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How We Decided Where to Live, and Chose An Unexpected Place
If you don't want to read the story behind this personal decision, here's a TL;DR version.
These five steps are how we decided where to live. Maybe this framework will work for you, too.
Identify what you need in your next town, plus what you'd like to have
Create a spreadsheet matrix that assigns values to those needs and wants (examples below)
Add your dream towns to the matrix and see how they score
Visit towns that score well on your matrix
Pick one and move there, even if you're not sure. You will never be sure.
In search of the perfect place to live
My husband Ben and I have spent many weekends and vacations visiting small towns for their hiking trails.
Places like Halls Gap in Australia for the Grampians; Luray in Virginia for the Shenandoah; Te Anau in New Zealand for the Kepler Track; and El Cercado on La Gomera, in the Canary Islands.
Each time, we'd look around at the mountains and the quaintness of the town and say to each other, I wonder what it's like to live here.
It was just a fantasy during our first few years together. We wouldn't actually move to a small town in the mountains. We were used to cities and their amenities, having access to diverse restaurants and yoga studios and tech scenes. And we both needed to be self-employed, or at least have the freedom to work remotely, to live in a smaller town without worrying about finding a job there.
But over the last couple of years, we started to get serious about giving ourselves better access to mountains. We wanted to hike and bike and run on trails in our daily life, not just during vacations.
Our desire became more acute when we moved to Saint Petersburg, Florida, so I could help grow a company there. While St. Pete has lots going for it — beaches, warm weather, family-friendly, hip restaurants — it was about as far away from the mountains as we could get. Between two all-encompassing full-time jobs and two kids under three years old, our trips to the woods were few and far between. We desperately missed that terrain and the outdoor adventures it brings.
We began to scheme on a move that would take us closer to the outdoors. We planned to stay in Florida for at least another year or two, so it was a slow exploration, no urgency. But as my husband's business grew, we became more excited by the prospect, so we made a spreadsheet to evaluate our options.
Yes, a spreadsheet. I'm married to a Google Developer Expert who specializes in Google Sheets, so our entire life is organized there.
Here's what happened next.
How to answer the question, Where should I live?
Once we started looking for the "perfect place," I realized this was a search a lot of other people were doing as well. Friends shared that they, too, were looking for the ideal town to get settled or raise their kids. Vox even launched a podcast, Nice Try, dedicated to the topic.
I wondered whether this was the phase of life we were in, with young kids, or because we'd lived in cities full of professional transplants, or maybe because my generation is rarely satisfied, always looking for the next best thing.
The challenging part — or perhaps the fun part — about this question is there's no one right answer. The answer is different depending on what you want from your life. Everyone has their own idea of what the perfect place looks and feels like.
So you can ask all your friends and family and the Internet late at night where you should move, and it's quite possible none of them will give you the right answer.
We relied heavily on online lists for ideas: lists of best outdoor towns, best cities for outdoor enthusiasts and most liveable hiking towns.
But get this: the place where we ended up was not suggested by a single person or list.
I can't remember whether it was Ben or me who threw this small town into the running, but it was the spreadsheet that helped us realize it was truly worth considering.
How a spreadsheet helped us decide where to live
Those "best of" lists did, however, help us populate our spreadsheet.
We built a simple matrix in Google Sheets that included all the things we wanted in our next home:
Walkable to hiking and biking trails
Walk/bike to school
Walk/bike to coworking space
Startup scene (for networking and learning opportunities)
Warm weather (well, this was my wish. Ben likes cold)
Affordable housing costs
Good public schools (we've got two kids)
Close to an airport (to easily visit family overseas)
Nearby university (for the learning atmosphere)
Then we assigned a possible total value to each of those items based on how important it was to us. The more vital it was to our lifestyle, the more points it could earn.
For example, housing costs had a possible score of 15, while warm weather could earn up to five points. If a town was less than 30 minutes from an airport, it got 10 points; less than 60 minutes, five points; or less than 90 minutes, 1 point.
This scoring system was not mathematically sound. It was entirely made up by us, and yet it was incredibly helpful in making this big decision.
We added a bunch of cities and towns to our list, mostly pulled from those "best of" lists. Here are a few of the places that were on our list:
We went through each category for each town and assigned a score as best we could without visiting, leaning on online research and what we'd heard from friends. Then we added up those scores to get a total score for each place.
Here's what our spreadsheet looked like:
Our No. 1 criteria was easy access to hiking and biking, and in an ideal world, that meant not having to drive to hit the trails. We wanted to be able to walk to trails from our house.
The hard part, though, is that we also wanted to walk from our house to restaurants and shops or some sort of town center. This combination, we realized pretty quickly, was a lot to ask. In fact, there was a period when I wasn't sure that unicorn of a place even existed.
Once we had our totals, we used those scores to decide which towns to visit.
First up was Asheville, North Carolina.
Should we move to Asheville?
We get together with my extended family for a week every summer, and that summer the destination happened to be an hour from Asheville… so we drove to the city one day to visit. Asheville ranked high according to our matrix, and we also had friends living there who had picked it after going through a similar process.
During our short visit, we saw Asheville as a nice town, but it didn't hit us as the right place for our family. It felt too suburban, and we couldn't picture ourselves there.
Our experience in Asheville taught us a valuable lesson: no matter how good a place looks in a matrix, it takes a visit to really feel the vibe and figure out whether it's what you're looking for. A spreadsheet can provide insight, but what feels right trumps all the numbers.
So we moved on. Next up, our spreadsheet told us, was Boulder, Colorado.
Should we move to Boulder?
My parents stayed with our kids so we could turn the long weekend into a mini-holiday.
And oh my goodness, we LOVED Boulder.
We loved the views, we loved the hikes, we loved the walkable downtown, we loved the outdoor vibe, we loved the tech scene. We could absolutely see ourselves living there.
But then we looked closely at the housing market. And the prices were crazy high. Higher than DC. In the part of town that was walkable to hikes, a home that was big enough to comfortably house our family and offices (because we envisioned both of us working from home) would've easily cost $1.2 million.
That wasn't the commitment we wanted to make when I was hoping to work less for a while. We did consider more affordable areas outside of Boulder, but that would've gotten us away from the walkable item on our checklist.
Boulder got tagged with a maybe. And then we kept looking.
Should we move to Charlottesville?
Next we tried Charlottesville, Virginia. Going into the trip, Ben was certain Charlottesville was the place for us. According to our spreadsheet, it ticked all our boxes.
But in the end we had a similar experience as Asheville: we liked the city as visitors, but it didn't feel right as our home. The layout of the city, with trails circling it, made it difficult to visualize how we'd find a neighborhood that allowed us to walk both to those trails and to restaurants.
Then we tried a town that wasn't on any of the "best of" lists, one that felt like more of a gamble than the others.
How Harpers Ferry, WV, made it onto our list
We'd visited Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, a few times when we lived in Washington, D.C. It's just an hour and 15 minutes from the city, and we'd gone there for hiking and biking.
We'd enjoyed the quaintness of the town, but we'd never considered moving there. Why? Because it's tiny. Just 280 people.
When I mentioned that to a friend, she said, "you mean 280 thousand, right?"
Nope. 280.
But I added it to our spreadsheet anyway, just to see the tally. It scored high, one of the highest on our list.
It had lots of hiking and biking accessible from town, some homes were walkable to restaurants, it was less than an hour from an airport, and an hour from a city. As a bonus, the Appalachian Trail headquarters was based there, which brought lots of thru-hikers to the town.
So I flew there for a long weekend, leaving Ben with the kids. If nothing else, it was an opportunity to visit with family that lived in D.C.
Our approach whenever we visited a town on our list was to go beyond what we might do there as a tourist, and explore it with liveability in mind. That's what I did in Harpers Ferry, scouring the area for grocery stores, preschools, co-working spaces and yoga studios, all the pieces we'd need to create a life.
It turned out that while Harpers Ferry proper was tiny, several other towns are nearby, and altogether they offered all the amenities we needed. It's at the junction of West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland, and the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers. It's surrounded by park land, yet also has a train to D.C.
I hiked the trail the town was known for, and it was magical: the woods, the snow flurries, the deer, the views, the quiet.
I returned to Florida feeling refreshed, but not sure Harpers Ferry was the place for us. So much about it called to me, but living there would also mean more driving, colder weather, and fewer poke bowls. It would be a huge lifestyle change.
Lucky for us, we didn't have to make a decision right away. We were still planning to stay in Florida for the foreseeable future.
Then, just a few weeks after my Harpers Ferry trip, something unexpected happened: my company made changes that opened the door for my graceful exit.
Ben and I realized this was our chance. Our chance to live in a place that offered mountains and trails at our doorstep. But we still didn't know exactly where that would be.
How we chose where to live
That night we pulled out a whiteboard, and did a pros and cons list, pitting Boulder against Harpers Ferry.
Both towns offered hiking, but beyond that they were so different. Boulder was a far bigger town with a tech scene. Harpers Ferry was a historic community with a more affordable cost of living and proximity to my family on the East Coast.
We could picture ourselves in both places. But the image of us in Boulder included stress and unease about the cost of living. After a few years of growing babies and companies at the same time, we both knew we didn't want that pressure. We wanted our next phase of life to be as stress-free as possible.
So we decided on Harpers Ferry. We moved a few short months later, and while we felt good about the decision, I can't say either of us felt certain we'd made the right choice. We'd spent so little time in Harpers Ferry that we didn't really know what it would be like to live there. Making a big life change was scary, especially with two toddlers in tow.
Yet eight months later, I almost can't believe how lucky we were to choose this place. It is a better fit for us than we ever could have imagined.
It didn't happen overnight, but we have built a new life, one that includes hiking a few times a week before we start our workday.
Sometimes when I'm on my own on the trails, I think about what would've happened if we hadn't taken the chance to pursue this dream. Would we still be in Florida? Somewhere city that felt like a safer bet? Would we still be visiting towns on our list, looking for the perfect place?
I never envisioned myself living in West Virginia, but I'm happy it's home.
A framework for making your own decision on where to live
If you're trying to figure out where to live, here's one way of doing it.
Create a spreadsheet matrix that assigns values to those needs and wants
The last part is the most important: You will never be sure. You will never be ready.
You will never be ready, and you should make a choice anyhow.
The easiest way to make a big change in your life is to take small steps in that direction. You never know where those small steps might lead.
23 Replies to "How We Decided Where to Live, and Chose An Unexpected Place"
Heather van der Hoop says:
Yes to all of this! These are the same steps we followed in our own process of choosing a mountain town, and while it's scary, #5 is so important. Worst case, you move again! Moving isn't the most fun but it's also not the end of the world. I'm so glad you're all feeling good in your new home!
Alexis Grant says:
Yes yes, you're so right. You can always move again if it's not right.
Loved this! I appreciate that you clearly waited and took the time necessary to visit, contemplate and not make a hurried decision. I'm in the process of weighing the same idea. Bravo for dreams!
Thanks, Kellie!
Jessica Mayo Pike says:
I am glad to know I am not the only one who manages my life on spreadsheets. We are making a less difficult decision to stay in our current house and neighborhood that we absolutely love, OR to move 10 minutes away to be in a different/better school district. I will keep this methodology in mind to help us in the decision making process! PS- My brother lives in old town Alexandria and says Harpers Ferry is beautiful.
Hey Jess! Oh, interesting conundrum! The school piece makes things a lot more complicated. It's so hard to make long-term choices around that when who knows might change in the future.
carissa says:
Love the spreadsheet! We just did this 2 years ago. We jumped ship from CO because of housing costs. We ended up in NorthWest Arkansas. Our first town was not a hit…too far from the trails and pretty depressing. So we moved an hour north and it's terrific! We were not as meticulous with a spreadsheet and all, but we gave ourselves 2 years and visited several places to see how they felt. Good for you guys for making the leap…the town sounds adorable! Kind of Stars Hollow-ish. 🙂
Interesting! What a difference an hour away can make.
This is great! I *just* asked a friend of mine about her little town as a potential for a retirement burg for me and voila, she sends me your blog link–that just HAPPENED to arrive in her email the day after I just HAPPENED to contact her after a 2-year gap in our communications. So, I see the hand of God in all this–blessings! And I can't wait to set up my spreadsheet! Thanks again and BTW, I was born and raised in Maryland, so I hear you about Harper's Ferry–lovely little town. Warmly, KN
Aw, what great timing! Hope you find your perfect place =)
Charlene Farwell says:
How useful your article regarding living! Love the spreadsheet!
Angela Lim says:
I loved your process. It was so great to read all of your criteria. I live in Boise and we love it here (in case you ever need a change!).
Sonja Lovelace says:
Thank you for this idea. I'll try it! I live in Los Angeles, and the housing market is is way beyond what I can afford, so I'm looking for someplace else, a smaller town surrounded by nature.
Just love your process. We moved to small town Ohio after living in Atlanta. I hate it with a passion! Not a cold weather person. I'm looking for the next place to go in a few years so your method is perfect for me to start pulling together now. Thanks a million!
Thank you so much, this was very helpful and reassuring. I'm planning an out of state move all by myself and needless to say, I haven't yet felt confident and ready to decide. I'm gonna visit a couple more places and just pick!
Quite a good guide, and I think I'll be using it in our search for a place that not just feels like home, but meets more easily defined needs.
Especially intrigued by your thought that "you will never be sure". I think you mean you will never be sure till you move there?
I also think that if you rent out your own house if you have one, and rent out one in a new town, you have a fallback positioning case you don't like it: sometimes places that that look great have local people dynamics that can only be discovered after a while. Then you need to decide if they matter or not.
Stefan, Australia, and not that far from the Grampians 🙂
Very helpful post. I'm living in northern France and considering a move but bewildered by the options. I've similar goals to you, but an older age bracket. Thanks Alexis!
Lol, I was reading your list of wants and immediately thought it Harper's Ferry (I have family that lived there). You are so right that there are many places that won't make a list in a magazine but could work perfectly for your own family. Curious if you've been able to meet other likeminded people know that you are there and settled in.
Hi Katherine — Good question! While the pandemic put a hamper on meeting people, I think the answer here is still yes. I'm not running into other people who run online businesses, but to be honest that barely happened to me in cities either; I tend to find those connections online.
Our neighbors are all lovely, and we've met other families with young kids, some of whom appreciate the outdoors like we do, and that's something we didn't always have in cities. Career-wise, I've connected with local business owners, most of whom run brick-n-mortars, but business owners nonetheless. There are a lot of transplants here from DC and elsewhere who had or have interesting careers. Reflecting on that now, I think that has helped: there's a combination of locals who grew up in the area and transplants. Maybe that's something to look for. While we are in West Virginia, we're not deep into the state, but on the very corner and in a relatively affluent area, which ends up adding to the diversity of residents.
So while there's no startup scene here, I do find that for this stage of my life, I enjoy the people! Pre-kids I might have felt differently.
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Chip says:
Love the spreadsheet approach. Have considered Asheville, Park City/SLC, and Nevada-side of Lake Tahoe as retirement locations. Our focus is mainly driven by costs, but things like walkability, proximity to a college, taxes and, sadly, politics will also influence our decision. The spreadsheet provides a tool to address all those things rationally. Thanks for sharing your insights!
PS – Even though I live in CA, I am a proud West Virginia U grad and completely understand your choice of Harpers Ferry as a landing spot!
Michael Withrow says:
First, thanks for this article. I do exactly the same thing with a spreadsheet. It is alot of work. The only part of the process I have not done is actually visit. During covid it is just too dangerous. Second, I am seeing that everywhere I want to go is where everyone else also wants to go…not good. Finally, I wouldn't advertise where you landed, as now 5,000 people will now pack the place. Then you'll have to start over! Once again, thanks for this inspiration!
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Brexit Has Arrived. But Boris Johnson's Reign Is Just Beginning
Sábado, 01/Feb/2020 Richard Seymour The New York Times
The moment has arrived. Britain is out of the European Union. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his "People's Government" — it scarcely calls itself Conservative at this point — has fulfilled the promise on which it was elected in December and "got Brexit done."
There are difficulties ahead. Mr. Johnson has promised impossible and contradictory things on Brexit: Maximum regulatory freedom where it suits his government, maximum frictionless trade where it suits the British economy. The European Union is unlikely to give him what he wants in the months of negotiations to come.
But by fulfilling his pledge, Mr. Johnson has won enormous good will from nationalist voters across England and Wales. Outside the European Union, he will also have more scope to change the British government's role in the economy. This gives him a unique opportunity do what his predecessors could not: build a lasting popular base for the Conservative Party. Mr. Johnson can now take advantage of his big majority to overhaul British capitalism, incentivizing long-term Conservative voters while permanently annexing chunks of the Labour Party's historic base.
Already, the dimensions of Mr. Johnson's plans are becoming clear. He has no intention of running the country as any Conservative leader since Margaret Thatcher would have: He is not out to roll back the state. Instead, he is out to secure the support of working-class voters who handed over to the Tories dozens of seats formerly held by Labour. His premiership, set free by Brexit, could reshape Britain's electoral map for decades.
During the election, Mr. Johnson campaigned as an almost single-issue nationalist, the phrase "get Brexit done" falling robotically from his lips between every other stammer. Beyond that, much of what he said was conventionally Tory: He promised harsher restrictions on immigration, meaning an end to free movement from the European Union and the expansion of the "hostile environment" for migrants. Domestic repression, the manifesto promised, would also tighten, with a bigger penal system and a greater emphasis on "counter-extremism," which, as Home Secretary Priti Patel has indicated, will target parts of the left. Mr. Johnson has also hinted at constitutional reforms, which would strengthen the executive and weaken judicial challenges. He promises an attack on liberal norms and legality in the name of national invigoration.
Tellingly, he distanced himself from the last government. He would end austerity, raise spending on the National Health Service, guarantee pensions, raise the minimum wage and borrow £100 billion to invest in infrastructure. Many of these promises were grossly exaggerated, but they served to underline the point that a Johnson administration would be different. And since the election, the government has acted to carry out its commitments, passing legislation to guarantee N.H.S. spending increases and proposing moderate improvements to workers' and renters' rights. It has also promised that most of the infrastructure spending will be invested in England's deprived northern regions — and this week backed up the promise by nationalizing the north's major rail service.
If this sounds like an incursion into Labour territory, it is. Many of the policies are directly taken from Labour's plans. The push for a larger state resonates with a politically ambiguous popular memory of the postwar era — a certain nostalgia for the era of big, dynamic industries owned by the British government inflects both a version of the left-wing politics of the Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, and a version of Brexit sentiment. Mr. Johnson knows that many of the votes contributing to a Conservative majority were "lent" by voters who wanted Brexit done. A more interventionist state is a way to shore up a lasting, broad coalition.
This pragmatic raid on enemy turf was first conceived under Mr. Johnson's predecessor, Theresa May. More thoughtful Tories knew they had to change. The British state and economy had become dysfunctional: gaping regional inequalities, a housing market inaccessible to younger workers, weak labor productivity, sluggish investment and very little to export. Mrs. May's advisers understood that the Conservatives had to break with the formula of austerity and financialization somehow.
But while she used the rhetoric of working-class uplift, she was unable to back it up with policy. Her chancellor, Philip Hammond, a traditional ally of the banks, was determined to keep austerity going. If nothing else, he could see no other way to create a fiscal surplus big enough to soften the impact of Brexit. Mr. Johnson, by contrast, is just enough of an opportunist to see that delivering Brexit, in however self-injuring and punitive a form, gives him both the political power and the regulatory latitude to do things differently.
There is a risk, though, of succumbing to Mr. Johnson's own mythmaking. As much as he needs working-class conservatives, they have always existed. And the core Tory voter remains the affluent middle class. What's more, when it comes to public spending, he's limited in what he can do by his commitment to freezing most taxes. In an economy that is already weak and likely to be weaker after Brexit, he has little room for serious investment.
And Mr. Johnson will face conflicting demands from within his own party. The chancellor, Sajid Javid, has demanded 5 percent cuts from most government departments, making plain that the spending spigots are not about to freely flow. And the prime minister is surrounded by allies who, far from wanting a more interventionist state, want to cut taxes and slash regulations in the interests of a more globally competitive economy.
During the election, Mr. Johnson was able to glide over the glaring contradictions in what he said with a bustling con man's charm, but in office he has to navigate them. With a big majority, he can no longer play the outsider. However, the lesson of nationalist leaders globally is that, in this jittery era, they don't have to deliver booming success to keep power. From Viktor Orban in Hungary to Narendra Modi in India, these leaders have expanded their base by delivering a personalized, charismatic form of rule in which they are militant defenders of the nation against all comers — be they foreigners, "traitors," liberals, or leftists.
Mr. Johnson is not a nationalist by conviction. He is the epitome of the "reckless opportunists" that, as the sociologist Aeron Davis says, run Britain. His voting record in Parliament shows him to be slightly more liberal than his party. But his performance over the last few months — during which he agitated against Parliament, accused opponents of "collaboration" with Europe, and saber-rattled against the courts and media — showed him to be adept at using the far right's template. Whenever the contradictions in his government threaten to unravel, he is likely to return to these tactics.
Indeed, Brexit fits in with that method perfectly. After today, Mr. Johnson will be able to continually remind voters that he was able to overcome the hostility of the liberal elite and accomplish his goal. And as negotiations proceed, he can gin up hostility against his supposed enemies whenever he doesn't get his way.
Whenever any politician claims to speak for "the people," someone always pays the price. Migrants are first on the list for Mr. Johnson. But they will not be the last.
Richard Seymour is an editor at Salvage magazine and the author, most recently, of The Twittering Machine.
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Apple reportedly owes Samsung $170M+ in penalties for selling too few iPhones
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: June 27, 2019
Apple reportedly owes Samsung 'hundreds of billions of won' for selling too few iPhones …
ZDNet explains:
According to ETNews, an outlet with a good track record when it comes to insider Apple news, Apple reportedly may owe Samsung Display "hundreds of billions of won" in penalties for not buying OLED displays at the agreed level […]
The penalty goes back to Apple's insistence that Samsung Display build a facility to exclusively manufacture OLED displays for the iPhone. Apple had told Samsung Display it would need 100 million OLED iPhone displays a year. But a slump in iPhone sales had a knock-on effect for Samsung Display, which saw its operating profits halve in a year, falling from 5.7 trillion won in 2017 to 2.62 trillion won in 2018.
100 billion won is around $86M, so hundreds plural would be at least $170M, possibly more.
The reality, as ET News notes, is that Apple is unlikely to settle the debt in cash. Instead, the most likely outcome is that the Cupertino company awards Samsung Display extra orders to the point where the profit equals the penalty due.
Doing this may not prove difficult. Samsung has so far had the exclusive contract for iPhone X-family models as it was the only company with sufficiently advanced OLED manufacturing capabilities. Apple greatly prefers to have multiple suppliers, and has been working hard to achieve this, going as far as paying LG $2.7B for a production line dedicated to Apple orders. However, things haven't been going entirely to plan.
LG has been forced to halt production at one of two OLED facilities believed to be producing displays for this year's iPhones. And the future of Japan Display, which recently won OLED orders for the Apple Watch, now seems to be in significant doubt as a rescue plan started to unravel. Read more
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Evaluation of corneal endothelium and keratic precipitates by specular microscopy in anterior uveitis
C.T. Pillai, H.S. Dua, A. Azuara-Blanco, A.R. Sarhan
Wellcome Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine
Background - The study of corneal endothelium, by specular microscopy, in patients with anterior uveitis has largely been restricted to observations on the endothelial cells. In this prospective study 'keratic precipitates' (KP) in different types of uveitis were examined in different stages of the disease process and the endothelial changes occurring in the vicinity of the KP were evaluated in comparison with the endothelium of the uninvolved eye. Methods - 13 patients with active unilateral uveitis were recruited. The mean age was 42.9 years (range 20-76 years). A Tomey-1100 contact wide field specular (x10) microscope was used to capture endothelial images and KP until the resolution of uveitis. Data regarding type of uveitis, number, size, and nature of KP were recorded. Automated morphometric analysis was done for cell size, cell density and coefficient of variation, and statistical comparisons of cell size and cell density were made (Student's t test) between the endothelium in the vicinity of fresh and resolving KP, fresh KP and normal endothelium, and resolving KP and normal endothelium. Results - On specular microscopy, fresh KP were seen as dense, white glistening deposits occupying 5-10 endothelial cells in diameter and fine KP were widely distributed and were one or two endothelial cells in diameter. The KP in Posner-Schlossman syndrome had a distinct and different morphology. With clinical remission of uveitis, the KP were observed to undergo characteristic morphological changes and old KP demonstrated a large, dark halo surrounding a central white deposit and occasionally a dark shadow or a 'lacuna' replaced the site of the original KP. Endothelial blebs were noted as dark shadows or defects in the endothelial mosaic in patients with recurrent uveitis. There was significant statistical difference in the mean cell size and cell density of endothelial cells in the vicinity of fresh KP compared with normal endothelium of the opposite eye. Conclusion - This study elucidated the different specular microscopic features of KP in anterior uveitis. Distinct morphological features of large and fine KP were noted. These features underwent dramatic changes on resolution of uveitis. The endothelium was abnormal in the vicinity of KP, which returned to near normal values on resolution of uveitis.
British Journal of Ophthalmology
https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.84.12.1367
10.1136/bjo.84.12.1367
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Anterior Uveitis Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
Corneal Endothelium Medicine & Life Sciences 99%
Uveitis Medicine & Life Sciences 83%
Microscopy Medicine & Life Sciences 62%
Cell Size Medicine & Life Sciences 28%
Endothelial Cells Medicine & Life Sciences 27%
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Pillai, C. T., Dua, H. S., Azuara-Blanco, A., & Sarhan, A. R. (2000). Evaluation of corneal endothelium and keratic precipitates by specular microscopy in anterior uveitis. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 84(12), 1367-1371. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.84.12.1367
Pillai, C.T. ; Dua, H.S. ; Azuara-Blanco, A. ; Sarhan, A.R. / Evaluation of corneal endothelium and keratic precipitates by specular microscopy in anterior uveitis. In: British Journal of Ophthalmology. 2000 ; Vol. 84, No. 12. pp. 1367-1371.
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MOA: Block beta1-adrenergic receptors from binding to NE and Epi mainly in the heart to ↓HR, ↓cardiac contraction force, ↓conduction rate (negative CID).
Uses: HTN, Angina, tachydysrhythmias, MI and post MI, HF, hyperthyroidism, migraine headache, stage anxiety, pheochromocytoma, and glaucoma.
CI: AV block, sinus bradycardia, HF, DM, and depression.
Types: hypertensive urgency and emergency.
HE or malignant hypertension: SBP ≥ 180 mmHg OR DBP ≥ 110 mmHg, w/ organ damage, S/S: CP, SOB, back pain, numbness/weakness, change in vision, difficulty speaking, IP care needed.
Use IV drugs that directly dilate both arteries and veins (reduce both pre and afterload) to reduce BP rapidly.
Goal of treatment: the heart's able to pump out the blood to aorta.
The heart will not work so hard with reduce preload and afterload.
start with lowest dose and titrate up as needed.
Use: Only for newly diagnosed HF, start low dose beta blocker and titrate up.
Treatment: If signs of toxicity, hold drug and draw blood level for digoxin, give digoxin immune Fab (Digibind, DigiFab).
Monitor conditions increasing risk of digoxin toxicity: hypokalemia, increased serum digoxin levels, and heart disease.
Instruct pts to monitor s/s of hypokalemia (N/V/general weakness).
Use potassium supplements if concurrently taking a diuretic.
Chest pain that occurs when the level of oxygen and nutrients in the blood is insufficient to meet the demands of the heart.
Usually occurs when the coronary arteries are narrowed.
Decreased oxygen supply can precipitate or aggravate angina (e.g., severe anemia or hypoxia).
Supply and Demand imbalance of O2 to myocardium.
Prevent myocardial ischemia, infarction and death, as well as the pain.
Potent smooth muscle relaxant (reduce coronary artery spasm) and vasodilator (dilate coronary arteries) increase supply.
Dilates all blood vessels, primarily venous circulation (decrease preload) reduce cardiac demand.
Uses: Treat and prevent angina.
Used in the symptomatic treatment of ischemic heart conditions (ex. Angina).
Educate pts that tolerance is caused by repeated dosing of transdermal nitroglycerin patch or chronic use. Pts should use on-off cycles or intermittent therapy to allow adequate nitrate-free interval and prevent tolerance.
MOA = Decrease heart rate and contractility by binding to and blocking the beta-adrenergic receptors in the myocardium and conduction system. Causes decreased workload of the heart.
Inhibits calcium ion influx into vascular smooth muscle and myocardium.
Increase myocardial O2 supply by relaxing smooth muscle that surround coronary arteries causing them to dilate = increased blood flow to the heart.
Dilatation of arteries throughout the body results in decreased SVR and afterload = decreased myocardial O2 demand.
* CCB's are especially useful if hypertension or coronary spasm is present.
Bundle branches end in purkinje fibers, stimulation of Purkinje fibers causes ventricular contraction.
LONG HALF LIFE (Amiodarone T1/2= 58 days), can take 2-3 months for SE/ADEs to resolve.
MOA: prevent clot formation or break apart an already formed clot by either altering the clotting cascade, preventing platelet aggregation, or dissolve a clot.
Goal: increase circulation and perfusion, decrease pain and prevent further tissue damage.
Types: oral and parenteral anticoagulants, antiplatelet medications, and thrombolytic agents.
MOA: prevent bleeding by inactivating clotting factors (Xa) and thrombin formation inhibit fibrin formation.
LMWH and XaI Uses: DVT and PE prophylaxis and treatment, unstable angina, acute coronary syndrome (ACS), Coumadin bridging.
DDI: additive bleeding when using with aspirin, NSAIDs, and other anticoagulants.
Monitor VSs, CBC, PLT count (>100,000/mm3), activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) and keep at 1.5 to 2 times the baseline.
Instruct pts to monitor s/s of bleeding.
MOA: Inhibits vitamin K-dependent coagulation factor synthesis (VII, IX , X, prothrombin or II, protein C and S) prevention of clot formation. No direct effect on a clot that has already formed.
Instruct pts to maintain a consistency intake of Vit K intake . Same amount of vegetables daily.
MOA: Prevent platelet from clumping together or aggregation, AKA, "blood slicker"
DDIs: additive bleeding if concurrent use of Plavix, NSAIDs, ASA, warfarin, heparin and other bleeding-inducing drugs.
Collect the potential causal agent: body fluids (e.g., blood, urine, sputum, or wound drainage) to determine the micro-organism causing the infection.
Aseptic techniques Fluid for culture should be carefully collected to prevent contamination and unnecessary antimicrobial treatment.
Sensitivity test to determine the antibiotics to which the bacteria is susceptible.
Teach pts to take the full course of antibiotics prescribed to prevent medication resistance and recurrence of infection.
Reduce antibiotic-associated colitis by restoring the imbalanced GI tract and stopping the overgrowth of pathogenic organisms (C.difficile).
Activia (yogurt, soy yogurt, or as dietary supplements.
Adverse effects - least toxic, bleeding, kidney damage, most common cause of anaphylaxis, SJS, and supra-infection.
Bacterial develop β-lactamase enzyme to destroy Penicillin.
Assess hx of allergy and instruct pts to wear an allergy ID bracelet.
Observe clients for 15-30 min following administration of parenteral penicillin.
Monitor for diarrhea, skin condition and fluid status.
Advise pts to complete the entire course of therapy regardless of presence of symptoms.
MOA: Slows protein production, and stop bacteria from being able to live or reproduce.
Don't mix aminoglycoside and penicillin in the same IV solution!!!!!!
Whooping cough, Strep throat caused by grp A Strep.
Tetracyclines : Monitor GI, I/O, kidney and liver functioning, bleeding.
Instruct pts to complete the full course of therapy even w/ absence of symptoms.
Advise client to use an alternative form of birth control.
Linezolid (Zyvox) -no tyramine food, not MAOI.
Use: Skin infections, UTI, RTI, GI infection, and gonorrhea. Prevent and treat anthrax.
Instruct pts to observe s/s of pain, swelling, and redness at Achilles tendon site.
SE: GI discomfort (n/v/d), metallic taste in the mouth.
Patient education: taken with a large glass of water and with food.
CI: Not for pts w/ folate deficiency, sulfa allergy, preg/nursing women, renal/liver dysfunction.
Complete the full course of therapy regardless of the presence of symptoms.
Instruct pts to monitor s/s liver dysfunction (abdominal pain, anorexia, yellowing skin).
Instruct pats to monitor s/s infection, anemia, and bleeding.
Instruct pts to avoid prolonged sun exposure and use sunscreen, and wear appropriate protective clothing.
Take with thiazide diuretics, increase the risk for anemia and bleeding.
Bacteria are more likely to develop resistance to broad than narrow spectrum antibacterial drugs.
Virustatic, not killer but suppressor, retard viral growth by preventing reproduction or replication.
MOA: Slow viral reproduction by stopping viral DNA production.
Adequate hydration during and 2 hrs after infusion to minimize nephrotoxicity or increasing oral fluid intake as prescribed.
Rotate IV injection sites and monitor swelling and redness.
Baseline and follow up CBC w/diff and platelet count.
Finish the full course of therapy, even though symptoms resolve.
Inform clients to expect symptom relief but not cure.
Combine with interferon to treat respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in children with chronic hepatitis C.
Damaging liver, kidneys, heart, ears, even cancer.
*The treatment should be initiated within 48 hr of onset of known or suspected influenza.
Post-exposure prophylaxis consists of 4 weeks of antiretroviral therapy.
Reduce viral load (# of blood virtual level).
Improve immune function (increase CD4+ count; increase ratio of CD4+/CD8+ ).
fewer episodes of opportunistic infections.
Interact with many drugs and food.
Take the drugs exactly as prescribed to prevent recurrence and drug resistance.
Many D-D interactions, serious AE.
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Antiretroviral drugs can cross the placenta to reduce the chances of fetal infection.
MOA: Reduce HIV reproduction by inhibiting the reverse transcriptase from converting viral RNA to DNA, lowering viral DNA production.
Use: for HIV patients who are on HAART begin to have increased viral load.
Who is at Risk TB?
Continue taking drugs for at least 6 months exactly as prescribed!
Pregnant women need higher doses of a B-complex vitamin supplement when taking INH.
Drugs that interact with TB drugs include anti-hypertensives, cardiac drugs, and lipid-lowering drugs.
MOA: Antifungal drugs damage cell membranes and cell walls to prevent the fungus reproduce or kill it.
Infusion reactions: "shake and bake"
Complete the full course of therapy even though symptoms resolve .
avoid crowds and people who are ill.
Vaginal suppository or cream is used to treat superficial vaginal candidiasis.


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China Keeps Faith in the Market
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Beijing pursues stock market reforms.
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The fallout from the global credit crisis has hammered China's stock prices, but it hasn't diminished Beijing's determination to develop its capital markets.
At a time when the West's faith in capitalism has been badly shaken and governments in the U.S. and Europe have nationalized any number of major financial institutions, China continues to push forward with reforms meant to deepen its equity and futures markets. The authorities have unveiled plans to introduce margin trading and are expected to launch stock index futures as early as this year. They have also moved steadily to reduce the amount of government-held, nontraded shares, a factor that has weighed on the market in recent years. In addition to these direct measures, Beijing has announced a massive 4 trillion yuan ($585 billion) fiscal package aimed at stimulating economic growth and, indirectly, bolstering market confidence.
"Out of this turmoil a healthy and vibrant market will emerge," declared Fang Xinghai, director general of Shanghai's Financial Services Office, the local regulator that helps oversee the Shanghai Stock Exchange alongside the China Securities Regulatory Commission, at an investment conference in the city in November.
To be sure, China's reforms are not a panacea. The country's regulatory system effectively favors capital markets access for state-owned, Communist Party–linked companies, making it harder for private entrepreneurial businesses to raise capital. And investor confidence has been severely dented by the stock market rout. But it is striking that the government is proceeding apace with efforts to deepen its markets in the midst of a worldwide financial panic — one that has hit China hard.
The benchmark CSI 300 index, which tracks 300 leading companies on the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges, has suffered one of the worst falls of any major market in the developed or developing world over the past 15 months. The index was down 68 percent from its October 2007 peak, to 1,862 in late December, after having traded as low as 1,606. The sharp decline has curtailed capital-raising: Chinese companies pulled in a total of $14.9 billion through initial public offerings of stock in the first 11 months of 2008, down 73 percent from the same period a year earlier, according to Beijing-based research firm Zero2IPO Research Center.
The stock market's nosedive was provoked in part by the government's efforts to prevent an inflationary overheating of the economy in the run-up to the Olympic Games in August. With growth running at a rate of nearly 12 percent at the start of 2008 and inflation hitting an 11-year high of 8.7 percent in February, the People's Bank of China tightened policy by raising banks' minimum reserve ratios five times in the first half of the year to cool inflation.
The equity weakness also reflects contagion from the global financial crisis, effectively debunking the idea that China's market had somehow decoupled from trends in the developed world. Chinese investors "wake up every morning and see panic selling globally," and that inevitably affects sentiment, explains Isaac Meng, a Beijing-based senior China economist with BNP Paribas Securities (Asia). "You can no longer consider China's A-share equities market to be a closed market just because foreign investors have limited access."
China's vulnerability to a slowdown in global trade has come to the fore in recent months as the U.S. and Europe have fallen into recession. Growth has decelerated sharply, and Chinese exports actually declined by 2.2 percent in November from a year earlier, the biggest drop in nine years. Michael Buchanan, chief economist for Asia ex-Japan at Goldman, Sachs & Co., predicts that China's growth rate will drop from 8.9 percent in 2008 to 6 percent this year; that would be well below the 8 percent rate that the authorities consider necessary to create jobs for the estimated 20 million workers entering the labor force each year, according to government economics adviser Yu Yongding. "In China growth of 9 percent is tantamount to recession," he told investors at a recent conference in Hangzhou organized by BNP Paribas Securities.
Chinese authorities have reversed policy swiftly since the summer in a bid to stimulate the economy, and analysts say the moves should provide indirect support to the stock market. The central bank has eased monetary policy aggressively since September, slashing its benchmark lending rate five times by a total of 2.16 points, to 5.31 percent, and cutting reserve requirements four times.
In November the government announced a huge fiscal stimulus package that officials hope will kick-start the economy. The money is supposed to be given to state-run companies to build affordable housing, power grids and transport projects, but analysts say it's unclear how much of the package represents fresh spending rather than previous commitments.
"The very large headline number on the stimulus package is basically just a banner telling people that the government intends to do whatever it takes to support growth," says Arthur Kroeber, managing director of Beijing-based Dragonomics Research & Advisory. "The details will be invented later."
There is often little direct correlation between economic growth, corporate earnings and stock prices in China. Instead, raw sentiment typically plays a bigger role in driving the market, notes Huang Yiping, chief Asia economist at Citigroup. The average price-earnings ratio on Shanghai-listed A shares hit a historical high of 72 at the market peak in October 2007, but the combination of stock price declines and solid corporate earnings growth for most of the past year brought that multiple down to about 15 as of the end of 2008. The market has been buoyed recently by optimism surrounding Beijing's fiscal stimulus package and hopes that the U.S. market has hit bottom, says Jing Ulrich, chairman of China equities at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Corporate earnings have started to flag, though; they were down 13.1 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier after having risen 16 percent in the first half of 2008.
Beyond the macro pump priming, the authorities have taken specific measures to support equities. In September the government eliminated the country's 0.1 percent stamp duty on stock purchases and ordered China Investment Corp., the nation's $200 billion sovereign wealth fund, to buy more shares of state banks in which it already holds majority stakes.
China has also begun to move ahead with some long-awaited reforms that bankers believe will strengthen the stock market over time. In October the China Securities Regulatory Commission announced that it would allow a few securities firms to begin trading on margin and shorting stocks. Haitong Securities Co., China's largest brokerage firm by market value, announced in November that it would lend about 4 billion yuan in a pilot margin trading program. Analysts expect that the authorities will give a similar green light to Citic Securities Co., Guotai Junan Securities Co. and Everbright Securities Co. The regulator has set the margin requirement at 50 percent of the purchase price of eligible securities, notes JPMorgan's Jing.
These reforms are controversial. Zhou Zhengqing, a former CSRC chairman, criticized them in October, saying they could cause panic selling. He argued that short-selling in particular should be avoided. In response the CSRC has apparently put on hold plans to allow short-selling, according to Chinese media reports.
Supporters of market liberalization remain enthusiastic about Beijing's continuing to loosen trading rules, albeit at a slower pace. The measure on margin trading "shows China's dedication to financial reforms," Fang asserted at the Shanghai conference. Gong Shaolin, chairman of China Merchants Securities Co., echoed that sentiment at the same event. "We hope margin trading will be successfully implemented," he said. "It's important we proceed with reforms, as it is only through reforms that we can evolve to a higher stage after this global crisis is over."
Bankers and analysts also expect the government to introduce stock index futures later this year or in 2010, a major development that would for the first time allow investors to hedge their long portfolios or have a low-cost way to boost equity exposure. In anticipation of the move, the China Financial Futures Exchange has been conducting mock trading of a prototype CSI 300 index future.
Beijing continues to address the issue of nontradable shares as well; such shares have had a negative impact on the market in the past. Until 2006 the Chinese government held about 65 percent of the equity in privatized companies in the form of nontradable shares because it wanted to retain ultimate control of them. Such state-owned enterprises make up more than 95 percent of the 1,500-plus companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges. Concerns that the government might deluge the market by selling some of those shares helped depress stock prices earlier this decade.
In the past two years, though, the government has been slowly transferring some of those nontradable shares to the companies themselves. It has moved about 34 percent of nontradable shares so far and will shift most of the remainder in 2009 and 2010, according to Roy Wang, chief executive officer of Wind Information (Hong Kong), a leading provider of data on China's stock markets.
"Nontradable share reforms are being implemented and we believe it will be less and less of an issue in the coming few years," says John Li, the international business officer of China Asset Management Co., China's largest fund company, with 210 billion yuan under management as of June 2008.
Aaron Boesky, chief executive of Hong Kong–based Marco Polo Pure Asset Management, which has $100 million in assets, shares that optimism. "We are at the tail end of the single biggest challenge to the Chinese stock market," he says. The overhang of nontraded shares is "significantly less threatening."
Most companies are holding on to those shares for strategic purposes and are unlikely to sell them, at least in the current climate, analysts say. "Many companies will be using these large blocks of shares as currency for mergers and acquisitions down the road, especially when share prices come up," says Peter Alexander, founder and principal of Shanghai-based fund research firm Z-Ben Advisors.
The government is also preparing for further privatizations of state-owned banks by injecting cash into two big banks to write off nonperforming loans and ready them for public listings. In October, China Investment Corp. provided $20 billion to China Development Bank, a policy lender to state-owned enterprises that is being transformed into a commercial bank, and another $20 billion to Agricultural Bank of China.
The pace of privatization is likely to be slow, however, given the state of the markets and the fact that U.S. and European governments have been taking over banks and brokerage houses. "Americans have been pushing us for years to privatize, and they're now nationalizing some of the biggest banks and insurers in the world," notes Beijing-based securities lawyer Guan Anping, a former aide to ex–Chinese vice premier Wu Yi. "Critics of the Chinese government's privatization program will use this as an excuse to attack those officials leading privatization. The pace of privatization may slow, but it won't stop."
Z-Ben's Alexander agrees that the financial crisis may retard market reforms in China but does not believe it will deter policymakers from eventual liberalization. "I think senior leaders will just wait for the dust to settle before they move on in the same direction," he says. "Everything in China has been one step forward — pause — and one step forward — pause again — but never two steps forward and two steps back."
Even if China does continue to pursue market reforms, there remain plenty of economic obstacles to a quick recovery in equities. The country needs to restructure its economy as urgently as the U.S. does to sustain long-term economic growth and restore the health of capital markets, notes Ha Jiming, chief economist for Beijing-based brokerage firm China International Capital Corp., whose views are often sought by the Chinese leadership.
"We are entering a period of global economic rebalancing, and rebalancing often is associated with bear markets," Ha explains. "The rebalance will require both the U.S. trade deficit and China's trade surplus to be reduced to more sustainable levels. In this process firms will see revenues and profits decline. Growth will slow as well. That is why we have a bear market globally, both in the U.S. and in China."
The stock market would also get a boost if the government stopped giving state-owned, Communist Party–linked companies preferential treatment, including such benefits as easier access to public listings on Chinese exchanges, analysts and economists say. The overwhelming majority of the companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges are spin-offs of state-owned companies, notwithstanding the fact that private businesses now generate as much as 70 percent of China's gross domestic product.
"State-owned companies are in general less focused on shareholder returns," says Erwin Sanft, head of China and Hong Kong equities research at BNP Paribas Securities (Asia). "They are managed by management who are not stakeholders. They tend to be very conservative."
In spite of the hurdles, foreign investors remain optimistic about the longer-term prospects for China's companies and stock markets. Marco Polo's Boesky notes that the Shanghai Stock Exchange has seen four bear and three bull markets since the Communist Party restored the country's stock markets in 1990.
The exchange fell 75 percent in 1992, only to rebound by 330 percent the following year; stocks then declined 79 percent by July 1994 before rocketing back up 608 percent by June 2001. The market dropped 54 percent over the following four years, then soared 500 percent between June 2005 and October 2007 before falling into its latest slump.
"The stock markets are way down again this time," Boesky says. "But look at the upside potential. The key is to find the bottom. That's when you buy."


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Update 5th March 2014: The UN team investigating the chemical weapons attacks on Ghouta and Khan Al-Assal have stated that they believe that the chemical weapons used in both attacks appeared to have come from the Syrian army's own stockpiles. Since the regime has not claimed that any of its stockpiles of chemical weapons had been stolen or have gone missing, this finding rules out any possibility whatsoever of anyone except the Syrian army being responsible for the chemical weapons attacks.
On August 21st, 2013, the Damascus opposition held suburb of Ghouta was hit by a massive chemical weapons attack. Estimates of the final casualty toll ranged from 280 to over 1700 fatalities, with thousands more affected.
In trying to prove that the attack was "orchestrated" by the rebels (in effect, claiming that the rebels gassed themselves to provoke a Western-led military intervention), regime apologists have relied on primarily on two sources; the "analysis" of Agnes Mariam, a Palestinian nun with no training or expertise in chemical weapons warfare, or any warfare of any kind, and an article written by the American journalist Seymour Hersh, which was published in the London Review of Books after being rejected by both the Washington Post and New Yorker Magazine.
Sources that refute Agnes Mariam
Agnes Mariam, using Youtube videos of the attack's aftermath, claimed in a report later exploited by the Russian government, that all the footage of the chemical weapons attack was faked.
Doctors Without Borders had a team in Ghouta at the time, and have an extensive report on how its own doctors treated hundreds of cases of patients with symptoms consistent with that of a chemical weapons attack.
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/press/release.cfm?id=7029&cat=press-release
An article on the BBC's website provides a point by point rebuttal by Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director of Human Rights Watch, to the claims made by Agnes Mariam
The Wall Street Journal published a powerful piece on the Obama administration's mishandling of the attacks as they occurred;
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303914304579194203188283242
And finally, some background information on Agnes Mariam herself, and her history of collusion with the regime, and her propaganda efforts on its part;
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/05/catholic-nun-mother-agnes-syria-civil-war
Sources that Refute Seymour Hersh
In December 2013, the journalist Seymour Hersh wrote an article in which he claimed that Jabhat Al-Nasra, an Al-Qaeda affiliated militia, had attacked Ghouta with chemical weapons. It took less than 24 hours for Seymour Hersh's shoddy analysis to be thoroughly debunked, and the man himself derided;
An article in the Telegraph newspaper provides a comprehensive takedown of Hersh's conspiracy theories;
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/richardspencer/100250185/ignore-the-conspiracy-theories-assad-was-behind-the-syrian-chemical-weapons-attack/
Foreign Policy published a detailed analysis by Syrian conflict weapons usage expert Eliot Higgins, of the Brown Moses blog, of the chemical weapons attack. Higgins has spent more man-hours than any other person on the planet analyzing the weapons used in the war. He concluded that Hersh had ignored many key pieces of evidence, especially new evidence that had come to light in the three months since the attack;
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/12/09/sy_hershs_chemical_misfire#sthash.7xUWJTEa.tUawNSxg.dpbs
Dan Kaszeta, a former US Army and US Secret Service specialist on chemical, biological, and radiological defense, wrote a very detailed and informed piece on all the myriad problems with Seymour Hersh's article;
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/commentaryanalysis/524969-524969-why-seymour-hersh-has-it-wrong-this-time
Cheryl Rofer, a chemical weapons expert, and retired supervisor at Los Alamos, has an excellent piece on the issues with Hersh's claims;
http://airforceamazons.blogspot.com/2013/12/for-readers-of-lrb.html
EA World View has one of the earliest and still best dissections of Seymour Hersh's article on the chemical weapons attack. The article is written by
http://linkis.com/eaworldview.com/2013/8DbS
And finally, Hersh's own decade long background as a facilitator for the Assad regime's propaganda and diplomatic efforts are examined by The Weekly Standard;
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/seymour-hersh-and-assad-s-nun-spin-story_770751.html?page=1
Sources that Refute Pro-Regime Claims in General
Brian Whitaker asks, Questions for the Syria Sarin sceptics. If rebels were to blame how did they do it?
Chemical weapons experts have pointed to the presence of hexamine in the weapons used as damning proof of the regime's culpability. Hexamine is not a standard chemical in the production of sarin, and yet the regime is known to have stockpiled massive amounts of the material as part of its chemical weapons program.
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The chemical weapons attack on Ghouta on August 21st 2013 could only have been carried out by the forces of the Assad regime for the following reasons;
The munitions used in the attacks were of a type undoubtedly in possession of the regime. Their forces have uploaded videos of themselves loading and launching munitions types that correspond exactly to the ones used in the attacks. In contrast, no one has presented any evidence whatsoever to show that the rebels had access to such munitions.
The massive scale of the attack and the quantities of chemical agents used could only have been manufactured over many years, and by a party possessing sophisticated manufacturing techniques, capabilities which are beyond that of the Syrian opposition. The Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo spent millions of dollars and years of effort to produce sarin that in the end, only managed to kill 13 people, and that in a very confined space, the Tokyo subway.
On March 5th 2014 the UN team investigating the attack concluded that the chemical weapons used in the attack could only have come from the Syrian army's stockpiles. Since the regime has not claimed that any of its stockpiles of chemical weapons had been stolen or have gone missing, this finding rules out any possibility whatsoever of anyone except the Syrian army being responsible for the chemical weapons attacks.
The presence of hexamine in the weapons used is by itself enough to prove the culpability of the regime. It has been described by chemical weapons experts as being "akin to the police finding red lipstick in a woman's purse that matches collar stains on a murder victim"
Doctors Without Borders were present in Ghouta during the attacks, and reported on treating hundreds of patients with symptoms that were consistent with that of a chemical weapons attack.
The rockets used in the attacks had a range of 2.5 km, putting the affected areas well within range of advance regime positions at that date, as evidence by reporting from the area by the Russian language ANNA News
Jabhat Al-Nusra, the group that pro-regimists claim launched the chemical weapons attacks, were never active anywhere near Ghouta, which had been besieged and surrounded by the regime for over a year.
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Designed by the renowned gardener Rosemary Verey, Barnsley House Gardens near Cirencester are a peaceful place to unwind and are open...
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A museum dedicated to miniature versions of the railways, where you can buy your own tiny trains as well.
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County council public library with a wide range of titles. Offers computers with Internet access.
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Celia Lendis Contemporary in the Cotswolds is a prestigious art gallery representing 'artists of integrity whose work expresses an...
Cerney Lodge, North Cerney, Cirencester, GL7 7BX
A 'secret garden' with romantic Victorian features. Host to annual tulip festival in April. Open from January until late October.
Chastleton House and Garden
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