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The Coronavirus Pandemic
By Kokila Kothandan
A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data
By JOHN P.A. IOANNIDIS
A nurse holds swabs and a test tube to test people for Covid-19 at a drive-through station set up in the parking lot of the Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich. PAUL SANCYA/AP
The current coronavirus disease, Covid-19, has been called a once-in-a-century pandemic. But it may also be a once-in-a-century evidence fiasco.
At a time when everyone needs better information, from disease modelers and governments to people quarantined or just social distancing, we lack reliable evidence on how many people have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 or who continue to become infected. Better information is needed to guide decisions and actions of monumental significance and to monitor their impact.
Draconian countermeasures have been adopted in many countries. If the pandemic dissipates — either on its own or because of these measures — short-term extreme social distancing and lockdowns may be bearable. How long, though, should measures like these be continued if the pandemic churns across the globe unabated? How can policymakers tell if they are doing more good than harm?
Vaccines or affordable treatments take many months (or even years) to develop and test properly. Given such timelines, the consequences of long-term lockdowns are entirely unknown.
We know enough now to act decisively against Covid-19. Social distancing is a good place to start
The data collected so far on how many people are infected and how the epidemic is evolving are utterly unreliable. Given the limited testing to date, some deaths and probably the vast majority of infections due to SARS-CoV-2 are being missed. We don't know if we are failing to capture infections by a factor of three or 300. Three months after the outbreak emerged, most countries, including the U.S., lack the ability to test a large number of people and no countries have reliable data on the prevalence of the virus in a representative random sample of the general population.
This evidence fiasco creates tremendous uncertainty about the risk of dying from Covid-19. Reported case fatality rates, like the official 3.4% rate from the World Health Organization, cause horror — and are meaningless. Patients who have been tested for SARS-CoV-2 are disproportionately those with severe symptoms and bad outcomes. As most health systems have limited testing capacity, selection bias may even worsen in the near future.
The one situation where an entire, closed population was tested was the Diamond Princess cruise ship and its quarantine passengers. The case fatality rate there was 1.0%, but this was a largely elderly population, in which the death rate from Covid-19 is much higher.
Projecting the Diamond Princess mortality rate onto the age structure of the U.S. population, the death rate among people infected with Covid-19 would be 0.125%. But since this estimate is based on extremely thin data — there were just seven deaths among the 700 infected passengers and crew — the real death rate could stretch from five times lower (0.025%) to five times higher (0.625%). It is also possible that some of the passengers who were infected might die later, and that tourists may have different frequencies of chronic diseases — a risk factor for worse outcomes with SARS-CoV-2 infection — than the general population. Adding these extra sources of uncertainty, reasonable estimates for the case fatality ratio in the general U.S. population vary from 0.05% to 1%.
Coronavirus model shows individual hospitals what to expect in the coming weeks
That huge range markedly affects how severe the pandemic is and what should be done. A population-wide case fatality rate of 0.05% is lower than seasonal influenza. If that is the true rate, locking down the world with potentially tremendous social and financial consequences may be totally irrational. It's like an elephant being attacked by a house cat. Frustrated and trying to avoid the cat, the elephant accidentally jumps off a cliff and dies.
Could the Covid-19 case fatality rate be that low? No, some say, pointing to the high rate in elderly people. However, even some so-called mild or common-cold-type coronaviruses that have been known for decades can have case fatality rates as high as 8% when they infect elderly people in nursing homes. In fact, such "mild" coronaviruses infect tens of millions of people every year, and account for 3% to 11% of those hospitalized in the U.S. with lower respiratory infections each winter.
These "mild" coronaviruses may be implicated in several thousands of deaths every year worldwide, though the vast majority of them are not documented with precise testing. Instead, they are lost as noise among 60 million deaths from various causes every year.
Although successful surveillance systems have long existed for influenza, the disease is confirmed by a laboratory in a tiny minority of cases. In the U.S., for example, so far this season 1,073,976 specimens have been tested and 222,552 (20.7%) have tested positive for influenza. In the same period, the estimated number of influenza-like illnesses is between 36,000,000 and 51,000,000, with an estimated 22,000 to 55,000 flu deaths.
Note the uncertainty about influenza-like illness deaths: a 2.5-fold range, corresponding to tens of thousands of deaths. Every year, some of these deaths are due to influenza and some to other viruses, like common-cold coronaviruses.
In an autopsy series that tested for respiratory viruses in specimens from 57 elderly persons who died during the 2016 to 2017 influenza season, influenza viruses were detected in 18% of the specimens, while any kind of respiratory virus was found in 47%. In some people who die from viral respiratory pathogens, more than one virus is found upon autopsy and bacteria are often superimposed. A positive test for coronavirus does not mean necessarily that this virus is always primarily responsible for a patient's demise.
A roundup of STAT's top stories of the day.If we assume that case fatality rate among individuals infected by SARS-CoV-2 is 0.3% in the general population — a mid-range guess from my Diamond Princess analysis — and that 1% of the U.S. population gets infected (about 3.3 million people), this would translate to about 10,000 deaths. This sounds like a huge number, but it is buried within the noise of the estimate of deaths from "influenza-like illness." If we had not known about a new virus out there, and had not checked individuals with PCR tests, the number of total deaths due to "influenza-like illness" would not seem unusual this year. At most, we might have casually noted that flu this season seems to be a bit worse than average. The media coverage would have been less than for an NBA game between the two most indifferent teams.
Some worry that the 68 deaths from Covid-19 in the U.S. as of March 16 will increase exponentially to 680, 6,800, 68,000, 680,000 … along with similar catastrophic patterns around the globe. Is that a realistic scenario, or bad science fiction? How can we tell at what point such a curve might stop?
The most valuable piece of information for answering those questions would be to know the current prevalence of the infection in a random sample of a population and to repeat this exercise at regular time intervals to estimate the incidence of new infections. Sadly, that's information we don't have.
In the absence of data, prepare-for-the-worst reasoning leads to extreme measures of social distancing and lockdowns. Unfortunately, we do not know if these measures work. School closures, for example, may reduce transmission rates. But they may also backfire if children socialize anyhow, if school closure leads children to spend more time with susceptible elderly family members, if children at home disrupt their parents ability to work, and more. School closures may also diminish the chances of developing herd immunity in an age group that is spared serious disease.
This has been the perspective behind the different stance of the United Kingdom keeping schools open, at least until as I write this. In the absence of data on the real course of the epidemic, we don't know whether this perspective was brilliant or catastrophic.
Flattening the curve to avoid overwhelming the health system is conceptually sound — in theory. A visual that has become viral in media and social media shows how flattening the curve reduces the volume of the epidemic that is above the threshold of what the health system can handle at any moment.
The novel coronavirus is a serious threat. We need to prepare, not overreact
Yet if the health system does become overwhelmed, the majority of the extra deaths may not be due to coronavirus but to other common diseases and conditions such as heart attacks, strokes, trauma, bleeding, and the like that are not adequately treated. If the level of the epidemic does overwhelm the health system and extreme measures have only modest effectiveness, then flattening the curve may make things worse: Instead of being overwhelmed during a short, acute phase, the health system will remain overwhelmed for a more protracted period. That's another reason we need data about the exact level of the epidemic activity.
One of the bottom lines is that we don't know how long social distancing measures and lockdowns can be maintained without major consequences to the economy, society, and mental health. Unpredictable evolutions may ensue, including financial crisis, unrest, civil strife, war, and a meltdown of the social fabric. At a minimum, we need unbiased prevalence and incidence data for the evolving infectious load to guide decision-making.
In the most pessimistic scenario, which I do not espouse, if the new coronavirus infects 60% of the global population and 1% of the infected people die, that will translate into more than 40 million deaths globally, matching the 1918 influenza pandemic.
The vast majority of this hecatomb would be people with limited life expectancies. That's in contrast to 1918, when many young people died.
One can only hope that, much like in 1918, life will continue. Conversely, with lockdowns of months, if not years, life largely stops, short-term and long-term consequences are entirely unknown, and billions, not just millions, of lives may be eventually at stake.
If we decide to jump off the cliff, we need some data to inform us about the rationale of such an action and the chances of landing somewhere safe.
John P.A. Ioannidis is professor of medicine, of epidemiology and population health, of biomedical data science, and of statistics at Stanford University and co-director of Stanford's Meta-Research Innovation Center.


You will notice that the same translucent canvas from the Greenhouse also surrounds the Bridge. It is designed to be a durable, flexible, and repairable material that reflects harmful UV rays and holds pressure. The modular design is suitable for any terrain or elevation variance between the other structures.
In the next week or so we plan on tidying up the interior elements of the Bridge. We are also starting to experiment with an upgrade from Unity 4.6 to 5.1. This would be a big change for us, so hopefully by our next devlog we should have an answer as to how feasible it would be for us to transition.
For this week's art update we want to focus on the addition of plant racks to the Greenhouse. We have designed a rather intricate rack system for holding and watering the plants. There will be four rows of plants along the length of the Greenhouse, as shown in the screenshot below.
The middle rows feature raised sections that can be lowered in order to access the plants above. Water is piped through the floor and into containers at the base of each rack, which is then pumped up the poles to be sprayed onto the plants. The plant containers on the racks can be removed and arranged with different sizes to accommodate different plants. They can even be removed and brought back for examination.
We plan on adding many different kinds of plants and allowing the player to interact with them. In the coming weeks we will work on adding the lighting, ventilation, and research equipment to fill the rest of the space. There's still plenty left to do, but we are quite pleased with the look of the Greenhouse thus far.
The last few weeks have been very busy for us on the systems-side of development, so let's dive right in.
We are inching ever closer to the release of our Unity plugin, Song Seed. We did a short introduction video for the plugin in a standalone post a few months backs. Since then we have been hard at work, adding new features, ironing out bugs, and beginning to create the documentation.
We should be close to doing a beta test for Song Seed, so if any Unity developers are reading this and are interested in helping us test it, please contact us.
Any music loops should work with the system, but our composer for Lacuna Passage, Clark Aboud, is currently working on some custom loops packs specifically designed for Song Seed which will also be available on the Unity Asset Store soon.
NOTE: Saves no longer function as described below. We have made save files accessible in a save folder.
Lately we have begun tying our background gameplay systems into a central saving and loading feature that will be fairly unique in Lacuna Passage. To prevent players from manipulating their save data to "cheat" the survival randomization we will be utilizing a save system that deletes your save every time you reload the game. When you quit it will create a new save.
This effectively creates a form of "permanent pause". When you quit the game it's more like you are putting it on pause and when you restart the game it's like resuming it again. You cannot choose when you save or duplicate/copy your save files. Every time you die you will have to start over from the very beginning. If that sounds punishing, don't worry. Dying is a huge part of Lacuna Passage and each time you restart it will be with a new wealth of survival knowledge (in fact, taking notes is strongly encouraged). Each playthrough will be an opportunity for you to improve on your previous run.
Above you can see a very simple demonstration of loading in the player's previous position and rotation. A bunch of other things (including survival stats, time of day, and weather) are also being reloaded in the background. Now that the basics are in place we can extend the saving and loading as we fill the world with more content.
We haven't really touched upon many of the different types of items you will be able to interact with in Lacuna Passage. Obviously we will have things like food items which will need to be collected for survival, but those are small enough to fit in your suit pouches. So what about items that are too large to fit in your suit, but are still small enough to be carried? Well, you will have to carry them... with physics!
As you can see in the images above, a small number of items in the game will need to be physically carried. These items will often be necessary for certain survival challenges so keeping note of their locations around the Foundation Base will be critical. You won't be able to just pull them up from a menu, so don't lose them. I'm sure you can envision a survival scenario that might require the above fire extinguisher. Other examples might include an emergency generator or a power drill.
If you have any questions about this month's devlog just let us know in the comments!
Make sure to check back for the art devlog post coming on the 15th to see more!
We are making continued progress with art development for Lacuna Passage and this week we would like to share a few new assets related to the survival elements of the game. Every food and water packet you will find in the game is fully rendered and detailed. Your inventory is not just a text list in a menu. You will have control over a very visual inventory consisting of dozens of unique assets. Check out some of the assets we have created so far below.
We are still adding even more items (including canned and boxed foods), but we are very happy with the look of the transparent and foil packets. On the technical side, most packets range between 200 and 400 polygons with a few of the more complex ones up near 1000.
When you are alone on Mars will you save your vacuum sealed dessert packs for last?


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What Are The Greensand Commons?
The Greensand Commons of Sevenoaks and Westerham share a rich history and have been a vital resource for local communities for generations. They are owned mainly by the Squerryes estate (Westerham) and Knole estate (Sevenoaks), and have been managed by local councils since 1925 and for the last 43 years by Sevenoaks District Council under a scheme of regulation. Sevenoaks Town Council owns and manages Sevenoaks Common. Sevenoaks Weald Village Commons being managed by Sevenoaks Weald Parish Council.
As well as being in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), the Commons are Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and/or Local Nature Reserves (LNR) for their areas of ancient woodland and open heathland. In addition, Hosey Common's tunnelled quarry workings are important for bat species such as Daubenton's, Natterer's, whiskered/Brandt's and brown long-eared bats.
The Commons cover nearly 300 hectares of varied habitats and are connected to the Greensand Way path, with links to the National Trust properties of Chartwell, Knole and Ightham Mote.
The Project Sites include:
The Westerham cluster (159ha):
Hosey Common
Farley Common
Crockhamhill Common
The Sevenoaks Cluster (22ha)
Sevenoaks Common
Sevenoaks Weald Common
The Seal cluster (115ha):
Bitchet Common
Fawke Common
Seal Chart and Redhill Wood
The Westerham cluster, owned by the Squerryes Estate, and the Sevenoaks cluster, owned by the Knole Estate are managed by Sevenoaks District Council.
Sevenoaks Common is managed by Sevenoaks Town Council.
Sevenoaks Weald Common is managed by Sevenoaks Weald Parish Council.
Bye-laws and Scheme of Regulation
The commons are dedicated for free public access, on foot and on horseback.
Please see information relating to the 'Scheme' commons of Bitchet Common, Fawke Common, Seal Chart and Redhill Wood, Hosey Common, Farley Common and Crockhamhill Common below:
Commons Bye-laws
Scheme of regulation
Sevenoaks Greensand Commons Development Stage
For information please find the Consultation Survey Results which contains the collected responses to the consultation survey that took place this summer as part of the Development Stage. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this process. The information gathered through this has informed the Stage 2 HLF funding application.
We have worked up a great project, secured a substantial amount of match funding, and further developed good working relationships with partners during this time. All of this has reinforced a strong application for the second stage funding application for the Delivery Stage which was submitted in February.
The Heritage Lottery Panel assessing the application meet in June and we anticipate hearing the outcome around the 8th of that month. Please look back on this page around that time for an update. Many thanks.
In the year since the Development phase of the Project started, we have carried out extensive consultation with local people and organisations; we have brought together the main partners in the projects, visited other similar sites, talked to regular users of the Commons and introduced many more to the Commons, and carried out ecological surveys of all the sites.
Please see the bottom of the page for downloads of the Ecological Scoping & Outline Nature Conservation Management Plans for the project sites.
We have come up with a number of proposed projects and activities that will actively engage people in finding out more and learning about the Commons and physical works to enhance nature conservation and access.
View the Proposed Projects and Activities.
Geology of the Greensand Commons
Simplified geological diagram of Wealden Dome © Clem Rutter
The lower greensand formed in very shallow seas as the land was sinking. Particles of sand washed from the land were cemented together by lime in seawater. These formed bands of hard rock, compared to soft sandstone and mud of Weald to the south, and chalk of the North Downs.
Areas remaining on the plateau were left having very stony, slightly acidic, impoverished soils. Consequently, they were easy to clear of trees and vegetation, but very hard to farm.
If you have knowledge of the local geology or would like to find out more, please get in touch.
Landscape History of the Greensand Commons
Hosey Common Westerham Mines
The natural history of the Commons is both the cause and effect of the past relationship between human beings and their natural environment. Impossible to plough, they were left unused until feudal land management systems provided rights for local people to graze their animals, collect firewood and mine their resources.
Some of these management systems have had huge and positive impacts upon the biodiversity of the area e.g. the local tradition of pollarding trees to head height have created 'Veteran Trees' – huge oak and beech trees, each providing an oasis for wildlife such as lichens and invertebrates, which in turn support wider eco-systems. The constant removal of brush for animal bedding and fuel from the Commons kept them cleared so the heathland species could thrive.
The uses local people have made of this land have been varied. Iron Age man, the Romans, Saxons and Normans, and people right through to the 20th Century have all benefited from the Commons' resources. Two significant Iron Age Hill Forts, (Crockhamhill and Oldbury) stand on the outside edge of the project area at the west and east ends of the Commons. Local historians believe there are Roman tracks leading from Oldbury across Seal Chart to the south.
Stone has been quarried from Hosey Common since the 12th Century for buildings in Westerham and during the 1800's miners from Bedfordshire came to mine the stone and stayed to join the local community. The caves remain and are a Kent Wildlife Trust reserve for bats. Tough building stone was taken and used in the construction of Westminster Abbey and the Tower of London. Chert, a hard layer of stone, was mined for tracks and roads and we can still see the consequences of this in the undulations of the landscape beneath the scrub and moss.
Local historians and project partners are undertaking research discovering more information on the rich historic use of the Kennedy Gardens. This area of land within Hosey Common was 'allotted' to the poor families of the district whose husbands had fought for Britain in the Napoleonic wars.
Please see the Sevenoaks Greensand Commons Project Historic Review below which we have produced during the Development Stage of this project.
Sevenoaks Greensand Commons Project Historic Review
Ecology of the Greensand Commons
The Commons contain some unusual and rare habitats for Kent, and while much of the area is dominated by woodland, there are significant sections of acid grassland and heath habitat which is of high biodiversity value.
Valued Habitats
The project sites sit at the centre of Kent's Biodiversity Opportunity Area (BOA) for the Greensand Heaths and Commons. Kent Nature Partnership's BOA Statement highlights the importance of their acid grassland sites and "species of acid woodland and heathland which are otherwise scarce in Kent".
(Pictured) Areas where encroaching birch have been cleared have shown typical heathland species present, however, bracken and birch still need to be cleared.
The following species can be found at this site:
Species of Note
It is the mosaic of the Commons' heathland habitat which provides a home to some less common plants and animals. For example, bilberry, wavy hair-grass, and ling can still be found in our Commons, but these plants, along with bird species such as nightjar, stonechat, woodlark, tree pipit and redstart have declined significantly as the more open habitats have been encroached upon. The Commons still supports a huge variety of wildlife such as green and great spotted woodpecker, buzzard, sparrowhawk and many small mammals including dormice and hedgehogs – animals which are "declining at a rapid rate" (British Hedgehog Preservation Society).
The slug Tandonia rustica is only found here, alongside nationally scarce species of snails acicula fusca and Rolph's door snail, and Bitchet Common is the only known Kent site for the bristletail Dilta hibernica. Soft rush, greater bird's foot trefoil lotus, red campion, hemp nettle, common fleabane, slender St. John's wort and several fern species are found here, including lady fern.
Wooded heaths are also home to a number of important indicator species such as green tiger and heath tiger beetles; and emperor, brindled beauty and deep brown dart moths, some of which are which are in some cases listed as priorities for the UK Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP):
We know that many of these species are still present in suitable habitats locally, but are no longer frequent on the commons.
Sites of Special Scientific Interest
Many of the sites are designated Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and/or Local Nature Reserves. Hosey Common also contains tunnelled quarry workings, designated a SSSI as it is used by Daubenton's, Natterer's, whiskered/Brantd's and brown long-eared bats.
Knole Park SSSI Designation
Oldbury and Seal Chart SSSI Designation
One Tree Hill and Bitchet Common SSSI Designation
Westerham Mines SSSI Designation
Project Site Maps
Locations of the Commons
The Commons are connected to the long distance Greensand Way path which runs along the ridge from Haslemere in Surrey to Hamstreet in Kent and joins the great National Trust properties of Chartwell, Knole and Ightham Mote.
Sevenoaks Greensand Commons Project Sites
Individual Project Site maps;
Bitchet Common Map
Crockhamhill Common Map
Farley Common Map
Fawke Common and Godden Green Map
Hosey Common Map
Seal Chart Common Map
Sevenoaks Common Map
Sevenoaks Weald Common Map
Members of the Steering Group and project partners at Hosey Common
Partnership working has been essential in developing the project and a wide range of partners provided input into the project to date. That support continues as we go through the 'development stage' of the project and work up the 'delivery stage' application for March 2018.
The project has, and continues to be developed and supported, with valued input from many organisations, including:
Kent Amphibian & Reptile Group
Kent Downs AONB
Knole Estate
Open Spaces Society
Seal Parish Council
Sevenoaks District Council
Sevenoaks Living Landscape
Sevenoaks Society
Sevenoaks Town Council
The Westerham Society
Westerham Town Council
Westerham Town Partnership
Sevenoaks Greensand Commons Consultation Survey Results May-Sep 2017
Sevenoaks Greensand Commons Project - Proposed projects and activities Dec 2017
Bitchet Common report
Crockhamhill Common report
Farley Common report
Fawke Common report
Hosey Common report
Seal Chart Common report
Sevenoaks Common report
Sevenoaks Weald Commons report
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There was definitly a certain irony about reading that blog post yesterday, and my interest to bring it here. When I think of these non-geology types that dress this way I am forced to think of places like Boulder and Bozeman, for example.
No, they wear these clothes not to be ready at a moment s notice to head out to the real country, they wear these clothes as a form of conspicuous consumption. They are saying: see, I don t need to dress in old haut bourgeois weekend casual clothes, because I go out to Aspen (or Park City, or some other far off trendy place) and this is what I would be wearing if I were there. (Never mind that I only go once a season, or once every two years, I want you to think that it was just some huge deal at work that has kept me in NYC, so I am wearing my ski jacket to dinner on the Upper West Side, or I have on my fleece vest, even though I have just been to an indoor gym).
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If you're willing to get up very early and dress quite warm, this is worth it. I really enjoyed the sunrise view and the park rangers were excellent. The roads are fairly frightening (for people like me at least!) and the altitude might make you lightheaded after a while. Overall an enjoyable experience though!
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Fifty years ago, on 18 March 1965, Soviet astronaut Alexei Leonov took the first space walk. Listen to Rob and Neil describing the struggles of that ground-breaking space mission whilst explaining some related vocabulary.
Yup, I am with Chris. Our HOA specifically bans hanging laundry, even in the backyard where it can t be seen! Besides, I also don t like the stiffness of line-dried clothing, and it would be my luck that I would forget it outside and some animal would do something horrible to it.
A little TLC helps our clothes look good and last longer - from finding time to 'have-a-go' at getting out a stain to following the washing instructions on the label.
There are those who combine as well. I see the north face fleece vest over a lot of business casual here in SF and the silicon valley. I think they give you one when you move to the peninsula.
I love the soft feel of clothes that come out of the dryer. I also love the fresh smell of line dried clothes. What I do is hang the clothes to dry, then pop them in the dryer for about 10 minutes with a damp wash cloth/towel to soften them. This saves electricity also since I have an electric dryer.
De Magalhaes and Gladyshev are under no illusions about the arduous journey but they remain hopeful. History is full of claims by experts that certain advances are impossible, only to be proven wrong soon after, says de Magalhaes. Consider the state of medicine just 120 years ago, when some of today s bowhead whales were still in their infancy. Back then life-threatening infections were just a fact of life. Today, antibiotics are taken for granted as the most basic healthcare.
The webbing clothes moth is the most common fabric moth. The adult is gold with reddish-golden hairs on the top of its head. A row of golden hairs fringes its wings, which have a span of about 1/2 inch. Because these moths are weak flyers that aren't attracted to lights, you'll usually find them close to the infested items, such as in a dark area of the closet.
What about non-white people who wear technical clothing eh? I m 1/2 yellow and 1/2 white and I wear a ridiculous amount of technical clothing. Although I always want to go camping, I m not so stupid as to think my buddy s going to call an impromptu session of hiking and paddling. I for one wear technical clothing because I m a paranoid bastard. When those zombies come, you want to be hunkered down in a makeshift shanty dressed in cotton, that retains water and chills you when the temperature drops? I think I ll stick with my technical clothing. I may look like a douche, but damn yo, how many hipsters look like douches and are just gonna be eaten by zombies because they can t run in their drainpipe jeans? Sheeit yo, it ain t just white people wearing clothing that works, that in itself is degrading to people of other shades. What, because I m 1/2 Chinese I can t be (paranoia-fuelled) practical? C mon!!
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Works of Thérèse
Letters - LT
School notebooks - French
Last conversations
Family members and photos-albums
Places they lived
Schooling of the girls
Holy cards given to TH
The sickness of Thérèse at 10
Journey to Rome
Charcoals and paintings
In Carmel
Texts read in the refectory
Community library
Little words for Feast Days
Distribution of the texts of TH
-> Story of a Soul
-> The critical editions after 1956
Distribution of the representations of TH
Therese and the First World War
The Process: the holiness of Therese
Correspondence of the family after 1897
Witness 33 - Nicolas Giannattasio di Francesco, Bishop of Nardo
Born in Bisceglie on 17th January 1871, Nicolas Giannattasio was ordained a priest whilst still very young, on 21st December 1893. A Doctor of Arts, Philosophy and Theology, he taught first at the Regional Pontifical Seminary of Bénévent, then at the Seminaries of Ascoli Satriano and Cerignola, where he was also Rector. He was nominated Bishop of Nardo on 30th November 1908, and consecrated the following 31st December. When he didn't accept a transfer to the archiepiscopal see of Otrante, he became the tenured Archbishop of Pessinunte and settled in Rome where he was nominated Canon of Saint John Lateran, consultant for the Congregation of Sacraments and clergy examiner. He also devoted himself to studying and apostolic activities. He was a connoisseur of Dante Alighieri, and friend to artists and writers, including Perosi, to whom he was close. In 1916 he published Saggi di apologia cattolica, in 1942 Parusia storica secondo San Pietro, and in 1952 Cristologia Paolina. He died in Frascati on 24th August 1959*.
The witness testified in Italian. The text was immediately translated into French by Mr. Dubosq, Promoter of the Faith. It describes the wondrous events that took place in 1910-1911 in the Carmel of Gallipoli, a monastery with which Mgr. Giannattasio was in contact for his ministry. The Bishop already recognized the value of the spiritual message of Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus, and saw it confirmed when the Servant of God said to Mother Carmela of the Sacred Heart in a vision on 16th January 1910: "La mia via è sicura, e non mi sono sbagliata seguendola" ("My way is right and I wasn't mistaken in following it"). Mgr. Giannattasio compared these words with the promise that Sister Thérèse made to Sister Marie of the Trinity: "If I learn on entering heaven that I've mislead you, I'll obtain permission from God to immediately come and inform you. Until that happens, believe that my way is right and follow it faithfully" **.@CSM">**. – Counsels and Reminiscences -
The witness testified on 21st–22nd August 1911, in sessions 86-87, pp. 1309v-1329v of our Public Copy.
[Session 86: - 21st August 1911, at 8:30am and at 2pm]
[1310v] [The witness answers the first question correctly].
[1311r] [Answer to the second question]:
My name is Nicolas Giannattasio di Francesco. I was born in Bisceglie, Archidiocese of Trani, in the Province of Bari (Italy), on 17th January 1871, of the legitimate marriage between Francesco Giannattasio and Lucretia Gramagna. I am the Bishop of Nardò, in the Province of Lecce (Italy), on the border with the Diocese of Gallipoli.
[The witness answers questions three to seven correctly]:
[Answer to the eighth question]:
I have come to testify principally about the wondrous events that took place at the Carmel of Gallipoli (Articles nos. 145, 145a, 145b). What I will say about these events, I know from personal knowledge. I will also mention, in passing, that the witnesses from whom I was able to ascertain certain details relating to my deposition are wholly trustworthy.
[1311v] [Answer to the ninth question]:
I have a keen devotion for the Servant of God, and I very much hope that her cause is successful; but it's not out of any human sentiment. I desire to see her beatified for the glory of God alone, and because I believe she will help edify souls, especially in these present times.
[Answers to questions ten to twenty-six]:
I know nothing particular on these points.
[Answer to the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth questions]:
My feeling is that the holiness the Servant of God practiced in her life was not only eminent, but I would also say "one of the most eminent in the Church." Moreover her holiness appears to me to be "distinctive" in the sense that in Providence's design she is destined to pave a new way to perfection.
[What do you mean when you say that this way of holiness is a "new way"?]:
I mean in the same way a man of genius has "new" views on an "unchanging" truth, that is to say "a new way of understanding and presenting the truth, which remains substantially the same." Hence "typical" saints like Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis de Sales, Saint Teresa, and so on, highlighted a virtue and a point of view on the evangelical doctrine in a special way, yet the doctrine remains the unique path to holiness. It was not only through their teachings that these saints promoted the practice of certain evangelical virtues, but above all through their actions, becoming what you might call a "new exemplary cause" for holiness, without however the principal and "authoritative" purpose of all holiness ceasing to be unique.
[In your opinion, what does her special way of holiness consist of?]:
It consists of the love of God, [1312v] which is envisaged as a love of trust and surrender expressed in the practice of "little acts" of virtue. For her life was one of "heroic" tenacity and constancy in the attentive practice of these "little acts" of virtue: her faithfulness in performing these acts never flagged, and "Story of a Soul" shows that she was constant in this even in her early childhood, while she was still in the world, and then in the Carmel until her death. I believe that through her constant and faithful practice of these "little acts", she reached the height of perfection and an eminent degree of love of God. Hence she shows that the highest perfection is accessible even to "little souls", and it seems to me that today the majority of souls are "little" as the Servant of God understood it.
[Do you think that there were certain virtues in particular that the Servant of God practiced when she performed "little" acts such as these?]:
I believe she was particularly mindful to being exquisitely amiable to her neighbour, being patient when [1313r] tolerating the faults of others, and to being very meticulous and unflagging when testifying to her profound piety and her faith in God.
[How did you come to know all this?]:
I deduced it from studying and meditating "her Life Story". This work appears to me to be a master-piece of Christian hagiography; it's a marvelous ascetic "directory".
[Do you know whether the Servant of God is renowned in Southern Italy?]:
She is known by a large number of people, especially by those who are pious and fervent. Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus is considered to be a saint. The wondrous event that took place in Gallipoli, and which I will talk about later, has contributed to spreading her renown for holiness. I've never heard anyone contest the truth of her reputation for heroic virtue.
[1313v] [Answer to the twenty-ninth question]:
The events in Gallipoli can be summarized, for more clarity, in three main points: 1stly the wondrous occurrence that took place on 16th January 1910; 2ndly the subsequent events that reoccurred on different occasions, after the 16th January 1910; 3rdly the event that is more personal, and which happened on 16th January 1911.
1stly – The event that took place on 16th January 1910 was reported to me a few days later by Mgr. the Bishop of Gallipoli who invited me, on 6th February, to represent the Pontiff for the feast day of Saint Agatha, the patron Saint of Gallipoli. Moreover, the following day, 7th February 1910, the Prioress of the Carmel of Gallipoli, who was granted this wondrous favour, told me about it herself in the presence of Mgr. Muller, the Bishop of Gallipoli.
I am going to recount the event by relating what Mother Carmela of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Prioress, told us. Now on 7th February, after his account and [1314r] to satisfy the request I had made the previous day, the Bishop of Gallipoli led me to the Carmel's visiting room and asked the Mother Prioress to tell us the story of what had happened on 16th January. I must mention that this nun was very hesitant and averse to recounting the tale: she did so very reservedly, and it was only under the Bishop of Gallipoli's injunction in the name of obedience that she agreed to our request.
[Do you know the reason for her aversion?]:
I never thought the prospect of saying something that might not be true could be the cause of her hesitation. What I observed in her attitude and her story leaves no room at all for such a suspicion as this. The Prioress is very virtuous and incapable of lying. I formed the impression, and I believe it to be true, that her aversion stemmed from a feeling of humility, making it very difficult for her to recount events that involved her personally. In addition, I noticed that during the [1314v] interview, in which the Prioress obviously went to great pains to obey the Bishop's order, her face transformed as she recounted her tale, and her features took on a wholly celestial expression, which made a profound impression on me.
[The witness continues]:
The Prioress told us that, at about dawn on 16th January 1910, she was in bed. Suffering from the repercussions of pleurisy, she hadn't slept all night, and at that moment, she was half-sitting up in bed. (She was fully awake, or half asleep, she didn't say which in her story.) She thought she could feel someone touch her on the chest through the bed-covers. So she said: "Don't do that, I'm all sweaty." A voice replied: "Don't be afraid, what I'm doing is not bad, but good." Then the voice added: "God makes use of those in heaven like he does of those on earth: I am bringing you five hundred pounds to meet the [1315r] community's needs." The Prioress replied: "The community's debt amounts to only three hundred pounds." "Well" said the voice, "you can keep the rest for the community's other needs." The Prioress objected: "But the Holy Rule doesn't allow me to keep money in my cell." The voice replied by means of a "locuzione mentale" that the money could be taken out of the cell, and that as the Prioress couldn't get up because of her state of transpiration, a "bilocation" would allow her to go and fetch the money. (I must mention at this point that the Prioress was very reluctant to utter the word "bilocation" and only did so after Mgr. Muller insisted, instructing her to speak the whole truth.)
[1315v] [Continuation of the answer to the twenty-ninth question]:
The Prioress was led outside her cell by a Carmelite nun who was radiant with a brightness that lit their way as they walked through the corridors. She led her to the turn's office, while remaining inside the enclosure. Inside the room, there was a desk with three drawers: the office was regularly used for keeping the monastery's administrative accounts.
The vision had her open one of the drawers in which she found a little box about ten centimetres long. She put five hundred pounds worth of Neapolitan bank notes in the box. The Prioress was very moved and believed at first that the vision was Saint Teresa, the founder of the Carmel. So [1316r] she cried: "0 Santa Madre." The vision answered: "I am not 'Santa Madre', I am the Servant of God Sister Thérèse of Lisieux: today, there is rejoicing in heaven and on earth." (It was the feast of the Holy Name of Jesus). They exchanged a few more words, and then the vision gave the Prioress a few signs of friendship, by putting her hand on her head, and arranging the folds in her veil with a stroke of her hand; she then appeared to walk towards the door. The Prioress said: "Wait a minute, I will accompany you, because you may get lost, as you don't know the way." The vision replied with the following words: "La mia via è sicura, e non mi sono sbagliata seguendola."
[Do you know whether the Prioress already knew anything about the Servant of God or whether she had heard of her?]:
Shortly beforehand, a Marcellin nun from Milan, of the monastery of Lecce, had said a few words about Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus [1316v] when visiting the Carmel of Gallipoli. Out of urgency, the Carmelites of Gallipoli resolved to pray to the young Carmelite nun they had been told about, and at about the time that the vision was seen, they were saying either a triduum or a novena in order to obtain help from God through her intercession, for the monastery was in great difficulty.
[The witness continues his presentation as follows]:
The Prioress was very moved by the strange event. In the morning, it was with great difficulty that she got up to take Communion and attend Mass. When she withdrew after thanksgiving, the two sacristan nuns noticed how pale her face was and assumed she was very ill. They wanted their Mother Prioress back in bed at all costs and the doctor to be called. Confronted with their persistence, she was compelled to tell them that she was still overcome by something that had happened during the night and which she believed had been a dream. She then told them [1317r] briefly what had happened and about the little box in the office drawer. The Prioress said, as if teasing them: "you mustn't believe in dreams." The nuns protested, but, prompted by a sort of religious awe, neither of them dared open the drawer. The Prioress was obliged to do so herself, and found that the little box did indeed contain five hundred pounds.
[Do you know whether the Prioress slept-walked at all, or suffered from any cerebral disorder that could have caused her to place a sum of money that was already inside the monastery in the drawer?]:
That hypothesis is absolutely inadmissible: 1stly the afore-mentioned Prioress has a very sound mind and has never, neither beforehand nor since, shown signs of having the least cerebral trouble; 2ndly it is also impossible that such a significant amount of money was in the monastery or that it came to the Prioress from outside. [1317v] I know personally and for a fact that the Carmel of Gallipoli is in a situation of extreme poverty: the region itself is poor, not very religious, and not very generous; a benefactor able to offer such a lot of money would have been impossible to find. Moreover, the Carmel's creditor had been pursuing them extremely ruthlessly for a fortnight, claiming his due every day. If we had had any money available at all, we would have given it to them. Yet above all, the extremely rigorous inquiry led by the Bishop leaves no room for any doubt. Either the venerable prelate was granted special permission from God, or demonstrated profound wisdom in this extremely delicate matter, for his attitude was such that he would have grasped at the smallest pretext to reduce this whole matter to nothing. Now, Mgr. Muller, in his investigation, looked into every possible theory in an attempt to reveal a mistake, illusion or trickery. He had all the different elements in front of him and reached the conclusion, of which he informed me, that there was no natural explanation.
[1318r] 2ndly. As for the reports concerning the more or less wondrous events that took place at the Carmel of Gallipoli between 16th January 1910 and 16th January 1911, I don't accord them as much importance, because I haven't verified them myself and because the circumstances under which they unfolded are not as striking as those of the first vision. I would only say in general that the Prioress avows to having on several occasions found surplus proceeds in the monastery accounts and that supernatural intervention was the only explanation for this. The Bishop of Gallipoli, who very frequently and very carefully checks the accounts, admitted to me that he couldn't explain where the money had come from. Also, when these events took place, he submitted the Prioress to so many tests, examinations and conundrums of all sorts, that he himself esteems the Prioress would have no interest in upholding the events to be true if they weren't. The Bishop of Gallipoli also observes that the progress made by the whole community and by every nun in their spiritual life is [1318v] extraordinary, and that it cannot be denied that this coincides with the material events related above. I am aware of this because I directed the spiritual practices of this Carmel.
3rdly. – The third occurrence is very personal to me. I now have a special devotion for the Servant of God, based on the effect it had on me, which is to recommend, and have Carmelites recommend, the exceptionally difficult administrative problems I come across in my diocese to Sister Thérèse's intercession. To elicit the Servant of God's help, the idea came to me to donate the Carmel of Gallipoli the sum of five hundred pounds, which was the same amount that the Servant of God had miraculously brought, and to make this donation on the anniversary of the wonder that is related above in n° 1. However I hesitated offering such a considerable sum to a monastery that wasn't in my diocese. But, on Christmas day, a benefactor unexpectedly gave me a thousand pounds to use as I saw fit. I [1319r] immediately said to myself: "Sister Thérèse has come to help me", and without further hesitation I decided to put my plan to donate into action. With this in view, I took advantage of the fact that a very reliable person from Gallipoli came to visit me on 28th December 1910 by giving her my parcel. Therefore, without being seen by this person or by anyone else, I placed a five hundred pound note in a little envelope, along with one of my compliments slips, on which I wrote the following words as a reminder of what happened on 16th January 1910: "In memoriam… My way is right and I wasn't mistaken in following it. (Sister Thérèse of Lisieux to Sister Maria Carmela in Gallipoli, 16th January 1910). Orate pro me quotidie ut Deus misereatur mei." I left the little envelope, with its contents, open in a big double envelope that is known as a safe envelope in the world of commerce. The inner lining of this envelope was made of thin paper, and blue; the outer envelope was of a stronger paper and lighter [1319v] in colour. I carefully closed the double envelope, securely sealing it with a wax stamp bearing my insignia. Then, and in the presence of the person who was to be my messenger, I wrote on the outside of the big envelope: "To place in the ordinary little box, and to be opened by the Mother Prioress, Sister Carmela, on 16th January 1911." In addition, I asked the messenger to be good enough to check that the instructions I'd written on the envelope were followed through. It was absolutely impossible to read through the double envelope the term "In memoriam", which was written on the little envelope inside; let alone see what the envelope held. Moreover, I didn't tell the messenger what the letter contained, I only advised her to take good care of it.
[Session 87: - 22nd August 1911 at 8:30am and at 2pm]
At the invitation of Mgr. Muller, the Bishop of Gallipoli, I was to preach spiritual practices at the Carmel for a week, starting on 16th January 1911. So, on 16th January, at about four o'clock in the afternoon, I went to the Carmel's visiting room at the Bishop's order, to arrange the practice times. 16th January was the day I had chosen for the Prioress to open my package: I thought she must have discovered its contents earlier in the day; but when we met in the visiting room, she said that the envelope still lay unopened in the little box and that she wanted me to open it myself. Why did she want me to open the envelope myself and had waited for me to arrive? It was, I think, because she suspected something extraordinary had happened to the envelope and because she wanted as far as possible to avoid any involvement in a new affair that would only give her more trouble, and attract more public attention. Furthermore, for a year, the nuns in her monastery had been saying [1324v] the following prayer to the Servant of God, Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus: "Seeing as you have taken an interest in the community's material commodities, please take an interest in a more spiritual one and procure us the means to acquire a floral decoration for our poor chapel's alter." They estimated that it would cost 300 pounds. The Prioress had at first refused to play any part in their request, then eventually conceded, and had for a while been praying for the decoration along with the other nuns. Now, a few days before the 16th January, the Prioress, finding an opportunity to open the drawer which had the envelope inside, noticed that the envelope had become thicker and sensed that some wonder had taken place as a result of the Sisters' prayers. That is, in my opinion, the reason for her hesitation in opening the envelope; and she had written to me saying: "Don't forget to come yourself on 16th, it seems to me that the Servant of God wants to give you a sign, even if an indirect one, of her supernatural intervention."
[1325r] I asked the Prioress to go to the drawer and fetch the envelope, which she then presented me with, asking me to open it. I insisted she open it herself. Not without some difficulty, she tore off a corner of the envelope which was stiff and well stuck, then opened it from bottom to top with her finger. Then, without touching the contents, she handed it to me through the grille, saying: "You take it then, since it's yours." I believe this was because of the feeling I mentioned above and because she wanted, as far as possible, to get rid of this matter that she sensed was supernatural. I therefore took the envelope and I was astonished to find other notes inside, besides the five hundred pound note that I had placed in the little envelope. There were two hundred pound notes and two fifty pound notes inside the thin blue paper envelope. My little envelope was amidst these notes and I didn't see it at first.
My first thought was that someone had changed my five hundred pound note and replaced it [1325v] with notes of a smaller value. The Prioress said: "Count them then, could they perhaps be the three hundred pounds that the Sisters asked for? In any case, keep it all and deal with this matter yourself. If you want, I'll call the Sisters and you can give them the money as if it came from you." She probably thought that this way, the miracle would go unnoticed and that people wouldn't talk about it. I counted the notes again; one of the fifty pound notes smelled vaguely of roses. I took it and replaced it with another of the same value. The Sisters were called: I gave them the money without mentioning the miracle; they thanked me and withdrew. The Prioress then said that the Servant of God had wanted to act through me on this occasion. But I replied that I was only a witness to the event. Having taken the envelope, she said animatedly: "Check that the seal is indeed yours." So she gave me back the letter and I examined in very carefully. The seal was unbroken; I also recognized, which was important, the way in which [1326r] certain edges were gummed down. I had applied a bit of liquid gum to them with a brush, and the folds that had formed as a result were identical here. I don't want to omit saying that my five hundred pound note and my compliments slip were intact in their envelope amidst the other notes.
As I had to preach immediately, I put aside any impressions this event may have had on me; but that evening, when I was alone in my room at the Bishopric of Gallipoli, I could freely reflect upon all these occurrences and I was utterly convinced that the event could only be a miracle, and I was moved to tears. The hypothesis that the Prioress had inserted the notes into the envelope is absolutely inadmissible. 1stly she couldn't have had that amount of money in the Carmel, for the monastery is so poor it could be called "destitute"; 2ndly the envelopes were [1326v] absolutely intact; 3rdly the Prioress is absolutely incapable of committing a fraud such as this; not only do all the nuns say this: Mgr. the Bishop of Gallipoli, who, as I said, is apparently opposed to admitting there is anything miraculous about these events and who would be happy to find the smallest of clues to refute the hypothesis of a miracle, is obliged to confirm that the Prioress is perfectly moral. He said this to me himself, adding that moreover the Prioress had no reason or interest to construct this web of lies. On the last day of the spiritual practices, the Bishop of Gallipoli asked me to write a canonic testimony, under oath, of everything that had happened.
[1327r] [Continuation of the answer to the twenty-ninth question]:
To conclude my testimony, I must add that it wasn't by chance, but by design that, on the compliments slip enclosed with my five hundred pound note, I wrote the sentence that the Servant of God had pronounced on 16th January 1910, to the Prioress of Gallipoli: "My way is right and I wasn't mistaken in following it." Right from the beginning, these words appeared very important to me and I regret that the canonic investigations that were carried out following the event failed to stress the significance of them and failed to grasp their spiritual meaning. For me, there was never any doubt that the sentence means: "The spiritual way of holiness that I myself followed and taught others is right, etc…." It can't signify anything else, and it above all shouldn't be interpreted in its purely material sense: "I certainly know the way to follow through the corridors to exit the monastery." For instance, the expression "Mia via", "my way", shouldn't be interpreted in a material sense, especially in Italian. Moreover, the expression "seguire la via" in Italian is used in a figurative sense. What I didn't know at first and later learnt, and which confirmed my belief about the spiritual meaning of the sentence, is that the Servant of God pronounced the very same sentence to three novices, when speaking about her self-same "little way of holiness": "I'll come and inform you as to whether I've mislead you, or whether my way is right." – SS 12 –'.
In my opinion, when she appeared on 16th January 1910, the Servant of God was keeping her promise, and especially when she said: "My way is right, etc." and the theological purpose behind the second miracle on 16th January 1911 was to highlight [1328r] the truth of this interpretation. I infer this from the set of circumstances as a whole and from my first and immediate intuition. Although I wrote this sentence on my compliments slip, which was enclosed with the five hundred pounds, it wasn't actually my intention to provoke a miraculous sign to confirm the meaning of the sentence. I was however under the very strong impression that the ideas I mentioned above were right, and absolutely determined to bring all my authority into play and use any means necessary to attract people's attention to the importance of her words and their true interpretation. The wonder of 16th January 1911 therefore fulfilled my desire.
Lastly I would like to briefly describe another wondrous event that took place in Nardo during the night of 2nd – 3rd January 1911. It is the healing of Miss Santa Aprile, who is about 50 years old and lives opposite the cathedral. This lady was suffering from gangrenous phlegmatic erysipelas in her throat and face. She had contracted the illness on 1st January and within 48 hours she was at [1328v] death's door. According to two doctors, Zuccalà and Tarantino, there was no hope of any positive end to the crisis: her mouth had become necrotic; her face was covered in terrible tumours and the doctors were considering performing a tracheotomy to allow her to breathe. The patient, who was aware of her condition and was prepared to die, nevertheless remained confident in her heart she would recover, but only through the intercession of the Servant of God, Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus. During the night, even though we'd prepared everything for her burial, being fully awake, but with her eyes closed due to the swelling on her face, she mentally saw a very white hand and felt as though the hand was delicately touching her face. She sensed it was Sister Thérèse, and a feeling of well-being gradually came over her; the following day the doctors found her condition better; the necrosis had begun to recede, and from that moment on, she increasingly improved and, although progress was slow and she suffered a relapse lasting two or three days, [1329r] she fully recovered her health. I know the family personally, and the above facts come from the testimonies of the patient herself, her mother, her two brothers and her sister.
To conclude I will add that I owe extraordinary spiritual graces to the Servant of God's protection in relation to the very difficult governing of my diocese. I consider Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus as my special protector and I pray to her in all circumstances.
[Answer to the thirtieth question]:
I don't believe I have forgotten anything important.
[After having examined the Interrogations, we come to the Vice-Postulator's Articles. The witness replies]:
There is a small error in the Article 145b, page 162. This slight error, or rather ambiguity, stems from an imperfect translation of my Italian report that was sent to the Vice-Postulator. The words: "Mgr. Nicolas [1329v] Giannattasio was then unaware of the words, etc…." were true at the time I thought of making the donation of five hundred pounds; they were no longer true when I actually had the letter delivered, for I had learnt the information shortly beforehand.
[Here ends the interrogation of this witness. The Acts are read out. The witness makes no amendment to them and signs as follows]:
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Amy developed her strategy when her kindergarten student was having a hard time recognizing her alphabet letters and the process of reviewing flashcards time and time again just wasn't holding the student's interest.
Situation: I was tutoring a student in kindergarten who was having a hard time recognizing her alphabet letters. At first, I used flash cards to quiz her but after a few minutes, she was losing interest.
I decided to create a letter recognition game with the flashcards that would hold her interest. The game was set at the ocean and in the water. We had sharks swimming around us so we needed to keep "safe" from them by standing on and recognizing the letter on the flash cards.
Step 1: Set up the alphabet flashcards in a large area, but not too far apart; that way, all the letters can be seen from any one point. Only use about 6-8 letters at a time.
You may want to print out the flashcards on heavy paper so that they do not rip and tape the cards to the floor to prevent your student from slipping and falling on them during the game.
Step 2: Start the game off and describe the situation to your student. Explain to your student that you're going to "swim" around the ocean (by walking around the cards), and when you see a shark, you'll call out "shark!" to your student and your student will become "safe" by standing on a letter and calling out what the letter is.
For advanced learners, ask your student to not only yell out the letter name, but also the sound(s) that letter makes. If your student has mastered both letter names and sounds, challenge him/her to yell out one word that begins with that letter.
Step 3: Take turns and encourage your student when he/she provides the correct answer. When he/she gets it wrong, make sure you provide the correct answer so he/she will become more familiar with that letter.
Step 4: Repeat Step 3 for awhile until your student becomes more familiar with the letters. Concentrate each session on only a few letters; that way, it won't be overwhelming for the child.
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Q: v-data-table checked validate v-text-field type number How do I validate a number input field inside v-data-table? I want to set required only on checked row.

here's my code
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  v-model="selected"
  :headers="dataHeaders"
  :items="mealTimes"
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  <template #[`item.weight`]="{ item }">

        <v-text-field
          v-model="item.weight"
          :value="item.weight"
          type="number"
          :rules="myRule"
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        />

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    v => ( Number(v) && Number(v) >= 1 ) || 'Min: 1',
    v => ( Number(v) && Number(v) <= 99 ) || 'Max: 99',
  ],
}),

I only need to validate the input for the selected row, can anybody help me how to validate between checked box and v-text-field

A: You can use conditional syntax to put correct set of rules for your number field:
<v-data-table
  v-model="selected"
  item-key="name"
  show-select
  :headers="headers"
  :items="desserts"
  :items-per-page="5"
>
  <template #[`item.calories`]="{ item }">

      <v-text-field
        v-model="item.weight"
        :value="item.weight"
        type="number"
        :rules="selected.find(it => it.name === item.name) !== undefined ? myRule : []"
        outlined
        dense
      />

  </template>
</v-data-table>
...
data () {
  return {
    myRule: [ ...your rules ],
    selected: [ ...selected values ],
    headers: [ ... ],
    desserts: [ ... ]
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}

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Q: Piping without transmitting EOT I'm looking for a way to pipe without sending an EOT (Ctrl-D), i.e. making these equivalent:
bob@bob-pc:~$ cat
porkchop
porkchop

and
bob@bob-pc:~$ echo -n pork | cat
porkbob@bob-pc:~$ chop
No command 'chop' found

A: I solved the problem, to some extent:
bob@bob-pc:~$ ( echo -n pork ; while read l; do echo $l; done ) |cat
porkchop
chop

But a less tedious solution would still be nice.


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Auris Featured in BioWorld MedTech for Raising $220M in Funding
Auris was featured in an article in BioWorld MedTech, a news organization covering the medical technology industry. The article discusses how Auris recently raised $220 million in funding to back commercialization and development efforts for the Monarch Platform.
Auris is poised to become a third major player in robotic surgery, alongside Intuitive Surgical and Medtronic. Founded in 2007 by Dr. Frederic Moll, Auris has raised more than $700 million since it began. Auris also acquired Hansen Medical in 2016, another company started by Dr. Moll. Hansen's Magellan robotic system was used for intravascular, peripheral procedures.
Auris aims to make endoscopic procedures more precise and effective. Their first area of focus with the Monarch Platform is bronchoscopic procedures. The Monarch Platform gives physicians greater reach, control, and vision in the periphery of the lungs as compared to the more traditional, manual endoscopes physicians have used to diagnose lung cancer. The goal of this technology is to save lives by catching lung cancer in its early stages, when it is more easily treated.
In the future, Auris plans to enable diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer in a single procedure. In May 2018, Auris partnered with Johnson & Johnson's Neuwave Medical Inc. subsidiary, a part of its Ethicon Inc. business, to co-develop microwave ablation robotic tools to be delivered via bronchoscope.
The additional $220 million in funding will be used to help Auris move from "limited launch" to "full commercialization" of the Monarch Platform. With the Monarch Platform currently in use at several centers across the United States, more installs are planned by the end of 2018 and the first quarter of 2019.
Though new robotic systems are a major expenditure and commitment for hospitals – the Monarch Platform is priced at about $500,000 – Auris believes that the platform will enable more efficient care that will justify the costs. The article quotes an Auris spokesperson, who said, "In addition to introducing new procedural efficiencies and streamlining care, Monarch is designed with cost in mind – alleviating the historical cost burden of surgical robotics. Hospitals seek to provide better value to their patients, which many define as superior outcomes at a manageable cost."
Auris's most recent financing was led by Partner Fund Management, with Wellington Management, D1 Capital Partners, Senator Investment Group, Mithril Capital, Lux Capital, and Viking Global Investors also participating. In a statement, Dr. Moll said of this recent investment, "The support of this group of world-class investors will be instrumental as Auris transitions into a commercial-stage company."
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The one time fee for a product item price.
Order options for the category that this price is associated with.
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The setup fee associated with a product item price.
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The minimum threshold for which this tiered usage price begins to apply. The unit for the price is defined by the item to which this belongs, see [[SoftLayer_Product_Item::$units]].
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