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Lewis A, Pope TM. Physician Power to Declare Death by Neurologic Criteria Threatened. Neurocrit Care. 2017 Jan 11. doi: 10.1007/s12028-017-0375-x. [Epub ahead of print]
Three recent lawsuits that address declaration of brain death (BD) garnered significant media attention and threaten to limit physician power to declare BD.
We discuss these cases and their consequences including: the right to refuse an apnea test, accepted medical standards for declaration of BD, and the irreversibility of BD.
These cases warrant discussion because they threaten to: limit physicians' power to determine death; incite families to seek injunctions to continue organ support after BD; and force hospitals to dispense valuable resources to dead patients in lieu of patients with reparable illnesses or injuries.
Physicians, philosophers, religious officials, ethicists, and lawyers must work together to address these issues and educate both the public and medical community about BD.
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Nonetheless, there are still people, including physicians, who conceptually, religiously, or morally perceive that death can only be declared when the heart stops beating. BD is defined as loss of function of the brain, but declaring BD does not require death of every neuron. As a result, some people conceptually view BD as a legal fiction. Although major Catholic, Jewish, and Muslim societies support the concept of BD, some devout communities continue to believe that these religions only endorse cessation of respiration, heartbeat, and circulation as true death. Orthodox Jewish, Japanese Shinto, Buddhist, Muslim, and Native American populations are commonly cited as groups that have religious objections to BD.
According to the AAN guidelines, organ support should be discontinued after declaration of BD unless organ donation is planned, but four states offer accommodation exceptions and allow organ support to be continued after BD. California, Illinois, and New York offer brief accommodation to families who object to BD. In New Jersey, if a patient has moral or religious objections to BD, they are considered alive until cardiopulmonary arrest. But in other states, there are no guidelines about how to manage situations in which families object to BD on religious or other grounds…
Mirranda Grace Lawson, a two-year-old, was brought to the Virginia Commonwealth Health System (VCUHS) in May 2016 after choking led to cardiopulmonary arrest. Because she was unresponsive and had no brainstem reflexes, physicians planned to perform an apnea test to determine whether she was BD. Her parents objected, citing that: (1) according to their Christian beliefs, Mirranda Grace was still alive because her heart was beating; (2) as her parents, only they could make healthcare decisions on her behalf; and (3) the apnea test could be harmful and was therefore not in her best interests. Although the Circuit Court ruled that VCUHS could perform the test, the Lawsons filed an appeal, but this was withdrawn in December 2016 after Mirranda’s cardiopulmonary arrest. However, in a similar case in Montana in September 2016, the court prohibited clinicians from performing an apnea test, stating that parents of sound mind have the right to choose or refuse medical treatment for their children based upon their rights to autonomy and privacy...
Aden Hailu, a 20-year-old, suffered an anoxic event during an appendectomy in April 2015 at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Nevada. She was unresponsive with no brainstem reflexes and no evidence of spontaneous respirations, so BD was declared. Her father objected and sought a court injunction mandating continued organ support. It is unclear what motivated him to desire provision of ventilator support, nutrition, medications, and interventions in the setting of BD. Family members sometimes insist on treatment in the setting of futility due to religious or cultural beliefs, guilt, grief, faith in future medical advances to change prognosis, or concern that a physician’s prognosis is jaded by patient race or socioeconomic status . Although a district court ruled that Hailu met the AAN criteria for BD and that organ support should be discontinued, Hailu’s father appealed.
In November 2015, the Supreme Court of Nevada reversed, reversed the ruling, questioning whether the AAN criteria represented “accepted medical standards,” and “established irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brainstem,” as required for BD under the UDDA. The Court specifically cited that an electroencephalogram was not performed to evaluate for electrocerebral silence. The Supreme Court directed the district court to answer these questions, but the case ended in January 2016 after Hailu’s cardiopulmonary arrest…
Jahi McMath, a 13-year-old, had a cardiopulmonary arrest at Children’s Hospital Oakland in December 2013 after she developed hemoptysis following a tonsillectomy, and BD was declared. McMath’s mother objected to discontinuation of organ support and brought several lawsuits, citing that from her Christian faith perspective, death does not occur until the heart stops beating. She was ultimately given permission to relocate Jahi to New Jersey, where religious exemption to declaration of BD is offered, despite the fact that a California death certificate had already been issued and signed. McMath has remained on organ support in New Jersey, and her mother is currently suing Alameda County and the State of California in an effort to have her death certificate revoked.
A key tenet of BD is that although technology may allow an individual’s heart and lungs to function, there can be no possibility of restoration of brain function either spontaneously or through intervention. Were McMath’s family to be successful at having her declared alive again, this would be a profound development. No evidence proving Jahi is alive has been formally presented thus far, but the mere suggestion that she could be alive (again) reinforces skepticism about the concept of BD among families who wish to continue organ support despite declaration of BD…
Declaration of BD can often be complicated due to the emotionally charged nature of situations involving life and death. This is already exacerbated by poor understanding of BD, but the significant publicity about the Lawson, Hailu, and McMath cases (and many similar others) threatens to further escalate the complexities by: (1) limiting physicians’ power to determine death; (2) inciting families to seek injunctions to continue organ support after BD and request second opinions by physicians who are well-known opponents of BD; and (3) forcing hospitals to dispense valuable resources such as ventilators, beds, medications, and clinician time, to dead patients in lieu of patients with reparable illnesses or injuries.
A survey of neurologists who were asked to continue organ support after BD found that the most common reasons to continue treatment were the desire to avoid litigation, media coverage, and upsetting the family. As a result, support was continued until the time of cardiopulmonary arrest a third of the time


Some people despise the arts. They really do. If it’s remotely challenging, they’ll declare it to be a fraud or a prank and heap on it unlearned contempt. I used to think it was the content of art that caused this. I was around in 1994 and recall when Ron Athey performed “Four Scenes in a Harsh Life,” sponsored, in part, by the Walker Art Center, which was, in turn, sponsored to the tune of $150 or less by the NEA. During the performance, Athey cut the skin of another performer, Divinity Fudge, and blotted the wounds. These blots he hoisted above the performer with a pulley, and, oh my god, what a response he got. Jesse Helms declared, wrongly, that Athey had exposed audience members to HIV-infected blood. Politicians scrambled to defund the NEA, or at least make sure its money never again went to artists of his ilk. And I sat at home and despised myself for having missed the performance. I hate to miss the really good stuff.
So, sure, the content probably offends people. But I think, as well, there is an intuitive knowledge that the arts are beholden to other gods. Take theater, as an example. The Western tradition of it claims Dionysus as its patron, recalling raving groups of drunken women engaging in orgiastic rituals in the Italian hills. Dionysus also gets to be the god of wine, and to this day, theater artists pay homage to him, often unknowingly, by hitting the bars immediately after a performance. And the first performances we identify in the Western tradition of theater is the dithyramb, which was very literally a religious ritual, done in honor of Dionysus. Groups would meet in Delos and compete in singing epic poems, and the winner would get a goat, or everybody would dance around a goat, or something. Even the ancient Greeks weren’t entirely sure what occurred. Plato, who mentions it, wasn’t even sure what it was called.
We still do the ancient Greek plays, and other works from antiquity, but we don’t really pay homage to the old gods anymore. Not usually. But that brings us to a local performance troupe called Live Action Set, and a play they are opening tonight called “The 7-Shot Symphony.” The play is ostensibly a western, and nobody receives — or dances around — a goat. But the old gods are very much alive in this play, often as the principal characters.
The group has made the unusual decision to revisit a worldwide selection of old myths as though they were stories from one Wild West town. And so Hades, Greek god of the underworld, stalks the stage in a black top hat, overseeing the action as an especially vicious railroad baron. Odin, the ruler of Asgard, land of the Norse gods, is recast as a one-eyed sheriff with a Clint Eastwood scowl. Orpheus is a simple farmer who plays guitar and yodels in an unexpectedly lovely way, and pays money to have a wife sent from the Old Country, a bashful woman named Persephone. And Gilgamesh, the Mesopotamian hero, is revisited as a retired prospector who single-handedly decides to tame a hardscrabble town and then must defend it against railroad interests.
I won’t detail the plot any more than this, except to say that the play’s conceit is ingenious, and it works. And of course it does — the American West is precisely where we have long put our own mythology and has proved to be a malleable enough limnal space to contain just about any idea we put there, as long as we dress that idea in a 10-gallon hat and give it sidearms. These ancient tales were often stories of the building of empires, or of lone men taking their revenge for past ills, or of weary soldiers trying to find a place for themselves in a shifting world, and these are the very stories we tell of the West. Three people are credited with this particular adaptation: Ryan Underbakke, who also directed, Matt Spring and Brant Miller. And they’ve done it. They’ve turned our oldest stories into a Sergio Leone movie.
And they’ve done it very simply. There are no sets in this play. There are no props. The cast has minimal costumes — mostly just duster jackets and battered cowboy hats. The most elaborate thing the show has is a live band onstage, playing Ennio Morricone-style music behind the action. Everything else is created on the spot by the cast. Let’s say there is a shootout between lawmen and desperadoes. For a moment, the desperadoes will pose as trees or wooden posts, while the lawmen hide behind them for shelter. And then, when it is the desperadoes’ time to return fire, they will switch, in an instance: the former lawmen now trees, the former trees now killers. This play has everything you might expect from a western, all done like this. Posses on horseback ride into the hills, created by the cast bunching up and bending down so their bodies form an expressionistic landscape. Other cast members will then use their hands to represent the posse, galloping through this landscape. One especially ingenious moment has a card game, with the gamblers all holding what should be cards. Instead, other cast members stand behind them, pressing outstretched fingers for the gamblers to hold — each gambler is literally holding a hand.
Best still, they re-create Sergio Leone’s use of extreme close-up, on guns or eyes. During a gunfight, a performer will dart his eyes back and forth, and the other cast members will create squares with their hands around this, directing us to where we are supposed to look. There is both great ingenuity and great playfulness in this production, and, briefly, the stories of the gods live again, as the engrossing and occasionally heartbreaking epics they were intended as. Somebody should buy this company a goat.
I have just a few words left, but I want to point you to the Walker Art Center for a film tonight. The organization is offering a retrospective of the films of Julian Schnabel, culminating in a dialogue with the filmmaker. This is an exceptionally good choice for the Walker, as Schnabel is also an accomplished artist, and his first film, “Basquiat,” was about the artist. Tonight, the Walker offers “Before Night Falls,” based on the autobiography of Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas. The film is, in part, the coming-of-age story of a young, openly gay poet in Havana, and is, in part, the story of the revolution, which made Cuba increasingly dangerous for Arenas.
The films stars Javier Bardem, who also worked with Schnabel on “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” and Johnny Depp, playing both an indomitable drag queen named Bon Bon and a sadistic prison guard.


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The latest data from Glassnode reveals that the active ETH supply has hit a 3-month high, the number of new wallets has surged and the blockchain is now working faster
Data shared by the analytics company Glassnode in its recent tweets says that the active supply of the second most popular crypto coin ETH has hit a three-month high.
It has also stated that some other on-chain fundamentals of Ethereum have improved.
ETH active supply soars to a new high
The active supply of a digital currency refers to the amount of crypto that has been transferred over a certain period of time.
The data shared by Glassnode says that the ETH active supply 6m-12m has reached a new high of 20,653,710.315.
The active supply measured by this metric includes crypto transferred both by retail and institutional holders.
As if to offer a real example of ETH being moved, Glassnode shared data of a major South Korean exchange transferring 27,000 ETH (that is $5,529,139).
Other improvements in Ethereum on-chain fundamentals
Glassnode reports that other fundamental factors for Ethereum have recently improved. This includes a surge in the number of new ETH addresses to a three-month high of 4,470.875.
In addition, according to the data from this analytics company, the average interval between new blocks generated on the ETH chain is now 5.1 percent smaller and amounts to 9.292.
According to Etherscan, as per May 22, the time required for generating a new Ethereum block totals 13.32 seconds.

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RPO Headed to Carnegie Hall
The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra is returning to Carnegie Hall for the first time since 1985, as one of six orchestras invited to attend the fourth annual Spring For Music Festival, on May 7th, 2014 in New York City.
The RPO will perform "Merry Mount," the only opera from former long-time Eastman School of Music Director Howard Hansen.
Some 250 people will head to Manhattan to for the concert, and RPO President and CEO Charlie Owens is hoping for a large local contingent to make the trip as well.
He says there are many travel packages available, and concert-only tickets are just 25 dollars.
Those who buy a ticket will get a lilac colored bandana-like flag with the RPO and Spring For Music logos.
They'll be asked to wave that flag before the concert to show their home town spirit. WXXI will also be streaming the concert live on 91.5 FM.
Buffalo native Michael Christie is the guest conductor for the show.
He says this is a moment of great pride for him.
A preview of the performance will be held April 10th and 12th at Kodak Hall in Rochester.
Here's an excerpt of "Merry Mount" performed Friday by baritone Keith Brown and pianist Joseph Werner


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Jennifer Boudreaux understood she preferred to share the foods she grew up consuming in New Orleans with North Carolina.
A horse and buggy took place to be passing by when she visited the setting up on Gillespie Road in downtown Fayetteville. The architecture and ambiance reminded her of New Orleans.
She knew she discovered her spot.
“It felt like it was meant to be,” Boudreaux said.
The system was rapid. Within 60 days of signing a lease on the residence, The Bourbon Orleans was all set. It opened for business July 14.
Artwork depicting everyday living in the Large Simple hangs from the walls of both eating rooms including a stained glass piece from Boudreaux’s childhood household that she had turned into a backlit lightbox. Shadowbox molding and hanging chandeliers in the major dining area enable evoke the great-eating feel Boudreaux was striving for.
Open for lunch, meal and weekend brunch, the restaurant’s menus hit on traditional Cajun and Creole dishes, like crawfish étouffée, shrimp and grits, gumbo and po’boys. Brunch choices involve shrimp étouffée with grits and eggs, a Cajun egg scramble with andouille sausage, onions, peppers and provolone cheese, and chicken and waffles.
“Coming listed here, you are receiving foodstuff you would if you sat down in a restaurant in the French Quarter.”
The oysters, sourced domestically from North Carolina, are served either raw on the 50 %-shell or charbroiled and topped with garlic, parmesan cheese and spices, an ode to the legendary grilled oysters at Drago’s Seafood in New Orleans. Boudreaux reported the relaxation of the seafood is also sourced domestically, every time feasible. Just about every thing is scratch-created in-dwelling.
“I imagine the foods speaks for alone,” Boudreaux claimed.
The bar is vacant for now, but a liquor license is coming within times, Boudreaux claimed. When it does, they’ll serve sazeracs, hurricanes, French 75s and a variety of other classic New Orleans cocktails, as nicely as wine and beer.
Boudreaux briefly ran a Cajun/Creole foods truck in the Raleigh location, but the Bourbon Orleans marks her initial foray into a extra fantastic dining cafe. And as a newcomer to downtown Fayetteville, she reported she’s felt the community’s assistance, no matter whether it really is teams reserving events in the restaurant’s personal next-floor balcony website page, or only looking at persons share photos and activities of their foods on social media.
“Everybody feels so welcoming,” she mentioned. “It is really just amazing.”
The Bourbon Orleans is open Wednesday, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday to Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Brunch is served on Saturday and Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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I know starting a blog is a way to make extra money. I just wish it was not take so much time it is not easy. To come up with new things to write about plus getting the traffic to your site. Just like your list here no way you just set down and wrote this all at once it took a lot of research and searching your brain. Great info and thanks for taking the time to put it all together.
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Tutors are in high demand whether it’s online or offline. Therefore, if you’ve got a brain and like helping others use theirs, become an e-teacher to earn an extra income in your spare time. The only thing you require is to be proficient in your area of expertise and be willing to give up a few hours each week to help someone else. Sites like Tutor.com and TutorVista are places you can sign up with and build a good reputation over time as a coach. If you’re really good, you can conduct lectures, seminars, or webinars that are transmitted online. University and college students are always willing to pay money to gain access into highly-respected online webinars.
It can take time to build up your personal freelance business. Yet, there is more demand than ever for freelancers. So, if you want to kick start making money online through freelancing you can join one of the top freelance networks, such as Flexjobs, SolidGigs, Contena, Upwork, Fiverr, or PeoplePerHour. Sign up, build your profile, upload some samples of your work and start making extra money by doing small freelance jobs.
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This is a fairly unusual occurrence, however it can occur.
- Sometimes its a short term outage in the internet - the camera will automatically recover.
- Sometimes its because of a serious outage on the internet side.
- Sometimes its due to a bug in the Access Point, resetting your access point can help.
- But its also possible that its a bug in the camera's firmware, especially if the firmware is not up to date.
If it occurs, then the simple recovery is to reset the camera.
Please see the FAQ - "Resetting the RemoteLync Camera"


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Faculty member receives NIH grant to study RNA viruses of wildlife
Dr. Andrew Allison, an assistant professor of veterinary virology at the UF College of Veterinary Medicine, has received a two-year, $430,601 exploratory/developmental research grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study RNA viruses of wildlife.
Funding from the grant, known as an R21, will enable Allison to pursue how these viruses capture host genes in order to subvert immune responses and cause disease. The R21 program provides support for the early and conceptual stages of project development.
Starting in 2010, Allison, along with a multi-institutional team from the University of Georgia, University of Pennsylvania, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Biodiversity Research Institute began investigating large-scale mortality events in the northeastern United States involving a species of sea duck called the common eider.
“During these outbreaks, which repeatedly occur along the shores of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, most of the birds affected are found dead,” Allison said. “However, sick birds in varying stages of disease are often observed, and these birds exhibit a variety of clinical signs, such as the reluctance or inability to move when approached, labored breathing, and neurological symptoms, including convulsions.”
A new virus designated as Wellfleet Bay virus, which is within the same virus family as influenza viruses, was found to be the primary pathogen causing these outbreaks of disease. However, another novel RNA virus, called Jeremy Point virus, was also found to be co-circulating with Wellfleet Bay virus during these die-offs and is the subject of Allison’s NIH-funded research.
A unique feature of Jeremy Point virus is that in addition to its normal viral genes, it has an extra gene in its genome not found in other related viruses, Allison said, adding that this gene is not viral in origin, as it was acquired, or rather captured, from a vertebrate host.
“You can think of it as a virus stealing a gene from the animal or human it’s infecting and then using that stolen gene to its own advantage in order to continue to spread within that host,” Allison said. “Moreover, the captured gene appears to have also been duplicated by the virus and the duplicated gene is now evolving into a new protein, such that the virus now has two new genes in its arsenal.”
Deciphering the biological role of these two new genes and how the virus uses them against the host it is infecting are the main objectives of Allison’s research.
“Understanding the role that wildlife play in maintaining RNA viruses in nature and how those viruses spread between different wildlife species, domestic animals, and humans has become increasingly important within recent years,” Allison said.
For example, epidemics or pandemics of disease caused by RNA viruses found in wildlife — such as influenza A virus from ducks and shorebirds, Ebola virus from fruit bats, and SARS-related coronaviruses from insectivorous bats — has demonstrated that the cross-species transmission of wildlife viruses to other hosts can have far-reaching global health implications, he said.
“At the same time, it is important to note that wildlife populations play imperative roles in maintaining the balance of ecosystems and thus should be protected, while concomitantly implementing measures to minimize the risk of viral spillover to humans and other animals,” Allison said.
In addition to Allison’s lab, the NIH project also includes the laboratories of Dr. Robert McKenna, a structural biologist in the College of Medicine at UF who uses techniques such as X-ray crystallography to determine the three-dimensional structure of proteins, as well as Dr. Caroline Jones, an expert in immune cell microfluidics at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Texas-Dallas. As such, the assembled team provides a multi-disciplinary synergistic approach to investigate the structural-functional aspects of how RNA viruses can evolve to evade the immune responses of the hosts they infect.

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As part of our vision, we are committed to inspiring our pupils to become 21stcentury global citizens. From raising awareness about Fairtrade and running a Fairtrade cafe to donating food for local people, staff and pupils are encouraged to take their place as global citizens.
We recently achieved the Bronze Award status in Christian Aid’s Global Neighbours scheme in recognition of our wide-ranging steps to love our global neighbour.
The accreditation scheme celebrates schools that are helping pupils learn about global poverty and the Christian responsibility to tackle it, as well as giving them the tools to play a confident part in creating a fairer world.
The accreditation is divided into four domains:
- School leadership,
- Collective worship and spiritual development,
- Pupil participation in active global citizenship,
- Community engagement.
In aiming for the silver accreditation, we have set ourselves key actions linked to the four domains.
Where appropriate, teachers plan opportunities for pupils to develop their courageous advocacy where pupils have the opportunity to look beyond themselves and develop an understanding of disadvantage, deprivation and the exploitation of the natural world.
Below are images and examples of how pupils have looked beyond themselves to help others.
Each year, pupils donate food to the Bognor Regis Food Bank. In 2020, pupils created their own art work to represent Harvest and Autumn. In 2019, the school teamed up with other schools across the locality to support the Food Drive initiative.
As part of our Year 5 curriculum, pupils learn about the importance of Fair Trade; they promote and lead their own Fair Trade Café for the school community.
Each year, the school’s Junior Governors lead our Christingle Service. In 2020, pupils donated toys to the Salvation Army.
This year, we have supported the V2 Radio Christmas Toy Appeal.
Romanian Shoe Box Appeal:
As part of their Autumn 2 learning, pupils donate toys to the Romanian Shoe Box Appeal. Pupils collected toys and stationary and sent them to children in Romania.
As part of our Year 2 curriculum, pupils learn about the importance of bees in pollinating plants and growing food. One of our pupils was so inspired, they have learnt to become a bee keeper. In addition to this, a pupil in Year 3 wrote to our local MP to persuade him of the importance of wild flower gardens in the community.
As part of Collective Worships and our whole school values, we want pupils to reflect and know that they can make a difference to their world. Through Collective Worship, pupils are encouraged to reflect and look beyond themselves.
During summer term 2021, as part of their PSHE topic, Year 1 and Year 2 raised money to improve the local environment.
The children took part in a ‘Power of a Team’ Day with a focus of teamwork and helping each other. Throughout the day, the children completed tasks which they needed the support of their friends to complete. This included completing a marathon in a day by collectively running 82 miles around our Golden Mile track! We raised over £700 from this event.
We were delighted use this money to provide planters for the West Park Café and to improve our own school grounds

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- Precious metals are traded with the Fed in mind.
- The US dollar prevails as US yields continue to rise, weighing on silver prices.
Silver prices were under pressure during the mid-afternoon US session following a rally in the US Dollar. At the time of writing, XAG/USD is down around 0.9% after falling from a high of $24.9485 to a low of $24.2976 so far.
The greenback is higher after comments from Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard spooked investors about possible aggressive Fed actions and in anticipation of hawkish minutes tomorrow.
US Treasury yields hit multi-year highs, with yields taking off after Brainard’s comments and the DXY, an index that measures the greenback against a basket of currencies, hit 99.50 to test a new high for 2022 at 99.493.
The market is currently focused on the Fed’s intentions regarding its balance sheet and Brainard said the central bank could start shrinking its balance sheet as early as May and would do so “at a rapid pace.” She also indicated that interest rate hikes could occur at a more aggressive pace than typical increases of 0.25 percentage points.
Meanwhile, Fed officials began the process of policy normalization by raising rates 25 bps to 0.25%-0.50% at the March meeting and the minutes of that meeting on Wednesday will be published.
“The FOMC pulls no hawkish punches in its policy guidance, with Chairman Powell also hinting that further information on QT plans will be provided in the minutes (possibly including details on caps). We continue to expect a formal announcement from QT at the FOMC meeting in May,” analysts at TD Securities said.


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Sexual and reproductive health, including maternal health, is a priority for Australian women. There is a need to consider sexual and reproductive health within the social and cultural context of women’s lives.
‘Sexual and reproductive health is not simply the absence of disease’.208 A complex array of factors is implicated in women’s sexual and reproductive health. Sexual and reproductive health is affected by the socioeconomic, cultural and political environment. Principal among these is the place of women in their society, particularly in terms of their control over their own bodies, reproductive choices and lifestyles. But other issues also contribute to how women experience reproductive and sexual health:
- systemic and/or structural issues, such as health service provision, privacy and confidentiality, and representations of girls and women in the media;
- risk factors, such as abuse of drugs or alcohol;
- psychosocial factors like women’s self-confidence.
Some groups of women in Australia have not benefited from the overall improvements in the area of sexual and reproductive health experienced by most women. Social disadvantage greatly affects access to health services and sexual health information and resources. Exploring women’s sexual and reproductive health demonstrates the need for targeted sexual and reproductive health education, health promotion and prevention strategies, particularly for ‘at risk’ or marginalised population groups, such as young and older women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, women with disabilities and lesbian and bisexual women. For example, women with a disability are subject to myths about their sexuality, perpetuating the notion that they are non-sexual and therefore do not require sex education. The sexual and reproductive rights of women with disabilities have not been a focus of research, nor health care service delivery.


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Ali Ahmed Mohammed allegedly tossed a brick through a window of the club, starting the altercation.
The D.C. medical examiner's office originally ruled the death a homicide. The club's owner and four employees were initially charged with murder. Those charges were later reduced to aggravated assault and eventually dismissed when the medical examiner's office could not determine the cause and manner of Mohammed's death.
The story of Ali Ahmed Mohammed's death seemed to polarize parts of the city, with fans of the nightclub expressing support for DC9 and its employees while the city's prominent Ethiopian community decried the attack on one of their own. DCentric spoke with members of the city's Ethiopian community in March to hear their response to Mohammed's death.


Published 1:02 am Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Charter releases information on how to apply for $50 a month credit to bills
POLK COUNTY—People in Polk County who qualify can now apply for a $50 a month credit to their Charter Internet bill thanks to a $3.2 billion federal program.
The program is for families and households working, learning and shopping from home during COVID-19.
Charter Communications recently released additional information about how its customers can apply for the Emergency Broadband Benefit program, which gives the discount to those who are eligible.
To be eligible for the discount, people have to meet any of the following criteria, including qualifying for the Lifeline program (a federal benefits program); received benefits during the last 2 years through the school breakfast or free and reduced lunch; received a federal Pell grant during the current award year; experienced a substantial loss of income since Feb. 29, 2020 and the household had a total income in 2020 below $99,000 for single filers and $198,000 for joint filers or meets the eligibility criteria for a participating providers’ existing low-income or COVID-19 program (the Spectrum Internet Assist program).
Charter Executive Vice President, Government Affairs Catherine Bohigian said Charter has a long track record of increasing connectivity through expanding broadband access, adoption and affordability.
“Through our participation in the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program, we are further breaking down barriers to connectivity for American families, as part of our long-term commitment to advance access and improve broadband adoption,” Bohigian said.
People who are not currently Spectrum customers can visit spectrum.com/getqualified or call 1-855-662-9946.
Current Spectrum customers can visit spectrum.net/broadbandbenefit to learn more about the new program.
For more information about the program, people can visit SpectrumInternetAssist.com.


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8 Fun Facts About Barcelona
Spain’s second most populous city is a traveler’s delight, with lovely architecture and a rich culture. Here are eight things you should know about Barcelona:
- Construction on Guadi’s masterpiece the Sagrada Familia began in 1882. Over a hundred years later, the massive church is still being built.
- Park Guell is another of Gaudi’s famous creations in Barcelona, featuring beautiful tiled mosaics along with footpaths created under viaducts.
- Spanish is the most widely spoken language in Barcelona, but Catalan is also widely spoken, with an estimated 95% of Barcelona’s population understanding the language.
- La Rambla, the main street in Barcelona, originally functioned as a stream filled with sewage. In the 14th century, the stream was diverted and the street was developed.
- Barcelona was planned with a grid system, with the corners of buildings cut off to help alleviate traffic jams. This gives the buildings their octagonal shape.
- Casa Mila is the last private residence that Gaudi designed. An unusual building, it caused some controversy upon its construction, with some even concerned that the building’s appearance would lower land values in the area.
- Barcelona was the capital city of Spain from 1937 to 1939. Today, it remains the capital of the region of Catalonia.
- A sculpture of a goldfish—designed by Frank Gehry—dominates the shoreline. It was constructed as part of the city’s preparations for the 1992 Summer Olympics.
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Posted: Tuesday, January 10, 2017. 8:39 am CST.
By BBN Staff: Today, confirmation hearings begin for General John F Kelly who has been chosen to serve in the Cabinet of United States President-Elect Donald Trump.
Kelly will serve as Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). He is a retired Marine Corps General.
General Kelly headed the United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) from November, 2012 until January of last year, 2016. He visited Belize in this capacity in September of 2013.
During his visit, General Kelly addressed Belizean officers and the public at a press conference at the National Police Training Academy in Belmopan on September 4, 2013.
The hearings begin this afternoon at 2:30 p.m. before the United States Senate.
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We can’t wait till our Portland Fair this weekend at Rejuvenation! There are so many talented Makers headed to SE Portland, plus Lost Girls Vintage and Portland Flea will be sharing their curated found goods from all over the country. Needless to say, it’s going to be a grand weekend! Today we’re featuring Minoux Jewelry. Learn more about this maker and gawk and these gorgeous pieces.
Minoux jewelry was founded by Portland artist, Kristen Robison. Minoux is all about melding a love of style with a commitment to thoughtful consumption. Kristen creates classic, refined and meaningful pieces that make you feel good because you look great wearing them and you know they’re made by happy hands.
Details are important to Kristen, and she takes great care in every stage of making the jewelry. From concept and design, to execution and final presentation, Kristen is dedicated to product integrity. Minoux jewelry will last, even through all the daily wears and outfit changes, because let’s face it, these pieces go with everything!
Each piece is handmade using recycled sterling silver, bronze and gold wherever possible. Minoux is an environmentally-conscious studio, and practices this philosophy by choosing recycled metals, using less-toxic chemical alternatives for metal-smithing, and using recycled paper and packing materials.
The newest Minoux collection is the first time Kristen has created a line using the lost wax casting method. In this process, Kristen carves a design out of a special hard wax, using the wax model to create a single exact copy in metal.
Once Kristen had made the metal prototype, she wears it around in daily life, to make sure it’s comfortable, and to see if there are any design tweaks that would make it wear or look better. Kristen’s perfectionism produces flawless jewelry that is not only beautiful, but also comfortable to wear everyday. Changes are made until Kristen creates that perfect prototype.
Once a prototype has been approved, the final version is used to make a master mold, so that copies can be made. And in some ways, that’s just the start of the process! After a copy is cast from the master, the surface of the piece comes out quite porous and rough. At this stage, you almost wouldn’t even recognize it as jewelry. To bring the jewelry to the high shine that you see in a finished piece, imperfections are first ground off, then the entire piece is hand-sanded, then it spends about 24 hours in a mechanical tumbler to smooth the surface, and then comes the final hand-polish.
The hand polishing especially is a pretty dirty process, and Kristen has completely given up on ever having completely clean hands or fingernails.
Lost wax casting allows for a huge range of creativity, and Kristen feels like she’s just begun to understand both the limits and the possibilities of the process. Archeological evidence shows that people have been using a process like this to make metal objects as long as 5000 years ago, and Kristen appreciates feeling connected to an ancient method of human expression and creation.
Minoux Jewelry is timeless in its design. The pieces are simple to be worn daily – yet retain a very special quality that makes the wearer feel significant.


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Musicians: Fitzwilliam String Quartet
Opera North String Quartet
Reviewer: Ron Simpson
The Fitzwilliam String Quartet’s appearance at the Howard Assembly Room was celebratory in mood, notably in the stunning performance of Shostakovich’s String Octet with the Opera North String Quartet which concluded the evening, the perfect antidote to any mistaken belief that chamber music is cerebral and unexciting.
The Howard Assembly Room is 10 years old, a beautiful concert venue in many ways, acoustically clean and welcoming. The fact that it is about to close temporarily, is cause more for rejoicing than lamentation, as Opera North’s development of the New Briggate site will bring improved access and facilities for the Howard.
So this concert was the Fitzwilliam’s 10th birthday party for the Howard. The Fitzwilliam String Quartet, now led by Lucy Russell, itself celebrated a significant birthday recently, having been formed in 1968, and remarkably Alan George has taken the viola chair for the full half-century. In the last years of Dmitri Shostakovich’s life, the Quartet formed a close relationship with him personally and musically, so it’s hardly surprising that the joint themes for this concert were the number 10 and Shostakovich’s music for string quartet(s).
Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 10 was the main work of the first half, a work of huge contrasts played with idiomatic conviction. The opening Andante made almost whimsical use of fragmentary phrases before the second movement lived up to its tempo description: Allegretto furioso. As the lyrical third movement died down into sparse hints of melody, the viola set the final movement on its way with a jaunty Allegretto, typical Shostakovich motor rhythms carrying us through to the final brief Andante.
The concert opened with an attractively welcoming pairing: Purcell’s Fantasia No. 10 and Double on Fantasia 10 by Marcus Barcham Stevens, second violin with the Fitzwilliam, a world premiere that segued on from the Purcell, complementary enough for you hardly to see the join before Stevens’ harmonies took on a somewhat post-Purcellian texture.
After the interval, the Fitzwilliam String Quartet delivered an assured performance of Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 10, nicknamed ‘The Harp’ for the pattern of the pizzicato arpeggios in the first movement, before the Opera North String Quartet joined them for Shostakovich’s String Octet, composed when he was only 18. This proved an ideal climax to the concert, though, as Alan George wryly remarked, it’s a pity it’s Shostakovich’s Opus 11, not Opus 10 – if only he’d composed it a bit more quickly…
Sally Pendlebury, cellist with the Fitzwilliam, was until recently principal cellist with Opera North and she was the catalyst for a remarkable performance, even though the two movements of the Octet only last about 10 minutes. After a richly scored opening, the Prelude at times sounded like a Scherzo, but that was before you heard the Scherzo itself. At breakneck speed, the two quartets, standing opposite each other, with the cellos seated at the back, exchanged phrases, some quasi-improvisatory, with astonishing precision and dynamic cohesion, then, when the breathless audience applauded, did it again to prove it wasn’t a fluke.
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Public health experts say conditions in war-torn Gaza are ripe for the spread of infectious disease. Health workers are struggling to spot and contain outbreaks, even as the health system teeters.
The health organization's director-general says needed humanitarian aid isn't possible without a cease-fire but the resolution provides a platform to build from.
Moderate consumption of aspartame is OK, scientists say. But heavy consumers may want to reduce their intake. The WHO says aspartame may "possibly" cause cancer. The FDA questions the evidence.
Scientists call the name "discriminatory and stigmatizing." The World Health Organization agrees. But no progress has been made on finding a new name. And some say the name doesn't need changing.
India's all-female task force of community health-care workers won the World Health Organization's Global Health Leaders Awards. But instead of recognition, some want a better salary and benefits.
The WHO and the Biden administration extended the public health emergency for COVID-19, saying the virus is still considered a serious health threat.
Dr. Matshidiso Moeti has become one of the world's most compelling voices urging better consideration of Africa's people — especially women.
Resistance to the drug artemisinin was confirmed in Africa. Without better surveillance, experts say it is hard to track the threat.
African nations are bristling at the restrictions imposed on them by rich countries — and say they are harmful to local economies and discriminate against countries in the region.
Public health figures believe a focus on boosters for the already vaccinated will hasten the emergence of new variants among the billions of unvaccinated people — including a vaccine-resistant strain.
The director general is asking for a halt for at least two months. His hope is to use all available doses to vaccinate 10% of the population in every country by the end of September.
The new names won't replace the scientific names already assigned to new variants, but the WHO said it's making the change to help avoid fueling stigma toward nations where new variants arise.
Some scientists worry the possibility the coronavirus escaped from research facilities hasn't gotten enough scrutiny. Others say it appears far more likely to have emerged naturally.
The White House has "deep concerns" over how initial findings on the coronavirus were communicated and demands China make data available to investigators, national security adviser Jake Sullivan says.
A small study in South Africa has raised concerns about the effectiveness of the AstraZeneca vaccine, particularly in fighting virus variants.


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Café Society (2016)
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On December 3, the Polish media Dziennik Polityczny broke out: serious clashes between the U.S. military and Polish soldiers in Poland not only resulted in the injury of many Polish soldiers, but also the Tumaak-2020 joint military exercise was fought by the U.S. military and the Polish army. The group ended in a hasty way. The cause of the incident was that a group of American soldiers insulted Polish and Polish soldiers after getting drunk, and finally beat up Polish soldiers.
Taking into consideration the virtue of the U.S. military in Japan, there is nothing that the Poles have to complain about when such a thing happens, because this is the normal price to pay to “find a father for themselves”.
Geographically, Poland is a large country in Central Europe and belongs to the type of “ancestry is also richer”. During the feudal era, Poland was still one of the major European powers. At that time, Germany in the west of Poland was in a state of division and division for a long time, while Russia in the east was still weak. At that time, Poland controlled Ukraine, the three Baltic countries and even Belarus. Its territory was much larger than now, and it hung a number of states of Russia and Germany every other time.
Poland gradually declined. Today, the three Baltic countries, Belarus, Ukraine and other countries are all separated from Poland. From time to time, the rising Russia and Germany take Poland a wave of pleasure. Therefore, Poland and Germany and Russia do not deal with it, especially Russia. There is a Polish saying: “Polish hatred for Russia is brought by motherland.” It can be seen how big the “festival” of Bosnia and Russia is.
Since modern times, Russia has divided Poland three times with Germany, Austria-Hungary and other countries. Even at the beginning of World War II, when the Nazis invaded Poland, the Soviet Union did not actively help Poland, but took the opportunity to send troops to Poland to invade and occupy a large part of eastern Poland, thus establishing the so-called “Oriental Front”. In order to stabilize the front, the Soviet Red Army even created the “Kattin tragedy” that shocked the world. Of course, this history has very complicated reasons, which have something to do with the disaster caused by the British and French coalition forces and Poland’s own death.
It is precisely because of the long history that Poland always finds every way to fight against Russia. It can be said that Poland has fallen into a state of paranoia on anti-Russian issues. After the end of the Cold War, although the world situation generally eased, and many NATO countries in Europe have been demanding that the United States reduce or withdraw its troops in their own countries, Poland did the opposite and opened its doors to welcome the U.S. military. The Polish government even proposed to build a large military base at home for the U.S. military to use at its own expense, in order to keep the United States stationed in Poland against Russia.
The hatred of history that can’t get out of the wrong road makes Poland go wrong again and again. No wonder Europeans call Poland a “footcloth”.
How important independence is, our predecessors undoubtedly have a profound understanding. As a country that has experienced a long-term anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggle, the older generation of revolutionaries have always regarded independence as the core of diplomatic work. Even if they turned against the “big brother” Soviet Union and had a bad relationship with the world’s two superpowers, the Soviet Union, they have never given up this principle. Because we know that if a country cannot be independent, it cannot effectively safeguard its own interests and cannot be respected.
Poland is obviously off the line on this issue, and it is seriously off the line. In the current world, Russia is still a big country that can compete with the United States. The Russian army still holds about 4,000 nuclear warheads. As a Poland sandwiched between the United States, it is still making mistakes made in history. It would rather sacrifice the independence of the country than hard with Russia. This is a proper international fool.
Look! The American military uncle invited by Poland began to reveal his “stinence” within a few days of his stationing. Moreover, the U.S. military defends the national interests of the United States, and even if it is stationed in Poland, this basic principle remains unchanged. If Poland really causes war by provoking Russia, it is hard to believe that the United States will pay for the Polish crazy because of its military presence!
In the 1958 Kinmen Artillery, American warships once provided protection for transport ships of the Taiwan authorities, but immediately after being shelled by the People’s Liberation Army, they left Taiwan’s supply ships and withdrew from the battle. The United States has abandoned not only our “Chang Kaishen”, but also Iran’s Pahlavi, so if there is any wind and grass, there is nothing impossible for the U.S. military to leave Poland alone to run away!
For Poland, the only way is to put down prejudices, get out of hatred, and reconcile with Russia when it is weak. Now continue to feud. When Russia is really resurrected with blood, I’m afraid it’s time for a Polish nightmare. Because Poland has been in the same Soviet socialist camp in history, Poland has many industrial industries and products that complement Russia. Isn’t it good to work with Russia to develop? Why do you have to invite others to be uncles in your own land?

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Vibrations can be annoying for us human beings. Powerful vibrations can even be harmful for our health. They can also cause damage to buildings and installations and they can disturb sensitive equipment. Vibrations can be transmitted as sound through buildings and constructions and they can be unpleasantly audible as well as sensible at a considerable distance from the source. The condition of some machines can be measured by their vibration emission. In those cases, the machines can be maintained by monitoring the vibration emission ("engine condition monitoring").
How we contribute
Peutz has specialists who have a thorough command of the field of vibration technology. We can give advice for all kinds of vibration problems, based on accurate measurements and our expertise in this field. Peutz uses state-of-the-art measuring and computational equipment, together with dynamic modelling with a finite element method.
Vibrations measurements, reduction and monitoring
Vibrations in the ground/soil, in buildings, ships, offshore installations, machines, in short anywhere, can be measured. Using measurements and dynamic models, we can assess problems and make forecasts for alternative situations.
Adequate vibration reducing measures and provisions can be used to prevent damage to buildings and machines. Examples of these are improving the dynamic strength of constructions, adapting the foundations of the machines and using vibration dampers to render the machines vibrationless.
Also, monitoring the vibrations of valuable machines and sensitive equipment (such as computers, fine-tuned scales, microscopes, laser equipment) can be extremely important.


Here’s a thought for you to ponder. It doesn’t come from me exclusively, but I read about it and have embraced it as a potential game-changer for the American judicial system.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas could be impeached by Congress because of his wife’s right-wing activism and the justice’s refusal to recuse himself from cases in which she is involved directly.
Ginni Thomas is a right-wing zealot. She has written scathing essays excoriating the 1/6 House committee examining the insurrection that sought to block the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
She and her hubby talk openly with each other about their jobs and their duties. So, how in the world does Justice Thomas vote on matters involving Ginni Thomas’s political activism?
Case in point: The court voted recently 8-1 to require Donald Trump to turn over documents to the House select committee looking into Trump’s role in inciting the riot. The lone dissent? It came from Clarence Thomas.
Good grief, man. Justice Thomas has no business sitting in on arguments involving anything regarding this issue. His wife has disqualified him in the eyes of many millions of Americans, including mine.
Michael Tomasky, editor of The New Republic, makes the case that Clarence Thomas is ripe for an impeachment action. What’s more, there needs to be ethical rules set up to govern the Supreme Court, the only court in America that doesn’t have any such regulatory authority watching over its conduct.
I happen to agree with him, that Clarence Thomas has disgraced himself and the nation’s highest court.


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WYOMISSING, Pa. - Owners of unlicensed dogs beware: Pennsylvania Dog Law Enforcement officials have arrived in Berks County.
Several dog wardens converged Tuesday morning on the parking lot next to the McDonald's in Wyomissing before fanning out across the county.
They're in search of dogs that don't have a current state license.
"It's a state law, so you must get a dog license if you are a dog owner," Berks County Treasurer Dennis Adams told 69 News in announcing the planned enforcement sweep last week.
The county provides dog license applications on its website, and the license can be obtained via mail or in person at the treasurer's office or one of 12 remote sites.
Allentown, PA 18102
- Lehigh Valley 69 News

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When we design or replaced the magnetic contactor for motor starter or for others application,the important point is how to sizing the size of magnetic contactor.This is critical point because if we not sizing properly,it can cause a serious damage and our application maybe failure to perform in perfect condition.
This time i want shared some information and basic technique how to sizing the magnetic contactor with properly method and suitable with our application needed.It is to ensure our application design is correctly function and have a good resulted.
Rating of Magnetic Contactor
- NEMA Rating
NEMA ratings are based on maximum horsepower ratings as specified in the National Electrical Manufacturers Association standards.Usually contactor are selected according to the table below :-
- IEC Rating
The Main Contact have a rating to allowed some of current value ( ampere ) to through it.The current rating depend on the type of application.
Normally we follow the IEC rated maximum operation current such as below :-
1) AC1 – Non-inductive or slightly inductive rows
2) AC2 – Starting of slip-ring motors
3) AC3 – Starting of squirrel-cage motors and switching off only after the motor is up to speed. (Make Locked Rotor Amps (LRA), Break Full Load Amps (FLA))
4) AC4 – Starting of squirrel-cage motors with inching and plugging duty. Rapid Start/Stop. (Make and Break LRA)
5) AC11 – Auxiliary (control) circuits
* For more detail,please refer to the manufacturing manual or catalog
How to sizing the magnetic contactor?
1) What does application required?Make a decision for the application
- Basic contactor only?
- Traditional stater?
- Combination stater?
2) CONSIDER this factor when we sizing the magnetic contactor:-
- Load Type : AC-1 or Inductive ( AC-3 ) *Refer IEC rating table
- Duty Cycle : One direction, reversing, plugging * Refer manual instruction
- Horse Power (hp)
- Full Load Ampere ( FLA ) * Refer to the motor data plate information
3) Decide the power supply for the coil of magnetic contactor.It very important because we not have a problem when choose the power supply for control circuit.Normally if we want control using PLC,we can use 24 VDC power supply or we can use 110VAC /240 VAC if we want conventional motor control.
* Please refer the manufacturing manual or catalog for details information.Usually it completed with table for choose the right magnetic contactor for our application.


NEW YORK (AP) _ Too often, tributes to great entertainers are given when the performer is way past their prime, unable to recreate the magic for which they are so revered.
But Aretha Franklin, now in the fourth decade of her recording career, reaffirmed why she is worthy of all the hyperbole and praise heaped upon her as she was celebrated at ``Divas Live: The One and Only Aretha Franklin'' on Tuesday night at Radio City Music Hall.
The VH1 special, shown live on the cable network, was its fourth annual celebration of women singers. It featured an all-star cast to pay homage to the Queen of Soul: Janet Jackson, members of the Backstreet Boys, Marc Anthony and Celia Cruz, Mary J. Blige, newcomer Nelly Furtado, and recent Grammy nominee Jill Scott among others.
But despite the array of hot talent, it was Franklin's voice - rich and deep, and as full-bodied as ever - that provided the night's most rousing moments, whether it was churning out classic hits like ``Respect'' and ``Ain't No Way'' with gospel-like fervor or recreating her dazzling performance of ``Nessun Dorma'' at the 1998 Grammy Awards.
Collaborations with Franklin were few, and for good reason - the last time she appeared on the ``Divas'' special, in 1998, her performance relegated the other performers into mere backup singers.
This time, things were more balanced. Except for the appearance of the Backstreet Boys' Howie Dorough, A.J. McLean and Kevin Richardson, who seemed out of place when they joined Franklin to sing ``Chain of Fools,'' her duet partners held their own, smart enough not to try to match Franklin note-for-note. A good example was Blige, the reigning Queen of Hip-Hop Soul, who matched Franklin's grit and emotional depth on the wrenching song, ``Do Right Woman, Do Right Man.''
Scott had the formidable task of covering Franklin's classic ``A Natural Woman,'' a difficult feat for even the most talented singer. But the R&B singer pulled it off, in part because of her stunning voice and her own sassy style, reminiscent of Franklin herself.
Perhaps the most disappointing appearance was Furtado, a breakthrough new artist whose greatest strength is her funky, eclectic songs, not her thin voice. While Furtado may count Franklin as an influence, it certainly wasn't evident as Furtado sang her hit, ``I'm Like A Bird'' in a flat performance.
Not that the music necessarily needed a soul link to move the crowd. Marc Anthony and Cruz sizzled as they sang without Franklin on the salsa number, ``Quimbara.'' The night's most bizarre pairing was Franklin with Kid Rock, but it was also one of the most fun.
One of the most entertaining moments featured Franklin with a bevy of jazz greats, including Herbie Hancock and Roy Haynes. As Franklin scatted and improvised during the number, she made it clear that there's no genre she can't master.
Unfortunately, toward the end of the night, many members of the audience proved uninterested in the gospel influence which makes Franklin the truly unique diva that she is.
As the show ran into its third hour, the all-star finale became an impromptu church session, with Franklin converting ``Freeway of Love,'' into a song in praise of Jesus Christ, even getting surprise guest Stevie Wonder into the act. But by the time she started a medley in tribute to the gospel group the Clark Sisters, attendees were streaming out of the concert hall.
For those who left, one tribute was apparently enough.


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It was just a normal family trip to the swimming pool for Jack Anderson, then 11, but then he began struggling to breath and his sister Chloe noticed he had started to turn blue.
He was rushed to Trafford General Hospital, in Greater Manchester.
Within minutes of having a urine test doctors told Jack’s mum Laura Bowker-Ford that her son had Type 1 diabetes.
He was taken straight to Wythenshawe Hospital where he remained in the high dependency unit (HDU) for two days until his soaring blood sugar levels were stabilised.
Doctors said if Jack’s condition had been left untreated for much longer, he may not have survived.
Laura, 29, from Sale , said:
Prior to the swimming pool incident, the only change in Jack Laura had noticed was his weight loss. She had noticed Jack’s ribs had started to protrude and had booked an appointment with his GP.
The family have since learned Jack’s rapid weight loss and his episode of deep, laboured breathing were serious symptoms of Type 1 diabetes.
After three nights in Wythenshawe Hospital Jack did make a full recovery, but he wasn’t allowed to be discharged until he had learned how to read his blood sugar levels and inject himself with insulin before every meal.
Laura says Jack should be able to do all things other children do, they just have to keep a close watch on his blood sugar at regular intervals, including through the night.
Other factors such as the weather, exercise and even a change in Jack’s mood can affect his diabetes.
It’s a lot for a child to take on board but it is something Laura says Jack has taken in his stride.
Jack and his family are keen to raise awareness of the symptoms of diabetes among children and raising money to help find a cure for the condition.
On October 1, Jack will be taking part in the Junior Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) Fun Run.

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In the good old days, actors and producers used to gather after the curtain came down on opening night to wait for the evening paper, hoping the reviews were favorable (now they likely just furiously refresh their browsers). No matter the technology, the rule of thumb has always been that good reviews mean box office gold, while bad reviews mean disaster. Or do they? The theatergoing public and the critics don’t always agree, with shows that reviewers hate going on to be audience favorites that run for thousands of performances. It turns out that good word of mouth can be mightier than the pen. Here are ten productions that achieved long runs despite withering reviews, including one still-running show that is now one of the most profitable in Broadway history.
Abie’s Irish Rose
Opened: May 23, 1922
Ran for: 2,327 performances
Anne Nichols’ simplistic comedy about an Irish girl marrying a Jewish boy was slammed by the critics as stereotypical ethnic humor, but achieved the longest run in Broadway history at that time. Robert Benchley of The New Yorker particularly hated it. He was forced to write summaries of the show in the magazine’s weekly listings. “People laugh at this every night, which explains why democracy can never be a success,” was one of his most scathing entries. After a run of several years, all of the critics who panned it were invited back for a publicity stunt (it seems that no new reviews were published). Lyricist Lorenz Hart referenced the show’s longevity in “We’ll Take Manhattan,” one of his classic collaborations with Richard Rodgers: “Our future babies/We’ll take to Abie’s Irish Rose/I hope they’ll live to see it close.”
Opened: Sept. 22, 1938
Ran for: 1,404 performances
Popular vaudeville comics Olesen and Johnson hosted this 1930s revue full of shenanigans: A gorilla kidnapped a woman in the audience, and the hosts awarded a theatergoer with a prize of 20 pounds of ice — then dumped it in his lap. Reviewers were not charmed. Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times said the jokes were so old the writers must have swept them out of an attic and the cast was found by stopping every third person on the street. Audiences loved the show’s zany antics, and the show ran for three years.
Wish You Were Here
Opened: June 25, 1952
Ran for: 598 performances
This musical about romantic intrigue at Camp Karefree, a summer resort in the Catskills, received mixed notices, with many critics advising audiences not to make the trip to the Imperial Theater. The Journal-American called it “singularly unfunny.” The New York Post labeled it “Amateur Night at Camp Karefree.” Director and book-writer Josh Logan kept working on the script after the mixed notices. The improvements — and Eddie Fisher’s hit recording of the title song — helped bolster the box office. In addition, Wish You Were Here was the first Broadway musical to feature an onstage swimming pool. This may have drawn in curious and sweaty patrons since the show opened during a record heat wave in the days before theaters were air-conditioned.
Opened: Dec. 3, 1953
Ran for: 583 performances
Kismet was a lavish musical employing the classical tunes of Alexander Borodin to tell a tale of fabled Bagdad. It also opened during a newspaper strike so there were no initial reviews and good word of mouth spread. But once the strike ended, the critics were divided. The music and gorgeous sets and costumes received praise from some, but the powerful New York Times found it an overproduced spectacle hiding a flimsy book. “Kismet has not been written,” said Brooks Atkinson, the Times critic wrote, “It has been assembled from a storehouse of spare parts.” The New York Herald-Tribune conceded the show looked and sounded good, but found the jokes old-fashioned. But by then, hit songs from the show such as “Stranger in Paradise,” “And This Is My Beloved” and “Baubles, Bangles, and Beads” were already receiving significant radio airplay and drawing in audiences.
Opened: Dec. 3, 1960
Ran for: 873 performances
Lerner and Loewe’s musical take on the Camelot legend was in trouble. After a difficult out-of-town try-out period (resulting in director Moss Hart suffering a heart attack and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner developing a bleeding ulcer), critics were not enchanted with the final result. “Graceful and sumptuous though it is, Camelot leans dangerously in the direction of old-hat operetta,” sneered the New York Times. The New York Mirror compared it unfavorably with My Fair Lady, the team’s last hit, and found the lyrics and music “just fair.” But audiences kept coming, especially after stars Richard Burton and Julie Andrews performed an excerpt on Ed Sullivan’s popular TV variety show.
Opened: Feb. 6, 1971
Ran for: 610 performances after 704 performances Off-Broadway
“Voyeurs of the city unite, you have nothing to lose but your brains,” joked Clive Barnes in the New York Times of this erotic, nudity-filled revue. Almost all the other critics joined him in condemning Calcutta! as lowbrow and tasteless, but it went on to a hit run in its first production. If you add the 1976 revival (which was essentially the same show), Calcutta! had one of the longest runs in Broadway history at nearly 6,000 performances.
Opened: Sept. 25, 1979
Ran for: 1,567 performances
The Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice bio of Argentina’s infamous first lady was a hit in London, but received a less enthusiastic response from the New York critics. The Daily News called it “spectacularly vulgar…dispiriting and even pointless” and the Wall Street Journal labeled it “hopelessly muddled.” Newsweek thought it was “a very underdone dish,” relying on Harold Prince’s masterful staging to cover up the shallow content. Meanwhile WABC-TV sneered that Webber’s music was “mediocre.” Despite the critical brickbats, Patti LuPone’s star-making performance and seven Tonys give it a rainbow high.
Opened: May 9, 1982
Ran for: 729 performances
Maury Yeston, Arthur Kopit and Mario Fratti’s adaptation of Federico Fellini’s autobiographical film 8 1/2 received praise for Tommy Tune’s innovative staging, but many critics slammed the book and score as passionless. The headline in the Daily News review called it a “pretentious, tiresome musical.” Time thought it a “spectacle without a subject.” Despite the critical reservations, it won the Best Musical Tony over the more popular Dreamgirls and continued for a long run.
Opened: Oct. 2, 1982
Ran for: 7,485 performances
Though Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats stands as the second-longest run in Broadway history, the show did not have all the critics contentedly purring. While all acknowledged John Napier’s dazzling set design transforming the Winter Garden Theatre into a feline-skewed junkyard, many found Webber’s score, with the possible exception of the soaring “Memory,” less than memorable. The Daily News said it “makes for a strained and eventually wearying evening.” But audiences lapped it up like cream and Cats went on to win the Tony for Best Musical and more than nine lives in touring productions.
Opened: Oct. 30, 2003
Ran for: Still going after more than 4,000 performances
The long-running musical about the witches of Oz before Dorothy dropped in was not popular with every critic. Charles Isherwood of Variety quipped he was more “bothered than bewitched.” Newsday pronounced it an “overproduced, overblown, confusingly dark, and laboriously ambitious jumble.” The Daily News dismissed it as “an interminable show with no dramatic logic or emotional center.” But family audiences loved it and little girls in the audience looked to the courageous Elphaba, the wrongfully maligned green-skinned witch, as a role model. Despite losing the Best Musical Tony to Avenue Q, Wicked is still defying gravity today.


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Don't use websites for child health, parents told
PARENTS have been warned against the dangers of trying to diagnose their children's health problems using the internet.
Close to half of Irish mothers are using the web to diagnose conditions, a new survey reveals.
An online poll of 1,800 mothers in April conducted by the parenting website Eumom.com found that 43pc of respondents consult the internet first when their child presents with symptoms rather than going directly to a doctor or pharmacist.
But such a practice can cause unnecessary anxiety or result in a misdiagnosis, according to Dr Conor Fitzgerald.
"Firstly, if your children have a serious condition, it might go undetected and untreated without a professional, medical examination by a doctor. Secondly, internet searches often lead parents to believe their child might have a more serious condition than is actually the case, creating unnecessary worry."
But Dr Fitzgerald, who has a GP practice in Lucan, west Dublin, said parents should always consult a GP if they are concerned about their child's health.
However, he added the internet could be a useful tool once a diagnosis has been made by a doctor, whereby the patient can read up on their condition.


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This is actually a skirt I bought from Vinnies last week. Beige is one of my favourite colours and the dots are quite big.....it's 100% cotton and heaps of fabric in it....gotta love that for $8. Can't wait to chop it up and use for....who knows what?
and this one is some sale fabric my girlfriend bought me a couple of weeks ago. I had the pink one in my stash ages ago, I used it all in a quilt for my friends bubba.....I really love it so I'm glad to have it back in my stash...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
After many a long night hand stitching on the lounge, I have finally finished my babushka quilt. Now I can pack it away and wait until Rosa gets a bed. I'm certainly in no rush!
Monday, August 24, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Ink and Spindle have such a beautiful range of hand printed fabrics. I couldn't resist these at the craft fair. Think I will make some cushions for my lounge or maybe put them into a doona cover for my bed........or maybe both..will just have to buy more.
Some more yummy finds at the show from Amitie
This dress.......certainly one of my fave finds at the Stitches and Craft show. This cute little number is from Madi and Me. I love the Heather Bailey fabric and love that it only cost $30. I wouldn't even make it for that. It's great too because it is fully reversible in a gorgeous pale aqua and white print......two dresses for the price of one!
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
What a lovely surprise I had today when the postie came by! I received this gorgeous little pressie from my very thoughtful friend Lea. It was my birthday last month and she gave me the 'Meet Me at Mikes' book, funnily enough my sister did as well. Lea was more than happy to keep the book (who wouldn't be?). She currently has the Amy Butler 'Little Stitches' on order for me.....hence the inscription. Lucky me gets a few gorgeous fat quarters of Amy Butler fabric to add to my stash while I patiently await my book. Just look at that sweet wrapping and cute little Florette.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Here I am at the Prints Charming studio back in March attempting one of their creative courses, Screen Printing. I remember doing it at school and loving it. This was certainly no exception. My friend Vicky and I had lots of fun playing with colours and creating a design for our fabric. With what started out as a peacock plume (too tricky for beginners) ended up a babushka print.

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Nonfiction | January 01, 1983
The Primacy of the Reader (II)
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In my previous lecture I distinguished four areas of emphasis in literary criticism, but I discussed only two of these: criticism that is focused upon the literary work as an organism or a structure–some sort of verbal entity, give it whatever more precise term you may choose–and criticism that is concerned primarily with the author himself, whether the critic stresses his personal history or the various cultural forces that formed him.
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Happy Mother’s Day to all of you who are Moms. My own has not been physically with us since 2001 and I miss her every day. As I have deepened my understanding of projection, I can easily and readily see that she was never my nemesis although I thought her to be too many times and realize now, she was, actually, my savior. A catalyst for my own growth and development. I am learning to accept forgiveness for all the numerous occasions when I was less than loving and kind. I had always thought her to be the quintessential button-pusher and, I, of course, always gave her what I thought she wanted…defensiveness and self-righteousness. Such a forgiveness and healing opportunity I just couldn’t see at the time she “lived”.
But I digress.
“ This is one of the most important lessons in the workbook, as it provides an explicit statement of the illusory nature of the world and its connection with our thoughts. The early workbook lessons, as you recall, centered on the relationship between our thoughts and the images we see in the world. The same ideas are spoken of here, but in a more sophisticated manner that lead us still deeper into the truth of our reality.”
“It is the mind that gives the world its power, for it is where the binding occurs. The first sentence in effect announces the theme that the lesson will now develop.”
Ken quotes from T-12.I.1:7-8;2:2-3), here you go:
“If you decide that someone is really trying to attack you or desert you or enslave you, you will respond as if he had actually done so, having made his error real to you. To interpret error is to give it power, and having done this you will overlook truth…a clear-cut attempt to demonstrate your own ability to understand what you perceive. This is shown by the fact that you react to your interpretations as if they were correct.”
“On an individual level we feel the shadowy fragment of what we all, as one Son, felt in that original instant. There is no difference because there is no time. The ego’s world of time and space – past, present, future, and separate bodies – was specifically made to put a gap between the original and ongoing thought system of separation, and our experiences in the world. The purpose of ACIM is to shrink that gap, which is why early on in the text Jesus says the miracle saves time, collapsing the time interval by shrinking the space between the cause – the ancient instant when we chose the ego over the Holy Spirit – and the effect – the suffering we experience now in the body; the same gap we have introduced to keep us separate from each other.”
“It is essential to read the words of ACIM carefully, for they often have an evocative intent.”
What Ken wrote that I am about to share was very helpful to me:
“The focus again is on our thoughts – fear, doubt, misery, and pain exist only within the mind. They come, without exception, from the belief that we exist, which means God had to be destroyed. My individual existence was paramount and my only concern, and so I gladly killed if it meant my existence would continue. This selfishness is the real meaning of sin, and the thought of having killed to acquire individuality is the source of our tears and sorrows.”
WOW! Selfishness is the real meaning of sin. How thought-provoking is that?
With respect to the phrase, “ideas leave not their source”, Ken writes:
“Jesus is reminding us of this key principle of ACIM. Understanding this lesson, not to mention the Course itself, rests upon a proper understanding of this principle. The idea of a world in which there is suffering and death has never left its source: the guilt in our minds. The ego tells us that the idea of guilt does leave its source and makes a real world of guilt that is separate from, and independent of the mind. Jesus, however, thinks otherwise, T-23.I.2:7). The world we perceive outside is but the projection of the world we made real inside. Since what is projected never leaves its source in the mind, there is literally no external world. Thus there can be no world to save. The parallel principle to ideas leave not their source is projection makes perception.”
“Perception is a result and not a cause”, T-21.in.1:8.
“Our function remains to choose the holy instant in the present, focusing on the forgiveness lessons the classroom of our immediate experience provides for us to learn – now.”
“Thus the problem of suffering – the problem is the world – is nothing more than an ego set-up, designed to obscure the simplicity of the answer, changing our minds.”
“It is impossible to understand statements such as these from the perspective of the body. They can be understood only from a point outside the dream – above the battleground. Only then can you look down on the world and body, and smile with gentleness at what had heretofore seemed so serious. From within the world, a smile that takes nothing seriously is an attack and hardly loving, tantamount to hitting others over the head with the course, saying for example: “Why are you upset, don’t you know the world is an illusion?” However, if you really knew the world were an illusion, you could never say that to someone in pain. These statements should be expressed only when you are truly clear – from a position outside the dream – that the world and body are illusory. Otherwise, once again, these gentle and healing teachings end up as attacks.”
“Jesus is telling us to make another choice: “Release your mind from the tyranny of the ego, under which you placed it, and choose my love instead. You will then look out upon a world freed from your belief in sin and the projections of your guilt, for in your freedom is the freedom of the world.”
Think I will just close having shared Ken’s thoughts.
Lots of food for thought and some most helpful information that helps me to better comprehend the “power” and blessings, innumerable, from studying ACIM.
Have a HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY, if this applies, and if it doesn’t, best wishes to all of your MOMs, both in form or not, and have just a lovely day!

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Watching a Big Ten bubble matchup isn't a bad way to spend your Thursday.
The Big 10 is finally starting to shape up, as the Purdue Boilermakers look to separate from the middle of the pack with a home win over the Ohio State Buckeyes.
Just remember, Ohio State did knock off Kentucky earlier in the season.
The Ohio State Buckeyes need a big upset to get their season back on track. Find out if they even stand a chance against the Kentucky Wildcats.
The Ohio State Buckeyes are falling fast, but have an opportunity to get back on track with a win over Air Force. Find out if they can get a over a highly underrated Falcons squad.
This contest should do wonders to the winner's resume.
While teammate D'Angelo Russell poured in a game-high 28 points, Keita Bates-Diop made two huge shots to help Ohio State move on to the round of 32.
Arizona rolled to a 21-point victory in their first game of the tournament, while Ohio State fought out a three-point win in overtime. Can the Buckeyes pull off the big upset?
D'Angelo Russell is the only reason why Ohio State can win big games during the Big Dance.
Both Indiana and Ohio State's opening contests in the 2015 NCAA Tournament offer the opportunity for highly entertaining matchups.


One of the dumbest legal conversations I ever had with anyone in Alabama state government was with someone who is currently on the verge of landing a lifetime federal judgeship — one of the most coveted and important positions in the U.S. justice system.
The conversation, like most of my legal conversations, involved gambling. Two gambling proposals had been put forth by the Alabama Legislature, and the Alabama Attorney General’s Office had just issued a statement supporting one over the other. The statement was confusing and incorrect in its assessment of the applicable laws — specifically, the AG’s office had misinterpreted Indian gaming laws.
So, I called to ask about the statement and the mistakes.
On the other end of the phone was Alabama’s Solicitor General, Andrew Brasher — the same man the Trump administration has now nominated to serve as a federal judge in Alabama’s Middle District.
For the better part of 15 minutes, Brasher argued with me about the laws. I won’t get too deep into the weeds of it all, but the confusion on his part involved the requirements of states and tribes entering into Class III gaming compacts.
Now, my legal expertise would typically fill a medicine cup. But inside that cup would be Alabama and tribal gaming laws. And I know those laws because some of the best legal minds in America have explained them to me during the course of writing numerous stories.
Brasher was wrong. But instead of admitting it, he challenged me to provide him the relevant statutes. I did. He was still wrong.
But instead of admitting the mistake and retracting the statement the AG’s office released, the response back was: “We believe it’s complicated.”
Quite the legal ruling.
To put that another way, the response was: We have a conclusion that we want to reach and we will twist the laws any way we have to in order to get there.
And that, in a nutshell, is why Andrew Brasher shouldn’t be anywhere near a federal bench.
Whether it’s defending bogus press statements or wasting taxpayer money on disgraced “expert” witnesses or utilizing junk science to push a political position, Brasher’s legal resume is chock full of examples of him choosing politics over law.
It’s so bad that on Friday the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights wrote to the Senate Judiciary Committee tasked with approving Brasher’s nomination urging it to oppose him. The lengthy letter cited numerous examples of Brasher submitting briefs or making arguments in court that were roundly rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal courts.
Among other ludicrous arguments, Brasher has argued that … there was no racial gerrymandering in Alabama redistricting plan (the Supreme Court disagreed), demanding proof of citizenship on a voter registration card was legal (the Supreme Court disagreed), that only straight people should be allowed to adopt (the Supreme Court disagreed) and a fetus should granted an attorney.
There’s also this little nugget: During his confirmation hearing, Brasher refused to say that Brown v. Board of Ed. was correctly decided. Because, you know, who is he to say — a judge or something?
But probably the best summation of Brasher’s politically-driven career as an ideological prosecutor in Alabama came during a federal trial over Alabama’s restrictive laws on abortion clinics — laws that would have certainly forced most or all of the clinics to close. Unable to locate credible witnesses — medical doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, etc. — who would speak on the state’s side, Brasher and the AG’s office trotted out the paid stooges.
Four “experts” were paid more than $300,000 to testify on the state’s behalf. They were so bad that the judge in the case all but openly mocked them, and things became so bad that at one point, while questioning his witnesses, Brasher began to bang his own head on the wooden lectern.
That’s what happens when you choose politics over law in the courtroom. The system isn’t built to handle it. Things go awry. Justice falters.
And that’s what you risk by approving Brasher.