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Q: Crashlytics reports on macOS but not on iOS I have an app which is available for iOS (V2.25) and macOS (V1.16). They share the same bundle identifier and the same GoogleService-Info.plist.
Both App are linked with "Crashlytics" using Cocoa Pods. The iOS App is also setup for Firebase/Analytics. The xcode project is setup as desribed in the docs: dSYm with Dwarf for all configs, the build phase is configured, the crashlytics tests are run outside the debugger.
What happens is this: The macOS app (V1.16) reports crashes to Crashlytics as expected. The iOS app (V2.25) shows up in "Latest release" and reports the number of crashes (s. 1st Screenshot), but it does NOT SHOW the crashes in the firebase "Crashlytics"! Even the version number V2.25 does not show up, (s. 2nd screenshot).
I have enabled -FIRDebugEnabled and I see the following log messages for the iOS version:

2020-05-21 20:48:26.492497+0200 Dictate[5662:1295303] [Crashlytics]
  Version 3.14.0 (144) 2020-05-21 20:48:26.492630+0200
  Dictate[5662:1295303] [Crashlytics] Running on iPhone10,5, 13.3.0
  (17C54)
      "com.twitter.crashlytics.ios" = "3.14.0"; 2020-05-21 20:48:26.628957+0200 Dictate[5662:1295494] [Crashlytics:Crash:Reports]
  Packaged report with id 'c013eae8783c40528f5519358cc88828' for
  submission 2020-05-21 20:48:26.629138+0200 Dictate[5662:1295494]
  [Crashlytics:Crash:Reports] Submitting report 2020-05-21
  20:48:26.629213+0200 Dictate[5662:1295494] [Crashlytics:Crash:Reports]
  Submitting async
  /var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/.../v3/prepared/FD496B0D-947F-40DF-9075-5CCC8E978B2B.multipartmime
  2020-05-21 20:48:26.629884+0200 Dictate[5662:1295494]
  [Crashlytics:Crash:Reports:Event] Sending event. 2020-05-21
  20:48:26.886129+0200 Dictate[5662:1295493] [Answers] Attempting to log
  app_crashed 2020-05-21 20:48:27.419903+0200 Dictate[5662:1295498]
  [Crashlytics:Crash:Reports] completed submission of
  /var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/.../v3/prepared/FD496B0D-947F-40DF-9075-5CCC8E978B2B.multipartmime
  2020-05-21 20:48:27.420920+0200 Dictate[5662:1295498]
  [Crashlytics:Crash] report submission successful

So it looks like on the app side everything is OK. On the firebase portal side something seems to be wrong, the iOS (V2.25) reports seem to be dropped silently.
Please note that the behaviour is exactly the same when I migrate to the new "Firebase/Crashlytics" instead of the older "Crashlytics"/"Fabric" !
What is going wrong here ? Any ideas ? Thanks

A: Firebaser here -
I believe the issue is that you have the same bundle identifier in the same Firebase project for both your macOS and your iOS app. This is known to cause issues with reporting in one app or the other.
The workaround here would be to have another Firebase project to separate your macOS and iOS apps (and thus use different .plist files), or to have a different bundle identifier between the two.

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Ram Eisenberg has been tasked by the city with finding ways to improve the walking experience for pedestrians. He has his work cut out for him.
I meet landscape architect Ram Eisenberg next to Gan Ha'ir Mall in Tel Aviv. Eisenberg is conducting a study for the municipality's strategic planning unit. Its aim: To find ways to improve the walking experience for the city's pedestrians.
To this end, he and his team are wandering around with a few dozen people of different ages and from different backgrounds, and hearing what they liked on their particular walk and what upset them. For now at least, I am not "footloose and fancy-free" ("The streets give him / time without any tallies. / Here and there he heads down / Small alleys" — Meir Ariel, "Wandering Idly") but am wandering on duty. Eisenberg's only request is that we walk eastward from Ibn Gabirol Street.
Where shall we go? It's been a few weeks since I last checked whether the rare acrocarpus tree in the backyard of 22 Manne Street is still intact. After that, we'll see.
On the way to Manne Street, we both feel far more threatened by the wild wheels on the sidewalk than by the wheels on the road. We cross Ibn Gabirol and within five minutes are on Manne. The acrocarpus sways tranquilly in the breeze. It recalls a mature pecan tree, but its trunk is smoother, straighter and, above all, far taller.
The tree has its origins in Kenya; there are only a very few like it in this country. On my last visit here, a third-floor resident told me it had been decided to cut the tree down, because it disturbs the adjacent buildings. Eisenberg admires the tall tree, takes several photographs of it and suggests we contact the city official in charge of trees to ensure that it will not be felled.
Eisenberg designed two of Tel Aviv's more original public gardens: Kiryat Sefer Park and Sderot Hahaskalah Park. He knows Tel Aviv well. But he didn't know the garden I showed him at 22 Manne.
"Unbelievable – a few dozen meters from Ibn Gabirol and we're in a different world," he says, thrilled by the sight of the huge flame tree, the philodendron bushes that are as carefully cultivated as in a botanical garden, the bougainvillea that rises to the height of the third floor and the red-and-white hibiscus plants.
What does it do to me? My first thought is of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger and his discussions on the feeling of "being at home" in the world. After all, even people who have no special affinity for the greenery around them take the trouble to grow a potted plant or two on their balcony.
The gardens we passed are actually an expansion of the same need to be surrounded by something green, primeval. They add to the "homeliness" of the home, of the neighborhood, of the city. There's something comforting about the cyclical nature of their budding and blossoming, about the absolute logic of their growth, which is determined by the quality of the soil and the quantity of water and light.
The second thought is of Friedrich Schiller's famous essay "On Nave and Sentimental Poetry." He begins by noting that, sometimes, different aspects of nature – a simple plant, a brook, a moss-covered stone, even the tweet of a bird – give us special pleasure. The source of that pleasure does not necessarily lie in the beauty of these objects, but rather in the clear knowledge that they exist according to unalterable laws and in eternal unity with themselves. The tinge of sadness that accompanies this pleasure arises because these things remind us of how we ourselves were in our distant childhood.
The fact that in this case we are talking about flora that is engaged in a constant struggle with the buildings all around, and survives despite everything, adds to the pleasure Schiller talks about.
What does this greenery do to me? I can still distinguish between my friends who retain a childish desire to pat a tree trunk like one pats the shoulder of a friend, and those in whom that impulse has long since receded into oblivion. Eisenberg listens and says nothing.
When we sit ourselves down in Dubnow Garden, I wonder what advice my interlocutor will be able to offer the municipality to enhance the experience of walking in the city. I wonder what power he has in the face of streets that are not wide enough, what power he can muster to counter market forces. The builders of the towers are obliged to devote a certain percentage of the grounds they are developing to a public area, but they see to it that the public space and its gardens are not accessible to all.
What can be done? I am a modest person. If one result of this afternoon will be protection for the acrocarpus tree on Manne Street — dayenu, it will have been enough.
The tour with Eisenberg took place on Thursday, August 18. I wrote this piece at the end of that week. On the following Sunday, I asked my wife to take a picture of the acrocarpus tree to accompany the piece. She came back with a picture of the tree, axed.


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Anniversary of Capitol Attack
Eric Leigh-Pink	Astrology, Presidential Predictions, psychic, psychic predictions, World predictions 2021	 6 Jan 2022 2 Minutes
All of these predictions happened before it was ever a conversation. This one I still cry at night over. I tried so hard to warn all of you and with politics standing in the way, it fell on deaf ears. At my own home I could not stop any of this. It is one of my biggest failures. We are a military family who truly believe in the ideas of our great republic. I agree with Spirit, my own neighbors trampled on the sacred foundation of this great Republic. You spit in the face of our founders, Washington, Jefferson, Adam's and then tried to brush it under the rug like nothing happened. Truth matters and I personally still stand with our founders.
Share this over the media, with your loved ones, we can alter the next January 6th event and prevent the next horror but not without you. The future can be altered. Consider what we could accomplish. The new predictions are coming very soon.
The predictions made, in some cases years before the event, and how they became reality:
World Predictions: November 3rd Nov 3rd Biden "50" 20-0 : With doubt you ensure chaos. The thief will try and take the election and make it theirs. The light on them is too bright. Their actions become overly obvious.
World Predictions 4-5-19 I had a visual of a calendar with the 6th blackened out. The Spirits pointed out I am missing parts: I had a visual of the US flag wrapped around its poll upside down. "Liberty.. which was held sacred at one time.. will be under attack.. trampled"
WORLD PREDICTIONS 2-3-20. Protest.. civil disobedience.. civil war.. fever pitch words.. Trump.. hold onto power.. in 20.. A disastrous moment.. bloody.. short.. a nation torn.. the leadership begins to fall and fall quickly.
From cruel words.. from cruel verbiage back and forth.. violence becomes the new way.
Prediction 31: The Storm Prediction 31: The Storm A dark storm is coming over the Capitol, over the White House, and the United States as a whole.
World Predictions 1-4-21 I had a visual of multiple people holding mini American flags outside the view of a window. Then with horror the view showed inside the building a man loading a rifle or large gun. There was a loud click, he was preparing.
WORLD PREDICTIONS 8-20-19 I had a visual of a red market arrow pointing down, down, down.
Spirit is confirming an already existing prediction that the economy is going to have rough period.
"As the new elections close.. the US spirals out of control .. things go down hill fast and furious on multiple fronts."
The implication at the center of this spiral was economic in nature.
Another prediction made in 2018, how their would be one president who would find himself facing impeachment twice, something historically new.
PREDICTIONS 4-11-18 "Huge scandal coming.. White house.. tit for tat.. what's in it for me.. I did you a favor now you owe me a favor.. flush for cash.. this is the scandal that will eventually be his undoing.. impeachment tried twice.. mockery..". Spirit implied that the house of cards would fall apart in July for Trump. Spirit showed a picture of Trump and then tore it. Could the message mean something else? They also showed 12 as when all things would come to a head.
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20 thoughts on "Anniversary of Capitol Attack"
6 Jan 2022 at 9:16 AM
I agree that what happened a year ago was very unfortunate and should never have happened. I watched things unfold as my heart sank, knowing that the Constitutional process would now not have a chance to proceed. From your thoughts above, I get the feeling that you are leaning towards the lie that has been spread far and wide on the national news sources. As a critical thinker, I have to wonder about why Pelosi would not allow the additional national guard that Trump requested PRIOR to that day ever occurring. I have to wonder about why so many Americans are being held in pre-trial detention without the benefit of due process and a man like Ray Epps, who was for a few days on the FBI most wanted list and is present in video after video calling for people to "go into the capital" has not been charged and is roaming freely on his ranch in AZ. I have to wonder why they will not release the 14,000 hours of video footage from inside the building and surrounding areas from that day. I have to wonder why Ashli Babbit had to lose her life at the hands of a police officer who has a history of leaving his loaded firearm in the bathroom of the capital. I have to wonder why when everyone on the left is breathlessly calling this an insurrection or a terrorist attack that no one has been charged with anything resembling insurrection, terrorism, or sedition. I have to wonder why the entire summer of 2020 was filled with burning cities at the hands of BLM and Antifa "protesters", even federal buildings were burned, and yet no federal charges or calls of insurrection on those events. I have to wonder why there are videos of people outside the capital changing clothes, and other videos showing someone inside the capital handing implements through broken windows to people in black bloc clothing. I could go on and on and on. What is happening to our country is both scary, and a disgrace. I am begging anyone who thinks everything I just wrote is anything other than truthful to please do your own research with an open mind. And please wake up. We are one election away from losing our Country, and I do not say that lightly. If the D's eliminate the filibuster to pass their voting "rights" bill, we are finished. All of you in small states will lose your voice immediately and be run by the folks of NYC, LA, Silicon Valley, and all other large cities. I am begging for you to open your minds and research. When I read the words of Spirit Eric has shared about this, I understand it to be exactly what has happened. But probably the exact opposite of how he intended it. And isn't that just the beauty of Spirit? Yes, a coup has taken place, but not the one you were expecting. Wake up people before its too late.
Eric Leigh-Pink says:
6 Jan 2022 at 10:18 AM
Hi I am not mistaken. These predictions happened. It's there and in my opinion, hard to dispute. But that's just my two cents.
With all due respect, what happened on January 6th was an attack on democracy by Trump supporters, trying to prevent a legitimate election from going through. Countless videos and testimony from that day confirm it was, in fact, a terrorist attack that is now being downplayed–and even has people outright lying about who did it.
It was an attack inspired by Trump, and he should legally be held accountable for it, as should the extremists who encouraged it and took part in it, such as the Proud Boys and Three Percenters. The people sighted at the Capitol that day were made up of known white supremacists and far-right extremists, and pretending otherwise won't solve anything.
I don't blame you, I think you really believe what you said. I think your faith is genuine–but that doesn't mean that what you believe in is genuine.
No one ever thinks they're joining an extremist group, every group thinks they're on the right side, fighting for a good cause, or doing God's will. Even ISIS and Nazis–and the extremists who attacked the capitol at Trump's behest–thought they were right, and that violence was the only solution. It's the oldest trick in the book used to justify horrible events.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Trump supporters are ISIS or Nazis, but they're throwing their trust and belief into a cause that's based on lies. Biden was elected fairly, every accusation of voter fraud was proved wrong in court–by both Republican and Democratic judges. The people who attacked the Capitol that day were violent and hate-filled, and I have no doubt that if they'd gotten hold of members of Congress, there would have been death and/or hostage takings.
Ashli Babbit's death was sad, but the man who shot her did so to defend the people trapped in the Capitol. If she had broken in without being stopped, she and the other people around her could easily have killed anyone they got hold of. She was committing a terrorist act, and the fact that she died doing it shouldn't be blamed on the officer who was just trying to protect people from a violent mob. If anything, it should be blamed on the lies that Trump told his supporters, it was his lies about voter-fraud that led to this.
I don't mean to go on and on, but it really scares me how so many people either downplay the riot, or try to say it was the FBI or ANTIFA or the Easter Bunny or whatever. It scares me that so many people believe in the lie about election fraud, that they blindly believe a man like Trump or Tucker Carlson or extremist websites and can't see how dangerous they are.
The insurrection was an attack on democracy, there's no other way to put it. The people who did it thought they were right, they thought they were patriots defending the country, they believed every lie that came out of Trump's mouth. It's not much different from the people who believed Hitler's lies about Jews and then decided that attacking them would be justified to "defend Germany". Hitler too, made them think the "enemy" would destroy their country, but anyone with any sanity should know that, in the end, his words were lies. And those lies led to innocent people dying.
People have already died in America because of similar lies–people who believed the virus was a hoax and that they shouldn't mask up have died of Covid, people who listened to Trump's "inject disinfectant" comments have died, and five people died the day he encouraged them to attack the capitol. If he keeps up with these lies, it's likely he'll encourage more of his supporters to commit violence, and it's likely more innocent people will die. I hope to God that I'm wrong.
I don't mean any disrespect to you, or people who believe differently than I do. But I feel the way Eric mentioned in his post, how he tried to warn people, but was unable to stop the attack because people turned a deaf ear. When I talk to people who support Trump's lies, I feel like I'm trying to warn them before it's too late, but nothing I point out makes a difference. It's a helpless feeling. I just want people to wake up to the threat Trump's lies pose, before he inspires another attack.
6 Jan 2022 at 12:58 PM
You are clearly not the correct audience for my comment. Please, do your research. I could have turned on MSNBC and heard everything you just regurgitated. If Trump is guilty of inciting an insurrection, surely they would have enough proof by now to lock him up given they have deemed this the "most comprehensive investigation in history" per our AG. As far as I can tell, Trump is still free. Your fear is misplaced. I have come to understand that some people's eyes will never be opened, they just continue in their willful ignorance, that is ok, no time for people like you. Enjoy your servitude.
Please don't call people ignorant because they don't share your beliefs. Please follow the rules here. The Golden Rule. Attack Trump attack Biden, but don't attack the people on this site.
sorry if that offends, but ignorance is a choice.
No offense. I just do like cruelty.
Correction; We don't like cruelty
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This isn't stuff I've "regurgitated" from the news, these are facts. Trump encouraged the mob in his speech. He waited hours to send help, hoping they would be successful. Since then, Republicans have downplayed the insurrection and/or tried to spin theories about it being ANTIFA. When there was a moment of silence held on the Capitol today, hardly any Republicans were there. All facts.
I don't know why Trump hasn't been arrested yet, he should be. I believe part of the problem is that he has powerful allies covering for him. Look at this logically–he once went on live TV and urged supporters to inject disinfectant, and did Republicans condemn his craziness? Did they warn people not to listen? No, they covered for him, like always. I have no doubt people like that are holding up the justice system now, doing all they can to keep him from being held accountable.
After all, when people called for an investigation into January 6th to be launched, what happened? Republicans refused a bipartisan investigation. The Democrats have had to go it alone, with only a few brave Republicans like the Cheneys to help. The rest covered for Trump, as always.
You have a right to your opinion, you even have a right to call me "ignorant" and tell me to "enjoy my servitude", but I'd recommend that you take a good, long look at Trump and the people he surrounds himself with. You're believing the lies of a con-man, a man who repeatedly disrespects minorities and has bragged about grabbing women by their genitals. You're supporting a man who basically threw a temper tantrum when he lost the election, who lies because he knows people will believe him, no matter what he says.
You need to read testimonies from Republicans/conservatives who disavow Trump and the extremism he's encouraged. As long as you're getting news from FOX and ultra right-wing sites, (or God forbid, Q-Anon) you will not find the truth.
Trump once bragged "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's, like, incredible." Is that the behavior of a president? No, it's the words of a dictator. The sad thing is, I'm starting to think he's right, I worry that even if Trump committed cold-blooded murder right in front of them, his supporters would either cover their ears and scream "fake news" and say it was a "crisis actor" or they'd come up with conspiracy theories about the victim being a "enemy" of the country who deserved it.
If it had been Biden or Obama who made that same comment, would you call that democratic behavior? Would you consider those words okay for a US president to say? Of course not. Trump needs to be held to the same standards as everyone else. You said my fear was misplaced. I truly wish it was. But as long as Trump can say stuff like that–and cause an attempted coup–and still get such unwavering support, then I have every reason to fear.
Cookie Time! You get a cookie, Julie gets a cookie and I get two. Here 🍪🥠🥗🍪 sorry their virtual. This way we can work together to alter tomorrows tragedy together and unified 🧑🍳
Sorry, I don't mean to get into a big fight. Whatever our differences, I think me and Julie have one thing in common–we both feel scared of the future and are frustrated. And we're probably far from the only people who feel that way. But you're right, we should be focused on altering tragedies.
Sara, agreed! I love you as my sister, another one of Gods children. We can have differing opinions, and life is so refreshing with them! I am seeking truth, as I suspect you are as well. My language is purely to shake people out of their habituated patterns of thinking. No disrespect intended. I am in great fear for what we are facing, especially for my children. They just want to grow up, have families, and live normal lives. Whatever evil has taken over our Country over the last 2 years, with this pandemic and all the disruption to the lives of children, is nothing less than evil. I would rather die than my children live under tyranny. With all Trumps faults, I believe he loves our Country, as do I. I wish you the best in your search for truth.
Thank you, I appreciate that. I know we see things very differently, but at heart, I think we all want peace, freedom, and a better world for today's children to grow up in.
I don't know how to do E-motes or post pictures on these comments, so just picture me offering a hand to shake. I wish you the best, too.
That is something we all hold love of our great country. Great cookies tasted good! 🥳👻👻👻
Hi Julie
I found your comments more insightful
than all of Eric's predictions combined
Thank-you for sharing
Cookie for you too.
I remember watching the news with my grandfather on that day and when the protesters stormed the capital I was disappointed, not truly surprised. I also remembered seeing one protester bloody and was placed on a gurney and sadly died in the hospital due to the gunshot wound to the head, not to mention four more people were killed, especially one officer who died from a heart attack.
It was one of the worst days in American history and there are more people planning on doing it again.
Look, I don't care what political beliefs people have but we're living in a world full of fear, ignorance, and hate and it seems like people are like twigs ready to snap at any moment. This pandemic brought out the worse in people but it did try to bring out the best. I want to be hopeful that 2022 would be a great year but in order to make that happen, we got to learn to leave our baggage behind, run to the sea and just play in the water! I really don't know what's going to happen when this pandemic is over but for now it's best to just take it easy and do the absolute best to be kind to one another…though not everyone is going to agree with this sentiment.
I totally agree. Thank you
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Evelyn Rose Matthei Fornet, née le , est une femme politique chilienne.

Sénatrice de 1998 à 2011, elle est ministre du Travail et de la Sécurité sociale sous la présidence de Sebastián Piñera. Elle quitte ses fonctions ministérielles après avoir été désignée candidate de la Coalition pour le changement (RN-UDI) à l'élection présidentielle de 2013, qu'elle perd au second tour face à l'ancienne présidente Michelle Bachelet.

Biographie
Evelyn Matthei est la fille du général Fernando Matthei, membre de la junte militaire dirigée par Augusto Pinochet. Elle a une formation d'économiste.

Elle commence sa carrière politique au sein du parti Rénovation nationale (RN). Lors du référendum de 1988, elle appelle à voter oui, se prononçant donc pour le maintien au pouvoir d'Augusto Pinochet. Élue députée en 1990, elle quitte RN deux ans plus tard, à la suite d'un conflit avec Sebastián Piñera, et rejoint l'Union démocrate indépendante (UDI). Elle siège à la chambre jusqu'en 1998, date de son élection au Sénat.

À partir de janvier 2011, après un remaniement opéré par Sebastián Piñera, élu président de la République l'année précédente, elle occupe la fonction de ministre du Travail et de la Sécurité sociale.

À la suite du désistement de , Evelyn Matthei est désignée candidate à l'élection présidentielle de 2013 par la Coalition pour le changement, qui regroupe RN et l'UDI. Elle est la première femme désignée comme candidate des partis de droite à l'élection présidentielle. Le 17 novembre, elle obtient 25 % à l'issue du premier tour et se qualifie pour le second, où elle affronte le 15 décembre l'ancienne présidente socialiste Michelle Bachelet (46,7 %). Celle-ci est élue par 62,7 % des voix, contre 37,3 % à Evelyn Matthei.

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How inflammatory markers refine CV risk status
Cardio-PulmonaryClinical TopicsHealthcare & TechnologyUncategorized
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) originates from atherosclerosis, a disease in which low-density lipoprotein (LDL) particles build up in the arterial wall. LDL particles are oxidized and combine with macrophages, T-lymphocytes, and other inflammatory cells to induce chronic inflammation within the artery. A growing plaque causes progressive arterial narrowing. Rupture-prone plaque contains considerable amounts of inflammatory cells, such as macrophages and T-lymphocytes.
CVD leads to acute coronary syndromes (myocardial infarction, unstable angina, or sudden cardiac death) and most strokes. Most of these events are caused by plaque rupture.
Beyond traditional risk factors
When evaluating patients with known CVD, clinicians typically look for traditional risk factors—hypercholesterolemia and other lipid disorders, hypertension, smoking, obesity, diabetes, physical inactivity, and family history. A global risk score can be calculated using the Framingham assessment tools for coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke. A patient's 10-year risk for CHD and stroke can be estimated by assigning points to certain risk factors.
But some patients with traditional risk factors experience CHD events and strokes despite treatment. Does this mean we're not treating patients aggressively enough? What are we missing in risk assessment to guide this decision?
Knowledge that atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease has led many clinicians to include inflammatory-marker testing in comprehensive risk assessment for selected patients. The most commonly measured inflammatory markers are high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) and lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 (Lp-PLA2). The latter is an especially appealing marker as it seems to be directly involved in atherosclerosis.
Evidence supporting Lp-PLA2 measurement
An enzyme secreted by macrophages and other inflammatory cells, Lp-PLA2 binds primarily to LDL in the bloodstream, where it stays inactive until LDL particles penetrate the arterial wall and are oxidized. Then Lp-PLA2 releases two toxic products—lysophosphatidylcholine and oxidized fatty acid. These proinflammatory substances trigger a cascade of events that promotes athero-sclerosis. Thus, Lp-PLA2 is considered a risk marker specific for vascular inflammation.
Clinical trials have explored the link between Lp-PLA2 and the risk of CHD events and stroke. Generally, results show a consistent and statistically significant correlation between elevated Lp-PLA2 levels and a twofold increase in risk. In their analyses, investigators statistically adjusted for traditional risk factors; thus, the risk associated with Lp-PLA2 was considered independent of other risk factors. With the strong evidence supporting Lp-PLA2 as a risk marker, the Food and Drug Administration approved the Lp-PLA2 blood test in 2005 for assessing the risk of ischemic stroke and coronary artery disease. (See Interpreting Lp-PLA2 results by clicking on the pdf icon above.)
When should Lp-PLA2 be measured?
The 2001 Adult Treatment Panel (ATP) III Cholesterol Guidelines from the National Cholesterol Education Program recommends that clinicians assess traditional risk factors for CHD and calculate 10-year CHD risk using the Framingham Risk Score (FRS) in patients with two or more risk factors. For patients with a 10-year risk of 10% to 20% (intermediate or moderate risk), ATP III recommends interventions to reduce LDL levels below 130 mg/dL. However, updated ATP guidelines in 2004 set an optional LDL goal of below 70 mg/dL for patients at very high risk.
Recently, a consensus panel of experts met to discuss how Lp-PLA2 testing could be used in conjunction with traditional risk factor assessment to determine if certain intermediate- or high-risk patients may be at even higher CVD risk and therefore require even more aggressive risk-reducing therapies. The panel's guidelines stated that inflammatory-marker testing might be used to assess the risk status of intermediate- or moderate-risk patients, and recommended such testing for patients with known CHD or a CVD risk equivalent, such as diabetes or ischemic stroke. An elevated Lp-PLA2 level would place these patients in the very high risk category with an LDL goal below 70 mg/dL. A moderate-risk patient with a high inflammatory-marker level would be reclassified as high risk, with an LDL goal adjusted to below 100 mg/dL. (See the "ATP III guidelines and risk assessment" algorithm at www.plactest.com/pdf/literature/Decision_Algorithm.pdf).
The consensus panel endorsed testing of Lp-PLA2 to assess CHD event and stroke risk in moderate-risk populations. To help eliminate the need to calculate the FRS, they provided a simplified framework based on counting traditional Framingham risk factors. Lp-PLA2 testing is recommended for any patient with two or more risk factors. Given that CHD events and strokes increase with age, patients age 65 or older with one additional risk factor should be tested. Also, most smokers and persons with elevated fasting glucose levels have at least a moderate risk and should be tested.
Patients who meet the diagnostic criteria for metabolic syndrome generally are at moderate risk. In these patients, an elevated Lp-PLA2 level further increases CVD risk; therefore, Lp-PLA2 levels should be measured.
Can therapy lower elevated inflammatory markers?
Levels of inflammatory markers decrease with weight loss (probably because excess visceral fat boosts production of inflammatory cytokines). Studies show a whole grain–enriched hypocaloric diet and increased fruit and vegetable intake can lower hs-CRP levels. In healthy adults, regular exercise is linked to lower hs-CRP levels if baseline hs-CRP is elevated. (Few studies have explored the effects of diet, exercise, and weight loss on Lp-PLA2.)
Statin medications lower not just LDL levels but hs-CRP and Lp-PLA2 levels as well. Other lipid-altering drugs, such as niacin and omega-3 fatty acids, further lower Lp-PLA2 when added to a statin.
Case study: Jasmine Carmichael
Jasmine Carmichael, age 57, is an African-American female with a family history of CHD and stroke. She has these additional CVD risk factors:
hypertension at 144/82 mm Hg on treatment with hydrochlorothiazide 25 mg daily
total cholesterol level 220 mg/dL, triglycerides 200 mg/dL, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) level 41 mg/dL, and LDL level 139 mg/dL
body mass index of 31 kg/m2 (indicating obesity)
waist circumference of 41 inches
fasting glucose level slightly elevated at 101 mg/dL
left ventricular hypertrophy on resting electrocardiogram
smokes cigarettes.
Knowing Ms. Carmichael has multiple CHD and stroke risk factors, the author and colleagues used the FRS to identify her 10-year risk for CHD events and stroke. Based on these calculations, we found she has a 10-year risk for a CHD event of 14% and a 10-year stroke risk of 13%, placing her in the intermediate-risk category. Using the simplified Lp-PLA2 criteria developed by the consensus panel, we took into account that she smokes, has several other traditional risk factors (low HDL level, hypertension, family history of premature CVD), has an elevated fasting glucose level, and meets the criteria for metabolic syndrome.
We informed Ms. Carmichael that the PLAC Test can measure her Lp-PLA2 level and help determine the best way to treat her risk factors. She agreed to the PLAC Test to determine if she is high risk and might require more aggressive risk-reduction therapies. The test showed her Lp-PLA2 level was elevated at 278 ng/mL, placing her in the high-risk category. We partnered with her to develop the following management plan:
Begin statin therapy to lower the LDL level below 100 mg/dL.
Intensify the antihypertensive drug regimen to target optimal blood pressure below 120/80 mm Hg.
Stop smoking.
Monitor fasting glucose levels.
Eat a heart-healthy diet with 500 fewer calories per day than normal, and limit sodium intake to no more than 2 g daily.
Maintain a regular exercise routine.
Risk-factor refinement
As Ms. Carmichael's case shows, traditional atherosclerosis risk factors don't entirely account for a person's risk of a CHD event or stroke. Lp-PLA2 testing should be used to refine absolute risk status and identify patients who would benefit most from amplified lifestyle changes and lipid-lowering therapies.
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If Government Doesn't Provide It, It Will Never Be Provided: The Entrenchment Fallacy
In response to my latest book, which is an explicit espousal of laissez-faire, I've already gotten a few emails and messages with the exact comments I anticipated — anticipated from the moment I first conceived the idea, in fact, because I've been fielding these very same questions for well over a decade now.
My main character's name is Kristy Reed, and today I received the following:
"Let me ask you: Did Kristy use the public libraries?"
The questioner might just as well have asked:
"Did Kristy live in government-sponsored homes when he lived on the Indian Reservation?"
Because it's exactly the same sort of question.
Or the question could also have been:
"Do the citizens of North Korea eat the food that their government provides them?"
"Did the Cambodian people live in the homes Pol Pot provided them?"
The answer is yes — because government holds a (coercive) monopoly on such things.
There's a world of difference between political power and economic power.
It is not true, however — it is patently, provably false — that if government doesn't provide it, it won't be provided.
Private libraries, like private bookstores, both of which already exist, would exist more abundantly if government weren't involved.
This illustrates perfectly the principle of entrenchment: the Entrenchment Fallacy.
It's a well-known and well-observed phenomena that in, for instance, communist regimes, people rapidly become so accustomed to government providing for them that in virtually no time at all, it becomes inconceivable to these same people — even those who were once self-sufficient — that human life can flourish without government intervention.
The same phenomena once happened with mafia protection: people got so used to it that they couldn't imagine life without it.
So the first, among many, questions I ask my government-loving interrogators:
Why stop at public libraries?
And where do you stop if the principle is that government doesn't just protect but provides?
Food, clothing, and shelter are by far the most urgent human needs. Should government provide all this?
And do you then regard the Indian Reservations as a successful government program — which, after all, the book is about?
There are 5,000 arguments against laissez faire — and every single one of them is demonstrably incorrect, predicated upon fraudulent premises.
Let me also note that laissez-faire proponents like me, who love animals and nature very much, we're the only people pressed to elaborate on precisely how our proposed system will play-out.
Democrats and Republicans all across the entire spectrum, with all their jargon and easy platitudes, they're not held to such standards — and good thing for them, because no one could ever in a million years lay out a logical argument for the elaboration of either of those systems, which are really the same system, with all its corruption and sheer waste and mushrooming bureaus and the unforeseeable red-tape-bandaids and endless fingers-in-the-dykes to plug-up the endlessly springing leaks.
Most of the questions I receive about laissez faire I've addressed innumerable times before.
Here are hyperlinks (the majority, though not all, by me) to the most common queries — and so if you're about to hammer me with hostility, your task is to first read all that you see below and process it, and if your questions have still not been answered, you may then hammer away.
Climate change and glaciers
Climate change redux
Life expectancy myths
Free-market medicine 1
Renewables and sustainable energy
Failed predictions
Over population
What about Roads?
Funding Roads
Public Roads and Highways: Bloodbaths and Endless Gridlock
Zoning: Houston — 4th Biggest City in America — has No Zoning Laws
Privatize the Safety Net 1
Articles of the Confederation
Where Does Government Come from — and Why?
How Human Progress and Increased Populations Have Made the World Cleaner and Better
Recycling and waste disposal
Industry and the Impossibility of Centrally Planning economies
Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, "Why I Left Greenpeace"
Socialism, Collectivism, Environmentalism
Twentieth Century Hong Kong: a Textbook Example of Laissez-Faire Success
Socialism, Communism, and Welfare Statism: Defining the Terms
Now, then:
For the record, I love teachers — I honestly believe teaching is among the noblest of professions — and I also love countless people, men and women alike, who are government employees.
People who work in or for government, including teachers, wouldn't be out of work without government, but just the opposite:
They'd have more and better to choose from.
Emergency medical care — open-heart surgery, renal failure, you-name-it — does not require government.
Did you know in the 19th century, they sold insurance against poverty — and it worked?
Did you know that in the 19th century, the so-called safety net was primarily private charity — like the Shriners and other lodges and organizations, religious and otherwise — and that it, too, worked well? (No, people weren't dying in the streets for want of emergency surgeries.)
This country prospered for 140 years without a Federal Reserve or an national income tax, both of which are barely 100 years old, though now thoroughly entrenched, as is social security, medicare and medicaid, all of which are even younger.
On the subject of species extinction, which is a subject near and dear to me, I want to first note that over 99 percent of species that have ever existed on planet earth are now extinct and they went extinct before humankind was ever in the picture.
Please think about that for a long moment.
The second thing to note is that largely (though not exclusively) due to privatization and private habitat reserves and stewardship, many, many species have been pulled from the brink of extinction. Elephants, rhinos, tigers, pandas, albatross, many whale species, and countless other creatures are now flourishing. Quoting the ecologist Stuart Pimm:
"The overall rate of extinctions has been reduced by 75 percent…. A number of ecologists and paleontologists believe that the claim that humans are causing a mass extinction is hyperbolic."
And as Stewart Brand notes:
"No end of specific wildlife problems remain to be solved, but describing them too often as 'extinction crises' [i.e. noble cause corruption] has led to a general panic that nature is extremely fragile or already hopelessly broken. That is not remotely the case. Nature as a whole is exactly as robust as it ever was — maybe more so."
Here's a fantastic article on private habitat and how it protects animals.
Freedom and laissez faire promote innovation, technology, private stewardship, and human progress — in no small measure because laissez faire promotes so much economic gain.
I know no serious government-lover, even die-hard communistic-socialists, who at this point deny that laissez faire creates vastly greater wealth (they object to laissez faire for other reasons) — and on that point, it's critical to note that as long as the capital base of a society remains low, the means of dealing with societal issues remains proportionately low.
This is an absolutely vital principle.
I ask you to never lose sight of it.
There's a reason that America, vilified as she is by so much of the world, still gives by FAR the most foreign aid to the entire world. There's a reason that only America can afford such trillion-dollar extravagance, year in year out, decade after decade.
John D. Rockefeller and Henry Flagler, who founded Standard Oil, once held over 90 percent of all oil sales in the United States. This is called a non-coercive monopoly.
There's never been a proven case of so-called Predatory Pricing — or "cutting-to-kill" — which is another anti-laissez-faire myth, another urban legend, totally false and provably so.
Standard Oil (like Walmart today) kept its prices at rock-bottom precisely because Rockefeller understood that if he jacked up his prices, competitors would come in and he'd lose his share of the market.
Only coercive monopolies — i.e. government monopolies — can fix prices.
The real point, though, is that nobody — not John D. Rockefeller, not Henry Flagler, not anybody — could have foreseen that because of laissez-faire and the innovation it fosters, the competitor who would put the biggest hit on his oil-market was not in the oil business at all.
Do you know who it was?
Thomas Edison and his lightbulb, which abolished kerosene and other oil-burning light. (Petroleum, by the way, abolished whale oil.)
It's called creative destruction.
In a laissez-faire system, consumers, who pay their hard-earned money for the things they want, always determine the success or failure of a given idea or product or service.
If you allow people the freedom to innovate, invent, and profit from their inventions and creations, there are no limits to what will be created.
Today, Thomas Edison's lightbulbs would perhaps not even come about because he and his staff weren't wearing the proper government-required lab-goggles, or Thomas Edison and his employee Nikolai Tesla were in breach of labor-code for working too many consecutive hours.
Just because government currently provides it does NOT mean that without government, it won't be provided. In fact, it's the opposite:
Government, which by definition is an agency of force, cannot produce a SINGLE thing without first either taxing, borrowing, or printing — or all three.
Government is for this reason inherently wasteful and inefficient.
Remember also that because of entrenchment, the majority of people in this country once believed that we could never successfully privatize the mail.
Now answer this honestly:
If you must mail something which absolutely, positively has to be there overnight, whom will you most trust? The U.S. Postal Service or FedEx or UPS?
And where of those places would you rather go to wait in line?
And do you want to wait in line for urgent healthcare as you wait in line at the DMV?
I'll close with a brief quote from a book I recently read: Enlightenment Now — by left-winger Steven Pinker:
The "population bomb" defused itself. When countries get richer and better educated, they pass through what demographers call the demographic transition. Birth rates peak and then decline, for at least two reasons. Parents no longer breed large broods as insurance against some of their children dying, and women, when they become better educated, marry later and delay having children. Fertility rates have fallen most noticeably in developed regions like Europe and Japan, but they can suddenly collapse, often to demographers' surprise, in other parts of the world. Despite the widespread belief that Muslim societies are resistant to the social changes that have transformed the West, Muslim countries have seen a 40 percent decline in fertility over the past three decades, including a 70 percent drop in Iran and 60 percent drops in Bangladesh and in seven Arab countries.
The other environmental scare from the 1960s was that the world would run out of resources. But resources just refuse to run out. The 1980s came and went without the famines that were supposed to starve tens of millions of Americans and billions of people worldwide. Then the year 1992 passed and, contrary to projections from the 1972 bestseller The Limits to Growth, the world did not exhaust its aluminum, copper, chromium, gold, nickel, tin, tungsten, or zinc. In 2013 the Atlantic ran a cover story about the fracking revolution entitled "We Will Never Run Out of Oil." Humanity does not suck resources from the earth like a straw in a milkshake until a gurgle tells it that the container is empty. Instead, as the most easily extracted supply of a resource becomes scarcer, its price rises, encouraging people to conserve it, get at the less accessible deposits, or find cheaper and more plentiful substitutes.
This idea, that environmental protection is a problem to be solved, is commonly dismissed as the "faith that technology will save us." In fact, it is a skepticism that the status quo will doom us — that knowledge and behavior will remain frozen in their current state for perpetuity. Indeed, a naive faith in stasis has repeatedly led to prophecies of environmental doomsdays that never happened.
Did Kristy — my main character — use public libraries? Not really. He went to bookstores, new-and-used. He preferred them. He preferred private libraries — preferred voluntarily paying a minuscule amount ($20.00 yearly, unlimited books) for a private-library card, with money he'd saved from not having to pay compulsory taxation.
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there is no baby yet, in case that is what you are here to see, but that doesn't mean things have been boring, oh no.
so although there isn't a wee one in my arms yet, and my bladder is still under attack, things are alright over here.
i like the first picture better. i think marko could have a promising future in the police force.
thanks for the bread by the way.
oh my GEBUS, I like totally took a double take, he totally looks I don't know, like a totally different person in the first picture. Wow, and that last picture, they look like their in a story book.
Oh my! Well, at least Marko isn't an actor who prefers the facial hair school of acting like my dear one. I had to live with a moustache even skivvier than that one for over a month. Yuck.
by the way m, i can relate - my man is definitely from facial hair school of acting. the grimier the better. maybe we could start a forum - partners against moustache acting. do you think we are enablers or just that we are secretly attracted to these wiggly, dead cells in all their dirty, disgusting glory?
libragal-a support/lobby group would be great! PAMA would have many, many members I'm sure. Secretly attracted? Maybe...but only for the beards. The moustaches? Absolutely not!


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April 10, 2019, 2:00 PM to 3:45 PM EDT
PIIE Webcast, Washington, DC
Robert B. Zoellick (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University)
Robert Zoellick, former World Bank president, participated in a conversation on "World Bank Transition: What Could Be Done?" at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) on April 10, 2019. Marcus Noland, PIIE executive vice president and director of studies, moderated the discussion and subsequent question-and-answer session.
Zoellick, a member of the Institute's Board of Directors and its Executive Committee, is senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He was president of the World Bank Group from 2007 to 2012 and US trade representative from 2001 to 2005.
PIIE and Caixin Global also organized a separate discussion held the same day, China: Economic Growth and Opening Up, with Zhu Min, former deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund.


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Policy B1007 - Emeritum Designation (Revised)
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Policy F1006 - Academic Program Review (Revised)
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