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Home People Craig Lanier Allen
Craig Lanier Allen
Craig Lanier Allen holds a B.A. in Political Science from The Citadel (Distinguished Air Force Student) and an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a former French and Latin American Foreign Area Specialist with military and diplomatic postings in Paris, Sarajevo, Panama and Seoul. In 2006 he founded and directed the Museum of the American in Paris Association, a non-profit organization dedicated to the creation of a museum to commemorate the history of Americans in Paris.
Craig has developed several courses including a course in comparative literature for USC's Department of French and Italian and "The History of Americans in Paris" at George Washington University. A recipient of the George Washington University Phillip J. Amsterdam Graduate Teaching Award in 2015, Craig assisted in the teaching of many courses ranging from the political to the cultural. His dissertation, Spies Spying on Spies Spying: The Café Tournon and the Specter of Surveillance in Postwar American Literary Expatriate Paris, 1953-1958 explores American government surveillance of American literary circles in early Cold War Paris. Those circles included Richard Wright and Paris' so-called Rive Noire or "Black Bank," and the founders of The Paris Review, Merlin, Zero and Points literary magazines.
Craig is a recipient of France's Chateaubriand Fellowship for 2016 and a Loughran Foundation Endowment Dissertation Research Grant for research at Oxford University in 2015. Craig has presented his work at several international conferences centered on the transnational dimensions of American Studies, including: The 6th Biannual Surveillance & Society Conference at the University of Barcelona, Spain (2014), and The State and U.S. Cultural Industries Conference at the University of Sydney, Australia (2015).
Prizes, Fellowships, & Grants:
Jeffrey C. Kasch Foundation Research Travel Grant. Read about his trip here.
Craig Allen published his paper "Spies Spying on Spies Spying," about the surveillance of post-World War II U.S. literary expatriates to Paris, in the July 2016 issue of the Australasian Journal of American Studies.
This spring, Craig was awarded France's Chateaubriand Fellowship for 2016 as well as a Loughran Foundation Endowment Dissertation Research Grant for research at Oxford University in 2015, where he will researching the archives of the spy novelist John Le Carré (aka David Cornwall).
Phillip T. Amsterdam Teaching Award, 2015. Read our interview with Craig here.


A SELF-EMPLOYED gardener who "would not say boo to a goose" cannot explain why he daubed "no blacks" at the home of an African man and his 10-year-old son, a court has heard.
Vaughan Dowd, 54, painted the front door of the home of solicitor Jackson Yamba, 38, just five days after he moved from a neighbouring block to Irlams o' th' Height in Salford, Greater Manchester.
Mr Yamba said the attack left him fearful and angry and his 10-year-old son David became tearful when they spotted the graffiti as they left home.
The same graffiti was also daubed in the same white paint on an internal communal door and the entry door to the block of flats.
Last month, Dowd pleaded guilty at Manchester Magistrates' Court to a single count of racially aggravated criminal damage on February 8.
Appearing at Manchester Crown Court via video link from prison on Thursday, Dowd listened intently as his barrister requested adjournment of sentencing until a psychiatric report was carried out.
Iain Johnstone said: "Mr Dowd is unable to give any rhyme or reason as to why he acted like this.
"They speak of a mild-mannered and quiet man who would not say boo to a goose.
"The family are of the view that Mr Dowd was heading towards a breakdown and his behaviour changed in the lead-up to the commissioning of his offence.
"They speculated that the medication Zapain he was on may have had an effect on his behaviour. Nothing has ever cropped up in his history previously.
"There are concerns about his mental health. I cannot put anything forward on his behalf as to why he did it."
Judge Alan Conrad QC interjected: "Sheer and simple racism might be one reason, mightn't it?"
The judge agreed to adjourn the case until May 10 for the preparation of the pre-sentence report.
He further remanded Dowd in custody at HMP Manchester.
The matter only came to light after Mr Yamba, who came to the UK from the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2006, tweeted a photo of his front door and complained no police officers had been to see him after he reported the attack.
It led to outrage online and an apology and prompt response to the tweet from Greater Manchester Police's Chief Constable Ian Hopkins.
Dowd, who lived close to the Yambas in Irlam Square, covered his face during the attack but was caught by the CCTV installed in the flats and by police checking the record of key-fob entries to the housing association apartment block.


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Q: Dropping / recreating type in SQL Server IF OBJECT_ID('[dbo].[Order]') IS NOT NULL
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This code doesn't drop the table. I get this error:

The type 'dbo.Order' already exists, or you do not have permission to create it.

How I can drop/recreate type in SQL Server?

A: Any of your stored procedure may be using this table type. That's why it doesn't allow you to drop. You may be getting following error.
Msg 3732, Level 16, State 1, Line 4
Cannot drop type 'tabletype' because it is being referenced by object 'storedprocedurename'. There may be other objects that reference this type.
Msg 219, Level 16, State 1, Line 3
The type 'tabletype' already exists, or you do not have permission to create it.
check that storedprocedure or function name. just comment the usage for a while and once reference is removed. you can drop and recreate the table type. after that uncomment the reference usage in stored procedure / function.
This will surely works !!

A: Try to replace the check on Object_ID by a SELECT to INFORMATION_SCHEMA.DOMAINS (for SQL Server 2012):
IF EXISTS( SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.DOMAINS WHERE Domain_Name = 'Order' )
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SQL Server 2016 and above

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Lower verions of SQL server

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A: Commenting out all places where type exists in stored procedure can be daunting task and also uncommenting that can be error prone. One trick that I use there is to right click on type that I want to change and choose Script Create UDT type to new query window, then I just change name (for example adding 2 after type name). Then I go to stored procedure(s) where I'm using this type, change with new created type and alter them. Then I can freely change original type. After I do it I can return original type in stored procedure and drop type 2. This way us much faster and reliable.

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Covid rules derive from central source
Image - LibertyBeacon: ... pandemics being the triggers for global economic collapse – a desired outcome for the globalists
Local Governments only pretend to have a say in the matter
Reuters: Canada's Trudeau, backed by rivals for now, has little chance to cash in on popularity boost
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is soaring in the polls amid widespread approval of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic
Ottawa is already on track to spend C$300 billion, or 15% of gross domestic product, on wage subsidies, monthly income support for the jobless, and other measures meant to help bridge the crisis.
"I heard from a federal official that... they are terrified of the second wave because they will be out of money to give away," said a provincial source familiar with communications between the two levels of government.
The heavily indebted provinces have more trouble raising money than the federal government and will need the taps left open if there is another round of lockdowns, said a source in a second province.
If Trudeau and his supporters-denouncers are so afraid of another "round of lockdowns" why are we in the current never-ending one? It seems to me that the "provincial source" quoted is obscuring the point entirely (on purpose?).
Canada is no longer its own country. Trudeau handled nothing regarding the "pandemic"; he did only as he was told to do by his handlers. Even before the "novel" virus, from the beginning of his tenure, he has spent wildly, with money borrowed from the International Banking Cartel, and has put Canada into far deeper debt and servitude than is revealed by the above "second wave" fears:
MoneyInc: Gwyn Morgan tracks the sad descent of Canada's financial position and the burden to be borne by "Generation Screwed". (Three years ago)
Scroll to #11: Canada – Total debt: $1,791,870,000,000. Imagine what it must be now.
Undaunted, Trudeau upped the spending spree last year, as if he knew what was coming -- what many people are calling the "Plandemic" -- including unabashedly bribing the media (CBC) with cash.
All designed, of course, to keep the media on his side. (Note how the bought-and-paid-for CBC managed to criticise in a round-about way by quoting the Conservatives.)
Trudeau also had to have known about Event 201. (Does anybody know where he was on that day?) China's George F. Gao was in attendance at the big Event, so people who call Covid the "Wuhan Virus", as if China were entirely to blame for it, are displaying their own ignorance.
It's interesting how westerners sneer at China for what is seen as total subjugation of its people, yet here most of us are shuffling like zombies down the street, wearing face masks under threat of government reprisal, with no clear reason as to why -- the infection rate being practically nil -- and the mask wearers seeing themselves as virtuous, while those who protest are seen as dangerous radicals.
Those saintly mask wearers who pride themselves on protecting people like me, who don't wear masks, are really only doing it because the government has threatened them with exorbitant fines if they don't. And they think China is repressive!
Meanwhile, I wish the people of my hometown would wake up so I could at least join a protest. It seems there are not (yet) any Fearless Ontario folks in my neck of the woods: "If there were no daily reminders, would you even know Covid-19 still existed?"
BERLIN - Bloomberg/AssocPress: [17,000 people] Protest in Berlin Against Coronavirus Restrictions (Aug.1/20)
Protesters who came from across the country held up homemade signs with slogans like "Corona, false alarm," "We are being forced to wear a muzzle," "Natural defense instead of vaccination" and "We are the second wave."
Note how the protesters are dismissed in the usual way as "conspiracy theorists and right-wing populists" - As if merely uttering those magic put-down words renders any proof unnecessary.
MADRID - VOANews: A huge banner emblazoned with the face of the Spanish prime minister covered the entire side of a block of flats in Madrid. Bearing more than a passing resemblance to George Orwell's Big Brother, the image of Pedro Sánchez ordered citizens: Obey!
SCOTLAND - Express.Co.UK: 'Shameful' (Nicola) Sturgeon sparks backlash as she threatens to ban Scots from foreign holidays.
Meanwhile, the holy institutions known as pharmaceutical companies are absolved of responsibility should a vaccine product cause injury:
UK - Reuters: AstraZeneca to be exempt from coronavirus vaccine liability claims in most countries
"This is a unique situation where we as a company simply cannot take the risk if in ... four years the vaccine is showing side effects," Ruud Dobber, a member of Astra's senior executive team, told Reuters.
"In the contracts we have in place, we are asking for indemnification. For most countries it is acceptable to take that risk on their shoulders because it is in their national interest," he said, adding that Astra and regulators were making safety and tolerability a top priority.
In other words, 'USE AT YOUR OWN RISK". Who wants a vaccine with a label like that?
WHO indeed (PDF).
The people themselves are the only ones who must bear the brunt of "official" decrees gone wrong.
Even city officials who virtually destroy shopping districts (my own town being one of them) on the misguided premise of making room for tourists in a time of Covid distancing rules feel no shame at slavishly obeying "orders from headquarters".
These measures are simply another indication that the whole Covid scene is directed around the world from a central agency -- the transformed shopping districts all look exactly the same:
UK - BBC: Covid parking restrictions are 'nail in coffin' for businesses
"We cried when we heard this and were very upset. We were gasping for breath after being closed for three months and now our customers cannot park here.
US Breitbart: Mask Fatigue Hits America: Workers Cite Headaches, Anxiety
"Some people who are forced to wear face masks all day in the workplace complain of headaches, shortness of breath and anxiety," CBS DFW reported, detailing the experiences of employees of the Southern Sisters Salon in McKinney, Texas, who have been wearing masks for months.
"When I have long days, if it's a 12 hour day, I'm sick when I get home," Courtney Warnell said, adding that she gets "sick" to her stomach.
To all you who fancy yourselves do-gooders by wearing filthy masks (I counted 5 used masks tossed onto the street within 4 blocks the other day, and blue plastic gloves as well) you should realize that dogs sniff around at them and then lick their owners faces! Not to mention what this is doing to our "recycling" endeavours.
Oh to be in Berlin:
Penny link
Just wanted to let you know I successfully shopped without a mask today. No one accosted me. Which was nice.
And the store staff was excellent.
This despite there being mandatory mask-wearing in your neck of the woods? Great going, Penny! Maybe store staff are finally reading the fine print in the edict, which says not to give non-mask wearers a hard time and assume they have good reasons. Benefit of the doubt, and all that.
Mind you, in my case, if a store hires a burly, bossy security guard, they are already acting in bad faith.
Judging by photos of the Berlin protest, it was definitely more than 17,000 -- WAY, WAY more. I've got an even larger hate going on today for the low-down, lying MZM. All their propaganda pieces state "thousands of" when that should be "hundreds of thousands of". They've used that crowd-size understatement trick many times before and it's sheer hutzpah to keep doing it. Anyway, bravo to the Germans for their magnificent "End of the Pandemic – Day of Freedom" rally.
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=211371
Note the photo comparison of the 1 million menschen, Loveparade rally versus the "20,000" menschen, Corona-Demo rally. When's a million not a million? When a protest goes against the state approved narrative (i.e. the globalist agenda).
Hi M.R. It's getting more and more obvious that the media are operating in bad faith. But even years back, when we did our own counts of Ottawa protests, the media always underestimated. And they wonder why they have so much competition now in alternative media.
Thanks for the link. The photo was amazing!
I am longing, literally longing for a parade like that to march in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_Reuters
Reuters as a subsidiary of Thompson-Reuters. Telling people what to think for twenty years. Misreporting, under-reporting, presenting polls that are intended to provide the illusion of consensus. I am surprised that they reported on these protests at all. The reason why we don't have protests here in Kingston is because too many people are passive information consumers. Self education is a thing of the past. Ask most people about Event 201 and they will stare at you the same way as a dog watching a magic trick. At this point I am starting to think that Orwell was actually a time traveler.
James, you've just made me realize why the Queen's students were sent home. They are the ones who usually crowd into the streets, if not to party then to protest.
Yeah, in this town we've got academics who rely on government grants so won't speak against it, and students who've been sent home - separated from one another - so can't shout en masse against it.
Even the folks who were brave enough to speak out against the 5G rollout suspended their activities to observe the Covert rules. Instead, they are now asking people to sign an online appeal to the government.
http://c4st.org/5Gappeal/
It's a bit late for that. Here's my protest: Go wired cable; go wired cable!
On the Reddit lists, there's a section talking about the return of students, anticipating trouble. A middle-aged woman wrote to the Whig apparently worried about it. The view seems to be that old women ("blue-haired") only watch Global with rabbit ears and know nothing at all. Younger people worry about returning "snow birds" spreading disease by attending church. It's really become adversarial out there. In this case, youth against age and vice versa.
https://www.reddit.com/r/KingstonOntario/comments/hzqjq3/kingston_woman_worries_returning_students_and/
Sorry, the woman wrote to Queen's and City Officials and Global picked it up:
https://globalnews.ca/video/7227765/kingston-woman-worries-returning-students-and-street-parties-could-lead-to-covid-19-outbreak-in-community/
That's funny; both you and I and others wrote to City Officials about the mandatory Covert rules and Global didn't pick that up. That kind of proves their bias, don't you think?
Sorry to veer off-topic but about those covid tests ... I'm certain they are no more accurate than flipping a coin and probably biased towards positives. (Everyone is a potential pawpaw fruit.) Whenever case numbers are needed to ramp up fear, case numbers are easy to inflate with increased testing. The tests should be "avoided like the plague", unless someone really, really enjoys being under house arrest for 14 day stretches.
Anyway, I came across a 2009 video about the AIDS epidemic and the parallels to the covid plandemic are uncanny. Was this what was used to pattern part of the current psyop? I think it was at least a learning experience for how dodgy tests, scary case numbers and media hype can be used to increase the fear factor. They never developed a vaccine for AIDS and opted for perpetual drug treatments (big payoffs for grant-seeking researchers and Pig Pharma). However with covid, the goal is not to seek out treatments (actually suppress anything that might relieve symptoms … unless it's a money-maker) but rather to push for vaccines (someone called them people pesticides and I think that's an apt description). Covid vaccines should also be "avoided like the plague". Any product granted legal immunity from damage claims is highly suspicious.
https://21wire.tv/2020/08/02/sunday-screening-house-of-numbers-anatomy-of-an-epidemic-2009/
The hypocritical Hippocratic oath takers have callously tossed aside "First do no harm." They need to wake up, speak out and do it soon. Their jobs are on the line too. Telescreen medicine is only a few short steps away from putting a CGI-generated, AI-programmed image on the computer screen, instead of the doctors. Matt Hancock (UK Health Dictator) actually encountered some resistance to his insistence on having more online consultations but how long will it be before the doctors cave in to this "innovation" like they have to all the other covid control measures?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jul/30/all-gp-consultations-should-be-remote-by-default-says-matt-hancock-nhs
Thanks for the links, M.R. Geez, it's was iffy enough for me to actually visit an MD years back; now they want to peddle pharmaceuticals remotely? It's as if they're advertising that they ain't what they used to be and never were.
Heck, you can find a website that deals with almost any ailment you can think of nowadays, written by self-styled nutritionists and holistics, etc. Who needs MDs, live or otherwise? It's almost as if they're owning up to their own superfluity.
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Uredo victoriae ist eine Ständerpilzart aus der Ordnung der Rostpilze (Pucciniales). Der Pilz ist ein Endoparasit eines unbekannten Süßgrases. Symptome des Befalls durch die Art sind Rostflecken und Pusteln auf den Blattoberflächen der Wirtspflanzen. Sie ist ein Endemit Mexikos. Da bislang nur ihre Nebenfruchtform bekannt ist, wird sie in die Formgattung Uredo eingeordnet.

Merkmale

Makroskopische Merkmale
Uredo victoriae ist mit bloßem Auge nur anhand der auf der Oberfläche des Wirtes hervortretenden Sporenlager zu erkennen. Sie wachsen in Nestern, die als gelbliche bis braune Flecken und Pusteln auf den Blattoberflächen erscheinen.

Mikroskopische Merkmale
Das Myzel von Uredo victoriae wächst wie bei allen Uredo-Arten interzellulär und bildet Saugfäden, die in das Speichergewebe des Wirtes wachsen. Die Spermogonien und Aecien der Art sind nicht bekannt. Die unterseitig auf den Wirtsblättern wachsenden Uredien des Pilzes sind dunkelbraun. Ihre kastanienbraunen Uredosporen sind 25–30 × 24–28 µm groß, meist kugelig und stachelwarzig. Die Telien der Art sind unbekannt.

Verbreitung
Das bekannte Verbreitungsgebiet von Uredo victoriae umfasst lediglich Mexiko.

Ökologie
Die Wirtspflanze von Uredo victoriae ist ein unidentifiziertes Süßgras. Der Pilz ernährt sich von den im Speichergewebe der Pflanzen vorhandenen Nährstoffen, seine Sporenlager brechen später durch die Blattoberfläche und setzen Sporen frei. Die Art durchläuft einen vermutlich makrozyklischen Entwicklungszyklus mit Spermogonien, Aecien, Uredien und Telien. Ob sie einen Wirtswechsel durchmacht, lässt sich mangels Aecien und Spermogonien nicht feststellen.

Literatur

Rostpilze
Pucciniales
Pflanzenkrankheit

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Red is the Colour of Mourning: Father Poems — Byrna Barclay
"Love bears the name of our fathers, of their leaving themselves behind," writes Byrna Barclay in her self-reflection upon this suite of poems upon, yes, her lost father. It's nearly impossible to go mentally from the sweet photo above — father and daughter in a hammock, a book, the daughter sleeping safely in the cradle of his legs — to the idea that Byrna Barclay never actually knew her father, that he was dead before she was three. Byrna Barclay's poems are poignant reconstructions of absence, they are like the light from a cosmic event millions of years old, the light filters through the universe but the star is gone.
Byrna Barclay lives in Saskatchewan. She is prolific writer of novels and short stories. She is not exactly an old friend. We shared a car ride from Saskatoon to Regina one summer day in the last century and managed not to keep in touch until Numéro Cinq brought us back into contact. A wonderful thing about the magazine is that it picks up lost threads.
See more work in the NC Fathers Collection here.
It seems to me that every writer has a Robertson Davies' snowball, a traumatic event in early life after which nothing is ever the same again. So many spend their writing life avoiding the telling, but that single moment not only informs their work but is the pressure beneath the lines. It always erupts in imagistic and recurring threads, like dream. Mine was the death of my father on the day before my third birthday. That loss punctuates everything I write.
Sometimes, in the search for father one must go through the mother to find him. The absent father. So shape-changing he disappears at the point of contact. Yet love bears the name of our fathers, of their leaving themselves behind.
—Byrna Barclay
From the Land of the Dead
I once knew a poet who took three naps a day
then wrote poems about his dreams. Mine
are wild these nights, with flying
red tea-table chairs from my childhood,
empty closets, bookshelves bereft
of my father's unfinished stories.
When I wake up I feel as if I've been held
by someone who didn't appear in the dream.
How did that old song go? Darn that dream.
I can still hear the sugar-sprinkled-on-cream-
of-wheat voice, but can't recall the singer's name.
I remember stories but forget the authors,
how between Great Wars a plum burst
in a poet's mouth.
Tonight my mother takes my children
to the merry-go-round-man
I once wanted her to marry
so I could have all the rides she couldn't afford.
Too much money spent on story-books treasured
in the linen closet. I read my self to sleep. At school
I made up the story. The King of the Dead Sea
looked like my father & rode a seahorse out of clouds,
twirling a seaweed rope that turned into a ladder
to save trapped in the turret of the castle school
a pigtailed child who looked too much like me.
From the land of the dead my mother
lugs home my teacher father's scarred desk,
his steamer trunk full of Dime novels,
his portable Royal typewriter, its red ribbon
shredded, even his ink blotter. A feather pen.
She puts them in all the wrong places.
She brings me his manuscripts:
a radio play, a textbook on how to teach
Drama. A story about Riel. Rebellion. His last
memory about his home in India: Ivory hunters
& elephants long walks, their struggle to die
in ancestral graveyards.
With indelible ink he signed his name. Letters
squirm like unfolding larva, leap
to a height undreamed of by a moth,
final landing soft. In my palm:
proof that my father lived, his ivory voice
no longer lost
among elephant bones.
Always, Father
More than I wanted the big kids
to boost me up to the window
so I could kiss Dougie
just back from the sanitorium
I wanted his sloe-eyed father
just back from the War
to marry my widowed mother
so she would stop her nightly fall
down a bottomless well. Stop
screeching about boys spreading germs.
She made a doctor take pictures of sacs
in my chest the same way
Dougie's shoe-salesman father
let me see how the bones of my feet fit
inside brand-new Mary Janes
through a magic box that made snow.
More than I wanted to marry Allan
when I grew up, I needed his shoemaker
father who hid red licorice in his leather apron
to marry my mother when his mother died.
In the pockets of his father's pants
hanging on the line we found matches
and struck them on the stucco house.
His mother screamed and slapped Allan,
and mine warned me about the danger
of playing with fire. She never knew
how Allan and I practiced for our parents,
he wearing his father's airforce jacket and cap,
me trailing my mother's lace curtain veil
in a ceremony fired by loss.
Years later, more than I wanted to marry
a man with the same initials as my father's
I needed to get away from my mother.
Red is the Colour of Mourning
My father has finally come
not for me, twenty-one years older
than he was when he died,
but for my winter-weary mother.
He waits on the other side
of a window. Large
so my mother can look out
at a changed world: Sun-grilled
dunes ripple away from scrub
towards a calmed river
as far-reaching as the sky.
Only three when he left,
I never knew him,
yet I'm awed by suddenly remembered
perfection of features clearer
than the line where a lowering sky meets earth.
Humped nose broken three times
on the rugby field.
Eyes as large and mild as a sacred cow's
in the country of his birth. He wears a red turban,
an out-of-place scarlet coatee
as if he's just come from a ghat.
In India red is the colour of mourning.
Here, it's the deep shade
of my mother's passion,
of her anger at his leaving her,
of her forgetting his name.
I hear my father's voice
modulated and muted
as if coming from the bottom of a river.
More than a call to my mother, or a comfort to me,
it's the knowing: I heard this voice
before I was old enough to remember
a swaying hammock, his singing
me to sleep and every little wave had its night cap on…
I expect my father to come for my mother
in a winter caboose pulled by Clydesdales,
but he beckons from a refurbished roadster,
the one my mother crashed into a ditch
to avoid hitting the Rainbow
bridge where he carved their initials.
He won't let her drive now.
Leaving me behind glass,
they're away, river-bound,
with a salute from him,
a promise to return for me.
Love Stories You Just Can't Tell
Your widowed mother picked up a stranger
on a train. He wore a suit just like your dead father's.
She said she'd sub-letted her barn of a house
& you had to stay in a hotel until the renters left.
He said his name was the same as the hotel's,
only backwards: George King.
When you fell asleep he was taking off
your father's identical trousers.
Among My Father's Curios
In this chanber of glass
this cabinet of teak carved
with thistles and flights of birds
I find the jaded head of the judge,
my father's grandfather.
Against the scent of jasmine
against the blowing up of sand
his nose turns down. Brief & jagged
line of lip & curve of jaw
juts above his court tabs
stiff with starch. They say in India
he ordered hung sixteen sepoys
each mutinous day.
One severed lock of his powdered wig
lies safe in a silver snuff box
with monogram: W.L.H.
Here is a photo of my faher,
a sultry turbaned boy
astride a country pony. They say
he spoke only Hindustani. Forbidden
his grandfather's English tongue
lest he speak improper Cheechee
learned from the servant holding the reins.
On the first shelf
a blue chiffon violet
folds its leaves
into a square of silk.
…………………………………………My first Elizabeth was my first love.
On the second shelf
in a curry dish
a single hook & button of jade
a wooden brooch: cherries
dropping redly
…………………………………………My second Elizabeth was the mother
…………………………………………of my children.
On the third shelf
a shop girl's bright brass camel,
ivory tusks of her trade. They say
to her he left all his worldly goods,
disinheriting his children. My father.
…………………………………………\My third, Eliza, the delight of my dotage.
Beneath crossed sabers
…………….whips & spurs
I staring stand & dare not
touch the jade(d) head
sitting in judgement
on the skin of a leopard.
Did He Dance?
Dorothy told me they buried my father under the ice. She was four whole years older. She took me to her church after supper. The girl with the brilliant hair twirled, flimsy skirt flared. She's going straight to hell, Dorothy said. The girl's red mouth opened: she howled. She fell down and her hair hid her face. See? Dorothy said. She gripped my hand. The screen went dark, the lights came on, and Dorothy led me down the rows of bowed heads to the back of the hall. A woman in a blue dress made me kneel on the seat of a chair. The scabs on my knees hurt. Her father died, Dorothy said. They put him in a box lined with satin and buried him under the ice. Was he baptized or christened? the woman said. Did he drink? Did he smoke? Did he dance? Pray for your father's soul! On the way home, crossing the skating rink, I twirled circles on the ice. I fell down. I brushed away the snow. The ice was clear and blue. I pressed my face into think snow, tried to see my father buried there, his last pale unshaven face, his last dance.
How I Want to Remember Them
1. I must forget how I moved
….in…. slow…. motion
through air white as a blank page.
So white. My father's freckled face,
his raven-wing hair fanned on a pillow.
In my mother's black photo album
he holds me aloft, as if awed
by his own small reflection.
This is how I know
………………………he knew me.
2. I must forget my mother's death mask,
the sharp beak of a squab,
her hair cropped albino crow-feathers,
a crone's toothless mouth agape.
This is how I remember her:
Saturday morning opera from New York.
Jan Peerce's voice filled with light.
My mother's let-down braids
the colour of sun's early song, red
chenille robe whirling, me on her hip,
she dances me
………………….Till doors change places with windows.
3. Only a dream can give memory
to a child too young to remember them
together. I find them mirrored
in the silver tea service tray he gave her.
Every day he brought her breakfast in bed
until he fell ill, and she served him
while in the mountain ash outside
a robin sang of morning.
Picture them in pillowed bliss,
honeyed lips, a bit of döppa, dunking
thin strips of toast in soft-boiled egg
or in coffee made in the Swedish way
just for her. Braided life-
bread, sticky with icing and jam.
He won't let her lick her fingers,
dipping the tips in a silver bowl,
then dabbing them with starched white serviettes
saved for these mornings reflected
in a silver dream she polished for me.
My Father's Gloves
Found in my mother's steamer trunk
the suede gloves she saved
have taken the shape of paws
yellow backhair curried
padded underside cracked
& each long finger
the curl of a claw.
I hold palm against palm
smell the dampness
of an old cave
close(d)
into winter sleep.
My hands grow a second skin
yellow fur.
My Surrogate Father
I called him Uncle, my mother's cousin, Karl Mauritz The Moose Millar. When he was thirteen and the eldest of ten, his switchman father died, and his mother left one porkchop on the window sill so the neighbours would think they hae meat for dinner. That night The Moose left home and didn't return until he found a job as a stockboy for the Buffalo Nut & Bolt Co. He worked his way up to Vice-president, one of the last of the self-made men.
The Moose looked after everyone in the family. Leg braces for sister Maimie. Food for sister Violet when her steel-maker-man boozed away his pay cheque. When he found his first wife in bed with his brother he paid for her care in an asylum. He lost his son Missionary Bob to malarial anger, the chill of grieving too long for an absent mother.
Every week The Moose wrote to me, the Canadian half-orphan, stories about our great-grandmother who swept the streets of Ystad to pay their way to America, how my grandmother looked like the gleaner in The Song of the Lark. His own painting of her granary house failed when he forgot her woodflowers transplanted from the grave of her father to her husband's beneath our Canadian cold-blue spruce. When I turned thirteen he wrote: Never dance with a kilted man. It all started when our Swedish ancestor, with grog jug in on hand and the hair of his woman in the other, dragged her up the Celtic shores.
The Moose gave me away when I eloped with the son of a Scot, his glasses splashed with old tears.
Love Bears the Name
I am the child lifted
onto my father's heaving chest.
His raven hair sweeps back
into wings.
……………………….What's going to happen
""""""""""""""""""'to my holy-hecker? His last words
beating through halls turning.
A dark-hooded woman leads me to another room
where stained glass refuses morning.
A box lined with satin
will hold his sleep.
I believe I took away
his last long breath.
He has gone to the War.
He floats under ice.
He has gone to Winnipeg.
I will find him if I reach
for the red sky.
I dream of the men who took my father away
on a bed with straps, away in a wailing car.
Into my hands my mother thrusts
a small red box. A snake
writhes around her fingers. In side the box
her wedding ring sinks into leaves soft as dust.
On a sleigh-shaped bed
my mother slides over ice.
She screams herself awake
from an endless fall.
Morning is the hardest.
Basement cold. Night ashes
in the furnace. No coal.
She struggles to her school,
falls on ice. And stars
stare down: red.
She tells me my father's dream:
when his father died
he found him boarding a plane.
He couldn't stop his father
from flying away.
Love bears the name of our fathers,
of their leaving
…………………..themselves
………………………………….behind.
Byrna Barclay has published a series of novels known as The Livelong Quartet, three collections of short stories, the most recent being Girl at the Window, and a hybrid, searching for the nude in the landscape. Her many awards include The Saskatchewan Culture and Youth First Novel Award, SBA Best Fiction Award, and City of Regina Award, YMCA Woman of the Year, CMHA National Distinguished Service Award, SWG Volunteer Award, Sask. Culture Award, and the Saskatchewan Order of Merit. In 2010 she published her 9th book, The Forest Horses, which was nominated for Best Fiction for the Saskatchewan Book Awards. Her poetic drama, The Room With Five Walls: The Trials of Victor Hoffman, an exploration of the Shell Lake Massacre, won the City of Regina Award. She has been president of SWG twice, President of Sask. Book Awards, and Fiction Editor of GRAIN magazine. A strong advocate for Mental Health as well as the arts, she served as President of CMHA, Saskatchewan, was the founding Chair of the Minister's Advisory Council on Mental Health, and for twenty years was the Editor-in-chief of TRANSITION magazine. Vice-chair of the Saskatchewan Arts Board from 1982-1989, she is currrently the Chair. Mother of actor Julianna Barclay, she lives in Regina.
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577 F. 2d 185 - Gatling v. Atlantic Richfield Company
577 F2d 185 Gatling v. Atlantic Richfield Company
Vernon GATLING and Benjamin Wright, Jr., Plaintiffs-Appellants,
ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.
Argued May 4, 1978.
Decided June 7, 1978.
Conrad J. Lynn, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants.
Philip H. Curtis, New York City (Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, James F. Parver, New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellee.
Before MULLIGAN and MESKILL, Circuit Judges, and PORT, District Judge.*
PER CURIAM:
Plaintiffs appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Robert J. Ward, Judge, granting defendant's motion for summary judgment and dismissing the complaint. Since an examination of the record on appeal indicates that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the defendant is entitled to a judgment of dismissal in its favor, we affirm.
Plaintiffs brought this action1 charging defendant, Atlantic Richfield Company (Atlantic), with breach of contract2 and violation of their civil rights.3 The dispute arose out of the following uncontroverted events.
Plaintiff Gatling and the defendant Atlantic agreed in writing4 that Atlantic would pay fixed sums and royalties to Gatling "should Atlantic acquire mining rights on one or more of your tentative prospects." Payments were to accrue to Gatling if (1) "a prospect be defined", and (2) if within five years from the date of the agreement, Atlantic acquires certain rights to the lands or minerals in the "prospect." A prospect was defined by the agreement as an area within a one-half mile radius from a point at which Atlantic has confirmed, by sampling and analysis, the presence of uranium. The agreement further provided that, in the event Atlantic did not "make an on-site inspection of one or more of your tentative prospects within six months from the date hereof, this Agreement will terminate at the end of that six month period." The agreement also provided for its termination "with respect to any prospect in which Atlantic advises you in writing that it has no interest." Finally, Gatling agreed that tentative prospects would be disclosed to Atlantic in writing and that he would not reveal information or data relative to tentative prospects to others until the contract was terminated.
After the execution of the agreement, H. Bryce Parker, Land Manager, Resources Development Group of Atlantic's Synthetic Crude and Mineral Division headquartered at Denver, Colorado, together with an Atlantic geologist met with the plaintiffs at Highland Park, New Jersey. Parker advised the plaintiffs at that conference that Atlantic was not interested in any areas "where Atlantic Richfield already had exploratory work underway or in areas already identified in publicly available materials as possible sites of uranium deposits." As a result of the March 3 conference, it "became apparent that Gatling had nothing of value to offer Atlantic Richfield." The conference took place on Wednesday after which Parker returned to his Denver office. On the following Monday, he advised Gatling in a letter that for economic reasons, Atlantic had no interest in uranium prospects in New Jersey and, accordingly, had decided not to make any on-site inspections of any of Gatling's tentative prospects. In view of this decision, Atlantic regarded the agreement as terminated and released Gatling from the obligation not to disclose information to others.
Plaintiffs then sued, alleging in their complaint that this termination constituted a breach of the agreement and resulted from Atlantic's discovery "that the plaintiffs were Negroes."
We agree with Judge Ward that the agreement gave Atlantic an option and that the non-exercise or termination of it did not create a claim in favor of plaintiffs. Richardson v. Hardwick, 106 U.S. 252, 255, 1 S.Ct. 213, 27 L.Ed. 145 (1882); see also Rottkamp v. Eger, 74 Misc.2d 858, 862, 346 N.Y.S.2d 120, 126 (Sup.Ct.1973). Accordingly, since there were no unresolved issues as to the alleged breach of contract claim, the grant of summary judgment as to that claim was clearly proper. Fed.R.Civ.P. 56.
However, unlike Atlantic and the district court, we do not regard the resolution of the contract claim as dispositive of the grant of summary judgment on plaintiffs' civil rights claim. There is no substantial dispute between the parties concerning the basic criteria for the grant of summary judgment. They recognize that the movant has the burden of establishing the absence of material factual issues by proof which would be admissible at trial. See Adickes v. Kress & Co., 398 U.S. 144, 157, 90 S.Ct. 1598, 26 L.Ed.2d 142 (1970); Heyman v. Commerce and Industry Insurance Co., 524 F.2d 1317, 1320 (2d Cir. 1975). Also, the party opposing the motion cannot rely on the pleadings to raise an issue. Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(e); see Beal v. Lindsay, 468 F.2d 287, 291 (2d Cir. 1972); Dressler v. MV Sandpiper, 331 F.2d 130, 132 (2d Cir. 1964) (Summary judgment pierces the pleadings.). They differ, however, as to the application of these criteria to the facts of this case.
In applying these criteria, the most significant factor to be considered is that the facts sworn to in the affidavit submitted by Atlantic and in their 9(g) statement,5 are all admitted by reason of the plaintiffs' failure to deny them in any permissible fashion.
Atlantic has negated the plaintiffs' claim that the option was terminated "because of the discovery by (Atlantic's) official that the plaintiffs were Negroes." It has produced satisfactory evidence that the termination resulted, not because of plaintiffs' race, but because of Atlantic's discovery during the March 3 conference that the plaintiffs did not have "any tentative prospect which would be of interest to Atlantic Richfield"; that neither Gatling nor Wright held "any property or mineral rights whatsoever"; in short, that they had "nothing of value to offer Atlantic Richfield." Furthermore, since the plaintiffs submitted no 9(g) statement, the allegation in Atlantic's 9(g) statement that the plaintiffs "have no significant experience in the uranium business" stands admitted. Finally, in the letter of termination, Atlantic advised the plaintiffs that on-site inspection of plaintiffs' tentative prospects would not be made because Atlantic had no "interest in uranium prospects in New Jersey for economic reasons."
Plaintiffs rely on the allegation in their verified complaint that the termination of the agreement was racially motivated as grounds for denial of summary judgment. The allegations in a complaint verified by the plaintiffs' attorney on information and belief will not suffice for this purpose. See United States v. Bosurgi, 530 F.2d 1105, 1111 (2d Cir. 1976). Neither will the opinion in Wright's affidavit that "it was apparent to (the plaintiffs) in this personal confrontation with the agents of the defendant that they were unhappy over the race and color of the plaintiffs", without further factual support, bar the grant of summary judgment. We question whether such a statement "set(s) forth such facts as would be admissible in evidence." Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(e). See United States v. Trenton Potteries Co., 273 U.S. 392, 407, 47 S.Ct. 377, 71 L.Ed. 700 (1927); Fed.R.Evid. 701. But even assuming the discretionary admissibility of Wright's statement that the conferees appeared unhappy, certainly his conclusion relating to the subjective cause for this unhappiness would not be admissible. Permitting a witness to testify solely from observing a person that he is intoxicated is a far cry from permitting testimony that he got drunk because of a fight with his wife. The day when "the 'slightest doubt' as to the facts" stood in the way of the grant of summary judgment in this circuit is now gone. Beal v. Lindsay, supra, at 291.
In spite of plaintiffs' unlimited opportunity through discovery to develop the facts, the only facts pointed out to us by plaintiffs in support of their civil rights claim are that they are black and that Atlantic refused to exercise the option and terminated the agreement. These facts are insufficient to preclude the grant of summary judgment. In finding the lack of a factual issue as to racial motivation on the part of the defendants, Judge Wyzanski, speaking for this court in the recent affirmance of a summary judgment dismissing a claim based on an alleged violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3) stated:
Proof that a discharged person is Black or an advocate of Blacks does not justify an inference that the person who caused the discharge was racially motivated.
Hermann v. Moore, Docket No. 77-6183 (May 10, 1978), slip op. at 3013.
The grant of summary judgment is affirmed.6
Senior District Judge of the Northern District of New York, sitting by designation
The action was commenced in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, and was removed to the district court on the ground of diversity
The summons issued by plaintiffs' attorney in the Supreme Court describes the action as "breach of contract."
The complaint fails to allege the violation of any specific civil rights statute. Read charitably, however, it alleges racial discrimination in the making and enforcement of contracts in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1981
The agreement was executed by Gatling on January 19, 1976 and by Atlantic on February 2, 1976
Rule 9(g) of the General Rules for the Southern District of New York provides:
Upon any motion for summary judgment pursuant to Rule 56 of the Rules of Civil Procedure, there shall be annexed to the notice of motion a separate, short and concise statement of the material facts as to which the moving party contends there is no genuine issue to be tried.
The papers opposing a motion for summary judgment shall include a separate, short and concise statement of the material facts as to which it is contended that there exists a genuine issue to be tried.
All material facts set forth in the statement required to be served by the moving party will be deemed to be admitted unless controverted by the statement required to be served by the opposing party.
The appellee has not questioned the adequacy of the allegation in the complaint that the "major reason for the termination of the agreement was because the plaintiffs were black." (emphasis added). Under these circumstances and in view of our disposition, it is unnecessary for us to consider it


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Q: Facebook like and Tweet counter issue due to query string I have added Facebook & Twitter likes/tweet count button on products page. But it have observed quiet strange behavior. When there is no like it appears like in fig01.

When i like, its likes added to all products likes (From 0 changed to 6), while twitter count remains to '0' as shown in below fig02.

The possible issue i think is that its ignoring query string value i.e. fig03

I will be grateful if someone tells me possible solution. thanks.

A: Kindly go to this URL and enter your URL to check is their any issue with your URL.
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
I was getting the same issue, because my page was session dependent, so i have made my page session independent then my Facebook like works absolutely fine.
May be you are getting that kind of page Redirect issue.


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Home Nottinghamshire General election 2019 exit poll predict big win for Conservatives
General election 2019 exit poll predict big win for Conservatives
Olimpia-Constanta Zagnat
The 2019 exit poll has predicted a whopping 86-seat majority for Conservatives.
The prediction has just been revealed with Boris Johnson on course to win a majority with 368 seats, followed by the Labour Party (191 seats), SNP (55 seats), Lib Dem (13), Plaid Cymru (3), Green (1), Brexit (0) and other parties (19).
But these figures pose as a simple prediction, the final results will be known at the end of the night.
The exit poll is a survey of thousands of voters just after they have cast their ballot.
It is based on 144 constituencies in England, Scotland and Wales, covering both rural and urban seats to offer a balanced and accurate prospect.
Exit Poll Forecast: Conservative Majority #BBCelection #GE2019 pic.twitter.com/epJYYpRo2y
— BBC Election (@bbcelection) December 12, 2019
The same constituencies are surveyed from one election to the next, for consistency.
This year's poll is commissioned by BBC News, ITV News and Sky News.
The results were released just after voting closed at 10pm.
Exit pollsters base themselves at a selected polling station in a chosen constituency.
Voters emerging from the polling station are waylaid at regular intervals – every 10th voter, for example – by these fieldworkers, employed by polling specialists Ipsos Mori.
They are given a replica ballot paper and asked to fill it in without anyone watching.
Voters then drop the replica paper into a box that will be opened later.
They do not have to say out loud who they voted for – the main purpose is to increase the accuracy of the results, says Stephen Fisher, associate professor of political sociology at the University of Oxford.
The results are analysed at a secret location in London, by a team of experts.
Even if the 2015 exit poll was more accurate than the opinion polls during the campaign, it did not predict a Conservative majority.
In 2017, the first take of the exit poll correctly predicted the Conservatives would be the largest party, but stopped short of saying there would be a hung Parliament.
The outcome of the exit poll has been becoming more accurate in the past years, as the methodology improved. A valid exit poll has to come within 15 seats of the final outcome, professor Fisher adds.
One of the worst backfires was in 1992, when two separate exit polls, for the BBC and ITN, both predicted a hung Parliament.
nstead, John Major's Conservative government at the time held its position, albeit with a significantly reduced majority.
The first result from this year's exit poll will not cover the last half hour of voting. If there's a late rush of voters that could significantly influence the final result, the exit poll could be updated with a new headline after about 11pm.
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By Dr. Hazem BarmadaSeptember 24, 2018 Adipose (fat) Tissue, Blog, Currently Studying, Featured, General Orthopedics Library, Latest News, News and Events, Orthopedics, Osteoarthritis, Platelet Rich Plasma, Stem Cell Research Studies, Stromal Vascular Fraction
As professional and collegiate-level football programs are gearing up for the beginning of the 2018 regular season, it seems appropriate to talk about sports-related injuries. Anyone who faithfully follows their favorite team hoping for a chance at the playoffs knows the anguish when one of the star players is sidelined with a potentially career-ending injury. In a few cases, the entire team dynamic falls apart while they wait for the injured player to recover from surgery. Sports injuries can bench even the best athletes while in the best shape of their lives, and sports-related or orthopedic injuries can put the rest of us "on the bench" in terms of our daily lives as well.
The Surgical Option
Whether open or arthroscopic in nature, surgery is a serious thing. Traditional open surgery requires opening the skin and tissue to repair damage or reach the injured site. Arthroscopic surgery uses a scope to insert instruments through a small puncture wound in the skin. No matter which option is deemed appropriate, surgery tends to be invasive and painful and recovery times are lengthy. Additionally, once something is cut or removed (one example is damaged meniscal tissue) it can't always be returned to its former effectiveness. A return to full function is difficult at best and unattainable in many cases. A dislocated shoulder, for example, carries a surgical recovery time that is estimated at between 3-6 months. At this point, movement is still very limited, and a full recovery (if possible) could take up to a year. In the case of a professional athlete, this can often mean an end to a profitable and enjoyable career. Slow recovery times aren't the only problem, the chance of re-injury is increased with every surgical intervention. Damaged areas returning to full strength are susceptible to further trauma with less actual force applied. A rotator cuff surgery means that you have a 6 in 10 chance of a re-tear. Constant re-injury not only adds to overall recovery time but can oftentimes bench a player for the rest of their lives.
Recovery times for those choosing a traditional surgical route can be lengthy and painful. However, there is a better way for the injured player (or sports fan) to recover and return to the game faster and more effectively. Thanks to breakthroughs in regenerative medicine, with advanced orthobiologics, such as platelet-rich plasma and autologous stem cell therapies, many people suffering from orthopedic injuries don't have to settle for slow recovery times. The use of stem cell and PRP therapies for the management of orthopedic injuries continues to advance. The applications for stem cell therapies especially have been rapidly expanding in recent years, with promising preclinical results leading to the translation of these therapies into a clinical setting. Due to its potential capability of regenerating cartilage, bone tissue, muscle tissue, and tendons, autologous adipose stem cells are currently and effectively helping patients with osteoarthritis, meniscal tears, and tendon injuries.
Autologous Adipose Stem Cells
Musculoskeletal and Orthopedic injuries are common health problems among athletes and non-athletes alike. Although there are various therapy modalities, most simply provide symptomatic relief without addressing the cause of the problem, which is the injury itself. The regenerative properties of stem cells provide an exciting new world of therapy options. Utilizing a minimally-invasive outpatient procedure, the trained, treating medical professional would extract an ounce or two of adipose (fat) tissue (which most people would be happy to have it thrown away!), which has tens of millions of stem cells that can be extracted within 90 minutes. Unlike bone marrow-derived stem cells, adipose tissue has a much higher concentration of regenerative cells, cytokines and growth factors; and it is easier to access. These regenerative stem cells are multipotent, which means that once they are applied to the injury site, they can reestablish themselves and metamorphose to bone cells, muscle tissue, blood vessels, or any structure required to repair the damage resulting from the injury. Not only does this fact make stem cell therapy a viable modality for a wide variety of medical conditions, but it is also of particular interest for practitioners of orthopedic sports medicine. Due to this multi-potency, stem cell therapy offers an opportunity not afforded by surgery or medicines like NSAIDs, which is the full return to pre-injury levels of performance. The procedure is minimally-invasive and can be accomplished from beginning to end in less than 3 hours, in an outpatient setting with no recovery time. Since the stem cells are isolated from autologous adipose tissue, there is no complication or any risk of tissue rejection. This therapy modality has great clinical potential for the fields of regenerative, orthopedic, and sports medicine, and can be utilized as a therapy option for various diseases and disorders. For patients for whom no satisfactory therapy exist, surgical options are contraindicated, or just people who want to get back in the game faster, stem cell therapy can mean the difference between riding the bench and playing your best.
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The FDA issued guidances in February that outlines its recommendations for developing and approving biosimilar therapies.
The Food and Drug Administration issued guidances in February that outlines its recommendations for developing and approving biosimilar therapies. The announcement came the same day that FDA officials discussed new user fees for biosimilars and generic drugs at a Congressional hearing. Three separate draft guidances map out the scientific considerations, quality analytical factors, and other regulatory issues for bringing to market new therapeutic proteins that are similar, "but not the same" as a reference product.
The documents describe a step-wise approval pathway, starting with extensive analytical, physico-chemical, and biological characterization data that can demonstrate a high degree of similarity. FDA will evaluate the data and then provide advice to the sponsor on the extent and scope of animal and human testing needed to show biosimilarity. FDA will consider multiple factors in making study determinations, including product complexity, formulation, stability, structure-function relationships, manufacturing process, and clinical experience with the reference product.
Unlike European regulators, FDA decided not to issue guidances for developing biosimilars in different drug product classes. To avoid redundant and unnecessary animal and clinical testing, sponsors will be permitted to use a non-US licensed comparator in certain studies, with appropriate bridging data. Most applications, though, will require some additional clinical trials.
Once FDA determines that a product is biosimilar, the sponsor can opt to demonstrate interchangeability—requiring additional switching studies to show that changing to the new product does not affect safety and efficacy.
FDA expects to be inundated with comments on these proposals and plans a public meeting. Meanwhile, staffers are holding dozens of pre-IND meetings with sponsors and encouraging all prospective biosimilar makers to seek early advice.
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John-Pierre Boyer was the founding father of the city of Petion-Ville. He was the president of Haiti between 1818 and 1843. He was one of the notable leaders of the Haitian revolution. On 22 September 2011, he founded the city of Petion Ville in the eastern suburbs of Port au Prince. He named the city after his predecessor, President Alexandre Sabes Petion.
Alexandre Petion was one of the founding fathers of Haiti and first president of the Republic of Haiti. The city at that time was in no way comparable to its current status. Guarded mansions of Petionville looks like a Haitian version of Beverly Hills. Here you can find everything that expect to find in any international city.
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"Freedom From Islam"
Something that is not mentioned as often as it should:
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As noted in a 2008 report by a Christian human-rights organization, "Apostates from Islam to another religion suffer a host of serious abuses from their families, communities and nations." These renegade Muslims may well face the death penalty in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Sudan, and other forms of oppression in many other Muslim societies.
The reason for this systemic violation of religious freedom is, unfortunately, religious. Most classical schools of sharia law consider apostasy from Islam a crime punishable by death. A hadith attributed to the Prophet Muhammad is quite clear on this: "If somebody [among Muslims] discards his religion, kill him." The implication is that Islam is a religion with free entry but no free exit. Continue reading →
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Iran: Jailed Filmmaker Challenges Khamenei
Jailed Iranian Filmmaker Challenges Supreme Leader – Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty � 2010:
"Iranian filmmaker and journalist Mohammad Nourizad has written an open letter (Persian) to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei arguing that the United States does more to protect religious freedom and moral values than Iran, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports.
Nourizad — who has been in Tehran's Evin prison since August — wrote in his letter on October 10 that since Iran's disputed 2009 presidential election, violations of people's privacy has become more common.
He said religious mobs have attacked the home of Ayatollah Yusef Sanei, a critic of Khamenei. In the United States, by contrast, he said personal privacy is strictly protected by law.
Nourizad previously wrote for the conservative newspaper "Keyhan" and said he fully supported Khamenei until last year's controversial presidential election caused him to speak out against the government.
He was arrested late last year after publishing several open letters on his blog deemed as disrespectful to Khamenei and other senior officials. He was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison. He also was sentenced to 50 lashes on charges that remain unclear.
He was released on June 24 but summoned back to prison in August after writing a blog post that was critical of Khamenei.
Referring in his letter to religious freedom in the United States, Nourizad wrote: "The American judicial authority defends Muslims' rights and allows them to build mosques just a short distance from the Twin Towers. But in Islamic Iran, Sunni Muslims are not allowed their own mosque to worship without fear in Tehran."
Comparing morality in Iran and the United States, Nourizad wrote: "Americans have been brought up in such a way that they seldom lie, while lying is clearly evident among the people and authorities in our country.""
2 Comments Posted in Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, blogosphere, freedom, Freedom of Speech, Iran Tagged Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah Yusef Sanei, Iran, Mohamed Nourizad
Iran: opposition leaders 'flee Tehran' as government mobs threaten death
Dec31 by Claudia
Iran's state news agency IRNA said that two leaders of "sedition" in the country have fled to a northern Iranian province. The top opposition leaders are Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi had fled the capital.
"Two of those who played a major role in igniting tension in Iran following the (June presidential) vote, fled Tehran and went to a northern province because they were scared of people, who demanded their punishment," IRNA said.
Supporters of the two men dismissed the report. Hossein Karoubi, the son of moderate defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karoubi, said his father and opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi were still in Tehran.
…Earlier, television footage showed crowds in areas including Tehran's Enghelab Square, chanting slogans and waving pro-regime placards.
"O free-willed leader, we are ready, we are ready," they shouted in reference to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Only the Supremre Leader is "free-willed", the rest are slaves?)
The rallies were called in response to a series of opposition protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed June re-election. Mousavi and Karroubi were the main challengers in that poll.
via Iran leaders 'flee Tehran' as government mobs threaten death – Telegraph.
What a democracy, hein? People flood the streets to support a Government who has just killed 15 people while protesting the same Government.
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Iran: Kharroubi publishes prison rape account
And threatens to publish more if the denial continues:
While the young man was not identified, his charges were graphic and emotional, and documented official indifference — even callousness — toward his account.
"I was in prison, I was blindfolded and my hands were tied," the young man told Mr. Karroubi. "I was beaten nearly to death, and worse than all of that, they did something to me which even unbelievers and idol worshipers would denounce."
… the young man's account challenges the notion that the state is run by a "just leader." He said that one day, when Mr. Karroubi was filming their discussion, three government men came to Mr. Karroubi's office to question him. The young man agreed to go with them to visit a doctor.
On the way, he said, "I asked them why they had done this, why they had treated us like this, what had we done?"
The response was, "When the supreme leader confirmed the election result, everyone should have recognized it."
… In his statement to Mr. Karroubi, the young man who said he was raped said that in his case, his questioners suggested he was to blame, even asking if he enjoyed the attack. Then they threatened him.
"While we were waiting, the officer told me he didn't think anyone was capable of such an act and accused me of lying," the man said. "He asked me if I realized the kind of trouble I would get into if I couldn't prove the charges."
via Reformer in Iran Publishes Account of a Prison Rape – NYTimes.com.
A former political prisoner in Kahrizak explains in this video her experience there:
via Global Voices Online:
Rape and torture are not a new phenomenon in Iran's prisons, but the recent events have focused more attention on the prisons of the Islamic Regime. Iranian civil society activists, including Reza Allamehzadeh, a leading film director, have been using citizen media to highlight testimonies about the Iranian tragedy.
A former political prisoner recounts the experience of being imprisoned, tortured and raped in an Iranian prison in the 1980s. She was only 17 years old at the time, and did not know why she had been arrested. More than 84,000 people have watched her testimony on YouTube. [video above].
… Iran's torture houses have been in existence for 30 years, however, and Kharizak is not the only one.
Interestingly this is not aired in any major MSM.
The mass trial and crackdown on dissidents and people from other faiths continue.
Row over rape and torture of dissidents continue.
Parliamentary leader dismisses sex abuse claims.
Opposition leader wants investigation into protestors' rapes.
No death penalty for virgins.
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Iran: the emergence of Internet newspapers
Global Voices Online » Iran: Protests prompt emergence of underground Internet newspapers
The recent emergence of internet newspapers in Iran is evidence of the will of Iranian citizens and opposition forces to continue to communicate even as the Islamic Republic intensifies censorship, filtering and repression. By reading Internet newspapers we learn that the Iranian protest movement is as diverse as is Iranian society and its blogosphere.
In the last two months, the Islamic Republic's security forces have tightened their grip on the media, this after Iran was swept by large-scale protests against the June 12 presidential election results, which declared incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the winner.
(…) Under such difficult circumstances for the media, we are witnessing a new phenomenon inside Iran: the emergence of "underground" Internet
newspapers.
At the end of June, at least two such newspapers were launched: Khyaboon ("Street") and Kalam Sabz ("Green Word") where the word "green" is a reference to Mir Hussein Mousavi's campaign colors. So far, Khyaboon has published 13 issues and Kalam Sabz has published 10. Khyaboon is available only by email and the paper has no website or blog. Kalam Sabz also uses email, but has a website. Both journals are distributed in PDF file format.
A common point between two publications is that both of them are against the current president and Iranian Supreme Leader Ayathollah Ali Khamenei's decision to approve Ahmadinejad's victory.
(…) Reading the new underground internet newspapers offers a sense of deepening crisis in Iran and the sad state of its media. Khyaboon and Kalam Sabz shed light on the divergent strains within the protest movement and the way in which one part of society radicalises its requests and slogans.
Zeitoon, an Iran-based blogger, describes a similar situation on her blog. At a Thursday demonstration she observed lots of "down with Khamenei", "down with dictator" and "Allaho Akbar" slogans, but there were only a few times that she heard Mousavi's name.
Meanwhile in Canada, a global day of action demanding an end to the persecution and imprisonment of opposition activists in Iran, has taken place. In the Netherlands, around 2000 people turned up to Amsterdam's anti-Iran demonstration. In several other parts of the world, there were also demonstrations and gatherings in protest for the brutal repression of oponents by the Islamist regime.
A list of those killed or arrested by Government forces during post-elections riots, can be found here.
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The Bank for International Settlements released its analysis report in which it evaluated central bank digital currencies globally.
BIS Releases Report on CBDCs
Reserve banks all around the globe have been hard at work in perfecting their own central bank digital currency (CBDC), but the title of who will be the first one to issue and implement an official CBDC is still up for grabs. In its analysis report, Bank of International Settlements (BIS) indicated that countries with better digitized and innovative economies have the upper hand on their counterparts in transitioning smoothly and quickly to digital asset payments. Countries with more developed economic climates are better equipped for the integration of CBDCs in their traditional financial institutions.
The report also suggested that most governments worldwide were looking into "hybrid" models. This simply entails that cash-like payment systems such as direct claims would be implemented, but the private sector would still be the one overseeing customer service. With the implementation of central bank digital currencies set in place, central banks are looking into proofs-of-concept that are based on blockchain, rather than a conventional design model.
The Bank of International Settlements also said that for all reserve banks, the integration of CBDC would simply be to complement existing fiat infrastructures. The findings of the report read:
"ON THE DRIVERS FOR CBDC DEVELOPMENT, WE FIND THAT MOST PROJECTS ORIGINATE IN DIGITISED AND INNOVATIVE ECONOMIES. […] NONE OF THE PROJECTS SURVEYED SEEKS TO REPLACE CASH – ALL AIM TO OFFER A DIGITAL COMPLEMENT."
Surveyed central bank digital currency experimentation programs revolved around the central banks of China, Sweden, and Canada.
China Central Bank Digital Currency to be World's First?
In the battle to see who would release a functional central bank digital currency first, China has announced earlier this month that it planned on expanding its CBDC testing in wealthier cities first, such as the Greater Bay Area, Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei province. Led by the Bank of China, central bank digital currency testing will gradually transition from richer regions of China to poorer districts.
Furthermore, employees in state-run Chinese commercial banks have already been testing out the country's experimental CBDC, as disclosed by former deputy chairman of the Social Security Fund Council, Wang Zongmin. China's digital currency electronic payment (DCEP) has been rumored to be potentially completed by the end of 2020, as China aims to be the first in the world to instill its own central bank digital currency.
Sweden Tests its Blockchain-Fueled CBDC
As for Sweden, its reserve Sveriges Riksbank and the world's oldest central bank had announced in February that they were already beginning the experimentation phase of e-krona, which takes them one step closer to the launch of a central bank digital currency.
The e–krona is a pilot blockchain-fueled testing program that has been scheduled to run for a year. Its goal is to stimulate daily banking transactions, such as payments, deposits, and withdrawals originating from a digital wallet sitting on a mobile phone.
Sweden is one of the least cash-dependent countries in the world. According to data released by Riksbank, banknotes only consist of 1 percent of the Swedish GDP.
Canada Allegedly Ahead of Others in R&D for CBDC
Last but not least, Canada announced back in October 2019 that it was considering the launch of a digital currency that would further Research and Development (R&D) regarding how Canadians spent their money.
The presentation prepared by Canada's central bank, the Bank of Canada, illustrated in 2019 that it wanted to implement a two-year research project on digital assets to determine whether the bank should issue its own central bank digital currency.
As its CBDC experimentation phase has matured, the Bank of Canada announced in June that it felt that its current state of zero-knowledge-proofs were mature enough to be integrated into their development plans for a national digital currency.
Though it appears as though Canada is nowhere near as ready as China to roll out its own CBDC, announcements by the Bank of Canada said that it was ahead of other countries in terms of Research and Development for CBDC prototypes.
As Canada continues to research on blockchain development and how the distributed decentralized ledger technology would improve the settlement of bank-to–bank payments and securities transactions, it appears that there is now a blockchain national currency platform that can be leveraged for global CBDC issuance.
First Blockchain National Currency Platform for CBDC
Apollo Fintech, an innovative blockchain company, revealed on August 12 that it had finalized a blockchain national currency platform that could be leveraged for the issuance of central bank digital currencies.
The payments system created by the fintech company is an innovative cashless digital platform that is blockchain-powered. It is designed to equip central banks with the proper tools to issues their own sovereign stablecoin for national adoption purposes.
The platform, dubbed "National Payment Platform," will enable central banks and government agencies globally to integrate commercial banks and agents into their business transactions, after an official CBDC has been issued.
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