The extreme left-wing movement known as “antifa” may soon be classified as a gang and subjected to the same kind of penalties that Bloods and Crips face in court proceedings, wrote the Los Angeles Times on Sept. 4. In light of the mob violence that antifa and their #BlackLivesMatter allies have inflicted on traditionalist and Alt Right citizens in the past several years — including assaults at Sacramento, Berkeley, and most recently Charlottesville — it’s high time that someone does something about these out-of-control anarchists and Communists.
In typical left-wing fashion, however, the debate over whether to classify antifa criminals for what they are — an organized gang dedicated to criminal violence and the suppression of white, heterosexual, Christian, male civil rights — is couched in terms of fighting the Alt Right.
You know, because the Alt Right movement dedicated to civil rights, with no hierarchical organization, which openly disavows the use of criminality or violence, is somehow equivalent to organized, hierarchical gangs that break the law violently, early, and often.
The mayor of Berkeley has embraced such a definition of what constitutes lawful assembly and speech, and what does not. To him, if you show up to exercise your God-given, constitutionally-protected rights, and others attack you while doing so, you’re both to blame.
“There are violent extremists on both sides, and we need to look at a variety of legal and law enforcement strategies to deal with these groups,” he said. “There are organized groups — violent extremists groups — on the left and right that have encouraged people to come to Berkeley and physically confront the antifa or to confront the alt-right.”
This is exactly what kids face in government schools every day. You get picked on and defend yourself? You and the aggressor get punished. You might even be forced to attend counseling sessions to learn how to handle your anger, as if your forceful acts of self-defense were unprovoked.
In all reality, whether law enforcement classifies antifa as gangs or terrorists, the Alt Right will suffer. If they pass laws to crack down on actual criminals in antifa, they will make the definitions so broad as to encompass the law-abiding, suit-and-tie wearing Alt Right. When even Jared Taylor (who has the public image of a calm, intelligent university professor) gets blacklisted on YouTube and a peaceful rally in Charlottesville gets turned by the cops and antifa into an anti-white smear campaign, can we really expect that we are in anything but a period of overt political suppression?
Antifa are too naive to realize that they are politically expendable. Their criminal, violent acts are used by the gaystream media and Democratic Party establishment to smear the Alt Right in the public mind. Laws will be passed, mud will stick in the collective consciousness, and the Alt Right will be pressed in harder than before. It won’t work. However, it will hurt.
The mayor of Berkeley and all the other virtue-signaling would-be saviors of civil discourse and peaceful multicultural order are once again sowing the seeds of permanent division, discord, and actual conflict. Just like they did before, during, and after Charlottesville.
The Alt Right will doubtless bounce back and grow stronger thanks to the lame efforts of fake patriots and open evildoers to marginalize us. Our people have a will to live, and we will find a way to live no matter what limitations, obstacles, or open persecution is thrown in our way. We will find a way, and we will win. They will fail to kill our movement. They’ll simply make us stronger.
Adam Grey is a white American who loves God and his neighbor, and is therefore a dissident in a dystopian society.
Some white men are identifying with the Alt Right as they realize that the goals and norms celebrated by our social order are underpinned by multiple deceptions, suppression of debate, anti-scientific notions about human equality, and unjust opposition to white identity in the midst of outright celebration of minority group rights.
But it is not easy to dissent. The playbook of the establishment is very simple and very effective: claim that questioners of diversity are driven by plain hatred, that they are poorly-educated hicks who can’t stand losing their white privilege, and are too parochial to understand the progressive cosmopolitanism marvelously spreading through the West.
Nevertheless, the establishment is having difficulties keeping men away from the Alt Right due to the widening gap between its ideals and the sickening realities engendered by these ideals, between the ideal of equality and black crime statistics, between the ideal of multicultural harmony and the reality of Islamic terrorism, between the ideal of freedom of expression and the suppression of criticism against Islamization, and between the ideal of gender equality and the feminist acquiescence to migrant sexual assaults.
Still, one can’t help wonder why the vast majority of white males are still entrapped in these ridiculous ideals. The standard answer is that whites have been brainwashed since birth and the media still has a near-monopoly over the news. The establishment controls the narrative concerning all those realities that don’t square with their ideals. They know how to narrate black crimes as instances of discrimination and enduring inequalities. They know how to portray Islamic terrorism as acts committed by a minority rather than by “most peace-loving Muslims.” They know how to portray the shortcomings of diversity as “challenges” that can be minimized through further sensitivity training and the education of children against xenophobic feelings. They know how to ignore countless stories that run against the narrative while playing up stories that demonstrate its success.
This argument is lacking. Many whites know what’s going on and yet they prefer escapism, secure careers, or a comfortable network of politically correct friends and family members, even when they have a chance to take risks. The majority seem to welcome their own demise. One has to wonder if Alt Right men even have the vigor, vitality, and commitment of the 1960s generation. Everyone knows that contemporary White men are emasculated. Feminism is blamed. My view is that white men are the weakest in the world today because they inhabit the most comfortable, easygoing civilization. Prolonged luxurious living, where food is easily obtainable, as the ancient Greeks understood, breeds indulgent men, malleability, and softness. This weakness is a natural consequence of the cyclical nature of history.
Chateau Heartiste and Return of Kings abound with articles of accusations against feminism. The current article by Heartiste is The Innocent Victims of Feminism are Boys. But feminism is a symptom of a wider decline in Western civilization. Western decline has long been written about. Oswald Spengler’s interpretation is the best-known. But even though Spengler spoke about the rise of pacifism, loss of youthful vitality, senescence, and the dissipation of strong identities and moral values in large metropolitan centers, many have a hard time making sense of his biological metaphors; specifically, his talk about the youth, maturity, old age, and eventual death of civilizations, as if they were organisms.
Giambattista Vico (1668-1744), writing when the West was still rising, and taking the decline of Rome as his main example, identified three main cyclical phases in the trajectory of civilizations:
1. Anarchy and savagery
2. Order and civilization
3. Decay and a new anarchic barbarism
Vico’s novelty was to suggest that the underlying mechanism behind these recurrent cyclical phases was the changing psychological state of human beings in response to different realities facing them in civilizational development. When humans face anarchy and savagery, they accept the necessity of behaving in ways that are useful for protecting themselves. They achieve this by creating order, which leads to civilized behavior. But once they achieve comfort through civilization, they focus more on amusements, growing dissolute in luxury and incapable of the discipline and seriousness required to sustain a civilization.
These underlying psychological dispositions were long understood by the ancient Greeks and Romans as common-sense observations about how the demands of survival and living without comforts nurtured strength of character, whereas a life of luxury and easy acquisitions encouraged effeminacy and licentiousness. Ancient Greek literature is full of objections to the pernicious luxury of the Orientals, the older civilizations surrounding them: their harems, eunuchs, and their corrupt intrigues. The very concept of the “Orient” came to mean opulent meals, indulgence, wantonness: effeminacy.
But the thinkers of the modern era, the ones who came up with a lineal view of history, starting with the Scottish philosophers Adam Ferguson, John Millar, and Adam Smith, rejected this cyclical view, and argued instead that all societies pass through a series of “progressive” stages: from primitive savagery to agricultural civilizations to a final stage of commerce. It was their view that the last stage of commerce would bring peaceful relations among nations and commercial riches, and thus the necessary conditions for the full development of human potentialities.
The logic of this idea was accepted in varying ways by most modern European thinkers. Marx’s innovation was to reject the idea that commercial capitalism would be the last stage. The subsequent rejection of the unilineal theories of cultural evolution that Franz Boas initiated – the celebration of primitive ways of life, which is currently a cornerstone of multicultural thinking – remains a variation of progressivism, since it asks Westerners to treat less-developed cultures with equal respect while calling for everyone to be integrated into a liberal modern world order dedicated to the elimination of poverty, warfare, and inequalities. All these arguments, from Adam Smith to Marx to Boas, are of the view that humans can be improved through changes in cultural development. Even the environmentalists have been unable to escape supporting innovations that cut back on pollutants and create nature-friendly technologies.
We have underestimated the cyclical argument and the simple truth that prolonged comfort, peacefulness, relaxation, and a lack of stress and tension weaken the human character. I am going to leave the theory of historical cycles for a future post, and here show that long ago, before the age of feminism, there were some astute observations about the emasculating effects that luxurious living had on the male character. I already alluded to the Greek association of Persian or Oriental luxury with effeminacy (which academia now dismisses as part of a “racialist discourse” intrinsic to the origins of Western civilization).
Greek and Roman Effeminacy
The Greeks themselves were later to be viewed by the Romans as over-intellectualized and over-refined in their tastes. As the Romans began to enjoy abundant wealth for the first time following their victories over the Carthaginians, with the upper classes developing an appetite for the refined tastes of the Greeks, and wanting their male children to learn about Greek rhetoric, art, and philosophy, Cato the Elder (234-149 BC) warned Romans of the weakening effects that Greek ways would have on their traditional toughness. Cato, although a Roman noble, was known for his “rusticity, austerity, and asceticism.” He hated the permissiveness and hedonism that came along with luxury. Plutarch observes about Cato:
His enemies hated him, he used to say, because he rose every day before it was light and neglecting his own private matters, devoted his time to the public interests. He also used to say that he preferred to do right and get no thanks, rather than to do ill and get no punishment; and that he had pardon for everybody’s mistakes except his own.
The Greek historian Polybius (200-118 BC), who bore witness to the ways in which Imperial plenty affected the lives of young Romans, noted how:
…some of [the young Roman men] had abandoned themselves to love affairs with boys and others to consorting with prostitutes, and many to musical entertainments and banquets and all of the extravagances that they entail … infected with Greek weaknesses.
Sallust (86-35 BC) would attribute the collapse of the Republican form of government to the corrupting influence of wealth and the resulting abandonment of traditional values:
When toil is replaced by an attack of indolence, and self-control and fairness by one of lust and haughtiness, there is a change in fortune as well as in morals and behavior.
By the time of Livy (64 or 59 BC-AD 17), we have a historian who believed that the decline of Roman morals was irreversible, lamenting in the Preface to his monumental history of Rome that:
…with the gradual decline of discipline, morals slid, and then more and more collapsed, and finally began to plunge, which has brought us to our present pass, when we can endure neither of vices nor their cures.
Don’t Blame Feminist Women
Some years ago, Chateau Heartiste had a post with the strange title Feminism Responsible for the Fall of Rome. It was strange in that no one has ever spoken about feminism in ancient times, but this post, which consists essentially of a long quote from a comment by some unknown person, could find no other way to account for this commentator’s observations about the dramatic changes that took place in the relation between the sexes in Roman times following the arrival of luxurious living. The commentator goes overboard in his efforts to draw parallels between our times and Rome, but is correct in noting that relations between men and women changed drastically, going from a very patriarchal culture in which family life was revered to a situation in the first century AD in which women had more say over financial and family matters, and the upper classes were uninterested in children:
~1 century BC: Roman civilization blossoms into the most powerful and advanced civilization in the world. Material wealth is astounding, citizens (i.e.: non slaves) do not need to work. They have running water, baths and import spices from thousands of miles away. The Romans enjoy the arts and philosophy; they know and appreciate democracy, commerce, science, human rights, animal rights, children rights and women become emancipated. No-fault divorce is enacted, and quickly becomes popular by the end of the century.
~1-2 century AD: The family unit is destroyed. Men refuse to marry and the government tries to revive marriage with a “bachelor tax,” to no avail. Children are growing up without fathers, Roman women show little interest in raising their own children and frequently use nannies. The wealth and power of women grows very fast, while men become increasingly demotivated and engage in prostitution and vice. Prostitution and homosexuality become widespread.
Blaming feminism for this change in Rome is anachronistic. Feminism is an ideology that emerged in the contemporary West as an expression of decline, but in Rome the decline happened without this ideology. Feminism has accentuated decline in our times, and celebrates it. But blaming feminism, or Cultural Marxism writ large, independent of any other factors, misses the fundamental cyclical nature of history. The Great Depression raised the vitality of men, and produced the “greatest generation” and the baby boom, but this was a temporary check on an otherwise declining trend that began in the nineteenth century.
Rise and Decline of Europe
When Rome fell apart, Germanic barbarians revived the West and brought in new blood, vitality, aggression, and expansionism, culminating in Charles the Great’s empire. This empire broke apart with the intrusion of new barbarians in the ninth century, combined with the decentralizing dynamic of vassal-lord relations. While the more brutalizing aspects of the nobility were “civilized” with the spread of chivalry and the Christian “Truce of God” after 1000 AD, Europeans were still full of zest for glorious actions, testified in their Crusading marches from the eleventh through the thirteenth centuries, the Portuguese rounding of Africa at the end of the fifteenth century, and the Spanish crossing of the Atlantic, culminating in the Industrial Revolution.
Through these major epochs, Europeans came to de-emphasize the martial virtues associated with feudalism, and as they turned to commerce, new virtues came to gain precedence: commodious living, orderly existence, and the Protestant emphasis on hard work (notwithstanding the excessive brutality of the religious wars and the interstate rivalries resulting from nation-building during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries).
David Hume, in An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1777), noted this transformation from the martial temper of medieval times to the “sociable, good-natured, humane, merciful, grateful, friendly, generous, beneficent” qualities of the moderns. This was a relative contrast; the eighteenth century was hardly merciful and soft by today’s standards; this was the age of worldwide colonization and the imminent brutal Napoleonic wars. The point is that the violent aggressiveness of earlier centuries, which still prevailed in the religious wars and found its expression in Hobbes’ pessimistic view of human nature, was declining and being replaced by a new form of civilized vitality, industriousness, and an intense desire to master the laws of nature.
In 1836, just a year before the great Victorian Age began, when Britain was known for its military vitality and its consolidation of the greatest Empire in history, John Stuart Mill was already lamenting the fact that:
…there has crept over the refined classes, over the whole class of gentlemen in England, a moral effeminacy, an ineptitude for every kind of struggle. They shrink from all effort, from everything which is troublesome and disagreeable . . . They cannot undergo labor, they cannot brook ridicule, they cannot brave evil tongues: they have not the hardihood to say an unpleasant thing to any one whom they are in the habit of seeing … This torpidity and cowardice, as a general characteristic, is new in the world … it is a natural consequence of the progress of civilization, and will continue until met by a system of cultivation adapted to counteract it (“Civilization – Signs of the Times,” in Prefaces to Liberty: Selected Writings of John Stuart Mill, [Boston: Beacon Press, 1959]).
One wonders what J. S. Mill would have said about the preoccupation of our current manosphere, such as Return of Kings, with clothing, color, fabric matching, and complexion. Victorian men cared about clothing, but with the intent of reinforcing the ideal of the proper British man as being self-sufficient, an adventurer, and scientifically-minded, which they felt was damaged with clothing of rich color; only dark colors, straight cuts, and stiff materials could project hardiness and endurance.
The key in J. S. Mill’s observation is that “torpidity and cowardice” are a “natural consequence of the progress of civilization” and of the comforts brought by bourgeois affluence. The expectation recently articulated in a Counter-Currents article that reading about Rome’s glories can teach current White men to regain their valor and heroism is pure wishful thinking. White men today will never build up their “resolve as great as that of the Romans” by reading about the Romans. The Romans built their character, before and during the time of Cato the Elder, by living at a point in the historical cycle when anarchy and savagery demanded hardness, by working extremely hard as farmers, by living in a very patriarchal culture that had harsh laws and expectations, and by undergoing intense military training and warfare. The Rome of Cato was a civilization at its peak; the West today is senile and childless, its families in decline, preoccupied with appearances, and overall too lazy and comfortable.
Decline is irreversible. The relentless occupation of the West by hordes of Muslims and Africans is an expression of White male decadence and effeminacy. Only out of the coming chaos and violence will strong White men rise to resurrect the West.
Ricardo Duchesne is a Canadian historical sociologist and professor at the University of New Brunswick.
Video: Students for Western Civilization interviews Dr. Ricardo Duchense about multiculturalism and Marxist bias in academia.
The fight for justice is never over, of course, but it has achieved a small victory in forcing the resignations of University of Missouri system President Tim Wolfe and Chancellor Richard Loftin. By now, you have probably already heard why they had to go. Since the start of the Fall semester, there have been two different instances in which Whites called a Black student, or in one case, a group of Black students, n*ggers. Twice! That is a trend. That is dangerous.
Naturally, a group of Black collegians decided to voice their concerns to then-Mizzou President Wolfe. So they tried to get his attention by blocking the route of his car during the annual Homecoming parade, but this only led to further racist outrage. No, they were not arrested, but instead of stopping the parade right then and there so he could hear their righteous demands, the students were removed, and Wolfe went on his way, waiving at the children or whatever it is they do at those things. (I should add in passing that at Mizzou, my alma mater incidentally, Homecoming is an even bigger deal than at most schools; the Homecoming tradition, now observed all over the country, was first started by MU.)
Then, on Oct. 24, it was discovered that someone had redecorated a wall in one the dorms with a Swastika made of feces.
Since all of this happened on Wolfe’s watch, he had to go. Black students began staging protests, one Black graduate student decided to go on a hunger strike until Wolfe stepped down, and then last Saturday, 32 Black Mizzou football players went on strike. Wolfe was gone by Monday. Wolfe could have revoked the players’ scholarships, he could have done a lot of things to fight back, but . . . well, you know the type. Maybe he received a golden parachute, which would make the situation even worse, because his cowardice deserves no reward of any kind.
No one is alleging that Wolfe has any personal connection the perpetrators. And so a rational person might wonder why the actions of a few locals should have cost Tim Wolfe his job. The answer is that we are not dealing with rationality. That is my point here. University life, which ought to be the most rational sphere in society, is now among the least. For Christ’s sake, the Professor in the viral video who called for “muscle” to remove a reporter from the protest site is a Professor of communication!
A similar situation is playing out over at the Mizzou of Connecticut, Yale. At Yale, every residence hall has a live-in Professor to guide the intellectual life of the hall. (At Mizzou, we did not have such a nurturing arrangement. We simply had R.A.s, who were just fat kids who might issue smoking-in-the-dorm citations and question you about why the couch in your room looks just like one that used to be in the lobby, but who otherwise left you to your own devices.) Anyways, in one of Yale’s resident colleges, husband and wife Nicholas and Erika Christakis, both teachers at that University, share this mentoring task.
Apparently, some residents of this hall complained to the couple that University administrators were taking the fun out of Halloween by advising them to avoid certain costumes. So Mrs. Christakis, who, as a Professor of early childhood education, would seem more than qualified to speak on such an issue, sent out a thoughtful email in reply. College students are probably mature enough to decide for themselves what costumes to wear . . . if it is alright for an eight-year-old blonde girl to dress as a non-White Disney Princess, who is to say at what age it is no longer acceptable? . . . perhaps we should be encouraging imagination, not restricting it . . . These were the kinds of reasonable things she said in the email. Ultimately, she concludes that we should not be forcing our “Hallowenish” standards on each other. That is obvious, I think.
Her husband added, “if you don’t like a costume someone is wearing, look away, or tell them you are offended. Talk to each other.” Again, this seems pretty obvious. If you are a sane and civilized person, those are pretty much your only two options.
Regrettably, it can no longer be taken for granted that Yale undergrads are sane and civilized. And now many of them are demanding that the couple resign their posts. In the words of one student, whom I am guessing considers herself a Strong Black Woman, and who is probably quite strong:
Then why the fuck did you accept the position?! Who the fuck hired you?! You should step down! If that is what you think about being a master you should step down! It is not about creating an intellectual space! … Do you understand that? It’s about creating a home here.
Creating a home and an intellectual space were once thought to be compatible, but as the Tragedy of the West unfolds, this appears less and less true. Free speech and rationality are fading away in the name of tolerance.
But back to Mizzou and Columbia for a moment though. The image many in the media are promoting about Columbia, that it is an only semi-reconstructed Southern town, is flat-out silly. It is possible that since Ferguson the town has become more racially tense, but when I was there less than a decade ago, it was, for better and worse, a picture of American normalcy—college edition.
My first semester there, three differences from back home stuck-out to me.
1. People were a bit nicer and a bit smarter.
2. The distribution of personality-types and fashion-styles was much more narrow. I think MU acceptance letters must have come with complimentary Northface jackets. I must have forgotten to check that box on my admissions form.
3. Back home, bathroom graffiti was mostly curse words and racial slurs; at Mizzou, it was debates about religion and between Greeks and non-Greeks.
In hindsight, these seem like the kind of differences that must be noticed by millions of kids arriving on campuses around the country every year. So in other words, Columbia is a normal American college town.
I heard very little in the way of racist commentary from my fellow students, even though it was known that I was a safe-space for the airing of such views. On my subjective racism-scale, I would rank Columbia as a bit less racist than Chicagoland, and a bit more so than Madison. And that might even overestimate Columbia’s racism, because people there are much more likely to be open-books than in those other two places.


For the second straight season, Liverpool begin the Premier League without Luis Suarez.
This time, the Reds will have to endure the whole campaign without the most divisive player in world football.
Suarez - the Premier League's top scorer with 31 goals last season - was sold to Barcelona for $130 million in the summer, leaving a huge hole in Liverpool's squad. He was forced to serve a 10-match suspension that went into the start of last season for biting Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic in a match two seasons ago, and his latest biting incident on Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini in the World Cup preceded the striker being sold to the Catalan giants.
That hasn't dampened Brendan Rodgers' confidence in a side that finished two points behind champions Manchester City a season ago by playing an effervescent style that resulted in 101 goals - one behind City for the most in the league.
"It's the most competitive league in the world and this is one of the biggest clubs in the world," Rodgers told Liverpool's official website. "It's a team that plays exciting football. I'm happy with the players we have got in, and we'll be set up for an exciting season."
It's probably fitting that the Premier League fixtures pit Liverpool against Southampton on the first matchday at Anfield on Sunday, with three of the Reds' summer signings coming from the South Coast club - Adam Lallana, Dejan Lovren and Rickie Lambert.
Lallana and Lambert combined for 22 Premier League goals for the Saints last time out, who finished eighth on 56 points for the club's best finish since 2002-03.
Lallana is not expected back until September as he works his way back from a knee injury suffered with England in July, but both Lovren and Lambert are fit to make their Liverpool debuts against the club that they have just left.
The trio's departure was part of a mass exodus from Saint Mary's. Coach Mauricio Pochettino left to take over Tottenham Hotspur, while Luke Shaw (Manchester United) and Calum Chambers (Arsenal) are also gone.
Almost 100 million pounds was recouped from those sales, but the effect on squad morale could be costly. FC Twente midfielder Dusan Tadic and Feyenoord forward Graziano Pelle came in earlier in the transfer window to add some depth to the ravaged squad, while the big-money additions of England goalkeeper Fraser Forster and Hull City striker Shane Long have come just days before the start of the season.
Ronald Koeman is the man tasked with building a new team at Saints, but the former Netherlands defender and Valencia coach knows he must rely on youth this season.
''We have a great academy at Southampton and we have good young players,'' Koeman said. ''I have great experience as a player, I can smell what happens on the pitch and in the dressing room. I will find my way in England.''
Southampton remain without forward Jay Rodriguez, who suffered a torn ACL in April and has been targeted by numerous top clubs, so new striker Long will have big shoes to fill after managing seven goals for Hull and West Brom last season.
"You look at how well they did last season and they are developing a new squad for this year to try and achieve those accomplishments again, and hopefully I can be a big part of that," Long told the Saints' official website.
Liverpool's scoring load will shift to Daniel Sturridge - considered to be one of England's most exciting young players in years. Sturridge is the league's leading returning goal scorer with 22.
Captain Steven Gerrard has retired from international football and can devote all his energy to Liverpool, who last won the league in 1989-90 before the legendary midfielder's career began… but the Reds also have the added burden of Champions League football to cope with this season.
These teams split their two meetings last season, with each winning away from home.


Ozil is fit again after overcoming back and knee injuries but was not even in the 18-man squad that slumped to a 1-0 defeat to West Ham yesterday.
Emery defended his decision to leave the Gunners’ highest-paid player at home despite his side’s evident lack of creativity at the London Stadium.
Arsenal struggled offensively against a lively Hammers side and failed to score for the first time since the opening weekend of the campaign.
When pushed over why he opted to leave Ozil at home for the short trip to east London, Emery claimed all of those players who did make the trip deserved to be there.
"I decided the idea of the players that I think are the best for this match," he said.
"We win with him, we lose with him [Ozil]. I think it is not one player [which means] we can't win or lose.”
Former Gunners striker Wright stated his concern for the club Match of the Day last night.
He suggested that Emery is making a scapegoat out of the 30-year-old.
"It's really worrying,” he said.
“I know Unai Emery has had his problems with big players in the dressing room before.
“Right now it seems like Ozil in this dressing room is the one he's taking it out on.
"For Ozil not to be in the 18, whatever's going on with him, I can't get my head round that.
“I think he should be given the opportunity to play himself into form or out of form.
“We cannot afford to have arguably the highest paid player in Arsenal's history not even in the 18.
"After 60,70 minutes, we didn't create anything.
“I don't think Arsenal are in a position where we can leave Mesut Ozil out of the 18."


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Peterborough United moved off the bottom of the npower Championship table after a 3-0 victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux.
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Hop on Highway 84 and eventually, you'll hit the little City of Slaton. And in that little city, you'll find two very big names. Klemke's and Slaton Bakery, share more than just this corner, but nationwide recognition as West Texas Gems.
"Only one reason, flavor and service," said Rod Klemke, owner of Klemke's Sausage Haus.
As one of the oldest bakeries in the state, the first Slaton Bakery opened its doors more than 90 years ago as a retail and bread factory, before settling in their current location in 1983.
"Whenever Robin and I took over, between customers we'd play cards, it was just the two of us, and now there are more than 20 employees, and we've got products throughout the state," said Sherrell Wilson, President of Slaton Bakery.
Now, visitors from nearly every state and dozens of countries stop by to try their signature thumbprints and loads of sweets.
"It's just really flattering to see that type of response from this little bakery, that you know, is just a destination. It's a destination stop," said Wilson.
Down the street, Klemke's first started in the late 80s as a slaughter house, but, after advice from a friend, they began to expand.
"He said, "Rod if you're going to stay in Slaton you need to know how to make sausage. He more or less gave me his recipe for German sausage. So I started making it," said Klemke.
Now, they run a barbeque joint, make 100,000 pounds of sausage and more than 40,000 pounds of jerky a year, and they're still growing.
"We keep pluggin' away each year and try to make new things," said Klemke.
And though their traditions remain, there's always room for more.
"We've got that experimental blood in us," said Wilson.
So, next time you drive through this little town, be sure to stop for a bite.
"If you have not eaten our sausage, I don't know how you haven't," said Klemke.
"We want to see this community keep thriving, and we do what we can to help that," said Wilson.
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Netball Tasmania chief executive officer Aaron Pidgeon won't rule out Burnie returning to the state league in the future.
The Tigers will not feature in the state's premier competition that starts this weekend, leaving Devon as the only North-West Coast side in the league for the second straight season.
Pidgeon said officials from the Tigers were open with the governing body during the pre-season and a return this year was not possible.
"We had discussions on a couple of occasions during the end of last season and after the season about them rejoining the league, but they ultimately determined that they weren't able to at this point in time," he said.
"They didn't feel like they could sustain a competitive team for 2020."
This year will be the last year that all existing clubs have a licence to compete at the level, with any clubs wanting to compete in 2021 needing to reapply with the governing body.
Pidgeon said although the Tigers had not been able to field teams in 2019 and 2020, they will have an opportunity to apply for a licence if they had the resources required to return next year.
"The difficult thing now is that it is the end of the current licence period, so we can't comment on next year yet as the door is open for everyone as we haven't started the process.
"We are not ruling them out from rejoining the league next year, it is just difficult from this year to next year because they did have a licence for this year and were just not participating.
"We just don't know who will be in next year and how many teams there will be, it is a whole new process."
Pidgeon also didn't believe that the North-West Coast could not support two teams, but there were factors that did make it harder for teams from the region.
"They do lose players to university and to jobs, so Burnie and Devon do struggle to retain and to transition players from 19s to seniors as they leave the region,'' he said.
"It is also not practical for all the athletes to come back.
"Also when the teams from the Coast travel, they have a bit more travel than the other clubs because of the balance of clubs with four teams in the south."
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Immigration is a very divisive topic in the United States, particularly when it comes to undocumented immigrants. Not every immigrant has a say in how they come to this country as many undocumented immigrants were brought here as children. They are known as Dreamers and every day they are at risk of being deported back to the countries in which they were born, but never knew as home.
The United States is their home, but the U.S. government can’t seem to agree on what to do with them. The DREAM (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) Act would provide an easier path for Dreamers to become U.S. citizens and lessen their fear of deportation to a country they don’t know. The act was first proposed in the Senate in 2001. It failed to pass and has been reintroduced multiple times since, never managing to pass.
A group of Dreamers decided to walk all the way from New York to Washington D.C. to bring attention to their cause. According to their fundraising page, they are walking, “…to demand congress passes a DREAM Act and listens to the overwhelming majority of Americans who support a path to citizenship for Dreamers.” They are led by Eduardo Samaniego, a Dreamer and advocate for immigration reform. Samaniego is currently sharing videos and stories from their walk on social media.
Their walk began on February 15 and is to last 15 days. During this walk they have experienced kindness from strangers that support their cause. A restaurant owner heard what they were walking for and provided them with sandwiches, coffee, and snacks for the road. Churches have hosted them and strangers have given them money to help them on their journey.
The Dreamers are pushing through sprained ankles and
blisters to fight for a path to citizenship in the only country they know as
home. If you would like to support them, you can donate here.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the Himachal Pradesh capital Shimla on Tuesday to participate in the Garib Kalyan Sammelan.
This public program, marking completion of eight years of the government led by the Prime Minister, is being organised across the country at state capitals, district headquarters and Krishi Vigyan Kendras.
It conceptualises elected public representatives across the country directly interacting with the public in an endeavour to get feedback about the various welfare programmes being run by the government, an official statement said.
The Garib Kalyan Sammelan will start at around 9.45 a.m. with Chief Ministers, Central Ministers, state Ministers, MPs, MLAs and other elected public representatives directly interacting with the public at their respective locations across the country.
At about 11 a.m., with the Prime Minister joining the programme from Shimla, various state- and local-level programmes will get coverage and make the programme national.
During the event, the Prime Minister will directly interact with the beneficiaries of different programmes of nine Ministries or Departments of the Centre.
The freewheeling interaction is aimed to get free and frank feedback from the public, understand the impact of welfare schemes in people’s lives and explore convergence and saturation with regard to different government programs.
The endeavour is to make the reach and delivery of government programmes more efficient so as to improve the ease of living of the citizens of the country, added the statement.
The Prime Minister will also release the 11th installment of financial benefit under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme.
This will enable the transfer of around Rs 21,000 crore to more than 10 crore beneficiary farmer families. On the occasion, the Prime Minister will also interact with the beneficiaries of (PM-KISAN) across the country.
A doctor was charred to death in a fire accident in a private hospital in Renigunta on Sunday morning. The condition of his daughter and son is critical.
Senior Congress leader Aryadan Mohammed (87) passed away at Kozhikode after a brief illness. Aryadan was considered the ‘Chanakya’ of Kerala’s Congress politics. He was a minister in the A.K. Antony cabinet and in the Oommen Chandy government and also in the CPI-M-led left the government of E.K. Nayanar.
Gold rates today in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kerala, Visakhapatnam, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, and Mumbai have been slashed.
Bathukamma will be celebrated on a grand scale at People’s Plaza, PV Narasimha Rao Marg, on September 30 and MLC K Kavitha was invited for it by Mayor G Vijaya Laxmi and Deputy Mayor Mothe Srilatha Shoban Reddy.
BJP leader Vivek Venkatswami today termed the upcoming by-election in Munugodu Assembly constituency as per-finals for their party.


The quality and longevity of your clothes not only depends on the way you wash and store it but, also on the way you dry it. Here are a few tips that will help you dry your clothes in a quick and efficient way:
1. Do not overload the dryer
Never pack your clothes in the dryer all at once. This will prolong the drying time. Moreover,overloading the dryer will ultimately result in wrinkled garments. Keep the loads small and let the clothes easily tumble inside the dryer.
2. Use a portable clothes rack
This is the best way to dry clothes naturally and quickly. Hang all your wet clothes in a line. Maintain space between them. This facilitates airflow and facilitates quick drying. Set the portable clothes drying rack in the open. Do not put them under direct sunlight as it fades the color. In case you are drying clothes indoor, keep the clothesline near a window (in case there is plenty of breeze outside). Set a fan near the clothesline. This will also help the clothes dry quickly. In case you are looking for good quality clothes drying rack, then try EziDry. It is portable and strong and also comes with a hook and strap to anchor it in a windy weather.
3. Dry using an iron and a towel
This is yet another quick way of drying the clothes without damaging it. Lay the wet garment on the ironing board and top it with a dry towel. Now iron the towel thoroughly on high heat. Turn the garment and follow the same process. The towel absorbs moisture from the cloth and the iron helps facilitates quick drying. Never use an iron directly on a wet cloth. This stretches and damages the garment.
4. Use towel to Dry clothes
This is yet another safe way to quickly dry your clothes. Put your wet garment on a large and fluffy towel. Now, roll the towel with the garment still inside. Twist it- starting from one end to another. This squeezes the excess moisture out of the cloth. You can even put a dry towel while drying the clothes in your machine. The towel absorbs excess moisture and quickly dries the cloth. However, this trick works with smaller loads.
5. Wring the clothes before hanging them
Before you put the clothes for drying, twist and squeeze the excess moisture of the cloth. Be careful to do not wring the cloth too harshly as this will damage the fabric. Try wringing the cloth before tumble drying it in the machine. This also helps in quick drying.
6. Use a blow dryer
Use your hair dryer to quickly dry your clothes. Hold the blow dryer near the garment and keep on rotating it as you dry. Never point the blow dryer on a particular spot for long.
Before you go for any of these options, always read the labels in your garment carefully. This will help you ensure that you are treating the garments in a correct way.


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About the Book
She sells priceless antiques. He sells livestock by the pound. Is he really the man to make a bid for her heart?
After helping her grandfather at their Boston auction house, Miranda Wimplegate discovers she’s accidentally sold a powerful family’s prized portrait to an anonymous bidder. Desperate to appease the people who could ruin them forever, they track it to the Missouri Ozarks and make an outlandish offer to buy the local auction house and all its holdings before the painting can move again.
Upon crossing the country, however, Miranda and her grandfather discover their new auction house doesn’t deal in fine antiques, but in livestock. And its frustratingly handsome manager, Wyatt Ballentine, is annoyed to discover his fussy new bosses don’t know a thing about the business he’s single-handedly kept afloat. Faced with more heads of cattle than they can count–but no mysterious painting–Miranda and Wyatt form an unlikely but charged partnership to try and prevent a bad situation from getting worse.
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About the Author
Regina Jennings is a graduate of Oklahoma Baptist University with a degree in English and a history minor. She is the author of “A Most Inconvenient Marriage,” “Sixty Acres and a Bride,” and “Caught in the Middle,” and contributed a novella to “A Match Made in Texas.” Regina has worked at the Mustang News and First Baptist Church of Mustang, along with time at the Oklahoma National Stockyards and various livestock shows. She now lives outside Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with her husband and four children.
Regina Jennings latest release, book two in the Ozark Mountan Romance series, At Love’s Bidding, is a delight, as well as a reader’s escape. This story has not only fun characters, but an enjoyable and charming story as well. Themes of the book include family, friendship, misunderstanding, and romance. Regina’s story will entice readers from page one as they journey with Miranda Wimplegate on a journey to help solve a problem from a sale from the family auction and possibly even find romance. Readers will not want to put down this wonderful book.
Series: Ozark Mountain Romance
Genre: historical, romance, Christian
Publisher: Bethany House
Publication date: December 1, 2015
Number of pages: 352
Content Rating: PG
Book Rating: 5 stars
Other books in the series:
1-A Most Inconvenient Marraige
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I was surprised by how much I liked this book! I’m not much of a contemporary novel reader, but it was so nice to take a break from the paranormal, deal with real people, and not have to worry about a sequel! Don’t get me wrong…books in a series are great, it’s just nice to have closure every once and a while!
Title: Graffiti Moon
Author: Cath Crowley
Summary (by Goodreads):
Senior year is over, and Lucy has the perfect way to celebrate: tonight, she’s going to find Shadow, the mysterious graffiti artist whose work appears all over the city. He’s out there somewhere—spraying color, spraying birds and blue sky on the night—and Lucy knows a guy who paints like Shadow is someone she could fall for. Really fall for. Instead, Lucy’s stuck at a party with Ed, the guy she’s managed to avoid since the most awkward date of her life. But when Ed tells her he knows where to find Shadow, they’re suddenly on an all-night search around the city. And what Lucy can’t see is the one thing that’s right before her eyes.
First 5 Sentences:
I pedal fast. Down Rose Drive, where houses swim in pools of orange streetlight. Where people sit on verandas, hoping to catch a breeze. Let me make it in time. Please let me make it in time.
I enjoyed the story! The book goes back and forth between our girl Lucy, a guy named Ed, and his friend Leo/”Poet”. It’s not a fast paced novel, but it shares a story of a one night adventure that Lucy and Ed go on together.
Lucy has been obsessed over a guy named Shadow. He does graffiti work all around town and although she has never met him, she “knows” he’s THE one. So when a guy slips to Lucy that he knows Shadow and where he might be, Lucy and her friends go on an all-nighter to find Shadow and to finally meet him. The only problem is that Ed is part of the “party” to find Shadow and Lucy has been determined to steer clear of him.
Here’s the deal…Lucy and Ed went out on a date a couple years back and she ended up breaking his nose. Her side of the story goes that he grabbed her “arse” and since it was a first date…she broke it. But she vomited once she got home because she couldn’t handle the blood and was sorely disappointed that the evening didn’t go as planned.
Ed’s side of the story is that it was purely an accident and he was sorry it happened…even before his nose started bleeding everywhere. But neither of them share their full sides of the story to each other and since that night, they’ve been trying to stay as far away from each other as possible even though they still harbor feelings.
As the night progresses and people drop out of the search party to enjoy a real party, it leaves Ed and Lucy to find Shadow together. While searching, Lucy and Ed start opening up to each other to talk about anything and everything. During the middle of it all, Lucy professes her feelings for Shadow to Ed. What she doesn’t know is that she has unknowingly told Shadow, himself. This isn’t a spoiler, it’s covered in like the second chapter of the book…the summary just makes it sound like it’s a big unknown.
The writing was great. The excerpts between Lucy and Ed is “Poet” and his chapters are always so cool to read. Just fun little blips in the book that makes you want to re-read it to see what details you may have missed the first time. It was like a little distraction, but relevant at the same time. It’s hard to explain.
Will Ed tell Lucy the truth about him being the famous “Shadow”? What happens when the sun comes up and the night is over? I enjoyed the book and recommend it!

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These easy Skillet Brown Butter Carrots make a great side dish for the holidays or any time. The brown butter provides a nice nutty/toasty flavor.
As we all know carrots are good for the eyes, right? And as you can see these carrots are looking good and tasty! They are glazed perfectly with honey, brown butter and roasted to perfection.
The holidays are coming up and if you are like me, you might enjoy looking for new recipes to add to those tried and true ones you have in your back pocket. I especially like adding in new veggies to bring a fresh taste to the table.
Many moons ago I did not like carrots at all. The turning point for me was when these cute baby ones first appeared on the market. They are sweeter overall and just the right size to munch on.
Another first for me was using brown butter in a recipe. As you will see below, our monthly blogger group have all made recipes using it. By browning butter, you are giving your dish a nice nutty and toasty flavor.
Tips for making Skillet Brown Butter Carrots:
- Use unsalted butter
- Only brown the butter until it is light in color (see directions)
- I would also recommend using a large skillet (as shown 12") so the carrots almost all lay flat. This will make sure the carrots are roasted evenly (I stirred halfway through)
Other sides dishes you might want to try for the holidays:
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- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1 lb. baby carrots
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 teaspoon fresh thyme, chopped
- Preheat oven to 425°
- To brown butter place sliced butter and put in a 12" cast iron skillet over medium heat and let melt
- Watch and stir butter until it becomes light brown, remove from heat and immediately add carrots, garlic and toss well
- Stir in the honey, salt and pepper and top with the thyme
- Place in heated oven and bake for about 30 or until carrots are soft
- Remove from oven, let cool a bit then serve
You can use any skillet as long as it can be used in at oven heated to 425°
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Nutrition Information:Yield: 6 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 107Total Fat: 8gSaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 20mgSodium: 148mgCarbohydrates: 10gFiber: 2gSugar: 7gProtein: 1g
Nutritional information provided is computer-generated and only an estimate. You may want to do your own research with the ingredients listed if you have concerns about health or specific diets.
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Daniel Judge, Vicki L Krause
Background and objective: To describe the clinical characteristics, risk factors, diagnostic modalities, treatments, subsequent outcomes and complications of Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cases residing in the Northern Territory.
Methods: A retrospective case series was conducted of all patients treated for MDR-TB in the Northern Territory between 1 January 2004 and 31 December 2013. This is the first study to analyse data relating to the subset of MDR-TB cases treated in the Northern Territory. Cases were identified by the Northern Territory Centre for Disease Control (NT CDC): the public health unit responsible for the management of tuberculosis in the Northern Territory. Outcome measures included patient demographics, diagnostics, HIV status, treatment methods, outcomes, and complications.
Results and conclusions: Six MDR-TB cases were treated in the Northern Territory; 5 of these were notified by the NT CDC during the study period (1.5% of all Northern Territory TB notifications). The median age of all 6 patients was 31 years (range 21 to 50 years), sex distribution was equal and all were born overseas. Country of birth in a World Health Organization (WHO) high burden MDR-TB country and previous treatment were most highly correlated with a current diagnosis of MDR-TB. Access to rapid drug susceptibility testing reduced the time to effective therapy from 45 to 27 days. Five patients met criteria for the WHO outcome term ‘treatment success’. The median length of treatment for the 5 patients treated in Australia was 623 days (537 to 730 days). Side effects to therapy were common and serious. The incidence of MDR-TB in the Northern Territory is similar to other Australian states. Rapid drug susceptibility testing reduces the time to effective therapy. Treatment regimens are complex, toxic and have serious resource implications for health care providers. Successful treatment outcomes are possible with coordinated TB control programs. Commun Dis Intell 2016;40(3):E334–E339.
Keywords: tuberculosis, multidrug resistance, Northern Territory
Treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), defined as resistance to isoniazid and rifampicin, is longer and requires more expensive and more toxic drugs,1 than fully susceptible disease. Nearly 20 years after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared TB a global health emergency, major progress has been made towards targets for diagnosis and treatment of TB.1,2 Advancement towards targets for MDR-TB control has been less successful.1
A review of the published literature shows the incidence of MDR-TB notifications varies over time and across Australian states. A 10-year review of Victorian data found that MDR-TB accounted for up to 2.2% of all TB notifications between 1998 and 2007.3 Western Australian MDR-TB notifications over a 15-year period to 2012 accounted for 1.2% of all TB cases.4 Higher rates of MDR-TB are reported from the Torres Strait Protected Zone (TSPZ), with 26% of isolates from the TSPZ defined as MDR-TB in one Queensland study.5 Yearly reports from the Australian Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory Network between 1985 and 2013 show that the proportion of isolates from patients with MDR-TB has stayed within a band of 0.5 to 2.4% nationally, excluding those from the TSPZ.6,7
The WHO estimates that the cost of treating MDR-TB is 100 times that of susceptible TB and treatment success globally is attained in only 48% of MDR-TB cases.2 This has wide reaching repercussions for public health planning and may have important implications for hospitals treating even a single case of MDR-TB.8
Here we describe the characteristics, risk factors, diagnostics, treatments, subsequent outcomes and complications of MDR-TB cases residing in the Northern Territory, for all or part of their therapy in the 10 years to 2013.
All patients treated for MDR-TB in the Northern Territory between 1 January 2004 and 31 December 2013 were included in the study. Formal drug susceptibility testing demonstrating drug resistance was undertaken at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory.
Data obtained from the Northern Territory Notifiable Disease System (NTNDS) included: patient demographic information; known previous TB infection and anti-tuberculosis therapy; risk factors for MDR-TB including country of birth or residence in a high MDR-TB burden country and contact with an MDR-TB case; diagnostic information including formal drug susceptibility testing (DST) and molecular methods; HIV status; and treatment methods, outcomes, and complications. Descriptive statistical analysis for these data points was undertaken using Microsoft Excel. Treatment outcome was defined as successful in accordance with WHO guidelines adopted from Laserson et al (Table 1).9
|* World Health Organization guidelines adapted from Laserson 20058|
|Cure||Treatment completed as recommended by the national policy without evidence of failure AND 3 or more consecutive cultures taken at least 30 days apart are negative after the intensive phase.|
|Treatment completed||Treatment completed as recommended by the national policy without evidence of failure BUT no record that 3 or more consecutive cultures taken at least 30 days apart are negative after the intensive phase.|
Treatment terminated or need for permanent regimen change of at least 2 anti-tuberculosis drugs because of:
|Died||A patient who dies for any reason during the course of treatment.|
|Lost to follow-up||A patient whose treatment was interrupted for 2 consecutive months or more.|
|Not evaluated||A patient for whom no treatment outcome is assigned. (This includes cases “transferred out” to another treatment unit and whose treatment outcome is unknown.)|
|Treatment success||The sum of Cured and Treatment completed.|
The study received ethical approval from the Human Research Ethics Committee, part of the Menzies School of Health Research.
Review of the NTNDS revealed 6 patients with laboratory-confirmed MDR-TB who received treatment in the Northern Territory during the study period. Data included 1 individual previously notified in Victoria and subsequently treated in the Northern Territory. The Northern Territory Centre for Disease Control (NT CDC) notified 5 cases of MDR-TB, representing 1.5% (total of 343 TB notifications) of all cases notified over the 10-year period to 2013.
The median age of the 6 patients was 31 years with a range of 21 to 50 years and sex distribution was equal with 3 male and 3 female patients. All patients were born overseas and all countries of origin were defined as WHO high burden TB countries, as well as high MDR-TB burden countries (Table 2).1,2 Country of origin was therefore the most highly associated risk factor with a diagnosis of MDR-TB. The next most common risk factor was previous diagnosis of TB +/- exposure to treatment and this included 3 patients with a laboratory-confirmed or suspected diagnosis of TB in their past. Of these, 2 had documentation of previous exposure to rifampicin and isoniazid as part of an appropriate treatment regimen (Table 3). Treatment adherence documentation varied. However, 2 of the cases were suspected to have been non-adherent with therapy. Only 1 case had resided in a high MDR-TB country other than country of birth and there were no exposures to known MDR-TB cases. All of the cases identified as MDR-TB were tested for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and all were negative.
|Case||Year of diagnosis||State or territory of notification||Sex||Age||Country of birth||Visa status|
|1||2004||NT||Female||36||South Africa||Working visa|
|Case||Country of birth in a high-burden MDR-TB country||Previous diagnosis of tuberculosis +/- exposure to treatment||Suspected non-adherence or inappropriate tuberculosis therapy||Exposure to a known MDR-TB case||Residence in areas of high MDR-TB prevalence (other than country of birth)||HIV status|
* Empiric treatment in Australia for possible fully susceptible tuberculosis as no culture/susceptibility testing was available.
Adapted from the World Health Organization 2008 guidelines
The period between arrival in Australia and notification of TB was less than 2 years in 4 of the patients. The remaining 2 patients were notified at 10 and 19 years post arrival dates. Two of the patients were permanent residents of Australia. Of the remaining 4, 2 held working visas in Australia, 1 patient was seeking asylum and 1 individual was an unauthorised fisherperson. Three of the cases were identified after self-presentation with symptomatic disease, 2 cases were identified as a part of routine screening in detention, and 1 case was identified as a result of a health care undertaking required for an Australian visa.
In addition to formal drug susceptibility testing on all cases, nucleic acid amplification testing (NAAT) was available for 2 of the patients and identified the presence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA and rpoB gene mutations, a surrogate for rifampicin resistance, in both specimens. Both patients were commenced on second line agents at initiation of intensive phase therapy in the context of suspected rifampicin resistance. The median delay to effective treatment with second line therapies for all patients was 47 days. Those who underwent NAAT testing had a reduced median delay to 29 days. The delay to effective therapy was defined as the time from diagnostic specimen collection to the commencement of a second line treatment regimen. Four patients had pulmonary tuberculosis only, 2 of whom were sputum smear positive. The 2 extra-pulmonary cases included 1 diagnosis of disease limited to the terminal ileum and 1 case of axillary TB lymphadenitis (Table 4). Drug susceptibility testing identified 3 cases of streptomycin resistance (streptomycin was not used at any time in any of these 3 cases) and 1 case of pyrazinamide resistance (the case isolate was not identified as Mycobacterium bovis). Resistance to other second line treatment agents was not demonstrated.
|Case||Pulmonary disease||Smear result||Site of extra-pulmonary disease||Identification of MDR-TB by diagnostic modality|
MDR-TB Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
PCR Polymerase chain reaction.
DST Drug susceptibility testing.
|3||No||NA||Terminal Ileum||Not undertaken||Yes|
|4||No||NA||Axillary lymph node||Yes||Yes|
Five patients met criteria for the WHO cumulative outcome term ‘treatment success’ (either cure or treatment completed outcome categories as per Table 1). One case was classified as ‘not evaluated’ due to a transfer out to a resource limited setting overseas. Data at 1 and 5 years post treatment were limited, but no known cases of reactivation have been identified.
The median length of treatment for the 5 patients who completed therapy in Australia was 623 days with a range of treatment lengths from 537 to 730 days. The entire treatment period was completed in the Northern Territory in only 2 instances. One case was transferred out (deported) at 7 months of therapy having completed only 214 days of treatment. The remainder of the cases had treatment coordinated by multiple Australian jurisdictional tuberculosis control units. Diagnostic, treatment composition, and compliance data were incomplete as a result of the transfer of patients and it is noted that on at least 1 occasion a significant interruption to therapy complicated this process.
The treatment of MDR-TB in the Northern Territory involves directly observed therapy. Adherence data were excellent (approaching 100%) for all cases during the period of treatment coordinated by the NT CDC. Contact tracing identified 25 at risk individuals for appropriate follow-up.
All 6 cases commenced an injectable therapy (4 intravenous amikacin and 2 intramuscular streptomycin) in the first instance. One case developed a significant adverse outcome acutely (Table 5) and 4 cases on amikacin required permanent vascular access (peripherally inserted central catheter). All cases were treated with a later generation fluoroquinolone (moxifloxacin) and half received a thioamide as part of their regimen (Table 6). Two cases required hospitalisation with a combined total of 248 inpatient days. Adverse reactions to second line treatments were noted in 4 of the 6 cases (Table 5).
|Case||Implicated drug||Side effect|
|2||Isoniazid or moxifloxacin||Stevens-Johnson syndrome|
|Drug||Number of cases employing drug for all or part of treatment regimen|
MDR-TB accounted for 1.5 % of all TB notifications in the Northern Territory over the decade to 2013. With respect to Australian and global MDR disease burden, this figure was lower than may have been expected in the context of the Northern Territory’s position geographically and politically, with 3 immigration detention centres accommodating asylum seekers and alleged illegal fisherpersons (also referred to as unauthorised persons). The nationalities of unauthorised persons reviewed by the NT CDC are represented in the WHO defined 27 countries of high MDR-TB disease burden.1,2 No significant difference in disease burden is identified between the results of this study and national data.3,4 The regular transfer of unauthorised persons between detention centres and subsequent notifications interstate may confound results leading to lower than anticipated case numbers.
Distribution of disease between sexes was even. While our numbers are small this finding is contrary to Toungoussova et al 2002,10 who identified a trend towards women being at higher risk of carrying MDR-TB strains. The median age of diagnosis (31 years) likely reflects the age of expected and unauthorised arrivals to Australia.
Country of birth being a high MDR-TB burden country was the most frequently reported risk factor for a diagnosis of MDR-TB, in keeping with current reports.1,4 All of the cases treated for MDR-TB in the Northern Territory were born in 1 of the WHO defined 27 high MDR-TB burden countries. One case had resided in a WHO defined high burden TB or MDR-TB country other than their country of birth, prior to diagnosis. Primary transmission of MDR-TB was suspected in half of the cases with the other 3 previously treated for presumed susceptible disease. Previous treatment documentation and adherence varied and initial DST results were unknown. The importance of obtaining an isolate for culture and formal drug susceptibility cannot be overstated in the setting of the emergence of drug resistance. Acquired resistance was considered likely in these 3 cases.
One case considered as possible acquired resistance received an initial supervised and then a subsequent unsupervised treatment in Australia. As there were no links to any other Australian MDR-TB cases this case represents an episode of possible acquired resistance in Australia or a missed primary MDR-TB that was not adequately treated, as an isolate for susceptibility testing was not available.
It is felt that all but possibly 1 of the cases brought latent MDR-TB from their country of birth or residence overseas. It is noted that 4 of the 6 cases were identified within 2 years of arrival. Half of the cases were identified within 2 years of arrival by routine screening of individuals in detention, or health care undertakings. Analysis of enhanced data collected on all national MDR-TB cases will be useful in guiding future policy.
The WHO recommends rapid drug susceptibility testing of isoniazid and rifampicin or of rifampicin alone over conventional testing or no testing at time of diagnosis, subject to available resources.2 A rapid test is defined as that yielding diagnostic and resistance results within 2 days. Only molecular tests can detect resistance so rapidly, of which 2 technologies: line probe assay and Xpert® MTB/RIF, are currently recommended by WHO.11 Molecular testing data were available for cases from 2010 onwards. Xpert® was diagnostic on MDR-TB specimens subsequently identified by culture (1 sputum, 1 lymph node tissue sample). Detection of rpoB gene mutation, as a surrogate marker for rifampicin resistance, correctly identified both cases of MDR-TB. Diagnosis in the Northern Territory has been based on either diagnostic modality result returning positive in the first instance, with DST taking precedence over NAAT if results are discordant in the same sample.
The positive predictive value of any test will decrease with the decline in the prevalence of the disease in question, an important consideration for the use of molecular testing for resistance in the low prevalence MDR-TB Australian population. Inappropriate treatment with toxic, less effective second-line therapy in patients with susceptible disease is concerning, but specificity on newer generation Xpert® assays are very promising (99.8%).9
There are significant disease control implications for the rapid determination of drug resistance, ensuring successful treatment of the patient and preventing further spread of the drug-resistant isolate.12 One individual diagnosed with smear positive pulmonary disease was diagnosed with MDR-TB on NAAT, allowing appropriate treatment and infection control mechanisms to be employed earlier. This was evidenced in the 18-day reduction in delay to appropriate treatment for patients investigated with NAAT on clinical isolates.
Significant variation in treatment regimens was noted among cases. The attempt to tailor individual treatments is likely to go part of the way to explaining this observation. However, expert consensus with regard to regimen composition, dose, and duration has historically been lacking worldwide and continues to evolve. To work to provide the best standard of care, the Northern Territory has an MDR-TB steering committee that meets to initially assess each case and decide on management and then meets as needed or at least 3 monthly for continued follow-up. Four cases were treated with amikacin necessitating permanent intravascular access. Three of those cases experienced complications specifically related to this drug (Table 6). In effect, only 1 case successfully completed the WHO recommended 8 month intensive phase with a parenteral agent.8 The increased toxicity of second-line anti-tuberculosis regimens is also evident in the observation that 4 patients experienced significant adverse drug effects including hepatitis, ototoxicity and Stevens-Johnson syndrome. The increased complexity and toxicity of treatment regimens necessitates more frequent reviews and closer clinical and laboratory monitoring for toxicity and drug levels in some instances. There are parallel increases in resource consumption through inpatient admissions, multidisciplinary specialist input, vascular access and the extended treatment duration associated with this diagnosis.
Contact tracing identified 25 individuals for review and follow-up. These numbers are very manageable, likely as a result of the low number of smear positive individuals, and in those cases seeking asylum or identified as unauthorised fisherpersons, by the early active case finding carried out once in Australia and attendant respiratory isolation. The NT CDC does not advocate routine prophylaxis for infected contacts of MDR-TB patients because of the lack of an agreed-on treatment regimen and paucity of outcome data to support this approach. Rather chest x-ray programs and patient and healthcare provider education are employed for surveillance for those contacts considered to be at increased risk of infection with MDR-TB.
‘To fulfil her/his public health responsibility, as well as responsibility to the individual patient, the provider must prescribe an appropriate treatment regimen, monitor adherence to the regimen and, when necessary, address factors leading to interruption or discontinuation of treatment’.13 Coordination of directly observed treatment programs for patients in this study was complicated by multiple routine transfers of patients in detention, with 1 case experiencing a lengthy interruption in appropriate therapy as a result of transfer between care providers within Australia. A 2nd case was deported and lost to follow-up at 7 months. This preceded completion of the 8 month recommended intensive treatment phase and was 13 months short of the total treatment duration outlined in the most recent WHO MDR-TB guidelines.8 Successful treatment outcome was defined in all cases as treatment completed rather than cure (Table 1) as definitive sputum smear results were unavailable.
The movement of patients between TB control programs, as well as deportation, represents a potential obstacle to the coordinated treatment and follow-up of MDR-TB patients. The paucity of treatment outcome data in this study is attributed to the regular transfer of patients.
This study is the first to investigate demographic details, diagnostic modalities, treatment regimens, and outcomes associated with MDR-TB in the Northern Territory. Treatment outcomes were known and successful for all but the deported case at the completion of treatment and at 12 months follow-up. It is anticipated that data will be incorporated into a future national study that will offer greater insight into the Australian experience with MDR-TB. Such research is required to address the important gaps in knowledge with regard to: optimising combinations of drug regimens and treatment duration; treatment of paediatric MDR-TB; effective chemoprophylaxis for contacts of MDR-TB cases and strategies to avoid or therapies to relieve adverse reactions to second-line anti-tuberculosis drugs.8
Dr Daniel Judge, Respiratory Physician, Cairns Hospital, Cairns, Queensland
Dr Vicki Krause, Director: Centre for Disease Control Northern Territory, Department of Health, Northern Territory
Corresponding author: Dr Daniel Judge, Cairns Hospital, PO Box 902, CAIRNS QLD 4870. Telephone: +61 7 4226 0000. Email: email@example.com
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Update, May 9, 2018: TensorFlow v1.7 and above integrates with TensorRT 3.0.4. NVIDIA is working on supporting the integration for a wider set of configurations and versions. We’ll publish updates when these become available. Meanwhile, if you’re using
pip install tensorflow-gpu, simply download TensorRT files for Ubuntu 14.04 not16.04, no matter what version of Ubuntu you’re running.
NVIDIA announced the integration of our TensorRT inference optimization tool with TensorFlow. TensorRT integration will be available for use in the TensorFlow 1.7 branch. TensorFlow remains the most popular deep learning framework today while NVIDIA TensorRT speeds up deep learning inference through optimizations and high-performance runtimes for GPU-based platforms. We wish to give TensorFlow users the highest inference performance possible along with a near transparent workflow using TensorRT. The new integration provides a simple API which applies powerful FP16 and INT8 optimizations using TensorRT from within TensorFlow. TensorRT sped up TensorFlow inference by 8x for low latency runs of the ResNet-50 benchmark.
Let’s take a look at the workflow, with some examples to help you get started.
TensorFlow integration with TensorRT optimizes and executes compatible sub-graphs, letting TensorFlow execute the remaining graph. While you can still use TensorFlow’s wide and flexible feature set, TensorRT will parse the model and apply optimizations to the portions of the graph wherever possible. Your TensorFlow program requires only a couple of new lines of code to facilitate the integration. Are you already using TensorRT with TensorFlow models? Then you know that applying TensorRT optimizations to TensorFlow models requires exporting the graph. You may need to manually import certain unsupported TensorFlow layers.
Let’s step through the workflow. After freezing the TensorFlow graph for inference, you ask TensorRT to optimize TensorFlow’s sub-graphs. TensorRT then replaces each supported subgraph with a TensorRT optimized node, producing a frozen graph that runs in TensorFlow for inference. Figure 1 illustrates the workflow.
TensorFlow executes the graph for all supported areas and calls TensorRT to execute TensorRT optimized nodes. As an example, assume your graph has 3 segments, A, B and C. Segment B is optimized by TensorRT and replaced by a single node. During inference, TensorFlow executes A, then calls TensorRT to execute B, and then TensorFlow executes C. From a user’s perspective, you continue to work in TensorFlow as earlier. Let’s walk through an example applying this workflow.
Add a couple of lines to your existing TensorFlow GPU code to apply TensorRT optimizations to the TensorFlow graph using the new TensorFlow APIs. This will:
- Specify the fraction of GPU memory allowed for TensorFlow. TensorRT can use the remaining memory.
- Let TensorRT analyze the TensorFlow graph, apply optimizations, and replace subgraphs with TensorRT nodes.
Use the new
per_process_gpu_memory_fraction parameter of the
GPUOptions function to specify the GPU memory fraction TensorRT can consume. This parameter should be set the first time the TensorFlow-TensorRT process starts. As an example, 0.67 would allocate 67% of GPU memory for TensorFlow, making the remaining 33% available for TensorRT engines.
gpu_options = tf.GPUOptions(per_process_gpu_memory_fraction = number_between_0_and_1)
You apply TensorRT optimizations to the frozen graph with the new
create_inference_graph function. TensorRT then takes a frozen TensorFlow graph as input and returns an optimized graph with TensorRT nodes. See the example code snippet below:
trt_graph = trt.create_inference_graph( input_graph_def=frozen_graph_def, outputs=output_node_name, max_batch_size=batch_size, max_workspace_size_bytes=workspace_size, precision_mode=precision)
Let’s look at the function’s parameters:
frozen_graph_def: frozen TensorFlow graphout
put_node_name: list of strings with names of output nodes e.g. “resnet_v1_50/predictions/Reshape_1”]
max_batch_size: integer, size of input batch e.g. 16
max_workspace_size_bytes: integer, maximum GPU memory size available for TensorRT
precision_mode: string, allowed values “FP32”, “FP16” or “INT8”
You should use the
max_workspace_size_bytes parameters together for best overall application performance. For example, set the
per_process_gpu_memory_fraction parameter to ( 12 – 4 ) / 12 = 0.67 and the
max_workspace_size_bytes parameter to 4000000000 for a 12GB GPU in order to allocate ~4GB for the TensorRT engines.
Let’s visualize the changes to the ResNet-50 node graph once TensorRT optimizations are applied in TensorBoard. As you can see in Figure 2, TensorRT optimizes almost the complete graph, replacing it with a single node titled “my_trt_op0” (highlighted in red). Depending on the layers and operations in your model, TensorRT nodes replace portions of your model due to optimizations.
Notice the node titled “conv1” below the TensorRT node. This is actually not a convolution layer, but rather a transpose operation from NHWC to NCHW which shows up as conv1.
Using half-precision (also called FP16) arithmetic reduces memory usage of the neural network compared with FP32 or FP64. This allows deployment of larger networks, and takes less time than FP32 or FP64 transfers. The NVIDIA Volta Tensor Core provides a 4x4x4 matrix processing array which performs the operation D = A * B + C, where A, B, C, and D are 4×4 matrices as Fig. 3 shows. The matrix multiply inputs A and B are FP16 matrices, while the accumulation matrices C and D may be FP16 or FP32 matrices.
TensorRT automatically uses Tensor Cores in Volta GPUs for inference when using half-precision arithmetic. The peak performance of Tensor Cores on the NVIDIA Tesla V100 is about an order of magnitude (10x) faster than double precision (FP64) and about 4 times faster than single precision (FP32). Just use “FP16” as value for the
precision_mode parameter in the
create_inference_graph function to enable half precision, as shown below.
trt_graph = trt.create_inference_graph(getNetwork(network_file_name), outputs, max_batch_size=batch_size, max_workspace_size_bytes=workspace_size, precision_mode="FP16")
Figure 4 shows ResNet-50 performing 8x faster under 7 ms latency with the TensorFlow-TensorRT integration using NVIDIA Volta Tensor Cores versus running TensorFlow only.
Performing inference using INT8 precision further improves computation speed and places lower requirements on bandwidth. The reduced dynamic range makes it challenging to represent weights and activations of neural networks. Table 1 illustrates dynamic range effects.
|Minimum Positive Value
|-3.4×1038 ~ +3.4×1038
|1.4 × 10-45
|65504 ~ +65504
|5.96 x 10-8
|-128 ~ +127
Table 1: FP32 vs FP16 vs INT8 dynamic range
TensorRT provides capabilities to take models trained in single (FP32) and half (FP16) precision and convert them for deployment with INT8 quantizations while minimizing accuracy loss.
To convert models for deployment with INT8, you need to calibrate the trained FP32 model before applying TensorRT’s optimizations described in the earlier sections. The remaining workflow remains unchanged. Figure 5 shows the updated workflow.
First use the
create_inference_graph function with the
precision_mode parameter set to “INT8” to calibrate the model. The output of this function is a frozen TensorFlow graph ready for calibration.
trt_graph = trt.create_inference_graph(getNetwork(network_file_name), outputs, max_batch_size=batch_size, max_workspace_size_bytes=workspace_size, precision_mode="INT8")
Next, execute the calibration graph with calibration data. TensorRT uses the distribution of node data to quantize the weights for the nodes. It is important to use calibration data that closely reflects the distribution of the problem dataset in production. We suggest checking for error accumulation during inference when first using models calibrated with INT8.
After executing the graph on calibration data, apply TensorRT optimizations to the calibration graph with the
calib_graph_to_infer_graph function. This function also replaces the TensorFlow subgraph with a TensorRT node optimized for INT8. The output of the function is a frozen TensorFlow graph that can be used for inference as usual.
And that’s it! These two commands enable INT8 precision inference with your TensorFlow model.
All code required to run these examples can be found here.
We continue to work closely with the TensorFlow team to enhance integration for this exciting release. We expect the new solution to ensure the highest performance possible when using NVIDIA GPUs while maintaining the ease and flexibility of TensorFlow. Developers will automatically benefit from updates as TensorRT supports more networks, without any changes to existing code.
You can find detailed installation instructions on how to get started at the TensorFlow site.
The integration will also be available in the NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC) TensorFlow container. We believe you’ll see substantial benefits to integrating TensorRT with TensorFlow when using GPUs for inference. The TensorRT page offers more information on TensorRT as well as links to further articles and documentation. NVIDIA strives to constantly improve its technologies and products, so please let us know what you think by leaving a comment below.


Dmitry Muratov said security concerns about the family are ‘misguided and dangerous’
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning editor of a liberal Russian newspaper known for its critical treatment of Vladimir Putin’s government has criticised the “unfair and inaccurate” coverage of the Lebedev family in the UK.
Dmitry Muratov – who has been praised for his work championing press freedom at the Novaya Gazeta newspaper – said accusations levelled against the family were “misjudged” and “dangerous”.
Labour has raised questions about 鲍里斯·约翰逊’s relationship with Evgeny Lebedev – a shareholder of 独立 – and Lord Lebedev’s elevation to the Lords, following claims that the head of MI6 had raised security concerns over the appointment.
Mr Muratov said the family had championed press freedom and democracy in 俄罗斯, pointing to the role Lord Lebedev’s father Alexander played in saving Novaya Gazeta from collapse.
“The Lebedevs have supported the universal ideals of independent journalism, competitive politics and transparent corporate governance everywhere, including in Russia,” he wrote in 时代.
他加了: “If the people of Britain truly care about a free and independent press, about democracy and freedom of speech, then they should not hunt down those who have fought brave battles to uphold these values. The Lebedevs are not your enemy.”
The Nobel laureate said Alexander Lebedev’s financial support for his newspaper had been vital in keeping Novaya Gazeta running after the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was assassinated in 2006.
“The paper was at risk of folding and, entirely disheartened, I considered letting it close. It was only after the intervention of Alexander, a great friend of Anna, 和 [former Soviet president Mikhail] Gorbachev, that we decided to continue,“ 他写了.
“Between 2000 和 2021, six of our journalists were killed. One must only look at their tragic fates to understand the risk for anyone who associates themselves with the newspaper.”
Mr Muratov also said that when he was a shareholder of Aeroflot, Alexander Lebedev placed Alexei Navalny, an outspoken critic of Mr Putin, on the board of the company.
The editor was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize last year, alongside Filipino journalist Maria Ressa, for their efforts to defend freedom of expression in the face of authoritarian governments. He was part of the founding team of Novaya Gazeta 在 1993, and became its editor in 1995.
Mr Muratov has been heavily critical of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and printed his paper in both Russian and Ukrainian following the start of the war.
Lord Lebedev acknowledged last week that his father was “a long time ago” a KGB officer, but has denied being a security risk to this country.
He stated: “I may have a Russian name, but that makes me no less a committed or proud British citizen than anyone else in this country of ours.
“Being Russian does not automatically make one an enemy of the state, and it is crucial we do not descend into Russophobia, like any other phobia, bigotry or discrimination.”
基尔·斯塔默爵士 has said there are questions for Mr Johnson to answer over his relationship with Lord Lebedev, and has written to the House of Lords Appointments Commission over the decision to grant Lord Lebedev a peerage.
Earlier last week, Mr Johnson denied intervening to override security concerns about the peerage granted to Lord Lebedev, telling reporters: “That is simply incorrect … It suits Putin’s agenda to try to characterise this as a struggle between the west and Russia.”


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A federal court in Michigan recently ignored reasoning used by other judges in Virginia and Florida and dismissed a private lawsuit against the federal health care reform law. The judge in Michigan relied on an argument by Congress that mandating everyone to have insurance will eventually lower overall costs for health care. But that line of thinking disregards a half-century of experience with health insurance in the United States.
In 1960, when Americans paid almost half of all medical costs out of their pockets, health care costs were roughly the same as in 1935 when compared to the cost of other goods and services. By 2006, when Americans paid less than 13 percent of their medical costs out-of-pocket, overall health care costs had more than doubled compared to everything else.
In other words, costs went up, not down, as Americans became more dependent on health insurance. While it’s true insurance becomes cheaper when people unlikely to make a claim pay for it anyway, this has no bearing on the cost of health care that people buy insurance to cover.
The federal judges in Virginia and Florida are interested in economic reality and constitutional principles, which is why they are closely considering the legal challenges to federal health care reform. And that’s why the Goldwater Institute is pursuing another lawsuit here in Arizona on behalf of private citizens and federal and state lawmakers who want real reforms to make health care more affordable.
Dr. Byron Schlomach is an economist and director of the Center for Economic Prosperity at the Goldwater Institute.
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