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Aging brings a variety of natural changes in the body, including significant hormonal fluctuations. Shifting hormone levels can trigger uncomfortable symptoms with age, like fatigue, weight gain, poor focus, and low libido.
Understanding age-related hormone changes (and the solutions available to treat them) can bring clarity and comfort to the aging process. Read on to learn more!
How Female Hormones Change With Age
Around the age of 50, the ovaries start producing less estrogen and progesterone until menopause, when production halts completely. These are the primary female sex hormones, and they affect reproductive function, mood, bone health, fertility, and menstruation. The pituitary gland attempts to make up for declining estrogen and progesterone levels by making more FSH – follicle-stimulating hormone.
These hormonal changes can cause a range of symptoms, including:
- Hot flashes
- Vaginal dryness
- Painful intercourse
- Disrupted sleep
- Low libido
How Male Hormones Change With Age
While men don’t go through menopause, they undergo a different stage of hormonal change: andropause. Andropause refers to the notable drop in testosterone production that many men experience in older age. Low testosterone levels in men can cause:
- Decreased muscle mass
- Poor stamina
- Low bone mineral density
- Low libido
- Erectile dysfunction
- Poor concentration and memory
Managing Age-Related Hormone Changes
Thankfully, it’s possible to alleviate symptoms of age-related hormone changes. At The Center for Natural & Integrative Medicine, we implement many strategies to create personalized treatment plans for hormonal imbalances, including:
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A gender-equality lens on rebuilding Ukraine
If the reconstruction of Ukraine is to result in sustainable development and bring tangible benefits to all Ukrainians, the principles of “building-back better” need to take into account the specificities of gender in the reconstruction process.
Researchers from the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and the Forum for Research on Gender Economics (FROGEE) together with other gender economics experts are releasing the policy paper “Rebuilding Ukraine: the Gender Dimension of Reconstruction” on International women’s day 2023 to highlight the importance of a gender perspective in some of the focus areas of the CEPR Report on rebuilding Ukraine. The authors argue that if the reconstruction is to result in stable, sustainable development and bring tangible benefits to all Ukrainians, the principles of “building-back better” need to take into account the specificities of gender. Arguments build on the growing literature developed initially in the area of public sector budgeting, which highlights the crucial role of the gender focus to achieve economically efficient as well as a socially just allocation of public resources.
The gender dimension in budgetary planning
The principles developed in the gender budgeting approach have in the past decades been applied to central and local budget expenditure planning as well as in other extraordinary contexts involving public funding, such as conditions of post-disaster and post-conflict reconstruction. Before the Russian aggression in February 2022, Ukraine was one of the countries which took a number of initiatives to include the gender dimension in budgetary planning. The concept of gender budgeting is well rooted in Ukrainian public policy making and its principles should thus come naturally to key policy making institutions in the discussion of plans for the country’s reconstruction.
The paper highlights the following:
Outlining the key principles of gender budgeting drawing on the existing literature and examples of successful implementation of gender budgeting at central and local government level.
Examples of how gender budgeting has been applied in the case of allocation of public funds in extraordinary conditions of post-conflict and post-disaster reconstruction.
The record of the Ukrainian government concerning the implementation of gender budgeting during peace times, prior to the Russian invasion. This is followed by a detailed discussion of how the principles of gender budgeting can in the future be applied in the realisation of the reconstruction and recovery plan for Ukraine, going through the physical environment, human capital, and governance.
(Please note that the full policy paper will be published on Tuesday, 7th of March, on the SITE website and the FREE Network website! Please contact the authors below for further information.)
For more info please contact the following researchers:
Pamela Campa, Associate Professor at SITE.
Phone: +46 (8) 736 9686
Mobile: +46 72 449 80 24
Maria Perrotta Berlin, Assistant Professor at SITE.
Phone: +46 (8) 736 9690

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The College has urged the UK government to do more to help vulnerable children in the refugee crisis.
The key health challenge of encouraging people around the world to be more active could be addressed with a series of ideas outlined in a new report.
The Academy has launched the 'choosing wisely' campaign aimed at reducing the number of unnecessary medical procedures.
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow welcomes the decision from the Court of Session to move forward with the Scottish Government’s Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) policy for alcohol.
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow joins road safety groups and emergency services to call for lower drink driving limit.
Each year we mark the anniversary of the founding of the College and pay tribute to its Founder, Peter Lowe, with a service at Glasgow Cathedral.
A new report on the impact of no minimum pricing for units of alcohol was published today by the Alcohol Health Alliance (AHA).
Dr Steve Graham has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Steve takes over from Mr John Cooper who left the College in August.
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow welcomes the BMA's plans to host a symposium on patient care.
The new Sepsis toolkit from the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) provides a collection of tools, knowledge, and current guidance to support the identifying and appropriate management of patients with sepsis.
World leaders at the UN signaled an unprecedented level of attention to curb the spread of infections that are resistant to antimicrobial medicines (AMR).
The College’s ambitious campaign to raise £50,000 to support medical training in Malawi was officially launched on 3 September with completion of the “5 ferry challenge”.
The President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Professor David Galloway, has called for an urgent return to talks between the British Medical Association and the UK Government to avoid industrial action by junior doctors in England.
The College has launched an ambitious fundraising campaign to support medical training in Malawi.
We are supporting the #missingtype global awareness campaign to highlight the importance of giving blood and knowing your blood group.
The Joint British Diabetes Societies for Inpatient Care (JBDS-IP) is inviting health professionals to submit entries to this competition to find the best joint pharmacy and diabetes team initiative to improve insulin and prescribing safety in hospital.
As Obesity Action Scotland marks its first anniversary, Chair Andrew Fraser discusses how to tackle the obesity epidemic in Scotland.
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Royal College of Surgeons of England have issued a statement expressing disappointment at the current status of junior doctors’ contract negotiations in England
The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) has published a new national clinical guideline for the assessment, diagnosis and interventions for children, young people, adults and older adults with autism spectrum disorders.

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"With fascinating characters and pungent dialogue, this spirited, rollicking mystery crackles with danger and excitement when Atlanta journalist/detective Samantha Adams accepts an invitation to visit the Big Easy--New Orleans at the height of Mardi Gras."
In a small town in upstate New York, a lonely journalist named Sally works to expose the corrupt local sheriff, and in the process, she falls in love with a rich, married man and stumbles onto a murder.
Lucy is asked by her friend Sue Finch to help plan the wedding of Sue's daughter to an Internet millionaire. When the groom's body is found floating beside his yacht, Lucy's not convinced this was an accident. Soon, Lucy finds herself contemplating her own funeral as she launches a harrowing pursuit of a killer.
Robin Hudson, a reporter for the All News Network, overcomes a loathsome boss and a dead-end career when she discovers that the murder of her gynecologist may be connected to random shootings at her network.
A hip but frustrated advice columnist for the woman's lifestyle mag Zeitgeist, Molly dreams of becoming a full-time crusading girl reporter. When a friend's fiancee is murdered, and he becomes the prime suspect, she is asked to help investigate.

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Bauman Blasts Mayor on Water Street Chaos
Alderman wants stronger actions. "The mayor is basically whistling past the graveyard."
Alderman Robert Bauman said he knew there was a problem with unruly crowds in the Water Street entertainment district when Milwaukee Police Department captain James Campbell called him on a Sunday morning.
“I usually call them,” he said during a Public Works Committee meeting on Wednesday morning.
“The citizens have more guns than the cops at this point,” said Bauman, paraphrasing another concerned caller. Many in the crowd are believed to be under the legal drinking age and not going into the bars themselves. But they’re drinking in the street and fights have repeatedly broken out.
“Next week, homicide. Last week, shootings,” said Bauman, summarizing a rapidly escalating issue that started Memorial Day weekend.
The police department has relied on a strategy of swarming the area with officers on foot and horseback, but videos circulating via social media show officers taking a non-aggressive approach and minutes of a strategic meeting of downtown stakeholders obtained by Urban Milwaukee also suggests that’s the approach being used.
“For all the citizens watching out there, when there are 200 cops in downtown Milwaukee, that means there are 150 not in neighborhoods,” said Bauman. “If you call for service on a Saturday night, good luck getting a response because they’re Downtown policing teenagers.”
But Bauman, who has repeatedly expressed frustration that Mayor Tom Barrett isn’t involving the council in a response to the issue, has a different strategy to address the problem.
“I do not want to send police in with a zero-tolerance policy and try to arrest 1,000 people,” said Bauman. “I would rather disrupt transportation patterns.”
He said he wants it to be inconvenient to get to the area late at night, deterring the crowd from forming.
“It seems to me one approach is to deal with how people are getting there,” said the alderman. He said they didn’t think they were walking or taking the bus. “That car has got to be parked somewhere.”
Bauman said he would like to see towing of more than 200 vehicles parked per night, including those without license plates. That would involve more DPW staff issuing citations to make vehicles tow-eligible and more tow trucks on standby.
But Woznick said there are limits to that strategy, including that people start moving vehicles when they see the tow trucks in action. DPW would have trouble assigning more parking checkers to the effort without causing staffing shortages at other times, but the department is already handing off the citation effort to police after 10 p.m. because of threats to employees.
He said the department is already looking for any violation, including unregistered vehicles or missing plates, and tow trucks closely follow the checkers to speed up the effort.
The vehicles being towed are being taken to side streets instead of a tow lot, reducing turnaround time. But there is a cost to calling in more trucks. Woznick said the city’s agreement with contractors requires a $100-per-hour payment if the truck driver doesn’t get a tow when on city-initiated standby.
Polenske said he believes progress is being made. “This last week was really the first weekend we started that operation at eight o’clock, previously it was after 10,” said the commissioner. “It was more effective this past weekend.” But he said it would take multiple weekends to have an impact.
“There is no indication it’s going to get any better any time soon,” said Ald. Mark Borkowski.
“That’s my concern,” said Bauman. “I think the mayor is basically whistling past the graveyard here.”
Bauman said he thought Barrett’s plan amounted to hoping the issue goes away on its own.
“Somebody’s got to lead and that’s the mayor,” he said.
“Officers will ask people who are carrying open intoxicants and/or using illegal drugs to stop doing that. They will not be using a heavy hand to enforce,” read Bauman.
He said it equated to telling the police to stand down. “I have a funny suspicion that is very frustrating to [them],” he said.
“Bouncers/security from bars should have prominent clothing that identifies them as such and are asked to also politely inform people that they are breaking the laws if they see open intoxicants, etc,” reads Williams-Smith’s notes from a meeting that, according to Bauman, included 50 stakeholders.
The alderman noted that Milwaukee Downtown has posted signs listing what behaviors are illegal. Polenske declined to defend the effectiveness of the signs.
“That conveys a sense that we just hope this blows over,” said Bauman.
But the alderman has another idea: fence the area off like the Milwaukee Bucks do with the Deer District during games. Checkpoints could then be used for crowd control, and to remove weapons and carry-ins. Bridges could also be raised to limit traffic flows.
He asked Polenske if the city had possession of the elaborate fencing used to protect the Wisconsin Center during the Democratic National Convention.
The commissioner said no, it was rented from a contractor. And even if the city could get it again, it would take time. An effort by DPW to lease barricades for placement between the sidewalk and a large surface parking lot at the northeast corner of N. Water St. and E. Juneau Ave. took at least five days to be installed by a contractor. Too late for this weekend.
“You made some great suggestions Alderman Bauman, but you have to be prepared for the consequences of that,” said DPW director of operations Danielle Rodriguez. “You are now trapping people.”
“This conversation is probably long overdue,” said Ald. Jose G. Perez, but he said he wanted it to be clear that the message wasn’t don’t come Downtown. It was don’t come Downtown if you are going to stand in the street and break the law.
Perez said more discussion was needed because Water Street wouldn’t be the end of the problem. He said a smaller, but similar, issue occurred in his district near W. Historic Mitchell St. last year.
Earlier this year the city also shut down “Club Midtown,” an unpermitted, open-air party that was taking place in surface parking lots at the Midtown shopping center. One night saw more than 300 shots fired.
“There needs to be a sense of urgency here,” said Bauman.
The committee meeting was the first where council members have publicly discussed the issue with administration officials. A Public Safety & Health Committee scheduled for Thursday morning includes no mention of the issue on its agenda.
Want to read more on the topic? Barrett answered questions on the topic during a media briefing Tuesday.
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An Associated Press dispatch from New Orleans gives a statement made by General G. T. Beauregard, which would seem to settle the dispute. General Beauregard' s statement also discloses that another prominent citizen of New York was concerned in the preliminaries to the bombardment—Banker A. R. Chisholm, of No. 61 Broadway.
General Beauregard denies Major Gibb's claim and points out that Captain George S. James, who was in charge of Fort Johnson, where General Beauregard was in command of the Confederate forces, fired the first shot. The General wrote to Colonel Chisholm about the affair, calling attention to Major Gibb's claim, and Colonel Chisholm sent back a letter, which, he said yesterday, was his recollection of the occurrence. Colonel Chisholm wrote:
COLONEL CHISHOLM'S STATEMENT.
"My recollections of the firing of the first or signal gun on Fort Sumter April 12, 1861, are as follows: First, as my private boat and six negro oarsmen, with myself as your aide-de-camp, were the principal means of communication between you and the forts on the islands around Charleston harbor, it fell to my lot, in company with Senator James Chestnut and Captain Stephen D. Lee, afterwards lieutenant-general, to deliver to Major Robert Anderson, in command of the United forces in Fort Sumter, your final note for the demand of the surrender of that work, and the specific authority for us to notify Major Anderson that your guns would not open on him if he would agree not to fire on our batteries as on a previous visit to Fort Sumter under a flag of truce. He had stated to us that he was about starved out. General Roger A. Prvor, who was on a visit to Charleston, accompanied us. After being detained in the guardroom of the fort, we notified Major Anderson that we could not wait any longer for his reply. He then came from the consultation with his officers to the guard-room, and stated to us that he would not agree not to fire on our battery, that his flag had been fired upon twice, and if this was done again, he would open his batteries. This left us no alternative but to carry out General Beauregard's instructions, which were that his batteries would open on Fort Sumter in an hour.
CAPTAIN JAMES THE MAN.
"Major Anderson said to us: 'Gentlemen, I will await your fire.' With Captain Foster he accompanied us to the outside of the sally-

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Nowhere is the economic impact of the German energy transition more evident than in Bavaria where land owners and farmers have taken advantage of the new incentives to become “prosumers”. In this interview that Paul Hockenos conducted with Josef Goeppel, a conservative member of the Bundestag from Bavaria, it becomes clear how German traditional conservatives are grasping the relevance of the Energiewende.
Fifteen years ago, processes were set in motion that would turn Germany’s energy market on its head. The main catalysts: liberalization of the energy market and passage of the Renewable Energy Resources Act. Since then, Germany’s energy market has been transformed from one in which four giant utilities companies and several dozen small municipal power companies ruled the roost, to today when Germany’s decentralized energy production includes around 3.5 million mostly small and medium-sized energy producers. Nowhere is the economic impact of this metamorphosis more evident than in Bavaria where land owners and farmers have taken advantage of the new space and incentives to become “prosumers,” above all with photovoltaic and bio-energy, but also of late with wind power, too.
Josef Goeppel, 62 years old, is a German parliamentarian from central Franconia in Bavaria and a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavaria-based sister party of Angela Merkel’s ruling Christian Democrats (CDU). He was the first in his traditionally arch-conservative party to grasp the relevance of the Energiewende, or clean energy transition, for his constituents and party. “This happened as the result of a powerful mass movement from below,” he told Berlin-based journalist Paul Hockenos. Goeppel is one of Germany’s staunchest proponents of renewables, and as such is often at odds with his CSU colleagues and even with the Merkel government. Hockenos spoke with him in his Bundestag office in Berlin.
Mr. Goeppel, you’re known in Germany for your strong support of the Energiewende and renewable energies. Are you alone in your party?
I was at one time, but not anymore. The Energiewende initiated a broad shift in thinking in the CSU. This happened as the result of a powerful mass movement from below that demanded it. In southern Germany, Bavarians and others jumped on the possibilities posed by renewable energy production. You hardly see a single house these days without at least one solar panel on the roof.
Well, this shift in perspective seems to have impacted some in the CSU more than others. Most of the party is not of your opinion…
We have to keep in mind that Germany’s previous energy production regime, namely one dominated by big, centralized power plants, evolved over 60 years. And in the minds of some politicians, this ossified to the extent that they can’t imagine an alternative to it. But with the expansion of renewables, we’ve now got a completely different form of electricity production, one dominated not by big power plants but by much smaller, decentralized energy production. This is difficult for some people to accept, still, which is why there are still differences of opinion on the matter in the CSU and other parties, too. Over the decades, a certain mentality has set in that big is reliable and good. It’s difficult to convince them that energy production that is dominated by small, diverse producers is also reliable.
Is this why on energy matters the position paper from the CSU’s most recent party congress in Wildbad Kreuth earlier this year looked much like the ones before it?
If you mean by that that the guiding principles of our energy plank – reliability, cost effectiveness, and environment-friendly – haven’t changed, then you’re right. But behind this, things really are changing. In the old days, our power system was much like television programming of the day: There were a handful of major channels and you watched what they gave you. Now, the energy market is more like the Internet: you can choose from many different offers, get and provide feedback, and more. This is the way energy is going, too. And, as I said, some are still in the process of grasping this fundamental transformation. But there’s no going back to the TV programming of the past anymore.
As for your constituents in central Franconia, are their interests limited to photovoltaic energy production?
This is where they began but now there’s also biogas production and ever more wind turbines. My constituency is among those with the most biogas production units per inhabitant in Germany. The reason that so many Germans are interested in pursuing renewable energy is a simple one: It is the desire for independence from big companies. They put up solar panels in order to win this independence. This is the most important thing, not simply profit. This will to be independent is a strong motif in conservative thinking, and above all among farmers in rural areas. In political terms, German political conservatism is being underpinned with a new idea. So it’s the case that in some constituencies, the voters have a completely different attitude to clean energy than that of their elected representatives.
It seems to me that the Energiewende is currently experiencing a backlash. Negative media about prices and grids and other issues dominates, not good news, although there is plenty of reason to cheer, too. Do you see it this way?
Yes, this is the case. But the most recent attempt by the opponents of the Energiewende to turn it back was the last of its kind that will be possible during this administration. This attempt failed and next year there’s going to be a different coalition in office in Germany. And then politically there’s going to be a definitive breakthrough for the Energiewende.
But why this backlash? In the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster, when Chancellor Merkel declared the Energiewende, there was a feeling of pride and optimism around the transition. Then, about a year ago, the mood changed, at least as it was being reported in the German media. How to you explain this shift?
Because the old power companies that used to dominate the markets understood that their very livelihood was at stake. In the press just the other day, there was an interview with the director of a municipal utility in northern Germany who said that “in ten years, E.ON [a major German power company with extensive holdings in fossil and nuclear fuels] won’t exist anymore.” This fear on the part of the old energy regime is behind this campaign. But it was unsuccessful and the Energiewende is going forward in 2013. You can see it by the new turbines that are being installed across the country. And just a week ago, on April 18, a new record was set: on a workday more than 50 percent of the entire country’s electricity was generated by wind and solar power! That’s a signal.
The Merkel government’s positions on Energiewende-related issues puzzle me. Sometimes, it is solidly pro-Energiewende, other times against, and very often it’s even divided within itself, take the recent effort to bolster the EU Emissions Trading Mechanism. Environment Minister Peter Altmaier was for it, Economy Minister Philipp Roesler against. In the end, the center-right MEPs voted down modifications that would finally make it effective. All Merkel had to do was pick up the telephone and call them; they’d have done her bidding. But she didn’t and now a key piece of the puzzle remains missing.
I was deeply disappointed by Ms. Merkel’s passive stance on this matter. Nevertheless, I’m certain that Ms. Merkel, who is a physicist, understands the technical essence of the Energiewende and that it can’t be turned back. This is why it was the chancellor herself who stopped the recent attempt by her own ministers to undermine the Energiewende.
Let’s look beyond the autumn vote this year, since it is unlikely that much is going to happen on the policy level between then and now. What will the priorities be?
Most important is a new legislative framework for the energy market. We have to reorganize the market around the small-scale energy producers. This means that the small producers will have to make it their task to supply a reliable service. Here’s an example from my district: the solar panels that supply energy during the day and more during the summer are supplemented by wind turbines that generate power at night and more during the winter. Then we have the biogas plants, which have to be configured so that they will fill in when both sun and wind are low. The producers have to get used to providing a reliable supply at regular times. Only then will they get a good price for their energy. We’re already moving toward that goal right now. The consumers can have contracts with, for example, solar plants in their neighborhoods or virtually over the internet or even produce it themselves. But then the rest that they need they have to buy at a high price. This means that the electricity prices will fluctuate quite a bit. They’ll be a baseload supply from renewables. But, say in February in the night, when there’s nothing from wind and solar, then it may be that I’ll have to pay 40 or 50 cents a kilowatt. This will then also inspire new innovation, like in storage capacity, to find a cheaper way of bridging the low-load hours of wind and PV.
There’s going to have to be a new mentality among energy consumers, too. Energy has to be managed. This requires more individual responsibility. House owners too are going to have to look into ways to better manage their demand. Energy is going to be an issue which ordinary citizens are going to have to engage with, in a way no society has ever had to before. In terms of environmental protection, this is very welcome.
You mentioned the need for back-up capacity to fill in when sun and wind are low. Would you consider subsidies or even a feed-in tariff for the likes of gas plants, which are currently doing this job but finding it very hard to make ends meet in light of their limited hours of production?
When we have a new energy market based on renewables, then gas works aren’t going to need their own special laws. Rather, in the few hours that they generate electricity, they’ll get such a high price that it will make it worthwhile for them. That’s the free market! I tell my adversaries: I’m the one who’s for the real free market on this issue. You with your old mentality are stuck in planned-economy thinking.
What about these bigger projects like offshore wind power or Desertec, will they contribute significantly to Germany’s Energiewende?
The essence of renewable energy is small-scale production dispersed across the entire country. Bavaria is striving to produce a full 50 percent of its own energy in the near future. The other half we want to buy from northern and eastern Germany. As for Desertec, I think it’s going to take a long time to get up and running. In underdeveloped places like Morocco, Libya, and Tunisia, first we have to help them build up renewable energy production in order to win the trust of the people there. It would be a fatal mistake for us to produce electricity for our factories when there’s 50 percent joblessness there. That won’t work.
Last question, is a Christian Democrat-Green coalition a possibility in autumn?

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Wrecked in Weymouth
July 20, 2019 - July 21, 2019| £215
Four dives, four wrecks, UK diving at it’s best!
We have teamed up with Divercity Scuba and one of the local skippers to create a dive weekend worthy of UK divers. No ego’s here, just people diving for fun. You can dive as a recreational diver (range 30-40m), or go tech with twins and stages or rebreathers. You will need to have advanced open water or equivalent and will benefit from a deep spec and some UK diving experience to come on this trip (people new to UK diving should look at the Intro To UK Diving trips first). We suggest driving down on Friday evening so you are refreshed and ready to go early Sat morning. We start with a local shake down dive to make sure we have ironed out our issues then go on to some of our deeper favourites. This is RIB diving meaning we come back between dives for fills, so you can make the most of your gas without having to worry about jeopardising your second dive. Cost is £215 for all four dives and B&B accommodation sharing a twin room in a hotel right next to the dive centre. If you want a single, this can be arranged for a supplement. Kit can be hired through us
Morning Local dive such as Pulpit Rocks/Dredger/Torpedo Range
Afternoon M2 or Sidon 28-21m
Morning Frognor 30- 35m
Afternoon Fennel or Lulworth Banks
You are welcome to join us for dinner at The Harbour lights for a delicious meal in the evening on the Sat evening, or explore Weymouth and Portland for yourselves.

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Voters in Virginia sent a resounding message on Tuesday: don’t mess with parents.
Parents have had enough of politicians and media outlets trying to sideline families, and they're taking back control of their children’s education. The favorite in this week's Virginia gubernatorial election, Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe, infamously said in a debate that he doesn’t “think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” Yet after a surprise victory, the “parents matter” slogan of his victorious Republican rival, Glenn Youngkin, may become a national rallying cry in the months to come.
But the backlash has been brutal.
An MSNBC article on Wednesday stated that a “contingent of angry, willfully ignorant white people was the key ingredient needed to elect a GOP governor in Virginia for the first time since 2009.” Yet the article completely dismisses the fact that these purportedly “ignorant white people” at the same time also voted in as lieutenant governor the commonwealth’s first African American woman ever elected to statewide office, as well as a Latino attorney general.
Far from being ignorant, AP VoteCast survey data released this week reveal that many of the Virginia voters who elected Youngkin are highly educated. And, at least according to preliminary exit polls, more Latinos favored the Republican than his Democratic contender. What many of these voters have in common is a disdain for politicians who insult parents and seek to silence them.
Over the past several months, Virginia parents have been concerned about various education policies being proposed or implemented in the state’s public schools. In June, a contentious school board meeting in Loudon County over critical race theory curriculum ended with an arrest. And in August, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled against Loudon County Public Schools after they fired a gym teacher who refused to refer to transgender students by their chosen pronouns.
Rather than listening to and respecting parents’ curriculum concerns and desire for schools to concentrate on reading, writing, and arithmetic over identity, politicians such as McAuliffe offend and alienate parents. Parents in Virginia voiced their discontent at the ballot box. Other parents may now feel more emboldened to speak out against the divisive ideology and controversial practices seeping into schools across the country.
Parents Reclaim Their Power
Ashley Jacobs, founder and executive director of the Massachusetts-based non-profit advocacy group, Parents Unite, thinks the Virginia gubernatorial election will be a catalyst for parent-driven change.
“Parents won a decisive victory in Virginia,” she told me this week. “Voters went to the polls and told big government they deserve a voice in their children's education. Parents around the country should feel empowered knowing that they can and should demand accountability of our schools and administrators, and, if they stand together, those voices will be heard.”
Jacobs and her partners launched the organization earlier this year to apply pressure to independent school accrediting agencies that were also being swept up into the dogma of critical race theory and related policies.
“There’s an undercurrent of ideology, largely focused around identity, that has infected all classrooms, public and private,” she told me. The group held its “Diversity of Thought In K-12 Education” conference in Boston last month that brought together parents, educators, and others concerned about the direction in which many schools have been heading.
I presented at the conference about the impact of the coronavirus response on education, including the exodus of families away from government-run schools toward private education options. I also explained how heightened parent demand for schooling alternatives is leading to a flurry of education entrepreneurship and innovation.
Jacobs thinks this is a crucial component of the current educational shift being felt nationwide.
“I’m hoping we’re seeing the rise of consumer-driven education as opposed to government-driven education,” she told me. “Parents are the consumers of education on behalf of their children and they deserve to have choices and transparency.”
Unleashing the free market in education will loosen the government’s grip on education and expand learning options for families. Part of this expansion may come in the form of school choice policies that have been introduced or broadened in many states over the past year, as parents and taxpayers seek more control over education dollars. FEE’s Hannah Cox wrote this week that the Virginia governor’s race shows that school choice has now taken center stage as a campaign issue, and parents are paying attention.
Yet school choice policies are only one factor in enabling more education options for families. Placing greater trust in the free market than in government bureaucrats will accelerate the proliferation of education choices and spark innovation. Government-run schools and the politicians who support them have lost the trust of many parents who saw first-hand what was happening in their children’s classrooms through remote “Zoom school,” and have been disillusioned by teachers' union antics and the push for identity-based curriculum frameworks.
Now it’s time for these parents to put their trust in the free market, and watch their education options multiply and diversify just as they do in all other consumer-driven areas of our lives. Education is too important to be left to the government.
As FEE’s founder Leonard Read wrote in his 1964 essay on education and the free market: “Who is the appropriate ruler of your educational program? You? Or others? Or a political committee which cannot be better than the lowest common denominator of others? The free market way relies not on one judgment for the millions but on millions of individual judgments.”
Millions of individual parents are waking up to what is happening in their children’s schools and are taking back control of their children’s education from politicians and government bureaucrats. The Virginia gubernatorial election is just the latest example of how parents are reclaiming their power nationwide.


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In the final episode of this season of Tech Tonic, we ask if the growing tensions between the US and China could split the world into two competing technological spheres. It has been dubbed 'the great decoupling'. Some in the US want to see Chinese companies cut off from American investment, while hawkish factions in China have been fighting for a more self-sufficient and nationalistic tech sector. But what would decoupling really look like? And is it even possible?
Presented by James Kynge, this episode features interviews with Lillian Li (author of Chinese Characteristics newsletter), Paul Triolo (senior vice-president of Albright Stonebridge Group), Roger Robinson Jr (president and founder of RWR Advisory) and Kevin Rudd (former prime minister of Australia and president of the Asia Society)
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A needed tutorial in the law The Supreme Court upholds the president’s right to bar questionable migrants
The U.S. Supreme Court had a lesson Tuesday for the good-hearted folk who would apply feelings instead of the Constitution to the interpretation of the law. By the familiar 5 to 4 vote on constitutional issues, the High Court upheld the clear language of Congress in support of President Trump’s order limiting the entry of risky foreign nationals to the United States.
The third time was the charm for President Trump’s executive order limiting entry into the United States by citizens of Chad, Iran, Somalia, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen. Two appeals courts earlier ruled otherwise. A majority of six of those eight nations are populated mostly by Muslims, one of those nations counts a majority of nominal Christians, and there is North Korea, where the citizens worship, or deeply regard, Kim Jong-un if they know what’s good for them.
The law, as Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion, “exudes deference to the president in every clause.” The law is the Immigration and Neutrality Act of 1952, enacted long before immigration became a matter of hot dispute and desperate disputation. It reads:
“Whenever the president finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or non-immigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.”
The decision notes there is no conflict between this and other federal laws, and even the grant of a visa does not entitle or guarantee a foreign national a right to enter the United States. From the court’s opinion:
“As every visa application explains, a visa does not entitle an alien to enter the United States, ‘if, upon arrival,’ an immigration officer determines that the applicant is ‘inadmissible under this chapter [of the law], or any other provision of law. …’” Common sense and historical practice, Chief Justice Roberts writes, have confirmed that presidents have the authority to suspend entry from foreign nations. President Reagan prohibited entry by Cuban nationals, and President Carter denied visas to Iranian nationals. The court observes “the critical fact,” often obscured in current arguments over immigration, that foreign nationals have “no constitutional right to entry” into the United States.
The language of the decision could almost be read as a tutorial for the four dissenting justices and the lower appellate courts from which this distorted case sprang, about what constitutional law is all about. Sentiment in its place is good and proper, but it is not a substitute for the Constitution and the law. The decision is a needed reminder that while the president’s campaign language about the reliability of Islamic nations was sometimes extreme and even malicious, his policy is focused and leaves undisturbed the rights of millions of Muslims across the world.
The scope of the president’s order was limited to nations with a history of extreme jihad, lawlessness and hostility to the United States, whether for religious or other reasons. These nations are responsible for who they are, and why, and the president is responsible for protecting the United States. Ours is not yet an open border.


'Agniveers' Eligible for Gallantry Awards: Defence Officials on Agnipath Scheme
Lt Gen Anil Puri said that all applicants will have to give an undertaking that they were not part of any violence.
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Amidst protests against the Union government's new Agnipath scheme, tri-service officials said in a statement on Tuesday, 21 June, that the recruitment process will remain unchanged and that Agniveers recruited under the scheme will be eligible for gallantry awards like other defence personnel.
The press conference on the controversial new scheme was held by Lt General Anil Puri, Additional Secretary, Department of Military Affairs, Ministry of Defence; Lt General Bansi Ponappa, Adjutant General, Indian Army; Vice Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi, Chief of Personnel, Indian Navy, and Air Marshal Suraj Kumar Jha, Air Officer-in-Charge Personnel, Indian Air Force.
Lt Gen Anil Puri asserted that the recruitment process will remain unchanged and the traditional regimentation system in the military will continue.
“We take 100 percent ownership of the scheme. This scheme is absolutely implementable. Lots of people have put their brains into it.”Lt Gen Anil Puri
"We want the best, because it is a question of the country's safety," he said.
Referring to the nation-wide protests, Puri said that all applicants for 'Agnipath' will have to give an undertaking that they were not part of any violence.
"There is no place for arson and violence in the armed forces," he said.
'Direct Recruitment into Merchant Navy': Defence Officials
The officials said that Agniveers from the Navy will also get direct entry into merchant navy after their four-year stint.
Vice Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi said, "We have been in talks with the Ministry of Shipping for months, it issued an order yesterday. The order is for Agniveers. After four years of training when these Agniveers come out, they can directly go into the merchant navy."
He said that the recruitment process for Agniveers for the navy will begin tomorrow, 22 June, as opposed to 25 June, as had been stipulated earlier.
Online registration will begin from 1 July, he said.
"We will compress training timeline without compromising on quality," the vice admiral said.
Recruitment for the Army
Speaking about the recruitment for Agniveers into the army, Lt General Bansi Ponappa, Adjutant General, Indian Army, said that there was no change in the usual process.
"We have compress the timeline as there was no recruitment in the past two years," he said.
"This scheme is beneficial for the nation and the army. It will be very successful in the long-term," the army official said.
Recruitment for the Air Force
Meanwhile, Air Marshal Suraj Kumar Jha, Air Officer-in-Charge Personnel, Indian Air Force presented the timeline for induction of Agniveers in the Air Force for 2022 at the press conference.
"There is absolutely no change in the intake process for Agniveers in the Air Force. All recruitment will be through the scheme," he said.
"Agniveers are being inducted gradually starting with 2 percent in the first year. The numbers will go nearly 6,000 in the fifth year and will be around 9,000-10,000 in the 10th year... Every enrollment in Indian Air Force will now take place through 'Agniveer Vayu' only."Air Marshal Jha.
"We will be fully prepared to welcome the first batch of Agniveers," he said.
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isev is celebrating success after completing a technically challenging project to help protect UK growers and farmers from devastating potato blight.
We work with the Potato Council to maintain an innovative intelligent monitoring system which allows scientists and experts to monitor any incidents of the disease and to track developments.
‘It’s a hugely prestigious project’ explained Creative Director of iSEV, Leon Blair ‘and we’re proud of our role in helping to defend against such a major problem. Blight is one of the worst possible issues for potato growers and devastate crops. As web specialists, we’re used to working with chips of a different kind so working on such a fulfilling project is a real pleasure.’
The iSEV team was first involved in the set up and launch of the blight incident reporting service over four years ago, and since then has worked with their client to increase functionality and usability.
‘Information of suspected cases is reported by scouts via SMS, and the site allows the Potato Council and farmers to track exactly where suspected and actual blight disease outbreaks are happening. It’s a great system and we’re delighted to be entering our fifth year on the project, and to have introduced such cutting-edge additions’ he concluded.


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Ujjain : Collector Sanket Bhondve and commissioner of Ujjain Municipal Corporation (CMC), Ashish Singh joined the doctors of Indian Medical Association (IMA) at a tea party meeting held in Vikram Vatika on Saturday morning and held discussions on various issues.
During the conversation, the collector suggested that doctors associated with IMA can contribute their service in health related schemes provided by the government. The doctors ensured that after their clinic hours or hospital hours, they can check patients at any camp organised by the government.
According to doctors, there are 70 per cent patients of anemia in the city. Discussing about smart city project doctors stated that stray pigs, cattle and pets are the main problems. Pubic toilettes are also necessary, they added. The collector assured to address the problems of stray cattle.
Around 60 doctors participated the tea meeting including Dr Vimal Garg, Dr Susheel Gupta, Dr RK Bansal, Dr Katyayan Mishra, Dr Jaya Mishra, Dr Vinod Gupta and Dr NK Trivedi.


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I always love seeing people’s end of year recaps of their sewing, and enjoy looking back on my sewing year too. It’s so interesting to me to see what actually got some real wardrobe love and what didn’t. I had some awesome sewing wins this year, but also lost my #sewjo something fierce this fall. I talked about it more fully here. And now I’m grateful that it’s mostly come back, but I’ve had some surprising realizations on where my 2019 sewing wants to head. I’ll talk more about that in my upcoming Make Nine 2018 recap/2019 plans post.
Without further ado, here are the things that gave me all the heart eyes, and the ones that fell totally flat in 2018.
Ginger jeans – I made jeans. Like, real, honest-to-god jeans. That fit absolutely as well as my rtw ones I love. I took a class with Lauren Taylor from Lladybird, and it was so fantastic. I’m really excited to make a few more pairs this year. (Better photos to come when I can reluctantly peel them of my body for 4 seconds)
Lander shorts – I learned this year that lime green and coral are basically neutrals in my wardrobe. My two pairs of Lander shorts go with almost every summer shirt I wear. They make my legs look crazy long, cover all my bits fully and appropriately, and have incredibly useful pockets. Plus you get to hammer SO many buttons, and that is so fun. I was so disappointed to put these away for summer.
Kielo wrap dress – I love everything about this dress, except the lack of places to wear it. It’s glamorous and different and super flattering, I need one in every color. I profess my unexpected love for this dress at length here.
Striped Agnes dress hack – Honestly, this is the first piece of clothing that goes in any suitcase I ever pack. It’s the most universally versatile thing I own, and what I reach for first if there’s ever ANY question about what to wear. Somehow, barring black tie, this dress fits the dress code for nearly every occasion. I showed the 3 main ways I style this magic dress (and how I jump between a couple of different looks, just with accessories that fit in my purse) here.
Midway bomber – now I’m not sure this one fully counts as a miss as I have every intention of remaking it in the right size, with a more stable lining fabric. But I made this one in an XS and apparently should have made the XXS, as I feel like this is swimming on me. I also didn’t do the zipper installation quite right, and the super stretchy lining (somewhat unsurprisingly) stretched out while doing the zipper. So now the top part of one side of the zipper pulls weirdly. All in all, it’s enough to make me not want to wear it, but I definitely have plans for a do over. Maybe even before the end of January.
Rumi dress – whoa did I dislike this one. I tried really hard to rock it, but I just never felt comfortable. Wrong fabric-pattern pairing. I think swing dresses need something way drapier. This one went to my cousin, who is exactly my size, but at the time was about 6 months pregnant. Which is about how this dress made me feel. You can read about the whole thing in more detail here.
Nottingham top – I tested this pattern for Kennis of Itch to Stich. And while the pattern is beautifully drafted and came together really smoothly, it just didn’t feel like my style. I don’t tend to like hardly any bulk around my waistline, and the knot, while cute, sits at exactly the widest part of me. This shirt was so flattering on so many other ladies in the tester group though, so this one I just chalk up to personal style preference. Itch to stitch is almost always perfectly in line with my aesthetic and while this one wasn’t for me, practically everything else she makes is.
Watson Bra– this is another not-quite miss. I LOVED sewing this. But it’s a little overly snug. I think part of this is putting the wrong elastic on the bottom. I think I should have put the fold over elastic there. But I also did power mesh in the band, and I think it made this a bit firmer than I’d like for a lounging bra. For the next one I’ll add foam cups for a bit of shaping and support.
So there it is, my 2018 sewing hits and misses. All in all, a pretty great year of sewing. I’m hoping to be more considered and thoughtful with my makes in 2019 (I mean, how many Agnes tees does one person need, really?). Did you have a major sewing win this year? Or a huge, sad/hilarious flop?


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Teachers, schools and trusts across the country are starting to pledge a more proactive commitment to developing anti-racism policies and learning opportunities.
But with such a challenging and sensitive issue, how can we ensure our strategies are effective and delivered correctly?
The Ofsted 2019 inspection framework highlighted bigger focus on inclusion in schools, to develop and deepen the understanding of “British values” and “promoting an inclusive environment”. However, how many schools are following through with a truly inclusive school and curriculum?
Not only is anti-racism needed for social and societal progress, but it is being highlighted further by education regulators.
This essential and timely seminar will provide guidance for the development of an anti-racism approach that is understood and respected by students, staff and parents, and the wider community.
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APPENDIX I Details of clinical trials of antenatal Anti-D
A) 2 × 300 μg at 28 and 34 weeks12
The first studies involved two doses of the standard Canadian/North American dose of 300 μg at 28 and 34 weeks. There were sound theoretical reasons for using two doses, because the circulating half life of IgC anti-D is 2 I days and the better protection against larger bleeds in the third trimester with the second dose. This schedule was clearly shown to be effective in a relatively small number of primigravidae. The authors quote a 94% reduction to <1/1000 at risk pregnancies (1 ×6% to 0.1%). If one excludes logistic failures, no cases of alloimmunisalion were seen in the treatment group.
Trial details: open study: nonrandomised concurrent controls; two urban hospitals in antenatal group; other three rural hospitals in control group; both groups given standard postpartum prophylaxis of 300μg at delivery.
Treatment group (1968-1976): (300μg at 28 and 34 weeks) 0/1204 primigravidac alloimmunised at delivery; 0/905 developed immune anti-D at 6months post delivery (one immunised before 28 weeks); operational failure rate in primigravidae = 1/1204 = 0.08%.
Control group (1967-1974): 45/2768 primigravidae alloimmunised at delivery; operational failure rate in primigravidae = 1.6%.
Conclusion: alloimmunisation can be reduccd from I .6%i to 0.1% in primigravidae (946 reduction) (x2= 16.14: P<0.001).
B1) 1 × 300 μg at 28 weeks2
Primarily because of anti-D shomges, a single dose at 28 weeks was evaluated early in the Canadian Rh programme as an alternative. In a small number of primigravidae, a single dose of 300μg at 28 weeks reduced alloimmunisation from 1.6% (45/2768) to 0.18% (2/1088). If logistic failures an: excluded, none of the treatment group was alloimmunised. For multigravidae, the observed failures were 0.846, but excluding women estimated to be sensitised in previous pregnancies, the ‘true'failure rate was estimated 3% 0.42%, compared to 2.2% in the control multigravid group.
Trial details: open study with historical controls: bolh groups given standard postpartum prophylaxis of 300 pg at delivery. Treatment group examined at 6 months for anti-D.
Treatment group (1975-1977): (300μg at 28 weeks).
Group I 0/1084 prirnigravidae alloimmunised at time of delivery (expected 14/1084): 0/512 developed immune anti-D after 6months: (two alloimmunised before 28 weeks at 12.5 and 6.5 weeks); operational failure rate in primigravidae is 2/1088 =0-18%.
Group 2 6/719 rnultigravidae alloiinmunised at time of delivery; 3/716 estimated to have a ‘secondary response’ from an earlier pregnancy: 3l7 16 estimatcd ‘true failures’ (expected 127/16); ‘true failures’ in multigravidae 3/716 = 0.42%. operational failure rate in multigravidae is 6/716 = 0.84%.
Control group (1967-1974): 45/2768 primigravidae alloimmunised at delivery; opcralionnl failure rate in prirnigravidae = 1.6%. Of the 45 primigravidae it was noted that 3/45 (6.67%) were alloimmunised before 28 weeks (3/2768 = 0.108%) and 42/45 (93.33%) were alloimmunised after 28 weeks (42/2768 = 1.52%). 17/765 multigravidae alloimmunised at delivery; operational failure rate in multigravidae = 2.2%.
Conclusion: excluding other causes, antenatal alloimmunisation would reduce from 1 6 8 to 0.18 in primigravidae, and from 2.2% to 0.42% in multigravidac (x2= 12.29: P<0.001). Including all patients in treatment and control arms, for primigravidae. alloimmunisation is reduced from 1.6% to 0.18% (88.75% reduction) for multigravidae, from 2.2% to 0.84% (X2= 3 81: P =0.051)
B1a) 1 × 300 μg at 28 weeks9
This paper is an update on the earlier trial with additional numbers, over 8.5 years to February 1986. All cases reported in the earlier trials are included. There is no distinction made between primigravidae and parous women. although it is estimated that 78%: were primigravidae. The dose also changes from an estimated 24Opg for the first 5 years, with a subsequent change to 300μg as standard. It is also not clear at what point the standard postpartum dose changed to l20μg i.v. Nevertheless, the study has value as the largest number of women evaluated under routine conditions, as opposed to clinical trial conditions. It was estimated that the treatment failures (i.e. excluding alloimmunisation before 28 weeks and other causes during pregnancy) were 0.18% (I7/9295). The observed alloimmunisation rate in the treatment groups fell from an estimated (historical) 1.8% (62/3533) to 0.32% (30/9295) in routine practice. Excluding other causes, and including all women regardless or parity, the authors conclude that antenatal alloimmunisation can be reduced from 1.4 % to 0.278 (25/9295) but this method of calculation overestimates the control failures, and underestimates the treatment failures, and gives a more favourable outcome to antenatal prophylaxis. Nevertheless, the reduction in alloimmunisation as a result of the programme is significant, and evidence of the efficacy of prophylactic antenatal anti-D in routine practice.
Trial details: open study with historical controls in one province in Canada. Both groups given standard postpartum anti-D it is not clear if the dose reduced to 120μg i.v. from 300μg, and at what point.
Treatment group (1977–1986): (1977–83 = 240μg = 1200IU at 28 weeks). (1983–86 = 300μg = 1500IU at 28 weeks). 25/9295 alloimmunised (not all primigravidae). failure rate = 0.27%. 8/25 (32%) alloimmunised < 28 weeks: 17/25 (68%) treatment failures. treatment failure rate (17/9295) = 0.18% NB: actual total failures over the time was 30/9295 = 0.32%.
Control group (1967–74 data — same as in earlier studies): 62/3533 total (i.e. not all primigravidae) [note: this also includes anti-D detected up to 3 days after delivery, which gives a higher figure than reported by othcr groups]; operational failure rate = 1.8%. Of the 45 primigravidae in this group it was noted that 3/45 (6.67%) were alloimmunised before 28 weeks (3/2768 = 0.1088) and 42/45 (93.33%:) were alloimmunised alter 28 weeks (42/2768 = 1.52%).
Conclusions: excluding other causes. and including all women regardless of parity. antenatal alloimmunisation can be reduced from 1.8% to 0.274 = 854, reduction in alloimmunisation (x2= 81.72: P < 0.001). Under routine conditions, with no exclusions, anti-D alloimmunisation can be reduced from 1.8% to 0.32% (78% primigravidae in the group) = 82% reduction in alloimmunisation (x2= 78.1: P < 0.001).
B2) 1 × 300 μg at 28 weeks18
In this small study using the same dose as the Canadian trials, alloimniunisation was reduced to less than 0.32% in the treatment group (0/291) compared to historical controls with 146% alloimmunisation.(6/322). The study includes women of all parities, and the data are comparable in practice to the larger Canadian study. confirming the efficacy of a single dose of anti-D i n reducing alloimmunisation. It was noted that 9% of women had anti-D at delivery in the treatment group. but no positive DAT. jaundice or anaemia was observed in the babies. Kleihauer estimation of FMH at delivery was also carried out in both groups. The number of observed FMH was the same in both groups — 63 in treatment group versus 72 in control group. but the number of l a r p FMH (> I ml) was significantly different 5/63 in treatment group versus 28/72 i n the control group (x2: P < 0.001).
Trial details: open study at one hospital in Denmark. with historical controls. Both groups given standard postpartum prophylaxis of 200μg Both groups stated to be comparable as regards first pregnancies, risk events, instrumentation and Caesarian Section rate. Postpartum 10-month follow-up sample obtained in both groups.
Treatment group (1980–85): (300μg at 28 weeks) 609 women; 346 with RhD-positive baby: 0/291 alloimmunised at 10months = <0.32 % (assuming 1/29?).
Control group (historical controls 1972–77): 354 with RhD-positive baby: 6/32? alloimmunised at 10months = 1.86% (or during subsequent pregnancy). Treatment versus controls t-test; P < 0.45.
Conclusion: alloimmunisation can be reduced from 1.86% to <0.32%(83% reduction) (x2= 3.72: P= 0.054).
C) 1 × 250 pg at 32 weeks17
In this study, the European dose of 250μg (rather than 300μg) was given later in pregnancy. at 32–34 weeks. These doses are not signilicantly different, given the limitations of the anti-D assays. Although a reduction in alloimmunisation was observed. from 1.6%) (10/645) to 0.38% (2/529) in the treatment group regardless of parity, including those women immunised during pregnancy before 32 weeks raised the failure rate to 0.95%. In practice. therefore, it is demonstrated that a single dose at 32–34 weeks is too late to provide sufficient protection against intrapartum sensitisation. as might be expected from the natural history of detectable FMH during pregnancy.
Trial details: open study at one hospital in Sweden with historical controls. Both groups given standard postpartum prophylaxis of 250μg anti-D with 8-month follow-up sample for anti-D.
Treatment group (1973–77): (250μg at 32–34 weeks) 830 women 529 with RhD-positive baby: 2/529 alloimmunised = 0.38%. 1/236 primigravidae = 0.42%. 1/293 multigravidae = 0.34%. 0/59 alloimmunised in second pregnancy. NB: three primigravidae excluded because anti-D before 32 weeks; if included, operational failures = 5/529 = 0.95%.
Control group (historical control dates not given): 10/645 alloiminunised = 1.6%. 5/286 primigravidae = 1.75%. 5/359 multigravidae = 1.39% (1.6 versus 0.38 =P < 0.05). The authors note that if weak anti-D is considered to be due to prophylaxis, then 0/529 in trial group, and 9/645 could be considered alloimmunised =P < 0.005.
Conclusions: excluding logistic failures, alloimmunisation can be reduced from 1.6% to 0.38% (x2=2.87: P= 0.09). When including immunisation before prophylactic anti-D at 32–34 weeks. the reduction is 0.95% (x2: P=0.511). In primigravidae. the reduction is from 1.75% to 0.42%. with small numbers in each group (x2= 1.0: P= 0.317). Giving anti-D at 32–34 weeks is therefore probably too late to be most effective.
D1) 2 × 100 μg at 28 and 24 weekss
This was the first study using a divided dose of anti-D calculated t o give the same (or more) anti-D in the maternal circulation at term 300 μg dose at 28 weeks. and specifically addressed first pregnancies. The impetus for such an approach in the UK was primarily hased o n economic use of anti-D, with emphasis in first pregnancie greater benefit with limited amounts of anti-D available. First pregnancies (2069) were treated, in comparison with 2000 historical control primigravidae. This initial report showed a reduction from 0.9% in controls to 0.16% in the treatment group, a similar figure to that demonstratcd by Bowman et al with a single 300μg dose (0.18%).
Trial details: multicentre open study in first pregnancies, with historical controls. Both groups given standard postpartum prophylaxis of 100 μg i.m. Six-monthly testing for anti-D was undertaken in some women.
Treatment group (1980–81): (100μg at 28 and 34 weeks) 2/1238 primigravidae alloimmunised at delivery and 6 months = 0.16% (1059 tested at 6 months).
Control group (historical 1978–79): 18/2000 primigravidae alloimmunised = 0.9%.
Conclusion: Including all Failures, alloimmunisation can be reduced in primigravidae from 0.9% to 0.16% (82% reduction), (x2=5.64: P= 0.018).
D1a) 2 × 100 μg at 28 and 34 weeks4
In a follow-up report to the original study, the treatment cohort had been followed longer. and a more detailed breakdown of the control data was given. If only failures after the first pregnancy are considered, the control alloimmunisation rate is 0.95% (19/2000); in the treatment group, it is only 0.32% (4/1238), giving a 66% reduction in alloimmunisation. It is not possible t o identify the comparative immunisation rate in both groups in subsequent pregnancies, as the original antenatal prophylaxis group were only given standard postpartum anti-D. However, there was a suggestion of protection persisting into subsequent (up to four) pregnancies in the original trial group, with a total of six failures in 2041 RhD-positive pregnancies (0.29%). compared to 32/2985 (1.07%) in RhD-positive pregnancies in the original historical cohort.
Treatment group (1980–81): 4/1238 primigravidae alloimmunised first pregnancy = 0.32%; 1/604 in second (not given antenatal prophylaxis)= 0.17%. 6/2041 all pregnancies including third and fourth = 0.29%.
Control group (historical 1978–79): 19/2OO0 primigravidae alloimmunised during first pregnancy = 0.95% (9/751 women alloimmunised in second = 1.2%; 32/2985 all pregnancies = 1.07%).
Conclusion: in first pregnancies, alloimmunisation can be reduced from 0.95 to 0.32% (66% reduction), (x2=3.42: P= 0.064).
D2) 2 × 100 μg at 28 and 34 weeks3
A second trial also using 100μg in two doses of anti-D was reported from France, this being the only randomised trial reported with a protective dose of antenatal anti-D administration. Considering first pregnancy only. the reduction in alloimmunisation was from 1.5% (7/468) to 0.21% (1/472). which is a similar reduction to that observed by Thornton et al. (1989) with first pregnancies receiving 2 × l00μg anti-D. A signficiant reduction in primigravidae was also observed. from 1.11% (4/360) to <0.28% (0/360). Kleihauer tests to identify FMH were also carried out in both groups. There was no difference observed with the frequency of larger FMH (>1/10000 maternal RBC) at 32–34 weeks — 31 versus 32 in the control group. On the other hand, fewer FMH in total were seen in the treatment group — 4.2% (39/927) versus 7% (67/957) in the control group, indicating that the 28-week anti-D was effective in eliminating small FMH. Likewise at delivery of a RhD-positive baby, 12.2% (73/599) in the treatment group had a positive Kleihauer test compared to 20.2%; (119/590) in the control group.
Trial details: open controlled study involving several centres in Paris. allocated to treatment or control arms by even/uneven date of birth. Both groups received standard postpartum anti-D of 100μg i.v. (the standard French practice). Serum was examined for anti-D at birth and at 2–1 2 months postpartum.
Treatment group: (100μg anti-D i.m. at 28 and 34 weeks) 927 women — 599 with RhD-positive baby — 461 primigravidae/l38 multipara (472 followed for 2–12months); 0/599 alloimmunised at delivery, 1/599 followed 2–12months (at 5 months) = 0.17%, 1/472 primiparae followed 2–1 2 months (at 5 months) = 0.21, 0/362 primigravidae followed 2–12 months = < 0.28%.
Control group: 955 women — 590 with RhD-positive baby — 454 primigravidae/l36 multipara (468 followed for 2–12 months); 6/590 alloinimunised at delivery = 1.02%, 7/468 primiparae followed 2–12 months = 1.92, 4/360 primigravidae followed 2–12 months = 1.11%.
Conclusion: considering primigravidae only, the reduction in alloimmunisation is from 1.1l% to <0.28% (x2=2.28: P= 0.131). Considering primipara only, the reduction in alloimmunisation is 1.58 to 0.21% (86% reduction) (x2=3.22: P= 0.073). The reduction in alloimmunisation observed. considering all groups, is from 1.19% (7/590) to 0.178 (1/599) (x2 3.22 : P= 0.073).
E) 2 × 50 μg at 28 and 34 weeks6
A prospective study to evaluate the efficacy of a lower dose of 50μg at 28 and 34 weeks was undertaken in the UK, but was stopped due to a combination of low recruitment, and evidence that protection against alloimmunisation was incomplete. Although reduction was substantial, 1.5% (9/595) in controls to 0.78% (4/513) in the treatment group, this was less than that observed in the UK trial of 2 × 100μg (Thornton et al. 1989) and it was concluded that the lower dose could not be recommended.
Trial details: open controlled multicentre study in primigravidae with randomisation to treatment or control groups by sealed envelope. Both groups received standard postpartum prophylaxis of 100μg i.m. Both groups examined for alloimmunisation at 6months. Women with preexisting anti-D at 28 weeks excluded.
Treatment group: (50μg i.m. at 28 and 32 weeks) 4/5 13 alloimmunised at delivery = 0.78%; one extra alloimmunised, but antenatal event not given anti-D therefore excluded.
Control group: 7/595 alloimmunised at delivery = 1.2%; 9/595 alloimnunised at 6months follow-up = 1.5%.
Conclusion: although a reduction in alloimmunisation was observed from 1.5% to 0.788, this was less than observed with 2 × 100μg, and 2 × 50μg is insufficient to give full protection (x2=0.72: P=0.395).

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For most dog owners, the process of training a dog is a long, arduous one. It can take months to get your puppy comfortable with basic commands and house rules.
The good news is that there are plenty of dog collars for training on the market today that can help you get your dog to listen more easily.
If you’re looking for a collar that will make training easier, here are some things to consider:
Make sure you choose a collar that’s large enough for your dog’s neck but not too big. A collar that’s too loose won’t provide any control over your pet and could even pose a danger if it gets caught on something while he’s running around outside.
Look for a collar made from nylon or leather. These materials are more durable than fabric options and will last longer with regular use by an active pet.
Choose a color that matches well with your pet’s fur or hair so it doesn’t stand out too much when worn outdoors in natural light settings like parks or wooded areas where other pets might be present . If your pet has a dark coat, you can get away with a collar that’s black or brown. But if he has light fur, opt for something in white or another neutral color that won’t stand out as much when he runs around outdoors.
How To Train Your Puppy To Walk On A Leash?
Let’s see how to train your puppy to wear a collar and walk on a leash. Start by taking your puppy for a short walk around the house, letting him sniff and wander as much as he wants. Once he’s tired out, pick up his leash and bring it over to him so he gets used to seeing it in the room with him. Then, place the collar around his neck, making sure it’s not too tight. Once he’s used to wearing the collar, go for another short walk around your home. If your puppy is still unsure about walking on a leash, take him for a drive in the car instead of going for walks until he gets used to it.

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Krora — The inhabitants of Krora sub-zone are engaged in popular soil and water conservation activities with a view to enhancing agricultural production and facilitating transportation. They indicated that the task involves construction of a dirt road and underground water catchments, in addition to building terraces and water catchment walls.
Mr. Yasin Hamd, Administrator of Fah and Shakat Administrative area, and Mr. Saleh Mohammed Ali, inhabitant of Mahmime, pointed out that the undertaking aims at enriching the area's underground water, besides overcoming transport barriers.
Mr. Idris Mohammed-Ali from Ela-Tsaeda Administrative area and Mr. Osman Idris, resident of Mahmime semi-urban center, voiced conviction that the undertaking would help promote food security in the area, and that they would step up endeavors in this regard.
Mr. Adem Saleh, head of the Agriculture Ministry's branch in Krora sub-zone, stated that a total of 9 latent micro-dams have already been built in the Administrative areas of Aflag, Tebieh, Mahmime, Hishkib and Ela-Tsaeda through mobilizing 6,000 manpower. He further lauded the active popular participation demonstrated in the process.


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Q. I’m hoping to grow tomatoes in containers on my sunny balcony. What are my chances?
A. Your chances are very good, says Alana Mezo, a senior horticulturist at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Although it’s too late in the season to start growing from seeds, tomato transplants can prosper on your balcony with regular watering and enough room to grow.
“The best thing to do is stay with a tomato that is meant for small spaces such as containers or hanging baskets or window boxes,” Mezo says. Her favorite small-fruited varieties for hanging baskets include the Tumbler and the Florida Basket. The Tumbler is just a tad larger than a cherry tomato; the Florida Basket is “salad-sized.”
For window boxes, Mezo likes the Window Box Roma, a plum tomato. She says cherry tomato plants work in large containers as long as you stake them. Mezo orders seeds for these specific varieties from Tomato Growers Supply Co. (www.tomatogrowers.com), but this late in the season, see what similar plants are available garden-ready at your local nursery.
Plant your tomatoes in a soilless mix of peat moss, vermiculite, and perlite (available at hardware stores and nurseries) and fertilize them every week. Make sure to water the plants daily-maybe even twice a day if it’s especially hot or your balcony catches a lot of wind. “Anytime you grow something in a container, it’s going to dry out faster than if it were in the ground,” Mezo says.
Use containers as big as you can handle-tomato plants need room to grow a large root mass. Mezo puts two Window Box Roma plants in boxes that are two feet long, one foot across, and several inches high, though the simplest rule of thumb, she says, is one plant per container. For more information, see www.chicagobotanic.org and click on “plant information.”
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PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Prince William County police have now arrested five teenage boys in connection to a twin set of robberies in Manassas last month.
According to the Prince William County Police Department, on Nov. 24, multiple burglars used an axe to smash the front window of Arcadia Smoke Shop, located on Centreville Road in Manassas. The suspects stole tobacco products before leaving the scene on foot.
Surveillance footage revealed that the suspects had worn dark clothing and facemasks to conceal their identities.
The following morning, police say that a group of suspects wearing the same type of clothing used a pickaxe to smash the front window of Dominion Arms, also on Centreville Road in Manassas. The suspects stole several guns before leaving the scene.
While investigating, police determined that both burglaries were committed by the same group. Police later identified the group members as four 14-year-old male juveniles and one 16-year-old male juvenile.
On Dec. 22, detectives sought petitions against the five suspects. Later that day, three of the juveniles were taken into custody, and then on Dec. 23 and Dec. 26, the final suspects turned themselves in without incident.
The five juveniles, all of Herndon in Fairfax County, were all charged with two counts of burglary and two counts of conspiracy to commit burglary. They are all being held at the Juvenile Detention Center.
During the investigation, all the firearms taken from Dominion Arms were recovered.


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Last week we posted an article on the Last Hoorah for the American Bass Fisherman (ABF) organization. In that piece we talked a little about that organization and its purchase by National Bass Association (NBA) in 1978. There were a lot of unanswered questions about this time in the history of competitive fishing. American Bass Fisherman’s owner, George Oates was being investigated for fraud yet still running events, NBA was organized and purchased the Professional Bass Association and a number of other tournament organizations were coming and going at a rapid pace. It was definitely a time of flux in the industry and many of the anglers who supported these organizations didn’t know if they would still be around for the next month’s tournament that was scheduled. [Read more…]
This is part two of a three-part series on the 1975 Bassmaster tournament trail. To read part one, click here.
With the season half over anglers were starting to jockey for the 24 spots allocated for the 1975 Bassmaster Classic. Already in the event were Billy Westmorland, Marvin Baker and Dee Thomas for wining the Florida, Louisiana and Arkansas Invitationals respectively.
At this point, Jack Hains had a pretty commanding lead for AOY with 126 points. In second place was Ricky Green with 104 points and Bill Dance brought up the third spot with 99 points.
The difficulty with determining points other than from Bassmaster Magazine is the way the fly-rod only events were counted. It’s difficult to determine from Bassmaster whether or not they gave 15 points to each angler or if the only gave points to 15 anglers – 15 points for 1st, 14 for 2nd and so on. Therefore, points in Part One of this article may be a little scewed. Thankfully Bassmaster lists the top 50 in the AOY points race after the South Carolina Invitational – which will be shown later. [Read more…]

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In his column for Brewbound Voices, Scott Birkner, the senior vice president and manager of the craft beverage lending division at United Community Bank, addresses 10 important questions brewers need to consider before working with a lender.
Concerns over potential price gouging are mounting after President Donald Trump signed an executive order last Thursday to impose a 10 percent tariff on imported aluminum. In a letter sent yesterday to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, four beverage trade groups — the Beer Institute (BI), Brewers Association (BA), Can Manufacturers Association (CMI) and American Beverage Association — cited “major concerns about how the 10 percent tariff could cause price-gouging within aluminum markets.”
Every penny counts in a smaller craft brewery, and in the current competitive market, you cannot afford to produce less-than-stellar beer. Automating the process with the Z Series can free you up to play with boutique recipes and perfect your flagships while keeping costs low.
After completing its annual “beer review,” popular craft beer restaurant chain Yard House said it will tap 427 new beer brands across its more than 70 U.S. locations beginning March 26. The California-based restaurant chain’s four-month assessment of its beer list concluded with it swapping out about 20 percent of the more than 9,800 tap handle placements.
A pair of Michigan-based MillerCoors distributors are consolidating their beer businesses. Kalamazoo-headquartered Imperial Beverage today announced that, after five months of negotiating, it had acquired Bayside Beverage, the beer division of Highland Park-based Great Lakes Wine & Spirits.
How much is a distressed craft brewery worth in 2018? Somewhere north of $8.25 million, if the scene at New Hampshire’s Smuttynose Brewing earlier today is any indication. An auction run by James R. St. Jean Auctioneers for Smuttynose ended with the company’s banker, Provident Bank, reclaiming the brewery for $8.25 million on Friday afternoon. Immediately after the auction concluded, Norman Rice, a local tech entrepreneur, approached the bank about purchasing the Portsmouth-based company.
Oregon’s Ninkasi Brewing has announced the hiring of former Bell’s Brewery director of sales, Marty Compton. Compton, who officially joined the Eugene-based Ninkasi as its new national sales director earlier this week, departed Bell’s Brewery last August.
In this week’s Last Call: President Trump imposes tariffs on steel and aluminum; Heineken attempts to acquire a majority stake in United Breweries; Three Floyds’ expansion plans are approved; and more.
Pearse Lyons, the founder and president global biotech company Alltech, died today at the age of 73.
Craft Brew Alliance (CBA) CEO Andy Thomas repurposed an old presidential metaphor during Thursday’s 2017 financial results call with investors and analysts to illustrate the publicly traded company’s health.
Craft Brew Alliance (CBA) officially announced its 2017 earnings today, which fell in line with preliminary financial results shared on February 1. Those results were again highlighted by net sales increasing 2 percent to more than $207.5 million and 10 percent depletion growth for the Hawaiian-themed Kona brand.
After pulling distribution from two states last year, Santa Fe Brewing Company is re-focusing its efforts on growing sales in its home state of New Mexico and seven other core markets. Santa Fe director of sales and marketing Jarrett Babincsak told Brewbound that the company decided to dig deeper in its eight-state footprint due to the increasingly more difficult challenge of selling beer away from a home territory.
After two consecutive years of single-digit sales declines, Sierra Nevada Brewing is refocusing its efforts on selling its flagship Pale Ale while also telling its story to consumers.
First Beverage Group, one of the top dealmaking firms in the beverage industry, today announced that it has spun off its investment banking division and merged the unit with Seattle-based Cascadia Capital’s consumer and retail team. Specific financial terms of the transaction, which closed on March 5, were not disclosed.
In the latest Legislative Update: Sunday sales are now legal in Indiana; South Dakota is on the verge of increasing its barrel cap; tensions run high in Maryland; and more state news.


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The Caribbean Epidemiology Centre has confirmed another locally transmitted case of dengue fever in the Cayman islands.
This brings to five the confirmed number of local cases. There have also been three confirmed imported cases of the mosquito-borne disease so far this year.
Head of the Cayman Islands’ Public Health Department Dr. Kiran Kumar said that, as of Wednesday this week, 37 suspected cases from Cayman were being or had been investigated by the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre, known as CAREC, in Trinidad. Of the suspected cases, 11 have been submitted to CAREC for testing since 12 October.
“We got back results for 17, of which nine were negative, eight were confirmed dengue – three imported and five local transmissions,” Dr. Kumar said.
Six of the confirmed cases have been in West Bay, one in George Town and one in Bodden Town. Dr. Kumar said those cases were no longer infectious.
Results are pending for a remaining 20 cases. It usually takes about seven to 10 days for tests to be completed.
Dr. Kumar said the Public Health Department expects to see more local cases emerge due to rains and the subsequent presence of standing water, in which the dengue-spreading Aedes aegypti mosquito breeds.
“The CAREC lab does different types of testing, depending on the time the blood sample was collected after [the patient] getting sick. Also, they batch the samples coming from various Caribbean countries — hence, sometimes the delay.
“While it is good to know the results immediately, it is not critical to have the lab results for the management of a case,” Dr. Kumar said.
Of the 37 suspected cases, seven were admitted to hospital, including two of the confirmed cases, one of the negative cases and four of the cases that are still pending results. Dr. Kumar said all of those who had been hospitalised, either for observation or because of their age, had been released and none had been in critical condition.
He added that in severe cases where a patient has been hospitalised, the Public Health Department can request CAREC to do the test as a matter of urgency, but this still requires a minimum of five days for shipping the samples to Trinidad and for the testing to be completed.
However, the Public Health Department does not wait for the CAREC results to be returned before contacting the Mosquito Research and Control Unit about a suspected case.
“Instead of waiting for results, we immediately report to MRCU of the address of the suspected case for them to take anti-mosquito measures.
“The good thing about this is the Aedes mosquito has to bite the sick patient in the first week of illness and has to survive for about 8 to 10 days before it can transmit – so if they are destroyed during this period, we are OK. The patients are infectious to mosquitoes only during the first week of illness only; afterwards, [they’re] non-infectious,” Dr. Kumar said.
From this week, the Cayman Islands Public Health Department plans to issue weekly or bi-weekly updates on the dengue outbreak.
Symptoms of dengue fever includes fever, headache, joint pain, nausea, eye pain and rash. There is no vaccine for dengue and no specific treatment for the disease itself, as the doctors treat the symptoms, keeping patients hydrated and managing pain.
The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that patients with suspected dengue go immediately to an emergency room or doctor if they are suffering from severe abdominal pain or persistent vomiting; red spots or patches on the skin; bleeding from the nose or gums; vomiting blood; black, tarry stools; drowsiness or irritability; pale, cold, or clammy skin; or difficulty breathing.
The best method to help avoid being bitten by a dengue-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquito is to ensure there is no standing water around the home or workplace, as the female mosquito, which spreads the disease, breeds in water.
“I urge the public to eliminate stagnant water in their yards in coconut shells, cans, wheelbarrows and saucers in plant pots, etc,” Dr. Kumar said.
The mosquito control unit advises the public to dispose of trash correctly as bottles, cans and fast food containers provide a breeding ground if thrown in the bush, and to turn over larger yard items that can hold water, including children’s portable sandboxes and plastic toys.
The unit also advises the public to remove tarps, as if those stretched over firewood piles, boats, sports equipment and grills are not taut, they can also hold water.


Front Row for October 6, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court opens its session with partisan gerrymandering and whether a baker can refuse service to a same-sex couple. We'll discuss the week's NC General Assembly Special Session and how has North Carolina recovered on the one-year mark of Hurricane Matthew's flooding of eastern North Carolina. The week's panel includes Donna King, Donald Bryson, Joe Stewart & Rep. Graig Meyer.
Aired: 10/05/17Video has closed captioning.


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Love Storiyaan Series – Cast, Director, Ott, Release Date, Watch Online & Info
Scheduled for a global release on Valentine’s Day, “Love Storiyaan” is Prime Video’s latest Indian original series delving into six authentic love stories. Initially unveiled as “India Love Story,” the show draws inspiration from the India Love Project, a social media community founded by former journalists Priya Ramani, Samar Halarnkar, and Niloufer Venkatraman.
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In a cinematic celebration of genuine love stories, Prime Video is set to globally launch its latest Indian original series, “Love Storiyaan,” on Valentine’s Day. Originally introduced as “India Love Story” in April 2022, the docu-series unveils six captivating narratives directed by Akshay Indikar, Archana Phadke, Collin D’Cunha, Hardik Mehta, Shazia Iqbal, and Vivek Soni.
The inspiration for “Love Storiyaan” stems from the India Love Project, a social media community founded by former journalists Priya Ramani, Samar Halarnkar, and Niloufer Venkatraman. The series, a brainchild of Somen Mishra from Dharmatic Entertainment, mirrors the authenticity and diversity celebrated by its inspirational source.
Each episode is helmed by a director with a personal connection to the story they portray, allowing for a nuanced and insightful perspective. The series promises to be a tapestry of emotions, weaving together unique tales of love that challenge societal norms and transcend boundaries.
Dharma Productions, led by Karan Johar and Apoorva Mehta, serves as the production company, continuing its successful collaboration with Prime Video. The partnership has previously produced Amazon Original films like “Aye Watan… Mere Watan” and series such as “Call Me Bae,” both unveiled alongside “Love Storiyaan” at the content showcase in Mumbai.
Aparna Purohit, Head of Originals, India and Southeast Asia at Prime Video, expressed excitement about the series, emphasizing the streaming giant’s commitment to crafting narratives that reflect the rich diversity of its audience. “Love Storiyaan” is not just a series but a journey into the genuine and uplifting stories of love that resonate with the hearts of viewers.
As Prime Video shifts its production strategy globally, “Love Storiyaan” stands out as one of the first original series unveiled from Asia after the restructuring. The series retains its focus on delivering authentic and compelling content, maintaining its dedication to the Indian audience.
This Valentine’s Day, “Love Storiyaan” is poised to open a door to heartfelt storytelling, invoking hope, happiness, and joy in viewers worldwide. It marks a significant addition to Prime Video’s diverse content lineup and reaffirms the platform’s commitment to delivering narratives that challenge conventions and inspire a wide audience.


I'm not going through XP.
I have 3 computers going through a 4 port wired router. The XP machine
connects fine. The Windows 7 machines are coming up with myriad error
messages as to why it's impossible for them to connect to the internet.
I select "make a broad band connection", it wants a bunch of username
password garbage for my ISP. I don't need that, I have time warner cable
roadrunner, you just plug in your network cable, open your browser and
you are on the internet. If I select any other network option it wants
to set up a wireless or dial up connection.
<cable> --- modem --- router --- computer #1
--- computer #2
--- computer #3
I would start by reviewing what WinXP is doing with its connection.
I can describe a scenario which would account for the symptoms, but
it would only fit for an ADSL broadband connection. If you put an
ADSL modem in "bridged" mode, virtually all other networking functions
in the modem/router box are disabled. Even though there is a switch
to provide the four wired ports, in that case it speaks PPPOE. The
WinXP machine, could detect this, and start running PPPOE itself. But
PPPOE is not a "multi-user" protocol, so once WinXP machine starts
talking PPPOE, the other 3 wired ports will appear dead.
I don't know if there is an equivalent setting for a cable modem/router
box. Namely, to disable the router portion.
I suspect the solution, is actually an issue with the modem/router.
And you're going to have to sit in front of the WinXP box, use the
administrative web interface for the modem/router, and figure out
how the router portion got disabled.
The poor computers, are only dealing with what they've been given.
If you cleverly neuter the wired ports, by using certain modem/router
settings, there's nothing the other computers can do. Microsoft, in
all their cleverness, can't burrow past the username/password on
the cable modem/router, and fix it
So, back to the WinXP machine. Log into the modem/router with
your web browser, and start looking...