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JNS quoted B'nai B'rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin in its coverage of the QAnon conspiracy theory, its deep anti-Semitic roots and its growing popularity in far-right circles.
(August 26, 2020 / JNS) The word QAnon—and the conspiracy theories behind it—keep making headlines of late.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican congressional candidate who touts the ideology, won her run-off in Georgia on Aug. 11 and recently got a shout-out by none other than U.S. President Donald Trump, who congratulated her, even calling her a “future Republican star.”
QAnon began in October 2017 with an anonymous user named “Q” on the imageboard website 4chan who claimed to have classified information surrounding the Trump administration and its critics. It is described as a conspiratorial movement that purports that the so-called liberal elite, including Democratic politicians and Jewish billionaire George Soros, are part of a secret political faction to overthrow Trump.
“QAnon conspiracies are centered around the idea of a powerful elite secretly manipulating current events,” Counter Extremism Project senior research analyst Josh Lipowsky told JNS. “QAnon subscribers have politicized the conspiracies around an imagined Democrat-led ‘deep state’ conspiring against Donald Trump, who is heralded as the only one who can defeat this menace.”
Lipowsky labeled QAnon “a modern-day version” of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which QAnon echoes in its conspiracy theories, in that “the primary goal is to shift blame.”
“At the center of these conspiracies is a secretive cabal with vast political and financial power,” he explained. “Certain people want to believe that there is really an all-powerful group controlling things because it removes the onus of personal responsibility for one’s own circumstances and creates a scapegoat for larger catastrophes. The economy is crashing? A virus is spreading throughout the world? It must be because of X. And historically, X has usually meant the Jews.”
Protocols, an infamous and classic anti-Semitic text that was shown to be plagiarized from several earlier sources, was first published in Russia in 1903, translated into multiple languages and disseminated internationally in the early part of the 20th century.
Although QAnon conspiracy theories “don’t all target Jews,” said Lipowsky, “they use the same strategy that anti-Semites have used for centuries.”
Lipowsky cited “the conspiracies QAnon is peddling with the coronavirus, blaming Bill Gates for creating the virus or seeking to implant microchips into vaccines,” in that “it’s all reminiscent of the baseless accusations the Jewish community has faced—from responsibility for the black plague by poisoning the wells of Europe to the Rothschilds’ manipulation of World War I and the Great Depression for financial gain. Like those historic anti-Semitic conspiracies, some of the QAnon conspiracies target the Rothschilds or other wealthy and powerful Jewish individuals.”
QAnon followers have also been connected to acts of violence, kidnapping, murder and public misconduct, according to the Anti-Defamation League. The suspect behind the April 2019 shooting on the last day of Passover at Chabad of Poway near San Diego, where one person was killed and three others injured, posted his intentions on the imageboard website 8kun, which is used by QAnon adherents.
‘Given us good reason to be alarmed’
As with most, if not all, conspiracy theories, the Jewish community is not immune from QAnon and must be vigilant and combat it, according to Jewish groups.
“Any group that traffics in conspiracy theories about world domination, or control of banks and the media, is a group we need to be deeply concerned about,” B’nai B’rith International CEO Daniel Mariaschin told JNS. “Our community’s experience in combating these tropes has given us good reason to be alarmed.”
“QAnon is a Jew-hating conspiracy theorists group claiming the Rothschilds, a Jewish banking family, plans to kill non-Jews, start a world war and undermine the Trump administration,” Zionist Organization of America president Mort Klein told JNS. “In an era of rising unbridled hatred of Jews and the Jewish state, such insane theories are gaining adherents and must be exposed and fought.”
That said, some find it troubling that the president has declined to condemn the movement.
“Conspiracy theories with tenuous ties to reality very often include Jews in some sinister capacity,” Yaakov Menken of the Coalition of Jewish Values told JNS. “When you know what to look for; you see supporters of both QAnon and [Black Lives Matter] saying the same things, and that should require our attention.”
Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center told JNS that “QAnon is all conspiracies, all the time. Since its inception, the Internet has provided life support for debunked conspiracies, breathing life back into some nefarious stereotypes.”
He added that it echoes The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and its scapegoating of the iconic Jewish philanthropic Rothschild family in what Cooper summarized as the “powerful, manipulative banker.”
Jonathan Sarna, the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University, said of QAnon that “it is clear that many of its members harbor dangerous conspiratorial fantasies drawn from the pages of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The notion that a small number of wealthy Jews manipulate governments and control the course of world events has in the past served as a warrant for genocide.”
‘All rooted in the same anti-Semitic archetype’
Mary Ann Mendoza, a speaker who was scheduled to give an address on Aug. 25 at the Republican National Convention, was taken off the program on Tuesday night after sharing to her more than 40,000 Twitter followers earlier in the day a QAnon thread from an unverified account that included a post that read: “‘The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion’ Is Not A Fabrication. And, It Certainly Is Not Anti-Semetic [sic] To Point Out This Fact.”
Rabbi Yechezkel Moskowitz, a prominent Trump supporter in the Jewish community, told JNS that QAnon echoing anti-Semitic tropes is no coincidence.
“From my experience, I’ve observed that when it comes to anti-Semitism, you won’t be hard-pressed to find it and, in our case, you will definitely find anti-Semitism within the QAnon movement,” he told JNS.
“Anti-Semitism is an ancient as the Jews themselves, and there will always be those who utilize it for political gain,” he continued. “As far as the QAnon movement, it was most likely started as a joke. People will always cling to something that explains the logic behind the strange reality which we live in.”
However, Moskowitz cautioned that QAnon is “probably not” inherently anti-Semitic, though he said he wasn’t “one of those guys who looks for anti-Semitism under every pebble.”
“With that said,” he emphasized, “we must remain vigilant and defer to organizations that have the capacity to track these things and hope that they continue to do so.”
Regarding Greene, who called Soros a Nazi, the Republican Jewish Coalition instead endorsed her opponent in the run-off, neurosurgeon John Cowan, and fundraised for him.
At least two organizations that combat anti-Semitism told JNS they are currently assessing the movement.
Jewish Council for Public Affairs president and CEO David Bernstein said that his organization “been asking ourselves the same questions, but really haven’t done the research yet,” while StopAntiSemitism.org executive director Liora Rez said, “We honestly do not know enough the movement, who’s behind it, etc. .. to comment on it.”
Nonetheless, “the fight against anti-Semitism must include fighting against misinformation and these types of conspiracies,” said Lipowsky. “While not all of these conspiracies paint Jews as the shadowy villain, they are all rooted in the same anti-Semitic archetype and history has shown that eventually these sorts of things usually refocus on the Jewish community.”
The Jerusalem Post quoted B'nai B'rith International President Charles Kaufman's letter to the principal of an Australian school where a Jewish student recently became the target of anti-Semitic bullying.
Two separate antisemitic incidents involving children in Melbourne are shocking the Australian Jewish community, the Sydney Morning Herald reported on Thursday.
In one incident, a five-year-old boy was harassed for weeks by other children in his school’s bathrooms. The child, who comes from a family of Holocaust survivors, was attending the Hawthorn West Primary School.
According to the report, he was chased continuously to the bathroom and laughed at for being circumcised, to the point that he started to wet himself in class rather than using the toilet. He was also addressed with expressions such as “Jewish cockroach.”
In an interview with The Australian Jewish News, the mother of the boy said that after behaving strangely for months, one morning he burst out crying over breakfast.
A 12-year-old Jewish student was forced to kneel down and kiss the shoes of a Muslim classmate, while a five-year-old boy was allegedly called a "Jewish cockroach" and repeatedly hounded in the school toilets.
“He literally fell down on the floor,” his mother told The AJN, “and said, ‘Mummy, you shouldn’t love me. I’m a worthless Jewish rodent. I’m vermin."
Although the school acknowledged the bullying, they did not treat it as an antisemitic incident.
“While school staff were not able to substantiate that any negative interactions were antisemitic in nature, on the basis of those investigations, school staff identified an incident that involved children laughing at [the boy],” the North-West Victoria Department of Education director Barbara Crowe told the Sydney Morning Herald. “This was not acceptable and would have been an unpleasant experience for [the boy]. I am sorry that this occurred.”
In a separate incident, a 12-year-old was forced to kiss a Muslim classmate’s feet in a public park under the threat of being beaten by several other boys. The incident was filmed and the images circulated widely online.
The child was attending Cheltenham Secondary College in Victoria. According to the report, no action has been taken by the school against the group of Muslim boys involved, because the incident did not happen on the school’s premises.
However, the parents of the student who presented his feet to be kissed were described as “horrified” by their son’s behavior.
Both boys were withdrawn from their respective schools.
B'nai Brith International President Charles Kaufman wrote a letter to the school principal of Cheltenham Secondary College, expressing his disappointment in the response to the incident. "Somehow you find the hurling of vile anti-Semitic slurs and physical abuse against a 12-year-old Jewish student as mere bullying, an isolated incident," Kaufman wrote. "Somehow you feel powerless to do anything about this shameful act because the incident occurred off campus.
"Are these nine students enrolled in your school?" he asked. "If so, you have an ethical and professional responsibility, if not a legal one, to address this matter with the students and their parents."
He concluded by stating that "B’nai B’rith International condemns this hateful, criminal assault. If you sit and do nothing, you sit in shame."
B'nai Brith International is an organization dedicated, among other things, to advancing human rights and Israel advocacy.
B'nai B'rith International Executive Vice President Daniel S. Mariaschin moderated a panel during the 5th Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism, offering some remarks on behalf of the organization before introducing the speakers.
Watch his segment below, along with the additional remarks from the six presenters:
—¿Y qué dijeron los imanes musulmanes invitados a propósito de estos temas?
—Cuando hablaron los imanes, de Francia o Inglaterra, nos encontramos con un miedo diferente, pero no es un miedo menos vergonzoso para lo que es la democracia que debería tener a esta altura mucho más claro cómo defenderse de las agresiones. Los imanes hablan de una religión de paz, pero ellos no tienen mayoría en sus mezquitas, las mayorías los agreden y ellos también tienen miedo. ¿De quién tienen miedo ellos, de los antisemitas? No, de ellos solo tienen miedo los judíos, tienen miedo de su propia gente que los consideran traidores por su prédica, y bueno, la discriminación contra la mujer que predica el antisemitismo. Con lo cual, cualquier elección que haya hoy en Europa, parlamentaria o presidencial, la miramos como muy trascendente como se la miró a la de Inglaterra hace poco y se va a mirar a la de España y ni que hablar a la de Francia, para ver de qué manera los gobiernos son capaces de enfrentar algo que Europa no debería tener después de lo que Europa vivió no solo en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, antes y por muchos años después con los países del este, del comunismo, y años después con los países de la ex Yugoslavia.
—En estas latitudes, ha habido algunos episodios de antisemitismo, incluso en países muy cercanos. En Argentina en torno a hechos trágicos como la muerte del fiscal Alberto Nisman que dio lugar a diversas reacciones antisemitas, ¿cómo se evaluó esto?
—Nos tocó a nosotros, justamente, hacer la presentación de América Latina sobre una visión general para después ir país por país, y evidentemente no es lo mismo que nosotros podíamos exponer hace diez años. En este momento, lo que ha sucedido en los últimos meses en Argentina prende las alarmas en muchos sentidos. Que un gobierno democrático, como el gobierno argentino, diga por parte de algunos de sus voceros en forma pública y acuse a la comunidad judía o a autoridades de sus instituciones de conspirar contra el Estado argentino es un lenguaje que, evidentemente, si siempre fue peligroso y fue preludio de cosas trágicas, hoy es muy peligroso especialmente cuando estamos hablando de un país que sufrió dos atentados y que nunca pudo poner a los culpables, porque saber quiénes son se sabe pero nunca se pudo llevar a los culpables ante la justicia. Dos atentados, además de muchísimos muertos, el de la AMIA fue además de muchísimos muertos en relación con los atentados gravísimos en el resto del mundo y en un momento en que además de shock porque el fiscal que lleva la causa aparece muerto. Y además se genera una situación conflictiva pública donde aparece el antisemitismo, porque la causa que seguía el fiscal ha ido cayendo en una escalera donde se archivan cosas, donde se cambian veredictos, ya hay un dictamen de que fue suicidio.
—A diferencia de Europa los integrantes de las comunidades no han tenido que migrar hacia Israel para buscar refugio, ¿esa es la diferencia actual de América Latina?
—No se ha llegado a tonos de violencia, es cierto. Lo que sí es alarmante en Latinoamérica es que no todos los gobiernos actúan de la misma manera frente al antisemitismo y eso es muy grave porque deja desprotegida no solo a la comunidad judía sino a toda la sociedad. Cuando en Chile mataron hace dos años a una persona por ser homosexual y la sociedad salió a la calle y el Congreso se dio cuenta de que tenían que hacer una legislación antidiscriminatoria, eso habla de una reacción positiva. Pero cuando se dice que la comunidad judía es "conspiradora", bueno, nos acordamos de los Protocolos de los Sabios de Sión y de lo que pasó después.
B’nai B’rith International is proud to partner with the Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) fraternity to bring Holocaust commemoration programs to college campuses nationwide.
Hundreds of people congregated at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. for the 2015 We Walk to Remember program. This event was coordinated as a Holocaust awareness and remembrance walk, and was also in direct response to anti-Semitic vandalism at the Vanderbilt AEPi house in March, 2015.
The European Union started Passover on a sour note, announcing that the much-anticipated upcoming conference on combating rising anti-Semitism in Europe will not share equal billing with Islamophobia.
While B'nai B'rith International has been an outspoken global advocate of diversity and worked to combat prejudice and discrimination of all kinds, the concern is that adding other issues to the discussion of anti-Semitism allows government officials to avoid real action.
B'nai B'rith International Director of Legislative Affairs Eric Fusfield spoke on behalf of the organization to the Jerusalem Post, highlights of which can be found below:
Jewish organizations worldwide expressed shock and dismay over the weekend following the announcement that the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency is planning on holding a conference that implies an equivalence between anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
It will focus on the rise of anti-Jewish sentiment and violence across the continent and the “growing evidence in many European countries, especially in the past two years, of very high rates of anti-Muslim incidents, including acts of verbal and physical violence,” according to the organizers.
Jewish community leaders in Europe and elsewhere told The Jerusalem Post that despite being largely supportive of the FRA’s work, they believed it inappropriate for it to juxtapose hate directed against Muslims with anti-Semitism as if both were one and the same.
“The challenge of combating anti-Semitism would be better served by a stand-alone colloquium fully focused on the problem,” said Eric Fusfield, the legislative affairs director of the B’nai B’rith International Center for Human Rights and Public Policy.
“Opponents of anti-Semitism have tried for years to promote greater understanding of anti-Semitism as a distinct phenomenon with unique dimensions sometimes requiring unique solutions,” he said.
“It is true that some strategies for combating anti-Semitism may apply to other forms of intolerance as well, but the fact is that, for too long, the tendency of governments and international organizations to conflate anti-Semitism with other social illnesses has served as a means of avoiding the problem rather than addressing it head on, even as the crisis facing Jewish communities has intensified in Europe and elsewhere,” he added.
B'nai B'rith France was a key contributor to the first-of-its-kind European Parliament discussion on anti-Semitism, presenting to the delegation for relations with Israel.
The delegation is headed by Italian MEP Fulvio Martusciello, who made his first visit to Israel as a guest of B'nai B'rith International last October.
The delegation discussed the disturbing rise in violence and rhetoric against European Jewish communities since Operation Protective Edge brought defensive conflict to Israel in the summer of 2014.
Read excerpts from an article written in the European Jewish Press, below:
Other speakers included Stéphane Teicher, Vice- President of B’nai B’rith France and Jane Braden-Golay, President of the European Union of Jewish Students.
"The fact that anti-Semitism becomes ordinary to the eyes of the civil society is a matter of concern," said Teicher, who noted the indifference of the population. "There was no mass reaction in France following grave anti-Semitic developments of protests in Paris during last summer Israeli Operation Protective Edge against Hamas in Gaza."
But he sees also matters of hope, citing the "very strong commitment of the French government not to tolerate anti-Semitism and its actions," the fact that the January attacks in Paris against a kosher supermarket and in Copenhagen against a synagogue "clearly showed the clear link between radical Islamism and anti-Semitism."
"Muslim leaders understand that the French Muslim community is under threat too," Teicher added
Mariaschin: The first distinguishing factor is that B’nai B’rith is the oldest of the Jewish organizations – we’re now into our 172nd year. We’re also an international organization made up of members in nearly 50 countries around the world.
We concentrate on three main areas: One is pro-Israel advocacy and fighting global anti-Semitism. We've had credentials at the United Nations since 1947, and we spend a good deal of our time there fighting bias against Israel.
The second area is senior housing and advocacy. The Jewish community has probably the largest proportion of senior citizens of any ethnic group in this country, so for more than 40 years now we have been sponsoring affordable housing for seniors in conjunction with the Department of Housing and Urban Development – we have more than 40 properties around the United States. We’re also involved in senior advocacy – issues like Social Security, Medicare, etc.
The third area is disaster relief. We help victims of hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis – all kinds of natural disasters around the world.
You were recently involved in fighting HarperCollins after a Catholic news website reported that the publisher had omitted Israel in atlases it was selling in the Middle East. What’s your take on the story?
This is only the latest in a long series of these kinds of omissions. We’ve seen it particularly with airlines omitting Israel on route maps, for example. But HarperCollins’s omission was especially egregious because it is a major general and educational publisher. You know, if we’re going to talk about peace and a peace process, it’s not only for diplomats – it’s for everybody. When a major publisher leaves Israel off a map, what kind of message does that send to schoolchildren in the Arab world?
This incident ended well for a change.
Yes, HarperCollins decided to call the atlases back and pulp the rest, as they say. Hopefully it will serve as a lesson for others because this was just a microcosm of the larger issue of the delegitimization of Israel. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a speech at the United Nations; it can be a decision made in an editorial office somewhere to say, “Look, we don’t want to offend our readers so we think we’ll just leave Israel off.” Hopefully the firestorm around this story will send a message to others that a) it’s unacceptable and b) there are people out there watching who will raise the red flag when they do this kind of thing.
What kind of work does B’nai B’rith do at the UN?
We were actually present in 1945 when the UN was founded in San Francisco, and we received our first credentials as an NGO in 1947.
What has happened over the last 25 years, unfortunately, is that much of our UN activity relates to the demonization and delegitimization of Israel. We feel very strongly about trying to keep the UN honest on this issue. So, for example, in March every year we go for a week to Geneva where the UN Human Rights Council is based and meet with ambassadors. We’re also in Paris at UNESCO.
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The Municipal Database (Personal Records) Act was recently replaced by the Persons Database Act. Parties such as insurance companies and pension funds can now request personal records from any municipality, regardless of the applicant and relevant person's location.
In order to enable the government to perform its public duties, the adequate registration of personal records is necessary. The Persons Database Act (Act) is the new legal framework for the personal records database (Database). The Act aims to adapt to new developments, such as improving the quality of registrations, modernising the technical infrastructure of the Database and reducing administrative burdens. Furthermore, the Act aspires to offer citizens better services by the authorities.
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What is new?
The Database is divided into central and municipal facilities. The Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (Minister) and the relevant executive board of a municipality (B&W) are responsible for the central and municipal facilities. The central and municipal facilities have their own specific functions, yet information is exchanged between them. These exchanges safeguard the consistency and accuracy of the Database. Instead of duplicating registrations, direct links have now been created between the personal records of persons related to each other.
Furthermore, the responsibilities of the Minister and B&W now include conducting regular audits to assess the quality of the Database within the parameters of their outlined responsibilities. The quality of the Database is further improved by granting B&W the authority to impose administrative penalties on citizens who violate the Act by incorrectly or falsely registering.
The scope of the Database has been extended to non-residents (e.g., persons who have emigrated from the Netherlands and persons who have always been registered as non-residents). Their personal records can be registered if registration is necessary for the adequate and efficient execution of public tasks and at their own request or at the request of administrative authorities.
Location of independent provision of personal records
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The provision of personal records independent of location not only benefits citizens and administrative authorities, but also clients insofar as they carry out activities of substantial public interest, such as insurers, pension funds and parties that carry out judicial activities. If such parties do not have direct access to the Database, they can request personal records at any municipality.
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The film industry was among the hardest-hit sectors when the pandemic started over a year ago. The health crisis forced many movie companies to stop production and move film releases. The US box office also lost billions in revenue as everyone had to stay home to avoid the virus.
The health crisis also forced the closure of movie theaters across the country, causing a considerable effect on the industry. But after the situation improved, the industry came back to life, albeit with health protocols in place. Producers and directors also adapted, and developments in technology allowed them to produce movies that performed well in the market.
Here are some changes filmmakers implemented to adapt to the situation.
Implementing social distancing measures is challenging in film production since filmmaking is a collaborative activity that requires people to discuss their work. Due to this, movie companies had to hire people to remind everyone to stay at a safe distance from each other.
Aside from physical distancing, everyone had to go through a temperature testing station and wear a face mask. People were also assigned to specific zones in the set. They had to stay within their zones to prevent flare-ups in the set. Additionally, everyone had to go through regular testing to prevent the spread of the virus during production.
An incident while filming a movie in London at the height of the pandemic highlighted the importance of following health protocols. The lead actor of the film scolded some crew members for not following health protocols during production.
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The health bubble required everyone to stay isolated from the rest of the world until the production ended. The accommodations available for the cast and crew depended on the budget of the movie. Blockbuster movies had higher budgets for their accommodations. They stayed inside these health bubbles anywhere between 10 days to 19 weeks, depending on the length of the production.
These health bubbles were similar to the National Basketball Association (NBA) bubble in Orlando, Florida. Only one percent of all participants in the NBA bubble tested positive when they entered the bubble. But the infection did not spread to other players, referees, and coaches after isolating the people who got infected.
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Before the pandemic, movie companies filmed in different locations worldwide that showcased breathtaking views of these places. But the travel restrictions implemented by various countries limited the movement of people. Due to this, filmmakers had to complete the movies produced during the pandemic inside a movie studio.
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Once the images reached the studio, another team had to put together everything and create a digital location model. After finalizing the plans for the shots, a visual effects team would make a photorealistic depiction of the location and use it for the backdrop of the movie.
Since smaller movie companies do not have the equipment to accomplish this, they should work with other companies with virtual studio production capabilities to incorporate technology into their movies. The technology allowed them to recreate different locations around the world without leaving the studio. Extended reality (XR) technology offered by these companies will also enable actors to interact with the blended sets rather than simply imagine them. In this situation, movie companies ensured the safety of the cast and crew during production.
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There has been many times I've been going to sit down and write another blog but other priorities seem to keep me from doing so once again. We struggled through a seemingly cold May and are now baking in summertime heat. Just good ole Nebraska weather.
We believe that May is when we really make up ground and the course rounds into form about Memorial Day. That was no exception this year. The month of May is used to recover from aerification and thicken up the stand of turf. It can be tricky to manage for consistency then due to the swings in weather and that limits the quality and consistency of the greens. But by late May our brushing and plant growth regulation schedules start to improve the greens quality. This year was no exception and greens really improved in the last week of May as we hoped. They are usually the last part of the course to get to where we want them and that is mostly due to bentgrass liking just a bit more heat than the other grasses we manage.
Now we are into full summer mode and the course is looking and playing well for the Nebraska State Match Play this week. We always enjoy seeing how the course presents for good competitors. There were some very good scores with playing condition hot but not windy.
We have been working on a new poa control program this spring on some fairways (6, 14, 15, 17). That was going well until our last application which, while it achieved good control on the poa, it also damaged some of our good grasses. This caught us a bit off-guard as previous apps did not affect our turf that much. A sharp increase in temperature and our experimentation with a slightly more acidic solution seemed to really ding the ryegrass. So you will see some thinning in those spots in the short term. But in the long term we should come out with a more consistent stand of bluegrass. That is one of those learning moments that will help guide us next spring.
We liken poa control to cancer chemotherapy because it is very hard on the patient in an attempt to kill the cancer. And they may look really tough for awhile, but in the long term the goal is to get rid of the bad and the patient survives. And so too we expect the turf to recover and be better in those areas in time. That recovery is being hindered by some very unusual grub activity (for this time of year) and the hot weather but slowly and surely through the summer our turf will get better there.
That really is the only concerning areas on the course right now. Greens, approaches and fairways are looking good right now as is the wooga. The May rains provided good moisture for some of the wildflowers that call the rough home. It started with Western Wallflower (yellow), progressed to shell-leaf penstemon (pink flowers near cabins), and now spiderwort (purple clusters between 7&8) is giving color to the wooga. I'm not busy chasing my golf ball so I notice these things-hopefully you too take time to appreciate the diversity and beauty of our "wooga"
Until next time good golfing!

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In Digital age, our way of grasping knowledge and content consumption has changed, keeping us less bothered about reading books. Print, people say, is dying because of the digital boom and pandemic thereafter, but books are a man’s best friend ! Books have brought revolutions, infatuated cultures and entertained people through centuries. But, what are some books which every man should read in his lifetime? To counter this dilemma, here is a list of 10 best books spanning the 20th and 21st century which a man should read once in his lifetime.
From Whom The Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway): Considered as one of the best works of celebrated 20th century writer Ernest Hemingway,. From whom the Bell is a novel centered around Spanish Civil War which tells the story through the eyes of an American who volunteers to fight fascists forces. The story follows intense battle scenes and American soldier Robert Jordan’s new found lust for life after founding love from a Spanish woman who has been shattered by execution of her parents and her rape by fascists forces. Written during the war tensions around 1940, Hemingway used his own experiences which he witnessed during the Spanish civil war. The novel conveys war brutality through the eyes of American soldier Robert Jordan. Being a classic, it should be on every man’s to read list.
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald): Considered a Masterpiece by critics and readers, The Great Gatsby is one literary piece of work which Men should read. The Great Gatspy tells the story of a narrator who meets a mysterious millionaire Jay Gtasby obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The novel explores status hierarchies, American economic boom , flapper cultures among others in a riveting manner. The novel was inspired by the author’s own infatuation with a socialite. The novel had many official TV and movie adaptations, the latest and most prominent being the movie of the same name, starring Leonarda DiCaprio.
One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez): Cited as one of the most prominent gems of World Literature, One hundred years of Solitude is hard to miss. The novel tells the multi-generational story of the Buendia family whose patriarch Jose Arcadio Buendia founded the fictitious town of Macondo .Known for its magic realism, this novel has sold over 45 million copies and is running. It is a long and complex novel with many characters, but it is one of the best Men will ever read.
The Bhagavad Gita (Hindu scripture): The Bhagavad Gita is a revered Hindu ancient scripture which narrates the story of a young warrior Arjuna and his confusion amidst a war in the Mahabharata and eventual counsel by the god Krishna disguised as the charioteer. The Bhagavad Gita is said to be life changing and inspiring. In the book, Krishna advises Arjuna to take the path of righteousness and how to move ahead in times of uncertainty. The God Krishna, says we have the right to work in a righteous manner without hoping for the fruits which is the central philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita. Consisting of 18 chapters, Bhagavad Gita can inspire and transform.
The Art Of War (Sun Tzu): Written in the 6th century, The Art of War is considered as one of the best books ever written on military strategy and warfare inspiring many military leaders, thinkers and politicians. The Book was translated into English by Lionel Giles in 1910. Men who want to harness their leadership qualities can very well relate to the book’s philosophy. The books have inspired many military strategies throughout the world.
The Road (Cormac McCarthy): This Pulitzer award winning post-apocalyptic novel follows a grueling journey of a father and son over a period of seven months after a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has devastated civilization. Focussing on conflict and altruism, The Road is a masterpiece. Men can learn survival instincts in a complex world. The Road was adapted into a mainstream film titled with the same.
The Code Of Man (Waller Newell): A critique of today’s men lost in sex and violence, The code of man offers a virtuous path, idealizing men to restore values such as love, courage ,pride, family and country which the author calls five paths to manliness. The author exhorts men to look back in the traditional values and to undergo self evaluation and embrace the virtuous values. The book offers solutions for Men in redeeming values such as compassion and character. For Men, it can be an enlightening read.
The Band Of Brothers (Stephen Ambrose): The Band of Brothers narrates ordreals of soldiers from E company, 506th regiment- a parachute Infantry company of the United States during World War II. The book narrates anecdotes and the flow of battle and the lives of common soldiers engulfed in the war. Emotive and very well written, The Band of Brothers was made into a successful commercial television miniseries by HBO in the same name. For Men, it will be a true inspiring read.
The Odyssey (Homer): Written as far back as the 8th century, The Odyssey still tops the literary chart. It is an epic Greek adventure story written as a poem chronicling Greek Hero Odyssey’s life pursuits (King of Ithaca) and his journey home after the Trojan war which is filled with hardships and struggle. The book was translated into English in the 16th century. The book has much to offer. Men can learn commitment to duty and intelligence from Odyssey who shows how to survive through cunning intelligence.
A House For Mr. Biswas (V.S. Naipaul): Bringing V.S. Naipaul to international stage, A house for Mr. Biswas is considered as a literary giant. The novel follows the story of Hindu Indo-Trinidadian who continually strives for success and mostly fails, who marries into the influential Tulsi family only to find himself dominated by it, and who finally sets the goal of owning his own house. It relies on some biographical elements from the experience of the author’s father, and views a colonial world sharply with postcolonial perspectives. Rated as one of the most influential novels, for men it is a must read.

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Senior official claims government is taking measures to overcome anti-vaccine propaganda
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led government is taking great care to regulate and counter anti-vaccine propaganda on social media to address misconceptions among the masses about polio campaigns, Special Assistant to the Prime Minster on National Health Services Dr. Zafar Mirza said on Sunday.
The senior health official told a private news channel that the government had in recent days prepared a coordinated and comprehensive plan to make Pakistan polio-free by next year. He said the biggest barrier to successful polio vaccination campaigns was misinformation spread over social media platforms that was accelerating cases of people refusing to allow their children to be vaccinated, which was putting children’s lives at stake.
The number of polio cases this year has surged, with latest data showing nearly 90 cases have been found nationwide compared to just 12 last year. Observers have blamed the government for failing to maintain the practices established under the previous regime. Not helping matters have been various incidents of government incompetence that have severely hampered vaccination efforts. Earlier this year, hundreds of children were rushed to hospital with complaints of abdominal pain, vomiting and fainting after being administered the vaccine. The incident angered local residents so much, they burned down a health unit in Peshawar, where the incident took place, in protest.
Mirza said polio vaccination was essential to securing a bright future for the coming generations and the government would not allow anyone to sabotage these efforts. He claimed the reported cases of the deadly poliovirus had surged this year because a greater number of people were refusing vaccinations, especially in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and Balochistan provinces. The government has determined a new strategy to prevent this, he added.
Last month, a report emerged alleging that the government had administered the wrong vaccines, perpetrating an outbreak of the most dangerous strain of the poliovirus in the federal capital. Islamabad has denied this, claiming the outbreak was not linked to the vaccines.
Polio remains endemic in just three countries globally: Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan.

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Police back alcohol restrictions
Goldfields police have backed the findings of a new report which highlights the success of voluntary alcohol restrictions in Norseman.
The restrictions, which limit the sale of takeaway wine, were introduced in 2008 following an agreement between the Aboriginal community and the town's licensee.
A 12 month study by the Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation shows, in the first 12 months, there was a 60 per cent drop in alcohol related hospital admissions.
Sergeant Mark Tobiassen says the restrictions have also led to a significant reduction in crime.
"From traffic offences to anti-social behaviour, to crime to domestic violence, all of those things can at some point be linked to alcohol abuse," he said.
"So when any community voluntarily puts these things into place to limit some of that, then the flow-on effect is right across the whole range of those offences or those circumstances."

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Updated on April 26, 2020. Medical content reviewed by Dr. Joseph Rosado, MD, M.B.A, Chief Medical Officer
Medical marijuana is legal in Arizona. Voters in 2010 approved a proposal removing state-level penalties on the use, possession and cultivation of marijuana for medical purposes.
One of the more disappointing Arizona marijuana facts for many advocates is that an initiative to legalize weed for recreational use in the state failed by a margin of 51.32 percent to 48.68 percent in November 2016. The measure would have allowed people 21 and older to be able to possess and use no more than one ounce of pot. In addition, it would have imposed a 15 percent sales tax as well as strict licensing and control of weed.
If the legalization vote had passed, the legal cannabis industry in the state might have grown to as much as $1.2 billion by 2020.
As of February 2020, some 226,677 people qualified for medical marijuana, and 711 were designated as caregivers, according to the Arizona Department of Health.
The vast majority of Arizona patients — 89.81% — report chronic pain as a qualifying condition for medical marijuana. Cancer is second, accounting for 1.4% of patient reasons for needing medical marijuana, followed by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which accounts for 1.15%.
Fifty-nine percent of Arizona medical marijuana patients are male, and just 0.08% (177) are under age 18. There are 2,058 patients aged 81 or older. The 31- to 40-year-old age group is the most represented, accounting for 21.5% of all qualifying patients.
MarijuanaDoctors.com provides information updates on a regular basis, so check back often for more medical marijuana facts for Arizona and all other states.


- Princess Diana's royal biographer, Andrew Morton, spoke to Marie Claire about Prince Harry.
- Morton told the outlet Prince Harry was trying to step back from the monarchy as early as 2018.
- He said Harry spoke to Oprah Winfrey about an interview in December 2018.
Prince Harry had been considering leaving the royal family since at least 2018, according to a royal biographer.
Marie Claire recently spoke to Andrew Morton, who wrote the 1992 biography "Diana: Her True Story," which revealed intimate details about Princess Diana's marriage to King Charles and the late princess' mental health.
He also released "The Queen: Her Life" about Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday.
As Morton told Marie Claire, he thinks the late monarch "did her best" to make Meghan Markle feel welcome in the monarchy when she and Prince Harry got married in May 2018.
However, Morton went on to tell the outlet that "within six months" of marrying Meghan, Prince Harry was exploring ways to step back from his family.
"I mean, sadly, Harry was talking to Oprah in December 2018 at a hotel in London, discussing interviews, and he was looking for a way out, even then," Morton told Marie Claire.
Harry and Meghan stepped back as senior royals in January 2020, and in March 2021, they shared details of their struggles within the royal family in a tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey.
In the interview, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex said members of the royal family made racist remarks about Archie, the firm disregarded Meghan's mental-health issues, Kate Middleton made Meghan cry during the week of her wedding, and Charles cut the couple off financially following their step back.
Morton also told Marie Claire he didn't think the royal family anticipated that Meghan and Harry would step back as senior members.
"I mean, you know, they certainly knew that Harry was not happy in the royal family, and as you know, he's been to counseling, psychological counseling," Morton told Marie Claire. "He found it very difficult appearing in public."
"And yet, conversely, he had the Diana touch, he was and is quite a charismatic individual," Morton added when speaking to Marie Claire. "And so, for that matter, was Meghan, even though obviously both are now the butt of tremendous criticism from people."
Representatives for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.


A massive dust cloud that originated in Africa’s Sahara desert has arrived in the coastal towns and beach resorts of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.
The Sahara dust cloud traveled three thousands of kilometers from North Africa before reaching the Caribbean and now Mexico.
Antonio Ladino, a researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s Atmospheric Sciences Center is urging people to wear face masks to prevent nose and throat irritations. He also said high concentrations of dust ingested can be very dangerous.
Weather experts say the heavy dust will hover over Mexico and the southeastern United States, including Florida until the middle of next week.
The presence of the dust cloud in Florida could be especially problematic because the state is experiencing a surge in COVID-19 cases. People with preexisting conditions, who are already urged to restrict travel because of the coronavirus, are encouraged to avoid outdoor activities when the dust turns the skies hazy.
Health authorities say the dust can be especially harmful to people with respiratory and heart illnesses.


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Meu parceiro de conversaSomeone who’d like to share his/her feelings and experiences as well as practicing English. I’ll do the same lol. Long-time partners would be really nice.
Minhas metas de aprendizadoSpeak natural English.
Meus tópicos favoritosFor anyone who would like to practice their Chinese and could speak English, but doesn’t have time for long-time pen pals, plz just throw me an English Topic instead of “Hi” and I’ll throw back a Chinese Topic中文话题. Let’s correct each other’s mistake.

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"One big reason for that is the mentoring and the way the foundation supports you," says Reginald Livingston, who won a JRF scholarship in 1992, was a finance major at Georgetown and is now a commercial Realtor in New York City. "In my years we went to Rachel's house and sat with her and other members of the board. They listened to us, advised us, challenged us. The foundation opens you up to possibilities.
"But there's another reason why so many of us do well in school. When you apply for a scholarship you make it your business to learn about Jackie Robinson. That leads you to learn about Rachel and the family. You understand what that family went through. Suddenly your problems in freshman econ don't seem as daunting."
Coleman, who has chaired the foundation since 1996, adds this, "Every kid in this program has the chance to meet and interact with Rachel. That may seem like a small piece but it is not. They become part of the family. And then what are they going to do? No one wants to let down Rachel Robinson."
Norman Siegel, a career civil rights lawyer who has been involved with the foundation since 1976, recalls how through the 1980s and '90s he often pushed to have the organization take on political and civil rights issues. Once he wanted to sue Major League Baseball for its lack of minority representation in the front offices. Siegel believed he had a strong case and the board was behind him. Rachel wasn't having it. "All along I've wanted us to be focused—educating these young people to make a difference," she says. "I felt if we did one thing really well instead of spreading ourselves thin, that was our best chance at social change."
Since 2004 the foundation, with its full-time 20-person staff and scores of volunteers, has been led by president and CEO Della Britton Baeza. But Rachel comes regularly to the office, approves major decisions, answers letters, goes on fund-raising calls. Books and photographs surround her workspace. Here are Rachel and Jackie on their wedding day; here's Rachel in the stands for Jackie's historic debut at Ebbets Field, infant Jackie Jr. bundled up on her lap; here's Jackie, several times, sliding into home. You can find on the shelves replicas of some of the hate mail and death threats that Jackie received and also see pictures of him surrounded by throngs of white fans seeking his autograph. Now here's the family together, the three children young; here's Jackie picketing on behalf of the NAACP in the 1960s; here are Jackie and Rachel with Martin Luther King Jr.
Rachel's favorite of the wall photographs shows her and Jackie in the late '60s at one of the Afternoon of Jazz fund-raising concerts the Robinsons held each June on the lawn of their Connecticut home. (Artists such as Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie performed, and the first profits went for bail money to free jailed civil rights protesters.) The Robinsons are lying eyes half closed, smiling, blissful in one another's arms. Rachel continues to protect Jackie, determining how his name and likeness is used. It's why you've never seen an official Jackie Robinson bobblehead doll—despite suggestions by baseball and the Dodgers that they produce one. "If there's one thing that man always had, it was dignity," Rachel said last month. Then, smiling and jiggling her head in bobblehead fashion, she added, "I could not see Jack's head bouncing around like this."
Rachel is determined that Jackie not be seen as a martyr, that for all the difficulty of his journey, his was finally a life of fortune, happiness and success. It's a message she hopes writer-director Brian Helgeland has absorbed for his film on Robinson, 42, set for a 2013 release. (It will star Chadwick Boseman as Jackie, Nicole Beharie as Rachel, Harrison Ford as Dodgers G.M. Branch Rickey.) Rachel is an active consultant on the script. "She does what she does when I give her a book," says Jackie and Rachel's daughter, Sharon, 62, the author of a candid family memoir as well as several children's books. "She makes a big pile of notes. She calls them 'suggestions.' " Rachel's most ambitious idea in recent years has been the Jackie Robinson Museum, set to be located next to the foundation. The museum will be dedicated not only to his life but also, per Rachel's instruction, to the history of African-Americans. "Not just a place of archives, but one where people can convene, a destination," she says. "We'll have areas where you can run conferences or have small group meetings. It should be a living tribute. There's a lot to do to get this going but I plan to be there when we open."
For her 75th birthday, in 1997, Rachel and about a dozen family members—she has 12 grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren—climbed to 10,000 feet on Mount Kilimanjaro. Her son David lives in Tanzania, where he runs a coffee co-op not far from the base of the mountain, and Rachel still visits once or twice a year. She says she plans to do another climb in honor of her 90th in July and has been recruiting family and friends to come. "I can't see her actually doing that at this stage," says Sharon. "Of course she has surprised me before...."
In December 2010, Rachel fell and broke her hip. She refused to do her walker-aided rehab in public, keeping near her apartment. "If we had to go out in the wheelchair she put on a scarf and sunglasses. She didn't want anyone to see her," says Sharon. Two months after the fall Sharon coaxed Rachel to go to a restaurant in Connecticut. Sharon parked and went to the back of the car to get the wheelchair. "There was a walk and then a long ramp going up to the front door," Sharon recalls. "But she refused the chair. She hadn't walked anywhere yet. I said. 'Come on, Mom, there's no way you can walk.' She looked at me and said, 'I'm walking.' And she did."
"Two things she does not like," says Edelman, whom Rachel describes as her best friend. "She hates arrogance in anyone. And she can't stand weakness." Edelman recalls noticing, a decade ago or so, that Rachel intently watched whenever an older person walked by with a stooped gait: "I asked what she was doing, and she said she wanted to make sure she never walked that way. She said, 'It gives them a bad attitude. You've got to keep your back straight.' "


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Even if it isn’t stopping you from doing anything, is it making it really unpleasant doing anything where you need to use your neck or your arms? Doing computer work? Chores? Driving?
Have you already been to your GP, physiotherapist, chiropractor, massage therapist and acupuncturist but haven’t found any of that to work for more than a few days? Sure, you could always take anti-inflammatories, but is that what you really want? Or would you prefer a natural solution for your neck and shoulder pain that addresses the cause and not just the symptoms?Read More
Have you suffered a whiplash injury?
How is it affecting your ability to work? Your ability to concentrate? Your ability to feel normal around your family and friends? Or even your ability to sleep?
Have you had all yours CTs and MRIs come back as normal? Or have you been told that “it’s just soft tissue damage?”
Have you googled “whiplash specialist near me,” but still not found the solution you’re looking for?
When it comes to whiplash and neck pain, just because you don’t have any broken bones - and even if there isn’t any blood - it doesn’t mean that everything is “normal.”Read More
Have you been dealing with the discomfort of pain turning your head?
Even if it isn’t really stopping you from doing the things that you want, it’s still annoying and uncomfortable. Or maybe it is affecting you in more ways than you think!
If you have the most common type of pain turning your head, it probably feels like there’s this knot in your lower neck or upper back that is causes pain between your shoulder blades. And it is this pulling that is restricting your ability to turn your head without pain … and if you could just get it to release everything would feel great again!Read More

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Pixel 4 (XL): Dual SIM support could get better
Two SIM cards could only be used to a limited extent with the previously released Pixel devices. That could change with the Pixel 4 (XL), which is likely to appear in autumn.
Supported the Pixel 2, the Pixel 2 XL, the Pixel 3 and the Pixel 3 XL two SIM cards, but only to a limited extent. One SIM card is a physical nano SIM and the other is an eSIM. But the whole thing has one major disadvantage. Only one card is active at a time. This is called Dual SIM Single Standby, or DSSS for short.
The solution: DSDS or DSDA
Google should do better with the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL. You can do that from the AOSP, i.e. the Android Open Source Project, take out. Accordingly, the forthcoming pixel smartphones support DSDS or DSDA. DSDS stands for Dual SIM Dual Standby and DSDA is the abbreviation for Dual SIM Dual Active. In both modes, all maps can be used as needed. However, two modems are needed for DSDA (which hardly ever exist today), which means that DSDS will most likely be used in the coming Google phones.


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Hattiesburg police arrested Helen A. Fitzgerald, 56, on Dec. 12 on an embezzlement charge.
A Forrest County grand jury indicted her May 14, accusing the former University of Southern Mississippi Federal Credit Union teller of stealing $60,300 from her employer.
The document charges she embezzled the money between Oct. 31, 2011, and July 20, 2012.
What ever happened?
Fitzgerald pleaded guilty before Forrest County Circuit Court Judge Bob Helfrich on July 19.
Helfrich sentenced Fitzgerald to 10 years in Mississippi Department of Corrections custody, with two years to serve in prison and the remaining eight suspended on the successful completion of five years' probation.
She must also pay $2,500 in fines, a $100 assessment to the Mississippi Crime Victim Compensation Program and $250 in restitution to the Forrest County Public Defender Fund.
Fitzgerald also must pay $8,800 in restitution to the credit union, for what was a single act of embezzlement that the bank's insurer did not cover, according to the sentencing order.
The order states all other restitution has been made to the credit union by CUNA Mutual, which provides service to cooperatives and credit unions.
Jesse Bass, staff writer

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Not-for-profit shared service organization to use SAP solution to help save money in its business processes
Expanded distribution agreement means more partner opportunities in the Linux space, executive says
Special hosted service for backing up an unlimited amount of data
All Qumranet employees, including the executive team to join Red Hat, companies say
Possible manufacturing defect to blame
Its application virtualization platform gets new IT features, and new licensing terms are introduced
A survey shows that more SMBs are turning to the Internet for technology advice than to the channel — that needs to change
Plus, the role of virtualization and Dell and Salesforce.com
Long time channel veteran Ross Pellizzari leaves Cisco Canada in a cloud of mystery
The channel’s future lies in services. That was the central message from a session on channel business models at IDC Canada’s annual IDC Directions conference this year.
Martin Kalsbeek named vice president of business development for Synnex Canada
The analyst firm taps Canada as a key Americas location for offshore services in 2008
Google wants faster Web browsing innovation and has put a target on Mozilla
Plus, how safe is your company data and AMD to release new entry-level graphics cards?
One analyst wonders how many more acquisitions it will take for Oracle to develop a coherent SOA management story


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A famous author has raised more than $60,000 to deliver restaurant takeout to emergency room workers
Best-selling author Ayelet Waldman decided to take some meals to her local ER in Oakland, California, then was inspired to continue.
A mysterious condition makes marijuana users violently ill, and it reveals a hidden downside to the drug's growing popularity
Interviews with researchers, doctors, and patients with cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome reveal a severe and mysterious illness tied to heavy cannabis use.
There's been a spike in ER visits in Colorado following marijuana legalization, and edibles are doctors' biggest concern
A new study documents a sharp rise in ER visits linked with marijuana in Colorado. One key driver was edibles like pot brownies and cookies.
A key driver of marijuana-related ER visits to a Colorado hospital was a mysterious syndrome called CHS, characterized by severe nausea and vomiting.
Hulu announced on Wednesday that it has surpassed 20 million US subscribers, and that 35,000 of its subscribers watched all 331 episodes of the NBC medical drama "ER" in just 2 months after it debuted on its streaming service this year.
Supplements send 23,000 people to the emergency room every year, but because of the way the FDA defines them, they are not regulated as drugs.
The machine is designed to reduce the impact of rescuer fatigue.
George Clooney channeled his former "ER" character during the birth of his twins, according to his mother-in-law.
Researchers finally pinpoint how a single doctor's prescribing habits could impact long-term drug use — and the results are stark
Patients who saw doctors who over-prescribed opioids were 30% more likely to become longterm users than patients who saw doctors who under-prescribed.
These were the weirdest things that sent people to the ER every single month in 2014, compared to how many accidents they were related to the rest of the year.


Hortitech design, engineer, manufacture, supply and install Greenhouses, also known as Hothouses, and Shadehouses. We have been designing and installing Melbourne Greenhouses for nearly 40 years, supporting the horticulture industry with cover and crop protection solutions.
What is a Greenhouse?
A Greenhouse, Shadehouse, or Hothouse, is an outdoor structure with four walls and a roof that is typically arched, made from steel (or timber) and covered in premium-grade Greenhouse Plastic, Polyflute, Hortiweave or Shadecloth, that allows plants to grow in regulated climatic conditions. Hortitech Greenhouses range from small Tunnel House Kits (THK) in set widths of 2.7m, 4.3m, 4.9m, 6.4m and 7m to larger, custom sized Commercial Greenhouses. The interior of a greenhouse exposed to UV rays, or sunlight, is significantly warmer than the outer environment temperatures, which protects its crops and allows for growth all-year round, even in winter.
Our Commercial Greenhouses are premium production facilities for fruits, vegetables and flowers. Hortitech offer various Greenhouse equipment and accessories such as plastics, shadecloth, circulation fans, vents and sliding doors to aid in the air temperature regulation, humidity heating, cooling, lighting, shading and ventilation of the Greenhouse to control and optimise conditions for plant growth.
A Greenhouse works by converting light energy from the sun’s UV rays into heat energy. These light rays from the sun enter the Hothouse, where they are absorbed by plants and objects and converted to heat.
How does a Greenhouse Work?
The warmer temperatures inside a Greenhouse occur due to UV rays passing through the (typically) transparent Greenhouse Plastic roofing and walls of the Hothouse, which is then absorbed by its contents; including the flooring and plants of the Shadehouse, becoming warmer than the external temperature to aid in the quality plant growth all-year round. As the Greenhouse structure is not open to the atmosphere, the warmed air cannot escape via convection, so the temperature inside the greenhouse rises. Hortitech offer circulation fans and tilting vents to aid in additional ventilation depending on your crops needs.
Ventilation is a vital and key aspect of a successful Greenhouse. Without sufficient ventilation, hothouses and their inhabiting plants can become prone to diseases and stunted growth amongst other problems. Ventilation is required to regulate the temperature and humidity of the Shadehouse to the optimal level, and to ensure movement of air and prevention of the build-up of plant pathogens that thrive in stagnant air conditions. Ventilation also ensures a supply of fresh air for photosynthesis, allows for the plants to breathe, and may enable important pollinators to access the greenhouse crops. Ventilation can be achieved via the use of circulation fans and vents.


Last year, Google made big news by announcing that its upcoming version of Android, Lollipop, would use full-disk encryption on all new phones. Old Android phones already had the option for full-disk encryption but Android 5.0 Lollipop would make it a default feature.
Both the Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 phones were encrypted by default. However, 3 months since Lollipop‘s release, new phones from third parties and even the Galaxy S6 aren’t encrypted by default. Old phones that were upgraded to Lollipop also didn’t get the default encryption but that is understandable since phones not built for encryption might have some issues.
9.9 Full-Disk Encryption:If the device implementation has a lock screen, the device MUST support full-disk encryption of the application private data (/data partition) as well as the SD card partition if it is a permanent, non-removable part of the device. For devices supporting full-disk encryption, the full-disk encryption SHOULD be enabled all the time after the user has completed the out-of-box experience. While this requirement is stated as SHOULD for this version of the Android platform, it is very strongly RECOMMENDED as we expect this to change to MUST in the future versions of Android.
In other words, it is still up to the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to decide whether they would like to turn the default encryption on or not. According to Ars Technica, this change might be to prepare OEMs for the hardware transitions that are required for this feature. Google hasn’t, as of the time of writing, said anything about it.
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Abstract P095: Effects of Obesity on Placental Ischemia-induced Hypertension
Although it is known that obesity is a risk factor for preeclampsia (PE), the mechanisms are not clear. Placental ischemia stimulates the release of the antiangiogenic factor sFlt-1 into the maternal circulation eliciting vascular dysfunction and hypertension. Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that placental ischemia (reduced uterine perfusion pressure, RUPP)-induced hypertension and sFlt-1 levels are exaggerated in obese rats. MC4R-deficient obese rats (MC4R+/-) and wild-type Wistar Hannover controls (MC4R+/+) were maintained on NIH31 standard chow; mated at 17 weeks old; RUPP surgeries performed at gestational day (GD) 14; and mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) and pregnancy weights assessed at GD 19. This resulted in 4 groups: normal pregnant (NP) MC4R+/+ (N=10), RUPP MC4R+/+ (N=12), NP MC4R+/- (N=12) and RUPP MC4R+/- (N=11). Body weight was greater in NP MC4R+/- than NP MC4R+/+ (371±10 vs. 340±6, P<0.05), which was reduced by RUPP in both rat strains but MC4R+/- were still heavier (327±13 vs. 297±8, P<0.05). Total body fat mass by EchoMRI was greater in NP MC4R+/- than MC4R+/+ (72±6 vs. 45±4, P<0.05) whereas fat mass was not altered in RUPP MC4R+/+ (38±4g) but was reduced in RUPP MC4R+/- (56±5) (P<0.05). Fetal weights were similar between NP MC4R+/+ (1.93±0.04) and MC4R+/- (1.95±0.02), which was reduced to a greater extent in RUPP MC4R+/- than MC4R+/+ (1.62±0.03 vs. 1.74±0.03, P<0.05). MAP was slightly elevated in NP MC4R+/- over MC4R+/+ (107±2 vs. 101±1). RUPP significantly increased MAP in MC4R+/+ (117±2, P<0.05) but not MC4R+/- (113±3). Plasma leptin levels were greater in NP MC4R+/- over MC4R+/- (6.7±1.0 vs. 3.6±0.4, P<0.05) whereas RUPP had no effect on these levels in MC4R+/+ (3.8±0.7) or MC4R+/- (6.5±1.1). Plasma and placental levels of sFlt-1 were similar in all groups. Clinically, not all PE women have elevated sFlt-1 levels. Contrary to our hypothesis, MAP was not exaggerated by placental ischemia in obese rats having MC4R deficiency. In fact, MAP was not significantly increased following placental ischemia in MC4R-deficient rats indicating that intact MC4R signaling, which has been shown to promote the development of hypertension in several animal models by sympathetic mechanisms, mediates the development of PE independent of sFlt-1.
Author Disclosures: F.T. Spradley: None. A.C. Palei: None. J.P. Granger: None.
- © 2015 by American Heart Association, Inc.

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County to hold resume-writing class, job fair
Pink slips and layoffs are slamming the metro area, so Bernalillo County is trying to help those looking for work by holding a resume writing class and job fair.
In past two weeks, major employers like Schott Solar, Lovelace and HP started handing out pink slips.
Commissioner Art de la Cruz said the county will hold a resume-writing class Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.at the Hispano Chamber of Commerce and a job fair the following week to help New Mexicans get back to work.
"Anyone that doesn't have a rock solid resume, they have an opportunity to put one together," de la Cruz said. "We were going to have it in August, but we decided to move it up, especially with what happened at Schott."
Jeff Parker, with Manpower Inc., said the shrinking government sector is one reason that the job climate is difficult in the metro area.
"Without those jobs we can't have the support service jobs like the restaurants and dry cleaners, and the small businesses that support government jobs," Parker said.

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"Ok, our FIRST bright idea didn't work: here's ANOTHER bright idea!"
WASHINGTON — Having tried without success to unlock frozen credit markets, the Treasury Department is considering taking ownership stakes in many United States banks to try to restore confidence in the financial system, according to government officials.
Treasury officials say the just-passed $700 billion bailout bill gives them the authority to inject cash directly into banks that request it. Such a move would quickly strengthen banks’ balance sheets and, officials hope, persuade them to resume lending. In return, the law gives the Treasury the right to take ownership positions in banks, including healthy ones.
I had no idea that the panic-driven rape of the American taxpayer allowed the Government to simply take over banks as they saw fit, OR allowed them to just hand banks our money whenever the banks asked them to.

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Long after he became a billionaire, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg still rented modest digs. But now one of Silicon Valley’s top tech celebrities has become a first-time homeowner, recently buying a large house in Palo Alto that is a 10-minute drive from what will soon be Facebook’s new corporate campus in Menlo Park.
Zuckerberg has lived in Palo Alto almost continuously since he moved Facebook to Silicon Valley straight from his Harvard dorm room in 2004. Now, with the fast-growing company preparing for a widely expected initial public stock offering and a move into its first permanent home in the former Sun Microsystems campus, Zuckerberg also appears to be settling down.
While the subject of the Hollywood hit “The Social Network” isn’t expected to move in for several months, his new home in a leafy and affluent Palo Alto neighborhood has more than 5,000 square feet, with a saltwater pool, a music alcove and five bedrooms for when friends and family of the Facebook founder come to visit.
Sources close to Facebook confirmed that Zuckerberg bought a house in Palo Alto, but declined to say which one. The real estate transaction did not close under Zuckerberg’s name. However, public records requests revealed a trail of clues leading to a property purchased for $7 million. This newspaper is not printing the address because of concerns for the privacy of the sellers, who still live there, and Zuckerberg.
Despite becoming one of the most famous young businessmen in the world — a guest on Oprah and “60 Minutes,” and the host to President Barack Obama when he recently visited Facebook — the 26-year-old son of a dentist from Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., has managed to hold on to an everyday life in Palo Alto more like that of a typical Silicon Valley startup entrepreneur.
He is frequently seen in public places, such as local farmers markets and restaurants around Palo Alto, and while the house in his new neighborhood will be significantly larger than his rentals, it is still not on the level of some tech billionaires. Oracle (ORCL) Chairman Larry Ellison has an 8,000-square-foot estate in Woodside, which is based on a Japanese emperor’s 16th-century country residence.
Zuckerberg told a New Yorker writer last year that he had found all his rental homes on Craigslist. Tyler Winklevoss, one of the blue-blood Harvard twins whose claim Zuckerberg stole their idea for Facebook has led to a long and so far fruitless legal battle, was quoted in the magazine describing him as “the poorest rich person I’ve ever seen in my life.”
So the new home, which includes five full baths, a spacious porch and glassed-in sunroom, would seem to represent a significant change in Zuckerberg’s lifestyle. Set back and shielded from the street by a wall and trees, the new home certainly offers more privacy than Zuckerberg’s current address. In January, he had to get a restraining order against a disturbed Milpitas man who showed up on his front doorstep, waited outside his office and left a note at one point that said: “I am ready to die for you, please, Mark, please.”
Palo Alto is the home of a number of other tech CEOs, including Apple’s (AAPL) Steve Jobs and Google’s (GOOG) Larry Page.
Contact Mike Swift at 408-271-3648. Follow him at Twitter.com/swiftstories.


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Gavin John Blyth
27 October 1969
|Died||26 November 2010 (aged 41)|
|Occupation||TV Producer, journalist|
|Spouse(s)||Charlotte (?–?, divorced)|
Suzy (until 2010, his death)
|Children||2 (with Charlotte)|
1 (with Suzy)
Gavin John Blyth (27 October 1969 – 26 November 2010) was a British television producer and journalist. He was well known for being series producer of Emmerdale from January 2009 until his death. Beginning his career in 2002, he joined Emmerdale in 2003 as a writer. He later went on to be an assistant producer and also a story editor on Coronation Street.
Blyth was born on 27 October 1969, in Southport he grew up in the village of Hesketh Bank and was educated at Tarleton High School, he was the son of Merseyside journalist and broadcaster Roger Blyth. He began his journalism career in 1985 with his father's company Mercury Press Agency in Liverpool.
On 17 January 2009, it was announced that Anita Turner had quit her role as Emmerdale's series producer after one year. Blyth was later announced as producer on 22 January 2009. Blyth's first credited episode was broadcast on 13 March 2009.
He introduced several characters to the show, including Faye Lamb (Kim Thomson), Lizzie Lakely (Kitty McGeever), Ryan Lamb (James Sutton), Jai Sharma (Chris Bisson), Nikhil Sharma (Rik Makarem), Priya Sharma (Fiona Wade), Sally Spode (Siân Reeves), Jackson Walsh (Marc Silcock), Hazel Rhodes (Pauline Quirke), Alicia Gallagher (Natalie Anderson) and Cameron Murray (Dominic Power). Blyth also reintroduced past and popular characters to the programme including Charity Tate (Emma Atkins) and Kelly Windsor (Adele Silva).Emmerdale's Danny Miller (Aaron Livesy) held a football match for Blyth with co-stars and stars from Coronation Street. They raised £66,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support.
Blyth was married to Suzy with whom he had a son Carter. He had two older children, Tom and Anya, from his first marriage to Charlotte.
In May 2011, Blyth was awarded the Special Achievement Award at the British Soap Awards. It was accepted by his partner Suzy.
- Tony McConville (27 November 2010). "Ex-Liverpool journalist and Emmerdale boss Gavin Blyth has died". Clickliverpool.com. Archived from the original on 19 January 2013. Retrieved 29 November 2010.
- Hayward, Anthony (1 December 2010). "Gavin Blyth obituary". The Guardian. London.
- Daniel Kilkelly (27 November 2010). "'Emmerdale' producer Blyth dies, aged 41". Digital Spy. Retrieved 28 November 2010.
- Kris Green (22 January 2009). "Blyth named new 'Emmerdale' producer". Digital Spy. Retrieved 28 November 2010.
- Kris Green (7 March 2009). "Gavin Blyth's first 'Emmerdale' credit". Digital Spy. Retrieved 28 November 2010.
- Kris Green (18 March 2009). "Charity Tate returns to 'Emmerdale'". Digital Spy. Retrieved 28 November 2010.
- Adam Silverstein (5 November 2010). "Adele Silva returning to 'Emmerdale'". Digital Spy. Retrieved 28 November 2010.


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Officials in Toyko say that radiation levels in the city's tap water make the water unfit for babies to drink.
Iodine levels in some areas are twice the recommended safe level.
The authorities have also imposed new restrictions on food from areas affected by leaks from the Fukushima nuclear plant.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States also announced restrictions on certain food imports.
Levels of radioactive iodine-131 in some areas of Tokyo is 210 becquerels per liter; the safe level for infants in 100 becquerels per litre.
People have been warned not to give the water to infants, although there is no immediate health to adults.
Workers at the Fukushima reactor 2 have halted work as radiation levels spiked; the UN atomic agency has said radiation is still leaking from the plant.
The confirmed death toll from the earthquake and tsunami is now 9,079, with 12,645 missing.
But the Japanese government now estimates that more than 21,000 people died.
The cost of damage caused by the disaster is estimated at about 16-25 trillion yen ($197bn-$308bn).
The Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, ordered the governors of Fukushima and neighbouring Ibaraki to halt shipments of a range of agriculture goods.
This included green leaf vegetables, broccoli, parsley and untreated milk after they showed radiation levels which were higher than normal.
The Japanese Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told a news conference that importers of Japanese foods should take a "logical stance".
A statement from the FDA said that all milk and milk products and fresh fruits and vegetables from four Japanese prefectures - Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma - will be stopped from entering the United States.
Food and fish retailers are increasingly worried about the effect the crisis will have on their livelihoods.
The sudden halt to work at reactor 2 was a reminder of the challenges still facing emergency workers at the nuclear sites.
Lighting has been restored to the control centre of reactor 3, hours after power cables were connected to all six reactors for the first time.
The Fukushima Daiichi plant's operators, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), said engineers will try to power up water pumps to reactor 3 some time on Wednesday.
However, they said restoring power to all the reactor units could take weeks or even months.
On Tuesday, an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) senior official, James Lyons, said he could not confirm that the damaged reactors were "totally intact" or if they were cracked and leaking radiation.
"We continue to see radiation coming from the site... and the question is where exactly is that coming from," Mr Lyons told a news conference.
The government has evacuated tens of thousands of people within a 20km (12-mile) radius of the plant and told residents 10km beyond that to stay indoors. The US has recommended an 80km exclusion zone.
Tepco vice president Norio Tsuzumi has visited evacuation centres to meet those forced from their homes.
Bowing deeply, he said: "Since I have tried to manage this problem hand-in-hand with the government, my visit here to directly meet you was belated. For this I also apologise from the bottom of my heart."
Meanwhile, strong aftershocks are continuing to rattle the north-east of Japan, adding to the misery of more than 300,000 people still huddled in evacuation centres across 16 prefectures.
Tens of thousands of homes are still without power and more than two million people have no running water, officials say.
tap water 수도물
unfit 부적합한(= not in a good physical condition)
becquerel 베크렐(방사능 측정 단위) (= a unit for measuring radioactivity)
iodine 요오드(= a dark blue chemical substance that is used on wounds to prevent infection)
impose 부과하다(= if someone in authority imposes a rule, punishment, tax etc, they force people to accept it)
leak 유출(= an escape of gas, liquid, etc. through a hole in something)
infant 유아(= a baby or very young child)
agriculture goods 농산물
untreated (화학 약품 등을 이용해서 안전하도록) 처리되지 않은 ex) untreated sewage 처리되지 않은 하수


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ter Schure EG, et al. (1995) The concentration of ammonia regulates nitrogen metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Bacteriol 177(22):6672-5
Abstract: Saccharomyces cerevisiae was grown in a continuous culture at a single dilution rate with input ammonia concentrations whose effects ranged from nitrogen limitation to nitrogen excess and glucose limitation. The rate of ammonia assimilation (in millimoles per gram of cells per hour) was approximately constant. Increased extracellular ammonia concentrations are correlated with increased intracellular glutamate and glutamine concentrations, increases in levels of NAD-dependent glutamate dehydrogenase activity and its mRNA (gene GDH2), and decreases in levels of NADPH-dependent glutamate dehydrogenase activity and its mRNA (gene GDH1), as well as decreases in the levels of mRNA for the amino acid permease-encoding genes GAP1 and PUT4. The governing factor of nitrogen metabolism might be the concentration of ammonia rather than its flux.
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Yamaha India today launched its Yamaha FZ-X bike in the Indian market. At the same time, the company has introduced an updated Fasino 125 scooter with hybrid technology. This 125cc scooter produces 8.2bhp and 10.3Nm of torque. The scooter’s hybrid system powers the scooter when starting and climbing. It has a Bluetooth enabled digital instrument cluster. The new scooter will go on sale soon.
Hybrid engine technology works like this
The specialty of the scooter is its Smart Motor Generator (SMG). In fact, it acts like an electric motor, which helps power the scooter while walking and climbing. When the scooter reaches the specified RPM, the power assist is automatically turned off. The Yamaha Fascino 125 125cc is controlled by an air-cooled single cylinder engine.
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The engine now makes 8.2 hp at 6,500 rpm and 10.3 Nm at 5,500 rpm. The new technology has increased peak torque by 0.6Nm. Due to Smart Motor Generator (SMG) features like Silent Start System and Auto Stop-Start are added to the scooter. The auto stop-start feature also increases the mileage of the scooter. The company has updated the scooter’s features.
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These features have been updated
At the center of the Fasino 125 headlight with disc brakes is an LED headlight and LED DRL. The scooter’s V-shaped taillight cluster is the same, although now the halogen has been replaced by LED light. It has a new Bluetooth enabled full-digital instrument cluster. Through the company’s Motorcycle Connect X app, you’ll be able to track the scooter, record the ride, and learn the history of parking. Some new colors have been added to the scooter.


Following a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) announcement in February, Avianca has signed a purchase agreement for 100 A320neo Family aircraft, the largest single order ever made in Latin America’s aviation history. The agreement, which includes A319neo, A320neo and A321neo aircraft, will allow Avianca to maintain one of the youngest fleets in the region as the airline aims to replace airplanes currently operating from their Bogota, Lima and San Salvador hubs. Established in Colombia in 1919, Avianca was the first airline in the Americas, and is the second oldest airline in the world. The Airbus-Avianca partnership was taken to a new level in 1998 when TACA (now part of Avianca), LAN, and TAM placed a joint order for 90 single-aisle aircraft. This was the largest joint contract ever signed in Latin American commercial aviation history. To date, the Avianca airline group has ordered nearly 300 aircraft including 276 A320 Family (among them, 133 A320neo Family) and 15 A330 Family.


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English 101 Essay #1
Should I jump? Do I want to continue marinating in the numb abyss in which I’ve been? Or, deep down do I yearn to take a risk and live?
I guess that when day-to-day survival became so extremely painful, when it literally hurt to breathe-I did take a risk. I risked living. This risk, to date, has impacted my life more than learning to walk or talk. This risk involved taking off the labels of “domestic violence victim”, “alcoholic, Oxycontin® and cocaine addict”, and “homeless woman.”
Oh, how insidious domestic abuse is. Somehow the first boundary line was crossed while my conscious mind was diverted by some other thought. Thoughts like “He is so thoughtful”, “He is so charming and my family adores him,” or “My husband wouldn’t want anything but the best for me”. Slowly, I questioned myself on little things, the things I would have seen a mile away in others’ relationships. So I thought. I wondered why I had started a collection of secrets in my head that were not meant to ever be spoken. When did that start? No one wants to hear the unspeakable things happening to you when the world sleeps. I started feeling stoic in some way for being so good at holding secrets, secrets that nobody else had. It’s like having hair-line fractures in every bone in my body, knowing that I could still walk upright, and with full function. I wanted some control over myself, so I severely limited my food intake. By that time I was drinking my meals anyway. I got “caught” by my mom on the phone one night while my now ex-husband was raging. She told me that my dad was coming to get me, and informed me that I would be moving back home with them. Not until then did my family see how gaunt and underweight I had become. They told me I had been risking my life and asked why didn’t I tell them what was going on. I had no answer for them. That’s when it hit me, the complete shame and humiliation I had for myself...


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Review: 'Arrested Development' finally feels like itself again in Season 5
Sometimes it takes five years to find your way back.
The long-awaited fifth season of Netflix's resurrected Arrested Development (streaming May 29, ★★★ out of four) has (mostly) recaptured the glory days of its first three seasons on Fox more than a decade ago. Gone are the single-character episodes, extraneous guest stars and (unintentionally) awkward storylines from the 2013 fourth season. Back are the kissing-cousins jokes, the reusable banners, the family member in prison and scenes that feature multiple cast members, without trickery.
In essence, it's a lot like what fans thought they were getting when Netflix announced it was reviving the cult sitcom.
Season 5 makes a conscious and consistent effort to be the anti-Season 4, which was recently re-edited and re-released in slightly more coherent fashion, but still has issues. The characters are together, frequently, and they are unconcerned with anything but Bluth family drama. There's no reaching to incorporate modern events into the series (although Donald Trump's campaign and presidency fit in seamlessly with the show's aesthetic.) There are far fewer guest stars, the episodes are shorter and the characters spend more time in familiar locations. The Bluths are still dealing with the fallout from Season 4, but everything feels more natural.
The season is set mainly in 2015, when, spurred by Trump's presidential campaign, Lucille (Jessica Walters) resumes her project to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico and convinces Lindsay (Portia de Rossi) to run for Congress to help the effort. Michael (Jason Bateman) and George Michael (Michael Cera) are still trying to figure out how to fix their relationship after they both unwittingly dated the same woman (Isla Fisher). Buster (Tony Hale) tries to make it on his own at the model home.
The rest of the family — including Gob (Will Arnett) George Sr. (Jeffrey Tambor), Maeby (Alia Shawkat) and Tobias (David Cross) — is reunited in Orange County for Lindsay's campaign. But nobody knows what happened to poor Lucille "Two" Austero (Liza Minnelli).
The season is faster-paced and makes better use of the recurring gags from its entire run. But though it's a considerable improvement on Season 4, the fifth season still can't reach the heights of the first three.
Arrested was strange and unique in 2003. But while writers can play with self-referential in-jokes, the classic moments can't be topped. It's just not as funny the second time Tobias "blue himself." And it's hard to ignore the accusations of sexual harassment against Tambor.
However, the long gap since its original run gives some cast members the opportunity to shine more brightly. As adults, Maeby and George Michael are more involved in the family's depravity, and Shawkat deservedly gets more screen time.
One of the best recurring gags is Michael's realization that he's never going to leave his family for good. No matter how many times he says "goodbye forever," he's still going to find his way back. Watching the fifth season is a lot like being Michael: You have to accept the reality that you're never going to get exactly what you want, but you still love it and are going to keep coming back anyway.