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March 5, 2018 Jennifer Walker-Journey Pharmaceutical
Three drug makers reach tentative settlement in testosterone side effects MDL
Three manufacturers of testosterone replacement therapies among several in a multidistrict litigation accusing the companies of failing to warn consumers about cardiovascular risks with their products, have notified an Illinois federal judge that they have reached a tentative deal to settle the cases in which they are named. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly told the manufacturers – Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc., Auxilium Pharmaceuticals LLC and GlaxoSmithKline LLC – that he would place a 45-day stay on the cases against them while the details of the settlement are worked out. He also told the remaining defendants – including AbbVie Inc., and Actavis ... Read More
January 6, 2018 Jennifer Walker-Journey Pharmaceutical
PA schedules 17 testosterone side effects trials through January 2019
Days after Auxilium Inc., settled a lawsuit over claims its testosterone treatment caused an Alabama man to suffer a stroke, a Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas judge scheduled 17 testosterone side effects trials involving multiple testosterone makers to take place between June and January 2019. The Auxilium trial was scheduled to begin Jan. 8, and was filed in 2014. Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge John M. Younge had planned to schedule seven bellwethers during that timeframe, paving the way for a settlement of the nearly 30 cases pending in the court. But instead of making good on a previous ... Read More
December 31, 2017 Jennifer Walker-Journey Pharmaceutical
Several testosterone side effects trials scheduled through 2019
Three trials involving testosterone side effects have taken place in 2017 and another 10 or 11 cases are scheduled to be tried through 2019, due to U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly's interest in ensuring all plaintiffs and defendants have the benefit of timely bellwethers. The multidistrict litigation is consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and names a handful of testosterone manufacturers including AbbVie Inc., Eli Lilly & Co., and Auxilium Pharmaceuticals Inc. There are also state cases by Illinois residents against AbbVie. The Cook County judge is coordinating with Judge Kennelly on those cases. ... Read More
November 16, 2017 Jennifer Walker-Journey Pharmaceutical
Kentucky sues maker of opioid Opana ER
Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear is suing Endo Pharmaceuticals alleging the company used fraudulent and deceptive marketing of its opioid painkiller Opana ER, a medication so prone to abuse that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pressured the company to pull it off the market. "Endo put its profits above the lives of our people and above patient safety," Beshear said. The lawsuit states that only two percent of overdose deaths in 2010 were due to oxymorphone, the active drug ingredient in Opana ER. But the following year, that number soared to 23 percent. Beshear said that the deaths were ... Read More
FDA to evaluate abuse potential of opioid oxymorphone
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is awaiting results from a commissioned study to evaluate whether the powerful opioid oxymorphone, which is the active drug ingredient in Endo Pharmaceuticals' painkiller Opana ER, is more likely to be abused than other opioids. "If the scientific results of this study demonstrate that this ingredient has qualities that make it more likely to be abused, the FDA will consider taking regulatory action that could limit patient exposure to oxymorphone," said FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb. Gottlieb made the statement during a speech to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., during which he also ... Read More
Testosterone makers fight proposed class action lawsuit
Endo Pharmaceuticals and its unit Auxilium Pharmaceuticals LLC filed a motion to compel compliance against UnitedHealthcare (UHC) in an Illinois federal court, arguing that the insurance company should hand over subpoenaed information about its dealings with testosterone replacement therapies if it wants to be part of a proposed class of insurers and third-party payors accusing testosterone manufacturers of fraudulently marketing the drugs. UHC isn't a party in the litigation but is the largest member of the proposed class, making its information key to Endo and Auxilium, which are fighting against certification. But UHC has been avoiding calls, not returning messages, ... Read More
July 11, 2017 Jennifer Walker-Journey Pharmaceutical
Endo agrees to pull Opana ER off market
Endo Pharmaceuticals agreed to pull Opana ER, its abuse-deterrent , extended-release formulation of the powerful painkiller oxymorphone, off the market after urging by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to stop selling the drug because it not only aggravated the opioid epidemic, it also put abusers at risk of serious health problems. Endo obliged reluctantly, saying it "continues to believe in the safety, efficacy and favorable benefit-risk profile" of the drug. "Nevertheless, after careful consideration and consultation with the FDA following the FDA's June 2017 withdrawal request, the company has decided to voluntarily remove Opana ER from the market." The ... Read More
July 6, 2017 Jennifer Walker-Journey Pharmaceutical
Axiron side effects trial dates set
Two cases among more than 6,000 lawsuits waged against Eli Lilly and Co. over testosterone side effects have been selected by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to serve as bellwether trials in the Testosterone Replacement Therapy Product Liability multidistrict litigation (MDL). U.S. District Judge Matthew K. Kennelly selected the case of Tracy Garner and the case of John Debroka Jr. to serve as bellwethers. Garner claims to have had a heart attack after initiating testosterone therapy with Lilly's Axiron. Debroka alleges he developed deep vein thrombosis, a blood clot deep in the veins, after taking ... Read More
June 13, 2017 Jennifer Walker-Journey Pharmaceutical
First testosterone lawsuit ends in mistrial
The much-anticipated first bellwether trial against AbbVie Inc. over alleged adverse cardiovascular side effects with its testosterone replacement therapy AndroGel ended in a mistrial this week after the lead plaintiff's attorney was hospitalized due to an illness, according to Law360. The trial involved the case of Jeffrey Konrad, a Tennessee man who claims in 2010 he was lured to try testosterone therapy after watching advertisements promoting testosterone treatment for the so-called condition, Low T. The ads assured him that AndroGel could improve Low-T symptoms such as low sex drive, weight gain and depressed mood. Konrad asked his doctor to prescribe ... Read More
FDA asks Endo to remove Opana ER from market
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asked Endo Pharmaceuticals to take the reformulated version of its powerful opioid painkiller Opana ER off the market claiming the benefits associated with use of the drug no longer outweigh the risks. This is the first time the agency has requested the removal of a currently marketed painkiller due to the risk of abuse. "We are facing an opioid epidemic – a public health crisis, and we must take all necessary steps to reduce the scope of opioid misuse and abuse," FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., said in a news release. "We will continue ... Read More


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As per Hardin's theory, the "populace issue, as imagined, and how it is traditionally considered needs a few remark. He says that any reasonable person would agree that a great many people who anguish over the populace issue are attempting to discover an approach to stay away from the shades of overpopulation without giving up any of the benefits they presently appreciate.
They imagine that cultivating the oceans or growing new strains of wheat will take care of the issue indicatively. In any case, he contends that the arrangement they look for can't be found. The populace issue can't be resolved in fact.
He trusts that, a reasonable protection can be advanced for the view that the world is interminable or that we don't have a clue about that it isn't. In any case, as far as the useful issues that we should look in the following couple of ages with the predictable innovation, obviously we will incredibly expand human hopelessness on the off chance that we don't, amid the prompt future, accept that the world accessible to the earthbound human population is limited.
In achieving the end, he made the typical supposition that it is the securing of vitality that is the issue. The presence of nuclear vitality has driven some to scrutinize this supposition. Be that as it may, given an interminable wellspring of vitality, populace development still creates an inevitable issue. The issue of the procurement of vitality is supplanted by the issue of its dissemination, as J. H. Fremlin has appeared. The ideal population is, at that point, not as much as the most extreme. The trouble of characterizing the ideal is colossal; up until now, nobody has truly handled this issue. Coming to a worthy and stable arrangement will most likely require in extra of one age of hard expository work and much influence. Then again, the contamination issue is an outcome of populace. In any case, as populace wound up denser, the common synthetic and organic reusing forms ended up over-burden, requiring a redefinition of property rights.
According to my perspective, almost certainly today, overpopulation is a grave issue which actually mean it is the state whereby the human populace ascends to a degree surpassing the conveying limit of the natural setting. In an overpopulated situation, the quantity of individuals may be more than the accessible basic materials for survival, for example, transport, water, safe house, sustenance or social enhancements. This frequently adds to natural weakening, intensifying in the personal satisfaction, or even the breaking down of the excess population. The foremost disadvantage of this issue is poverty, which is believed to be the leading one followed by the issue of child labour which is also a serious one. Not only this, the burning issue of over population is caused by several problems like reduced morality rates, poor fertility treatments which specifically prompts issues like absence of water, eradication, over utilization of assets, climatic change and concentrated cultivating.
Truly, I do reasonably advocate with Hardin's thought as the least complex outline of this investigation of man's populace issues is this: the hall, if reasonable by any stretch of the imagination, is legitimate just under states of low-populace thickness. As the human populace has expanded, the hall has must be deserted in one perspective after another. The most fundamental piece of need that we should now see is the need of surrendering the inside in repeating. No specific game plan can spare us from the wretchedness of overpopulation. Chance to breed will pass on crush to all. Now, to avoid hard decisions countless are allured to propagandize for still, little voice and tried and true parenthood. The allurement must be restricted, in light of the way that an offer to self-governing acting hearts decides for the vanishing of all still, little voice as time goes on, and an extension in pressure in the short.
The principle way we can protect and support other and simply more significant open doors is by surrendering the chance to breed, and that soon. "Opportunity is the affirmation of need" – and it is the activity of preparing to reveal to all the need of giving up the chance to breed. Just along these lines, would we be able to put a conclusion to this part of the awfulness of the lodge.
THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS (GARRETT HARDIN) (1968).


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What can be done about the "game of mates"?
What is wrong with looking after your mates? If you ask any Australian chosen at random the chances are that they will tell you that it is good to help friends and acquaintances. Yet, the same person would be likely to express disapproval of people who use powerful positions in politics, public service, business and unions to look after their mates at the expense of the broader public. That is a downside of the mateship culture.
In their book, The Game of Mates, How Favours Bleed the Nation, Cameron Murray and Paul Frijters explain that "the game of mates" also involves a strong element of self-interest. When people play that game, they look after their mates in the expectation that their mates will reciprocate. The game involves the exchange of "grey gifts" among groups of mates. Grey gifts arise from political and bureaucratic discretion in interpreting and enforcing regulation. The granting of such gifts differs from theft and bribery because it is difficult to identify as corrupt or illegal in any instance. Participants do not ask for direct trades and exchanges are spread out over time.
A typical example of the game of mates involves a politician or senior bureaucrat providing grey gifts to an industry or firm and then subsequently moving to take a well-remunerated position in that firm or industry. The most important attribute the appointee brings to the new position is his, or her, ability to reward the new employer by playing the game of mates with great expertise.
Murray and Frijters make the claim - exaggerated in my view - that the game of mates enables well-connected individuals to steal roughly half of "the real wealth" of the rest of the community – whom the authors refer to as the "champion Aussies". They give the impression that the beneficiaries of the game are wealthy and the victims are relatively poor. However, they do admit that it is possible for an individual to benefit from the game with respect to some regulations and to be a victim with respect to others. Not much attention is given to the deadweight costs of the game of mates - everyone has less incentive to work, save and invest when a substantial part of the income produced ends up funding mates' games.
Much of the book explains how the authors see the game of mates being played in different parts of the economy. In property development, there is a game involving rezoning of land for residential use. In transportation, the game involves negotiation of public private partnerships (PPPs) to fund infrastructure projects. There are also games involving granting of mining licenses, administration of superannuation funds, banking regulation, tax dodges, regulation of pharmacies, assistance to agriculture, undue restriction of taxi licences, dominant supermarkets influencing their regulatory environment, and even the control of public universities for the benefit of private interests.
Murray and Frijters offer some remedies to disrupt the game of mates. They show insight in their suggestion that the game can be tackled more effectively by reducing the value of grey gifts - by selling them or taxing them - rather than by adding additional layers of regulation. However, they don't seem to recognise that the best way to reduce the value of grey gifts is to reduce the extent to which the economy is subject to government regulation, and the political and bureaucratic discretion associated with it.
Some of the authors' proposed remedies seem bizarre. For example, they suggest that foreign experts be contracted to develop new laws and regulations for their specialist industries. I wonder how they would prevent the foreign experts from playing the game of mates to benefit their buddies and amigos at the expense of "champion Aussies".
Another bizarre suggestion is to increase competition by creating public competitor companies in industries such as banking, land development and the universities. The fact that Australian universities are still largely government-owned might have caused the authors to think a little more about the likely effectiveness of that remedy. Political appointment of boards and chief executives, combined with vast discretion for allocation of grey gifts, make government-owned enterprises part of the problem rather than part of the solution.
In my view, the book's ideologically blinkered approach favouring government enterprises is a major shortcoming. The authors ask:
"If governments believe that they are unable to efficiently construct school buildings, hospitals, roads, or powerlines, through their own departments or government-owned companies, what magical skills do they believe they possess in order to effectively negotiate with and regulate, the powerful private interests they are selling these assets to?"
Part of the answer to this question is that trade unions – major players in the game of mates whose role is barely recognised in this book – can exert more influence over government departments and government-owned companies, than over private enterprises. Public sector managers have a strong incentive to sacrifice productivity to maintain the appearance of industrial harmony because that is what their political masters expect of them in playing the game of mates.
Another part of the answer is that it is easier for governments to remove regulation protecting private firms from competition than to remove similar barriers protecting public enterprises. For example, it is unlikely that Australia Post's monopoly on letter carriage would be maintained if that organisation was privatised and its community service obligations (more mates' games) were converted into transparent subsidies for people living in remote areas.
I could go on for a few thousand more words discussing the shortcomings of this book – including its highly misleading claims about banks creating credit, and its view that sovereign risk is a "mysterious idea". However, that might be boring.
The thought I want to leave you with is that despite its many shortcomings, this book raises disturbing issues that should not be lightly dismissed. The authors deserve to have their claims subjected to detailed scrutiny, but not by me! I could change my mind about that, of course, if one of my mates can come up with a sufficiently lucrative consultancy proposal to bring me out of retirement 😊
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Doc who helped make it safer to conduct Covid-19 swab tests among 3 recipients of LKY scholarship
Dr Hairil Rizal Abdullah (left), Dr M. Premikha (centre) and Mr Matthew Lee are three recipients of the bond-free scholarship. PHOTOS: SGH, DIOS VINCOY JR
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SINGAPORE - Inspired by a close mentor, Dr Hairil Rizal Abdullah moved from Malaysia to Singapore in 2008 to join the local medical field.
The 42-year-old, who became a Singapore citizen in 2018, has since made significant contributions to the healthcare sector here.
He said his mentor, a clinician, inspired him to pursue a similar path she had taken - moving to Singapore and learning about healthcare here.
Dr Hairil told The Straits Times: "Ninety per cent of who I am or what I have achieved is really because of my mentors, and it is really about standing on the shoulders of giants.
"What I am trying to do in my current career is to pay it forward and to try to inspire as many mentees as possible, just like how my mentors did."
As a senior consultant at Singapore General Hospital's (SGH) department of anaesthesiology, he has been at the forefront of the Covid-19 crisis since it started more than two years ago.
In March 2020, Dr Hairil led a small team of doctors at SGH to develop a transparent and safer booth system for swab tests.
Swab Assurance For Everyone, or SG Safe, is a foldable transparent booth equipped with a pair of level-three biosafety gloves. This procedure makes it easier for healthcare workers to perform high-risk coronavirus swab tests.
The system was also deployed at foreign worker dormitories where large-scale testing was conducted.
Dr Hairil next plans to create the largest database of perioperative and critical care patients, and develop machine-learning models for predicting surgical complications.
Perioperative refers to the three phases of surgery - pre-surgery, during surgery and post-surgery.
Dr Hairil's strong sense of commitment to serving the healthcare sector earned him the Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship this year.
He is one of three people who were awarded the bond-free scholarship at a ceremony at InterContinental Hotel on Thursday (June 2).
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Set up in 1991 by the Tanjong Pagar Citizens' Consultative Committee to commemorate the significant contributions by Singapore's founding prime minister, the Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship is given to outstanding Singaporeans to help them pursue postgraduate studies.
Dr Hairil is currently pursuing a PhD in clinical and translational sciences at Duke-NUS medical school.
Another recipient, Dr M. Premikha, 26, also played an important role during the pandemic.
While she was at the Ministry of Health (MOH) from July 2021 to January this year, her team was tasked with securing early access to Covid-19 vaccines and therapeutics for Singapore.
Among her responsibilities was negotiating advanced purchase agreements with different vaccine manufacturers.
When she was at MOH, Dr M. Premikha's team was tasked with securing early access to Covid-19 vaccines for Singapore. ST PHOTO: DIOS VINCOY JR
Noting that the team had to factor in several uncertainties in the agreements, Dr Premikha said: "It was so hard to ascertain the demand because when I was negotiating, we did not even know if there was a need for a booster vaccination.
"We were like, 'So what if we don't need the boosters? What do we do with the stocks? Or what if we need them? Then we won't have enough'."
She also worked with Gavi, the international vaccine alliance, to bring in vaccines through its Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (Covax) programme, and coordinated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to donate vaccines to neighbouring countries in need.
Later this month, Dr Premikha will head to Johns Hopkins University in the United States to begin a one-year master's programme in public health.
The third recipient of the Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship is Mr Matthew Lee Mun Hong, 32, who has been in public service since 2014.
Passionate about leveraging data and technology to drive change, he has contributed significantly to the whole-of-government strategy for greater data sharing within the Government and with the public.
Mr Lee established a data unit in the Ministry of Manpower when he was posted there. By pooling employment-related data from across government, the unit created a secure data lab, ensuring good data governance.
He said: "This whole project was about trying to bring data that was already available across government and pulling it together so that different parts of government could use that data for better analysis, rather than just relying on survey data."
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Mr Matthew Lee helped to create a secure data lab by pooling data from across government. ST PHOTO: DIOS VINCOY JR
Mr Lee is now the deputy director of subsidy and subvention for the Healthcare Finance Group at MOH where he oversees funding for the long-term care sector.
He drove the transformation of finance processes in his division, where he teamed up with the Government Technology Agency (GovTech) to simplify the disbursement process.
He said: "I worked with GovTech and I knew there were these off-the-shelf sort of solutions just to automate the workflows and basically got rid of the very frustrating part of the process for the team."
Mr Lee hopes to continue supporting the public service by undertaking a postgraduate programme focused on technology management. In July, he will pursue a Master of Science in management at Stanford University in the US.
Dr Premikha will get a $50,000 allowance for up to two years from the scholarship since she is from the private sector, while Dr Hairil and Mr Lee, who are in the public sector, will each get a one-off award of $10,000 as their postgraduate studies are sponsored by their agencies.
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Business Rate Relief: Expanded Retail Discount Scheme 2020/21
This advice note considers the provision of Business Rate Relief as proposed by the government on 11 March within the budget statement.
It is important to note that the situation is very fluid and government guidance is changing daily. We can therefore only provide a general guide that should be used with care. The information in this note is based on information released by the Government as at 02 April.
What is the Expanded Retail Discount Scheme 2020/21
On 29 October 2018 the Government announced the creation of a scheme to provide a business rates retail discount to certain businesses in the 2010/20 tax year. This scheme was initially designed to assist retail shops affected by the downturn of business on the high street.
Within the budget statement on 11 March 2020 the Government announced that this scheme would be extended in scope to 100% discount, apply to the years 2020/21 and extended to include businesses affected by the developing Coronavirus epidemic. An outline of the scheme is available at:-
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/875613/Expanded_Retail_Discount_Guidance_25.03.20.doc.pdf
How does the scheme work?
The guidance provided by Government is designed to empower local authorities to use discretionary relief powers underfed section 47 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988.
Who can apply for support under the scheme?
The scheme is designed to support premises that are being wholly or mainly used,
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Am I entitled to support under the scheme?
The scheme is designed to apply to retail premises that are being used for the sale of goods or services to visiting members of the public. As the scheme is designed for interpretation and application by the various local authorities it is likely that we will see some variation as to how it is interpreted.
The guidance provided by the Government therefore clearly and easily includes second-hand car lots and petrol stations.
It is not as clear whether this will cover premises that are providing mechanical repairs, body shop services or MOT testing facilities. However, as all member premises are open to the public, as both goods in the form of replacement parts as well as services are being provided it is the position of the RMI that premises that are providing mechanical repairs, body shop services or MOT testing facilities should be included within the definition of retail premises/shop and we are working hard to obtain further clarification from the government.
Is there any other support that I am entitled to?
In addition to any Business rates relief, the Government has also created the Small Business Grant Fund (SBGF) and the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant (RHLG). A detailed guide to both of these schemes will be provided in due course. However an outline of both schemes is available at:-
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Under the SBGF certain businesses with a rateable value of under £15,000 will be entitled to a grant of £10,000.
Under the RHLG certain businesses with a rateable value of under £51,000 will be entitled to a grant of £25,000.
Where your premises are open to the public for the provision of goods and services then your local council should automatically administer the scheme in due course. However in the current crisis councils may react differently or be delayed in their response. As cash flow is likely to be a priority for members we are therefore advising members to:-
Cancel any direct debits in place for business rates in order to prevent payment being taken automatically or in error.
Contact your local council in writing to explain why it is your positon that you are entitled to relief under the scheme.
In order to help member the RMI have created a template letter that can be used by members to contact their local councils.
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The list of the most prestigious awards after the Academy honors has now officially been revealed and the ones being included in the race truly deserve to get their due recognition. It's not that everyone will be satisfied to see the listed contenders, but some amazing and surprising entrants have created history this time.
Superhero genre just got its well-earned recognition when Black Panther was selected for being nominated in the Best Picture category. It's really the best honor for Marvel Studios, Disney and the entire team of Black Panther. The movie has already become a part of a culture now, which will go on for years.
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Infinithéâtre Announces Winner of Write-On-Q! Playwriting Competition
This is the only Canadian theatre company with a playwriting prize that awards the substantial sum of $5000, and the biggest literary prize in Québec.
BroadwayWorld.com Nov. 25, 2020
Every year Infinithéâtre seeks innovative and challenging new works by dedicated Québec and Indigenous playwrights for their Write-On-Q! Québec playwriting competition. This is the only Canadian theatre company with a playwriting prize that awards the substantial sum of $5000, and the biggest literary prize in Québec. Known and respected for its playwriting initiatives (which also includes The Unit and The Pipeline), Infinithéâtre has developed and produced the world premieres of over 40 new Québec plays. Write-On-Q!'s winning and honourable mention scripts are selected by an independent jury, which this year includes Oren Safdie, Ivan Smith, Jacob Margaret Archer, Alexandra Laferrière and Gerry Lipnowski, chaired by Andrea Romaldi.
This year's winner of the Write-On-Q! playwriting competition's Kevin prize is Vierge by Rachel Mutombo. The award is named in memory of Kevin Tierney, renowned Canadian film producer, Montreal Gazette columnist & Infinithéâtre Board Member and tremendous supporter. Honourable mentions go to The Trial of William Shakespeare by Alex Poch-Goldin and Beloved by Arthur Holden. (see details below)
Artistic Director Guy Sprung is very pleased with the over 40 high-quality entries this year. "The plays submitted to Write-On-Q! continue to increase in number, cultural diversity, and overall quality as the competition itself continues to raise the bar for playwriting in Québec," he said. Winning this playwriting competition "means the world" to Mutombo. "Montreal is always home for me; it's where I fell in love with theatre for the first time. It's deeply humbling to have been recognized in this way by my Montreal theatre community," she added.
For the past twelve years, submitting their work are not only produced playwrights, but also unknown writers including students in writing programs at universities and theatre schools, along with plays coming from CEGEP & university professors, journalists, editors, actors, screenwriters, poets, directors, novelists and various literary award-winners. Previous seasons' Write-On-Q! successes include Oren Safdie's Mr. Goldberg Goes to Tel Aviv and Unseamly; Battered by Arthur Holden; Michael Milech's Honesty Rents By The Hour; Alyson Grant's Conversion, Progress! and Trench Patterns; and The Elephant Song by Nicholas Billon. The annual competition has been a major source of original plays for the company's repertoire. Works developed by the company have been performed all over the island of Montréal and beyond; in Stratford Ontario, Toronto, British Columbia, in Ottawa at the NAC, New York, Tokyo, Cairo and Edinburgh.
Write-On-Q! Kevin prize, $5000: Vierge by Rachel Mutombo
Vierge is about four Congolese-Canadian teen-aged girls coming to terms with their sexuality, while also being virgins saving themselves until marriage. (Developed at the Emerging Playwrights' Unit, Factory Theatre, Toronto)
From the jury, "The play touches on questions of faith, sexuality, friendship, and solidarity with an abundance of heart and humour. Rachel Mutombo's dialogue is real and refreshing; her characters feel true and alive, with all the kindness and cruelty of teenagers as the four girls try to navigate between the expectations of their religion, their community and the more liberal values of their adopted home, Québec. This play makes one both tear up and laugh out loud, sometimes on the same page. One of the most exciting, original voices to come out of Canadian theatre in many years."
Write-On-Q! honourable mention: The Trial of William Shakespeare by Alex Poch-Goldin
Against the backdrop of the birth of the Jewish state in the British mandate of Palestine, a travelling British theatre company is stymied in its intention to stage The Merchant of Venice in a local Tel Aviv venue on the grounds that the play is racist. When the theatre company objects, it is decided to settle the matter through a mock trial of Shakespeare on the charge of antisemitism.
From the jury, "The Trial of William Shakespeare is a clever and engaging way of confronting important questions about the purpose of theatre itself. This ambitious and highly accomplished play examines not only Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice but the very nature of antisemitism. Alex Poch-Goldin has written a thoughtful, imaginative and touching piece that weaves multiple thematic elements seamlessly into a compelling storyline in a nuanced and at times magical world."
Write-On-Q! honourable mention: Beloved by Arthur Holden
In Beloved, a couple has been alerted that their teenage son has been downloading porn that involves minors on his high school computer.
From the jury, "Playwright Arthur Holden has crafted an emotional journey that explores parenting, homophobia, mental health, and our educational, medical and legal institutions. The result is a thought provoking and disturbing contemporary work, with engaging and complex characters that will challenge your perceptions, evoke your emotions, surprise you, and leave you with a better understanding of the human condition."
Winner of the Write-On-Q! Kevin prize, Rachel Mutombo is a Dora award-winning actor and writer. She is an acting graduate of John Abbott College's Professional Theatre program as well as The National Theatre School of Canada. Select theatre performance credits include Antigone (Young People's Theatre), School Girls; Or the African Mean Girls Play (Obsidian Theatre/Nightwood Theatre) and Selfie (YPT). Through the support of Factory theatre, Vierge is the first full length play that Rachel completed. She is currently a participant in Studio180's INDEVELOPMENT series where she is working on a new play called 6X10.
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Q: What distribution function do I get if I square lognormal data? I draw some values from a distribution that is lognormal. I then square each of the values. Which distribution function will now describe my data?

A: The other answer is incorrect.  While it is true that the square of a lognormal random variable is also lognormal, the mean and variance are not doubled.  If $X \sim \operatorname{Lognormal}(\mu, \sigma^2)$ where the parameters are inherited from $Y \sim \operatorname{Normal}(\mu, \sigma^2)$ under the relationship $X = e^Y$, then clearly $$X^2 = (e^Y)^2 = e^{2Y}$$ hence $$X^2 \sim \operatorname{Lognormal}(2\mu, 4\sigma^2).$$  That is to say, the lognormal parameters of the squared random variable are $2\mu$ and $4\sigma^2$, but these are not the moments of the lognormal distribution any more than $\mu$ and $\sigma^2$ are the mean and variance of the lognormal random variable $X$.  Explicitly, recall
$$\operatorname{E}[X] = \operatorname{E}[e^Y] = M_Y(1) = e^{\mu(1) + \sigma^2 (1)^2/2} = e^{\mu + \sigma^2/2},$$ where $M_Y(t)$ is the moment-generating function of $Y$; hence $X^2$ has mean
$$\operatorname{E}[X^2] = e^{2\mu + 2\sigma^2}.$$  The variance of $X$ is
$$\operatorname{Var}[X] = \operatorname{E}[X^2] - \operatorname{E}[X]^2 = e^{2\mu + \sigma^2}(e^{\sigma^2} - 1),$$
hence the variance of $X^2$ is
$$\operatorname{Var}[X^2] = e^{4\mu + 4\sigma^2}(e^{4\sigma^2} - 1).$$
Consequently the relationship between the means and variances of $X$ and $X^2$ are
$$\frac{\operatorname{E}[X^2]}{\operatorname{E}[X]} = e^{\mu + 3\sigma^2/2}, \\
\frac{\operatorname{Var}[X^2]}{\operatorname{Var}[X]} = e^{2\mu + 3\sigma^2}(1 + e^{\sigma^2})(1 + e^{2\sigma^2}).$$
In summary, the square of a lognormal random variable is lognormal, but the mean and variance are nontrivially scaled; their lognormal parameters are multiplied by $2$ and $4$, respectively (or simply doubled if we parameterize by $\sigma$ instead of $\sigma^2$).

A: Because the lognormal distribution can be represented by $X = e^Y$ where $Y$ is a normally distributed variable, the square of the lognormal is simply $X^2 = e^{2Y}$. In other words, squaring a lognormal doubles its mean and variance.
Edit: I am incorrect. Squaring a lognormal will return a lognormal distribution whose $\mu$ and $\sigma$ parameters are doubled, but this does not double the mean and variance of the lognormal itself.

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My little plan of going out three nights in a row was a bust.
I am no longer a man in my 20s. Or even my 30s. Hell, I'm not even a man in my early 40s.
With the work week over and our temperatures dropping from the high 50s back to winter coat weather, I wasn't prepared to go out after my day was over. Frick, I didn't even bring a coat to work, as I was unaware that it was slated to get colder. ....and oy, the wind. Always with the wind. My office windows creaked all day long. Gusts of 40 mph.
I was happy to come home, change into sweats and do almost nothing. Veg. There is something to be said for it. Yeah, on the surface it seems like a waste of time, but in its own way, it can be kind of therapeutic. Kind of.
I'm actually (yes, posting this the night before) sitting around watching an Arcade Fire concert on cable. Since winning the Grammy for Album of the Year, there is a lot of blogger buzz about 'who are they'? Hipster title be damned, I'll take them over the shittylicious Lady Gaga song. Absolutely horrid.
But browsing the Billboard charts, as I am apt to do, their win didn't really translate into a huge sales bump for them - going from 80 to 52. A decent jump, but nothing you'd expect for that "award". Mumford & Sons and the Beibs got bigger bumps from their performances. I'm somewhat grateful I've never heard a Justin Beiber song, but I did enjoy M&S's performance.
Ok, now I'm just babbling. Time to wrap this up and go to bed so I can get up and possibly workout. Yes, I'm actually considering skipping the gym tomorrow. Somedays you just gotta veg - and work. I have a lot of work to do. On a weekend.
Hope you have a wonderful weekend being a veg. Sometimes you just got to do what you got to do.
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Dude, I can't even go out ONE night in a row anymore.
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Why go to Missouri to visit Tom Sawyer's cave when we have many caves here in Michigan? We have some cool ones in the Upper Peninsula, but in southwest Michigan there's another one that you don't have to travel far to check out. This cave was carved by glaciers – it's Bear Cave, and you'll find it a few miles north of Buchanan in Berrien County.
A glacial drift formed this creepy but cool cave over 10,000 years ago and is thought to be the only cavern in Michigan. It's not as expansive and intricate as Mammoth Caves or some of the others in the continental United States - it's only approximately 150 feet but it does have multiple rooms, odd formations, fossils, boulders, pools of water, and cave pearls. Many limestone deposits - called tufa - cake the cave walls up to 18 feet thick.
There is also a hidden room called the "Slave Room," as it was part of the 1800's Underground Railroad that was used to hide & protect slaves escaping for freedom.
Within an area that was once inhabited by the Potawatomi tribe, this cave is open to seekers of the curious and formations are marked & identified. You'll also see the "Tulip Tree" where the Potawatomi held council; the tree has branches that are said to have been bent permanently by Indian braves who stood or sat on them as they were on the lookout for intruders.
There are campsites at Bear Cave to add to your enjoyment, allowing you to take your time and soak up the surroundings, history, and atmosphere. The Michigan.org website says "this particular bed of rock is at least 25,000 years old and is resting on a glacial drift deposited during the last ice age approximately 50,000 years ago".
The whole cave is layered in the colors of various ores, petrified leaves, and stalactites. And get this – it has extra-special little chunks of history to it:
1) It was part of the Underground Railroad
2) The 1903 silent film, "The Great Train Robbery" was based on an incident at Bear Cave. In 1875, money that was stolen from a bank in Ohio was hidden in the caves by the crooks. The film used that particular aspect and is now considered to be one of the most important and influential films of all time.
So go check out Bear Cave soon, open from May through October. Take M-60 through Niles west to Buchanan. Go north on 'Red Bud Trail N' to 'Bear Cave Road'...turn right and there you are! Pretty darn cool...
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The library includes Montana city directories, annuals, family books, and research books from many counties and states. The Montana Historical Society donated all of their non-Montana genealogical books that now reside in the library.
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What is ecology?
The scientific study of relationships between organisms and their environment.
Glossary, p. 336
What causes anemia?
A shortage of dietary iron.[image]Glossary, p. 379
What is selection pressure?
Limited resources or adverse environmental conditions that tend to favor certain adaptations in a population. Over many generations, this can lead to genetic change, or evolution. For example, in birds' interaction with caterpillars, birds are predators and caterpillars are the prey. The caterpillar wants to avoid predation, and adaptations help avoid predation. Caterpillars do not pressure birds, inasmuch as birds pressure caterpillars.
[image]Glossary, p. 386
What are endemic species?
Habitat specialists that may occupy a very narrow niche.Glossary, p. 381; CHAPTER 3, pp. 52&53
What is a biome?
General areas with similar climate, growth patterns, and plants.[image]Glossary, p. 379; CHAPTER 5, p. 96
What is Batesian mimicry?
Certain species that are harmless resemble poisonous or distasteful ones, gaining protection against predators who remember a bad experience with the actual toxic organism.
For example, the monarch and viceroy butterflies.Glossary, p. 379; CHAPTER 3, pp. 58&59
What is the competitive exclusion principle?
No two species can occupy the same niche indefinitely.
Glossary, p. 380; CHAPTER 3, p. 53
What farming techniques prevent water and soil loss?
Contour plowing and strip farming.[image]Glossary, p. 380; CHAPTER 7, p. 169
What is a demographic transition?
A typical pattern of falling death rates and birth rates due to improved living conditions usually accompanying economic development and stabilization.[image]Glossary, p.
381; CHAPTER 4, pp. 85&86
Why does the existence of the human species in the universe contradict entropy?
According to the second law of thermodynamics, disorder–or entropy–tends to increase in all natural systems. Because of this loss, everything in the universe tends to fall apart, slow down, and get more disorganized. Humans are organized.Glossary, p. 381; CHAPTER 2, p. 34
What is environmental science?
The systematic study of our environment.
CHAPTER 1, p. 4; Glossary, p. 382
What does habitat fragmentation do to biodiversity?
Fragmentation decreases biodiversity.Glossary, p. 382; CHAPTER 5, p. 113
What is inductive reasoning?
Reasoning from many observations to produce a general rule. We observe, for example, that birds appear and disappear as a year goes by.
Through many repeated observations in different places, we can infer that the birds move from place to place. We can develop a general rule that birds migrate seasonally. Glossary, p. 383; CHAPTER 1, p. 12
What is an invasive species?
A generalist or pioneering species that is moved into a new ecosystem. For example, the kudzu, water hyacinth, and walking catfish are all invasive species in the U.
S.Glossary, p. 383; CHAPTER 3, pp. 52&60; CHAPTER 5, p. 115
What is a J curve?
The mathematical expression or graph of exponential population growth.
Glossary, p. 383; CHAPTER 3, pp. 61-62
What are keystone species?
A keystone species plays has complex ties to the foundations of the ecosystem that is out of proportion to its abundance. For example, salmon in the Northwest.Glossary, p. 383; CHAPTER 3, p.
What are organic compounds?
Complex molecules organized around carbon backbones.Glossary, p. 384; CHAPTER 2, p.
What is resource partitioning?
No two species can occupy the same ecological niche for long. The one that is more efficient in using available resources will exclude the other, reducing intraspecific competition.Glossary, p.
386; CHAPTER 3, pp. 52, 53, & 57
According to our textbook, the normal six-step sequence for the scientific method includes:
1. Identify question2. Form testable hypothesis3. Collect data to test hypothesis4.
Interpret results5. Report for peer review6. Publish findingsGlossary, p. 386; CHAPTER 1, p.
What is speciation?
The process by which new species arise or develop.Glossary, p. 387; CHAPTER 3, p. 54
What is symbiosis?
The intimate living together of members of two species. For example, in lichens, a fungus and a photosynthetic partner (either an alga or a cyanobacterium) combine tissues to mutual benefit.
What causes waterlogging?
Excessive irrigation.Glossary, p. 388; CHAPTER 7, p. 163
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How to Kill Pre-existing Condition Protections
By Patricia Salber MD, MBA (The Doctor Weighs In)
Jeff Sessions' letters to Congress outline the Trump Administration's convoluted strategy to have the individual mandate and pre-existing condition protections declared unconstitutional.
In identical letters to Speaker Ryan and Leader Pelosi with the express approval of the President of the United States, Attorney General Jefferson B. Sessions III outlined the reasoning the Department of Justice is using in its refusal to defend a legal assault, Texas v. United States, on three key provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
It is a bit convoluted but stick with me. There's going to be a lot of spin once this story finally breaks through the barrage of news about North Korea, the G7, and the latest on the Mueller investigation. It will be important to understand what is being done and why.
There are three ACA provisions at risk and there are four major prongs to the Administration 's strategy — three of them are aimed at declaring the individual mandate unconstitutional and other one tries to inextricably tie pre-existing condition protections to the constitutionality of the mandate. The provisions are:
The individual mandate to purchase health insurance or pay a penalty
The guaranteed issue provision that protects people against being denied coverage based on health status, age, gender or other factors that may predict health
The community rating provision that prohibits insurers from charging sick people more than healthy ones.
Although the first provision is reviled by many, particularly Republicans or those who lean Republican, the latter two are wildly popular even in Congress. And, no wonder. According to a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 27% of adults under 65 have a condition that would make them uninsurable. In eleven states, many of which have joined the Texas v. U.S. lawsuit, that number is higher ranging between 30–36%.
The Administration's strategy
The four prongs of the Administration's strategy to decline to defend the ACA in the Texas case are largely based on Chief Justice Roberts written opinion in a Supreme Court case known as the National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius or NFIB for short. They are as follows:
The Supreme Court concluded that the mandate to purchase health insurance was constitutional because it "could reasonably be read as a tax" and Congress has the power to pass taxes.
In 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act reduced the penalty for non-compliance with the mandate to zero as of 2019.
The Court characterized as "the essential feature of any tax: it produces at least some revenue for the Government." Starting in 2019 the individual mandate will produce zero revenue, therefore, as the A.G.'s letter states, "the NFIB Court's saving construction will no longer be available." In other words, the mandate will become unconstitutional.
The fourth prong, the one that tries to tie the constitutionality of the mandate to the pre-existing condition protections is more difficult for those without specialized legal training to fathom. It goes like this. Although the plaintiffs in Texas v. United States are arguing that the individual mandate cannot be severed from the rest of the ACA and therefore the entire statute should be invalidated, the A.G. is arguing instead that if the individual mandate is unconstitutional it can be "severable" from all ACA provisions except the guaranteed issue and community rating provisions. In his letter, he uses language from the Department's prior determination in relation to the Jobs Act that describes the mandate as essential to the operation of the guaranteed-issue and community rating provisions as justification for this position.
He goes on to say because the Department believes that the mandate can be severable from all of the rest of the ACA except the pre-existing condition protection provisions, the Department is not going against the "general practice of defending the constitutionality of federal law" when they refuse to defend the constitutionality of the three provisions outlined above. Despite this assertion, just such claims have already been levied.
This convoluted strategy is politically risky given the popularity of the pre-existing condition provisions. There are simply too many Americans who have one or more of these conditions and many more who remember the bad old days when getting denied coverage for trivial or episodic conditions, such as low back pain or skin rashes was routine. The Administration may be counting on the fact that the arguments in the case are so complex and technical that voters will be swayed by slogans and spin instead of facts. Being informed about the underlying issues and arguments is one way that voters can begin to make sense of yet another attempt to kill off a law that has helped so many of our fellow Americans gain access to much-needed health insurance coverage.
Originally published at thedoctorweighsin.com on June 15, 2018.
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Le col des Écharmeaux est situé sur la route Buissonnière (RD 385) à  d'altitude, sur le territoire de la commune de Poule-les-Écharmeaux, à l'extrême nord-ouest du département du Rhône.

Géographie
Le col des Écharmeaux est un point de passage d'une des deux voies de communication naturelles du Beaujolais permettant de relier Beaujeu à la Loire, à Pouilly-sous-Charlieu. Le col des Écharmeaux offre un panorama ouvert sur la haute vallée d'Azergues. Il est situé sur la ligne de partage des eaux entre l'Atlantique et la Méditerranée.

Le col relie Lyon à Charolles (Saône-et-Loire) par la vallée de l'Azergues. C'est l'un des trois accès au mont Saint-Rigaud ().

Le sentier de grande randonnée 7 passe par le col.

Histoire
Le col des Écharmeaux est utilisé depuis fort longtemps pour aller de la Saône à la Loire « car la traversée s'effectue ici le plus aisément à dos d'âne, les cols sont bas : et facilement atteints par. des vallées conduisant aux deux fleuves (Ardière ; Bottoret-Sornin). » Mais il faut attendre le milieu du  avec l'ouverture du canal de Briare pour que soit établie une circulation régulière, par mulets et charrettes, de la Saône à la Loire (de Belleville à Pouilly par Beaujeu, les Écharmeaux, Chauffailles, et Charlieu.

Dans la seconde moitié du , la décadence est importante. Lyon préfère ouvrir une vraie route Villefranche-Roanne par Thizy.

La sculpture de Napoléon
La statue de Napoléon  est l'œuvre d'un homme du pays, Jean Molette (1819-1889). Sabotier de profession et sculpteur il réalise cette statue sous le Second Empire alors qu'il habite aux Écharmeaux.

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Activités

Cyclisme
Le col est franchi au km 158 lors de la  du Tour de France 2003 entre Nevers et Lyon et classé en  pour le classement du meilleur grimpeur.

Randonnée
Suivant la ligne de partage des eaux entre Atlantique et Méditerranée, le sentier de grande randonnée 7, reliant le ballon d'Alsace à l'Andorre, passe au col.

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 Les chemins contemporains vers Saint Jacques de Compostelle, site de la Mairie de Poule-les-Écharmeaux]
 Site officiel de la commune de Poule-les Echarmeaux

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So last Monday after spending just over a day in the lambing pen I put iodine on the lambs bellies again and then let them all outside.
And this is the little ewe lamb Molly with her mum Bobtail. She looks just like her mum.
They are starting to gambol a little bit and love sitting in the sun. James was a little disappointed that they didn't gambol on day one, but they had only just been born and gamboling takes a bit of getting used to.
What the heck is gamboling? Must be a "Brit" term.
A "Brit" term? Its in the English dictionary! http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/gambol, even with US spellings!
Well done so far with the lambs. Keep up the good work!
Hi Mary! Gamboling is the way the little lambs jump and run at the same time. You know, they kind of jump and put all four hooves together whilst they're in the air and bleat and look sooooooo cute!
Well done delivering another two Claire! Is the last sheep the one you thought might have triplets???
Thank you for your apt description! I know exactly what you mean. In the U.S we don't have such a good word for describing that whole process. At least I've never heard it before. I will start using it and see if I can start a new trend her in Minnesota!!
No, the one we thought might have triplets was Bobtail – the brown one who lambed first.
Glad I checked the blog before reading this!!
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As I said in a few previous recipes, when you're on the road without a proper kitchen you have to improvise a bit. And when you care about the environment and you want to eat local you definitely have to get creative.
Duck breast is absolutely not local since we are in Portugal but after more than a year and a half on the road and our second christmas without our families, I was craving for something that could look like a real christmas dinner. I focused on local sauce then and made it with the oranges from the garden of my airbnb in Coimbra ! Therefore this recipe is not 100% value proof but we don't need to turn food into a religion, right ?!
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End-Times Paperback From Birther Pastor who Mocked Sandy Hook Parents as "Actors"
Posted on February 4, 2017 by Richard Bartholomew
A book advert from WND:
When the Lion Roars: Understanding the Implications of Ancient Prophecies for Our Time
by Carl Gallups
The return of Israel. Increased turmoil in the Middle East. China and Russia's presence in the Fertile Crescent. The exponentially increasing technological explosion. The rise of the Sodom and Gomorrah spirit. These are just a few prophetic fulfillments occurring in our day that point to significant biblical times to come. The Bible is 100 percent accurate in regards to the ancient prophecies—and ours is the first generation to see them converging.
In itself, this is an unexceptional addition to the tottering pile of evangelical paperbacks that have been sold over many decades on the promise that "ours is the first generation" to see ancient Biblical prophecies converging. Most famous, of course, was Hal Lindsey's Late Great Planet Earth in 1970, and Gallups appears to have adopted a similar breezy style (one chapter is entitled "Pass the Turkey, Please", just as Lindsey used desperate puns such as "Sheik to Sheik" and "Russia is A Gog"). Gallups's book is simply more of the same racket, although it's worth noting because of the exceptional toxicity of its author and the endorsements it has received.
I've been aware of Gallups – pastor of the Hickory Hammock Baptist Church of Milton, Florida – ever since he published a video in which he argued that the Jesus had named the Anti-Christ as "Barack Obama". Gallups eventually backed down from that, claiming that the "leftist media" been unable to appreciate a piece of "political satire". More recently, he published a book through WND called The Rabbi Who Found Messiah, which claimed that an elderly Israeli Kabbalist had accepted Jesus as the Messiah shortly before his death in 2005, and that this had End Times significance. He is also known for his birtherism and association with Mike Zullo – it was on Gallups's radio show that it was first announced that Sheriff Joe Arpaio intended to give a final press conference in December about Obama's birth certificate.
However, Gallups is most notorious as a sometime Sandy Hook Truther. This achieved wider attention when Gallups led prayers at a Trump campaign rally in January 2016. The Daily Telegraph has the details:
An evangelical pastor who led prayers at a Donald Trump campaign rally has been accused of being a Sandy Hook "truther" who claimed that the school massacre never happened and that the parents of the child victims were "Hollywood actors".
.It has emerged that on his radio show Freedom Friday earlier this year, Rev Gallups suggested that the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary school, where Adam Lanza gunned down 20 children and six staff members in 2012, were a hoax.
…"[David Wheeler] played the part of a grieving father with a woman standing beside him, crying, slinging snot," said Rev Gallups on the show that aired in February.
"This guy, he and his so-called wife, are standing up there and they're grieving, and 'my child, my child, this and that, we gotta get take the guns.' … This dude is a Hollywood actor, his so-called wife is a Hollywood actor."
The Trump campaign's website listed Gallups among a number of Florida "community leaders" whose endorsement it had been "a great honor" for Trump to have received; the page is still live, although after the Sandy Hook comments came to wider attention the campaign's attitude changed to "I know not the man". Under pressure, Gallups claimed that he had never endorsed his guest's view, and uploaded a radio extract titled "Carl Gallups Says Sandy Hook Never Happened? NOPE! Sorry Media Matters!". However, the original audio is available here. Whatever Gallups's overarching Sandy Hook theory may be, it is completely unambiguous that he referred to two recently bereaved parents with contemptuous mockery based on a ludicrous conspiracy theory, and that in doing so he degraded the memory of a murdered six-year-old boy, Benjamin Wheeler. Surely such a person should be beyond the pale?
Apparently not. The cover for his new book comes with an endorsement from Joel Richardson, author of The Islamic Antichrist ("Carl Gallup's prophetic detective work will stoke the fire of urgency and expectancy"), while the first pages feature praise from Pat Boone ("you will become increasingly convinced that we are living in the most profoundly prophetic days since Jesus Christ first walked the earth in the flesh"), Herman Bailey (a televangelist), Mike LeMay (a radio evangelist); and Messianic Rabbi Zev Porat, who uses Gallups's Rabbi Who Found Messiah book to evangelise Jews in Israel.
The website advertising the book also has blurbs from Zach Drew, who is Jim Bakker's co-host; Cheryl Chumley (author of another WND title, The Devil in DC: Winning Back the Country from the Beast in Washington); Thomas Horn (who blends Christian fundamentalism with David Icke-style science-fiction conspiracy theories); Richard Syrett ("host of the Conspiracy Show and guest host of Coast To Coast AM"); Laurie Cardoza Moore (of Proclaiming Justice to the Nations, a Christian Zionist outfit); Grace Vuoto ("editor of Politics and Culture at World Tribune"; Pastor Mark Biltz (originator of the now-outdated "Blood Moons" End-Times theory); and Gregg Jackson ("bestselling author of Conservative Comebacks To Liberal Lies").
There's also a Foreword by WND's CEO, Joseph Farah. Farah is most famous as the man who guided Trump's birtherism, but he also represents a link between general conservatism and various Christian Right strands. More recently, Farah has produced his own theological opus, The Restitution Of All Things: Israel, Christians, And The End Of The Age, described as "a primer on the Hebrew roots of the Christian faith". This does not just mean understanding the historical Jesus in his historical context, or a better appreciation of the Hebrew Bible; rather, it is a specific movement that seeks to purge Christianity of "paganism" and appropriate Jewish cultural elements – hence Farah often prefers to write of "Jesus-Yeshua" rather than just "Jesus". The book also stresses the idea of Jesus's thousand year rule over the earth as a literal proposition, during which he will "reign with His faithful friends – true believers like you and me".
Farah's own book comes with a cover blurb by Biltz, a log-rolling endorsement from Gallups, and a further endorsement from Bill Cloud, who has also been promoted by the WND website.
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