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JB Handley Writes Gaffe-Filled Book About The Autism Epidemic
December 30, 2018 12:09 am \ 19 Comments \ Jake Crosby
***Correction: Verstraeten study was published in 2003, not 2013 as stated in the video.
"This is a complete waste of everyone's time. Every person involved in the dust-up has been a champion of our kids and they all deserve our respect. This is a movement fraught with tension, stress, and confusion. Time for everyone to grab their toys, leave the playground, take a deep breath, and get back to the task at hand." – JB Handley dismissing the revelation by Autism Investigated's editor that false representation to congressional staff was committed by SafeMinds.
Years ago, Generation Rescue founder JB Handley accused the wife of a known vaccine shill of secretly operating a neurodiversity blog. So confident was Handley, he even promised her a website he created to expose her husband's lies on condition that she wasn't the blog's operator. Six months later, JB Handley turned over PaulOffit.com to Bonnie Offit. Eight years later, Handley still hasn't learned his lesson about the importance of knowing stuff. His book How To End The Autism Epidemic proves it. Filled with inaccuracies, it's reflective of just how out of depth JB Handley is on an issue that's preoccupied his life for two decades.
His book gives disproportionate importance to events that happened this year, even as the epidemic has been raging for decades. Reading it, one might get the sense that the most important events all happened in 2018. The most featured study, for example, was published nine months ago. That, however, may partially explain why Handley gets some key facts wrong. He has a personal stake in committing the gravest error, however. In his book, JB Handley pushed the damaging myth that a doctor gave two conflicting expert opinions for different children seeking vaccine injury compensation. Although Dr. Andrew Zimmerman had expressed an opinion that compensated child Hannah Poling's autism was caused by vaccination, he was never her expert witness. His opinion was also given after the concession.
A congressional hearing was almost held in 2013 over the falsehood that was spread by Canary Party. The hearing was cancelled after the falsehood was corrected by Hannah Poling's mother in the comments of the Age of Autism blog that Handley's group sponsors. Congressional counsel then announced the hearing's cancellation for being "overly divisive." That clearly meant it would pit parent against parent. Autism Investigated broke the news of the cancellation. Instead of stating the real reason for the cancellation, Handley wrongly blamed a vaccine front group.
JB Handley played a role in the failure. Prior to the 2012 hearing, a lobbyist working for Canary Party Chairman Mark Blaxill falsely represented parent-scientist Brian Hooker to congressional staff. Handley dismissed the news entirely, calling it "a complete waste of everyone's time" in the comments of Age of Autism. He then demanded "everyone…get back to the task at hand," indicating Hooker and Blaxill should work together.
Mark Blaxill was subsequently discovered to have turned the autism omnibus attorneys against their own expert witnesses. He brutally smeared Dr. Mark and David Geier and even disparaged Dr. Andrew Wakefield, who would never be invited to testify. This was revealed publicly for the first time in emails shared with Autism Investigated. Even after all that, Handley's support of Blaxill never wavered. Handley has a lot to answer for in his role of pushing Mark Blaxill on the movement against toxic vaccinations, contributing to the congressional failure.
Yet JB Handley goes even further than the cancelled hearing would have gone by demanding the father Jon Poling testify and be cross-examined about his daughter's case by politicians. Yet Handley also acknowledges that the parents were given a $20 million concession to stay quiet. Strangely, he says that he wouldn't begrudge other parents for doing exactly what the parents of Hannah Poling had already done. So why is he channeling the vaccine people by hitting her parents up for their daughter's confidential medical information?
Though Poling is the worst example, there are other key facts that Handley gets wrong. For example, the senior author John Walker-Smith did not stand by the interpretation of the 1998 study as Handley falsely writes. Walker-Smith cosigned the fraudulent interpretation retraction with nine other coauthors. CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer Thomas Verstraeten also did not say his 2003 study of the mercury-based vaccine preservative thimerosal was "neutral" with respect to autism, but rather with speech delays and tic disorders. He wanted to cover his autism findings up. These are not trivial errors to make, and both doctors are subsequently let off easy. The probable reason for the errors is simply that Handley did not give either study the attention it deserved when writing his book.
Finally, JB Handley has already taken criticism from many people because his book even recommends certain vaccines albeit far less than the current schedule. Handley later changed his position in a radio interview to say that you should have a right to get some vaccines if you want them. He obviously had not thought about that issue very hard. His below defense of the vaccine program on Facebook says it all, demanding of people vastly more knowledgeable than him: "unfriend me."
(The vaccine program needs to go away, and getting rid of it is the most effective argument at this time.)
It's totally disingenuous of JB Handley to play the victim when he is trying to dictate the message of the movement with his ignorance. Why Handley demonstrates such poor knowledge of the issues surrounding the autism epidemic after apparently dedicating so many years to it is a mystery. He can't think of effective policy solutions either. One explanation could be that he conflates ending the autism epidemic with ending his own son's autism. Whatever the reason, his insistence on controlling the narrative of an issue he has so little understanding of is an unmitigated disaster.
One time Autism Investigated criticized him for saying the government studied "one vaccine and one ingredient" since it's akin to saying the government ruled them out. He responded, "Don't spread bullshit."
Told that the government didn't study them but rather lies about all vaccines, he grudgingly agreed with Autism Investigated.
"Yeah, no shit."
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GlaxoSmithKline Engineered Eli Lilly Thimerosal Protection Rider
October 17, 2018 4:04 am \ 7 Comments \ Jake Crosby
In November 2002, an infamous rider was slipped into the Homeland Security Act which sought to shield former thimerosal maker Eli Lilly from litigation. But Lilly was not the pharmaceutical company behind the provision, European pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline was. The move enabled GSK to escape scrutiny over its toxic vaccinations. In GSK's place was a company that had not made the mercury-based vaccine preservative for a decade and had not made childhood vaccines since the seventies.
Shielding Lilly from thimerosal litigation was done to protect vaccine manufacturers that use thimerosal, like GlaxoSmithKline. The rider was originally intended for a vaccine compensation bill pushed by then-Senator Bill Frist one year prior in response to rising lawsuits. His health policy adviser told Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in 2005:
"The lawsuits are of such magnitude that they could put vaccine producers out of business and limit our capacity to deal with a biological attack by terrorists."
Although Frist received major contributions from Eli Lilly, he consistently enjoyed much greater financial support from GlaxoSmithKline. For the first five years that the thimerosal issue was raging, the company was Frist's twelfth biggest campaign contributor. Merck was number 100. Lilly didn't even make the top 100.
He was also far from GlaxoSmithKline's only beneficiary. In mid-2002, GlaxoSmithKline was chief corporate sponsor of a GOP fundraiser in Washington headlined by President Bush.
Ultimately, Frist agreed to remove the rider from the law in January 2003. The repeal did not make Eli Lilly liable as all the thimerosal lawsuits would be forced into federal vaccine court anyway. However, the rider and subsequent fallout did help GlaxoSmithKline shirk public scrutiny.
The rider was slipped in two months before federal scientist-turned-GlaxoSmithKline employee Thomas Verstraeten submitted his thimerosal research for publication. The agreement to kill the rider happened just two weeks before Verstraeten's submission. His earlier work for the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) had shown associations between thimerosal and autism. He then heavily manipulated his research to make those associations go away. Much of his earlier manipulation was done in a draft he presented at a secret meeting between CDC and drug companies including his future employer.
After the publication of GlaxoSmithKline fraud, Verstraeten published a letter asserting an all-out denial of any cover-up. Another Glaxo-supported doctor had just engineered a fraudulent coauthor retraction of the interpretation from the seminal 1998 autism-vaccine paper the month prior. Unlike the retraction, the Verstraeten letter never made big news.
Attention was diverted from the pharmaceutical company covering up thimerosal's dangers to another pharmaceutical company that hadn't made it in a decade. All of that company's employees who first brought thimerosal to market 70 years earlier were long dead.
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12-Year-Old Scientist Indicted for Vaccine-Autism Link Cover-Up
July 1, 2016 11:09 am \ 15 Comments \ Jake Crosby
Photo Credit: FBI Archives
This post is a vaccine skeptic's satirical response to a viral video made by 12-year-old Marco Arturo, who presented the "Evidence That Vaccines Cause Autism" as nothing more than blank sheets of paper in order to disparage people who acknowledge that vaccines actually do cause autism.
12-year-old US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientist Marco Arturo was indicted after committing fraud by covering up crucial evidence that vaccines cause autism when crafting his review, "Evidence That Vaccines Cause Autism." The report – sponsored by the CDC and published by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) – concluded: "The evidence favors rejection of causation."
Findings omitted from the report showed that in African-American children, those who had an autism spectrum disorder were more than twice as likely to receive a measles-mumps-rubella vaccination before three years of age compared to their neurotypical counterparts. They also showed that children who received the highest doses of mercury from vaccinations in their first month of life were 7-times more likely to receive an autism diagnosis than those who received no mercury during that same time period.
But since the vaccine injury-liable CDC paid the researchers to say vaccines were "well, pretty safe," according to IOM committee chairwoman Marie McCormick, those results were unacceptable. "We are not ever going to come down that it is a true side-effect," Dr. McCormick said in a secret meeting. And so they didn't, but the results were so daunting that scrubbing them was difficult.
"It just won't go away," Arturo's CDC colleague Thomas Verstraeten wrote in email. Ultimately, they made the association between the highest exposure category for mercury and autism go away by combining that category with weaker categories. They then claimed they "lost" the original data so that no researchers could replicate it, but in reality they just threw it all into a big garbage can in Arturo's backyard.
Unfortunately, he and his other colleagues were later ratted out by a senior CDC scientist who was initially in on the scheme with them. So Arturo took $2 million in embezzled CDC grants and fled to Denmark where he now currently awaits extradition from. If convicted, he faces a 12-year prison sentence: equivalent to his entire lifetime.
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Did Andrew Wakefield Out The CDC Whistleblower For Money?
By Jake Crosby
Five months have elapsed since senior CDC scientist Dr. William Thompson – who spoke out about the suppression of research results linking autism to early measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine administration – was prematurely outed without his permission by de-licensed British doctor Andrew Wakefield. Yet one question still lingers: why did he do it?
The answer may lie in what Wakefield's critics have accused him of being motivated by for the last decade: money.
Much of Wakefield's personal income comes from his role as president of the Strategic Autism Initiative (SAI), a non-profit he runs for the purposes of funding autism research. However, only a small portion of SAI's contributions actually went to autism research; the vast majority went into his pocket according to SAI's latest available 990 form. He had also solicited donations for a libel suit he filed in Texas that was eventually dismissed on jurisdictional grounds where he was ordered to pay defendants' legal costs.
Contributions for both Wakefield's lawsuit and his non-profit came from the very community of parents of vaccine-injured children who Wakefield claims to be helping. His image and relevance to that community are what help him receive money from that community. As his lawsuit was winding down, his hijacking of the CDC whistleblower story gave Wakefield just what he would have needed to reinvigorate his hero role to the very people who had come to follow him so devoutly. It would also give him yet another reason to solicit money from his supporters.
What started as the release of online videos that mentioned the whistleblower by name and included surreptitious recordings of his voice became a two-month campaign to raise money for a documentary film Wakefield said he was making about the whistleblower saga. Yet only $2,325 – far below the lofty goal of $230,000 – was actually raised. And despite an ongoing campaign by Wakefield's supporters to circulate the whistleblower story on Twitter and other social media sites, those efforts have had no appreciable impact on the story's exposure. Nonetheless, Wakefield succeeded in galvanizing support for himself from his own community of followers even though his interference in the story likely eliminated any chance of widespread media coverage.
Now in 2015, prospects of the whistleblower William Thompson being able to testify about the CDC's role in suppressing research associating autism with MMR vaccination before Congress appears to be supported by little else than rumors on blogs. A recent outbreak of measles in Disneyland has led to The Washington Post among other papers blaming the outbreak on Wakefield, dubbing him the "high priest" of the "anti-vaccine movement" despite never mentioning Thompson or any other examples of misconduct at CDC.
15 years after a researcher at CDC concluded a causal vaccine-autism association in email to colleagues while studying the mercury-based vaccine preservative thimerosal, media focus remains fixed on Wakefield thanks in no small part to his own actions. Not only does that benefit CDC, but Wakefield also stands to benefit by the reinforcement of his image as a "martyr" to his support base that still provides him with sympathy and financial backing.
Tragically, the people who do not benefit at all while suffering the most from this ongoing narrative are the very community of people that is still largely misguided enough to keep following him without examining his possible motives.
Addendum: See on The Epoch Times.
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Kennedy May Publish Deleted Chapters, But Still Backtracks on Thimerosal
August 16, 2014 1:45 am \ 7 Comments \ Jake Crosby
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. might restore chapters he deleted from his book "Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak," according to the blog of Focus Autism. Meanwhile, a letter Kennedy had written to Medical News Today earlier this year took a strong, unambiguous stand on the autism-thimerosal link, suggesting it was only very recently that he backtracked from his position that thimerosal causes autism. However, based on Kennedy's recent comments in the press, he shows no sign of reverting to his original position, even if he does add the chapters back in which would presumably include those on autism.
In an August 7th blog post titled "RFK Jr.'s book is bringing a lot of attention to the problem, both positive and negative," Focus Autism founder and philanthropist Barry Segal wrote:
"The good news is that supposedly Kennedy (who is now being beaten up by both sides) is going to publish the missing chapters, which will add strength to his argument."
If true, it would prove a very fortunate development in the Kennedy book saga. Unfortunately, he still has yet to revert to his previous stance that thimerosal causes autism.
In an article he wrote on AlterNet titled "Invitation to Open Debate On Thimerosal" that ran the day before Segal's blog post, Kennedy made multiple statements backtracking from his original position that autism is caused by thimerosal in vaccines (boldface mine):
"In fact most of the criticisms have focused on how thimerosal has been linked to autism. That is not the subject of the book, nor is that claimed within the book."
"The argument is not whether it causes autism, which is not clearly proven, although this curiously been [sic] the focus of recent criticism of the book (which no one had read to date)."
"This book, a meta-review essentially, does not pretend to answer the thorny question of whether thimerosal is a culprit in the autism epidemic."
"…a possible thimerosal-autism connection is far from a settled question."
"…thimerosal might, in some cases, contribute to autism causation."
These statements by Kennedy represent a position that is markedly different from one expressed in a letter he had written to Medical News Today several months prior on March 28th, 2014 (boldface mine):
"For two years, I have worked with a team of doctors and respected scientific researchers to assemble every published study on Thimeresol, the mercury based vaccine preservative still present in dangerous concentrations in US flu vaccines and pediatric vaccines worldwide. We have assembled and digested close to five hundred peer reviewed published pharmacological, toxicological, clinical, animal and human epidemiological studies in leading publications. These studies overwhelmingly implicate Thimeresol in a host of neurological injuries including ADD, ADHD, Speech delay, Language Delay, Tics, Misery Disorder and Autism."
He also did not mince words when discussing the CDC or its study led by Epidemic Intelligence Services' Dr. Thomas Verstraeten (boldface mine):
"Instead of cleaning house, coming clean and embracing transparency, the CDC has gone to extremes to conceal its vaccine safety data from the public and from outside scientists and researchers. The agency claims to have lost or misplaced the raw data underlying it's only study of Thimeresol's impacts on US cohorts. That in house study – the so called Verstratten [sic] study – initially showed strong dose related causative links between Thimeresol exposure and autism."
While Dr. Mark Hyman reportedly convinced Kennedy to remove chapters from his book in the first place, the mystery remains as to who convinced Kennedy to backtrack from his position on thimerosal's harms. Certainly Dr. Hyman is a suspect, as is Kennedy's ghostwriter Adam Hadhazy who once wrote in defense of the toxin. Or, the person behind Kennedy's backtrack could be someone else entirely.
Regardless of who it is, Kennedy's book will remain a disappointingly inadequate call for an unequivocal ban on thimerosal – with or without the additional chapters – unless revisions are made in the book's preface, introduction and conclusion. In the meantime, Kennedy has yet to even add the chapters back in as only the butchered version of his book is in print.
Jake Crosby is editor of Autism Investigated. He is a 2011 graduate of Brandeis University with a Bachelor of Arts in both History and Health: Science, Society and Policy and a 2013 graduate of The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services with a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology. He currently attends the University of Texas School of Public Health where he is studying for a Ph.D. in Epidemiology.
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Kennedy's Ghostwriter Defended Thimerosal
August 1, 2014 4:48 am \ 16 Comments \ Jake Crosby
ghostwriter: A person whose job it is to write material for someone else who is the named author. – Oxford Dictionaries
As surprising as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. chopping out the chapters on autism from his book "Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak" while saying there is no proof thimerosal causes autism, is the identity of one of the professional writers he hired to write his book for him. The creator listed in the file properties of Kennedy's unpublished manuscript had actually defended the neurotoxic vaccine preservative thimerosal, which appears to shed light on Kennedy's decision to strike the chapters.
Adam Hadhazy is a "freelance science writer" with his own professional website and linkedin account. He also authored a piece for Popular Mechanics in 2010 defending thimerosal, titled "The Truth About 9 Anti-Vaccine Studies." In it, he quoted millionaire vaccine industrialist Paul Offit as summarizing Dr. Mark Geier's research on thimerosal and autism "junk." Hadhazy also called Dr. Andrew Wakefield "discredited" and wrote that his 1998 Lancet paper on children with autism and bowel disease "largely launched the dangerous anti-vaccination movement."
Adam Hadhazy further cited the letter former CDC researcher Thomas Verstraeten wrote to Pediatrics falsely stating that CDC did not conceal any evidence thimerosal causes autism. Citing Paul Offit, Hadhazy suggested that infants can "conservatively handle thousands of vaccines simultaneously". The take-away point from all this is that Hadhazy is an all-purpose defender of the vaccine program, and he's written Kennedy's book for him. Hadhazy's "substantive, behind the scenes role" in Kennedy striking the chapters connecting thimerosal to autism is more than evident.
In the Washington Post, Dr. Mark Hyman – celebrity doctor who wrote the book's preface – takes credit for convincing Kennedy to remove the chapters. Yet Dr. Hyman is an awfully strange person to have done so, given that he has no history of writing about thimerosal. Dr. Hyman further echos a familiar pharma talking point: "Yes, there's been an increase in autism, even as we take out thimerosal" (Ironically, the CDC data Dr. Hyman relied on to defend thimerosal is not even considered reliable by thimerosal defenders). Hadhazy's piece for Popular Mechanics on thimerosal and vaccines is heavily laden with pharma talking points.
In Kennedy's officially released book, the entire part on autism is removed including a chapter titled "Autism Rates Decline When Thimerosal Exposure Levels Are Reduced" and another on the government's concession that vaccines caused autism in Hannah Poling. The entire part critiquing media coverage was removed as well. Even chapters in remaining parts were pulled. Those include chapters on CDC and AAP's conflicts of interest, the Breusewitz v. Wyeth Supreme Court decision siding with drug companies, the Homeland Security Rider seeking to protect thimerosal maker Eli Lilly and CDC's intimidation tactics against scientists such as Dr. Mark and David Geier and Prof. Richard Deth. Those chapters were apparently "too combustible" to keep as well, as was the word "Causative" that was taken out of the chapter title that formerly read "The Verstraeten Study – Causative Links between Thimerosal and Neurological Damage."
Meanwhile, Age of Autism continues to ardently defend Kennedy, saying on its Facebook page: "If you'd like to piss in the cornflakes, find another bowl."
It looks like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has already done that to his own bowl.
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Cover-up Scandal: CDC's Vaccine Research Exposed as Flawed and Falsified
June 13, 2014 2:23 am \ 51 Comments \ Jake Crosby
CDC's Vaccine Safety Research is Exposed as Flawed and Falsified in Peer-Reviewed Scientific Journal
Substantial Scientific Evidence Exists that Vaccine Ingredient is a Developmental Neurotoxin
Watchung, NJ, June 12, 2014
by A Shot of Truth
Just months after U.S. Congressman Bill Posey compared the Center for Disease Control (CDC)'s vaccine safety studies to the SEC's Bernie Madoff scandal, malfeasance in the CDC's studies of thimerosal-containing vaccines has, for the first time, been documented in peer-reviewed scientific literature. While the CDC states on its website that "low doses of thimerosal in vaccines do not cause harm, and are only associated with minor local injection site reactions like redness and swelling at the injection site," the journal BioMed Research International now provides direct evidence that the CDC's safety assurances about the mercury-containing preservative are not fact-based, according to the article's lead author, Brian Hooker, PhD.
The paper opens by citing over 165 studies that have found Thimerosal to be harmful, including 16 studies that had reported outcomes in human infants and children of death, acrodynia, poisoning, allergic reaction, malformations, auto-immune reaction, Well's syndrome, developmental delay and neurodevelopmental disorders including tics, speech delay, language delay, ADHD and autism. These findings by multiple independent research groups over the past 75+ years have consistently found thimerosal to be harmful. "Substantial scientific evidence exists and has existed for many years that the vaccine ingredient thimerosal is a developmental neurotoxin" says George Lucier, former Associate Director of the National Toxicology Program.
Studies showing harm from thimerosal sharply contradict published outcomes of six CDC coauthored and sponsored papers – the very studies that CDC relies upon to declare that thimerosal is "safe" for use in infant and maternal vaccines. Dr. Hooker, biochemist and vaccine industry watchdog, said of the six CDC studies, "Each of these papers is fatally flawed from a statistics standpoint and several of the papers represent issues of scientific malfeasance. For example, important data showing a relationship between thimerosal exposure and autism are withheld from three of the publications (Price et al. 2010, Verstraeten et al. 2003 and Madsen et al. 2003). This type of cherry-picking of data by the CDC in order to change the results of important research studies to support flawed and dangerous vaccination policies should not be tolerated."
Dr. Boyd Haley, international expert in mercury toxicity and a co-author of the recently published paper said "There is no doubt that authorities in the CDC have initiated and participated in a cover-up of vaccine-induced damage from thimerosal to our children—-and this I consider criminal." The paper, "Methodological Issues and Evidence of Malfeasance in Research Purporting to Show Thimerosal in Vaccines is Safe," was published on June 6 and contains eight pages of evidence that the CDC has had knowledge of the vaccine preservative's neurological risks, yet continues to cover them up.
The paper concludes, "five of the publications examined in this review were directly commissioned by the CDC, raising the possible issue of conflict of interests or research bias, since vaccine promotion is a central mission of the CDC. Conceivably, if serious neurological disorders are found to be related to Thimerosal in vaccines, such findings could possibly be viewed as damaging to the vaccine program."
Dr. Hooker has submitted over 100 FOIA requests to the CDC over the past 10 years and has amassed thousands of pages of documents showing malfeasance in the CDC's vaccine safety program. Hooker revealed that one CDC document quoted a top official instructing CDC employees to "Review all correspondences and documents to see if there is 'foreseeable harm' to the agency if they were released" so the documents could be redacted by CDC attorneys prior to release.
Barry Segal, founder of the Focus Autism Foundation and former entrepreneur whose company sales peaked near $2 billion said, "We are in the process of exposing what may be the biggest federal scandal ever with immense damage to our economy and our people, especially our children who are the future of our country. Their health has been compromised by mercury in vaccines. We need Congress to take action now. Thimerosal must be banned."
A more effective vaccine preservative "2PE" has replaced thimerosal in many other vaccines and possesses a much better safety profile according to Dr. Hooker.
The Focus Autism Foundation is dedicated to providing information to the public that exposes the cause or causes of the autism epidemic and the rise of chronic illnesses – focusing specifically on the role of vaccinations. To learn more, visit FocusAutism.org. A Shot of Truth is an educational campaign sponsored by Focus Autism
BioMed Research International
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2014/247218/
Focusautism.org – www.focusautism.org
A Shot of Truth – www.ashotoftruth.org
CDC Caught Hiding Data Showing Mercury in Vaccines Linked to Autism
Originally published at Health Impact News Daily
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Watch Jake Crosby's AutismOne 2014 Talk
June 6, 2014 6:56 am \ 17 Comments \ Jake Crosby
Props to AutismOne's Teri Arranga for her introduction.
Originally posted on AutismOne
So often, when we think of investigating autism, we think of discovering the physiological underpinnings. But what about the sociological forces that perpetuate the autism epidemic? Politics from without? Or – surprisingly – politics from within? In this startling lecture, Jacob Crosby, MPH, discusses the obstructionist forces that have hampered progress within the autism advocacy arena.
Jake Crosby, MPH
Jake Crosby is editor of Autism Investigated. He is a 2011 graduate of Brandeis University with a bachelor's degree in both history and health and a 2013 graduate of The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services with a master's degree in epidemiology. He currently attends the University of Texas School of Public Health where he is studying for a PhD in epidemiology. For nearly five years, he was contributing editor to Age of Autism.
Originally posted at AutismOne
AutismOne is a non-profit charity organization 501(c)(3) started by a small group of parents of children with autism. Parents are and must remain the driving force of our community, the stakes are too high and the issues too sacred to delegate to outside interests. AUTISM IS A PREVENTABLE/TREATABLE BIOMEDICAL CONDITION. Autism is the result of environmental triggers. Autism is not caused by "bad" genes and the epidemic is not the result of "better" diagnosis. Children with autism suffer from gut bugs, allergies, heavy metal toxicity, mitochondrial disorders, antioxidant deficiencies, nutritional deficiencies and autoimmune diseases – all of which are treatable. THE KEY IS EDUCATION The AutismOne Conference, AutismOne Radio, AutismOne Outreach and Autism in Action initiatives educate more than 100,000 families every year about prevention, recovery, safety, and change.
Addendum: See AutismOne Slides
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Vaccine Industry Watchdog Obtains CDC Documents That Show Statistically Significant Risks of Autism Associated with Vaccine Preservative Thimerosal
February 20, 2014 10:26 am \ 16 Comments \ Jake Crosby
Biochemist Brian Hooker, scientific advisor to A Shot of Truth, reveals CDC knew of risks for over decade.
Charlotte, NC (PRWEB) February 19, 2014
For nearly ten years, Brian Hooker has been requesting documents that are kept under tight wraps by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). His more than 100 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests have resulted in copious evidence that the vaccine preservative Thimerosal, which is still used in the flu shot that is administered to pregnant women and infants, can cause autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
Dr. Hooker, a PhD scientist, worked with two members of Congress to craft the letter to the CDC that recently resulted in his obtaining long-awaited data from the CDC, the significance of which is historic. According to Hooker, the data on over 400,000 infants born between 1991 and 1997, which was analyzed by CDC epidemiologist Thomas Verstraeten, MD, "proves unequivocally that in 2000, CDC officials were informed internally of the very high risk of autism, non-organic sleep disorder and speech disorder associated with Thimerosal exposure."
When the results of the Verstraeten study were first reported outside the CDC in 2005, there was no evidence that anyone but Dr. Verstraeten within the CDC had known of the very high 7.6-fold elevated relative risk of autism from exposure to Thimerosal during infancy. But now, clear evidence exists. A newly-acquired abstract from 1999 titled, "Increased risk of developmental neurologic impairment after high exposure to Thimerosal containing vaccine in first month of life" required the approval of top CDC officials prior to its presentation at the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) conference. Thimerosal, which is 50% mercury by weight, was used in most childhood vaccines and in the RhoGAM® shot for pregnant women prior to the early 2000s.
The CDC maintains there is "no relationship between Thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism rates in children," even though the data from the CDC's own Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) database shows a very high risk. There are a number of public records to back this up, including this Congressional Record from May 1, 2003. The CDC's refusal to acknowledge thimerosal's risks is exemplified by a leaked statement from Dr. Marie McCormick, chair of the CDC/NIH-sponsored Immunization Safety Review at IOM. Regarding vaccination, she said in 2001, "…we are not ever going to come down that it [autism] is a true side effect…." Also of note, the former director of the CDC, which purchases $4 billion worth of vaccines annually, is now president of Merck's vaccine division.
Dr. Hooker's fervent hope for the future: "We must ensure that this and other evidence of CDC malfeasance are presented to Congress and the public as quickly as possible. Time is of the essence. Children's futures are at stake." A divide within the autism community has led to some activists demanding that compensation to those with vaccine-injury claims be the top priority before Congress. Dr. Hooker maintains that prevention, "protecting our most precious resource – children's minds," must come first. "Our elected officials must be informed about government corruption that keeps doctors and patients in the dark about vaccine risks."
Referring to an organization that has seen its share of controversy this past year, Dr. Hooker remarked, "It is unfortunate that SafeMinds issued a press release on my information, is accepting credit for my work and has not supported a worldwide ban on Thimerosal."
Brian Hooker, PhD, PE, has 15 years experience in the field of bioengineering and is an associate professor at Simpson University where he specializes in biology and chemistry. His over 50 science and engineering papers have been published in internationally recognized, peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Hooker has a son, aged 16, who developed normally but then regressed into autism after receiving Thimerosal-containing vaccines.
Dr. Brian Hooker's investigative research is sponsored by the Focus Autism Foundation.
The Focus Autism Foundation is dedicated to providing information to the public that exposes the cause or causes of the autism epidemic and the rise of chronic illnesses – focusing specifically on the role of vaccinations. To learn more, visit focusautisminc.org.
A Shot of Truth is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization and educational website sponsored by Focus Autism.
AutismOne is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that provides education and supports advocacy efforts for children and families touched by an autism diagnosis. To learn more, visit autismone.org.
Originally posted on PRWeb.
Correction: As Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs' Dr. Paul King pointed out, the year 1999 on the abstract specifies the year its lead investigator Thomas Verstraeten joined the EIS, but not the year of the abstract itself. The EIS conference the study authors planned to submit their abstract to took place during the year 2000.
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Urban Heritages: Concepts, Practices and Legacies
This research focus incorporates several individual projects, as well as initiatives in cooperation that analyze heritage both as a set of concepts, discourses, and practices, as well as institutional and discursive frames. A major premise of this focus is to take a longer chronological overview, tracing the development and impact of heritage concepts and practices from the Soviet Union / Soviet Ukraine into the present. Exploring the ways how heritage is conceptualized and managed offers a possibility to trace circulations, adaptations and impacts between local, and transnational scales. It is important for us to trace how heritage practices are integrated within a set of institutions, policies, and expertise. This contextualization will allow for a more complex and dynamic understanding of heritage discourses and practices in contemporary Ukraine and Eastern Europe. While research geography is not defined by Lviv, the city is a place to engage in contemporary discussions, practical projects, and bringing in best-practice formats into the public, shaping a bridge between research and practice. This research asks how different kinds of power relations, negotiations, and contestations were generated by different actors in the spheres of heritage selection, preservation, use, and promotion, in specific Soviet and post-Soviet settings. We are interested in how institutionalization and professionalization influenced the making of cultural heritage, but also how different layers of the past (local, regional, imperial, national, transnational) were renegotiated during the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Finally, this research focus questions chronological frames and asks how diversity and homogeneity were tackled not only before and after 1989/1991, but also across longer period of the second half of the 20th century and early 21st century. This research theme has strong practical dimensions and relevance. Urban heritage was one of the focuses at the Center from its establishment, both as an area of research and a topic for public history and community projects. The Center launched and organized several initiatives focusing specifically on heritage practices and history of heritages in Lviv, and more generally in Eastern and Central Europe. One of the examples of our engagement with urban heritage on a both scholarly and practical level is how our 2008 international conference "Jewish Urban Heritage and History in East Central Europe" sparked an initiative to commemorate and mark sites of Jewish history and heritage in Lviv. Over several years, it developed into "The Space of Synagogues," which includes projects to conserve and mark the sites of two synagogues and a beth hamidrash in Lviv. This project is realized in cooperation with the Lviv City Council and the German Organization for International Cooperation (GIZ).
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Q: Ionic start error file already exists browserslist I have an error since this morning and I didn't find a solution.
I installed Node, npm, Cordova, and Ionic. I go on my folder and try ionic start
ionic start myproject blank

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but I always have the same problem.
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A: Though its an old post, but I had the same problem and apparently there is no fix available. What I tried (and worked for me), maybe it will help someone else as well:

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*Uninstalled ionic (if already installed)

*Uninstalled node and npm

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*This is important, I was trying without rebooting the system and was getting the same error. So restart is a must.

*Re-Install node.js and ionic

*If ionic is not not recognized inside your directory, try somewhere else and if it worked in another directory, simply cleaning the directory should do the trick.

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Trystan Farnworth Appointed As Commercial Director At Britvic Ireland
Published on Nov 11 2020 11:42 AM in A-Brands tagged: Trending Posts / MiWadi / Britvic / New Appointment
Britvic Ireland has announced the appointment of Trystan Farnworth to the position of commercial director for the island of Ireland. Farnworth's most recent appointment to his current role as island...
Britvic Ireland has announced the appointment of Trystan Farnworth to the position of commercial director for the island of Ireland.
Farnworth's most recent appointment to his current role as island of Ireland commercial director at Britvic Ireland, will see him assume responsibility for all sales channels in the Irish market.
He will oversee the national accounts and field teams with full responsibility for Britvic Ireland, Counterpoint and Aquaporte.
Commenting on Farnworth's appointment, managing director of Britvic Ireland, Kevin Donnelly said: "His role as commercial director is absolutely crucial to value creation for Britvic, our customers and partner in a constantly evolving trading environment."
'Climbing The Ranks'
A native of Bangor in North Wales, Farnworth is a company veteran having worked for Britvic since 2002.
Farnworth climbed the ranks of Britvic's GB operation through a series of three account manager roles before being promoted to commercial controller in 2006.
He reached director level in 2011 when he became Britvic's director of Commercial Change & Joint Ventures and he was appointed to the board of Britvic plc as sales director in 2014.
Farnworth spent five years in this role before taking up a newly created role in Britvic plc last year as group sustainability director.
In this role he oversaw the development of a company-wide sustainability strategy dealing with key business sustainability priorities such as plastics and packaging.
"Having been with Britvic for nearly twenty years, Trystan also brings with him a wealth of soft drinks knowledge and group-wide experience on business critical matters including Sustainability, which will be of huge benefit," Donnelly added.
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Quentin is almost blind in his left eye and has serious problems with his kidney and knee. The doctor gave him a paper saying that the authorities must allow him to go to Athens for medical treatment – that was five months ago and Quentin is still waiting for his transfer to be arranged.
And Quentin is not the only one vulnerable and abandoned. Oxfam has been working in Lesvos since 2015 and our recent report highlights how Greece and its EU partners are failing to protect those seeking safety and dignity in Europe. People living on the Greek islands endure dangerous and inadequate conditions while the system to identify those most vulnerable has broken down due to chronic understaffing and flawed processes.
Moria had been described as "hell", a place where pregnant women and mothers with new-born babies attempt to survive winter in makeshift tents without heating, while children who arrived on their own are placed in detention after being wrongly registered as adults.
One woman told us how she knew women who had given birth by Caesarean section and been returned to the camp after only four days – they had to recover from major surgery and care for their new-born in cold, dirty and life-threatening conditions.
Life for people in the camp is unimaginably difficult at the best of times. This Christmas, Moria was at more than double its official capacity of 3,100 places, with just under 5,000 migrants living inside the camp and another 2,000 living in an informal camp next to Moria, known as the Olive Grove.
In the Olive Grove, people have limited access to running water, toilets and electricity and the ground is littered with rubbish, attracting rats and stray dogs. Many people living in both Moria and the Olive Grove have told us that they do not feel safe and for the countless people who have experienced sexual abuse and other traumas, this causes further fear and fuels mental health problems.
But winter compounds all of these challenges making life even more unbearable.
Recent months have brought heavy rain to Lesvos turning the camp that thousands call home into a muddy bog. The temperature is expected to drop below freezing in the next week and it could snow.
People in Moria and the Olive Grove are housed in a combination of small camping tents and larger family tents as well as in more permanent structures such as containers and large tent-like structures that can house more than 100 people each. Others have to live in makeshift shelters. Only a few tents have heating and there is no hot water in Moria camp – parents must wash even their new-borns outside in the cold.
The situation is particularly horrifying for the people who live in the Olive Grove. Their tents are pitched on a sandy hill and muddy streams of water run through the camp whenever it rains, frequently flooding the floors of tents and drenching the few belongings people have.
For some people, open fires are the only way to keep warm and the burning of plastic bags and bottles creates a hazardous, acrid atmosphere.
For the most vulnerable - unaccompanied children, women who are pregnant or with young babies, people with disabilities and survivors of trauma, among others – such cruel living conditions make them even more desperate and at risk.
We are particularly concerned about a worrying trend of authorities detaining teenagers and survivors of torture after failing to recognise them as vulnerable. Legal and social workers told Oxfam they frequently came across detainees who should not have been locked up because of their age or because of poor physical or mental health. Once in detention, it is even more difficult for them to get the medical or psychological help they need.
In one case, a 28-year-old asylum seeker from Cameroon was locked up for five months based on his nationality, despite having serious mental health issues. No one checked his physical and mental health before he was detained and it took a month for him to see a psychologist.
Oxfam is calling for the Greek government and EU member states to deploy more expert staff, including doctors and psychologists and to fix the screening system on the Greek islands. When people arrive in Greece and seek asylum, they must undergo a vulnerability assessment, that includes an assessment by a medical specialist and, if needed, by a psychologist. This is vital to ensure that vulnerable people are quickly identified and given the support they need.
We are also asking that more people seeking asylum should be transferred to mainland Greece on a regular basis – particularly the vulnerable.
Everyone has the right to seek asylum – we are calling on EU member states to share responsibility for receiving asylum seekers with Greece and believe Ireland has a role to play in this.
We recognise that Ireland has already welcomed 1,022 asylum seekers and refugees from Greece through the EU's relocation programme. However, more people continue to arrive in Greece while thousands languish in inadequate and treacherous conditions, and globally the number of displaced people continues to rise. Ireland can and should do more to uphold the commitment made in 2015 to welcome 4,000 people by the end of 2017 through the Irish Refugee Protection Programme.
By fairly sharing responsibility with Greece and other European countries on the borders, Ireland can help to ensure that asylum seekers, especially those most in need, can live in safety and with dignity while their applications are considered.
Ireland should also work to ensure that people seeking protection can do so safely so that they do not risk perilous journeys to Europe in the first place. This could be through expanding opportunities for refugee family reunification, enabling refugees in Ireland to reunite with their dependent loved ones.
We must remember that the vast majority of the world's 68.8 million people forced to flee have been welcomed by some of the world's poorest countries. All EU members can and should do more.
Jim Clarken is Oxfam Ireland's Chief Executive.
Oxfam has been working in Lesvos since 2015 to ensure that people seeking asylum are protected.


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What is a 45 degree steel elbow?
Elbows are a part of a piping system that redirects the flow of what is running inside the pipe. Whether it is gas, LPG or water, when an elbow is used to connect pipes, it means the flow is redirected in a certain degree. There is a 45, 90 or 180 degree elbows that are commonly used in every construction of a structure.
This particular elbow is commonly used to redirect the flow to a 45 degree turn, to connect a certain pipe in that location. It can be that the water or gas needs to flow in a certain part of the building, from the location of the main pipe.
Pipes are usually used in delivery of water or gas within the building from its source. The bigger the building, the more complex is the piping system. And the more complex it is, the more pipes are to be connected to each other. One of the parts used to interconnect these pipes in the system is a 45 degree steel elbow.
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b. Bridges. In some cases, bridges are using pipes to allow water to cross thru it, going to the opposite end.
c. Chemical plants. In chemical plants, piping system are also using 45 degree steel elbows, to allow the flow of chemical going to the delivery tankers from the manufacturing plants. This is to avoid maximum exposure to the environment.
d. Oil industries. In the oil and gas plants or in the offshore industries, steel pipes are commonly used to transport and deliver their products to the tankers.
e. Ships. In ships, pipes are fitted to allow the property flow and delivery of water and gas to various parts of the ship.
Why 45 degree steel pipes or elbows?
1. Toughness. Steel materials are tough enough to whether any kind of weather and environmental conditions.
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3. Strength. It has the strength to withstand the pressure from within.
A 45 degree steel elbow, just like the 90 and 180 degrees steel elbows are very important in the piping system. It dictates the flow of water or gas within the pipe. Its use depends mainly on the design of the system, which is done by professional plumbers and engineers, who created the designs, making sure of the delivery of its contents, uninterrupted and with lesser pressure.
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Melonport wants to be able to accommodate all kinds of Digital Asset management strategies (passive, active, open-end, closed-end). This encompasses the entire lifecycle from setup, to trading, custody, redemption, valuation, etc.
Melonport is a Decentralized blockchain protocol relying on the Ethereum Blockchain. In plain vanilla terms, Melonport is a protocol which means that they are building a core part that allows all sorts of Modules, that can function on top of the core part. Melonport is expecting a live beta version over the next couple of months. This will include the core part and 7 modules that Melonport has promised to offer in their green paper. These are the basic functions that a portfolio manager (PM) needs to setup his/her business. Once the PM chooses the parameters of the modules, the portfolio is ready for deployment in a secure and decentralized way (to be explained later).
Registar: this where the PM chooses which assets will be traded. I love this, because the smart contract that operates this module, re-assures me that when I invest with a hedge fund manager who has promised to offer Alpha by a Long/Short strategy in one sort of tokens; the PM can't "punt" on the bitcoin/TUSD rate.
Functionality: PM can customize the rights around the use of the funds which may vary from one asset to another. This module determines whether penalties apply or not for certain actions by the PM.
Price Feeds: PM picks the feed module (one or several) that will be used to evaluate the portfolio for mark-to-market purposes. This smart contract solves in a secure and transparent way the problem of ambiguous pricing for various assets and manipulation by the PM.
Exchanges: PM chooses on-chain exchanges for trading.
Management Fee: PM specifies the calculation of the management fee which typically is linked to the gross value of AUM.
Since Melonport is an open-source protocol with these 7 basic functionalities, anyone can develop more Modules on top of the Melonport protocol and create a new portal to access it. If a hedge fund manager or a passive asset manager designs his/her portfolio parameters using the 7 basic Melonport modules, that can be seen in Blockchain land as the offering of a legally binding contract. The contract terms are defined by the smart-contract terms that are operating the modules. Melonport will be partnering with data feed providers and exchanges like CryptoCompare for price feeds from various exchanges, or Oraclize for fetching data.
I won't get into the tech details of how shares are created and how they are redeemed in the Melonport world (anyone interested can read the green paper). I will however, outline what value is created in the Melonport world. I foresee, that this will be a world that will reduce substantially the costs of setting up a fund for many reasons but mainly because the costly custodian and fund administration function will be given over to a few modules operated by smart contracts. The cost of using the Melonport protocol is MLN tokens. At the same time, there will be large efficiency gains because the processes will be real-time, without human errors, and fully transparent. These features are absolutely necessary for investing in protocol tokens and their derivatives.
The Melonport protocol is creating a digital asset management world that offers both Decentralized storage and Decentralized execution. I am excited about this future world that the assets, the track records, and the smart contracts are stored on a decentralized Blockchain. This reduces the centralized custodian risks that showed their ugly head especially during the 2008 financial crisis. In addition, decentralized execution using the Ethereum virtual machine, reduces counterparty and settlement risks.
We can all foresee a future world in which a variety of hedge funds are using the Melonport portal but also for the creation of passive investments focused in the protocol token asset class. We can foresee that Funds-of-Funds (FOFs) will be able to offer value since costs will be reduced and multi-layered risks mitigated. We can foresee better diversification across digital asset classes that would be expensive to design in the analog fund world that we currently live in.
Before ending my coverage of the Melonport protocol, I want to circle back to the variety of Digital Assets that are being created by companies like Lykke, Digix, T0 platform etc.
Digital assets that are collateralized or backed by another existing asset: These are digital assets whose value is directly linked to an analog asset. This digital asset class is representing the tokenization of the conventional world. For example, The Royal Mint Gold (RMG) which is live-tested on the CME (read more The wave of Gold trading technology is a game changer coming from the West); or the SEC approved digital preferred equity shares of Overstock on the T0 platform (read more in T-Zero sings "Love me do" to the SEC with its Blockchain Series A Preferred Shares).
Protocol Tokens governed by a coded protocol on a blockchain: The value of such tokens can be linked to their scarcity, their adaptation and their anticipated network effects; and/or their potential as a store of value or as a currency. For example, MLN (Melonport), ETH (Ethereum), BTC (bitcoin). Protocol Tokens are digital assets that have not made their way yet into the traditional asset management world. We are seeing some very early ventures like Polychain Capital: A hedge fund investing at the Protocol layer of Web 3.0 .
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MORE female Coalition politicians have urged a radical redesign of the nation's child-care system, saying it should cater better to women's changing work patterns.
Treasurer Peter Costello has pledged to fund more child-care places in the May federal budget, but yesterday sidestepped calls for fundamental reform. He said child care was just one of many areas competing for a slice of the $11.5 billion surplus.
But several prominent Liberal women have backed former minister Jackie Kelly's calls for a revamp of child care.
Queensland Liberal MP Teresa Gambaro, who raised two children as a sole parent, said child care had not adapted to changing work patterns.
"Work has changed — people are working out of hours; we have seven-day-a-week businesses. The traditional 9-to-5 model no longer exists," she said.
Victorian Liberal senator Judith Troeth said better child-care access should be a priority.
"I have a daughter with young children and lots of her friends would go back to work if they could find suitable child care," she said.
"If the Government is serious about higher levels of productivity and getting and keeping women in the workforce, we should make child-care funding a higher priority."
Senator Troeth called for incentives for business to provide care — such as scrapping fringe benefits tax on off-site child care that companies provide.
Government Senate Whip Jeannie Ferris renewed a call for the cost of nannies to be tax deductible.
"The cost of care for a second child makes it marginal for many women to return to work," she said. "I have never understood why deductibility can only apply if you pack up your child at 7.30am and take them off to care elsewhere."
Sydney-based Liberal backbencher Louise Markus said more could be done to boost the flexibility, access and affordability of child care.
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Q: openGL ES supporting languages and portability suggestion I been googling alot and read most of the question here but still confused and need some help to understand few things.
Me: Web developer working in C# for a long time.
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I am really confused about choosing a language which can target most of the devices.
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A: If you are a C# developer I would suggest to continue using it (as you need to learn a lot of new stuff for mobile development and OpenGL and by using the language you are already familiar with, you can at least avoid new language learning stress and focus yourself on new technology learning).
MonoDroid, C# for Android:
http://xamarin.com/monoforandroid
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No doubt that Java being the language of "native" support for Android as Objective C for iOS is a best choice for platform, but you should choose a best choice for you,  so I would go for C#.
Keep in mind that Mono frameworks are NOT free!
There is another interesting alternative for C++ , MoSync: http://www.mosync.com/

A: You can use C++ with Android via the NDK and in iOS via Objective-C++. Both use OpenGL ES so you could even share code between both platforms.


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Adil Rami (ur. 27 grudnia 1985 w Bastii) – francuski piłkarz marokańskiego pochodzenia występujący na pozycji obrońcy w klubie Troyes AC, reprezentant Francji.

Kariera klubowa
Rami urodził się na Korsyce, w mieście Bastia, w rodzinie pochodzenia marokańskiego. Karierę piłkarską rozpoczął w klubie Fréjus, skąd w 2006 roku trafił do Lille OSC. W nowych barwach zadebiutował 19 maja 2007 roku w przegranym 1:2 wyjazdowym meczu z AJ Auxerre. 18 października 2008 roku w zremisowanym 2:2 spotkaniu ligowym z Olympique Lyon zdobył swoją pierwszą bramkę dla klubu. Latem 2011 roku przeszedł do hiszpańskiej Valencii. W drugiej połowie 2013 roku został zawieszony przez zarząd klubu za publiczną krytykę drużyny oraz trenera. 12 lipca 2013 roku A.C. Milan oficjalnie poinformował za pośrednictwem swojej strony internetowej, że doszedł do porozumienia z hiszpańską Valencią w sprawie kupna Ramiego, który oficjalnie wzmocnił nowy zespół 12 lipca 2014 roku. Następnie grał w takich klubach jak: A.C. Milan, Sevilla FC, Olympique Marsylia, Fenerbahçe SK, PFK Soczi i Boavista FC. W 2021 przeszedł do Troyes AC.

Kariera reprezentacyjna
20 marca 2008 roku Rami otrzymał swoje pierwsze powołanie do reprezentacji Francji, jednak podczas towarzyskiego spotkania z Anglią nie zadebiutował w niej. 25 marca wystąpił za to w kadrze B, która w nieoficjalnym meczu podejmowała Mali. Ostatecznie pierwsze spotkanie w pierwszej reprezentacji rozegrał 11 sierpnia 2010 roku, gdy Francja przegrała 1:2 z Norwegią. Znalazł się w kadrze na Mistrzostwa Europy 2012.

Statystyki kariery
 (aktualne na dzień 8 maja 2017)

Sukcesy

Lille
 Mistrzostwo Francji: 2010/11
 Puchar Francji: 2010/11

Sevilla FC
 Liga Europy UEFA: 2015/16

Odznaczenia
 Chevalier Legii Honorowej – nadanie 2018, wręczenie 2019

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Piłkarze Lille OSC
Piłkarze Valencii CF
Piłkarze A.C. Milan
Piłkarze Sevilli FC
Piłkarze Olympique Marsylia
Piłkarze PFK Soczi
Piłkarze Troyes AC
Uczestnicy Mistrzostw Europy w Piłce Nożnej 2012
Uczestnicy Mistrzostw Europy w Piłce Nożnej 2016
Uczestnicy Mistrzostw Świata w Piłce Nożnej 2018
Mistrzowie Świata w Piłce Nożnej
Kawalerowie Legii Honorowej
Ludzie urodzeni w Bastii
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'The Lord Of The Rings' Stars Back Effort To Help Buy J.R.R. Tolkien's Former Home
Thursday, December 3rd 2020, 11:31 am
By: CBS News
Several "The Lord of the Rings" actors, including Sir Ian McKellen, John Rhys-Davies and Martin Freeman, are joining forces in an effort to help purchase the former home of famed author J.R.R. Tolkien.
The goal, organized by Project Northmoor, is to buy Tolkien's old house and turn it into a literary center dedicated to his works. British author Julia Golding has secured a three-month window to purchase the house from its current owners before it will be put on the open market, the group said in a news release. The fundraising target for the project is £4.5 million, or $6 million, which the project said it will use to "promote Tolkien's work, allow a diverse range of fantasy writers and artists to come together to write, learn and create, and preserve the fascinating house for future generations to enjoy."
Project Northmoor, named for the street where the house is located, on Wednesday released a video featuring McKellen, who played Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" films; Freeman, who took on the role of Bilbo Baggins in "The Hobbit" trilogy; Rhys-Davis and several Tolkien scholars to promote its fundraising efforts.
"Unbelievably, considering his importance, there is no center devoted to Tolkien anywhere in the world," said John Rhys-Davies, the actor who played the dwarf Gimli and voiced Treebeard the ent in Peter Jackson's film adaptations of the books, in a statement. "The vision is to make Tolkien's house into a literary hub that will inspire new generations of writers, artists and filmmakers for many years to come."
Golding, an award-winning British author who is spearheading the project, told CBS News, "We've had an amazing response since we launched only a few hours ago."
"Tolkien releases an outpouring of what I can only call love and many people are giving multiple times to ensure names of loved ones make it into our Red Book of Funders," she added.
Joseph Loconte, author of "A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War" and a scholar featured in the video, told CBS News, "We have a remarkable opportunity to preserve this haven of creativity where Tolkien produced his epic tale of the struggle for Middle-earth. The home can become a place where writers and artists, like Tolkien, can find a refuge to create works of moral beauty."
The house, an hour's drive from London, has remained virtually unchanged since it was built in 1924. Tolkien and his family moved there in 1930 while he worked as a professor at Oxford University. During the 17 years Tolkien and his family lived at Northmoor, the author penned his most famous works, "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "The Hobbit." Tolkien also entertained many guests at the home, a number of whom were themselves influential writers, such as "The Chronicles of Narnia" author C.S. Lewis.
Fans of Tolkien who want to support Project Northmoor can donate now. The fundraiser will run until March 15, 2021.
First published on December 2, 2020 / 5:27 PM
CBS News Several "The Lord of the Rings" actors, including Sir Ian McKellen, John Rhys-Davies and Martin Freeman, are joining forces in an effort to help purchase the former home of famed author J.R.R. Tolkien.
Department Of Justice Sues Walmart Over Opioid Crisis
CBS News The Justice Department is suing Walmart, alleging the country's largest retailer unlawfully dispensed controlled substances through its pharmacies and helped fuel the nation's opioid crisis. In a civil complaint filed Tuesday, the federal government alleges that Walmart pressured its pharmacists to fill opioid prescriptions quickly, denying them the ability to refuse invalid prescriptions. As a result, the complaint alleges, those pharmacists knowingly filled thousands of prescriptions that came
Honda Recalls 1.4M U.S. Vehicles For Software Flaw, Fire Hazard & More
Associated Press Honda is recalling over 1.4 million vehicles in the U.S. to repair drive shafts that can break, window switches that can overheat and a software flaw.
Welling Man Dies After Vehicle Collides With Tree
News On 6 A 58-year-old man died Sunday after he crashed his vehicle into a tree.
Pope Francis Endorses Same-Sex Civil Unions For The First Time As Pontiff
Associated Press Pope Francis endorsed same-sex civil unions for the first time as pope while being interviewed for the feature-length documentary "Francesco," which had its premiere at the Rome Film Festival on Wednesday.
Social Security: Beneficiaries To Receive 1.3% Cost-Of-Living Hike
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Social Security recipients will get a modest 1.3% cost-of living-increase in 2021, but that might be small comfort amid worries about the coronavirus pandemic and its consequences for older people. The increase amounts to $20 a month for the average retired worker, according to government estimates released Tuesday. The cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, affects the personal finances of about 1 in 5 Americans.