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As I Was Passing the Evening Gate
Posted: May 29, 2021 in Chat
Tags: writing try-outs
In a dream just before waking, I was asked/tasked to make a piece of writing that had three levels of meaning.
I cannot recall who the asking person was, the situation, or any other details.
What I do remember is the line I began with:
As I passing by the evening gate
And then, of course, I woke.
Eventually I managed to reconstruct the short piece. Then tinkered with it, found its form.
And came up with this:
As I was passing evening's gate
an old man fell, and his out-of-date
groceries and softening potatoes rolled
over the busy pavement.
And as I stooped to lift, an awning
in the creaking wind was warning:
Leave him be, Christian man;
your belief's too weak to raise him.
Help will come.
But, when will,
I replied irritably, that be?
The day's getting on,
and keeping time never was
your best invention.
If he is to die there, then he will.
I reached down, he reached up –
already some goods had gone.
What is your name? he asked.
I answered only this,
If, I said.
Did I do it? Three layers?
The main question, though, is: is it presentable? Or have I once again shown myself up in public?
Well, why not.
Some time ago I was playing around with classical forms, I thought I'd try my hand at Hendecasyllables.
They are classical measures, and not really suitable for stress-based language forms, like English. Quite a bit of licence has to go into transposing.
You are apt to think, with license, 'why not go for more', but no, licence has to be used sparingly.
The form used was: u|/u|/uuu/u|/u|, or trochee/trochee/dactyl/trochee/trochee – some forms have a choriamb: u||u for the dactyl
To be fretting unendingly over this thing.
Does it make any difference? Change this, that thing?
Nothing can, there's just too much in there that's tangled,
pulling backward; the built-in and weighted, turgid.
Much too much for just me to accomplish any
changes. What, then? And there it is again: fretting.
Subject open, there's always some hash tasking
somewhere. Even when none of my business.
Always this, then? A temperamental set-up?
Same old vectors that ply their same trade, scam, of
expectations, promissary payments?
Now, with this piece I want you to think/feel 'I could do better than that.' and then have a go. Try it.
Then post it up, and let us know so we can read it and maybe all get a bit better at it.
Tags: Austrian writing, contemporary poetry, european poetry, experimental writing, Friedericke Mayrocker, German language writing, Wiener Gruppe
How to make an assessment of the writings/works of Friederike Mayröcker?
Maybe by not doing so.
For a long time it was Friederike-Mayröcker-and-Ernst-Jandl.
They were inseparable in many way, the ways that really mattered.
They collaborated on performance and radio pieces – their work was more sound art, vocal layering, than what we think of as a 'play', 'drama'.
And between them they won innumerable prizes. Among them the top, Georg Büchner Prize, for Friederike Mayröcker.
Friederike Mayröcker's work has always been distinctive.
The Poetry Foundation site tells us, She is associated with the experimental German writers and artists of the Wiener Gruppe (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/friederike-mayrocker).
Widely and deeply read, the work she has produced is deeply referenced – whether to Robert and Clara Schumann's Marriage Diaries, Samuel Beckett, Jacques Derrida, Friedrich Hölderlin, and probably a huge number that I do not recognise.
And not only European writers: she references Frank O'Hara, Jorie Graham, James Joyce, in Scardanelli alone. Elsewhere she gives John Dowland, Gertrude Stein, Glen Gould, even Blixa Bargeld of Einsturzende Neubauten – in other words, very eclectic.
Friederike-Mayröcker-and-Ernst-Jandl are/were both Austrian writers, born within a few years of each other in 1020s Vienna.
This places them in the same environment and time as Ingeborg Bachmann (born Klagenfurt, Carinthia, but Vienna-based). Her novel, Malina, is based in Vienna's district 6, whilst Friederike Mayröcker has lived a few minutes tram journey away, in district 5, for fifty years or more.
Ernst Jandl.
He wrote he started off as a conventional enough poet, but then he went to a meeting of concrete poets/Dadaists… and the fun they were having, the enjoyment…. Joie de vivre was very much his.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Jandl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPCR17dvfmg
But then he went and died in 2000. After fifty years together.
Her subsequent publications include:
Requiem for Ernst Jandl (2001. Published Seagull Books, 2018),
Embracing the Sparrow Wall Or 1-Schumann-Madness (2011; Oomph Books, 2019),
Scardanelli (2018; The Song Cave, 2018),
chart the loss, and also continuance:
When your soul is bleeding, says Elke Erb, how can you not find words, says Elke Erb, among Mongolia melancholy monochrome and green passers-by, is he not sending you a profusion of loving-souls, and you in their midst…(translation Roslyn Theobald, Requiem for Ernst Jandl)
And you can read here the shifts of register, tone. The repetition is like a reminding, a keeping-concentration, and so not flowing away with distress – there is that, it is part of grieving, has to be allowed/admitted/lived-with.
The text is not public display, nor wholly self-referential, but walks a path where the borders blend. Do not think of strict demarcations between states, intents, because there are none.
And yet the text is here presented for publication. There have been public readings.
This is the personal made the default; the public persona has been ousted. There have been more than enough of those, thank you.
To read/listen, is to navigate the seas, the jungles and seas, of living responsiveness to the self's and the world's demands.
Book blurb gives us:
Tumult, ferocity, flow, immersion… reinterprets literary vocation as total theatre (Wayne Koestenbaum, Scardanelli)
( – Scardanelli is one way Friederich Hölderlin addressed himself in his 'madness'.)
The title of her earlier, 1990s and long out of print selection in translation on Caracanet, is Raving Language
…this quiet but passionate lament grows into a song of enthralling intensity.(Roslyn Theobald, Requiem for Ernst Jandl)
There is also 'quiet… intensity' in Embracing the Sparrow-Wall Amid The Ivy:
whether the wet laundry in my chamber and thinking of Silvie what all she requited to me on that day when HE was buried she slept beside that night because I was afraid to remain alone and the composition >>To Silvia<< by Franz Schubert which haunted me because I had cried a lot and the winter tapped against the glass…
This is not rambling, but following a trail.
Jonathon Larson, translator of, and in his Introduction to, Embracing the Sparrow Wall, writes of her constructions as a 'cloud of sound', and of her 'density and grain of phrasing'.
Her writing purposely eschews construction issues, rules and habits of argument, discussion, the public voice, the 'poetic', for flow that eddies, discovers itself, discovers others.
Musicians are referenced often, and 'orchestration' is one way of describing her writing. And yet musical orchestration is a very regulated transposition of forms.
Her placing of words, phrasings, is with pin-point accuracy of skill. Perhaps this is a kind if transposing.
Of course, this taxes the translator's skills hugely. She has been very fortunate in the ones listed here; they have done the work great service in making it available and also accessible to us.
All this points out the uniqueness of her writing, her forms, purposes.
The Elke Erb quote, above, is interesting.
Elke Erb has lived throug the East German regime, from almost its beginning to its end. With the GDR's iron emphasis on socialist realism and materialism, the survival of the term/concept 'soul' is all the more striking. Is this persistence, or resistance?
Wiki tells us:
In his years of madness, Hölderlin would occasionally pencil ingenuous rhymed quatrains, sometimes of a childlike beauty, which he would sign with fantastic names (most often "Scardanelli") and give fictitious dates from previous or future centuries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hölderlin
Why do I mention this?
The Poetry Foundation tells us She has also cited Friedrich Hölderlin as an important influence, describing his poetry as a type of drug she takes before writing.(https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/friederike-mayrocker)
The disjunction between the tuning-into what Wiki termed the 'childlike beauty', and Poetry Foundation's description of her creation from that: 'the apparently random: the habitual use of collage techniques which layer seemingly disparate levels of experience' is very revealing.
The Institute of Modern Languages site, tells us of : the tension between a playful and freely associative poetics on the one hand, and concentrated discipline on the other.
(https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/research-centres/centre-study-contemporary-womens-writing/languages/german/friederike-mayröcker)
Her earlier work has used the formal format of much experimental work, from the Oulipo writers onwards. We see this in:
Will Wither Like Grass. My Hand too and Pupil
will wither like grass . my foot and my hair and my silentest word
will wither like grass . your mouth your mouth
will wither like grass . how you gaze into me
will wither like grass . my cheek my cheek and the little flower
which you know is there will wither like grass
will wither like grass . your mouth your purple-coloured mouth
will wither like grass . but the night but the mist but the plenitude
will wither like grass will wither like grass
—Translated from the German by Richard Dove http://www.greeninteger.com/green_integer_review/issue_4/Friederike-Mayröcker.htm
David Constatine, in his translations of Frederich Hölderlin writes, 'Hölderlin is a poet we can read with our own atrocious times in mind. He is a deeply religious poet whose fundamental tenet is absence and the threat of meaninglessness. He confronted hopelessness as few writers have, he was what Rilke called "exposed"; but there is no poetry like his for the constant engendering of hope, for the expression, in the body and breath of poems, of the best and most passionate aspirations'
(http://www.jbeilharz.de/hoelderlin/fh.html)
Hope, then, and the 'best and most passionate aspirations' – there I think, we have it.
There is in her writing what she terms, 'tender prose'.
She is very specific and determined about this description. See the interview for Green Integer Review: http://www.greeninteger.com/green_integer_review/issue_4/Friederike-Mayröcker.htm
And so:
The title of her latest book Scardanelli, as we seen, is one name chosen by Frederich Hölderlin in his 'madness' phase.
And if we read the writings of each we see many similarities in style.
She had been working on and towards a language of expression for her grief, and 'Raving Language' was one description.
In contrast, her book, Scardanelli, consists of short – little more than a page at most, often much less -pieces. Lyrical remembrances of walks with Ernst Jandl, friends afterwards, walks in the mountains, Venice.
I say lyrical, because they are marked by emotive recapturing of moments of happiness, stillness.
If we read Frederich Hölderlin's later poems – see James Mitchell's: http://holderlinpoems.com/list_of_poems.html – we see similar short works, that capture similar moments of lyrical recapture.
Each book is different, in style, approach, and this really attracts me.
Rather than holding the same achieved poise in address, she experiments, goes where the need takes. For each book is an event, comes from a need rather than an flow of text, play of language, keeping oneself in the market.
Young Voices on Slavery
Tags: Dutch culture, european history, Flemish writing, Ons Erfdeel, The Low Countries
Let me once again refer you to The Low Countries online site:
https://www.the-low-countries.com/
The site hosts pages on Arts, History, Language, Literature, Society, as well as podcasts.
All these are in English.
They regularly check with readers on how best to improve the site. And so, acknowledge that many have difficulty reading tracts, extended essays etc online. They time-note each piece they publish.
This reading online issue, along with energy use, I am also very aware of, and so am very grateful for this move.
For instance, under the Arts section there is currently The Impact of COVID-19 on Dutch Artists Worldwide. This is noted as a 5 minute reading time piece.
The visuals are all very high quality, articles, reviews, news all up-to-date, high quality, and very pertinent to all readers.
There is material here in translation that is not available elsewhere.
One of the Series articles the site runs is Young Voices On Slavery, which I heartily recommend:
https://the-low-countries.com/series/young-voices-on-slavery
If you read no other on this site, you must read this one.
Here, we read, Eighteen young Flemish and Dutch authors from deBuren's Paris writing residency give a voice to an artefact from the Slavery exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
Because this is a joint online enterprise with The Low Countries, the works are copyrighted, and cannot be published elsewhere.
This is an excellent enterprise, and not one I have come across elsewhere.
The exhibition opens plantation cash books, contracts of slavers and other artefacts, for young writers' responses.
There is really good work here.
As well as bringing the reality of the practices into contemporary concerns, linking the Black Lives Matter campaign, and recognising all nations contributions to the promotion and development of slavery.
The residency maintains the relevance of history into present day awareness.
Of the many works here, one that particularly appealed to myself, was the work by Elsbet De Pauw: a line, a house, a skin.
I had originally intended to reproduce this work, along with links, but copyright issues prevented it.
It is the intelligence of this response that struck something in me.
And this is the only work by this writer available in English translation.
I do really hope to read more of this writer. She has nothing, as yet, available on the Poetry International site, either.
https://www.poetryinternational.org/pi/home
Other Series pages are : On the Shoulders of Old Masters; Old Works Young Writers; Our Colonial Legacy; Migration, the Other way Round
This site is full of glorious wonders. I urge you to explore.
https://www.the-low-countries.com/#
The White Rose Thorn
Tags: Cultural history, cultural studies, Der Rosendorn, Early German Verse, Medieval culture, Parody
There is a 13th century German poem, Der Rosendorn, that tells of an overheard dialogue between a young woman and her vagina.
O-k.
But then an excerpt of this poem was found used as the binding of another book. Only this binding excerpt dated at two hundred years' previous to the complete copy.
The woman and her vagina part company, and each goes off to prove which of them men do really want/love/value.
But we know it will not end well.
Neither comes back with a good tale to tell.
And to to get the two back together again?
With the aid of … some kind of… nail….
This is not about personal emotion or response, but public art/poetry.
It is about bragging, posturing, attitude.
It is essential we do not confuse the two.
The relationship between them, though, is very complexly reciprocal, and constantly shifting, one copying the other which then copies the copy etc.
Poems of this vintage were not uncommon in medieval literature, with other examples known from France, and in England, sexual vulgarity was a frequent theme of Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Rosendorn
We see examples in Rufinus from the Greek Anthology parodying the Three Graces. I only have to mention Catullus and Lesbia, and in Medieval Latin: The Virgin and the Nightingale: 1983: Fleur Adcock, Translator, The Virgin and the Nightingale: Medieval Latin poems, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books,[9] ISBN 978-0-906427-55-2
The poem is a piece of purposeful ribaldry.
Take, for instance, the first encounter – that of an enclosed garden.
This is a deliberate parody on the symbolic virginity of maidenhood, through the imagery of the Virgin Mary.
The woman is the inverse of the courtly tradition's paragon of the female, just as the whole purpose of the piece is that of light/ribald entertainment, and using tradition forms, not heroic stanzas in parody.
Amour courtois comes in for a drubbing.
So, what was the purpose of poems like these? Their use of plain language for body parts adds a frisson – Wiki tells us:
The Germanist Coxon suggests that their closest relative in ribaldry would have been the Fastnachtsspiele of carnival and shrovetide.[8]
There were times, then, like the time of the 'lord of misrule' over the Christmas period, like May morning, when laws were relaxed, and revelery allowed.
If you do visit the Wiki page, above, you will see a 14th century metal brooch from Bruges, of a vagina being paraded by three penises.
Apparently metal brooches like this were popular.
'The Passenger', Belgian installation art
Posted: May 5, 2021 in John Stammers Page
The monumental architectural installation 'The Passenger' in Mons was brought down today, ending a five-and-a-half-year run arching over the narrow Rue Nimy. The work was created by Belgian artist Arne Quinze and erected in 2015 during the European Capital of Culture celebrations.
https://www.thebulletin.be/passenger-wooden-sculpture-mons-comes-end
For more on Arne Quinze, see:
https://www.arnequinze.com
And, the end of The Passenger:
https://www.arnequinze.com/atelier-studio/demolition-of-the-passenger
I love this work.
Also, from Belgium
When you thought the Care Home/Nursing Home catastrophe was so terrible, a ray of fun/sun:
https://www.thebulletin.be/molenbeek-nursing-home-produces-hilarious-send-frozen
As for Thérésa, she told RTL that it took quite a lot of prodding from Youssef to get her to agree to be the star of the show. "You might not believe it, but I'm extremely shy," she said. "But I wasn't myself anymore; I had become the Snow Queen."
Glorious! Wonderful people.


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Kurt Waldheim: A Comparative 'Reminiscence'
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contributed by Dr Myint Zan
With the death of Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007) the world now has (only) three instead of four former UN Secretaries-General alive. For nearly six months when Kofi Annan retired on the last day of 2006 after serving two terms as the seventh UN Secretary-General there were an unprecedented four former UN Secretaries-General. The obituaries of Dr. Waldheim that the writer has read deals mainly with his Nazi past and in comparison not much mention is made of Waldheim's achievements and failures when he was at the helm of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981.
It is not for me to further add to what Time magazine obituary has called the 'Waldheim affair' i.e. the 'discovery' and publicity of his Nazi past, his evasions and to put it diplomatically 'untruths' or partial truths he had made when this issue came to the fore in 1986. The discovery and controversy regarding Waldheim's Nazi past took place nearly five years after he was forced to retire from the helm of the United Nations in December 1981 when he successfully campaigned for the Austrian presidency. (Waldheim had also unsuccessfully campaigned for the presidency of Austria in 1971 – the year he became UN Secretary-General.)
Instead, I intend to discuss the issue of campaigning for the UN Secretary-General position which, roughly, started in what can now being called the Waldheim era. It is now established practice within and outside UN circles that when a UN Secretary-General retires (as in the case of voluntary retirements of U Thant, the third UN Secretary-General, Javier Perez de Cuellar, the fifth, Kofi Annan, the seventh as well as in the 'involuntary retirements' of Waldheim himself in 1981 and Boutros Boutros-Ghali in 1996) there is from both within and outside the UN circles 'campaigning' for the job. The first three Secretaries-General of the UN did not 'campaign' for the job and there was, during those times of the selection for the Secretary-General position, much less –if any- 'campaigning' at all by the candidates whose names have been mentioned as possible UN Secretaries-General. In those good old days it was the office that sought the person rather than the other way around.
Urgent Notice
The Malacca Bar regrets to inform that the wife of Mr Markhan Singh had passed away and the funeral is scheduled at 2 pm today. For more information, kindly contact Lawrence Ang of the Malacca Bar Committee office.
The Malacca Bar Committee extends its deepest symphaty and joins Mr Markhan in his loss and sorrows.
Law Awareness Day 2007
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On 21st July 2007, the Multimedia University School of Law organized a Law Awareness Day within their campus for their law students with the assistance of the Malacca Young Lawyers and Chambering Pupils Committee. Five prominent members of the Malacca Bar were invited to speak on their life as lawyers in their respective fields of practice.
The 2nd to 4th year students were already anticipating an "interesting" talk from our panel of speakers for the day and Wong Fook Meng started the talk by giving an overview of the transition from law school to legal practice and the challenges facing a "young" practitioner. Chee Kong Chi was then invited to speak about life as a corporate lawyer. With his vast experience, he astounded even the lawyers in attendance about what corporate legal practice entails. Phrases like Reverse Take Over (RTO) and Mergers and Acquisition (M&A) would have baffled many, but Chee advised the students that beyond the conundrum of legal terms, "soft skills" were equally as important for a lawyer.
Malacca High Court
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posted by Wong Fook Meng
Kindly be informed that the Malacca High Court Judge will be attending a Judges' Conference from 15th to 20th August 2007 and will be in the Kuala Lumpur High Court to hear part heard matters from 21st to 24th August 2007.
Furthermore, for cases fixed on 14th August 2007, only uncontested matters will be heard. Contested hearings and full trial will be adjourned.
Malacca Bar Idol Nite at the Melaka Charity Nite
contributed by Pierre Lim and Desmond Ho
What do the Bee Gees, Willie Nelson, Everly Brothers and a Mandarin rendition of a Chinese nursery rhyme, "Father Is Not Home", have in common? Why, nothing of course! Except that they were all sung by our very own Bar Idols and members of the Malacca Bar on the first ever Malacca Bar Idol competition in conjunction with the West Coast Charity Night jointly organized by 4 state Young Lawyers Committees.
The fund-raiser, attended by more than 110 people which was organised in Malacca together with the Liason, Charity and Welfare Sub- Committee of the Malacca Bar in aid of the Pusat Kanak-kanak Terencat Akal Bahagia witnessed a Malaccan version of the Popular TV Show American Idol, featuring our very own panel of the famous threesome, Simon Ng Kong Peng, Randy Desmond Ho and Paula Fiona Tan. It was an evening to remember as our Bar Idol hopefuls belted out tune after tune of tone-challenged popular hits much to the delight of the diners. And that's not all folks. We had a "slave auction" in which a rather sporting member of the Malacca Bar volunteered his "Man-Friday" services for the night to the highest bidder, all in the name of good fun and charity. Our Man-Friday did not only raise funds from the auction but when his Master for the night instructed him to sing, he was paid to stop singing candidly by another Bar member.
Meeting with Hospital Melaka
On 28th May 2007, the Liaison, Charity & Welfare Sub-Committee of the Malacca Bar, headed by Mr. Nizam Bashir organized a meeting between the Bar Committee members and the administrators of Hospital Melaka. The purpose of the visit was to address problems or matters that arose in our fellow member's dealings with the hospital administration and staff and to seek further cooperation in other areas of concern.
Dr Hj Abu Bakar bin Mohamud, the Pengarah of Hospital Melaka chaired the meeting which began at 2:30pm. The meeting was well attended by his officers from the respective departments. The Bar Committee was represented by Ng Kong Peng (Chairman of the Malacca Bar), Sekar Palaniandy, Jaspal Singh Gill, Fiona Tan, Nizam Bashir and Desmond Ho.

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Macquarie's Green Investment Group to develop 1GW solar and battery portfolio
By solarinsider On Jun 30, 2020
The Green Investment Group, once owned by the UK Government and now owned by Australia's Macquarie Group, will partner with UK renewable energy developer Enso Energy to build a pipeline of solar and battery projects across the UK which will start with an initial 1GW of subsidy-free solar capacity.
Launched by the UK Government in 2012 as the Green Investment Bank, but purchased by Macquarie in 2017 and combined with Macquarie Capital's renewables team, the Green Investment Group (GIG) is one of the world's largest teams of specialist green infrastructure developers and investors.
The two companies say the joint venture was established with the aim to create one of the UK's largest subsidy-free solar and battery storage portfolios, which will deliver clean energy to communities and businesses across the country."
The new JV will start out by using newly available solar tracking and bifacial solar technology which will serve to ensure that the electricity produced per hectare is maximised, which in turn will reduce the physical footprint of each project, the partners say.
With initial projects already grid secured and being submitted for planning approval, GIG and Enso are already conducting virtual community consultations to ensure that the views of the relevant local communities are being taken into consideration.
The existing pipeline of in-development projects are spread across England and Wales, and are backed by Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) which will provide predictably priced power to UK businesses while, in turn, helping to reduce their carbon footprint.
"Both Macquarie's Green Investment Group and Enso Energy are totally committed to an ambitious programme of large-scale solar development," said Ian Harding and Andrew King, co-founders of Enso Energy[1]. "This partnership brings together two organisations that share the same vision, to dramatically accelerate the delivery of the benefits of low-cost solar energy to communities up and down the country"
"From our origins in the UK as the world's first green investment bank, GIG has grown into a global green energy powerhouse while remaining steadfastly committed to accelerating the UK's transition to a greener economy," added Edward Northam, Head of Green Investment Group Europe[2].
"The UK's solar market holds huge potential to create green jobs and help the UK get closer to its aim of becoming a Net Zero economy. By combining GIG's deep technical and financial capabilities with Enso's highly experienced development team, our partnership has the skills and expertise to unlock that potential, bringing low-cost, low-carbon power to communities right across the UK."
An April report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance[3] showed that solar PV and onshore wind are now the cheapest sources of new-build electricity generation for at least two-thirds of the global population, while battery storage is now the cheapest new-build technology for peaking purposes in gas importing regions such as Europe, China, or Japan.
Another important aspect of the new pipeline of projects is the priority on significantly enhancing the biodiversity of each site through the provision of a range of resources for local wildlife. Specifically, the new JV will provide each development with a Biodiversity Net Gain Assessment to demonstrate the benefits of each project.
^ said Ian Harding and Andrew King, co-founders of Enso Energy (www.ensoenergy.co.uk)
^ added Edward Northam, Head of Green Investment Group Europe (www.greeninvestmentgroup.com)
^ April report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (about.bnef.com)
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The best restaurants, cafes, and sights for a date in Amsterdam.
Romantic spots along the swoon-worthy canals
The Magere Brug
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Make Out Under the Magere Brug
Stand on this drawbridge structure connecting the banks of the river Amstel and you'll notice that the couples aboard the tour boats beneath you are pashing with abandon. The reason? Legend has it that a kiss under the Magere Brug (literally "skinny bridge") will secure eternal fidelity. This, along with the spectacular views over the city's eastern reaches mean it's also a favored place for marriage proposals.
Make Time for a Romantic Meal
Inhabiting the cobbled intersection of two of the city's most eye-blisteringly picturesque waterways (the Brouwersgracht and the Herengracht) this low-lit, art nouveau-styled Restaurant de Belhalmel encompasses the warm, syrupy feeling that locals love to describe as gezellig. Swans glide by, wee boats bob along on the canals, and, as the light fades, the place becomes a dazzling radiator of cinematic perfection.
Take a Ride in Amsterdam's Gondola
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Inside Bitcoin (Aug 20th, 2019)
Market Watch: The market continues to change with prices dipping into the red during trading Tuesday over a 24-hour period.
Bitcoin: $10,672 (⬇ 0.34%) // $190.8 billion market cap.
Ethereum: $197 (⬇ 1.82%) // $21.1 billion market cap.
XRP: $0.275 (⬇ 3.24%) // $11.7 billion market cap.
Bitcoin Cash: $317 (⬇1.93%) // $5.7 billion market cap.
Top 100 Winner: Ethereum Classic: $5.94 (⬆ 5.76%) // $670 million market cap.
Top 100 Loser: Egretia: $0.030 (⬇ 14.29%) // $128 million market cap.
Prices are as of 10:50 a.m. EDT.
1. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, the founders of crypto exchange Gemini, have indicated that they are open to joining Mark Zuckerberg's Libra Association. The history between the three is hard to ignore given the legal battle with Zuckerberg over who invented Facebook. Yet, it seems that the twins are willing to let bygones be bygones. In an interview, Cameron said that there will be a day in the future where people "can't live without crypto." Whether or not they join, they both believe that Libra is a positive step forward for the industry. The Libra Association already has 28 founding members such as Mastercard, PayPal, and Uber. Interestingly, though, the founding members have, reportedly, yet to become official. In July, it was noted that while they had signed a "nonbinding letter of intent," communicating their interest in joining, not one member had officially joined. –CNN BUSINESS
2. A 39-year-old man has been sentenced after scheming to sell drugs through the dark web for cryptocurrencies. According to a U.S. Department of Justice notice, Sky Justin Gornik pleaded guilty to the charges. As part of his guilty plea, he agreed to forfeit "millions of dollars" in crypto assets including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, and Stratis. This he had built up as part of his drug trading, which were held on the Bittrex and Poloniex exchanges. A police raid saw law enforcement seizing 1.7 grams of carfentanil and sheets of fentanyl gelatin tablets. He's reported to have bought and sold the controlled substances between 2014 and June 7, 2017. –COIN DESK
3. Erik Finman, who became the youngest Bitcoin millionaire after betting on the crypto asset when he was 12, has said that peer-to-peer payment app Metal Pay will kill Facebook's proposed stablecoin Libra. In partnership with Marshall Hayner, the former co-founder of Bitcoin wallet QuickCoin, the two are launching what they hope will become an "all in one" cryptocurrency banking platform. It will feature a 17 crypto asset digital exchange, a digital bank, and social features. Taking to Twitter, the 20-year-old - who offers advice to young investors - declared that they will "finally bring crypto to the people in ways that Facebook Libra only wishes they could." –COINTELEGRAPH
4. Glenn Fogel, the newly-appointed CEO of online travel platform Booking Holdings, has said in an interview that the acceptance of cryptocurrencies will continue to grow outside of the U.S. His response was in answer to where he saw the future direction of payment systems in travel. The CEO of Booking Holdings, which is one of the founding members of the Libra Association, said that he believes in a new form of global currency that is "protected and secure." Unlike the U.S., which has a well-established credit card system, Fogel notes, he said currencies with a blockchain base will be more widely accepted across the globe. –SKIFT
5. Jeremy Allaire, the CEO of Circle, has said that people are interested in "a non-sovereign digital asset like Bitcoin" because they have greater control over the movement of their capital. According to Allaire, it is the "digital gold thesis," and the concern for capital controls in different environments that has had an impact on Bitcoin for the past eight years. At the end of July, Allaire testified in front of the U.S. Congress to say that crypto assets should be considered a "new asset class." –CNBC
6. Israeli Bitcoin holders have taken legal action against local banks demanding that they provide policies regarding cryptocurrency accounts. According to a report, banks are refusing to open accounts where they can deposit money from cryptocurrency sales. A freedom of information act has been filed by the Israel Bitcoin Association asking the Bank of Israel to disclose copies of policies from each bank in Israel regarding cryptocurrency. –GLOBES
7. Another person claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto has surfaced. According to a blog post published by PR firm Ivy McLemore and Associates, the so-called creator has three pieces of proof that confirm this. The first focuses on the origin story of Bitcoin, the second on the name Satoshi Nakamoto, while the third highlights that it will not only reveal who Satoshi is, but an improved version of Bitcoin called Tabula Rasa. –DECRYPT
8. A Supreme Court judge in British Columbia, Canada, has denied a motion to set aside an asset freeze that involved defendants in a $30 million cryptocurrency fraud case. Lisa Angela Cheng and Kevin Patrick Hobbs are accused of committing fraud, tax evasion, and money laundering. According to the report, the B.C. Civil Forfeiture Office seized a luxury Coal Harbour townhouse, two Range Rover SUVs, and funds in Bank of Montreal accounts as a result of crime proceeds. –THE PROVINCE
9. Amaten, a Japanese gift card platform, is teaming up with blockchain network provider Aelf to issue tokenized gift cards. The partnership will see Amaten build its blockchain framework on top of Aelf, helping to turn gift cards into digital assets, which can then be managed and exchanged on the blockchain. According to Amaten chairman Tom Kanazawa, this is the perfect use case for the blockchain and is bringing the gift card industry out of the 90s. –VERDICT
10. Mark Mobius, a veteran investor, has said that people should consider buying gold, which will rise in value as cryptocurrencies increase. He also said that those who invest in gold will reap rewards over the long-term and is convinced that central banks loose monetary policy will help to push the yellow metal's price up. –BNN BLOOMBERG
This newsletter was written and curated by Rebecca Campbell. She has been writing and reporting on various industries for the past 10 years, more specifically tech in the last three. Connect with her on Twitter.
Editor: David Stegon (senior editor at Inside, whose reporting experience includes cryptocurrency and technology).
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Welcome to Baotou, the largest industrial city in Inner Mongolia. I'm here with a group of architects and designers called the Unknown Fields Division, and this is the final stop on a three-week-long journey up the global supply chain, tracing back the route consumer goods take from China to our shops and homes, via container ships and factories.
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Examining the Effect of Teleconferences on Oncology Phase 1 Trials
Alexandra Mckane1, Chao Sima2, Sharon Fleck1, Glen J. Weiss1,2,
1. Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center Clinical Trials at Scottsdale Healthcare, Scottsdale, AZ, USA;
2. The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Mckane A, Sima C, Fleck S, Weiss GJ. Examining the Effect of Teleconferences on Oncology Phase 1 Trials. J Cancer 2013; 4(6):464-467. doi:10.7150/jca.6626. Available from http://www.jcancer.org/v04p0464.htm
Objective: Phase 1 clinical trials are the first stage of clinical development of an investigational agent. Because the trials often take place at several geographically dispersed sites, safety teleconferences are held to update investigators and the drug sponsor on safety information and other pertinent business related to the trial conduct. Here we examine associations between the frequency of teleconferences and other clinical trial factors on trial conduct efficiency.
Methods: We examined Phase 1 clinical trials for patients with solid tumors opened for enrollment at a single, non-profit cancer center in Arizona (Center) that had completed at least three dose levels. The following information was included: safety teleconference frequency, whether or not the sponsor or contract research organization sent follow-up requests for updates on patient accrual, and safety outside of scheduled safety teleconferences. The dose escalation scheme, route of study drug administration and formulation type (e.g. oral targeted therapy or monoclonal antibody) was also included.
Results: Forty-nine Phase 1 studies were examined for inclusion. The majority of safety teleconferences were regularly scheduled (81.6%) with most taking place bi-weekly (46.9%). Additional solicitation for updates outside of scheduled safety teleconferences were requested during the conduct of 31 (63.3%) studies. None of the factors analyzed were significantly associated with accrual, subject dosing, and dose escalation.
Conclusion: We found that the frequency of teleconferences does not appear to expedite phase 1 study accrual, subject dosing, or dose escalation in the first 3 cohorts of a phase 1 clinical trial.
Keywords: Phase 1 clinical trials, teleconferences
A phase 1 clinical trial is the first stage of clinical development of an investigational agent towards evaluating safety and toxicity and to determine the recommended phase 2 dose [1]. With the typical phase 1 trial geographically dispersed at multiple sites, safety teleconferences are held to update investigators and the study sponsor on potential drug safety issues, dose escalation scheduling, and other pertinent business regarding the conduct of the trial. Study sponsors may hire a contract research organization (CRO) or organize their own in-house study administrators to oversee study accrual and cohort dose escalation at the study site(s) [2]. Although direction has been given on promoting the productivity of teleconferences [3], there has been no published research on how the timing and frequency of these safety teleconferences may affect consenting, dosing, and dose escalation. Here we examine interactions between the frequency of teleconferences with the date of consenting, dosing, and cohort escalation; and their effect on trial conduct efficiency.
All information was collected after local institutional review board approval with a data cutoff date of July 31, 2012. We included in this study only Phase 1 clinical trials for patients with solid tumors opened for enrollment between January 2006 and July 2012 at a single, non-profit cancer center in Arizona (Center) that had completed at least three dose levels. The following information was examined: safety teleconference frequency and whether or not the sponsor/CRO send follow-up requests for updates on patient accrual and safety outside of scheduled safety teleconferences. Because of various study designs and other potential factors that might interfere with dose escalation [1], data collection was limited to only the first three dose levels from each study. This included: the opening date for the first three dose levels, date the first subject on each cohort consented, date the first subject dosed on each cohort, and if there was a dose-limiting toxicity (DLT) on a given cohort. Information about whether the study sponsor hired a CRO or kept study administration inhouse was included. The dose escalation schema, route of study drug administration and formulation type (injectable targeted therapy, oral targeted therapy, oral and injectable targeted therapy, cytotoxic therapy, or monoclonal antibody) was also included. A sponsor was designated as either a "small cap" or "large cap" firm based on its market capitalization (below or above $1.5 billion; respectively, as of July 2012). Phase 2 or 3 studies were excluded from this analysis. Studies lacking a recorded date of the first safety teleconference and/or those that did not have any patients enrolled on the first cohort at Center were censored for this information but included in the overall analysis.
Statistical Evaluation
For each study, days between cohorts opening and first patient consenting were computed for all three dose escalation cohorts and then averaged (Consenting - Opening). The same calculation was done between cohorts opening and first patient dosing (Dosing - Opening) and the first patient consenting and the first patient dosing (Dosing - Consenting). Additionally, days between the first cohort opening and the first teleconference (when available) was computed (1st Teleconference -1st Opening). Association analyses of these timelines with different factors (listed in Table 2), as well as, first-in-human (FIH) and non-FIH studies were carried out using Kruskal Wallis test.
Forty-nine Phase 1 studies were examined for inclusion. We were not able to procure the date of the first safety teleconference for eight out of the 49 included studies. Characteristics of the study collected are listed in Table 1. The most common type of study drug formulation was an injectable targeted therapy (46.9%) or was administered orally (36.7%). Forty-one of the studies were FIH trials (83.7%). Most of the study sponsors were companies with a market value of less than $1.5 billion, or "small cap" (65.3%). The majority of safety teleconferences were regularly scheduled (81.6%) with most taking place bi-weekly (46.9%) and only nine (18.4%) teleconferences were conducted irregularly. Of these nine studies, three of the sponsors did not send any requests for patient updates.
A majority of the administrators made requests for patient safety and enrollment updates outside of teleconferences via email (63.3%). A majority (61.2%) of the study sponsors contracted with outside CROs to conduct and/or monitor the clinical trial. The dose escalation schema used consisted mainly of the modified Fibonacci "3+3" sequence (67.3%), followed by "accelerated titration" (24.5%), then finally "other" (8.2%).
We analyzed the effect of time of cohort opening to patient consent, time of cohort opening to subject dosing, and time of consent to subject dosing and to see if any of these measures were significantly associated with the frequency of safety teleconferences, dose escalation schema, route of study drug administration, use of a CRO, or sponsor's size (market capitalization). For all comparisons, none of these factors had a significant association (Kruskal Wallis test; all p-values > 0.05) (Table 2). We did not find any statistically significant differences between FIH studies and non-FIH studies (data not shown). There were too few DLT events (n=7 with each one occurring in a separate study) within the cohort dose escalations to incorporate into our analyses across these 49 studies.
There are no formal guidelines or data that we are aware of that define clinical trial conduct efficiency. We posit that if there are potentially measurable items that can be identified and prolong the time to subject consent, subject dosing, and cohort dose escalation. Prolongation of these timeframes can have impact on the drug development process. Safety teleconferences are a common way for a clinical trial study administrator to communicate with researchers at a clinical trials site and instantaneously to share relevant information with each other. However, with the digital age offering other alternatives such as email, we wonder if there may be even more efficient ways to communicate rapidly when required.
Characteristics of Included Studies (N=49).
Method of Administration Number of Studies (n=49)
Injectable targeted therapy 23 (46.9%)
Oral targeted therapy 18 (36.7%)
Monoclonal Antibody 4 (8.2%)
Cytotoxic therapy 3 (6.1%)
Oral and injectable targeted therapy 1 (2.1%)
Sponsor Size by Market capitalization Number of Studies (n=49)
Small** 32 (65.3%)
Large* 17 (34.7%)
Frequency of Teleconferences Number of Studies (n=49)
Bi-weekly 23(46.9%)
Weekly 17 (34.7%)
Irregular 9 (18.4%)
Requests outside of teleconferences Number of Studies (n=49)
Requests made 31 (63.3%)
No requests made 18 (36.7%)***
Drug Administration Modality Number of Studies (n=49)
CRO (Trial administrated by a contract research organization) 30 (61.2%)
In-house (Trial administrated by the sponsor) 19 (38.8%)
Dose Escalation Schema Number of Studies (n=49)
3+3 (modified Fibonacci) 33 (67.3%)
Accelerated titration 12 (24.5%)
Other 4 (8.2%)
Key: *Large = market capitalization > $1.5 billion USD as of July 2012; **Small = market capitalization ≤ $1.5 billion USD as of July 2012; "Irregular" = safety teleconference calls were > 4 weeks apart from one another. *** 3 out of these 18 studies had irregularly scheduled calls.
Analyses for Time against Key Events.
Effect of Time of 1st Safety Teleconference To First Cohort Opening (N=41) p-value
Dose Escalation Schema 0.07
Drug Administration Modality 0.42
Teleconference Frequency 0.88
Whether or not a CRO was used 0.98
Study sponsor size 0.65
Requests outside of teleconferences 0.96
Effect of Time of Cohort Opening to Consent (N=49)
Effect of Time of Cohort Opening to Subject Dosing (N=49)
Effect of Time of Consent to Subject Dosing (N=49)
Our data suggests that weekly and bi-weekly scheduled teleconferences are likely excessive and unnecessary for oncology phase 1 clinical trial conduct efficiency. Furthermore, the use of CROs for trial administration did not influence any of the factors analyzed. Besides the regularly scheduled safety teleconferences, additional information was often solicited by the study sponsor in the interval between teleconferences. Consequently, it can be concluded that any questions, concerns, or safety issues that may arise during the conduct of the study could be disseminated via email without impediment to successful patient enrollment, patient consent, and dose escalation on a clinical trial. Based on our data, we would suggest ad hoc teleconference meetings should a safety issue arise and not schedule regular meetings, while maintaining frequent, as needed communication by email to report adverse events and potential accrual issues. This can be of further value as globalization of studies becomes more common and significant differences in time zones adds to safety teleconferencing scheduling constraints.
Our analysis and conclusions may be limited by the small sample size. Additionally, clinical trial cohort opening dates was limited to information available at the Center. Approximately 75% of the 25 first-in-human single-agent phase I trials (1992-2008) for anticancer agents that were eventually approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of solid tumors exceeded 4 dose levels [4]. Because DLTs are rare events in the initial dose escalation of oncology phase 1 clinical trials [4] we were not able to get a statistically significant sample size of DLTs to analyze in relation to teleconferences and cohort expansion timing. In addition, meaningful assessment of the role of regularly vs. irregularly scheduled safety teleconferences to ensure safety cannot be answered. In this study, we found that the frequency of teleconferences does not appear to expedite phase 1 study accrual, subject dosing, or dose escalation in the first three cohorts of a phase 1 clinical trial. To our knowledge there are no pharmaceutical industry or CRO data addressing how the frequency of teleconferences may affect phase 1 clinical trial efficiency. An economic analysis on the time and wages for staffing at the CRO, study site(s), and sponsor should be considered to further evaluate the cost contribution of inefficient safety teleconferences on drug development.
We thank the patients, clinical trial team, and data managers for their contributions and assistance in procuring teleconference data.
1. Caldwell S, Sima C, Jameson G, Fleck S, Weiss GJ. Factors Influencing Time to Determination of the Recommended Phase 2 Dose in Phase 1 Clinical Trials. Am J Clin Oncol. 2013;36:146-50
2. Goldenberg NA, Spyropoulos AC, Halperin JL. et al. Improving academic leadership and oversight in large industry-sponsored clinical trials: the ARO-CRO model. Blood. 2011;117:2089-92
3. Follow These Steps to a Productive Teleconference: Assign Specific Tasks, Outline Agenda, and Highlight Objectives to Avoid Confusion. Urology Times. 2001Nov:38
4. Le Tourneau C, Lee JJ, Siu LL. Dose escalation methods in phase I cancer clinical trials. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2009;101:708-20
Corresponding author: Glen J. Weiss, M.D. Cancer Treatment Centers of America, 14200 W. Celebrate Life Way, Goodyear, AZ 85338. Phone: 623-207-3000 Fax: 623-207-3003 Email: Glen.Weisscom.


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Volume 18, Number 1—January 2012
Early Detection of Pandemic (H1N1) 2009, Bangladesh
Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner , Mustafizur Rahman, Abdullah Al Mamun, Mohammad Sabbir Haider, Rashid Uz Zaman, Polash Chandra Karmakar, Sharifa Nasreen, Syeda Mah-E Muneer, Nusrat Homaira, Doli Rani Goswami, Be-Nazir Ahmed, Mohammad Mushtuq Husain, Khondokar Mahbuba Jamil, Selina Khatun, Mujaddeed Ahmed, Apurba Chakraborty, Alicia Fry, Marc-Alain Widdowson, Joseph S. Bresee, Tasnim Azim, A.S.M. Alamgir, Abdullah Brooks, Mohamed Jahangir Hossain, Alexander Klimov, Mahmudur Rahman, and Stephen P. Luby
Author affiliations: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh (E. Azziz-Baumgartner, M. Rahman, A.A. Mamun, R.U. Zaman, P.C. Karmakar, S. Nasreen, S. Mah-E-Muneer, N. Homaira, D.R. Goswami, A. Chakraborty, T. Azim, A. Brooks, M.J. Hossain, S.P. Luby); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (E. Azziz-Baumgartner, A. Fry, M.-A. Widdowson, J. Bresee, A. Klimov, S.P. Luby); Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, Dhaka (M.S. Haider, B.-N. Ahmed, M.M. Husain, K.M. Jamil, A. Chakraborty, A.S.M. Alamgir, M. Rahman); World Health Organization, Dhaka (S. Khatun, M. Ahmed)
To explore Bangladesh's ability to detect novel influenza, we examined a series of laboratory-confirmed pandemic (H1N1) 2009 cases. During June–July 2009, event-based surveillance identified 30 case-patients (57% travelers); starting July 29, sentinel sites identified 252 case-patients (1% travelers). Surveillance facilitated response weeks before the spread of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 infection to the general population.
After 2 children in North America were confirmed to have pandemic (H1N1) 2009 infections on April 17, 2009 (1), the virus rapidly spread throughout the world. By July 2, 2009, Southeast Asia had reported 1,866 cases (2). Officials worried about the effects of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 on the 147,030,000 million population (1,021 persons/km2) of Bangladesh (3), where 41% of children <5 years of age are underweight (4). These concerns prompted Bangladesh to leverage 3 existing surveillance systems (5), preparedness plans, and personal protective equipment and oseltamivir stockpiles to guide the response to the pandemic.
During April 2009, Bangladesh enhanced surveillance by implementing border screenings. Upon identification of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 in the general population, Bangladesh encouraged physicians to empirically treat patients who had acute respiratory infection with free oseltamivir if they had risk factors for complications from influenza (i.e., age <5 years or >65 years; diabetes; chronic heart, lung, or liver disease; asthma; neurologic, neuromuscular, hematologic, or metabolic disorders; immune suppression; cancer; obesity; pregnancy; danger signs [rapid, labored or noisy breathing, lethargy, cyanosis, inability to drink, or convulsion], or hospitalization) (6). We report the effects of this strategy on a case-series of laboratory-confirmed pandemic (H1N1) 2009 infection identified through enhanced surveillance.
Figure 1. Location of 12 sentinel-site surveillance hospitals (red crosses) and of persons confirmed as infected with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus during June 2009–October 2010, Bangladesh. Open circles indicate case-patients identified during 2009;...
During 2007, Bangladesh started event-based surveillance for the early detection of public health events of international concern. At 6 government and 6 private hospitals (Figure 1), physicians identified >2 epidemiologically linked severe acute respiratory infections, defined as subjective fever within the past 21 days and cough or sore throat (5), or severe pneumonia, defined as cough or difficulty breathing, chest in-drawing, stridor while calm, convulsions, inability to drink, lethargy, unconsciousness, or intractable vomiting. During April through November 2009, staff also administered ≈455,000 questionnaires to incoming land and air passengers, contacts, and referrals and collected throat and nasal swab specimens from those who reported cough, sore throat, or shortness of breath and had fever >38°C when assessed with thermal scanners.
During 2007, Bangladesh started sentinel-site surveillance for the early detection of novel influenza. During 2 days per month, physicians collected swab specimens from ambulatory case-patients at hospital clinics with influenza-like illnesses defined as sudden onset fever and cough or sore throat. Physicians also collected swab specimens from children <5 years of age hospitalized with severe pneumonia and person >5 years of age with severe acute respiratory infections (Figure 1).
To explore the epidemiology of seasonal influenza, community-based surveillance began in Bangladesh during 2004. Teams visited an estimated 6,600 preselected households 2×/week to identify acute respiratory infections, defined as the manifestation of 1 major sign (i.e., reported fever; rapid, labored or noisy breathing; lethargy; cyanosis; inability to drink; or convulsion) or 2 minor signs (i.e., cough, rhinorrhea, sore throat, muscle/joint pain, chills, headache, irritability, decreased activity, or vomiting). During 2008, Bangladesh also established a birth cohort of 334 children to explore the potential effects of influenza on their development. Teams visited preselected households 2×/week to identify acute respiratory infections among children <2 years of age. At both sites, teams referred case-patients to physicians who collected nasal wash specimens and provided free care.
Laboratorians tested samples from the 3 surveillance systems for pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus by using real-time reverse transcription PCR (7). Investigators shipped a convenience subset of 28 virus samples to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, for antiviral testing and strain characterization.
Investigators described the epidemiology, health-seeking, treatment, and outcome of case-patients who had laboratory-confirmed subtype H1N1 infection by using Pearson χ2, Fisher exact, and Wilcoxon rank-sum tests when appropriate. To estimate case-fatality proportion, teams telephoned case-patients or their families >1 month after illness onset.
The Government of Bangladesh conducted enhanced event-based surveillance in the context of emergency response. Ethics committees approved sentinel and community-based surveillance protocols.
Figure 2. Date of onset of confirmed illness in case-patients with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 by surveillance platform, May 2009–October 2010, Bangladesh.
During June 2009–October, 2010, Bangladesh tested ≈500 passengers, 6 severe acute respiratory infection/severe pneumonia clusters, 5,000 persons identified by sentinel survelliance, and 6,000 persons identified by community-based survelliance and identified 1,371 laboratory-confirmed cases of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 infection (Table 1). During June–July 2009, most (29/30 [97%]) case-patients were identified through event-based surveillance; 17 (63%) were travelers. A rapid increase in the number of sentinel-site case-patients during July 2009 signaled the spread of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 to the general population (Figure 2).
Isolates from case-patients were antigenically related to A/California/07/2009 (H1N1) and sensitive to oseltamivir. Of the 1,271 case-patients at high risk for complications, 535 (42%) sought treatment within 72 hours of symptom onset, and 7 (3%) of 207 case-patients at sentinel hospitals received oseltamivir (Table 2). The proportion of treatment-eligible case-patients who received oseltamivir decreased from 100% to 0% from June 2009 to October 2010.
We identified 3 (2%) of 182 event-based and 25 (5%) of 527 sentinel-site decedents (p<0.001) (Table 2). Case-patients who subsequently died, sought treatment a median of 4 days (interquartile range 3–6 days) and received oseltamivir 12 days (interquartile range 5–14 days) after symptom onset compared with 3 days among survivors (p<0.001 and p = 0.01, respectively).
Integration of 3 influenza surveillance systems facilitated response. To delay the spread of the pandemic virus in the general population, Bangladesh used event-based surveillance to identify and treat infected travelers. When sentinel-sites signaled pandemic (H1N1) 2009 among the general population, the government distributed 3.4 million capsules of oseltamivir to hospitals, trained hospital leadership to presumptively treat case-patients with free oseltamivir, and mounted a risk-communication campaign to urge persons at risk for complications to seek care within 3 days of illness development. Officials targeted messages to avoid overwhelming Bangladesh's hospitals, where there are typically 11 hospitalized patients for every 10 beds (8). Meanwhile, officials continued to learn about the epidemiology of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 through population-based surveillance.
Despite government efforts, case-patients sought treatment late, and oseltamivir was underutilized. Less than half (42%) of high-risk patients sought care within 48 hours of disease onset, when oseltamivir is most efficacious. As in other studies (9), even severely ill persons who subsequently died were late in seeking treatment. Ill persons frequently were unfamiliar with risk communication messages and may have avoided the expense of seeking treatment. During 2009, only 34% of surveyed households recalled risk communication messages, none could identify oseltamivir (10), and those with a history of influenza-like illness paid an average of US $3 when seeking care (i.e., 9% of monthly household expenditure) (11).
While the government of Bangladesh provided initial case-patients with oseltamivir, community clinicians provided oseltamivir once pandemic (H1N1) 2009 had spread to the general population. Only a fraction of eligible case-patients then received oseltamivir. Possible explanations for the underutilization of oseltamivir include clinicians' lack of suspicion of influenza, awareness of treatment guidelines, familiarity with antiviral agents, access to oseltamivir stockpiles, or knowledge of the potential severity of pandemic virus.
Our findings are based on a small case series. Although we identified only 28 decedents, an ongoing study suggests that ≈6,000 persons died as a result of the pandemic (12). Nevertheless, we believe that our findings are generalizable to Bangladesh because hospitals were selected as sentinel sites to provide geographically representative data.
Bangladesh has an effective surveillance system in place for detection of emerging infectious diseases. In spite of timely surveillance, prompt risk communications and free oseltamivir, response may have been hampered by persons' delays in seeking treatment and by the underutilization of oseltamivir. Our investigation suggests the utility of diverse surveillance systems, the limitations of antiviral drug campaigns, and the importance of influenza prevention through vaccines (e.g., 15 million pandemic [H1N1] 2009 vaccine doses donated to Bangladesh during 2010) and nonpharmaceutical interventions. Such campaigns remain insufficiently used in low-income countries where vaccines are expensive, access to clean water is inadequate, and covering a cough is not customary (13,14).
Dr Azziz-Baumgartner was head of the Influenza Cluster at International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh. He currently works at the US Centers for Disease Control, Influenza Division, collaborating with the Pan American Health Organization and its member countries. His research interests are surveillance improvements, disease and economic burden studies, and influenza vaccine impact studies.
The International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh, acknowledges with gratitude the commitment of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to its research. We also acknowledge the contributions of Dorothy Southern, Jo Grzelinska, Mohammad Inamul Shahriar, Sumona Liza, Nancy Cox, Carolyn Bridges, Ann Moen, Karen Siener, and the field, laboratory, and clinical staff who participated in pandemic response. A special thanks is given to Richard Cash for asking difficult questions.
This study was supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, grant no. U01/CI000628-02.
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Figure 1. Location of 12 sentinel-site surveillance hospitals (red crosses) and of persons confirmed as infected with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus during June 2009–October 2010, Bangladesh. Open circles indicate case-patients identified during...
Table 1. Demographics of confirmed case-patients with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus by surveillance platform, Bangladesh, June 2009–October 2010
Table 2. Clinical description of case-patients infected with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus seeking treatment, by surveillance platform, Bangladesh, June 2009–October 2010
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Ben Bailey Smith and James King sit in for Simon and Mark. Ben Kingsley talks about his new film Learning to Drive, plus reviews including The Nice Guys and Me Before You.
Ben Bailey Smith and James King sit in for Simon and Mark. Sir Ben Kingsley talks about his new film Learning To Drive. Plus the UK Box Office Top 10 and reviews including The Nice Guys, Me Before You and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows.


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"When you cease to dream you cease to live."
— Malcolm Forbes
Inder Dhillon is a Canadian born entrepreneur that now calls Australia home. Inder has qualifications in finance and fashion and it was whilst working for Macquarie Bank in New York that she switched to a career in fashion. Inder has studied at Parsons, the New School for Design in New York, as well as the Fashion Design Studio in Sydney.
The INDER DHILLON signature style 'Pretty Tomboy' is one that embodies understated sophistication with an urban edge. The fit, feel, drape and finishes are the primary focus - Each garment is designed with an element of luxury experienced by the wearer. Inder has applied this ethos to her many ventures over the years. She launched her self labeled brand INDER DHILLON at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia in 2013 and is also founder and creative director of Bondi based swim label TWOSIX.
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We are here together today for several different reasons.
First, we are a family, and this is what families do; we get together in social contexts, because we love each other, we look out for each other and we want to spend time together.
Second, we are a community; a community that is brought together by a common vision of the purpose of life. And communities need to create contexts to forge bonds between one another. Not everyone feels like part of the family... YET. So as a community we need to create that feeling. But even if we don't, we are a community.
Third, we are a Shul, and our Shul must recognize and appreciate the major change that is occurring; and recognize and appreciate those who are responsible for that major change.
I hope that what I am about to say does not sound trite, because I do not mean it to at all.
The first person that must be recognized and appreciated is you. Every single individual in our Shul, has, at some point, added something significant to our lives.
There are those that make our Shul a מקום תורה, by learning and creating a קול תורה in its walls - whether it is the Daf, or a חברותא or even sitting down by himself every Shabbos with the מדרש says.
There are those that make our Shul geshmack - by purchasing the food, by cooking the food (like cholent, for example), by making sure that there is always food even when things are overlooked by others.
There are those that lend a handy hand - fixing things that break, quietly shoveling the walkway (and digging Rabbis out of snow).
There are those that plan events, that make sure things happen, items ordered and purchased, decorating the Shul.
There are those that do the things that no one wants to do - setting tables, cleaning up, making sure the bathrooms have tissues, plunging the toilets!
Sometimes, when a certain individual is away, we might realize that we have no cups to drink from, because who thinks about those details ahead of time.
So the first person we need to recognize and appreciate, is each and every one of you.
The second person we need to recognize and appreciate is the person that does all of the things I just mentioned and more. Ronnie Schwartz is the backbone, and brains and heart of our Shul. He is the reason that there is still a Shul and he is the reason that our Shul is moving onwards and upwards. Everything that happens in the Shul, is his זכות.
Lastly, we need to recognize and appreciate two, or actually three people, that made it possible for us to make our move אי"ה from a Bais-ment, to an upstairs Kehillah.
My father-in-law, Rabbi Jerry Berkowitz, has been involved with us from the beginning of my involvement with the Shul - advising and directing, behind the scenes. And now, he has honored us by enabling a new building and giving us a new name.
Kehillas Zichron Dovid is a tribute to two individuals, עליהם השלום whose name our Kehillah proudly carries forward.
I was not זוכה to meet my wife's paternal grandfather, but my family, believe it or not, purchased meat from his butcher shop. An educated man, whose education far outshined his occupation, but when jobs required working on Shabbos; you took what you could get - if you were a צדיק, which he did, because he was. A sacrifice for קדושת שבת that we should not take for granted. We hope that our Shul is the kind of place that he would want to daven in.
The other Dovid, is not exactly Dovid. His name was דוד אברהם נתנאל, but everyone called him Danny, or as we called him, Uncle Dan. He was an amalgamation of everything we aspire to. He learned Torah, he was a musician, a chazan, he was a tremendous בעל חסד, he was a Hatzoloh member. He brought together the דוד with the אברהם and the נתנאל - as I will explain.
When שלמה המלך built the בית המקדש, he wanted to bring the ארון into the קודש הקדשים, but the gates clung together, and wouldn't let him bring the ארון in. No matter what שלמה המלך said, they wouldn't open up - until he said אל תשב פני משיחך - do not turn away the face of your anointed one - open up in the זכות of my father, Dovid. Once שלמה said that, the gates opened up (Shabbos 30a).
Our Shul has been through so much. Ups and downs. All you wanted was השראת השכינה. You never wanted just a minyan - you always wanted a Rav, you always wanted a Shul.
Now with the mention of the name דוד, the gates open up; it becomes a reality.
I want us to remember that in the name דוד אברהם נתנאל, lies the manifesto of our Shul.
Reflected in each name is both השראת השכינה and the mechanism to achieve that השראת השכינה.
דוד - the משורר, the singer, the one that represents מלכות and השראת השכינה and the בית המקדש. Where there is song, there is prayer, and where there is prayer, there is שכינה. Our Shul is not a no-frills minyan. Our תפילות are musical and our davening is sincere. Our Shul is, and must be, a place to rendezvous with the שכינה.
אברהם - the איש החסד the מרכבה - chariot - for the שכינה - the רמב"ן says that the entire idea of גאולה from מצרים and the building of משכן which would ultimately morph into the בית המקדש was simply to get back to the level of the אבות, the level of relationship that ה' had with אברהם. Greater is הכנסת אורחים than greeting the שכינה. אברהם taught us, that when there is a חסד to do, you put your conversation with the Eibishter on hold, while you help another man. Our Shul is a place of חסד, a family, a community, a place where we look to see how we can help and support one another. אברהם and his חסד, made him a מרכבה for the שכינה; our חסד will make our Shul a מרכבה for the שכינה.
נתנאל: נתנאל בן צוער was the נשיא of יששכר, the tribe that contained the teachers of תורה, and he was the one whose idea it was to bring the sacrifices of the נשיאים to inaugurate the משכן. And the מדרש asks why was his name נתנאל? Because he represented his שבט who gave their hearts to Torah. It was their love; Torah, that was given by קל to ישראל through משה רבינו, as the פסוק says ויתן [שרש נתן] אל משה - the name נתנאל.
All הקב"ה has left in the world nowadays; His only place, is where תורה is being learned. The תורה that we will learn, brings with it השראת השכינה.
Each name דוד אברהם נתנאל, has within it a vehicle for השראת השכינה - and that is our goal. The רינה, the חסד and the Torah, that we will constantly work on in Kellias Zichron Dovid.


>> More to the point, Qt developers don't have to know the Standard Library.
>> *I* don't and I don't have time or interest in learning it.
> the non-Qt way, and they don't overlap.
boundary on things like this.
to waste time understanding it.
you have never encountered the alternative.
they find it much harder to reason about the code. Now I do too.
modern C++ practices than following Qt practices on questions like this.
I encourage you and everyone else to dive into it.


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Public safety sales tax issue may be left unsettled on election night
By Brandon Richard | September 29, 2019 at 4:13 PM CDT - Updated September 30 at 5:47 AM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The Memphis city election is this Thursday and one issue voters must decide is whether to approve a half-cent sales tax increase. But the issue may not be settled on election night, whether the referendum passes or fails.
The Memphis police and fire unions are urging voters to pass the public safety referendum to restore health and pension benefits to first responders.
"We had to go out and work two years to get this put on the ballot. That's why we're fighting so hard. We're fighting so hard for those that have given so much to this city," said Mike Williams, president of the Memphis Police Association.
In recent weeks, Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford, Jr. and Memphis City Council chairman Kemp Conrad have come out against the referendum, arguing the numbers just don't add up.
"This is going to be underwater day one," said Conrad. "Day one, there will not be enough money to fund these additional benefits. That's why we made these choices five years ago."
Whoever's elected mayor on Thursday will also have a big say.
On Sunday, Tami Sawyer made her position clear.
Sawyer tweeted, "Bottom line, I will follow the will of the voters. If the referendum passes, I will make sure that the voters will is implemented and that the tax will go to the benefits & pensions of fire & police as requested."
Bottom line, I will follow the will of the voters. If the referendum passes, I will make sure that the voters will is implemented and that the tax will go to the benefits & pensions of fire & police as requested.
— Tami Sawyer (@tamisawyer) September 29, 2019
Mayor Jim Strickland and former Mayor Willie Herenton, who has been endorsed by both the police and fire unions, have made that same pledge.
But even if voters approve it, opponents say the city council has the final say.
"It's our opinion that the city council will appropriate the money every year, regardless of how that referendum is worded," said Conrad.
Commissioner Ford also plans to propose Shelby County take its share of the tax revenue, essentially nullifying the referendum.
The unions call that a scare tactic.
"I would think that if the county was going to come and try to take this, then the politicians that represent the constituency that put that referendum in place, would vehemently fight it," said Williams.
The election will be held Oct. 3.
Brandon Richard
Brandon Richard was born and raised in Oklahoma. He's reported news across the country over the last decade, including the 2013 Moore, Oklahoma EF-5 tornado and the Kansas City Royals World Series Championship.
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OFFSET 2020 Feature: Exclusive Interview
As the country's largest creative conference of its kind, OFFSET is well and truly a prominent fixture on the global design calendar. In its 11th year, McCann Dublin are once again very proud to partner with OFFSET 2020 and invite world-class industry professionals to share their stories and passions. Here, we sit down with its founders and dig a little deeper to find out how far the creative conference has come and what people can expect.
Q: So Bren, OFFSET has passed the decade milestone and is now in its 11th year! As someone with extensive creative experience, have you seen a big difference between the artistic community then VS now? Has it changed massively? If so, how?
A: In terms of our local creative community? Ironically one of the biggest changes is how we value our participation in global culture. In the last 10 years as an industry our ambition has been matched only by our confidence. Thankfully both are completely justified when you see the work being produced There are Irish people who are absolutely killing it creatively in every major city in the world and, just as importantly, here at home. It's exciting to see so much co-operation between practitioners. It's become less isolated and silo-based. This generosity may be a generational thing, but it's very exciting to see ambitious projects happening on both grand and small scales and with a multi-disciplinary nature, which is exactly how we have always curated OFFSET.
Q: When OFFSET began, it was very much about the individuals, whereas now it's about agencies. What are your thoughts on this?
A: The focus from the beginning has always been on celebrating and showcasing the craft and the execution in the creative process. We chose speakers who's work we loved and were inspired by. In the early years, as we were all professional creatives ourselves, those choices probably reflected our own practice and interests. Over the years, while those values still remain, the curation has evolved as our interests have. The internationalisation of the design sector in Ireland with companies like IBM, Accenture and Deloitte both installing large design departments and in some cases acquiring established agencies, is having a positive effect but the possible knock on for the more traditional creative businesses regarding attracting staff and completing for work is one we are very aware of.
Competition for talent is naturally the growing challenge along with the gap between education and industry in producing the next generation of 'ready to go' designers. As well as the wider sector, the role of individual designer has evolved hugely since then too. In most cases, designers and agencies now have to offer skills across a much wider range of disciplines and we now programme with this in mind. If you look at the programme for OFFSET 2009 there was almost an even split between graphic design and illustration but over the years this has grown much wider. Excitingly even within those 'traditional' definitions we are seeing graphic designers who code and work in advertising, illustrators working directly in branding and motion… it's become very fluid.
Q: The diversity of attendees is something that adds to the OFFSET experience. What do agencies get from attending?
A: OFFSET represents an opportunity to enhance skills, to learn new methods and processes, to engage and interact in discussions and debates on relevant industry issues, to network with fellow practitioners and re-ignite passions essential for the development of the creative industries. But we can't underestimate the impact of feeling like you are part of a vibrant community, so much of the practice of the industry we live in is spent with our direct colleagues and clients. Being present with 2,500 fellow creatives from all over Ireland and the world is an inspiring experience on its own.
OFFSET 2020 takes place from April 3rd – 5th in The Bord Gáis Energy Theatre. Professional, Recent Graduate, Student and Group tickets are now available at iloveoffset.com.
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I can tell by the Cyrillic, having seen some I kratkoye in my time.
Trying to make out the notice on the wall: "orientation on (the area?) … and exit … places." Wish the photo were a bit larger.
Let the bodies hit the FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!!
russian mp-5 gas mask, i have one of those.