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The CAFO Appeal: How So-Called Environmental Groups are Working to Destroy Dairy
If the anti-farm groups listed below have their way with the Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation appeal to the Department of Ecology, it will mean the end of almost all our state dairy farms. The cost of these demands are estimated at about $1130 per cow for Western Washington farms, or over $750,000 for the average dairy farm. With low milk prices and farms losing money for the past two years, there is no hope for most to pay these costs. Farming in Washington StateWashington state has long been a dairy state. It ranks 10th in the nation in dairy production and the economic impact to the state is measured at $5.2 billion. Dairy products are the state's number two agricultural product following only apples. Virtually all dairy farms are family owned and operated with an average herd size of 665 cows. The number of organic dairies – now about 5% of the total – is growing rapidly to meet the high demand in the state for organic dairy products.
All this will end if a consortium of anti-farm activist groups succeeds in forcing massive new regulations on dairy farms. These requirements would cost the average dairy farmer with a herd of 665 cows an estimated $650,000 to comply, not including annual record keeping and maintenance costs. Western Washington farms with higher rainfall would likely have to pay in excess of over $1130 per cow. These dairies average 450 cows per farm meaning that even relatively small farms would be paying approximately $500,000 to comply, plus increased annual costs.
Some may have the impression that a 450 or even 600 cow dairy is very large and profitable. The average income for dairy farmers is $70,000 per year and that figure includes the higher earning large farms. Most smaller farmers earn well below that. Western Washington farmers, based on several 2016 benchmark studies, are actually losing between $20 and $70 per cow annually. The small income they take for their families to live is borrowed against the future in these market conditions. As one local farm accountant stated, "Even at $500 per cow, the impact on the industry would be devastating."
A farmer facing a bill of a half million to $1 million for compliance will see no hope for financing that or being able to repay it. As a Washington State University study shows, our dairy farmers are struggling with low milk prices since January of 2015: "Milk prices have been below breakeven cost of production for 2015 and 2016, resulting in losses that are straining the financial capacity of dairy farm families." To properly understand this threat, imagine you earn about $60,000 per year (average in Washington state) and you are presented a bill of one million dollars. You are close to maxing out your credit cards already. Wouldn't you just call it quits?
Without question, our dairy farms will be lost. As farms are an essential part of environmental protection according to the Puget Sound Partnership, the loss of these farms and conversion of farmland to development would constitute an environmental catastrophe.
The consortium of anti-farm activists is led by Eugene, Oregon attorney Charlie Tebbutt who has earned millions in legal fees suing dairy farmers. As reported in Hoard's Dairyman, Mr. Tebbutt said in court that dairy farmers are killing America. The consortium members appear to be following this extreme and unsupportable position by responding with legal action that will most certainly kill the supposed "killers."
Background – False Accusations of Farm Pollution
The Washington State Department of Ecology issued a State Waste Discharge General Permit known as a CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation) permit effective March 3, 2017. This permit added very significant new burdens on Washington dairy farmers despite the fact that Washington state already has some of the most stringent dairy regulations in the nation. The 1998 Dairy Nutrient Management Act strictly regulates control and application of nutrients – cow manure – and prohibits over application as well as any release to water. The strong compliance and enforcement through the Washington State Department of Agriculture is well documented. More importantly, water quality issues related to dairy operations have improved significantly through these regulations and through the environmental stewardship of the vast majority of Washington farmers.
The legal appeal is fullof completely false statements, distortions and exaggerations that also served as the basis of the "research" presented in the discredited "What's Upstream" campaign. This research was even discredited for using outdated science by EPA Region 10 officials. The often repeated statements of documented pollution from dairy farms are refuted by the clear language of the state dairy regulations which currently prevent any discharge to water. Improving water quality in areas of numerous dairy farms, such as Whatcom County, demonstrate that the claims of pollution are not supported by objective scientific evidence. DNA testing in the Nooksack river and Bellingham Bay downstream of numerous dairies revealed the presence of animal and human DNA, but none of it was from cattle. This research was conducted by the EPA through the Lummi Nation. Similarly, according to the Capital Press, the Department of Ecology recently found stable or decreased levels of nitrate in groundwater in 24 of 25 wells tested in farm areas in Whatcom County. Only one of the wells tested showed higher levels of nitrate.
Despite clear and compelling evidence, those appealing the CAFO permit demand extremely expensive "solutions" to largely non-existent problems. Below is language from their legal appeal which makes clear the demand for double synthetic lined manure lagoons that represent the single largest cost of the demands:
The permits also illegally authorize discharges to waters of the state without requiring permittees to install and implement all known, available, and reasonable technology ("AKART"). Federal and state discharge permits must require implementation of"echnology-based treatment requirements and standards reflecting all known, available, and reasonable methods of prevention, treatment, and control." WAC 173-226-070(1); see also 33 U.S.C. §§ 131 l(b)(2)(A) (permits "shall require application of the best available technology economically achievable"). The permits violate these standards by, for example, failing to require double geomembrane (synthetic) liners that are known, available, and reasonable for preventing discharge from leaking manure lagoons.
Both the Department of Ecology and the Department of Agriculture in Washington State have determined that current manure lagoon liners when built to standards provided by the National Resources Conservation Service of the US Department of Agriculture are protective of water. Representatives of the NRCS, which conducts extensive scientific research on manure lagoons, oppose the use of the lagoon liners demanded by the anti-farm "experts" noting they would not improve water protection but may actually increase risks of pollution.
How the costs were calculated
Three Yakima area dairy farms have been required through EPA coercion (see Hoard's Dairyman report) and a disastrous and flawed court decision to drastically change how they farm in ways never before seen on any dairy farm in the state or nation. The cost to these three large farms already is exceeding $12 million and will likely climb to $20 million and more. The new regulations being pushed by the anti-farm activist groups are based on the same requirements forced on the Yakima farms and, if adopted by the Department of Ecology, would result in the destruction of the Washington dairy community.
Based on the costs absorbed by the Yakima farmers, the current estimate of the regulations demanded by the activist groups would amount to approximately $1000 per cow. That means a dairy farmer with average herd size of 665 cows would be forced to pay an additional $665,000 for the changes required, plus an additional $50,000 in estimated increased record keeping and maintenance costs related to these requirements. Western Washington dairy farmers costs would be higher because of higher rainfall. For example, while manure lagoons in Eastern Washington typically are built to hold about 5000 gallons per cow, Western Washington lagoons hold about 7500 gallons per cow because the increased rainfall adds to storage requirements. The double synthetic lagoon liners pushed by the activists represent the highest but not only cost of their demands.
The requirements forced on the Yakima farmers fall into these categories:
Lagoon liners
Underground line inspection
Facility changes
It should be noted that a number of these items are in process of being installed or implemented and some are still under negotiation with the EPA and the lawyers involved. Final costs cannot be determined until all obligations have been met.
Lagoon Liner requirements
The AOC (Administrative Order on Consent) imposed by the EPA and the subsequent court decision required installation of double membraned synthetic lagoon liners with leak detection. The current cost of installation is estimated at $5.00 per square foot, not including the extensive costs related to consulting and construction planning. This is based on actual experience of Yakima farmers installing these liners which ranged from $6.00 to $3.50 per square foot. Given smaller size of most dairies and the start up costs involved, the $5.00 per square foot estimate would likely be higher for most dairies.
If requirements pushed by the activists or further court action pursued by these attorneys mandate these liners, the estimated cost for the average farmer in Eastern Washington with a herd of 1400 cows would pay approximately $1,050,000. Western Washington farmers require larger lagoons but the average farm size is about 450 cows. These farmers would pay about $363,000 to install these liners.
This "solution" would solve nothing as the scientific evidence for the protection offered by current lagoons is overwhelming and has even been noted by water experts within the activist groups pursuing the legal action.
Based on experience in Yakima, where groundwater monitoring wells were required at a rate of about five wells per lagoon, the average farm could expect an additional cost of $50,000 or more to construct the necessary wells. According to the EPA, construction of a 100 well monitoring network would cost in excess of $200,000. However, actual costs on one Yakima farm were at least $15,000 per well with 40 wells required for nine lagoons. An average farm may be required to put in about 8 to 10 wells but given the smaller number an average cost would likely be in excess of $20,000 per well. The EPA reports that a monitoring program for that 100 well network would be $267,000 per year which for a ten well network should be $26,700 per year. Well costs would vary considerably between Eastern Washington and Western Washington because of depth of the water table.
This requirement is absurd for several reasons.
1) The monitoring done in Yakima was intended to demonstrate that the lagoons were indeed harming groundwater and the new lagoon liners would minimize that. No definitive evidence for that has been established to date.
2) Groundwater in virtually all areas of intensive agriculture is high in nitrate because of historic overuse of fertilizer and irrigation, meaning the presence of nitrate proves nothing about current use.
3) Soil testing as currently mandated provides the needed protection against over application of nutrients which all experts agree represents the greatest risk to groundwater contamination.
Yakima farmers were required to do "smart pig" testing involving running a camera and testing equipment through all pipes used to carry any water or manure on the farm. This is extremely expensive, particularly when farms use these pipes to convey manure to distant fields. All inspection and reporting must be done by certified engineers. The tests identify even minor issues with the pipes which then must be excavated, inspected and repaired or replaced. One farm forced into agreeing to this requirement has spent close to $400,000 with likely more to come. However, this number is likely quite low as the pipes on that farm were related to the 200 acre footprint of the dairy alone. Many farms use underground pipes as an environmental protection measure as these minimize risks of spills and runoffs. These pipes can run through hundreds of acres of cropland. Consequently, these farmers would be penalized for pro-active environmental protections. Because of the limited pipes in the farm with actual costs, we are increasing the expected costs for the average farm.
What makes this requirement so absurd is this kind of testing may match or exceed the testing required of pipelines conveying gasoline, natural gas or other dangerous products. For farms we are talking water and manure, the very material used to grow crops. Even if a crack or break occurs, it will become visible to the farmer and if it runs off into surface water, it constitutes a violation of existing laws. The ludicrous nature of this requirement makes clear that the intention of the activists is not to protect the environment, but simply rid the state of "killer" dairy farms.
Facility modifications initially demanded of some of the Yakima farmers involved water coming from roofs, collection areas, calf-raising area modifications, etc. What would be required of each farm is uncertain and would be subjective with each farm having to make individual changes. For some this could be very significant, for others likely no changes would be required. Numerous statements made by the attorneys behind these demands show they consider current regulations which allow for zero discharge of manure to water to be inadequate and they would likely demand their "experts" to mandate specific facility changes.
The Yakima farm used to calculate these costs reports no significant additional facility costs, but significant additional record keeping and maintenance costs. Record keeping costs are presented separately, so the number reflects additional maintenance.
We are including the cost of consultants as farms facing these requirements have been forced into hiring certified engineers, consultants, planners and designers whose plans needed both approval from EPA officials and the lawyers enforcing the demands. The hydrogeologists, engineers and agronomists required would need certification from the Department of Ecology which limits the availability of qualified consultants. This raises the practical issue of having insufficient approved consultants available should these requirements be implemented. One large farm reports current costs exceeding $1.5 million in just consulting fees. These include fees relating to lagoon design, groundwater monitoring and pipe inspection. Recognizing that a substantial portion may be related to the fact that this was the initial application of these requirements, and that some of these are counted in the costs of specific items, that total was reduced by 33%. With that reduction the cost would be about $150,000 for the average farmer.
Record keeping costs reported by the Yakima farmers on an ongoing basis equate to one full time qualified employee equating to $80,000 per year inclusive. It should be noted that the new CAFO permit also significantly increases record keeping costs which are already very burdensome when combined with the existing Dairy Nutrient Management Act requirements.
To put this in context, given typical farm net income of about $65,000 per year, the new record keeping costs alone would take nearly all of that income, aside from any of the other more expensive requirements.
One Yakima farm, while still incurring substantial costs, estimates their burden at about $7.2 million for the establishment of the requirements and about $250,000 in new, additional annual costs specific to the EPA and court orders.
Applying those costs to an average Eastern Washington dairy with an average of 1400 cows and smaller lagoon requirements, the estimated one time totals are about $1.5 million with about $60,000 annual new costs. The smaller Western Washington dairy averaging 450 cows with larger lagoon requirements would pay over $500,000 one time and about $40,000 annual costs. Those new annual costs exceed what many of the smaller farmers earn each year.
Overall, this equates to between $1000 to $1130 per cow. A survey of farmers in spring 2015 showed that if new regulations cost farmers $500 per cow, 77% of our farmers say they would be forced out of business in our state. At $1000 per cow, 98% said they would be forced out.
The anti-farm groups filing this appeal
The appeal document reveals the groups participating:
PUGET SOUNDKEEPER ALLIANCE, a Washington nonprofit corporation;
COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FOR RESTORATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT (CARE), a Washington nonprofit corporation;
FRIENDS OF TOPPENISH CREEK, a Washington nonprofit corporation;
SIERRA CLUB, a California nonprofit corporation;
WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE, a New York nonprofit corporation
CENTER FOR FOOD 15 SAFETY, a Washington, D.C. nonprofit corporation
RE Sources for Sustainable Communities, a Washington nonprofit corporation
Washington residents do not want to see an end to our dairy farms
Farmers enjoy very high support from our citizens, despite the efforts of many of these groups through "What's Upstream" and other unfair attacks to disrupt that support. While citizens support farmers, that does not always translate to legislative, administrative, regulatory and court support. But we very much believe when our citizens, legislators, regulators and judges see and understand the way in which these groups are working to deceive the public and force regulations intended to destroy our farms, these groups will be seen as the anti-farm crusaders they are.
That is why farm groups such as Save Family Farming, Whatcom Family Farmers, Yakima Family Farmers and Skagit Family Farmers will do all we can to inform the public of this effort to destroy a very important and highly valued industry. More than economics is at stake. Our farm communities with thousands of employees and farm families working these farms for two, three, four generations and more are at risk.
Larry Stap of Twin Brook Creamery reacts to the news that Puget Soundkeeper Alliance and friends are pushing regulations that would cost his small farm of about 200 cows about $250,000. It would end his multi-generation family farm and deprive thousands of his customers from the delights of the Jersey Twin Brook Creamery dairy products.
Jason VanderKooy is a dairy farmer in Skagit Valley who traces his family dairy farming roots in Holland back to about 1450. He expresses his commitment to fight to stay in business, while recognizing that his 1400 cow dairy would not survive the $1.5 million or more in regulation costs if Puget Soundkeeper Alliance and friends have their way. Jason points out how more than his farm would be affected. He and other dairy farms produce the organic fertilizer in increasing demand as more and more farmers convert to organic farming. Loss of our 400 family dairy farms would deal a huge blow to the rapid growth of organic farming in our state. Worse, it would greatly contribute to urbanization as dairy cropland would be converted to development, particularly in Western Washington where we have already seen a loss of over 60% of our farmland in Puget Sound.
Washington state has about 400 dairy farms remaining with a total of 277,000 cows. Dairy products are number two in state farm products, following only apples. 95% of Washington farms are family owned and operated – some large, some small and some mid-sized. The average dairy has 665 cows. The farm pictured above is a Skagit Valley dairy which converted to organic farming in the past few years.
All but the very largest farms would be lost if the regulations demanded by Oregon-based lawyers and their anti-farm activist friends from Puget Soundkeeper, RE Sources, Friends of Toppenish Creek and others were adopted.
The environmental loss would be staggering as much of the dairy cropland would be converted to urbanization, particularly in Western Washington. Those concerned about our environmental future need to reach out to these groups and ask them to understand the science of agriculture pollution and stop their assault on our family farms.
Twin Brook Creamery, a 200+ cow Jersey dairy near Lynden, Washington, is one of a growing number of producer-processors. It's glass bottled high quality dairy products are seen in many stores around Puget Sound where higher-end food products are sold.
Larry Stap, one of the family owners of Twin Brook Creamery is a third generation farmer, working to pass on his farm to the fifth generation – his grandchildren. This farm, like virtually all family farms in Washington state would be lost if the massive requirements pushed by Oregon lawyers, Puget Soundkeeper Alliance and their friends are adopted.Estimated costs of new regulations if they match the requirements imposed on three large Yakima dairies as the anti-farm groups demand.
As farms are an essential part of environmental protection according to the Puget Sound Partnership, the loss of these farms and conversion of farmland to development would constitute an environmental catastrophe.
Some family dairy farms are large, like this one near Yakima. Large does not mean more contamination or pollution as state dairy regulations restrict over-application of manure and allow for zero discharge to water. The organic fertilizer this large dairy provides is becoming a crucial part of organic farming, rapidly growing throughout Washington state.
The Puget Sound Partnership identifies "degradation" areas for water in the Puget Sound region. Why is it that Seattle, Bellingham and Eugene environmental groups are trying to force farmers out of business because instead of focusing where the real pollution issues are: in our urban areas? Is it because it is harder to raise money for work on urban pollution? Is this why they insist on demeaning our family farms by saying all have given way to "industrial farming"?
Farmers in Whatcom County have taken the lead in restoring water to a fish-bearing stream.
DNA by the EPA testing in the Nooksack river and Bellingham Bay has found no evidence of cattle fecal coliform.
Nitrate levels in areas nearest dairy farms are declining, showing improved water quality attributed to farmer stewardship and farm regulations.
More and more evidence is emerging to support the contention of farmers that few if any are doing more to improve water quality, improve fish and wildlife habitat and protect our precious environment than farmers.
So then why are leading environmental groups trying to put our farms out of business? If you doubt they are, look at the story to your left, and read this on the
EPA study fails to link dairy cows to shellfish bed contamination
The Portage Bay shellfish beds near Lummi Island have been a central focus of the Oregon attorneys and their anti-dairy farm activist friends. Numerous articles and even TV reports repeated their false accusations of dairy causing the shellfish bed closures. These accusations were featured prominently in the What's Upstream campaign, along with numerous other false accusations.
On October 17, the EPA released a study it conducted with the Lummi Nation. It was expected to provide DNA evidence of cattle contamination. It didn't. While it found ruminant (hoofed animals like sheep, goats, deer, elk as well as cattle) DNA, it found no trace of cattle DNA.
This was reported in Capital Press on November 21.
From Puget Soundkeeper Alliance's website: Puget Soundkeeper Alliance's website contains false accusations, including this message that was on their site for a long time and recently removed. This has been pointed out to them repeatedly by farmers, asking them to be honest and truthful. Those appeals have been ignored. Puget Soundkeeper defended the discredited "What's Upstream" campaign which they sponsored, despite the EPA complaints about false accusations. This campaign caused deep embarrassment to the EPA Administrator who received 145 letters of complaint from members of Congress and faced questions about it on the Senate floor.
What is false?
1) 95% of our farms are family farms. The average size of our dairies conforms to national averages. Some are large, many more are small, and some medium sized.
2) "far beyond the capacity" An outrageously false statement. Strict regulations determine appropriate use, storage and transport. The organic fertilizer cows produce (the "raw manure" mentioned) is in increasingly high demand by organic farmers as our organic farm industry keeps growing. It would be major blow to the organic farmers to lose this vital source of necessary nutrients. As it is, most dairy farmers use all they produce to grow their own feed crops for their cows. The DailyKos (not a website read by many farmers) featured a story on the massive influx of migrating birds to farmland in Whatcom and Skagit County. It noted farms provide the habitat that would not be available to these birds if converted to urban uses.
A 2017 report showed 18,000 swans in Whatcom and Skagit Counties. Many more snowgeese and ducks.
It also noted 60% of farmland in the Puget Sound region has already been lost.
Urban areas are the primary polluters. Losing farms means losing farmland and all the environmental benefits they provide. So why are urban-based environmental groups like Puget Soundkeeper Alliance attacking farms instead of helping protect them? (Photo from DailyKos story)
The massive influx of winter birds creates a dilemma for farmers. Hosting them provides a visible demonstration of the value of farmland and preserving farms. But, they poop. A lot. At a time when regulations do not allow farmers to apply manure to fields because of wet conditions, the tens and hundreds of thousands of birds descend on the fields, dig them up and poop. The muddy conditions contributes to runoff from the fields into ditches, streams, rivers and bays where it can affect shellfish harvesting.
Water quality tests usually test for bacteria, without distinguishing source. When it comes from the fields, cows (and farmers) are blamed.
However, a recent test in the Nooksack river and Bellingham Bay conducted by the EPA with the Lummi Nation used DNA to improve understanding of the source of fecal coliform. Bacteria contamination here has closed the Portage Bay shellfish beds of the Lummi Nation for most of the year since 2014. Much to the surprise of many, the DNA tests showed ruminant DNA and avian DNA, but no indication of cattle. Ruminants include sheep, goats and deer.
Our request to the board of directors of Puget Soundkeeper Alliance
On November 21, we sent the letter below to the board of directors of Puget Soundkeeper Alliance. This includes a number of leaders of prominent and respected businesses and non-profits. As we have been unsuccessful in making any progress with the Puget Soundkeeper Alliances executive director, it is time the board fully understands the false accusations and the incredible harm their organization is doing to our farms, our communities and our environment.
We are asking for the opportunity to speak to the board directly, let them know the facts about farm pollution and how devastating the demanded "solution" would be.
Update: the board president contacted us saying they were eager to meet. Then we got an email from the director saying their lawyer, the leader of the effort to impose farm-killing regulations, had demanded they not speak to us.
How you can help keep our
 family dairy farms
If you believe producing our food locally is important, if you believe keeping farmers on the farmland helps protect the environment, if you understand the role of dairy farmers in making our state a great place to live and work, then we need your help.
1. If you aren't certain what the facts are and who is telling the truth about farming and pollution, let us know. We will provide you with detailed information. Listen to both sides and see who is accurately conveying solid science. Use the contact form on the bottom of this page to let us know your questions and how we can contact you. Or send us an email at info@savefamilyfarming.org.
2. If you are certain and you believe the action of Puget Soundkeeper Alliance and friends is harmful to our farms, communities and state, then let them know. If you are a financial contributor to one of the organizations involved, it is especially important that you let them know you do not want your contributions to be used to harm our environment by driving our dairy farmers out.
Puget Soundkeeper Alliance:
Email psa@pugetsoundkeeper.org
Contact page: https://pugetsoundkeeper.org/contact-us/
RE Sources for Sustainable Communities:
www.re-sources.org/contact-us
Email: crinah@re-sources.org
Phone: 360-733-8307
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A moment for truth: Pioneering Holocaust remembrance in Belarus
Slonim is converting its hulking, decaying synagogue into a center of memory and community-building
Jun 20, 2019, 2:48 PM
Aerial view of the Great Synagogue of Slonim, undergoing renovation. (Courtesy)
June 29,1942. 5 a.m. Slonim, Belarus. By the time the trumpet blast sounded, and the lorries creaked through the ghetto gates, the Jews knew better than to run. In November of the previous year, 10,000 men, women and children — nearly half of the ghetto's population — were rounded up in the marketplace and driven eight kilometers out of town to the nearby village of Czepelova. There, they were stripped naked, lined up in groups of 10, and shot in burial pits by a drunken group of Germans and Lithuanian auxiliaries. The child observers to these massacres, many of them requisitioned by the killing squads to perform tasks that day such as cooking, entertaining the Germans, and sifting through clothing, describe a mass graves that "lived" for days as the muffled cries of victims buried alive persisted long after the day ended.
No. Today the Jews would hide. As hundreds of hooligans streamed through the ghetto's gates — Germans, Latvians, Lithuanians and Ukrainians among them — "all of them shouting for the final battle with the Jews of Slonim," they would find hardly a soul in the streets. The Jews had entrenched themselves in makeshift shelters dug into the foundations and basements of their homes. While the crowd ran through the ghetto yelling, "Jews, out of your hiding places!" trucks wound through the narrow streets and sprayed gasoline on the squat buildings. [1] Within minutes, the ghetto was ablaze. Human candles streamed out of basements and were shot. Babies were thrown into fires still alive. Those who emerged from their homes were marched in a long column back out to Czepelova or another killing field at Petrelovitch Hill and shot as their neighbors had been the previous year. Somewhere in this column, perhaps — we will never be sure — marched my great-grandmother and a great-aunt. Survivor Nachum Alpert describes a group of the town's Christian residents, dressed in their festive clothes for a religious holiday, watching the event from outside the ghetto gates.
Two weeks later, with the smoldering ghetto in ruins, the destruction of the 700-year old Jewish community in Slonim was near-complete. What we know of these final moments comes from Jews who, presumed dead and suffocating from the weight of the corpses above them, crawled their way out of the pits and ran to the forest, many surviving the balance of the war in partisan units. The remaining 200 or so Slonim Jews designated as "useful" by the Germans and allowed to remain in the ghetto would be shot at the end of 1942.
The Great Synagogue of Slonim undergoing restoration: From the survey. (Courtesy)
Yet, even with the extermination campaign finished, the assault on Slonim's Jews was far from over. The effort to assassinate their memory would now begin. Driven by an understanding that they would not be able to hold parts of the East and fearful of potential war crimes prosecution, the Nazis frantically returned to the burial pits in Slonim in June of 1944 as part of a covert operation called Aktion 1005, a campaign painstakingly detailed by German historian Andrej Angrick. With the Red Army fast approaching, they requisitioned locals to open up the graves with hooks, stack the corpses on funeral pyres, and incinerate the bodies, hiding evidence of their barbaric acts. As a final step in the cover-up, the local diggers were shot, eliminating the final non-German witnesses to one of the darkest chapters in human history.
What happened in Slonim wasn't special or unique. Between 1941 and 1942, more than 1.5 million Jews were killed in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, and other republics of the USSR as part of what Father Patrick Desbois has termed the "Holocaust by bullets." As Desbois illustrates in vivid detail, these Jews were not gassed under the high walls of industrialized killing centers like those of Treblinka, Sobibor or Belzec, but shot in broad daylight by the Einsatzgruppen, German mobile killing squads and their eastern European collaborators. Their bodies now sit in largely unmarked graves right outside the towns where they used to live, if even that far. It is common to find these graves desecrated by robbers, a kolkhoz (collective farm) built on top of them, a drainage ditch dug through them, human bones scattered through a Ukrainian or Belarusian field.
For four decades after the war, public discussion of the Holocaust in these areas was suppressed under Soviet rule. Historical narratives of the period of German occupation were focused on acts of wartime heroism of Soviet partisans in the "Great Patriotic War." Where discourse was allowed on Nazi atrocities, the Jewish-specific nature of these massacres was frequently obscured, history books preferring to identify the victims as "Soviet citizens," rather than members of a particular religious or ethnic group. With 20 million Soviet civilians killed during World War II, the Holocaust was regarded as a mere chapter — brutal, for certain, but one of many — in a grim era of German occupation.
The Imperative
How does one go about reconstructing the memory of a community that has been so totally eradicated — first spiritually in the toppling of its institutions and the enslavement of its population, then physically in the extermination of its citizenry, and finally historically in the obscuring of the events of the Second World War by the victorious Soviet regime? Can this one little Belarusian town serve as a launching point for a new type of Holocaust remembrance, one that seeks an accurate retelling of the past, while acknowledging that the absence of a native Jewish population requires local ownership? Can Jewish history be celebrated as part of a shared multiethnic heritage, as something of relevance to a society that no longer has a Jewish presence?
That is our imperative. A mission this massive begins with a single building.
The Great Synagogue of Slonim, as it was back in the day, and before World War II. (Courtesy)
Bearing witness to the events of Slonim is the Great Synagogue, a majestic baroque structure built in 1642 and located in the center of town. Pictures from the turn of the 20th century show market days in a prosperous village that was 70 percent Jewish, the square brimming with vendors, selling textiles, grain, all other wares from horse drawn carriages. This square was also where the Jews were regularly rounded up, humiliated, beaten, and marched out of town during the various extermination campaigns. In 2019, the imposing synagogue sits behind a wooden fence in decrepit condition, defaced by graffiti.
What do the residents of Slonim think, as they walk past this beautiful, rotting behemoth every day?
The Slonim Synagogue Restoration Project
Two years ago, a group banded together with the goal of saving this structure and formed the Slonim Synagogue Steering Committee. It is a collaboration that fuses together three diverse strands: those of us who have family ties to Slonim, experts in restoration and Jewish history (represented by the Foundation for Jewish Heritage), and a group focused on reinvigorating the fledgling local Belarusian Jewish community around this project (represented by The Together Plan). In partnership with the City of Slonim, the Steering Committee plans to harness these three elements — the stories, the stones, and community — to convert this hulking, decaying structure into a center for a new type of Holocaust remembrance.
In 2017, I immersed myself in a far-reaching family history project which brought me into contact with a number of the other Slonim descendants. As affected as I was by the discoveries of what my family had to endure, I was further moved by the vivid anecdotes passed along and documented by others — children left to fend for themselves in the forest after witnessing the murder of their parents, teenagers who only survived a massacre by fainting into a burial trench at the exact moment of gunfire. It has been said that the unfathomable nature of genocides is the precise condition that allows their continued existence — if people cannot contemplate the execution of millions of people in a short period of time, might they doubt that these events actually happened? Rather than imagining the eradication of an entire population, it is therefore perhaps easier to picture one's child, mother, or father killed 1.5 million times. For these reasons, the preservation of family stories, and the incorporation of personal narratives into a physical restoration project, are an absolutely vital component of our project.
These families are represented by steering committee chair, Simon Kaplinsky, whose father was born in Slonim. "We must avoid allowing the heinous deeds of the Nazis from obscuring the long and intertwined history of the Jews and Christian peoples of Belarus. Although there was friction at times between the two, there is also a long history of tolerance and prosperity. I hope that our saving of the synagogue will not just be a memorial to the Jews of Slonim. It needs to be a facility for the people of the City to remind us all of the common history of all the citizens of the City over the centuries."
The Stones
The physical restoration of the property is being overseen by the Foundation for Jewish Heritage, a British charity focused on the preservation of historically important sites throughout Europe. Having mapped over 3,000 historic synagogues throughout Europe and ranked them in terms of significance and danger of deterioration, the Foundation identified the Slonim synagogue as one of the three most critical structures, prioritizing its preservation campaign. "Often the last physical evidence of vanished Jewish life is the former synagogue building. Through preserving the remarkable Great Synagogue in Slonim, we have the opportunity to create an important site of education that can have an impact across Belarus and beyond, commemorating, and celebrating, a centuries-old vibrant Jewish presence that was in the town — and in the country as a whole. While the building no longer serves as a synagogue given the tragic loss of its community of users, it can still serve as a profound place of meaning," said Michael Mail, the CEO of the Foundation for Jewish Heritage.
The Great Synagogue of Slonim undergoing restoration: Internal cornice paintings. (Courtesy)
Our immediate task is to perform emergent repairs to the structure itself, an objective on which we have made progress across the last year, repairing the roof and conducting a comprehensive survey of cracks. After the building has been structurally secured, we plan to initiate a feasibility study to evaluate the universe of options for what this building could become: a center for cross-cultural exchange, an event space, educational center, a memorial, a multi-religious prayer hall? With the feasibility study complete, we will initiate the final, substantive renovation phase of this project.
Strong local ownership is crucial to the success of this project. The Together Plan, a British charity centered on reinvigorating Jewish communities in the former Soviet Union, is working with community leaders to ensure that the project is a celebration of a shared national identity, rather than perceived — or enacted — as a form of western imperialism. Belarus is, quite literally, a country built on top of Jewish graves. There were 800,000 Jews killed in the country of Belarus between 1941 and 1944. The bones are everywhere — wherever there was a village, there is a mass grave. Earlier this year, a construction crew building a parking lot in Brest, Belarus unearthed a burial pit containing 1,000 Jewish corpses. It was not the first such exhumation and will certainly not be the last.
While the destruction of the Jewish community was near-absolute, some 20,000 Jews still exist today in Belarus, primarily in Minsk. Debra Brunner, the Director of the Together Plan, said, "In Slonim, our focus is on creating dialogue around the Synagogue and it's future potential. The aim is to give voice to representatives from the local community — the municipality, historians, heritage experts, teachers, librarians, museum curators and Jewish and non-Jewish people living in Slonim. It is critical that we work alongside the people of Slonim and the Belarus authorities to help them find their voice so that the Slonim Synagogue, an edifice of such strategic and vital heritage value, becomes a building that can tell its own Jewish story, whilst playing a central role in bringing life, creativity and value to the civil society of Slonim, of Belarus and beyond."
Moment for Truth
Only since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 has open dialogue and examination of the Holocaust in this region been permitted. As opportunities gradually emerged to reconstruct a historical narrative that included Jewish elements, revisionist histories also began to take hold. In 2018, Poland officially criminalized the assignment of any blame to the "Polish nation or state" in the destruction of the country's Jewish population. Latvia annually commemorates the Latvian Legionnaires, its local Waffen-SS unit, who oversaw the murder of 90% of the country's Jewish population, with an annual march. Slonim's own museum does not mention the events surrounding the extermination of the town's Jews during the Holocaust.
With the youngest Holocaust survivors now in their 80s, there will soon be no one left to tell the stories of what transpired in this dark era. As a wave of ultraconservative movements sweeps Europe once again, the likes of which has not been seen since the Second World War, reminding the world of the dangers of fascism and ethno-nationalism has never been more urgent. In Slonim, we are being given a moment for truth, an opportunity to tell the story as it happened. In this endeavor, we will need all the help we can get.
[1] Glickson, Jerry. (2017) The Hill at Petrolowicze. Middletown, DE. Skillbites, pp. 38-39.
Ezra Mehlman is a healthcare investor and an adjunct professor at Columbia University. He is on the steering committee which is restoring the Great Synagogue of Slonim. He holds a BA in History from Washington University in St. Louis and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
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June 5, 2014 — Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and its parent company, Pfizer, have been hit with a lawsuit from a North Carolina couple who say their son's birth defects were caused by Effexor (venlafaxine).
The boy's mother, Amy Cornett, says she used Effexor during pregnancy but was unaware of the risk of birth defects. Her child was born with severe heart defects and other malformations, including Complex Total Anomalous Venous Return, Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD), Atrial Septal Defect (ASD), and Optic Nerve Atrophy. Treatment for these life-threatening conditions involves surgery and lifelong medical care.
Cornett is seeking compensation for his medical expenses and other damages, including punitive damages against Wyeth and Pfizer for failing to warn about the pregnancy risks of Effexor. According to her complaint (PDF):
"Despite having extensive knowledge of the extreme risks associated with Effexor, as well as the absolute duty to properly and adequately warn foreseeable users, the Manufacturing Defendants never approached the FDA to alter the label for Effexor so that it properly and adequately warned of the risks of birth defects associated with the drug."
The case was transferred into federal court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, where approximately 58 Effexor lawsuits have been centralized in a Multi-District Litigation (MDL No. 2458). There are hundreds of similar lawsuits involving Zoloft pending in the same federal court. Plaintiffs accuse drug-makers of downplaying risk information linking antidepressants and Zoloft.
Pfizer has already provided 1.8 million pages of documents and they are still producing documents. On June 10, parties will meet with Judge Cynthia M. Rufe to discuss the current status of discovery, the expected number of cases, and other matters related to the litigation.
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10 Haunting Facts Of The Doodler Of San Francisco
by Benjamin Welton
On Sunday, June 24, 2018, media outlets in the Bay Area of California published articles about the Doodler. Specifically, these outlets asked, "Who is the Doodler?" In case you do not know, the Doodler was a serial killer who preyed on the gay community of San Francisco during the mid-1970s.[1]
The Doodler was never apprehended. Now, given the recent capture of the Golden State Killer, cold case detectives in California are poring back over the Doodler files in order to see if any lead or any trace of DNA evidence can be found. In the words of Sergeant Michael Andraychak of the San Francisco Police Department, "We're going back trying to locate victims, following up on evidence, trying to locate potential witnesses."
While the official authorities in San Francisco pray for a break in the Doodler case, let us review the crimes of this enigmatic serial killer.
10 The Origin Of The Name
Between 1974 and 1975, the Doodler sexually assaulted and stabbed several gay men to death. All told, between January 1974 and September 1975, the Doodler is believed to have attacked 17 men. Fourteen of these attacks resulted in death. During the Doodler's crime spree, San Francisco detectives actually thought that they were investigating three different killers, not just one.
This conclusion came about because five of the Doodler's victims were well-known drag queens in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. This caused investigators to suspect that the murderer hated drag queens. Then, the next five victims came from the underground world of sadomasochism. Finally, the last six victims were all middle-aged men picked up in the bars of Castro Village.[2]
The major link between all of these crimes came from the three men who managed to survive the killer. According to these eyewitnesses, their assailant had tried to woo them by drawing cartoonish caricatures of them. Thus, the killer became known as the Doodler.
9 The First Victim
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At 1:57 AM on January 27, 1974, the corpse of a man was found at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. The victim had been stabbed several times, and a closer examination of the body revealed defensive wounds that suggested that he had fought his attacker. The corpse was found in a "supine" position and was still wearing his clothes and Timex watch. Inside his wallet was $21.12.[3]
The victim was identified as Canadian-American immigrant Gerald Earl Cavanaugh, 49. A coroner's inquiry found that Cavanaugh was a stocky man who stood 173 centimeters (5'8″) and weighed 100 kilograms (220 lb). He worked a blue-collar job at a San Francisco mattress factory. The police never did find out much about Cavanaugh's personal life. However, they did learn that he was conscious when he was stabbed to death, and, given the extent of rigor mortis, they deduced that he had been dead for some time before his body was found.
8 The Murder Of Joseph 'Jae' Stevens
Joseph Stevens performed as "Jae" at many of San Francisco's popular gay bars. Stevens was officially listed as a "female impersonator" and a "comedian." He was originally born in Texas and made his working home at Finocchio's, a gay bar that had been in the city since the 1930s.
Stevens's body was found at Spreckels Lake in the Golden State Park on June 25, 1974. Stevens had been stabbed three times. Investigators found blood in his mouth and nose, which indicated that he had been stabbed at least once in the lungs. By all appearances, Stevens most likely drove to the site with his killer or to meet him at a prearranged spot.[4] Stevens's abandoned car was found not far from where his corpse was first spotted by a woman out walking her dog.
After casing the gay community of San Francisco, investigators learned that Stevens was last seen alive at the Cabaret Club on Montgomery Street.
7 The Murder Of Klaus Christmann
Like the Doodler's first known victim, Klaus Christmann, 31, was an immigrant. Christmann was originally from Germany, and at the time of his murder, he worked at Michelin. He was last seen alive at Bojangles.[5]
Christmann's badly mutilated corpse was found on July 7, 1974, on Lincoln Way near Ocean Beach. He was fully clothed, had been stabbed some 15 times, and had had his throat slit. Like Stevens, Christmann's body was found by a woman, Tauba Weiss, who was out walking her dog.
In an interview with the Sentinel newspaper, the detective in charge of the case, Dave Toschi, described the murder of Christmann as one of the most ghastly stabbings that he had ever investigated. Toschi was already quite famous in 1974 due to his involvement in the hunt for the Zodiac Killer.
Although Christmann had a wife and two children, homicide detectives noted that in one of his pockets, there was a tube of face paint. This suggested to the authorities that Christmann was a secret drag queen. Christmann's murder was also the case that convinced homicide detectives that a serial killer was actively targeting the city's gay community.
6 The Murder Of Frederick Capin
The next Doodler murder proved that the unknown serial killer preferred to work near the Ocean Beach area. On May 12, 1975, the body of 32-year-old nurse Frederick Capin was discovered stabbed to death on a highway that ran parallel to Ocean Beach. The coroner who reviewed Capin's corpse noted that blood was found smeared on the soles of Capin's shoes, while bloodstains were also found on Capin's face, hands, torso, and buttocks. Evidence found at the crime scene proved that the Doodler had dragged Capin at least 6 meters (20 ft) after killing him.[6]
Like the others, Capin had been stabbed to death. The Doodler had stabbed Capin multiple times in the chest, with at least one stab wound striking Capin's aorta. A later investigation into Capin's background revealed that he was originally from Port Angeles, Washington, had served in the United States Navy, and had fought in Vietnam.
5 The Last Official Murder
The fifth and last known victim of the Doodler was Swedish immigrant Harald Gullberg. Gullberg was much older than the Doodler's other victims at either 66 or 67. However, like Capin, Gullberg had made his living on the sea as a sailor. Gullberg's body was found on June 4, 1975, near the Lincoln Park Golf Course. The Doodler had slit Gullberg's throat weeks prior to the discovery of the cadaver. Indeed, Gullberg's corpse had been out in the open so long that an army of maggots were found on his face.[7]
Gullberg would be the last of the Doodler's confirmed victims. Like the others, he was found mostly clothed. Also, like some of the other victims, investigators found that Gullberg had unzipped his fly prior to being murdered. This suggested that the Doodler and his victims had found each other out of a mutual desire for sex.
4 Community Silence
While San Francisco police confirmed that the Doodler was responsible for five murders in the summer of 1975, he is suspected of killing at least nine other people. Very little is known about the other victims of the Doodler. Much of this was the result of reticence on the part of San Francisco's gay community. On July 8, 1977, The Register-Guard of Eugene, Oregon, published an article explicitly stating that the Doodler managed to elude capture because all of his victims were gay men.[8]
San Francisco politician and gay rights icon Harvey Milk, himself just two years away from his own murder, mused that many eyewitnesses refused to come forward because, according to Milk, only 20 to 25 percent of San Francisco's homosexuals (of which there were 85,000 in 1977) were open about their sexuality. The rest maintained their lifestyles in secret, thus forcing many of them to avoid the police in order to prevent being "outed."
3 The Riverside Arrests
In July 1977, two men were arrested in Riverside, California, in connection with a series of unsolved homicides involving the gay community of Redondo Beach.[9] These murders bore a striking resemblance to the Doodler crimes.
All told, the men were questioned regarding 28 homicides, all of which investigators believed stemmed from homosexual encounters. Given the stated similarities between the Redondo Beach area killings and the work of the Doodler, California experienced a veritable tsunami of homicides within the gay community between the years of 1974 and 1977.
The arrests in Riverside provided very little evidence pertaining to the Doodler case. Given that the names of the two men were never published, and also given the fact that neither was ever convicted of any offense, the crimes in Redondo Beach also remain mostly unsolved.
The first detailed description of the Doodler was released in November 1975. Along with a composite sketch, San Francisco police officials told the public that the Doodler was a young African American man who was tall (somewhere around 183 centimeters [6′] ) and slim. Similarly, the Doodler often wore a Navy watch cap, which implied that the killer may have served in the US Navy or worked as a sailor.
The police also provided the public with other details about the Doodler's modus operandi. He liked to victimize foreigners or out-of-towners. One of the three men who survived an assault by the Doodler was a European diplomat staying in San Francisco on business.[10] The Doodler stabbed this unnamed man six times before running out of the victim's apartment. The San Francisco Police Department still believes that other men may have survived an encounter with the Doodler, and cold case detectives are currently trying to locate these mysterious eyewitnesses.
1 Already Caught?
The San Francisco police were convinced that they had caught the Doodler way back in 1976. In newspaper articles and public statements, the police said that they had a viable suspect in custody but could not bring him to trial without the cooperation of eyewitnesses. The name of this person was never released, and because the necessary cooperation never came, he was ultimately let go.
Very little is known about this suspect, except that he had a history as a mental patient and had been treated several times for sex-related illnesses.[11] He was also quite candid with interrogating officers but never quite confessed to being the Doodler. All of the work done by investigators came to nothing when the three survivors refused to testify against or even identify their attacker. Such was the power of public shame back in 1977.
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NORTH BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Bernard Kalb, a former television reporter for CBS and NBC who quit his job as a State Department spokesman to protest a U.S. government disinformation campaign against Libya, died Sunday. He was 100.
His younger brother, Marvin Kalb, told The Washington Post that his death at his home in the Washington suburbs followed complications from a fall.
Bernard Kalb worked as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, CBS and NBC, wrote two books with his more famous younger brother, and served as founding anchor and panelist for the CNN media analysis show "Reliable Sources."
Always smartly dressed in a suit and orange tie often matched by an orange pocket handkerchief, Kalb was a tireless journalist who made virtually every overseas trip with five different secretaries of state before switching to the other side of the podium.
"You have a sense of being something of an eyewitness to the evolutions and eruptions of the decades since World War II," he told The New York Times in 1984, when he became a spokesman for Secretary of State George Shultz during the Reagan administration.
"You have a historical memory to call upon and you see the trust of American foreign policy and other foreign policy," he said. "And it seems to me the ability to punch up American priorities, cast of characters, issues and so forth are very valuable in this assignment."
The disinformation campaign followed U.S. airstrikes that had hit Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's compound earlier in 1986 in retaliation for a Libyan-linked terrorist attack in Germany. It was designed to make Gadhafi think he was about to be attacked again. The Washington Post exposed the campaign, which the newspaper said included leaking false information to reporters and which Kalb knew nothing about.
"I am concerned about the impact of any such program on the credibility of the United States," Kalb said at the time. "Anything that hurts America's credibility, hurts America."
New York Times columnist William Safire praised the resignation. "In his final official act, Bernard Kalb rose above 'State Department spokesman' to become the spokesman for all Americans who respect and demand the truth," Safire wrote.
In 1992 Kalb became the founding anchor of "Reliable Sources," which reported on reporters and how they handled stories. Co-host Howard Kurtz took over the show after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
In 1997 Kalb began moderating a number of panels and lectures on the press around the world for The Freedom Forum, a Washington-based foundation devoted to press freedom run by former Gannett Co. executives. He also served on a panel that monitored Israeli and Palestinian media for incitement to violence that was created as part of the failed 1998 Wye River land-for-security accord.
Kalb was born Feb. 4, 1922, in New York City, the son of Jewish immigrants. His father was a tailor from Poland, while his mother was from the Ukraine. He attended New York City public schools and graduated from New York's City College.
During World War II he spent two years in the Army, working for a camp newspaper in the Aleutian Islands alongside editor Sgt. Dashiell Hammett, author of "The Maltese Falcon" and other detective novels.
From 1946 until 1961 he worked at The New York Times, spending four months in Antarctica in late 1955 and 1956 to cover Adm. Richard Byrd's Navy expedition, Operation Deep Freeze. Later in 1956 Kalb was dispatched to Indonesia, where he developed a lasting love for Asian antiques and porcelain.
CBS hired him away from the Times in 1962 and sent him back to Southeast Asia, where he was well-known. He joined his brother covering the State Department in Washington in 1975, and they moved together to NBC in 1980.
At CBS Marvin and Bernard were known as "The Kalbs," but Bernard lived somewhat in the shadow of his younger brother.
One widely circulated, but apocryphal, story had their mother calling the CBS foreign desk in New York and saying: "Hello, this is Marvin Kalb's mother. Can you tell me where my son Bernie is?" But Bernard Kalb never seemed the least bit jealous, sometimes even introducing himself as Marvin's "kid brother."
Together they wrote an admiring 1974 biography of Henry Kissinger, "Kissinger," and "The Last Ambassador," a 1981 novel about the fall of Saigon.
Survivors include his wife, Phyllis, and their four daughters, Tanah, Marina, Claudia and Sarinah.
Associated Press writer Derek Rose contributed to this report.
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In this video, Dr. Torsten Thomas explains the primary goals of the Uncovering Genome Mysteries project.
The Help Fight Childhood Cancer researchers discuss how they're moving forward with data analysis and continuing their search for pharmaceutical partners.
The Help Fight Childhood Cancer (HFCC) project was created to look for better treatments for neuroblastoma, which is refractory among childhood cancers (meaning that it is resistant to treatment). The project's goal was to target certain cell proteins regulating cancer cell growth—such as TrkB tyrosine kinase receptor, ALK tyrosine kinase receptor, N – CYM protein and others—with the help of World Community Grid's enormous computing power, which is donated by an international community of volunteers.
Our research team conducted in-silico (computer simulation-based) drug discovery screening using World Community Grid to search through a library of three million small molecular compounds. We discovered a small molecule compound which competitively binds to the TrkB protein pocket to which BDNF (a specific growth factor) binds. The discovered molecule can thus prevent BDNF from binding to the TrkB protein and diminish cancer cell growth. This could lead to a new and improved treatment for neuroblastoma.
Subsequently, the anti-tumor effect of the compound was examined using cultured cancer cells, or human neuroblastoma transplanted into mice, and this laboratory research confirmed that this small molecular compound and possibly some others could be candidates for anticancer drugs targeting TrkB. We announced this breakthrough and published our findings in the peer-reviewed, English language journal, Cancer Medicine, in 2014.
Currently, we are conducting research to develop even more potent inhibitors by synthesizing small molecular compounds similar in structure to the compounds found using the screening. The road to developing commercial, approved new drugs is a tough task. We must find a pharmaceutical company that will conduct joint research and development and create a patentable compound so that this expensive effort is profitable. If any of you have contacts with a pharmaceutical company that may be interested in pursuing this venture, please introduce us.
Additionally, using World Community Grid to screen drug candidates, we found other small molecular compounds showing the ability to inhibit the ligand BDNF. These results were presented it in another English language journal (Neurochem International, 2016). These compounds also look promising as a remedy for depression and dementia, and similarly, we are seeking a pharmaceutical company to cooperate in research and development of these.
The N-CYM is a new protein we discovered which is implicated in neuroblastoma. A published paper about this can be found here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3879166/. Before we can screen for drug candidates, we must determine this protein's three-dimensional structure. Therefore, we are currently working on the difficult task of crystallizing the N-CYM protein so that we can perform X-ray analysis to determine the protein's three-dimensional structure. Once the three-dimensional structure of the protein is determined, we will screen to find inhibiting compounds in the Smash Childhood Cancer project, which is building on the work from this project.
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A swan attacks non-whites in England! Wow!
That Swanstika is the funniest thing I've seen in a while.
Speaking of which, there are some pigeons near where I live who only do their business on a car owned by an Indian haha!
Actually birds do have powerful senses of smell.
Time to take the 'L' out of 'White Flight'.
Wow! Just goes to show you, as the Black boxer, Cassius Clay AKA Mohammed Ali said, that birds have more sense than human beings.
That swan doesn't give a damn about being accused of racism. She is all about securing and protecting a safe place for herself and her offspring.
I wonder if the White Swan should be a White Nationalist icon in what was formerly Great Britain.
That's a great idea, Cly! Wow! it should be the symbol of the Britain First, which is I believe the splinter organization off the BNP.
I like the swanstika. Companies often use cartoon characters to make their customers more comfortable and to make criticism impossible. We could use it as well.
The swan idea is an excellent one.
Anti-racism approaching its limits. Not quite jumping the shark, but beginning to invite mainstream ridicule.
Maybe they could put a fence around us too so we dont hurt anyone. Stop the Hate. Segregate!
My little Pekinese dog didnt like Mexicans and I didnt teach him to feel that way either.
My neighbours black (yes black) Dog in England used to bark at all the non-whites (who were many), who used to walk past her front yard. Mainly smelly Indians/turdskins/pakis and some Jamaicans. It was uncanny Boris (that is his name) – would wag his tail at white folks walking past – but as soon as non-whites passed – he would go mental – with spit coming out his mouth – animals – like kids don't lie!
there is/was a youtube vid on someone's cat being shown pix of various people; no reaction to the Whites…then a pic of our dear Prez: he growls and hisses.


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Октябрьский район Витебска — исторический, культурный и промышленный центр Витебска. Образован 19 июля 1940 года.

В настоящий момент занимает площадь свыше 3500 га. Расположен на северо-востоке города. Жилые массивы района соединяют четыре проспекта и более 298 улиц и переулков протяженностью свыше 300 км.

Управление осуществляется администрацией Октябрьского района города Витебска. Глава администрации — Панфилов Юрий Анатольевич.

Адрес администрации: 210029, г. Витебск, ул. Смоленская, 9.

Население
По данным переписи 2019 года в районе проживает 118 273 человека.

Культура
На территории р-на расположена Витебская филармония, Национальный академический драматический театр им. Якуба Коласа

Образование
В Октябрьском районе находятся средняя школа номер 11 и Витебский Государственный Технологический Университет

Религия
В р-не действует 33 религиозные общины: 18 — православных, 2 — католических, 2 — евангельских христиан-баптистов, 2 — иудейские, 2 — лютеранские, 1 — греко-католическая, 1 — старообрядческая, 1 — адвентистов седьмого дня, 1 — Церковь Иисуса Христа Святых последних дней, 1 — Бахаи, 1 — Международное общество сознания Кришны, 1 — Новоапостольская церковь.

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Административное деление Витебска
Витебск
Появились в 1940 году в Белоруссии
Районы, образованные в 1940 году

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Q: Python beautifulsoup, scraping a table in a website I recently started to get interested in Web scraping via the python library beautifulsoup4, My goal is to get The data about the covid-19 cases (in Morocco is a good start); The website my info is in is : "https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/"
There is a Big Table with all the info, i've tried to do something like this :
U = 'https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/'
response = requests.get(U)
html_soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')
info = html_soup.find_all('tr', class_='even')
print(info)

But the info list is empty i tried to change classes and the Tags but it seems like i'm doing something wrong (The morrocco info is on the 30 row)
UPDATE: i used selenium to get my info, btw i use google collab so it was kinda hard but now way better
Da link for the solution in a python notebook format

A: The data is being dynamically generated via JS.  If you go into your browser and disable Javascript in the dev tools, you will see that there are no elements with <tr class="even">
You will either need to find out where the data is being obtained (via some web API) using a tool like HTTP Trace or use something like Selenium which will run the Javascript to load the HTML.

A: You want to pass a dictionary for tag attributes:
info = html_soup.find_all('tr', {'class':'even'})

A: This gave me a full list countries.
url       = 'https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/'

response  = requests.get(url)

html_soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')
info      = html_soup.find_all('a', {'class':'mt_a'})

print(info[29].text) # returns Marocco

# All the rest

for i in info:
  print(i.text)

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