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Gain-of-Function Ghouls: SARS-CoV-2 Isn't the Scariest Thing That Could Leak From a Lab
by Alexis Baden Mayer & Ronnie Cummins
COVID-19 Origins,
OCA on COVID-19,
"With four separate infections within the last year at three different institutions in Beijing, Singapore, and Taipei, health experts fear that the next SARS epidemic may be more likely to emerge from a research lab than from the presumed animal reservoir."—"Lab Accidents Prompt Calls for New Containment Program," Science, 28 May 2004
Lab accidents happen.
When the first Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-1) pandemic ended in 2003, lab-acquired infections continued.
Immediately following the end of the 2003 pandemic, there were four separate outbreaks of lab-acquired infections of SARS-1 within one year at three different labs in Beijing, Singapore and Taipei. The situation was so bad that Science magazine warned, "health experts fear that the next SARS epidemic may be more likely to emerge from a research lab than from the presumed animal reservoir."
In one lab accident, a 26-year-old graduate student was exposed while working at the Institute of Viral Disease Control at the Chinese CDC. Her mother caught the disease from her and died.
Infected mouse bites man
It's been less than a year since SARS-2 somehow escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, infecting millions, triggering serious illness and death among the elderly (especially those in nursing homes) and those with serious pre-existing chronic diseases (obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and heart, lung and liver disease), and melting down the global economy.
And yet, almost like a Hollywood horror movie, dangerous experiments on viruses and bacteria even more lethal than COVID-19 are taking place in military and biomedical research facilities around the world, with potentially catastrophic consequences.
Information on these accidents should be readily available. The National Institute of Health, under the NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant or Synthetic Nucleic Acid Molecules, requires research institutions to maintain Institutional Biosafety Committees to oversee lab safety and protect dangerous biological agents from theft and misuse.
These IBCs are supposed to register with NIH's Office of Science Policy, hold regular meetings, make meeting minutes available to the public and report any significant problems, violations or any significant research-related accidents and illnesses to the OSP. Spills or accidents occurring in high containment (BL3 or BL4) laboratories resulting in an overt or potential exposure must be reported immediately.
However, what Prickly Research investigator Edward Hammond found while running the Sunshine Project (an international NGO dedicated to upholding prohibitions against biological warfare) was that:
"many IBCs didn't even exist. At all. Including IBCs at institutions handling very dangerous infectious diseases. They did not meet, and they did not exercise their responsibilities. And NIH, which never wanted the role of enforcer, did not care."
Through Hammond's persistence (and lawsuits) he was able to force some IBCs to comply with their regulatory responsibilities.
Hammond, who now writes a blog called Strange Cultures, shared his latest findings with Dr Jonathan Latham in a recent report, "Engineered COVID-19-Infected Mouse Bites Researcher Amid 'Explosion' Of Risky Coronavirus Research," published in Independent Science News.
These included details of the North Carolina lab of infamous gain-of-function scientist Ralph Baric—the first U.S. lab known to have genetically engineered a synthetic version of the live SARS-CoV-2 virus stitched together from mail-order sequences of DNA purchased over the internet.
Now, it is also the first lab known to have an accident involving a COVID-19-infected animal biting a researcher.
The synthesis of a full length infectious clone of SARS-CoV-2 drew swift criticism from a group of Chinese scientists and legal experts who published a paper addressing the dual-use problem:
"The so-called 'dual-use' problem in biology denotes that 'the techniques needed to engineer a bioweapon are the same as those needed to pursue legitimate research.' For example, the pathogen synthesis technique can be used to rescue patients, as well as to possibly manufacture bioweapons. Even if the motivation for developing this type of technology is noble, any deviation, misuse, or abuse during the research may result in calamitous consequences; for instance, an accidental leak from the laboratory, or the purposeful misuse by others."
If it turns out that SARS-CoV-2 leaked from a lab, it is likely that Baric and his colleagues Shi Zhengli at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Peter Daszak at EcoHealth Alliance will be implicated in its creation. Even dissident Chinese virologist Li-Meng Yan's allegation that SARS-CoV-2 is a biological weapon intentionally released by the Chinese government relies heavily on Shi's work, which can't be separated from her collaborations with Baric and Daszak.
Yan's attempt to pin responsibility on the Chinese Communist Party, however, is problematic, as Shi, Baric and Daszak have been collaborating with―and are funded by―the U.S. government, including the Pentagon. There are also factual errors in Yan's papers, that Alina Chan, a scientist at the Broad Institute, outlines here.
Lab origin theory gaining ground
Regardless of "whodunnit," the weight of the evidence has clearly shifted from a natural origin theory to a lab origin.
Scientists who support the natural origin theory of COVID-19 admit it has two major weaknesses. First, as a paper in the journal Cell notes, "the bat viruses most closely related to SARS-CoV-2 were sampled from animals in Yunnan province, over 1,500 km from Wuhan." Second, the genetic differences between these bat viruses and SARS-CoV-2 "represents more than 20 years of sequence evolution."
So far, there's no evidence bridging these gaps. Pangolins have been ruled out as an intermediate host and magnifier of the SAR-CoV-2 virus as has the Hunan seafood market located near two Wuhan biomedical/bioweapons labs.
Even the Chinese Centers for Disease Control, in May of this year, after criticism from scientists all over the world, finally admitted that many of the earliest detected cases of COVID-19 had no connection whatsoever to the Huanan Market, and that therefore the market should be ruled out as the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This admission by the Chinese CDC, along with growing genetic evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was manipulated, utilizing genetic engineering and synthetic biology, explains why world opinion is shifting toward the belief that SARS-CoV-2 leaked out of a badly-managed, accident-prone lab in Wuhan China.
Just to know that this is how SARS-CoV-2 could have been created, should be enough to launch a mass movement to put a stop to all experiments that could make pathogens more dangerous.
This movement may be arising in the U.S.
In an Economist/YouGov poll from May 2020, about half (49%) of Americans thought that a laboratory in China was definitely (18%) or probably (31%) the origin of the virus responsible for COVID- 19. Less than a third (28%) believe this is definitely (10%) or probably (18%) false, while more than one-fifth (22%) are not sure.
That was before Nobel Laureate Luc Montagnier published his July 2020 article "COVID-19, SARS and Bats Coronaviruses Genomes Peculiar Homologous RNA Sequence," in the International Journal of Research. In this important paper, Montagnier and his colleague Jean-Claude Perez provide evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is partially manmade, probably created in gain-of-function laboratory experiments.
It was also before scientist-turned-detective Alina Chan was profiled by Rowan Jacobsen in Boston Magazine ("Could COVID-19 Have Escaped from a Lab?," September 9, 2020).
Chan's earlier work, "SARS-CoV-2 is well adapted for humans. What does this mean for re-emergence?" (May 02, 2020) concludes: "The lack of definitive evidence to verify or rule out adaptation in an intermediate host species, humans, or a laboratory, means that we need to take precautions against each scenario to prevent re-emergence."
It was also before dissident Chinese scientists Li-Ming Yan appeared on Fox News with Tucker Carlson (Sep 15, 2020 - none of the other US networks have been willing to interview Yan).
Gain-of-function ghouls
As bad as this pandemic's been, SARS-CoV-2 isn't the scariest thing that could leak from a lab.
The mad scientists genetically engineering pathogens to make them even more dangerous are now out of control, concocting gain-of-function ghouls that could soon be leaking from a lab near you. These include:
CoronaTHRAX™—An invention of the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Vaccine Research that combines SARS-CoV-2 with anthrax. "It's completely unnecessary and frankly bizarre," Edward Hammond told Whitney Webb for her article, "Engineering Contagion: UPMC, Corona-Thrax And 'The Darkest Winter'." No one would know about this coronavirus-anthrax chimera if Hammond hadn't been keeping tabs on recombinant DNA research by doggedly filing requests for information with the Institutional Biosafety Committees of U.S. research labs. It's terrifying―but not surprising―that the Pitt Center would be doing such risky experiments. As Webb reports, its director W. Paul Duprex is a gain-of-function enthusiast who's received significant funding from the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Airborne Ebola—Currently, Ebola only spreads through direct contact with bodily fluids and the scientific consensus is that it would be virtually impossible for Ebola to naturally acquire aerogenic infection potential. Moreover, military experts have concluded that Ebola is not an effective biological weapon for terrorists. Nevertheless, the Pentagon continues to research airborne Ebola. The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) first published their "Lethal experimental infections of rhesus monkeys by aerosolized Ebola virus" in 1995. (One author is Army Colonel Nancy Jaax of Hot Zone fame.)
More recently, defense contractor Battelle Memorial Institute subcontracted part of a $5.6 million National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases award to the University Of Texas Medical Branch At Galveston for "Evaluation of Ebolavirus in a Novel Ferret Model." This is concerning because respiratory droplet transmission among ferrets is a proxy for human-to-human transmission. The Galveston researchers wrote in their 2016 paper, "The Domestic Ferret as a Lethal Infection Model for 3 Species of Ebolavirus," that their success in killing ferrets with Ebola "demonstrates the utility of this intranasal infection model in potential mucosal-mediated transmission experiments or small-particle aerosol challenge, the latter being highly relevant for biodefense-related concerns."
Human Pork Vomit Virus—Undeterred by suspicions that work they did to make bat coronaviruses infectious to humans could have contributed to a lab origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the Baric-Daszak-Shi team is at it again, doing the same with a pig coronavirus known as swine acute diarrhea syndrome coronavirus (SADS-CoV).
This virus, which has been infecting pork farms throughout China since 2016, causes severe diarrhea and vomiting and has been especially deadly to young piglets. The Baric Lab infected human cells with a synthetic form of SADS-CoV and found that human lung and intestinal cells are susceptible to infection, with a higher rate of growth in cells found in the gut. Lab work on the wild type virus had previously shown that it could not bind to human cells. Peter Daszak edited Ralph Baric's paper, "Swine acute diarrhea syndrome coronavirus replication in primary human cells reveals potential susceptibility to infection."
Daszak and Shi were the first to identify SADS-CoV in 2018. Coincidentally, they found several bat coronavirus nearby with similar genomic sequences. The closest in overall genome identity to SADS-CoV was HKU2-CoV at 95%, but the S gene sequence identity was only 86%, suggesting that HKU2-CoV was not the direct progenitor of SADS-CoV, but that they may have originated from a common ancestor. Notably, Daszak and Shi found no human receptors that would allow entry for SADS-CoV, so Baric's creation of a synthetic SADS-CoV that can attack human cells is a terrifying new development.
Undead Viruses—In the 1990s, according to an NC State University news report:
"Jeffery K. Taubenberger and a team at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology decided to go through the tissue archive and find preserved tissue samples from soldiers who died from pneumonia-like symptoms during the [1918] pandemic. Taubenberger and his colleagues developed methods for extracting RNA from these tissue samples (something people didn't think was possible at the time) and were able to pull out small bits and pieces of the influenza virus genome. Over several years, [using genetic engineering and synthetic biology] they were able to piece together the whole genome of the 1918 influenza virus – and they used that to resurrect this extinct virus [in 2005]."
In 2014, another team of scientists, led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka, collected circulating avian influenza viruses from wild birds and used genetic engineering and synthetic biology to create "a virus composed of avian influenza viral segments with high homology to the 1918 virus" and then "conferred respiratory droplet transmission to the 1918-like avian virus in ferrets" just to make sure it had the capacity to infect humans.
The above examples are all drawn from published information and some are old news, research projects that were so controversial that they resulted in a federal funding moratorium on gain-of-function research from 2014 to 2017.
When the moratorium was lifted, the Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care & Oversight Review Committee (P3CO) was created to vet gain-of-function research under the "Framework for Guiding Funding Decisions about Proposed Research Involving Enhanced Potential Pandemic Pathogens."
Dangerous trade secrets
The P3CO operates in complete secrecy.
Nothing was known about how the Framework was being implemented until 2019, when news of the first approved studies (to modify bird flu viruses in ways that could make them more risky to humans) was leaked to Science magazine.
This was disturbing to scientists Marc Lipsitch and Tom Inglesby, both of whom had advocated for the Framework. In their Washington Post opinion piece, "The U.S. Is Funding Dangerous Experiments It Doesn't Want You to Know About," Lipsitch and Inglesby wrote:
"This secrecy means we don't know how these requirements were applied, if at all, to the experiments now funded by the government. A spokesperson from the Department of Health and Human Services told Science magazine that the agency cannot make the reviews public because doing so might reveal proprietary information about the applicants' plans that could help their competitors. This bureaucratic logic implies that it is more important to maintain the trade secrets of a few prominent scientists than to let citizens—who bear the risk if an accident happens and who fund their work—scrutinize the decisions of public officials about whether these studies are worth the risk."
The Department of Health and Human Services "spokesperson" referred to by Lipsitch and Ingleby is Chistian Hassell, Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response.
The risk Lipsitch and Ingleby accused Hassell of ignoring—"of infecting millions of people with a highly dangerous virus"—became all the more glaring once the SARS-COV-2 was circling the globe.
For damage control, in January 2020, Hassell convened a meeting of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, ostensibly to address the demands Lipsitch and Inglesby were making for more transparency.
But, Hassell revealed very little about the P3CO committee at this meeting, other than that Robert Kadlec, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, appointed Hassell chair and that, in addition to Kadlec, the committee reports to Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Kelvin Droegemeier, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Trump's science advisor.
Indefensible defense research
We still don't know what gain-of-function ghouls the NIH is funding today—and, that's probably the government agency engaged in gain-of-function research that is the most transparent.
In addition, very little is known about what goes on at the Pentagon labs in 30 countries operated under the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Cooperative Biological Engagement Program. (We do know that DTRA funds EcoHealth Alliance's virus hunting. In the last 6 months, EcoHealth has received $10 million (34 percent) of the $29.1 million DTRA has invested in scientific research.)
We'll know even less about what happens at the new CIA Labs, but "bioscience and biotechnology" are listed under "What We Do."
The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency established a biological technologies office in 2014, after working in the sector for close to two decades. In carefully managed news releases, DARPA has revealed bits of information about:
Prophecy—A program to predict all the possible ways a pathogenic virus might mutate, to sequence and synthesize predicted viral genomes, to test how they adapt and change in various hosts and, finally, to create "high energy evolutionary boundaries" that keep genetic mutations at bay. While investigations into the origins of SARS-CoV-2 have focused on the Wuhan Institute of Virology, because of its location at the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic and Shi Zhengli's published work on the collection (with Peter Daszak) and manipulation (with Ralph Baric) of bat coronaviruses, DARPA's Prophecy program could just as easily have produced a virus like SARS-CoV-2―just like Li-Meng Yan asserts that the CCP could have. With so many potential suspects, solving this whodunnit won't be easy.
Insect Allies—This program to use virus-infected insects such as aphids or whiteflies to genetically engineer crops―while they're growing―drew severe criticism from scientists who published a commentary in Science, "Agricultural research, or a new bioweapon system? Insect-delivered horizontal genetic alteration is concerning" and an accompanying website that was covered by the New York Times ("Viruses Spread by Insects to Crops Sound Scary. The Military Calls It Food Security.")
PREventing EMerging Pathogenic Threats (PREEMPT)—This project to disrupt the cross-species jump of viruses involves animal- or insect-targeted vaccines, gene editors and therapeutic interfering particles. These are so-called "transmissible interventions." A great primer on this topic is this panel discussion, "Going Viral? Intentional dispersion of genetically modified viruses." The idea is similar to what Oxitec is trying to do with their upcoming release of 750 million genetically engineered Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in Florida Keys.
This species of mosquito can carry Zika, dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever so, as an alternative to insecticides, a modified male mosquito, OX5034, will be released that produces female offspring that die off before growing large enough to bite and spread disease. So far, this hasn't worked. A recent field study in Brazil showed that hybrid offspring were "sufficiently robust to be able to reproduce in nature." Gene editors and gene drives are seen as a way to bring the idea to proof of concept by doing a better job of ensuring target traits get inherited.
Therapeutic interfering particles are another disease-control strategy that has yet to be realized. It's a particle of a virus that can interfere with and suppress a pathogenic virus. Ideally, it would be passed from host to host along with a virus to foil the virus's infectivity. The reason why this hasn't worked yet, is that an interfering virus that really does its job will ultimately suppress its own replication.
DARPA is investigating the genetic engineering of transmissible viral vaccines as an alternative. An example is research funded under a $6.7 million DARPA grant, Prediction of Spillover Potential and Interventional En Masse Animal Vaccination to Prevent Emerging Pathogen Threats in Current and Future Zones of US Military Operation, that suggests transmissible vaccines to control Lassa virus in rodent populations.
While most people bristle at the idea of genetically engineering wild animals, even insects, or releasing genetically engineered viruses to target food crops or animal populations, even pests or disease vectors, the scarier scenario is that, once these techniques are perfected on plants, insects and animals, they'll be turned on us, either deliberately or by accident.
If you're concerned about gain-of-function ghouls, please sign our petition for an Immediate Global Ban on Gain-of-Function 'Biomedical' and 'Biodefense' Research.
If you're a scientist or lawyer, please sign the Statement by Scientists, Lawyers and Policy Experts on Why We Need a Global Moratorium on the Creation of Potential Pandemic Pathogens (PPPs) Through Gain-of-Function Experiments.
Alexis Baden-Mayer is OCA's political director.
Ronnie Cummins is co-founder of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) and Regeneration International, and the author of "Grassroots Rising: A Call to Action on Food, Farming, Climate and a Green New Deal."
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These trips can be bespoke or shared, depending on other pets' arrivals and departures. We can of course deliver pets to other UK destinations. Trips in the opposite direction are also available.
Although pets can be transported as excess baggage or even in the cabin on some flights, they aren't allowed to enter the UK in this way. They must arrive as 'manifest cargo' which is a more expensive way to fly and incurs additional landing charges, too. It may also mean your pet can't travel on the same flight as you.
If you land at a Paris, Brussels or Amsterdam airport instead of a London airport, we can collect your pets and bring them into the UK by road, travelling via Eurotunnel. You may be able to travel with us too.
If you have to change planes at one of these airports for the last leg of your journey to the UK, you may find that the UK-bound plane is too small to accommodate a very large dog or a large family of pets.
Animalcouriers can collect your pets at the airport and bring them into the UK by road, travelling via Eurotunnel. You may be able to travel with us too.
Private planes aren't allowed to land at London Gatwick or Heathrow; and pets aren't allowed to enter the UK via any of the smaller local airports in the south-east. Animalcouriers can meet your private plane at an airport on the northern French coast, such as Calais airfield, and bring your pets into the UK via Eurotunnel.
The situation will be similar if you're travelling by boat to the UK other than on a ferry route that's approved for pet travel. We can meet you at a port on the northern French coast and bring your pets into the UK via Eurotunnel.


Sridevi was the ultimate desire: Men fantasised about her, women wanted to be her. There was no doubt that during the 1980s and the 1990s, much before the Madhuri Dixit madness, if there was one name that guaranteed footfalls in theatres, it was indeed Sridevi's. She was the first female superstar of Bollywood, so much so that she was called the 'female Amitabh Bachchan' in the showbiz.
Sridevi could act, she could dance and she could look the ethereal diva she was, every time. After Vyjayanthimala, Waheeda Rahman and Hema Malini, it was Sridevi who held the torch of dancing divas in Bollywood. She also carried the legacy of south Indian actresses who made it big in the Hindi film industry with their charm and impeccable dancing skills.
Here's a look at some of her all-time hit dance numbers.
If there was a film that opened doors for Sridevi's commercial film career, it was Himmatwala co-starring Jeetendra. Those were also the days when women on-screen began to be objectified like never before, and hence Sridevi was also not spared. While 'Jumping Jack' Jeetendra danced to Naino Me Sapna wearing his quintessential white boots, Sridevi grooved to the beats in a flashy 'apsara' costume flaunting her 'Thundering Thighs' — the phrase coined to describe her thighs.
Sridevi made waves at the box-office as the 'ichhadhaari naagin' with serpentine eyes, wearing a white lehenga and dancing to the tunes of a 'been' (Indian music instrument used primarily by snake charmers). Suddenly, every function in the country had to have this song played and every girl wanted to strike the 'naagin' pose and dance to the song.
With Mr India, Sridevi became the official "No 1" actress in India. While undoubtedly her Charlie Chaplin act is a memorable part from the Shekhar Kapur directorial, Sridevi's dance numbers in the film are touchstones in Bollywood. She frolicked and danced candidly to the tunes of 'Hawa Hawai' — making her audience tap their feet (even today) — and at the same time grooved as a seductress donning a blue chiffon saree in the song 'Kate Nahi Kat Te'.
Sridevi's song from the film Chandni, remains one of the most-played Indian wedding songs ever. Her dress, hair hairstyle and of course the 'choodiyans' (bangles) became a rage in the 1990s. It was also one of those Yash Raj dance songs that reflected the true-blue Indian celebration spirit, as in the later songs from the films like Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Dil To Pagal Hai and Mohabbatein.
Sridevi's comic timing is often considered one of the best in Bollywood. Saroj Khan, who has choreographed many chart-busters of Sridevi's luminous career, said in an interview with rediff.com that the late actress liked comedy songs. With rain poring in, Sridevi donning a transparent raincoat and a transparent umbrella even today, remains an iconic Bollywood rain-dance track.
We Indians love to dance, don't we? Yash Chopra's film Lamhe, inspite of failing at the box-office, remains one of the filmmakers most critically-acclaimed films of all time. The song, 'Chudiyan Khanak Gayeen' is voiced by none other than Lata Mangeshkar and Ila Arun, and Sridevi's dance in the sand dunes at night is iconic.
Though this song, unlike others, has no dancing and singing involved, it is a heartwarming song from the late actress' yet another iconic film — at the very start of her Bollywood career — Sadma. This Kamal Haasan starrer, till date, remains one of Sridevi's most memorable performances.
Such was the charm of Sridevi during the 1980s that just her guest appearance made for most of a film. One example of the diva's phenomenon is Janbaaz (1986) and the song 'Har Kisiko Nahi Milta', featuring Sridevi in a magenta chiffon saree along with a standing mic at a beach. The song is one of the most-popular songs of the 1980s.
Although Sridevi-Amitabh Bachchan-starrer Khuda Gawa was touted to be the one of the most lucrative film prospects — featuring Bollywood's two biggest names of the 1980s — i flopped miserably at the box office. But this song has been remade and caricatured a numerous times, and is a so-bad-that-it's-actually-good track.
Who said actresses in Bollywood have a limited shelf life? Sridevi made a staggering comeback with Gauri Shinde's English Vinglish. Sridevi's character in the film and the song 'Navrai Majhi' (a Marathi traditional song) is a delightful watch and soulful track to listen to.


Mount Fuji is potentially the most notable image of Japan, and it is both cherished by visitors and viewed as a blessed mountain by occupants. Numerous individuals long for achieving the summit so as to see the dawn from Japan's tallest and most hallowed mountain.
Achieving the crest at 3,776 meters is no modest undertaking, yet every year many rush to Mt. Fuji with expectations of check the accomplishment off their basin records. Before you endeavor the tremendous undertaking, here are a few things you should know – from when's the best time to begin to what's in store at the summit!
1. There is a Fuji Hiking Season.
In spite of the fact that you can hypothetically climb Mt. Fuji whenever of the year, it is prescribed that individuals climb amid the official climbing season, which is as a rule among July and September every year. Not exclusively is it the hottest and most secure time to climb the mountain, yet bistros and shops from which you can obtain supplies and gifts are open amid this time.
2. There Isn't Just One Way to Go Up!
There are four trails that you can browse when climbing Fuji, and they contrast in trouble and evaluated climbing time. Fuji is isolated up into 10 separate rest stations, and most trails start at the fifth station. Gauge your choices previously picking a trail! Yoshida Trail: This is the most prevalent course, which may to a limited extent be because of the excellent perspective of the Fuji Five Lakes you can see from the beginning stage.
This is guaranteed, obviously you should pack appropriately to climb the tallest mountain in all of Japan! In any case, what precisely does this mean? There are a couple of completely key things that you ought to carry alongside you so as to maintain a strategic distance from most pessimistic scenario situations.
Climbing boots – Fuji's territory differs as you move along the mountain, yet for the most part it is exceptionally uneven and rough and there is essentially a 100% possibility that you will bumble and arrive on your bum. To limit exactly how often this will occur, it is essential to have durable climbing boots. No, shoes don't tally!
Comfortable dress – Yes, it is excruciatingly hot at the base of Mt. Fuji amid the climbing season however you will find that by station 7 it will feel as though summer has quite recently transformed into winter. It gets extremely cold at the pinnacle, especially during the evening and in the early morning. Pack warm packs if fundamental, however do have different layers to put on and expel as required.
Electric lamps – Any spotlight will enable you to climb Fuji around evening time, when it is amazingly hard to see your following stage. Notwithstanding, most explorers decide on electric lamp caps or spotlight headbands so their hands are free to climb. It will make your life a ton less demanding!
Water – The suggested sum is 2L, however don't hesitate to pack more than that on the off chance that you can convey the load. Remember that there are no trashcans on Fuji, so you should convey any plastic containers with you and discard them once you are off the mountain.
Tidbits – This can go from onigiri rice balls to bonafide mountain-man jerky and trail blend… Pack whatever gives you the jolt of energy you will require!
4. Begin Climbing at Night for Sunrise Surprise at the Summit.
night, so as to achieve the summit by early morning, without a moment to spare to see the dawn, known as "goraiko". Review the dawn from Mt. Fuji's pinnacle isn't just an amazing background, however it is additionally said to be favorable.
5. Be careful with Altitude Sickness!
A great many people connect height ailment with flying, however truly it very well may be very regular when moving to outrageous rises. Side effects of height disorder incorporate tipsiness, cerebral pains, inconvenience breathing, and sickness. So as to dodge uneasiness, you should plan to rest at every one of the 10 stations en route for at least 20 minutes so as to acclimate to the height changes. You can even rest in lodges along the trail, however you have to call early to reserve a spot and pay a charge of around 6,000 yen so as to do as such.
6. You Have to Pay to Use the Restrooms on Fuji.
It is critical to make sure to bring a bunch of coins when climbing Fuji on the grounds that the bathrooms on the mountain are not free. That, as well as costs increment as you go higher up the mountain. Factor in the middle of 200-300 yen for each restroom break you take.
7. You Can Pray at a Shrine, Eat Ramen, and Even Send Postcards from the Summit!
The summit of Fuji is overflowing with fervor. There you can discover the Kusushi and Okumiya hallowed places, eateries, blessing shops, and then some. Most strangely, you can likewise locate a working mail station from where you can send postcards to your friends and family telling them that you have achieved the summit in (ideally) one piece!
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Singapore debt listings Wednesday: Macquarie Group, Daiwa Securities, Guangdong-HK Greater Bay, Bank of Nova Scotia
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These are entities which announced debt listing confirmations in Singapore on Wednesday, 13 October 2021: Macquarie Group, Daiwa Securities, Guangdong-Hong Kong Greater Bay Area Holdings, Yanan New Area Investment Development (Group), and The Bank of Nova Scotia.
Guangdong-Hong Kong Greater Bay Area Holdings
Guangdong-Hong Kong Greater Bay Area Holdings said Wednesday its US$277.22 million 13.85 percent notes due 2023 (ISIN code: XS2386427525) would be listed on SGX's bond market on Thursday.
The notes, which will trade in U.S. dollars, will be in denomination of US$200,000, which is also the minimum board lot size, the company said in a filing to SGX.
The lead managers and bookrunners of the notes are Haitong International Securities, Guotai Junan Securities (Hong Kong), Zhongtai International Securities and Potomac Capital, the filing said.
Hong Kong-listed Guangdong-Hong Kong Greater Bay Area Holdings is a China-based property developer focusing on residential projects in the Greater Bay Area and on trade-center projects in third-tier cities.
Macquarie Group
Macquarie Group said Wednesday its US$150 million callable zero-coupon notes due 2056 (ISIN code: XS2390147804) would be listed on SGX's bond market on Thursday.
The notes, which will trade in U.S. dollars, will be in denomination of US$1 million, with a minimum board lot size of US$100,000, with a minimum of 10 lots, the company said in a filing to SGX.
The lead managers and bookrunners of the notes are Yuanta Securities, Cathay United Bank and SinoPac Securities Corp, the filing said.
Australia-based Macquarie Group is a global financial services group offering asset management, capital, banking and other financial services.
Daiwa Securities
Daiwa Securities said Wednesday tis US$80 million zero-coupon callable notes due 2051 (ISIN code: XS2390401797) would be listed on SGX's bond market on Thursday.
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The lead manager and bookrunner for the notes is Daiwa Capital Markets Europe, the filing said.
Japan-based Daiwa Securities is a financial group with four main businesses: Retail, wholesale, asset management and investment.
Yanan New Area Investment Development (Group)
Yanan New Area Investment Development (Group) said Wednesday its US$100 million 5.0 percent bonds due 2022 (ISIN code: XS2359857138) would be listed on SGX's bond market on Thursday.
The lead managers and bookrunners of the bonds are Zhongtai International Securities and Hung Sing Securities, the filing said.
China-based Yanan New Area Investment Development (Group) provides infrastructure construction services.
The Bank of Nova Scotia said Wednesday its A$13 million callable zero-coupon notes due 2036 (ISIN code: XS2397745550) would be listed on SGX's bond market on Thursday.
The notes, which will trade in Australian dollars, will be in denomination of A$1 million, with a minimum board lot size of A$500,000 with a minimum of two lots in a single transaction, the bank said in a filing to SGX.
The lead manager and bookrunner of the notes is The Bank of Nova Scotia's Hong Kong branch, the filing said.
The Bank of Nova Scotia, which operates as Scotiabank, is one of Canada's Big Five banks, offering personal, commercial, investment and private banking. Outside of Canada, the bank has operations in Latin America and Asia.
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Alexia is a new PhD student at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at JCU. She recently moved to Townsville after living for 9 months on Lizard Island working as a camera assistant for the BBC. She is from a cold, landlocked city in central Canada, and completed her Bachelor of Science at the University of Winnipeg in 2010. She moved to Australia in 2011 to complete her Bachelor of Marine Science and Management with Honours at the National Marine Science Centre with Southern Cross University where she investigated the effects of climate change on seaweed physiology, defence, and seaweed-amphipod interactions. Upon completing honours, she took a year off and moved to Vancouver to work in public programming at the Vancouver Aquarium in 2012. In 2013 she made the leap across the Pacific once again for sun, sand, and science. She then worked for two years as a research assistant back at the National Marine Science Centre assisting and conducting mainly climate change and Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (COTS) research. She is currently studying the effect of increasing temperature on marine plant-herbivore (seaweed-fish) interactions under the supervision of Dr. Andrew Hoey and Prof. Morgan Pratchett. Specifically, as the oceans warm, how consumption by herbivores will scale with growth/primary production by primary producers.


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Tampa native Lance McCullers has no confusion about his allegiance
The Astros pitcher, on the injured list, is solidly behind Houston as it takes on his hometown Rays in Game 5.
Tampa native Lance McCullers, Jr., is imploring Astros fans to come out and root for Houston Thursday. [AP]
By Ernest Hooper
Published Oct. 9, 2019
TAMPA — It's not a surprise for Astros pitcher Lance McCullers Jr. to rally for his Houston teammates.
Yet the Tampa native made clear his loyalty in a full-throated tweet after the Rays downed the Astros in Game 4.
WE GOT ONE OF THE BADDEST MAN ON PLANET EARTH (@GerritCole45) IN GAME 5!!!! WE NEED ALL THE STROS FAITHFUL FILLED TO THE TOP OF THE JUICE BOX IN THEIR ORANGE!!! LEAVE WITHOUT YOUR VOICE OR YOU AINT ABOUT THAT LIFE!!!! THE BOYS READY. LFG ❄❄❄❄❄ #SIUEFA
— Lance McCullers Jr. (@LMcCullers43) October 9, 2019
McCullers missed 2019 after undergoing Tommy John surgery in November 2018. He got diagnosed with elbow inflamation in August of last year, returned to pitched in relief for the Astros late in 2018, including the postseason, but then had the surgery in November.
According to the Houston Chronicle, McCullers has started throwing on flat ground while continuing to pick up pointers from Astros starters like Justin Verlander and Zack Greinke. He was particularly excited about Greinke's mid-season addition to the team.
"He's been doing it forever, just like JV (Justin Verlander), and he's still one of the best in the game," McCullers said. "Anytime you get an opportunity to have guys with a pedigree like that, guys who have so much knowledge to share, and nothing but glowing reviews around the league about him, you're excited to have him."
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Q: Is this a tempered distribution? I want to check if

$$\phi \mapsto \lim_{\epsilon \to 0} \int_\mathbb {R} \frac{\phi(x)}{x^2-(1+i\epsilon)^2} dx, \ \phi \in \mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R})$$

is a Tempered Distribution. This problem arises in solvin a PDE. Any ideas or hints?

A: I am skipping some details but I hope that the idea is correct. Write
\begin{align*}
&  \int_{\mathbb{R}}\frac{\phi(x)}{x^{2}-(1+i\varepsilon)^{2}}dx=\int%
_{1/2}^{3/2}\frac{\phi(x)-\phi(1)}{x^{2}-(1+i\varepsilon)^{2}}dx\\
&  +\int_{-3/2}^{-1/2}\frac{\phi(x)-\phi(-1)}{x^{2}-(1+i\varepsilon)^{2}
}dx+\int_{\mathbb{R}\setminus\lbrack-3/2,-1/2]\cup\lbrack1/2,3/2]}\frac
{\phi(x)}{x^{2}-(1+i\varepsilon)^{2}}dx\\
&  +\phi(1)\int_{1/2}^{3/2}\frac{1}{x^{2}-(1+i\varepsilon)^{2}}dx+\phi
(-1)\int_{-3/2}^{-1/2}\frac{1}{x^{2}-(1+i\varepsilon)^{2}}dx\\
&  =I+II+III+IV+V.
\end{align*}
By the mean value theorem $|\phi(x)-\phi(1)|\leq\Vert\phi^{\prime}%
\Vert_{\infty}|x-1|$ and so
\begin{align*}
|I|  & \leq\Vert\phi^{\prime}\Vert_{\infty}\int_{1/2}^{3/2}\frac
{|x-1|}{|x-1-i\varepsilon|\,|x+1+i\varepsilon|}dx\\
& \leq\Vert\phi^{\prime}\Vert_{\infty}\int_{1/2}^{3/2}\frac{1}{x+1}dx
\end{align*}
since $|x-1-i\varepsilon|=\sqrt{(x-1)^{2}+\varepsilon^{2}}\geq|x-1|$. The term
$II$ can be treated similarly.
\begin{align*}
|III|  & \leq\Vert\phi\Vert_{\infty}\int_{\mathbb{R}\setminus\lbrack
-3/2,-1/2]\cup\lbrack1/2,3/2]}\frac{1}{|x^{2}-(1+i\varepsilon)^{2}|}dx\\
& \leq\Vert\phi\Vert_{\infty}\int_{3/2}^{\infty}\frac{1}{x^{2}-5/4}
dx+\Vert\phi\Vert_{\infty}\int_{-\infty}^{-3/2}\frac{1}{x^{2}-5/4}dx+\Vert
\phi\Vert_{\infty}\int_{-1/2}^{1/2}\frac{1}{3/4-x^{2}}dx
\end{align*}
where $|x^{2}-(1+i\varepsilon)^{2}|=|x^{2}-1-\varepsilon^{2}+2i\varepsilon
|\geq|x^{2}-1-\varepsilon^{2}|$. Since $$\frac{2(1+i\varepsilon)}
{x^{2}-(1+i\varepsilon)^{2}}=\frac{1}{x+1+i\varepsilon}-\frac{1}
{x-(1+i\varepsilon)}$$ and
\begin{align*}
\int_{1/2}^{3/2}\frac{1}{x-1-i\varepsilon}dx  & =\int_{-1/2}^{1/2}\frac
{1}{s-i\varepsilon}ds=Log\left(  \frac{1}{2}-\varepsilon i\right)  -Log\left(
-\frac{1}{2}-\varepsilon i\right)  \\
& =\log\sqrt{\frac{1}{4}+\varepsilon^{2}}+i\arg\left(  \frac{1}{2}-\varepsilon
i\right)  -\log\sqrt{\frac{1}{4}+\varepsilon^{2}}-i\arg\left(  -\frac{1}
{2}-\varepsilon i\right)  \\
& =i\arg\left(  \frac{1}{2}-\varepsilon i\right)  -i\arg\left(  -\frac{1}
{2}-\varepsilon i\right)  ,
\end{align*}
the terms $IV$ and $V$ can be bound by $c\Vert\phi\Vert_{\infty}$. In
conclusion $|T(\phi)|\leq c(\Vert\phi\Vert_{\infty}+\Vert\phi^{\prime}
\Vert_{\infty})$ and so $T$ is a tempered distribution.

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Ah yes, the last couple of weeks before show time, when the disciplined note-polishing, the addition of extra accompanists, the introduction of venue logistics, and the sheer buzz of performance energy results in everything from hilarious one-liners to the choir collapsing into a fit of giggles. We give you, our Concert Week Tuesday Top Ten, the Lullabies edition:
Shoeless Greg Graff! For that is also how we slough off rush hour 66 traffic. He also did piano push-ups later.
We breathe in and out, warm up, and loosen up to slough off the day's worries and the last twenty horrendous minutes of bumper-to-bumper traffic, and Jen says, "If you have stupid human tricks, now's the time to use them!"
That moment when you realize that one of the bases has been a tenor all along? Doh! (No, not Jen. She's clear as a bell who sings what part.)
"Beautiful, beautiful, but now it's getting dirgey!"
"Watch out for that page turn, people!" Oh, right, page turn! Which always happens during a quiet moment. What is up with that?!
That moment when someone yawns louder than several people are singing.
The ongoing refinement of the animal noises. The quacking in particular. Which is when everyone just loses it, and the duck says, "You said I could!"
Really? You're like seven feet tall and you have to stand right in the front? Really? That's what the eyes behind Tall Man Tenor are saying. He is, of course, unaware. Meanwhile the Normally Heighted Soprano Ones standing next to him look like escapees from Lilliput.
Jen, checking sightlines and how one section in particular, is spread out: "Hmm….you're all kinda strung out there, aren't you?"
Wiseass bass: "Oh we've been strung out for years!"
"Give me an ooo face, not an 'oh-my-god!' face." Right then.
Directing the pantomime, "Jim, I need you to come out diagonally so you can create the most ruckus!"
That's right. There will be ruckus. And we hope you will join us! We're counting on you to make it the most fun ruckus.
You have until Friday Noon to buy tickets from a choir member, and Friday night 11:30 pm to purchase online. We'll also have some tickets at the door, but don't wait too long as it's looking pretty full!
We sing Lullabies, 4:30 pm, Saturday, March 15, 2014 (at VBC, 541 Marshall Road SW, Vienna, VA 22180) – $25 for adults, $20 for seniors 60+ and students (15 – 18), youth (14 and below) attend for free accompanied by a ticketed attendee.


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Cambra de Comerç i Indústria és un edifici de Lleida protegit com a bé cultural d'interès local.

Descripció
Es tracta d'un immoble de planta baixa, entresòl i sis plantes. A la planta baixa hi ha locals comercials, a l'entresòl la sala d'actes i les oficines de la cambra de comerç. Les sis plantes restants estan ocupades per dotze habitatges.

En estudiar la façana s'observa que a cada banda hi ha obertures de mida diferent. A la façana sud que dona a la plaça hi ha finestres grans, mentre que a la façana oest que dona al carrer presenta finestres estretes i allargades. Les façanes són aplacades de pedra i assenyalen les lloses de formigó del forjat a les façanes.

Un balcó corregut al nivell de la cinquena planta, juntament amb la façana visual que creen les finestres de l'entresòl lliguen les dues façanes.

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After MBA In Italy, Brazilian Student Gets Placed Into Global Job At Nestlé
Carlo Caccia got a job at Nestlé Waters through his school's career service. He explains why an MBA in Italy was the best option for his career
Written by Emmy Hawker
Carlo thinks Italy is the ideal career hub for MBA graduates, with jobs at top firms like Nestlé on offer
Carlo Caccia moved from Brazil to Italy to pursue the full-time MBA program at MIP Politecnico di Milano School of Management. After it, he got a job as a customer service specialist at Nestlé Waters.
Carlo was supported by the school's careers service which has a 96% success rate in placements for students within eight months of graduation.
But it took time and experience in varying industries before he understood which career path suited him best. Carlo says his MBA was key in helping him on that journey.
The road to an MBA
At the very start of his career, Carlo graduated from university in Brazil. Armed with an Economics degree, with a focus on International Trade, he struggled to find an internship in the field he was studying in. He made the move into the compliance division of a bank, but wasn't passionate about the role and didn't stop looking for what he wanted, doing whatever he could to put himself in the best position to change track.
"I had this desire to keep studying and develop myself even more, in terms of financial and marketing skills," he says.
When he worked his way into the supply chain sector, he didn't have the same background in engineering as his peers. "I started to develop myself in other ways with parallel courses," Carlo explains. "But I was going to important meetings and still felt I was missing something."
Carlo completed a qualification in supply chain management, but he felt an MBA would give him that deeper overview of business he really needed.
Why Italy?
Carlo chose to study in Italy as European courses were more closely aligned to what he was looking for, offering an array of one-year full-time MBAs rather than the traditional two-year MBA format on offer in the US.
"Even though I applied for one school [in the US] and got accepted, I didn't think that what they were offering was what I wanted. In Europe, there were more options, so I started looking there," Carlo says.
Within the four core pillars of the MIP MBA are the building blocks for a comprehensive understanding of business, Carlo says. He was surprised by how much he enjoyed the accounting module, which has proven especially useful for everyday financial analysis work at Nestlé. MIP MBA students can then pair these modules with four key areas of specialization, tailoring the course to their specific career goals.
Beyond the MBA
Now around 18 months into his role at Nestlé Waters, Carlo explains that the pace and environment of Italy's workforce is far more engaging than what he experienced back home in Brazil. With more regular breaks scheduled throughout the day, individual employees are more productive, and they work at a faster pace which is exciting, he says.
MIP supported Carlo throughout the process of securing a full-time role at the end of his MBA, working with Carlo until he found a role he was happy with; one which challenges him to communicate in English and Italian as well.
"At Nestlé, it's a cultural challenge," Carlo explains. "I'm learning a new language and working for a department I've not worked in before.
"Before the MBA, I was a more closed person. Nowadays, I am dealing with direct customers; I'm between the salesforce, the supply chain, and the customers themselves," he continues. "I now see myself as more open and skilled in speaking, dealing with people, and negotiations."
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From the album The Essential Mahalia Jackson. Mahalia Jackson (October 26, 1911 – January 27, 1972) was an American gospel singer. Possessing a powerful contralto voice, she was referred to as "The Queen of Gospel". Jackson became one of the most influential gospel singers in the world and was heralded internationally as a singer and civil rights activist. She was described by entertainer Harry Belafonte as "the single most powerful black woman in the United States".


Introduction: I was approached by Olivia Mason-Charles to review her book and I had to accept. Growing up there was a boy with Autism in my class throughout elementary school. I ended up bumping into him many times in the future. As a child, I never understood why he was so different and why he was always called "The kid with Autism" by everyone (students, teachers, principals, parents, etc). Now that I'm older and I understand more, I'm frustrated by this. He was not "The Boy with Autism". He had a name and a story and a life. This story mirrored much of my thoughts – Autism may be a disorder, but it's not a title. It's a situation and shouldn't be the only reflection someone sees in the mirror.
This book was inspiring, heart warming, and motivational. It describes the troubles a parent might have when they are raising children with autism. Yes, it gets hard and people need to realize that. Parents try their very best and work incredibly hard to raise their children, so reading this little slice of life was awe inspiring. I appreciated reading about the hard work that goes into raising a child with autism and all the struggles that may come along with it.
The book was beautifully written and expressed many emotions. If people could read this book and try to understand the potential struggles, maybe there wouldn't be as much bullying and hatred in this world. If I would have had this book growing up (but more aimed towards a child's point of view) maybe I would have been able to get a little grasp on why the boy in my class behaved the way he did.
This book also was informative. Someone with Autism can have a "normal" life (is there even a "normal" life? That's a debate for another day). They can still go to school, go to prom, get married, have children and have life experiences. They shouldn't be labelled and put into a group that says they can't!
This book made my heart swell. I felt like the Grinch at the end of his story, with my heart growing ten times bigger. I really appreciated having the opportunity to read this book. Without it, I wouldn't feel as if I had grown or realized how much I had changed since I was younger. I do believe everyone should read at least one book like this in their life – a book that explains so beautifully what it's like to be in someone else's shoes. It gives you a small insight into someone's life that you probably wouldn't have even though about. It shows the struggles, but not in a negative light. It shows the positive outcomes that can happen, but explains some of the negatives as well.
That being said, this book gets five out of five stars.
Could it have had more action, adventure, horror or romance? Of course. But this book wasn't designed to be a Jason Bourne, Temperance Brennan, It, or Nora Robert's novel. This little book was to give a flash into someone else's life. It's goal it to inform, and not to make you feel scared, or romantic, or thrilled. This book did it's job and I am so honored that I was given this chance to read it.
Perhaps what makes this book the most interesting on all of my shelves is that it came from South Africa, but that doesn't sound to exciting…does it? What if I told you it took seven months to make it to my home? And that I couldn't stop wondering about the magnificent trip this little book had made across the globe?! Maybe it's not as exciting to the readers as this excitable reviewer, but it made my heart jump a little just thinking about the adventure this book took around the world. In short, I'm super jealous of this teenie tiny book.
I have not given birth, nor have I watched someone (in live action, not as a film) give birth. So, this book seemed out of my territory of knowledge, yet I agreed with it at the same time. Ruth Ehrhardt discusses Dr. Michel Ordent's theories regarding childbirth and she goes quite in-depth in such a little book!
One of the first pages of this book discusses women needing a calm, dimly-lit, comfortable and private area. To me, that makes sense. Childbirth is such a beautiful phenomenon and somehow it has been made into a business. When giving birth, who would want a million people yelling and directing orders, saying words you wouldn't understand and giving you disruptive and concerning looks? Childbirth can be incredibly scary, and doctors and nurses do not always help in these situations. With the tremendous pain and opportunity for something to go wrong, a comfortable environment seems best – at least in my opinion.
I also agreed with her thought that words matter. As a population, we tend to use words in the negative atmosphere. Everything is bad and we complain about anything! It's important to remember that your choice in words can affect your overall well being – so while being pregnant, positivity counts! Life will always have it's troubles and not everything will be beautiful an smell of roses, but we can try to make the best of every situation! Assisting and caring for pregnant women – even if it's just with a positive thought – can make a big difference! You don't need to work on hands and feet to care for your pregnant friend on facebook, but positive thoughts and comments will help outweigh those negative ones if we all band together! It is better to assist with a small, happy comment than cause a world full of anxiety for a mother already facing her other worries in the world.
Ruth also discusses how childbirth is like sleep – something that can often happen when it's least expected! I loved this little simile, because it's so obvious and true yet I've never related the two together! While both can be forced in some situations, they have very similar concepts. We can make both easy or hard, depending on the situation.
The book continues to discuss a general birth plan and how birth takes place (without all the gory details) and how important it is for the mother to be comfortable and for the mother and baby to bond. In a few pages, such a beautiful and obvious experience is discussed. As I have said, I have never given birth but I agree with every word in this novel. It makes so much sense (at least in my mind). While every woman is different and not everyone will totally agree with everything in this book, I feel like most people will understand or be able to see it from the perspective of someone they know.
Overall, this book was beautiful and insightful. I felt like I learned a lot even though this book is so small.
Five out of five stars! I would give it six if possible! I believe all women who gave birth, will give birth or are just interested in how the body works should read this! And some men too, that might give them a couple hints about how the process happens.


When I was twelve years old, I sat in the kitchen talking on the phone to Stuart Latham. I wasn't allowed to have a phone in my room yet, so I perched at the kitchen table, and doodled while Stuart and I explored what it meant to "go together". We gossiped, we got to know each other, we tried our hand at flirting, we listened to each other breathe if we couldn't think of anything to say. We could talk… or breathe... for hours on end.
One day in particular, after a good long talk without too much breathing time, I hung up the phone and walked out into the hall, probably with a dopey grin on my face, and ran into my mom who was just standing there expressionless. It was obvious that she had been listening to my end of the conversation. (I was in the kitchen after all.) We stood staring at each other for a second when she finally said, "I can tell you were on the phone with a boy. I shouldn't be able to tell that. I don't like it."
After a moment of defensiveness passed, I was aware that she was one hundred percent right.
Even then, at twelve, I understood the importance of what she said.
In a small way, I had betrayed myself.
I thought by myself for a minute and decided that never again, not for a moment, not even for a hormone induced moment, would I change, because she was right-- I had pandered, my voice went up an octave, and down a decibel.
And I should be me no matter who was on the other end of that phone. Boy or girl.
The Sandlot is on Netflix and the kids have been watching it on a running loop these days. In it, one of the rascally boys delivered the lowest blow at the pinnacle of an insult competition that made everyone hold their breath amazed by his audacity to go there. The low blow was this: You play baseball LIKE A GIRL.
A while ago now an ad went viral that asked girls what it meant to do something "like a girl". When they asked young girls to run like a girl, with fist-pumping tenacity, they sprinted ahead. When the marketers asked teenage girls to run like a girl, they flopped around useless, like a fish out of water. It was startling and disheartening to see that somewhere along our paths we have apparently picked up the message that feminine equals weak.
Gender issues seem to be coming up a lot lately around our house and I have some thoughts on the topic.
You know when you learn a romance language, you learn that nouns have gender assignments and those assignments just are? There is no debate. A car is a masculine word, and a skirt is a feminine word. But a motorcycle just so happens to be a feminine word, and a necklace is actually masculine. And so it goes. It just is. Mostly predictable, but often times not.
And maybe the reason it so peacefully is is because in this case of grammatical gender, masculine is no better than feminine and feminine is no better than masculine, they are just categories that define something-- sometimes not really even all that well. And because there's no skewed value system, gender is no big deal.
Here's my problem: I like the ad. I really do. Something is terribly wrong when feminine equals weak, because that is not true. But I reject any implication that girls need to be like boys in order to not be considered weak because that is not true either.
I love my femininity. There are gifts the Lord gave to me that serve my family and me well. To deny them because they are most easily labeled feminine would be a betrayal. He gave me desires and drives and proclivities and insights and He gave me those in His image and it is not surrendering to be those things wholly, fully, unabashed. I am me. Who He made and called good. Feminine, masculine, true.
I'm really good at taking care of my babies and keeping a happy home. And when my babies fall, and get bruised, bloodied, or banged up, it is me who they find. They run to me. They will run around their Daddy, weary and bleeding, taking several extra strides to get to me, because my lap is softer, and my words are the words they need. And, you know, it's the darndest thing. I've watched my husband care for boo boos in my absence, and from the outside, I gotta say, it looks just the same. But it must not be, because every single time, it is my mama lap they seek.
I just so happen to be terrible at understanding my car engine and even worse at shooting a basket (nah, it's a toss up). And for me to get to work as a mechanic or a basketball player would be the exact same betrayal as those sweet teenage girls in the ad running all floppy when asked to run like a girl.
And sometimes that's feminine. Like when I cook a meal I am proud to serve.
And sometimes that's masculine. Like when I lead a group to make an important decision.
And one is neither better nor worse because they are both ME. To deem my feminine parts less valuable than my masculine parts is to deem the feminine aspect of God as unimportant or unequal. And that's ridiculous!
Feminine and masculine are different, but they are equal. And our Lord, in whose image we are made, has never had a skewed value system.
Ultimately it isn't about what is masculine or feminine, is about what is true.
A friend of mine was giving a talk recently and read it to me for my thoughts. It was about relationships and it was artistically, thoughtfully, eloquently, and beautifully done, but she hated that it was such a predictably feminine topic.
Why is a feminine topic something to be ashamed of?
Because a feminine topic doesn't matter?!
Because a feminine topic isn't important?!
Because a man would have nothing to gain listening to a feminine topic?!
I would have something to gain listening to a masculine topic!
Why are we ashamed of our femininity?!?!
Trying to be masculine when it is not the truth is the same betrayal as defining femininity as weak.
Together my friend and I worked out that the problem she had with her talk was hers. She saw feminine as silly, boring, less.
When I was young and someone told me I threw like a girl, my dad taught me to say, "What exactly is it that you thought I was?"
I did indeed throw like this girl.
And I ran like this girl.
And I argued like this girl.
And I cried like this girl.
And sometimes that was floppy and sometimes that was fierce and sometimes that was timid and sometimes that was excessive, but I was MYSELF. And every now and then aspects of MYSELF got assigned a gender by the world. But what if that was no big deal because "like a girl" didn't mean weak? What if that was no big deal because gender assignments didn't really mean all that much? What if we were just comfortable with femininity whenever it showed up, predictable or not?
As beautiful as it is, why aren't we just more comfortable with femininity?
Obviously there are issues if most girls flail around like a stringed puppet when asked to run like a girl. Because that's not true. But I reject that we all have to run with skill in order to count because that's not true either.
We have been sent wrong messages and I don't know what they are or when they start. But one thing has come up around here recently. People will often warn us that Seth is going to have a fair bit of work to do when Amelia and Wren are teenagers-- you know, the old jokes about polishing the gun when the date arrives.
I could never put my finger on what upset me about that when it was said when I was young, (I rolled my eyes every time I heard it), but now that it's being said about my daughter, I know exactly why it doesn't sit well with me.
Doesn't that tired joke imply less that our daughters are pretty and more that our daughters are going to make poor choices? Doesn't it imply that she can't take charge of a situation or change her mind or say "no"? Doesn't it imply that a man is there to either be a villain or a hero? Again, this is about truth. And those things just aren't true.
By the way, when these questions came my dad's way when I was a teenager, my dad never nodded and agreed and hardy har harred about guns and intimidation.
Loud enough so that I could hear, he said, "Who? Allison?! Please! When a boy picks her up, I just wish 'em luck."
Because, you're right, I've got this.
That's the message I want Amelia and Wren to get.
Sometimes feminine, sometimes masculine, always you.
Totally teared up about your dad wishing the guy luck....that's exactly what Larry says about Reagan. Our prayers are with you son, wherever you are.
Man, I wish I would have had these words on my desk 12 years ago when I began my legal career. It took me far, far too long to realize that I would never be "one of the guys," and that being this girl was enough....more than enough. Praying for all of our baby girls tonight after reading this.
Love, love, love! I remember being at a friends wedding years ago and someone retelling the story of the groom asking the bride's father if he could marry Susie. Susie's dad responded, without hesitation- why are you asking me? You need to ask Susie! I have a hunch Susie's dad would get along just fine with yours:).
Allison pulled those boys around by the nose. Kind of felt sorry for them. Never worried about one taking advantage of her.


Dominic Purcell (from left), Wentworth Miller and Sarah Wayne Callies will reunite for a new "Prison Break" event series.
The "Prison Break" revival has locked in another one of the series' original cast members: Sarah Wayne Callies.
The "Colony" star returns as Dr. Sara Tancredi in the event series set to premiere during the 2016-2017 season on Fox. Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell, currently co-starring in "DC's Legends of Tomorrow," already signed up to reprise their roles as brothers Michael Scofield and Lincoln Burrows, respectively.
Spoiler alert: apparently Michael didn't die at the end of the original series in 2009, which premiered in the fall of 2005. In the new series, Fox says in a press release, Sara has moved on with her life, raising her and Michael's child with her new husband (guest star Mark Feuerstein of "Royal Pains"). When Sara learns Michael still may be alive, she teams with Lincoln to engineer the series' biggest escape ever.
The new series reunites the original producing team, including series creator Paul T. Scheuring, Neal Moritz, Marty Adelstein and Dawn Olmstead, who return to executive-produce the new series, with Scheuring serving as showrunner/writer.
The original action drama "Prison Break" centered on Michael (Miller), who was determined to prove his brother, Lincoln (Purcell), was innocent of the charges for which he was convected. He attempts to save him from Death Row by hatching an elaborate plan to escape from prison.
The series will be produced 20th Century Fox Television. Scheuring, Moritz, Adelstein, Olmstead, Vaun Wilmott, Michael Horowitz and Nelson McCormick will executive produce. McCormick will direct.


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New icon for BMW M Customer Racing: BMW M4 GT3 to take to the track in 2022.
Words: BMW Group Global Press. 06.12.19
The customer racing range of products in the BMW M Motorsport programme is getting a new top-of-the-range model. From the 2022 season, privateers and privateer teams around the world will have the opportunity to do battle for wins and titles in a GT3 model based on the next generation of the BMW M4. The BMW M4 GT3 will be the new top vehicle in the customer racing offering.
The race car has been in development for several months and will undergo intensive testing next year. The BMW M4 GT3 will succeed the BMW M6 GT3, which has been in action around the world since 2016 and has brought home wins at the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps (BEL), the FIA GT World Cup in Macau (CHN) and in numerous international race series.
The production model BMW M4, which forms the base for the BMW M4 GT3, is powered by a six-cylinder engine with BMW M TwinPower Turbo Technology that achieves more than 500 hp. The engine and chassis of the road vehicle are the perfect basis for the development of the GT3 racing version. With this goal in mind, the BMW M engineers built an engine – the S58 – that boasts impressive engine characteristics and explosive power delivery, the motorsport genes of which can also be experienced away from the racetrack at any time.
"With our new GT3 project, we are emphasising the significance of BMW M Customer Racing. It is a central pillar of our motorsport programme," said BMW Group Motorsport Director Jens Marquardt. "With the introduction of the new GT3 regulations for 2022, the BMW M4 is the perfect base. The core product from our colleagues at BMW M is yet again just great. Without wanting to give too much away, the BMW M4 GT3 will be a real highlight in terms of optics and technology. The term 'icon' is definitely appropriate here. We want to play a major role in international GT racing with the BMW M4 GT3, as its predecessor did at its victories at the 24-hour races in Spa-Francorchamps, at Macau and in many other race series around the world. Development is already at full speed. The rollout is planned for the second half of 2020."
Markus Flasch, CEO of BMW M GmbH, said: "It is only logical that future top models in customer racing will be based on the next generation of the BMW M4. We will already be setting new standards in terms of sporting performance in production, which is why it makes sense to present the new GT3 sports car on this platform as well."
While the 2020 season will be one of development and testing, regular tests in race conditions are planned for 2021.
Anyone interested in the BMW M4 GT3 should contact BMW Motorsport by email at: M4GT3@BMW-Motorsport.com.
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Afonso Henrique da Costa Guimarães, conegut com a Alphonsus de Guimaraens (24 de juliol de 1870; Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brasil - 15 de juliol de 1921; Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brasil) era un escriptor de Brasil. Va escriure sobretot poesia i és considerat un dels principals simbolistes del seu país.

Obres

 Dona Mística.
 Kiriale.
 Câmara ardente.
 Pastoral aos crentes do amor e da morte.
 Setenário das dores de Nossa Senhora.
 Nova primavera.
 Escada de Jacó.
 Pauvre Lyre (en francès).

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Escriptors brasilers en portuguès
Escriptors en francès
Poetes americans
Escriptors de Minas Gerais
Poetes brasilers
Alumnes de la Universitat de São Paulo
Morts al Brasil