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The Melungeons: Notes on the Origins of a Race by Bonnie Ball
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Bonnie Ball (1901-1996) was born on Walden's Ridge in Lee County, Virgnia, the fourth of thirteen children. Like my mother she begin teaching nearby one-room schools and taking summer classes at the nearest normal school, in her case, Radford. Her husband managed stores for coal companies, and they lived mostly in the Virginia coalfields before retiring to Big Stone Gap. She was a charter member of the Historical Society of Southwest Virginia, and authored several books which are now obscure. In 1966, Bonnie Ball authored an article, "The Melungeons" in the Historical Society of Southwest Virginia periodical. In 1969, the first edition of her book about the Melungeons appeared. From the 1960 until the mid-1970s, she was considered the foremost expert on the Melungeon people. After Jean Patterson Bible published her book in 1975, they were considered the two leading experts until the 1990s when other researchers and authors came onto the scene.
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Healthier Patriots Look Forward To Meeting Colts In AFC Playoffs
Filed Under:Aaron Dobson, Alfonzo Dennard, Aqib Talib, Austin Collie, Brandon Bolden, Devin McCourty, Josh Boyce, LaGarrette Blount, Logan Mankins, Michael Hoomanawanui, NFL, NFL Playoffs, Patriots, Shane Vereen, Stevan Ridley
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By Gregory Hunt
Wild card weekend is over, and thanks to an improbable comeback from a 28-point deficit to the Kansas City Chiefs, the Indianapolis Colts will come to Gillette Stadium to meet the New England Patriots Saturday at 8:15 EST in an AFC divisional playoff game.
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The Patriots have dealt with injuries to key players all season long, but in earning a first-round bye in the AFC playoffs, New England got a chance to heal and begin the playoffs with a healthier team. This was particularly important for veteran offensive guard Logan Mankins and rookie wide receiver Aaron Dobson, who were both injured during New England's 34-20 victory against the Buffalo Bills in Week 17. Mankins suffered an ankle injury, but returned to the game after receiving treatment in the locker room. Dobson suffered a foot injury and did not return.
Dobson missed the first three games of December with a foot injury, but it was not clear whether the injury against the Bills was a new one or an aggravation of the old one. Neither Dodson nor Mankins were seen practicing with the team last week, although safety Devin McCourty, who missed the Bills game altogether with a concussion, returned to practice on Wednesday. Mankins was seen wearing a walking boot earlier in the week. Also missing practice was cornerback Alfonzo Dennard, who had previously been hobbled by a knee injury, but is now also dealing with a shoulder issue.
Regretfully, one player who will not be returning to the team for the playoffs is wide receiver and kick returner Josh Boyce, who was placed on the injured reserve list last week. Boyce has not played since suffering an ankle injury during New England's 24-20 loss to the Miami Dolphins in Week 15. This season, the rookie has caught nine passes for 121 yards, and returned nine kicks for 214 yards.
To replace Boyce, the Patriots re-signed wide receiver Austin Collie, who now begins his third stint with the team this season. Collie played with the Colts from 2009-2012. He has played in seven games for New England this season, catching six passes for 63 yards.
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At tight end, Michael Hoomanawanui missed several games due largely to a knee injury. He played in Week 17, but did not catch a pass. Matthew Mulligan played in 15 games, catching only two passes, but he should see some time against the Colts.
Expected to play on Saturday is cornerback Aqib Talib. In spite of missing three games this season with a hip injury, Talib was recently named to the Associated Press All-Pro team, along with Mankins and McCourty.
One area in which the Patriots are completely healthy is at running back. Shane Vereen missed eight games this season with a wrist injury, but he played in every game in December. Brandon Bolden, Stevan Ridley and LaGarrette Blount all have no apparent injuries, and Blount is coming off a career day in Week 17 in which he ran for 189 rushing yards and 145 kick return yards. The only real concern here is Ridley's penchant for fumbling. He lost four fumbles early in the season, and he was listed inactive for a couple of games as a result.
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What does the slang word zips mean?
02/11/2022 02/11/2022 Eleanor O'Neill Lifehacks
What team is called zips?
Do zips exist in Star Wars?
What is a zip Starwars?
Was Padme wearing a bra?
Is the Urban Dictionary an official dictionary?
Zips is a slang term used as a derogatory slur by Italian-American and Sicilian-American mobsters in reference to newer immigrant Sicilian and Italian mafiosi. The name is said to have originated from mobsters' inability to understand the faster-speaking Sicilian dialects, which appeared to "zip" by.
What are half zips drugs?
The terms Eighth, Quarter, and Half are slang for portions of an ounce of pot. Here are the gram-to-ounce equivalents: An Eighth = 3.5 grams. A Quarter = 7 grams. A Half = 14 grams.
How many grams is a ZIP DAB?
This brings us to a "zip" — the gold standard of cannabis measurements. One zip equals approximately 28 grams, four quarters, or eight eighths. Or, to put it bluntly, one ounce.
The Akron Zips are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio, United States. The Zips compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level as a member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) East division.
Why are Akron called Zips?
Akron Zips Student Margaret Hamlin suggested "Zippers," which was also the name of a popular rubber overshoe sold by Akron's B.F. Goodrich Co. In 1950, then-athletic director Kenneth Red Cochrane shortened the nickname to the "Zips."
Why are Akron Zips kangaroos?
The school's nickname, "Zips", is a shortening of "Zippers", a pair of rubber overshoes and a brand name of the BF Goodrich Company of Akron. It was originally adopted by the school in 1925 after a contest to give the school a nickname. "Kangaroos" was one of the choices at the time.
No zips in Star Wars! A rule for costuming in the galaxy far, far away – according to some Star Wars creatives – is that zips aren't allowed.
Why are they the Zips?
Nickname and mascot The Zips name comes from "zippers", rubber overshoes made by the BF Goodrich Company of Akron that were popular in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1925, a campus-wide contest had been conducted to choose a nickname for the university's athletic teams.
Why did Carrie Fisher not wear a bra?
"So they put the dress on me the first day and bring me to George. He takes one look at me and he says, 'You can't wear a bra underneath that dress. ' So I said, 'Why? ' and he said, 'Because there's no underwear in space.
Zip Beeline was the pseudonym of a Drall professional speeder racer on Coruscant. He then legally assumed the name after an impressive debut with good fan reaction. His speeders, swoops, and podracers were customized for his small stature.
What are Zips in Star Wars?
The Book of Boba Fett episode 3 has opened up a huge can of intergalactic worms – and it all comes down to some zippers.
"Zips?
"It was a cast iron directive from [costume designer John] Mollo since ep4 Chris.
Oh, and I'm sick of hearing about how Padme wasn't wearing a bra with the white top. Yes, she was-if you look at some of the high res images, you'll realize it's actually the shirt seams.
Was Carrie Fisher not allowed to wear a bra?
"So they put the dress on me the first day and bring me to George," Fisher said on HBO's Wishful Drinking. "He takes one look at me and he says, 'you can't wear a bra underneath that dress', so I said, 'why?' , and he said, 'because there's no underwear in space'.
What does Zips mean in Urban Dictionary?
Zips (also Siggies or Geeps) is a slang term in the United States that was especially in use in the early 20th century. It was often used as a derogatory slur by Italian American and Sicilian American mobsters in reference to newer immigrant Sicilian and Italian mafiosi.
word. A versatile declaration, originating (more or less) in hip-hop culture. "Word" has no single meaning, but is used to convey a casual sense of affirmation, acknowledgement, agreement, or to indicate that something has impressed you favorably. Its usage among young blacks has been parodied ad nauseam among clueless suburban whites.
What does ZB mean in Urban Dictionary?
ZB from russian word ZajeBal means somthing like: "You are on my nerves mister!". People usually use it when they are enough of Somthin!
What does half zip mean in Urban Dictionary?
half zip When one wears the fly on their pants half zipped. It was an extremely popular style in many high schools between 2004 – 2007. It must be noted that only the most stylistic and iconic figures in the high school social scene can successfully rock the half zip.


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Sex on craigslist in Milwaukee WI
A year-old girl who ran away from home in western Wisconsin sold sex acts in Milwaukee to men who found her ad and photo on Craigslist, according to court documents. The classified advertising Web site Craigslist has increasingly become a marketplace for prostitution, including sex trafficking of children, raising alarm among law enforcement and prosecutors.
Attorney Leonid Feller from Detroit, where an online prostitution ring that advertised in Milwaukee and other cities was recently busted. A Craigslist spokeswoman said Tuesday the company discourages prostitution by posting warnings, blocking that contain certain words, asking users to flag illegalcooperating with law enforcement and taking other precautions.
In another Milwaukee case, a man was sentenced last month to four years in prison for prostituting a year-old girl, also on Craigslist. Rufus Jackson, 28, also was charged with having sex with the girl.
In that case, Jackson took in the girl, also a runaway whose hometown was not listed. He began having sex with her and later forced her into prostitution, according to the criminal complaint. Jackson took nude photos of the girl and posted them on Craigslist, it says.
Jackson beat the girl and threatened her by putting a gun to her head, demanding she make more money in prostitution, it said. She met men for sex at the Port Motel, W. Appleton Ave. When officers went to arrest Jackson at his home, he ran and fought officers, the complaint indicates.
It was unclear Tuesday whether Jackson was connected to the case involving the year-old Onalaska girl. She also was advertised as working with another female whose age was not listed in the warrant.
Like the year-old, detectives found the Onalaska girl at the Port Motel. Around that time, 33 advertisements on Craigslist offered prostitution in the Milwaukee area, about half of them from the year-old girl, the warrant indicates.
That man, who also was prostituting himself, the warrant says, has not been charged. In Detroit, five people — including Robert C. The defendants are charged with prostituting women and girls, advertising sex for sale on Craigslist in Milwaukee and other cities, Feller said. Burkee said Milwaukee police began monitoring Craigslist for prostitution about three years ago.
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Dec 20, 2018 | By: Kathy Holcombe
The Holcombe family moved their family and photography business into a 24' Winnebago View in 2014 and have been whitewater kayaking, rock climbing and exploring North America ever since.
When we told our daughter Abby that we were moving, she expressed the typical concerns of any nine year old facing change…what about my friends? where will I go to school? etc. When we added that we were moving into a Winnebago RV for a year long road trip, she was, for the first time ever…speechless. With the exuberant encouragement of our friends (who secretly THOUGHT we were crazy), and the reluctant support of our family (who KNEW we were crazy), we sold most of our things, packed up the rest and moved both our family and thriving photography business into a 24 foot Winnebago View. At best we were destined for the biggest adventure of our lives, at worst we would return with our careers in shambles, our family in financial ruin, and quite possibly permanent emotional damage from 365 days spent within the confines of 150 square feet. We did our best to anticipate what the future would bring and minimize our risk: we eliminated all debt and monthly expenses (except the cell phone) and booked as many photography jobs as we could in advance, but ultimately the entire endeavor was a monumental leap of faith.
The Holcombes have always travelled extensively seeking adventure, but the shift from truck to RV proved to be the tipping point that allowed them to sustainably pursue a nomadic lifestyle. Five years into their road-trip and there is no end in sight.
Their first rig was a 2008 Winnebago View 24J. But after 80,000 miles in the first 18 months they decided to trade her in for a new model: a brand new 2016 View…24J of course.
At first, life on the road was just like any of our other countless road trips over the years (except that life in the RV was WAY more comfortable than our old 4x4 pickup truck). We spent the majority of our days kayaking and climbing (with a good deal of work intermixed to keep our bank account in the black) and managed to tic one extraordinary adventure after another off of our bucket list. As we progressed through our year of adventure, I began to notice some changes slowly taking hold of each of us.
A quick glance at the Holcombe's social media might lead one to believe that their life is a series of endless adventures, but don't be fooled. They work just as hard as they play.
The most profound change for me, was my newfound ability to get a full night's sleep. Regardless of where we were and how much noise was around us, I was finally able to sleep, night after blessed night, for the first time in over a decade. And being well rested allowed me to take on more during my waking hours leading to a happier, healthier and more successful me. Looking back, I equate my previous life to a hamster running in a wheel, frantically scrambling from one imaginary destination to the next - to be more, to have more, to do more. And really, none of it made me any happier - just incredibly tired. Shifting to a nomadic lifestyle enabled me to identify and prioritize goals that were meaningful to me and start working toward them: 1) quality time together as a family, 2) a career as a writer/photographer, 3) regular adventures kayaking and climbing in the wild. And once I was focused on the really important stuff, and let the rest go, I slept like a baby (and still do most nights). Not to say that life on the road is without headaches and hassles, it's just much easier to deal with them after a good night's sleep.
Kathy in her happy place: 250 miles into the wilderness on a 25 day kayak trip through the Grand Canyon.
Kathy keeps a close watch as Abby lowers herself deep into the bowels of Pine Creek Canyon in Zion National Park.
Peter, on the other hand, works hard, plays hard and sleeps hard, and always has. His personal transformation has manifested in his willingness to take risks in his career that were incomprehensible in our previous life. Over the past decade, his sense of responsibility to provide for his family and chase the traditional markers of success: nice cars, gym memberships, music lessons for Abby, designer clothes, etc., left Peter in the habit of playing it safe when it came to our livelihood. Rather than chasing his dreams of traveling the globe telling the story of wilderness expeditions through his images (think National Geographic photographer), he opted for the more proven career path of wedding and portrait photography (for which he is incredibly talented and thoroughly enjoys). However, his desire to travel and photograph adventures has always lingered. The past four years on the road have allowed him the freedom to be in the places where cutting edge athletes are pushing the boundaries of whitewater paddling and he has become one of the go-to-guys for paddlesports imagery. But even more exciting, is that many outdoor industry brands are now asking him to turn his lens inward and tell the story of our personal adventures and develop content to share through their social media networks. Never in our wildest dreams did we imagine that we could make a living by photographing, filming and writing about our days in the wild doing what we love the most.
Peter is happiest when immersed in rapids while kayaking.
Eric Jackson, legendary kayaker and owner of Jackson Kayak, makes a splash entering the Caney Fork River. Life on the road allows Peter to be in the right place to create images like this for top brands in the outdoor adventure sport arena.
Abby, for the most part, has been a happy and willing participant in this life altering experiment. She is very task oriented, and the academic transition from public to online school was relatively painless. Once she figured out what was expected and how the program worked, she charged ahead, and even skipped a grade in both math and English. But the best gift of this life on the road has been the thousands of unexpected experiences that have surprised us along our journey. We have watching grizzly bears feed on salmon right outside our RV window, kayaked with whales and dolphins in three oceans, explored caverns and rock towers in the desert, and backpacked through the wilderness. These are the formative moments that leave an imprint that last a lifetime, and were what we craved most while planning this new lifestyle. The true impact of just how much our nomadic lifestyle has changed Abby struck me a couple of weeks ago as Abby took the stage in front of 250 adults and shared her recent experiences on a record setting descent, kayaking the Colorado River, 280 miles through the Grand Canyon. I sat in the front row and watched in awe as my 13 year old daughter shared stories and videos that captivated the sizable crowd for almost an hour, and culminated in a tear-filled standing ovation. It was at that moment that I realized the profound transformation in Abby. No longer is she the shy little girl who would get off the bus everyday, overflowing with emotion about the turmoil at school. That soft-spoken child has been replaced by a confident and charismatic young woman who is ready for just about anything the world has in store for her.
While visiting Haines, AK, Abby spots a mother grizzly bear and her two cubs feeding on salmon outside their RV window.
Abby celebrating a close encounter with a humpback whale in Ketchikan, AK.
As we set out on this journey, we were simply trying to avoid any permanent damage while we chased a crazy dream, but now it is now clear that this road less travelled has been our saving grace, rescuing our souls from the treachery of mediocrity. I have no idea what the future holds for us, but can't wait to fire up the Winnebago and discover what lies just over the horizon.
Onward…the Holcombes.
You can follow along on the most recent Holcombe adventures on social media @PeterHolcombe and @adventurousmiss.
Brian Schneider - Saw y'alls rig on Marietta parkway in Marietta ga and had to know what famagogo was. Looks spectacular! Have a blast and safe travels.
Amy - Breathtaking. I'm awestruck!
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Illicit tobacco to be eliminated
In any group of enthusiasts, there is always one who goes too far. The schoolgirl who is just a little too keen on the latest boyband, the football fan who gets a little too caught up in his team. It is only by being around normal people that fanatics are forced to acknowledge their peculiarities and moderate their behaviour. But if they surround themselves only with those of like mind, they spiral further towards extremism, with each member of the group set on proving that they are the most committed to the cause. Isolated from normality, it is only a matter of time before one of them gets a facial tattoo.
This unfortunate state of affairs is very common in the "public health community" for two reasons. Firstly, since funding comes from the state to meet perceived health crises, there is an incentive to be hysterical. Secondly, fanaticism breeds fanaticism. When reasonable objectives have been achieved, reasonable people leave the movement. This leaves the fanatics to pursue more fanatical objectives which, in turn, attract new fanatics to the movement.
With life expectancy soaring, infectious diseases plummetting and people enjoying better health, working conditions and diets than ever before, you might expect the health lobby's wailing to subside somewhat. This has not happened, of course, least of all in tobacco control—a faction of public health which has won victory after victory for decades and yet only gets more anguished and hyperbolic. Take this comment about smoking from one Dr Seffrin who, according to the Independent, "leads the US national society dedicated to eliminating [!] cancer".
"It killed 100 million in the last century and we thought that was outrageous, but this will be the biggest public health disaster in the history of the world, bar none. It all could be avoided if we could prevent the terroristic tactics of the tobacco industry in marketing its products to children."
There are a number of things to be said about this statement. One might, for example, cite malaria, smallpox and bubonic plague as just three diseases which have been greater public health disasters than cigarette smoking, not least because they killed people at a much younger age and were not the result of taking a risky, but freely made, decision. One might also ask exactly in what ways the tobacco industry markets its products to children in 2012. Is this the "glitzy pack" argument? If so, does Dr Seffrin seriously believe that "the biggest public health disaster in the history of the world ... all could be avoided" by changing a red pack into a green pack?
But never mind all that. What is this stuff about terrorism? Even to a man who thinks he can eliminate cancer, that is a stupid thing to say. Alas, the fanatics are in too deep to understand why such a comment is risible and offensive. Let us remember that ASH (New Zealand) thought nothing of issuing this advert a few years ago...
This is what comes from spending years in the tobacco control bubble. One's sense of proportion goes out of the window. Flying an aeroplane full of innocent people into a building full of innocent people starts to seem commensurate with selling a legal product covered with health warnings which, if consumed many times a day for decades, increases the risk of developing a potentially deadly disease in old age. What next? Are they going to compare the tobacco industry with paedophiles? Oh no, they already did that...
I have described this phenomenon of escalating hyperbole as "bullshit inflation" (one of the leading causes of "bullshit fatigue"). You can expect to hear a lot of it this week because yet another anti-smoking conference is taking place. This time it's in South Korea ("Join tobacco control—See the world!"). It's the Fifth session of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control which means that it has some legislative muscle (you can read the agenda here). It kicked off with Margaret Chan, director general of the WHO, coming up with another silly simile...
Tobacco use is the epidemiological equivalent of a drive-by shooting – it hurts the innocent bystanders, as well as those held captive by an addiction that damages their health.
Chan played to the gallery by using military metaphors about the tobacco industry. "This is how we hem in the enemy," she said. "It is a ruthless industry that quite literally cannot afford to lose. It behaves like a corrosive substance that can eat and slip through any cracks or fissures in the armour of our defences." She was using similar rhetoric earlier in the year when she said: "We have an enemy, a ruthless and devious enemy, to unite us... The enemy, the tobacco industry, has changed its face and its tactics. The wolf is no longer in sheep's clothing, and its teeth are bared." Etc., etc.
This kind of banter is all well and good for the average street preacher, but it's a little sad to see the head of a once-distinguished UN body resort to tub-thumping. It really is reminiscent of the rants against the 'liquor trust' which prohibitionists like Richmond P. Hobson delivered in the early part of the twentieth century. I guess it's more comforting to think that you're at war with an industry than it is to admit you're demonising, impoverishing and harassing hundreds of millions of ordinary people who happen to enjoy tobacco. Better to imagine yourself at war with terrorists and drive-by shooters.
I can see the appeal of the us-versus-them conceit. If you're a government pencil-pusher it must feel very exciting to think you're at war. I don't care if people want to talk like this, I just don't think we should have to pay for it with our taxes (and, as Dick Puddlecote recently reported, delegates at this WHO meeting are discussing levying an international tax on tobacco to fund—guess WHO?) And yet, Chan constantly talks about the anti-tobacco industry as if it were "civil society". For example...
Members of civil society,
We need you, now more than ever.
Experience has shown that, when government political resolve falters or weakens under industry pressure, coalitions of civil society can take up the slack and carry the day. We need this kind of outcry, this kind of rage.
I'm all in favour of civil society and voluntary action. All I ask is that it be genuinely voluntary. Get rid of the taxpayer funding for these groups and let's see how many of these people are prepared to "take up the slack" and attend week long conferences in South Korea.
Here's an interesting fact about these 'Conference of the Parties (COP)' shindigs. It won't surprise you to hear that the tobacco industry is not invited to participate, but they are apparently not even allowed to observe proceedings from the spectator's gallery. These are—I say again—publicly funded conferences. Refusing to allow the relevant industry to even hear what is being said strikes me as peculiarly paranoid—as if tobacco execs are so powerful that they can transmit pro-tobacco messages by just being in the same room.
Predictably enough, the (taxpayer funded) anti-booze brigade wants the alcohol industry excluded from (taxpayer funded) discussions about alcohol.
Eurocare strongly recommended exclusion of the alcohol industry as a stakeholder, similarly as it is being done with the tobacco industry.
Of course prohibitionists want their "enemy" excluded from the discussion. If they let their opponents speak, they might undermine their paper-thin arguments. But it gets worse. As if it wasn't crazy enough not to allow the industry to see what goes on in these meetings, the fanatics have now banned Interpol (yes, that Interpol) from attending. Why? Because the tobacco company Philip Morris recently gave Interpol 15 million euros "to support the agency's global initiative to combat trans-border crime involving illicit goods, including tobacco products".
This is madness. Is there any organisation these maniacs do not suspect are 'front groups' for Big Backy? The real issue here is not allowing the industry—or Interpol—to engage, it is that no opposing views are allowed whatsoever. I don't imagine that the industry necessarily represents the views of its customers, but they represent them better than the people who hate the customers, hate the industry and hate the product. Ideally, I'd like to see the tobacco control "community" invite smokers to their conferences and ask them how they feel about higher taxes and outdoor smoking bans, but they never do. I can't think why.
The result of excluding everybody except fellow fanatics is that you end up with retarded and delusional policies which only make sense at two in the morning when they are being discussed by monomaniacs in the hotel bar. It seems obvious, for example, that the tobacco industry could make common cause with the anti-tobacco industry—not to mention Interpol—on the issue of counterfeit cigarettes where both parties stand to lose. No dice, say the anti-smokers. Instead, we get a pompous announcement of monumental hubris...
The Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products
That's right, folks. They're going to eliminate illicit tobacco. Just like they eliminated illicit drugs.
"The elimination of all forms of illicit trade in tobacco products, including smuggling and illegal manufacturing, is an essential component of tobacco control," says Ambassador Ricardo Varela, President of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the WHO FCTC.
If winning an unwinnable war is an essential part of your plan, it's time to rethink the plan. The tragedy is that it really is essential to their plan. It won't happen—prohibition never works—but they won't let anyone into the circle of trust to bring them to their senses.
To read about what the WHO should be talking about this week—if the 'H' in it still meant anything—read Clive Bates' open letter to COP-5.
Reading the full text of Chan's speech, it looks like the knives are out for snus and e-cigarettes:
You have before you state-of-the art reports on recommended responses to smokeless tobacco products and electronic nicotine delivery systems. Again, industry is seeping through the cracks.
Sounds like these "state-of-the-art reports" have been written by the usual quit-or-die merchants.
Posted by Christopher Snowdon at 11:11 am
Quite amazing that these nutters keep ramping up the rhetoric to absurd extremes. And these are their leaders? Jesus.
Just for a giggle: https://twitter.com/NannyingTyrants/status/267973686240354305
Spoofed image of the COP5. :)
DaveA said...
A timely piece indeed.
Seffrin has enjoyed a particularly lush salary and benefits at the ACS.
"The American Cancer Society's CEO, Dr. John Seffrin, received total compensation of $764,135 in fiscal year 2011 that included his base salary, deferred compensation and benefits not paid until retirement. He declined an incentive for fiscal 2009 performance and voluntarily decreased his base salary by 6.4 percent the previous period. In fiscal 2010, his total compensation was $2.4 million. Of that, $1.62 million included benefits not paid until retirement and a one-time supplemental benefit that related to retention. Revenues were $953.57 million in fiscal 2011, compared to $956.159 million in fiscal 2010."
Also Seffrin was one of the co signatories with Dr. Thun of a letter to the Dean of UCLA trying to get Dr. James Enstrom fired. I have a copy.
DP said...
Dear Mr Snowdon
It seems that the anti-tobacco campaign has been hijacked by organised criminals who have latched on to one of the multiple tax-payer funded teats to supply their lifestyle of both professional nannying, wealth beyond that which they could earn by doing an honest job and a periodic round of conferences in exotic places to meet their fellow criminals from all parts of the world.
Continuing the criminal meme, there could be scope to prosecute those responsible for the EU snus ban on the basis that the bureaucrats and politicians who proposed, supported and passed the ban are criminally liable for the damage inflicted on those who were legally prevented from using a harm reduction product.
An interesting twist on the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement.
Somehow I suspect that the politicos and bureaucrats will feel themselves to be exempt from any such action: after all it is the government's job to punish the public.
Chris youve made it abundantly clear the Prohibitionists are losing face with the people and the governments. They appear to think theres a tobacco monster behind every chair,wall and face. This is a good sign as they limit their audience to just fellow Insanity patients. It seems a new book is in order ''How to keep the lie alive 20 years on''.
Additional thought here,the WHO has been trying to find a source of funding for quite some time. Financial transaction tax is one and theres a few other examples of attempts over the last 3 years.....Of course none of those flew either.
JohnB said...
Wow, Chris, that's a loaded piece you've provided.
I'm not sure why greater use isn't made of the Godber/WHO Blueprint. For example [slight digression], Simon Clark today notes that the father of the modern cigarette has been branded as a "merchant of death". The highly inflammatory term "merchants of death" was supposedly introduced into the current antismoking crusade by the rabid antismoking fanatic (i.e., one of the merchants of insanity), Georgie Godber, way back in, at least, the 70s:
So finally, where do we go from here? I believe we go to war . We recognise quite clearly that this is a war with a determined enemy and with unsuspecting casualties . The tobacco industry has demonstrated in every continent that it has forfeited any right to be regarded as anything other than the opposition . Our enemy is not the smoker; indeed we know that most smokers want to give up smoking and get on to health . Our enemy is the manufacturer who exploits our youth and spreads this modern plague in the third world. Unless we act now there will indeed be something like a modern slaughter of the innocents ……..So let us end where we began : Prof. Hillerdal talked of smoking as the captain of the men of death . The merchants of death - and I assume that phrase was thought up by Sir George Godber because he thought up most of the good phrases we use, - the merchants of death are the tobacco manufacturers and we must confront them with every battle field, whether it is health, political, social, environmental or economic or any other . The case for action is overwhelming . We ourselves cannot take the political action but we can make life so uncomfortable for the politicians that they feel compelled to act. (p.11)
I am of course delighted to see so many participants, but the warmest welcome of all I can extend on behalf of you to the representatives of the tobacco industry . I have been delighted to see tobacco representatives taking careful notes - even taking recordings of the proceedings . I hope that their masters will listen very carefully to the words of Dr . Mahler and Sir George Godber . Twelve years ago in New York Senator Robert Kennedy said that the cigarette manufacturers were peddling a deadly weapon : they are dealing in people's lives for financial gain . The peddlers of death here, so far as I can see - and my apologies ..to those I have omitted – include representatives of the Canadian Tobacco Manufacturers' Council, the British Tobacco Advisory Council, British-American Tobacco, the Philip Morris Company, the U .S . Tobacco Institute and, I suspect, a few more who forgot to mention on their registration forms where they came from . (p.6)
This statement was made in 1979 at the 4th World Conference on Smoking & Health by none other than Mike Daube.
http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/action/document/page?tid=oze32e00
Other comments made at the same conference are also telling:
Mahler emphasized the importance of making smoking socially unacceptable. He said that for millions of people it is now embarrassing to smoke and that the social pressure must be on the side of the nonsmoker . According to Mahler, it is now the smokers who have begun to apologize for smoking . However, he warned about the danger of the anti-smoking movement becoming an exclusive group i.e .,that the participants at the conference be viewed as fanatic anti-smokers . (p.8 )
According to Mahler, there is very little political support for fighting the tobacco industry because politicians fear the loss of revenue and upsetting the economy. Moreover, politicians smoke . He suggested that the basic reason there is such little political support for nonsmokers is that their constituents, i.e, the people, don't care. The key to reversing this trend is to change the social norm . Nonsmoking should be regarded as normal social behavior . Only when people see smoking as socially abnormal will political pressure be felt . (p.10)
In the General Session entitled Smoking and Society, M .A .H . Russell of the U .K . presented a paper entitled Smoking as a Dependency Disorder . Attached hereto is abstract of his paper . According to Russell, smoking is a dependency disorder and, therefore, the reason many smokers can't quit is not because they are weak willed but because they are dependent. Russell claimed that 75% of smokers are motivated to quit smoking but that 25% don't wish to quit . According to Russell, the 25% who do not want to quit are not convinced of the health risks, while the 75% who want to quit can't because they are blocked by dependency. According to Russell, nicotine is the key to the smoker's dependency. He likened the problem of quitting smoking to alcoholism and heroine addiction .
Departing from his prepared text, Califano referred to research findings in smoking control . He said that
1 . Where smoking is prohibited in the workplace, there is a decrease in the number of people who smoke and an increase in those who
quit ; and 2. Schools that have good smoking programs have fewer smokers in future years. (p.27)
http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/action/document/page?tid=ini30f00
From these statements, it's clear that this antismoking crusade, like most before it, is an exterminatory crusade. For those that still claim that antismoking measures were enacted only to protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke "danger", they are lying. SHS "danger" is a contrivance….. a deranged means to a deranged end. By the 1970s, smokers had already been reduced to just "addicts" (years before other antismoking buddies "redefined" smoking as an "addiction" through the Office of the Surgeon-General), and SHS "danger" was already being touted years before the first [wobbly] study on SHS.
Just like in America early last century, the fanatical goal is to destroy the tobacco industry….. the "merchants of death". War was already declared in the 70s: Whoever wasn't one of "us" was one of "them"….. the "enemy". Chan is simply embellishing with further inflammatory rhetoric an eradication framework already set decades ago. It is hate-filled rambling cheered by fanatics suffering a similar "god complex"…. amongst other mental disorders. The antismoking framework is a typical "us/them" framework. And then along came Chapman at the 5th World Conference (1983) suggesting a further refinement - a "good vs evil" framework in which the fanatics, of course, cast themselves in the role of the "mythological good" battling the "mythological evil" tobacco industry. It's all contrived. Over the last three decades, these fanatics/zealots/extremists/nut cases have been allowed, without question, to "define" all the terms – addiction, "death toll", war, good vs evil, "saving lives" – to fit their deranged framework. It's all made up….. the product of disturbed minds! Worse still is that they're still peddling this trash without question and with increasing influence.
The antismoking nut cases were warned over and over again that extortionate taxes will foster a contraband market. When a contraband market begins to flourish, it signals that taxes have gone too far. But logic and nut cases don't mix. The nut cases keep calling for higher extortionate taxes and are then shocked that a contraband market flourishes. "It's not our doing", declare the fanatics: "The contraband market just popped up out of thin air to foil our good work".
The fools.... first-class morons... of Public Health that created the problem now want to "fix" it with more of their inimitable stupidity. God help us!
So the WHO wants a global tobacco tax on all of us along with everything else!
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See, too, Siegel's blog and comments:
http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/department-of-health-and-human-services.html
We have a mental disorder on hold to be issued with every new ban movement:
Nord Med. 1994;109(4):121-5.
[Environmental somatization syndrome. How to deal with the external milieu syndrome?].
[Article in Swedish]
Nilsson CG, Göthe CJ, Molin C.
SourceMed Rehabiliteringskliniken, Huddinge Sjukhus.
Somatization is a tendency to experience and communicate psychogenic distress in the form of somatic symptoms and to seek medical help for them. Patients suffering from environmental somatization syndrome (ESS) consider their symptoms to be caused by exposure to chemical or physical components of the external environment or by ergonomic stress at work. ESS is distinguished by mental contagiousness and a tendency to cluster. Sometimes it explodes in wide-spread epidemics that may be escalated by mass-media campaigns. Extensive ESS epidemics have been connected to, i.a., arsenic, carbon monoxide ("generator gas poisoning"), mercury ("oral galvanism"), carbon-free copy papers, electromagnetic fields ("electric allergy") and repetitive movements ("repetition strain injury", RSI). The typical patient directs the interest on the external environment, refuses alternative explanations of his symptoms and abhors any suggestion of a psychogenic etiology.
The community is often placed in difficult positions by lobby groups calling for drastic measures to eliminate alleged disease-inducing exposures. When hygienic evils occur simultaneously with an ESS epidemic, it is essential to strictly differ the hygienic problems from the ESS problems. If mismanaged, measures aimed at reducing hygienic inconveniences may aggravate the complex of ESS problems.
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Isolated from normality, it is only a matter of time before one of them gets a facial tattoo.
Chris, if this was the endpoint of extremism, I would say tattoo away. Unfortunately, the extremism is wreaking utter havoc (psychologically, socially, morally, economically, ideo-politically) around the world, and particularly in the one-time relatively-free English-speaking West. There is a serious, despicable messing with people's minds on a mass scale. It is a constant fear and hate-mongering that has unquestioned access to lawmakers. The absurd demands do not seem absurd to the gullible that have lapped up the propaganda from the early days. It is bringing out the worst in people…… again.
Mac the Knife said...
Thanks for linking to the full text of Chan's speech Chris, it's very thoughtful of you.
Unfortunately, I am in the terminal phase of Bullshit Fatigue© (C. Snowdon 2012), and on medical advice; I have decided not to read it.
The illicit trade protocol has been adopted in Seoul without calls for a ban on duty-free tobacco sales
Duty-free tobacco sales were given a boost today (November 13) with the adoption of the illicit trade protocol at the Conference of the Parties of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in Seoul as its text does not include a ban on duty-free tobacco, although it does subject the channel to further scrutiny in the future.
Following the adoption of the protocol, it needs to be ratified by individual states. Once the protocol has been ratified by at least 40 countries, it will come into effect and become binding on signatory parties.
Earlier this year, at the fifth meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB5) in Geneva the parties involved agreed a way forward to tackle the illicit trade of tobacco, marking the end of a process spanning five years to defend duty-free tobacco sales from claims that they contributed to illicit trade.
European Travel Retail Confederation secretary general Keith Spinks told DFNIonline: "As per the original agreement they would not go back to review what had been decided at the INB5, so it was reasonably straightforward. What it means now is that it will open for signature next year, and once 40 countries sign up it becomes binding on the parties that ratified it. What happens then depends on how fast countries sign up to it, and then we can start looking at all the rules and provisions of the protocol.
He added: "We are now back where we were at INB5, when the parties agreed that within five years of the adoption of the protocol an investigation into duty-free would take place [to ascertain the extent of any link between duty-free sales and illicit trade]. We are happy with that."
http://www.dfnionline.com/article/Important-boost-for-duty-free-tobacco-1864605.html
Researchers Debate a License to Smoke Cigarettes
Simple Simon's at it again
http://www.livescience.com/24754-debate-license-smoke-cigarettes.html
They do it for coal-burning power plants. So how about something for what many consider to be a walking smokestack — the cigarette smoker?
Yes, a license to smoke. Simon Chapman, a professor of public health at the University of Sydney in Australia, offers this radical proposal to help reduce the damaging health effects of tobacco, both for the user and the recipient of second-hand smoke.
You may think this is brilliant … or crazy … or both. Chapman's proposal appears today (Nov. 13) in the online journal PLoS Medicine, accompanied by an opposing view put forth by Jeff Collin, a professor of global health policy from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
1. The Activists meeting in Seoul have no authority whatsoever.
2. The Framework Convention is a con. It is a Treaty, which only has effect between nations. It has no effect within a nation. It has no legal authority within any given country whatsoever. It only means anything for as long as a nation wishes to continue to abide by it.
Remember Milton MP? Her wot thought that the UK was 'legally bound' by the FCTC? No wonder that she was sacked - why was she ever appointed in the first place? The sooner these people are stripped of funds, the better. Let then raise their money from voluntary subscriptions.
But always remember that they are only advertisers! Their contributions to society are no better than 'three shades of white better'.
Junican
"It killed 100 million people in the last century"
Oh, smoking!
Silly me, I thought he was talking about socialism.
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Views | Lending to EVs on priority: The game changer India needs
Views | Lending to EVs on priority: The game-changer India needs
By Aishwarya Raman Jan 20, 2022 7:26:06 PM IST (Published)
India's EV sector is well poised to yield returns commensurate with increased credit supply, thanks to an enabling policy regime covering large-scaling manufacturing, robust charging networks, mass adoption, and end-of-life management.
The electric mobility revolution in India is an inflection point in the country's decarbonisation journey. Our climate goal of cutting emissions to net zero by 2070 — announced at COP26 — necessitates a complete and urgent overhaul of the energy-guzzling internal combustion engine (ICE) sector, among others. The ICE sector emits 337 Mt of Co2 a year, much of which is from trucks (39 percent), followed by two- and three-wheelers (17 percent), and cars (17 percent) – the modes whose electric and other low-carbon variants are gaining currency today. But this transition to a zero-emission future is not cheap. India, thus, needs innovative and sustainable solutions to finance its e-mobility revolution.
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NITI Aayog estimates that India would need a capital of Rs 19.7 lakh crore or $266 billion to electrify 70 percent of its new vehicle sales by 2030. This is the cumulative cost of investing in Electric Vehicles (EVs), EV supply equipment, and batteries. A crucial instrument that is effective at redirecting investment flows from high- to low-carbon technologies is priority sector lending (PSL).
Introduced in 1966-'68, formalised in 1972, and realigned in 2016 PSL corrects credit availability and growth imbalances in strategic sectors of the economy, such as agriculture, micro-small-medium enterprises (MSME), exports, education, housing, social infrastructure, renewable energy, and others. Thus, sectors of national importance are assigned priority for development, and financed by the banking system regarded as the cornerstone of India's inclusive economic growth.
Electric mobility is one such sector of national importance. Its potential to enhance energy security, reduce our reliance on imported fossil fuel, foster innovation and entrepreneurship, unlock jobs in the millions, and improve India's global competitiveness, demands that it makes it to the priority list.
In fact, India's EV agenda perfectly fits the mandate of PSL. The Internal Working Group of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) , tasked to revisit PSL targets and classification, noted in 2015 that the changing times warranted a realignment of the priority sectors with emerging national priorities and financial inclusion goals of the country. Thus, the emphasis expanded from lending to vulnerable sections to also covering sectors which "increase employability, create basic infrastructure and improve competitiveness of the economy, thus creating more jobs". The result is the eight new priority sectors India has today.
While sectors like agriculture, exports, and micro and small enterprises were retained, emerging priorities such as medium enterprises in manufacturing and services industries, social infrastructure, and renewable energy were added to the list. The new sectors were identified based on their potential for livelihood generation, strengthening socio-economic equity, and creating a conducive infrastructure for improving the absorptive capacity of credit.
Therefore, the success of PSL or directed lending lies in how well a sector is able to capitalise on credit infusion and grow. Consider the role of PSL at effectively scaling micro- and small enterprises (MSE), and exports in India in the first decade of the 21st century. Between 2001 and 2011, PSL increased at a CAGR of 23 percent and 20 percent respectively for MSE and export sectors with the sectors successfully leveraging the increased supply of credit to grow. Notably, a 100 percent increase in PSL to exports and MSE increases the export GDP by 76 percent and manufacturing GDP by 41 percent, respectively. Such impact if not higher is envisaged for the e-mobility sector as well.
Today, India's EV sector is well poised to yield returns commensurate with increased credit supply, thanks to an enabling policy regime covering large-scaling manufacturing, robust charging networks, mass adoption, and end-of-life management. There is an accelerated adoption of electric buses, and two-, three-, and four-wheelers, due to high fuel prices, regulatory push, and purchase incentives, among others. FAME II — now extended till 2024 — alone has a corpus of Rs 9,000 crores for demand subsidies.
On their part, Lithium-ion battery manufacturing is picking pace, with many new-age as well as traditional chemicals companies taking advantage of Rs 18,000 crore worth government subsidies, and building integrated businesses including cell manufacturing, battery recycling, and battery production. Using the FAME II corpus of Rs 1,000 crores, the government is planning to install 70,000 EV chargers across India, while also leveraging the dense network of petrol pumps in the country. Oil companies, energy operators, and cities are partnering to create robust charging infrastructure.
Furthermore, companies dealing with commodities, auto ancillaries, software (R&D), and polyester film packaging, etc. are all realigning their business models to suit an EV future. While these are steps in the right direction, public and private funds available constitute only a fraction of the financing needs of the country.
There is no denying that the EV sector is still in its nascent stage. On the one hand, the impetus for mass adoption of EVs is immense with FAME subsidies, production-linked incentive (PLI) schemes for large-scale battery manufacturing, 20+ states notifying EV policies, and building robust charging networks and manufacturing of world-class EVs in full swing in India. On the other, EVs form around 2 percent of the total vehicles sold in the country. Priority lending will help India achieve its e-mobility goals and more.
Policy consistency and political vision and will — signalling a demand for EVs - are important to de-risk investments and make PSL for EVs successful. De-risking involves decreasing the downside of low-carbon investments.
Complicated permitting process causing construction delays, default in payment by customer, etc. influence investors' decisions, driving up cost of debt (interest rates), and cost of equity. While downside risk and associated financing costs are common for both fossil fuel and EV projects, they are more significant for low-carbon initiatives since they are capital-intensive. Thus, de-risking through policy measures such as removing barriers in the investment environment, and improving local institutions will go a long way.
Additionally, financial de-risking could be undertaken by transferring large portions of the impact to development banks (among others) who cover damages such as reduced or non-payment of the customer. Lastly, India can leverage its Jan-Aadhaar-Mobile trinity, to further de-risk PSL, ensure credit reaches the intended beneficiaries, and improve India's credit culture.
Overall, PSL — set at 40 percent of Adjusted Net Bank Credit or Credit Equivalent Amount Off-Balance Sheet Exposure (whichever is higher) for commercial banks, and 75 percent for regional rural banks and small finance banks — must be expanded to cover the emerging sector of electric mobility. Surging awareness and demand, accelerated adoption, potential to positively impact forex-jobs-GDP, and sufficient policy and regulatory impetus are enabling the EV sector to grow. Combined with credit infusion through PSL, India's leapfrog to a global EV hub is inevitable.
—Aishwarya Raman is Director and Head of Research, Ola Mobility Institute. Views expressed are personal
(Edited by : Ajay Vaishnav)
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Almost everyone is familiar with the upright, thick, uniquely coloured leaves of the Snake Plant, also referred to as the Mother-in-Law's Tongue. This is a hardy plant suitable for lower light areas of the office or home. Native to Africa, Madagascar and southern Asia, there are over 70 species. Only a few have been cultivated commercially. These varieties exhibit a striking range of colourful markings on the leaves. 'Zeylanica' has many shades of dark green. 'Laurentii' displays bold yellow stripes on the leaf margins, and 'Moonshine' has pale silvery green, almost solid colour leaves. Cylindrica is a very unique variety with cylindrical, striated leaves. It is a favourite of designers. The Snake Plant as a single specimen in a tall, graceful pot gives a very architectural appearance. The small dwarf varieties work well as understory plantings, ground cover, or border plants in large planters. When placed in brighter light, a Snake Plant may occasionally produce a fragrant flower stalk.
The NASA Clean Air Study found the Snake Plant has good air purification qualities, removing several airborne toxins from office environments.
This plant can tolerate fairly low light levels, although it does require light for a few hours every day. It needs very little water, and does best when allowed to dry out thoroughly between waterings. It is a slow growing plant that does not need to be pruned often. Remove dead leaves promptly, and cut any excessively tall leaves at soil level. This is a hardy, disease and pest resistant plant. Remember to fertilize monthly during the spring, summer and fall.
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Hotel renovation in Aloha will bring 54 affordable studios to Washington County
By Lauren Everett
June 9, 2022 11:46 a.m.
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Work is underway this summer at the Aloha Inn to turn a three-story hotel into Washington County's first-ever permanent supportive housing building for people who have experienced prolonged homelessness.
Metro and Washington County housing staff toured the hotel renovation site on May 20 to get the first glimpse of progress toward what will eventually be 54 studio apartments. The Washington County Housing Authority purchased the hotel in 2021 and is using $8.5 million from Metro's affordable housing bond to fund both the purchase and renovations.
The apartments are designed to serve some of the region's most vulnerable people, many of whom need support for substance abuse disorders or severe mental illness. "This kind of housing is urgently needed to help people waiting for housing in our shelter programs, or still sleeping outside," said Jes Larson, supportive housing services program manager for Washington County.
The building's northern wing served as a short-term shelter during the first part of construction and is now undergoing renovation along with the southern wing. Construction is expected to be complete in fall 2022.
Residents will have access to on-site supportive services from Bienestar, Sequoia Mental Health Services and Community Partners for Affordable Housing, which will be funded by Metro's supportive housing services measure. There are also several practical amenities in the immediate area, including an adjacent pharmacy and frequent bus service.
"Using Metro funds for both physical renovation and ongoing direct services is a prime example of Washington County thinking holistically about how we help people move from the challenges of homelessness into the pride of permanent housing," said Patricia Rojas, Metro housing program director.
Each furnished studio apartment will include a bathroom and kitchenette, with trauma-informed design throughout – such as cool, soothing colors – in recognition of the challenges that a transition from homelessness to permanent housing can present.
Project architect Melynda Retallack of Ink: built Architecture said the firm worked to build in their commitment to equity, affordability and sustainability through community design and planning efforts, local policy engagement and activism "to demonstrate the best potential for equitable urban housing and a deeper commitment to building community." The firm also designed the Breitung Building, which is run by Do Good Multnomah and provides permanent supportive housing for veterans with funding from Metro's supportive housing services measure.
The project's construction is being managed by locally based contractor GSI Builders Inc., a family-run, Latino-owned company with roots in Washington County and a commitment to bringing affordable housing to the community. "We at GSI are grateful to have the opportunity to be a part of a much needed and very impactful project," said company president Alex Garcia Seabold. "Having active community involvement as a multigenerational family in Washington County, I'd like to think we are building more than just buildings, we are building up our local communities that need it most."


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Proteome of Geobacter sulfurreducens grown with Fe(III) oxide or Fe(III) citrate as the electron acceptor.
Title Proteome of Geobacter sulfurreducens grown with Fe(III) oxide or Fe(III) citrate as the electron acceptor.
Authors Ding Y-HR, Hixson KK, Aklujkar MA, Lipton MS, Smith RD, Lovley DR, Mester T
Journal Biochim Biophys Acta
Date Published 2008 Dec
Keywords Bacterial Proteins, Ferric Compounds, Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial, Geobacter, Oxidation-Reduction, Proteome
The mechanisms for Fe(III) oxide reduction in Geobacter species are of interest because Fe(III) oxides are the most abundant form of Fe(III) in many soils and sediments and Geobacter species are prevalent Fe(III)-reducing microorganisms in many of these environments. Protein abundance in G. sulfurreducens grown on poorly crystalline Fe(III) oxide or on soluble Fe(III) citrate was compared with a global accurate mass and time tag proteomic approach in order to identify proteins that might be specifically associated with Fe(III) oxide reduction. A total of 2991 proteins were detected in G. sulfurreducens grown with acetate as the electron donor and either Fe(III) oxide or soluble Fe(III) citrate as the electron acceptor, resulting in 86% recovery of the genes predicted to encode proteins. Of the total expressed proteins 76% were less abundant in Fe(III) oxide cultures than in Fe(III) citrate cultures, which is consistent with the overall slower rate of metabolism during growth with an insoluble electron acceptor. A total of 269 proteins were more abundant in Fe(III) oxide-grown cells than in cells grown on Fe(III) citrate. Most of these proteins were in the energy metabolism category: primarily electron transport proteins, including 13 c-type cytochromes and PilA, the structural protein for electrically conductive pili. Several of the cytochromes that were more abundant in Fe(III) oxide-grown cells were previously shown with genetic approaches to be essential for optimal Fe(III) oxide reduction. Other proteins that were more abundant during growth on Fe(III) oxide included transport and binding proteins, proteins involved in regulation and signal transduction, cell envelope proteins, and enzymes for amino acid and protein biosynthesis, among others. There were also a substantial number of proteins of unknown function that were more abundant during growth on Fe(III) oxide. These results indicate that electron transport to Fe(III) oxide requires additional and/or different proteins than electron transfer to soluble, chelated Fe(III) and suggest proteins whose functions should be further investigated in order to better understand the mechanisms of electron transfer to Fe(III) oxide in G. sulfurreducens.
DOI 10.1016/j.bbapap.2008.06.011
Alternate Journal Biochim. Biophys. Acta


NY BAR EXAM - Eligibility Clarified!
The rules surrounding whether foreign students (those who have not studied a JD or law degree in the US) are eligible to sit for the New York Bar Exam are confusing. Please note that this document is written by 5legal Training Ltd from past experience, conversations with the Law Society and the New York Board of Law Examiners. The final decision regarding eligibility rests with the New York Board of Law Examiners.
We have managed to wade through the jargon of the guidelines published on the New York Board of Law Examiners Website and provide you with an insight into how the eligibility system works.
I could not open your file ; it says file not found. I would been keenly interested to know the results of your research. I am stuck and need yoru advice and guidance urgently. Pl help.
I have done 3-years LL.B. India which is a common law country and I somehow personally feel I am eligible but not very sure. I talked to NY Bar Office who told me that they cannot say anything on phone and I must apply and submit my transcripts and in case I am found not eligib le they will tell me after reviewing my application. Applications deadline to sit in exam is approaching soon and I would like to know your experience and exercise based determination to know the result - whether I should apply or not.
Expect your help and your article which is missing.
Pl send the file again since the old file could not be opened.
I applied to NY Bar Examination Board for advance evaluation as per their rules and submitted the transcripts directly mailed by the Universities in India. I did three year LL.B. from Indian University with first division and LSAC (who determines eligibility for admission to LL.M. in USA) in their evaluation report classified me as having superior grade qualification. I also did LL.M. from India and LSAC confirms that it is equailent to USA law qualification.
Despite the above, NY Bar Examination Board declined to certify me as eligible to sit in NY Bar exam. When I talked to them on phone they told me that foreign law graduates from any Indian Universities are not eligible unless they complete additional 20 hours credit from ABA approved law school. They refused to entertain the suggestion of LSAC having certified otherwise and this gentleman told me that they do not get influenced with the evaluation report given by LSAC and they do their independent evaluation.
Can u guide me if I can qualify to sit in NY Bar Exam without LL.M. or additional 20 hours credit of ABA approved law school in USA.
I am in the boat and just planning to send documents to NY Bar Examination Board for evaluation. But as per your experience it would of no use. I think it is better to try for California bar.
Could you please let me know whether you had 3-years or 5-years law degree. I am law graduate from Delhi University (3-year LL.B.) and working in an Int'l firm outside India.
I had done 3-year Law degree after graduation in India. Can you please guide me on the work you might have done to research the requirements of Cal Bar Exam. I am an attorney enrolled with Indian Bar Council and I am told foreign attorneys are eligible to sit in Cal Bar Exam. Can you please tell me the total requirements and also their website address to know all details.
Thanks a lot for your update. I shall greatly appreciate to know more details. What is the process to get evaluation to appear in Cal Bar Exam and what all needs to be done to accomplish all this.
More importantly - are you taking any review classes or studying on your own. Can you advise what all study review material you are using.
Many many thanks indeed for such a quick and very informative response - much more than my expectations. Great.
What do you mean by "send Indian bar certificate and attorney card attested". How and where to get them attested. I am currently in USA on green card and I have ssn. I have all my certificates but how and where I get them attested. Will self attestation no do?
Thanks once again for all your guidance and look forward to your early response.
BTW what are the deadlines and whether it is possible to prepare and be also through in Feb exam, if there is any deadline available. Barbri classes starting on 5th Jan - what are the locations of their classes. Sorry for all this botheration - Just as a quick start help, I am requesting your help.
Whare are you in USA on H4 currently?
Many many thanks indeed for all this help. Can u pl give me your personal email at my personal email address of nri107@gmail.com.
I have seen your posts regarding eligibility for Indian lawyers to take NY Bar, do you have any updates? Can we appear with having B.A and LL.B degrees and enrolment with Indian Bar? Please let me know.
This is a answer that is much in demand. I did my LLB from NLSIU, India. Its the top ranked law school in my country. My course was 5 years long with BA and LLB award. Do you think NY would allow me?
I also have a 3-year LLB degree from India and want to appear for NY bar council exams but I havent taken any bar exam in India. So am I eligible to apply to NY bar council for bar examination?
I too have a three year LLB degree from India and I want to appear for the NY bar exam.
Im thinking of doing my LLM in the US.
Has anyone done something similar or thinking of it?
Any information or help is appreciated.


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The age of the skull of the earliest man found in Mongolia is determined
These bones, found in the northeastern part of Mongolia, in the Salkhit valley, today are considered the only fossil of the hominin of the Pleistocene epoch found on the territory of the country.
According to a new study by Oxford University, the skull of an ancient man, found in Mongolia and provoking a heated discussion, really belongs to the earliest of the modern people found in this region. Radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis showed that the only fossil hominin of the Pleistocene epoch, originally called Mongolanthropus, is in fact the remains of a modern man who lived about 34–35 thousand years ago.
The results of previous studies determined the age of samples rather blurry: from early to late Pleistocene. The Oxford team re-examined the skull and concluded that its owner lived 34,950-33 900 years ago. This is about 8,000 years older than the original radiocarbon dates obtained on the same sample. A study published in the journal Nature Communications.
In their work, scientists from Oxford used a new optimized technique for radiocarbon analysis of highly contaminated bones. This method is based on extracting only one of the amino acids from the collagen present in the bone. The researchers chose hydroxyproline (HYP), which accounts for 13% of the carbon in mammalian collagen. Dating this amino acid effectively removes modern contaminants from samples. The results of the analysis show that the age of this individual correlates with the early Upper Paleolithic era, which is usually associated with modern people.
Place of remains in the valley of Salkhit, Mongolia / © Institute of History and Archaeology & Academy of Sciences (Mongolia)
This result also indicated that a significant amount of dirt still remained in the sample during previous measurements. Additional analyzes, carried out in collaboration with scientists from the University of Pisa (Italy), confirmed that the sample was heavily contaminated with resin, which was used to cast the sample after its detection.
"Our study once again shows the enormous benefits of developing improved chemical methods for dating prehistoric material that was contaminated either at the site of the burial, or in a museum or laboratory for conservation. Reliable pre-processing of samples is crucial for building robust chronology in archeology, "says the first author of the article, Dr. Thibaut Devièse.
In addition, DNA tests were extracted from the bones, with the help of which scientists were able to reconstruct the complete mitochondrial genome of the sample, which also confirmed the view that the skull does indeed belong to modern humans. Work is continuing on the creation of nuclear DNA to learn more about the genetics of the skull.
"This mysterious skull has puzzled researchers for a long time. The combination of advanced science, including radiocarbon dating and genetics, has now shown that the remains belong to modern man, and the results fit perfectly into the archaeological data of Mongolia, which link contemporaries with the early Upper Paleolithic industry in this part of the Earth, "one of the authors of the study, Professor Tom Hyam


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GSK announces phase III results of mepolizumab for eosinophilic COPD
GlaxoSmithKline announced the publication of full results from the phase III studies for mepolizumab in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Data from the investigational clinical development program showed that treating eosinophilic COPD patients with the biologic medicine, mepolizumab, in addition to maximal guideline-recommended therapy, reduced exacerbations in these difficult-to-treat patients. Based on the full data, discussions with external experts and the recognized unmet medical need in this patient population, regulatory filings are planned for 2017. Mepolizumab is not approved for use anywhere in the world for COPD.
Results of the METREX and METREO studies, along with data from a pre-specified meta-analysis combining both studies, have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), with simultaneous presentation at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress 2017.
The studies were designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of mepolizumab as add-on therapy in the reduction of moderate to severe COPD exacerbations in patients at high risk of exacerbations and to identify the patients with COPD most likely to respond to treatment using blood eosinophils (a type of white blood cell known to play a role in some inflammatory diseases) as a biomarker. In addition, METREO investigated efficacy and safety at different doses of mepolizumab. Patients included in the studies had a history of frequent exacerbations, despite receiving optimal standard of care treatments, with the majority categorized as Stage D, patients with the most advanced disease, according to the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) guidelines.
Overall, COPD patients with blood eosinophil counts of >150 cells/µL at study entry or >300 cells/µL within the past year treated with add-on 100mg mepolizumab showed a consistent 18–20% reduction in the primary endpoint of annual rate of moderate and severe exacerbations.
The reduction in the frequency of exacerbations observed in the METREX study was statistically significant (18%, p=0.036 after multiplicity adjustment).
In METREO, the reduction was not statistically significant (20%, p=0.068 after multiplicity adjustment).
The pre-specified meta-analysis evaluated the association between screening blood eosinophil counts and treatment response. The analysis showed that rates of exacerbation reduction increased as blood eosinophil counts increased, signifying the relevance of blood eosinophils as a biomarker to help identify COPD patients most likely to respond to treatment with mepolizumab.
There was no evidence of greater treatment effect in patients treated with a higher (300mg) dose of mepolizumab investigated in the dose ranging METREO study. In the METREX study, patients with blood eosinophil counts of less than 150 cells/µL at the start of the study (i.e. patients with non-eosinophilic COPD) were not found to benefit from mepolizumab.
For the secondary endpoints, there was a statistically significant increase in the time to first moderate and severe exacerbation in METREX, with numerical, but not significant, increase in time to first exacerbation in METREO. There were no significant differences between mepolizumab and placebo in either study on the remaining secondary endpoints: annual rate of exacerbations requiring emergency department visit and/or hospitalization, St George's Respiratory Questionnaire score and COPD assessment test score.
Steve Yancey, Vice President and Medicine Development Lead for mepolizumab, GSK said: "We believe the data published today in the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrate the benefits of a personalized medicine approach in the treatment of COPD with mepolizumab, using blood eosinophils as a biomarker. Based on the clinically meaningful reductions in exacerbations shown in these studies, we plan to progress regulatory filings this year."
Professor Ian Pavord, University of Oxford said: "For people living with COPD, a sudden worsening of their symptoms, known as an exacerbation, causes them to struggle to breathe despite receiving the available guideline recommended treatment. For these patients, there are currently no other treatment options. When considering the challenges these patients face, the exacerbation reduction shown in the METREX and METREO studies is a clinically important outcome."
No new safety concerns to the known safety profile of mepolizumab were identified on review of the data from these studies. The proportion of patients experiencing adverse events and serious adverse events while receiving treatment was similar for mepolizumab and placebo. In the METREX study, the frequency of adverse events was 80% in the mepolizumab 100mg group and 82% in the placebo group, and the frequency of serious adverse events was 28% in the mepolizumab 100mg group and 31% in the placebo group. In the METREO study, the frequency of adverse events was 86% in the mepolizumab 100mg group, 87% in the mepolizumab 300mg group 82% in the placebo group, and the frequency of serious adverse events was 26% in the mepolizumab 100mg group, 27% in the mepolizumab 300mg group and 30% in the placebo group.
The phase III studies were multi-center, randomized, placebo controlled, double blind, parallel group design with treatment administered by subcutaneous (SC) injection every four weeks in COPD patients at high risk of exacerbations despite the use of optimal standard of care background therapy which employed inhaled triple therapy consisting of an inhaled corticosteroid (ICS), long-acting beta agonist (LABA) and long-acting muscarinic antagonist (LAMA). The total duration of the studies was approximately 62 weeks consisting of a 1-2 week screening period, 52-week treatment period and eight-week follow-up period.
The METREX study (117106) was designed to evaluate mepolizumab 100mg or placebo across a range of baseline blood eosinophil counts. Patients were stratified according to i) blood eosinophil count of >150 cells/µL at study entry or >300 cells/µL within the past year (higher eosinophil group) or ii) blood eosinophil count of <150 cells/µL at study entry and no evidence of >300 cells/µL within the past year. For the primary endpoint in patients with higher eosinophils, there was a statistically significant reduction in the frequency of moderate and severe exacerbations for mepolizumab 100mg compared to placebo (18%, p=0.036 after multiplicity adjustment).
The METREO study (117113) was designed as a dose-ranging study. Patients with a blood eosinophil count of >150 cells/µL at study entry or >300 cells/µL within the past year (higher eosinophil group) were randomized to receive mepolizumab 100mg, mepolizumab 300mg or placebo. For the primary endpoint in patients with higher eosinophils, a reduction in the frequency of moderate and severe exacerbations for mepolizumab compared to placebo was seen which was not statistically significant (20% for 100mg, p=0.068; 14% for 300mg, p=0.140 after multiplicity adjustment).
Moderate exacerbations were defined as those requiring treatment with systemic corticosteroids and/or antibiotics. Severe exacerbations were those requiring hospitalization or resulted in death.
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Those looking to work in Australia under a temporary visa may have to consider additional private health insurance, under changes made by the federal government.
The minister for immigration and citizenship Chris Bowen announced on Wednesday (November 2) that Australian businesses will able to seek accreditation qualifying them for sponsorship approval of six years rather than the current three.
The accreditation would also entitle the business to faster processing times for all future subclass 457 nominations.
Currently, 457 visa applicants must make arrangements for a minimum level of health insurance whilst in Australia, and must be maintained for the duration of the stay.
The new changes - set to commence November 7 - mean that visa holders will have the extra responsibility of increasing their private health cover for the addition 24 months.
According to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, use of the subclass 457 visa program is growing - with an increase of almost 40 per cent recorded since 2009-10.
The UK is the most popular source country, with 11,820 primary applicants granted visas.
At present, a 457 visa takes an average of 22 days to process.


Our group of 12 hikers did Thabana Ntlenyana on Saturday 4 March 2017. We slept at Sani Top Backpackers on Friday night and set off at 6am with 2 guides from the Lodge. The hike from the Lodge is 32kms there and back and took us just under 11 hours. It is not a technical hike, lovely scenery along the way – the altitude did get to a few of our party. We had bitterly cold conditions, driving rain and then full sunshine. You have about 8 river crossings, plus walk thru a lot of marsh and wetlands. Most enjoyable.
Use this relief map to navigate to mountain peaks in the area of Thabana Ntlenyana.


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Maud Cunnington (24 September 1869–28 February 1951).
Born in the latter part of the 19th century Maud Cunnington was, according to her biography, educated briefly at Cheltenham Ladies School, she went on to marry Benjamin Cunnington, who was a honorary curator at Devizes Museum and who also worked in his family's business. Amongst the many places they excavated, Woodhenge and The Sanctuary at Avebury stands out as sites of special importance. They excavated a late Neolithic henge at Woodhenge from 1926-1928. The site had been identified from the air in 1925 by O.S. Crawford and Alexander Keiller. What we see today of course are concrete pillars establishing where the large wooden posts would have been. In the centre is a small stone mound covering the grave of a young child of about three years old.
A small grave was found lying on the line of midsummer sunrise, and at slightly rounded ends, was only a foot deep in the chalk. In the Southern end, the grave being unnecessarily large for a burial lay the crouched skeleton of a child of about three years old. Owing to the decayed condition of the bones, many of them having disappeared all together, it was difficult to determine the exact position, but the body was turned towards the North-East i.e., to the rising sun at midsummer.
It will be seen from the plan that the line of sunrise falls across the Southern end of the grave, across the centre of the burial, though not through the centre of the grave.
A remarkable circumstance in connection with the skeleton is that the skull appears to have been cleft before burial. When the bones were first uncovered it was exclaimed "There must be two skeletons" because there appeared to be two skulls lying side by side, touching one another. But when the bones were removed they proved to be those of only one individual, and what looked like two skulls were actually the two halves of the same skull. It is a common thing to find a skull crushed in the ground, but there seems no way of accounting for its being found lying in two parts, unless it had been cleft before burial.
A slim man five feet seven inches tall all his teeth free from disease – but certain of his bones have not ceased growing. Wrist bones are finished so is knee and shoulder. Epiphyses of hip and shoulder blade are un-closed. Sagittal suture if fussed which makes him older than thirty-five -but other signs show him to be less than twenty-two. His face and appearance different to that of Bronze Age people.
Such judgement made in the early 20th century are reflections of that time, today's interpretation would probably be different. Mike Pitts in Hengeworld, stresses that the Cunningtons were not necessarily the best of archaeologists, Maud did not produce field notes for the important Sanctuary stone circle site, recorded by Stukeley but subsequently destroyed soon after.
She did though write a report to be published the following year, but as field notes are essential to interpretation of detail, such information is lost to later archaeologists. She also however, as in the case of Woodhenge, bought the land on which The Sanctuary stone circle was located, though it it is now under the ownership of English Heritage. She left in her estate £14,000 pounds to pay the salary of a curator at Devizes Museum.
Archaeology in the early 20th century was to be fair, still in the hands of people who had funds to privately excavate, Alexander Keiller comes to mind, his excavations at Windmill Hill and Avebury were funded by a 'marmalade empire'. He did not like Maud Cunnington, the feeling was mutual, but he was prepared to watch the Cunnington's excavations from afar, employing the same foreman as well. The Cunningtons were fascinated by the past, and we must be thankful for those antiquarians who were prepared to dig and delve, record and draw in past centuries; archaeology also had to undergo a 'growing up' period, developing along the way a purer form of sciences for the extraction of knowledge, but without those first pioneers there would be no information to build on in the present!
Information gleaned from Rideframe's blog.
Hengeworld by Mike Pitts. Published by Century in 2000.


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March 20, 2019 Award Shows / Emmy Talk with JWalk / Netflix
Emmy Talk with JWalk: Will Netflix Push the Final Season of "House of Cards"
House of Cards is an Emmys pioneer being the first online-only television series to earn a major Primetime Emmy nomination and award. It's been a perennial nominee since its premiere in 2013 garnering 46 nominations and 7 wins in categories for Cinematography, Directing, and Guest Actor in a Drama Series for Reg E. Cathey.
Even though the series has been nominated four time for Outstanding Drama Series (2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016), and its two main stars Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright have both been nominated five times each (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017) for Lead Actor and Actress, the show has failed to win any major awards.
House of Cards got caught up in Kevin Spacey's sexual abuse scandal of 2017 that lead to his firing from the show right as the sixth season was slated to start filming. After a month-long investigation, Spacey was fired from the show, bumping Wright to the lead.
Cards has always been an Emmy darling, but is Netflix going to put support behind this series after all its turmoil, especially with other series like Ozark and The Crown in contention for Outstanding Drama Series this year?
In my early predictions, I do have Robin Wright in the race for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. The Lead Actress race isn't packed this year, and being a five time nominee should help her get one last nomination. I don't think the Television Academy will reprimand her for Spacey's wrongdoings. Two-time Emmy nominee Diane Lane was also added to the final season of House of Cards, and if the show is going to get any nominations, I see her getting one in Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
The Emmys do have history of rewarding actors with nominations after having to deal with turbulent co-stars. Laurie Metcalfe was still nominated for Roseanne in 2018 after Roseanne went on her racial tirade that led to her firing (I also have Metcalfe in the race this year for The Conners). Another great example is Jon Cryer, who dealt with Charlie Sheen's meltdown on Two and a Half Men in 2011, and actually won the Emmy in 2012 after being bumped from Supporting to Lead Actor! While I don't think Wright will have the same luck has Cryer, I don't think she should be punished for Spacey's stain on the series.
2019 Emmy nominations will be announced Tuesday, July 16th, get ready for a lot of coverage leading to the final day as potential nominees heat up or cool off.
Don't forget, Follow TV Talk with JWalk on Twitter and Instagram to stay up to date on the latest TV and Emmy coverage!
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