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DOING SOME DIGGING Mineral Development Spurs Canada/U.S. Cross Border Dispute
The world's longest undefended border, the one between Canada and the United States, allows free movement of pollut...
By Canadian Mining Journal Staff August 11, 2004 At 4:55 pm
British Columbia Government - Ministry of Energy, Mines and Natural Gas
The world's longest undefended border, the one between Canada and the United States, allows free movement of pollution as well as people. Arguments between the two countries are heating up over activities on one side that affect the other.
CMJ has told its Net News readers about the fight between TECK COMINCO and the U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) (see Dec. 17, 2003 Doing Some Digging). Residents of Washington State complain that the Columbia River and Lake Roosevelt are polluted by effluent from the Trail smelter. The EPA wants to force Teck Cominco to pay for a study and clean-up under terms of the American Superfund law (CERCLA). Teck Cominco says U.S. law cannot be applied to an operation in Canada. It has generously offered to fund a $13-million study of human health and ecological impact under EPA supervision. The EPA has repeatedly rejected the company's offer, and the jurisdictional dispute is unresolved.
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REDFERN RESOURCES of Vancouver plans to reopen the Tulsequah Chief polymetallic mine in British Columbia. The mine is located on the border between the towns of Aitlin, B.C., and Juneau, Alaska. Canadian native groups fear that new roads in the area will spoil the wild nature of the land. Alaskan fishermen fear a tailings dam failure that could poison the Taku River. Redfern expects the last of the necessary permits for reopening will be issued this fall, but the company fought a lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court to get this far.
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The British Columbia government encourages coal bed methane development and has rejected requests that would postpone granting exploration licences. It is estimated there are 2.5 trillion m of coal bed methane in the province. The province is planning to auction exploration rights near the Flathead and Elk rivers on August 25.
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WORLAND - The Washakie County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees met for an emergency board meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, Aug. 12, to discuss potentially delaying the start of the school year at East Side Elementary.
The reason for wanting to delay the start was because of two lab-confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 in East Side staff, which according to Superintendent David Nicholas caused other staff to be quarantined as well.
Nicholas said they were seeking the delay from the board because they want the actual teachers in the classroom on the first day of school. He said it is important for them to be present at the kindergarten and first grade levels.
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"So, the Department of Trade and Industry ("DTI") has ... caused the South African Government to pass the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill (the so-called "Traditional Knowledge Bill") despite vociferous objections from all quarters. It has rushed headlong into terrain where no angel would venture through acute trepidation. It has entered Wonderland and assumed the role of the Mad Hatter.
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... The IP profession, academics, the judiciary, the intellectual property industries, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) are but a few of those that have tried to show the DTI the folly of its ways. Even a Regulatory Impact Assessment commissioned in 2009 by the State President opined that the legislation was ill advised and that, apart from any other considerations, the cost of implementing it would outweigh any possible benefits that might flow from it. Alas, the DTI has been undaunted and unwavering in its purpose. It takes a special form of mindless arrogance to shrug off, nay be totally impervious to, such a strong body of informed opinion. Such obduracy is difficult to fathom ...".
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Excellent article.
Recently I came across this site of the IP Hall of Fame Academy which has 40 inductees dating as far back as Victor Hugo. I wouldn't be surprised if Prof. Dean becomes the first African to included on this prestigious list.
Here's the link:
http://www.iphalloffame.com/Academy.aspx


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Beginning at 1st level, you have the ability to comprehend and verbally communicate with oozes. The knowledge and awareness of many oozes is limited by their intelligence, but at a minimum, oozes can give you information about nearby locations and monsters, including whatever they can perceive or have perceived within the past day. You might be able to persuade an ooze to perform a small favor for you, at the DM's discretion.
At 2nd level, you and your symbiote develop a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can't take a Slime Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.
Your attacks deal bonus acid damage equal to half Constitution modifier rounded up. In addition, you have resistance to acid damage.
You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with your pseudopods.
While you are not any wearing armor or carrying a shield, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.
You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with your fling glob attack and your range increases to 80/240 ft.
By the time you reach 2nd level, you have learned to use the innate power of your symbiote to cast spells. See chapter 10 of the Player's Handbook for the general rules of spellcasting and the end of this article for the oozemancer spell list.
The Oozemancer table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.
For example, if you know the 1st-level spell detect poison and disease and have a 1st-level and 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast detect poison and disease using either slot.
You know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the oozemancer spell list.
The Spells Known column of the Oozemancer table shows when you learn more oozemancer spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For instance, when you reach 5th level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.
Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the oozemancer spells you know and replace it with another spell from the oozemancer spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.
Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your oozemancer spells since your magic draws on your ability to take control of your symbiote. You use your Charisma whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Charisma modifier when setting the saving throw DC for an oozemancer spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.
Your symbiote is your spellcasting focus for your oozemancer spells.
At 3rd level, you choose an archetype that you strive to emulate: Wretched Lurker or Sludge King/Queen, both detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th, 11th, and 15th level.
Beginning at 3rd level, you can use your action and expend one oozemancer spell slot to focus your awareness on your environment. For 1 minute per level of the spell slot you expend, you have advantage on your Wisdom (Perception) checks and Dexterity saving throws against effects that you can see, such as traps and spells.
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase on ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.
Starting at 6th level, your pseudopod and fling glob attacks count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.
Starting at 8th level, you gain a climb speed that is the same as your on foot movement and you can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.
Starting at 10th level, as long as you are not wearing armor, you can use your bonus action to change your symbiotes outer colors to match your surroundings. Once you are camouflaged in this way, you can try to hide by pressing yourself up against a solid surface such as a rock or wall that is at least as tall and wide as you are. You gain advantage to Dexterity (Stealth) checks as long as you remain there without moving or taking actions. Once you move or take a reaction, you must camouflage yourself again to gain this benefit.
At 14th level, your acceptance of your symbiote allows it to increase in size. Your Unarmoured Defense feature is now 13 + your Dexterity modifier + your Constitution modifier and your pseudopod and fling glob attacks use 2d6 for damage instead of 1d6.
At 18th level, you gain blindsight out to 30 ft. In addition, you are immune to the blinded condition.
At 20th level, you and your symbiote are no longer two creatures sharing one body, but a singular force to be reckoned with. Once on each of your turns, you can add your Charisma modifier to an attack or damage roll.
Oozermancers come in two classic types: the Sludge King and the Wretched Lurker.
Sludge Kings/Queens feel comfortable in the presence of other oozes and they are often compelled to help you.
At 3rd level, you gain an ooze companion that accompanies you on your adventures and is rained to fight alongside you. Choose an ooze from one of the oozes listed at the end of this class description. You add your proficiency bonus to the ooze's AC, attack rolls, and damage rolls, as well as to any saving throws and skills it is proficient in. Its hit point number in its stat block equals the hit point number in its stat block or four times your oozemancer level, whichever is higher. Like any creature, it can spend Hit Dice during a short rest to regain hit points.
The ooze obeys your commands as best as it can. It takes its turn on your initiative, though it doesn't take an action unless you command it to. On your turn, you can verbally command the ooze where to move (no action required by you). You can use your action to verbally command it to take the Attack, Dash, Disengaged, Dodge, or Help action. Once you have the Extra Attack feature, you can make one weapon attack yourself when you command the ooze to take the Attack action.
If you are incapacitated or absent, the ooze acts on its own, focusing on protecting you and itself. The ooze never requires your command to use its reaction, such as when making an opportunity attack.
If the ooze dies, you can obtain a new companion by spending 8 hours magically bonding with a beast that isn't hostile to you and that meets the requirements.
Beginning at 7th level, on any of your turns when your ooze companion doesn't attack, you can use a bonus action to command the ooze to take the Dash, Disengage, Dodge, or Help on its turn.
Starting at 11th level, when you command your ooze companion to take the Attack action, the ooze can make two attacks, or it can take the Multiattack action if it has that action.
Beginning at 15th level, when you cast a spell targeting yourself, you can also affect your ooze companion with the spell if the ooze is within 30 feet of you.
The Wretched Lurker knows its place in the world: in the damp, cold darkness. Some oozemancers try to distance themselves from the dark side of oozemancy, but wretched lurkers fully accept all the grimy, gross parts that come with the job.
Starting at 3rd level, you learn an additional spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Wretched Lurker Spells table. The spell counts as an oozemancer spell for you, but it doesn't count against the number of oozemancer spells you know.
At 3rd level, you secrete a deadly poison. Any time you hit a creature with your pseudopod or fling glob attack, that creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw with a DC of 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier or become poisoned for 1 minute.
At 3rd level, your sense of smell increases dramatically. You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell. In addition, you can smell the presence of living creatures up to 300 feet away that aren't undead or constructs. You know the direction they are in but not their exact locations.
At 7th level, as a bonus action, you can merge your physical self with your symbiote to become amorphous until the end of your turn. While amorphous, you can move through a space as narrow a 1-inch wide. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
At 11th level, you can use your action to make a pseudopod attack against any number of creatures within 5 feet of you, with a separate attack roll for each target.
At 15th level, your symbiote can reflexively protect you from an incoming attack. When you take damage from an attack, you can use your reaction to give yourself resistance to all of that attack's damage on this turn.
Corrosive Form. A creature that touches the pudding or hits it with a melee attack within 5 feet of it takes 2 (1d4) acid damage. Any nonmagical weapon made of metal or wood that hits the pudding corrodes. After dealing damage, the weapon takes a permanent and cumulative -1 penalty to damage rolls. if its penalty drops to -5, the weapon is destroyed. Nonmagical ammunition made of metal or wood that hits the pudding is destroyed after dealing damage. The pudding can eat through 1-inch-thick, nonmagical wood or metal in 1 round.
Spider Climb. The pudding can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.
Pseudopod. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. hit: 3 (1d4 + 1) bludgeoning damage plus 2 (1d4) acid damage. In addition, nonmagical armor worn by the target is partly dissolved and takes a permanent and cumulative -1 penalty to the AC it offers. The armor is destroyed if the penalty reduces its AC to 10.
Ooze Cube. The cube takes up its entire space. Other creatures can enter the space, but a creature that does so is subjected to the cube's Engulf and has disadvantage on the saving throw. Creatures inside the cube can be seen but have total cover. A creature within 5 feet of the cube can take an action to pull a creature or object out of the cube. Doing so requires a successful DC 11 Strength check, and the creature making the attempt takes 10 (3d6) acid damage. The cube can hold only one Medium or Small creature or up to four tiny creatures inside it at a time.
Transparent. Even when the cube is in plain sight, it takes a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check to spot a cube that has neither moved nor attacked. A creature that tries to enter the cube's space while unaware of the cube is surprised by the cube.
Pseudopod. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 7 (2d6) acid damage.
Engulf. The cube moves up to its speed. While doing so, it can enter Large or smaller creatures' spaces. Whenever the cube enters a creature's space, the creature must make a DC 11 Dexterity saving throw. On a successful save, the creature can choose to be pushed 5 feet back or to the side of the cube. A creature that chooses not to be pushed suffers the consequences of a failed saving throw. On a failed save, the cube enters the creature's space and the creature takes 7 (2d6) acid damage and is engulfed. The engulfed creature can't breathe, is restrained, and takes 14 (4d6) acid damage at the start of each of the cube's turns. When the cube moves, the engulfed creature moves with it. An engulfed creature can try to escape by taking an action to make a DC 11 Strength check. On a success, the creature escapes and enters a space of its choice within 5 feet of the cube.
Corrode Metal. Any nonmagical weapon made of metal that hits the ooze corrodes. After dealing damage, the weapon takes a permanent and cumulative -1 penalty to damage rolls. If its penalty drops to -5, the weapon is destroyed, Nonmagical ammunition made of metal that hits the ooze is destroyed after dealing damage. The ooze can eat through 1-inch-thick, nonmagical metal in 1 round.
False Appearance. While the ooze remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from an oily pool or wet rock.
Pseudopod. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d4 +1) bludgeoning damage plus 3 (1d6) acid damage, and if the target is wearing nonmagical metal armor, its armor is partly corroded and takes a permanent and cumulative -1 penalty to the AC it offers. The armor is destroyed fi the penalty reduces its AC to 10.
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Awesome class! Fun with tons of flavor. The obvious inspirations from ranger and monk actually serve it pretty well, and add an interesting (if somewhat niche) new archetype that you couldnt really acomplish with any of the pre-existing classes. Now I really wanna play a sentient ooze character that uses a reskinned changeling statblock and this class.
I love this. Waaay to different to be an archetype (as River had noted) plus the spells and the ability to fling ooze differentiate enough from Venom and other such symbiotes to keep it fresh and interesting. In addition I love potential RP possibilities with this class. Sludge King would be great for an evil character or a good character who feels oozes are misunderstood creatures. As for Lurker archetype, the fact that you can take on the ooze abilities (including fitting through 1 inch holes), you could quickly end up questioning if you yourself are an ooze and you've taken the memories of this identity you've adopted. IN LOVE WITH THIS CLASS!!! Many thanks Dave.
Thank you, Lachy! What kind of class would you like to see next?
Just played my first session as a firbolg oozemancer and absolutely adore the level of flavour this class grants. My firbolg and ooze aren't sure where one starts and the other ends and it's so much fun!


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Bob Arthur launches re-election campaign for Cerritos College board
NORWALK – Cerritos College Board of Trustee Robert "Bob" Arthur has announced his intent to run for re-election to continue representing the school on the Board of Trustees.
Arthur currently represents Trustee Area #1, which includes areas of the cities of Downey, Norwalk, Bell Gardens, and South Gate.
Arthur has already been active on the Cerritos Board since his first election in 1995, currently serving on his fifth term. During his 20 year tenure, Arthur has served as President of the Board four times.
Arthur is also a member of the Cerritos College Foundation, and has been since 1993.
Prior to starting his work on the Cerritos Board in 1995, Arthur held several city and county positions, including being a member of the Executive Board of the Norwalk Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Board Los Angeles County Transportation Commission, member of the Board Los Angeles County MTA, Parks and Recreation Commissioner, and City of Norwalk Mayor and Council Member.
If reelected, one of Arthur's main goals is to embrace the advancement of technology, including free digital textbooks for all students.
"Cerritos College is one of very few – and I mean miniscule, you can probably count them on one hand – community colleges across the nation that is participating in open educational resources, where a college will provide digital textbooks, software programs for students in selected class subject matter, free," said Arthur. "There are other major four year institutions across the country that provide digital textbooks to their students in every discipline, every class that is taught on their campus, Harvard being one of them. I would like to see that happen at Cerritos College. It's doable! It's something we can do. I think that should be one of our initiatives as we're moving forward with what Dr. Jose Fierro proposed as Cerritos Complete last year…"
Arthur also lists other goals, including continuing to support administration and faculty in its endeavors to increase student success and transfer rates, offering up-to-date technical and vocations programs and working closely with local businesses and industry to establish practical job training, and establishing permanent funding alternatives for the school.
For more information, visit BobArthurCerritosCollege.com.
The election will take place Nov. 8.
NewsAlex Dominguez September 16, 2016 Bob Arthur, Cerritos Center
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A: IE9 Doesn't support gradients. IE10 supports them unprefixed. IE9 did implement SVG however.
I'd recommend using colorzilla's gradient editor. To use SVG as a fallback, just check their "IE9 Support" checkbox.
If you really need gradients in IE8 (which you shouldn't, cause they should be used for progressive enhancement only) you can use IE's proprietary filter property, but be careful, cause it's very buggy.

A: IE9 supports multiple background images, but not a mix of multiple background elements. Your issue is the image AND the gradient.
In addition -ms- doesn't do anything for CSS compatibility on any property.

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If by the 10th the snowdrops are out.
More snow throughout the month without a doubt.
It is quite fitting that I write this page on the 2nd of February as this is Candlemas Day which was/is strongly associated with the first snowdrops of the year appearing. At some of the Candlemas processions girls would be dressed in white and recite the following; "The snowdrop, in purest white array, First rears it head on Candlemas Day." The tiny flower has always been regarded as a symbol of purity and hope as well as being the first signs that winter is on its way out. Some other local names for the snowdrop are Candlemas Bells alluding to the bell-like shape of the flower and Fair Maids associated with purity and virgins. One story relates how an angel once transformed falling snowflakes into snowdrops to give to Adam and Eve as a symbol of hope. There is also a theory that the flower's actual name does not refer to its shape being similar to a drop of snow, afterall we speak of a snow flake not drop. An old term for an earring was 'eardrop' and it is that which supposedly the snowdrop resembles, an white earring?
To be botanically correct the snowdrop belongs to the Amaryllidaceae family and its genus is Galanthus nivalis which comes from the Greek gala (milk) and anthos (flower). Some will say that it was the Romans who introduced the flower to Britain but it is more likely that it appeared sometime in the 1500s. The plant of the snowdrop is known to contain a substance called galantamine an extract of which is now used for alleviating the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. Some people have been known to rub the plant on their foreheads to ease migraines and headaches.
Had changed an icicle into a flower.
There was a strong belief that snowdrops should never be brought into a house as they would attract an illness or big disappointment into the home. The worst anyone could ever do was to pick a single snowdrop and bring that into the house, so much so that it was considered a death token. This belief came from the fact that the flower resembled a corpse wound in its shroud. There was a strange contradiction to this belief which appeared in the folklore section of the transactions of the Devonshire Association in 1974. It was reported that a well-wisher offered a bunch of snowdrops to an Exeter hospital and was told not to include any ivy in the posies? If the above is true then they should have been more concerned about the snowdrops, especially in a hospital. Should snowdrops be taken into the house whilst any hens were sitting then their eggs would never hatch. For those with dairy cows it would mean that the milk and butter would be watery and tasteless. If anyone had designs of getting married then no snowdrop should be picked before Valentine's Day or else they would remain on their lonesome for the rest of that year. I was also once told that as the snowdrop is normally the first flower to appear in winter the Piskies used to take its nectar for their revels. Therefore it was not unusual to spot the little folk busy at work in a clump of snowdrops.
The snowdrop can be found in many Dartmoor hedgerows and woods and a unique spectacle are those growing in the churchyard of St. Raphael's at Huccaby. So prolific are they that on St. Valentine's day there is a sale of bulbs.


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"Young Blood" – The Emerging Market for Products Made from the Blood of Children
The Crazz Files April 12, 2021
Image from YouTube.
Last year, we brought to the attention of our readers the growing market for "young blood," and products derived from the blood of children and young people, when Netflix launched their new show in August of 2020 called "Biohackers."
WOULD you like to live forever?
From daily sessions in sub-zero cryo-chambers to stem cell injection and transfusions of teenagers' BLOOD, their bizarre attempts to become superhuman have fuelled a multi-million dollar industry.
It may sound like something out of a sci-fi novel, but there's a growing band of Silicon Valley billionaires who believe they can achieve eternal life through "biohacking" – the process of making alterations to your body to keep it younger.
Netflix's new drama Biohackers, released on Thursday, (Aug 20) seizes on the terrifying trend by imagining a secretive lab where a young student, played by Luna Wedler, discovers a sinister experiment using the techniques on an entire town.
Here we meet the real Silicon Valley biohackers – the men who want to be immortal.
Peter Thiel – Thirst for young blood
Paypal founder Peter Thiel has a gruesome plan to achieve eternal life – by injecting the blood of teenagers.
The practice, known as parabiosis, is not as impossible as it seems – in 2016, a start up firm called Ambrosia started offering transfusions of "young plasma" for £6,000 a time.
The billionaire mogul, 53, has said: "I'm looking into parabiosis stuff, which I think is really interesting. This is where they did the young blood into older mice and they found it had a massive rejuvenating effect."
It's not known whether Thiel has acted on his impulse but he has previously admitted to taking human growth hormone to slow his decline into old age, and he stands against the "ideology of the inevitability of death." (Source.)
We also reported how the drug "adrenochrome," harvested from terrorized young children who produce blasts of adrenalin, including children murdered in Satanic Ritual Abuse, was beginning to get mainstream media coverage outside the U.S. back in 2020. See:
The Marketing of Children's Blood: Adrenochrome Goes Mainstream on Turkish TV News
While the corporate media in the U.S. would like to ignore and censor anything related to adrenochrome, "young blood" is a concept that they apparently want to bring mainstream and condition the public to accept.
So it was no surprise that Newsweek ran a major article on "young blood" last week, which was mainly positive and tried to present drug research into making products from "young blood" as "scientific" and inevitable.
Can Blood from Young People Slow Aging? Silicon Valley Has Bet Billions It Will
There is even an official "scientific" name for this research now: "geroscience."
Geroscience "seeks to understand molecular and cellular mechanisms that make aging a major risk factor and driver of common chronic conditions and diseases of older adulthood," according to the National Institutes of Health.
The admitted "problem" with developing these drugs derived from the blood of children and young adults, is where to get it.
The Newsweek article begins by highlighting a controversy at Brigham Young University last year where the going rate of blood donations doubled, supposedly because COVID-19 trials needed blood from those who might have antibodies.
The Spanish firm Grifols helped set off a kerfuffle last year when it, along with other firms, offered nearly double the going price for blood donations for a COVID-19 treatment trial. Brigham Young University in Idaho had to threaten some enterprising students with suspension to keep them from intentionally trying to contract COVID-19.
The trial failed, however, and now the Barcelona-based firm is hoping to extract something far more valuable from the plasma of young volunteers: a set of microscopic molecules that could reverse the process of aging itself.
Earlier this year, Grifols closed on a $146 million-deal to buy Alkahest, a company founded by Stanford University neuroscientist Tony Wyss-Coray, who, along with Saul Villeda, revealed in scientific papers published in 2011 and 2014 that the blood from young mice had seemingly miraculous restorative effects on the brains of elderly mice.
The discovery adds to a hot area of inquiry called geroscience that "seeks to understand molecular and cellular mechanisms that make aging a major risk factor and driver of common chronic conditions and diseases of older adulthood," according to the National Institutes of Health.
As we mentioned in our article on "young blood" last year, Tony Wyss-Coray of Stanford University seems to be the main person who has published anything on the concept of "young blood" reversing aging, having conducted some experiments on mice, and you can listen to a TED Talk he did on it in 2015 when his studies had not yet been published.
Here is another video from 2015 discussing the same thing, and referencing an article published in The Smithsonian Magazine titled: Vampire Healing: Young Blood Can Mend Old Broken Bones.
The Newsweek story from last week shows that there is a lot of money being spent on this research now, and Big Pharma has already started some trials to try and get FDA approval.
In the last six years, Alkahest has identified more than 8,000 proteins in the blood that show potential promise as therapies. Its efforts and those of Grifols have resulted in at least six phase 2 trials completed or underway to treat a wide range of age-related diseases, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
The result is a flood of investment money, an explosion of research into what precisely goes wrong in our bodies as we get old and the promise of clinical results down the road.
In the months before the pandemic, investors ponied up billions of dollars to fund biotechs aimed at commercializing the new science.
"You have no idea how many people are interested to investing money in longevity," said Nir Barzilai, the founding director of the Institute for Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, and the founder of a company aimed at mitochondrial health. "There are billions of dollars."
Although the vast majority of these efforts remain in preclinical development, several have recently entered FDA trials and could potentially hit the market in a few years.
Some are already appearing on the gray market, raising concerns that hucksters are peddling anti-aging snake oil. Others, meanwhile, worry what might happen if these drugs actually do deliver on their promise: Will poor young people be coerced into selling their blood to elderly billionaires? Will magical anti-aging pills become the province of the Park Avenue and Hollywood rich, like facelifts, hair plugs and botox injections? Will the rest of us senile peasants be forced to watch them age backwards as we are left to wither and die?
Read the full article at Newsweek.com.
And while Newsweek does address these "concerns" by presenting them as questions, this is obviously a pro-pharma piece designed to plant the seeds that "young blood" is going to be used to "cure" the diseases that plague mankind, such as Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer's, two neurological diseases that many feel are actually caused by Big Pharma products, such as statin drugs that artificially lower one's cholesterol for older people.
25% of our body's cholesterol resides in our brains, so this could very well be another one of those situations where Big Pharma causes the disease to begin with, and then provides the "cure" which is actually no cure at all, but just a lifetime of dependency on more pharmaceutical products. This is their sales model to creating perpetual markets.
Sounds a lot like COVID-19. What could go wrong?
How Big is the Illegal Underground Adrenochrome Market?
As we mentioned last year, the knowledge of the black market adrenochrome drug is now reaching mainstream corporate media outside the U.S., as Turkey, Bulgaria, and other countries began covering it last year.
You can watch the video above from TGRT Haber, part of the Ihlas Media Group in Turkey, with a viewership reportedly that is more than 10 million.
This is a very dark subject, and as we learned from Polish film producer Patryk Vega's documentary, Eyes of the Devil, babies are bought and sold not only for sex trafficking, but also for body parts, and that can include the harvest of blood and bone marrow.
Here are some video sources for those who wish to know more, but please be aware that these videos are not for everyone to watch, and certainly not for children, as they are very graphic and disturbing.
GRAPHIC!
ADRENOCHROME The Elite's Super Drug (Jay Myers Documentaries), is still available on YouTube here. It is also on Bitchute.com if it disappears from YouTube.
There is also a documentary that has been shared on some alternative video platforms since last year, that claims to reveal documents about the underground Adrenochrome production network, including detention centers throughout the U.S. where children are kept in confinement to harvest their blood to make the drug.
There is virtually no way to verify something like this, so look at the evidence yourself and draw your own conclusions. I think this documentary originated with a woman in Germany, and you can watch them here:
Adrenechrome Extraction from children Part 1
Adrenechrome Harvesting part 2
There is one thing I am very certain about, however, and that is that the current "crisis" at the border with tens of thousands of children without their parents coming into the country, is not an accident or humanitarian crisis, but part of a very large and lucrative child trafficking network, and I can only speculate as to how long God will allow this to continue without bringing severe judgement against the United States, the #1 destination in the world right now for child trafficking.
Source: https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/young-blood-the-emerging-market-for-products-made-from-the-blood-of-children/
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Should we sacrifice our children for our own longitivtiy then racial death is immanent.
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Hostage International exists to support the families of hostages, and former hostages around the world.
Kidnapping is a frightening and lonely experience, impacting not only the hostage but their family, friends, community, colleagues and employer. As an independent charity, we strive to make sure that people affected by kidnapping are supported throughout this ordeal.
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Georgina Cooper
Lara Symons is the Chief Executive of Hostage International.
She has a distinguished career working in crisis response, having joined Control Risks in 1999 as the Crisis Response Research Manager and was appointed Director of Response Business Operations in 2009. She joined Hostage in February 2017 as their first full-time director, bringing with her an exceptional knowledge of worldwide kidnapping trends and an understanding of the impact that kidnapping has on both corporates and families. She has extensive experience in directly assisting families affected by a kidnap and in supporting former hostages. Lara regularly delivers training in best practice in family support and hostage re-integration.
Lara holds first class degrees in Law (University of Oxford) and Political Science (McGill University) and a Masters degree in International Relations (McGill University). She qualified as a solicitor in 1997, and practised as a civil litigator in London. Fluent in French and Spanish, Lara also previously worked at the European Commission in Brussels.
Having spent more than 17 years on a kidnap response team, I acquired an insight into the distressing impact kidnapping has on all those closely associated with it. Working with Hostage International, I have come to recognise the many, additional practical and day-to-day issues that families and former hostages face. Hostage International plays a critical and unique role in offering accessible, independent and confidential support to help the families of hostages and returning hostages cope with those issues.
Georgina joined Hostage International in October 2019 to help raise awareness of the organisation. She works across all area of communications from marketing and digital through to PR and media relations.
She has extensive experience in media and communications, having started her career in local print journalism before moving to pursue her interest in the charity sector as a reporter on Third Sector magazine. She spent nearly a decade of her working life in various roles within the British Red Cross communications division before deciding to take the leap into the world of freelancing and taking shorter term contracts to work around her family.
While at the British Red Cross she helped create and manage its Voices Network to empower people who are refugees or seeking asylum to speak out; supported the creation of the Communicating with Disaster Affected Communities Network (CDAC Network); and worked on far-reaching communications campaigns particularly around preparing for disasters.
George has worked with a range of organisations across the sector including The Youth Sport Trust, Doctors of the World, The Abbeyfield Society and the think tank, British Future.
I feel incredibly privileged to be part of the Hostage International team, working to fill what would otherwise be an enormous gap in provision for hostages and their families. Through this role, I hope to help highlight the work of the organisation to encourage those working in high risk zones to be prepared; that in the horrific event of someone being kidnapped their families and loved ones are supported; and that members of the media feel empowered to report responsibly on kidnappings while preventing further distress to anyone affected by any hostage situation.
Our President and Trustees
Terry Waite
Carlo Laurenzi OBE
Vice-President and Co-Founder
Phil Bigley
Trustee & Chair of the Board of Trustees
Libby Bassett
Trustee & Treasurer
Mike Millward
Trustee & Honorary Secretary
Peter Rudge
Claire Browne
Pulina Whitaker
Stephen Regel OBE
Trustee and mental health lead
Terry Waite CBE was born on May 31 1939, in Cheshire, the son of a village policeman. He was educated in London and abroad, and has worked for much of his life from a Church base. After working with the Church of England Board of Education in the UK and as an adviser to the Bishop of Bristol he accepted a position as adviser to the first African Archbishop of Uganda. During his time in Uganda, Terry dealt directly with Idi Amin to champion the release of Ugandan and overseas prisoners who suffered as a result of the Amin coup. Following his time in Uganda he moved with his family to Rome, Italy and spent several years working on conflict resolution and development issues throughout the world.
In 1980 Robert Runcie, the Archbishop of Canterbury, appointed Terry Secretary for Anglican Communion Affairs to work with churches abroad. After a few months Terry played the key role in securing the release of several European and Iranian captives when they were held on spy charges in Tehran. Terry's reputation as a special emissary was cemented when in 1984 he established contact with Colonel Muammar Gadaffi in Libya, where three Britons had been detained following the murder of a policewoman outside the Libyan Embassy in London, and was instrumental in aiding their release.
In 1987, Terry made a dangerous journey to Lebanon to negotiate for hostages there. This journey was made despite the threat to his own safety, and out of Terry's commitment to advocate for the release of hostages as the only negotiator who had met the kidnappers face to face. He was captured on 20th January 1987 and spent almost five years in captivity, nearly four years of which were in solitary confinement. No information on his whereabouts or survival reaching the wider world for over four years. During his incarceration, he was blindfolded, beaten, and subjected to a mock execution. He lived much of the time chained to a wall in a room without natural light. In the final months of captivity he suffered from a severe chest infection which almost cost him his life. He was finally released in November 1991.
After his release, Terry was elected to a fellowship at Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he completed his first book Taken on Trust, that he had written in his memory during the years of captivity when he was without pencil or paper. Today he is deeply engaged in many humanitarian causes including the homeless, overseas development, prisoners. Terry has been awarded the MBE and CBE for his humanitarian work and is the recipient of many honorary doctorates from Universities both in the UK and abroad. He is married to Frances and they have four children and three grandchildren.
Terry is Hostage International's Founder and President.
I helped found Hostage International as I believed that hostage families are helped by being able to talk with others who have been through the experience themselves – either as a hostage or as a family member. I also recognized the need for an independent organisation to engage in research into hostage taking and to co-ordinate activities in this field.
Carlo is a co-founder of Hostage International.
Carlo Laurenzi OBE is former CEO of the London Wildlife Trust and former Executive Director of Prisoners Abroad. He has also worked for Lloyds Bank, the London Borough of Islington, and the Open University, and has been Director of Policy and Research at the National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS) and worked on secondment at the Foreign Office in Consular Services.
I helped set up Hostage International because I saw there was a gap in service provision and a very real need for what we offer. My experiences before Hostage International showed me that there was no genuine and thought-through support for the families of a hostage victim that put them first. I find the work challenging and immensely rewarding – you can be looking at geopolitics one moment and then individuals' emotional needs the next.
Phil is involved in Hostage International's family and hostage support work. As a trustee, he leads the Family and Hostage Support Committee, assisting in solving the mountains of challenges our beneficiaries face as a result of a kidnap as well as overseeing the governance of the service. In addition, Phil is a caseworker providing direct support to families and former hostages.
Phil Bigley was born in Liverpool and worked as a maths teacher before moving into the commercial sector. In 2004, Phil's brother Kenneth, a British engineer, was taken hostage while working in Iraq and killed. The kidnap of Ken and his murder became a high-profile case in Britain and overseas, putting the Bigley family under immense public scrutiny, and also inspiring immense public support. Phil joined the team at Hostage International to work with the relatives of hostage victims, providing pastoral support and advice, and also to help improve government's and organisation's responses to kidnapping and their family liaison.
A kidnap puts a family under a lot of pressure. At Hostage International we put the family first, and help them find a safe space and the resources they need, in an otherwise difficult situation.
Libby Bassett joined the Board of Hostage International in April 2018 and swiftly took on the role as Treasurer. As Treasurer, Libby sits on the Executive Committee and given her background, she also contributes to the initiatives of the International Committee.
Libby was a partner of KPMG for 15 years. In addition to being a chartered accountant, Libby also brings to Hostage International extensive experience of business development globally and of governance in the charity sector through her seven years as a governor of Cheltenham Ladies' College, the last four as chair.
Mike joined the Board of Hostage International in April 2017. As Honorary Secretary he serves on the executive and is responsible for the charity's governance framework. He also contributes to a number of sub-committees including, family and hostage support, education and fundraising.
Mike is founder and principal director of MRC Global Risk. With a career in security risk management and incident response, Mike specialises in reputational risk helping companies conduct business in unpredictable, complex markets. Before entering the corporate sector, Mike served in the Royal Air Force.
Having learned of Hostage International's extraordinary achievements in supporting returning hostages and their families, with a remarkable team of mainly volunteers, when invited to join the Board as a trustee I was only too pleased to accept. I look forward to contributing to Hostage International's growth and development.
Peter Rudge is the Managing Director of duckrabbit, a film production company based in London. Peter spent 11 years in the British Diplomatic Service and was one of a number of tourists kidnapped by separatist rebels in northern Ethiopia in 2007.
Claire started her career as a journalist at BBC News and then went in to mainstream TV production running broadcast productions of all sizes and genres for some of the best known companies in the business. Claire joined the Board of Trustees in 2018, sits on the Fundraising Committee and leads the Communciations Commitee.
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Pulina joined the board of Hostage International in 2018 and contributes to the International Committee.
Pulina Whitaker is a partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, an international law firm. She specialises in employment and data privacy compliance and has been appointed as the UN's sexual abuse and exploitation compliance monitor to an aviation contractor. She has also recently been appointed as the compliance monitor to an international charity in accordance with requirements of a US government agency.
Stephen Regel is Principal Psychotherapist/Director of the Centre for Trauma, Resilience and Growth, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust; Honorary Professor in the School of Education, Nottingham University; and a Senior Fellow of the Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham.
He has over 30 years experience working with trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and his time is divided between clinical and teaching activities. From 2002-2010, he was a visiting therapist/consultant at the Family Trauma Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Stephen was awarded an OBE in 2013 for services to victims of trauma.
Our Mental Health Panel
Dr Leslie Perman-Kerr
Mental Health Adviser, England, UK.
Professor Neil Greenberg
Professor Gordon Turnbull
Dr. Anthony Feinstein
Mental Health Adviser, Canada.
Arlene Healey
Mental Health Adviser, Northern Ireland, UK.
Professor Lynne McCormack
Mental Health Adviser, Australia.
Dr Alastair M Hull
Mental Health Adviser, Scotland, UK.
Dr Lesley Perman-Kerr is the Managing Director of Vivant Artemis and is a Chartered Psychologist and psychotherapist.
She was awarded a PhD in Psychology, jointly supervised by the Universities of Hertfordshire and Oxford, and is a member of the British Psychological Society (chartered), the National Council of Psychotherapists, the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and is a founder member of the Association of Business Psychologists. She has professional experience in: ongoing/post hostage, kidnap and other traumatic incidents (including 9/11); personnel dealing with psychiatric disorders and intimidation in the workplace; organisations subject to employee extortion threats; individuals preparing for secondments abroad; armed forces personnel: post-engagement or returning to civilian life; individuals and groups following a critical incident; debriefing and counselling; organisations and individuals on stress inoculation and the management of stress.
Professor Neil Greenberg is an academic psychiatrist based at King's College London UK and is a consultant occupational and forensic psychiatrist. Neil served in the United Kingdom Armed Forces for more than 23 years and has deployed, as a psychiatrist and researcher, to a number of hostile environments including Afghanistan and Iraq. Neil also runs March on Stress (www.marchonstress.com) which is a company that provides a range of psychological health offerings to companies that predictably place their personnel in harm's way.
Neil studied medicine at Southampton University and graduated in 1993. He then served as a general duties doctor in a variety of Warships, Submarines and with two Royal Marines Commando units. During his time with the Royal Marines he achieved his arctic warfare qualification and completed the all arms commando course, earning the coveted Green Beret.
Neil has specialised in Psychiatry and completed a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychiatry, a Doctorate in Mental Health and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He is a specialist in General Adult, Forensic and Liaison Psychiatry and is a member of the faculty of forensic and legal medicine and the faculty of medical leadership and management.
Since 1997 Neil has been at the forefront of developing peer led traumatic stress support packages which is now in use by a wide variety of organisations. The use of Trauma Risk Management (TRiM) was initially led by the Royal Marines and has since been taken up by other organisations including the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, media organisations numerous UK police forces and the London Ambulance Service.
Neil provided psychological input for Foreign Office personnel after the events of September 11th 2001 and in Bali after 12th October 2002 bombings. He has also assisted with the aftermath management of number of other significant incidents including assisting the London Ambulance Service in the wake of the London Bombings in 2005. He has also provided mental health input into the psychological repatriation of a number of hostages over the past ten years.
In 2008 he was awarded the Gilbert Blane Medal by the Royal Navy for his work in supporting the health of Naval personnel through his research work.
Neil has published more than 160 scientific papers, book chapters and has presented to national and international audiences on matters concerning the psychological health of the UK Armed Forces, organisational management of traumatic stress and occupational mental health. He has been the Secretary of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, is the President of the UK Psychological Trauma Society and the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Lead for Military and Veterans Health.
Neil has extensive experience of conducting research in military and veteran populations and has successfully led the first two ever randomised controlled trials on the effectiveness of psychological health interventions in the UK Armed Forces. He has established excellent links with veteran health providers and with US and other coalition military mental health providers and researchers. He, working with the team at King's College London, is one of the UK's leading military health researchers and has published very widely on a broad spectrum of military health and traumatic stress related topics and advises the Armed Forces, Media organisations and UK government regularly about mental health issues.
Professor Gordon Turnbull is a consultant psychiatrist specialising in the assessment of patients suffering from the psychological after-effects of trauma. He is the leading Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) expert at Capio Nightingale Hospital, Consultant Advisor in Psychiatry to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and Visiting Professor to University College Chester. Professor Turnbull graduated from Edinburgh University and entered psychiatry at the Neuropsychiatric Centre, Royal Air Force Hospital Wroughton in Wiltshire in 1980 with post-graduate experience in General Medicine, expedition medicine and neurology. After being appointed Consultant in 1986, his focus turned to psychological trauma after the Lockerbie Air Disaster in 1988, and active service in the Gulf War of 1991 as RAF psychiatric adviser in the field doing first-ever debriefings of British prisoners-of-war and released British hostages from the Lebanon. He developed new treatment strategies for trauma in the RAF and post-RAF has concentrated on trauma services for police officers, emergency service personnel and military veterans.
Anthony Feinstein received his medical degree in South Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand. Thereafter he completed his training in Psychiatry at the Royal Free Hospital in London, England, before training as a neuropsychiatrist at the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square in London. His Master of Philosophy and Ph.D. Degree were obtained through the University of London, England. He is professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and runs the neuropsychiatry program at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.
Dr. Feinstein's research follows two broad strands. The first focuses on the search for cerebral correlates of behavioural disorders associated with multiple sclerosis. He is past Chair of the Medical Advisory Committee of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada.
His second focus relates to the study of journalists in conflict situations. Here he has published a series of seminal studies exploring the psychological effects of conflict on journalists covering the Balkans, Iraq, Mexico, Syria, Kenya, Iran, Afghanistan, the refugee crisis in Europe and the aftermath of the 9/11 attack on New York City. He currently consults to a number of news organisations including the Globe and Mail, CNN, the New York Times and Agence France Press.
Dr. Feinstein is the author of In Conflict (New Namibia Books, 1998), Dangerous Lives: War and the Men and Women Who Report It (Thomas Allen, Toronto 2003), The Clinical Neuropsychiatry of Multiple Sclerosis (Cambridge University Press 1999, with a second edition in 2007), Michael Rabin, America's Virtuoso Violinist (Amadeus Press, 2005, second edition, 2011; audiobook, 2017), Journalists Under Fire: the Psychological Hazards of Covering War (John Hopkins University Press, 2006) and Battle Scarred (Tafelberg Press, 2011). His latest book is Shooting War (Glitterati Editions, 2018). He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and has authored many book chapters.
In 2000-2001 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study mental health issues in post-apartheid Namibia. In 2012, he produced a documentary, "Under Fire" based on his research of journalists in war zones. It was shortlisted for an Academy Award and won a 2012 Peabody Award. His series Shooting War for the Globe and Mail Newspaper was shortlisted for a 2016 EPPY award.
Arlene Healey DipSW, CQSW, Cert Adv SW, Dip Fam Ther,Adv Dip Mgt Psych Trauma, MSc Psychotherapy Consultant Psychotherapist and Family Therapist.
Arlene is a registered systemic psychotherapist with more than 40 years' experience working with children and their families in the NHS in both Child and Family Services and Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services, CAMHS, where she worked for more than 30 years.
She is a registered clinical supervisor with the Association for Family Therapy AFT. In 1999 following the implementation of the Belfast/Good Friday Peace Agreement in Northern Ireland, she established and managed the Family Trauma Centre. The Centre provide services for children and families affected by the conflict in Northern Ireland. The Family Trauma Centre was the first systemically led trauma service. and grief. Arlene developed a culturally sensitive family therapy approach to help families in trauma and has published her work in several journals and books. She continued to manage the Centre for 18 years until she retired in 2016.
Arlene was active in crisis response work, and was a member of the Belfast Health Trust's Community Crisis Response Team for more than 15 years. In January 2005 she was seconded to the British Red Cross as part of the first response to UK nationals in Thailand following the tsunami.
Arlene retired from the NHS in December 2015 and is now in private practice. During the past few years she has undertaken work for the Official Solicitor Royal Court of Justice Belfast and Lighthouse a charity based in Belfast providing help for families affected by suicide. She continues to provide clinical supervision for several family therapists both in the NHS and private practice both in the UK and Ireland. She continues to teach and present at conferences both nationally and internationally.
Professor Lynne McCormack is both an academic and clinical supervisor at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham UK. Her clinical work in the aftermath of complex traumatic events has spanned three decades directed by historical events such as the Vietnam War and the Rwandan genocide on the one hand, and the emergence of positive psychology for recovery, on the other. The privilege of walking as a therapist, alongside those who have experienced war or genocide, been held hostage, lost their identity as refugees, been brutalised as children or suffered interpersonal violence, underpins her research. By witnessing the metamorphic struggle to rebuild shattered lives following exposure to complex traumatic events, her research has led to greater than 50 publications exploring the interface of complex trauma and posttraumatic growth. Primarily, through qualitative research, she seeks to give voice to the individual narratives of healing from psychological trauma recognising that each of us is the 'expert' in our own lives. As a psychosocial delegate for the Australian Red Cross Lynne has deployed to international and national crises including the summer of 2019/2020 bushfires. She values her role as a mentor and supervisor, supporting those working at the coalface of caring for others as they provide safe psychological environments for their clients including children rescued from human trafficking and cyber abuse. Her greatest passion is promoting healthy parent/child attachments free of transgenerational abuse and violence, allowing children to grow into respectful adults skilled at problem solving, debating, and critically exchanging ideas with curiosity and respect for others' views.
Alastair (MBChB., FRCPsych., MD., DipCBT) is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy and while Clinical Lead for Psychotherapy set up the Tayside Multidisciplinary Adult Psychotherapy Service (MAPS), and later the Tayside Veterans Service. He has most recently been working on the Scottish Government Short-life Working Group setting up dedicated mental health services for individuals admitted because of COVID-19. For almost 30 years, his clinical focus has been the treatment of individuals who have suffered trauma.
Alastair has spent his entire career in Psychiatry, training in General Psychiatry in Tayside, Liaison Psychiatry in Aberdeen and completing a Medical Doctorate on the long-term sequelae of a maritime disaster. He worked clinically at the Traumatic Stress Clinic and Trauma Liaison service in Aberdeen; and academically at the University of Aberdeen, Department of Mental Health and the Aberdeen Centre for Trauma Research. He completed his Psychotherapy training in Tayside. Alastair was a Lecturer in Aberdeen and then became an Honorary Senior Lecturer: first at the University of Aberdeen, then at the University of Dundee. Alastair has been Psychiatric Consultant and Lead to the Maritime Piracy Humanitarian Response Programme (MPHRP) which helped individuals taken hostage, and their families.
Alastair's teaching and research interests mirror his clinical work, with twin strands of research on complex post-traumatic reactions and psychological outcomes after critical illness; he has published widely on each. He has presented at National, European and World conferences on aspects of post-traumatic outcomes and care. He co-authored a textbook, The Comprehensive Resource Model: Effective therapeutic techniques for the healing of complex trauma (Routledge, 2017).
He was on the Expert Advisory Panel for Scotland completing Guidance for Disaster/ Emergency response, and was on the Mind Blue Light Advisory Panel. He has been on the Board of the United Kingdom Psychological Trauma Society, was a member of BABCP Scotland, and is a member of the Scottish Trauma Advisory Group.


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Revista de Ciencias
ARISTIZABAL CASTILLO, Natalia and TORRES G., Celina. Morphological and Molecular Characterization of Phytophthora in Pepper (Capsicum frutescens var. Tabasco), Valle del Cauca. rev. cienc. [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.2, pp.71-89. ISSN 0121-1935.
The purpose of this work was the characterization of possible different species of Phytophtho in a f eld that ust begun to be used for the production of Tabasco pepper (Capsicum frutescens Var. Tabasco) of exporting quality, in a growing area of Valle del Cauca. Phytophthora is a phytopathogen oomycete which attacks wide variety of plants, from vegetables to timber trees, and has several species that have been found in studies of pepper's late blight, powdery mildew and root rot. The Tabasco pepper is one of the most demanded varieties in the market, and for this reason, it is necessary to deepen the studies on the prevention and control of diseases that attack the crop. For this investigation, a random collection of soil was made from the Tabasco pepper crop, within a perimeter of 20cm around the seedling and inside the channel between planting beds. Two Phytophthora morphotypes were isolated to which DNA was extracted with the PowerSoil® DNA Isolation Kit (MO-BIO Laboratories Inc.), and a PCR was run, showing different band sizes. By comparing the sequences of the ITSI and ITS4 regions, a similarity of 99% was found between isolation PI and Phytophthora cinnamomi; the isolation P2 (80%) had a close relationship with the group belonging to Phytophthora infestans, P. nicotianae and P.tentaculata
Keywords : Phytophthora; Capsicum frutescens; plant pathogen; pathogenicity; PCR; soil.
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