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A witness recorded three police officers chasing and gunning down a mentally disturbed man for throwing rocks at them on Tuesday. Although the Pasco Police Department claims the man struck two of the officers with rocks and withstood the effects of a Taser, an eyewitness and the video do not corroborate their account of the incident.

Around 5pm on Tuesday, Pasco police officers Adrian Alaniz, Ryan Flanagan, and Adam Wright responded to a 911 call concerning a man allegedly throwing rocks at cars and trucks. The officers approached Antonio Zambrano-Montes in the Fiesta Foods parking lot and ordered him to put down the rocks and surrender. According to a police statement, Zambrano-Montes threw rocks of various sizes at them pelting two of the officers with rocks. After a Taser failed to have any effect on him, the officers fired their service weapons to take down Zambrano-Montes.

But Pasco resident Benjamin Patrick, who witnessed the incident, asserts that he saw Zambrano-Montes struggling with an officer when two other officers drove up to help. Zambrano-Montes began yelling at the police when he picked up two rocks or dirt clods. Patrick recalled Zambrano-Montes throwing one at the cops but missing. Then an officer fired his Taser, but Patrick does not believe both darts connected with Zambrano-Montes.

As Zambrano-Montes pulled the ineffective dart from his arm, the officers fired five shots at him. According to Patrick, the officers hit Zambrano-Montes in the first volley of bullets. As Zambrano-Montes fled across the busy intersection, the officers chased after him. When he turned around to confront the officers, they fired at least eight more times shooting Zambrano-Montes to death.

“I could not believe they were shooting guns. There were cars and people everywhere,” Patrick recalled. “Yes, he was resisting. Yes, he was wrong. But it looked like there might be something wrong with him. And he wasn’t hurting anyone. He had a rock, not a gun. It seems it could have been handled differently.”

Another witness recorded the shooting on their cell phone. The video shows the officers firing five shots at Zambrano-Montes before chasing him across the street. As Zambrano-Montes turned around confronting the cops with his hand slightly raised, they gunned him down on the sidewalk.

“This is a very disturbing incident, and our hearts go out to the family of Antonio Zambrano-Montes. Fleeing from police and not following an officer’s command should not be sufficient for a person to get shot,” said Kathleen Taylor, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington state. “Lethal force should be used only as an absolute last resort. Police need to understand how to de-escalate confrontations and use force only as necessary.”

Flanagan is a nine-year veteran of the department and traffic safety officer. Wright is an eight-year veteran and firearms instructor. Alaniz has been on the force for two years.

In 2009, Flanagan and another officer were accused of racial profiling and excessive force for restraining Pasco resident Maria Davila-Marquez and pressing her face against the heated hood of their patrol car. After suffering second-degree burns, Davila-Marquez filed a lawsuit against the city and won a $100,000 settlement. According to the lawsuit, Flanagan was never disciplined for his actions.

On January 16, 2014, officers responded to reports of a man striking cars with a broom. Confronted by law enforcement, Zambrano-Montes picked up a rocking chair and attempted to throw it at Officer Adam Brewster. After throwing a mailbox and a post at Brewster, Zambrano-Montes grabbed the officer’s belt attempting to retrieve the service pistol from his holster.

Officer Jeffrey Cobb shot Zambrano-Montes with a Taser and helped Brewster handcuff him. After being transported to the Lourdes Medical Center, Zambrano-Montes admitted that he had been on methamphetamines. He pleaded guilty last June.

After failing to appear in court two weeks ago, a bench warrant was issued for the arrest of Zambrano-Montes. He was released from police custody a day before he was killed.

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A man holds a bottle of anti-parasite drug ivermectin after buying it in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

People in Bolivia and other countries have been purchasing the anti-parasite drug ivermectin throughout the pandemic as protection against COVID-19.Credit: Rodrigo Urzagasti/Reuters/Alamy

Throughout the pandemic, the anti-parasite drug ivermectin has attracted much attention, particularly in Latin America, as a potential way to treat COVID-19. But scientists say that recent, shocking revelations of widespread flaws in the data of a preprint study reporting that the medication greatly reduces COVID-19 deaths dampens ivermectin’s promise — and highlights the challenges of investigating drug efficacy during a pandemic.

“I was shocked, as everyone in the scientific community probably were,” says Eduardo López-Medina, a paediatrician at the Centre for the Study of Paediatric Infections in Cali, Colombia, who was not involved with the study and who has investigated whether ivermectin can improve COVID-19 symptoms. “It was one of the first papers that led everyone to get into the idea ivermectin worked” in a clinical-trial setting, he adds.

The paper summarized the results of a clinical trial seeming to show that ivermectin can reduce COVID-19 death rates by more than 90%1 — among the largest studies of the drug’s ability to treat COVID-19 to date. But on 14 July, after internet sleuths raised concerns about plagiarism and data manipulation, the preprint server Research Square withdrew the paper because of “ethical concerns”.

Ahmed Elgazzar at Benha University in Egypt, who is one of the authors on the paper, told Nature he was not given a chance to defend his work before it was removed.

Early in the pandemic, scientists showed that ivermectin could inhibit the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in cells in laboratory studies2. But data on ivermectin’s efficacy against COVID-19 in people are still scarce, and study conclusions conflict greatly, making the withdrawal of a major trial particularly noteworthy.

Although the World Health Organization advises against taking ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment outside clinical trials, the over-the-counter drug has become popular in some regions of the world. Some view it as a stopgap until vaccines become available in their areas, even though it has not yet been proven effective; scientists worry that it will also be seen as an alternative to vaccines, which are highly effective.

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The paper’s irregularities came to light when Jack Lawrence, a master’s student at the University of London, was reading it for a class assignment and noticed that some phrases were identical to those in other published work. When he contacted researchers who specialize in detecting fraud in scientific publications, the group found other causes for concern, including dozens of patient records that seemed to be duplicates, inconsistencies between the raw data and the information in the paper, patients whose records indicate they died before the study’s start date, and numbers that seemed to be too consistent to have occurred by chance.

In an editorial note, Research Square said that it has launched a formal investigation into the concerns raised by Lawrence and his colleagues. According to the Egyptian newspaper Al-Shorouk, Egypt’s minister of higher education and scientific research is also examining the allegations.

The paper was “withdrawn from the Research Square platform without informing or asking me”, Elgazzar wrote in an e-mail to Nature. He defended the paper, and said of the plagiarism allegations that “often phrases or sentences are commonly used and referenced” when researchers read one another’s papers.

Although dozens of ivermectin clinical trials have been launched over the past year3, the Elgazzar paper was notable for announcing one of the first positive results, as well as for its size — it included 400 people with symptoms of COVID-19 — and the magnitude of the drug’s effect. Few therapies can claim such an impressive reduction in death rates. “It was a significant difference, and that stood out,” says Andrew Hill, who studies repurposed drugs at the University of Liverpool, UK. “It should have raised red flags even then.”

Lawrence agrees. “I was absolutely shocked that no one had uncovered it,” he says.

Before its withdrawal, the paper was viewed more than 150,000 times, cited more than 30 times and included in a number of meta-analyses that collect trial findings into a single, statistically weighted result. In one recent meta-analysis in the American Journal of Therapeutics that found ivermectin greatly reduced COVID-19 deaths4, the Elgazzar paper accounted for 15.5% of the effect.

One of the authors of the meta-analysis, statistician Andrew Bryant at Newcastle University, UK, says that his team corresponded with Elgazzar before publishing the work to clarify some data. “We had no reason to doubt the integrity of [Professor] Elgazzar,” he said in an e-mail. He added that in a pandemic setting, no one can reanalyse all of the raw data from patient records when writing a review. Bryant went on to say that his group will revise the conclusion if investigations find the study to be unreliable. However, even if the study is removed, the meta-analysis would still show that ivermectin causes a major reduction in deaths from COVID-19, he says.

Reliable data needed

The paper’s withdrawal is not the first scandal to dog studies of ivermectin and COVID-19. Hill thinks many of the other ivermectin trial papers that he has scanned are likely to be flawed or statistically biased. Many rely on small sample sizes or were not randomized or well controlled, he says. And in 2020, an observational study of the drug was withdrawn after scientists raised concerns about it and a few other papers using data by the company Surgisphere that investigated a range of repurposed drugs against COVID-19. “We’ve seen a pattern of people releasing information that’s not reliable,” says Hill. “It’s hard enough to do work on COVID and treatment without people distorting databases.”

Carlos Chaccour, a global-health researcher at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health in Spain, says it has been difficult to conduct rigorous studies on ivermectin. That’s partly because funders and academics in wealthy countries haven’t supported them, and, he suspects, have often dismissed trials of ivermectin because most of them have been done in lower-income countries. Furthermore, says Rodrigo Zoni, a cardiologist at the Corrientes Cardiology Institute in Argentina, it is difficult to recruit participants because many people — particularly in Latin America — are already taking the widely available drug in an attempt to prevent COVID-19.

Adding to the difficulty are conspiracy theories holding that ivermectin has been proven to work and that drug companies are depriving the public of a cheap cure. Chaccour says he has been called ‘genocidal’ for doing research on the drug rather than just endorsing it.

Although the jury is still out on ivermectin, many say the retraction speaks to the difficulty of assessing research during a pandemic. “I personally have lost all faith in the results of [ivermectin] trials published to date,” says Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, an epidemiologist at the University of Wollongong in Australia who helped Lawrence to analyse the Elgazzar paper. It’s not yet possible to assess whether ivermectin works against COVID-19 because the data currently available are not of sufficiently high quality, he says, adding that he is reading other ivermectin papers in his spare time, looking for signs of fraud or other problems.

Chaccour and others studying ivermectin say that proof of whether the drug is effective against COVID-19 rests on a handful of large, ongoing studies, including a trial in Brazil with more than 3,500 participants. By the end of 2021, says Zoni, around 33,000 people will have participated in some kind of ivermectin trial.

“I think it is our duty to exhaust all potential benefits,” says Chaccour, especially given that most countries still do not have widespread access to vaccines. “Ultimately if you do a trial and it fails, fine, but at least we tried.”

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10-Year Indian Visa for US Citizens

Travelers from the United States can apply for a 10-year visa to India. If they plan to travel to India more than once in that time period, it may be worthwhile to get this kind of visa instead of an eVisa. While it does take longer to obtain a 10-year India visa, having one takes the hassle out of future travel plans.

How to get a 10-Year India Visa for US Citizens

In order to obtain a 10-year India visa, us citizens will need to gather the following documentation:
  • A completed India visa application form (this can be done at an Indian Mission).

  • A valid passport, with at least 6 months of validity left and 2 completely blank pages.

  • Proof of their plan to travel to India. This should be computer-generated.

  • Proof of residency in the United States. They can use a color-copy of a driver's license or a recent bill.

  • A recent passport-sized photo clearly showing the front of the applicant's face.
Travelers applying for this visa will also need to pay the India travel visa fee before they can submit their application.

Applicants will need to submit their documentation via mail to the Indian consulate that has jurisdiction over the state or area where they live. They may need to have an in-person meeting before the visa can be granted.
The processing time for their visa depends on the jurisdiction in which they live, and applicants are welcome to contact the appropriate consulate to ask how long it will take.

What Happens if I Get a New Passport?

Getting a new passport is part of the process of being a traveler. There are different reasons one gets a new passport. Maybe the passport is in poor conditions and needs to be replaced. In regards to the 10 year visa, if a new passport is acquired and the visa remains valid in the old passport, visitors can travel with both passports. This way, when authorities ask for the visa to enter India, the valid visa can be displayed in the old passport. Indian autorities will stamp the new passport.

Its is important to note India officials will not transfer the old 10 year visa to the new passport. Travelers will need to carry the old passport for the duration of the old visa. Also, full name and date of birth need to match in the visa, old passport, and new passport.

Facts About the 10-Year Visa

There are a few things that all travelers should know about the 10-year India visa before they decide whether it is the best option for them.
  • The 10-year India visa for us citizens is only good for tourists. People traveling for business or other purposes will need to obtain a different visa with a different validity period attached to it.

  • The 10-year India visa is valid for 10 years from the date it is issued, not for 10 years from the date on which it is first used.

  • Travelers with a 10-year India visa can stay in the country for up to 6 months at a time.

  • Travelers with this visa need to wait at least 2 months between visits to India.

  • It is essential for the traveler to have their visa to India before they try to enter the country. India no longer offers visas on arrival except in a few, very specific, circumstances.

  • The name on the application for a 10-year visa to India, as well as other relevant information, must exactly match what is on the traveler's passport. Mistakes made here will require submitting another application and paying the application fee again.
For travelers who love India and plan to return more than once in any 10-year period, this visa saves time and money. Getting a 10-year visa to India can take a couple of weeks, but it is worthwhile when visitors can enter the country as often as they want to.
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Fees Associated with 10 Year Visa

The fees for this type of visa is dependent on the purpose of visits.  American travelers can choose between the Tourist Visa (T) and the Business Visa (B) for their travels. Bothe these visa types cost 160.00 USD.

Other Available Indian Visa Options

Globe trotters and tourists from across the globe opt for a tourist visa so that they can enjoy the beauty of India in its purest form. There are also people who visit this Asian country to enjoy medical tourism that is in trend these days. No matter what your taste is, this is a destination that will embrace you with open arms once you arrive. Apart from the 10-Year Indian Visa, tourists from the United States can also check out and choose one of the other visa options listed below:

5-Year India Visa

This type of visa is ideal for people who are only interested in tourism in India. The best part about this type of visa is that it allows multiple entries. However, each entry with this visa is for a stay of a maximum of 60 days.

Steps to get an India eVisa

1-Year India Visa

This is a visa type that allows people to enjoy tourism, business and medical visits within India. For tourism, the stay is for a maximum of 60 days (multiple entries). For business, a person can stay for a maximum of 180 days (multiple entries). For medical visits, the stay is a maximum of 60 days (3 entries).

30-Day India Visa

Through this form of visa, applicants can enjoy tourism-related activities for a maximum of 30 days (2 entries allowed).

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Tom Stoppard’s Olivier Award-winning new play Leopoldstadt is a passionate drama of love, family and endurance. It is directed by Patrick Marber. At the beginning of the 20th century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, Austria. But Hermann Merz, a factory owner and baptised Jew now married to Gretl, a Catholic, has moved up in the world. We follow his family’s story across half a century, passing through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. A company of 40 actors represents each generation of the family in this epic but intimate play. Filmed live on stage in London’s West End, Leopoldstadt, called ‘magnificent’ by The Independent, should not be missed.

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When you think of deadly car accidents, head-on collisions often come to mind. Head-on collisions occur when the fronts of two vehicles collide with each other. These crashes often happen at high speeds, but a lot of damage can happen at lower speeds. At higher speeds, though, more force is involved. The collision force is increased by the speed and weight of both involved vehicles. There is a lot of energy generated by head-on collisions, which makes them more likely to be fatal. Those who survive often suffer from major injuries, such as broken bones, brain damage, amputations, or disabilities.

Sometimes the injuries are permanent. A victim may spend years seeing doctors to get the medical care they need. They will likely need medications and assistance devices for the rest of their life. They may also need lifelong rehabilitative services such as physical therapy, occupational therapy, or pain management.

A head-on crash can cause significant damages. Get the help you need from Needle Law Firm.  Discuss your case with a Scranton head-on collision lawyer from our office to get started.

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Head-on crashes can be caused by the following:

  • Unsafe passing. Drivers need to give themselves adequate time to pass vehicles. When they misjudge the time they have to safely pass, they cannot move out of the way quickly enough and they may collide head-on with an approaching vehicle.
  • Driving the wrong way. Going in the wrong direction can cause tragic head-on collisions. These crashes often occur when a motorist gets confused or becomes intoxicated and drives the wrong way on a highway or one-way street.
  • Distracted driving. When a driver is not focused on the road, they can veer into the adjacent lane and hit a vehicle head-on. Talking on a cell phone, texting, eating, drinking, reading, or adjusting the radio can cause a driver to inadvertently cross the center lane.
  • Many motorists ignore the risks of drugs and alcohol and get behind the wheel while intoxicated. Intoxication impairs judgment and reduces driving skills overall, making a head-on crash more likely.
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Opportunity is Knocking! Welcome to a Victorian style Full Duplex with loads of potential. Located on historic Carbonate St and just a stones throw from the excitement of Nelson's vibrant downtown core. Numerous coffee shops, restaurants/ bars, and shopping are minutes away. Both Units 514 & 516 are mirror images of each other. There are spacious 10ft high ceilings on both the main, and upper levels. 3 Large Bedrooms, and a bathroom Upstairs. The main levels both feature an inviting Living room to dining area zone. There's a large kitchen, and also an entry to the quaint back yard zone waiting your special touch. A main level bathroom is also there for convenience. You can make this a turn key situation with Both Units paying a respectable $1500/ month, or turn your motivation, and sweat equity into something great. Take advantage of this tremendous opportunity while it lasts.
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We had a cat when we got Wally and eventually 4 other stray cats showed up at our door. The cats all seemed to sense that Wally posed no threat because none of them ever expressed any fear of him   In fact, one of the cats pined for him for about 2 weeks and still sleeps in Wally’s spot.

Wally was a wonderful watchdog. He would alert us even when someone would approach our daughter’s house, which is about 50 feet away. Wally was extremely intelligent. He read us like a book and anticipated our every move. He was very affectionate and loved to have his rump rubbed, was popular with the groom, and really enjoyed riding in the car. He went with us wherever we went. We will always remember Wally and forever cherish the love, devotion, happiness and laughs he provided us.


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Commuting with a contactless NETS Bank Card is a breeze.

Travel with peace of mind when you use your contactless NETS Bank Card for MRT and bus rides

Save time from queuing to top-up your transit card
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Save more when you tap to pay for your rides*

*In comparison with standard tickets for MRT and cash payment for bus rides.

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Track your travel and fare history with a SimplyGo account

Register for an account at or through the TL SimplyGo mobile app.

How to tap to pay for your rides

Step 1

Take out your contactless NETS Bank Card from your wallet to prevent card clash+.

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Simply tap on MRT fare gates or card reader on buses for payment.

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Proceed to board when the message “Bank Card SimplyGo” is displayed^.

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Ensure you tap out using the same card when alighting.

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Look out for the NETS contactless icon on your bank card to start tapping for your rides.

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LGBTIQ+ Refugees Exist and Believe

Challenging the Binary Western Thoughts on Asylum Seekers, Religion, and Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.

Some years ago, I was invited to lecture about the early findings of my ongoing research focusing on Latin American LGBTIQ+ refugees fleeing to the US and the EU and the role religion plays in their journeys. The audience was a group of around 30 enthusiastic undergrads from my university in the US. As I started to talk, I saw bewilderment spread across their faces. One of them raised her hand and said, “I didn’t imagine that the problem of LGBTIQ+ refugees was so big in America. Neither did I think that in Western, democratic, Christian countries, LGBTIQ+ people are persecuted and need to flee. I thought that was a problem of Islamic countries.” I decided to stop my presentation and make two needed clarifications. Firstly, LGBTIQ+ individuals who seek asylum based on their sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) are not necessarily from countries where non-normative sexualities and identities are criminalized, territories in which Islam is the mainstream religion, nor places with no democratic governments. They also flee from many other countries with progressive legislation on LGBTIQ+ rights, established democracies, and Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, or Hinduist traditions. (This without considering internal migration/scape from more dangerous to more “friendly” areas within Western, democratic, and Christian countries.) Secondly, many LGBTIQ+ individuals—seeking asylum or not— are themselves believers, profess a religion, and practice their faith.

Over the years, I needed to make that same clarification to many different audiences, from students to colleagues, to scholars, in relaxed chats or sophisticated conferences. Most importantly, I needed to recall those two points to myself once and again: LGBTIQ+ refugees exist and believe. For us, who are sitting comfortably in our homes or offices, writing papers or designing aid programs on our laptops, inhabiting the ivory towers of the academic world and advocacy networks, and walking without fear across the streets of our cities, it is hard to get rid of the Western beliefs that sets the problems of religion and LGBTIQ+ refugees outside of the borders of our “civilized” (part of the) world. Such thoughts depict a binary conception of religion when intersecting with SOGI and forced migration issues. I believe that such binary Western imagination is a threat because it oversimplifies the multifaceted roles of religion and, consequently, place religion in the apparently irreconcilable extremes of binarism.

On the one hand, religion is at the base of the severe conditions that compel LGBTIQ+ refugees to flee their homes in order to save their lives. While the tragic fact remains that more than 70 countries criminalize members of the LGBTIQ+ community based on laws grounded in religious values, it is necessary to highlight that countries with progressive laws on SOGI issues often experience a gap between legislation and the violent reality that the LGBTIQ+ community suffers, and religion is among the factors that lead to the increasing number of SOGI-based asylum seekers. In the case of Latin America, for example, together with actions and discourse of governments such as that of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, the rise of “radical” Christianisms has created an adverse and increasingly dangerous place for LGBTIQ+ individuals. These religious groups are gaining more and more ground among the population and in media discussions. They have championed the fight against “gender ideology,” an umbrella term that involves much of human rights advances. Similarly, in Europe, far-right discourses with religious connotations have risen against LGBTIQ+ refugees. The Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, illustrates this perfectly. His group’s position can be synthesized with the phrase of Laszlo Toroczkai, the leader of the Our Home Movement political party: “Neither Muslims nor gays. The Hungarian people want to be white and Christian.”

On the other hand, the international community recognizes the active role of religion in offering aid to (LGBTIQ+) refugees worldwide. Indeed, the UNHCR stated “the valuable contributions that faith organizations and communities make to the protection of refugees and the displaced.”[1] In December 2012, the fifth High Commissioner’s Dialogue on Protection Challenges was held on the theme of Faith and Protection. The event assembled over 400 representatives of faith-based organizations, faith communities, faith leaders, and other partners for a two-day discussion in Geneva on partnership with faith-based actors. The contributing roles of faith leaders, as envisioned in such an event and shrined in the 2018 Global Compact on Refugees (paragraph 41), have been embodied by many religious organizations that offer specific projects for LGBTIQ+ asylum seekers in the US and the EU.

Both extremes of binarism are real. The problem lies not in the extremes but in the fact that the binary Western imagination cannot reconcile them. The capacity of religion to both enable and constrain the aid to LGBTIQ+ refugees is pervasive, and hence, influence at several levels. Religion is not either a problem or a solution, either the perpetrator or the savior, either the devil or the saint. It may well be all of the above. By no means is religion merely an external factor that persecutes LGBTIQ+ individuals or offers aid to SOGI-based asylum seekers. It is now when I need to remind myself of the clarifications in that lecture: LGBTIQ+ refugees exist and believe.

One of the most impactful effects of the Western imagination on LGBTIQ+ refugees is the infeasibility of putting these two facts together. One can think that this is an intellectually baroque claim or a mellifluous spiritual stand, and therefore, irrelevant for the processes that asylum seekers need to face. Although it can be both things, Western imagination is also both highly effective and harmful. Here, I present three examples.

This has led to the rejections of asylum claims based on SOGI in the US and the EU. Religion is a recurring element in the decision-making process in tribunals. Particularly for Muslim applicants, confessing their religious beliefs may complicate the proof of LGBTIQ+ asylum claims. Many decision-makers in the US, Spain, Germany, the UK, Italy, and the Netherlands (to simply name the countries in which I found evidence) consider any kind of religious affiliation or identification as evidence that the asylum claimant is holding on to beliefs that are incompatible with their SOGI; therefore, they reject the cases on the bases of lack of credibility. How can a person by LGBTIQ+ and Muslim given the Islamic doctrine on SOGI? This impossibility to reconcile religion and non-normative SOGIs in Western imagination that we can find in several decisions refusing asylum is not very different from the bias in that group of undergrads. It is just much more dangerous.

Jose, an indigenous LGBTIQ+ refugee from El Salvador in Miami, US, told me, “I’m not gay the way they want me to be.” [2] He referred to the Christian community that received him and helped him with his legal procedures and the integration process. While the community was very beneficial and supportive to him, the Western imagination started to harm the relationship between Jose and his community over time. Faith-based leaders can be very helpful in the reception and integration process of LGBTIQ+ in host societies. They even articulate their mission with the national and local legal frameworks and, in many cases, challenge the systems on behalf of the LGBTIQ+ refugees. Some communities, furthermore, challenge their own religious dogmas to integrate LGBTIQ+ in new societies. However, they can also reproduce religious heteronormativity from the refugees’ countries of origin. Others also embody the host societies’ homonormative idealization of queer identities through institutional expectations around sex, gender, and sexuality. The Western perception—raising questions about whether an LGBTIQ+ religious individual exists in other geographies rather than in the “civilized” world, what an LGBTIQ+ religious refugee “really” is, and how they should behave within a religious community that pretends to hold the legitimate forms of beliefs—is at stake and challenge the integration of individuals.

Last, and probably the most critical point, when the Western culture places religion and faith outside the LGBTIQ+ refugees themselves, it reinforces the idea of the disempowered victim or the weak and the vulnerable needy without agency. Religion is the aggressor responsible for the flight; then, the LGBTIQ+ refugee does not believe. They are conceived as victims of an (also religious) system that triggered their persecution and, thus, religion is irreconcilable with their SOGI. The heartbreaking narratives of refugees facing the legal, religious, and social networks, deciding to embark on small boats or interminable walks with an uncertain future, do not seem to fit in the idea of a disempowered victim. The role that faith plays in those intimate narratives does not seem to fit with the idea of non-compatibility between religion and non-normative SOGI. Similarly, religion is the “good Samaritan” who helps the vulnerable needy without agency. Faith actors sometimes see LGBTIQ+ refugees as those weak and poor individuals whom they ought to save, moved by their religious convictions. If the asylum seekers’ faith was genuinely recognized, the ground of the faith actors’ agency would be challenged. Thus, the vulnerable needy neither have faith nor have agency. The actual contribution of LGBTIQ+ refugees during the reception and integration processes as recognized by many faith-based organizations that open their doors to them does not fit the idea of the weak and needy devoid of faith and agency.

The binary Western culture, thus, is always a threat at stake out there and in our own minds. Meanwhile, LGBTIQ+ refugees exist and believe.

The authour, Ernesto Fiocchetto is an Argentinean Sociologist and Specialist in Religion and Migration. He studied and worked at Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, from 2001 until 2017, when he moved to the US to start his graduate studies at Florida International University (FIU). At FIU, he earned a Masters in Religious Studies and, currently, he is a Ph.D. student in International Relations. He also works as a Graduate Assistant for the Miami-Florida Jean Monnet European Center of Excellence. His research interests center on the multidimensional intersection of transnational mobility, sexual orientation and gender identities, and religion. For his dissertation, he explores the displacement and reception and integration processes of LGBTIQ+ Latin American asylum claimants in the EU and the US and the role of religion, particularly faith actors, in such processes.

Endnotes: [1] UNHCR. Partnership Note: On Faith-Based Organizations, Local Faith Communities, and Faith Leaders. Geneva: UNHCR, 2014. Available at https://www.unhcr.org/protection/hcdialogue%20/539ef28b9/partnership-note-faith-based-organizations-local-faith-communities-faith.html [2] This is a pseudonym. I do not use the real name to protect the privacy of the interviewee. (My translation from Spanish.)


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𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘆’𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗿 - this week: Dosie Issneun Daenamusup - Alvaro Herrán

Welcome all to 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘆’𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗿, a series of weekly reviews by Charles Connolly - an artist in his own right. Here, Charles delves into the greatest brand new singles brought to you by the best unsigned artists on our electrifying and eclectic set of 𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙎𝙥𝙤𝙩𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 playlists.

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Charles talks science - and art…

We're so often reading about "The Science" in the papers. The news seems to speak of it like this impossibly unreachable superpower that only the special people will be able to comprehend. Or like it is a filthy rag that no one wants anything to do with. "The Science”: there's always this slight pause before those two words are delivered. As if it were to be a warning to brace yourself, or to pinch your nose tightly. It also seems as though this pause is for comical effect, as if those two innocent words were to make us corpse in hysterical laughter once uttered. But aside from all this polite observation of mine, it is really just an easy save these days in politics. "Our team of experts has looked at ‘The Science’, and the facts are indisputable". Huh. Handy get-out clause. Noyce. Blame "The Science". It is easy because most of us DON'T understand it, so we simply can't argue. Facts are facts, right…?

Speaking of science, when I was growing up it was normal to call someone schizophrenic if they had an irrational, volatile temper. People didn't know what words meant. Science was for scientists. Covid 19 would not have been called that, but rather "the nasty virus". Just like we wouldn't have spoken of lateral flow and PCR tests. We would have called them virus tests and proper virus tests. People would not have dyslexia, they would simply be not verry gud at speling and word. People didn't suffer from migraines, but rather had frequent banging headaches. This sudden temper about which I spoke could these days be called Bipolar disorder. Schizophrenia, being an altogether far more serious affair, consisting of hallucinations, lost sense of awareness and delusion. In fact, it might be closer to dementia than bipolar, but we said ‘schizophrenic’ nevertheless, because it sounded cool and made us feel intelligent. Bipolar disorder was not a thing - but of course it was. Just as people got to grips with the idea of someone being bipolar, it was then assumed that schizophrenia meant having a split personality. Oh lord, how things do get a-muddled. Split personality disorder is frankly the most terrifying (and fascinating) of all. Two minds in one! Maybe even more than two. In fact, the average is apparently around 14. With cases known to rise above 100. That is 100 personalities, not 100 unfortunate afflicted individual beings. Could this then be construed as bio-diversity...? Oh lord no. It's a thought though! I mean, technically yes! But that's another kettle of cod.

Let's think about this idea of having more than one personality. But not in the literal scientific sense. To be involved solely in "The Science" can perhaps be a dull thing. Let us instead go into the realms of philosophy. Ooh! All proper like. Highbrow, my donkey. Some of us are simple beings - usually the happier ones. Some of us are, well, it’s complicated. Some of us are able to go into “work mode” with the mental flick of a switch. All serious and determined; cold and hard. Time is money! Then that very same person can go back to their loving family, and all is soft, sensitive daisies. Some can work as a car mechanic on weekdays, but train to be a ballerina on weekends. Okay, maybe not. But maybe so - people are unusual these days, and other people are more forgiving than in the past. Anything goes - rightly so! This is of course nothing to do with having a split personality (as a disorder), but more just simply being multi-faceted. Sometimes though, it can be as unexpected as the prancing engineer. This may sound more like science fiction rather than science. Now let’s talk Sound Fiction.

Musical artists tend to naturally sway towards a certain style of music when sculpting their art. It makes sense. Most people don’t even LISTEN to more than a handful of genres. When choosing an LP to place on the platter, we tend to think of an album’s general mood and feel. We try to mesh that mood with our own. In most cases this works. For the very reason that most artists tend to have a certain sound - at least for each album. Although Taylor Swift has recently gone from high gloss pop to cosy acoustic, I can’t say I’ll be expecting her to release an album of be-bop jazz. Artists may go off the beaten track, but rarely will they cross the border. However, there are some artists in the world - and particularly on the New Artist Spotlight - that are less artist, and more explorer. Oghamyst springs to mind. He is a true chameleon. And there are quite a few others. But none’s diversity hit me as much as Alvaro Herrán. This diverse Colombian has many strings to his bow, not to mention his guitar. Alvaro, now settled in Seoul, South Korea, is ultimately a classical composer. He has spent more than a decade honing his art and craft in “fine music” (a term rarely used - partly because I made it up - despite “fine art” being a thing). Alvaro has just released a truly avant-garde piece of neoclassical music for gayageum/kayagum (you might need Google) and clarinet (you shouldn’t need Google), to the tune of 8 minutes or so. Dosie Issneun Daenamusup - pronounced as it sounds - has beauty, tension, expression, dynamics, microtones and overtones in abundance. Its slides, slurs and stutters punctuate the ominously looming space, to a point where the occasional eerie silence lends more drama than the music itself. The tension is pure and absolute. And speaking of tension, Alvaro must have been feeling it as he entered the piece for the International Younghi Pagh-Paan Composition Prize. Needless to say, he won first prize for the chamber music category. Tension followed by release. All of this can only be achieved by a master in his field.

So what did this master do before what SEEMS to be his debut release? From the oriental tinges of Alvaro’s current classical work, he came from somewhere no one could have anticipated. In May 2021, we had his ACTUAL debut release in the form of an EP. It was not classical. At all. Herrán lifted his guitar and dropped his name, replacing it with Sound Fiction. A (fabulous) name he chose, to hide away from his natural classical roots. Alvaro created Koo - an instrumental rock EP. And he did so with such tenacity, vigour and credibility, that one could never have guessed this was a classical composer capable of his latest work.

I love to rock, I love to roll. I love to dig that fat beat. I love to get lost in the heady dream of a female voice. I love to let the music switch my personalities for me; let the music take control. But what really does send me to another place is composition. The writing itself. The chords, the melodies and the sound design. Instrumental work really makes one’s mind focus on the music itself, rather than to be distracted by the voice or the words. Vocals, of course have their place, but sometimes it is the musical writing that longs to be the star. This is genuine art. And Alvaro Herrán is a genuine artist. This sort of change in “key” goes beyond the popular genre-bending of late. He instead discards - or at least puts aside - his more “usual” tendency for something entirely different and new. Much like Pablo Picasso. He may be known for his cubist style, but this was nothing like his early work. Artists naturally want to change. They are obsessed with it. There is this question that if something has been done before, be it by oneself or another, then why do it again…? Something with which I truly see eye to eye. Artists can also be quite erratic (erotic too, but that’s another story) in temperament, and so the idea of something COMPLETELY different really does appeal. Another splendid example would be The Beatles. But of course. I could hardly conceive of writing a review without mentioning our best friends, could I? The Beatles managed to pack Eleanor Rigby and Yellow Submarine into the same album. THIS is diversity at its finest.

Whatever the genre, Alvaro Herrán’s music is superb. He speaks to us without words, and never has it seemed so clear.

I raise a glass to art and its artists. Where would we be without them? For the answer, please refer to (pause) “The Science” - *corpsing laughter*

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21 Doctor-Recommended Products to Help Your In-Office Treatments Last Longer

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When you’ve made the decision to invest in any in-office treatment, knowing the best way to maintain the results is key. “Everything starts with healthy skin. It takes the combination of in-office treatments and patients doing their part at home to maintain the results,” says New York dermatologist Marina Peredo, MD.

We asked eight highly respected doctors to share the at-home products that help maximize the effects—and longevity—of your go-to in-office treatments.

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Treatment: Microneedling

According to Melville, NY dermatologist Kally Papantoniou, MD, Skinceuticals C E Ferulic ($166) is an important part of microneedling maintenance. “I use this every morning—it is gentle of the skin and powerful for brightening and tightening.”

“We recommend SkinBetter AlphaRet Overnight Cream ($125) for use seven to 10 days after treatment,” adds Newport Beach, CA plastic surgeon Sanjay Grover, MD. “It is a non-irritating yet powerful retinoid formula that reduces fine lines and photo-damage and will continue the improvement of texture and tone after your microneedling treatments. I also like ZO Skin Health Growth Factor Serum ($148). It’s a lightweight gel, has anti-inflammatory properties, restores the skin barrier, and uses plant-based growth factors to improve firmness and elasticity.”

“We are seeing great results when patients are following up their microneedling protocols with a product called AFA Gel Mild 11% ($88), says Omaha, NE dermatologist Joel Schlessinger, MD. “This treatment gel contains vitamin C to further support the collagen production microneedling induces, but what makes this product special is a unique dermatologist-developed molecule called afaLUXE. It provides excellent exfoliation to further improve fine lines, acne and uneven tone and texture. Unlike other rejuvenating treatments, it works with the skin’s natural moisture barrier, resulting in virtually no irritation or added dryness.”

“SecretRF [by Cutera] is a fractional radiofrequency microneedling system that can be customized to each patient. It adds radiofrequency to a microneedling treatment. The trauma created stimulates new collagen and the heat of the needle will take existing collagen and tighten it,” explains Dr. Peredo. Her post-treatment recommendation? PrimaSkin ($60). “It uses nano-technology that nano-sizes ingredients including Glutathione (GSH), hyaluronic acid, collagen, NAD+ and N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC). It is fast-absorbing and helps with inflammation, detoxification, and brightening of the skin.”

“I have patients use the Nu Face Trinity ($325) to tighten the skin and support my office treatments,” says Delray Beach, FL dermatologist Dr. Janet Allenby. “I have found that dedicated patients see the best result, as usual, for both the face and body with noticeable improvement. I’m not a fan of at-home skin pens (micro-needling) since it can cause too much skin trauma and potential infection.”

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Treatment: Injectable Wrinkle-Reducers

“While at-home devices won’t necessarily remove lines and wrinkles, once a neurotoxin is used, SiO Beauty BrowLift Wrinkle-Smoothing Patches ($25) may help to extend your wrinkle-free results,” says New York plastic surgeon B. Aviva Preminger, MD. “I like Skinbetter’s AlphaRet Overnight Cream ($125) to help with long-term anti-aging and to improve fine lines.”

According to Dr. Grover, SkinBetter Interfuse Intensive Treatment ($130) is his go-to for injectable patients. “This targeted treatment product for deeper expression lines takes a large injectable-grade hyaluronic acid and delivers it effectively into the skin using a patented delivery technology. This helps to enhance the results of both filler and neurotoxins.”

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Treatment: Injectable Filler

“Patients who invest in volumizing dermal fillers want to maintain those results for as long as possible,” says Dr. Schlessinger. “Incorporating an at-home treatment serum that supports collagen production and keeps the moisture barrier healthy is important in supporting those results. After treatment, I recommend patients use the LovelySkin LUXE Cellular Anti-Aging Peptide Serum ($125) twice a day. This advanced serum contains powerful anti-aging ingredients like peptides to support collagen production, but also fights signs of skin fatigue like dullness, dryness and wrinkles with persian silk tree extract.”

To enhance filler injectable results and help minimize post-injection side effects, such as bruising and swelling, we offer Alastin’s INhance Post-Injection Serum ($55),” says Dr. Preminger.

Another better-healing option, according to New York facial plastic surgeon Jennifer Levine, MD: LightStim ($249). “It is a handheld LED device, great for bruising and healing after injectables, lasers or surgery and it’s great for wrinkles and anti-aging.”

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Treatment: Body Contouring

“I love to combine body-contouring treatments with Alastin TransFORM Body Treatment ($195),” says Dr. Jennifer Levine. “I have my patients massage the treated area twice a day, and it improves and accelerates the results as well as helping skin texture and quality.”

In Dr. Papantoniou’s opinion, Revision Bodifirm ($15) does the trick. “With its powerful peptide technology, it builds collagen and improves elasticity. We love the results we get with this cream.”

“I recommend my patients try the NuFACE NuBODY Skin Toning Device ($399) to use between in-office fat reduction, body contouring and skin tightening treatments,” says Dr. Schlessinger. “This at-home device uses between 700 and 900 microamps of microcurrent to further tone, smooth and firm skin to improve the look of dimples. The results are unique for a home-based device and what’s great about this device is it can be used all over the body, including the upper arms, buttocks, abdomen area and thighs.”

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Treatment: Facial Skin Tightening

After a skin-tightening procedure, Dr. Preminger recommends using the Environ Cosmetic Gold Roller at home to improve the penetration of topical creams and serums. “The minimal microneedling will also stimulate the growth of collagen and help to improve the skin tightening results,” she adds.

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Treatment: Laser Resurfacing

ZO Skin Health Daily Power Defense ($150) is antioxidant-rich and supports skins natural DNA repair,” says Dr. Grover. “Also, SkinBetter Science Even Tone Correcting Serum ($145) is a non-hydroquinone serum that breaks down melanocytes and helps reduce red, brown, and yellow tones in the skin to improve overall complexion.”

According to New York plastic surgeon Elie Levine, MD, “Using a peptide cream after a rejuvenating laser treatment can further enhance collagen regeneration. The smooth, moisturizing PSD Dermal Restructuring Cream promotes rebuilding of the skin and prevents further skin damage, while PSD Facial Firming Therapy smoothes fine lines and wrinkles, providing immediate firming and tightening and preparing the skin for collagen rebuilding. The duo gives you a fuller, brighter post-treatment look.”

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Treatment: Hair Restoration

”The HairMax LaserBand 41 ($545) stimulates hair follicles, reverses thinning, and restores your hair’s natural growth cycle, giving you a fuller, denser look,” says Dr. Elie Levine. “It is great combined with PRP injections to the scalp or hair transplants and best of all, it can be used in the comfort of your own home.”

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Extra COVID vaccine OK’d for those with weak immune systems

U.S. regulators say transplant recipients and others with severely weakened immune systems can get an extra dose of the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to better protect them as the delta variant continues to surge.

The late-night announcement Thursday by the Food and Drug Administration applies to several million Americans who are especially vulnerable because of organ transplants, certain cancers or other disorders. Several other countries, including France and Israel, have similar recommendations.

It’s harder for vaccines to rev up an immune system suppressed by certain medications and diseases, so those patients don’t always get the same protection as otherwise healthy people — and small studies suggest for at least some, an extra dose may be the solution.

“Today’s action allows doctors to boost immunity in certain immunocompromised individuals who need extra protection from COVID-19,” Dr. Janet Woodcock, the FDA’s acting commissioner, said in a statement.

The FDA determined that transplant recipients and others with a similar level of compromised immunity can receive a third dose of the vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna at least 28 days after getting their second shot. The FDA made no mention of immune-compromised patients who received the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

The announcement comes as the extra-contagious delta version of the coronavirus surges through much of the country, pushing new cases, hospitalizations and deaths to heights not seen since last winter.

Importantly, the FDA’s decision only applies to this high-risk group, estimated to be no more than 3% of U.S. adults. It’s not an opening for booster doses for the general population.

Instead, health authorities consider the extra dose part of the initial prescription for the immune-compromised. For example, France since April has encouraged that such patients get a third dose four weeks after their regular second shot. Israel and Germany also recently began recommending a third dose of two-dose vaccines.

Separately, U.S. health officials are continuing to closely monitor if and when average people’s immunity wanes enough to require boosters for everyone — but for now, the vaccines continue to offer robust protection for the general population.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to formally recommend the extra shots for certain immune-compromised groups after a meeting Friday of its outside advisers.

Transplant recipients and others with suppressed immune systems know they’re at more risk than the average American and some have been seeking out extra doses on their own, even if it means lying about their vaccination status. The change means now the high-risk groups can more easily get another shot — but experts caution it’s not yet clear exactly who should.

“This is all going to be very personalized,” cautioned Dr. Dorry Segev, a transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins University who is running a major National Institutes of Health study of extra shots for organ recipients. For some people, a third dose “increases their immune response. Yet for some people it does not seem to. We don’t quite know who’s who yet.”

One recent study of more than 650 transplant recipients found just over half harbored virus-fighting antibodies after two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines — although generally less than in otherwise healthy vaccinated people. Another study of people with rheumatoid arthritis and similar autoimmune diseases found only those who use particular medications have very poor vaccine responses.

There’s little data on how well a third dose works, and if it causes any safety problems such as an increased risk of organ rejection. Wednesday, Canadian researchers reported that transplant recipients were more likely to have high levels of antibodies if they got a third dose than those given a dummy shot for comparison. Other small studies have similarly found that some transplant recipients respond to a third dose while others still lack enough protection.

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Belly dancers, from left, Diana Lemon, Mimi Eagleton, Giolia Maria, Maria Martinez and Donna Delmeglio help entertain the crowd during the Flagler County Public Library's Halloween Spooktacular.

The Flagler County Public Library was turned into a haunted house Saturday with the Young Adult Department's "Spooktacular" event.

Youngsters of all ages donned their best Halloween costumes for the party, which also featured music by D.J. Jay and an appearance by Ms. Donna and Her Belly Dancing Friends.

Upcoming Young Adult events include:

- Today: creature feature matinee at 3:30 p.m. in the Garden Room

- Saturday: International Games Day from 10 a.m. to noon; movie matinee at 1:30 p.m.

For more information, call the library at 386-437-6763.

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Woman WLTM tall, broad man. Big penis preferred

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What women want?

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Uh-oh, guys, it seems to be true: women do prefer well endowed men.

Brian Mautz, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Ottawa in Canada, generated computer images of naked male figures, varying them to represent the normal range of height, hip-to-shoulder ratio and penis size. He then projected life-sized versions onto a wall and asked 105 young women to rate how sexually attractive they found each one.

Unsurprisingly, the women found taller, broader-shouldered images to be more attractive. But they also preferred the men with larger penises. The hip to shoulder ratio was the most important factor but having a penis at the larger end of the range boosted the men’s appeal as much as being taller.

“Height is the most studied trait related to male attractiveness. To show that penis size has as big an effect is really striking,” says Mautz.

This preference is probably an evolutionary relic of a time before humans wore clothing, says Mautz, since women typically select a partner before glimpsing the full package. The study is the strongest evidence to date that the genitalia of human males – which are unusually large compared to other apes – have evolved to help attract mates, he adds.

There is some evidence that penis size may depend on testosterone levels, and penises also tend to be larger in younger, more virile men, so size could also be an indicator of age and health, says Bill Bateman, a behavioural ecologist at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, who found that golden moles also select mates based on penis size.

Journal reference: PNAS, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1219361110

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Police Search For 5 Shooters In High School Football Ambush

Wednesday, September 28th 2022, 2:23 pm

By: Associated Press

Police said Wednesday that they are searching for five shooters who ambushed a group of teens outside a Philadelphia high school killing one 14-year-old and wounding four other teenagers after a football scrimmage.

Nicholas Elizalde, of suburban Havertown, was killed in the ambush as he and the other teens walked away from an athletic field at Roxborough High School shortly after 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said. Philadelphia Police Captain Jason Smith said during a news conference Wednesday that police believe Elizalde was not the intended target of the shooters.

Smith said the shooters sat in a parked SUV for about six minutes waiting for the teens to round the corner behind the school. When they did, five shooters — who Smith said also appeared to be juveniles — got out of the car and began firing. One person remained in the car, Smith said.

“Most if not all of the offenders appear to be juveniles themselves. Nonetheless, they are obviously very dangerous individuals and the need is great to have them identified and taken off the streets as quickly as possible,” Smith said.

One of the shooters chased a 17-year-old victim down the street, striking him in the leg and arm, Smith said. The shooter then stood over the teen and tried to empty his gun, but Smith said he had either run out of bullets or the gun had jammed.

Smith said police were looking into several possible motives, including a fight that occurred in the lunchroom earlier in the day Tuesday. Smith said the 17-year-old, who police say was one of two teens they believe to have been the shooters’ targets, does not attend Roxborough High and is not on the football team with the other victims. Police had earlier said all the victims were members of the football team.

Police previously said they were examining social media and other sources to see whether the violence might have stemmed from events earlier in the day.

The shooting came just after Philadelphia surpassed 400 homicides for the year, only slightly behind the pace of last year’s toll, which ended up being the highest in at least six decades. And it happened hours after Mayor Jim Kenney, a Democrat, signed an order banning guns and deadly weapons from the city’s indoor and outdoor recreation spaces, including parks, basketball courts and pools.

Kenney said Wednesday that shootings like the one Tuesday cause “irreparable harm” to schools, families and communities especially when they occur in places otherwise thought to be safe spaces.

“Yesterday’s tragic events outside of Roxborough High School were just unconscionable,” he said. “Now a family is forced to grapple with the loss of a child ... after this heinous and cowardly crime.”

Besides Elizalde and the 17-year-old, the other victims were a 14-year-old shot in the thigh, a 15-year-old shot in the leg, and a 14-year-old who was treated at the scene for a graze to the ankle. The three teens taken to the hospital were listed as stable Wednesday morning.

Alex Torres, whose 14-year-old brother was injured in the shooting, told WPVI-TV that his stepmother called to tell him about the shooting and that he rushed to the school.

“My little brother is 14, and just hearing he was shot is the worst feeling in the world,” Torres said, adding that his brother likes to play videogames and stays indoors a lot. “He’s a good kid, so I don’t understand why this happened to him.”

A spokesperson for the Philadelphia school district confirmed that Elizalde attended W.B. Saul High School, an agricultural charter school that partners with Roxborough for some of its athletics, including football.

Several players for the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles tweeted about the shooting Tuesday night, offering prayers for the families and lamenting that gun violence could shatter the safe space kids feel in sports.

“It must stop! for these kids, their families and their teammates,” Eagles right tackle Lane Johnson tweeted. “Sports are supposed to be a safe haven.”

The Eagles launched a campaign called “End Philly Gun Violence” in January that included a partnership with police to host a gun buyback at Lincoln Financial Field in June in exchange for gift cards funded by the Eagles organization.

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Ukraine, China-U.S. Frictions Dominate At G-20 Summit In Bali

Ukraine, China-U.S. Frictions Dominate At G-20 Summit In Bali
The world's 20 largest economies are meeting in Indonesia as central banks fight decades-high inflation that's raising fears of a global recession.

Discord over Russia’s war on Ukraine and festering tensions between the U.S. and China are proving to be ominous backdrops for world leaders gathering in Indonesia’s tropical Bali island for a summit of the Group of 20 biggest economies starting Tuesday.

With recession looming as central banks fight decades-high inflation partly brought on by the war, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that ending the conflict would be the “single best thing that we can do for the global economy.”

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, writing in the newspaper The Telegraph, called Russia a “rogue state” and slammed its president, Vladimir Putin, for staying away.

“Leaders take responsibility. They show up. Yet, at the G-20 summit in Indonesia this week, one seat will remain vacant," wrote Sunak, who took office last month. “The man who is responsible for so much bloodshed in Ukraine and economic strife around the world will not be there to face his peers. He won’t even attempt to explain his actions."

Pressures have been mounting as Russian attacks destroy vital infrastructure in Ukraine, adding to miseries in damaged cities just as winter cold takes hold.

The G-20 meetings provide another opportunity for leaders to show unity in their support for Ukraine, discussions that “are inseparable from those on how we can strengthen our collective security," Sunak said.

In myriad ways, the war's repercussions have encompassed the globe as disruptions to grain shipments and energy supplies have pushed costs of living sharply higher.

“Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine is creating food and energy crises. It’s disrupting supply chains and raising the cost of living. Families are worried that they’re not going to be able to put food on the table or won’t be able to heat their homes during winter,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a business conference on the sidelines of the G-20 meetings.

Most vital for countries threatened with famine is whether Russia will agree to extend the U.N. Black Sea Grain Initiative, which is up for renewal on Saturday.

The deal, reached in July, enabled major global grain producer Ukraine to resume exports from ports that had been largely blocked for months because of the war. Russia briefly pulled out of the deal but rejoined it days later.

U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Monday that he was “hopeful" the initiative will be renewed after progress was made on resolving issues related to payments for Russian exports of food and fertilizers.

The effort helped stabilize markets and bring down food prices, he said.

“I’m hopeful that our efforts will go on being successful and we will be able to remove the last obstacles."

Guterres said he was happy that U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping met Monday in their first face-to-face encounter since President Biden took office in January 2021.

Cooperation between the two largest economies is vital for global efforts to curb the carbon emissions that cause climate change, among other issues, he said.

The meeting between Biden and Xi on the eve of the start of the formal G-20 summit meetings was a step toward finding common ground despite antagonisms over trade, technology and other issues as relations have grown increasingly strained.

Signaling that the two sides will resume communication on climate change, Biden underscored that the United States and China must work together to address such transnational challenges, the White House said in a statement on the roughly three-hour meeting,

The two leaders agreed that “a nuclear war should never be fought” and can’t be won, “and underscored their opposition to the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine,” the White House said in a reference to Russian officials’ thinly veiled threats to use atomic weapons as Moscow's nearly nine-month invasion of Ukraine has faltered.

It was unclear if any headway was made on longstanding differences over trade.

Chinese officials condemned the Biden administration’s decision last month to block exports of advanced computer chips to China — a national security move that bolsters U.S. competition against Beijing.

But in a statement, the Chinese government said the two leaders agreed to keep up consultations and discussions on economic and trade policies.

Even having top leaders of the two sides meet after a long hiatus during the pandemic is progress of a kind that might facilitate more productive talks in the larger G-20 meeting, which includes 19 of the largest economies and the European Union. Another 10 countries were invited as guests.

The G-20 was founded in 1999 as a forum for cooperation on economic and financial matters. In 2009, top G-20 leaders began holding annual meetings to craft a response to the global financial crisis.

The group consists of Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union. Spain holds a permanent guest seat.

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IBM Collaborating With Top Startups to Accelerate Quantum Computing

IBM has joined nearly 100 startup founders, venture capitalists and industry thought leaders at the first IBM Q Summit Silicon Valley event in Palo Alto, CA. The goal of the day: cut through the hype and focus on the present state of quantum computing and how organizations, and developers can prepare for the future.

Above – Scientists inside the IBM Q computation center, which houses IBM’s most advanced quantum computers, accessed via IBM Cloud by the IBM Q Network.

IBM Q Summit attendees are gathering to discuss what to expect over the next five years and what it means to be “quantum ready.” The discussion will inevitably also center on the emerging role of the quantum developer and what that means for future application development.

Today, IBM is taking another substantial step in broadening access to quantum computing. IBM is announcing the first startups to join the IBM Q Network, a worldwide community dedicated to advancing quantum computing and exploring practical applications for business and science. Membership in the network will enable these startups to run experiments and algorithms on IBM quantum computers via cloud-based access. Additionally, these startup members will have the opportunity to collaborate with IBM researchers and technical SMEs on potential applications, as well as other IBM Q Network organizations.

The IBM Q Network, which launched in December 2017, provides participating organizations various levels of cloud-based access to quantum expertise and resources, and for certain members, access to the IBM Q System, one of the most advanced, scalable universal quantum computing systems available. It will also provide startups in the quantum computing race deeper access to APIs and advanced quantum software tools, libraries and applications, as well as consultation on emerging quantum technologies and applications from IBM scientists, engineers and consultants.

These startups include:
* Zapata Computing – Based in Cambridge, MA, Zapata Computing is a quantum software, applications and services company developing algorithms for chemistry, machine learning, security, and error correction.

* Strangeworks – Based in Austin, TX and founded by William Hurley, Strangeworks is a quantum computing software company designing and delivering tools for software developers and systems management for IT Administrators and CIOs.

* QxBranch – Headquartered in Washington, D.C., QxBranch delivers advanced data analytics for finance, insurance, energy, and security customers worldwide. QxBranch is developing tools and applications enabled by quantum computing with a focus on machine learning and risk analytics.

* Quantum Benchmark – Quantum Benchmark is a venture-backed software company led by a team of the top research scientists and engineers in quantum computing, with headquarters in Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada. Quantum computers require specialized software to mitigate the inevitable errors that arise during a quantum computation, which will lead to incorrect output. Quantum Benchmark provides solutions that enable error characterization, error mitigation, error correction and performance validation for quantum computing hardware. Quantum Benchmark’s True-Q™ technology helps users determine the quantum advantage that is achievable with any given quantum computing hardware for any application of interest.

* QC Ware – Based in Palo Alto, CA, QC Ware develops hardware-agnostic enterprise software solutions running on quantum computers. QC Ware’s investors include Airbus Ventures, DE Shaw Ventures and Alchemist, and it has relationships with NASA and other government agencies. QC Ware won a NSF grant, and its customers include Fortune 500 industrial and technology companies.

* Q-CTRL – Our hardware agnostic platform – Black Opal – gives you the ability to design and deploy the most effective controls to suppress errors in your quantum hardware before they accumulate, accelerating your roadmap to functional systems. Based in Sydney, Australia, Q-CTRL is backed by Main Sequence Ventures and Horizons Ventures.

* Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) – Established in 2014, CQC is a leading independent quantum computing company combining expertise in Quantum Information Processing, Quantum Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Chemistry, Optimization and Pattern Recognition. CQC designs solutions such as a proprietary platform agnostic compiler that will allow developers and users to benefit from Quantum Computing even in its earliest forms. CQC also has a growing focus in Quantum Technologies that relate to encryption and security.

* 1QBit – Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, 1QBit builds quantum and quantum-inspired software designed to solve the world’s most demanding computational challenges. The company’s hardware-agnostic platforms and services are designed to enable the development of applications which scale alongside the advances in both classical and quantum computers. 1QBit is backed by Fujitsu Limited, CME Ventures, Accenture, Allianz and The Royal Bank of Scotland.

Initial IBM Q Network partners, members, and hubs announced in December 2017 include: JP Morgan Chase, Daimler, Samsung, JSR, Barclays, Keio University, Honda, Oak Ridge National Lab, University of Oxford, University of Melbourne, Hitachi Metals and Nagase. These organizations have cloud-based access to IBM’s quantum computing systems, as well as the opportunity to undertake application research and development with IBM scientists, and engage in training and skills-building workshops with IBM.

While quantum computing is still in its infancy today, developers, scientists, academics, and professionals are already working with the technology through the IBM Q Experience, an openly available cloud based platform for quantum experimentation and learning; and QISKit, an open source quantum software developer kit. In fact, since 2016, more than 80,000 users have run more than 3 million remote executions on cloud quantum computing resources using QISKit, and more than 60 research publications have been written based on the technology.

QISKit is a collection of software, documentation, and demos related to building quantum programs and running them on simulators and real hardware. Startups will be able to use QISKit and IBM Q to develop applications, discover new algorithms, and prototype use cases for potential applications. Together with the current community, we can all collaborate to support the creation of new quantum software functionality, expand the rich set of current tools, and drive adoption of QISKit across the industry.


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Trends from Maison & Objet

The much-awaited Maison & Objet returned to Paris last month (September 2022) after almost one and a half years of anticipation. NeXtime participated in this global stage of creativity and have observed a few home decor trends.

2022 is clearly a year of transition and disruption. A part of Paris Design Week, Maison & Objet is a beacon of light for the industry, and a precursor of the exciting new trends to come. I have selected a few to share with you.

Natural materials

Material innovations have brought a breath of fresh air. More brands are using alternative materials including rattan, wood, linen and stone. A contrast with the more traditional man-made materials, these raw natural materials give an earthy, floral colour tone and create a greater sense of lightness and transparency. The designs somehow bring us one further step closer to embracing nature while not compromising design and functional possibilities.

These alternative, natural materials also offer more eco-friendly solutions to commercial brands. Other materials, even pollutants collected from the ocean, are being recycled and repurposed. Sustainability has become a prominent consideration in manufacturing. Consumers nowadays are keen on contributing to making the world a better place and look for a ‘meaning’ in the money they spend; environmental protection is one.

Exotic inspiration

Designs inspired by African and ethnic aesthetics are emerging. They feature patterns with rich details and bold colours, which is the other end of the spectrum from minimalism. The additional appeal of ethnic designs is they often provoke our senses and emotions. Many also have spiritual associations that help bring peace and calm to the viewers, reinforcing their mental well-being.

These trends we saw at Maison & Objet are consistent with our consumer research and have verified that our 2023 collection is in the right direction. We can’t wait to unveil the new designs to you. In a later blog, I will talk more broadly about 2023 interior design trends. I hope they will provide some helpful reference for you if you are planning to refurbish your interior space.

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John Guerriero serves as a Senior Policy Analyst with NGA’s Cybersecurity Program, where he supports governors’ staff and state policymakers on issues related to state cybersecurity policy and strategy, including governance, cyber workforce development, incident response planning, state and local partnerships, critical infrastructure security, countering disinformation campaigns, and election resilience and cybersecurity. Prior to joining the Cybersecurity Program, John was a part of NGA’s Economic Opportunity Division, where he focused on registered apprenticeship and state work-based learning programs and led NGA’s technical assistance on the American Apprenticeship Initiative. John holds his master’s degree in public policy and bachelor’s in political science from the University of Michigan.


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