These recipes are no sweat.
When it's really hot out, the last thing I want to do is cook. While stovetop meals and sheet-pan dinners may be great ways to warm up your apartment during the winter, they're just recipes for sweating during the summer. From June to September, if I'm actually going to convince myself to make dinner rather than ordering out, I need ideas that will fill me up without heating me up.
Most people think of dinnertime as the time when sit down to a warm, hearty meal, but food doesn't have to be warm or hearty to fill you up. Salads, cold soups, sandwiches, and more don't need any time over fire or in an oven, but they'll satisfy your hunger just as well as something that might.
These 17 meatless recipes will help you make it through the summer, because you don't need to cook them to enjoy them. Since they're packed with vegetables and non-meat protein sources like tofu, tempeh, and beans, they definitely have all the protein, fiber, and healthy carbs you need. They're tasty, too, but most importantly, they're cool—and they definitely won't turn you into a human puddle.
All you have to do to prepare the tempeh in this sandwich is marinate it for 30 minutes. Then just put it altogether and you've got a quite a filling sandwich. Get the recipe here.
Pita chips topped with beans, chopped cucumbers and tomatoes, and a vibrant cilantro dressing make for the freshest nachos you've ever had—no cooking required. Get the recipe here.
You don't have to boil a pot of water to make these noodles. All you need is a spiralizer, a zucchini, and a little can-do spirit. Get the recipe here.
Corn, beans, and lime give these lettuce wraps a Mexican-style flair. Add a sprinkle of cayenne or chipotle pepper to spice them up a little. Get the recipe here.
Quick—make this spring produce-packed cold soup before it's too late. Avocado gives it a luscious, creamy texture without any dairy. Get the recipe here.
This recipe calls for cooked bulgur, but if you don't have any, just use whatever cooked grain you do have—it'll taste just as good. Get the recipe here.
Filled with bell peppers, tomatoes, and cucumbers, this gazpacho is basically the definition of refreshing. Get the recipe here.
Like the taco salad you know and love, but way better. Kale makes it nice and hearty, while heirloom tomatoes add an unexpected pop of flavor. Get the recipe here.
Cookie and Kate keeps this sandwich vegan yet authentic by using bacon-flavored coconut bits instead of actual bacon. And it tastes pretty legit! Get the recipe here.
Collard greens are a lot sturdier than lettuce, so you can fill them up with just about anything and they won't fall apart. I especially like this wrap, because it's filled with a zesty chickpea mash. Get the recipe here.
With watermelon, feta, mint, Greek yogurt, and farro, this salad really nails that whole sweet and savory thing. Get the recipe here.
Foodie Crush gets a little old school with this salad by using uncooked ramen noodles. They add a nice crunch, add you don't need to turn the stove on to enjoy them. Get the recipe here.
Blissful Basil uses a mix of artichoke and chickpeas to make this vegetarian recipe taste uncannily like tuna salad. Get the recipe here.
In case you don't already know, panzanella is basically the Italian way of saying bread salad, and it's amazing. Get the recipe here.
This salad brings the heat without any literal heat. You can thank garam masala and curry powder for that. Get the recipe here.
You haven't lived until you've had savory yogurt. Try these three different recipes all by themselves, or with a side of vegetables or chips. Get the recipe here.
This recipe is so simple and so good, it'll make you wonder why you don't eat tofu this way more often. Get the recipe here.


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Inspirational survivors prove cancer could soon be just another illness we live with.
Primary school headmaster Richard Jackson loves to plan ahead for holidays, upcoming parties or just meals out with family and friends.
Nothing unusual, you may think, especially for someone working in the hectic environment of teaching.
But the reason Richard delights in organising his diary is that, 12 years ago, he was told he would be dead within nine months.
Doctors diagnosed malignant melanoma, the most aggressive form of skin cancer, and said it had already spread to his lymph nodes, the route by which aggressive tumours usually travel round the body to major organs.
He was 39 and married with two children.
But after taking just one dose of a novel immunotherapy drug called ipilimumab – a treatment which harnesses the body's own immune cells to fight cancer – Richard and his wife, Judith, watched in amazement as his tumours began to shrink.
Cancer survivors Deborah James (left), Lucy O'Donnell (centre) and Richard Jackson (right)
'We rushed to see my oncologist at the Christie Hospital in Manchester and he took a good look, taking measurements and photographs,' says Richard, now 50, from Ellesmere Port in Cheshire.
'I remember saying to him, "It feels like they're shrinking. But we don't want to get too excited." I'll never forget the doctor's exact words. "Oh no," he said. "Let's all get very excited." '
Within months, 60 per cent of the tumours had gone. After a year and five cycles of treatment, they had all but disappeared.
His medical team were astonished. Not least because at the time, Richard's diagnosis was expected to be terminal.
I should be dead… but I'm doing a triathlon instead!
Later this month, Deborah James will compete against 5,000 amateur athletes in what's billed as a 'fun-sized' triathlon – swimming 16 lengths of a pool, cycling 10km and then running a further 2km.
But unlike her rivals, Deborah, left, will take on the exhausting feat just three weeks after major cancer surgery and having had no fewer than 12 malignant tumours removed from her bowel, lungs and liver in the past couple of years.
First diagnosed in 2016 with aggressive bowel cancer that had spread to her lungs, Deborah – who presents the BBC's You, Me And The Big C podcast – was given just seven months to live.
Two-and-a-half years later she is stable and even enjoyed a brief period of complete remission – she was temporarily cancer-free.
Deborah, 37, mother to Hugo, 11, and Eloise, nine, says: 'I had three months when all the tumours had been removed from my lungs and there was no evidence of the disease.
'My oncologist was saying, "We've reached a place we'd hope to be but never thought we'd achieve." '
This remarkable recovery is due largely to a cocktail of new cancer drugs being given by doctors at London's Royal Marsden Hospital.
Two of them, dabrafenib and trametinib, are known to work on skin cancer with the same genetic mutation as Deborah's bowel tumour.
The third is a bowel cancer drug, panitumumab.
This combination blocks three pathways around the tumour, preventing it from spreading further.
Although it's not a cure, it has stabilised her condition.
Deborah says: 'Research has kept me alive. I know I shouldn't be here.
'I live with hope, not with resignation. It's about embracing what you've got.'
Later this month, Deborah James, 37 (pictured), will compete in a triathlon just three weeks after major bowel cancer surgery
Today, he is healthy, happy and the subject of cancer only crops up in his annual check-ups.
'With the cancer, I felt I didn't own my own future, that it wasn't mine. Now, I've effectively had a second chance,' he says.
Richard's case does not exist in isolation. He was, in fact, at the forefront of a revolution in cancer treatment that has completely transformed the way many experts now think of the disease.
Thanks to blockbuster treatments that stop tumour cells dividing, many top oncologists argue that cancer – even when diagnosed at an advanced stage – is now far from a certain death sentence.
The fact is that while more patients are surviving for longer, a small group are seeing astonishing results.
Others, sadly, still fail to respond to therapy.
Scientists' main interest is now in investigating why – and the tentative hope is that in doing so, even more patients could benefit.
It means the most aggressive growths may one day become nothing more than a chronic illness managed with drugs – much like asthma, diabetes or high blood pressure.
While one in two of us will get cancer – 166,000 every year – the reality is we have never been more likely to survive.
Twenty years ago, just one in four patients lived beyond a decade. Today half of patients do, and by 2030, experts predict, it will be three-quarters.
Doctors are even tentatively talking of curing patients with metastatic disease, known as stage 4, where the cancer has spread to other parts of the body – traditionally considered 'incurable'.
Professor Charles Swanton, chief clinician at Cancer Research UK, said: 'It's really amazing. In the 1990s, cancer was still seen as bed rest and palliative care, which involved simply managing symptoms until patients died. Now, with new drugs, there's much more optimism than there's ever been. There is real scope for hope.'
Remarkably, as many as a quarter of those with stage 4 tumours are living months – even years – past their predicted survival time.
In melanoma, the fifth most common cancer in the UK, immunotherapy drugs, such as ipilimumab, mean that half those diagnosed with metastatic disease now survive.
There are similar increases in survival for about 20 per cent of patients with advanced kidney, lung and bladder cancer, while a boom in drugs known as targeted therapies, which alter the DNA of cancer cells, limiting their growth, is delivering further benefits.
While some drugs are already available on the NHS, other newer therapies are offered only to eligible patients via the Cancer Drugs Fund or through clinical trials.
Dr Fiona Thistlethwaite, medical oncologist at The Christie Hospital, said: 'Almost always when the cancer has spread, it's about control rather than cure. But we're seeing a small proportion of patients having very good responses to the point where no disease is identifiable, which we call complete remission. Some are being kept in remission for more than ten years, which may mean these patients are cured.'
So what are these revolutionary treatments? Here are the advances that the medical professionals are most excited about.
Magic bullet therapy boosts survival
Targeted drugs, often known as magic bullets, are extending life for a decade or more in patients who would otherwise have few options.
Blood test that could mean no more biopsies
It's not only cancer treatment that's evolving rapidly – the way the disease is detected could change too.
British researchers are working on a simple blood test that could replace painful biopsies – the surgical removal of tissue for testing.
It could also replace CT scans which expose patients to radiation which could be harmful after copious screenings.
Called a liquid biopsy, it involves detecting cancer by looking for traces of its DNA in blood and analysing it for the faulty genes driving tumour growth.
Doctors can then select the best drug to treat it.
It's a far cry from the scatter-gun approach of chemotherapy, which destroys healthy as well as cancerous cells.
A trial is currently under way on patients with advanced cancer who have failed to respond to treatment.
Retired secretary Barbara Stojkovic, 69, from Birmingham, saw her ovarian cancer tumour shrink by nearly 60 per cent after undergoing the test and being matched to an appropriate treatment at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust.
Barbara was diagnosed with cancer five years ago and was not responding to chemotherapy.
But since the blood test, she's been matched to two drugs, one which, when combined with chemotherapy, stopped her tumour growing for eight months.
She says: 'I feel well and my granddaughters keep telling me I look great, so I remain very optimistic.'
Oncologist Dr Neil Bayman, a lung cancer specialist at The Christie Hospital in Manchester, said: 'The next step, the Holy Grail, is that instead of a CT scan you have a blood test. We're still far off doing that.
'But you can detect traces of cancer in the cells and if you have an early sign, you can be treated.'
They resulted from the huge inroads scientists have made into understanding the genetic make-up of cancer cells and what drives them to multiply.
The drugs target particular components of the cancer cell known to help it survive.
For example, the breast cancer drug Herceptin, which has transformed treatment for the one in five sufferers with aggressive tumours known as HER2 positive cancers, works by attaching to the HER2 protein, which promotes the growth of tumour cells. This stops the cells from dividing.
Professor Andrew Wardley at The Christie Hospital, Europe's largest cancer treatment centre, says: 'When I started as a consultant in 2001, patients with this type of the disease that had spread would die very quickly. After the Herceptin trials, we saw patients living ten years or more. And it's not uncommon to get patients living beyond five years with no evidence of cancer.'
Combining targeted drugs can prove even better. One major study found that 13 per cent of those given Herceptin and another targeted drug called Perjeta are in complete remission, Prof Wardley said.
Lucy O'Donnell, cancer counsellor and author of Cancer Is My Teacher, was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer that spread to her liver and bones in 2011. Only 20 per cent live past five years with this diagnosis.
But Lucy's HER2 positive cancer has been curbed by a combination of Herceptin and Tamoxifen, a drug given to women with hormone-responsive tumours.
When – and if – that stops working, there are other therapies she can then try, such as Kadcyla, shown to extend life by an average of six months, with some patients surviving for several years.
'My oncologist says I'm a walking miracle,' Lucy says.
'Herceptin has been a game-changer. My cancer has stayed the same for six years. I'm just so happy to be alive. I stay positive and active and I know I have other options if it does come back, so I'm very relaxed about it.'
A new targeted therapy generating much excitement is a drug called Alpelisib, which targets the PI3K gene that makes tumours resistant to treatment.
It could be lifesaving for the one in five women with so-called 'triple negative' breast cancer, for whom there is currently no targeted therapy.
And it's not just in the field of breast cancer where prospects are brightening.
A medicine called Olapirib has prevented tumours from spreading for three years in women with ovarian cancer and shown promise in pancreatic and stomach cancer patients.
Others, like Tarceva and Iressa, are improving outcomes for lung cancer patients too.
Drugs that harness the immune system
Immunotherapy has transformed survival rates for a small but significant proportion of patients.
Instead of destroying cancer cells, they disable the brakes that cancer applies to the body's immune system. If these brakes are in place, the immune system cannot fight the disease.
Releasing them means a person's immunity can start to attack a tumour.
The therapy has had incredible results in melanoma, lung and kidney cancer and versions of the drugs are also being trialled in other tumour types.
Lucy O'Donnell was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer that spread to her liver and bones in 2011. She has taken a combination of Tamoxifen (left) and Herceptin (right), a drug given to women with hormone-responsive tumours. The growth of her cancer has stopped for six years
Professor James Larkin, medical oncologist at The Royal Marsden hospital in London, said: 'Most solid, metastatic tumours have been regarded historically as incurable. With recent immunotherapy treatments we know many are long- term survivors.
'With Ipilimumab, or ipi, there's a 20 per cent chance of long- term survival. But when newer, emerging drugs such as nivolumab (Opdivo) and pembrolizumab (Keytruda) are used in combination with Ipilimumab, long-term survival could be as high as 40 or 50 per cent.
'We've got a group who've been living more than ten years with a relatively good quality of life.'
However, some still do not respond. 'If immunotherapy doesn't work, you're back to where you were, with limited drugs available,' Prof Larkin added.
For patients who do respond, the future looks increasingly promising. Immunotherapy even continues to work long-term, without the cancer returning, when people stop taking the drug.
Prof Larkin said: 'We're recommending two years on these drugs. If patients can get to that point, they've got a very good chance of not needing further treatment.'
Retraining cells to cure leukaemia
While most children with leukaemia respond well to treatment, those who do not are left with little chance of surviving more than a year.
But a new technique called adoptive cell therapy is offering fresh hope.
A patient's immune cells are removed from their blood, then reprogrammed in the laboratory to make them more effective at recognising and targeting cancer cells.
These revamped cells, known as CAR-T cells, are then infused back into the patient via a vein.
Within four weeks, most patients see their disease go into remission for two years or more.
A new technique called adoptive cell therapy is offering fresh hope for cancer patients. It involves cells being removed from their blood, then reprogrammed in the laboratory to make them more effective at recognising and targeting cancer cells (stock image)
Dr Karin Straathof, paediatric oncologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital, where the treatment is now available on the NHS, said: 'These patients wouldn't normally have any treatment options but instead, some are being cured.
'When the cancer hasn't come back after six months, it usually means it won't come back.'
She added: 'In the future, we may be able to use it instead of the standard treatments we're using now for leukaemia.'
Dr Straathof is also trialling the therapy in neuroblastoma, an aggressive childhood cancer, and in hard-to-treat brain tumours.
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Critical thinking. Self determination. Confidence. Communication and collaboration. These are the common threads that bind and identify AUCians worldwide, according to the three guests of honor at the University's Catalyst for Change benefit dinner. Former Nile TV anchor Shahira Amin '78, actor and activist Amr Waked '96, and CNN correspondent Ben Wedeman (YAB '81) were presented with Distinguished Alumni Awards in recognition of their positive contributions to Egypt and in the world. In accepting their awards, all three credited AUC with giving them the educational and life skills they needed to succeed in their chosen careers — careers that require them to absorb, synthesize and accurately convey information that is relevant to the people and the future of Egypt.
AUC raised more than $340,000 at the AUC: Catalyst for Change benefit dinner with net proceeds supporting scholarships.
AUC organized its first annual Benefit Dinner in New York on October 20, 2011 under the theme AUC: Catalyst for Change. More than 200 alumni, friends and supporters of AUC were on hand at the Jumeirah Essex House for an evening of socializing.
AUC organized its first annual Benefit Dinner in New York on October 20, 2011 under the theme AUC: Catalyst for Change. More than 200 alumni, friends and supporters of AUC were on hand at the Jumeirah Essex House for an evening of socializing
Shahira Amin is an Egyptian freelance journalist and former deputy head of Nile TV International. She quit her job on February 3, 2011, during the Egyptian uprising, in protest against state TV coverage of the events in Tahrir.
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Ben Wedeman is CNN's senior international correspondent based in Cairo, Egypt. Since 1995, he has reported on scenes of conflict and tension across the Middle East and northern Africa for the network.
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I learned to think. I learned to ask questions. I learned that even if I fail, I benefit from trying. This is what I learned at AUC. That even in failing, there are lessons to be learned. I have to try. I have to keep trying until I succeed, no matter what I do.
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Israel Defense Forces Inquiry Commission Report. Archived from the original on 26 November 2011. 27 It consisted of three torpedo boats numbered: T-203, T-204 and T-206. The aircraft approaching Liberty were recalled to the Saratoga. 75 Meadors states that the classification of the attack as deliberate is the official policy of the USS Liberty Veterans Association, 76 to which survivors and other former crew members belong. Further reading Bregman, Ahron (2002). Washington Report dos attack thesis on Middle East Affairs. Kislev immediately ordered the attack stopped.
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The maximum sustained speed of Liberty was only.5 kn (20.1 mph;.4 km/h 21 kn (24 mph; 39 km/h). Israeli naval doctrine at the time required that a ship traveling at that speed must be presumed to be a warship. He also pointed out that Israel notified the American embassy immediately after the attack. McGonagle said that he felt sure the torpedo boat captains believed they were under fire from the Liberty. Damaged USS Liberty one day after attack Distinctiveness of USS Liberty's appearance: It is disputed whether the Liberty would have been immediately recognizable as a different vessel from the Egyptian ship El Quseir. Citation needed Effort for identification: The American crew says the attacking aircraft did not make identification runs over Liberty, but began to strafe immediately. 285, appendix S Johnson, Lyndon Baines (1971). As the torpedo boats approached, Liberty opened fire on them. 27 (The investigative journalist James Bamford points out that Liberty had only four.50 caliber machine guns mounted on her decks and, thus, could not have shelled the coast.
T-204 then circled Liberty, and Oren spotted the designation GTR-5, but saw no flag. ; 1 Gerhard, William.; Millington, Henry. Retrieved b Harriette,.; Ennes Jr,.M. Mossad: istoria luchshei v mire razvedki. The subsequent attack by the torpedo boats, substantially after the vessel was or should have been identified by Israeli military forces, manifests the same reckless disregard for human life. 85 Israel knew that American radio signals were intercepted by the Soviet Union and that the Soviets would certainly inform Egypt of the fact that, by moving troops to the Golan Heights, Israel had left the Egyptian border undefended. Assault on the Liberty: The True Story of the Israeli Attack on an American Intelligence Ship.
Damian Watkins Data Science Attack Detection Get in touch Interested in partnering with us? 39 Aircraft carrier USS America dispatched eight aircraft. 50 51 George Lenczowski notes: "It was significant that, in contrast to his secretary of state, President Johnson fully accepted the dos attack thesis Israeli version of the tragic incident." He notes that Johnson himself only included one small paragraph about. His sources say that at the time of the attack Liberty was following her signal-intercept mission course along the northern Sinai coast, at about 5 knots (9.3 km/h;.8 mph) speed. 12 See also edit References edit Snow, Charles Percy (2001) 1959. Lewis made an audio recording and later wrote about a meeting 6th Fleet Rear Admiral Lawrence Geis requested in his cabins: He told me that since I was the senior Liberty survivor on board he wanted to tell me in confidence what had actually transpired. 29 The speed of the target was significant because it indicated that the target was a combat vessel. 97 NSA tapes and subsequent developments The NSA reported that there had been no radio intercepts of the attack made by the Liberty herself, nor had there been any radio intercepts made by the.S. 27 At 12:15 pm, Division 914 received orders to patrol a position 20 miles (32 km) north of Arish. Archived from the original on 14 December 2006. 99 These revelations were elicited as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Florida bankruptcy judge and retired naval aviator Jay Cristol. The Two Cultures, Cambridge University Press, isbn Ferris, Timothy "The World of the Intellectual.
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Medal, for his actions. 22 29 At 1:48 pm, the Chief of Naval Operations requested dispatch of fighter aircraft to the ship's location. Navy and in an interview with the Washington Post stated that it was "ridiculous" to suggest that it would not be identified as such. Veterans of MTB squadron" Several Liberty crew members testified that they had briefly seen a periscope during the attack. Citation needed Due to damaged equipment, McGonagle could only reply using a handheld Aldis lamp. 55 Other Liberty sailors received decorations for their actions during and after the attack, but most of the award citations omitted mention of Israel as the perpetrator. 22 32 The Mysteres were readying to attack again when the Israeli Navy, alerted by the absence of return fire, warned Kislev that the target could be Israeli. These markings were not cursive Arabic script but in the Latin alphabet. As I Saw.
91 Bamford also stated that eyewitness Gabi Bron had claimed he dos attack thesis saw 150 people executed by Israeli troops at El-Arish. Much of the ship's superstructure caught fire. Official American reports say that the Liberty was flying her American flag before, during and after the attack; the only exception being a brief period in which one flag had been shot down and was replaced with a larger flag. Though Liberty was severely damaged, with a 39 ft wide by 24 ft high (12 m.3 m) hole and a twisted keel, her crew kept her afloat, and she was able to leave the area under her own power. Goulding, who was an assistant secretary of defense for public affairs at the time. The narrative/analytic debate may look very different in economics, anthropology, and English. Introducing a reprint of The Two Cultures, Stefan Collini has argued that the passage of time has done much to reduce the cultural divide Snow noticed, but has not removed it entirely. 22 At about 5:45 am Sinai time, a ship-sighting report was received at Israeli Central Coastal Command (CCC) in respect of Liberty, identified by an aerial naval observer as "apparently a destroyer, sailing 70 miles 110 km west of Gaza". "Possible Reflections of Israeli Attack Against USS Liberty" (PDF). Submarine Amberjack had gathered by means of its periscope, the National Security Agency stated that there had been "no radio intercepts made by the.S. Ambassador Walworth Barbour in Tel Aviv, Israel, Rusk asked for "urgent confirmation" of Israel's statement. Carter, sent a message to all intercept sites requesting a search of communications that might be connected to the attack or any reaction.
11 Yerushalmi Inquiry Report Archived t the dos attack thesis Wayback Machine p 3 IDF History Report 1982,. . 10 a b Bamford, Body of Secrets a b c d e f IDF History Report 1982,. . Though Egyptian warships were known to disguise their identities with Western markings, they usually displayed Arabic letters and numbers only. According to the memo, General Steakley "briefed the committee on a sensitive DOD project known as frontlet 615 which is identified in a handwritten note on the original memorandum as "submarine within.A.R. Two linguists who were aboard the EC-121 when the recordings were made said separately that at least two additional tapes were made that had been withheld. The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. All investigations into the matter similarly blamed lack of communications and found no reason for anyone involved to face criminal charges.
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A b "Declaration of Ward Boston,., Captain, jagc, USN (Ret. Not more than one in ten of the highly educated would have felt that I was speaking the same language. Our complete solution includes detection, tracking and resolution of cyber incidents. B During the interval, crewmen aboard Liberty hoisted a large American flag. In May 1968, the, israeli government paid US3.32 million (equivalent to US23.9 million in 2018) to the.S. 100 101 The rescue helicopters relayed urgent requests that the rescuers ask the first survivor pulled out of the water what his nationality is; there was discussion as to whether the survivors would speak Arabic. Monitoring, cysurance subscribers receive a mini-sensor that essentially acts like a smoke detector, monitoring network traffic for warning signs.
Archived from the original (PDF) on Retrieved 27 September 2006. 27 Israeli Motor Torpedo Boats (MTBs) in formation,. 12 Unfortunately, due to ineffective message handling and routing, these messages were not received until after the attack. 90 However, according to camera, his claim that 400 Egyptians were executed has been cast into doubt since reporters present in the town claimed that there had been a large battle and this was the main cause of casualties. Ram Ron Report (PDF) (Report). In March 1969, Israel paid a further.57 million (24.4 million in 2018) to the men who had been wounded. "The USS Liberty Incident: "The USS Liberty: Case Closed". "On, the National Security Agency released hundreds of additional declassified documents on the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, a communications interception vessel,." 99 On, The Chicago Tribune published a special report 7 into the attack, containing numerous previously unreported. Ambassador to Israel, Barbour, had reported on the day of the Liberty attack that he "would not be surprised" by an Israeli attack on Syria, and the IDF Intelligence chief told a White House aide then in Israel that "there. The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency. 25 USS Liberty's marker was removed from CCC's Control Table at 11:00 am, due to its positional information being considered out of date. Griffiths, Phillip (13 September 1995 'Two Cultures' Today, UK: St Andrews.
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12 a b c IDF History Report 1982,. . Simon Critchley, in Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction suggests: Snow diagnosed the loss of a common culture and the emergence of two distinct cultures: those represented by scientists on the one hand and those Snow termed 'literary intellectuals' on the other. Foreign Relations of the United States, 19641968, Volume XIX, Arab-Israeli Crisis and War, 1967 (PDF). 263 Hanley, Delinda. Through diplomatic channels we refused to accept their explanations. Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East IDF History Report 1982,. . The committee, which included former.S. Shortly before the Liberty 's identity was confirmed, the Saratoga launched eight aircraft armed with conventional weapons towards Liberty. Governments conducted inquiries and issued reports that concluded the attack was a mistake due to Israeli confusion about the ship's identity, 6, others, including survivors of the attack, have rejected these conclusions and maintain that the attack was deliberate. Lucas around the port side of the bridge, around to the skylights, to see if he could tell Seaman Quintero, whom he believed to be the gunner on Machine gun 53, to hold fire". London: Cambridge University Press. 14 The second cable, sent three days later, added that the White House is "very angry" because "the Americans probably have findings showing that our pilots indeed knew that the ship was American".
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McGonagle sent an urgent request for help to the Sixth Fleet, "Under attack by unidentified jet aircraft, require immediate assistance". The Egyptian Navy had Hunt-class destroyers in 1967 The IAF dispatched two Mirage III fighter jets that arrived at Liberty at about 2:00. Smith The USS Liberty Attack Archived 14 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine Anti Defamation League "New Light on the Liberty ". 19 Bibliography Ennes, James,.,. 31 Hunt-class destroyer HMS Blean. Ensign Lucas, testified that he gave permission for the firing of the 03 level machine gun after the torpedo boats began firing at Liberty. In the last 6 years, Kirsten has been the CEO of big data and cyber security companies, leading the strategy and development of next-generation analytics and attack detection technologies. That strange message was never explained or cancelled. Andrew Sinclair, The Red and the Blue.
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Archived from the original on Retrieved cott 2009,. . Johnson had received word from the Joint Chiefs of Staff that Liberty had been torpedoed by an unknown vessel at 9:50 am eastern time. New York: Random House. When contacted, four crewmen stated that they were so close to Liberty when it came under attack that some of the crew believed Amberjack itself was under depth charge attack. 22 Aftermath of the attack USS liberty Memorial Arlington National Cemetery According to transcripts of intercepted radio communications, published by the.S. 61 No testimony was heard from Israeli personnel involved. Archived from the original (PDF) on "Archived copy". Rabin reiterated the standing order to sink any unidentified ships in the area, dos attack thesis but advised caution, as Soviet vessels were reportedly operating nearby. Unlike other insurance products, however, we set out to ease complexity by eliminating underwriting and a confusing and lengthy application process.
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C-LINK provides the advantage of using the board geometry in board repair so that the user can see where a certain component is located on the board and on which side of the board or which component pin is connected to which net.
Since C-LINK extracts all geometry information from CAD, it can also make it available for the board repair.
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In conversation… with Pippa Heylings, CDKN Latin America Regional Facilitator
Date: 21st July 2010
Author: Pippa Heylings
Countries: Brazil, Ecuador, Latin America and the Caribbean
Themes: Climate change mitigation
Tags: biodiversity, climate negotiations, REDD+, mitigation
Simon Maxwell: Pippa, you're facilitating the Latin American engagement of the Climate and Development Knowledge Network. Tell me a bit about how you see the problem that we might try to help to fix in that region.
Pippa Heylings: What we've found to date in Latin America: we did two years ago a scoping study throughout all of Latin America and the Caribbean identifying the information gaps that exist in climate change and poverty. And that's where in a continent where we actually have governments very advanced and sophisticated in some of the countries, and leading with innovative solutions, like Ecuador and the ITT Yasuni approaches, or REDD and Brazil's leading role it's played, is that we have processes almost completely divorced from participation of the civil society. But what was more interesting was that even when that information is available, it's not getting to the right person in the right moment for policy action, nor do certain people have the right access to that information.
Simon: Often in Latin America, also elsewhere, but especially in Latin America, think tanks are rather politicised. They either are associated with political parties or they are the vehicle for individuals who have a political history. Is it possible to have a neutral intermediation between knowledge on the one hand and action on the other?
Pippa: Don't think anything's independent and nobody in Latin America and the Caribbean would actually believe that anything was independent. But you can have a multi-sectoral dialogue which brings all of the opinions to the table. One example of this is the Latin American Platform on Climate, which has been doing that, simultaneously holding national think tank events prior to the international negotiations, and co-hosting those with government negotiating bodies cross sectorally. That was powerful and it brought civil society, private sector and government together, but on the basis of a good policy briefing document. And that for us is a real model because it showed that there is ability to snowball this effect and have regional opinion.
Simon: Of course we think of the Latin American climate problem as being about the forests and the Amazon. I guess it's more complicated than that.
Pippa: Definitely. In Latin America it's climate change, development and biodiversity; and biodiversity also being the sustaining body for the Millennium Development Goals as well. It's about mitigation; it's about how we keep those forests standing. Ecuador had a very innovative proposal that's been picked up by other countries in terms of the country saying if I leave the most, the richest forest in terms of biodiversity in situ, calculate how much that costs to the government in terms of revenue from extraction of oil, turn that into what I would have spent that on in terms of development in my country, and also be able to value what it means to have the indigenous populations still surviving and still living in their ways within that. We have some untouched populations within that area. Cost that and then say, put the challenge on the table. If I leave that there, I as a government will cover 50% of those costs, but I'm asking the rest of the world to stand up and say how much that's worth in terms of biodiversity, in terms of cultural heritage and in terms of development issues. How can we fund those development issues from other global funding for climate change?
Simon: That's a tremendously knowledge rich and demanding approach to policy making. You need to know about the value of the forests, the livelihoods of the indigenous people, possibilities for extracting oil and so on. And we in the Climate and Development Knowledge Network have a number of different instruments available to us. We have research money, we also have advisory services, we have knowledge management, we have partnership money. How are we going to combine all those really to make an impact in, in Ecuador but also in other countries of your region?
Pippa: In the Ecuador example if we took that one, what's, two of the most important tools really are the fact that we could come up with evidence based, state of the art documents, policy briefings that would help decision makers look at that. But also we're looking at partnerships. We have to sustain this evidence based recommendation, sustain interest in it and be there at the right moment with the right kind of material for a decision maker so that they can actually have policy impact. And so with CDKN what we're combining there is research or technical assistance, depending on where are the gaps.
Simon: Of course we should just say it's not just Latin America, is it, because you cover the Caribbean as well.
Pippa: We cover the Caribbean and Central America. Right now we have a fascinating example in the Caribbean. We'd initially thought about moving into one or two of the countries there, when as an exact example of what CDKN is about we received a request from Caricom, through the Caribbean Community Centre for Climate Change, which has just gone through a year's process of coming up with a strategy for development that's resilient to climate change for the 18 states that make up the Caribbean. So Caricom, the 18 heads of state last year said this is our strategy framework for resilience and adaptation.
Simon: We're five years ahead and you're looking back at Latin America and Central America and the Caribbean. What's going to be different about climate change and development planning and action in those regions as a result of our work?
Pippa: I think it will go definitely from the example of the Caribbean example. Programmatically how do we mainstream in development decision making issues of adaptation and resilience, and low carbon development. But on the other hand we're gonna have huge learning and capacity left in the region about the research and policy action divide.
Simon: Pippa, thank you very much.
Pippa: Pleasure.


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package com.mmnaseri.cs.clrs.ch28.s2;

import com.mmnaseri.cs.clrs.ch28.s1.AbstractEquationSystemSolver;
import com.mmnaseri.cs.clrs.ch28.s1.DecompositionEquationSystemSolver;
import com.mmnaseri.cs.clrs.ch28.s1.EquationSystemSolver;
import com.mmnaseri.cs.clrs.ch28.s1.MatrixDecomposer;
import com.mmnaseri.cs.clrs.common.Matrix;
import com.mmnaseri.cs.clrs.common.MatrixUtils;
import com.mmnaseri.cs.qa.annotation.Quality;
import com.mmnaseri.cs.qa.annotation.Stage;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * @author Mohammad Milad Naseri (mmnaseri@programmer.net)
 * @since 1.0 (8/28/16, 10:16 PM)
 */
@Quality(Stage.TESTED)
public class DecomposerAgnosticEquationSystemSolver<E extends Number> extends AbstractEquationSystemSolver<E> {

    private final EquationSystemSolver<E> delegate;

    public DecomposerAgnosticEquationSystemSolver(Class<E> type, MatrixDecomposer<E> decomposer) {
        super(type);
        delegate = new DecompositionEquationSystemSolver<>(type, decomposer);
    }

    @Override
    protected List<E> doSolve(Matrix<E> coefficients, List<E> values) {
        final Matrix<E> transposedCoefficients = MatrixUtils.transpose(coefficients);
        final Matrix<E> newCoefficients = MatrixUtils.multiply(transposedCoefficients, coefficients);
        final Matrix<E> newValuesMatrix = MatrixUtils.multiply(transposedCoefficients, MatrixUtils.column(values));
        final List<E> newValues = new ArrayList<>(values.size());
        for (int i = 0; i < newValuesMatrix.getRows(); i++) {
            newValues.add(newValuesMatrix.get(i, 0));
        }
        return delegate.solve(newCoefficients, newValues);
    }

}

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Divert, a pilot scheme running in south London, works by intervening with offenders at the point of police detention, asking if they have any interest in being rehabilitated.
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A further 76 are undertaking training or an apprenticeship.
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Guessing Widener vs. F&M. Anyone know anything more about this one?
There are two of them, traditionally. 2MAC vs. 3CC and 3MAC vs. 2CC.
Thx Pat - probably means that Muhlenberg's ECAC bid is a hedge since they'll likely end up as CC3 and F&M will be CC2. Same deal for Widener, who's filed for ECACs, but probably opts for this game.
And it's probably not even really an "opt" type scenario. I'd assume they are obliged to the MAC-CC series.
Yeah, it would seem that way.
Just a thought, why didn't it go 2MAC vs. 2CC and 3MAC vs. 3CC?
To make the games less interesting and competitive of course.
Are you claiming the brackets are "rigged"? If they are, what then? We should slit our wrists? Defect to Canada? Become Gaelic football and hurling fans? What? Please advise soonest, if not sooner.
Are you claiming the brackets are "rigged"? If they are, what then? We should slit our wrists? Defect to Canada? Become Gaelic football and hurling fans? What?
I'm not even sure what that means. No, it's clear that they set the games up as a reward to teams that finished higher to give them a better chance of winning. It's a legit way to do things, especially in a tournament setting. But this isn't a tournament. It's an end of season test between neighbors. It would simply be more interesting, and probably more competitive, if they had done it differently.
But be my guest if you want to watch Gaelic football. I really have no opinion on that or hurling or curling or the myriad of other sports that are 100% irrelevant to this discussion.
Oh yeah that just happened!!!!!!
Actually, I was posting in a bit of tongue-in-cheek mode. Anent Gaelic football/hurling, I think it's an interesting sport to watch. And kindly accept my apologies if my post is "100% irrelevant to this discussion." I meant no offense. At my age, offending folks is far too offensive for my taste.
Your humor just went way over their heads.
I didn't get offended but I still don't see the joke? I just didn't understand the post. But it's been a long, long day, so it's probably me.


The Hornets will be looking to maintain their perfect start to the season as they host the Red Devils at Vicarage Road on Saturday.
Watford play Manchester United at Vicarage Road on Saturday and will undoubtedly be eager to extend their run of wins against Jose Mourinho's men.
After a perfect month of August was backed up by a thrilling 2-1 victory over Tottenham Hotspur nearly two weeks ago, Watford now have the chance to make it five wins from five in the Premier League as they face an out-of-sorts United side.
With their perfect record still intact, and their opponents in a rather gruelling predicament which has created a degree of toxicity and negativity around the club, Watford will do well to find a better opportunity to beat Manchester United than this.
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Once again it would appear that a United with Mourinho at the helm just doesn't feel like Manchester United football club. The negative football, energy and persona floating about the Portuguese is concerning and simply not what many would associate with such a historically strong force in English football.
Wins over Leicester and Burnley have been overshadowed by humiliation: first at the hands of Brighton, then the ruthless nature of Tottenham.
However, while all the pessimism and underwhelming performances trudge on, it's easy to forget that 33 games of football still lie ahead — the Premier League has only just started.
United have the quality in their ranks to turn this vein of form around, starting with a visit to Hertfordshire. A victory at Vicarage Road, which has become something of a fortress of late, could provide just the tonic to spur Mourinho and his player onwards.
While United's last visit to Watford ended in a 4-2 defeat for the Hornets, the one before was far more memorable for the yellow army.
The hosts ran out 3-1 victors, with goals from Etienne Capoue, Juan Camilo Zuñiga and Troy Deeney securing the Hornet's first win over United in no less than 30 years.
The noise which boomed from the stands in Watford's win over Spurs has been recognised as a major contributing factor in helping the team turn the game on its head and earn all three points.
Over the international break, the club have worked closely with Watford's most fanatic supporter group, the 1881 Movement, in order to ensure such an atmosphere is achieved right from kick off on Saturday.
All four stands will have a theme and physical items to uphold, such as flags in the Graham Taylor and Rookery Stands and yellow and black t-shirts in the Sir Elton John and Family Stands, all of which are intended to encourage a sold out Vicarage Road to get behind the team on what could be a truly memorable day for the club.
Watford's only injury concerns are Gerard Deulofeu and Tom Cleverley, who are officially ruled out fo contention. Gracia is therefore expected to name an unchanged side from the eleven that defeated Spurs.
The story is not so straight for Mourinho. Left-back Luke Shaw could be involved after his unpleasant head injury suffered on international duty with England, while Marouane Fellaini will face a last-minute fitness test.
Midfielder Ander Herrera is not able to feature due to an ankle problem, and Marcus Rashford will serve the first of the three-game ban he acquired against Burnley.
Watford - Foster; Janmaat, Kabasele, Cathcart, Holebas; Doucoure, Capoue; Hughes, Pereyra; Deeney, Gray.
Manchester United - De Gea; Valencia, Smalling, Lindelöf, Young; Pogba, Matic, Fred; Lingard, Lukaku, Sanchez.


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Most Goals Per Game In 90 Years - Numbers Behind Remarkable Premier League Season
Goals, goals and more goals in England: Here's a look at the numbers behind an astounding start to the Premier League season
Liverpool's manager Jurgen Klopp during the English Premier League match at Aston Villa
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It has been an incredible start to the 2020-21 Premier League season, but no one could have foreseen what happened on Sunday. (More Football News)
Manchester United were dismantled 6-1 by Tottenham at Old Trafford and just hours later reigning champions Liverpool were thrashed 7-2 by Aston Villa.
It was United's joint-heaviest home defeat in the Premier League era and the first time Liverpool had conceded seven in any game in 57 years.
The international break could not have come at a more frustrating time for neutral fans, with this season shaping up to be one of the most remarkable of all time.
With the help of Opta, we look at some of the stand-out statistics from a breathtaking start to the campaign.
GOALS, GOALS, GOALS
There have been 144 goals in the 38 Premier League matches played this season, which is 40 more than there were at the same point in 2019-20.
The average of 3.79 goals per game is the highest the English top flight has seen since there were 3.95 in the 1930-31 season; it is also ranks 11th on the all-time list.
3.79 - There have been 144 goals scored in 38 Premier League games this season, an average of 3.79 per game; this is the highest goals per game ratio in an English top-flight season since 1930/31 (3.95 goals per game). Abundance. pic.twitter.com/y69eNBdfkR
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) October 4, 2020
There have been at least five goals scored in 11 of the 38 matches this term (29 per cent), representing the highest percentage in a season since 1960-61 (33.5 per cent)
NEW NAMES AT THE TOP
Everton and Villa lead the way in the Premier League and are the only teams with a 100 per cent record still intact.
The Toffees have won their opening four matches for the seventh time in their history and they went on to win the title on five of those six previous occasions, most recently in 1969-70.
Monday is the fifth day of the 2020-21 season that Everton have been top, which is just three days fewer than they spent at the summit between 1992-93 and 2019-20.
Happy Monday @Everton #SpiritofTheBlues pic.twitter.com/6wNTTXv71G
— Abdoulaye Doucouré (@abdoudoucoure16) October 5, 2020
The omens aren't quite as good for Villa. The last time they won their first three league matches was in 1962-63 and they finished that season in 15th.
PENALTIES IN THE SPOTLIGHT
A change in the interpretation of the handball law played a role in a significant increase in penalties this season, with 17 of the 38 games (45 per cent) including at least one spot-kick.
The frequency with which they have been awarded has almost doubled from last term, when 23 per cent of matches included a penalty; it is also 19 per cent higher than the previous record of 25.3 per cent in 2009-10.
Six of the 25 penalties awarded this season (24 per cent) have been given due to handball, the highest percentage since 2006-07 (when Opta has the data). The trend led to outcry from players, managers and pundits and an update in guidance has helped ensure none of the past eight spot-kicks have been given for handball.
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There Is Always More To Do
My nine-to-five is with the Social Innovation STL. I am a Community Organizer, so everything I do is based around that. Some of the ways I am connected with Forward Through Ferguson is through my job with the Social Innovation District, but it really started before that as a Community Organizer. The Social Innovation District was ignited by Wyman. Wyman is our fiscal sponsor, and they wanted to support the work of the Social Innovation District because our job is to help strengthen non-profit organizations. Wyman wanted to ensure that their partners were stronger, but they did not feel like it was their role to strengthen their partners. They really liked the idea of having an organization that could help do that work. So, they basically said, "Go create the table, and then invite us to the table."
Our mission is to strengthen the social sector in St. Louis, which includes all of the mission, purpose-focused organizations throughout St. Louis who are doing great work. We focus on three levels:programs, organizational capacity, and partnerships. Among these three levels, the one I lead is organizational capacity. This is less about taking one organization at a time and trying to build their capacity as it is about finding regional strategies to build all of our capacities. Baked in that is community organizing, and this is about organizing a different type of community. It is about organizing organizations, particularly non-profits, and people who work within the social sector. I was excited to be able to use those tools, and it was a position that allowed me to push on my peers.
Jessica Wernli, photos by Lindy Drew
My first goal is to do a census of all community organizations throughout the region, not just your typical 501(c)3 organizations, but also smaller community-based organizations. Some of them do not have 501(c)3 status, but they are doing awesome work. How do we keep track of that so that then we can find out what it is they need? The first step is to uncover who is doing what in St Louis. The next step is to ask, "What do they need in order to be stronger?" I am also exploring some capacity-building tools, including a couple different types of assessments that organizations can take to help them get a better idea of what they need. At the heart of that, we are inserting a Racial Equity lens so that organizations can internally and externally look at how they are tackling it. When I am looking at capacity-building assessments that show an organization's strengths and weaknesses, they do not mention race explicitly. If you want to assess how your organization is doing in regards to Racial Equity, there an entirely different assessment for that. I have not found one that integrates the two, so we may be developing some tools that will be the first of its kind.
It is not just about how strong you are as an organization, but how connected you are to the community, and how you respond to race.
A lot of the assessments talk about cultural competencies, asking questions like, "When you are going into a community that you are not familiar with, how are you engaging with residents?" They are not as explicit about race though. That is why we are working with different diversity, equity, and inclusion partners so that they can help us integrate the right questions. Our hypothesis is that an organizational capacity assessment with a Racial Equity lens will actually yield more equitable results. When organizations are thinking about their strengths and areas of needed growth, while also centering on a Racial Equity lens, they should shift their focus to more equitable practices. You can be a strong organization, you can have a strong board, you can have a large budget, and still do harm to your community. It is not just about how strong you are as an organization, but how connected you are to the community, and how you respond to race.
We are doing a literature review of the national and local data, and conducting interviews with people to find out what types of capacity frameworks they are working out of. We are finding that everyone has their own thing going on. Capacity-building is happening, but it is happening in silos. Different funders are doing capacity-building with their grantees. They are still trying to figure it out so they are testing some things, but they are not talking to each other. Then, you have intermediaries whose purpose is to strengthen organizations and they have their groups that they are working with. People are not coming together to talk about creating a shared language and a shared framework for capacity-building so that we can really lift up all these organizations together. Part of what we are finding is that it is happening, but it is happening in a segmented way, and it is not as strong as it could be. I want to see us really leverage our resources and strategize together about how we can do it together.
The other work that I am really excited about, I started a year before I came to Social Innovation District. Shortly after the Ferguson Commission report was completed, Rev. Starsky Wilson had gathered some different organizations to talk about implementation, and he brought me in to help facilitate. One of the groups he convened was a group of grassroots community organizing and activist organizations who had already been pushing important policies. There were a lot of things in the report that they were already working on, such as policing, court reforms, and school discipline. He convened that group so they could talk about what it would look like to come together to continue to fight for the work that was in the report and to hold stakeholders accountable.
White led non-profits need to think through the implications of going into communities of color.
The first thing we did was a part of the Beloved Community Conference that was held at Saint John's Church last year. The Conference ended with a public action meeting at St. Louis University, where we invited superintendents, police chiefs, and the mayor to talk about how they were going to be held accountable to the report. We got some superintendents to talk about discipline reform and how they were going to seek alternatives to suspensions and expulsions in their schools. We got a commitment from key local business leaders to create a Racial Equity fund that has been started so that they could provide funding for using the Racial Equity lens throughout the region. We invited police chiefs to talk about the reforms in their departments. We had a couple of people who did not show up, like Chief Dotson and Mayor Slay. Consequently, the next day, we went to Mayor Slay's office and held an action expressing our concern for his lack of accountability. He took a meeting with us on-site to talk about some of the reforms that we needed to see. Although there is a long way we need to go with him, we continue to fight to hold those public officials accountable, and we are working together as different grassroots organizations in the region to make sure that that happens. A lot that was in the report are things that the powers that be need to put in place. Some of it includes things that we can do as organizations and as community members, but some of it is placed in the hands and the laps of our legislators and our policy makers. We need to be pushing them to get it done.
Wyman is beginning to coordinate a new project in the Normandy Schools Collaborative to bring in their partners and coordinate wrap-around services and supports for students. Wyman partnered with Beyond Housing to explore what a more coordinated partnership could look like. I plan to push the organizations involved to incorporate a Racial Equity lens at the center of this project because Racial Equity is such an important conversation to have within the social sector. Many of these organizations have White leadership, and work in communities of color. And when you are not thinking about race, that setup can be really harmful. My background is in social work, so I feel like it is my role to challenge fellow social workers so that we can be more impactful and more accountable. White led non-profits need to think through the implications of going into communities of color.
For example, there is a growing number of youth-focused organizations beginning to address trauma. They need to be challenged to place race at the center of this discussion, because trauma can look different in communities of color, and it may need to be addressed in different ways. Consider the generational trauma that comes with being a Black person in this country who is constantly struggling within systems that have been set up to oppress them. How are we taking that into account when working with people of color? I see my role as challenging organizations to think more on that level. If we don't, it looks like a bunch of people from social services coming in and saying, "We want to help fix you." When you are not looking at the context in which these kids and their families are living, and you are not trying to change that, you are going to continue to have children with this trauma because you are not dealing with its root cause.
My very first experience in organizing, before I really knew what it was, was in college. Our university sent out letters to all of the Greek organizations telling them that they were going to discontinue them because the numbers had been low for a couple of years. On my campus, all of the sororities and fraternities were Black and one was Hispanic. So what it felt like for us was, 'We are going to take away this outlet that exists for minority students, for Black students in particular, without putting anything else in place.' I did not pledge into a sorority, but a lot of my friends were a part of those organizations, and it was central to black student life on our campus. I represented an organization that advocated for students, so I met with the Dean to ask, "If you do this, what are you going to put in its place to support Black students?" They had nothing. This was happening at a time when our retention of Black students was going down, as it was apparent that our university was not responding to their needs. Many would come in as Freshman, and leave by their Sophomore year, and that was the trend. So I organized a big sit-in for members of the Greek organizations, black students, and alumni to bring questions to the Dean and demand that she rescind the decision. She did, and now when I go back and visit my alma mater, there are people with letter jackets walking around everywhere. Their retention numbers went soaring after that. That is just a small way that we helped to support Black students on our campus. That was before I realized that I was organizing, but it had a lot of elements of organizing people to confront the powers that be.
One of the biggest hurdles in the work I do now is getting people to think in a broader scope. We have immediate fires that needs to be put out, and I understand that. We need to keep putting them out. We need to keep feeding kids everyday, we need to keep making sure that they have clothing, that they have housing, and that we can provide immediate counseling needs. And we need to look at what is creating those situations in the first place. One of the things that I keep butting up against is people's lack of urgency around getting at the root causes of these issues. Just the term "social services" connotes providing services to people who need them right now. It is not about looking at why people need the services. So I try to spend a lot of my time thinking about how to communicate that gap in understanding. How can we communicate the importance of focusing on root causes and how it directly relates to the work that non-profits are doing on the ground? How do we make that connection between you feeding kids, and us needing to change a policy? When we are providing services to kids in schools, we need to ask ourselves, "Why is there a school district that serves mostly Black students, and those Black students are failing?" We need to look at why our schools are segregated and why resources are allocated inequitably while we are also trying to make up for those gaps.
I do not want for my job to start and end with providing a meal so people can get through this day, so that they can stay just comfortable enough. I want us to push to change the way things are.
When I was in graduate school, there was a quote from one of our textbooks that really stuck with me. Essentially, it said that social workers help people to be comfortable enough in their situation that they stay in that situation. I do not want that to be true. I do not want for my job to start and end with providing a meal so people can get through this day, so that they can stay just comfortable enough. I want us to push to change the way things are.
I am originally from Aurora, Illinois, outside of Chicago. I came here to work for United Congregations at Metro East (UCM) in Illinois to work on social justice issues. The first couple years I was here, I kept thinking, "This is temporary. I am eventually going to go back to Chicago, or go to D.C." I wanted to go to a bigger city, but I really grew to love the St. Louis area. I place my focus regionally in part because I moved to St. Louis, but I worked on the Illinois side. So, every day when I crossed that bridge I was reminded of how connected we all are. I want to impact not just St. Louis, but the entire region. I want to stay and see through the work that I started. Long-term work.
What got started in Ferguson is a movement. That is long-term work that I want to see through. I want to see the recommendations in the Ferguson Commission report become reality, and that is also long-term work. I want to be here to see it through to the end. I also do a lot of work in East St. Louis, including helping to get the new mayor in office. I work closely with her, and that is at least a four-year term that I want to be here for. I think we do have people who start here, and then they grow, and they are needed other places. That is great. But, it is so important for some of us who have started here to see it to the end and to have that continuity.
The first time I read the Ferguson Commission's report was around the anniversary of Mike Brown's death. I remember clicking through it, and reading it, and looking at the stories. I thought it was really well put together, and they personalized it, which is important. At that time, I was working for UCM in Illinois, and I was surprised and excited that people over there were actually looking at the report. I thought we were going to have to push for them to do that. There was still some pushing that was needed, but people got to work. In Alton, Illinois, a committee was created to look at some of their policing issues, and they have used the report as a guide, which surprised me a little bit because a lot of the communities in Illinois were trying to separate themselves from what was happening in Ferguson. Yet, when it came to presenting some solutions, they were still open to those solutions.
"Racial Equity lens" and "DEI – diversity, equity, and inclusion." We use those terms, but do we all understand what they mean?
We need to come together around a shared narrative. There is an underlying and shared narrative about race. And the language that some of us are using needs to not be so internal. When I am with certain groups, I find myself using terms like "Racial Equity lens" and "DEI – diversity, equity, and inclusion." We use those terms, but do we all understand what they mean? Then, you go outside of that group and other people are not getting it. So we need to make sure that we are educating people and not getting stuck on internal lingo. I know that Forward Through Ferguson is talking with diversity, equity, and inclusion groups about how we have a far reach, and how we educate the region so that we are understanding and learning together. As we tackle the problem, we need to make sure that people are actually understanding the problem. I keep running into people who just have a misunderstanding about the work that we are doing. They are hearing a counter-narrative from other groups. It seems like we have done so much already, but there is always more.
Forward Through Ferguson's definition of Racial Equity is, "Ensuring that outcomes are not determined by race." That is what the Social Innovation District uses, too. That comes pretty close to how I would personally define Racial Equity. This has been seen through the stark inequities that have been outlined in the For Sake of All report, including shorter lifespans for communities of color in our region. It is helpful to be able to pull from these facts and reports that are already out there. They are published, the work has been done, so you can refer to it and say, "Here is where we are at." To better understand equity, think about starting further behind in a race. People of color have not only started farther back since we were born. We have started generations behind our White counterparts. It is not like just going through class and the teacher calls on you more than me, and pays more attention to you than me. It's deeper than that. Our families, going back generations, have not had the same opportunities to accumulate wealth in the same way that other families have. We have had not the access to quality education in the way other families have. It can get overly-complicated sometimes when we are talking about all the systems that are at play, and how they are intertwined. People can get lost in that. But, what will make this real for people are the stories, and those analogies, and just literally painting that picture for them.
-Jessica Wernli, Social Innovation STL Program Manager
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Intentionally apply a racial equity framework to existing and new regional policies, initiatives, programs and projects in order to address and eliminate existing disparities for racial and ethnic populations. The following focus questions to be included at a minimum:Whom does this benefit? Does this differentially impact racial and ethnic groups? What is missing that…
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Research is hard, colic edition
Last year, I gave a talk in Doha, Qatar on the evidence behind the treatment for infantile colic. While the word has a pretty non-specific meaning in everyday use, there are clinical criteria physicians are supposed to use in order to diagnose the problem. Wessel's criteria declare that infant colic is defined by inconsolable crying in a child less than three months of age, for at least three hours a day, for at least three days a week, for three weeks of more. That's colic. Anything else is "normal infant".
Even then, we have no idea what causes it. Moreover, pretty much every single child in the world who has it outgrows it. That doesn't mean that real colic isn't a problem. It's hell to live thorough, and we are constantly looking for solutions.
Small trials sometimes find them. There have been three such trials looking at probiotics as a treatment. Why? Cause maybe there's something in the gut of kids with colic and maybe probiotics would help. I'm minimizing here, but that's almost the sum of the evidence behind the theory. There's even a meta-analysis of the trials that concluded that lactobacillus may be effective. But those three trials aren't perfect. One of them wasn't blinded. Two of them included only infant-mother pairs where the mothers consumed dairy-free diets. None of them used outcomes or measures which had been validated, and none of them included infants who ate formula instead of breastmilk.
But if you read the meta-analysis, or any of the media around the publication of those studies, you'd think – as many do – that lactobacillus is great for colic. Until this week, when the BMJ published a new manuscript:
Objective To determine whether the probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 reduces crying or fussing in a broad community based sample of breastfed infants and formula fed infants with colic aged less than 3 months.
Design Double blind, placebo controlled randomised trial.
Setting Community based sample (primary and secondary level care centres) in Melbourne, Australia.
Participants 167 breastfed infants or formula fed infants aged less than 3 months meeting Wessel's criteria for crying or fussing: 85 were randomised to receive probiotic and 82 to receive placebo.
Interventions Oral daily L reuteri (1×108 colony forming units) versus placebo for one month.
Main outcomes measures The primary outcome was daily duration of cry or fuss at 1 month. Secondary outcomes were duration of cry or fuss; number of cry or fuss episodes; sleep duration of infant at 7, 14, and 21 days, and 1 and 6 months; maternal mental health (Edinburgh postnatal depression subscale); family functioning (paediatric quality of life inventory), parent quality adjusted life years (assessment of quality of life) at 1 and 6 months; infant functioning (paediatric quality of life inventory) at 6 months; infant faecal microbiota (microbial diversity, colonisation with Escherichia coli), and calprotectin levels at 1 month. In intention to treat analyses the two groups were compared using regression models adjusted for potential confounders.
Both breastfed and bottle-fed infants who met strict criteria were randomized to receive either probiotics or placebo. Validated measures were used, as was an intention-to-treat-analysis. And what did they find? Over time, both groups got better with respect to mean daily cry/fuss time. That's to be expected, as all infants outgrow colic. At one month, the probiotic group cried/fussed 49 minutes more than the placebo group. There were no differences in any of the other outcomes.
In other words, the probiotic didn't work when the study was more ideally designed.
It's hard to do good research. It's hard to get the media, let alone the average citizen, to understand the nuances of study design. But it's important. We have to stop chasing our tails on some of these issues. Sometimes there isn't a good medical intervention for stuff that's just in the range of normal development. Everything isn't a treatable disease. I'll let the final word go to the accompanying editorial, written by one of my superstar junior faculty (conflict of interest thus declared):
So, with such a dearth of good evidence, perhaps the more important question is: "Should we be treating infant colic at all?" A great deal of accumulated clinical experience tells us that children with colic incur no serious long term effects from the disorder, and that symptoms abate with time. The potential harm associated with diagnostic testing and treatment of infants is likely to surpass the harm from colic itself.
For us to continue to perform drug intervention trials for this problem perhaps underscores our unwillingness to accept that colic is likely to represent a heterogeneous disorder with many complex inputs. As the old adage goes, "babies cry." Parents and their babies may be better served if we devote more resources to studying the interventions recommended long before the discovery of probiotics: reassurance, family social support, and the tincture of time.
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