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Today’s Inspiration: The Lord is truly good, ready to forgive and abundant in mercy to all those who call upon Him. Psalm 86:5. We tend to overlook forgiving ourselves. Our inability to forgive ourselves fosters feelings of tremendous insecurity and keeps us reaching our potential in Christ.
We should be like Joseph in the Bible, ready to forgive his brothers in Genesis 45:4-5. We cannot easily forgive others if we cannot forgive ourselves and leave self-pity with the perspective that behind our trials lies the formation of our character for a greater plan of God. God be praised.
Prayer: Abba Father, we know that whatever our trials maybe, behind it is Your plan. Be merciful O Lord You will give whatever is good. Amen.

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Ekiti State University (EKSU) Chapter, has hinted that results of the research efforts by it’s members towards producing an antidote to dreaded virus would soon be out.
ASUU Chairman, Akure Zone, Professor Olu Olufayo, disclosed that its members had produced an alcohol-based ointment christened ‘ASUU Sanitizer’.
He explained that the product would be distributed to Ekiti residents for free, describing it as the union’s contribution towards fighting the scourge.
According to him, the product is expected to reach about 5,000 people in Ekiti State.
Professor Olufayo said the Zone has mandated all the five public universities under it to produce World Health Organisation-compliant sanitizers that can curtail the spread of the lethal virus.
Olufayo said his colleagues across Nigeria are in the laboratories conducting various researches into how to find an antidote to the ravaging COVI-19, saying the results will be out soon.
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“Since this pandemic broke out in Nigeria, ASUU has been supporting the government physically and financially through provisions of quality sanitizers and running of jingles on radio and television and distribution of handbills to educate our people about Coronavirus.
“Again, our members all over Nigeria are carrying out research upon reserach to find antidote to this killer virus and the results will be made public very soon.
“ASUU is concerned about the welfare of the populace and we have to support the governmebt despite our unresolved crisis over payroll with the Feeral governmeb.
“What we are donating today is in compliance with the directive of ASUU National President, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, that every zone must help the government in whatever form to fight Coronavirus.
“We have donated some packs to the Ekiti State Government and over 4,000 will be distributed free at markets, banks, motorparks, rural communities by members, just to ensure that the scourge does not fester among our people.”
The ASUU Chairman, Ekiti State University chapter, Dr Kayode Arogundade, appealed to Ekiti residents to adhere to the stay-at-home directive declared by government and maintain safety wherever they go.
“ASUU is an assembly of eggheads. We are in the laboratories working hard to help our people, because we exist for the generality of Nigerians.”
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The novel coronavirus
Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses widely found in nature. They are named after the corona-like fibrils on their virions. The new coronavirus is a newly discovered pathogen in humans.
Previously, the coronaviruses known to the medical profession are a group of viruses that can cause respiratory infections in humans and animals. Not only have they caused SARS, but more commonly, they have caused various diseases such as the common cold. The clinical symptoms include acute and severe respiratory diseases, such as fever, cough, shortness of breath, and dyspnea; in addition, most cases have pneumonia, and some cases have rapid renal failure and death.
The classification and evolutionary origin of novel coronavirus
Coronavirus is an important pathogen that can only infect vertebrates, and can cause respiratory and digestive tract and nervous system diseases in humans and animals. Coronavirus belongs to the Coronavirus subfamily in the Coronaviridae family of the Coronaviridae, which includes 4 genera: α-Coronavirus, β-Coronavirus, γ-Coronavirus, δ-Coronavirus. Different coronaviruses show different host range and tissue tropism. Generally, alpha coronavirus and beta coronavirus infect mammals, such as humans and camels. In contrast, γ-Coronavirus and δ-Coronavirus can infect birds and fish, but some of them can also infect mammals, such as δ-Coronavirus can infect pigs. SARS-CoV-2 is the seventh known coronavirus that can infect humans. The remaining six are HCoV-229E, HCoV-OC43, HCoV-NL63, HCoV-HKUI, SARS-COV and MERS-CoV. Zhou P Et al. found that the whole genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2 is about 76% homologous to the sequence of SARS-CoV, while the sequence homology to Bat CoV RaTG13 in the Chinese crown bat in Yunnan is up to 96%. Among them, the S gene sequence identity is 93.1%, which is currently known as the most homologous strain. At the same time, genetic and phylogenetic analysis results of seven conserved non-structural proteins show that SARS-CoV-2 belongs to the β-coronavirus genus C lineage.
The latest research progress on novel coronavirus
Science: the susceptibility of cats, dogs and humans
Recently, relying on the National High-level Laboratory for Animal Disease Prevention and Control and the State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, the team of Bu Zhigao, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the team of Academician Chen Hualan, and the researcher Wu Guizhen and Researcher Tan Wenjie of the Chinese Institute of CDC Viral Disease Prevention and Control, etc., systematically studied the susceptibility of dogs, cats, pigs, chickens, ducks and other common pets, domestic animals, poultry, and model experimental animals ferret, who are in close contact with humans, to SARS-CoV-2. Through experimental infection with SARS-CoV-2, the clinical manifestations and pathological changes of vaccinated animals and cohabiting animals were observed, and the viral load of organs and tissues, the discharge of respiratory and enteroviruses, and the positive of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 virus in animals were detected. The research results were published online in "Science".
The study found that SARS-CoV-2 has a weak replication ability in dogs, pigs, chickens and ducks, but can efficiently replicate in the upper respiratory tract of ferrets and the respiratory and digestive systems of cats. Experimental infected cats can transmit SARS-CoV-2 to cats through the air; some cats can cause severe morbidity or even death after infection. The incidence of young cats is obviously more serious than that of older cats. Histopathological observations confirmed that virus-infected cats can cause varying degrees of lung inflammation and intestinal mucosal damage; immunohistochemical studies have found epithelial and olfactory bulb cells of the upper respiratory tract (nasal cavity, palate, tonsils), mucosal gland epithelial cells of the trachea and bronchial mucosa, intestinal mucosal epithelium and other parts of the body have a large number of viral infections. The results show that ferrets can be used as animal models for SARS-CoV-2 vaccine and drug evaluation; dogs, pigs, chickens and ducks are not susceptible to SARS-CoV-2, and have important guiding significance for virus host tracing; more importantly, cats are highly susceptible to SARS-CoV-2. The study calls for close monitoring and protection of cats in epidemic areas to avoid contact with the source of infection and prevent them from becoming possible hosts of transmission or storage.
Science: high-resolution structure of the new coronavirus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (redcivir target)
The outbreak of a new coronavirus has caused a pandemic worldwide, resulting in tens of thousands of infected and dead people worldwide. Mpro (hydrolase) and Rdrp (RNA-dependent RNA polymerase) are considered to be two important targets of the new coronavirus. On January 26, 2020, Rao Zihe and his team shared the atomic coordinates of the Mpro structure (more than 300 domestic and foreign universities, scientific research institutes, and pharmaceutical companies) with the domestic and foreign countries. On February 5, they were publicly obtained from the international PDB database, " structure of month "(that is, the" star structure "of the PDB library in February). Related work was officially published in Nature on April 9 with the title "Structure of Mpro from COVID-19 virus and discovery of its inhibitors".
RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp, also known as nsp12) catalyzes the synthesis of viral RNA within the virus. It is a core component of coronavirus replication, and it is also the main target of antiviral drugs such as redcivir.
On April 10, 2020, Academician Rao Zi and academician led the New Coronavirus Research Group (main members include Wang Quan of Shanghai University of Science and Technology and Lou Zhiyong of Tsinghua University, both co-corresponding authors of this article) published in Science magazine Structure of RNA-dependent RNA polymerase from 2019-nCoV, a major antiviral drug target, reports the cryo-electron microscopy structure of the new full-length coronavirus nsp12 and cofactors nsp7 and nsp8, with a resolution of 2.9 Angstroms (protein structure database PDB ID: 6M71). The high-resolution virus RdRp is an important breakthrough. The related work was previously published on the bioprinter platform bioRxiv on March 17.
Important biomarkers for COVID-19 patients were found
The Proteome Big Data Laboratory led by PI Guo Tiannan of the School of Life Sciences at West Lake University has recently made important discoveries in the research of new coronaviruses. Together with the cooperative team, they systematically detected protein and metabolite molecules in the blood of patients with new coronary pneumonia, and found that there are many unique molecular changes in the serum of severe patients, and found a series of biomarkers, which are expected to provide guidance for the prediction of mild and critical patients. Related research results have been launched on the pre-printed platform medRxiv at 0:15 on April 8, Beijing time.
The molecular details of the complex of Radecivir and the target is obtained
Due to the rapid increase of new cases, Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) quickly attracted global attention in 2019, and the pathogen was identified as SARS-CoV-2. As of April 10, 2020, there were more than 1.6 million confirmed cases worldwide and more than 96,000 deaths. These figures are updated daily and are expected to increase further. The replication of SARS-CoV-2 requires viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp), which is a direct target of the antiviral drug Remdesivir. Currently, there are no vaccines or drugs available to prevent or treat COVID-19 infection, and most infected patients have received supportive treatment.
On April 9, 2020, Xu Huaqiang, Xu Yechun, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhang Yan from Zhejiang University and Zhang Shuyang from Tsinghua University published a newsletter entitled "Structural Basis for the Inhibition of the RNA" on the preprinted platform bioRxiv online without peer review. -Dependent RNA Polymerase from SARS-CoV-2 by Remdesivir "research paper, which identified the natural form of the SARS-CoV-2 RdRp complex or two frozen EM structures with template primer RNA and the antiviral drug Remdesivir.
The structure of the complex indicates that part of the double-stranded RNA template is inserted into the central channel of RdRp, where Remdesivir is incorporated into the first replicated base pair and terminates the strand extension. This structure provides important insights into the working mechanism of viral RNA replication and provides a reasonable template for the design of drugs against viral infections.
To be continued in Part Two…

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“There was never no doubt in anybody’s mind Lee was gonna be a star.”
— Charlie Persip
“The country, I never liked at all.” Helen Morgan is remembering her childhood in North Carolina, while you see generic footage of trees and sunlight and birds in flight. “My biggest aim was,” she continues, “when I was growing up in the country, and I had to work on the farm and I had to do all of this, that when I got big enough, I was leaving this place.” By now, you’re seeing archival footage of cows in a pen, a weathered red barn behind them. The cows gaze vaguely in the direction of the camera. They don’t move. She did.
Helen Morgan speaks slowly, her rhythms fragmented by age and receding memory. Her voice was recorded in 1996, over 20 years after she killed her common-law husband, renowned jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan. Helen’s interview and her husband’s story form a dual foundation for I Called Him Morgan. Layering experiences and impressions, music and image, Kasper Collin’s remarkable film is less concerned with history than with effects, influences that stretch across time, ideas that shape art.
Some viewers may be familiar with Lee Morgan’s career and celebrated talent, and others may not know how profoundly he shaped American jazz. For the former, the film’s opening with Morgan’s “Search for the New Land” will recall his 1964 album with Billy Higgins, Wayne Shorter, and Herbie Hancock, and for the latter, the sound may be a revelation, cool, smart, occasionally abstract.
The track plays over a scene that appears abstract as well, snow falling against a gray sky, a seeming negative image that makes the snow look like ash. The snow looks forward and back, to the day when Helen shot Lee in a New York club calls Slug’s, open that night in February 1972 despite a blizzard. “Search for the New Land” gives way to saxophonist Billy Harper’s recollection: “I just couldn’t believe it. I didn’t know what to think, because they were always together.”
Harper’s response to Morgan’s death echoes many you’ll hear in the film, from other associates like bass player Jymie Merritt or saxophonist Wayne Shorter, artists whose lives were touched by Morgan, and Helen too. “I heard police had arrested her and taken her to jail,” says Bennie Maupin. “And, you know, I never saw her again.”
That sense of loss lingers throughout the film. Morgan and Helen first appear on screen as a photo, held in Harper’s hand. Morgan’s back is to the camera, and he’s looking into a brick-walled kitchen, where Helen sits at a table, lighting a cigarette. This photo and others create a sort of visual backbone for the film, frozen moments of their life together. Other photos show Morgan in the studio or on stage, a collection of gorgeous, haunting stills to show a career built on constant motion, from his early discovery by Dizzy Gillespie at age 16, through a harrowing heroin addiction, to his return to health and music, due in large part, and by all accounts, to his relationship with an exceptionally generous and loving Helen.
Such stills — alongside some black and footage of performances, with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and Morgan’s own bands — offer glimpses of Morgan and Helen’s stories, but only that. Collin’s film fills in the gaps for which it has no visual records with carefully selected abstractions, the snow and the cows, city streets, blurred traffic lights, New York City bridges and building exteriors. Brief looks at fire escapes and windows suggest times long past but lingering, desires to look inside, to understand. As much as the interview subjects who knew Helen and Morgan tell their versions of what happened, none has details about how the relationship began or shifted. When bassist Paul West observes, “His life was restored by Helen and it was a joy to watch: he was playing, he was producing, and he was living,” a few shots of Morgan illustrate: he’s older, he’s sober, he’s working his PR.
As these images help you to imagine what people describe, they also remind you of what you don’t see. Interviews provide much of the film’s narrative structure, as you hear pieces of memories from various artists, Helen’s son Al Harrison, Morgan’s girlfriend Judith Johnson, and the man who interviewed Helen in 1996, Larry Reni Thomas. A high school teacher and jazz radio announcer, Thomas frames her story with his, how he met her (she was an adult student in his Western Civ class, many years after she had served time in prison; when he learned she was Lee Morgan’s wife, he says, “She looked at me kind of funny like, ‘You know the story too.'”).
The film follows behind Thomas as he walks to his desk drawer, where he keeps an old cassette tape under papers. When he pops that tape into an ancient cassette player, the camera is tight on the dust on the player’s surface, then even tighter on the tape squeaking as it plays. And then, the sound is cleaned up so you can hear her voice as the image transitions to illustrations of what she remembers, however fractured: a girl in a sleeveless top, a road passing by a car window, a circa-’60s New York City skyline, her eventual destination. At once lovely and weird, this transition from now to then underlines the film’s process, it’s reaching back into analog machinery to conjure new art, impressionistic, by turns disconnected and dreamy, then lucid and insistent.
In exposing and making sense of the fragments and fault lines of memories, I Called Him Morgan tells the stories of Helen and Morgan — how they met, how they worked together, how they appeared to others. It also tells a story of storytelling, how different strands come together and fall apart, how listeners participate in that process. In this, the film conjures visual rhythms resembling jazz, montages of image and sound providing new ways of conceiving the movements of time, of cause and effect, of interpretation. As it articulates loss, the movie also contemplates understanding.

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What is time-based art? "I like to think of it as art that is completed when the artist and the audience are in the same time and space together," says Erin Boberg, co-curator for PICA's TBA Festival.
What purpose does this concept serve? "We tried to come up with a title that would allow us to include the broadest range of art we could," Erin continues, "and to adapt along with changes in what artists are making as the festival grows and develops." TBA has established itself as a unique cultural entity in Portland, not just encouraging public interest in performance art and hybrid works, but reasserting the symbiotic relationship between time-based artists and their audience. Rather than establish a strict conceptual limit that would restrict the development of new expressive forms, TBA provides artists the freedom to develop their own unique insights into the passage of time. The way the passage of time influences their work varies from artist to artist, which indicates the success of the curatorial concept: these are artists that are both free and disciplined, and free to find their own discipline. By wrestling with time, the musicians of TBA empower all of us--they are learning how to use music to master the moment, returning everybody in their ritual space to an ecstatic and revelatory engagement with the present.
I caught up with several of the musicians involved in TBA and asked them to comment on their inclusion in the festival. Bryce Dessner of Clogs, a quartet blending classical, rock, folk, and world genres, observed, "As a group, we're often walking the line between club and concert hall. Our music might be considered a little 'arty' for a club, and maybe a little 'dirty' for the classical amongst you. We actually enjoy the confusion." When asked to share his thoughts on the curatorial concept, he replied, "Our music is heavily improvised, and each performance is a reflection of what is happening in that series of moments between the musicians. The relationship between written music and improvised music is integral to our work; both represent models for observing, reflecting, and rejoicing in the passage of time." Clogs will be performing with Ethel, an avant-garde string quartet whose intrepid mutations of classical form effect an electrifying, incomparable sonic irreverence. (Wednesday, Sept 15, 10 pm)
Another exciting project is Transplant:France, a collaborative effort between French and American artists that has been described as one of the most technically complex performances of the festival. Their show aligns innovative video and multimedia technology with piano, clarinet, sax, and computerized instruments. One member, Mark Plummer, commented, "I think live music epitomizes time-based art. Every performance is unique. Even a virtuoso musician does not play the same piece of music the same way each time. Improvisation, a significant part of our show, is an even more poignant example, because the musical thoughts expressed are ephemeral and will never be expressed the same way again." (Sunday, Sept 19, 10 pm)
Also not to be missed:
States Rights Records Night
States Rights Records is a collection of young Portland artists that created their own label, providing laptop mavericks with a means to distribute their music independently. The bands include Lucky Dragons, Bobby Birdman, YACHT, and DJ Hot Air Balloon, a group who call their work New Genre/No Genre, but are described as having a happy, sunny vibe, and a great spirit that is uniquely Portland. (Thursday, Sept 16, 10 pm)
The members of Chicago/ Portland band Pulseprogramming put down their instruments for the evening to explore a new performative format: a cavalcade of ear-catching DJ sets, video, and groundbreaking bands, including: disco-trash wonders 01 (Popmusic), Valet, electronic dub experimentalists Nudge, and Riddenpaa, a more traditional rock outfit reminiscent of Joy Division and Yo La Tengo. (Tuesday, Sept 14, 11 pm)
Kristy Edmunds, curator of TBA, spoke gold when she said, "Artists tend to be the very first when it comes to new, or atypical, or convention-bending ideas and aesthetic practices." All the musicians at the festival have revolutionary ideas to communicate to their audience, and are making significant contributions to an evolving conversation with time that we are all a part of.

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I get it, it’s complicated.
Mental Illness is an illness that unfortunately receives compassion only when it is convenient or easy. As a society, we get Bell Let’s Talk with all the celebrities speaking about their challenges, we have compassion for children’s mental health and maybe, to some extent, we even have understanding when it comes to seniors with dementia. But when the illness is so severe or when a system fails to help someone until something tragic happens we tend to evoke our moral compass and jump to an extreme, emotional reaction.
That is not in any way an indictment on victims or to challenge their thoughts and feelings. When someone with a severe mental illness is involved in a serious incident where a life is lost, it will always evoke a strong emotional response. It is a tragedy, no question. You can’t blame those close to such an event for feeling sadness, anger, outrage or a whole gamut of emotions. But often tabloid media or social media pundits run with the story by pouring fuel on fear and hatred which really serves no one.
There’s no such thing as a slow day at the Ontario Shores Foundation.
We constantly build from one year to the next to raise funds and support the hospital and the patients who rely on the vital services provides here at Ontario Shores.
One such opportunity to raise funds was the Roger Anderson Charity Classic (RACC), which celebrated its 20th anniversary on June 8. It was a fantastic day of sunshine, sportsmanship and golf.
Just a few months ago I moved into a new role at Ontario Shores.
I now work as a Peer Support Specialist supporting patients throughout different points of their recovery journey. It’s quite different than previous roles I have had in my career. I am still helping people, but in a much different way.
It’s very freeing to be in a group setting with people who have all experienced mental illness. Our diagnoses are often different and our situations individually are unique, but there are common elements we can all relate to.

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By Adedapo Adesanya
The United Kingdom (UK) has urged Nigeria to ensure quick passage and enactment of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill currently pending before the National Assembly.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the UK’s Minister for Africa, Mr James Duddridge, said that passing the amendment bill would build more confidence in the country’s electoral process.
According to him, confidence in election results plays a very important role in democratic governance.
“It is very important. I will meet the senate and I will be asking when the Electoral Act Amendment Bill is going to be passed.
“You know, democracy is not a static thing. It has to evolve; you have to make elections increasingly secure.
“So, I think it is really important to make an Act that will give the Nigerian people and the international community greater confidence that the elections are free, fair, and a reflection of what the people voted.
“If you have not got that in actuality or perception, democracy starts to crumble and we see where that leads.
“Democracy is the main pillar alongside a capitalist free market that drives social progress and allows us to function,” he said.
According to him, one of the components that build confidence in the electoral process is the electronic transmission of results such that the final results declared correspond with each of the local results.
He said that though the UK was interested in seeing Nigeria’s democracy become stronger, it could only play an advisory role and not dictate to Nigeria what it should do.
“We can offer practical advice on election processes working with Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and youth groups to make sure that young people are not only more likely to be registered for elections but also that their voices are heard.
“In the UK parliament, we have got members of parliament in their 20s and it is the richer for it.
“We wouldn’t want a parliament full of 20-year-olds.
“Equally, we do not want a parliament full of 70 and 80-year-olds.
“We need a balance to reflect society and everyone brings different experiences,” he said.
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DETROIT – A man was critically injured in a crash on Detroit’s east side at the intersection of Gratiot and Seven Mile Sunday.
Crime scene investigators were at the scene of the crash Sunday. A GMC Yukon involved in the crash was spotted on its side at a Church’s Chicken parking lot.
Original Story: Crash closes part of 7 Mile and Gratiot in Detroit
Police say at around 2:45 a.m. Sunday in the area of Gratiot and Seven Mile a 31-year-old man driving the GMC Yukon disregarded the red signal at the intersection of Gratiot and Seven Mile. The driver struck a Chevy Impala driven by a 21-year-old woman.
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I like this recipe because it tastes like hummus but doesn't require you to have tahini.
Top Review by Bryan Stefan
Excellent recipe, makes capital hummus with a nice, creamy consistency. Ironically, I finally found the tahini in my grocery store the day after I tried this. Right next to the matzoh balls and Shabbat candles, not in the Mediterranean section where I expected it... Anyway, I'll definitely hold on to this recipe in order to keep costs down. Thanks a lot!
- 1 (15 ounce) can garbanzo beans, drained and liquid reserved
- 1⁄2 cup sesame seeds
- 1 garlic clove, cut in half
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
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- Place reserved bean liquid, the sesame seed and garlic in food processor. Cover and blend on high speed until mixed.
- Add the beans, lemon juice and salt. Cover and process on high speed, stopping occasionally to scrape sides, if necessary, until smooth.
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presentation of a theme exhibition “Heart and mind with Taras Shevchenko” of graphic
works by amateur painter V.Shulga took place on March 4, 2014 in A.Osmerkin Art-Memorial
Museum. The exhibition is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of T.Shevchenko.
Viktor Andriyovich Shulga (1923-2000) - a member of the
National Union of journalists of Ukraine, war veteran and veteran of work. Was born in
Novomyrgorod, Kirovograd Region. Graduated from Odessa Art College. Worked in Novomyrgorod
regional newspaper “Red star”. A participant of numerous exhibitions of amateur art.
In 1971 His personal exhibition was shown in the House of artists in Kiev.
The current exhibition presents more than 20 graphic works by A.Shulga which
the artist presented to O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum in April 2000. These are theme
series – “Taras’ life” and “Through Shevchenko’s places”, created by the
painter in 1960s – 1990s. Watercolours and drawings deeply discover the image of a
painter, poet and philosopher – Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko.
Students of Kirovograd machine building College under the National Kirovograd
Technical University came to the opening of the exhibition. They listened with enthusiasm
to the undying T.Shevchenko’s poetry recited by a famous cultural worker, now the
artistic director of the House of Culture “Aviator” of Kirovograd flying Academy under
the National University of Aviation of Ukraine, M.Barabulya and lecture of the chief
research officer of the museum, art historian, Honoured artist of Ukraine A.Nadezhdin
about painter Shevchenko, image of the Great Kobzar in the graphic works by the amateur


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Fha Qualifying Ratios The FHA loan rulebook for lenders, HUD 4155.1, has a section in Chapter Four called "Qualifying Ratios" which can help borrowers understand why some of these variances may occur. Every bank has its own set of standards, based on the need to effectively manage risks in lending while allowing credit access to the largest number of qualified.
In remarks at the Making Home Affordable (MHA) Fifth Anniversary Summit, Secretary Jacob Lew specifically unveiled a new financing partnership between the Treasury Department and HUD aimed at.
This final rule only changes the party which has the authority to determine the method of payment of FHA single family, multifamily. lands, Loan programs–housing and community development;.
Fha Mortgage Assistance Program Similar to loan programs provided by FHA and VA, the United States Department of Agriculture. first-timers must first participate in a borrower education program. home buying Financial Assistance.
On F.H.A. loans, borrowers can put as little as 3.5 percent down, but on three-. The reserve requirements are higher on multifamily loans, said.
When a borrower qualifies for an FHA mortgage for a multi-unit property, they have to occupy one of the 2 to 4 units. The multi-unit can either be: Two units (duplex) – two unit property that is considered a single family residential property. Three units (triplex) – three unit property that is considered a single family residential property.
So, where does that leave a multifamily real estate investor?. Property Condition Requirements – To insure your loan, FHA requires that the property meet their.
and not unnecessarily expand this definition by imposing costly requirements on the FHA multifamily and single-family mortgage insurance programs,” Brady said. The Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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The bulk of the world’s 1.2 billion young people, equivalent to 88 per cent, live in the rural areas of developing countries, and seventy-five million are unemployed. Within sub-regions, there are important differences among countries: in Africa, the highest proportion of rural youth live in the Sahel, the Horn of Africa and in Southern Africa. While agricultural development is key to shared prosperity and poverty eradication through value chain development and multiple entrepreneur and job creation options, the youth populations have benefited little dividends from it due to many factors. Among other factors, are: the lack of sustained rural infrastructure investments in the rural areas, limited access to natural resources, low level of value chain development in the sector, lack of tailored financial products they could tap into, the migration trends coupled with their limited participation in policy processes.
The agricultural sector holds significant potential for the promotion of decent jobs - not only in production but across the entire value-chain - while also meeting growing food needs. Exploiting this potential is vital particularly in Africa - the youngest and fastest-growing continent in the world - given that in Sub-Saran Africa alone, over 16 million young people will enter the labour market every year until 2030, mainly in rural areas. These young people represent a tremendous opportunity and untapped resource for the development of the continent. Tapping into their potential for innovation and entrepreneurship can help reap the demographic dividends of this young vibrant workforce and transform the youth bulge into a window of opportunities. Promoting entrepreneurship and innovations will strongly contribute to changing the image of the sector for youth attraction and decent employment.
Continental frameworks such as the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme ( CAADP) and the Malabo Declaration of June 2014 give strength to the commitment of African Heads of States and Governments to creating the enabling environment for agricultural transformation and for empowering youth to benefit from emerging opportunities. These frameworks seek to pursue an inclusive agricultural growth and transformation through, among other initiatives, job creation for youth in value chain development and agribusinesses opportunities.
The challenge for policy makers, the international community, private sector including the youth is therefore to engage in policy dialogue aiming at developing entrepreneurship opportunities in the agro-pastoral industry for the youth populations to tap into. Bold and more ambitious actions will reduce the trend for migration, create sustainable jobs along all value chains and improve access to social services.
It is also essential that the youth be empowered to tap into those agro-pastoral business opportunities through South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC), appropriate skills development and participation in policy dialogues at the national, regional, continental, and International levels. Through this modality, and building on their capacity for innovation, the youth can develop affordable and locally-relevant technology that draws on the skills, knowledge and experiences of partners in similar contexts in the Global South.
It is against this background that the Government of Cameroun, in partnership with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the United Nations System in Cameroon, and PROCASUR, are organizing an International Youth Summit which overarching objective is to highlight the potential of youth for a sustainable rural transformation, as well as for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in West and Central Africa.

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The Majority Leader of the National Assembly, Hon. Fabakary Tombong Jatta, last Friday presented a pumping machine to the women of Alkali Kunda in Upper Baddibu as part of his contribution in spurring them on in their response to President Jammeh's call for increased agricultural activities.
The majority leader's intervention came barely a few days after making a pledge to the Alkali Kunda women following his adoption as the honorary father of the Alkali Kunda women Kafoo.
He presented the machine to the sitting National Assembly member for Upper Baddibu for onward delivery to the Alkali Kunda Women Kafoo. Hon. Jatta explained to journalists after the presentation that the donation was motivated by the visible desire of the people of Alkali Kunda to help themselves improve the standard of their lives.
According to the House Chief Whip, the women of Alkali Kunda have a vegetable garden some 4km outside their settlement but that inadequate water resources are besetting their horticultural activity.
"The women of Alkali Kunda are committed, steadfast, industrious and willing to respond to the President's encouragement for people to go back to the farmlands to ensure food security and food self-sufficiency. We would, therefore, go all out to help them in becoming the best they can be as it's easy to help she who wants to help herself," Hon. Jatta stated.
"On behalf of the villagers of Alkali Kunda, I would like to thank their Desk Officer, Hon. Ablie Suku Singhateh, the member for Upper Baddibu, Lamin Kebba Jammeh, Kalifa Kambi and Momodou S. Touray for helping me in the fulfillment of my pledge."
Hon. Jatta also thanked H.E. Salifu Jaiteh, Cyprus Gambia Consul also a native of Alkali Kunda, Karamo Marong, Alhaji Jamang Marong, Nemuna Marong, Salifu Camara and the entire people of Alkali Kunda both within and in Kombo for making the adoption ceremony the success it deserve.
For his part, the Desk Officer for North Bank Region, Hon. Ablie Suku Singhateh, expressed delight in Hon. Jatta's intervention, adding that it's in tandem with President Jammeh's vision and mission in ensuring increased productivity in the agricultural sector.
"The pumping machine will increase horticultural activity. This will in turn boost productivity and a boost in productivity means more income generation and more food available for those who need it," added he.
Speaking to reporters, the National Assembly member for Upper Baddibu, Hon. Lamin Kebba Jammeh, acknowledged his happiness and satisfaction over the gesture, enthusing that the move glaringly indicates the solidarity and unity of interest in the legislature.
"Being the leader of the majority in the House, Hon. Jatta's support to my constituents is worthy of note because it shows the solidarity in the Assembly. It also belies the notion that one should render help to only his/her people.
"At the same time, the donation is timely in that it will help us to adequately respond to President Jammeh's back to the land call as well as following his example of putting women uppermost in his agenda."


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Hello everyone! I have been on a little hiatus from ABC Toys & Crafts, generously given by Julie so we could all enjoy the holidays! During that time, Julie also had a DT call and has invited some fun and creative gals to join us over the next few months! I am looking forward to getting started and our first theme is BE MY VALENTINE! How fun is that?
So I had to think of something a little more than a card and I came across a variety of things on Pinterest that sparked my imagination and chose to go with this little Valentine Envelope Accordian.
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On Saturday evening November 14 and on Sunday, November 15 RMAC will be presenting "Between The Waters" a juried fine art and photography exhibit and sale in memory of Barbara Eisenstadt. The event will take place at West End Temple, a cosponsor of the event, on Beach 147 Street. Barbara was a member of the West End Temple congregation. The Temple has graciously offered its facility to the RMAC.
Barbara was very special to Rockaway Music and Arts Council, being our president for about 15 years, and it was through her foresight that we branched out in so many different directions. One of her special projects was to plan museum trips to see different art work in the area and so we thought this would be the ideal way to honor her.
The participating artists include watercolorists, oil painters, photographers and a sculptor. They will be presenting many pieces, which will be for sale. These art sales will be used by the RMAC to further our programs in the future. The exhibitors include Roger Carreau, Malfada Centor, Arlene Cor - nell, Ellen Hoyt, Christina Jorge, Made line Molvado, Samuel Schloss, Jessica Schulman, and Stephen Yae - ger. Many of the artists come to us through the various art groups throughout the city.
The opening event of "Between The Waters" on Saturday evening, Novem - ber 14, from 7:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., is by invitation only. There will be a cocktail, wine and music reception and the artists will be on hand to answer any questions. On Sunday, November 15, the exhibit and sale will be open to the public from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is free. The artists will, again, be on hand to answer any questions regarding their work. There is a parking lot behind West End Temple for everyone's convenience.
I want to take this time to thank Mar vin Eisenstadt for his assistance in arranging this event. Marvin has al - ways been very gracious and helpful whenever we have asked, and even when we didn't ask, he was always there. We hope that he will be pleased with this event in Barbara's memory.
This event has been two years in the planning. At our monthly board meetings we discussed many different events that we thought Barbara would like and finally agreed that an art show was it. From that time forward our members have been planning for this weekend. We hope you can come and spend some time with us and remember a very special person in our community, Barbara Eisenstadt.
Of course our RMAC members will be there as well so please come by, say hello and become a member, hopefully active, of RMAC (the oldest, continuous, cultural organization in the Rock - aways) and join us in planning events such as this one.
Now that the Festival is over and "Between The Waters" is all planned (look for our ads in this issue of The Wave), we look forward to our programs for next year. Our school programs are in place for this term and now we can concentrate on a Spring 2010 Museum trip and our programs for next summer.
See you around the neighborhood.


Shver tsu zayn a Yid!
Last Spring, walking in Jerusalem, I passed a man wearing a t-shirt quoting the old Yiddish maxim: “It’s hard to be a Jew.”
Even in Israel
Shver tsu zayn a Yid is how I felt that afternoon. Only a few hours earlier at the Knesset I had met Simcha Rothman, a principal architect of the Netanyahu government’s proposed judicial reform that jeopardizes a cornerstone of democracy – judicial independence. The reform is a means to an end. If enacted, other coalition proposals would be difficult to defeat, including bills discriminating against Arab Israelis, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and women, increasingly segregated in public settings; as well as bills to re-legislate the Law of Return to halachic standards, and to annex portions of the West Bank, effectively killing the Palestinian people’s own national aspirations – aspirations already withered by decades of Israeli occupation and a corrupt Palestinian leadership that traffics in antisemitic canards and pays terrorists to slay Israeli civilians.
For thirty-seven consecutive weeks, Israelis of every political, social and ethnic stripe have assembled to protest against this government; hundreds of thousands wrapping themselves in the blue and white of the state they cherish. Ein li eretz acheret, “I have no other country,” they sing. “I will not stay silent….” Poet Ehud Manor composed that cri de coeur during the first Lebanon War, in which many of these protestors fought. Others served in ’48 and ’67. Still others during Yom Kippur fifty years ago. But most, too young to remember those existential battles against enemies without, fight now to save Israel from the threat within.
Every Saturday night they convene from every sector of society bringing an array of concerns. Some bristle at state support of ultra-Orthodox who evade military service but depend on welfare. Others are infuriated by alleged corruption within the coalition and its apparent machinations to avoid prosecution of the Prime Minister. Many agree that some judicial reform is necessary, but are dismayed that the coalition, with its narrow majority in the Knesset and widespread unpopularity in the polls, would plow ahead without national consensus. Some worry about the future of their celebrated “Start-up Nation” as entrepreneurs and academics contemplate exodus to more open societies. Others sense a weakening solidarity within the Israel Defense Forces whose unity remains essential given the enemies surrounding them and their patron Iran. Many fear the influence of provocateurs like National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir without an independent court to monitor the balance between security and human rights. All fear the leadership crisis that could follow the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Basic Law disallowing “reasonableness” as a judicial standard. And all know the aspirations of this coalition have further eroded not just American Jewish allegiance, but support in Washington where debates about withholding aid now occur regularly. That is why they call on American Jews to speak out and join the protests.
And that is why, together with a group of New York rabbis, I had gone to Jerusalem – to share with Knesset Member Rothman our grave concerns over the direction his government is charting.
When my turn came to speak, I asked him how he intended to protect the rights of those who don’t align with his politics, Israelis who are not Haredi or from the Religious Zionist camp. He responded dismissively: “If you Reformim want to secure your rights, more of you should move to Israel.” Stunningly unaware he was addressing a delegation of Conservative and Orthodox rabbis too, this Chair of the Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee made painfully clear that his view of law and justice was purely majoritarian. Minority rights be damned.
It was a shattering encounter. One that revealed this coalition cares nothing for me, my Judaism, or my Jewish community. Don’t they know my congregation’s tireless efforts to strengthen American Jewry’s commitment to Israel? Don’t they know we lovingly display Israel’s flag on our bima? And here my colleagues and I had travelled across an ocean only to get stiff-armed! Oy. Even in Israel, shver tsu zayn a Yid, sometimes it’s hard to be a Jew!
If American Jews perceive Israel’s leaders as abandoning the Diaspora, more and more American Jews will abandon Israel.
A recent American Jewish Committee survey revealed that barely half of American Jewish millennials consider Israel important to their Jewishness, with more than a quarter acknowledging reevaluating their commitment to Israel in response to the anti-Israel climate on college campuses and in other settings where some of Israel’s detractors conflate the Palestinian-Israeli conflict with other liberation struggles and implicate Israel’s supporters in every societal injustice.
Beyond the quad, inside the lecture halls too, intellectual dishonesty and political motivations often color the interpretation and teaching of history. In July the American Anthropological Association voted to boycott Israeli academic institutions, just one of numerous bodies seeking to isolate the Israeli academy from its American and European counterparts. Professor Richard Shweder, cultural anthropologist at the University of Chicago and vocal opponent of the effort, writes: “The pro-boycott activists” insist “that Israel is a neo-colonial apartheid regime…its academic institutions complicit in the activities of the State…[and] they view anthropology as a platform for political engagement and postcolonial social critique.”
Students encounter this unscrupulous politicization of the classroom at the most elite educational institutions. Princeton University came under fire last February when its English Department cosponsored an address by Mohammed El-Kurd, whose writings compare Israelis to Nazis and evoke the medieval blood libel claiming Israel feeds the organs of Palestinian martyrs to IDF soldiers. This fall another controversy: the reading list of one Near Eastern Studies seminar features Jasbir Puar’s The Right to Maim, which vilely accuses the Israel Defense Forces of intentionally maiming Palestinians to debilitate and control them.
Once the reading list was published, the response was swift. Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli wrote Princeton condemning the book’s inclusion, demanding its removal. And World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder called on Princeton to fire the instructor. But those steps would surely backfire with accusations of suppressing the freedoms of speech and academic inquiry.
The best way to combat bad thinking is with better thinking, or as Bret Stephens characterizes it, “critical thinking.” “The rise of antisemitism in twenty-first-century America has many causes,” he writes, “not the least of them is that too many Americans are emerging from high schools and colleges without having learned to weigh the credibility of evidence…and to spot nonsense when they see it.”
Ironically, Princeton’s own English Department articulated the solution. After the 2020 police shootings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and so many other Black Americans, the department published a “Statement on Anti-Racism” promising: “We strive for active anti-racism in our classrooms and our scholarship…and…to investigate racist beliefs and practices with rigor….”
As Americans and as Jews we insist on that; we are committed to fighting racism. And as Americans and as Jews we also insist the same scrutiny be applied to antisemitic beliefs, including the anti-Zionism that is a flimsy cover for antisemitism.
With all its flaws and imperfections, Israel remains the cradle of our faith; home to more Jews than any other nation on earth; and the last safe refuge against the world’s most enduring hate. If we don’t defend Israel against rhetorical attack, who will?
Shver tsu zayn a Yid. Sometimes it is hard to be a Jew.
Not all criticism of Israel is antisemitic, of course, or even anti-Zionist. I hope my own makes that clear.
But when censure involves demonization, like these accusations of a twenty-first century blood libel; when it delegitimizes the nation’s right to exist as the state of the Jewish people branding it a purely colonial enterprise and not an historic homeland; when it applies double standards overlooking the same faults in other nations it underscores in Israel and turns a blind eye to countries notorious for their human rights abuses, then anti-Zionism crosses into antisemitism. The American Anthropological Association has no academic boycott against Russia.
One of the immediate concerns voiced at Princeton was for the well-being of Jewish and Israeli students on campus. Rabbi Gil Steinlauf, Director of the University’s Center for Jewish Life, noted: “We all have an ethical obligation when we present information…to do it in a way that…consider[s] the potential hurt, pain, and even harm” it might cause. We have seen how a hateful obsession with Israel too often descends into hatred of Jews: antisemitic violence spikes when the Palestinian-Israeli conflict flares, and Israel is portrayed as the aggressor.
From the anti-Zionist left, and certainly from the nativist right, the last decade witnessed a sharp rise in antisemitic attacks in America. The Anti-Defamation League – itself the target of outrageous libel on X, formerly Twitter – reports that antisemitic incidents in 2022 increased thirty-six percent year over year. Our Orthodox brethren, identifiable by their attire, are regular victims of physical assault. In recent weeks alone, several New York City synagogues were vandalized. And this past summer Jewish institutions across the country were “swatted” with prank calls threatening imminent violence, the perpetrators watching gleefully on livestream as police SWAT teams arrived, disrupted worship services, and congregations evacuated in terror.
Recently I stood with Manhattan’s borough president, city council members and other rabbis outside another congregation where days earlier a vandal had scrawled graffiti on a display screen. We gathered not only in solidarity with our sister synagogue, but also to advocate for tightening the legal statute the borough president’s office explains excludes graffiti and false reporting like “swatting” from prosecution as hate crimes.
We have to work to keep ourselves safe. And we have to spend.
Circumstances have compelled every temple with the means to direct more resources to security than any of us would have contemplated just a few years ago. We pay a Jewish tax on a national crisis. Thankfully the Federal Emergency Management Agency does assist through Nonprofit Security Grants. And the White House further acknowledged America’s responsibility last May with a new National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism that seeks to increase FEMA funding…which the Senate Appropriations Committee instead proposes to cut!
Last spring teens from a local high school called me wanting to know how my synagogue has responded to the heightened risk. So I invited them over to see for themselves the granite blocks that surround our building and the magnetometers in our lobbies, protocols in place since the massacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue five years ago. I wanted them to understand: this is part of American Jewish life today, and sometimes it is hard to be a Jew.
No Monopoly on Tsuris
Shver Tsu Zayn a Yid was the title Sholem Aleichem chose for a play premiering on Second Avenue in 1920, performed by the Yiddish Art Theatre. The poignant comedy tells of two young men in Czarist Russia: one Jewish, one not. After the Jew complains about the hardships of being Jewish, the two decide to exchange identities for a year. The non-Jew’s eyes are quickly opened to the realities of Jewish life: difficulties acquiring a residency permit, quotas at the university, pogroms, accusations of blood libel. In the end he understands: it is hard to be a Jew.
But we Jews have no monopoly on tsuris nor should we pretend to. In America today, it’s hard to be Black or Brown or Asian; it’s hard to be gay or trans; it’s hard to be old; it’s hard to be a woman; it’s hard to be disabled. For many, these identities intersect.
And while antisemitism must be recognized as a distinct phenomenon just as other hatreds must, certainly many hatreds do intersect with hatred of Jews. The Pittsburgh synagogue shooter’s online posts targeted refugees, too. The Poway synagogue shooter’s manifesto demonized Muslims. Last month a gun decorated with a swastika murdered three Black residents of Jacksonville. When it comes to white supremacists, all minorities lie in their crosshairs.
How do we counter such hate?
Writer Bari Weiss tells us: “The long arc of Jewish history makes…clear that the only way…is by waging an affirmative battle for who we are. By entering the fray for our values.” Despite all our own myriad concerns, we cannot allow the synagogue to become a fortress in which to hide as we tend to them alone. The prophet Isaiah admonishes us: “It is too small a task for you to be My servant merely to preserve the tribes of Jacob….I will make you a light to the nations, that My salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.”
So how do we answer hate? We answer by heeding Isaiah’s call. By aiding the victims of Russia’s war in Ukraine, the earthquake in Morocco, and the flooding in Libya. By defending women’s reproductive freedom and the humanity of asylum seekers. By feeding the hungry and visiting the lonely. By speaking out against threats to the environment and to democracy, yes in Israel but also in America…at this moment especially.
The most potent response to those who would do us harm, here or there, will always be a full-hearted embrace of Jewish activism, Jewish worship, Jewish learning, Jewish celebration, Jewish culture and Jewish pride.
“I am a Jew”
Edmond Fleg, contemporary and translator of Sholem Aleichem, was a French Jewish playwright, essayist and poet who had drifted away from Judaism until the Dreyfus Affair demonstrated that assimilation offered no protection against antisemitism. Moved by the Zionist cause, Fleg embraced Jewish life once again. Perhaps his most stirring essay was a letter to his unborn grandson illuminating his decision:
I am a Jew because, born of Israel and having lost her, I have felt her live again in me, more living than myself.
I am a Jew because, born of Israel and having regained her, I wish her to live after me, more living than in myself.
I am a Jew because the faith of Israel demands of me no abdication of the mind.
I am a Jew because the faith of Israel requires of me all the devotion of my heart.
I am a Jew because in every place where suffering weeps, the Jew weeps.
I am a Jew because at every time when despair cries out, the Jew hopes.
I am a Jew because the word of Israel is the oldest and the newest.
I am a Jew because the promise of Israel is the universal promise.
I am a Jew because, for Israel, the world is not yet completed; [we] are completing it.
I am a Jew.
Shver tsu zayn a Yid. It’s hard to be a Jew.
And I wouldn’t trade places with anybody.
 “Judicial Independence: A Cornerstone of Democracy which Must be Defended,” American College of Trial Lawyers, September 2006.
 Noa Shpigel, “Judicial Coup or Not, Netanyahu’s Team Pushes Bills to Batter Palestinians and Arab Israelis,” Haaretz, August 2, 2023.
 Ron Kampeas, “Could the New Government Endanger Israel’s Status as an LGBTQ Haven?” The Times of Israel, January 18, 2023.
 Susie Linfield, “Israel’s Democracy Movement Has Something Important to Teach Us,” The Atlantic, August 14, 2023.
 Ariella Mardsen, “Israeli Women Discriminated Against on Buses Three Times in One Day,” The Jerusalem Post, August 14, 2023.
 Katya Kupchik, “Israeli Law of Return Revision is Another Step to Halachic State,” The Jerusalem Post, February 8, 2023.
 Noa Shpigel, “Judicial Coup or Not, Netanyahu’s Team Pushes Bills to Batter Palestinians and Arab Israelis,” Haaretz, August 2, 2023.
 Doron Krakow, President and CEO, JCC’s of North America, July 16, 2021.
 Yonette Joseph and Patrick Kingsley, “Netanyahu Will Return with Corruption Charges Unresolved. Here’s Where the Case Stands,” The New York Times, June 26, 2023.
 Keren Setton, “Despite Turbulence, Israeli Government Likely to Remain Intact,” The Jerusalem Post, August 28, 2023.
 Yossi Klein Halevi, “The Wounded Jewish Psyche and the Divided Israeli Soul,” The Times of Israel, July 28, 2023.
 Richard A. Shweder, “Targeting the Israeli Academy: Will Anthropologists Have the Courage to Just Say ‘No’?” Huffington Post, March 25, 2017.
 “Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combatting Antisemitism.”
 Bret Stephens, “Israel’s Self-Inflicted Wound,” The New York Times, July 25, 2023.
 Julie Bonette, “Book Assigned for Princeton Course Criticized as Antisemitic,” Princeton Alumni Weekly, August 18, 2023.
 Bradley Martin, “Proposed Slashes to US Security-Grant Program Cause Concern Across Aisle,” Jewish Link, August 3, 2023.
 Bari Weiss, “To Fight Anti-Semitism, Be a Proud Jew,” The New York Times, September 6, 2019.
 Isaiah 49:6.
 Edmond Fleg, “Why I Am a Jew,” 1927.


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Publication Date: January 6, 1994
About the Author
Gail Damerow has written extensively on raising chickens and other livestock, growing fruits and vegetables, and related rural know-how in more than a dozen books, including the best-selling Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens, The Chicken Encyclopedia, The Chicken Health Handbook, and Hatching and Brooding Your Own Chicks. Damerow is a regular contributor to Backyard Poultry, Countryside, and Rural Heritage magazines. She lives in Tennessee with her husband, where they operate a family farm with poultry and dairy goats, a sizable garden, and a small orchard.
Praise For The Chicken Health Handbook…
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Dream Poet For Hire was on 6ABC Philly last weekend. Watch the full segment here: https://6abc.com/community-events/localish-presents-some-of-the-best-philly-has-to-offer/5799596/
Dream Poet For Hire was on Fox 29 Philly last night. Watch the full segment here: https://www.fox29.com/news/philadelphia-street-poet-has-a-way-with-words
Dream Poet For Hire was in the Philadelphia Inquirer last week. Read the full article here: https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/dream-poet-for-hire-marshall-james-kavanaugh-philadelphia-street-poet-20190828.html
In May, one of my typewritten poems was featured in an article in Issue Four of The Dispatch, a magazine published by Folk Rebellion. How appropriate that this was “The American Dream Issue”. I couldn’t imagine a better title for something I’m honored to be a part of.
For everyone that missed it, you can order a back copy here: https://www.folkrebellion.com/shop-the-dispatch/.
Thanks to Nancy Hill who included me in the stories of her cross-country journey. The poem about “Strangers” really rings true. What a beautiful spread. Ecstatic to be the icing atop this American pie of folks living out their dreams and inner discovery across the country.
The StoryTeller Project by Dan Bandel
Yesterday, I was featured on The StoryTeller Project with a freshly written poem about storytelling. Go check it out and see some of the other incredible portraits Dan Bandel has taken around Santa Fe, NM in an attempt to capture the local flare and dynamic culture of this multifaceted city.
As part of The PASEO Festival 2018 in Taos, NM this year, I was invited to discuss my work as an installation artist and services as a Dream Poet For HIre at Pecha Kucha, Volume 28. I decided to take the opportunity to wax poetic on the archetype of The Poet and how they fit in with the larger world based on the things I’ve learned and experienced over the years while typing poetry on the street. Here is the video from that night. Enjoy!
Objective: Through community dialogue and art creation we seek to give the river and surrounding watershed a sovereign voice, both as a means of creative expression and eventually legal reasoning.
Manifestation Station: The Manifestation Station is a lotus tent acquired for water protection in 2016. Since then it has been utilized as a shared community space to release fears and trauma that hold us back so we can open up space, personally and collectively, for the manifestation of positive dreams to emerge through these challenging times of planetary changes.
For the Paseo Project outdoor arts festival on September 14-15, the Manifestation Station will be a collaborative installation in the park at the John Dunn Shops created to raise awareness about our local watershed and allow the community a meeting point to discuss the future of our watershed. The installation will involve a series of audio and visual projections based around the surrounding waterways. Sounds of the river will be amplified above the conversations this will create, while video of these same waterways will be screened inside the lotus tent and on surfaces surrounding the installation. Inside the tent there will be two typewriters connected to an infinite scroll. Upon the scroll, community members will be instructed to write out prayers for our watershed, in the form of hopes and dreams for the world they would like to cultivate and leave behind for future generations, and fears and doubts for the world that is currently being manifested by the industrialized culture we live in.
Conclusion: The goal of this art installation is to transform our understanding of community, and to encourage people to get involved in the safeguarding of our watershed through positive, co-creative actions based in reverence for life. Break-out groups will form that will take up this call and form the necessary values that will protect our collective future here locally. The first steps are to meet and greet each other at the “water hole,” ask important questions together, raise awareness and begin crafting positive solutions together.


text: Shiri a perfect action but dominated by romance sort of movie . In effect the best screenplay for a action movie brings out a sublime emotion because the plot involves a very cute love story within.In the climax the lover meet at the gun point was the best part in the movie . The movie starts of with the north Korean and south Korean war and some set of terrorists from north Korea enter the south Korea in order to steal a liquid bomb which was invented by south Korean scientists and use those bombs for a massive destruction.But where do the romance come in this movie , that's the surprise part of this movie .If i need to explain there are so many stuffs in this movie i don't wanna reveal the secrets . Watch the movie ,i assure there are many twists in this movie .You will love it !!!!


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Bharti Airtel CEO indicates another round of tariff hike
Bharti Airtel Ltd chief executive Gopal Vittal on Thursday hinted at another round of tariff hike, stressing that the telecom operator’s average revenue per user (Arpu) needs to move towards ₹200 a month, and eventually to ₹300, for a sustainable business model.
Vittal did not give any timeline for the next increase in call and data tariffs.
He was addressing an analysts’ call, a day after the telco reported a loss of ₹15,933 crore in the June quarter due to provisions of ₹11,746 crore made towards statutory dues. Airtel’s Arpu in the June quarter was at ₹157, up from ₹154 in the March quarter.
The company last raised tariffs by up to 42% in December.
Airtel’s chief financial officer Badal Bagri said the provision made for adjusted gross revenue (AGR)-related dues should be considered “full and final”. The company also said its liquidity position is comfortable, implying no challenges in paying the dues.
The department of telecommunications (DoT) estimated Airtel’s dues at around ₹43,780 crore, of which the telco has already paid ₹18,000 to the government.
“We have taken an incremental provision…This is full and final because, as per the (Supreme Court) order, this (the dues) cannot be challenged, recalculated or reassessed,” Bagri said.
The company, however, hopes the dues are to be paid over a few years, said Harjeet Kohli, director in-charge of finance. “Financing-wise, it (fundraising for clearing AGR dues) is not really necessary. We have cash on the books. There are no liquidity access issues and there is no immediate need to add to the payment provisions,” Kohli added.
The Supreme Court is yet to pronounce its order over staggered payments of AGR dues. CEO Vittal declined to comment on the issue as the order is reserved. Airtel and rival Vodafone Idea Ltd have requested for a 15-year payment window.
Vittal pointed out that the fundamental issue with 5G is the cost of spectrum, which “is way over the top for any kind of business model to work. The cost of spectrum needs to come down and the ecosystem needs to evolve”, he said.
“We have always maintained that the indicative reserve price on the spectrum of 5G--the 3.5 GHz band--are very, very expensive and we will not be able to afford it at those levels. Secondly, the ecosystem for 5G is very nascent,” Vittal said.
He said the commercial roll-out of 5G is still a few years away, while billionaire Mukesh Ambani recently announced that his company Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd has readied indigenous 5G solutions and can start trials as soon as spectrum is made available.


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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Tuesday that the administration is monitoring the stock markets but added they are functioning "very well." In testimony to the House Financial Services Committee, Munchin noted stocks are "up significantly, over 30% since President Trump was elected." Stocks have seesawed between gains and losses on Tuesday after sharp declines in trading over the past two days. Mnuchin said the recently passed tax reform plan will be "very positive" for longer-term growth. "We're already beginning to see that in terms of corporate investments back into the United States and the impact on corporate earnings," he added.
Mnuchin says stock markets are functioning 'very well'
Ukraine, China and climate change tagged as ‘Doomsday Clock’ holds at 100 seconds to midnight, matching riskiest view ever
The symbolic measure known as the Doomsday Clock continues to hover at 100 seconds to midnight, unmoved from last year and 2020, when COVID-19 first spread.
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[View of St. Peter's, with fountain in foreground] [graphic]
Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano
Piazza San Pietro (Vatican City)
Weppner, Robert A
[between 1934 and 1936]
1 photographic print ; 18 x 13 cm.
American Academy in Rome
Shelving Location 0081358
Biographical or Historical Data:Weppner was a Fellow in Architecture, 1934-36, at the American Academy in Rome.: [View of St. Peter's, with fountain in foreground] [graphic]
General Note:Part of Fellows' Work Collection (American Academy in Rome).
Original Version Note:Painting; Weppner, Robert A., Jr., 1906-1994.; Location unknown.
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Northampton teenager succumbs to injuries after being hit by truck
Authorities are investigating the circumstances under which a 19-year-old Florence man died after being hit by a truck in a remote corn field in Hatfield late Friday night.
Jesse Johansmeyer, 19, of Burts Pit Road, succumbed to injuries early in the morning hours of March 25 at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield.
The incident occurred around 11:30 p.m. after a bonfire in a remote section known as the Hatfield meadows off Great Neponset Road and South Street near the Connecticut River. The driver of the white pickup truck that struck Johansmeyer left the scene.
The incident remains under investigation by the Hatfield Police, State Police detectives assigned to the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office, State Police Crime Scene Services Section and the State Police Collision Analysis Reconstruction Section.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the Hatfield Police Department at 413-247-0323.


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Pew Research: 'From 2000 to 2018, 109 Counties Went From Majority White to Majority Nonwhite'Chris Menahan
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Groyper War Hits The MSM After TPUSA's Don Jr Event Goes Off The Rails
Tucker Carlson Mocks Charlie Kirk's Plan to 'Staple Green Cards' to Foreign Students' Diplomas
Dad Who Took His Kids Back From Swedish Muslim Foster Family And Fled Returns Home With Family to Russia
Poland: Nationalists Hold Massive Independence Day March
Nikki Haley's Claims About Rex Tillerson Are Highly Questionable
One hundred and nine counties in the US "went from majority white to majority nonwhite" in just the past 18 years, Pew Research reports.
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In the United States, the white share of the population is declining as Hispanic, Asian and black populations grow. But the shift to a more diverse nation is happening more quickly in some places than in others.
Overall, 293 U.S. counties were majority nonwhite in 2018. Most of these counties are concentrated in California, the South and on the East Coast, with few in the country’s middle section. In addition, several majority white counties with large populations may flip in coming years. Fairfax County, Virginia (total of 1.2 million), Pima County, Arizona (1 million), Milwaukee County, Wisconsin (948,000) and Cobb County, Georgia (757,000) all had populations that were less than 52% white.I was assured by the media this was a "conspiracy theory."
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MARYLAND MEN'S LACROSSE: Senior midfielder Connor Kelly was named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year, while head coach John Tillman was named Co-Coach of the Year as announced Tuesday by the Big Ten Conference. Kelly was named First Team All-Big Ten alongside sophomore attackman Jared Bernhardt, while junior defender Curtis Corley, senior goalkeeper Dan Morris and senior defender Bryce Young were named Second Team All-Big Ten.
It marks Tillman's second consecutive year winning conference coach of the year honors, while Kelly joined Matt Rambo as back-to-back winners of the offensive award. Kelly was named to the conference's first team for the second consecutive season.
NAVY TRACK & FIELD: Devin Enslen, Brittany Burg and John Barber were named Patriot League Track and Field Athletes of the Week as announced by the conference office following their performances at the 124th annual Penn Relays last weekend. Enslen and Burg were both named Track Athletes of the Week, while Barber was selected as Rookie of the Week. Competing at the prestigious Penn Relays, Enslen ran in a pair of 4x100m relays while clocking IC4A qualifying times in both. In running the second-leg, he opened the Penn Relays with an IC4A time of 41.16, and then followed that by running the second leg of the 4x100m relay that posted a new Navy school record of 40.21.
Burg placed sixth in the 400m hurdles, posting the third fastest time in Navy history with an ECAC-qualifying time of 59.98, while also leading the Patriot League for that event this season. She then ran the opening leg of the 4x400m relay that clocked an ECAC-qualifying time of 3:50.43. Navy continues to have the second-best time in the Patriot League for that event.
Barber placed second in the shot put with an IC4A qualifying distance of 16.94m (55-06.75).
MARYLAND WOMEN'S LACROSSE: Midfielder Jen Giles was named the Big Ten Co-Offensive Player of the Week after leading the No. 2 Terps to a 20-16 win over No. 7 Northwestern last week. Giles led the Terps in one of their best offensive showings of the season, tallying a team-best six points on a career-high four goals and two assists. Giles and the Terps will head to Ann Arbor, Mich. for the Big Ten Tournament this weekend, opening up against No. 23 Johns Hopkins on Friday at 5 p.m.
NAVY WOMEN'S LACROSSE: The Mids remained ranked in all three national polls this week. The Midshipmen (14-3, 8-1 Patriot League) are currently 10th according to the IWLCA Coaches Poll, 10th in the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll, and 14th in the US Lacrosse Magazine Poll.
Navy will play a semifinal game of the Patriot League Tournament on Friday at 7 p.m.


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Watch Stop Making Sense (1984) : Full Movie Online Free A concert film documenting Talking Heads at the height of their popularity, on tour for their 1983 album "Speaking in Tongues." The band takes the stage one by one and is joined by a cadre of guest musicians for a career-spanning and cinematic performance that features creative choreography and visuals.
|Title||Stop Making Sense|
|Release Date||Nov 16, 1984|
|Production Company||Talking Heads, Arnold Stiefel Company, Palm Pictures|
|Production Countries||United States of America|
|Casts||David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Steven Scales, Bernie Worrell, Alex Weir, Lynn Mabry, Ednah Holt|
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thanks you very much! I very expect
It looks like a single texture that follows the spear. When the spear hits, the spear mesh itself disappears, and the trail texture slows its velocity, scales larger on its X axis, and the color tint shifts from teal to darker blue/purple. Hard to tell, but there may be a secondary texture panning over the main trail texture.
Impact has directional velocity ring textures and then multi-colored bits to represent her spear breaking on hit.
Hey magnificent work, i’m trying to get into this world that FX is, and i wanted to know which programs you use, in overall, and some guidance for a newbie if possible, like where to start. The more i read about the subject, the more i see myself lost, there’s a lot of this world for a beginner. If i shouldn’t ask it in here, i’m sorry for that, i’m new in this forum too.
That’s totally alright, questions are always encouraged
The particle tools that Riot uses are proprietary, though that just means it has a unique GUI for typical FX functions.
I use Maya and Photoshop a ton for all rigging/modeling/uv/painting/texturing needs
That’s it for FX related things
edit: I’ll be slowly making tutorials in my “free time” at work in hopes of making the transition into stylized FX a little easier. Hopefully those will address your guidance questions. If there is anything in particular you’d like me to go over a little sooner feel free to DM me!
What DM mean? In Maya you use FumeFX? Still learning everything. Gonna start learning Maya and Unreal Engine 4
DM = Direct Message
No FX are simulated in League, it’s all hand painted and animated (except for Nocturn’s tail, but we don’t talk about that >.> ). Maya is typically for making meshes and animating.
There are awesome tutorials for Unreal on youtube, and Maya comes with it’s own getting started tutorial popup when you launch it. Good luck, and have fun with it There is a lot to learn even to get started, but don’t be discouraged! If you stick with it you’ll be creating cool stuff in no time.
Looking forward to those tutorials.
PS: Would be awesome if you start from way beginning
This is some real awesome stuff down here. Wonderful work @ShannonBerke
I want to apologize for the delay on getting out more tutorials. GDC has really taken a lot of my time with the mixer and prep. I am still working on them, just much slower than anticipated. The tentative list of tutorials people have shown interest in learning:
- Overall workflow
- Shield FX (How to make Ryze’s sheild)
- Projectile (How to make Kog’Maw W)
- Impact FX (How to make Sion’s W explosion)
- Kalista Q trail (which may get covered with the projectile tutorial)
- Weapon trail (Taric passive Basic Attack)
I’m finding these are very geared towards how something was made, but I’m really looking for opportunities to delve into WHY something was made. Again, sorry for the slowness <: ) After GDC I’ll have a bit more breathing room.
As a beginner this post just blew my mind, and I can’t wait to incorporate this awesome tutorial in to my learning. Thanks so much!
It made sense to me to keep all my stuff in one post, but let me know if you think I should move it all somewhere else under resources.
Hey buddies! Here is one of the things I promised, again sorry that I’m pretty slow <: )
This is also in no way meant to be prescriptive, but hopefully helpful info to get you started. It’s not meant to be too in depth as I wanted it to be more general art focused, that way it’s not limited to one engine or method. Hopefully it’s useful
I made a thing! I noticed some of the shields in league are billboards so I wanted to make a shield with some action, but wasn’t too resource intensive The shader has an outer rim glow with a panning smoke mask. The core is just a simple glow, and the panning bar is just a bar with the mask of the core! It was fun to make a cool looking shield with some different parameters
*its also set to render on top of the character so it gives the illusion that its 3D
I love it!!! I especially love the soft panning smoke mask you mentioned.
Thanks! I now have the burning desire to make like a million shields and post them, haha :^)
this is Amazing and truly helpful!
Thanks for the post !
I should look around more often haha
Ah that’s awesome!!! You did a great job I’ve always thought that Banshees could use more for such a powerful item /thinks
Perhaps sometime I could show how I made the wavy texture ^^; Sorry about that
Made this a while back using your tute and forgot to post it. Great tutorial really really informative! Hope you have some time to make some more soon!
O FUUU THIS IS SO COOL!! Everything blends really well! Thank you so much for posting it!!! I’m super glad my tutorial helped
I’m really hoping to post some tutorials on things I’ve made for my most recent project. Soon!
I’d say take away the guy when presenting though. He takes attention away from the awesome vfx stuff. And i think the purpose of the effect is clear enough without the guy standing there


I have Oil in my Coolant????
I have a 2001 Ranger Supercab xlt, 2wd, at. Just got the truck from my dad, who took a turn for the worst, and i do not know the history of it. 84k miles. Getting back to the problem. The engine is running a little rough like it has a miss in it. It did throw a mis-fire code cyl # 3. So i checked spark, was getting spark, so thought maby injector. went 2 change the injector, found oil in Radiator overflow. Drained radiator found oil and pieces of gasket in the fluid. There is no antifreeze in the cranckcase though. Does it sound like a head gasket to anyone? it doesnt to me. Although, there is water seepage coming from behind the Timing Chain cover. Is this a common problem for the 3.0? Does anyone have any advise? Very Frustrated. Trying to find advise before i start pulling the front of the motor apart. Afraid i'm going to have to start somewhere though....


Passband Signal Representation in Circuit Envelope
This model shows the relationship between two signal representations in RF Blockset™ Circuit Envelope: complex baseband (envelope) signal and passband (time domain) signal. The step size of a RF Blockset solver is usually much larger than the period of the carrier, so upsampling is necessary to construct a reasonable passband signal.
The system consists of:
Simulink blocks that generate a complex I+jQ input baseband signal.
A RF Blockset Inport block that specifies the carrier frequency of the signal as f = 3GHz .
A simple RF Blockset system that consists of an Amplifier with 0dB gain and matching 50 Ohm load (that is, its input and output signals are identical). It has two outports: baseband (where the complex envelope signal I+jQ is represented as magnitude and angle) and passband, where the actual time domain signal is reconstructed.
A Scope block that displays baseband magnitude (that is, the envelope of the signal) versus the passband (actual) signal.
model = 'simrfV2_passband'; open_system(model)
Definition of the Passband Signal
RF Blockset interprets the complex signal , as a modulation (envelope) of the sinusoidal carrier signal with a frequency . By default, RF Blockset assumes that the carrier signal is normalized (that is, its average power is equal to ), so the passband signal is
With this definition, the average power of the signal is
In this example, is a ramp that goes from to and .
scope = [model '/Scope']; set_param(scope, 'YMax','1.5'); set_param(scope, 'YMin','-1.5'); open_system(scope) sim(model);
When the Normalize Carrier Power Option on the Configuration block is not selected, RF Blockset assumes that represent the peak values of the carrier, that is
and the average power of the signal is therefore
params = [model '/Configuration']; set_param(params, 'NormalizeCarrierPower', 'off') set_param(scope, 'YMax','1.1'); set_param(scope, 'YMin','-1.1'); sim(model);
Effects of the Normalize Carrier Power Option
It is very important to understand that when you change the Normalize Carrier Power option, RF Blockset changes the interpretation of the complex input/output baseband signal. Consider the simple case when the input baseband voltage is constant, and . The amplifier has a gain of 0dB, which means that the output signal is the same as the input.
When the Normalize option is checked, the output baseband voltage is equal to , the output passband voltage is , and the average power at the R = 50 Ohm load is .
When the Normalize option is unchecked, the output baseband signal does not change, , while the output passband signal is now , which means that the average power is .
In other words, for linear models the Normalize option does not affect the baseband output, but affects the actual passband signal and the average power formula.
Note that the zero carrier frequency is special: the passband and baseband representations for are always the same:
Simulation Step Size Versus Passband Output Step Size
In general, the RF Blockset simulation step is much larger than the period of the carrier, which allows faster simulation compared to regular methods. For such time steps the passband output is severely undersampled and exhibits aliasing effects. Set the Step Size value of the Configuration block to the large value 1e-8/7
set_param(params, 'StepSize', '1e-8/7') sim(model);
To obtain a realistic passband signal, resample the signal in the outport. Change the Step Size parameter of the Passband output block from -1 (which means that the step size is inherited from RF Blockset simulation) to 1e-11 .
outport = [model '/Passband output']; set_param(outport, 'StepSize', '1e-11'); sim(model);
Generating passband output at a higher rate (compared to RF Blockset simulation) requires resampling the signal's envelope. Current implementation uses a zero-hold resampling method that introduces "stepping" artifacts. Better interpolation techniques require delaying the output by several time steps.
The 'auto' time step option is available on the RF Blockset Outport block (the time step is selected to resolve the highest output carrier frequency).
Passband output might slow RF Blockset simulation because of the higher output sampling rate.
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Elijah White of Far Rockaway, Queens, was only 26 when he was diagnosed with lupus nephritis, a complication of lupus that causes the immune system to turn against the kidneys. It started with extreme fatigue, a rash, and blood in his urine.
"I was on many different medications, none of them worked," he said. "I did steroid treatment as well. The daily pains that you go through you feel like an older person."
With help from his doctor, he enrolled in the clinical trial for Benlysta, a monoclonal antibody that was approved in 2011 for lupus but originally excluded patients with severe kidney disease.
"I was actually very excited about it because I thought what do I have to lose," White said.
Dr. Richard Furie, chief of the division of rheumatology at Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research at Northwell Health, was the global principal investigator on the trial. The outcome was a success and recently led to the FDA approving the drug for patients with lupus nephritis like Elijah.
"It's a big deal and it's hopefully just the beginning and we'll see more drug approvals," he said.
Experts like Furie call this treatment advance historic as it was the first drug to be approved for this indication.
Lupus nephritis all too often leads to end-stage kidney disease, dialysis, or a kidney transplant. But for Elijah, who receives the drug through an IV once a month, those outcomes are less of a worry.
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