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It is quite obvious that the CDR assesses the achievements, skills, qualifications and competencies of an engineer. This shows the assessors what you are worthy of and how important you can be to their economy.
Continuing Professional Development: A report of the workshops, conferences, and meetings attended as well as any accolades received.
Career Episodes: Three critical engineering episodes depicting your skills and technology and make you an asset for the company you join.
Summary: A detailed report related to the CDR which is the main part of the entire document.
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Read the booklet: The MSA booklet provides all the help, intricacy and guidelines on how to write a CDR with no errors. It explains the importance of each section in detail, the way it should be filled, the ideal word count and the correct format of each section, and the requisites needed to complete the application with emphasis on the do's and dont's.
Keep the Proofs: Make sure that you have authentic certificates, testimonials, and back up support for any the information you provide in the CDR. The absence of any document that you may be asked for may lead to rejection of your application and barring you to apply any further.
Don't Copy Paste: Avoid plagiarism and check your document thoroughly before submitting. However, sophisticated the English might be, you cannot use the sentences framed and published on the internet. If caught it becomes a big negative point on the side of the applicant.
Language: The application should be preferably published in Australian English and if not then in British English according to the guidelines of EA. However, Australian English is still preferred. American English cannot be used since the tone of the language makes it unfit for use in formal proceedings.
Career Episodes: One of the most important parts of a CDR is the Career Episodes which should highlight the top three most important episodes of your engineering career. These episodes must be able to showcase your technical and knowledge skills as well as your leadership qualities and efficiency as a risk manager and quality controller. This is the one section that gives you an opportunity to show your abilities and make yourself known of your worth as well as ensure your importance in whichever company you may join.
Continuing Professional Development: This is where you should provide a list of the workshops and seminars attended by you and build your graph in terms of knowledge acquired and still in the learning process to show your enthusiasm for the field. You must prepare it in a tabular form and keep to the word limit mentioning briefly about every workshop attended and the skills attained.
Health and Safety: You should also depict how you can get along with human and other resources in your job and deal with them in case of an emergency on the worksite.
No over description: You should keep the report within the word limit and avoid over description as it is not taken too well by EA authorities. You should provide crisp, clear and to the point data which shows your abilities which are depicted in the career episodes.
Highlight yourself: The CDR report must be strictly prepared in the first person and active voice. It should be about you and not about the team for the authorities would want to assess you on the application submitted by you. So, it does not require details of your team and the history of your company.
Design and fit for the job: Choose the subject you have qualified in and are applying and provide the required details instead of beating around the bush. Try to read the job requisites and what they are actually looking for so that you can project your skills and expertise properly so that they are able to assess you carefully.
If you can complete your CDR according to these 10 commandments, it is highly probable that you will be selected provided you fulfill all the details. Applications are rejected due to lack of attention to detail in the CDR, and poor presentation. You will get the chance to meet the authorities once, and you should ensure to make a one-time impression to be selected in the first chance. So, you should avoid any loophole and fill in the CDR report with prime importance.
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Whenever filling up the CDR, you must keep the following ten items in your Career Episode to ensure a positive selection.
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Exclusive: NBC Sets "American Ninja Warrior" Compilations for Saturday Nights Beginning February 2
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)
LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- NBC is going to revisit last summer's "American Ninja Warrior" before the franchise returns this summer.
Eight one-hour compilation episodes - which will include some never-before-seen footage - are set to roll out on Saturday nights at 8:00/7:00c beginning February 2, the network has confirmed to the site exclusively.
Said effort, hosted by Matt Iseman, will be distilled from the 27 hours that comprised the show's fourth season (13 on G4, 14 on NBC).
"American Ninja Warrior" is produced by A. Smith & Co. Productions and Lake Paradise Entertainment.
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Oxford Biotrans is a University of Oxford spin-out company supported by over 20 years of research by Dr Luet Lok Wong from the Department of Chemistry. The company will develop and commercialise enzymatic process technologies that yield high-value chemical compounds.
Our processes bring the following benefits:
Yield natural-grade products from natural feedstocks.
Offer security of supply by using readily-available feedstocks.
Realise production cost advantages, deriving from:
Selectivity and activity of our proprietary, bespoke biocatalysts.
Ability to use low-cost feedstocks.
They are environmentally friendly process that avoid the harsh reagents and conditions of many synthetic processes, thus producing less chemical waste and using less energy.
Moreover, we can provide routes to molecules not easily accessed by any other means due to the pronounced ability of our catalysts to functionalise positions of a molecular framework that would ordinarily be considered inactive.
Jason has over fifteen years' technology-SME experience with a focus on industrial catalysis and catalyst discovery as a director/VP of Avantium Technologies B.V. and hte AG.
Will Barton
Will has worked internationally up to Vice President level in the chemicals sector and most recently as COO for Oxford Catalysts, and at the Technology Strategy Board.
George is a Partner and co-Founder of Sloane Robinson LLP, an investment management business which invests in listed equities globally with a particular focus on Asian and Emerging Markets. Prior to that he worked for 15 years in Asia, initially for John Swire and Sons in Hong Kong, Korea and the Philippines, and then for Asian based stockbroker WI Carr in Korea, Thailand and Hong Kong where he was Director of Regional Research. George is an active investor in early stage technology and biotech companies with a particular focus on Oxford spin- outs, and is a founding Partner of Technikos, a private equity partnership which invests in spin-out companies from the Oxford Institute of Biomedical Engineering. He is an investor in a number of Oxford based companies and a partner of Oxford Investments Consultants LLP which advises the Oxford Technology and Innovations EIS Fund. He is an honorary fellow of Keble College, Oxford from where he graduated with an MA in Engineering Science, and is a member of Oxford University Endowment Investment Committee.
Daniel is an investment manager in the life sciences division at IP Group, he represents IP Group on the board of a number of portfolio companies. Prior to his time at IP Group Daniel worked at MRC Technology where he was responsible for in-licensing/out-licensing and sourcing for their drug discovery division. Daniel is trained as an immunologist, completing his PhD at the National Institute for Medical Research and also spent time working in assay development and in vivo pharmacology at Envigo.
James Mallinson
James is Director at Oxford Spin-Out Equity Management (OSEM). James joined Isis Innovation Ltd in April 2003 to manage the University's equity stakes in spin-out companies and joined Oxford Spin-out Equity Management (OSEM) on its formation in August 2008. Prior to Isis, James worked in the private equity group at Abbey National Treasury Services as a member of a team responsible for commitments of £1.9bn. He has also been a member of the Strategic Advisory Board of funds managed by Advent Venture Partners and Avlar BioVentures. James gained his first degree in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, following which he trained and worked as a software engineer, initially with Marconi Underwater Systems. He gained an MBA from Cranfield in 1990 and has over 17 years of experience in venture capital as both investor and adviser.
Luet Wong
Scientific Advisor
Luet is a University Lecturer in Chemistry and the EP Abraham Cephalosporin Trust Fellow and Tutor in Inorganic Chemistry at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford. He provides Oxford Biotrans with scientific and technical leadership.
Pip Harris
Pip has over 20 years' experience in office administration. Previous roles include Office & Facilities support for K3 Business Technologies, the Horticultural Trades Association and Carus Retail (formerly Quintek Systems).
Matthew Hodges
Director of Commercial Operations
Matthew has a background in molecular biology, having first received a BA in Biological Sciences, followed by a D.Phil from the University of Oxford. He subsequently spent 3 years at Mars & Co. Consulting where he worked across the FMCG, Life Sciences, Agrochemical, Auto and Aerospace industries in a broad range of commercial engagements, including corporate strategy, product strategy, commercial due diligence and valuation.
Mohamed Issouf
Fermentation Development & Scale-up Manager
Mohamed has over 11 years' experience working for start-ups/SMEs, leading scientific projects for the biotechnology industry. Previously Mohamed worked as senior scientist/ team leader at Aquapharm Biodiscovery Ltd in Scotland which was focused on the discovery and development of new natural products from marine micro-organisms. Mohamed holds an MSc in microbiology and biochemistry from the University of Luminy (Marseille).
Kouider Guerinik
Senior Scientist
Kouider has over 24 years experience in Biotechnology spanning diverse sectors: food, chemicals, environment and oil industries. Previously Kouider worked at Saudi Aramco's R&D centre on the application of Biotech to the oil industry, and at Unilever Research, where he worked on a number of bioconversion/biocatalytic processes.
Toni has over 20 years' experience in molecular biology and protein biochemistry gained in academic and pharmaceutical organisations. She has worked in the biocatalysis teams of Piramal Healthcare and Dr Reddy's Laboratories. Toni has a degree from Exeter University and a PhD from Queen Mary, University of London.
Rik Hallewell
PRD Manager
Rik has 16 years industrial experience and has previously worked for Oxford Asymmetry International, Evotec and Aptuit in the development and scale-up of API processes to cGMP. Rik has a degree and PhD in chemistry from the University of Salford, UK.
Donna Byrne
Donna graduated from the University of Bath in 2004, achieving an undergraduate Masters degree in Biochemistry. She has since worked in a number of roles in both academic and commercial settings, focusing largely on the overexpression and purification of recombinant proteins.
Jay Jetavat
Jay has over 8 years of biotech industry experience covering screening, upstream and downstream process development with process transfer from lab scale to large manufacturing scale fermentations. Jay has previously worked at Lallemand group, Aquapharm Biodiscovery Ltd, IFFCO and National Science Laboratory (Edinburgh) on varied roles. Jay is responsible for the scale up of P450 enzyme production process at Oxford Biotrans. Jay holds an MSc in Biomedical Sciences & Microbiology from the Edinburgh Napier University.
Scott Gourlay
Scott is currently responsible for the initial screening and development of new target products. This role involves all aspects of Upstream Development, Fermentation and Biocatalysis. Scott has obtained a BSc degree from the University of Glasgow, UK and a MSc in Industrial Biotechnology from the University of Strathclyde, UK in collaboration with the IBioIC. Scott previously worked at Croda, UK as part of the Fermentation and Biotechnology teams.
Matthew McDonald
Matthew is responsible for ensuring the scalability of processes, and bridging the gap between laboratory and plant scale work. Previously, Matthew was a process chemist at Robinson Brothers Ltd., where he led projects from concept through to plant synthesis, and was part of the group which received the GSK Innovation Award at the 2014 Chemical Industry Awards. Matthew holds an MSci in chemistry from the University of Birmingham, UK.
Sam is involved in the development of P450's biocatalytic properties and has 2 years previous experience at the Universities of Oxford and Hull, in fields of biotech research ranging from epigenetics to electrochemistry. He holds an MBiochem from the University of Oxford, UK.
Caitlin Armstrong
Caitlin joined the team in July 2016 after spending her Masters year working in the Wong group on P450 biotransformations with sesquiterpene compounds. She has recently graduated with an MChem from the University of Oxford.
Murray Meissner
Murray is a qualified Chemical Engineer who specialised in biocatalysis through postgraduate study. He has experience in P450 reaction design through an MSc (Eng) from the University of Cape Town, and has since completed a further MSc and PhD in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark under Prof. John Woodley. Murray is interested in pursuing and applying new reaction technologies to realise more efficient processes at Oxford Biotrans.
Our first product will be natural-grade nootkatone made by biotransformation of natural valancene.


Terry W. Fowler, 62, Gallitzin, died Saturday at UPMC Altoona.
He was born in Jacksonville, Fla., son of the late John and Doris (Lyons) (Fowler) Cope.
Surviving are his wife of 40 years, the former Sheila R. Cox; three children: Corey, Serrin and Brett; five grandchildren: Zane, Ty, Drake, Avery and newborn, Caliber; and two sisters: Peggy (Bobby) Carroll and Patsy Thomas.
He was preceded in death by his stepfather, Enos Cope; and a brother, Robert.
Friends will be received from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 1, 2018, at Gibbons Funeral Home, 301 Church St., Gallitzin. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 2, 2018, at St. Demetrius Catholic Church, Gallitzin, the Rev. Albert Ledoux, celebrant.


Massage therapy is recognised as one of the oldest methods of healing, It is the process of applying various techniques to the muscular structure and soft tissues of the body that include applying fixed or movable pressure, holding, vibration, rocking, friction, kneading and compression using primarily the hands, although massage therapists do use other areas of the body, such as the forearms, elbows or feet. All of the techniques are used for the benefit of the musculoskeletal, circulatory-lymphatic, nervous, and other systems of the body. In fact, massage therapy positively influences the overall health and well-being of the client.
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It is situated about 43 km east of Limbdi and 29 km south-west of Bavla.
Nearest airport is at Ahmedabad. Bavla Railway Station serves Bagodra.


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NAD Recommends Fillerina Skincare Products Discontinue Certain Product Performance Claims
Contact: Abby Hills, Director of Communications, BBB National Programs,
301.412.7769 / ahills@bbbnp.org
New York, NY – June 9, 2020 – Following an inquiry by the National Advertising Division (NAD), initiated as part of its routine monitoring program, NAD determined that Qf Systems, LLC did not substantiate certain express and implied claims for Fillerina Dermo-Cosmetic Replenishing Gel and Nourishing Film. Therefore, NAD recommended that the advertiser discontinue the claims "Boosted with a powerful blend of hyaluronic acids, this at-home skin care treatment fills in fine lines and wrinkles, revealing a more radiant complexion," "Fillerina Dermo-Cosmetic Filler Treatment Grade 2 corrects visible wrinkles and expression lines" (and similar express claims) and the implied claim that Fillerina removes lines and wrinkles similar to cosmetic procedures.
Fillerina Dermo-Cosmetic Replenishing Gel and the accompanying Nourishing Film are sold in containers which look like vials. Each treatment is applied by an instrument which looks like a syringe. NAD assessed the messages reasonably conveyed by the advertising and determined that images of the product vials and the accompanying syringe-like applicators alongside claims referring to the "filling in" or "plumping of wrinkles (including deep wrinkles)" and "adding volume to cheeks and lips," reasonably convey the message that the products confer benefits similar to cosmetic procedures which are designed to "fill in" wrinkles and "lift" sagging skin.
As support for its claims, the advertiser submitted a published study – the Nobile Study – conducted on Fillerina Dermo-Cosmetic Replenishing Gel and Nourishing Film as well as the Fillerina day and night creams and the eye/lip cream. NAD appreciated that the Nobile Study was double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled, and employed a sufficiently large sample size and appropriate test population (subjects with mild to moderate wrinkling).
However, NAD had concerns about other aspects of the study. NAD concluded that a two-week timeframe is not sufficient to determine any long-term benefits of the Replenishing Gel and Nourishing Film as touted on the Fillerina website (e.g., results will last for "up to 4 months"). Further, NAD noted that even if the effects reported in the study were shown to be statistically significant (which they were not), there is no evidence suggesting that the magnitude of these effects is noticeable by consumers, let alone consumer meaningful or to the degree reasonably implied by claims such as "fills in fine lines and wrinkles" or "corrects visible wrinkles and expression lines." The units of measure for certain parameters are incredibly small (e.g., micrometers, cubic millimeters), and no context is provided as to how big a measurement difference must be for it to be perceived by the naked eye.
For all these reasons, NAD determined that the Nobile Study was not a good fit for the challenged claims. However, NAD noted that nothing in its decision prevents the advertiser from making claims that match the results of the study—e.g., that Fillerina "improves the appearance of chrono-aged skin in subjects showing mild-to-moderate clinical signs of skin aging."
In its advertiser's statement, Qf Systems stated that it will comply with NAD's recommendations by making claims for Fillerina that match the results of the Nobile Study. Further, the advertiser stated that "in advertising Fillerina, QF Systems will refer to the results of Dr. Nobile's study and in general to consumer satisfaction. With the will to comply with NAD recommendations, however, Qf Systems wants to stress its confidence in Fillerina products, supported by countless proofs of satisfaction from its users."
About the National Advertising Division: The National Advertising Division (NAD), a division of BBB National Programs, provides independent self-regulation and dispute resolution services, guiding the truthfulness of advertising across the U.S. NAD reviews national advertising in all media and its decisions set consistent standards for advertising truth and accuracy, delivering meaningful protection to consumers and leveling the playing field for business.
About BBB National Programs: BBB National Programs is where businesses turn to enhance consumer trust and consumers are heard. This independent, non-profit organization enhances trust, innovation, and competition in the marketplace through the development and delivery of cost-effective, third-party self-regulation, dispute resolution, and accountability programs. BBB National Programs' 10 leading industry self-regulation and dispute resolution programs resolve business issues of national and international importance, and fosters industry best practices in truth-in-advertising, child-directed marketing, data privacy, and dispute resolution. To learn more about industry self-regulation, visit bbbprograms.org.


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The Troublesome Message of Taming a Woman in 'Tater Tot & Patton'
The dynamic in Andrew Kightlinger's Tater Tot & Patton, wherein it falls on a troubled middle-aged man to teach a young woman how he thinks she ought to behave, is concerning.
TIFF 2018: Endzeit (Ever After)
Endzeit joins Annihilation in challenging us to embrace the end of our world.
TIFF 2018: 'Greta'
Neil Jordan's latest thriller, Greta, doesn't make sense -- but it's a wild ride.
TIFF 2018: 'Vox Lux'
Brady Corbet's Vox Lux is a horror movie about the link between hedonism and explosive violence in the 21st century. Don't let anyone tell you differently.
TIFF 2018: Papi Chulo
Papi Chulo's heart is in the right place. The problem is, from the Latino perspective, the "friendship" in this story could be the basis of a horror movie.
TIFF 2018: Teen Spirit
Max Minghella's first feature film, Teen Spirit, has two really good music videos -- and some confused ideas about mentorship.
Hannah Gadsby's 'Nanette' Makes Us Realize the Present Tense
Hannah Gadsby's acclaimed Netflix special is a cultural milestone not only because it demands a better future, but because it teaches us about the present moment and where we might go next.
Propoganda Isn't About Trying to Fool You
Lee McIntyre's 'Post-Truth' is a history lesson and a call to action asking liberals to defend the concept of objective truth. But is it the best approach to the problem?
Power and Misogyny in 'Red Sparrow'
Red Sparrow isn't a great spy thriller, but it's a fascinating take on women fighting for control over their own bodies.
What 'Annihilation' Shows Us about the Future of Serious Nerd Movies
Contrary to Alex Garland's disappointment that Paramount sold his film to Netflix, it might be a good thing for film nerds.
TIFF 2017: Woman Walks Ahead
This film confuses different types of oppression, and seems to propose that people who've experienced misogyny are uniquely qualified to understand racism and vice versa.
TIFF 2017: High Fantasy
High Fantasy presents a brilliant take on the sci-fi body-switching genre, transforming a device that's usually used for laughs into one that uncovers deeper truths about the complex nature of identity.
TIFF 2017: What Will People Say
The culture clash in What Will People Say is manifest in a life-and-death difference between interpretations of defiance.
Disaster and Individualism in 'Game of Thrones'
Game of Thrones trades in everything good and bad about nations and realms for everything good and bad about pure individualism.


Coral Al Ahsa Hotel is perfectly located for both business and leisure guests in Al Ahsa. Both business travelers and tourists can enjoy the hotel's facilities and services. 24-hour room service, free Wi-Fi in all rooms, 24-hour security, daily housekeeping, chapel are there for guest's enjoyment. Comfortable guestrooms ensure a good night's sleep with some rooms featuring facilities such as television LCD/plasma screen, internet access – wireless, internet access – wireless (complimentary), non smoking rooms, air conditioning. Entertain the hotel's recreational facilities, including fitness center, sauna, massage, steamroom. Coral Al Ahsa Hotel is an excellent choice from which to explore Al Ahsa or to simply relax and rejuvenate.
Top quality hospitality. Friendly staffs. Cooperative Staff.
There are plenty of car parking. Location is very good. Free parking.
Oven not functioning. Kettle not working. A/C controller was not working.
Poor internet. Wifi stopped working.
Noisy hotel inside. No facilities.


After 13 years, a beer brand finally answered an iconic music challenge in a disruptive campaign focused on relevant content and brand experience.
Beck's, always a party starter, an innovator, a catalyst for great experiences and a supporter of great music and concerts, set its mind to continue its tradition of being present in people's life for the 1st of May event. They wanted a campaign focused on the music pillar that will also include a BTL activation in Vama Veche able to distinguish the brand from the tons of activations carried on by nearly everybody.
Knowing that 1st of May is a battle for people's attention, we figured out that Beck's could not win this battle only by offering them the usual cold price cuts. The brand needed a campaign that would approach people in a natural and unobtrusive way and would establish a stronger emotional bond with them. A campaign that would also have a social impact under the new brand statement "Unlock your future".
The inspiration for solving this strategy came from O.C.S., one of the oldest and still most popular Romanian rock bands for the past two decades that had an emblematic song in 2004 named "2ouă Beri Goale" (2 Empty Beers), a song that pretty much summarizes party spirit in Vama Veche. After 13 years from the release, the song was still played at the Romanian radio stations thus maintaining it very popular among young people (18-35 y.o.).
But what's so special about this song and what does it have to do with Beck's you may wonder. Well, the original song chorus sounded like a challenge: "I'll give 2 empty beers for a full one / Who's up for the trade?" ("Dau două beri goale pentru una plină / Cine se combină?"). Well, for all these years, nobody never answered this question. So, why not Beck's be the beer brand that really answers this iconic calling and accepts the trade?
We partnered up with the band (OCS) and, together with them, Beck's launched the "Unlock your future song" campaign with 3 phases in which the brand re-launched this emblematic song (under the name 2.0 Beri Goale / 2.0 Empty Beers) making it the new anthem for the future summer parties and also gave people the chance to trade 2 empty beers for a full one.
First, Beck's launched a teasing campaign on its digital assets to announce a surprise that will be revealed during the 1st of May OCS concert in Vama Veche.
Then, Beck's organized a seaside concert where the band launched a new version of the song alongside with a cool brand activation that answered the song challenge: for every 2 empty cans inserted in one of the Beck's collecting points people got a full Beck's can. The fun part is that the empty cans were really recycled, thus making Beck's not only a cool brand but a responsible one.
After the concert, Beck's also launched a new music video for the song to capture the new 2.0 party spirit in Vama Veche. The song became the new anthem of the summer.


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I was going to suggest marrying the girlfriend and moving in with her, but read back that this was a rental.
If so, there could be significant expense to get consent for any changes.
Should be easily argued as creating potential confusion to the public.
I expect a complaint to the registrar will result in a transfer to the actual brexit party.
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Why Nobody Eats Chicken On Christmas
Long ago the only chickens in the world lived with Santa at the North Pole. He was a nice old guy and the chickens felt safe with him. Plus, the baby chicks got the first pick of Santa's presents.
One Christmas Eve, Santa trudged through the deep snow, past his bright, red sled, over-flowing with presents, toward the barn. It was time to harness his reindeer for the long night of leaving presents for all those good little boys and girls (and the naughty ones, too. If it must be known, to Santa all little boys and girls are good.).
When he opened the barn door, he saw the most shocking sight of his life. Dancer wasn't dancing; he was lying on the floor, licking ice-cream off of his nose! Prancer wasn't prancing; he was on the floor next to Dancer, crunching on Christmas cookies! Blitzen's head was inside the freezer and Santa could heard loud slurping!
Rudolf's bright red nose was no longer bright or red because it was covered with chocolate icing. When he saw Santa, he opened his mouth as if to say "Merry Christmas!", but what came out was a loud "B-u-u-ur-r-p-p-p-p!", followed by a moan.
"What happened here?!!" yelled Santa. The reindeer froze.
"What happened here?!!" Blitzen yelled at Dancer. Dancer froze.
"What happened here?!!" Dancer yelled at Donner. Donner froze.
"What happened here"!!" Donner said to Rudolf. Rudolf burped again.
That's when Santa noticed that the plates and bowls, the ones his elves had filled with Christmas cookies and cake, were strewn all around the barn – empty!!!
And, and at the feet of every reindeer was at least one empty ice cream carton!
The reindeer moaned and rubbed their tummies.
There was no way they could possibly pull his sleigh tonight. How would all those children get their Christmas presents?! Oh No!!! He rushed out of the barn.
And immediately tripped over Charlie Chicken.
Now, chickens in those days had no red topknots and no red beards. In fact, they were just chubby birds covered with white feathers, so white, they looked like the snow.
Which explains why Santa didn't see Charlie Chicken.
And instead of three toes, chickens only had one, which was flat and slipped in snow.
Which is what happened when Charlie tried to get out of Santa's way.
"O-o-o-o-f-f-f" went Santa. "O-o-o-o-f-f-f!" went Charlie Chicken.
'What's wrong?" Charlie said as they got up.
"Oh my!" said Santa as they got up. "The reindeer ate all the ice cream and cookies and cake. Now they're too sick to pull my sleigh!"
Well, Charlie Chicken didn't hesitate. He put one of his stubby little wings on Santa's shoulder and asked just one question: "How do reindeer fly?"
"Oh no, that's a secret, Charlie, a very secret secret. I couldn't reveal that. Goodness…that's part of the magic of Christmas for all those little boys and girls."
Charlie pointed at the other chickens, "Chickens like the magic of Christmas too, Santa."
Santa looked around to make sure no one was watching. He told all the chickens to close their eyes. Then he sprinkled snow on Charlie and twelve of the biggest chickens in the flock, shouted "Merry Christmas!" three times, and told them to flap their wings. Hard.
They suddenly left the ground in all directions.
"Yippee!" "Look out! here I come!" "Oops, sorry Santa".
Once they had "found their wings". Santa harnessed them to his sled, with Charlie in Rudolf's spot, and told them to get a running start.
They ran as hard as they could, and… and went… nowhere.
"We have no traction!" said Charlie Chicken.
"You have no traction! " said Santa. And then, "Oh! I can fix that!"
Santa took his whip and, ever so lightly, flicked it at the feet of each of the twelve chickens. There was a slight puff of snow and suddenly each foot had, not one toe, but three – three very sharp toes, perfect for gripping snow and ice.
"On Charlie Chicken! On… uh… the rest of you guys!", yelled Santa, and off they went, up into the sky, as fast and straight as the reindeer ever went.
The presents, every one, were delivered to children all around the world, just as they had been with reindeer. And not a single child saw Charlie or any other chicken, which made the reindeer happy.
Charlie and the chickens, too.
To thank Charlie and the other chickens, Santa gave them souvenirs of the trip: spiky red hats, and floppy little red scarves, which, along with the three toes, have been part of chickenhood ever since.
And that's how Charlie Chicken saved Christmas and why no-one – EVER – eats chicken on Christmas.
(If you like this, pass it on. If you don't, pass it on anyway. Why should you suffer alone?)
Author HenryPosted on December 22, 2019 December 23, 2019
Jenna's Gifts
I am writing this story on Jenna's 73rd birthday, but it's not about the gifts she received. It's about the gifts she gave to two very lucky people.
The story starts last August, at a sprawling house on the Hudson River. A woman with a high-pressure job is visiting her mother and step-father. She sees him wandering the house, sighing.
He has just learned his ex-wife, Jenna, has cancer. Incurable cancer. Because he is a retired doctor, the woman doesn't try to ease his anxiety by questioning the "incurable" part. Instead she asks about the path cancer takes when it takes someone down. He describes "Loop Ileostomy Surgery" and colostomy bags, unpredictable medical costs, pain, and hospice services.
She knows of Jenna, who had once acted on and off Broadway, but like most in that career, was not wealthy. So, after the divorce she tried other careers, even starting a doll-making company, but that failed, too. Now, like many older people with few means, she lives, without complaint, in a rented room, supported by Social Security and food stamps.
Jenna is in a short-term post surgery rehab, but can't go back to her room because there is no one to nurse her, much less help her with the stairs.
"What am I doing?" the stepfather says to no one. "I don't know where she'll live, how she'll survive."
There is a brother, a Viet Nam vet, but he and his wife work full time while caring for his dementia-ridden mother-in-law. There is a son, who is married with three children in a 5000 square foot house, but has been silent about helping.
Pretty grim story, huh.
Actually, no.
The woman walks outside to her mother. "I'm taking care of Jenna", the woman says. "She's moving to my house."
Her mother and stepfather point out the obvious: she's never even seen an colostomy bag, much less emptied one, she travels extensively for her job, she's volunteering to see and feel a lot of pain.
The stepfather and brother thank her profusely. They, and the son, insist on paying for any medical or hospice services.
She picks up Jenna on Sept. 3. Instead of just grim, the next three months are also fun. They play Cole Porter CD's and Jenna sings. They talk. They watch movies, like Showboat and All About Eve.
"Adam Sandler's 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan' made her laugh so hard!" the woman says, also laughing.
They dance – sort of. "Walkers aren't called walkers for nothing".
She and Jenna "youtube" how to change a "colostomy apparatus". She laughs at the memory. "You should have seen us!"
She asks her son, who is at college 45 minutes away, if he'll help when she travels. "Absolutely". And he, too, masters the 30 minute colostomy procedure.
"Jenna had never had a dog," she says. "From that first day, my Huskie never left her side."
Over the next three months, the 72 year old and 49 year old talk about everything from religion to politics to dogs and kids to acting and singing. There is caretaking and mentoring. There is pain, but also a unique connection.
The brother calls every day.
As Jenna fades, the woman lifts her in and out of bed, spoon feeds her, carries her to and from the bathroom.
But cancer's path is unaffected.
"When I asked to give her morphine she said 'I'm not going to spend my last days on drugs,'" says the woman. "I didn't know what to do." She pauses. "Eventually I got tougher and convinced her, which made those last days easier."
Where were the promised hospice nurses and services? "Medicare only provides five hours a week for the last few weeks," she says. "My son and I did the rest."
The brother? "paid for medical costs and a nurse for part of the last few days."
The stepfather, the son?
"I don't want any hard feelings."
Jenna leaves her cancer the Monday before Thanksgiving.
And the gifts? "I knew there would be pain. I didn't expect so much laughter, her life stories, her wisdom. I learned so much about her, about me, about friendship, about the man my son will be." She stops for a moment. "About what elders have to give us if we'd just let them. About what family should be – but isn't – in this country."
Yesterday, over 60 people attended a celebration of Jenna's life, then went back to their lives. Today, Jenna's 73rdbirthday, the woman and her son celebrate their own lives, too, forever changed because of Jenna's gifts.
Are Democrats Losing The Impeachment Battle?
Bill Clinton was impeached in the 90's, not for oral sex from an intern, although that was the real issue, but for lying under oath. He defended himself in the Senate and eventually won. Why? Because the country – not to mention the Senate – didn't think a married man getting oral sex from an intern was grounds for removal of – at that time – a pretty effective President.
("OK, the lie was bad", a friend of mine said at the time, "but look at what he lied about. Come on!")
I didn't realize it at the time, but that whole impeachment process was not just judicial, with witnesses and lawyers and the Supreme Court Justice. Nope, it was a PR fight, too, and Clinton had won.
He established a campaign war room that applied a "leave-no-attack-unanswered" strategy. Even though he did, in fact, lie under oath, he convinced the public to give him a pass. And they convinced their Senators to give him a pass.
The Republicans didn't know what hit them.
But they learned. Today, they are applying the same strategy. Trump has hired former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and former Treasury Department spokesman Tony Salegh to direct impeachment communications.
They have been immediately effective.
Republicans and their surrogates- during TV and radio shows, in Congressional hearings, or newspaper interviews – use the same exact lines over and over again: "the process is unfair", "no quid pro quo", "no direct evidence", "it's a rush to judgment", "let the courts decide", and "they're trying to undo the 2016 election."
The Democrats, meanwhile, continue plodding through the legal requirements of Impeachment, referring to Republicans in formal, even cordial terms, and maintaining "decorum".
That worked against Nixon in the 70's, but today there is Fox News, Social Media, and podcasts reaching out to a populace that doesn't trust lawyers or Congress.
What the Democrats should do is what Trump is doing: fight for the hearts and minds of the public. Because if anyone or anything will sway Republican Senators, it will be the public.
One small example: Congressional Democrats refer to their opponents in respectful and formal tones as "the Minority", the time honored way to reference them. Republicans refer to their opponents, not as the "Majority", but as "Democrats". Their tone is disparaging and dismissive. The message: Democrats are bad guys, the enemy.
Democrats need their own PR team. They need a multi-media strategy unrelentingly focused on Trump's bribery, obstruction of Justice, abuse of power, and anything else they can throw at him. They need surrogates trumpeting it in every corner of the media world.
While their PR team is pursuing that strategy, the Congressional Committees should subpoena every person Trump ordered not to testify. When they ignore the subpoenas, the Committees should take every one to court.
Yes, those cases may stretch into the spring. Yes, they will invariably end up at the Supreme Court, which could rule well into the fall campaign.
"Oh, Golly! We can't have that!", say the Democrats. "If we do, Trump will accuse us of trying to influence voters and the election!"
So what? Isn't goal removing Trump from the Presidency? Would they rather rely on hearings to convince a public already tired of hearing about the hearings?
A sensible, rules-driven impeachment, the kind imagined by the Founding Fathers, is no longer possible. Trump has infused Clinton's strategy with steroids, turning a sober presentation of facts into a no-holds barred barroom brawl.
As you read this, Trump's lawyer, Rudy Guiliani, is in Ukraine, finishing a multi-part "documentary", really a PR piece, supporting the thoroughly debunked theory of Ukraine interference in the 2016 election and continuing to smear Joe Biden. That bit of propaganda will probably air right in the middle of the Senate trial.
Are the Democrats ready to counter that? I doubt it.
This whole thing reminds me of a scene in "Raiders of The Lost Arc". Harrison Ford is being challenged to a sword fight by a bad guy. The bad guy waves his sword in a menacing manner, whereupon Ford draws, not a sword, but a pistol, and shoots the guy. He changes the rules. End of problem.
Every leading Democrat, from Pelosi, to Schumer, to Schiff, to Nadler would do well to watch that scene.
When Does A Lie Matter?
The House Judiciary Committee will meet this week on the Impeachment "Inquiry". They asked President Trump to attend, maybe even testify as a star witness. As you might imagine, Trump considered it. ("Wow! A star! The ratings would be boffo!")
His lawyers were pretty sure he'd be caught lying to Congress. So, the star declined.
Jeez, poor Democrats! Just can't get the ratings.
There are various estimates of the total number of lies told by Trump since he got elected. But most are above 10,000 or more. His supporters are not bothered by them; his opponents are very bothered by them.
Here's the Merriam Webster definition of a lie: "marked by or containing untrue statements: FALSE".
And here are a few examples – in no particular order – from the last few years.
November 21, 2019 – "Today I opened a major Apple Manufacturing plant in Texas that will bring high paying jobs back to America." (Fact: The plant opened in 2013.)
October 16, 2019 – "The Kurds are much safer now." (Fact: Scores of Kurds have been killed, thousands displaced since U.S. withdrawal.)
June 5, 2018 – Philadelphia Eagles players stayed "in the locker room for the playing of our national anthem" or "were kneeling". (Fact: None of the Eagles kneeled.)
October 16, 2019 – speaking about immigration cases, Trump said, "We have thousands of judges." (Fact: There are around 400 immigration judges in 63 courts.)
April 22, 2018 – North Korea has "agreed to denuclearization" (Fact: They haven't agreed.)
December 11, 2017- "Black homeownership just hit the highest level it has ever been in the history of our country." (Fact: It's fallen almost yearly since 2004.)
March 3, 2019 – "The FBI said (former national security advisor Michael Flynn) wasn't lying. " (Fact: Flynn admitted to lying.)
January 21, 2017 – "A reporter for Time magazine — and I have been on their cover 14 or 15 times. I think we have the all-time record in the history of Time magazine." (Fact: Trump was on the cover 11 times, Nixon 55 times.)
February 7, 2017 – "And yet the murder rate in our country is the highest it's been in 47 years, right? Did you know that? Forty-seven years." (Fact: It was higher in the 1980's and 90's.)
February 16, 2017 – "We got 306 because people came out and voted like they've never seen before so that's the way it goes. I guess it was the biggest Electoral College win since Ronald Reagan." (Fact: George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama – all won bigger margins.)
February 24, 2017 – "Obamacare covers very few people — and remember, deduct from the number all of the people that had great health care that they loved that was taken away from them — it was taken away from them." (Fact: Obamacare increased coverage by a net of about 20 million.)
May 5, 2017 – "We pay the highest taxes anywhere in the world." (Fact: Belgium and at least 14 others pay higher income tax rates.)
January 26, 2017 – At the GOP retreat on Jan. 26, Trump saidthat Philadelphia's murder rate is "steady, I mean just terribly increasing." (Fact: The homicide rate in Philadelphia has been steadily declining over the past decade.)
July 25, 2017 – "We have nearly doubled the number of veterans given approvals to see the doctor of their choice." (Fact: The increase was 26 per cent.)
In today's world, with lies flying all around us from big pharma, big oil, big chem, big…whatever – does it even matter? So, one excuse for Trump is, "Get over it! It's all around us."
But you know where it isn't? At the ground level, where you and I and most Americans live. Whether conservative or liberal, we rarely lie to each other, and if we do, it isn't in excess of 3000 times a year.
It's because of something most Americans – really most peoples – share: the need to trust each other. And our leaders.
And that does matter.
Author HenryPosted on December 3, 2019 December 3, 2019
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'I've got nothing left': Unending grief of COVID-19 deaths causing problems for some
Updated: 5:40 AM CDT Jul 7, 2021
By JAY REEVES, Associated Press
>> THE LATEST MEMORY THAT I HAVE OF MY FATHER WAS MY MOM'S 80TH BIRTHDAY PARTY. >> MICHELLE PEPE OF SHARRON RECALLING ONE OF THE BETTER DAYS SHE AND HER FATHER BERNIE RUBIN SHARED A YEAR AGO MARCH. IT WAS AT THIS FAMILY GATHERING IN FLORIDA. >> HE WAS SO HAPPY. HE HAD ALL OF HIS GRANDCHILDREN AND HIS ONE GREAT GRAND CHILD AND HE WAS BEAMING. SADLY THOUGH, SHORTLY AFTER THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN, MICHELLE WOULD CONTRACT COVID 19. SO WOULD HER DAD. >> I GOT SICK ON THE 20TH. MY FEVER BROKE ON THE 28TH. I GOT THE CALL FROM THE AID THAT HE COUGHED UP A LITTLE BLOOD. AND I SAID HOW SICK ARE YOU? HE SAID I'M FINE, I'M FINE. >> BERNIE WASN'T FINE. THE GREGARIOUS FURNITURE FAMILY MAN WOULD PASS JUST 20 DAYS LATER - ALONE IN FLORIDA HOSPITAL. >> ALONE, AND HE SUFFERED. HE SUFFERED. HE COULDN'T EVEN GET A DRINK OF WATER BECAUSE THEY HAD TO SUIT UP. >> MICHELLE SAYS SHE CARRIED A CRUSHING SENSE OF GUILT THINKING THAT SHE MAY HAVE PASSED THE DEADLY VIRUS ON TO HER DAD. ONLY BY LEANING ON HER FAITH AND A JEWISH PRAYER FOR MOURNING WAS SHE ABLE TO REACH THE OTHER SIDE OF GRIEF. >> YA, EVERY MORNING I WOULD SAY THE MOURNER'S KADESH. I DID THAT FOR A YEAR. >> MICHELLE ALSO FOUND SOLACE IN SUPPORT GROUPS MADE UP OF THOSE WHO ALSO LOST LOVED ONES TO THE PANDEMIC. >> WE'RE A FAMILY. WE SHARE SOMETHING THAT NOBODY COULD OR SHOULD UNDERSTAND. >> AND THAT'S WHY MICHELLE IS SHARING HER FAMILIES HEART BREAKING STORY. TO MAKE PEOPLE AWARE OF EFFORTS LIKE THE YELLOW HEART PROJECT. A REMINDER THAT AS WE TRAVEL DOWN THE ROAD TO REOPENING THERE ARE SO MANY FAMILY THAT ARE STILL SUFFERING. >> IF YOU SEE A YELLOW HEART, THAT MEANS THAT SOMEONE WAS LOSS TO COVID. SO YOU KNOW A STICKER ON YOUR CAR WHAT EVER IT IS I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW YELLOW HEARTS ARE COVID MEMORIALS. IT'S MORE PEOPLE THAN YOU THINK. >> MICHELLE ALSO WANTS FOLKS TO KNOW THAT THE LARGEST SUPPORT GROUP IS AN ORGANIZATION CALLED COVID SURVIVORS FOR CHANGE. FOR MORE INFORMATION, WE HAVE A LINK ON OUR WEBSITE, WCVB.COM. IN SHARON, I'M DOUG MEEHA
Video above: Daughter shares battle with grief, guilt after dad's COVID-19 deathKelly Brown's 74-year-old father got sick first with COVID-19, followed by her 71-year-old mom just two days later. John and Judy Trzebiatowski died of the illness just a week apart last August, sending Brown into a black tunnel of grief that doesn't seem to have an end.Health restrictions stripped away the things that normally help people deal with death, such as bedside visits at the Wisconsin hospital where they were treated and a big funeral with hugs and tears, she said. That left Brown to deal with her sorrow on her own, and now she's having a hard time seeing a way forward.With more than 605,000 dead of COVID-19 in the United States and nearly 4 million worldwide, Brown is among the thousands or more who could be experiencing prolonged grief, the kind of mourning that experts say can prevent people from moving beyond a death and functioning normally again."It's the most horrible thing to have to go through," said Brown. "I would not wish this upon anyone."Natalia Skritskaya, an expert on grieving, said it's too early to say whether prolonged grieving, also known as complicated grief, will be a major complication from the pandemic — it isn't yet over, with thousands still dying daily worldwide, including hundreds in the United States. Many mourners have yet to pass the one-year anniversary of a loss, and few studies have been published so far on the psychiatric fallout, she said.But prolonged grief is both real and potentially debilitating, said Skritskaya, a research scientist and clinical psychologist with the Center for Complicated Grief at Columbia University in New York. She noted that it can be treated with therapy in which participants talk through their experience and feelings."The core of it is kind of helping people face the reality of what happened," she said. "It's not an easy treatment. It's intense."Jerri Vance said therapy has helped her deal with grief since her husband, James Vance, a retired police officer in Bluefield, West Virginia, died of COVID-19 on New Year's Day, but she worries about their two young daughters."Seeing my kids' grief adds to my pain," she said. "One of my kids isn't making much progress in therapy because her daddy was her person. She is still mad at the world."A study published in the fall predicted a likely increase in cases of prolonged grief linked to the pandemic. Already, people who lost loved ones to COVID-19 are filling social media pages with stories of tears and sadness that just won't go away.Many cite the loss of typical end-of-life rituals for their continual grieving; some struggle because of the unexpectedness and seeming unfairness of the coronavirus. The politicization of the pandemic is a thorn for many who constantly see and hear some argue against what health experts say are life-saving practices including vaccinations, mask wearing and social distancing."In my office I listen all day to unsolicited opinions and try not to engage, as it is unprofessional," said Betsy Utnick, whose father, Sheldon Polan of Selden, New York, died in April 2020. She said she still cries every day because the grief has yet to subside.Noreen Wasti knows the feeling. She lost her father to the illness caused by the coronavirus on Dec. 27 and is having a hard time going on.Wasti, who writes and creates online content in New York, said she's unsure what it will take to get over the loss of Salman Wasti, 76, a retired biology professor from Glocester, Rhode Island."This has been the first time I've lost someone so dear to me, so I never had a map for grief nor really understood the magnitude. I always thought you're sad for a few months and then you're OK. I was so wrong," she said. "It hits in waves and those waves feel as severe as the day we lost him."With so many people hurting and little personal interaction for months because of pandemic health restrictions, social media has become the place where many connect to share stories of loved ones and loss. One private Facebook page dealing with COVID-19 losses has more than 10,000 members, and continuing grief is a constant thread of discussion.Rabia Khan has found solace online since the death on Thanksgiving Day of her father, Pakistani activist Muhammad Hameedullah Khan of Chicago. In survivor and family groups, she said, the grieving don't face insensitive questions about how a loved one contracted the virus or why someone wasn't careful enough to avoid it.Aside from sharing stories online of her late boyfriend Ben Schaeffer, a New York subway conductor and historian, Lisa Smid has tried to redirect her anguish into something positive. She sponsored an online lecture at the New York Transit Museum and plans to honor his legacy by endowing more memorial lectures."I like being able to have an event to look forward to at which I'll have an acceptable outlet for my grief as I move forward with my own life," she said.Ann Haas of St. Paul, Minnesota, is still trying to find some sort of outlet as she mourns, but work keeps bringing her back to the worst day of her life.Haas lost her father, Raymond Haas, to COVID-19 on Nov. 11 and works in the laundry at the same Veterans Affairs hospital where he spent his final days. Haas said memories keep flooding back each time she folds a tan blanket like the one that covered him while he was fighting to live."'I wish other people could see what this does to people. I hear people saying, 'This isn't real, it's nothing,'" Haas said between sobs. "I've got nothing left. I don't know if it's going to take them losing someone to understand."
Video above: Daughter shares battle with grief, guilt after dad's COVID-19 death
Kelly Brown's 74-year-old father got sick first with COVID-19, followed by her 71-year-old mom just two days later. John and Judy Trzebiatowski died of the illness just a week apart last August, sending Brown into a black tunnel of grief that doesn't seem to have an end.
Health restrictions stripped away the things that normally help people deal with death, such as bedside visits at the Wisconsin hospital where they were treated and a big funeral with hugs and tears, she said. That left Brown to deal with her sorrow on her own, and now she's having a hard time seeing a way forward.
With more than 605,000 dead of COVID-19 in the United States and nearly 4 million worldwide, Brown is among the thousands or more who could be experiencing prolonged grief, the kind of mourning that experts say can prevent people from moving beyond a death and functioning normally again.
"It's the most horrible thing to have to go through," said Brown. "I would not wish this upon anyone."
These areas in the US have officials concerned as COVID-19 cases increase
Natalia Skritskaya, an expert on grieving, said it's too early to say whether prolonged grieving, also known as complicated grief, will be a major complication from the pandemic — it isn't yet over, with thousands still dying daily worldwide, including hundreds in the United States. Many mourners have yet to pass the one-year anniversary of a loss, and few studies have been published so far on the psychiatric fallout, she said.
But prolonged grief is both real and potentially debilitating, said Skritskaya, a research scientist and clinical psychologist with the Center for Complicated Grief at Columbia University in New York. She noted that it can be treated with therapy in which participants talk through their experience and feelings.
"The core of it is kind of helping people face the reality of what happened," she said. "It's not an easy treatment. It's intense."
Jerri Vance said therapy has helped her deal with grief since her husband, James Vance, a retired police officer in Bluefield, West Virginia, died of COVID-19 on New Year's Day, but she worries about their two young daughters.
"Seeing my kids' grief adds to my pain," she said. "One of my kids isn't making much progress in therapy because her daddy was her person. She is still mad at the world."
A study published in the fall predicted a likely increase in cases of prolonged grief linked to the pandemic. Already, people who lost loved ones to COVID-19 are filling social media pages with stories of tears and sadness that just won't go away.
Misinformation is the greatest threat to COVID-19 vaccination efforts, surgeon general says
Many cite the loss of typical end-of-life rituals for their continual grieving; some struggle because of the unexpectedness and seeming unfairness of the coronavirus. The politicization of the pandemic is a thorn for many who constantly see and hear some argue against what health experts say are life-saving practices including vaccinations, mask wearing and social distancing.
"In my office I listen all day to unsolicited opinions and try not to engage, as it is unprofessional," said Betsy Utnick, whose father, Sheldon Polan of Selden, New York, died in April 2020. She said she still cries every day because the grief has yet to subside.
Noreen Wasti knows the feeling. She lost her father to the illness caused by the coronavirus on Dec. 27 and is having a hard time going on.
Wasti, who writes and creates online content in New York, said she's unsure what it will take to get over the loss of Salman Wasti, 76, a retired biology professor from Glocester, Rhode Island.
"This has been the first time I've lost someone so dear to me, so I never had a map for grief nor really understood the magnitude. I always thought you're sad for a few months and then you're OK. I was so wrong," she said. "It hits in waves and those waves feel as severe as the day we lost him."
With so many people hurting and little personal interaction for months because of pandemic health restrictions, social media has become the place where many connect to share stories of loved ones and loss. One private Facebook page dealing with COVID-19 losses has more than 10,000 members, and continuing grief is a constant thread of discussion.
Rabia Khan has found solace online since the death on Thanksgiving Day of her father, Pakistani activist Muhammad Hameedullah Khan of Chicago. In survivor and family groups, she said, the grieving don't face insensitive questions about how a loved one contracted the virus or why someone wasn't careful enough to avoid it.
Aside from sharing stories online of her late boyfriend Ben Schaeffer, a New York subway conductor and historian, Lisa Smid has tried to redirect her anguish into something positive. She sponsored an online lecture at the New York Transit Museum and plans to honor his legacy by endowing more memorial lectures.
"I like being able to have an event to look forward to at which I'll have an acceptable outlet for my grief as I move forward with my own life," she said.
Ann Haas of St. Paul, Minnesota, is still trying to find some sort of outlet as she mourns, but work keeps bringing her back to the worst day of her life.
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Haas lost her father, Raymond Haas, to COVID-19 on Nov. 11 and works in the laundry at the same Veterans Affairs hospital where he spent his final days. Haas said memories keep flooding back each time she folds a tan blanket like the one that covered him while he was fighting to live.
"'I wish other people could see what this does to people. I hear people saying, 'This isn't real, it's nothing,'" Haas said between sobs. "I've got nothing left. I don't know if it's going to take them losing someone to understand."


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Meet Nergis Mavalvala. She's the lesbian astrophysicist proving Einstein's theories are correct.
By being herself, she has become a role model, receiving the MacArthur "Genius" Award in 2010.
By Bilha Chesner Fish Friday, April 10, 2020
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Excerpted from Bilha Fish's Invincible Women: Conversations with 21 Inspiring and Successful American Immigrants, publishing May 14, 2020 by Hybrid Global Publishing.
It takes ten minutes to convince Nergis Mavalvala that she would be an asset to my book. I make my case by pointing out that she has successfully challenged many stereotypes: being a woman astrophysicist in a predominantly man's world; an immigrant academician; a self-described "out, queer, person of color"; and to top it all, a working mother of two children. But once she is persuaded, her exuberant personality takes over and reveals to me the infinite vastness of her own life as well as the mysterious skies she studies.
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Nergis was born in Karachi, Pakistan, to a family that encouraged and supported curiosity, knowledge, and education. She believed that the best learning occurred outside of the classroom, and hers began at the neighborhood bike shop and local electrician where she first discovered and explored the ways gears and circuits work.
She continued to develop her interests and practical skills, exploring machinery and electronic circuitry and building a laser, which eventually led her to join Dr. Rainer Weiss' team at MIT in 1991, working on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). (Weiss won the Nobel Prize in physics in 2017 for his and his team's work on the LIGO.) LIGO detects the effects of gravitational waves on precisely aligned mirrors that reflect laser beams, a new method to discover events that happened millions to billions of light years away in space. In the hopes of building a more sensitive LIGO to detect fainter and farther gravitational waves, Nergis has explored the fields of quantum optics and optomechanics. Her work could lead to solving the mystery of the Big Bang, thus combining her lifelong love of construction and physics, a love that flowered and was nurtured back in that bike shop in Karachi.
Nergis' relaxed philosophy about being an outsider culturally and professionally—a Pakistani immigrant and one of very few female physicists—in some ways also made it comfortable to reveal her sexual identity. When she fell in love, she says it was an organic process of coming out. And in retrospect, she sees her tomboyish behavior during childhood as a gender-bending process in the making. By being herself, she has become a role model, receiving the MacArthur "Genius" Award in 2010.
Do you believe that your research will lead to detecting the faintest gravitational waves that have been created by the Big Bang?
Ah, yes. That would be something. I don't think that will happen in my lifetime. I think it's possible to do, and it will be done in the generations to come, but such faint waves require more sensitive instruments. Going back to Galileo, his first telescope was such a small thing that even some toy telescopes today are better.
But it's been four hundred years since then, and we have built incredibly bigger and more powerful telescopes. And that has allowed us to see farther and farther. What Galileo saw was in our own solar system. He saw craters on the moon, he saw Venus, he saw Saturn. Our light telescopes are looking out to the edge of the observable universe.
And so that's the next thing that has to happen in this field in gravitational waves. You have to make more and more sensitive instruments. At times it means bigger, at times it just means cleverer, and sometimes it means both.
Would it require longer laser paths and observatories in space?
Yeah, there is the idea of putting them in space, so it's within human reach to observe gravitational waves from the very early universe.
Well, that would be amazing because it might cause a controversy with religious beliefs.
Will it cause any more than there already is? Just because we saw gravitational waves that take us back to literally the very beginning doesn't mean we'll have an explanation for how the very beginning happened. Well, I don't think it will help the controversy if there is any. It will just give us more information that the Big Bang either happened the way we thought, or maybe there will be a surprise and it didn't happen the way we thought. And what caused the Big Bang?
Which means that you needed both creation and evolution to get to where we are.
I think that would be nothing new added to that debate.
There's some important social issues that I would like to talk about. Did you face difficulties trying to achieve in science in a man's world?
Personally, no. Do I think or observe that there is systemic bias out there? Yes, it's out there. My own personal experience has been very positive, and I think it's in part because I've had amazing mentors who don't mentor me because I'm a woman—they mentor me because I'm a scientist.
But that doesn't for a moment mean that I'm not aware that there are structural factors and bias out there that keep certain demographic groups out. But it hasn't been my experience.
What about being an immigrant? Did you find yourself different? Did you have difficulty adjusting? Think about when you came to this country. Because once you became famous and appreciated, the world was yours.
That's a good question. When I came to college, I came to an environment that was pretty welcoming. Certainly, I've had experiences of the same kind that others have had of being exoticized: "Oh, you're from Pakistan, you must be somehow an exotic creature."
I think if anything, it made me more determined. I wouldn't even say they were negative experiences; they were more experiences where I encountered people who just didn't know much about the rest of the world. So they had funny questions or funny expectations. I, on the other hand, even growing up in Pakistan, had much more awareness of what the rest of the world was like.
I'm the kind of person who just blows through all of that stuff. I don't notice it; I just keep going. I also did not have any culture shock, because I grew up reading English and American books and watching English and American television. I certainly didn't find anything unexpected.
What about being openly gay? Was it easier to deal with in the United States?
Yes, I think it's part of the milieu that I moved in. I first recognized for myself and acknowledged to the world that I was gay when I was a graduate student at MIT, and it kind of came pretty naturally, being in the US and not one to feel too bound by existing social norms.
I was in my early- to mid-twenties when I came out. No one seemed to care or notice. I think the hardest part of it might have been working through it with my family, but certainly not in the workplace. If people thought anything of it, they had the good sense to not say anything.
In one way I believe that discovering you're gay later in life saved you from the heartache of confronting this knowledge as a child.
Yes and no. When I look at young people today coming out as queer, for many, especially in the cities where I live, it's often a very natural, very supported process. I know that's not true all over the country, though.
You're strong and confident—knowing who you are, what you're all about. And that translates to the ability to adjust.
I think strength and confidence are correct because that's what you need to just glide through it.
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Vagrant Birds May Portend Species Distribution in Climate-Changed World
Long dismissed as accidental tourists, birds that turn up outside their normal ranges may instead be pioneers
By Lesley Evans Ogden on August 19, 2016
Common cuckoo. Credit: RON KNIGHT Flickr
Birds that show up outside of their normal range—vagrants or accidentals, as they are known, have long fascinated birdwatchers. Wildlife tours of the Alaskan archipelago, for example, lure customers with the possibility of sighting exotic vagrants like the Eurasian common cuckoo. Now scientists are beginning to consider the possibility that these misplaced birds might be more than curiosities, exploring the question of whether vagrants could provide clues about future bird distributions as climate shifts.
Vagrants have traditionally been perceived as unlucky birds blown off course by severe weather during migration, or dud birds with faulty internal GPS. In autumn, North American species are sometimes found as vagrants in Europe, often in association with storms. Other vagrants apparently veer way the wrong way, or overshoot their target due to navigation-impeding genetic mutations. In truth, vagrants may not necessarily be the oddballs that observers have assumed them to be. According to ecologist Richard Veit of College of Staten Island at the City University of New York, that notion that all vagrants are "messed up, and unable to navigate," has led people to ignore their potential importance in understanding animal distributions and how they change over time. He and his student Lucinda Zawadzki are now mining predictive hints from vagrancy data for the ash-throated flycatcher.
Veit frames vagrancy as part of the overall spectrum of bird dispersal. "In any population there are always a small proportion of individuals that go much farther than the others," he says. Veit has described vagrants as the expanding fringe of a growing population.
Frédéric Jiguet of the Bird Biology and Population Research Centre in Paris, France, has been examining links between climate change, range shifts and Siberian birds found as vagrants in Europe. In a 2013 study, he found that as populations expand, so, too, do the number of vagrants detected far from home. Conversely, his data suggest that shrinking populations produce fewer vagrants.
"Vagrancy is condition-dependent, which can also be linked to climate change," Jiguet says. As meteorological conditions change over the oceans, birds that are crossing the Gulf of Mexico may be increasingly likely to get caught by the winds, and "deported to the Atlantic," with the few survivors ending up in Europe, he explains. That raises an important point about vagrants. Unlike "normal" migrants, they are very often on a one-way trip.
Records of three such wanderers recently prompted animal behaviorists Vladimir Dinets of the University of Tennessee, Mark Hauber of Hunter College and their colleagues to investigate the possible future impacts of such cross-oceanic invasions. Dinets and Hauber study brood parasites, species that foist their eggs on unwitting foster species by sneaking them into a host's nest, saving themselves the effort of rearing chicks and reducing breeding success of the hosts they dupe in the process. These egg sneaks include the Eurasian common cuckoo, the Oriental cuckoo, and the brown-headed cowbird. All have begun showing up far from home.
Although there are signs that common cuckoo populations are declining in Europe, the common and Oriental cuckoo species, native to temperate Eurasia, appear to be expanding their ranges northward. Having now colonized northeastern Siberia, both cuckoo species now breed within 300 kilometers of the Bering Strait, according to Russian museum records examined by Dinets and his colleagues. Vagrant cuckoo sightings have been recorded in mainland Alaska and its archipelagos, including one common cuckoo pair observed in courtship, plus multiple specimens collected locally by the University of Alaska's Museum of the North. In 2012 one common cuckoo overwintered in California. At the same time, the North American brown-headed cowbird males and females have been reported with increased frequency in Western Europe, often in association with storm events.
Dinets and his colleagues wondered how naïve North American birds would respond to brood parasitism by common cuckoos, and how Eurasian birds would respond to eggs from brown-headed cowbirds. In the summer of 2014 they conducted two experiments. In Southern Finland, common cuckoos often parasitize common redstarts with deceptive color-matched eggs. So the researchers fashioned fake eggs out of plaster, making some that looked like cuckoo mimics of the redstart's own eggs, and others that were plain creamy-white or speckled like cowbird eggs. They then added eggs to the redstart's nest to test the bird's reaction. Over six days they watched to see if the added egg was accepted or rejected. Similarly, in California they tested the reaction of American Robins to eggs modeled after their own, plus those resembling redstart or thrush-mimicking cuckoo eggs. They discovered that Finnish redstarts accepted about half of the cowbird-like eggs. The American robins were even less discerning, rarely rejecting the blue cuckoo-like eggs.
The findings suggest that if these brood parasites do invade new continents in significant numbers as climate shifts, the naïve bird species that would become their hosts could face "potentially a very serious problem," Dinets says. Cowbirds, in particular, have hammered naïve North American host species as they have rapidly expanded their range across the continent. Soil tilling has fostered the bird's spread, because the species thrives in agricultural and grassland habitats.
The idea that the small number of vagrant birds on record represents the beginnings of a new wave of colonization remains wildly speculative. Indeed there are more questions than answers when it comes to vagrant cuckoos, cowbirds and their possible future breeding ranges. On new continents, where would cuckoos or cowbirds spend the winter? What routes would they use to get there? And could they find hosts with breeding behaviours and timing compatible for exploitation? "All this stuff has to be worked out… to figure out the probability of this [transoceanic invasion of cowbirds/cuckoos] being an issue," says Liana Zanette, an ecologist at Western University in Canada who has studied cowbirds.
Nevertheless, if mixed sex groups of individuals survive in their unfamiliar surroundings, vagrancy can be a precursor to colonization. That is presumably how finches accidentally colonized the Galapagos Islands, how honeycreepers colonized Hawaii, and, more recently, how cattle egrets expanded from Africa to South America in the 1800s before moving into North America by the early 1950s.
Vagrants have been tricky to study, for all of the reasons that make them intriguing to birdwatchers: they appear in small numbers, infrequently, in unexpected places. But the crowdsourcing of bird-sighting data through programs such as ebird is making this research increasingly feasible. Vagrants may thus provide a potentially rich window on where animals will be found in the future, "particularly when combined with climate models" and the promise of ever-improving tracking technology, in Veit's view. Vagrants, he says, may be "very biologically important."
Lesley Evans Ogden
Lesley Evans Ogden is a freelance science journalist based in Vancouver, Canada. She can be found on the Web at www.lesleyevansogden.com. Follow her on Twitter @ljevanso.
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Earthquakes, hurricanes, cyclones and tsunamis: the world's 10 riskiest cities
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What are the world's riskiest cities when it comes to natural disasters? A reinsurance company set out to assess 616 cities around the world for their risk of earthquake, hurricanes and cyclones, storm surge, river flooding and tsunami. Here are Swiss Re's overall top 10 most risky cities
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10) Tehran, Iran: We generally think of the San Andreas fault or the Pacific Ring of Fire as being the riskiest zones for earthquakes, but not everyone is immediately aware that the Northern Anatolian fault is one of the most dangerous in the world. The entire 13.6 million population of Tehran is exposed, as are the residents of Bucharest, Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, and much of Turkey. The last quake in Tehran was in 1830, and its building regulations are shakily followed at best – making it a city living on borrowed time. Photograph: Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images
9) Los Angeles, United States: Its location on the San Andreas Fault makes Los Angeles one of the most earthquake-prone cities – although not as vulnerable to tsunami as might be expected. Subduction zones, where oceanic plates dive underneath the continental crust, generally create much larger tsunamis than so-called "strike-slip" faults such as the San Andreas and Northern Anatolian faults. Small comfort to the 14.7 million inhabitants of the area threatened by earthquake. Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images
8) Shanghai River, China: With so many cities built on flood plains and river deltas, flooding is the most common risk they face. India and China face the most significant risks; with 11.7 million residents directly threatened, Shanghai is a particular hot spot for flooding, but other such risky cities include Bangkok, Mexico City, Baghdad, Paris and Doha. Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images
7) Kolkata, India: River floods also affect Kolkata, with 10.5 million people at risk – but the eastern Indian city is also fifth in terms of tsunami risk, with more than half a million people exposed. It is also threatened by hurricanes. Photograph: Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images
6) Nagoya, Japan: Tsunami risk dominates in the Pacific. The most exposed cities, dotted along the active faults of the western ocean, are in Japan – led by Tokyo-Yokohama and Nagoya, each with around 2.4 million people potentially affected. With 12 million people in total at great risk, tsunamis affect by far the fewest people of the great five natural disasters analysed here – but the death tolls can be enormous. Photograph: Japan Ground Self-Defence Force 10th Division/Reuters
5) Jakarta, Indonesia: Fully 40% of Jakarta is below sea level; it lies in a flat basin with soft soil near a fault line. This means earthquakes can be particularly dangerous to its 17.7 million inhabitants, as the soft soil can magnify the intensity of the tremors. Quakes can also liquify Jakarta's poorly drained soil, causing the ground to lose its structural integrity and react like a liquid. Add to that Jakarta's risk of river flood and it becomes one of the most exposed cities on the planet. Photograph: Adek Berry/AFP/Getty Images
4) Osaka-Kobe, Japan: Osaka-Kobe is home to 14.6 million people living under the threat of earthquakes such as the one that killed thousands of people in 1995. It also suffers from brutal storms and the risk of river flooding. And then there are the storm surges, in which heavy winds from typhoons of the kind that hit east Asia whip up gigantic waves: the metropolitan area's location on a large coastal plain means three million people are at risk. It is also the third-most tsunami-prone city in the world. Photograph: Kimimasa Mayama/Reuters
3) Pearl River Delta, China: This near-unbroken urban conglomeration, including Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Macau and Ghangzhou, is home to more than 42 million people. One of China's economic jewels (estimated GDP: $690bn) is spread across a flood plain threatened by all manner of natural disasters: it is the number one metropolitan area for storm surge, with 5.3 million people affected, the third-highest for cyclonic wind damage (17.2 million), and the fifth riskiest city for river floods. Pictured is Victoria harbour in Hong Kong. Photograph: Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images
2) Manila, Philippines: Built just off the Philippines trench, Manila is one of the most risk-plagued cities you can possibly live in. As well as the substantial earthquake risk, high wind speeds are a severe threat: the powerful typhoon Haiyan that swept the country last year was one of the strongest ever to make landfall. It destroyed several central islands, ruined the coastal city of Tacloban and killed thousands. Photograph: Francis R Malasig/EPA
1) Tokyo-Yokohama, Japan: With 37 million inhabitants living under the threat of earthquakes, monsoons, river floods and tsunami, the Tokyo-Yokohama region is by far the riskiest in the world: an estimated 80% of Tokyoites, or 29 million, are potentially exposed at any one time to a very large earthquake. Japan is also the country most exposed to tsunami risk, as the country's urban centres are dotted with an almost perverse accuracy along the Ring of Fire, the active faults of the western Pacific. The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 devastated both Tokyo and Yokohama, killing an estimated 142,800 people.(A note on the methodology of the Swiss Re report: residents threatened by multiple perils are counted more than once in the statistics. So the total number of people potentially affected by multiple perils can therefore exceed the size of a city's population.)
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