs
It is not a secret or anything new that government departments and SOEs, through incompetent employees, pay suppliers three or four months late, and in some cases even a year after the service has been provided. There's ample reading material to show how critical services including healthcare to citizens, have been compromised because government departments had not paid suppliers.
Year in and year-out the ANC stands on podiums to tell us about the importance of developing entrepreneurs and the various institutions which are meant to open economic opportunities for the small and medium enterprises. At one of your State of the Nations Addresses (SONA) you spoke passionately of the various instruments in place which are meant to unlock economic development and transform this sector.
Mr President, small businesses are dying because they are not being paid by government. When are you establishing a commission to investigate all the companies that government departments haven't paid and hold those withholding payment accountable and charge them accordingly? If you can establish a commission into PPE fraud why don't you do it for the many who for years have closed down businesses as a result of the corruption by your public servants?
While many businesses have had to beg for payment and in many cases close shop, those close to your office and the ANC leadership have been paid even before delivering the service.
Departure from Mandate of the ANC
And so, Mr President, the ANC has long deviated from its mandate to deliver democracy through transforming society from colonialism and apartheid to radical socio-economic transformation. I have tried in summary to deal with some aspects of how the choices of the ANC to pander to capital have had a devastating effect on citizens – the Marikana massacre, another incident very close to you, being such an example.
The ANC can no longer hold a position of moral high ground, integrity or trust. The betrayal of its citizens has been deep and I wish I could say it started two weeks before former President Nelson Mandela left prison and declared: "The nationalisation of the mines, banks, and monopoly industries is the policy of the ANC, and the change or modification of our views in this regard is inconceivable. Black economic empowerment is a goal we fully support and encourage, but in our situation state control of certain sectors of the economy is unavoidable."
As history will attest, this was sheer rhetoric.
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Jessica is 9 years old. She lives with her parents and four siblings in Mbinguni village in Southern Tanzania. She is currently in standard 1 (the first year of primary school), she should be in standard three, but she started school late because the school is over an hour's walk away. When Mbinguni Nursery has its own primary school she will go to school here, so she can spend less time walking to school and have more energy to study and concentrate in school.
When she is older she would like to be a teacher. At school she likes studying and helping to sweep the classrooms. At home she also likes to sweep the house. She is looking forward to starting at a new school, especially to writing.
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In their rush to make sure that the author of a book on Marxism didn't make it into the state's new lineup of social studies standards, members of the Texas board of education ended up targeting a similarly named children's author, Bill Martin Jr., who wrote the iconic read-aloud favorite Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
It seems the board meant to keep Bill Martin, a DePaul University philosophy professor and the author of Ethical Marxism: The Categorical Imperative of Liberation, out of the new social studies curriculum.
But Bill Martin Jr., the children's author who died in 2004, was slated to be listed in the state's 3rd grade social studies curriculum standards along with writers like Laura Ingalls Wilder as major contributors to American culture.
Because of a mix-up that one board member blamed on information from another, the board wound up barring the inclusion of both, at least for now.
For some, the mix-up is an indication of a larger problem with the way the elected board members have approached the update of state curriculum standards, also known as the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills.
Board members will take up social studies standards again in March. They plan to take a final vote on updates in May.
The banning motion is "a new low in terms of the group that's supposed to represent education having such faulty research and making such a false leap without substantiating what they're doing," said Michael Sampson, Mr. Martin's co-author on 30 children's books and a professor of early childhood education at the University of South Florida at St. Petersburg.
The philosophy professor whose book was on the list, meanwhile, expressed surprise in an e-mail that "the Texas state board of education would even be aware" of his books.
"But I imagine this trustee applied the same level of care in her inquiry on this question as she brings to the idea that young people cannot be exposed to criticisms of the capitalist system," he wrote. "So, a fine example for our youth."


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The best hiking trails in Lanzarote
Due to its privileged climate, beautiful landscapes and unaltered and wild nature, the island of Lanzarote is an ideal destination for trekking and hiking enthusiasts.
Whether you are an expert in trekking or an inexperienced beginner who wants to get started in this exciting sport, in Lanzarote you will find routes adapted to your level.
In Lanzarote Experience Tours we have created a list with some of the best hiking routes in Lanzarote, almost all signposted, adapted and approved for hiking, so that your trip to the Isle of Fire becomes a real adventure.
The Ajaches
One of the most outstanding hiking routes in Lanzarote is Los Ajaches, a large volcanic formation located in Yaiza, in the southeast of the island. Along its plains you can feel the volcanic energy that shaped this area, the oldest in Lanzarote, more than ten million years ago.
The Los Ajaches hiking route is of high difficulty: it consists of six kilometres of arid and stony land with notable unevenness, which can be done in about five and a half hours. However, its realization is quite an experience, not only because of the beauty of its stretches, but because to travel this route is also to travel the history of Lanzarote.
For its journey, it is essential to bring enough food and drink, as well as trekking shoes, sun protection and bathing suit (the route passes through several beaches).
One of the most interesting aspects that characterize this hiking route is that it is an area of archaeological sites where ancient fossils and caves have been found that in the past sheltered the Majos, the aborigines of Lanzarote.
The route begins in the village of Femés, located in the valley of the same name. Along the route, we can appreciate the famous arid landscape of Lanzarote in all its splendor. In Degollada pico roondo and Degollada del portugués, we will be able to observe old agricultural constructions in stone, nowadays abandoned.
Further on, in the Torreta area, we will be able to see archaeological remains attributed to the aborigines, specifically piles of stones. The route passes in its final stretch by the Papagayo Beaches, where we can rest and enjoy a good bath.
In the final stretch, in the Rubicon, we can see the remains of the wells that the Normans built during the conquest of the Canary Islands. We can also see the Castillo de las coloradas, built in the 18th century to protect the island from pirate attacks.
As a colophon, and almost as a reward, the route ends at Playa Blanca, where you can enjoy a well-deserved rest on one of the best beaches on the island.
Way of the Gracioseros
La Graciosa, considered the eighth island of the Canary Islands, is a small island located northwest of Lanzarote. El Camino de los Gracioseros is a hiking route that recreates the route that the ancient inhabitants of La Graciosa used to take to get to and from their sister island, Lanzarote. Undoubtedly, a great idea for hiking in Lanzarote.
This route is of medium-high difficulty due to certain difficulties in its terrain and its extension of 9 kilometers. In it, will depart from the village of Yé to travel the Risco de Famara along the coast to reach the area of the River, the small stretch of sea that connects Lanzarote with La Graciosa. Along the route, we will be able to appreciate marvellous views to the coast of the island, with La Graciosa on the horizon.
As with the route of Los Ajaches, in the Camino de los Gracioseros we can see ancient stone formations attributed to the aborigines of the island. As point and end to this route of round trip of three hours, we can rest in the beautiful virgin beach of Bajo el Risco.
Haría – The Grove
From the impressive Valley of the Thousand Palm Trees, in Haría, starts this medium difficulty, unmarked, seven-kilometre-long hiking route. The end of the trail will take us to El Bosquecillo, an area with trees and shrubs that has incredible views of the Risco de Famara.
The route begins in a path oriented northwest towards the Valley of Malpaso, where we will have the first visual gift of this route in the form of exuberant valley. Further on, passing through El Bosquecillo, we can take advantage of the tables and benches in this area to take a break and eat, while enjoying wonderful views of the Chinijo Archipelago and the entire northwest coast of Lanzarote.
The end of this walk, one of the best within the offer of hiking in Lanzarote, takes place in the Caleta de Famara, one of the best beaches on the island and an unbeatable end to this route.
White Boiler
The Canary Islands are rich in calderas, geological formations caused by the eruption of a volcano. The Caldera Blanca hiking route runs through one of them, located in the centre of the island of Lanzarote. The volcanic eruption that gave rise to Caldera Blanca dates back to 1730, just 300 years ago.
This trekking route is of low difficulty and is suitable to be enjoyed by people with different levels of hiking, despite its ten kilometers in length. It starts from the Church of the Virgen de los Dolores, built right at the point where the burning lava stopped its journey during the eruption, back in 1936.
This route highlights the volcanic landscapes so characteristic of the island of Lanzarote, and corresponding to volcanic eruptions belonging to different dates. As we enter the terrain, we can see a malpaís, an area composed of recent volcanic sediments where the vegetation does not grow. This landscape of desolate beauty is one of the best known postcards of Lanzarote.
When we reach the top of the caldera, we will be able to see the immense crater in all its splendour, simply a marvellous view! On top of that, we will also be able to enjoy magnificent views of Timanfaya National Park.
If after this route you feel like going on an adventure and entering Timanfaya, we suggest our guided tour Timanfaya Tour and the Mountains of Fire Experience, with which we tour this National Park and also other enclaves in the area as Los Hervideros, La Geria and the panoramic view of Las Salinas. Don't miss it!
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Few influenza viruses are as widespread and adaptable as avian influenza viruses, and scientists are not entirely sure why. In a new commentary published online in Emerging Infectious Diseases, two leading influenza experts from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, examine how the evolution of proteins found on the surfaces of flu viruses has impacted their ability to infect migratory birds and poultry and cause avian disease.
The article was co-authored by Jeffery Taubenberger, PhD, chief of the Viral Pathogenesis and Evolution section of NIAID's Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, and David Morens, MD, a senior advisor to the NIAID Director.
According to Taubenberger and Morens, this change allowed the hemagglutinin to bind to additional cell receptors in its avian host, which the virus previously could not infect, while also retaining its original binding abilities. This versatility likely made it easier for the virus to infect new hosts, the authors write. They speculate that similar mutations may have played a key role in allowing other strains of H5Nx viruses to spread more rapidly around the globe.
Reference: J Taubenberger and D Morens. H5Nx panzootic bird flu--Influenza's newest worldwide evolutionary tour. Emerging Infectious Diseases DOI 10.3201/eid2302.161963 (2017).


Sigrid Iceborn yells: Ah, there you are! Remember me? Of course you do! Wait right there, I'm coming down.
Sigrid Iceborn yells: I told you I'd be better prepared when next we met. I've fought and won the Hyldsmeet, trained at Valkyrion, and here I am. Come and get some!


hilarious! I want to check out this book (and I LOVE israeli cous cous so I'm trying this) yum and thx!
Yes, you will love it! And the couscous is a perfect at-the-lake potluck dish =). Besos.
Yummy, Totally making that cous-cous, and I can't read Shakespeare. I've tried so many times, although I can't read Danielle Steele either, so I can't be all bad, right?


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Today we look at Gunner Patrick Brien of the Royal Garrison Artillery who is buried in Killoughy Cemetery, County Offaly. Killoughly Cemetery is similar to many rural Irish cemeteries, it contains many eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century memorials. There is also a ruined medieval church. To the west of the church ruins is where Gunner Brien is buried. Within County Offaly, only 19 (out of 189) burial grounds contain Commonwealth War Grave Commission (CWGC) burials.
View from the east of Killoughy Cemetery, Gunner Brien's headstone visible to the right of the ruins.
Patrick Brien was born on 24 March 1883 at Castlecuffe, which is just outside of Clonaslee, Queen's County (Laois). He was the son of Patrick and Bridget Brien. His father was a labourer.
Patrick enlisted in the Royal Garrison Artillery at Maryborough (Portlaoise) on 1 December 1904, for a term of service of 3 years with the colours and 9 years in the army reserve. Upon enlisting Patrick was recorded as being 5 foot 7 ¾ inches tall, having brown eyes, black hair and of the Roman Catholic faith. Prior to his enlistment Patrick worked as a servant for 3 years. Sergeant David Roche of the Royal Irish Constabulary provided Patrick's character reference for enlisting; Patrick was described sober, honest and respectable.
Gunner Brien served at home from December 1904 until August 1905 and then in Malta from August 1904 to October 1907. After this period of service, he was transferred to army reserve, which meant he could be mobilized for service in the event of war. When war broke out in August 1914 he was mobilized for service at Dublin in November 1914. During the Great War he served in Gallipoli from March 1915 to January 1916, Egypt from March 1915 to June 1917, Palestine from June 1917 to November 1918 and Egypt from November 1918 until 31 January 1919. For his service during the Great War he was entitled to the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal, although he would not live to receive them.
Gunner Brien's service seems to have been irregular, his service papers recording him occasionally missing from duty, drunk, yet he was still awarded good conduct badges!
Discharged in February 1919, Patrick reenlisted at Helmieh, Cairo, Egypt to complete further service with the colours, agreeing to service until 1923. While at home in Annabrack he died from influenza meningitis and bronchial pneumonia on 4 April 1919 (likely the Spanish flu). His brother was present at his death.
Patrick's mother Bridget received her son's medals in July 1921, and also a bronze memorial plaque and King's scroll. Interestingly his brothers and sisters are recorded as living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Q: Awaiting element load in Angular's scenario runner I am using Angular's scenarios to do end to end testing of my app. I would like to run tests based on elements that take some time to load. I could just use a sleep() command, but I'd rather do something like:
whenLoaded('p .foo')
    .then(function(elem) { expect(elem.text()).toBe(something); });

Is this possible?

A: Jasmine.js lets you do that too. Look up async specs.
http://pivotal.github.io/jasmine/
describe("Asynchronous specs", function() {
  var value, flag;

  it("should support async execution of test preparation and exepectations", function() {
    runs(function() {
      flag = false;
      value = 0;

      setTimeout(function() {
        flag = true;
      }, 500);
    });

    waitsFor(function() {
      value++;
      return flag;
    }, "The Value should be incremented", 750);

    runs(function() {
      expect(value).toBeGreaterThan(0);
    });
  });
});

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