There are so many movies I want to make.
She was Josie, José, Josepina, Josephine Maria Massarella, Hamilton’s favourite fringe movie artist, a filmmaker’s filmmaker. Supermom, daughter, sister. Her work was precise and immaculate, born inside the 80s dream that alternative cinemas would surely sweep away Hollywood and its imitators. Staunchly feminist, she filled her frames with women first of all. She was always behind her own camera, chasing the silvery dream of film even after most of the labs had shuttered their doors. She died quickly and suddenly in the spring of 2018, after a hospital stint that allowed a bevy of family and friends to stand at her bedside, the steady flow a testimony to how much love she had inspired.
How to speak of her complications? Her joys and struggles? When she is no longer able to say the words for herself.
Felix Werth: My mother was born in Fondi, Italy on March 12, 1957. She crossed the Atlantic Ocean as a baby in her mother’s arms.
Dana Randall (George): They were on a cruise ship and my mom was seasick a lot. So my dad and my 9-month-old sister toured the ship. She was walking and toilet trained, already drinking from a cup. Fully formed. When they got to Canada my aunt showed up with Benny who was two-and-a-half, still in diapers with a bottle, and Josephine looked at him and asked my mother, “Why is he still in a diaper?” She was born running.
Charlotte Disher: That was true of her filmmaking too.
Dana: My father came here as a tailor, my mom was a fashion designer. My father saw that Canadians could buy suits off the rack, they didn’t need handmade suits, so he became a mason working with ceramics and marble. My mom worked in a sweatshop. Their idea was to become fashion designers and go to Rome. Instead my mom sewed underwear bands while my father apprenticed as a mason.
When Josephine was 15, she chose to live in a foster home for a year, rather than with my parents. People like Josephine and our cousins Flora and Christine were girls born in Italy, and when they came to Canada it was not a good time for them. Everything you did was scrutinized. If one uncle thought your skirt was too short he’d walk over and talk to your parents. The way you walked, what you said, who you were talking with. Josephine was the oldest so she paved the way for the rest of us.
Charlotte: They had to fight to get what they wanted.
Dana: They all married young to get out of the house. Craig came up to her and started chatting with her. There wasn’t anything happening, but someone saw her, and my parents found out and they were terrified. It was really bad. I remember my parents hitting my sister. Though sometimes our parents were the least of our worries, because if I was being bad I would get hit by my aunt, possibly by my uncle, and then if my parents found out I would get disciplined again.
They were terrified of being in Canada. You have to watch what you say and do or the immigrant office will deport you. Back in Italy, my mom used to get in trouble all the time, she was a wild child. I think Josephine was more like my mom than she would care to admit. This was on Lock Street in Hamilton, near Main and King on the mountain. The neighbourhood was 90% Italian and the Red Devils motorcycle gang lived across the street.
She married her first husband Craig Patterson at 18. When she was 19 they sold everything they had, packed their bags and moved to Vancouver. We thought they were a couple, but they’d broken up. She came back a year or two later for Christmas and finally told us.
Felix: She moved to Montreal to study Italian and French at the University of Montreal for a couple of years. Later she joined the University of British Colombia Film Society, where she discovered a love for film that shaped her life. It was here that she met my father Michael Werth who was studying engineering, though he soon switched his major and entered the film program.
Dana: My mom was three years older than my dad. I’m older than my husband. My daughter’s dating someone younger. And Josie was older than Michael.
Charlotte: He was 18 when they met, and I remember her going on and on about how beautiful he was.
Dana: He had that long flowing hair. We called him Fabio (laughs). They got married on her 30th birthday, he was 22.
Charlotte: Michael asked her to marry him every year.
Dana: We were stunned when she said she was going to film school. She was months away from graduating in French. How do you propose to pay the bills? She didn’t tell my parents until she’d finished two years of film school.
Michael Werth: The film department at the University of British Columbia was pretty Hollywood-centric. Experimental filmmaking was not on the radar. We became exposed to the masters of that genre through the Pacific Cinematheque and the Western Front showed videos that grappled with sexuality and politics.
There were 12 people in the class, and 3 were picked to make films. Josie’s movies were never chosen. But grants and equipment were available through the Film Society, and that allowed Josie to make films like Cold City for Street Artists. It was a psychodrama starring Jill Daum, who is now a well-known Canadian playwright. She was the girlfriend of Maurice who had a band called Maurice and the Cliches. We got involved in shooting a video for them, and that’s how we met Jill. In the film Jill isn’t happy with her arrogant boyfriend and has horrific visions — nuns tranform into hags with melting faces, and there are a lot of severed heads. I don’t think she considered it her best work.
Cathy Ord: In 1983 she asked if I would be in her film Doctor’s Orders, although I remember it as One Woman Walking. I had to walk all over Vancouver and we wound up at the beach. She liked my walk, she said it looked strong and forceful. She was looking for a strong woman to be the background for her voice-over about the relationship between women and doctors. It was about women taking control of our own bodies. We shot it in an afternoon, on one of those rainy Vancouver days.
Mike: In 1984 she made One Woman Waiting (9 minutes 1984) on a single roll of film, and it travelled around the world announcing a new talent and vision.
Dana: Josephine shot One Woman Waiting twice. The first time was in Canada, but the light wasn’t perfect, and the second time they crossed the border into Oregon.
Michael: It’s about a woman who is a little lost, and then is found by another woman who is more confident, who embraces and encourages her. That was my interpretation anyway. We first tried to shoot it in on Deas Island with Moira McDonald and Maggie Buchanan, two school friends. They make cement there, so there were huge piles of sand, but the location didn’t look good enough, so months later, with different actors, Josie went to Lawrence, Oregon and reshot it. What you don’t see is that just offscreen are dozens of dune buggies screaming around the thousands of acres of dunes in that park. I don’t know how they managed to keep the sand clear but as I recall it took several days to get that one shot and there was only one other take which was basically a throwaway. I think the crew of four women really puzzled the ATVers who found them in the middle of the dunes with a camera but no vehicle.
Dana: She brought the film home to us, a very Italian immigrant family, and we see a woman waiting in the desert, and we’re waiting, and then another woman arrives and relieves her of her post. Josie asked us: what do you think? We all just stared at her. We didn’t get it. She was living in a different world than us. My parents were still afraid that someone was going to call the police because we weren’t acting “Canadian.”
Michael: In No.5 Reversal (10 minutes 1989) there is a reversal in mood, from pillow talk to memories of counter-revolutionary slaughter in Nicaragua. Along the way images of peace, nature and familial love are juxtaposed with zones of destruction. The question is why? I think it was partly a statement of the artist’s struggle — to engage with the reality and horror of life but also to show and remember how beautiful life is, how water keeps washing away the blood of our human mess.
Charlotte: It starts and ends with two women in bed talking, but we don’t hear their conversation. Instead, we hear an upbeat song.
Michael: The Ruth Brown song was on a compilation album we owned, and we had never heard of her before, so Josie just located her and over the phone (and later on paper of course) Ruth agreed to let Josie use the track. I think Josie liked the idea that it was such an upbeat track about sadness, and that played into the reversal idea.
Dana: For No. 5 Reversal she wanted to shoot in Niagara Falls. It was the coldest night of the year but she insisted. We drove down in (my husband) George’s truck, and it was so cold we put the film in our coats to keep it warm. We could only shoot for a few seconds at a time. I couldn’t feel my hands. Josie had her gloves off and her hands were blue.
Michael: In No.5 and in One Woman Waiting, Josie celebrated the relationship women have with each other. I think she was trying to create characters but without using dialogue, and was ahead of the curve on the Bechdel test.
Felix: As a feminist she placed women first, both in front of and behind the camera, and fought against the objectification that sadly still dominates the media.
Dana: We grew up in a society where men ruled. But my mom was the ruler in our house. In mixed company she always gave my father the floor, he was the man of the house. But when we were disciplined, we were more afraid of my mom. All the women in our family were dominant.
Charlotte: Interference (20 minutes 1990) was shot in their (Josie and Michael’s) apartment. I set up lights and carried equipment. The woman in the film is supposed to be writing. But she does everything except, she procrastinates, she goes downstairs and checks the mail, she looks out the window. It was shot at Bathurst and Eglinton. Josie converted their bedroom into the office of the woman in the film. She would shoot the same scene over and over again just to get ten seconds of something perfect.
Dana: At the very end I come in and say “Hi, how was your day?” Josie was always behind the camera. Michael would have been doing the sound. Charlotte was always there. If you weren’t an actor you were doing something else. There was always tons of food and wine.
Michael: I can see her love of Chantal Akerman, Maya Deren, and Jacques Tati in this film. It was shot in our apartment where she wanted to celebrate a character who doesn’t really do anything important. Not an unsung hero, but an everyday person. It was shot mostly without sound, and the entire foley track was recorded wild on location, and edited later with a few layers of offscreen effects including some ethereal train shunting sounds.
Charlotte: For Green Dream (23 minutes 1994) she collected footage without knowing how it was going to be used exactly.
Michael: I don’t think it was pre-scripted but grew “organically,” informed by feminism, paganism, eco-spirituality… not to stick too many labels on it.
Charlotte: She filmed in southern Ontario conservation areas, waterfalls, Devil’s Gorge. If she had a choice she would always be filming. It was hard lugging around all of her equipment (she had a large wooden Sachler tripod), especially in the winter with all that snow. Years later, she kept returning to those areas.
Michael: Until the late 90s I was basically the crew. I maintained the equipment, charged the batteries, loaded mags, carried tripods, drove the car, took light readings, did assistant camera, some optical printing, all that kind of stuff. In between travelling on shoots I was working as an editor in the mainstream industry.
Felix: Her unique vision, inspired by Italian filmmakers like Michelangelo Antonioni and early experimental filmmaker Maya Deren, was respected, admired and even loved by the mostly macho cinematographers of her time, who praised her beautiful and often breathtaking images.
Michael: I think it was important to her that her films did not speak with a simple voice. This was not for the purpose of showing off — how smart am I, that you can’t figure out my film — but rather that the meditative images created moods that stirred an emotional response, that opened little parts of your mind, letting you feel what you felt, not telling you “this is how I feel and I want you to feel the same way.” There wasn’t usually a prescriptive voice in her films
Celeste Sansregret: Nightstream (12 minutes 1996) was based on a dream she had before Felix was born about being pregnant. She told me I was playing a fertility goddess.
Felix: My mother had a huge sense of the absurd, inherited from my grandfather and inherited by me. She saw the humour and the ridiculous in almost everything.
Celeste: We drove out to the Elephant Hills on a hot, sunny day, leaving in the early morning. I had a lot of experience as a stage actor, but it was the first time acting in a film. When we found the spot she wanted to shoot she surrounded me with cowrie shells — a fertility symbol. Josie was behind the camera (there was no sound), and shot from different angles. She asked me to look directly into the camera, and think about certain things, knowing they would show on my face.
Edie Steiner: It was a freezing day when Josie filmed my scene of Nightstream. She needed a pristine, snow-covered field, which we covered in red apples. Josie was always meticulous about her shots and we had to toss the apples into the frame without disturbing the snow where they landed. My character was one of several women filmed in a variety of landscapes and seasons.
Felix: Her friend Edie Steiner used to teach screenwriting at Central Tech High School. When Edie didn’t want to continue, she recommended my mother, who eventually added a course in cinema studies.
She watched a feature film every day, her library cards were always maxed out with borrowed DVDs. She liked Chris Marker and early experimental work where the primary focus was the novelty of the camera. Witness starring Harrison Ford was a favourite.
Dana: When Josephine and Michael split up, she moved back in with my mom.
Charlotte: The break up was sudden. I advised her to leave him because she was pregnant and he didn’t want her to have the kid. He was younger and wasn’t ready for it. That’s why we ended our friendship. She became the victim and wouldn’t leave him. It wasn’t a good place for her to be.
Dana: But they had Felix, and Michael in the end was really happy. She was 35 when Felix was born. That’s when I started seeing the change in my sister. We used to go into Toronto and sleep on the freezing cold floor in whatever warehouse they lived in while they worked 24 hours a day. Then she had Felix and moved to Coleridge where she lined her whole house with that piping you put around sharp edges. She “baby proofed” her entire house! We said: Josephine, what are you doing? Kids are pretty resilient. They can eat dirt. But she would follow him around in case he fell.
When Josephine had Felix, nothing else mattered. She went from being a working person to a stay-at-home mom. She was obsessed with Felix. He’s an amazing person, but it could have gone so differently. She never said no to him.
Jasmine: I dated Felix when I was 16, ten years ago. Josie was my second mom, I stayed at her house all the time. My parents were really strict and she would always lie to my parents for me. She knew I had no freedom. My parents would call the house and ask “Where’s Jasmine?” And Josie would say “I don’t know…” (laughs) She was so understanding.
There were thousands of meals. We’d go over at lunchtime from school, and she’d prepare a five-course meal, and then another for dinner. At the end of the day or night she’d drive me home. Felix and I are still best friends. We talk every day.
Charlotte: I was shocked when I found out that she’d stopped making films.
Dana: I was really surprised that she wasn’t making films.
Jasmine: When I first met her she wasn’t too active with filmmaking. But as Felix grew older and more independent she started again.
Mike: Impossibly, Josie conjured a second life as an artist. After her first 5 (public) movies, 17 years were spent as a dedicated mother, sister and daughter, living in a shared house in Hamilton with her son Felix and her mother Gemma. And then she started making movies again, reunited with her Bolex, indestructible analog accompaniment. She finished three movies, all landscape riffs, the products of slow and careful observation, gathered during daytime hours when the light was also a dream.
Felix: I was happy to see her making things again and it was great to see her technical aptitude. I had seen her film gear ever since I was a child, but it just looked like cool toys that belonged to another world. I had no idea they were associated with her.
For Light Study (12:30 minutes 2013) my mother knew she wanted to shoot on the escarpment, in areas already familiar to her. She would go up to each location for 1-3 days and walk the trails with her equipment. I would go with her. In each spot she would shoot for hours, often a frame at a time. It took three years. Our walks were familiar because up until I was 14 we went for an hour-long walk every day.
Josie: Nature is a great inspiration for my work, inspiring reflection on our relationships with other life beings. Personal perspectives often point towards nature, and look upon it with feelings of humility, reverence, and respect. Light Study speaks to this, infused with a plethora of waterfalls, lakes, and wetlands, a poetic examination of the ecosystems along the Bruce Trail.
The film opens with an ancient waterfall, and ends on a glass-like surface of a thriving marshland. Sparkling emerald waters, and sun-bleached rock faces intersperse with animate life forms flickering across the screen. Here, nature presides over an ephemeral human element, its primordial essence both medium and agent of light’s eternal change.
Felix: She didn’t have a proper editing set up. She worked with sheets of paper, looking through the film frame-by-frame and writing down the edge numbers where she would make her cuts. Then she would get the film digitized and call Boyd Bonitzke who worked on the colour correction and the finishing.
Boyd: Light Study was a purely single-frame 16mm film. When she came to me, she’d already had it digitized, though she couldn’t get anyone in town to do it; she had to send the film to New York. Typically you optimize each camera start in the transfer, but in this instance, every frame was different, so the lab had little choice but to digitize it all at a single, average setting. It meant doing a lot of extreme colour correction on our end, because the one-light transfer was so muddy. The editing per se was Josie’s work, even though she wouldn’t take credit.
She had gathered the footage in conservation areas over several summers. There was lots of painstaking work looking for the right plants and insects and birds and fish. Working single frame required hours of shooting. She would create entire sequences in-camera, many of which remained intact. In other cases she would slice out and rearrange single frames into new sequences in Final Cut.
Felix: As the title suggests, it was always intended to be a study, a collection of observations. Light was always the focus when she was looking for locations.
Dana: When Josephine moved in with our mother she lived rent-free and my mother paid all the expenses. We became enablers, she had no money at all. I would collect Shoppers points for her, but invariably she’d buy things for Felix. We all tried to take care of her. We would tease Felix and say: you better get a really good job because someone’s going to have to look after your mom. As militant as she was about filmmaking, she was also militant about taking our mom to appointments, keeping her medications in line. She was invited to a festival but refused because she felt she had to look after our mother. It was a love-hate relationship. They knew how to press each other’s buttons.
Charlotte: I think she felt guilty about not having a job and living with her mother. It’s almost as if she regressed back to being…
Dana: A child.
Charlotte: In terms of living at home. But not in her filmmaking. She never compromised there.
Dana: It’s as if she had a double life.
Charlotte: I had a hard time tolerating the victim personality that came out.
Dana: She acted the victim part so well that she started to believe it.
Jasmine: She had a thing about wearing black all the time, she never wore colours.
Boyd: I asked her if she had ever worked in video, and she said she hadn’t. I urged her to try it. I suggested she run through the list of projects she had in the back of her mind, find something short and manageable, shoot it on video, and see how she liked it. That’s how she made No End. She appreciated the freedom it gave her, the possibility of doing virtually unlimited takes, the ease of image manipulation.
Felix: No End (5:57 minutes 2013) was the only movie Josie shot digitally. She wasn’t working a frame at a time, as she did for many other works. In fact, she was still familiarizing herself with the camera, which was rented from LIFT, the film equipment co-op, and after this movie, she never used it again. Her money was tight so she didn’t actually pay for the camera, she volunteered at the co-op, and used her hours to buy time for the camera, one hour of volunteer time equals one hour of camera time. She did the same for the edit time she needed.
She shot between six to ten days on the project, and I would go with her. She knew the locations she wanted to visit, and had clear ideas about the overall shape of the movie.
Josie: I believe my films have a poetic, impressionistic quality, often challenging the viewer with an eco-aesthetic viewing experience. No End was given its backbone through poetry and its supporting structure through nature. It was inspired by a poem I wrote over the course of six months. What developed was a lyrical journey exploring the interconnectivity of lived experience, with images dancing across vistas of ancient rock and waterfalls, old forests and spanning skies, speaking to me of time, evolution, and dissolution.
Boyd: She went through all the footage and wrote out preferred takes and then we assembled it from her notes.
Mike: In No End a young woman wanders through the landscape, which is powerfully felt and framed. A suite of superimposed titles appear: “burying the burden of grief… releasing all remembrances of you.” It seems her onscreen avatar has arrived both to remember and to let go, to hold and release.
Felix: It started after her brother Vince died of cancer, which he’d been struggling with for eighteen years.
Dana: Vince had cancer four different times. They misdiagnosed the first two. Then he did a stem cell transplant with his own stem cells. He finally tested cancer free, but it turned out there was a hidden blood cancer. When he went in the fourth time he just gave up. He was tired. Both he and Josephine had rare cancers.
Charlotte: It could have been about the loss of her marriage, there was a lot of loss in her life.
Felix: I think the movie is about my father, their marriage ended when I was four or five, and my mother was never in another relationship.
Franci Duran: Josie had a sublime way of shaping light and time. She had a kind, encouraging word for everyone and an infectious laugh. I think of her often and miss our talks about art-making and the politics of exhibition, the pain of exclusion and joy of acceptance, of returning to practice, of claiming space as an older woman, of parenting.
Michael: 156708 (6:37 minutes 2017) was the model number of her Bolex.
Josie: I shot 165708 entirely in 16mm black and white film using single-frame photography, employing in-camera techniques and chemical manipulation of processed film to produce an eidetic study of temporal elasticity. I incorporated techniques like stop motion, time-lapse, light painting, flicker, tinting and toning. These techniques, combined with cycles of alternating exposed frames, imbue the work with a rhythmic magnetism, apparent both in the tempo and the aesthetic of the images. I’m particularly happy with the dynamic original score, composed by the acclaimed Graham Stewart.
Felix: She sometimes asked me questions about the edit, for instance, does the dissolve of Jasmine’s face to a shot of water have macabre implications? Is there a suggestion that she’s drowning? We talked a lot about the movie’s transitions, how it moves from one scene to the next.
Jasmine: She asked me to be in No End but I was going through a hard time so I couldn’t commit to it, but I had free time when she asked me again. She made it sound very casual. Would you mind shooting some scenes for my movie? You don’t have to talk. We would start in the morning and shoot until sunset. It was four full days with me, and many days shooting by herself. She kept telling me to pretend that water was disappearing, that the world was brittle and dry, so that’s what I was facing right now. She shot one frame at a time. There was lots of walking, turning my eyes and looking, everything I did had to be slow. We reshot each gesture 30 times.
Dana: She wanted a fire scene so we said come on over, we have a fire pit. We burned wood for four hours, and she’s just going on and on shooting with a Bolex. When we saw the movie, the fire lasted three seconds. I looked at her and said “Really?” But Josephine was like that, she’d make you redo it until it was right.
Josie: Another challenge is calculating the frame count for the alternating frame cycle technique. In order to calculate the sequence of frames, it’s important to know the length of the shot. Using a camera that allows single frame photography, such as a Bolex, I set the frame counter to zero. I then expose the first frame, write down the frame number, cover the lens, and advance the film one, two, or three frames (depending on the total number of images in my sequence). I then write down that frame number, remove the lens cap, and expose that frame, repeating the process until the first image sequence is complete. Finally, I repeat this entire process until all image sequences are complete.
Boyd: It was never a lot of work (my role in the editing) because of the nature of the films she made, shooting single frames in 16mm. She’s the only one who can edit that. She knows what she sees in her mind. Some of the footage for 156708 was optically printed, or hand-tinted or toned. I asked her, “Did you have to spend all that money? We could have done that digitally.” But she was in love with tactile processes. She felt it looked different.
Charlotte: I think she felt a lot of pressure to make films, that time was running out.
Dana: During the last year she really went downhill. To have one rare cancer is one thing, but three on top of each other… She had sarcoma and pinna, and then Sister Mary Joseph’s nodule.
Charlotte: Seeing Felix in the hospital… that was a really hard thing for him. He maintained his upbeat manner, teasing her relentlessly, right to the very end. Playing games with her, trying to keep her mood up, being silly. I know that helped Josie tremendously. Some relatives started crying hysterically, or stared her down, the Italian way. After the stroke we didn’t know how much she could understand, but she could still read emotions and body language.
I was there when Michael showed up at the hospital and she got a little bit weepy, I hadn’t seen her like that. We were worried what her reaction would be to seeing him again. Their relationship had become a little bit better. She reached out her hand and then they were holding hands and she was smiling at him. It was an incredible moment.
Dana: She always tried to encourage us to follow our more artistic paths. Our sister Mary wanted to be a writer, but became an accountant. Our brother Vincent played guitar and became an architect. I wrote poetry and wanted to sing and I’m in marketing. Josephine was the only one who followed what she wanted.
Jasmine: Her voice is so clear in my head. She’s still alive.
Boyd: She was very humble, reluctant to take credit for what she had achieved.
Charlotte: She refused to do anything else. She was single-minded and militant.
Dana: She asked me: don’t you want to do exactly what you love? And I said: not everyone gets that choice.
Charlotte: I missed years of her life and when she was in the hospital I apologized to her for that.
Dana: She always wanted to go out for coffee and I apologized for not making the time.
Charlotte: We all had a chance to say good-bye. And then she fucking died.
Dana: That’s just like her, right?
Charlotte: It just seems so crazy. I’m still on what I call the Josie diet, which started when she went into the hospital. Too much wine.


(KTXL) — Hundreds more people evacuated from the virus zone in China began arriving Friday at military bases across the U.S. to begin a two-week quarantine.
Early Friday morning, 201 evacuees landed at Travis Air Force Base, with 53 of them staying behind to be placed in quarantine. Now, more than 200 evacuees from China remain quarantined at the base near Fairfield.
Four evacuees on Friday’s flight who showed symptoms of the novel coronavirus were taken to area hospitals in the first phase of testing for the new, deadly virus.
“The CDC has developed an assay to detect the actual virus in a person’s blood, said Dr. Henry Walke with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “A sample is taken from a person and that is sent to the CDC and that’s tested there.”
Only one person who landed at the airbase Wednesday, a young child, was hospitalized with a fever. But by Friday, Dr. Walke said the child had tested negative for the novel coronavirus.
The results for the four other patients are expected back in a couple of days.
Walke told FOX40 those currently under quarantine at Travis AFB will remain under constant supervision with regular checkups.
The doctor added the virus can only be spread by someone who has not only contracted it but is showing symptoms — an incubation period that lasts about five days.
“At this moment, there is no need for the American public to use face masks as they walk around doing their daily activities,” Walke explained. “Very, very low. The risk of transmission is very, very low.”
There were no signs of illness among those who flew into Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, said Dr. Jennifer McQuiston, deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control’s division of high consequence pathogens and pathology. She said fewer than 100 people, including babies, will stay at Lackland, she but did not have an exact number.
The plane arrived from the Wuhan region of China, the center of the outbreak of the new coronavirus.
The plane then left Texas and transported people to Omaha, Nebraska, where it landed Friday night. The passengers will be quarantined at a nearby Nebraska National Guard training base.
A military base in San Diego earlier Friday received 65 people who will be quarantined.
CDC officials said another flight carrying more than 160 people arrived Wednesday at the San Diego base. Since then, seven passengers from that flight were hospitalized after showing symptoms of illness. Two of the seven people were later sent back to the base after testing negative for the virus. Test results on the five others are pending.
U.S. officials said at a news conference in Washington on Friday that more than 800 people have been brought to the United States from Wuhan on recent flights. All evacuees are being quarantined for 14 days and monitored for any signs of illness.
The new virus is in the coronavirus family that includes Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS, and severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. It causes fever, cough, shortness of breath and, in severe cases, pneumonia. It has sickened more than 31,000 people and killed more than 600, virtually all in China.


The Coronavirus pandemic could last for another two years, according to a World Health Organisation chief.
Director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus described COVID-19 as a ‘once-in-a-century health crisis’.
He said globalisation allowed the virus to spread quicker than the Spanish Flu did in 1918, but added that the world had technology to stop it which wasn’t around a hundred years ago.
‘We hope to finish this pandemic (in) less than two years, especially if we can pool our efforts,’ he said Friday.
WHO’s emergencies chief Dr. Michael Ryan noted the 1918 pandemic hit the globe in three distinct waves and that the second wave, which started during the fall of 1918, was the most devastating.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (pictured) described COVID-19 as a ‘once-in-a-century health crisis’ before adding globalisation allowed it to spread quicker than the Spanish Flu did in 1918
‘This virus is not displaying a similar wave-like pattern,’ he said. ‘When the virus is not under control, it jumps straight back up.’ Ryan adds while pandemic viruses often settle into a seasonal pattern, that didn’t appear to be the case for the coronavirus.
Currently, there are more than 22 million confirmed global cases and more than 795,000 deaths from the coronavirus, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
The United States leads the world with 5.6 million confirmed cases and more than 174,000 deaths.
Meanwhile Britain’s coronavirus outbreak shrank again as the average number of people testing positive for the life-threatening disease dropped to below 1,000 for the first time in a week.
An Indian health worker takes a nasal swab sample to test for COVID-19 in Gauhati, India, on August 21
Separate government data suggested cases have plummeted by 37 per cent over the same time-frame.
Department of Health chiefs announced another 1,033 Covid-19 cases on Friday – down from the 1,441 infections recorded last week.
It means 992 Britons are now being diagnosed with the illness every day, on average, after it doubled from the start of July to reach 1,097 last Saturday – the highest in six weeks.
And the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated only 2,400 people are catching the infection every day in England.
Last week the government-run agency – which tracks the size of the outbreak by swabbing thousands of people – claimed that 3,800 people were being infected each day.
Health workers collect swabs and conduct tests on passengers for coronavirus COVID-19 at the Capodichino airport in Naples, Italy, 21 August 2020
In another sign the darkest days of the pandemic are over, officials also declared just two more deaths – taking the official number of victims since the virus first reached the UK to 41,405.
Britain has yet to suffer a spike in fatalities or hospital admissions, suggesting the spike in cases is down to more testing in badly-hit areas.
Doctors say the rise in cases is largely down to younger people getting infected, who studies have shown face less risk of dying or becoming severely ill from Covid-19.
But confusion about the current trajectory of the Covid-19 crisis in the UK was sparked today after SAGE warned the reproduction rate could now be above the dreaded level of one.
Government advisers are understood to be scared that cases are trending upwards – despite data released to the public showing the opposite.
People wait for planes at Split Airport in Croatia yesterday as they try to get home quickly
The Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) estimates the R value – the average number of people each coronavirus patient infects – is now between 0.9 and 1.1, up from last week’s prediction that it was hovering around 0.8 and 1.
Experts say the R needs to stay below one or Governments risk losing control of the epidemic and the virus could start to spread exponentially again.
But the estimate is based on three-week-old data due to the lag in time between Covid-19 patients falling ill and appearing in the statistics, meaning it does not paint a real-time picture of the UK’s current epidemic.
And it can be skewed upwards by local clusters of infections, which has been seen in swathes of the North West of England.
Meanwhile, in the rest of the world, the World Health Organisation said the Balkans region is a ‘hotspot’ for coronavirus amid mounting speculation Croatia could be added to the UK’s quarantine travel list.
The WHO said the Balkans have been a ‘concern of ours since early June’ because of an increase in case numbers as it urged the region to impose additional measures to ‘nip transmission in the bud’.
The comments are likely to fuel fears that ministers will add Croatia to the Government’s travel ‘red list’ before the weekend.
That would mean advising against all but essential travel to the popular tourist destination and forcing returning travellers to self-isolate for 14 days, potentially plunging the holiday plans of thousands of British tourists into chaos.
It came as Germany, France, Italy and Spain all reported their highest number of coronavirus infections in months, raising concerns that a second wave could be hitting the continent.
Germany recorded 1,707 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the highest daily toll since April, while authorities in France said ‘the transmission of the virus is accentuating’.
Spain has recorded a new single-day record for Covid-19 cases since the country emerged from a three-month lockdown in mid-June.
Dr Catherine Smallwood told a WHO press conference: ‘The situation in the Balkans has been a concern of ours since early June when we started to see cases increase and it’s been very much a sub-regional hotspot over the summer period.’
She added: ‘We really need communities to take this on board, take the adequate steps both at a country level, in terms of the basic contact tracing, case identification and isolation and testing the systems that need to be in place.
‘And then where there are hotspots and increased transmission, additional, targeted measures need to be brought in place, very quickly, to nip transmission in the bud, stop it from spreading and keep the level of transmission at controllable levels.’
Croatia has seen an upsurge in coronavirus cases over the past week and yesterday the Adriatic nation posted numbers which almost matched its highest point in August.
The numbers are being closely monitored by the Department for Transport and the Foreign Office.
Chancellor Angela Merkel warned on Tuesday there could be no further relaxation of coronavirus restrictions
In eastern Europe, Ukraine on Thursday reported a record daily increase in coronavirus infections, exceeding 2,000 new cases for the first time.
Health authorities recorded 2,134 new infections in the past 24 hours, bringing Ukraine’s total to 98,537.
And Peru is one step away from being the country with the highest mortality rate during the pandemic after officially exceeding 27,000 deaths from COVID-19.
The real death count is thought to be much higher as the excess number of deaths during the coronavirus period jumped two and a half times what it has previously been at the same time of the year.
The number of extra accumulated deaths since the beginning of the pandemic compared to the figures of previous years in the Andean country is 63,000.
Peru was the sixth country in the world with the most confirmed cases, accumulating more than 567,000 infections.
Meanwhile, the UK Government remains under intense pressure to ease its 14 day quarantine rules.
Airlines and the travel industry believe the restrictions could be slashed by introducing coronavirus testing on arrival at airports.
This would see travellers asked to self-isolate until they get their test results, with a negative test and a follow up a number of days later, allowing them to return to normal life.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said yesterday that ministers are working with Heathrow Airport to find a way for coronavirus testing to reduce the quarantine period.
He told Sky News: ‘We’re working with Heathrow and with other airports on this project.
‘The challenge is because the virus can incubate inside your body without coming forward and without therefore a test being positive even if you’ve got it.
‘The challenge is how to do that testing in a way that we can have confidence enough in to release the quarantine.’


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A seven-member stakeholder committee made up of public officials, downtown merchants and business representatives could meet as early as this week to consider recommendations from the city’s downtown parking study.
But one member of the committee is already questioning what the committee is supposed to do.
Tom Dell, a downtown retailer who will represent downtown businessmen on the committee, said he has reservations about the committee’s role. He characterized formation of the committee as an attempt to show the city is doing something about the downtown parking issue. But he said the new committee has no clear direction and does not have a city department head taking a leadership role.
“It appears we are a bunch of people getting together to talk about the study,” he said.
Committee members, in addition to Dell, are Columbus City Councilmen representatives Dascal Bunch and Kenny Whipker, Columbus Redevelopment Commission representatives Frank Jerome and Steven Scgalski, Catina Furnish from Cummins, Inc. and one as-yet-unnamed representative from the downtown restaurants. Jerome is a city councilman, but is representing the redevelopment commission on the committee.
The committee will set a course for organizing how the city implements results of an $85,000 parking study from Boston-based consultants Nelson/Nygaard, Mayor Kristen Brown told city councilmen when presenting an organizational structure for implementing the parking study.
The mayor and Redevelopment Director Heather Pope came up with the structure and presented it to the council and redevelopment commission March 4. The plan also includes listing roles of various city departments — the city police department will handle technology use and enforcement, zoning changes would be handled by the city planning department and city engineering would handle parking accessibility.
Jerome said the committee will be tasked with taking the study recommendations and matching them up with the city departments that must research or implement each part. The committee will look closely at freeing up spaces in parking garages and making sure those spaces are used effectively. Jerome said he would also like to see an anonymous survey among downtown business employees about where they are actually parking and why.
The committee doesn’t need to know whether there will be paid parking or timed parking downtown to start working on the recommendations, Jerome said.
“We can do all kinds of stuff before we get there,” he said, adding that he doesn’t think the city council is interested in paid parking.
The committee will work with the timed parking in place now, but do it better, Jerome said.
The councilman wants the committee to learn more about the downtown employees who are working against the system to take up spaces that downtown businesses want for their customers. “That’s what people are doing now, scamming the system,” Jerome said.
The Nelson/Nygaard study recommended paid parking in the downtown core area, in part to re-educate downtown employees through having to pay hourly rates that those spaces should go to customers.
But according to Dell, without the citizen committee’s knowledge, a second option was added at the request of Mayor Kristen Brown that continues the city’s current practice of timed parking in the downtown core area. That recommendation lowers the allotted time from the three hours allowed now to one or two hours.
“I was pretty much caught off guard with that,” Dell said. “I would much rather have had that vetted through our (citizen) committee and let us make a recommendation rather than have it as a second option in the study.”
The parking study and a survey of 1,000 residents from last year showed Columbus has 5,831 parking spaces in an area reaching from First to Eighth streets and from Lindsey Street to Lafayette, Pearl and Sycamore streets. The consultants say that based on the square footage of the buildings in the core downtown area, the city needs 5,681 parking spaces even under maximum use. The consultants added that maximum is rarely ever needed.
The problem, according to the study, is that available parking spaces in the downtown core aren’t always conveniently located or easily found. The study says many of the most-sought-after parking spaces, those in front of downtown businesses, are used by downtown business employees who engage in an ongoing “parking shuffle” to move their cars to avoid a ticket.
Cummins has about 3,000 employees who work from offices in downtown Columbus. That’s another factor that has to be considered as the city approaches how to regulate downtown parking, Jerome said.
Cummins has its own garage, but it’s underutilized, according to the study.
The city’s parking monitors say the majority of tickets they issue are to downtown business employees who are violating the three-hour parking space limit. Part of the issue is that many of these employees have been paying the tickets rather than changing their habits, according to the city’s parking enforcement staff. Last year, the city collected $24,875 in parking fines, including all violations, from exceeding parking time limits to parking on a yellow line or in a handicapped space without a permit.
Brown has said in earlier interviews she is not in favor of paid parking downtown and wants the city to pursue the timed parking option.
“That’s another reason for our quandary as a committee,” Dell said. “I’m not getting a real good vibe that this committee has any teeth or power to do anything.”
Dell is also concerned about a section of the consultant’s report that indicates the consultants don’t feel the timed parking proposal will be as effective as paid parking.
“The Nelson/Nygaard team must note that many of these recommendations relied on instituting priced parking in the areas of highest demand, both as a means of allocating those spaces to the highest and best users and to set a context by which other parking and travel options would be measured,” according to the consultants. “Thus, this alternative scenario will not be as effective in helping meet the city’s goals of having available parking for customers, establishing clear employee parking areas, supporting economic goals and growth and protecting residential neighborhoods from spillover.”
The committee is left in limbo, Dell said, between the mayor’s preference and the consultant’s recommendation.
He theorized that eventually the committee would need to recommend to the redevelopment commission and the city council about whether paid parking should be downtown or the timed parking should continue.
Jerome said the committee will be taking the recommendations and working through city departments to change the way the system works now. He would also like to get more public input in the process.
“We would want to know, are you willing to pay 50 cents an hour for a space in front of a store, or would your rather drive around the block a couple of times and walk a block to the store?” he said. “The people that go downtown should have an opinion about it.”


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After spending close to a month in Romania and Hungary, arriving in Vienna for a week was certainly a change of pace. We knew western Europe would be different, so we were ready for that, but in the long run our impression of Vienna had a lot to compete with since we were just leaving Budapest, a city we had a fantastic time in. Regardless, here’s our one week itinerary in Vienna.
The Opera House
In order to get ready for the ballet at the Opera House, I (Scott) needed to be properly dressed. Because of my limited amount of clothes, it isn’t possible to travel with nice shoes and Sunday’s bests.
So shortly after arriving in Vienna we scoured the thrift shops for decent clothes. We found pleted pants and decent button up, but shoes were another story. In the end, at the last thrift store we visited, I bought a pair of shoes much too small for my feet.
Needless to say, they were uncomfortable – but boy did I feel like a hundred bucks.
Long story longer, the Opera House was a lot of fun but we were limited by obscured views. That was a big time bummer but all in all the experience was a success. The ambiance, music, and top notch ballet work was a beautiful moment.
Austrian royal family know how to live in style. Besides their palace, numerous other buildings reside on the property: library, greenhouse, stables, etc. It’s hard to know where everything begins and ends because of how large the compound is.
Anyway, we did the whole tour to get an idea of it’s size – and to pose in the half circle building. Way cool!
Vienna National Library
The most beautiful library we’ve ever been in. Albeit you couldn’t rent out any books.
We had no idea the composer was Vienna resident until we started doing research for the town. Beethoven also swung through town (although he lived in a smaller town in the country) but we focused on Mozart’s memorial.
Thankfully we were here in springtime in order to see the treble clef made of flowers. It’s a little hard to tell but you can see the while marble Mozart on the white marble pedestal in the back.
Lady Bathory’s Hungarian House
This one is esoteric. This is the apartment Lady Bathory lived in during her reign of terror in Vienna. Lady Bathory would bathe in the blood of the town’s virgins. Very scary stuff!
The reason I (Scott) had to stop here was because an excellent metal band is named Bathory – a spooky homage to the mentally disturbed woman. Pretty gross? Yes, but history has some skeletons in it’s closet and this is one of the more interesting ones.
This wasn’t on the list but when Hayley mentioned what happened here I had to pose for a picture. This balcony is where Napoleon dissolved the Holy Roman Empire. It blew my mind to think Napoleon stood on that balcony and made a history changing decree.
Long story short, this guy built a round house. Vienna told him to pay taxes and stop printing his own stamps – he said no. He declared his property a micro nation. The city decided to move him to another part of the city. How weird is that?! Read more about it here.
For schnitzel we went to Figlmüller, which is famous for having schnitzel bigger than your head (see photo below). Hayley had the Figlmüller schnitzel (pork) and I had the Weiner Schnitzel (veil). Would we eat them again? Maybe… but not at the price we paid. Overall schnitzel tastes like a really flat chicken patty and ususally served with a salad or potatoes. Pretty easy to eat with a local beer.
Vienna was a lot fun but we don’t feel a special attachment to it like we did with Budapest or Florence. The city itself didn’t feel incredibly comfortable, socially wise, but the classical Austrian soul was still present in the ballet, architecture, and arts around the city. Having said all of that, we give Vienna…
So there’s our one week itinerary in Vienna. All in all, the city was fantastic but visiting it once was enough. Have you been to Vienna? Did you like it? Hate it? What did we miss? What would you recommend? Let us know in the comments below.

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The attached overview from Coin360 shows the dramatic performance of the crypto market over the past seven days. The total crypto market cap dropped significantly over the past week to $1,236 billion.
In the process, however, Bitcoin’s market dominance showed an increase to 43.48%. Bitcoin’s market cap fell over 27% in the past week to $553 billion. The market dominance of Ethereum (ETH) remained stable around 19%, while the market cap of the number 2 coin dropped significantly to $237 billion.
Crypto market crashes in wake of Terra/UST
In recent weeks, equity markets and also the crypto market began to slide in its wake. The reason was the increasing fear of fear and the US Fed’s interest rate increases. ‘Europe’ could not be left behind either and it looks like imminent interest rate hikes are going to take place on our continent as well.
On the crypto market, however, mercy strikes were dealt by the crash in Terra that released the stablecoin UST. The UST was supposed to represent a value of $1 in principle. However, this stablecoin turned out to be not so stable. Investors did not trust the peg with the USD as is the case with USDT, BUSD and USDC. Unlike the latter stablecoins, Terra uses an ‘algorithmic peg’ where UST is linked to sistercoin Luna.
The UST lost the peg to the USD with the price falling well below 1 USDT. Indeed, the UST price even dropped to a low of 0.225. However, Terra’s (LUNA) price fell even harder: a drop of more than 90% towards USDT 0.016.
We can safely say that the stablecoin market is undergoing a severe test. However, it is worth noting that the “normal” stablecoins such as USDT, BUSD and USDC are (for now) holding their value well.
Mainly due to the fact that they are covered by USD. This is in contrast to stablecoins that are based on algorithmic pegs. There is still much work to be done for these types of coins to regain confidence or to justify their existence.
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Crimea is Ukraine, but some in the West say Kyiv should not try to take it back by force if it gets the chance. Is that good advice, or could such an approach be dangerous for Ukraine and the West? Ruth Deyermond, a senior lecturer in the Department of War Studies at King's College London, joins Steve Gutterman to discuss.
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Tuesday 30 May 2023
Russia claims its forces, led by Wagner mercenaries, have captured all of the ruined Ukrainian city of Bakhmut after many months of heavy fighting. Kyiv denies it. How important is the battle for Bakhmut? Author and analyst Mark Galeotti joins Steve Gutterman to discuss.
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Why are dirtbike exhausts so expensive?
You are basically paying for R&D and labor costs on dirt bike systems. A lot of testing goes into making them, and the volume of sales is much smaller than in the automotive world, so each customer gets a bigger chunk of the engineering/labor bill in the end.
Does slip on exhaust sound better?
Generally speaking, the smaller and more hollow the slip-on exhaust is, the louder your motorcycle will become. This is because sound waves generated from the combustion engine can travel and exit into the environment much more easily and quickly.
Should I upgrade my motorcycle exhaust?
Similarly, exhaust systems are necessary for motorcycle performance. When you allow heated gases to efficiently exit your bike’s engine, your machine runs better. If you are looking for additional horsepower, therefore, modifying your motorcycle’s existing exhaust setup may help you achieve your riding goals.
Is it bad to run straight pipe on a motorcycle?
If you are busy and want the quick answer – straight piping a motorcycle will not damage the engine. However, you could lose some horsepower because exhaust scavenging is reduced and emission from your motorcycles will be massive – making it illegal. If that’s too much to digest, don’t worry.
Can you get pulled over for loud exhaust on motorcycle?
Any motorcycle driven in California and manufactured after 1985 may not emit a noise over 80 decibels. That said, bikers can still receive a violation under this law for violating noise restrictions, rather than a fix-it ticket.
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Why is Akrapovic so expensive?
The Akrapovic is so expensive because of a massive mark-up. People are paying it because the perception is there that it’s a quality product.
Is it bad for a motorcycle to backfire?
A motorcycle backfire is inherently bad since unburnt fuel is detonating in a mistimed manner. The loss of fuel results in loss of power and low mileage for the motorcycle. In addition, the fuel detonation causes overheating of the engine and the exhaust.
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The Woodburn Area Chamber of Commerce has launched its own smartphone app.
Executive Director Stuart Rodgers said the addition of the app is part of a broader initiative to "revamp (our) digital presence" in 2017. This initiative also includes enhancing the Chamber's website and weekly e-blasts.
The Chamber has been supported through this effort by J Turner Solutions.
Downloading the app provides access to member contact information through an online business directory, as well as notifications members and non-members can subscribe to and receive event reminders for Greeters, Business After Hours, forum lunches, Chamber 101 workshops and more.
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CASPER, Wyo. (AP) - Members of a disbanded task force say Wyoming regulators should do more to fight potential ozone pollution in the Pinedale area by curtailing emissions from mobile gas-drilling rigs and equipment used to complete wells.
State officials say they’re working on new regulations and plan to release them for public review later this year.
The Upper Green River Basin experienced high wintertime ozone between 2008 and 2011. Certain combined weather conditions including snow on the ground and bright sunshine play a significant role in turning emissions related to gas production into ozone pollution.
In 2012, Gov. Matt Mead created a task force to address the problem. The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality adopted the recommendations of the Upper Green River Basin Air Quality Citizens Advisory Task Force before the group disbanded last year.
Now, a progress report signed by seven of the group’s 28 members says the state has made progress but can do more, the Casper Star-Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/1kLI6e9 ).
Regulators’ public reporting of air quality data has improved, but efforts to curtail emissions from mobile drilling rigs and equipment used to complete wells have stalled, according to the report.
Those signing the report largely represented environmental groups and citizens concerned about air quality.
Wyoming made progress in establishing a standard for the best available technology needed to detect and repair leaks from oil and gas production facilities, said Bruce Pendery, a Wyoming Outdoor Council staff attorney and former task force member.
However, the new gas development that standard applies to has slowed, he said, and most emissions come from existing facilities.
“To the extent they can move forward on these existing-source regulations, that will really be a strong step forward,” Pendery said.
The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality is moving ahead with new regulations to address emissions from existing equipment, said Steve Dietrich, head of the department’s Air Quality Division.
He said the implementation delay is largely due to process. The rules for new equipment are officially considered guidelines, he said, whereas the rules for existing equipment take longer to develop because they are adopted in the state’s air quality regulations.
“We’re starting to draft that language,” Dietrich said. “I’m hoping sometime this year we can share that with the public.”
Information from: Casper (Wyo.) Star-Tribune, http://www.trib.com
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Firstly, Pixar was a high-end computer hardware company whose core product was the Pixar Image Computer, and the system was sold to government agencies and the medical community. One of the leading buyers of Pixar Image Computers was Disney studios, which was using the device as part of their secretive CAPS project, using the machine and custom software to migrate the laborious Ink and Paint part of the 2D animation process to a more automated and thus efficient method. But the image computer is not profitable. An offer to drive sales of the system, John Lasseter who had long been creating short demonstration animations, such as Luxo Jr, gloried the device’s capabilities and premiered his creations at SIGGRAPH, the computer graphics industry’s largest convention, to great fanfare. (Metro Artwork)
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Are you familiar with that feeling?
The one you get when you finish a good book,
Or when your favourite TV series ends?
Or even, when one chapter of your life closes,
And you have to step through the threshold of a new page?
Well that threshold, for me
Has always been a great towering wall.
I'd always have the means to climb,
But never will I want to or feel like I should.
It seems that I'm needlessly clutching at straws,
While the guns of change point to my temples, drawn.
Somehow, I eventually had to scale through the fears,
And just nick a few pieces from every threshold I pass.
You know, when days are looking pretty cloudy ahead,
I'll just reach in my pocket and look at them
To see how much has moved, and smile.
I just realised that it's reached that point where I have to cross again.
the pain must be
becoming more and more
unbearable each day,
and we have to continue
walking away from each other
when all we ever wanted
was to run
towards each other's arms.
so how about
we do this, my love?
how about we go on
with our day,
pretend we're going
to see each other
the very next day,
and face things
with excitement today?
how about we go on
with our breakfast, lunch,
dinner, and snacks in between,
and pretend we're going
to dine together tomorrow?
how about we sleep tonight
without crying our eyes out
to the memories of us
and pretend that tomorrow,
when the sun rises from the east,
we'll wake up
to see ourselves
next to each other?
how about we repeat
being hopeful every day,
for the tomorrow
that holds you and I
in one page,
until we can
no longer remember
what we are ridiculously
and we're just truly happy
with our lives
without each other?
How to smile when I want to frown
I'll stand on my head
Turn it upside down
How to laugh when I want to cry
I'll tickle my sides
And make me wry
How to see good when I want to see bad
I'll think positively
And of you unclad
How to be loving when I want to hate
I'll look in the mirror
My worth proliferate
How to be calm when there is a storm
I'll have to have faith
It must be my new norm
How to be me when I want to hide
I'll have to be humble
Someone else be my guide
How to move forward when I want to stand still
I'll have to remember
Not to use self will
All of these are things I have learned
They were taught to me
My memory they've been burned
I survived the culling
Walked away unscathed
I put tremendous effort
In my camouflage
I ran with the fastest
Hid with the stealthiest
Fought with the toughest
Some became gnarled
Twisted with rage
Others fell, tripped up
In a flurry of appendages thrown
Some gave in to it and laid down
Awaited it with fear and tears
Panting like dogs
But not I
Not this time
This time I outran it
Through fields of blade grasses
Through open plains
Through dense forest
Through muddy bogs
Night and day it came for me
So night and day I kept moving forward
There is no end to my journey
Only another day bought
Through effort, blood sweat and tears
I'm not stopping anytime soon
What just happened?
Why does the mighty being look so small today?
Why are your usual bright eyes now shedding tears?
So many eyes deem you ferocious
But who among them could see your heart of butter?
You who once lead a pack
Who put your life on the line for every hunt
Who showed the way for the young ones to walk
Who once believed all the pack members to be your own
Is now roaming all alone.
The sun lost his brilliance out of sorrow
And the winds bore your tears
And the clouds brought rain to hide your heartbreak.
O, great wolf, can’t you see?
The world is wailing after your throes
But it is also wishing you to overcome the tribulation
For who else can if even you can’t conquer your heart?
O, mighty wolf, you may be alone
But you still have the heart of an alpha
So please keep moving forward
And prove all ill-wishers wrong.
Let gravity guide you to certainty
It is where you can, again, be whole
Tame your past over a cup of tea
Do not fall, again, to the rabbit hole
Let's be wiser.
I don't know that most people
when I say I've changed.
I took surviving my suicide attempt
as an opportunity
to try and never get to that point again.
my body was,
with my heart so far away from it.
I crashed back into myself,
and felt the sting in every
Inspected all the sore parts of my body,
touched my temple
and let myself think again.
I've been walking around
as a body
with the rest of me dragging behind,
Because I wanted to hurt less,
damage was done.
it's still better to be back
and feel the pain
than it was to run away.
I tell people I've changed
but they don't know
that crashing back into myself
changed me so much.
I took what could have been an end,
and made it give me new life.
Destiny, fate, temptations

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Generic drug makers let out a collective sigh of relief on Thursday, when the U.S Supreme Court held that state tort suits accusing them of failing to provide adequate warning labels on their products were preempted by federal law. The decision was also a relief--not to mention a huge victory--for Kirkland & Ellis partner Jay Lefkowitz, who argued the generics' case at the high court in March.
The 5-4 ruling comes only two years after the Supreme Court ruled in Wyeth v. Levine that plaintiffs can bring state law claims alleging deficient drug labeling even if the drug makers' warning language was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The majority opinion, which was authored by Justice Clarence Thomas, overturns decisions by the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and Eighth Circuits extending the holding in Wyeth to apply to generic drug companies. The consolidated case decided Thursday concerned generic manufacturers Pliva, Inc., and Actavis Elizabeth. They produced generic versions of Reglan, a heartburn drug that was, coincidentally, manufactured by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and was later found to cause severe neurological disorders.
As we've reported, generic drug companies have been fighting ever since Wyeth was decided in 2009 to argue that the decision applies only to brand-name manufacturers. Justice Thomas, who had concurred with the result in the Wyeth case, essentially agreed. The majority found that generic drug companies could not be held liable for violating state laws requiring them to update their warning labels upon learning of adverse side effects, because doing so would violate a Hatch-Waxman Act requirement that generic drugs have the same warning labels as their brand-name counterparts.
"Here, state law imposed a duty on the manufacturers to take a certain action, and federal law barred them from taking that action," wrote Thomas, who was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito and Anthony Kennedy. "The only action the manufacturers could independently take--asking for the FDA's help--is not a matter of state-law concern." Justice Thomas acknowledged that the ruling sits somewhat uncomfortably alongside Wyeth, noting that it probably "makes little sense" to the plaintiffs that their claims would have survived if they'd only taken Reglan rather than a generic version. "But 'it is not this Court's task to decide whether the statutory scheme established by Congress is unusual or even bizarre,'" he wrote.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor seized upon those words and accused the majority of rewriting Wyeth and inventing new principles of preemption out of thin air. "As a result of today's decision, whether a consumer harmed by inadequate warnings can obtain relief turns solely on the happenstance of whether her pharmacist filled her prescription with a brand-name or generic drug," wrote Sotomayor, who was joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan in the dissent. â€œThe Court gets one thing right: This outcome 'makes little sense.'"
Kirkland's Lefkowitz, who represented Pliva and Actavis, told the Litigation Daily that the decision was good for consumers. "I think the court really recognized that states can't hold generic drug manufacturers liable for doing precisely what the FDA says they have to do and cannot deviate from," Lefkowitz said. "The trial lawyers were trying to make generic drug manufacturers take on all sorts of additional burdens and costs. Had the court ruled differently it would have led to significantly higher costs for consumers."
Louis Bograd of the Center for Constitutional Litigation, who argued the case on behalf of the plaintiffs, disagreed. "The court essentially held that 75 percent of the American public--the portion that fill their prescriptions with generic drugs--have no remedy when they are injured by one of those drugs that lack adequate warning labels," Bograd said. He said that the generic drug companies could have gone to the FDA voluntarily and asked that their labels, as well as those of its brand-name counterparts, be strengthened.
California Congressman Henry Waxman, who co-sponsored the Hatch-Waxman Act, had submitted an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to support the plaintiffs. "The Hatch-Waxman Amendments do not categorically preempt state-law failure-to-warn claims," wrote Waxman. "Such claims are generally consistent with the purposes of the Amendments--to benefit consumers by bringing safe and effective low-cost generic drugs to market." With Thursday's ruling, the ball is back in the congressman's court.
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As a collective field, we are moving faster than ever before to advance potential treatments for ALS and accelerate clinical trials. Today, there is a greater awareness of the disease than there has been in its history.
Cambridge, MA (PRWEB) October 13, 2016
The ALS Therapy Development Institute announced the schedule of its 12th annual Leadership Summit to be held October 28, 2016 at MassBio in Cambridge, MA. The event is free and open to the public and will feature in-depth looks at the Institute’s lead candidate program, AT-1501, a panel discussion with participants in its Precision Medicine Program and a community-nominated presentation of Leadership Awards.
“As a collective field, we are moving faster than ever before to advance potential treatments for ALS and accelerate clinical trials. Today, there is a greater awareness of the disease than there has been in its history. This year’s Summit will be very different from those in the past as a result of this momentum,” said Steve Perrin, Ph.D., CEO and CSO of the ALS Therapy Development Institute.
The Leadership Summit is free and open to the public. Advance registration is required online at http://www.als.net/summit.
The ALS Therapy Development Institute is actively enrolling participants in the Precision Medicine Program, a program that has resulted in the world’s largest, patient-linked database integrating ALS genetics, voice recordings, lifestyle, demographics and accelerometer data. Simultaneously, the Institute also creates induced pluripotent (iPS) cell lines from Program participant samples which are used in crucial phenotypic screening and drug discovery efforts in support of its mission to find effective treatments for ALS.
The program will be discussed at length at the Leadership Summit including perspectives from three research study participants: Matt Bellina (Lt. Cmdr., USN Ret), José Cofiño and Beth Hebron.
In addition, the Institute will present its annual Leadership Awards. Nominations are made by the ALS community via Facebook and other means. This year’s recipients are:
- Gosnell Family of Hanover, Massachusetts – Fran Delany Challenge & Respect Award
- Ernest (Rusty) Perry of Dallas, Texas – Mary Lou Krauseneck Courage & Love Award
- Smith/Hanses Family of Yakima, Washington – Stephen Milne Adventurous Spirit Award
- Andrea Lytle Peet of Raleigh, North Carolina – Stephen Heywood Patients Today Award
Last year’s recipients include Matt Bellina, Sarah Coglianese, Bobby Forster, Beth Hebron, Jay Smith, and Maureen Ramirez (Team Godfather).
More information about the Leadership Summit and the Leadership Awards can be found online at http://www.als.net/summit.
About the ALS Therapy Development Institute
The ALS Therapy Development Institute and its scientists actively discover and develop treatments for ALS. The Institute is the world’s first and largest nonprofit biotech focused 100 percent on ALS research. Led by people with ALS and drug development experts, the charity understands the urgent need to slow and stop this horrible disease. Based in Cambridge, MA, the Institute has served as one of the leaders in sharing data and information with academic and ALS research organizations, people with ALS and their families. For more information, visit http://www.als.net.

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Edited by Richard C. Friedman, MD, Cornell UniversityDeputy Editor, Jennifer I. Downey, MD, Columbia University
Volume 40, 2012
Psychodynamic Psychiatry,* starting with Volume 40, 2012, is the renamed official journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry. Psychodynamic Psychiatry focuses on psychodynamically informed approaches to assessment, diagnosis, and psychotherapy, as well as covers psychoanalysis as a distinct form of treatment. In addition to narrative clinical discussions, the journal showcases noteworthy research in such areas as psychotherapy process and outcomes, the biopsychosocial etiologies of psychopathology, and mechanisms of coping and resilience.
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GIFT Konjana should be a very angry man, cursing his gods after the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) ‘stole’ his votes and gave them to a rival candidate in the 2018 Chegutu West parliamentary election.
The manipulation in the tallying of votes denied the opposition his outright victory as the legitimate Chegutu West MP and representing the constituency in Parliament.
Konjana contested the 2018 parliamentary election under an MDC Alliance ticket, but a flawed counting process by ZEC resulted in the electoral body declaring Dexter Nduna of Zanu PF the winner.
Soon after the count and declaration of Nduna as MP-elect, Konjana demanded a recount and it was discovered some votes cast in favour of Konjana were instead unlawfully counted as Nduna’s.
ZEC admitted the anomaly but informed Konjana to seek redress through the courts as it had no powers to reverse the announced results.
The opposition activist immediately filed a petition at the Electoral Court raising his objections on the result.
However, in October 2018, the Electoral Court judge, Justice Mary Zimba-Dube dismissed Konjana’s election petition on the basis that it was defective. Konjana appealed against the Electoral Court judgment at the Supreme Court and a ruling is yet to be made.
However, for Konjana, whether the Supreme Court ruling will come out in his favour or not, he considers himself the people’s MP for Chegutu West despite the numerous electoral and judiciary setbacks.
My case is still before the courts in the Supreme Court. I will continue to fight as a matter of principle. The stakes are high, but still, I am determined. I pray that one day I will get justice,”
“However, this is not in any way stopping me from executing my mandate as a people’s MP. I continue to be proactive in the constituency. I have a number of initiatives that I am carrying out. Am happy that am still connected with the grassroots.”
Konjana said the streets of Chegutu, farms, mines, and the Bulawayo-Harare highway had become his Parliament as he engages the electorate he says was robbed of victory by a corrupt system.
“The dusty streets of Chegutu, the sprawling and once productive Chegutu farms and plots, the artisanal mines and highway have now become my Parliament,” he said.
“I thank God, who continues to give me counsel, wisdom, and friends who continuously make a difference in my constituency.”
Konjana also serves as the MDC-T Chegutu West district chair using the Supreme Court ruling that ordered the MDC-T reverts to its 2014 structures to hold an extraordinary congress to elect a new president to replace the party’s founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai who died in February 2018.

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